WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.439 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.480 Open up to an hot asse. You are something in 24 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.680 the woods? Anato to you what you're about to see? 25 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:19.319 You or something in the woods? 26 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.840 Knock in the park con changer right, the oman said, 27 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.879 don't go outside, there's something near the woods tonight. 28 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.799 I hear him knocking, shaking bushits. 29 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.040 Footprints, howland on my long Open up to an odyssey, 30 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:34.879 something in the woods. 31 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:36.760 I folks on, welcome my guest of the show. It 32 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.480 is Tom from Michigan. Welcome to the show. 33 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.359 Sir, Oh, thank you, pleasure to meet your right. 34 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:43.480 I am glad to have you. 35 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:43.640 Man. 36 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.519 Let's get right into it. Let's talk about this bigfoot. 37 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.079 Think what guy you interested in the subject? To begin with, 38 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:50.400 I'll shay, I'm a child of the sixties. 39 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.439 That's where I was born. Going in the seventies, there 40 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.319 was a resurgence of interest in the whole Bigfoot phenomenon. 41 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.920 So as a child by just I hate that stuff 42 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.120 up every magazine, every book, or some horrible movies. Some 43 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.920 of the were good, most of them were not. Get 44 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.200 my parents to take me to those. They shot through them. 45 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.560 At least my dad did. My mom didn't want anything 46 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.560 to do with it. But as a child I had 47 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.400 this interest. Then I grew up, I went to college, 48 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.120 I got a job. Buried and also behind me went 49 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.400 to the White Side. Then my wife and I decided 50 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:20.479 that being married was the right thing for either of us, 51 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.840 and I got divorced. I thought, I have nothing old 52 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.919 of being back went on. I look up and see 53 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.039 what's going on in the Bigfoot community. I hit the 54 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.840 internet and I found this tiny little organization called the BFRO. 55 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:35.159 They had an expedition planned in my state, in northern Michigan, 56 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.039 and I thought, hey, here's an opportunity to get back 57 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.400 in and see what's going on, learn about what's going 58 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.120 on in the world of Bigfoot. I always had an 59 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.800 interest as a child, but as I got old, I thought, 60 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.560 here's an opportunity, let's get into it. That's where my 61 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.159 journey in the early two thousand started. 62 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.080 So I know you're here to talk about some experiences, 63 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.639 So why don't we just go back to your first experience. 64 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:57.439 Take us back to where you were, what you were doing, 65 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:58.400 and tell us what happened to you. 66 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.240 Okay, thousand and eight, there's a town in the Upper Peninsula. 67 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.639 The largest town in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan call Marquette, 68 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.560 which is a fairly salivable college town in the heart 69 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.719 of the Upper Peninsula. You get that far out of 70 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.599 town and you're pretty much in the woods up there, 71 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.719 a lot of forests, a lot of trees, a lot 72 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.520 of swamps and rivers, very forested and being a part 73 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.919 of the thorn Is eighth And after I talked about 74 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.680 going on THISVFRO expedition after my divorce, after the first expedition, 75 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.960 I apparently was enthusiastic enough that they asked me to 76 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.639 become an investigator for that. So that's what it did. 77 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.199 In two thousand and eight, I and a group of 78 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.000 other investigators were doing it's a scouting party but the 79 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.599 BFRO at that time and I'm no longer a member, 80 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:42.639 but at that time and we used the BFRO would 81 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.280 go through reports, they'd look at data and they'd find 82 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.960 these places where activity was dam reported, where people were 83 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.240 telling them things were going on. So investigators would get 84 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.280 together and we do these private expeditions to scout these 85 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.479 places out and is there any activity going on? Is 86 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.159 there anything interesting? Would this make a good sight a 87 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.000 scouting act? I was one of the people who had 88 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.360 that probably travel the farthest to get there. Maybe not 89 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.400 the farthest, but one of the farthests. I had to 90 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.039 work that day. I lived in northern Lawer, Michigan. This 91 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.319 was about as six hour drive to get to the 92 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.560 camping location in the scouting location. Got out of work 93 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.279 later than I expected. I packed my stuff up and 94 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.959 I headed up along the way. But it's getting later, 95 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:22.480 and it's a long drive. I don't know if you've 96 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:25.399 ever been to the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, but there are 97 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.360 miles and miles of nothing. Caffeine is the order of 98 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.279 the day. Drank a large amount of caffeine on my 99 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.240 trip on the way there. Even then, I got there 100 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.519 way later than everybody else. You know, I'd hoped to 101 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:39.040 get there leave worker only get there before dark. I 102 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.319 got there well after dark, knowing that location a little 103 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.560 bit already. I knew where the main campsite was, but 104 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:50.120 I decided that I would instead pull off into another location, 105 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:52.600 an apple orchard on that same road, and this is 106 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.120 a dirt road. I pulled off into the apple orchard 107 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.160 that might have been a mile from the main campsite, 108 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.680 and I thought I'll just I'll sleep in my car tonight. 