WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.120 You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Bron. 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 --> 00:00:12.839 something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to 5 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:16.679 quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.679 and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.960 These are the voices of the people who've lived it. 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.399 To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that 9 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.079 just might change the way you see the woods forever. 10 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.840 So stay with us. Hey, how's it going good? 11 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.520 How are you good? 12 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:34.880 Good? 13 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:35.719 I saw you. 14 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:37.960 Wanting to come up. What brings you up today? 15 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:43.479 Hey, well, I guess I'll ready to tell my little 16 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:44.359 bit of a story. 17 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.240 That's all right? 18 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.880 Hey, yeah, sure, all right. 19 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.679 So it happened in upstate New York and the Cat 20 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:55.000 Skills in May of two thousand and seven. I'm on 21 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.960 the fire department and we'd gotten a call late at 22 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:04.159 night for a MVA involving a pedestrian and the location 23 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:06.680 of the accident was kind of suspicious because it's out 24 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.239 in the middle of nowhere, so it was kind of 25 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:13.079 odd that somebody had been struck by a vehicle. So 26 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.560 me and four other guys on the engine go up 27 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.359 to the scene. And we get there and there's two 28 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.959 state troopers and are cheap And as we roll by 29 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:24.640 the car, we can see that there's quite a bit 30 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:29.359 image to it, but we don't see anybody lying next 31 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.840 to the car. So we get out and we go 32 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.120 up and we're tending to the car, making sure nothing's 33 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.159 on fire, and everything's okay with the car and the patient, 34 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.120 and I can hear it was a woman was telling 35 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.519 the state trooper that she hit a man and what 36 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.680 she thought was like a gilly suit, And I guess 37 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.280 the troopers weren't taking her too seriously. They were trying 38 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.280 to convince her that it was she had a bear, 39 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.200 and she was quite adamant that she had hit a person. 40 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.560 So just to make sure, they wanted to send a 41 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.640 few of us out into the woods to kind of 42 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.920 go look and see if we could find anything. Well, 43 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.080 as we were getting together, they ended up bringing in 44 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.599 some search dogs from a couple couple counties over. And 45 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.240 when you go out and do a search and rescue, 46 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.120 they like to get all the searchers together and the 47 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:26.080 dogs will actually come around and sniff you and they'll 48 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:27.800 pick up your sense, so when you're out in the 49 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.479 woods together, they won't pick you up and start, you know, 50 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:35.039 come look for you. So we were all standing there 51 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.879 getting sniffed by these dogs, and they started to take 52 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:40.759 the dogs up to the car to get the sign 53 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.319 off the car, and they got thirty feet from that 54 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:48.759 car and their hire started to stand up. They start 55 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.960 their tails tucked and they started to pull back towards 56 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.199 the trucks to get back in their crates. They just 57 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:59.360 would not get by whatever the smell was on this car. Well, 58 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.599 the stage wanted to call it a night, but my chief, 59 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.520 you know, because this woman was so adamant that it 60 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.479 was a person, still wanted to send some guys out. 61 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:11.439 And one of the guys on the crew with me, 62 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.759 he refused to go out. So there was three of 63 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.960 us that actually went out. It's a small town, there's 64 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.719 not very many of us. So we go out out 65 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.919 into the woods and it was real thick. This area's 66 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.479 real thick woods and just brier patch everywhere, and it's 67 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.560 real tough to get through. We get at about an 68 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.319 how we're out into the woods and all of a sudden, 69 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.520 we see this thing and it looks like it's leaning 70 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:40.919 on a tree, like, with its arm up and its 71 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.520 head resting on its arm, leaning on a tree. And 72 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.319 I shout to it. I said, say, you know, we're 73 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.759 here to help you. I say, you know where we're from. 74 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.759 And we take another towards it. And as I'm looking 75 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.240 at it, I'm about five seven, I'm pretty short, and 76 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.719 it looked about my height. As we took another step 77 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.520 towards it and had our flashlights on it, the friggin 78 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.400 thing stood up and it was over. It was over 79 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:13.199 seven feet tall. It wasn't enormous enormous, but it was. 80 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.759 It was big. We all just kind of frozen. We 81 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.560 got our flashlights on it, and it kind of turned 82 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.759 and looked at us, and you could see just the 83 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.680 It wasn't like a scary it