Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: My name is Daniel Perez, editor and publisher of The
Speaker 2: Bigfoot Times, and you're listening to Bigfoot Society podcast.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Big for Society, and this is your host,
Speaker 3: Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's account is from a man who spent
Speaker 3: decades fixing engines and not chasing legends until one day
Speaker 3: in the backwoods outside Bangor, Maine, something responded to him
Speaker 3: in a way he'll never forget. So this is a
Speaker 3: story of Clark in the day the forest cracked back.
Speaker 3: So stay with us, all right, Big for Society, You've
Speaker 3: got the privilege of talking to Clark today. Clark is
Speaker 3: an individual that's had some interesting things happen in the Bangor,
Speaker 3: Maine area. We were just talking before the show started
Speaker 3: that this is probably one of the first times I've
Speaker 3: been able to talk to an individual from Maine on
Speaker 3: the show. Clark is also a former hunter and a
Speaker 3: mechanic as well, specifically a Diesel mccannon. So welcome to
Speaker 3: the show, Clark. How's it going today?
Speaker 1: Good? Thank you, Thank you for having.
Speaker 3: Me absolutely you know, and you're probably aware of this
Speaker 3: because you also told me you're a listener of the show,
Speaker 3: But it's always fun to talk to individuals from New England.
Speaker 3: I myself grew up in western Massachusetts, close to the
Speaker 3: New Hampshire border, and you know, it's just it's a
Speaker 3: it's a privilege to be able to get someone from
Speaker 3: this region to be able to share recorded just because
Speaker 3: it is a you know, a lot of people are
Speaker 3: are very tight lipped, as we were talking about, so
Speaker 3: it's oh, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. You know, you have to
Speaker 3: really get to know a person for a few years
Speaker 3: or more before they'll open up to you. But I
Speaker 3: appreciate you coming up on the show today, Clark, and
Speaker 3: I want to make sure that you know we make
Speaker 3: the best use of our time. So you're welcome to
Speaker 3: to take us back to when you had some things
Speaker 3: happened to in the bangor Main area that were a
Speaker 3: little interesting.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll start back, you know a little before that.
Speaker 4: When I was thirteen, fourteen years old, my father once
Speaker 4: told me, I blew it off, you know, never thought anything,
Speaker 4: but he told me that when he was young, there
Speaker 4: were nineteen kids in his family and they had a farm.
Speaker 4: I guess in Hudson. This was probably fifteen miles from
Speaker 4: ten ten ten miles maybe from Bangor and this area,
Speaker 4: this state is you know, Pine Tree state anyway. So
Speaker 4: but they heard some ruckats out on the front porch
Speaker 4: one night. There was a bunch of the kids in
Speaker 4: the house there and they opened the door. They claimed
Speaker 4: he claimed that they saw Bigfoot, and he Bigfoot or sasquatch, sabby,
Speaker 4: whatever you want I want to call him, was chucking
Speaker 4: hey out of the barn. You know, it was, you know,
Speaker 4: it was like a you know, in the seventies, I
Speaker 4: had seen.
Speaker 1: The Live in a Boggy cree never, you know.
Speaker 4: Really dismissed it, never thought anything of it. And my father,
Speaker 4: you know, I think in that time I mentioned I
Speaker 4: seen the movie. He told me about his kind of
Speaker 4: his story. You know, I brushed it off. Never thought
Speaker 4: of anything of my life. I mean I hunted in
Speaker 4: the woods for years and years and never really seen
Speaker 4: his things strange, you know, had some airy fieltons sometimes.
Speaker 1: But didn't really think anything of it.
Speaker 4: And then in twenty seventeen, you know, all those years past,
Speaker 4: I'm sixty years old now, and all those years passed,
Speaker 4: and I you know, my former wife and I we
Speaker 4: approachased some property just outside of Bangoria. It's a country
Speaker 4: setting and it was forty two acres under tree management and.
Speaker 1: We took the first free acres.
Speaker 4: There was a log cabin we had bought, and you know,
Speaker 4: I was developing the land around it. You couldn't touch
Speaker 4: anything down back. It was like six hundred feet wide
Speaker 4: three thousand feet deep, and we had a fifteen acres
Speaker 4: on you know, beyond this pond that was down there
Speaker 4: and it was landlocked, and I was developing a path
Speaker 4: you know, down to the pond and brought kids down there,
Speaker 4: you know, my grandchildren and the wife. We used to
Speaker 4: walk down there, and you know, I was checking property
Speaker 4: lines when we first brought the property, and there was
Speaker 4: one that I couldn't find off this pine tree that
Speaker 4: was had an old barbed wire fence. So there in
Speaker 4: seventeen there and I think it was a late summer fall.
Speaker 4: The wife and I decided we took the day off.
Speaker 4: Something went down and there in the afternoon and we
Speaker 4: had a little boat that we could get across the pond,
Speaker 4: and we've you know, previous we had gone to the
Speaker 4: right side of that, you know, the you know, looking
Speaker 4: for property lines and walked through there and got some
Speaker 4: weird feelings, but always dismissed them, and well, this day
Speaker 4: I was looking for the left side, left side you know,
Speaker 4: from the Barboe fence. So we get in a little
Speaker 4: boat that I had and I had a trollo motor
Speaker 4: and we you.
Speaker 1: Know, put it across the pond.
