Bigfoot Society - A Coal Miner Saw Something 8 Feet Tall Near McLennan, Alberta

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

Bigfoot sightings stretch across North America in this episode of Bigfoot Society, with firsthand witnesses sharing encounters from Alberta, British Columbia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and beyond.A coal miner describes driving near McLennan, Alberta, when an enormous dark figure appeared beside the railroad tracks. He watched it take four full steps, estimated it at 7½ to 8 feet tall, and backed his car up for another look. What happened in the woods afterward—and the reaction of a nearby dog—has stayed with him ever since.In British Columbia, we hear about generations of Indigenous Bukwus stories from the Kitimat and Kemano region, along with a chilling scream heard from the shoreline during a boating trip.A Kentucky investigator shares a nighttime thermal encounter with a massive upright figure near Fords Ferry Road. Another Kentucky witness remembers following enormous humanlike footprints through fresh snow outside Elizabethtown until blood appeared beside the tracks and something began violently shaking the vegetation ahead of him.We also hear remarkable historical accounts from Connecticut firefighters, a nighttime encounter from western Pennsylvania, and stories passed down from the remote Yukon community of Beaver Creek.These are firsthand experiences, family accounts, and local traditions from people willing to put their stories on record.Listen through to the end. Episode 1186 covers a remarkable amount of territory, and several of these locations deserve a much closer look.If you've had a Bigfoot or Sasquatch encounter, contact Bigfoot Society and share your story.📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the Caring Bridge link in the show notes.

Thank you. Hi there. How are you? Good. Are you? Hey, doing good. Thanks for coming up. Feel free to share, man.

So it's been quite a few years. I don't remember exactly what year it was. I've had too many concussions since then. So my memory is not the best, but I was out on a boat. We live in the water. So my community is only about just under 1,000 people. And part of my territory is in the, in the Camano area. It's a different area than this spot.

There was a reserve there. Anyway, it's one of our most spiritual spots, and there's many Bigfoot stories about it. But I was out with my dad one year, and I think it was my nephew, Jordan. We went ahead on my little 16-foot boat, and my dad was coming behind on the big 52-foot boat, so he was much slower.

So we went ahead to get some crabs and the the bay that we went into was close to where all the stories took place from our history in dealing with a because

is Bigfoot in our language. And so I don't know You know, I'm a hunter. I've been in the bush ever since I was eight. I started fishing with my dad

when I was eight years old in 1977. And I've seen and heard a lot of things but the scream that came out of those woods kind of sounded like an elk

and a bear growl. At the same time. The scream that it gave out, we didn't even say a word. My nephew and I, we just looked at each other, pulled up the crab pots and left. Wow. Oh, my goodness. This is north of Seattle, right? Yeah, way up north and kid them at BC.

Oh, this is up in BC. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. Because you said Camano and I was like, well, maybe this is down by Whidbey Island, but no, you're saying this is further north. Kimano is owned by, what is it called Rio Tinto Alcan? So in Camano, there is a camp about 15 kilometers up the river. And they drilled a hole through the mountain, like all the way over to Houston way. They drilled a hole right through the mountain to start a hydroelectric, right?

And this is around the same area where all the stories take place. Do you think that could be connected in some way? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, our people used to live out there, but in the early 1900s, the, what was it, influenza or smallpox? Yep.

Wiped out our second community that was about 5,000 strong, down to the last living, Hinaxila person just died a few years ago. Wow. So that part of our history is totally wiped out. Oh, I can't imagine that. That's awful. And on that same time, the early 1900s, my great-grandmother was one of three child-bearing women left in our community.

My goodness. How has, so I would assume that growing up, did you hear Bigfoot referenced in certain ways? And was that part of your culture? Yeah. It's a big part of our culture because a lot of the stories that we've heard and have been told all our lives, you know, I'm 57 years old and I started hearing those stories in the early 1970s. From my great-grandmother, my great-grandfather was dead by then, but my great-grandmother lived until she was about 103. And I heard all sorts of stories from her growing up because I spent a lot of time with her,

you know? I got ghost stories that'll just chill your socks off. Absolutely. But the big foot, but us in our language, is a big part because some of the stories, one of the stories is one of our old timers way back in the day, like in the 40s or something like that, 50s, 60s maybe, went out hunting out there. and thought he saw a nice black bear and, you know, we eat black bear, we smoke them, and thought he saw a big black bear, and he shot it, and the story is that it led out the most blood-curdling scream you've ever heard, and then a whole bunch of them came out of, everywhere they couldn't tell where they were coming from but there was a whole family of these

because and they started chasing this man because he shot their dead gotcha wow oh that is that is absolutely wild um what do you think the most important thing you've learned about them over the years would be if you had to pick one thing oh respect respect yeah because we were taught never to, you know, to believe in these stories first of all, and I believe, because of the things I've seen in my life and experienced, you know, and I've had witnesses actually

see what I've seen because, you know, I believe totally in, in the culture of, big feet and stuff like that but uh dorry what was your question um yeah how far do you think your your cultures um stories regarding a bigfoot or buck was go back oh geez well over a hundred years Wow. It's absolutely fascinating. Our people have been here. You know, I grew up here and how our village came to be was a guy from down south. A native from down south was shunned from his family and his village.

And there was a party trying to kill him. So he came up the kit of my arm, which is right outside my window. The high tide mark is 60 feet away from my house when you look out the window. So, you know, I get scatterbrained. What was I saying? I was just curious about how far back the, the, the stories go. It's extremely interesting, but I appreciate you coming up and, you know, sharing stories that really, you know, you might be one of the last people to, to be able to

share if you think about it. It's very special to have you up here. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to check in with a few other people, but I hope that you are able to hang out with us in the room. Hey, Stephen, how are you? Hey, how you doing, ma'am? Hey, all right. So I was a, so I'm a parental investigator, right? I've been to it now for about six years. So we decided we wanted to go, me and my team, go to a place called Fort's Ferry Road. It's got like a little legend. It's actually in Marion, Kentucky.

And the legend behind it was, you know, old man forward, he would be roaming with these people. He would take them to this road and just pretty much decapitate him and throw them in this little hole close to Illinois. Well, that night we get over there, and to make a long story short, we're investigating and stuff, and we hear something. You know, we hear like these crackling noises, and we're like, oh, oh, dear, you know, I have a thermal, I'm not going to say the G word, but I have a thermal pew. You know what that is, right? Right, right, right, right. So I had that, and I look over there, I don't see nothing. And then we hear this bang, and I'm like, what in the world could that be?

and we hear another crack of the sticks. And I put it up again, and there it is. And there I see this in, you know, in thermal vision. I see this thing. It's standing up on its feet. It's, you know, it's walking, but it looks like it's walking in place, man. And it's, I mean, we try to, you know, reinvent the caption. I stood over there, but we couldn't get the exact dimensions.

but I see this thing walking in place. And as it's walking at place, it's moving its hands like a human. But the problem is, man, is that it's way too thick, way too thick to be an actual person, right? And I'm like, why is this thing walking in place? And then we hear a,

and I'm like, what was that? You know, I'm like, I'm getting nervous. You know, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's not all human. And as it's walking in place, man, it finally starts walking. But it walks, it walks like towards us. And then like I kind of, I'm kind of like, hey, let's get to the car, you know?

