WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:00.160 Hi. 2 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.080 I'm doctor Maria Meyer, anthropologist, primatologist, wildlife correspondent and part 3 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.880 of the team on Expedition Bigfoot. I've spent my entire 4 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.519 life exploring the planet's wildest, most remote places in search 5 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:17.280 of the extraordinary, and now I'm inviting you to join me. 6 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.960 Introducing the Explorer Society, a global community of curious minds, 7 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.760 truth seekers, and adventures where we dive into the unknown, 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.160 from elusive creatures like Bigfoot, to the frontiers of science, 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:35.679 nature and unexplained phenomena. 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I got a screen 40 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.919 going on here something just kid with my dog something 41 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.840 killed your dog, my dog. We're flying through the or 42 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.879 over the tree. I don't know how it did it. Okay, damn, 43 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.439 I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming 44 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.120 over the fence. The name of it dead when you 45 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.199 hit the ground. That didn't a geny cars. All I 46 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:48.840 saw was my dog coming over a fence. That what 47 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:50.039 are you reporting? 48 00:02:50.439 --> 00:03:02.400 We got some wonder or something froll around out here? 49 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:01.879 You see. 50 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.319 Here? Look, I'm near the one now now and I 51 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.599 don't need anything. I don't want to go outside. Just fright, Hello, 52 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:15.319 get the boddy out here? 53 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:16.520 What went on out there? 54 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.960 Let's got up a bit of about second forty nine? 55 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:22.000 I don't know. Easy announce there, yeah from walking right head? 56 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.560 Oh I folks, wa welcome my guest to the show. 57 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.319 It is Greg from Washington. Welcome to the show. 58 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.479 Hey, how you doing? I am good and I appreciate 59 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:30.680 you being here. Let's get right into it. 60 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:31.919 Let's talk about this bigfoot thing? 61 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.199 What guy you interested in the subject? To begin with, 62 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:36.759 I'll tell you the truth. Back when I was a 63 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.000 young boy, my dad took me to see Legend of 64 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.360 Boggy Creek. Mostly you guys probably heard this movie or 65 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.680 I've seen it if you've seen the second one where 66 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.520 it was more of the thriller movie. But what really 67 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.879 got me into saucequatch was my first sight that basically 68 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.520 blew my mind. As I've stayed many times too many people. 69 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.960 There's only a few ways you're going to deal with 70 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.840 seeing a saucequatcher the first time one. You're going to 71 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.599 basically deny you have ever seen one. A friend of 72 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:16.000 mine did. You're going to just say I'm never going 73 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.240 back into the woods ever again another friend of mine did. 74 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.199 Or you're gonna want to see them again and again. 75 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:27.439 Each time I've seen them. Each time still blows my mind, 76 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.439 still takes my breath away. The first one that was 77 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:35.759 like ten back in Colorado. All the sightings I've had, 78 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.839 I did put on the Bigfoot Mapping project so people 79 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.639 can actually go and look at them and see where 80 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:47.360 exactly they are. Magnitud Springs is a great hub for 81 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.680 saucequatching if you guys are heading to Colorado anytime soon. 82 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.240 So I was ten years old in nineteen eighty. I'm 83 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.639 living in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in the shadow of Pike's Peak. 84 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.399 I am left to my whim because my mom was 85 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:13.519 working and single mom. I'm on in Williams Canyon, big 86 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.519 canyon north of Manitou Springs, home of the cliff dwellings 87 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:20.639 and the Cave of the Winds. A lot of the 88 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.759 people probably seeing the terrordactyl swing rides. So when you 89 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.959 see those people swinging across the way, that's the area 90 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.319 I was at. I'm chucking big chunks of slate rock 91 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.079 down onto the ground below me, just walking all over 92 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.120 the place, right, So I decided to walk to one 93 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.639 of the cliff areas and chuck some slate down onto 94 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.879 the trail below. As soon as the rock hit the ground, 95 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.079 I wasn't really paying attention to anything, and tell that 96 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.519 rock hit and then I seen something large and black 97 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.959 move fast. I noticed it was slim. It literally looked 98 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.879 like a thin gorilla, except with longer legs and not 99 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.160 such a robust shoulder with And then I realized as 100 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.120 I started looking at it that it was like a 101 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:19.000 slender female and it had a small infant child toddler 102 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.879 sasquatch with it. It's looking up at me on the 103 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.879 cliff and I'm only about one hundred feet away from it, 104 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.480 and it's trying to push the toddler up into a 105 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:35.800 cave to shield it from sight because the Williams King 