WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.839 You're listening to Big for the Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.639 In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.400 bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've 4 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:12.759 seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers 5 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.719 to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.719 and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:24.000 These are the voices of the people who've lived it. 8 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.440 To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.120 just might change the way you see the woods forever. 10 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.240 So stay with us, all right, Big for Society. You've 11 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.119 got the privilege of talking to mister Greg Yost today 12 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.600 and during the interview though, we'll be called this is 13 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.840 squatch Man. So squatch Man, welcome to. 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.600 Hey Deremy, thanks for having me on. 15 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:45.000 Man. 16 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:45.799 I'm doing good. 17 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:54.079 I had my barta yesterday, want to cryptocon down in Lexington. 18 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.079 Seen a lot of you know, bigfoot people. Man talk 19 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.759 bigfoot all day. That was a great day. So yeah, 20 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:05.719 I'm doing good, man, I love it. 21 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.439 That's great. 22 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.200 Happy birthday too, I hope it was sounds like it 23 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:12.959 was a good one for you. 24 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:13.400 Man. 25 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.439 Squatch man, I you're one of the guys that people 26 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.159 talk about a lot. It comes up, It's come up 27 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.439 a lot over the last few years, and I've tried. 28 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.319 I'm like, I got to track down Scotch squatch Man somehow, 29 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.840 and you actually tracked me down, and I was like, 30 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.959 this is the best. So I'm so glad that we're 31 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.280 able to have this interview finally, because I've heard that 32 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.439 you have had some really interesting experiences over over the 33 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:42.640 years of researching and just having experiences. 34 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.239 Yeah, that's correct. I've had my fair share of them, 35 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:48.040 no doubt about that. 36 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.959 Absolutely. So you know, when I have an individual like 37 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.519 yourself where you know, you just have so many years 38 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.200 of experience, and I want to say that you twenty 39 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.719 four years is what you put down when you signed up. 40 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.319 And so when there's an individual with that much experience, 41 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.719 you know, can you take us back to was there 42 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:18.479 an instance or a catalyst where it really launched it 43 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.960 into spending so much time to try to figure out 44 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:27.919 what is what is the answer to this question of 45 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:28.840 the forest people? 46 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:34.520 Or yeah? Yeah, yeah. The launching point for me was 47 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:41.319 back in November of two when a big fed literally 48 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.280 walked into my life. Uh, yeah, I was just home. 49 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.680 I've been on an avy. I spent almost eleven years 50 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:55.759 in an avy. I was coming off a bad relationship. 51 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.840 I had a couple of children, and we broke up 52 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:04.080 and went her a separate way. She took my babies 53 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:07.439 and I got laid off for my job. I was 54 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.319 a union welder. This was back in two thousand and two. 55 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.599 It was a very bad year for me. So I started, 56 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:18.719 you know, I was unemployed. I was getting unemployment. So 57 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.800 I was going out through the forests in the woods 58 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.599 a lot, you know, to try to you know, try 59 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:29.240 to get answers What's going on with my life and 60 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.759 what direction am I going? What am I doing wrong? 61 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:37.000 And it seemed like nothing was working. And I don't 62 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:38.960 know if I was going to find the answers out there. 63 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.479 But it was quiet out there. It was a real 64 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:47.319 trink well. I could really think and really gather my thoughts. 65 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:52.199 And there was this one in particular, forest, Ferdinand State 66 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.800 Forest out in du Boys County, a town where my 67 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:03.280 mother grew up at again Ferdinand, Indiana, a beautiful little 68 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.400 small town. And I went out there lock as my 69 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.800 grandfather helped design an engineer that forced back in nineteen 70 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.360 thirty three, and my aunt took us out there a 71 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.560 lot when I stayed down with him during the summer, 72 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.759 you know, summer vacation with your cousins. He took us 73 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:23.959 out to the lake swimming. So yeah, it was a 74 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.560 great place, man, and I love going there. So I 75 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.319 went there a lot, and it's just my happy place. 76 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:36.439 And this one in particular night, I went out there again, 77 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:39.800 and ironically it was about the same time of the 78 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:40.920 year as it is now. 79 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:42.839 It was. 80 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.680 Sometimes my birthday runs were right like on the day 81 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.959 before Thanksgiving today after, or sometimes even right on Thanksgiving. 