Speaker 1: If you've had a bigfoot siding it would like to
be a guest, Please go to bigfoote witness dot com
and let me know.
Speaker 2: Hello. My name is Mike Aguilar and I'm Christina Lawhorn
and we are the founders of squatchin fl in central Florida,
actually just outside of Brooksville, Florida, and we have been
actively doing field research. I have been since twenty seventeen.
I had a class a sighting that changed my whole
life in Homo Stass of Florida. Back in twenty seventeen.
I was going fishing and this big cinnamon guy decided
to walk in front of me and changed my own
entire life. And I jumped in the rabbit hole and
started doing research. And I was with a research group
for quite a few years and decided that it was
time to go into my own way. And that's why
we came up with Squatching fl which is really bringing
our children into it. And we've got many years of
going out in the field doing different things in Florida,
with so many different encounters I can't wait to tell
you guys about We've got a lot of them, some
of them hard to believe, but I probably wouldn't believe
it unless it happened to me. But they did, and Christina,
we will to tell them how you got into this. Yep.
Speaker 3: Well, one night we were out and he was just
talking to me. We met at a bar through a
mutual friend and I was recently you know, separated and everything,
so I had no interest in talking to anybody, so
just kind of fluffed them off. Whatever, just talk to
some guy at the bar. And then he finds me
on Facebook and sends me a message begging me to
go out for his birthday. He wants to take me fishing,
do all this and that, and I was just telling
it whatever. And so then one night I was like,
you know what, whatever, why don't I just invite him over,
hang out, watch a movie.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: So we're just get to chatting and hang out watching
a movie, and then uh, it was about time for
him to go, and he's like, you know, I probably
should uh tell you about this other part of my life.
I was like, oh my gosh, looking at him, and
my mind's racing. I just there's so many things that
went through my mind. And uh so then he goes, well,
you know, I look for Bigfoot, and I was like
what you do you do what Bigfoot?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, I can handle that, because you know, I thought like, oh,
you know, Mary, maybe he's married or I was like,
I don't know. There were so many things a serial killer.
Speaker 2: It was like like the best part there was like
she didn't really know one hundred percent when I met,
and like then she had to like go and Facebook
stalked me a little bit and see like and then
she went and saw podcasts and different videos I've been
on and she's like like, holy cow, like you really
look for bigfoot?
Speaker 3: So and you know, I just love being outdoors. I
love nature. I grew up a little bit of a
background with my mom with some Native American stuff, and
we had like a sweat lodge and in our yard
at one time, and UH went to many pow wows
and all sorts of different things that she kind of
drugged me through, I would say, as a teenager. But
now I look back and I thank her very much.
But so anyway, I've always loved the outdoors and animals
and everything else. So when he would ask me to
go out and look for bigfoot and signs and everything else,
for me, it was just you know, getting out of
the house, getting back into nature and just enjoying it.
Speaker 2: It was really nice, like I knew. I knew after
only taking her a few times that I had met
a really good partner. And you know, and then eventually
she has two beautiful children that I look at as
my kids now, and I have two beautiful children who
had Our children were totally different spectrums, though there was
hers were they played softball and stuff like that, but
they weren't in the woods kids. My kids were like
go fishing in the woods type of kids. So it
was really cool to watch them two come together, and
it made for a lot of unique fun experiences. Some
things we had to overcome, but they now it's awesome,
like they learned from each other and it's amazing a
lot of firsts.
Speaker 3: My kids got to catch the first fish, yes down
in the Everglades, and you know, just kind of all
those little fearful things that were put into their head
about watch out for this, o for that, you know,
but now it's like get outdoors, like learn it, experience it,
use that knowledge.
Speaker 2: We started the squatching fl thing. Like I said, I've
been doing the research for a while. I've had awesome
experiences that I get to talk about. But this was
like a new adventure that we're starting, and we started
it because we've been doing videos. I have a YouTube
channel also, same thing. Everything's SQUATCHINGNFL and we're really just
getting it kicked off, but it's really starting to come bigger.
Facebook's the same way. My Facebook page is the biggest
and our group is growing same thing, squatchingn FL, and
we were really we want to grow a community that's
not just Bigfoot though. We want to be different. We
want to be able to have kids come and do things,
go hunting, fishing, that's like our group. We want people
to show, hey, we went fishing this weekend. Look what
we did. We went fishing while we were squatching, which
is a brilliant way to have an accident all encounter
if you've never thought about that. We take kids with
us into the woods and the kids are the bait.
And I mean that in the greatest way. But kids
are loud, kids are making laughing, screaming, hollering. They do
nothing but draw attention. And that's We've had so many
things happen because of that and the good things. You've
never had anything negative happen. One time when we've been
in the woods with our kids. We've gone camping, I
don't know how many times, down to the Everglades, to
David Sheeley's place in the Everglades. We love that. We
go all over the state. So now that we've told
you you know a little bit about us and our family,
hopefully you guys can go on and check it out
and you can see that getting to meet all the
kids as well. We got Kaylin is the oldest, my
oldest son, and he's the one that's gone out with
me the most. And Kylie, my little girl, she's seven,
about to turn eight, and she is next in line.
She's no longer being held back. She's like, nope, Dad,
you're coming out with me. You'll see her on videos now.
She's loving it. She's the cutest little thing. When she
goes out there, she talks to Bigfoot and gives them gifts.
And then there's Kate and Jesse. And Kate is ten
and Jesse is eight, and they're both They are in training,
is how I put it. They're in training. They're coming up.
You're gonna start seeing a lot more of them on
the videos. They do a lot of They love camping
and everything and we're just getting them into it. But
that being said, we've had some really cool things happen
over the last few years, me and Christina by ourselves.