And I'm a hunter, right? Like, it's stuff don't start on me. Like it doesn't store me at all. I don't have like this fear of animals. But it's like I get this like, like this presence of like, whoa, what? Something's coming at us, guys. So we'll get to the car and I'm holding the thermal pew on the whole time. And finally, once it gets now, it's not getting enough to where I can see.

But it's, it's dark. You know, that's why I had to have a thermal pew in the first place. It's not getting enough to where I. I can see anything, but as it's walking towards us, it just makes a right. And it starts walking off, and it goes all the way into the distance until I, I don't sit no more on my thermal pew. Now, I wanted to go over there, and I wanted to visualize what I saw. The team, though, like, I only had two, you know, two women with me.

They're like, hey, I don't really feel comfortable with this. I'm like, hey, let me check it out. Let me let you get in the car. They're like, well, if you get in the car, we're leaving. So we got in the car and we left. I went back the next day it was so dark that I couldn't judge exactly

where this thing would have been standing so I couldn't get an accurate description of it but man that's that's what I saw man I know I saw something I'm not a big believer and you know I'm not going to say I don't believe in Bigfoot but I've never seen enough evidence to prove it to me

but that night what I saw I can't explain and it wasn't a human so and it was staying up on two feet and it was big I don't know man I have no ado that's absolutely fascinating i always think it's wild when uh paranormal investigators because they have a different viewpoint on things different tools but they end up having experiences and that just always blows my mind man wild wild stuff do you ever want to have

an experience like that again i would love it um i i would prefer it to be and when i say this i'm not trying to say i'm the big bad dude not for him nothing i'd rather i'd rather love to experience it maybe on my own or somebody that I know that it has a similar mindset as me, that a way there's not a fear of actually going and checking out what it could be. Now, did it scare me? Yeah, but like the paranormal scares me sometimes too, but I use that as almost like a, like an adrenaline rush, like an endorphin rush instead of like a actually like, I'm scared.

I'm not going to do what I'm going to do right now. So I would love to get the opportunity to be in that predicament again. Now I did. I ain't gonna lie to you. I did try going back and try to recreate, you know, a similar proposal of what happened that night. but you know no prevail I couldn't get anything the only thing I got was mosquito bites you know what I'm saying like that's all I could get

that night but it was it was exhilarating man to this night to this day I don't really tell people about it because I don't know like I don't even tell people really about the unless their clients really would tell people about the paranormal stuff I do but it's

it's one of those things it just doesn't come in conversation but that night man I was hoping maybe you could tell me kind of like what you think I might have saw or what you think it could have been because I mean it was I'm gonna I'm gonna say maybe seven seven foot seven two foot seven seven maybe seven foot two something like that it was broad now here's the thing though as I'm looking at it man like as I'm looking at the camera I'm noticing like the let this is where it gets kind of like eh because as I'm looking at the legs the legs look more massive than like then like not more massive than the upper body but I can tell

the legs on it was just this crazy like I don't know if it's just they were big or they had more fur and then the upper body was you know it was it was like man torso kind of and then as we get bigger the reason that really got my attention the reason I really thought it was something other than what I thought it was was because the head it was like like it was fuller. Like the face was fuller, like the hair was fuller. It was like it had hair all around its, you know, a head. And I'm like, what human has hair all over its face and its head?

You know, like it was more full than it would be if it was a normal human. So I don't know, man. Right. So what I was going to ask you is did you notice what shape of the head? Like, did you notice a certain shape at all? Yeah. Like, as we get here, so if I can remember right, man, the top of the head, like, from, like, I guess if I was going to point on a human, from top of it, so like, from like, maybe like halfway to like, halfway to the nose or maybe the full nose. From there to like to there from like the around the side, I would say it was more thicker.

And then when you got down to like the, the, where the chin would be maybe, I know, like it was more of like a like a, like it was more narrow. but like like from like the nose and all way back was more like more full and then and then it was almost like they had a uh this is going to sound silly man it was almost what people would call like like like a uh a defined chin structure like the you know like the like the cliche the old drill sergeants it's almost like they had that kind of chin but the rest of it was full i don't know man like it sounds like a bull crap story but i'm telling you dead on dead serious so you know especially especially the area where you were. I mean, you've got so much, like, Bigfoot activity alone. You've got the Ohio River right there, and you're just north of land between the lakes, and there's so much activity there. But the other thing is, so could you see ears or anything on the head at all? I couldn't, man. Like I said, I couldn't even, the only reason I can describe what I'm describing now is because, like I said, once you take thermal image, you know, it's mainly just a orange spot, depending on your settings of a thermal image, but you can still see if something's thicker,

if something's not thicker, if something's small, something's bigger. And another thing, too, I noticed, too, that now I did go over there, and there was a couple, I did go over there, there was a couple of trees where I thought it could have been the next day. And the trees that I noticed, whenever, or not the next day, the next night, the trees that I noticed, like, I had a buddy stand there. And I noticed that there is no way, bro. There's no way that a man could have done it because,

He got, like he got, he got side of some of the same trees and I thurmbled him. And it was that he wasn't as wide. And I went back and I did that and I turned a flashlight on and I put him aside a tree. And these trees were, were pretty big, right? And I'm only thinking the reason he wasn't as wide is because the tree was blocking some of the body. It didn't even look like the tree was blocking this body unless he was, unless the thing was in front of it. But like there was so many trees, like you had to be behind more of the trees. and he was this thing was way wider than an actual you know well not way wider but i'd say probably

i don't know maybe a foot or two maybe a foot and a half wider than an actual you know a man a six foot two grown man let's put that way so so based on everything you're saying it sounds to me like whatever that was was not a human and really leans towards it probably was a big foot to me i was asking certain questions to make sure you didn't have like a dog man there but like it sounds more like a big foot type situation it was it was it was crazy bro like like it was one of those things like i'd love to be able to to know more about it to be able to to know what to do what to look for next time um know that if i need to is it something that you just like if you see it do you run up like try to catch this thing to get better visual do you stay back like you know what i mean bro like i

Like I don't want to get unaligned by. That's all up to you, man. There are some dudes that will do that, and that's cool. I mean, more power to them is what you can do at the time. Some people can't handle that. I don't know what I would do. Did you happen to get a photo or video of it with your thermal? I did actually.

Oh, my gosh. Actually, I might have. Hold on. Let me see. Let me go back. I might actually have a thermal vision of it. Hold on, let me see. And thanks to Monsters Unleashed for asking that question in the comment.

That's a good question. I might actually, let me go back. Let me make for sure. This thing's always, we always get, this thing fills up really fast. I need to get a bigger memory card. Yep. Because of the fact that we do paranormal hunt. But let me see if, hold on.

Were you getting any weird readings on other? tools during that time? No, everything was good. Wow. Like no EM, like, yeah, like the EMF and everything was great. Like it wasn't. Okay. Wow.

