Speaker 1: You're listening to Bigfa Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In
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you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen
something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to
quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,
and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.
These are the voices of the people who've lived it.
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Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good? What about too?
Speaker 1: Doing great? Feel free to share what your experience was
their trip.
Speaker 4: So growing up my family, we always believed in bigfoot
right growing up in North Alabama, and I remember one
time we were all hunting a bigfoot. We could hear it,
we were close and this rock comes flying like this
big old rock. No dude could just frock this fun
This hord comes flying at my head it was like
an inch away from my head, horrifying. My goodness, yes,
and this bigfoot like you could hear it howling and growling.
It was horrible. And I remember one time we were
back at my house and dude, we were out there
chilling by the pool and then on everything bigfoot comes up.
All right, and he we were chilling. We had our
dogs out there with his dog name of the Margo.
We ain't got him no more. The bigfoot of bigfoot
took him. Yeah, we were out there. It grabbed him,
grabbed two beers and ran in the woods.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I have a few questions. So what kind
of beers were they?
Speaker 4: Mickey's make a little voltures?
Speaker 1: So why were you hunting bigfoot?
Speaker 4: Because we've always believed in them and we've always been
firm believers ever since. My granddaddy was a firm believer
as well, got my dad and do it, and my
dad got me into it.
Speaker 1: So you've been generations of bigfoot hunters, is what it
sounds like. Yeah, okay, okay, have you ever been successful?
Speaker 4: We ain't been successful, but we've been close, real close.
Speaker 1: Are you up by that? What is it? H? Northern
Alabama would be Bankhead National Forest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're near there, very close there, like an hour away.
Speaker 1: Okay, have you heard of any other things people having
experiences up there?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah yeah. My cousin was a walking outside
and he came across these giant more showing a tree
like scratching on a tree. It ain't no bear did this.
Ain't no bear did this? Nah? And there were limbs everywhere.
It was. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Hm hmm. Interesting. Well, trip, I I appreciate you coming up.
I hope that you are safe where you're at, but
I also hope that Bigfoot is safe too, So maybe
you guys can come to an understanding.
Speaker 4: But we weren't actually like hunting hunting him. We were
like when I met hunt, I mean like we were
tracking him.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Interesting creatures, man, I mean they like they can
almost articulate words. If you're closings.
Speaker 1: Have you heard have you heard what what sounds like language? Before?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I swear and I know it was like Jerry
Ris one of them sounds I Dave was speaking some
vietmain these or something, because it was it was like
fast paced words with a lot of broken up.
Speaker 1: M what what do you think Bigfoot is. Do you
have any thoughts about that from probably even talking to
your your father and your grandfather about it.
Speaker 4: Well, Bigfoot is more than the big old ap is.
He's a legend and something to be respected and loved,
and he's in he's nature as well. He's a perfect
representation of nature.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that, Trip, Trip,
Thank you so much for coming up. Please keep us
album in mind if you ever have any other interactions
in the future, would love to hear about it. Okay, yes, sir,
thank you. Well, there you go. I was a little
nervous at first about Trip when he said that, but
it looks like looks like he's actually on the good side.
So there you go. Thank you, Trip Hattie.
Speaker 5: How are you doing today, Hey.
Speaker 1: There, Hound, I'm doing well. Thanks for coming up. Feel
free to take it away there, Hound and share what
your experience was.
Speaker 5: So it was back in the It was in August
of twenty eighteen in central Utah. There's a national forest
there called Fish Lake National Forest. We own about twelve
hundred acres up there property and we run dogs for
Baron Mountain Lion run dogs, and there's a place up
there called Pine Hollow, and it's this deep, nasty canyon
and we were hunting all morning, didn't get anything going.
So I walked down this canyon with these dogs to
try and find a bear. I'm down in there. I
find a nice bear track. Dog take off. And when
I say, it takes everything you had to get these
dogs off a scent, like you have to yell at them,
column tone their collars. It takes so much to get
these dogs off a scent. They go about eight hundred
yards into this thicket and all of a sudden, they
stop barking, stop everything, and come right back to me.