The first real experience we had together was probably down
in the Everglades for Bear Island. We stay to David's
place and we had a kid free weekend and we
went for an adventure down there and went out by
ourselves to Bear Island. And we were walking in Bear
Island and when you're out there, it is an hour
ride straight down a dirt road to the middle of
the Everglades. There's absolutely nothing there but sawgrass and hammocks
and little dry spots. And we parked at the one
little parking area there is. There's a little campground back there,
but nobody was there. And we got out and we
started following a little trail that went back, and that
trail led to another one. Next thing you know, we're
forty five minutes in middle of nowhere walking and this
is really really one of the first times I realized
how much I love this woman and that she's going
to be the one that's going to be with me.
Because we are in the Everglades. Okay, the Everglades isn't
like taking a stroll through a normal trail. You've got
moccasins everywhere and everywhere and alligators. If you see grass
and it looks like grass, there's water under it. Everywhere
there's always water. So we're walking and then we have
snake boots on. But we're walking and it gets almost
knee deep, like really quick, and she's not even backing down.
I'm like this, there's no way she's gonna keep on
going with me. She does. She just keeps on going.
We're looking at all the beautiful orchids and airplants and everything.
And I remember this hawk that just kept going off,
and I'm like, this hawk is giving us away right now,
he's telling where we were at. Just oh, just keeps
on like going off. We walk into this little hammock area.
A hammock is where it's like you'll have water all
around you. And then it goes to like these little
dry areas a little bit and we go walking into
one of these like like cypress hammocks, and Christina's like
youar that, like we're talking about, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We're walking through there, you know, knee deep and uh
so I always just kind of hanging back I let
him walk up front, and I just kind of like,
you know, fall long, look around and see stuff whatever.
So as he's walked and I kept, you know, like
you said, the hawk, it just kept going off and
going off, and uh, it's like it was telling them
that were there.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was just the weirdest thing. So We're walking back there,
and I kept hearing things from like back behind me,
like directly behind me, like to my left, to the side,
to my right, to the side. I could hear like
movement coming in like behind me, like something was walking
through this swampy water. Every time Mike would take a step,
I would hear it. So I would be like, hey, stop,
did you hear that?
Speaker 2: Be Like, no, I couldn't hear nothing, because you know,
when you're walking or you're going through the water, you're
kind of slushing and you hear your own sounds. Like
I couldn't hear it. Whatever it was was doing it
to my movements. And I've noticed that in the past
and other areas, like they seem to dial in on
who the alpha of your group is, and then they
seem to mimic and walk when that one doesn't. So
that maybe I can't be alerted.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I hang back probably what like
what would you say, like one hundred feet? I usually
walk behind you nifty.
Speaker 2: Maybe depends you're brave, but you're not that brave. Come on,
oh stop, You're.
Speaker 3: Always like get up here, get up here, stops and
stop turniling so far behind. If something were to happen,
there's no.
Speaker 2: Way I could save you.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, whatever, like leave me be okay.
So you know, we just keep walking through and I
just kept like it just felt like they kept getting
closer and closer and closer, and he could not hear
it whatsoever. I don't know what it was. There's no saying,
but like I said, it sounded like they were like
moving in forces, like almost in an army, like there
was a lot of them. It was just the strangest thing.
Speaker 2: I was getting all the feelings going off, and I
didn't want to scare her. But I am very sensitive
to energies and different things, like I feel thinks, I
can feel when presences are around me. I'm adhd and
I think with a narrow, divergent mind, like I think
there's something to it, and like you're able to pick
up on things that other people aren't. Well, me and
Christina both are and it's like we can feel it,
and it's really cool having someone that can feel it
with me now. But like I feel that, and like
I could feel it was going off. I just didn't
know she was feeling that, and I didn't want to
scare it. It was really our first real time out
doing stuff like that together.
Speaker 3: But then also while we were out there, we found
that footprint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we found an.
Speaker 5: Impression a barefoot completely barefoot print out in the middle
of the Everglades, which was not something that you would
expect unless there were you around, maybe some Native Americans,
but the Mikasuki Indians were not out there, not that
I know of.
Speaker 2: These were just a bare footprint that there was only one,
which was odd. It was like off the edge of
the trail. It was like it made a misstep and
went down deep and messed up. But it wasn't a
gigantic footprint. It was kind of a longer, more narrow footprint.
It was an odd looking footprint. I made a three
D scan of it, which also that's another thing is
I do a lot of three D scans on Scannerverse
and I'm gonna start making those a lot more available
to be seen. I'm gonna start doing one each week
on squatchin fl on the research group. I'm gonna start
making those where you can see those and you can
look at it and go over them. So that pretty
much wraps up Bear Island. That was like the first
real cool thing we got to experience together. That was
her first real experience like that. I have another area
that when I had talked to you before, Vick, I
talked to you about the tree that got pushed over
and got shaken at me and pushed over when I
was with my dog. And this this area has become
an amazing area over the last few years. And this
last year we had two really cool things happened there.
One was Christine I took in there and like the
I think it was like the first time I took
her in there. That's the seventy five the power line area. Yeah,
and remember that was your first that was your first
real footprint maybe seeing was that one? Yeah, Like that
was the first one where she saw it was like,
holy cow, Yeah, that was a big one like that.
That's a that's a footprint in the middle of a swamp.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: To get to this area, you've got to walk about
a mile through really tall, nasty grass and then through
a big it's it's an old area where they they
they don't mow anymore because it's too wet, so they
can't mow back there. It's where power line is run
through and it's at the end of a creek that
I am affiliated with. Everything that I've done, all my
research that i've everything i've done, all my encounters have
mostly come from this this creek. And this creek goes
for about twenty miles from Pasco County down to Hillsborough
County in Florida. And this is towards the lower end
of that creek. But the creek is the life of it.
And like I said, I had that tree. I've had
some bad a couple of bad experiences back there, but
I realized now they were my fault. But I took
her back there and that was awesome to see that.
I try to make a little gifting spot back there.
And then I kind of like forgot about that spot
for a while and up until about about theirs about
three months ago. If you know RPG Ryan Golembeski RPG
He's someone that has become a really good friend of ours.
Ryan was on the first episode of Expedition Bigfoot and
he was actually replaced by Ronnie LeBlanc because of health
issues that he was going through. Very unfortunate because he
would have been such a great guy on the show.
