WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.799 Welcome to Big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:06.120 to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.640 please reach out to me directly after this episode. And 4 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:12.199 if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss 5 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.359 a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly 6 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.039 at Big for Society at gmail dot com. Do you 7 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.239 wish there was more Big for Society to listen to 8 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:22.719 you every week? Well there is now. If you become 9 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.800 a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special 10 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:30.719 members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes 11 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.159 even more episodes. Head on over to patreon dot com. 12 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.119 Forward slash the Big for Society and now let's get 13 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.840 on with the show, all right. Big for Society got 14 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.840 the privilege of talking to Luna. She contacted me regarding 15 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.200 an interesting experience she had out there near Mount Shasta 16 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.960 in California. How's it going today, Luna? 17 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:56.240 Good? How are you doing? And thank you for having 18 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:56.640 me on? 19 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.479 Absolutely I'm doing good. I'm glad to finally be able 20 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:02.240 to talk to you. It's been a little bit of 21 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.000 time getting this all together, but definitely gonna be worse 22 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.159 to help get your story out my listeners. I think 23 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.840 are really gonna enjoy it. It's a fascinating story. But 24 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.079 you know, I'm going to go ahead and give the 25 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.760 floor right over to Luna and let you take it 26 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:19.200 from here. 27 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:25.959 All right. Well, my bigfoot story is an interesting one. 28 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.920 I never really thought I would have run into Bigfoot 29 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:30.159 or anything like that. 30 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:31.760 Just to give a. 31 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:37.920 Backstory, I started heading up to Mount Shasta. Well, I'm 32 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:42.359 from Chico, California, so Mount Shasta is two hours away. 33 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.120 That's where I was born and raised in chicos So 34 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.280 hearing about bigfoot, well, that's a common thing in northern California. 35 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.200 It's like a running joke when people go up to 36 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:54.239 like Humboldt County, they have bigfoots up like the statues 37 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.799 and things like that. So it was already something common 38 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.680 that I would hear about. But in twenty twelve, I 39 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.200 started going up to Mount Shasta more and I would. 40 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:12.599 I started doing ceremony with a Karok vision quest and 41 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:18.919 sun dance, and we would talk about bigfoot. In the 42 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:25.199 Karuk they they call bigfoot makiata. And it's very common 43 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:30.800 within our indigenous communities and culture to talk about like 44 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.280 bigfoot and little people and the fairies and things like 45 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.000 that it's not really something that. 46 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.599 We're like, oh, like, it's just part of the culture. 47 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:40.560 It's part of the medicine. 48 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:46.520 And when I had my experience with Bigfoot, it was 49 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:53.199 my first time doing vision quest. I was doing my 50 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.680 first vision quest in the sweat lodge. And for those 51 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.439 of you who don't know what a sweat lodge is, 52 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.879 it's a ceremony where they do like three or four 53 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.159 rounds depending on the tribe, and there is a lodge 54 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:14.800 that is built and there's rounds of rocks that come in. 55 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.639 But when I did my vision quest, there was no rocks. 56 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:20.879 There's no fire. There was a fire going, but there 57 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:22.919 was no rocks in there, so it wasn't be hot. 58 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.000 And I spent over a day or in the lodge, 59 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.639 which is something I want to do. So I got 60 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.599 out and the vision questers that were up on the hill. 61 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.199 So when you vision quest, it's like normally four days 62 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.039 no food or water and you go up on the hill. 63 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:39.199 I was down in the lodge. 64 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:43.240 I stayed in the area because I was still holding 65 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.479 space for the questers that were up all in the hill. 66 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:50.280 This was over at Stuart Springs, which is in like 67 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.439 outside of Weeds California, so it's like, I don't know, 68 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.479 fifteen minutes outside of Mount Shafts though, where you have 69 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:59.400 to go up a little bit in the hill area, 70 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.360 or it's like the west of Weed. And so we 71 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.319 were up there. The grounds were still open to people 72 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.599 that were coming there. So at the springs was it's 73 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.800 a hot spring, so people would come and have baths 74 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.319 camp out there, so it's still open to everybody else. 75 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.279 And that night we were out in our camping area 76 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.759 where we were holding space and we were eating, and 77 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.639 I remember hearing this really big crunch, and I was like, 78 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.319 what is that. I was like, that does not sound 79 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:35.600 like a deer. Because when you live out in the mountains, 80 