wasn't a scary thing, 84 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.560 but you could see the pain in its eyes. And 85 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:34.720 it had brown eyes. It didn't have yellow or red 86 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.600 glowing eyes. It had brown eyes, just like just like 87 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:37.959 the guy. 88 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:38.240 Dude. 89 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.480 We just kind of frozen, were sitting there looking at it, 90 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.560 and I noticed that its right leg looked wet. It 91 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.360 was all, you know, it's all covered in hair and 92 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.839 like madded down, so I'm thinking it must have been 93 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.360 when it got hit. It was bleeding, but we never 94 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.319 picked up a blood trail, so I don't know if 95 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.399 the hair was soaking up the blood or lot. But 96 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.040 it just kind of whatever this thing was, it just 97 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.959 kind of looked scared and confused. So we're just sitting 98 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.120 there staring at it, and it seems like an eternity. 99 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.839 But it was probably seconds to the left of us, 100 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.720 we hear this whooping sound, and then right at like 101 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.800 after there was three whoops. And after the first one, 102 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.639 it sounded like something banging up against the tree to 103 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.040 our right. So as the other two guys were with me, 104 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.319 they they moved their flashlights in the direction of where 105 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.920 that banging's coming from, and this thing that's in front 106 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.639 of us starts to walk kind of limp away to 107 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.120 the left, and it just disappeared within feet it was gone. 108 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.240 We didn't chase after it or nothing like that. We 109 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.920 just kind of radioed back to our chief that we 110 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.519 couldn't find anything. They called off the search and we 111 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:52.600 came out and that was that, and we just sort 112 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:54.199 of went about our life after that. 113 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.279 But that's what happened to us. 114 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.439 Holy mackerel. Okay, so you never you never told you 115 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.000 chief or anyone else about what you saw. 116 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.600 We didn't tell it, man, this had this was back 117 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.560 in two thousand and six or two thousand and seven. 118 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.199 We never told us a soul about it. We just 119 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.040 went about life like nothing ever happened. 120 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:17.639 Wow, it was just one of the first times you've 121 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.040 ever shared what you saw that day. 122 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.639 I told my girlfriend a while back about it, but 123 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.759 other than that, you know, I've never told family members. 124 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:32.399 I've never told anybody else at the firehouse. We just 125 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.439 we all, you know, we were young and we've all 126 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.920 grown up, so we just never really ever talked about 127 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.800 it again, just kind of put it away and moved on. 128 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.480 But yeah, I can I can assure you anybody that 129 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.519 doesn't believe, I can assure you they're out there. And 130 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.759 I don't think there's anything to be scared of, you know, 131 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:55.680 I don't think it's anything to be scared of. I'm 132 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.759 sure there's you know, just like people. There's a few 133 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.720 of them that are a holes, are ever, But for 134 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.959 the most part, I think they're just trying to exist. 135 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:08.160 When you say it disappeared does that mean that it 136 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.519 actually disappeared or just after it walked and they. 137 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:12.560 Don't see it anymore. 138 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.319 No, No, it's so it was so thing there, you know, 139 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:20.879 it just kind of okay ye, No, no, none of that, 140 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.120 none of that alternate universe kind of crap. No, this 141 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.240 is a real thing that just lives. 142 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.120 In my opinion, have you seen anything else that looks 143 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:31.319 like what you saw that day? 144 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.800 No, I've never seen anything like that before in my life. Well, yeah, 145 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.240 actually that that film there from where's out in California 146 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.319 there from like what was it the fifties or sixties? 147 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:49.920 Yeah, the what that person Gimmlin film from the late sixties. 148 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.720 Yeah, we're walking on the the creek bed there. 149 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:55.639 Yep. 150 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.439 It was kind of like the face the features of 151 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:04.199 it that like the cone to it. If that were 152 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.120 that thing was to be an adult, I would say 153 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.040 this thing was like maybe like a teenager, do you 154 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:10.399 know what. 155 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:11.079 I'm going to say? 156 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.439 It was more like lean kind of I would say 157 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:19.000 it was probably a male. It looked more more lean, 158 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.240 like not bubbly, I guess, and curved like what you 159 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.360 see on the film. But the face features and like 160 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.160 the head and how the shoulders like sit up. Were 161 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:33.519 like when it turned, it didn't turn its neck, it 162 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.799 turned its body kind of like at the hip to 163 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:37.639 look at us. 164 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.159 If that makes any sense whatsoever. 