And well, we've become really really good friends. And he
has four children and they become really good friends with
my kids, our kids, and we took them out there.
He's been wanting to do some filming we're doing. We're
working on a project called the Legend Seekers, Yes, legend
Seekers TV. It's it's a it's a YouTube channel and
Daniel Lee Barnett is the one that started it and
we're working with them. They're over in the UK. It's
a it's a big combined family from across the pond.
Daniel Barnett went through some things that my son went through,
which is SELECTI mutism, and I'll go into that story
another time. But anyway, we I got to take Ryan
back there. The kids. We wanted to do some filming
for the show and I thought this is a great area.
The kids are going to complain a little bit. It's
a little bit of a walk, but it's a really
good area. And we get back there and we go
down by the creek and you got to picture. The
creek is about a mile from where we walk in,
and then each side of it is an area that's
where the power line is running through, and then it's
cypress trees basically, and swamp in between that, so you
can be seen from each side. As we're walking down
the middle of this area. It's it's supposed to be mode,
but it's not really mode anymore because it's too wet.
So we can be seen by everything. We can't hardly
see anything, it's too thick. But we're sitting by the
creek and my son goes, did you see that? And
I'm like, I thought of this is something, And then
Ryan's like, I thought I saw something too, and it
was a palmetto like from on the other side of
the creek. Like the palmetto palm like moved and a
couple of seconds later, I swore I saw something dark,
just a dark figure kind of like go down and
Ryan's like, same thing, I think I got. I swear
I saw something, but whatever, we go on doing our thing,
and we've got six kids with us, walking I'm sorry.
Five kids walking around with us, and we go walking
back in. We cross over, and we go walking back in.
Now we're only about thirty yards coming in the back
way to where I had one of my craziest experiences
and encounters where I found a betting area. And this
betting area was amazing. This is where I learned that
these things are pushing trees over. I thought it was
the wind at first, but I don't know if they're
pushing them over, if they're taking advantage of ones that
have been pushed over. But you know, when the wind
pushes a tree over, it leaves a root ball at
an angle. And all the trees that I find like
this are always the same angle and just enough, and
they're always And we got back there that this were
actually dug out underneath them, and on each side of
these they were supported by like different pieces of wood
like tree that were stripped bare, and they were supported
on each side like to keep it from being able
to fall. And underneath it was dug out. They were beds.
And I actually when my dog got too close to
something and shook the tree pushed it over at me.
Was a little bit of a terrifying experience, but I
learned from it. Like I said, we were only thirty
yards coming in the back entrance to that spot. The
kids and I were with Ryan kind of going off
to the right. My son likes to do his own
thing a little bit, and he kind of looks off
to the left and he's over there farther. He's about
twenty yards away from me, walking and he makes a sound.
Well there was a little like clump of trees, and
I guess he came walking up and we didn't realize
we were being watched. And I mean I knew we were.
We were always being watched in there, one hundred percent.
There's a family group back here and we go. I
hear him make a sound, and I'm like, what's wrong, okay?
And he didn't say nothing. So I go walking over
to him real quick. I get up to him and
he's crying, and I'm like, are you okay? And he's like,
I just saw one, Dad, And I'm like, like, there
was the most real, heartfelt tears coming out. Like it
wasn't sad tears. It was like he was happy tears
because he had seen things before, but this was like
he saw it. He said it was eight foot tall,
four foot wide, and it was there, dark black went
down and he saw him.
Speaker 3: Why don't we bring him in so he can tell
his part of the story.
Speaker 2: Can we do that?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 2: Do all right? So I looked over at k and
because I had heard him, made a funny sound, and
I kind of hurried up to try and get over
to him. And like I said, he was, He's sitting
there crying and what happened?
Speaker 4: Ka. So basically, so the whole group, my dad, RBG
and his kids and Kylie walked a totally different way.
I there was kind of like a tree here, and
I walked around the tree and went the total different way.
And I was sitting there and I saw this thing
just staring at me. In the second I looked over
squatted down super quick, and I could barely get a
good look at it, but I could tell it was tall,
wide and black, and I just couldn't control my emotions
and just started crying.
Speaker 2: It was weird. What do you think it was? Because
it was like it was like, oh my god, like
so cool, like that's real. I really just saw this
giant thing. Yeah, because when you when you told me,
like you were a little more clear on what you saw,
and you were like, I saw him. He was four
foot wide black. I got it on video which he
had you've been like at.
Speaker 4: Least three ft wide.
Speaker 2: He was huge. And this happened, like I said, thirty
yards away from like the area that I had already
had things happen at. And then we're walking and Kylie
was with Sky, which is RPG's kid, and what did
you guys see?
Speaker 4: Oh, we saw like we were like looking on in
the woods and we just saw a brown figure thing.
Speaker 2: I remember when that happened because you got to understand
where we're at. It's basically like being in the middle
of their town and we're new walking in Like we
felt like we thought that we were being watched from everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right after I was just staring off into the
woodard Sky and then me and Sky were like I
saw it. We both saw like a brown figure thing.
Speaker 2: They saw something. It was like between the tree right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like just walking and stuff like you
saw walking away. We saw it. Just we saw something
just like sprinting away. Yeah, And if you think about it,
most of the time as we walk off, but it
wasn't sprinting. It was actually important like going two steps
and then it was gone, Okay. Most of the time,
you so as you start walking, you'll start hearing things
crunch behind you and they keep walking in on you.