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.439 you get or you're out there a lot, you get 81 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.639 used to the noises, but you start to also listen 82 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.600 to the different noises that animals make. And I'm like, 83 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.920 that is not a deer. So I heard the crunch 84 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:54.439 and I look out in the wooded area probably I 85 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.040 don't know, like less than the quarter maybe like fifty 86 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:06.439 feet on your feet, and I see bigfoot walking and 87 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.839 I was like, huh. 88 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:11.920 I stopped and. 89 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.959 I was a little shocked because I was like, I 90 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.399 don't know what I just saw, and I remember looking 91 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.560 one of my friends and I was like, I don't 92 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:22.160 know what I just saw. 93 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:23.160 I'm going to go to my tent. 94 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.480 And also just for everyone to understand, Envision Quest, there's 95 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.439 no like drugs or anything like that use some people 96 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.319 have that mistaken. 97 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:34.519 Knowledge that happens. 98 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.279 So that does not happen there. It is a dry ceremony. 99 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:42.319 So when you go no food or water, it's no 100 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.720 food or it's nothing. So that happened, and I go 101 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.839 back to my tent that night, and I go to 102 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.040 bed the next night. 103 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.959 I didn't say anything to anybody. 104 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.199 The next night, I'm in my tent and I think 105 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.879 this is probably probably day three of the questers being 106 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:04.879 up on the hill or night three of the questers 107 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.480 being up on the hill. I'm in my tent. I'm 108 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.920 waiting for someone that I think was going to come 109 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:14.879 and be at Vision Quest as well. I remember there 110 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:19.519 was a camper that came in with their car and 111 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.759 they come in and. 112 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.879 I just remember hearing a lot of noise. 113 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:26.800 There was like all this walking in front of my tent, 114 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.240 and I was like, why is this camper walking in 115 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.800 front of my tent? So I open my tent and 116 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.879 I look, nobody's there. I see the camper like setting up, 117 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.000 but they're not anywhere near me. I also see that 118 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.680 there's another camper that has their trailer right next to 119 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.040 the other camper that was setting up. So I'm looking around. 120 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:49.439 I'm like, I don't know what that is. 121 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:51.199 I close it. 122 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.759 Here the steps again, and I was like, this is 123 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.399 so odd, so I open it again. 124 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:58.600 No one's there. 125 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.920 I thought, well, my friend was right in front of 126 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.519 me in their tent, and then another one of the 127 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.360 elders was in front of him, so I close it again. 128 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.360 I thought they were trying to play a joke on 129 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:16.000 me or something. And it was a while later. I 130 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.680 am just on my I was just in the tent. 131 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.800 I was getting a message from my friend, and I 132 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:25.639 think I was listening to some music. 133 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.399 I was in my tent and. 134 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.480 I look or I just look around for a moment 135 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:37.360 and then I hear this noise and I hear. 136 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.079 And I'm in my tent. 137 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.639 I'm not seeing anything outside of it because it's closed up, 138 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:50.879 and I stop. I'm like on my stomach, frozen, like 139 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.439 I'm pretty sure I'm pale, freaking out. But I didn't 140 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.439 even want to breathe because I thought it was a bear. 141 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:04.879 So I wait and I'm just like terrified. I'm hearing 142 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:09.319 this noise and about I don't know, thirty seconds a 143 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.800 minute later, it felt like ten minutes. My friend that 144 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.920 was in the other tent opens his tent and I 145 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.040 can see him with the slash light. So I opened 146 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.439 my tent right away and I was like, I think 147 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:23.879 that's a bear and he's like, it's not a bear. 148 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.240 There's nothing there. I'm like, I heard it, like I 149 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.439 heard it next to the tent. I heard it breathing, 150 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.799 like I something is there, and. 151 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:35.679 He was like, nothing is there. 152 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:37.639 Just go back to the bed. I'm like, no, like 153 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.279 something is there. He's like, and he's with the splash light. 154 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.960 He's looking around. He's like, there's no way that bear 155 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.720 can at least run that fast. And he's like there's 156 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.200 nothing there. He's like, I heard it, but there's nothing there. 157 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:54.279 So I go back in my tent and I was like, no, 158 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.480 I just had this odd feeling. I was like, whatever 159 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.519 that is is coming back, and so I get my 160 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.919 stuff because my car is like ten feet away. It's 161 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.039 like right there, pretty close to my our camping spot, 162 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.639 and this area is pretty open, like it's not like 163 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:11.399 super wooded or anything like. 164 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:11.960 That's it. 165 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.840 There's a lot of trees and things like that, but 166 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:18.200 there's just to give context, there's like a little bridge. 