Speaker 4: It was probably the other side where the squale grass
Speaker 4: was was kind of narrowed where our stream come through
Speaker 4: that comes through there. And so I docked the you know,
Speaker 4: white State on the boat and I had to push
Speaker 4: myself through see you know binds and really thick brush there,
Speaker 4: you know, And I pushed myself through it, and there
Speaker 4: was this old pine tree that was dead, that was
Speaker 4: laying down right.
Speaker 1: As soon as I come through the brush, and there
Speaker 1: was a branch you.
Speaker 4: Know, there was got branches on there. I had to
Speaker 4: get over it because it was like, I mean, right
Speaker 4: in my way. So I grabbed that branch and it
Speaker 4: cracked so loud and echoed up through those woods. And
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't think anything of that. So I
Speaker 4: get over the tree and I walk out around and I,
Speaker 4: you know, I find that property marker of the continued
Speaker 4: Bob Wife fence, and you know, I yelled to the
Speaker 4: you know, the wife I said, you.
Speaker 1: Know, hey, I found it, you know, and it was
Speaker 1: all good.
Speaker 4: So I, you know, get back over the tree and
Speaker 4: get back out of the brush, get in the boat,
Speaker 4: and we get back across the pond and I'm pulling
Speaker 4: the boat back up in the swale grass and on
Speaker 4: the other side of the shore there. And as soon
Speaker 4: as I pull it up, when we get out, and
Speaker 4: we're just standing there for a second, and right where
Speaker 4: I was standing, like one hundred feet away, the biggest crack.
Speaker 1: It was probably five.
Speaker 4: Times the crack I mean, you know, And in my head,
Speaker 4: I'm going, is this a bear?
Speaker 1: Can there do this?
Speaker 4: And I'm thinking no. And then the second thing came
Speaker 4: over my mind was bigfoot. And why I don't know,
Speaker 4: but it was. It was so bizarre because I had
Speaker 4: never heard any stories, never watched any podcast ever, you know,
Speaker 4: and I was so freaked out. The you know, it's
Speaker 4: like the skin and the hair stood up from my
Speaker 4: spine all the way up to the top of my head.
Speaker 4: It was very bizarre, and I just was like in shock,
Speaker 4: very very strange. I'd never ever experienced something like that.
Speaker 4: I yelled out hey, just as loud as I could,
Speaker 4: and no response. I had my truck pocked there. I
Speaker 4: told the wife, get in the car. I mean, get
Speaker 4: in the truck.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 4: So we get out of there, and we just we
Speaker 4: were like dumbfounded, you know. On the ride back up
Speaker 4: it was probably you know, a quarter of a mile
Speaker 4: back up through there in the woods to the house,
Speaker 4: and you know, we just we didn't know. We just
Speaker 4: you know, I questioned question, and you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: And I started searching for answers ever since, and just
Speaker 4: and you know, going online, listen to all these podcasts,
Speaker 4: you know, all these people that have these platforms and
Speaker 4: finding some very interesting information. And one of those was
Speaker 4: tree cracking or branch breaking to emulate you know, whatever
Speaker 4: you know, are humans doing. And you know, I sense
Speaker 4: there was something there, but I mean I didn't you know,
Speaker 4: see anything it was, but it was right in that
Speaker 4: spot I was at and I just, like I said,
Speaker 4: I just it totally freaked me out. And you know,
Speaker 4: ever since twenty seventeen, I've been doing research.
Speaker 1: Just can't stop it. You know, it's like it's like.
Speaker 4: I want to know, I want answers, and you know,
Speaker 4: I had to listen to see if there was any
Speaker 4: other similarities out there of experiences that people will having,
Speaker 4: and sure enough I found hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 4: of the same exact thing. So, you know, that kind
Speaker 4: of convinced me in my mind that you know that
Speaker 4: there's uh, you know, a you know creature out there
Speaker 4: that you know they don't want to admit to, and
Speaker 4: that there's a kind of different you know, what's the
Speaker 4: word I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: Like species or or.
Speaker 4: You know, different types, Like everybody sees different types, but
Speaker 4: I never I haven't you know, to see Waned, you know,
Speaker 4: and that would be you know, something to see. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I was like just intrigued, you know, by
Speaker 4: the whole subject.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 3: You know, uh, branch breaking in tree cracking is such
Speaker 3: it's it's a weird part of it because when you're
Speaker 3: first about it, it's one of those things where you
Speaker 3: may be like, oh, that doesn't sound like such a
Speaker 3: big deal, But when you're like in there and it's
Speaker 3: happening and you hear something, yes, the extremely loud break,
Speaker 3: it messes with you a real real bad Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a shocking It's it's almost like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, I think about it right now gives me
Speaker 4: the chills. It's I don't know what it is. It
Speaker 4: sends a wave of of of almost I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's it's fear or surprise, because the you know,
Speaker 4: the noise multiplies so so much more than you know,
Speaker 4: and I don't I didn't understand, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was just it really confused me because, like I said,
Speaker 4: I never experienced anything like that and something to respond
Speaker 4: so soon to, you know, And I was thinking in
Speaker 4: my head, this this, this can't be a bear. Bears
Speaker 4: don't you know, they don't break trees like that or
Speaker 4: branches or whatever. That noise was, you know, but it
Speaker 4: sounded exactly about It was like it was trying to
Speaker 4: replicate what I did, but five times ten times more,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely bizarre.
