WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.120 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:05.879 this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring 3 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.720 you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen 4 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:12.880 something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.719 quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.719 and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:24.000 These are the voices of the people who've lived it. 8 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.440 To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.120 just might change the way you see the woods forever. 10 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:32.439 So stay with us, all right, pick the Society. You've 11 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.880 got the privilege of talking to Greg Helton today. Greg 12 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.799 is out there in the great state of Washington. He's 13 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.439 a listener of the show and also a few other things. 14 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.079 He's an Army veteran, a writer, an artist. He's a 15 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.439 YouTuber as well, and he's had some interesting things happen 16 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.960 in the Bigfoot subject over the years in a few 17 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.560 different states. So welcome to the show. Greg. How are 18 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:56.320 you doing today, sir? 19 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.960 Pretty good. It's a nice, beautiful morning up here. 20 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.479 Finally, normally it's nice and great and overcast it and rainy, 21 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:05.920 but it's actually sunny in shiny today. 22 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.120 That is great, And yeah, that's probably when you get 23 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.640 those days out there in the Pacific now northwest. You 24 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.719 want to definitely not taken for granted. We're thankful that 25 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.200 you're choosing to spend us some time with us today 26 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.640 here on the show. But I know a little bit 27 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.719 about your accounts, and from what I know, Greg, they 28 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:27.239 sound extremely interesting. I'd like to make the best use 29 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.319 of our time today. Feel free to take us back 30 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.959 to when this whole deal started for you. What was 31 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.079 the first thing that you had experienced. 32 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.680 My first experience, I was ten years old and I 33 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:42.480 was living in a. 34 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.040 Little town called Manitou Springs. 35 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.760 Colorado, a beautiful little town right nestled it right at 36 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.959 the rocky Mountains No. One Mountain from Pike's Peak, and 37 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.640 there's a canyon called Williams Canyon. And if you google 38 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:02.120 YouTube tear Doctor Rights, that's the video. 39 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.159 That's the canyon that they swing over. But I was 40 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.120 ten years old and. 41 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.960 My mom let me climb all over the mountain as 42 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.360 long as I wasn't causing trouble in the streets. So 43 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.680 I'm sitting there climbing along and was up in the 44 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:21.199 Williams Canyon and I was grabbing slate rock and throwing 45 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.639 them down off one of the cliffs. Didn't really think 46 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:30.479 about it until the third rock I threw down because 47 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.599 there was a movement to my left and the purple 48 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.639 vision and I look over and there's. 49 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:45.319 A young slender I'm thinking maybe six foot tall female sasquatch, 50 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:50.319 holding like an infant, right or one or two year old. 51 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.439 And she's trying to push him up into one of. 52 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.879 These caves so they they're out of the way of 53 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.560 having rocks chucked on doom. 54 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.400 And it tripped me out because I. 55 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:04.000 Seen the legend of Boggy Creek when I was a 56 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.680 little kid, and so instantly recognized what they were. 57 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.599 And I was like, oh my gosh. And then to 58 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.319 my right and I'm like. 59 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.919 Hit deep in the bushes basically, and to my right 60 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:24.159 these bushes started shaking violently. Now, knowing animals growing up 61 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:27.680 in Colorado and learning all the animals over there, I 62 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.759 know no animals shakes bushes just to shake a bush. 63 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.439 Only two things do that. That'd be a human or 64 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.560 a primate, and that's to scare the. 65 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:36.080 Heck out of you. 66 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.319 So that was pretty intense. Right there and I ran away. 67 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:41.719 I was ten years old. 68 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:47.240 And then the next sighting was a few years later, 69 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.479 and me and my two buddies, Greg Godell Piano and 70 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.560 Sean Flanagan decided. 71 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.360 We were going to go camping for the night right 72 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:00.439 and were we packed up our stuff and we hiked 73 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:06.039 along Bar Trail, which is at the southwest end of 74 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.960 Manitou Springs and it's there's like a train track that 75 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:11.879 goes up to the top of Pike's Peak called the 76 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:16.680 cog Railway, and we basically camped right near there. There 77 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.439 we found this little pool that's by about six feet deep. 78 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.560 It's because there's a natural creek running down the area 79 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:24.959 that we were camping at. 80 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.839 And we were sitting there as a couple. 