Hold on. Let me see if I can. Yeah, go ahead. Get to this. Oh, my gosh. There's so many pictures of the actual actual. I hear you. I hear it. I hear it. I hear it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You, you, you, You do one of these things and you have hours of audio to listen to.

It's just going to have been more prepared. I apologize. Let me look for you like 20 more pictures and I don't see anything. All right. So, okay. Oh, man, I got the worst possible picture that there is. Okay, I'll show you a picture. But like, so like the pictures I had, they were like zoomed in.

and this picture right here is and it sucks because it's covered it's covered by the um by the actual the little dots on the side of a thermal thing but let me show you so um so i'll warn you man you can barely see anything um it sucks because i had a better one but hold on uh i mean it obviously something there yeah like like so like the reason but see like you see the trees around it the other trees it wasn't marking so what that means is that one spot was particularly uh more hot than the other spots now that right there had a zoomed-in picture of it it was way way more defined but man other than that man that's about when you try getting any closer i don't know if it'll have not even work like

the the actual device to your camera oh um let's see like that yeah yeah oh yeah it's not it's gonna get all Yeah, that's all I got. You're good, you good. Dude, I appreciate you sharing that. Yeah, man. I appreciate you having me up, man. If I can look through it more, I might have other pictures. But, man, thanks for having me up, dude.

I'm going to stay and listen to the stuff. But, man, God bless you. I hope you get good. But I hope you get good stories, bro. Thank you. Have a good one, man. Thank you, man. See you.

Hi, how are you? Good. How are you? Hey, awesome. Well, you're from down, Connecticut, right? Yes, I am. And I went to high school in Northwest. which. Oh, wow. Okay. So I'm like really close to Voluntown. Oh, for sure. Okay. So you know what's going on in Vaughnown. Okay. I do. Yeah. Wow. So what are your thoughts on that?

I, I've been, okay, so I've been here my whole life. And I was actually just talking about that with somebody in the comments. I have, I have some thoughts. My grandfather was a firefighter back in the 60s and he told stories and he had stories of things that they called the chimps that had gotten loose that that's how it was written and reported and people got hurt and ever since the woman in Connecticut got her face injured that was just like the official story I've never heard about So a couple, maybe 15, 20 years ago, someone, a woman had a pet chimp and her face got injured and she was horribly dismembered. And that was in fact a chimp and there were people, there were witnesses and all of that. So the laws for pets changed immediately. But before that, people, there were stories and that that was.

was just always the explanation of someone had a pet and it got loose. He had, there's a really clear story in my memory of being a little kid talking about monkey stuck in tree and whatever it was bit a firefighter in the hand. And what he describes is it looked somewhat between like a monkey and a bear and it was small. the small size of like a baby bear. So you're saying this happened in the 60s? And 60s, 70s, yeah, because my mom was born in 66, and he, yeah, I would say probably 60s or early 70s that happened.

So I, he loved to tell stories, loved. So he had lots of really good stories. he talked about, I don't know if you know, Windham, Connecticut is, there's really old red and there's really old stories of British troops being scared away by sounds that they attribute to, like, frogs, but they thought that there were way more men in the area than were there. I've heard the frogs. I live in the area. It's not something you can confuse.

Like, they just completely avoided the area and passed the town, completely because something scared them off. And when they went back and told their story, they talked about it being frogs. Now, there are huge frog monuments in the town. It's called the Frog Bridge, because that is the story that has stuck. but when I tell you that I live the area, I know the sound, I actually look forward to the sound of the frogs. It is not something that sounds like people chatter. Okay. That's interesting. Are there, have there been other stories of things that are like Bigfoot besides the chimps and the monkeys down in that area of downtown that you've heard of?

So because he's always been in the firefighter community, the official names are what go through the channels, if that makes sense. And the official coding. Right, there's official coding in language back in the day that went through. So, like, they could look at each other and know that it wasn't a chimp or a monkey. But on written paper, that's what was written. If that makes sense. No way. That's okay, yeah.

No, it makes sense. I've heard of stuff happen like that. So you think, yeah, there's probably other stuff going on in the area. It was just referred to a certain way by people like firefighters, etc., is what I'm hearing. Yeah, because they were the ones that were getting called. And when I tell you that, like, I've heard the stories of, like, from him being like, something was in the woods. It was behind a house. We wrote it down as a bear. It was not a bear, but we scared away a bear. And I was like, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Like,

I live really close to Mohegan Sun, the casinos. Yeah. So this land is old, like old, old. And there are things here that I can explain, that I have heard, that I have seen, nothing tall and furry wish I wish on my life I've heard the stories I know of someone who like literally makes cutouts like it like that's the whole thing he does in Lebanon that like he makes art I don't know if he's seen would love to talk to him but I've heard the official stories and because I was raised by a firefighter I now know enough to read between the lines and have heard the stories to read between the lines. I now know what to look for when I'm reading it. Like I'm going to school to become an EMT and firefighter. Right, right. Okay. Gotcha.

So now I know how it's written one way to say one thing, but it doesn't mean one thing. So then this must be really interesting for you living through this and watching stuff happen. Oh, yeah. and how different officials are reacting to it. Oh, yeah. It must be very interesting. I've always known that things were said one way and done another, unfortunately, because I was born that way and watched it happen.

So, but watching it on a giant scale is nuts. Oh, yeah. It's a different story now because stuff can just get. gigantic scale is crazy yeah oh yeah oh yeah because we're not we're not talking like small scale politics anywhere we're talking like big world scale like scary big time stuff yeah i i learned that personally when i broke the ohio stuff in really 2026 this year and things got really big really quick and i was like oh my goodness who came and told you not to and who came and like britain didn't like yeah oh trust me I've been there done that trust me um uh thankfully thankfully

that didn't happen oh you're lucky but i but i i yeah it's been a weird year let's say that right because it's like it went from that into um being diagnosed with cancer and then i've been dealing with cancer ever since so very very strange stuff um so so then When I tell you, I don't know. First off, my deepest apologies. Yep, thank you. But you are in a critical perfect moment situated in your life right now to just kind of say, F it and tell the truth.

Do it. Who cares? I get it. No, I've never not done that. You know? No, and we appreciate that. We know. Yeah.

So I appreciate that. Um, something you said earlier. So you said that your, your grandfather actually would tell you stories about there. We're saying it's a bear, but what we saw was not a bear back there. Oh yeah. And the thing, the monkey in the tree was not a monkey in a tree. Man, that's wild. That's wild.