Speaker 3: I was thinking through the experiences I've had, and I
Speaker 3: just realized, I think there is a thing from Oregon
Speaker 3: that I haven't shared yet. Maybe it was only really quick,
Speaker 3: and this might be a good time to share it
Speaker 3: because we're kind of talking about tree breaks and cracks
Speaker 3: and tree cracks and stuff like that. So we were
Speaker 3: up in the woods at this research area and a
Speaker 3: gentleman his name was Chad. This is probably like ten
Speaker 3: at night and it was really dark, right and we
Speaker 3: were at the edge of the meadow. He takes his
Speaker 3: really high powered flashlight. There had been a sighting on
Speaker 3: the edge of the meadow just that same day. He
Speaker 3: shines it into the woods, and a second after he
Speaker 3: did that, the loudest break of a branch I've ever
Speaker 3: heard in my life was just like film and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh man, we are in big trouble. Never
Speaker 3: saw anything, but it was like, is right there? And
Speaker 3: it really really affects you. This puts you on a
Speaker 3: on a trail of trying to find answers. Did you
Speaker 3: start looking into this area of Bangor and seeing if
Speaker 3: there had been other experiences people had had or have
Speaker 3: you been able to talk to anyone that has come forward.
Speaker 4: Well, I've mentioned too a few people people thinking nuts.
Speaker 4: I've got a lot of response from especially hunters. Oh
Speaker 4: there's no such thing as bigfoot. If I see bigfoot,
Speaker 4: I'll shoot him. I'm going, oh yeah, okay, after what
Speaker 4: I've heard over the years on the podcasts, you yeah,
Speaker 4: you can try.
Speaker 1: But it's so funny the response you get out of people.
Speaker 4: But not right away because I gone through a divorce,
Speaker 4: so my life kind of I never never forgot it,
Speaker 4: but it kind of took a different track for you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of years there, but it was still always
Speaker 4: in my mind.
Speaker 1: And then I started researching it.
Speaker 4: And I've got to say, I try to contact this
Speaker 4: guy that I just recently found out about my daughter's boyfriend,
Speaker 4: because I had talked with my daughter quite a bit
Speaker 4: about this, and her boyfriend lives up in Millanocket, and
Speaker 4: I guess that there was he knows a hunter.
Speaker 1: He lives close by by me.
Speaker 4: I'm actually outside of Bangor now a little self a
Speaker 4: bit but not far from me. Is a guy who
Speaker 4: was hunting just it's it's fairly recent. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: exactly here, but fairly recent. And they had all everybody
Speaker 4: split up out of the hunting camp and and some
Speaker 4: of the guys came back, and this guy comes back.
Speaker 4: He comes and sits in the chair, pure white head,
Speaker 4: urinated in his pants, and everybody said, what's wrong, and
Speaker 4: he says, I just saw bigfoot. And so my daughter's
Speaker 4: boyfriend proceeded to tell me that he he started doing research.
Speaker 4: He had pictures and he was supposed to send me
Speaker 4: some pictures of footprints. This guy was just so he
Speaker 4: I mean run right into it. It was right in
Speaker 4: front of him while he was hunting early early in
Speaker 4: the morning, just barely light, as from what I gathered
Speaker 4: from the story. And I tried to contact the guy
Speaker 4: and to talk to him about his experience because I
Speaker 4: wanted to share more factual information, you know when you called.
Speaker 4: But I tried to contact me. He didn't contact me back.
Speaker 4: It was like in the last week. But and you know,
Speaker 4: I've heard of you know, other you know a few
Speaker 4: other people that have you know, seen strange things, and
Speaker 4: there's I did start researching a few years after I
Speaker 4: left that uh you know the lug cab in that area,
Speaker 4: you know of some incidents has taken place up in
Speaker 4: a Rooster County. There was a guy supposedly in northwestern
Speaker 4: Maine that would add a grow and he had one
Speaker 4: in there thumping the ground all the time and try
Speaker 4: to intimidating him out of there, and he didn't leave.
Speaker 4: He just kept going back and they kind of finally
Speaker 4: calmed down, but they were always there every time he
Speaker 4: went in, you know, and very bizarre stories. Another incident
Speaker 4: was I think it might have been maybe in the forties,
Speaker 4: there was an incident up up near Millanocket. There was
Speaker 4: a mountain up there that the natives lived around, and
Speaker 4: said they wouldn't go near that mountain because there were
Speaker 4: killers up there, hairy killers. I guess you know what
Speaker 4: that equated to was some really aggressive squatch. And I
Speaker 4: read an article recently about a guy that was a
Speaker 4: he's a hunter, he's a bear hunter. And he commented
Speaker 4: on a sighting and I don't think this was that
Speaker 4: long ago, and said, believe me, you know that some
Speaker 4: people were saying, oh, you know, difference of joke all this,
Speaker 4: and he said, I'm a I'm a guide up in
Speaker 4: northern Maine, and.
Speaker 1: Believe me, Bigfoot exists, you know. And he didn't elaborate
Speaker 1: any more than that. Very interesting.
Speaker 4: There was another bizarre story that was I think in
Speaker 4: maybe Oh, I don't know if it was the fifties
Speaker 4: or sixties, but on the coast there was a little
Speaker 4: boy who grew up and wrote a story about.
Speaker 1: When he was a child.