I got dogs in between my legs, hideing behind me,
not wanting to go anywhere. And except for one dog.
One dog is still out there and he's sitting in
this thicket and I hear him barking. I'm thinking, oh,
they got that bear baite up in that thicket. So
I go over there and I get about probably eighty
to one hundred yards from that thicket, and this black
thing comes busting out of there. He's probably eight foot tall,
and it was just amazing how fast he was. How
he like you know when you run, a person runs,
how like they kind of bounce. This thing didn't bounce.
It like was like it was on a treadmill, gliding
across the ground up this steep hillside. And it just
was a crazy, crazy experience. And I I I'd always
watched the show find in Bigfoot, but I never believed,
and it it put the fear of God, mean maybe believe.
Speaker 1: Goodness, have you ever been back to that area?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I go there a lot. It's it's our main
hunting area and it's on our property.
Speaker 1: Right, that's true.
Speaker 5: Good point, And I think I think there is a
group of them living there because there's a lot of
other weird things that happen.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just gonna ask you, there's got to
be other stuff. He's noticed that that leads you to
believe there's stuff going on as well. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So like we'll go up the road, like we start
hunting at like five point thirty in the morning. We'll
go up the road and when we come back, they'll
be trees that are about probably as wide as like
a thigh of a human in an X across the road.
So we'll go up, they won't be there. We'll come
down and they're there, yep. And also you'll be hiking
down these like elk or big animals, and they leave
big trails, and so we follow the elk trails because
it's the path at least resistance and it's easier to
walk through these woods like that. And hanging over the
top of these X these elk trails, you'll find big
X formations.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, very very very interesting. Are you the only
one that's had a sighting on that property?
Speaker 5: No, sir, my sisters have. They their sighting was up
against the house.
Speaker 1: Really okay, so how close to the house.
Speaker 5: Like, so we got two bulldogs and they were having
a slumb party with her. She plays softball, so her
whole entire softball team was out there that day and
so they're in the back past you're playing softball everything
like that. And the parents My parents were out of
town that week, so I was taking care of my siblings.
And it's about probably two thirty in the morning and
my sister comes into my room and she's like, hey,
did you let the bulldogs out? I'm like, no, what
do you mean? Why are you asking that? They're like
outside the area of my room. We're hearing, like you know,
when a bulldog breeze it sounds weird because our face
is so smashed in. Yep, it's like that that like hard,
like almost like they're suffocating themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: And so I was like, no, they're not out, and
she's like, oh, okay, you just must be the hounds
or something like that. I'm like, yeah, okay, And then
I guess they the girls like hurt it again and
they like double dog dare My sister go out there
and see what it was. And she says like, it's
just this big black figure was standing against the wall
where her room was, and she was like, it was
almost like it was putting its ear against the wall
listening to us.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's that's some scary stuff, dude. How
old were they.
Speaker 5: They were twelve and thirteen at the time. It was
the twelve age group. And they came running into my
room and they didn't know what it was at all.
All they saw and it was dark house, so all
they saw was a human figure. So they came in
yelling in my room, going, there's a man outside our window.
There's a man outside our room. So I ran out there,
thinking there's some freaking perv over there, and it was
gone and I was out there within fifteen seconds from
when they saw it, and it was gone.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So did you see anything out there
that would that would tell you, Yeah, there was something
standing there.
Speaker 5: There was kind of like on the wall where they
she said it was leaning up against. There was like
a grease, greasy slickness to it, like you know when
your hair gets greasy and you rub your hair out,
it gets on your fingers and stuff. Oh yeah, I
wonder it was like there was like a grease slick
from where it had been leaning up against the wall
or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha. So any any tracks or indentations you could
see in the ground.
Speaker 5: No, Up in that area, it's a lot of dust
and hard It's like a lot of hard play. So
unless it rains, you get nothing in the ground.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: It's solid, hard ground until you get a little bit
of rain and then it's good mud.
Speaker 1: But so then my question is the people that so
you and your sister have had experiences. Have you then
had conversations with if like and your parents at the time,
and how was that conversation had.