81 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.800 Of kids and talking talking about girls and stuff like 82 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.639 that got really dark and late at night, and so 83 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.000 we decided to go to bed right now. We only 84 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.920 had one of the little pup tents that you have 85 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.680 that was triangular, not the kind that are now that 86 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.480 are domed everywhere, and so it was Greg on the right, 87 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.439 Sean on the left, and I was in the middle, 88 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.319 and we had left the zipper opened right so air 89 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.160 can flow through, and we won't get chiseled by do 90 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:01.040 and the. 91 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.560 Fire had died down, and then. 92 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.319 The fire got rekindled, and that's what woke me up. 93 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.319 And I looked down at my feet and there's this 94 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.759 huge shadow. 95 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.480 Covering the entire tent right And I looked down and 96 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:20.399 there's these two gigantic harry legs between us and the campfire. 97 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.040 And I was like, oh gosh, And I knew they 98 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.600 weren't bears of bear legs, because bears are love study 99 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.879 little things. And I shook my two friends awake and 100 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.079 then put my hands over their mouths because one of 101 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:41.720 them made a sound, and the legs turned and we 102 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.959 were all three laying down. The next thing I know, 103 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.160 it's about eleven in the morning, dish, so it's been 104 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:53.279 several hours, and we all three were in the sitting 105 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:58.000 position with our backs pressed against the tent. So the 106 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.800 only thing I'm thinking is the asquatch probably looked into 107 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:05.079 the tent, scared us to death, and we all just fainted. 108 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.199 I got out of the tent by f Greg got 109 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:09.480 out of the tent, and he was. 110 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.560 So anxious to just get out of the area. 111 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.639 He was like throwing stuff all together. My friend Sean 112 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.720 he wouldn't even get out of the tent. He was 113 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.079 that terrified and that we had to basically drag the 114 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.040 tent off of him. And Sean was from New York 115 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.720 City and his parents. His mom sent him to his 116 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.800 dad in Colorado to get him away from all the 117 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:37.600 gangs in the nineteen eighties. And basically the next day 118 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:39.600 I go to see Sean. 119 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.879 To talk about it, and his dad had. 120 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.560 To send him home to New York City because Sean 121 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.560 thought it would be safer to be in New York 122 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.600 City than in Colorado with the Bigfoot and my friend Greg. 123 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.480 He literally refused to talk about it. He was that terrified. 124 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.279 I did have one possible encounter when I was a 125 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:02.000 teen in. 126 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.759 The same city. I don't know if it was actually 127 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.560 a Sasquatch or not, because what I did not. 128 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.639 See was solid black And I'm walking a girl home 129 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.920 up in Crystal Hills, and as I'm walking back home, 130 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.879 there's this large I think it was a Rottweiler, right, 131 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:22.680 and he's not on a leash, and I think he's 132 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.120 like on his way home or something, and he sees 133 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.360 me but doesn't even worry about me, right, And then 134 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.040 all of a sudden he goes out of the street 135 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.879 light land from under the street light, and he looks 136 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.959 to his right and freaks out, and he goes running 137 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.240 and hides behind me. And I was just like, and 138 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.560 I heard a sun shuffle. So we do have black bears, 139 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.240 but generally when a dog sees a black bear, they 140 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.439 start barking. When the sasquatches come around, a lot of 141 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:59.360 dogs just freaking shut up and run away. Okay, then 142 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.000 we'll go to That was my Colorado incidences. Then I 143 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.680 went to the Army, and then I moved to Oregon 144 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:13.720 shortly afterwards, and I was up in the Regency apartments 145 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.079 up by COCC Central Oregon Community College, and I was 146 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:24.160 with a friend and we see this large mass walking 147 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.079 across like our window. 148 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.600 And that was like one of the things. 149 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.360 So it looked like a sasquatch in the shadow, but 150 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.519 it didn't make a sound, and where its head would 151 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:41.039 be would have had it been about eight feet high 152 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:44.720 from where we were and the wind how far the 153 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.559 window is off the ground. But most of my sightings 154 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:53.759 were over on the western side of Oregon. Most of 155 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:57.799 them were actually in Lane County. One of them, I 156 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.559 was driving home from a friend of mine's house in Marcola, 157 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:08.200 and they actually have a big history of sasquatches walking 158 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.480 through the creeks in their town, really tiny world town. 159 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:17.159 And I'm driving home and it's twilight and I see something. 160 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.720 For some reason, my brain thought it was a broken 161 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.320 telephone pole because it was half the size of the 162 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:27.879 actual telephone pole, so it wasn't the fifty foot telephone poles. 