And whenever they do that, you like, what if that
was the one I saw and he was following us,
he was super he could have been super interesting. Yeah,
it was interested, like at what y'all were doing. So
and then like it was like brownish blackish, kind of
like brown like black spots and the rest was like brown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well we didn't have a whole lot
more happened that day. I know, we found some other stuff,
but that was Yeah, that's right, that's right. You can
feel free to talk about men. You can talk to
me and tell me because I don't remember everything perfect,
but I do remember that Ryan. We were as we
were leaving the last thing, like we're there's a little
trail that leads us out, and he did like a
final look in and he just stopped and I almost
ran into him because he stopped and I and then
he backed up and he looked over and I'm like,
you saw a dark figure back there, didn't you, And
He's like, I sure did. I just it's almost incredible
how much happens back here in this area. And they're
not shy. They're not shy back here. It's not like
they're coming out and like, hey, look, I'm here. But
I used to go by myself in this area, and
there were a couple of times where I had seen
them on film on the camera. I've got this. I've
got these cameras films from seventy five yards up ahead
of me in the middle of the palmetto palms. You
see these little things peeking their heads up, and they're
not that little, it's just they're far away and you
can see them. I've got other videos that I've actually
posted on all my platforms, and two of them are
very detailed, and they're all from this area where you
can one a time I saw something at least seven
foot tall between a y in the middle of a tree,
just sitting there watching me. And if you really zoom
in on the video, like you can see this thing
has white under its chin, and it's just sitting there
like I caught it in my prefer roal and like
I could turn my phone towards it, but I was
looking the other way, acting like I wasn't looking at it,
watching it, and then like I kind of like glared
at it and I would zoom in a little bit
and I could see I went back and really looked
at it, and it was like, holy cow, it's just
standing there watching me. Well, that day I went a
little farther. I went back and looked at my video.
I caught him again on another spot, another tree, the
same figure. It looked almost like a gorilla standing up
with like almost like a gorilla face, and he had
white under its chin. It was really really cool. It
was awesome actually, But since I got the kids in here,
I can tell you about something that was real. Quickly,
we moved out to an area not that long ago.
We are now in Brooksville, Florida, and we started going
into an area where we had I've had some really
cool things. We met another member of our team named
Mike Noga. He introduced us to this area that he
had a class a sighting at by a cemetery, and
I started looking at it there and he showed me
another area he had and I'm like, well, what's in
the middle, And I realized what was in the middle
was an old mining area where they had eighteen hundreds.
They mined through here, and there's cave systems like all
over in there, which you don't ever think about Florida
having caves. This area has like caves back there all
over the place. And some of these areas you're walking
and it's like for Florida to go up a hill
and then come down sixty foot eighty one hundred foot
is huge for Florida. And these go into like little
caverns and like there's caves in them. Well a couple
of them are. Actually the FWC has fenced off. For
whatever reason, they're fenced off. They say it's for to
keep people safe. You can't drive back here. You have
to hike. It's like a four mile hike to get
back to where the caves are. So now I don't
there's not many people back there, but the fences are,
but they're all fenced off. Well, one of the coolest
things that ever happened happened with me and Christina. I'm
gonna get you back in here with me real quick.
We had a crazy three day Class A two Class
A sightings in three days in this area and the
first one was we decided last minute, me Christina on
a Friday night, were like it was just us. We
didn't have my kids. My kids were at their moms,
and we're like, let's just go for a jeep ride.
It was like seven o'clock. It was like getting dark,
like around eight or or seven thirty ish. I think
it was about timy. It wasn't too long. It was
only a couple months ago. And so we get out
there and it's just about it had gotten dark, and
there's an area you're really not supposed to go into,
but I go into it because I follow the four
wheeler trails. My jeeps not too wide, I can get
in there, so I, you know, kick in a four
wheel draw. I have to go up the hill and
follow the four wheel drive trail. And as you start
coming in, there's a hill and the hills only maybe
one hundred yards from where I come in at and
there's like a white limestone road is all it is
that runs through the middle of this place, and then
the hills are east side is where they mined through.
And it's super dense everywhere else back there other than
that one road that runs through. So why I start
going down the road, I come up over the hill,
my headlights are on and as you come up and
go down the hill, my headlights caught this thing. And
I looked at Christina and I heard her daughter go,
oh my god, and Christina, what was it? What was it?
Speaker 3: We saw two giant like almost like a road reflector,
you know how they like give that refive light. There
were two big ones and they were just like next
to this big tree.
Speaker 2: It ha'd be like a twenty foot tree. Easy it was, and.
Speaker 3: It was about half like the eyes were about halfway
up that tree.
Speaker 4: So I'm just stemm.
Speaker 3: I don't have the best vision of distance wise, but
there was no missing those eyes. And I'm just sitting
there staring, and I just do this long blink like Okay,
I'm gonna blink my eyes and I'm opening them back
up and there's not gonna be anything there. But they
were still there. They were still there, and I'm just
like and then Mike and my daughter are freaking out,
and I'm just like in silence.
Speaker 2: Well, Christina like she saw it, but she didn't catch
the first part as good like may I make. She
may have been looking at her phone, maybe looking out
the window. Me and Me and Kate were staring directly
ahead of us as we pulled over that hill, and
I saw these giant yellow screen more yellow than green,
but yellows green reflector road reflector sized eyeballs. But when
I first saw it, it was only about five foot
off the ground. And I see it. I see, I
see it as like I mean probably, like I said,
probably five foot off the ground. And I stopped the jeep.
And as I stopped the jeep, I'm staring at the
at the eyes and it looks away, Oh my god,
and Kate goes, oh my god. It turns and looks
back at us, and then it stands up three foot taller.
I mean it literally stood up three foot taller than
what it was now It's at least eight foot tall
off the ground with the eyeball shining at us. And
it then stopped, put his head down like the eye
like the like the light was hurting his eyes. And
then he put his head and he took three big
steps and was gone into the forest and it disappeared. Kate,
and I'm like, oh my god, Kate, oh my god,
Christina did see that? And Kate goes, yeah, did you
see the deer? And at the time, I'm like, the
deer We have a video that we did this too, because,
like I try to, we weren't filming it right at
that time, which was, oh, it was so frustrating. We
weren't filming. But I filmed our reactions and I put
that up too, because it's like it's awesome, like just
seeing how excited we all were. But Kate's like, did
you see the deer? And I'm like, no, I didn't
see the deer. I didn't pay attention. She goes, yeah,
I saw two green, two sets of eyes that were
real loaded to ground out in front of where it was.