Speaker 5: They I talked to him about it, and they they
they believe me, but they can't say. And they they're
not calling me a liar, they're not calling my sister
a liar, because they know that they know we saw something,
but they just don't they can't put a they they
themselves can't put a name to it yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha. So they they it wasn't a thing where
like you told them, and they were like, oh, yeah,
we totally know about this. This has happened for years.
Grandpa knows about it, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Like so we're so we actually are the first owners
of this property. We bought it off a guy we
don't know got it so I and we've only owned
it for two years.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting. Have you talked to the neighbors surrounding neighbors
at all, if you do, you have.
Speaker 5: Any Yeah, I've talked to them, and and uh, one
of the surrounding neighbors is actually my uncle, and he
has told me accounts from when he was a boy
of sneaking out of his house and going out on
horseback and stuff like that with his buddies and them
having rocks and stuff thrown at him. And okay, and
like I know, I know a lot of people don't
like him, the bf r O. I know a lot
of people don't like him, but I went on their
website and looked, and there is a quite big cluster
of sightings in the Fishlake National Forest.
Speaker 1: Really, that's that is actually really interesting because you're the
first person I've ever talked to from central Utah. I
don't know if this is considered central Utah. It kind
of looks like it. So that's good to know that
there's a lot of other things being documented around this area.
Speaker 5: Because, yeah, like Utah, it's a high mountain desert there
there is a lot of open land, sagebrush, but this
Fishlake National Forest is high mountain pine, quake, quaky aspens,
big Ponderosa pine, thick timber mountains is this area?
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the elevation up there?
Speaker 5: Uh? Where the property is? Are like the highest point
on that mountain.
Speaker 1: I like the property. I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: The property is at sixty five hundred feet.
Speaker 1: Oh that's like perfect, dude. Yeah, that's like that's it
from what I know for like, you know, Bigfoot elevation.
They like certain elevations for sure. Oh my goodness. So
you guys freaked out living on a property like that?
With activity or how are you guys handling it.
Speaker 5: I'm not just because I've never heard a story about
a bigfoot being aggressive to people.
Speaker 1: I haven't, okay, and okay.
Speaker 5: The like I don't want tom Like, we run cattle
and it's like we've had some calves go missing and stuff.
But it's like I've and I've talked to other podcasts.
I was on Sasquatch Chronicles.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Cool, that's awesome, dude.
Speaker 5: I was on Sasquatch Chronicles. I was on uh Midnight
Monster Files. Okay, that's another TikTok live stream, and I
was asking him like like I don't want to get
rid of them. I just want to keep them off
our land or where we keep our cattle because like
every time they take or I can't blame it on them.
But these are three hundred pound cows going and never
being seen again.
Speaker 1: No blood, no, no, okay, and so you're not even seen,
like bodies aren't even showing up. They're just totally disappearing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no blood, no nothing. It's like you get one
killed by a lion or a coyote, it's bloody, you
find them everything like that. But these ones are just.
Speaker 1: Gone, okay, are there other weird things happening on the property, Like, well,
we'll just leave it at that. They're strange things.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if you would account it to this,
but this is naive American land where we are like
we find arrowheads, we find putch your glyphs all over
our property.
Speaker 1: Really, Oh that's super interesting, okay? And so do you
ever see lights in the wood in the woods stuff
like that.
Speaker 5: Not like not tree level like in the woods in
the woods, but like right above tree level, sitting like
thirty forty feet in the air.
Speaker 1: What shape are they?
Speaker 5: The ones I've been seeing o are like almost like an.
Speaker 1: Egg yep, okay, size of.
Speaker 5: Them probably just about the size of a normal person's head.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Wow, that's that's really really wild. Are
you okay? You not leaving food outside for him or anything? Right?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, okay, good? Are you finding stuff outside like unlived
animals or weird objects?