165 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:45.279 Now, No, it absolutely makes sense to me. Yeah, this 166 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:51.720 is a this is an intense one man. Wow, thank 167 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:56.440 you for sharing. This is this one where. Yeah, I 168 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.919 do have a big Foot podcast. Is it okay to 169 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:02.919 use the audio from this on the podcast or would 170 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:03.919 you rather not have that? 171 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:05.080 Yeah? 172 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.720 That's fine. I don't think I've give been like I said. 173 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:09.399 I know it sounds weird, but I don't think I've 174 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.720 said anything that anybody could really other than Upstate New 175 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:14.919 York and the cat skills. 176 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.399 Okay, so you are saying that I can use the 177 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:19.960 audio then yeah, yeah, that's fine. 178 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:22.519 Perfect. Well. 179 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.080 I appreciate you coming up. If any if you ever 180 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.960 run into anything else, you're welcome to reach out. You know, 181 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.559 my email is Bigfoot Society gmail dot com. But I 182 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.519 appreciate you sharing what you saw that day. 183 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:35.000 Hey, thank you. 184 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.799 That was absolutely intense. That's why I do these lives, 185 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.960 because you get you get accounts like that for some 186 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.639 reason on this platform. It's absolutely intense. Hey Martina, how 187 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:53.600 are you hi? 188 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.679 I'm doing awesome. 189 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.559 Awesome. Are you coming up to share a bigfoot experience 190 00:09:59.720 --> 00:09:59.919 you have? 191 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:08.639 I am I had a Bigfoot experience in let's see, 192 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:14.120 we're in August in June of this year, and I 193 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:19.080 had never had a Bigfoot experience. I am Native American, 194 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.919 so I believe in Bigfoot. I've never had an encounter, 195 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:30.279 but I've always heard stories. I was in northern Idaho 196 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:34.759 at the time. I'm currently in Washington State and it's 197 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:40.919 very dense forest where I was. The apartment that I 198 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.480 was they wouldn't allow smoking, so I had to walk 199 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.600 a little bit off of the property into the woods 200 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:51.200 to have a cigarette. I had stayed up late that night, 201 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:57.639 probably midnight, and I got into a slight argument with 202 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:01.399 my partner at the time, so I need a cigarette. 203 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.759 I start walking out into the woods and I hear 204 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:13.919 this sound. And it wasn't a scream, it wasn't a yell. 205 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:20.039 It was almost like a bellowing. But it rocked me 206 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:28.960 to my core. I have never heard a sound like that. 207 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:36.440 I immediately somewhere in my brain I knew. 208 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.039 Who and what it was. 209 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.519 And because of the way I was raised, I have 210 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:48.559 a lot of respect for and I don't even care 211 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.960 to call him bigfoot. 212 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:51.799 But. 213 00:11:53.559 --> 00:12:02.159 I immediately turned around and I felt like he could be 214 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.279 near me in an instant, even though his voice was 215 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:13.679 slightly distant, I felt as if he could he sensed 216 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:20.320 my presence. I just was. I still think about it. 217 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:27.159 I mean, that's how intense it was. I walked very 218 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:32.240 fast back to the apartment and I asked my boyfriend 219 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:34.559 at the time, are you going to come and have 220 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.320 a cigarette with me? And he thought that I was 221 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:44.559 upset about our disagreement that we had and I didn't 222 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.360 tell him what I had heard, and he's like, yes, 223 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.000 I'll come with you. So he gets up and puts 224 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.399 on his shoes and we walk out together and he 225 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:57.840 hears it. He says to me, stop, do you hear this? 226 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.960 And I said yes. I said, that's why I came 227 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.600 back to get you. And he said I thought you 228 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:06.879 were upset. He said because when you walked in the door, 229 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.840 he said, you were as white as your coat. 230 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.960 I was wearing a white coat because it was chilly. 231 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:13.039 We were in the mountains. 232 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.080 But I feel forever change because of that experience. We 233 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:23.440 stood out there, I smoked my cigarette and he must 234 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.000 have yelled. 235 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.399 I don't know how many minutes and it was just. 236 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:36.000 I even talking about it now, I still get chills. 237 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:40.279 And that's just something that I wanted to share. I 238 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:48.159 felt very humbled by the experience, very grateful, and very 239 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.200 small and it's just my story that I wanted to share. 240 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.480 Thank you for sharing that. Is it similar to things 241 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.320 that you'll hear in like TV shows about things or 242 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:01.320 was this completely different? 