82 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.680 You know, this year it was yesterday, so it was 83 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:00.879 four or five days before. So anyway, on this night, yeah, 84 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.120 my birthday was the next day. Thanksgiving was two days later, 85 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.399 and yeah, I was looking forward to that seeing all 86 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.800 my kin eating Thanksgiving dinner. He was always a great 87 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:18.199 time Thanksgiving. And so I figured I'd have one more 88 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.040 night in the forest before all the all the festivities 89 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:25.079 and everything. So I went out there that night, and 90 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.399 you know, here in southern Indiana, it was dark at 91 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:32.279 five point thirty, it was six o'clock. It's very dark. 92 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:37.000 So I got out there and I brought my dog buddy. 93 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:43.240 He was a half child, half a gold Retriever, a 94 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:50.800 very large dog, uh eighty pounds. He probably could have 95 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:52.879 been even everywhere. I mean he was a big dog, 96 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.759 looked like a little grizzly bear, and he went everywhere 97 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:01.279 I went. And he was with me that night. So 98 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:02.759 I got a little fire going. 99 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:03.879 Yeah. 100 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.519 I brought a pack of hot dogs and buns. Yeah, 101 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.639 he's just gonna have a nice little night out there. 102 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.839 Wasn't gonna stay late. Uh, you just go over some things, man, 103 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:21.240 think some things out. And it was a very quiet 104 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.480 night out there, very dark, no stars, no moon, an 105 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:31.600 overcast sky, and the fire wasn't betting off much light. 106 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.480 And again this is my first encounter. I knew nothing 107 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:42.920 about this bigfoot entity, monsters. 108 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:43.120 In the woods. 109 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.000 Yeah, I was in the boy Scouts, man and never 110 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.360 heard of bigfoot. So see that was the last thing 111 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.600 from my mind that night. So I'm sitting there man, 112 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.759 having a great night, and du Boys County shirt pulls 113 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:03.439 up and he starts talking to me as another dog 114 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:09.399 came up like a beagle, uh a bluetick howe. You 115 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.120 know it wasn't a full blood, but it was you know, 116 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.000 along that lines of a hunting dog. And I talked 117 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.120 to the sheriff for a while and he really wanted 118 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:21.720 that dog, and I'm like, well, what's not my dog? 119 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.199 I said, you can't have the big one there, but 120 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.720 you canna have that other one. He goes walk it off. 121 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:28.759 At six in the morning. I'm gonna come back out here, 122 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:30.560 and if he was out here, I'm gonna get him. 123 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.160 I'm like, well, I'm not gonna be out there that late, 124 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.319 but hey, you're welcome. I mean, hey, you're the sheriff, 125 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:42.360 not me. So he took off, and there wasn't nobody, 126 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:44.399 not a soul in the park, you know, of late 127 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:48.199 November night now most people's getting ready for the holiday, 128 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.759 and so yeah, I had to hold the whole state 129 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.319 force to myself that night. Not a soul in there 130 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:01.720 other than the sheriff that just left. So it wasn't 131 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:08.120 fifteen minutes later I heard his loud, loud noise coming 132 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.560 down off the hill. Yeah, I mean, I was cornered 133 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.040 back in this little remote area, back off a little 134 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.600 rock road over a dam, and the lake was to 135 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.639 the right. There's a little cut out there. I had 136 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.480 enough for like four or five little camp camp places 137 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.800 pignic tables and fire pits and that was it. And 138 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.720 there was a bigger hill there that that butted up 139 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.720 against the lake there, and there was a hiking trail 140 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:38.440 up up on the top of that hill. 141 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:39.159 I've been on. 142 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.720 So so I knew the area very well. But his 143 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.399 noise was coming down the hill. I've never heard nothing 144 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.159 like this in my life. Yeah, and it was like, 145 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:57.840 I mean, just crash and break and sticks. He's had 146 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.320 like a Sharman tank was coming down off that hill. 147 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.639 So there was a big tree there, and he stopped 148 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:10.080 behind that tree there, and it was only like twenty 149 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.679 feet from the picnic table in my little fire Yeah, 150 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:17.480 and I'm sitting there on the Vigney table trying to 151 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.320 trying to comprehend what's going on? Man, what you know, 152 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:23.600 What's what just happened? 153 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:23.799 Man? 154 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.200 He just walked down at the hill and stopped right 155 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.000 behind that tree there. So I started hearing the loudest 156 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.720 breathing I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, and it 157 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:42.039 was like, yeah, I don't know if it was growling 158 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:44.360 at me or what. Then I just figured it out 159 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:47.320 and that was, you know, he was breathing. Yeah, he 160 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.919 just come down up in the hill in about nine steps, 161 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.039 a big old hill. 162 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:53.440 He'll come down it like it was nothing. 