Speaker 5: So I was gonna say speaking of that, like, yeah,
so we have a we have a I don't know,
it's like a barn almost, Like it's not even really
a barn, it's like a shed. And we have two
deep friezers in there because every year we put we
get says. We run our own cattle. We always kill
a COWI year for ourselves. So we have these two
deep freezers that are just filled with beef. And one
day we went into the barn and like these and
we have padlocks on them because we have raccoons, and
raccoons are smart enough to get their fingers underneath the
latch and they'll open your so we have these two
giant padlocks on so they can't open it. And these
we went in there one day and these two deep
freezers were like on the floor on the opposite side
of the building from where we left, and we accounted
it to a bear, But I don't know, Oh.
Speaker 1: My goodness, So they're you think they're trying to get
in and get get that food. Probably maybe that's what
I'm thinking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like we've also and speaking about dead animals,
like there's a bunch of stray cats around there. We
have found like stray cats with like no sign of injury,
just dead and then sitting like on a branch in
the tree.
Speaker 1: So their necks aren't broken or anything, they don't look
like they're ringed out.
Speaker 5: Well, I've never like I've never checked their neck, but
like I assume that when they're dead and you grab them,
their neck flops over, it's because they're dead, but maybe
it's because they're next broken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's a tricky, tricky deal because it's
kind of like you don't really want to mess with
a dead cat. But I get it. I wouldn't want
to anyways. So man, it's like people in your situation,
they'll do things like they'll put up game cameras around
the house.
Speaker 5: They'll that's what That's what Wes from South Scot's Chronicles
and the other guy told me to was game cameras
or motion sensor lights.
Speaker 1: That's it's it's what I would do if I was
in your situation as quick as possible. Like if you're
not wanting them near the house, that's what you do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like if they're on if they're in the woods
around the property or even on the property, I don't mind,
just right, I I just don't want them near the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just kind of in with those lights and
and those things. You're you're kind of setting up a boundary.
And sometimes it's like they'll even come up to see
that as far as they can get, like especially if
you have lights, they'll come up to the edge of
the lights and just hang out there. So but that,
I mean, that'll do it, man.
Speaker 5: And like the thing that I've noticed a law on
this property is so we don't just do bare amount lion.
I do raccoon hunting two, which you do at night
with your dogs or and it's like two in the morning,
and like you can count it to other things. Yes,
but it's so weird, Like I'll be walking fine through
the bottom of it. We have this big giant draw
in our giant like eating out part of the canyon
from a little creek that runs through it. So I
walk the bottom of that with dogs, trying to find
raccoons and stuff to train younger dogs. And the walls
of this like canyon and draws are like vertical, probably
thirty feet like straight vertical, because it's just where the
creeks carved out a spot over time. And I'll be
walking down just like sitting there walking listening for dogs
to bark or just humming along and then like no
problem at all, no eerie feeling, and all of a sudden,
it's like you just get a feeling of dread. You
just feel it in your chest, in the back of
your head, like there's something out here right now, and
like you'll have like I don't know if you can
it could be anything walking up on top of that
on top of that flat flat plateau on the because
I'm down the bottom and the plateau is about thirty
feet above me. But like you'll have boulders or rocks
come rolling down the edge parallel with you while you're
walking along.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's crazy stuff, man, I'm lin goodness, you're
really in the thick of it. Ed did give some
good advice too, and let me get that. So she
said that, and and you know this is just take
take it as it is. You know, ask their permission, sure,
tell them where your bat batteries. A lot of people
will talk to them directly out loud. And you know,
I don't know how you feel about that, but a
lot of people do have That is successful for a
lot of people. So that might get something to take
into consideration too.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe I did talk to him nice because I've
yelled at him before.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, don't, I wouldn't. Don't. Let's let's definitely stop
the yelling. Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 5: There was one night in respect. Yeah, we have a
tin roof barn and they're kept and uh, me and
my buddies were actually out sleeping underneath this tin roof
barn because it was just a nice night and we
wanted to have kind of like a camp out almost,
and rocks kept hitting the roof of this tin roof
barn and I had enough, but I got up. I
said get out of here, go h And I yelled
at him and everything like that, and I probably went
too far by shooting off in the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's a thing where you don't want
to get a situation to escalate, but I think you can.