109 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.319 So that's what I did as a little supers. They're 110 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.079 not that comfortable if you're sleeping in the driver's seat. 111 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.240 But it was a long work day in a long drive. 112 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.519 But going back to all that caffeinated beverage I drank 113 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.040 I kind of more than once during the night. Like 114 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.000 it's a book kip there and we're talking about dark 115 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.680 skys where this that you know, market of miles and 116 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.040 mouths from where this location is at. There's nothing but 117 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.360 dark skies there. You look up to see the stars. 118 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.399 It's just gorgeous. Is quiet. One of the times I 119 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:31.680 got up to wrote weave my shelf, I could hear 120 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.839 something large making noises down in the apple orchard. You 121 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.439 could hear something walking, could hear making noises, and then 122 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.879 I heard something shaking on an apple tree. It shook 123 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.639 it so hard. It was just you could just sounded 124 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:45.759 like a rainfall of apples coming out of the tree, 125 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.519 falling out of the tree. It was scary because just 126 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.040 the power that it would take to do what was 127 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.800 happening there. So finished to my business as quickly as 128 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:56.560 they could, and I quickly got back into the shoebrew 129 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.279 because we all know the third shave cars. Although it 130 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.120 was quite experience, I was still tired, even though with 131 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.199 the caffeine it doesn't affect like normal people because but 132 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:08.759 I did fall asleep, and then before dawn I woke up, 133 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.040 but I couldn't move parallous of sorts, and so I 134 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.439 would say, let's sleep paraos and hopefully we'll have an 135 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.040 opportunity to talk about that as we get into my 136 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.079 other encounters. But basically I was in the driver's seat 137 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.319 looking back. I was awake, but I couldn't move, but 138 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:27.519 I couldn't see enough of the driver's side window that 139 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.839 a creature walked past and it bent down and it 140 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.199 looked in the car while I was there unable to move, 141 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.199 and looked at me walking and it was gone. It 142 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.680 only lasted a couple of seconds, but I clearly shot 143 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.959 and then the parrels went away, so I quickly got 144 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.240 out of the car. Was still pre dawned, but like 145 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.319 I said, the dark sky's there. You can see the 146 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:53.199 by the star of any moonlight, so it was bright enough. 147 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.160 I didn't see anything at that point, and it was gone, 148 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.920 very interesting, very disturbing. I would say, what I show 149 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.079 all was very similar to what Patterson Ginlan movie, very 150 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:07.920 stereotypical looking fast flatch. When I looked, there's an artist, 151 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.680 Sibylla Irwin. I found some of her sketches after the fact, 152 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.600 and I found one that was incredibly similar to what 153 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.680 I saw. Some of her stuff. It's based on eyewindness reports, 154 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:23.720 and she's an excellent sketch artist. Clearly, it was a creature, 155 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.120 not a bear. I do have a degree in biology, 156 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.519 and that didn't know the Michigan my whole life. I 157 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.639 know a paper when I see one, and this wasn't 158 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.160 a bear. Pretty frightening. That is my class A. I 159 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:34.959 don't know that. I wouldn't say that I've ever had 160 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.240 anything other than that as a class A, but I've 161 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.920 had a few other experiences. We will hopefully have an 162 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.800 opportunity to talk about this during this conversation that was 163 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.000 two thousand and eight ten. Because it's such a fun area, 164 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.800 this area south of Markette a few miles, it's a 165 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:50.360 drive to get there busy. You have to go to 166 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.199 Markette if you want to get a sandwich shirt thing. 167 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:53.879 If you don't bring food, we would make that drive. 168 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.160 But a couple of years later, several of the investigators decided, 169 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.639 let's go back. Such an intriguing site because other people 170 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.680 had experiences in that area as well, half eaten screws 171 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.160 thrown at them from the woods, things like that, just 172 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.480 weird stuff. This was yet another time there. I had 173 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.639 a very large tree just laid down in front of 174 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:16.120 my tent while we were out on maneuvers. So very 175 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.959 exciting place. But in twenty ten I decided to have 176 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.160 another expedition there. I brought a friend with me, the 177 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.040 friend who's a skeptic. At that time he was a skeptic. 