Where in front of that thing was well, we went back,
me and Christina went back the next day. There was
a big fern tree there that was like sixteen eight
maybe twenty foot tall, and I realize now that what
it was doing was hunched over behind that tree. We
think he was hunting the deer. He was waiting for
the deer to come walk in on them. And we
must have interfered with that because it really gave me a.
Speaker 3: Perspective because where we come in, you know, there aren't
normally headlights out there, so he was probably looking out
over the i'll call it pasture.
Speaker 2: It's non pasture. I don't know what he would call it, but.
Speaker 3: The open area there and here we come up over
the hill that nobody goes, so I feel like we
really you know, he was hunting those deer, and he
got distracted by the headlights that don't normally come through.
You know, people probably park their pull up there at night,
but nobody actually comes.
Speaker 2: Through with the headlights.
Speaker 3: So it was like he looked over like, oh my gosh,
they're like back here, they're coming closer. And then it's
like we caught him off guard and he ran off.
So the next day we wanted to go back and
see if there were any prints or anything like that
and kind of measure the tree and kind of get
like a bigger perspective of where he was and if
we could find any prints.
Speaker 2: We wanted to get it all as while it was
fresh on our mind, get it on film and put
it out there, so I did. We did a little
video about that too, showing me exactly exactly where it
happened and how tall it was on the tree and
going play by play with it. And we we actually
found some bones back behind in a trail. We found
a deer skull and some other things back behind where
it was actually standing at and a trail that went
right into the woods and back over the hill. And
so that now now I'm like, I can't stop thinking
about this place. And so we've been there two days
in a row, and then I think we went I
think we took a day off. That was Sunday, Monday.
I picked my children up and they had a half day.
So I told them what happened, and they're super jealous.
So they're super jealous that me, Kate and Jesse and
Christina see the ice time. They're like, oh my god.
So I said, all right, well listen, guys, why don't
we since the half day, I'll just go straight over here,
We'll go check out the hill. And they're like, cool,
let's go do it. So we go walking in. We
were in there what five.
Speaker 4: Minutes, yeah, five minutes then and we see like a
thousand footprints.
Speaker 2: All over us, and we were like, we're.
Speaker 4: Definitely gonna print these things out with the cast and well.
Speaker 2: Not quite a thousand, but there was definitely a trackway
that we found back there. I made. I decided to
take this little area. There's some cedar trees back there
which are another one. You don't see a lot in Florida,
but I found out they grow close to the cave systems,
and the hardwood grows next to the hard ground areas
and the deep water areas. So there's this little area
and it's like I said, back behind where he was
at and there's at least four really good tracks, but
they go. There was impressions everywhere, but there weren't huge.
So I give a I give a Christina call and
I'm like, hey, we're over here. We've got footprints. Can
you come over and bring some casting material because I
didn't have my my equipment with me because I was
coming from picking the kids up. So she's like sure,
So she comes over. The kids helped me. We did
some cool videos, right, we made some cool videos. Yeah,
we made a really nice casting. I got some good
pictures of that. I have an awesome Uh the cast
is really cool. It's it's one of the few that
in Florida that I've actually gotten with really really good toast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like kind of little. It was not
like one of they would It.
Speaker 2: Was kind of like little where then it was like little.
In fact, yea.
Speaker 4: Wide. Their prints are way different than it was like
almost like a juvenile kind of was like walking around
there was That's.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I would call it. I think it was
a juvenile which goes directly in to our next door
next part of our story, which was unbelievable but amazing
at the same time. So Christina gets there and we
make the cast. We want to let them dry for
you know, I like to let them dry at least
an hour so I can really dig out from underneath them.
And I'm like, well, we got about an hour before
it gets dark. Let's go for a hike back in
here and go check out some areas. That's what we did.
So we go walking in and there's a there's some
horse trails that go back through the hills, and on
the way back, I made kind of a wrong turn
and wanted to go check out another spot and got
a little bit turned around. I won't say lost, because
that's just I can't say that. I just was turned
around a little bit. I didn't want to tell them,
of course, so I was lost, and I looked at
my GPS and I'm like, all right, the fastest way
to get back to where that cast is is to
go right through here an area that had no trail,
no nothing, just cut right through the middle of it.
So I've never been been back there. So we go
cutting through the middle of it. I said, we're like
basically hacking our way through, trying to get back before dark.
And we came into this little area there was like
a valley that went down like as you walk in.
The hill was like at least fifty to sixty foot tall,
maybe one hundred foot tall, I don't know, on each
side of us, and it was like a valley. We
were kind of a little valley deal we were walking
into and I look up ahead of me and I
thought I was singing bear At first, I stopped. What
did I do?
Speaker 4: Kaylen, I only say this, I swear, it's just the
way he stopped and looked like he got caught in
a spider man. I'm like, oh, oh see, and he stopped.
He's like I'm like what. I'm like. He's like, no word,
just points like look. I'm like, what is it ratting?
Like is that a rabbit? Because I'm too short at
this point and the grass is like probably up to
my height. And we were in the grass. There's like
a little tiny hill going up and the grass was
just at the height.
Speaker 2: It was a very odd angle, yeah, because.
Speaker 4: The hills back there are weird at the elevation every
So basically.
Speaker 2: What Kaylen hadn't seen yet. Kaylen didn't see the first part.
He saw the second part and the third part. The
first part. This thing was not much taller than I was,
jet black with the most beautiful, well groomed looking hair
I've ever seen in my life. It was only thirty
yards ahead of us, and it was on the right
side of the trail, and it was standing up and
it looked to me like a more lean gorilla, chiseled
the gorilla shape like, that's the strame of what it
was like. It's had a big upper body, and but
it wasn't super tall. And it took off on two legs.
It took two steps, and on the third step this
thing went to all fours and it was so fluid
and it was so I had never seen anything move
the way this thing moved. Bears walk funny, they're awkward
on two feet. This thing took two steps like a man,
and on the third step went to all four and
it was the fastest moving thing I've ever seen in
my life, and it plowed into the bushes to our left,
and right about that time, that's right when Kaylen was like,
it's in a rabbit and I pick him up and
he sees it. He's like, oh, I see it.