That's what I'm talking about. He talks about it being, because it's a secondhand description. He talks about it being small. So I assume infant can climb. high up into the tree. Got up into a tree. Someone assumed it was a pet monkey and called the fire department. So fire department shows up and somebody gets up there and it bites a firefighter. So they get down and now they've got to try and catch this thing. Right, exactly. So, like, while reading through what I'm reading, I read the part where they're like, well, it was a monkey,

so it had a tail. But they didn't say it had a tail. They were like, it was a monkey, so it had a tail. right exactly which is very different which is very very different and saying like oh we saw its tail nope it was a monkey so it had a tail like is very different terminology

speaking codedly to and the he doesn't finish the story I don't know how they got it down I don't know what happened to it oh man really really because and that has always been

the like so what happened next and he was like they took care of it But I don't know what that means either. And is he still with us or not? He passed at the end of 2024. I ended up having to have brain surgery because of all of our special genetic stuff that comes down from being native and Nordic and just all of the cool stuff. My brain tried to escape and grow down into my spine.

So I get to keep the hole in my head forever's. And he ended up falling. And my brain surgeon saved his life. And during Christmas, he had a heart attack. And two days later, he was gone. I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm glad that you are able to get through it. Yeah.

He was my superhero. He must have been such a guy, you know. He was the coolest dude ever. He was a master carpenter. He spent so much time in the woods. He cut down trees. He was a firefighter. He spent the time in the woods.

He was a hunter. So I heard all of his stories. I was his fishing buddy. I was the person that got to hear all of the... And I believed him that no one else was going to believe. You know, because I was his little girl. Right, exactly. So he...

The stuff that he has seen, stuff that he has seen and he like I could fill a book I should fill a book you should yeah because you're really the the last person that that gets to hold that you know and and yeah that might be something to look into doing that would be that would be a cool cool way to honor him yeah might yeah but I appreciate you coming up and and thank you for for sharing that they're is more to this area than is being reported based on history. It's incredible to hear about. Thank you so much.

Of course, and I can't wait to keep watching. All right. Thank you so much. Bye. Hey, Eddie, gang. How are you? Oh, my, I'm actually talking to you. I've messaged you in the past.

I never got to fully tell my story. That's really funny. I'm just parking my car right now, so I'm not. I'm going to do this. All right. Yeah, that's perfectly fine. I actually, so I work at a coal mine up in north of Chetwin, B.C. And I've been listening to your podcast for like two years.

I've been a big fan. And I hope you're healthy. I know I've heard about your cancer, and I really hope you're doing well. We're going to get you. It's kind of surreal to talk to you. But here, my story. Okay. So I'm not to tell you about my first experience when I was really,

young and then about my most recent one. My first one, I was in grade four and I was living in a tiny village called Beaver Creek, or Beaver Creek Yukon on the Alaska border on the Canada side. And we moved to the small village. My dad was working for the Hamlet, or not the band office, I guess, because there was a native community. And our first week in town, they had a huge ceremony. They dressed us in traditional clothes and everything. And yeah, we did a dance. They gave us gifts and they welcomed us to the community because very small community. They're going to, you know, it's exciting to see many people. And I remember at the end of that ceremony, they pulled my mother aside and they told me and my father and my older brother,

you know, like to go away. And when we got home, my mom said, you're not going to believe what they told me and we're like what they said that they were just pretty much warning me that Bigfoot is all Sasquatch I call him whatever and that he's very very much in the area and that like all the different things like there's the smell or you'll hear or get rocks and sticks throwing at you but you need to be aware because that town was very much in the bush like for me to get to my school my school was two-ro- like I'm only 32 and I could say I went into a two-room school house it was school looked like a house had two bedrooms each bedroom one was a kindergarten to

grade three and the other one was grade four to grade 12 and the kitchen was the office and the basement was the like the library anyways uh so they warned her they're like hey just watch out like if you hear if you smell like an ammonia skunky kind of smell that's a warning and like if you get rocks or things thrown at you just keep your eyes open they're like they're a hundred percent here and we came from living in Ontario at the time so we're like this is crazy right like we were like what do we believe it and uh so as a kid in grade four I'm like there's bigfoot out there I'm like on high alert me and my older brother and I remember walking home from school and around like three in the afternoon it'd be

pitch black because up there you're so north that the sunset set so early in the winter time that we would be walking through the woods to get to the other side where our trailer was that we were staying in and you'd hear a crack in the woods or something and we'd look to big foot and we'd just start running crying all the way home and the neat thing was this is the part that like I've never heard anyone say this before was so our neighbor her name was Agnes she was like our northern a Shoney language teacher for the school. She brought us over because they were skinning a moose that day,

and I got to go in her house for the first time. And she was pointing out pictures of her son. And her son, her and her husband were both native, but her son was a lighter skinned, and he was like six foot six, huge, really tall guy. And she told me dead face, like straight to my face and to my mother. She's like, yeah, he didn't live very long. He only lived until about 36 years old.

But I was picking berries when I was about 19 years old, and I smelt, I smelt Sasquatch. And she's like, all I remember was passing out and waking up with my dress hiked up. And she said that her son was that Bigfoot. Now, I take that, you know, like, who knows if Bigfoot can actually reproduce with humans? but that was a story just told to me as a child and I thought always blew my mind. That's a big statement to say, you know? And then, so that's always stuck with me. I've told that story for years to my friends.

And that's, I've always had big foot in my heart. I've always looked while camping and stuff to, I messaged you about a month ago on here. And you replied, but I didn't, life has just been so busy. I never got to get back to you. And, uh, this, It really freaked me out. It was a sighting, but it was very quick.

And like, I swear, I went, I told my mother and I told my wife, and my mother, or my wife believed me, but my mother probably thought I was a little loopy. So I was driving home. It was a four and a half hour drive. I do shift work, seven on, seven off. And I was driving four and a half hours home after a night shift. And I was in, you can look this up for your maps. I know you do mostly America, but there's a small town called McLennon, Alberta.

And to the turn off for the Winogamy Provincial Park, it's maybe five kilometers. Like it's not, it's like a 10 minute drive, right? Halfway between the town and that turnoff to get to Winogamy that down that highway. I was just driving in my little car. And to the right of me is flat grass. And then there's railroad track following the highway. and then trees behind the railroad, okay? And I'm cruising, I'm cruising.

I'm not going very fast, but every like 80 kilometers an hour. And then out of my right side, I see something standing right before the track, so on the grass side, and there's telephone poles, like, you know, along the tracks. And it still gets me.

I swear to God, so he, I saw him take four, four full steps. So his arms, it looked like he was slightly looking down. His arms were swaying. And the only reason, where I was, there is no houses. So it wouldn't have been a person. And because of the telephone pole, I could tell that he was at least seven and a half, eight feet tall. And just from the, like the width, like the size of his shoulders and arms and legs. And he was like, when they're so, so dark brown, they almost look blind. black like that dark chat you know like really dark brown because my I have like a light bar on my on my car so it did light up the ditch really well so I could see the color of the fur it was a very darker like a oh yeah dark dark dark brown almost looks black and yeah so I saw

the four steps and my brain I was like did I just see what I think I just saw I'm like there's no way slam my brakes on there's nobody on the road I put my car in reverse and rolled down my windows, hearts racing. So I slam my car in reverse to where that one pole was where he was just walking on. And all I hear is the trees and everything on that side crashing, like breaking down and I saw, I could see the shadow going into the into the trees. And I'm like in my head, I'm like, well, how about backing up? What if I just like backed up and his face was right in the window, right? But what mess means, because you know how dogs? will act weird when uh sometimes around them out so when i backed up there was a long driveway down

to a farm i'd probably say a kilometer long driveway there was a white looking pit bull with like beige spots now right in front of my car and just pointed like staring at the woods where i was just looking i physically had to back up and drive around this dog it would i would try to call it it wouldn't move it was just staring at that where so it really confirmed i saw what what I saw was that dog looking where I was just looking. I was like, okay, I'm not not seeing something. But yeah, between the huge head, the wide neck, the shoulders and arms, I was on, I was, I got home so fast.