106 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:40.160 that's just filled with caves everywhere. I'm like, oh my gosh, 107 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.439 what the heck is that? Then my brain realized what 108 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:48.079 I'm actually seeing is a sasquatch. It would freaking me 109 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.879 out a little bit. Then off to my right, the 110 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:55.399 bushes were up to my waist slash chest, most of 111 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.040 its sage brush. All of a sudden, one about I 112 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:04.839 guess twenty five feet from my right just start shaking violently, 113 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.120 start like something is hiding behind or shaking it to 114 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.759 scare the heck out of it or whoever is in 115 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.319 front of you. Because I'm used to the wild animals 116 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:20.079 of Colorado watched so many documentaries by this time that 117 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:24.360 I knew that it wasn't lizards, coyotes, definitely not a 118 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.279 puma or bear. So the only thing I could think of, 119 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.759 which was get out of there, because I got scared, startled. 120 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.399 My brain was already a little frazzled from what I 121 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.839 just saw, and ran off. But as time went by, 122 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.360 I realized that it was probably another sasquatch that saw 123 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.879 me come in and then dropped down on the ground. 124 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.279 It turnd the rocks, smashing down on the trail below. 125 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.399 Realizing it had family down there or something, shook the 126 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:00.920 weeds really violently to try to scar me off, which 127 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.399 it did. Then I guess it got up and left, 128 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.720 because that was one of the last times I ever 129 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:10.839 went into that canyon. The second one was about three 130 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.879 years later. Those two friends were actually with me. We 131 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:20.639 had a multiple sighting. We decided to go camping. We 132 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.120 are right at the base of Mount Manitud, south side 133 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:29.639 of Mount Manitud, just off of Bar Trail or between 134 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:32.600 the cog railway. That's a train that goes up to 135 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.480 the top of Pike's Peak. And we found this stream 136 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.039 that goes down a little crick but there was a 137 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.000 little waterfall and then a little pond that you can 138 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.879 get in and soak in and cool yourself off. In 139 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.519 the summer. It was a little level plane, so we 140 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.519 decided to pitch our tent there. We were sitting there 141 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.480 as teenage kids, joking around, having a good time. We 142 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:57.679 decided it's probably about midnight, let's go to sleep, wake 143 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:59.879 up in the morning, gets some breakfast, all that sort of. 144 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.360 We had a fire pit that we made with a 145 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.240 bunch of rocks. It was Pike's Peak granite. We were 146 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.080 laying on middle of the night. I woke up. Something 147 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.360 had rekindled our fire and started up the fire again. 148 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.200 The three of us aren't a pup tent. I'm in 149 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.480 the middle. My friend Sean is on my left side. 150 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.159 My friend Greg is on the other. Now, Sean and 151 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.600 Greg are both from East Coast. I'm the only true 152 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.200 born Colorado in this group of people, and our feet 153 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.519 are at the entrance of the tent. Something had unzipped 154 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.720 the tent because the tent was open, but it wasn't 155 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.440 splayed open. I noticed that the lights started getting into 156 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:47.279 my eyes. I look up and I could see like 157 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.279 when you're in a tent and the fire is going, 158 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.799 you can see it lighting up your tent. But there 159 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:56.320 was a shadow on the main central form of the tent, 160 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.639 and I'm looking at directly up in the shadows above me. 161 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.600 And as I panned down to where my feet are, 162 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.080 I can see a shadow of legs, and then where 163 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:12.240 the tent was opened, it was hair, thick furry sasquatch hair. 164 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:17.799 I'm just stunned that this thing is looking at our fire, 165 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.200 and I think it was playing within stirring up the 166 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:25.879 actual fire. I shook my friends awake and then put 167 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.039 my hands over their mouths. When they said something, I 168 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:33.759 pointed like this and right there, and then the sasquatch 169 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:39.080 turned to face our tent. Now we were all laying down. 170 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.120 The next thing I know is all three of us 171 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.120 are sitting up with our backs on the back of 172 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.120 the tent, and it is now morning, so there has 173 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:57.240 been several hours gone in our psyche. The only thing 174 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.759 I could think of was sasquatch hook to tenth to 175 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.039 take a look to see what's inside. We freaked out, 176 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:08.240 and we all passed out. My friend Sean, he refused 177 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.320 to get out of the tent. Literally, he was that terrified. 