178 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.000 I decided he enjoys camping too, so let's go camp. 179 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.360 The main group decided that they would camp out it 180 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.680 at the same base camp that I had not gone 181 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.559 to for that first event. I instead said Patrick, I 182 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.639 had this great site. It's a wave from the other folks. 183 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.919 It's going to be really quiet and peaceful. Let's had 184 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:43.600 our tent up there. So I went back to the 185 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.120 Apple or try when I have my Class A sighting. 186 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.159 There's a turnaround off the road a little bit not 187 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.000 far off the main dirt road. If you go further in, 188 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:55.279 you can drive down a little slope into the apple 189 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.879 orchard itself, and I said, let's drive down there. Those 190 00:08:58.080 --> 00:08:59.600 people they're going to be boring and they're going to 191 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.120 be doing stuffed out at May Camp. What's got this quiet? 192 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.240 A little place near a apple orchard, I know, So 193 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:06.919 we did. During the night, while we were sleeping, I 194 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.759 woke up and again I couldn't move. I was paralyzed again, 195 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.840 which was it's a very disturbing thing to have happened 196 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:14.879 to you. Again. A lot of people said you were 197 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.039 just having some sort of sleep proalysis, which it has 198 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:21.879 the characteristics of that, except I've never had sleep paralysis 199 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.440 in my life other than the prow that happened there. 200 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.440 At that time, I woke up in Might, sleeping back. 201 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.200 I couldn't move, I couldn't hear anything. It was very quiet, 202 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.559 very peaceful, but I couldn't move. And then suddenly this 203 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.919 feeling of calmness, relief, everything's going to be wonderful came 204 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.279 over me and I said, all asleep, like a serotonin 205 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.600 release of south short some sort of brain chemical saying 206 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:44.639 everything's going to be fine. I go back to sleep, 207 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.080 and I did. The next day, we went to Bay 208 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.000 Camp before hanging out coffee breakfast that sort of thing, 209 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.799 and we brought up to the other investigators. Hey, here's 210 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.600 what happened to me last night. And I woke up 211 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.759 the middle of night frozen, couldn't move like the time 212 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.960 a couple of years ago, and this time, I just 213 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.879 after it was over everything with fool, I wanted to 214 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:04.840 go back to sleep, and I did, and my buddy 215 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.440 Patrick keeler at me. You didn't say anything in front 216 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.440 of the group, didn't say a word as I described 217 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.519 what happened to me. But we finished up our breakfasts, 218 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.919 are hanging out at base camp, and we decided that 219 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.799 we would go back to our tent our campsite get 220 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.360 some gears so we could do some hiking and scouting 221 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:24.000 around for the rest of the day. On the way back, 222 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.840 he told me the same thing happened to me last night. 223 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:31.759 So very interesting, very interesting phenomena, very different after the 224 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.240 fact other people that I knew. We left a friend 225 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:36.960 of mine who was part of the group at the 226 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.960 main camp site the last night that he was on 227 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.399 the expedition. I left before he did. He staid another 228 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.440 day the last night he decided to camp in the 229 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.519 Apple Orchard as well, where we had been camped and 230 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.039 he later related to me the same thing happened to him. 231 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.879 It's very interesting last experience, and this was I would 232 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.039 call life chacking in that it changed ultimately a number 233 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.840 of behaviors that I do, one that I won't camp anymore, 234 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.440 among other things. It's scared me that much. So we 235 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.960 were again. It was a scouting expedition of investigators and 236 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.879 we went further west in the Upper Peninsula. We are 237 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.759 going near a time called I believe it's Kenton. You 238 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:19.759 go further west, even farther from people. We decided we 239 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:21.480 were in a camp. First night we camped near a 240 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:25.799 lake boring. Nothing happened, So we decided, let's go further 241 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:27.320 and we're going to go to a different site and 242 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.039 even further away from the people. So we did that. 243 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:32.480 We got there. We did night maneuvers, one of the 244 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.720 things that investigators I don't know if they still do 245 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.360 and are not an ace so because it can result 246 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.000 in activity. We got maneuvers or patrol or whatever. Basically, 247 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.399 you just put on your headlamps, set it to red light, 248 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:45.320 you walk through the woods. You