163 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.000 This one was probably about. 164 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:33.879 Twenty five hit the most, and I'm like, oh, they 165 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.159 replace a telephone pole. And that was What's stuck in 166 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.720 my head for a split second. As I'm driving past, 167 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.039 I realized it wasn't the telephone pole. It was a 168 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:47.600 sasquatch just standing there quietly waiting for a few cars 169 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.000 to pass by before it walks across the road. 170 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.000 And as it passed. 171 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.080 My behind my van, I look behind over my left 172 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.759 shoulder and I see it walking up to the spob 173 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.159 wire fence. And I went there the day afterwards, and 174 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.039 the bob wire fences like up to my hip and 175 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.759 I'm six to one and this bob wire fence was 176 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:09.919 at its knees, that's. 177 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.919 How big it was. It just stepped over like it. 178 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.080 Was nothing and just kept going and that was a freaky, 179 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.480 freaky one on my point because that because it was 180 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.960 only just a few miles from Springfield, Oregon, it was 181 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:27.120 really weird. Then I was up in Shock or the 182 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:32.519 Shotgun Creek area of the Wirehouser Tree farm area, which 183 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:37.279 is right by Marcolo, and I just witnessed or watched 184 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.600 and investigated this bronco had been. 185 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:43.240 Overturned in this area. 186 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.559 And I went through that area several times, and the 187 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.399 bronco had been flipped off the road, like something came 188 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.879 to the side of it and flipped it off the rope. 189 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.840 And when I investigated the first time, the window looked 190 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.440 like someone had put a shotgun up to the windshield 191 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.879 from the end. I fired out, and this thing had 192 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.559 been rolled off the thing because the way the tracks were, 193 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:09.600 you could just see the pivots in the dirt where 194 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.200 something just flip the truck off the road. 195 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.320 And I go back there a couple days later, and 196 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.519 now that bronco is another one hundred yards into the 197 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:24.159 woods and had been flipped over a a three foot 198 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:25.720 thick fallen tree. 199 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.519 So that freaked me out a little bit, but I 200 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:32.759 kept going. And so I go to this one area 201 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.000 and I was just like, Okay, this is a good area. 202 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.279 I see some trees here, there's a fallen tree over here. 203 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.200 I'm going to put up an apple trap. And something 204 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.639 just told me this was like a really good spot. 205 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:48.840 And this happened almost every time I had my sasquatch 206 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.240 experiences in Oregon. 207 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.799 And so I noticed as I got out that. 208 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:59.799 There was these large footsteps imprints in the grass going 209 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.039 from the clearing where I was to where the fallen 210 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.919 tree was right and I had a hop from one 211 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.519 step to the other, and it looked like something had 212 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:13.279 literally broke a lot of the branches off underneath and 213 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:17.000 slept there. And I was just like, wow, that's interesting. 214 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.679 So I go over to the other area where to 215 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.360 go have my apple trap. 216 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.000 Between these trees. One of them is a really large. 217 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.279 Pine tree, I think it's like a ponderosa pine tree, 218 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:30.840 and the other there was another one, and then there 219 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.399 was a smaller pine tree that was just covered in 220 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:38.159 moss and it was surrounded by manzanita bushes. 221 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.559 But when I walked under there, there. 222 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:48.679 Was a ton of baby pine netals branches. Someone went 223 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.600 to another pine tree and broke these off because the 224 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.679 pine netals are really soft and had laid them out 225 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.320 like a Mattie right, and you could see in the 226 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:02.159 impressions that there were two small, all humanoid impressions and 227 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:07.639 two large impressions, all like in the fetal position. Now, Dear, 228 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.440 don't do that. Dear, won't collect stuff and put it 229 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.879 down into a nest. The only thing I know that 230 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.840 does that is large primates. I took a few pictures, 231 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:20.559 but the camera I had was like everything was blurry 232 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.440 because it was a horrible piece of junk camera. But 233 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.240 so I went and started doing the apple trap just 234 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.799 to the south of that tree where the other two were, 235 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.720 and I was hearing a stifled breathing. 236 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:35.039 It was really heavy. 237 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:37.399 And it's like when you're hiding and playing hide and 238 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.799 seek when you're a kid and your friends are right 239 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:42.480 next to you, so you're trying to breathe. 240 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.679 You're excited, but you're trying to stifle it. 241 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.639 And I was just like, I finished the apple trap, 242 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.759 and then I walked. 