178 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.080 He didn't want to get out of the tent. My 179 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.200 friend Greg, he wanted us to just grab the tent 180 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.919 and haul but Sean wouldn't get out. So they got 181 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.720 in an argument and Greg dregged Sean out and we left. 182 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:29.200 The very next day, I go to see Sean to 183 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.519 discuss what had happened, because Greg literally was refusing that 184 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.600 anything happened. The day later when I try to talk 185 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.759 to him, Sean moved back to Harlem, New York City, 186 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.799 and his mom had moved him to Colorado to get 187 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.159 him out of all the gang activity in Harlem in 188 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:51.120 nineteen eighties, and he moved back there and telled his 189 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:56.039 dad that it was safer in Harlem than in Colorado Mountains. 190 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.080 So that was pretty crazy. He all mad at us, 191 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.799 and I had told him exactly what had happened. He 192 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.600 was dumbfounded. There's no other logical reason why would he 193 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.720 demand to move back to his mom's. After that, I 194 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.559 stopped going into the mountains a lot. I moved down Arizona, 195 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.799 then moved into the military, got deployed, then came back 196 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:26.080 to Oregon. I moved into Lane County, which is the 197 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.799 area of Eugene, Oregon Springfield, Oregon. I did not realize 198 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:38.039 this was a treasure trove for sasquatch because the eastern 199 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:42.720 side of Oregon is basically desert until you get to Bend, 200 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.320 and then you got all these pine trees and stuff, 201 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.279 which I'm thinking there's probably a lot of sasquatches that 202 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.519 live over in that area. But on the west side 203 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.759 of the Cascades is nothing but a temperate rainforest. That's 204 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:59.120 when I started going out doing a lot of research, 205 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.799 taking steps on out to go camping that sort of stuff. 206 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.840 I remember him looking around. I was like, what's the matter. 207 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.440 I'm afraid this bears are something out here that are 208 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.279 going to eat us. It's like, trust me, what you're 209 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.200 hearing is not a bear. Just feel safe because I 210 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.399 was like, if there's a sauce squatch in the area, 211 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:23.200 feel safe because most likely no other predator is going 212 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.799 to be around. Because this thing is an apex creature. 213 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.360 Bears aren't going to want to be around it. Wolves 214 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:32.279 won't go around it. Kuma's definitely don't want to be around. 215 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.919 I started doing a lot more research, start compiling a 216 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.279 map of sightings where I wanted to go. I took 217 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.519 my son up to was at Dweierhouer tree farm growing 218 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.360 up in Colorado. Who used to get close as I 219 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.639 could to animals track them. I always felt this like 220 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.960 weird sixth sense when animals were near me. I'm talking 221 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:59.840 to identifying plants and stuff. For him, I felt something around. 222 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.399 All of a sudden, I hear a gun shot off 223 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.919 to our left. I looked down to THEO and we 224 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.399 started hearing it immediately. As soon as a gun shot, 225 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.600 we have something's running away from us, and it was 226 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.000 literally behind the tree we were standing in front. I 227 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.200 looked at him for a split second. I did not 228 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.000 know if I wanted to run after it, because I 229 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.200 got my seven year old son with me and he's like, 230 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.399 now excited, Oh my god, what do we do? Shortly 231 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.759 after that, I took him and his friend Russell up 232 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:39.879 to Blue School Mountain area of Cottage Grove, teaching him 233 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.639 about tracking all that sort of stuff. By this time, 234 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.240 my son is a little older. I'd given him a 235 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.759 super neat dagger, so he's like a sword. So I'm 236 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.759 teaching them about tracking and stuff, and on our way 237 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:58.080 back to the van, I felt there was something out here. 238 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.279 Instead of carrying guns ninety five some time, I carry 239 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.200 a sword with me in a stun gun. 240 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.679 And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll 241 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:08.600 be right back after these messages. 242 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.639 Because I found that you just take a stun gun 243 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.879 clack it into the air. Most of the predators I've 244 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.000 had to deal with just kind of oh my god, 245 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.039 what the heck was that? And they're all completely defensive 246 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:25.480 and they run off, or if that doesn't work, I 247 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:28.360 pull out this sword whack off a limb. Really fascillate 248 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.120 and they're like, other thing's got a big ass claw. Generally, 249 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.960 I don't have to worry about predators that much, but 250 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.799 this time I have two kids with me, so I 251 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.720 was like, Okay, you guys, stay behind me about twenty 252 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.600 yards so I can scout ahead. One of the things 253 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:50.000 I tell everybody if you want to have a good 254 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:56.600 sasquatch side is don't scream and point. Because sasquatches are 255 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.919 loose of their shy creatures. They want to observe you 256 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.120 to see if you're a danger to them and their families. 