And it was two in the morning. My wife, I woke up the whole house. I was like, you wouldn't believe what I just saw. I'm like, you know, I'm not going to speak out of my rear end about, like, I wouldn't just come home and just say this. I'm like, this is what I saw. And I 100% saw it. I didn't see eyes or anything.

I just saw the back of it, right? I didn't even think, like, I've heard, I've talked to, like, I'm a hunter. I've talked to a few wildlife guys in the area, because I live about 45 minutes from that spot. And they're like, oh, Bigfoot's not real. Bigfoot's not real. But when you talk to some of the locals, especially the reserve near my house, um, hold on, there's a big ring grip beside me. I've got to get out of his way.

Um, they say that that they say that. There's been few sightings over here. So they're not super populated, but there's been, you know, a few over the years. So, did I just get lucky? It opened my eyes so much now. Now that I'm in BC, I'm in British Columbia now, that the forest there, like the mountains that are all around me and everything, I'm like, okay, a whole new area for me to camp at and look at. And we went camping last weekend, and I'm like looking for stuff my wife.

Like, don't, don't. She's like, I don't want nothing shaking my camper in the middle of the night. Yeah, are you down by, like, Chilawak and all that area? Sorry, Chetwin, sorry. So Chetwin, British Columbia. So you go after Dawson Creek, goes down to Chetwin. And it's known there, too, like, for fossils and dinosaurs. There's a lake where it has a T-Rex footprints fossilized in the rocks near a lake.

And you can, like, put your footprints in. So there's a lot of old natural history there and thick, thick forest and grizzly bears and cougars. So snow cat mountains. So it's definitely a good spot for them to hide and get around. Hold on one minute. There is, I need to look at my map of British Columbia because I don't have it memorized. There's like an area that keeps coming up, which is like Burns Lake and Fraser Lake. area. Yeah, it's not far. And it's like, it's almost like the center of British Columbia,

but that area comes up with a lot of first nation stuff that is wild, especially on this platform. I've talked to a lot of people from that area. So that might be something to keep in mind. But man, that's it's so cool to talk to you. So did when you guys lived in the Yukon territory, did you have any encounters up there? Or was that one you had? the first real encounter that you that was my first one up there was just like my introduction of learning about him right and then that crazy story about agnes telling us how her son was half big foot and would they like there was some other cool like uh so they were doing construction on the alaska highway and uh they dug up for uh putting uh drainage underneath the road

and i guess when they're building a new section of road delay for a pole away They dug up part of a native burial ground that wasn't, like there was nothing to tell you that it was there, right? And I remember, you don't hear of earthquakes in the Yukon or Alaska or anywhere up there. It's not a common thing, but I remember there was a drop in center where kids would go after school to play games. And I remember turning up the volume for the speaker system. And all of a sudden, the whole building started shaking. And we go outside, the telephone poles are going like this.

and it was the first ever earthquake I've ever been in and the only one. And I go home and parents are freaking out. And here a few days later that the elders in that community were like, yeah, an old native burial ground, like a burial ground, a medicine man's body got dug up and they exposed his bones and stuff. And we got hit for about a week with lightning and craziest windstorms and we were dealing with flooding. So they found the family in the community that was like the that was the ancestor of them and they had to spend thousands of dollars.

They did a whole new burial and in their in their culture, you had to give any for everyone in the community a gift that had to do with like their home like blankets and like you know like home goods. So they had to spend thousands of dollars. they gifted everyone the community things a huge feast they did a ceremony and as soon as that man that medicine man was back in the ground life went back to normal there's no more crazy weather sunshine so like wow i've experienced a few things over the year the world is in what isn't just uh simple right but yeah so i learned a lot there's a gas station A little restaurant. It's fascinating.

I appreciate what you do. You get me through the day while I'm at work. I operate them giant haul trucks you see. Let you load with coal and everything. And we're all out our phones. So I use my Samsung watch and I connect your podcast and I list at least three or four of them. I start at the beginning, but then sometimes I'll sneak up to the recent ones. So I'm trying to listen to them all.

That's awesome. You make it every day. So it's not to take forever to catch up. Well, I used to you. I used to. I do five a week now, so I cut back a little bit. But it's fun. But, man, thank you so much for coming up. I'm glad we were able to finally connect messages from a month ago.

I'm still working through because it was so crazy. But I appreciate you coming up and sharing about an area. But thank you, man. I hope you can hang around for a bit. I will. And is this going to be on a podcast? Do I get to listen to myself one day? Yeah, absolutely.

Have a wonderful thing. It's nice chatting with you. You too. Oh, that's really nice. Hey, Davis. How are you? Doing good. How are you?

Hey, doing good, man. Feel free to share what's going on, man. So I'll just make this short and sweet, but so I'm from central Kentucky. Mine in the Hardin County area, about an hour south of Louisville. And so this happened when I was a probably two, 10 years old, 11 years old. So I grew up in a subdivision about two or three miles east of E-town. And subdivision, it was a cool subdivision growing up as a kid because it was actually,

I had a lot of history on it. It was an old family farm that was back in the behind me, but there was a lot of woods, like natural woods. When we were kids, we would go back here and mushroom hunt and root dig and stuff like that. But so me and my cousin one day, we were walking out in the woods. It was snowing. We had, I think it was Christmas break, and my cousin had come down for Michigan. And we were just kind of walking in the back, back behind the house.

We were probably maybe, I don't know, 150, 200 yards behind the house into the woods. And we came across tracks in the snow. And I tell this to a lot of people, and they're like, oh, you're flying. of crap and I'm like okay well so I call my cousin right and I tell him I'm like hey man tell him about the time that we were in the woods behind the old house and he's like oh yeah the tracks in the snow and blah blah blah blah blah and people like they got that stone look on her face like okay dude you're telling the truth you know but we never did see it but so we're 10 years old living somewhere around that age right when you're getting into middle school there

and so we're exploring you know in the woods it's snow and having a good time. We find that and we're like, what the heck? So these tracks was a human foot. The best I can describe it, I'm in my mid-30s now, but the best I could describe it was like a size like 20 shoe. So we're following it and I'm like, this is so strange. And it was almost like we were like lulled. That's the best way to describe. It's like we didn't say. Oh, go get a camera or anything like that. And this is the time before, you know, smart phones were a thing. So, you know, nobody was, or very few people had technology attached to their hip, you know, cameras and whatnot and such.