Speaker 4: He had just moved into this town and there was
Speaker 4: this little girl he met and they rode bicycles together.
Speaker 4: She kept asking him, do you want to meet my friend?
Speaker 4: Do you want to meet my friend. And this is
Speaker 4: you know, some of the stories of research. So if
Speaker 4: you asked to your question. But anyways, so one day
Speaker 4: he finally decided he was, you know, take a ride
Speaker 4: on the bike with her and meet her friend. And
Speaker 4: so they stop at the store and she buys all
Speaker 4: these bags of chips. You know, these these kids are
Speaker 4: about ten from what I can stand from the story.
Speaker 1: And so they go into the woods and you know.
Speaker 4: They ride bike in the woods and they get off
Speaker 4: their bikes and they're at this big tree, a big blowdown,
Speaker 4: and she's you know, saying hello, hello, come here, come here,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, the ground started, you know,
Speaker 4: they was stumping and you know, they was growling, and
Speaker 4: she was throwing these bags of potato chips I guess
Speaker 4: over this log, and there was a squawk.
Speaker 1: It was a squatch.
Speaker 4: And so the kid runs up in the tree and
Speaker 4: you know she said that you know, he don't like you.
Speaker 1: And they're up in this tree and you know, scared, scared,
Speaker 1: and I guess there was.
Speaker 4: A you know, the thing was making a ruckus and
Speaker 4: the kid ended up coming out of the tree or whatever,
Speaker 4: getting on his bike and riding out of there as
Speaker 4: quick as he could go, and he ended up, you know,
Speaker 4: writing a little story about it. But there's definitely been there.
Speaker 1: You know. It sounds to me like they're definitely here.
Speaker 4: You know, they are the master of camouflage, and uh yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I've been in the woods many times hunting,
Speaker 4: and you know, I hear a lot of people talk
Speaker 4: about these smells, you know, these future almost dead smells.
Speaker 4: I smelled that stuff many many times. Never you know,
Speaker 4: gave it any regard at all, you know. And you know,
Speaker 4: even when I was a kid, I spent a lot
Speaker 4: of times, very young, from sun up to sundown in
Speaker 4: these gravel pits and woods with friends for you know,
Speaker 4: all day long and had smelled smells and you know.
Speaker 1: Never never thought anything of it.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's like, you know, they you know,
Speaker 4: all the everybody says, you know that they hide very well.
Speaker 4: But I do believe that they're here, you know, I
Speaker 4: do believe that. And this this guy was telling me
Speaker 4: about that. My daughter's boyfriend knows. I'm going to still
Speaker 4: try to contact him because he showed me some pictures
Speaker 4: on his phone when I was at her house just
Speaker 4: not long ago, of footprints and some structures or something
Speaker 4: and very interesting and I don't know, I can't stop pursuing,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to continue to pursue, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 4: very very interesting stuff.
Speaker 3: That's very intrigue and yeah, and things like that where
Speaker 3: you know you're waiting to hear back from the guy,
Speaker 3: especially in an area like that. I mean, that could
Speaker 3: take years for that individual to finally get back to you,
Speaker 3: but it will probably happen somedays. So I would, you know,
Speaker 3: not give up on it. Sometimes it does take years
Speaker 3: to hear back from a person.
Speaker 1: Well this this guy only there's a couple of towns
Speaker 1: away from me right now. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pursue it more, you know.
Speaker 4: And one of the things I've done, Jeremiah, is I
Speaker 4: love I'm a history buff. I love love, love, love
Speaker 4: love history, and I go way back beyond you know.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure you've heard of it, and I'm sure
Speaker 4: you've heard many people, you know, uh, you know different.
Speaker 4: Everybody subscribes to something different, you know, And you know
Speaker 4: I've been I was like a truth seeker in my life,
Speaker 4: and I go back to the Sumerian text, you know,
Speaker 4: and I'm really drawn to that and what you know
Speaker 4: they talked about with the Ananaki, how that they had
Speaker 4: gone through these number of experiments to hybridize the you know,
Speaker 4: the local homonoid uh so to speak. And with the
Speaker 4: result of that in Bigfoot or Sasquatch, and.
Speaker 1: The numerous.
Speaker 4: Accounts of the differences in the looks to me relates
Speaker 4: to that of the different experience.
Speaker 1: And it's that's kind of where I lean.
Speaker 4: With the whole thing of you know, the reality of
Speaker 4: all of you know, what is going on in this
Speaker 4: world and all of the things that are untold to
Speaker 4: you know, the people's you know, just history is you know,
Speaker 4: very very intriguing, and there's you know, it you know
Speaker 4: has its answers.
Speaker 1: Everything's right there in front of you. Just got to
Speaker 1: dig for it. You know, basically.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, when you are on that property where you heard
Speaker 3: the tree break, have you ever noticed anything else the
Speaker 3: ordinary on that property? Like do you ever notice tree
Speaker 3: arches or weird structures of any kind?