167 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.200 There's like parking areas for people when they go down 168 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:26.960 to the bath, so it still has an open area 169 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.440 in the middle. So I grab my stuff and I 170 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:30.360 go by his ten. 171 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.039 He's like making fun of me. He's like what. 172 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.759 I'm like, you guys, have fun. That thing is coming back. 173 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.960 Whatever that is coming back. And I get right to 174 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:44.679 my car and I smell the most pungent, disgusting smell 175 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.480 I've ever smelled in my life, like poop and wet dog. 176 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.919 And at that moment, I was like, that's bigfoot. I 177 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.399 get in my car and the rest of that night 178 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:00.960 is history. It was like, I get in my car, 179 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.279 I grab my drum. I'm a drummer. I do Native 180 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:08.120 American singing and drumming, Indigenous singing and drumming, so I 181 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.240 was I grabbed my drum and I just was like, 182 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.600 I do not know what I'm in for tonight, but 183 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:19.279 we are in for something. And we were and about 184 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.320 I don't know, thirty minutes an hour later, I just 185 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.200 start to see, like I start to hear things. I 186 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.320 start to hear like slight banging, but it's not incredibly 187 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.879 loud at first, And as the night goes on, and 188 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:39.679 it's like eleven o'clock midnight one am, it starts to 189 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.639 get louder, and I hear my friend and the other 190 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.039 elder talking to each other. But I see my friend 191 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.200 their flashlight and they're getting something out of their tent. 192 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.440 I'm like, cause I can see through my car window. 193 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:53.799 I'm not talking to anyone. I'm just watching this happen. 194 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:55.799 I'm like, there's no way I'm getting out of this car, 195 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:01.559 and so I'm looking at my my friend like frantically 196 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:06.039 trying to get something. And so I hear him like 197 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:09.960 tell like the elder like I think it's the little 198 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.559 people or like bigfoots behind the tree. I can see 199 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.960 that I can see something or hear something, and he's 200 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:19.799 like trying to get food, to offer them food, because 201 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:21.879 we get taught that, like you give them an offering, 202 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.720 and so he's throwing like I think apples are something 203 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.720 out there, just so they have an offering and whatnot. 204 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.159 So I think I fall asleep for about an hour 205 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.840 maybe hour and a half, I wake up again to 206 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:40.080 the same thing. They're talking to each other and he's like, 207 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:43.559 I think the Bigfoot is behind the tree, and I 208 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:47.960 remember I start drumming and I start singing, and it's 209 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.240 pretty common for us to talk about Bigfoot coming to ceremony, 210 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.960 and so I like hear him from a panic. But 211 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:01.440 then I look over and I see the elder's tent 212 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.639 flipped over, and the elder is like, I think the 213 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.240 female big foo's putting and the little people are putting 214 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.039 poop in my nose. And I'm just like, what is 215 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:15.399 happening right now? And I'm looking at the tent completely flipped. 216 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.000 I'm like, I do not know what happened. And so 217 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.799 they're talking to each other and he's. 218 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.799 Like, I don't know. Do I give him an offering? 219 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.159 Like what do we do? And so I hear that 220 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:28.799 for a while. 221 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.440 Then probably about a half hour later, an hour later, 222 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:37.279 it starts to get really loud. 223 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:39.320 The banging starts to get loud. 224 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.759 It's like they're banging cars or they're grabbing rocks and 225 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.240 throwing them. And I see the campers that are not 226 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.279 with us. They have nothing to do with the ceremony 227 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:51.840 nothing to do with vision quest. I see them open 228 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.279 their door and start to look for the flashlight, like 229 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.240 their flashlight, and like they're flashing their light out there, 230 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.639 and I'm like, this is not just us hearing this, 231 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:09.200 And it progressively got louder and louder as the time 232 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.399 went on. I just sat in my car and I 233 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.320 did not know what to do because I was like, 234 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:15.240 this is insane. 235 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:17.759 I cracked the window a little bit I was hearing. 236 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.200 I never heard any growls or anything, but it was 237 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.360 like the constant beating of something. 238 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.720 And so I there's a. 239 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.240 Big sit song that we drum, and so I think 240 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:34.879 I sang that. And it was probably like pretty close 241 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.639 to the sun coming up, and I could start to 242 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:43.279 hear the birds like chirping, but I was hearing the 243 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:44.320 banging getting. 