You can say things like that with respect and being
firm right and uh you know, not having to fire
and things like that. But it's just your kind of
learning as you go along. But I think that the
quickest way would be, you know, as the other guys
you were talking to were saying, you know, your your
motion sensored lights and things like that are really going
to help you. But man, I I definitely want to
hear how this, how this goes, you know, if you
do decide to go forward with things.
Speaker 5: Like that, because and I think the cameras will work
because there's the south side of the property, which is
where the gate is. We have cameras on that gate,
and it always seems like whenever you hear them or
you feel like the area somewhere's coming from area, I
always feel like it's on the north side of the property.
Is where they're coming from.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting is that is there more woods on the
north side. Is there anything on the north side that
would be like an area that they might be protecting
or hanging out.
Speaker 5: That's where like I don't know, like if this hasn't,
but that's where most of the Indian artifacts and Indian
areas are.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, totally, man, that's where it.
Speaker 5: And like I don't know if you can count this
to Bigfoot or not either, but like there's a spot
up on this canyon. We go up on our property
and it's a big limestone canyon and there's a big
hole in the wall and around it stacked is this
was from the Indians? Flat rocks they're about about an
inch thick and they're flat and they're caked in mud
and like turned into like almost like a doorway of
this cave. But in this cave. There's a bunch of
like bones of cows and stuff inside this cave. But
this cave is like probably two hundred yards up a
side of a cliff. You have to drop down from
the top of the mountain to get down into this cave.
And it's a nasty it's a nasty hike.
Speaker 1: That's why are they old bones or or what? Do
you think?
Speaker 5: Like some of them are all old, old, and there's
some that are fresh, and there's some that are fresher
like there's none that are like have Like there's some
that you can still see blood inside the marrow and
everything like that, but none of them have meat on them,
but you can still see the resident of blood that's
in the marrow.
Speaker 1: I wonder if some of those are your cows.
Speaker 5: And like I don't know, Like I don't know, Like
do you believe that they can use tools? No?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I'll tell you why because I've I've found
it in Mount Hood National Forest. I found an area
with a researcher where there were stacked ferns next to
a handprint in the mud, and then there was like
piles of mud and it's just like thirty miles out
in the woods and the hand print was like this, So.
Speaker 5: Like, my question is is because there's a big rock
in there, and there's a little rock next to it,
and right now to it there was bones that were
split in half, almost like he's trying to get the
marrow out of the inside of the bone.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, dude, you do you have pictures of that?
That would be amazing.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't. I I don't have pictures of that.
But yeah, I'll stay followed you and I got your email.
Actually I wrote it down. So Okay, I run, I
run baar through that canyon all the time. So if
I ever come by that canyon and I'll go in
that cave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be that would be awesome. Yes, feel
free to send me an email. You got big for
Society at gmail dot com and uh yeah, keep me
in informed of anything else that happens or if you
have any other questions, you can feel feel free to
reach out. Man.
Speaker 5: And what and I gotta quick like is that X
them doing that across the road? Is that telling him like,
don't come up here.
Speaker 1: Man. That's one of those tricky things because some people
are like, well, they don't want you to go in
that area, or maybe like if you have a tree break,
they're trying to get you there, trying to mark roots.
Like there's all these different thoughts and it's like we
just we just don't know that the truth on it yet, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like the thing of like if it was laid just
across the road, I'd be like, Okay, it's them saying like,
we're here, it's a tree bake, pointing in a direction.
But how it's an X every time across the road.
That's what I'm like, are they trying to like tell
us not to come here by making an X.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this that ninety nine percent of
people I talked to, like researchers and people that have
been in it for a long time, they'll say that
X usually means out And Ed is saying that in
the comments too, that from Indiana.
Speaker 5: So we so do we piss them off every time
we go up there and take those exit and kick
them off the road? Probably?
Speaker 1: Probably? Potentially, Yeah, it's it's probably not a fun thing
for them, I would guess. But I mean usually if
I'm out there, I try to keep things as it
is as they are. I don't try taking down stuff.