don't want to ruin 249 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:47.600 your night vision, and small groups of people go through 250 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.759 the woods seeing what you d wrestle up. Sometimes you knock, 251 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.360 sometimes you vocalize that sort of thing. That evening, I 252 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.600 was the designated vocalizer. That meant I got to do 253 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.519 some howling. I do okay with it. I was able 254 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.320 to make some pretty convincing human sounding like another animal 255 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.240 type sounds. Did that number of times at one time. 256 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.159 I did that towards the end last we were heading 257 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:12.039 that camp. It kicked up quite a reaction from a 258 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.759 group of kios packs for short. I don't know if 259 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.639 you've been in the woods, when the coyos, they get excited, 260 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:19.960 and it was really close. It was really loud. It 261 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.200 was pretty impressive. That was towards the end. We got 262 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.320 back to our camp. We sat around the campfire a 263 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.960 little bit and it started to rain. It over seems 264 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.159 to rain when I camp. But what we did is 265 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.159 we all went to our separate tense and the two 266 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.240 other investigators. They were run one side of the camp. 267 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.200 I was on the other side. I would say seventy 268 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.679 five to one hundred feet separating us. I camped separately. 269 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.399 I laid down in the tent. There's an interesting thing 270 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.320 I like to do. One of the things I'm most 271 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.080 interested in because it's relatively inexpensive and you can collection 272 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.320 really interesting data. Is audio recording by I staid up 273 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.559 my audio recorder. It was a nice O Libus PCM 274 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.159 digital recorder. I could run nearly a whole night. Why 275 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.679 I shut that up. I had a stereo was set 276 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:02.639 up with two mics going into it, and I hung 277 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.639 it from the top of my tent and I went 278 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:07.519 to sleep. It rained very hard, Like I said, you 279 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.679 started raining, but it rained very hard, like torrential downfall 280 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:15.080 type rain all night. In the morning, towards morning, it stopped. 281 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.519 I'm sleeping and suddenly I wake and I can't move, 282 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:23.399 the same paralysis that we described previously. I couldn't move. 283 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.919 It was different than the other times. It laughed. In 284 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:32.519 like seven minutes. I fought it. If I struggled, I 285 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.679 tried to yell for help. I could move a little bit. 286 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.320 You could try to move my feet a little bit. 287 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.679 I was yelling for all like I should have lasted 288 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.320 for about seven minutes, and then there was a knock 289 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.159 up the hill from where my tent was, and I 290 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.120 was released. I could move again. I didn't move. I 291 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.240 decided moving would not be a good idea right now, 292 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.039 this was right around dawn. Unlike the last time near Marquette. 293 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.039 When this event was over, I didn't have that feeling 294 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.720 before it. It didn't I feel like serotonin had been released. 295 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:06.600 I was still terrorized there, still felt helpless, and I 296 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:08.480 didn't want to be there that sort of thing. So 297 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.519 I have a couple of theories, and they're only theories. 298 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.919 I can't really say why it happened the way it 299 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.320 did or what was going on. But I felt like 300 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:21.159 we were tracing around in their backyard and they didn't 301 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.440 want us there. I felt a message was delivered. The 302 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.879 message was don't come around here no more. After the fact, 303 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.759 I listened to the recording so and I captured the event, 304 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.399 the whole event of me being paralyzed, me trying to 305 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.000 yell for help. It comes. I was more like very disturbing. 306 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.320 I don't like to listen to it. A lot of 307 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.440 people don't like to listen to it. You can hear 308 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:43.960 it if you listen to the recording, and it's a 309 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.600 high quality recording. It was a very good digital recorder. 310 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.879 Even though you can hear the rain drops hitting the tent, 311 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.120 it stopped raining, but the very wooded though that we 312 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.639 and the needles are still wet, and that they're dripping 313 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:59.240 and hitting the tent. Believe, if you listened closely enough 314 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.200 to the richl the hat set, you can hear a 315 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.960 twig snap, like something stepped on a twig outside of 316 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.080 my tent. That's right around the time that I can't paralyze, 317 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:10.879 and you can cheer during during that event, and you 318 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:13.960 hear me struggling as best I can, although I can 319 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:16.720 barely move, and trying to offer help all of it. 320 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.120 I can barely speak. And at the end of the recording, 321 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.519 you can hear what sounds like a wood knock or 322 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.000 a tree branch snap or something up the hill. That 323 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:30.480 was the end. No euphoria, no serotonin