243 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.080 Well after my boyfriend at the time, my ex, he 244 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:09.840 heard it and we immediately went to YouTube and he 245 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.639 was like, does it sound like this? And they were 246 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:18.559 the sightings of Bigfoot and it was pretty much the 247 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.080 exact same as reputable Bigfoot sightings. And I don't know 248 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.399 much about you know, the people that have studied bigfoot, 249 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:29.200 but since this. 250 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.399 Encounter, I know of one guy. 251 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.000 I think he was out of California or Nevada, somewhere 252 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:38.960 down south. It was one of his recordings and it 253 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.120 was exactly. 254 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:47.120 On what a cool thing to experience, especially, I mean, 255 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:52.480 northern Idaho is such a active area. And just thank 256 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:55.080 you for coming up. I do have a bigfoot podcast. 257 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:57.240 Would it be okay if I use this audio for 258 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.960 that podcast? Absolutely okay, Thank you so much for coming up. 259 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.039 Martina not a problem. Have a great day you. 260 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.639 Too, Hey Green, How are you hi? How are you 261 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.320 doing great? Are you coming up to share a bigfoot 262 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:14.120 experience you had? 263 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:19.600 Yes, And I am. My family thinks I'm crazy, but 264 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.799 they think my dad was crazy too. My dad grew 265 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:28.279 up on a farm in Mammy, Ohio a long long 266 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:32.759 time ago. He's passed away twenty years now. But he 267 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.279 told me when he was a kid, around ten and 268 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.720 eleven years old. There was thirteen kids in his family, 269 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:44.559 thirteen siblings, and he said that that he had an 270 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:50.320 encounter with a thing back then, and he caught it bigfoot, 271 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.759 you know, later on in life, because he didn't know 272 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.360 what it was, but he used to bring It wasn't 273 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.039 aggressive towards him. He had seen it up close and 274 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.679 it would interact with him, you know. 275 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:04.440 So he would. 276 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:10.320 Bring fruit and leave it. And it was a thing. 277 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.240 So he would go on the weekends and he would 278 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.279 walk out to the past and he would bring fruit 279 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:21.440 and he would sit there and wait. And he said 280 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.759 he over the years, he's probably had ten encounters with Bigfoot. 281 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:31.200 And he told me this, and I'm like, so, Bigfoot 282 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:36.039 isn't aggressive. He didn't hurt you, didn't try He's like, no, 283 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.159 he sat there, he was just gibber jabbering and couldn't 284 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.200 understand him. He said, but it was like they were 285 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.919 having a conversation. And he said I could understand him. 286 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:49.919 Even though I couldn't understand him. It's like he had, 287 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:56.200 you know, formed a friendship with Bigfoot, you know. So 288 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.559 that was pretty cool. And my dad had told me 289 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.080 that story because I was always interested in bigfoot, even 290 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.200 as a child. I was like, Oh my god, I 291 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.759 want to see Bigfoot. I want to you know, I 292 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.839 want to meet bigfoot. People called me crazy, there's no 293 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:16.079 bigfoot whatever. I grew up in Louisiana, and they in 294 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.720 Louisiana they have different names for it, the rugaroo, you know, 295 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:24.519 different names for bigfoot there. And I had an experience 296 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.599 with some friends late at night. We would go out 297 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:34.400 on our four wheelers or two three wheelers back then, 298 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:39.240 and into the woods and we would hear these noises 299 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:43.000 in these knocks, and I said, oh, that's bigfoot, that's bigfoot. 300 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.759 There's about six of us and we all heard it, 301 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.880 and they're like, oh, there's no bigfoot. There's no bigfoot. 302 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:54.160 And sure enough, we were shining our flashlights and we've 303 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:58.039 seen them, all of us, and I was just amazed. 304 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.799 I wasn't scared. I was just sitting, you know, sitting 305 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.799 there on the bike, and I'm thinking, oh god, this pigfoot. 306 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.079 They all took off and left me and I'm just 307 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:12.599 sitting there and I'm not scared, right, And it wasn't aggressive, 308 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.039 didn't try to approach me or anything. Finally I left. 309 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.680 But yeah, that that was my my bigfoot story and 310 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.960 my dad's as well. So I just you know, I'm 311 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.799 not afraid. I hope to see them again someday. I 312 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:32.319 don't live in the country anymore, but I live more 313 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:33.160 like in the city. 314 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.519 Sure, well, thank you for sharing that the place in Louisiana. 315 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:43.759 Are you able to share the general area that happened. 316 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:49.480 It happened in Sorrento and Sorrento kind of like like 317 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.720 Suspension Parish in the woods. Sorrento back then was not 318 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:00.279 as grown and populated like it is now. There's a 319 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:07.119 lot of farm land and a lot of wilderness. So yeah, 320 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.920 so it would it was in Sorrento. 321 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.319 What what what year is that? What'd you say that would. 