Speaker 4: I'm like at this point, I already know what it is.
I'm like, yep, that's definitely one right. It's what we
always been trying to look for, obviously.
Speaker 2: So then it's there. It's right in front of the
stin it's running off.
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, look there he is. And then I'm
like that that does look bear. And what I saw
I saw. I was trying to get every detail I could.
It was really cool. Whenever he I don't know my
dad saw it because he was at a different angle,
but I was at another angle and I don't know
if he saw it. But whenever it was just about gone.
It went back to two legs and I saw it
move a stick, and then it took a step and
it moved his shoulders and he was gone. The only
thing I saw was him move a stick and I
saw his wide shoulder and he was gone.
Speaker 2: I saw him go back from four legs to two four.
I don't know. I didn't pay attention to him, maybe
moving a stick, but I think what he did I
did see was him go to two legs to go
up the hill that's over there. And he went from
four back to two legs going up the hill and
was gone. And I turned around and I'm like, Christina, Kylie,
did you Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I list in the background crying and I'm like, I
wanted to see it.
Speaker 2: Kylie's crying, like she's hysterically crying, and I'm like, maybe
it's okay, it's not going to hurt us, and she goes,
it's it's in the video. She goes, no, I just
wanted to see them. I'm like, oh, I didn't know.
She was crying because she wanted to see them. And
Christina's like, I didn't see anything. I'm like what, Yeah,
we were.
Speaker 3: We were trailing behind the ways and Kylie was talking
about this and we had sticks and leaves and she
had all the little all the little things we had
gathered on our walk and we were just you know,
chit chatting and whatnot. And then they're all they like
stop and freeze and asking us if we saw anything.
Speaker 2: We're just like no.
Speaker 3: So then I whip out my phone and I start
recording so that they can you know, it's freshen their
minds and everything else.
Speaker 2: So we would have it, but we didn't.
Speaker 3: We unfortunately didn't get to see anything, but hey, we
were still there.
Speaker 2: Still, it was an amazing family moment because you know,
first you have Friday night and like for the first
time I got to look at Christina and say, I'm
not crazy, and you know this one hundred percent now,
like not that hype of crazy. And then and then
less than one hundred yards or two hundred yards from
where that happened, we see this one. And what's even
more really, what's really cool is the footprint we found,
to me, would have matched that that juvenile perfect, which
is what I think it was. I think it was like,
if I had to guess, I would say it was
a teenager. It was a teenage, a junior squatch. And
the footprint was almost eleven inches long, but it was
like almost six inches wide, like five and a half
inches wide and at the across the toepad and I
think three and a half or almost four at the heel.
It was just a short wide foot perfect. But that
that figure perfect. I'm I'm still what ketch blows me away.
Is the color of that thing's hair like perfect? It
was perfect because I had another sighting in the green
Swamp a few years ago at night where I turned
a headlamp on and this thing was there and he
was nowhere near like this one. But that was in
the middle of the green swamp. This area is not
a swamp. It's hills and caves. It's a totally different environment.
It's not swampy. And it looked like he had blow
dried and maintained his hair on a regular basis. It was.
It was incredible.
Speaker 3: Well, and you also got to figure the age, you know, Yeah,
the age of a juvenile.
Speaker 2: Maybe how long it's been around.
Speaker 3: That's less time it's gone without brushing its hair.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe the older one. Maybe the older ones just
it's probably because they ledge longer and right, they've been
around longer, and they through more crack than we do.
Speaker 2: Yes, because if we got a minute, I would like
to let you. Kylie wants to tell you guys a
little story that she had and it was from We're
going to kind of go away a different, little different direction.
We're going to go over to another night. That was
pretty much the end of that. That was an amazing
moment that we have with our family. But a few
months before that, we were doing a big camp out,
is what it was. We were doing a camp out
with the group that we used to do a lot
of stuff with and we were back there and decided
to take the kids. Well, what happened is I would
normally me and Christina would take kids with us and
we would take them to do kids stuff at night,
do scary camp hikes and different things. We love doing
it with the kids. And we had about probably fifteen
kids with us, and what happened, Kylie.
Speaker 4: Sir on the tragis rocking the whole entire group. We
all just showed whoa, just a big dark and it
was really deep, and everybody was like whoa. And then
I was just crying. And then and I was like
I wanted to go back to the camp road, and
then we started just while that, everyone just started going
walking back, and then we came to the campground and
just had a fire and stuff, and then we went
to bed. And then.
Speaker 2: Your attention to detail, honey, is crazy, But thank you
so much for sharing that.
Speaker 4: You got scared my house.
Speaker 2: I can give a little more detail.
Speaker 4: It was like a mile away.
Speaker 2: It was less way less. It was one of the louder,
longer vocals I'd heard, and it was it wasn't a
high pitching one. It wasn't like the Who. It was.
Speaker 4: A bear.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like cash And everybody's like oh,
and it was so loud and so creepy in the
middle of this area, and Kylie just lost it.
Speaker 2: She started crying. She's like, I want to go back,
and it was It was another cute moment. Kylie has
gotten much tougher since then, and she she doesn't get
scared too often now. She knows that they're not here
to hurt you. Right, what do you do when you're
in the woods? You talk to him? What do you
tell them?
Speaker 4: I love them? I give them presents?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what kind of presents do you give them?
Speaker 2: Hey? Do you want to tell them what happened with
the new area? Were remember when we the area that
we saw the juvenile and we made it a gifting
area and you took the feather?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so were we got this new area and we
were walking back to the gifting area where the trees were,
and we came back. I left.
Speaker 2: Tell him what you left.
Speaker 4: We left this fish. It was on a stick and
it was where like you can fall off easily, and
the rain was pouring and stuff. And then this leave,
I put.
Speaker 2: It the feather, the green feather.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had green feather. It was kind of like
a bird feather. And I got it off like a headband.