244 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:45.120 Louder and louder. 245 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.279 And then as the sun came up, and as I 246 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:53.200 could start to see everything and the birds were getting louder, 247 00:13:53.360 --> 00:14:00.080 I hear one final bang. It was like if I 248 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.600 grabbed a boulder or something just through it, and then 249 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.799 it just stopped. About fifteen twenty minutes later, my friend 250 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.000 comes out of their tent. The elder comes out of 251 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.840 their tent and I see them and I feel safe, and. 252 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:16.279 I was like. 253 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.919 Something like what was that. They're like, we were visited. 254 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.000 I was like, do you think you think we were? 255 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.919 And he can so we're talking about it and he's like, 256 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.720 go back to sleep, and I'm like, I can't. You 257 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.039 can sleep after that? I cannot, And so they're like 258 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.279 making fun of me. If you do ceremony, you get 259 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.759 used to this kind of stuff happening. So I go 260 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.679 down to the fire because when they're ceremony happening, there's 261 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.720 always a fire. You're holding the space with fire and 262 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.080 the code down the elders down there, and I'm just 263 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:54.600 like trying to get the story out, like my anxiety. 264 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.840 I'm like freaking out, and he's just laughing and he's 265 00:14:58.879 --> 00:14:59.919 like so bigfooting for. 266 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.279 His woman, and I was like, this is not funny. 267 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.159 And I ended up getting the name in my community 268 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:08.279 Bigfoot's girlfriend. 269 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:14.279 And that was what happened in that occasion. 270 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:19.440 But it has not been my only run in with Bigfoot, 271 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.240 but that was probably. 272 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.440 The most prevalent one. 273 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.360 It was like the first time I had that, But 274 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:31.639 since then, Bigfoot has stuck around and I've had experiences 275 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.960 here and there. I also had an experience in Yosemite 276 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:40.159 where I was with friends Big for. 277 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:42.600 Society will be right back after these messages. 278 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.799 We were at a back glaci Your Point, and we 279 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.600 were in Yosemite for a few days. And when you 280 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:07.759 go to Glacier Point at night, they have the guy 281 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.960 that's he has like the laser and if you haven't 282 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.120 been to Glacier Point, it's like where you can see 283 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.000 half Dome and you can just see all of Yosemite. 284 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:18.440 It's absolutely gorgeous. 285 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:20.559 We went there during the day and someone was like, 286 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.200 you guys, got to come back here at night so 287 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.120 you can see the stars, and they give a presentation. 288 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.759 So we did that and I was like almost over 289 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.440 and we decided to walk back to our cars pretty early, 290 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.679 me and my friends, where everybody else in our group 291 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:35.279 was still there. 292 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.200 I think there was like ten of us or something, 293 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:38.200 and so. 294 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:40.240 The three of us decided and let's go back to 295 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.720 the car early and we can head back to the Airbnb, 296 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:45.480 or just wait for everybody to get to their car 297 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.519 before everybody starts walking, because there's quite a bit of people. 298 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.799 There's I think fifty people out there, and so a 299 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.320 few people started got that idea and was also walking 300 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.679 back to their car. And so we get back into 301 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:01.879 like the parking lot area. It's not that far of 302 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:06.440 a walk down, and I just remember it got really quiet. 303 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:11.480 I could see my friend, I could see her sister, 304 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.039 and we're walking down and I'm just like hearing this 305 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:18.240 banging as we get closer to the bathroom areas and 306 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.079 it got really early quiet, Like I was just like, 307 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:23.240 where did everybody go? 308 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:25.880 Like I knew we weren't the only ones that walked down. 309 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.200 And we get closer this bathroom and I'm just hearing 310 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:35.160 this banging. Like there's the chains that are below that 311 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.279 I think like block off some of the trees and 312 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.240 things like that. It was like someone was grabbing the 313 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.799 chains and messing with them. I was like, that's so annoying, 314 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:43.799 Like who is doing that? 315 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.359 Some kid? I don't know, Like they need to stop. 316 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:50.319 The adult in me was like irritated at that point. 317 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.640 And so we're walking past the bathroom and I'm like, 318 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:55.799 that must be someone by the bathroom, But I look 319 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.359 into the bathroom and it's dark, no one's in there 320 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.920 as we're walking by, and I'm like, that's really strange. 