243 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.279 Off to go to my camera or my car to get. 244 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.960 A camera, right, and this time I bought just one 245 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.080 of the little clicky throwaway cameras because I wanted to 246 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.080 see what was up in that tree. 247 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:02.600 And I knew. 248 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.960 I was thinking there's probably a sasquatch or at least 249 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:11.720 a black bear. And I see this dough prancing, literally 250 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.759 prancing the beautiful days. She's doing the whole peppy of 251 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.759 the pew skunk prancing thing, and I was like, oh, 252 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:19.559 I'm going to take a picture of this really quickly, 253 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.480 and she freezes and looks at me because I'm in. 254 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:25.639 My army camouflage fatigues. 255 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.639 And she looks down at my hands and notice there's 256 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.559 no gun or boat or anything like that, just a camera. 257 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.639 And I think she's seen enough hunters to recognize I 258 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.960 wasn't the threat. And she starts prancing around the same 259 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.720 trees I was just at and I go around to 260 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.480 get a better picture of her, and just as I 261 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.159 was about to click the photo, she looks up to 262 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.279 the tree where the breathing was coming from. She stopped 263 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.679 dead in her tracks, looked up, her eyes just went wide, 264 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:01.519 and she dropped her ears, spun her and then bolted. 265 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.799 She's looking back at what's up in that tree and 266 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.639 not knowing what she's running at. She was that terrified, 267 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.759 and she was running at me, and I had to 268 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:12.919 jump out of the way, so I wouldn't get pulled 269 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:13.879 over by a dough. 270 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.639 And as soon as I looked when she was running, 271 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.200 I hear this bo I mean, something like seven eight 272 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.559 hundred pounds just fell out of the tree and landed 273 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.120 on the ground. And I turned and I see this 274 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.600 thing just drop behind the hill. 275 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.399 And I raced to the hill because it's a large 276 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.799 slope that goes down about seventy yards and then there's 277 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.080 and there's just nothing but like fern bushes, and then 278 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.720 there's the tree line, and most of the trees right 279 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.679 at that area are about ten fifteen foot tall saplings, 280 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.519 pine trees, and all of a sudden, and when I 281 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.480 got there, I looked up to the tree line and 282 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.200 I see this big black mass that as tall as 283 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.919 those trees barreling into them. And it wasn't a bear 284 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.240 because it wasn't on a time on its fore legs, 285 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:10.679 because that's how bears run. And this thing was fully upright, 286 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.399 and its shoulders had to. 287 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:16.840 Be oh geez, at least four feet wide. 288 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.120 At the most, or not the most, but just at 289 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.639 least that this thing was massively cute. That was one 290 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.360 of the other encounters I had, which was pretty trippy 291 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:32.000 in my point of view about a quarter mile to 292 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.600 the south of that. Me and my son at that 293 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:38.799 time were I was explaining how to do some tracking 294 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.279 here and there and stuff, and showing them what kind 295 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.799 of bushes and what kind of things plants that are 296 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.759 around that Deer would he eat, bears would eat stuff 297 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.159 like that, And this area has been known for also. 298 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:53.120 People shooting guns. 299 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:58.240 And we hear this gun shot right and I was 300 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.799 just like, what the heck was that? And then all 301 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.039 of a sudden, from the tree behind us, we hear 302 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:09.119 this foo foom boom running away from us. And I 303 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.200 was with my son and I was like, Okay, I'm 304 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.799 not going to go chase the sasquatch because I knew 305 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.079 it was probably one, but he was young enough I 306 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.839 still didn't want to do anything. So that was one 307 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.200 of the possible encounters. A year or so later, he 308 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.240 got older, he had a friend, so I took them 309 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.559 down to the see I think it was the Blue 310 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.799 School Mountain area. 311 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.799 It's now no longer dense tree land and stuff. It's 312 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.680 overgrown with houses and stuff. 313 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.039 And I took them to this area to teach them 314 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:41.640 how to track animals. 315 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.119 And as we're going along. 316 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:48.400 I'm explaining, if you guys see bears, don't overreact get 317 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.359 near me, blah blah blah. You see elk or beer, 318 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.119 don't piss off the buck because they will stomp on you. 319 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:59.039 And let's see if there's a sasquatch, do not screaming. 320 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:00.200 Point right. 321 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.519 I iterated that to him so much, and I left 322 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.960 a big pile of dried cranberries near our van just 323 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:12.480 so I could possibly get some footsteps or footprints and stuff. 