163 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:59.879 And there he was right there, uh, twenty feet away, breathing. 164 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:02.799 Loud, loud, loud. 165 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.440 And my dog and his other dog walk up to 166 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.720 the tree about ten feet in front of the tree, 167 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:12.840 and they stop. And then they're just sitting there looking 168 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:17.000 up at the tree. And I'm screaming at him, Buddy, 169 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:19.879 his name is Buddy. I'm screaming at him, Buddy, get 170 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.840 back here, Buddy. He wouldn't even turn around nothing, And 171 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.360 him and that other dog is sitting there, Yeah, like 172 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:32.639 they were hypnotized or something. Wouldn't move. 173 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:41.600 And far as me, I was, yeah, I'm not gonna 174 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.039 I'm not gonna kid you. Man. 175 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:47.320 I was pretty frightened. I wasn't at the point of 176 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.000 being scared. I was frightened. There's a big difference. Yeah, 177 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:55.279 I just got out of the military. I know how 178 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.919 to handle myself in a lot of situations. I'm good 179 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:04.480 with firearms. I consider myself pretty good under pressure out. 180 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.639 I handled things when they pop up. I mean, you 181 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:12.200 gotta be uh, you know, make split decisions, man. And 182 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.960 I was pretty good at that kind of stuff. And 183 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.639 I didn't have an answer for what was behind that tree. 184 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.679 All I could think of is, you know, back when 185 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.440 I was a little boy, Mommy or a monster unner 186 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.240 in my bed helped me. 187 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.840 But but no, it wasn't nothing like that. I was 188 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.919 out here in the woods by myself. There was suddenly 189 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.879 huge twenty feet away from me, and I didn't know 190 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:46.480 what to do. So my car was parked like a 191 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:49.919 couple of feet right from the viginning table. Yeah, I 192 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.559 just bought it back in two thousand. It was a 193 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:57.440 brand new Pontiac Grand Prix. I called her black Beauty, Man, 194 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:03.480 she's beautiful. And yeah, I had a firearm in the car. 195 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.799 I had a cold forty five in the console, so 196 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.840 I knew I didn't have a weapons. I started realizing 197 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.080 that I better do something quick, man, or there's a 198 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.000 good chance I'm going to die. I mean, I put 199 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.600 this as a life. In that situation, I had to 200 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.879 go on full alert. I had to do anything I 201 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:27.960 could man to get out of there alive. And that's 202 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.399 the way I was thinking right then. So I got 203 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:39.679 my gun out and hey, yeah, a lot of times, man, Yeah, 204 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:41.320 I call them magazine a clip. 205 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:42.840 You know, I'm over school. 206 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.080 That's the way we used to call them, and on 207 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.440 some interviews I call them clips some but a lot 208 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.519 of people I did an interview and a lot of 209 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.200 people were getting on me for calling. 210 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.399 It a clip. Hey, well whatever the case. 211 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:00.200 You know, the story wasn't about my gun, and so 212 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.720 regardless I called it a clip or a magazine that 213 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:07.600 they knew what I meant. So so so anyway, yeah, 214 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.399 I had a magazine halfway in the in the gun anyway, 215 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.080 it was a cod forty five. So when I reached 216 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:17.120 ynogrammed it, Yeah, I jammed it up in there. I 217 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:21.000 cocked around in the chamber and I was ready for 218 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:26.440 this creature. Again, no idea what it was. So the 219 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.240 only thing I could think of, man, is started very 220 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.639 boldly and loud, start talking to it. And that's exactly 221 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.320 what I did. I told him I didn't want no trouble, 222 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.039 told him I didn't know what it was. I didn't 223 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.360 know who you were. I mean at this point, wasn't 224 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.720 a human. I mean, I had no idea. I just 225 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.240 know it was something really big. So's I cupa yeah, 226 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.919 Kepa telling them, yeah, hey, you come right that tree man, 227 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.159 I'm shooting you said, I got a gun here man, 228 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.039 and I will kill you. I go, you mess with 229 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:07.080 my dog or me, Uh, don't make me do it, 230 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.399 but but I'm going to do it. And I cussed 231 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.639 at him a lot. I probably used every cust word 232 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:18.480 in the book. And I was getting Yeah, I was 233 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.279 getting pretty angry. Yeah, you know me and my son, 234 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.320 you know, not back then. My son was a two 235 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:32.440 year old boy back then. But yeah, I always like saying, 236 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:38.639 you know, when when a man gets cornered, when it's 237 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.919 a life or that situation, that man's got to go 238 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.120 in the warrior mode, you know, regardless of what kind 239 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.080 of man he is, what kind of training he's had 240 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:52.200 in the military. I mean, every man has that mode. 241 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:57.240 They probably don't know it, but it's in there. So anyway, 242 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:02.360 