There's like much more feathers on it. Then I got
it off the headband and I wanted to bring it there,
and I put it on this stick, this long stick,
and I put it all the way.
Speaker 2: Back and then.
Speaker 4: Where I can like spin kind of, I was like
spinning it so they can play with that. And then
next time we came back, the feather was yeah, and
the fish and it was like just moved out all
this perfect not even curved or nothing. How it was.
And then the fish was on top of it, and
the feather was laying on the bottom and there was
no way that the fish can get like on.
Speaker 7: The So this this little this little fish that she
put was like a little poppet type fish and a
little toy and it was up in the tree about
seven foot in the air, and it was wedged in
the tree where it couldn't move. The green feather was
basically tied to make it like a circle, and she
made it with like a toy where it would spin
around the little twig it was on. When we came
back to check on it the next time, the green
feather was gone, and I'm like, where's the green feather?
Speaker 4: And then I looked on the ground and they're like, Dad,
look on the floor.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, we saw that fish.
Speaker 4: And then you'll like, where's the feather.
Speaker 2: Right, We're like, where's the feather.
Speaker 4: I lift up the fish and I saw the feather
flag smooth under the ground.
Speaker 2: She picks up the fish and the feather is under it.
That fish was seven foot in the air and now
it's on the ground with the feather underneath it, in
the same exact location that we had seen the juvenile.
Speaker 4: It was almost like they are like like playing it.
Took the comb and like you know how you brush
your hair. It's really smooth. It's almost like they're doing
that to the feather, but they're like treating it like
leaves to like brush his hair. It was surprisingly smooth.
Speaker 2: It was. It was a very unique moment in this
exact same area, exact same tree. Like I said, we
started trying to turn it into like a little gift
area to see if we get any your actions. We
also had like we've had tree or rocks and trees.
We've had rocks get moved, We've had we've had so
many weird things happened already back in this spot, and
we're just beginning with it, Like I mean, we're really
just beginning. Me and Christina went back to this spot
not long ago and found an area where it looked
like the palmeto palms that were forty foot tall.
Speaker 8: Like something been climbing on constantly, and all the palm
frond ends that when palmetto gets old, Palmeno palm gets old,
like all they was stripped clean and all the more
on the ground and just right Christian, it was like
it was like something went back there.
Speaker 2: Playing, Yeah, very strange.
Speaker 4: Can I tell them I another part of the story,
go for it. I remember we had this other place
and we were all with another group and just apart,
and there was this thing and Bob was just like
Bob and Darren and stuff. They were all like looking
in the puddles and stuff, and then like in the
tall grass and then we were just walking on the
trail where they were just right and behind and this
just walking.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 4: I remember we were walking and we stopped for a second.
I was like, we heard this big we heard this
hour bruh, like just tweaking, and I was like, what
like the big fitz walking in the birder. I will
like landed on his shoulder and like started chirping and
got scared or something. And then I remember whenever you
and Marie were like, that's a good thing. I do
have a story to tell him and Jennings that didn't work.
Speaker 2: The bridge something one more thing he wants to tell.
Speaker 4: So not quite a year ago, we went to Jennings.
It wasn't too long ago, right, maybe ago, I don't know. No,
not a year ago, it wasn't too long ago. So
we went to Jennings State Forest and my dad is
getting things out of Christina's helping them. They're all getting
sent ready and we kind of got there around like
the sky is like a dark blue, like it's it's
still dark.
Speaker 2: And was one second this area so that they know
this area that we went to, Jennings State Forest has
a campground. This campground has had a lot of activity
at it. The campground itself. We've had stuff our own self.
Two years ago, we had stuff happened at this campground.
So that's what Kaylin's telling you about. He's gonna tell
you about that campground. Right when we first got there.
I'm just trying to give them an idea what they got,
what we got going on there, you go.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, we get there, we're uploading everything, and at
this time, the word was really dark, and I hear
almost sound like a pine code. For some reason, that's
the that's the only thing that can pop in my mind.
It sounded like something to throw something at it and
or through something like behind me. And then anything that
I could think of was pine cone.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: So then I look over, I look back whatever, and
then I hear a crack and I look over and
I see a tree limb about I don't know, maybe
six inches thick. I see it come down from about
eight foot eight foot tall and it just comes crashing down,
and I swear I saw this thing. It was super short.
I don't know it could have been. It could have
been taller than I was looking or that I saw,
but it was at least five foot tall, and I
think I saw it run off, but I saw it,
and it was almost like it just vanished.
Speaker 2: We walked back to go look what it was, because
I heard it and saw the branch too. When we
were right there sitting our tent up, and I'm like,
what the heck was that. There's not a breath of
wind blowing. Yeah, it's not like any now wind just
before dark, nothing blowing. And we walked back there and
there's this limb that's about ten foot long and it
came from thirty foot in the air, and I'm like,
how did that just magically break off out of nowhere?
This thing was green, it was no rot to it,
The tree was fine. It just broke off and came
falling down. And Cam was like, I swear I saw something.
Dad Like, it's so dark but I can barely see,
but I swear I saw like a dark figure take off.
I can't see sure, right, but it's still really really ironic.
Just to have that happen like that, it was really odd.
Which We've had some really good things happen in that
forest too. At Jennings State Forest. We found trackways out there.
We've had things happen in the middle of the night
where we heard things walking around the tent. We've had
some really really cool things out there too. When we
say we're a family research team, we're literally a family
research team. Like this is our fun, this is our hobby.
We love going out together in a safe way. I
am a very protective father. I will throw myself in
front of anything to stop my kids from getting hurt.
So I don't want people thinking that we're putting our
kids in danger. There's a lot of dangerous things in Florida.
But I'm a you know, fifth gener or fourth generation Floridian.