Speaker 4: When I first, when we first got in there, closed
Speaker 4: on the house, and then you know, I had gone
Speaker 4: down back and the pathway down to the pond had
Speaker 4: arched birch trees crossing each other in the path down there,
Speaker 4: and it was like it was blocking the way, and
Speaker 4: I ended up clearing all that. It took me, you know,
Speaker 4: it took me probably a good week or so to
Speaker 4: get in there, you know, when I had time each
Speaker 4: day to get that, because I wanted to, you know,
Speaker 4: uh you know, put a you know, hunting uh blind
Speaker 4: down there, just for observation. And but my brother ended
Speaker 4: up going down there hunting and I hadn't. I hadn't,
Speaker 4: you know, I got out of hunting. But you know,
Speaker 4: we were there. And when you here in Maine, when
Speaker 4: you own like uh uh you know, property under tree management,
Speaker 4: you don't have to have a license to hunt. So
Speaker 4: I said, okay, I'll just you know, i'll get you know,
Speaker 4: i'll do it again. So I go down and sit
Speaker 4: in the stand that my brother had put up, and
Speaker 4: he never he never got anything out of their pot.
Speaker 4: I went down there that day. I was in there.
Speaker 4: There was not a peep, not a cricket, not anything, nothing, quiet, silence,
Speaker 4: just dead. I could hear the kids, you know, half
Speaker 4: a mile away up you know, the next door neighbor kids,
Speaker 4: you know, laughing, giggle and playing.
Speaker 1: But there was total science that silence down there.
Speaker 4: It was very bizarre and other times, like I said,
Speaker 4: we had gone to the right side of that property
Speaker 4: across the pond initially when we got down there looking
Speaker 4: for property lines, and there was just weird feelings walking
Speaker 4: up through the path through the woods because there was
Speaker 4: a path there where the property line was on the
Speaker 4: right side to a power line, and just very that
Speaker 4: that place hadn't been cut off. I don't think us
Speaker 4: I've been cut off. There pine trees in there, one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty two hundred feet tall, and there was
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of big growth.
Speaker 1: And yeah, very eerie.
Speaker 4: And one of the the other things I had noticed
Speaker 4: before I left, because I had seen bear scat around
Speaker 4: and I knew there were bears around there.
Speaker 1: The state has you know, tons of a.
Speaker 4: Minute, but there was right in the middle of the
Speaker 4: road going down to the pond, not far from the house.
Speaker 4: After that incident, I saw the biggest pile of scat
Speaker 4: I have ever seen in my life. And bears, you know,
Speaker 4: usually leave a small you know, they say, the bigger
Speaker 4: the scat, the bigger the bear.
Speaker 1: But this thing was so huge.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm talking twelve inches in diameter, and it
Speaker 4: must have been five inches high.
Speaker 1: It was. It was freaky. It kind of freaked me out.
Speaker 4: When I seen that, and I'm going, wow, this is
Speaker 4: very strange. And you know, I left that, I left
Speaker 4: that whole place, you know, the wife and everything. I
Speaker 4: left that shortly after that that fall, and I had
Speaker 4: never been back, but that that place was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very strange things going on there.
Speaker 4: And what that was that I don't know one hundred percent,
Speaker 4: but it was not normal. And people don't hang down
Speaker 4: in there on that, you know, down in that area,
Speaker 4: they just they don't hang there. You know, people just
Speaker 4: don't get down there. And uh, you know all the
Speaker 4: time we were there, I was there two or three years,
Speaker 4: two almost three years, and yeah, I you know, I
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time down there, you know, you
Speaker 4: used to go down there all the time, you know,
Speaker 4: went to the pollen, took the grandkids there. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that that reaction, that that reply or whatever it was,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know. I couldn't understand what it was,
Speaker 4: you know, I just if bottom line, it just freaked
Speaker 4: me out, you know, and here I am today because
Speaker 4: of it, you know, and uh, I just I won't
Speaker 4: stop the research.
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know. I guess maybe inside
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, somehow something instinctual or something just you know,
Speaker 4: wants to maybe see it. You know, you know, it's
Speaker 4: like I almost invited in my mind.
Speaker 3: But oh I get that one hundred percent. What time
Speaker 3: of year again was it that you had seen the
Speaker 3: pilot scat on the ground.
Speaker 4: It was, Uh, it was late summer, probably early early fall,
Speaker 4: right at the.
Speaker 1: End of the summer pretty much late fall, I mean
Speaker 1: early fall.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha. So it was not a thing where like
Speaker 3: a bear had just gotten out of hibernation and cleared
Speaker 3: things out, m m at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this scat I found had been on the edges
Speaker 4: of the pond when I first went down in the air,
Speaker 4: but my brother and I would kind of just you know,
Speaker 4: uh exploring. I found it in the swale grass. I
Speaker 4: found it on a rock on the very edge, but
Speaker 4: I had never seen it rate in the uh right
Speaker 4: in the middle. I mean it was right in the
Speaker 4: middle where because I used to mow the grass. I
Speaker 4: take a you know, track lawn tractor and go right
Speaker 4: down and mow the graphs right down through there and
Speaker 4: keep it clean, you know, like a nice little path
Speaker 4: to walk and everything. Oh, drive my truck. I could
Speaker 4: drive the truck right down the pond. And yeah, that
Speaker 4: one day I was walking.
Speaker 1: Down there and there I saw that.
Speaker 4: I saw a wow that I you know, I got
Speaker 4: to I backed off and get out of there.
Speaker 1: You know. I didn't continue all the way down there
Speaker 1: pond after I seen that, because I said, whatever that is,
Speaker 1: it's really big, you know, and I didn't want to
Speaker 1: run into it. You know.
Speaker 3: Yeap Maine is is one of those states where like
Speaker 3: things can get really serious really quickly out in the outdoors.