321 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.400 And we passed that bathroom and we're almost to the car. 322 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.400 The car was going to be to the left of us, 323 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.720 and I remember hearing. 324 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:21.559 This deep growl. It was like and I was like, 325 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.480 I look at my friend and I was like run. 326 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:28.440 So we run to the. 327 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:32.559 Car and the three of us do we run to 328 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.680 my car? Actually, and I'm just like, do not know 329 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:37.920 what's happening. We get in my car and I would 330 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:39.799 look at my friend and I was like, did you 331 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.200 hear that? And she was like yes, and I'm like 332 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.200 I And then I asked her sister. 333 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.640 I'm like, did you hear that? And there she was like. 334 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:50.400 No, I just thought you guys running and I ran 335 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.960 and so I was like, y'all, I think that's bigfoot. 336 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.000 There's no way that's a bear. There's no way that's 337 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.160 a mountain lion. Like I've been around those things. That's 338 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.759 not that. And so they had heard the banging too 339 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.480 and things like that. They're like, we just thought some 340 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.759 almost hitting something. And so I go, I get We 341 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.359 get in the car and I drive back like to 342 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.480 the I drive to the part of the parking lot 343 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.160 that happened because it was just right there. But I 344 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.680 turned the car back that way and I just like 345 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:23.440 offered it a song, but I was so terrified at 346 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.319 that point, and so we ended up going back. And 347 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.759 to give context, my friends are not they're there, they 348 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.240 don't do ceremony, they don't do any of that, so 349 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.200 none of like they have never experienced what I do, 350 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.759 and that they knew what I did and things like that. 351 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:40.599 They knew that I was a healer, but they're not 352 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.440 in that world like I am. So for them they 353 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.880 had they were like, we don't know what's going on, 354 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.599 and so I'd explained to them that was probably back 355 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:55.079 the one with Vision Quest happened probably and like I 356 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:59.359 think I was like thirty two thirty three, so that 357 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:07.319 was probably like twenty fourteen around there, and then maybe 358 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.000 twenty fifteen, and then the one in Yosemite I think 359 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:17.039 was probably around twenty seventeen. And that was probably the 360 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.359 last time that I had like a big encounter. 361 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:22.920 With bigfit like that. But I've had little stuff. 362 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.440 Here and there that I'm like, but that hasn't been 363 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.400 like those two. But those are my two really big 364 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:33.160 encounters with them. 365 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.559 Luna, thank you for sharing something that came to mind 366 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:43.160 while you were talking. I was like, man, it just 367 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:46.160 it brought something to mind. There's an old bigfoot website 368 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.799 called Bigfoot Encounters, and they have a section about Mount 369 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:54.799 Shasta about different There's a lot of different Bigfoot interactions 370 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.920 that have happened over the years around Mount Shasta. 371 00:20:58.039 --> 00:20:59.559 Oh yeah, I have a lot of friends that have 372 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:01.400 similar story. 373 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:07.599 Oh, I'm sure one of the accounts is a let's see, 374 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:10.519 I'm just gonna read it real quick. Bigfoot came out 375 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:13.319 of the forest, knocking off a branch at the nineteen 376 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:17.279 foot level. This is by Bunny Flat's campground. Bigfoot gave 377 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:20.000 them a crystal and went back into the woods. A 378 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.200 medicine man named Charlie Tom said, if you're in trouble 379 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.559 in the woods, to sing the Bigfoot song and Bigfoot 380 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.119 would help you. 381 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.640 So Charlie Tom is actually what is the I never 382 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.519 met him because when I started doing ceremony with Walking Eagle, 383 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.160 like he had already passed, but he was like their 384 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.519 intercessor before Walkie Eagle took over. 385 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.839 I believe, do you want me to sing the song? 386 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:50.119 I can sing the song the song that I know. 387 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.079 I was gonna get there and aroundabout ways, but I 388 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:57.359 didn't want to be like very offensive because it's a 389 00:21:57.400 --> 00:21:59.880 super cultural thing, I would imagine, but yeah, go right, 390 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:01.279 I've sung it before. 391 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.240 Usually I've asked spirit. 392 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.440 I just always tell people like always like respect the 393 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:08.440 medicine and things like that. I don't have my drum 394 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:10.279 with me, and I might not sing the song correctly 395 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:13.119 because it's been a while, but I'll sing the verse 396 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:16.759 that my elder taught me that I you know, Charlie 397 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:18.200 tomp did teach him. 398 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:25.240 So it was like yeah he yeah he yah, yeah yeay, 399 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:31.680 yeah hey ho yeah hey yah yu. 400 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:37.720 And you would sing that four times. The elders also 401 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:38.200