But so we're following it along. And we've made it pretty far into the woods at this point. And so we get to a certain point and we start finding like blood droplets beside the foot track. Like it had carried something with it, like it had killed. maybe, I don't know, it was something very small, because there was no drag tracks or anything. It was just like blood droplets. So we get going, we get going. We're not armed.

We got like maybe a pocket knife or something on us, you know. And so we get going. We follow along. And then we get to like a couple of like green trees. I don't know how to describe it, but they were like pretty green for the wintertime, like a shrub almost. and whatever it was was behind the shrub, and it started shaking the shrub, and I mean, it was like uncontrollably shaken.

And so we freaked out, we bugged out, we took off, and I mean, we, I don't know, it seemed like we were pretty far into the woods, but we got to my back door than like a minute, man. And that's my story. That's the only encounter I've ever had, like I said in the comments. I'll keep it short and sweet, but, It was definitely weird. And growing up, I moved out of that neighborhood in 2019.

I'd stole my dad's house after he had passed. But I'd hunted the same woods for years after that. And after that encounter and no other encounters. But the best I could describe it, it's like where we live at, It's strange because we're in central Kentucky, but we see a lot of bear sightings and stuff. In that area, there was a lot of black bears. And as a kid, I remember riding my bicycle, and there was like an oak tobacco barn in the back part of our neighborhood. Like I said, the best way I can describe it, it was, you know, like a 90s kid grow up.

You grew up in a subdivided neighborhood, but there was a you could tell the old remnants of a farm, you know. The region I'm in, tobacco growing in the 90s. and 80s and before that was a big, big crop. But we used to ride our bikes, this old tobacco barn. And there was like an old well there and whatnot. So I was riding along one day. And I kind of looked down a path that my dad had made, because best described, me and my family were outdoorsy.

We like to hunt. We like to fish. Just kind of wander around the woods and whatnot. But I looked down this path that me and my dad had made. made in that patch of woods. And there was a cub and there was, I think there was two or three cubs and there was a sow, Mama bear.

And that was just weird. I remember seeing that and I was like, holy crap, you know. And, but the best I can kind of, I was told by a biologist that we have like finger, I guess you call them like finger mountains that come in and stop in our county from the Appalachian Mountains. So like those barren stuff come down through the Appalach Mountains.

And as you know, you know, Bigfoot sightings and Appalach is a huge thing, you know, stories. Oh, yeah, absolutely. But yeah, no, that's all I got, man. It's like I said in the comments. It's short and sweet. It was, it was, I got, hairs are starting to kind of go down on my arm now. Every time I tell that, my hair's standing up in my arm, you know, and I get like the chills on my arm.

because it was such a, such a weird thing. It freaked me out and my cousin out. But, you know, one day if I get some time, I'll, if you're having another live or something, and I can get my cousin around, man, he can tell the same experience. And it was, it was pretty weird, man. That would be fantastic.

Have you ever looked up the KBRO? No, I have no idea what you're talking about there. It's a, there's an organization in Kentucky. It's a Bigfoot organization called the KBRO. And they have just tons and tons of Bigfoot reports from over the years. And I would be curious if there's other stuff that's happened in that same area that you're referring to. I would recommend checking it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He, Charlie Raymond's his name. He might even be, he tries to document all the stuff from Kentucky as well. He's a good guy. That Fort Knox area, you're south of Fort Knox, right? I mean, that area is wild from what I've heard. Yes. Yeah, it is. It is.

Yeah, I live in the Eastview area now, which is I used to work on Fort Knox for a contractor. But I live 20, 20 minutes kind of southwest of Fort Knox now. And I live in even a more remote area now. But that was, it was so weird because, you know, you're talking like, I don't know, 60 to 70 houses, subdivision. And, and, you know, it happened in a, you know, 100 acre patch of woods besides the subdivision, you know. So it was something like, you know, we weren't,

we weren't expecting to see that that day. But it was, it was wild, man. And I can still, like, I remember every detail about it. Like, there was no smell because we were in the middle of, you know, wintertime. So, you know, your nose kind of gets jammed from being out of the cold. But it was just, it was so. just an obscure experience.

But, yeah, that's all I have, man. I just kind of stumbled across your page here on just scrolling. And I was like, man, I like telling that encounter every time I get the chance to. Well, Davis, I'm glad you came up. Thank you so much for sharing what your experiences. We appreciate it. Yes, sir. Yep.

Yeah, it was a pleasure. And good luck on your battle, man. Thank you. How are you? Hey, goody. Good afternoon. How are you? I'm doing all right.

Feel free to share what you've experienced. Yeah, okay. Just so we're clear, I currently reside in Southwest Florida, but these encounters, it was a dog man. It goes back to 2014, and I'll just give you a couple. I had three different encounters with this thing. The first one is going to be a very brief one. I worked for a production company in a town called Whitehall, Michigan, which is by Montague, western part of Michigan. My family's farm, I'll kind of give you a layout, was in a town

called Montague, heavily wooded area bordered by cornfield, soybean field, asparagus, about, and Lake Michigan was about three miles to the west. On this night it was pretty much we had lake effect snow happening. So I had to do some stuff the next day and run down to a town called Muskegon, so I want to get the, where we're at, we were low priority for plowing, so I would go out there and get the driveway shovel and stuff so I had a clear way out. Well, we had a spring fed creek. I call it a creek. Some people call it a creek that come through the yard there on the property.

And I want to say the south, the northeast corner is a patch of woods where the deer will pan up. And as I'm shoveling, I kind of hear, you know, a blububooosh in the creek. And I'm just, oh, those are the deer. Well, I wore one of those little nightlights on my hat. And I just as I got closer there was a what's the smell I can closely give you like a more of a wet dog sewage type smell that was look at and sometimes there would be parts of the crick there that would get stagnant and stuff and you know the methane would come up and I didn't pay no attention well I heard a snap and I looked over with the light and there was this one was it was almost like a on all fours and it looked like a wolf a really really big wolf and it was great. with a little white stripe and it took off due west at an incredible rate of speed and it was gone in about I don't know half a second to a second max and all I heard was crashing trees and stuff and at first you know in my mind I'm like okay that

never seen that now the wolf some wolves from the UP were known to trickle down you know into the main peninsula of Michigan and we have a pretty good livestock herd out there as well as deer so I really didn't pay had no attention as kind of went in and got ready for the next day well let's fast forward to I it would have been around July of 20 of 15 and I used to I liked to I was a big avid trout fisherman we had a lot of brook trout and stuff in the creek so I'd go there and trim limbs to get to keep the you know a good flow going and stuff well as approach as I come up it about I would say about about a half mile it bends to the bends due east the creek

does it because it flows down from the north of a town called Rothbury. Anyhow, I see what appears to be it from the back looks like a big black bear. And that's what I'm thinking. There have been black bear sightings around the area. And so I'm just thinking, and I always carry, you know, a knife and a sidearm, just, you know, a coyote or something, take care of the environment population. And anyhow, wind was kind of coming from the east that day. And I'm kind of in the little thickets to the creek.