Speaker 3: There is Oh yeah, I would say, Man, it's one
Speaker 3: of my my favorite accounts that I've that I've been told.
Speaker 3: Actually it was sent to me from an individual and
Speaker 3: this is I think a perfect show to share it
Speaker 3: because I haven't been able to share it in a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He uh so he reached out to me and this
Speaker 3: is like north you know, where the New Hampshire border is,
Speaker 3: and I can't remember the exact area, but it was
Speaker 3: kind of up by Canada border, so northwestern name way out.
Speaker 3: So the short version of it is the guy had
Speaker 3: like forty acres way way out in the sticks and
Speaker 3: it was just him and he had a trailer out
Speaker 3: on this property, and so he was washing his dishes
Speaker 3: down in the stream. One day he looks up because
Speaker 3: he heard something and he saw what he said, It
Speaker 3: looked like, you know, a bigfoot run across in front
Speaker 3: of him on the other side of the stream, and
Speaker 3: so he's like, oh, yeah, we're not alone. The next
Speaker 3: night they're in the trailer, something hits the side of
Speaker 3: the trailer so hard that it gets knocked.
Speaker 1: Off the blox. He's like, Okay, this is not good.
Speaker 1: This is not good.
Speaker 3: Then then the next day or next morning, they open
Speaker 3: up the door to go outside and there's a bear
Speaker 3: head that had been ripped off the rest of the bear,
Speaker 3: just like laying there in front of the entrance to
Speaker 3: the trailer. And immediately like they were like, we're leaving
Speaker 3: this place. Immediately, he moved down to the south, never returned,
Speaker 3: sold it as quickly as he could. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: when I saw that bearhead, I was like, I had
Speaker 3: to get out of there. And we all left immediately,
Speaker 3: and I was It's one of the craziest things I've
Speaker 3: ever heard. But you know, I always took it like
Speaker 3: that it was a warning. I did have a person
Speaker 3: I shared it once and they were like, well, what
Speaker 3: if it was just like a weird way of gifting.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I guess maybe, but either way
Speaker 3: it's ripping.
Speaker 1: Wow. I don't know how to take that one. It
Speaker 1: could be there the two things.
Speaker 4: It could either be a warn and I'm gonna rip
Speaker 4: your head off you don't get out of here, or
Speaker 4: it's a gift for moving.
Speaker 1: In and you know, not here we are.
Speaker 4: Right, you know, Yeah, main, there's there's there are other incidences.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been discovering a little by little of
Speaker 1: people and I don't know, i just kind of got
Speaker 1: in a mold where.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of, you know, saying things to people a
Speaker 4: little bit that I know, and I know this guy
Speaker 4: that lives.
Speaker 1: On a reservation.
Speaker 4: Just you know, outside of Bangor, A lot of the
Speaker 4: towns around here are fairly small. I mean, Bangor, where
Speaker 4: I was raised all my life. You know, it's populations
Speaker 4: thirty five, forty thousand. We've got another city right across
Speaker 4: the river called Brewer, they called the Twin Cities basically,
Speaker 4: and you know that's got another forty thousand. But you
Speaker 4: go start going outside of Bangor and everything is you know,
Speaker 4: woods it's woods.
Speaker 1: You know. The largest city in the state is Portland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've probably heard of that. Then there's Lewis and Auburn.
Speaker 4: They're kind of like Bangor but you know, twice the size.
Speaker 1: But you go north.
Speaker 4: I've spent a lot of time north ice fishing. I've
Speaker 4: slept in seventeen degree weather on a lake called Lobster Lake,
Speaker 4: you know, in January and in a nice I shocked
Speaker 4: that I had with my brother and you know, very
Speaker 4: airye you know, the silence is almost it's bizarre, it's
Speaker 4: almost deafening.
Speaker 1: But you know, the woods up there are really, really thick.
Speaker 4: And that's where I beginning to see where there's incidents,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: The people talking.
Speaker 4: And this guy on the Indian reservation that I've talked
Speaker 4: to him about it and he says that you know
Speaker 4: that their elders have spoken of that, and I.
Speaker 1: Just been you know, digging a little bit with him.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get too intrusive because I know that,
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of history and with native
Speaker 4: information as far as you know, bigfoot sasquat, sabby, whatever
Speaker 4: you want to call them.
Speaker 1: And you know, I you know, there's believers, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm you know, going after the believers and finding
Speaker 4: them because like I said before, yes, people here in
Speaker 4: Maine are very very hush about stuff, and a lot
Speaker 4: of people, you know, are it was so much into
Speaker 4: the modern thing that uh, you know, they you know,
Speaker 4: they just they they they shun it, you know, as
Speaker 4: soon as you say it, you know, or think you're
Speaker 4: a nuthead. And because I had some of the people,
Speaker 4: like I said before, I spoke to you know, just
Speaker 4: that's stupid, you know, And you know, I don't know
Speaker 4: after that incident, I I I you know, I believe.
Speaker 4: I believe there's something there and you know, and I
Speaker 4: believe all these podcasts that I've been watching, specially you
Speaker 4: for almost like a year now.
Speaker 1: I just like every night.
Speaker 4: I like I lay my head down and before Society
Speaker 4: comes on and I listen to these accounts, and it's
Speaker 4: it's so intriguing to listen to people's stories. You know,
Speaker 4: it's just incredible. And you know, I hear the comments.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, some people lie, but you know, if
Speaker 4: you've got thousands accounts, you know, all these people cannot
Speaker 4: be lying, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And the stories when you hear them.