If you find structures like weird wooden structures, don't go
in them, try to take them down.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't do that, but like when they put it
in the middle of the road, you kind of got
to move it so you can get your truck or
your vehicle up the road.
Speaker 1: I get it. I get so it might be a
thing where he's like, hey, guys, you know if I
if I want to get up there, I need to
move this and ask I don't know. It's a tricky one, right,
Why are I trying to get you out of there?
You know?
Speaker 5: Do I leave them maybe a gift if I move
it like an apple?
Speaker 1: You you could do that over this side or you
could eats saying you could ask them not to put
it in the road. Maybe put it on the side
of the road, is my my thought. Okay, yeah, try
to come to it some kind of understanding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I think there are amazing creatures and
amazing oh yeah animals and what they can do is
it fantastic? And so I don't want to hurt them.
I don't want to bother them, but I also don't
want them hindering how I get around on my property.
Speaker 1: Sure it's in situation is like her is, it's a
lot of it is coming to an understanding and you know,
living in harmony piece all that, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and like I don't know, is this a thing too,
Like I'm I'm nineteen right now, but like whenever my
dad it's my dad's property, my parents are split. Whenever
my dad and there's no parents in the house are
there for like two or three days, the activity spikes almost.
Speaker 1: Really that's really interesting.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's like do they find my dad threatening or
do they find older men threatening and so and do
they find like, yeah, do they find younger kids more
like I don't know how to say it, like less threatening?
Thing can get closer because like I've heard things about
like them liking to watch kids play and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and a lot of people repoor they're
curious females, children, people watching TV things like that. And
you know, if you do have an individual where they're
kind of more like an alpha male, they're older, bigger,
et cetera. Or they have some kind of weapons something
when they're around, yeah, they're probably not going to get
as close and cause mischief, you know.
Speaker 5: Because yeah, it's like and like me at the time,
of when that sister one with my sister happened, I
was probably I think I was eighteen at the time.
Was last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like.
Speaker 5: I've had times when I had buddies over and stuff
and they didn't bother me my buddies, But like the
one time when there was a bunch of these girls
running around, I wonder if that's like that was like
something that clicked in his head and like peaked his curiosity.
Was with all these little girls running around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that there are different things associated with that
that I have to be I'm not really going to
get into on this platform just because I want to
keep the platform, if you get what I mean. But uh,
I think you kind of get what I'm talking about
that Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: I was just saying maybe that he finds them less threatening,
or finds them more totally active or stuff like that,
And it was like, Okay, that's I'm used to seeing
all these guys around here. They're big and threatening, but
now there's all these null, little threatening things I'm gonna
be I'm gonna investigate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a good way to put him, man, Yeah,
you got it, exactly. That is a good way to
put it, man, But dude, you are in in the
middle of some wild, wild stuff. Keep me in the loop.
You got my email, But thank you so much for
coming up.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: If you have any more questions, you'd feel free to
reach out. I'll try to ask him or try to
answer him best I can.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 3: Hey, beuddy, doing good.
Speaker 1: You still doing good. Thanks for coming up man. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 3: I'm sixty five years old. I was a professional trapper
along the Missouri River with my buddies, and I lived
in Portsmouth, Iowa, which is right at the edge of
the Lowest Hills. And if you know anything about the
Lowest Hills, it's a very dense, dense forest along the river.
And so that's where I trapped, and so a body
of mine. We were doing a lot of spotlighting coons
raccoons because we were making one thousand dollars a week
at the time, and we found a crip that we
were found a lot of raccoons in. So one night
it was my turn to run down into the river
with flashlight. So I run down into the river and
I'm ready to to go across the creek, and all
of a sudden, I hear this giant something running in
in the middle of the creek, and it was two legged.
It wasn't four legged, it wasn't a deer. It was
two legged. And I've spent all of my life out
in the wilderness because that's what I did. And I
was always in the middle of the night out trapping
and hunting. And it ran up the creek and it
stopped right in front of me, and I yelled at
it because I knew it was a person. I thought
it was a person, and I said, who are you?