release, nothing, just 324 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:31.600 we don't want you here. 325 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.120 Before we go any further, I want to break in 326 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.320 here in the post edit and share with you the 327 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.600 clip that Tom was referring to, where he describes the 328 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:44.240 terrifying sensation of being paralyzed inside his tent, unable to 329 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:49.039 move as strange and unexplained sounds echoed around him. This 330 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.879 recording is approximately seven minutes long, and I highly recommend 331 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.440 listening with headphones to fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere. 332 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.600 Pay close attention. You may even catch the distinct wood 333 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:04.519 knocks and snapping sounds that Tom later recounted. As Tom 334 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.559 himself warned, some listeners may find this audio unsettling, so 335 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:14.039 listener discretion is strongly advised. Stay tuned for more Sasquatch 336 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.639 out to see We'll be right back after these messages. 337 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:05.400 Oh yeah, h. 338 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.680 H h. 339 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:24.079 M hm. 340 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.519 Hm mm hm. 341 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.519 No no. 342 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:42.759 Yo yo, m m. 343 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.640 Yeah, m. 344 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:56.920 M m. 345 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:31.160 M m hm m. 346 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:45.599 Oh oh oh oh. 347 00:18:47.440 --> 00:19:33.759 Oh h m hm hm m m m m m 348 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:38.640 m m m. 349 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.599 M mm hm. 350 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:50.359 Hm hm. 351 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:54.240 Hm hm. 352 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.359 Hm m m. 353 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.640 Oh oh oh. 354 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:14.039 Oh h m hm m. 355 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:22.079 M m m h w h man oh say. 356 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:27.279 M hm hm hm. 357 00:20:29.880 --> 00:23:45.240 M m hm m m m m. Brother of my 358 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.960 main experiences in the Sas squats realm Ditleased. Among the 359 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.519 people that I have always associated with and discussed this with, 360 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.400 we call dansapp. I think it's a pretty common term. 361 00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:59.240 I've talked to other people who have had similar experiences. 362 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:01.400 Like I said, I had a friend who camped after 363 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:05.119 the fact in the Apple Orchard experience the same thing. 364 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:09.680 I've talked to people who've described not being able to move, 365 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:13.640 but they could feel waves going over their body while 366 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:17.119 they're laying morseless. So one of the theories is that 367 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:21.359 these creatures can emit some sort of infrasound. Large creatures, elephants, 368 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:25.200 tigers have the ability to emit low frequency sounds ten 369 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:28.119 hurts or less. Whether or not that's what's happening, it's 370 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:30.920 hard to say. But the one guy that I talked to, 371 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:34.559 it certainly sounded like a low frequency something or other 372 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:37.880 was washing over him while he was paralyzed. Some people 373 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.640 described just hey, I feel like I'm being watched. Some 374 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:44.759 people discuss sudden fear coming over them for no reason. 375 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:47.720 I saw one investigator I was walking with fall to 376 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.440 the knees during a night maneuver. It's just a very 377 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:54.839 odd phenomenon. Those are the things that happened to me. 378 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:58.359 I've conducted countless interviews over the years with people just 379 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:02.519 like Tom who make of paralysis and other strange symptoms 380 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:07.400 while outlooking for sasquatch. Many like Tom, speculate that these 381 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.519 creatures may be using infrasound. But what is infrasound and 382 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:14.799 what animals use it and why? Well, I thought I 383 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:17.079 would take a few minutes and answer those very questions 384 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:20.720 before we move on infrasound refers to sound waves that 385 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:24.000 occur at frequencies lower than twenty hertz, which is the 386 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.799 lower limit of human hearing. These low frequency sounds are 387 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:31.400 characterized by their long wavelengths, which allow them to travel 388 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:35.960 great distances and penetrate through various obstacles like trees, walls, and. 389 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:36.759 Even the ground. 390 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:42.640 Infrasound can be naturally occurring, generated by earthquakes, ocean waves, 391 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:48.319 and volcanic activity. It can also be artificially created by machines, explosions, 392 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.559 or even some experimental weapons. But perhaps the most fascinating 393 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.960 aspect of infrasound is its use by certain animals to communicate, hunt, 394 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:01.640 and even incapacitate their prey. Despite being imperceptible to the 395 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:06.519 human ear, infrasound can have significant physiological and psychological effects. 396 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:13.440 People exposed to strong infrasound frequencies have reported feelings of unease, dizziness, nausea, 397 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:18.200 and even hallucinations. Some studies suggest that prolonged exposure to 398 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.559 infrasound may trigger anxiety or paranoia, making it a topic 399 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.039 of interest in psychological and paranormal research. This property of 400 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.039 infrasound has led to speculation that it could be used 401 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.680