I turned into that warrior mode that night, and I 243 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.279 was gonna fight. I was gonna fight this thing. I mean, 244 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.440 I was waiting for thee to come around the tree. 245 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:11.720 I was gonna blast him with everything I had. But 246 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.960 he didn't and Buddy wouldn't turn around or come do me. 247 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.960 So I had to walk up that ten feet and 248 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:25.720 grab Buddy with my left arm. Yeah, I lift this big, large, 249 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.759 heavy dog in my lap and take him back to 250 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.600 my car at the same time holding my pistol up er, 251 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.480 knowing this thing is gonna come around when he sees 252 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.200 me vulnerable like that. So I got back, I got 253 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:42.679 Buddy in the car, and I drove back to that 254 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:47.240 Damn I was just telling you about you know, I 255 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.000 was shaking like a leaf on a tree. Yeah, I 256 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.879 still did. I still couldn't process what was going on. 257 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.440 I just felt a lot better now I was in 258 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.440 my car. I felt safe. So I drove back up 259 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.519 to that pickmy table and I hit the lights on 260 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:07.399 my grand Brie, the bright lights, and I lit that 261 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:13.000 area up. And I looked up at that tree and 262 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:17.600 there was a big black arm from the elbow through 263 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:23.159 the fingertips hanging on that tree, with black shiny hair 264 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:25.279 hanging down of that. 265 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.720 Arm and from the fingers all the way to the elbow. 266 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:30.360 Ye. 267 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.879 And I'm driving up slow, you know, thinking to myself. 268 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:40.080 What is that? And I got up to the Vigny table. 269 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.039 I can almost get out. Yeah, right there, you open 270 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.039 the door. Nerves my stuff. I got it in there 271 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:52.519 and I left, and that little dog was still sitting there. 272 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.679 So I got like, God, why are you doing this 273 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.480 to me? I mean now I got to rescue this 274 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:02.919 other dog. So I get this better judgment. Man, I 275 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:08.799 elected not to h Maybe I should have, maybe I 276 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.960 shouldn't have, But I feel I pushed my luck enough 277 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.759 at night, and if I would have went back there, 278 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.119 who knows what could have happened. 279 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.319 But I got away from that. 280 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:25.559 Yeah, I got away that night and it changed my life, 281 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:27.680 and it changed my life for the better. 282 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:29.079 Yeah. 283 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.960 Here I am I trying to find myself. I was 284 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:36.680 a lost man. I was a broken man, and this 285 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.440 thing walked into my life and he changed all that. 286 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:46.839 Now I'm I'm a very popular man. People love me, 287 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.759 the squatch Man. I got great stories, I got great evidence, 288 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.039 I got great pictures. Everything I do, man, is great. 289 00:17:56.119 --> 00:18:02.680 And the Bigfoot thing out out that they really like me. 290 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:06.839 And I'm at the point, how or you wouldn't leave 291 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.200 some of the things I can do with them? Yeah, 292 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:12.519 I'm not going to jump over the whole twenty years 293 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:16.240 and experience. But uh yeah, that was your first question. 294 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:23.680 What got me into that? And uh yeah, there's my answer, Jeremy. 295 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:30.640 Squash Man. That that what incredible introduction to the world 296 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.440 of a bigfoot. Uh my goodness. And that's that's a 297 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.880 new area for us, but for for me, for listeners 298 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.960 that didn't look it up that that forest area is 299 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:42.680 just west of Hoo's your. 300 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.039 Yeah, and there's been a lot of sightings. Yeah, I 301 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.279 mean there's been a lot of sightings around that area. 302 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.480 After I did that interview, Uh, you wouldn't leave. All 303 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.559 the people got a hold of me from you know, 304 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:59.920 around Ferdinand and around You'll do boys County up that way. Instead, 305 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:04.759 they had encounters in that forest. There's one young lady 306 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.119 I'll never forget. She got a hold of me one 307 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:12.759 Saturday morning and she's almost was panicking, said her and 308 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:17.319 her mother were jogging through there and won't come out 309 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:21.960 on them. And I'm like it a tacky and she's like, no, 310 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.799 we were just running down the trail and it run 311 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:26.759 out in front of us. 312 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:28.400 Stop. 313 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.319 We stopped, and he growled at us and into the 314 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.559 woods walked away from us, and she goes on, I 315 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.880 try to tell a couple of people man, and they 316 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.640 just laughed at me and go there's no big. 317 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:42.640 Foots and part man. 318 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:46.039 And so she goes and I found out about you 319 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:50.200 to a podcast and I told my mom and we 320 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:51.759 got to talk to this guy. 321 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.960 So so that's what I'm in this far. 322 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:58.559 Man. I don't really care about evidence. I'm not in 323 