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 3: Answer me? And it stood right and it was only
twenty five feet away, and it was big because I
could tell by the way it was running up the creek,
and it wouldn't answer. So finally it scared me, so
I shot over its head and then I just took
off running, went back to the truck and told the
guys nothing. I didn't tell them nothing because I did
because I was not afraid of nothing. And they knew
I was the main guy, and if I was afraid
of something.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't.
Speaker 1: And you're not the main guy, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: I ran everything okay, And if I got scared of something,
and I'd been out in the woods all of my
life in the middle of the night, but that was weird. Okay,
that was the first thing that happened. So then I
come back the next day because I wanted to go explore,
and I didn't say anything to my buddies, didn't say nothing,
and I went looking and I didn't see any tracks, nothing.
But as I we were going up the creek, we
found a giant cave. It was five foot high and
it went back in probably i'd say seven foot into
the clay and it was all carved out with fingers
for like a bear. It was clawed out, and we
were like, there's no bears around here, what could have
clawed this cave out? And I still didn't say anything. Okay,
I didn't say a thing to the guys. So then
I said, well, we're going to start I told my buddy,
we're going to start trapping this because there's a lot
of a lot of a lot of raccoons in this creek.
So and I never told him a thing. So we
went out there and we were trapping this for about
three days. We set all of our traps out and
so he dropped me off on one end of the crick,
and he went on to the other end of the crik,
and he's supposed to be we're going to meet in
the middle, and all of a sudden he comes flying
down across, you know, through the field, honking his horn
and yelling and screaming out the window.
Speaker 4: Get out of there, Get out of there, Get out
of there, now, get out of the creck.
Speaker 3: So I come running out of the creek and I
come running up to him, and he's freaking out. He's
got tears coming down his eyes, and he says, I just.
Speaker 1: Ran into Bigfoot.
Speaker 3: And he says he was down at the edge of
the creek and he looked across it and he heard
a grunt and he looked and he's only fifth away,
and here's this bigfoot standing there and he's swaying back
and forth. And all he did is made one grunt.
But he and then my friend, he turned around and
took off running. And to this day, if you if
I get him on the phone, he will tell you
that he ran into big Foot. So then we go
back to town and then he tells everybody in town
that he ran into Bigfoot. And they all think he's crazy, right,
because we lived we grew up in a small town.
So if you do something like this, if you tell
somebody something like this, you know they're going.
Speaker 1: To make fun of you.
Speaker 3: So the whole you know, we had probably I don't know,
six or seven guys went out on a search party
looking and they saw the cave. Everybody saw the cave,
all scratched out, and they all believed us. So that's
my story very short.
Speaker 1: That is awesome though, because I don't hear a lot
of Iowa stuff. What year was that again?
Speaker 3: This was like nineteen seventy five?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So yeah, there was something like that. There
was a ton of bigfoot stuff happening all over the
place in Iowa in the mid to seventies, especially in
like Raccoon River area, and that's up north. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
that's crazy man. And you said this was Portsmouth, Yeah, Portsmouth, Iowa. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So have you I've heard of maybe one other thing
happening a little a little Westie and it was not
in the seventies. Have you heard of other things happening
in that same area?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I never researched any ok, never just beginning to I'm
just you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fascinating stuff. I've never heard of anything happening in Portsmouth,
so this is really cool to get it documented.
Speaker 3: Not in the trees, you know, we're just on the
edge of the you know, the lowest hills. Yeah, but
I've spent all my upbringing in the lowest hills and
that's a pretty intense forest.
Speaker 1: There is a book. Let me look it up real quick.
Just make sure I get the title for you if
you want to what is it. It's right, Monsters of
the Hawkeye State by David Weatherly, and it's got like
eighty pages of all the Bigfoot activity that's happened over
the years in Iowa. It's really good if you're wanting
to look into it. That's that's a really that's like
your one resource right now. So let's say that again
with Monsters of the Hawkeye State by David Weatherly. Yep.
So it's a good one. It's good stuff. Thank you,
Thank you sir for sharing your experience. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
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