322 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:19.960 Have been in the early It would have been about 323 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:21.680 eighty five that it happened. 324 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:29.920 Okay, gotcha is your is it your father still with us? 325 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.920 No, my father passed away twenty years ago, gotcha. Yeah, 326 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.160 And he told these stories to my kids. You know, 327 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.920 my three young were kids, they were kids then, and 328 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:47.599 he would sit and tell them stories about Bigfoot and 329 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:49.799 the stories about the war because my dad was in 330 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.519 the war. He was in the Navy and the army, 331 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.720 and you know, it was just one of those things 332 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.759 that he connected with my kids with so my kids, 333 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.240 they they believed in Grandpa. They believed my dad. My 334 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:08.279 dad wasn't one to tell stories. It was not want 335 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.079 to make up stuff. He was not that he was 336 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.759 a street shooter. He told it like it is. And 337 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.880 that's that. He never would have fabricated the stories. I 338 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:24.039 believed them growing up. And you know that's that. He 339 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.960 never would have fabricated the stories. I believed them growing up. 340 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:32.799 And you know, yeah, my kids believed them. And they 341 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.640 were so curious. They wanted him to take them out 342 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.839 and you know them, and they were so curious. They 343 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:46.680 wanted him to take them out and you know, the 344 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.559 woods to see if they could experience it. And I 345 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:54.160 wouldn't let my kids go, you know, I wouldn't. They 346 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:59.599 were young. They were you know, ten, you know, they 347 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.279 weren't eight and seven, So I didn't really want them 348 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:06.920 out in the woods with their grandpa at that time. 349 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:13.119 Yeah, I totally understand that the area that your your 350 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:16.039 father was having things happen in Ohio? Did you say, 351 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:17.000 was Mottville? 352 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:19.160 No, mommy, Ohio? 353 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:20.880 How do you spell that? 354 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.039 Mommy? I just I don't even know they. 355 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:28.799 Oh, I figured it out, Okay, I got it. Yeah, okay, 356 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.079 So Northwest Corner. 357 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.559 Yeah, yeah, and it back then when he was growing up, 358 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.759 it was all because they were farmers. You know, they 359 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.319 had land and they farmed, and they had lots of 360 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:47.279 land out there. So you know, he said, like his 361 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:50.920 siblings may have experienced it too, but he was one 362 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:54.240 of one of the kids that just had no fear. 363 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:58.279 He would go out and he wasn't he wasn't afraid 364 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.599 of being in the woods. Is comfortable there. That was 365 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:05.880 his his you know, place where he found his serenity. 366 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.680 He just don't go at home. And I thought it 367 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:12.960 was just really cool that my dad would, you know, 368 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:16.640 told me that, And and now he would gift them, 369 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.960 he would he would feed the big foot that would 370 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.000 talk to him or they would communicate, and it was 371 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.400 weird because my dad said he did. It was like 372 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:27.640 he didn't understand him, but he did. It was like 373 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:31.440 a mental thing. It was like almost like a teleopathy, 374 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.480 like he can unders he can understand him, even though 375 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:38.319 he couldn't. It was just gibberish that big Wood was 376 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.759 and they were sitting on the ground like across from 377 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.759 each other. Like it was so cool that my dad 378 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:48.799 had that experience. 379 00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:56.240 You know, So how far back? What what years would 380 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.920 he be experienced that in the mommy area? 381 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:02.319 Do you think, well, that would have been okay, So 382 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:06.359 my dad he died at sixty seven years old, twenty 383 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.160 years ago, so I don't really remember. I don't know 384 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.039 the year into the math. He would have been about 385 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:17.799 ten or eleven, twelve years old somewhere around there. He 386 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:23.759 was preteen when he had that happened. And you know, 387 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.599 he's seen them like quite a few times. He said 388 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:28.960 he would go out, yeah. 389 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:34.319 Sixties sixties maybe, you know, Yeah, Okay, did he ever 390 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:36.960 write any his did he to keep a journal of 391 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:37.839 what he experienced? 392 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.200 No? No, When he passed away, we went through all 393 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:46.599 those things and we never seen him the journal or anything. Yeah, 394 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.440 that would have been cool as he did, you know, 395 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.759 because I would have had I would have had that 396 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.279 to have his memory and he was just my dad. 397 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.039 He was he is one of the best guys you 398 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.440 would have known. Like everybody loved him, you know, he 399 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:10.519 was very highly respected and he was This is a 400 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:15.000 really good guy, a really good guy, and I miss him. 401 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:18.799