Speaker 4: You can listen to people's you know, voice in the
Speaker 4: intensity of the story, and you know you're like that
Speaker 4: right there with them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like reading a book but hearing it. You know,
Speaker 1: very very very cool, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And it's just the thing where, you know,
Speaker 3: the main reason I do the show is to give
Speaker 3: people a place to to share it where they don't
Speaker 3: have to worry about, you know, they're going to be
Speaker 3: made fun of or laughed at or you know. And I,
Speaker 3: oh boy, do I work hard to try to constantly
Speaker 3: in the comments on YouTube, you know, there's making sure
Speaker 3: the right people are in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I just do not.
Speaker 3: Tolerate people making fun of witnesses. It's not cool.
Speaker 1: No, not at all. No.
Speaker 3: Have you ever made it to the Cryptosoology Museum up
Speaker 3: there in Maine.
Speaker 1: No, I never have. I.
Speaker 4: I you know, Jeremiah, I I My life is work, eat, sleep,
Speaker 4: you know. I. You know, I toil, you know, in labor,
Speaker 4: so a lot of my free time, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I I do want to look into that, you know.
Speaker 4: I jump on my Harley and I you know, cruise
Speaker 4: the mountains. That's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: To do. And I there's a route that I take, you.
Speaker 4: Know, from Bangor it goes they call it two or one,
Speaker 4: goes right up into Jackman and it's like seven or
Speaker 4: seventeen or like twenty miles from the border.
Speaker 1: And you go up in that territory, and you know,
Speaker 1: you ride.
Speaker 4: I stop at places because I'll go by myself and
Speaker 4: do this, and I'll stop in places, and it's just
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's so wild up there, you know.
Speaker 1: And I mean there's a place called the Golden Road.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever heard of that, but
Speaker 4: you go up that road, it goes just I can't
Speaker 4: remember hunty miles because it goes out of Greenville, ing
Speaker 4: and I've spent a lot of times in the mountains
Speaker 4: up there in the winter time, snowmobiling by myself, and uh,
Speaker 4: just beautiful, beautiful country here, you know, and uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: it just you know, it's like I don't know, it's
Speaker 4: kind of like since that happened, it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like it's like I want to see I hear
Speaker 4: so many incidents of people like seeing them walk across
Speaker 4: the road, you know, and I don't know, I guess
Speaker 4: in some way that kind of hope that would happen,
Speaker 4: you know, But because going in the woods nowadays here, wow,
Speaker 4: I the ticks are terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean they're horrendous.
Speaker 4: I mean you walk outside in the dirt driveway or
Speaker 4: dirt driveway and you got ticks on you, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, You've got to really careful. That's a
Speaker 4: lot of reasons I gave up hunting is because the
Speaker 4: ticks were just insane. You'd come back covered with them,
Speaker 4: you know, And every time you step in the woods
Speaker 4: now and it's it's, yeah, it's mind boggling how bad
Speaker 4: they are now. I mean it's all over all over
Speaker 4: the state. And we never had that, you know, when
Speaker 4: I was a kid, we never had them like that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: For some reason, it's the migration of them, because you've
Speaker 4: got every moving you know, roading and bird and everything
Speaker 4: else that moves in the woods that's carrying those things around,
Speaker 4: you know, and they.
Speaker 1: Spread spread, spreads bread, you know. It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wow, I had no idea it was it was
Speaker 3: that bad out there. Do you guys have the lone
Speaker 3: star tick out there too?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I know, I haven't heard of that one.
Speaker 4: We have a we have the deer Deer Tech. I
Speaker 4: don't know if this is about the Lone Star, but
Speaker 4: there was the University of Maine was doing a study
Speaker 4: collaborating with I think some other universities like in California
Speaker 4: or in the rest of the United States, and they
Speaker 4: found the same exact tick on the coast domain in
Speaker 4: the grass at the sand beach as they did in
Speaker 4: California on the sand beach in the grass, and that
Speaker 4: was very bizarre. Wid Yeah, it is. Oh. One more
Speaker 4: thing I remembered was my uncle had been living in
Speaker 4: he was retired from the Air Force twenty five years.
Speaker 4: He was living in Albany, Albline, Ebilene, Evelyne in Texas.
Speaker 4: And he just recently passed away last year. And it
Speaker 4: was so funny because I communicated him a few times
Speaker 4: over my lifetime.
Speaker 1: He had come to visit my father or whatever.
Speaker 4: But he came up about it a year or less
Speaker 4: before he passed away, and he had been communicating with me,
Speaker 4: you know, texting.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: He ended up dying to cancer. I think he already
Speaker 4: knew he had it, but he was trying to get
Speaker 4: to know me because I was like, you know, my
Speaker 4: father's first son, I was Clark Junior, right, and I
Speaker 4: think he was kind of interesting to get to know me.
Speaker 4: We had corresponded for about a year or so, and
Speaker 4: so he came up to visit and I went to
Speaker 4: see him and we were talking, you know about we
Speaker 4: got in kind of the cryptid thing, right, and you know,
Speaker 4: I was talking with him about that incident out there
Speaker 4: that happened, and he told me, you know, he says,
Speaker 4: that's one thing I do believe. He says it's big foot.