And this thing, whatever it is, what I thought was a bear, is digging very viciously into the bank of this creek. Well, it suddenly stops, tilts its nose skyward, proceeds to stand bipedally. I kind of froze. I got behind like where my image was kind of pretty. broken up. And this thing was sniffing the wind. I kid you not. I mean, I'm shaking. I still get chills and it makes, I still get very, I mean, the thing gave me nightmares

for quite some time. Oh, sure. And this thing proceeds to, I mean, it's almost like horror movie crap, slowly turn to where it's almost not quite looking me in the eye, but senses I'm there. I'm frozen in fear. I, to this day, nothing has stopped me like that. I mean, And I was, my mind is telling me, go, go, go, but my body and nothing else is reacting to that. I'm frozen. I'm petrified. Now, the next thing I'm about to tell you, the closest thing I can give you reference to and how this thing leaped and took off is if you know how a flea, how tiny they are, can bounce like they do.

This thing took one leap and probably cleared 35 to 40 feet. I kid you not, was probably 15 feet. vertical, hit the ground running, due east, and all I heard was snapping. So that one, I was petrified. I went in and, you know, I wasn't a very big drinker, but I grabbed a bottle of spirits and I took a big shot, and my aunt and father at the time were there, and they're like, what's wrong with you? You look like you've seen a ghost.

And I couldn't even hardly speak. I'm like stutter, stuttering over trying to tell them this, and they're like, oh, you're crazy. You know, there's nothing like that. And I was called crazy. Called a few of my friends a couple days later, and we went just a little bit in. And I don't know, you've seen cedar trees, I'm sure, my friend, and how big at the base they get. Right.

It literally, look, I've seen deer rubs and stuff. And this is where I contacted the Michigan DNR and the Muskegon County Sheriff's Department. There was a tough to hair in this tree, which I grabbed with tweezers and put in a plastic bag. The two guys I had with me were avid hunters, and I just wanted to have somebody there in case this thing showed up again. Probably about from six feet down, this tree was literally, I mean, the only thing I can compare it to is if a black bear or something with claws sat there and just, and the bark of the tree was shredded so fine, it was like, it's hard to describe, but it just looked like a bunch of dangling bark. I mean, like something was really pissed off. So the DNR gets out there with the sheriff's department. I give them the hair.

And they like, well, can you tell us a little about it? So I told him the story of when I was in the crick and saw this what I thought was a black bear. Well, I see a smirk come across the sheriff's face like I'm crazy. At this day, they actually wanted to take me down to get mentally evaluated at a center because they thought I would like. Yeah, I swear to God, it's in the report. of Muskegon County Sheriff's Department in July of 2015. This DNR officer, they're just, they were almost like towing with me kind of like poking a little fun but not quite crossing the boundaries, if you will. Like, make painting me out to be some crazy cat.

So fast forward about, I don't know, four to five months and the DNR, one of the officers shows back up. up and wants to follow up on the report. And I was like, well, this is odd. And I would just sitting down there. And he said the hair they tested was canine, but they cannot describe which type or breed. That was his answer. And he said, I employ you to seek.

And this is again what he said, I employ you to seek mental help because I don't think what you saw. He says what you're describing to me is a werewolf. I said, no, no, no, sir. This looked like about an eight foot tall German shepherd. That's what it looked like. an exact all black German Shepherd. The first one was gray and white.

This one was black as night, like jet black. So I'm, I'm, you know, I'm being painted as crazy. So, I mean, it's playing mind tricks on me. Three days later, my aunt drives the truck, and she usually gets home about 1.30 in the morning. And this was one of the ones calling me crazy. So I wake up one morning, I'm having coffee downstairs. And she comes down and she goes, hey, Joey, what kind of, what kind of, thing where you saying you saw and I said it looked like a eight-foot-tall German shepherd

toots. I called her toots. That's not a real name. And she goes, well, when I got home last night at 1.30, right before I stepped in the house, I heard a howl and I've never heard a coyote howl like that. And she said there was some sort of like, she said when there was a growl that almost made her soul tremble like a very low growl. And she said she never saw nothing. That's the only sound she heard. and it was coming out by, I'd say, to the southeast on the property where there's a bunch of hardwoods, oak and stuff like that. And I said, well, do you think I'm crazy now? To this day, she will not step. Well, they ended up selling that farm, I guess, about three years ago.

But after that, she would not even step foot into the woods. Her dogs would get about 20 yards from the woods but would not enter the woods. and all I know is the second time I saw it. Now, the third time I saw it was the same thing. And every time, the second and third counter, the one thing I'll always remember is, A, the smell, and how quiet, deathly quiet and silent those woods fell. Crow shut up, squirrel shut up, chirping songbirds shut up,

and it was dead silent. And then that smell came in. And the third one was almost like something was pacing me out of the woods. And when I would stop, it would stop. It finally, like I didn't hear it stop anymore, and I was about 20 yards from the soybean field, so I got there, and I always kept the riding Zmoer out there. It moved pretty fast, and I hightailed it to the house, and that was the last encounter. I wasn't going to call the sheriff again. I wasn't going to call the DNR.

I simply went in there, and then just kind of wrap it up. I mean, this thing, this one was seen out by the salt block, and I don't know if you ever seen the salt block they put out for deer. my aunt saw my aunt saw it do this it picked up that salt block with one hand and that field is about 300 yards across and it threw it like a baseball she said and it went right into the other woods and she freaked yeah she freaked out she left the house and went to got a hotel that night and to wrap it up my father was an avid hunter he thought i was crazy too he goes out and sits in his deer stand one morning he comes race i'm sitting there making eggs and toast and he comes flying in the slider door crawls right under his covers and he goes, can you give me some, I was like, you all right, Pops? And he goes, no. And I was like, well, what's going on? Do I need to call, you know, are you having a medical emergency?

She goes, I don't know what I saw in those woods, but whatever it was followed me out of there and I am never going in those woods again. That is what he told me. What I saw, that second one I saw, I saw clear his day and I'll never forget how it, I won't say slowly, but it, like, in one motion just kind of stood up bipedally, and then the way it was sniffing the air. And I mean, I'm a good 250 yards away from this thing, and it had picked me up. And it just cocked its head, like, you know, like I said, to this day, I'm, I don't like, I won't go in those woods again, and I don't, you know, I was called crazy by the wildlife

department, and I was called, they wanted to have, they, the sheriff said, I want to take you down to get evaluated. I said, there's no need to evaluate me. I said, I'm telling you, do you have any proof? And I had the hair. I said, does that look? What's that look like to you? I haven't seen an animal with the hair, and that's when the DNR officer is kind of looking at.

He's like, well, he's got a point. And that's when the officer said, you know what? You guys handle this. I'm out of here. And the sheriff took off. And I ended up talking with the DNR guys. And they're, you know, they're just like, we just don't, you know, what you're describing just isn't possible.

boy said, listen, I know what I saw. And this thing stood up on two legs. He goes, well, black bears do that? I said, well, do black bears leap 35 to 40 feet in one bound? Nope. And he goes, it did that. I said, yes, it did that. So they went out to where I described it happened.