257 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.960 They're not going to immediately be hyper aggressive towards you 258 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.320 unless they've had a lot of bad encounters with human beings. 259 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.799 So that's what I told these kids. Don't scream in point. 260 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.919 Russell forgot that one major fact. Apparently he was looking 261 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:24.039 over his shoulder and he sees one peering out behind 262 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.960 a tree at him. He screams my name right there, 263 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:32.799 and then my brain thought black bear. I just pulled 264 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.279 out my sword instantly and started going right where he pointed, 265 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:39.519 because nothing was going to get near my son or 266 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.480 this other kid didn't realize it was a sasquatch. I'm 267 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.879 just barreling through the woods because I saw something. As 268 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.399 soon as I turned, I could see this big black 269 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:53.960 mass going right through all the sapling trees. We're in 270 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:58.039 pine trees, so it's just a curtain of little trees. 271 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.519 I'm just I am through these things. Then I realized 272 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.599 that my son and his friend are behind me somewhere 273 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.519 on the trail, and I look behind me, here's my 274 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:16.440 little son. I had to stop because there was a 275 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:19.640 big rain draw. It's like you got the road and 276 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.039 where all the rain goes down. It's just basically like this, 277 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.559 and it's a twenty foot span from where I was 278 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:31.880 to the other area. I see what looked like something 279 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.799 like if someone was doing a running long jump, and 280 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.720 then you can see the footprints land. It was so 281 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.519 fresh that the rocks and stuff were still falling. This 282 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.599 thing was gone. Prior to this, I was going up 283 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:49.000 to the wirehouse tree farm constantly. This was one of 284 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.400 the other most weirdest sightings. 285 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:51.839 I had. 286 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:54.640 I go up and now I have a Bronco two. 287 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:58.599 I had it army camouflaged. I pulled over into this 288 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:02.000 one area so I can actually check out the area. 289 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.079 For some reason, I felt like I needed to be 290 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.160 here also that I noticed that there was this big 291 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.839 old pine tree that looked like it had just been felled, 292 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:15.200 not lumberjack falling it, like something actually pushed it over. 293 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.200 I pulled into the area, and I noticed that it 294 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.400 had really tall grass, about three feet tall. If that 295 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.880 I see that, it looked like there was footsteps going 296 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:31.440 to the tree that had been filled. It looked like 297 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.759 something had broke out a lot of the branches underneath 298 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.240 the bottom of the tree, almost so it could sleep 299 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.400 or something and keep all the other branches to protect it. 300 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:47.079 I'm six foot one and I'm having to jump from 301 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.039 one step to the other step because I could not 302 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.839 reach them even with extending my legs. So I get 303 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.839 there and I'm looking at it, and sure enough, it 304 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.039 literally looks like something stepped in there started breaking the 305 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.680 branches off and tossing them out so it can sleep 306 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.079 in there. And I think that's what a lot of 307 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:09.319 them will do, is they find broken trees or something 308 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:12.799 like that and just make little nests and stuff. This 309 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.880 is when I made astounding discovery about these creatures and 310 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:20.759 how much they are a lot like gorillas, not because 311 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.519 of just the way they look. So I go back 312 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:27.400 out of that area, and there's this two sets of cheese. 313 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.880 I just forgot the name of the pine trees, but 314 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.519 they're tall. They're like one hundred footers. There's a smaller 315 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.839 pine tree that's just literally covered in moss, and there's 316 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.039 a bunch of man's Anita bushes surrounding it like an 317 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.079 arc almost. I'm seeing these two trees, and I'm thinking 318 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.519 this will be a good place for an apple trap. 319 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.720 I always bring some oranges with me to help bake 320 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:53.880 the apple trap, because what I'll do is I'll rub 321 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:58.440 the oranges on the area around the trees because the 322 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:02.319 citric oils is a really pungent smell, throw out some 323 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.960 cinnamon sticks, and then hang the apple trap. So I'm 324 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:09.960 going to over the area grab my stuff. I noticed 325 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:15.559 that underneath the tree there's a lot of fresh pine 326 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:19.720 nettle branches. Now they aren't the pine nettles for this tree, 327 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:23.319 because they're the wrong conifer. I'm looking at them, and 328 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:28.880 these things are like bright green, very soft pine nettles. 