324 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.400 And we walked off and then we're coming back an 325 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:19.160 hour later. And I just felt there was a like 326 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.240 this presence around us that when I go camping, I 327 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.160 don't carry guns. I usually carry a sword and a teaser, right, 328 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:29.759 because with the taser you could clack it in the air. 329 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.359 And I've driven bears away from me instantly with those 330 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.279 things because they can feel the electricity in the air 331 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:37.599 and everything knows. 332 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.200 What lightning is, and they run away. And so I 333 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:44.359 pulled out my sword and I started walking ahead to 334 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.920 make sure the coast was clear. And that's when I 335 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:53.759 hear my son's friend Russell greg there. 336 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:59.200 Is any points and I'm seeing this black mass disappeared 337 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.480 into this sappening, right, and this thing is at least 338 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.759 eight feet high, and for I do not know what 339 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:08.480 came over me, but I just. 340 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:09.920 Charged right at it. 341 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:14.759 It was instant chasing this thing because it was near 342 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.240 my kid, and the parental instinct just kicked in right, 343 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:24.119 So I went charging in and I realized after about 344 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.559 twenty feet in that, oh god, I just left my 345 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.720 son on the road back there, the little dirt road. 346 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:34.240 And I look behind me and here he is right 347 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:37.480 on my butt when he has this camping knife I 348 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.200 got him. That's like about eighteen inches long. 349 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.279 That of the blade is that was like a scimitar sheet. 350 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.400 He has that thing out like a swordies chasing me, 351 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:49.119 and he. 352 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.240 Told me if anything would have attacked me, he would 353 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:52.720 have just instantly came in at it. 354 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.720 So I thought that was pretty cool. 355 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.000 But we I break through the tree line and there's 356 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.079 a ditch running alongside the road where like when water 357 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.079 runoff goes, that's the way it goes. And it's about 358 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:09.920 a twenty foot distance from where I was to the 359 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:14.200 actual road, and I look over and I could see 360 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.759 that something had literally landed like two gigantic feet like 361 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:19.359 a broad like when you're doing. 362 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.960 The running jumps in track. It just two feet landed 363 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.200 and the dirt was still going and I can hear 364 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:30.200 it off into the bushes. That was another sighting. 365 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:34.000 Then there was one where I got word from some 366 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.319 people about the guy and his buddies used to go 367 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.119 hunting in a certain area until a bunch of sasquatches 368 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:42.480 scared him out of the area. 369 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.200 And these guys go bear hunting all the time. So 370 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:47.160 it's just okay, awesome, I'm going to go that way. 371 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.960 So I take these young eighteen year old kids with me, 372 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.599 and I was like teaching them about all sorts of things, 373 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:01.359 and we went up found like this fallen true that 374 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:06.079 was like an island inside these like thirty foot deep 375 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:10.200 BlackBerry bushes. Anyways, there was like about eight deer that 376 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:13.960 looked like they've been dismembered, the bones not on, and 377 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:18.559 they were in different stages of decomposition, right, and so 378 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.079 we're like, oh, that's pretty trippy. So I grabbed a 379 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:24.359 couple of bones to take to a biologist. And then 380 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:29.440 on our way back, right, we hear this thumping sound 381 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.799 because we're actually on a concrete road of forest road, 382 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.680 and there's a hill to the right of us, like 383 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:42.039 a berm about oh, twenty five feet high, and I 384 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:46.839 can hear something paralleling us, and these are large bipedal footsteps. 385 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:49.519 So I pulled the guys to stop for a second. 386 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:50.839 There's stop. 387 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:57.279 We kept walking, then stop the footsteps stop. So that 388 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.559 kept on for a while until we got to the car. 389 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.839 And then everybody's taking their cigarette break and I have 390 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:10.079 my video camera and I'm filming this huge clearing that 391 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.799 they had just tree cutted a couple of weeks early. 392 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:19.960 And I looked down and apparently there was a young sasquatch, 393 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:24.640 probably fifteen years old, like kicking back behind one of 394 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.720 these stumps, using it as like a pillow, and it 395 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:30.720 got up until and peered over the stump to see 396 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:31.960 what was all the noise. 397 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:35.400 Because apparently a lot of these creatures have no clue 398 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:37.559 what a human is. It freaks them out just as 399 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.440 much as it does us, and it sees us. And 400 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:45.079 I was just like, I turn around and I go, okay, guys, 401 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.480