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.200 it to research them. I'm in it to find out 324 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:06.519 everything I get about him, you know. And I think 325 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:10.279 I accomplish a lot of things so far, and I've 326 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.400 learned a lot of things about them. 327 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.559 And I do know. 328 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:21.000 The main thing, you got to go about it the 329 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.720 right way. You know, if you go out there with 330 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:27.440 bad intentions and bad heart, if you're a bad person, 331 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.160 you're not gonna get no action from them. But you know, 332 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.599 take me for an example, I'm a good man, a 333 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:41.799 very good man, a very good heart. I love people, man. 334 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.880 I love the welfare people. I love the welfare animals, pets, 335 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:50.359 but both domestic and wild animals. I just got a 336 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.240 lot of love, man, for all God's creations. Man, And 337 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.960 this is the where it all starts. And I think 338 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.240 I share a lot of that with divorce people. And 339 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.400 I think that night out in Ferdinand, yeah, I like 340 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.200 to call that the awakening. I think they wanted to 341 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.119 see what kind of man I really was before they started, 342 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:19.839 really should I say, getting into my life? And and 343 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.680 ever since that, man, it's been incredible. I mean I 344 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.240 got some I got some stories that would plat out 345 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.640 blow people's minds. And the good thing about a lot 346 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.720 of these stories, I got a lot of witnesses that 347 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.680 have been with me. Yeah, it's just not me sitting 348 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.680 there and telling the stories. Yeah, a lot of people 349 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.160 have seen what I can do. And that's where I 350 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.880 got the name Squatchman. Yeah, a lot of people man 351 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.920 like a man? Are you a squatch? Or are you 352 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.920 a man? Are you a hybrid? I mean, how do 353 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.640 you know so much? And so that's where the man 354 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.200 that's where the name squatch Man developed from. And I 355 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.400 kind of liked it, so I'm like, hey, that's cool. 356 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:06.160 But but but yeah, there's I mean, there's so much 357 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:09.680 information out there all over the internet. You know, they're 358 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.079 this or that. You know, from what I can see, 359 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:15.400 I agree with some of it. I don't agree with 360 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.200 some of it. You know, some of us so far 361 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.039 out there. I don't know where peop will get these 362 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:26.680 things at. But it's a wild and crazy journey that 363 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.799 I have been on and and I will tell you 364 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:38.400 a few more stories there on the on the podcast today, Jeremy. 365 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:44.279 Was there a certain time that made you start referring 366 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:45.839 to them as the forest people? 367 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:50.240 Yes, uh, that would be the second time and my 368 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:55.839 second encounter. I call this one the knobs don't stare down. 369 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:01.400 Work again with my dog Buddy, and we were out 370 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:05.559 of hiking. And this was three years almost see the 371 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:09.920 date of my first encounter, and we're going down the 372 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.440 Knobstone Trail. It's supposed to be one of the one 373 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:19.559 of the ruggiest, hardest trails the walk other than the uh, 374 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:22.240 you know, the Appalachian Trail. A lot of people call 375 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:23.240 it the minnieappollation. 376 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:24.039 I mean it's a. 377 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:29.519 It's a hard trail to go sixty six miles, the 378 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:36.480 whole trail. So sometimes after work I would go out there. Yeah, 379 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.079 and this is around Clark State Wares. This is in 380 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:42.759 my county. Because I figured if I didn't want to 381 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:47.440 go to all the way to Ferdinand all the time, man, yeah, 382 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:49.279 he goes That's where I had my first encounter. 383 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:52.599 I said, well, maybe there are another Fords around here. 384 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.079 So I started going to Clark State Fords around Deams 385 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:03.799 Lake area, up around you know Henryville. You know the 386 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.160 Clark State Forest very well known. It is in the 387 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.559 the enda's oldest and largest forest. So I'm like, well, 388 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:16.240 I'm gonna start looking in here. I mean, if they're here, 389 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:21.440 I'll find them in the here. So yeah, I started 390 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:27.000 hiking around man, started researching that forest, and uh yeah, 391 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:31.000 I still didn't know nothing about them. Yeah, that night 392 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:34.799 I called that thing a monster. I wouldn't share it 393 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.480 was a big foot. I didn't know what it was. Yeah, 394 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:39.240 I know it was very big and it had a 395 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:44.079 big Harry arm on it. And I always liked thinking 396 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:46.559 go back when I was growing up. 397 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.880 You know, I love to show Lost in Space. You know, 398 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:50.599 they had a lot of. 399 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:53.440 Monsters like that on there, you know, bigger Harry monsters, 400 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:56.799 and that's what I kept wanted to think about. Yeah, 401 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:59.079