Speaker 4: I believe it's real. And you know, I mean then,
Speaker 4: you know, he was right down there. From what I
Speaker 4: understand in your podcast and a lot of other podcast
Speaker 4: Texas is a hot spot, you know, and so he
Speaker 4: apparently knew more than what he was saying. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it was very interesting. I thought about that after, you know,
Speaker 4: we were talking and stuff. But yeah, so it's crazy
Speaker 4: the you know, how many states are involved, because once
Speaker 4: I started listening to podcast and realizing the abundance of
Speaker 4: sightings on every single you know state here in the
Speaker 4: United the United States and Canada, and you know, it's
Speaker 4: like wow, wow, wow, Wow, there's there's a lot more
Speaker 4: you know than we think, and a lot more going
Speaker 4: on than we know, you know.
Speaker 1: And wow, yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 3: It's one of those you know, it's it's really I
Speaker 3: would say it's a phenomenon because it is, as you
Speaker 3: said it. I mean, it's not not only in all
Speaker 3: the States. It's it's really a thing where if you
Speaker 3: start researching it, there's some equivalent of it in all
Speaker 3: over the world. And I mean I've talked to people
Speaker 3: and India and I talked to a guy the other
Speaker 3: day from Australia a little bit about some yahwei stuff.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy how it is. It is really a
Speaker 3: part of all the different cultures. And it's right, it's
Speaker 3: kind of the I think it's one of the last
Speaker 3: great great mysteries you can you can really just look
Speaker 3: into it forever. As as you were saying, really deep.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's quite a rabbit hole. Mhmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a deep it's a deep rabbit hole. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: from what I understand, yeah, all over the world. I mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: very It's very intriguing to me, you know, and uh,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm just going to continue to learn about it,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: And it's it's made me a little more like.
Speaker 4: Aware of signs to recognize now, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: since all of that took place, and especially all the
Speaker 4: accounts that I've listened to, because I mean, your podcast
Speaker 4: is like, wow, I love the podcast because you have
Speaker 4: the live interviews with everybody, which is so unique. Because
Speaker 4: when I first started researching, you know, I was listening
Speaker 4: to people tell stories and you know, no names mentioned,
Speaker 4: but it seemed to be very boring to me, and
Speaker 4: it didn't seem to be there was, you know, the realism,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't, you know, like yours and another podcast
Speaker 4: I had previously listened to and I had jumped to yours,
Speaker 4: and I've been listening to you quite a long time.
Speaker 4: And it's like every day I listen to podcasts because
Speaker 4: I'm trying to learn, you know, and it's not just learned,
Speaker 4: but listening to these people's accounts and the reactions to them,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and how how everybody's responding
Speaker 4: to it, and it's it's so it's so intrigue and
Speaker 4: you know, to learn about all these accounts, you know,
Speaker 4: and in the places that people are seeing them.
Speaker 3: It is it's it's a wild, wild thing and you know,
Speaker 3: and I I first started, I was like, I had
Speaker 3: someone tell me. They're like, you're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to just pick foot, You'll run out. And it's like, dude,
Speaker 3: it's not just running out, Like that's not the problem.
Speaker 3: Like the problem is the time, because like they have
Speaker 3: people reaching out to me every day, and it would
Speaker 3: blow your mind how many people end up not coming
Speaker 3: on the podcast, which is no problem, but they're constantly
Speaker 3: you know, newer people getting out into the field having
Speaker 3: an encounter. There's people that get retired, they retire from
Speaker 3: their jobs, or they like you know, they're on the
Speaker 3: their deathbed and they're like, I need to share this
Speaker 3: before my time is up. And that's happening all the time,
Speaker 3: and it will never it will never stop. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's always going to be people that need to share
Speaker 3: what they've experienced, and being there to help with that
Speaker 3: is you know, that's my goal to be that platform
Speaker 3: and be one of the good platforms. But you know, Clark,
Speaker 3: it has been such a fun time chatting with you
Speaker 3: about a part of the US and Bigfoot that we
Speaker 3: don't really get to talk about. And hopefully there'll be
Speaker 3: some people that listen to this episode from Maine, and
Speaker 3: maybe they'll reach out with things they've experienced. You're welcome
Speaker 3: to do that, and I would love to hear from you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Clark has been such a great time chatting with
Speaker 3: you today. Thank you for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: Same to you, Jeremy. Thank you so much for having me. Hello.
Speaker 5: My name's Darren hun And back in two thousand, me
Speaker 5: and my brother went out west go traveling all around
Speaker 5: the West and see the sites, national parks, monuments and
Speaker 5: all that, and we camped out just about everywhere. And
Speaker 5: when we came to Washington State, we wanted to climb
Speaker 5: up Mount Saint Helens and so we got a permit
Speaker 5: and everything, and we set up the tent eight went
Speaker 5: to sleep. So I woke up. It was like midnight
Speaker 5: or one o'clock and I had to go to the
Speaker 5: bathroom and my brother was still asleep, and I heard
Speaker 5: this deep like scream or yell or It did not
Speaker 5: sound like any person or animal. It was a frightening scream,
Speaker 5: like a roar. And that was eye opening and scary
Speaker 5: because I never heard anything like that in my life.
Speaker 5: And I just wanted to let you know that. All right, Well,
Speaker 5: I'm signing off.
Speaker 1: Bye bye.
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