You're the fifth you guys are the fifth and I
grew up here. Alligator, snakes, everything you name it. I
grew up with it. My kids have learned how to
deal with it too. They know what to be around,
what not to be around. They know what animals, what plants,
everything that will hurt you, and they're very aware. These
kids are assets to me when I go in the
woods because they're lower to the ground. You watch some
of our videos and you'll see them. They're not like
normal little kids, man. I mean they are out and
there on it. They're finding footprints. They're extremely curious and observant,
it's awesome. I love them so much for it. It
makes it really cool. But that means said, we've turned
it just from just the family into a research team
now and we're expanding that to where we're going to
be doing not only stuff with just Christina and the kids,
but there's gonna be times where we do our adult
stuff and we have a more serious side of it too.
I mean, it's always serious, but it's fun, but we're
gonna have the serious side of it too. We have me, Christina,
our four children. And then next is Ryan rpg Golmbski.
He's been on the History Channel, he's been on the
Discovery Channel, He's been all over, but he's our media guys.
He's amazing and he's a great field researcher as well.
And then we have Frank Middleton who is a bfro
O investigator. He's from Kentucky, but he's been living in
Florida for a very long time. He all he does
is go around checking on bigfoot sightings that reports that
he hears, and a lot of them from this area
we're at now. But anyway, he is ex military X
sniper Like the guy is just he's he lives in
the woods. He loves it. He's out in the ountain
camping over one hundred days a year. And then after him,
we have a very unique person that's part of our
group is Robert Brooks. Robert Brooks is a cave locating
specialist for the state of Florida. We call him the Caveman.
He works for the county for the water department of
the county. He goes out and he sprays, make sure
all the waters levels are right. Everything with that part
of that. He is a licensed cave diver too for
the State of Florida. When people go into these cave
systems at night, I mean go into cave systems to
go diving, they're the one they send him in to
go find the bodies when they can't find them. He
locates caves. That's how he found me is he had
had an encounter while locating a cave. He's located over
three hundred caves in the two counties we live in alone,
so it's very unique to have in the areas he's
showing us. And then we have Michael Noga. Michael Noga
is a little bit new to it. He's a guy
who had an encounter and reached out to me and
we became friends. And he is fearless and is really
diving into the research part of it, and he's he's
loving it. He goes out and he'll go camping by himself.
He's had really cool different encounters on his own and
with us, we've had some cool stuff happened together. Then
we have someone we just introduced today which is Phyllis.
And Phillis is a psychic medium and she brings a
whole different line, different atmosphere to our group. She's amazing.
She feels energies and powers and all kinds of cool things.
She's really cool and unique. We go on that out
with her and she'll tell you I feel it here,
I feel it there, and she's just a unique person.
She's an amazing person. But we're building this group and
this family of people. It's all different types of things
and we all bring our own little thing to the table,
and we're really hoping to grow this and do more videos,
more and start sharing everything with people. We're trying to
really push it and turn it into something that people
are going to know forever. Like hey, when you think
about Florida and Bigfoot, you think about squatching that fl
and that's why we're doing it.
Speaker 1: Mike and Christine. I can't thank you enough for coming
on and sharing those experiences, and the kids coming on
too to share their experiences as well. That really did
add a lot to it. It really did. But having
said that, I've got a lot of questions I wanted
to ask you, but there's no time to do that tonight.
Would you be okay for coming back next week to
do a part two?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, Well that's what we'll do then before we
get out of here tonight, though, do you research sightings
that people have in Florida or do you just focus
on your own research? Because if you do investigate reports
that others have had with sasquatch and they submit, what
would be the best way for them to contact you
and let you know about their sightings.
Speaker 2: We have done quite a few. Actually, Like I said,
one of the members on my team is because of that.
He reached out to me through Facebook Messenger. I mean,
that's one of the easiest ways. If you're actually I
believe my phone number is on my Facebook page. You
can text me, you can message me. My email is
squatching fl at Gmail dot com and everything is the
same squatching just like I said, Squatch I n FL
and everything's the same. So maybe we weren't made it easy,
but honestly, probably the easiest way to contact me is
if you're on our Facebook page or Facebook group and
just shoot me a message a messenger, Hey, I live
in this county. I have had some stuff happen and
we'll be happy to come up there and check it out.
We love doing that stuff I get to meet. I mean,
I've met a lot of really cool people that have
had encounters and that's one of my favorite things to
do at the conference is you know, like we had
the conference coming up this year and our own Christina
is going to be on the skun Cap round table,
which is very exciting. So if you get to come
to the conference, we're going to be there. The Tampa
conference is in June thirteenth in Okala at the Equestrian Center,
and we're going to be there. We're going to have
a booth set up, we're going to have the whole family,
all of our routine there. We're going to have some merchandise.
We've got a really cool logo that we came up
with that we love. People are loving it. We're putting
together our first order of some merchandise that we're going
to have there to sell, and all the money goes
to helping us go out take these kids out and
do research, and that would be the easiest way. If
you want to come meet us and you're in Florida,
come to the conference. You will be blown away at
what happens. We're going to be on stage telling our
encounters during one portion of it, and Christina's going to
be up there doing these skuncap round table with our
other team member, Frank Middleton, and RPG is going to
be the one that's asking the questions. So it's a
pretty pretty awesome thing we've got going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure sounds like it. You guys are doing impressive things.
Who knows what the future holds for you. It's really
hard to say, but yeah, it definitely looks up. And
for anyone listening who would like to contact Mike and Christina,
what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put their
contact infill in the description for tonight's show. It'll make
it that much easier for you to contact them. So
if you need to contact them, that's where you can
find that info. But having said that, guys, I can't
thank you enough again so much for coming on to
share these experiences, and thanks too for your interest in
coming back for the Q and A next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, man, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 2: Do you guys have fun?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Kay ka huh, it's been fun listening to.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Thanks against much for your time everyone, and.
Speaker 2: Have good night.
Speaker 1: That's it for another episode of Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio with
Vic Kundiff.
Speaker 2: If you've had a sasquatch encounter and would like to
be a guest on the show, please go to Bigfoot
eyewitness dot com and submit a report. We'd love to
hear from you. Thanks for listening, Have a great night.