The whole, the thing, this thing was digging. There's claw marks like, like, how do I describe them? Like Freddie Kruger, they said. That's what they described it. They're like, who's got the Freddie Cougar toys? And then they looked to the east and saw it. And they said there was a, there were branches seven feet off the ground, probably. They said three to four inches thick that were snapped in half, live branches.

That kind of sounds a little Bigfoot-like, too. Yeah. That's my encounters. You know, there's some details I probably left out. But if you do want a more in-depth detail, I do have an episode out on the Encounters Radio with Vic. And it's 132. Oh, awesome. I was going to say you should talk to Vic Mitt.

So thank you. We don't, I usually try to stick to Bigfoot, but I appreciate you coming up. Have you ever heard the Joe Barger account from Manistee National Forest? Oh, no, Manistee, but I know that's another big one up there by Reed City, correct? Yeah. So what I would recommend after you get done with this is go on YouTube and search for Joe Barger, B-A-R-G-E-R, and he has, he's a truck driver who had a really intense Dogman encounter in your similar area that you just shared about and it will rock your world. So I would recommend.

Yeah, Joe Barger, B-A-R-G-E-R. I will check that out. And it's going to rock your world. But thank you for coming up, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you and good luck with your battle, sir. Yes, sir. Man, that's wild.

Yeah, if guys, if you're in Dogman, look that up on YouTube, the Joe Barger story. It's pretty wild. All right. Let's continue here. Hi there. How are you doing, bud? Hey, you doing all right. What brings you up, sir?

Well, honestly, I really want to just talk to you, man. I mean, I have some stories. All right. I've called one of your lives before on TikTok. So say you sound familiar. Yeah. I'm from Southwest PA. um and i was out fishing one night and i had something walk up on me in the middle of night

uh had a friend with me he was asleep by campfire walked up to our camp and it stood there and it stared at me for like 30 seconds and walked off into the woods yeah uh he claims that he is heard uh chimp like monkey like noises in the same location and the actually did an interview with a guy who's a researcher in in that location like they were on site and they i think they spent a couple nights out there i think they got some audio recordings and stuff how about a couple other weird things happened to me um just stuff you know i never actually seen anything but you know i've heard things walking around in the woods very close to me and I couldn't see it.

And, you know, you get that fearful feeling where, you know, you almost don't want to see it, you know what I mean? Oh, no, I totally get you. So are you in like the, let's see, Southwest Pennsylvania that's like Pittsburgh, right? Pittsburgh area. Okay. So is south of Pittsburgh? South of Pittsburgh is pretty crazy, too.

Yeah, I'm east of Pittsburgh. Okay. That's where that first sonny was, and my other one was directly north of here, just below like the New York line, the state line. Yep. And that's not very far from Allegheny National Forest, and I know a lot of stories can out, come out of there. I get a lot of stuff from Westmoreland County to east of Pittsburgh. That's where I'm at. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. you. I wanted to ask you, where do you think, I hear a lot of stuff coming out of the East Coast. In your opinion, what the concentration in the most Bigfoot sightings, what state is it? For East Coast? No, for the entire country. Oh, for the entire country? I would say based off of what I get, I'd say definitely, definitely. Washington, Oregon, or number one, then Northern California, and then a lot of Ohio, like Ohio and Western PA is a lot. That's a lot of what I get a ton of them. So I would say like your Ohio River too. If you follow the Ohio River as it goes, a lot of stuff around the Ohio River. Those are probably like the top, the top areas that I've got. Like I'm, like, I'm,

I'm looking at my map right now. And, yeah, I would say probably those would be top right now. Yep. What did you, I saw that you came out with that string of sightings. That was through Ohio, right? You had a string of sightings. Yeah, that was. What did you do that?

I think, I think it's. So what I, I actually did a write up about this. I did like a final write up on my website on the blog. just not a lot of people know it's there. But I think from what I've heard is stuff like this happens every year, but this year was different because there were people outside because there wasn't a lot of snow and it was warmer. So they had all these sightings in a time period that they probably would have had in other years too,

but in other years it's been colder. And so people weren't out because it was snowy and stuff. That's what I've heard from people that actually live there and are researching Bigfoot in the area. And I think that that kind of sounds pretty legit to me. Makes sense. I had another thought just the other day. Well, I'm here in PA. We got all the smoke from the Canadian wildfires this year.

Oh, I know it. Yeah. So what would you, you wouldn't think that sightings would go up in that area. based on the fires, you know what I mean? So that's a good question. But I will tell you, like the first time I went to Oregon in the area that I went to, there was fires all around it. And we had a lot of crazy activity. The next year, there weren't any fires.

So I think that when you have fires in an area, it gets them riled up kind of like the rest of the wildlife. And they start moving around. I know that that's happening right now around. out hood from a few things I've heard. So, yeah, the fires do kind of rile. They get them to move around. It just makes it hard for everyone, unfortunately. But, yeah, I don't know, man.

Smoke sucks, though. I hear you. I don't like it. All right. Well, I got you here. I don't know which side of this, you know, people talk about the woo stuff and the, Yeah.

The physical side. Where you sit on all this? What do you think this thing is? So I go off of what I've experienced when it comes to like my personal stuff. And what I've experienced so far is, yeah, there's something out there that's leaving tracks and breaking trees and stuff. But there's also something out there that is, if you verbally say out loud, to the woods, hey, if there's something here, can you make a noise? It's responding to you. Because I've had that happen to me. So I'm not seeing stuff walk through portals, but I have

experienced a little bit of weirdness too. So I'm kind of in that like, I don't quite know. You're in between. You're in the middle. I'm in between. I'm in between. I'm not going to just say that it's a monkey out in the woods. There's some weird stuff going on. So, yeah. Where do you think the orbs fit in? I don't know, man, but I did experience those for the first time in Middle Tennessee this April. It's the freakiest thing you've ever seen in your life. I didn't know how to handle it because they weren't lightning bugs. We flashed our lights on them.

They weren't lightning bugs. And they were just like zipping in and around us. And it was just weird, man. It was the weirdest thing. because it's like I talk to people where you know they turn into or like

I've talked to a guy where he saw a big foot that was controlling an orb in Iowa and Backbone State Park that was a wild one that was a long time ago so man I don't know there's there's more than we realized

going on out there I think you don't know that they're like My thinking, you know, you would, some people might think that Bigfoot and Orbs are maybe they're one in the same. Because I think there's some kind of Native American lore that they can turn into or travel as orbs. Could be. Could be. It's weird, man. It's sort of extraterrestrial connection.

Yeah. I don't know, man. It's kind of one of those things that keeps you going and you try to figure it out and draw connections. but I appreciate you coming up for a little bit and chatting for it, man. Oh, sure, sure. Great to talk to you, man. I praying for you. Thank you.

I appreciate that. I hope you can hang out for a little bit. Yes, sir. My map is, if you go to Bigfoot Societypodcast.com, and then click on siting map. It's easier to use on a computer. There's like over 1,000 pins on there. All right, guys, I appreciate you being here. Thank you so much for hanging out.

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