329 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.240 It literally looked like something had gathered them and laid 330 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:37.039 a mattie of them underneath this tree, behind all the 331 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.400 man's Anita bushes. Because the Man's inneda bushes if you 332 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.599 don't know, are not really prickly, but you don't want 333 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:46.440 to run through them. I don't know any animal that 334 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:48.559 would want to eat them, tell you the truth. They 335 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.680 were laying there, and I started looking at it. I 336 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.680 put my back against the tree, and I'm noticing that 337 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:02.279 there was one large humanoid figure that if they slept 338 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.960 in the fetal position. Then there was another one kind 339 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:09.079 of right next to it about two feet away, and 340 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:13.680 then two small ones, but one was like nestled really 341 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:17.039 close to the middle large one. I'm thinking, I have 342 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:21.839 a family group area that I'm in. He you got 343 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:24.960 an adult, you got a mom, you got the two kids, 344 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:30.160 and then maybe the larger king is probably what made 345 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.599 the tree little nap thing. I could be wrong. It 346 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:36.359 could have been the dad just came back to that area. 347 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:41.079 Because I do believe that they have patrol areas. They 348 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.400 have their family zone, then they have their patrol zone 349 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.400 where they're looking for food, making sure everything's safe. Now 350 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:50.319 I know I have to put up an apple trap, 351 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:54.359 so I go get my stuff. I'm starting to set 352 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.400 up the apple trap, and I hear stifled breathing above me. Now, 353 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:02.680 like I said, and I know a lot about animals, bears, pumas. 354 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.480 This is sounding like when you're playing hide and seek 355 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:09.599 when you're a kid and you had that one kid 356 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:12.079 who is like right next to you and you're trying 357 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:16.359 to breathe but not wanting to let them hear you breathe. 358 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:21.200 That's literally what this was, but larger. I'm like, Okay, 359 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:24.039 this thing's right about me. If I look up and 360 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.759 scream or anything like, this thing could literally jump on me, 361 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:31.400 pummeled me to oblivion, whatever, Okay, Because I'm not delusional. 362 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.319 They can be hostile, extremely hostile. Through my research, there 363 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:40.319 has been many these creatures killing the humans. So I'm like, 364 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.440 you know what, I got this disposable cameras because I 365 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:46.920 had one camera prior to that was like a digital 366 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:51.119 camera that you just point and shoot horrible, horrible resolution. 367 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.880 And I'm looking at photos when I took these ones 368 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.559 of a deer one time and I'm like, no, wonder, 369 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.720 people see just nothing but blurry sasquatch. They're using this 370 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:04.039 horror camera. So I decided to go with the disposable ones. 371 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.680 Because I'm a young dad with the young wife and 372 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.559 two kids. We didn't have a lot of money. To 373 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:13.160 spend on sasquatch. So I went to go get my 374 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:16.920 camera out of the bronco. Now when I'm also wearing 375 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.799 is my cameo fatigues from when I was in the army. 376 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.240 I get my camera out. I'm not looking up at 377 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.880 it because I know that when you look at a sasquatch, 378 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:29.960 it's going to trip out, so I'm trying to keep 379 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.720 it peaceful. I see this dough coming from my right, 380 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.640 and she stops and she looks right at me, that 381 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:43.119 looks down at my hands, and she realizes that I'm 382 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:46.400 not a hunter. Now, I think deer realized when they 383 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:51.000 see humans in camouflage gear and they're carrying long things 384 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:54.759 or a bo it's oh, I better run. And she 385 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.960 just totally relaxed, and she starts prancing Peppi lepew from 386 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.759 the cartoons. That's same going going. As she starts going 387 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.240 around the trees, I just set my apple trap. I'm like, 388 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:09.039 I got to get a picture so I can show 389 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:12.119 my wife and my kids. Right when I'm about to 390 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:15.680 take the picture, you got the two trees here, you 391 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:19.079 got the one smaller conifer, you got the nest area. 392 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:23.839 She's now passing this one tree. That the stifle breathings it. 393 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:27.160 It's not panting like a puma or anything like that. 394 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:30.559 Just as I'm about to take the picture, she just 395 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:35.000 looks up. Her ears dropped down on her head. She 396 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:39.880 drops on her butt. She's instantly turning. Those front legs 397 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:44.039 are just with and dirt. She's just coming straight at me. 398 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.839 It was like I'm about to be ran over by 399 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.079 a deer because she's not looking at me at all. 400 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.359 She's looking up at what's in that tree. She's barreling 401 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:56.880