Bigfoot Society - A Mother, Her Autistic Son… and the Creature in the Trees

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Starting point is 00:01:34 and she said yes. What started as a bonding trip turned into something much more, whoops in the distance, pine cones thrown from nowhere, footprints, eye shine, and a feeling that they were never really alone. From the forest of Pikes Peak, Colorado, to the quiet ridges of Rampart Range, this is the story of a family changed by Bigfoot. It's real, it's raw, and it's not what you expect.

Starting point is 00:01:56 This is a story of Dana Beasley, the woman they call a Sasquatch mom. Stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Dana Beasley today. Dana is a Bigfoot researcher from the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. And she and her autistic son go out in that area and have really experienced some interesting things. She'll be sharing about that today.

Starting point is 00:02:20 So welcome to the show, Dana. How's it going? Oh, it's going great. Thanks for having me on, Jeremiah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Before we get started, is there anything else context-wise that listeners would need to know about you guys before we get going? Well, I am a child of the 70s, so I have always been fascinated by this subject. And one night when my son was a teenager, he's 24 now, he asked me, he said, Mom, I want you to go big footing with me.

Starting point is 00:02:57 And I thought to myself, yeah, sounds intriguing, but too scary, not interested. And then I changed my mind because I realized that reaching my son meant going after what he was interested in. And I was intrigued with it anyway. So that's kind of how I dived into it from being a child of the 70s with my son encouraging me. That is fantastic. And how good, that's amazing, you know, that's what being a good parent is, is like realizing what your kid is into and like I'm going to use that to connect with them no matter what, no matter, you know, how, you know, out there it is and good on you for that. But, you know, Dana, I'm going to make sure, I want to make sure that you have the time to share what you guys have experienced. So I'm going to go ahead and hand things over to you.

Starting point is 00:03:55 Feel free to take us back to, you know, when you first started experiencing some things out there. Sure. So as I said, my son challenged me to go and search for Bigfoot. And the first time we did that was in 2019. And I had contacted Jim Myers. I'd heard about him. I'd heard about the Sasquatch Outpost. And so we camped.

Starting point is 00:04:24 near there and Meridian and that was when I first had a quote unquote big fitting experience. I can't say that anything extraordinary happened, but it was a learning experience and I just fell in love with it. We went to the Sasquatch Outpost. We loved that. It was so fascinating. And so that was kind of how we launched our time and we've done fascinating things like go to Lost Creek Wilderness.

Starting point is 00:04:50 I've seen things that I can't explain like a huge. double X in the forest down there at Lost Creek wilderness. I just can't comprehend how this double X got there and just and then like I said we we do research mostly in Pikespeake region along Grand Park Range Road and I'll never forget the first time we went to a spot there that we actually call the spot where it was Halloween night and we went we got to this bridge and we were overlooking some valleys and some more ridges that area is kind of like different fingers of hollers and ridges and we heard a howl and sam that's my son's name he got so excited and he starts mimicking

Starting point is 00:05:48 matt moneymaker i do believe there's a squash in these woods or something and it was just to see that joy in his face when he heard that and the thrill of it was so tremendously exciting. And so we had that experience. And then we had an amazing experience at the ridge, the next, the next ridge over. We went all the way down to the end of this hiking trail and there was a big hill overlooking a valley of deep, deep woods. And we heard whoops. and we heard some really interesting things

Starting point is 00:06:25 and then on our way back, we rested, we were resting on some stumps and I was wearing some amplification headphones and all of a sudden I heard this, and it sounded like it was right next to me because I was wearing the headphones.

Starting point is 00:06:44 And my first thought was, that's a big foot and my second thought was we've got to get out of here. And Sam, of course, he heard it too. but he heard it where it actually was. He said it was just down the valley, just down from the ridge where we were at.

Starting point is 00:07:00 So we started making our way back, but Sam was fascinating and he fascinated, and he kept looking and searching and calling. And then I made a call, and we heard one back, and that was just such an interesting experience. And then we went back home, and we looked up the Sierra Sounds, and we found a spot where,

Starting point is 00:07:23 it sounded exactly like Sierra sounds. So we're pretty sure that we heard a Vickfoot. That was a tremendous, tremendous experience. And then he started to go more north on Rampart Range Road, almost towards Douglas County. And we would camp over there. And one time, we were camping late September, and Sam and I were,

Starting point is 00:07:52 sitting by the fire. My husband was already in bed, a camper. And it was about 11 o'clock at night. It was cold. A full moon just came out. And we all of a sudden heard like a bark behind us, a real sharp one. And then we heard this holler that was down the hill from us. And it moved across the valley.

Starting point is 00:08:16 And at that time, Sam was wearing the amplification headphones. And he heard chill. children laughing and giggling. And this again, this was 11 o'clock at night, and this wasn't near any of the dispersed campgrounds that we could tell. And it was 11 o'clock at night, and it was cold. So it was so fascinating. And I wasn't scared or anything.

Starting point is 00:08:42 I just felt the sense of peace, like, wow, this is just surreal. But Sam heard all of that. And then the next day, we went down. to that valley where we thought that the sound originated from and we found a bunch of boat trees and then sam went on this hill and he found some small footprints so that was one of my most favorite times we've heard we've been to that area several times we've heard lots of pals there in fact one time sam thought that he heard something in a gully at night he described it as maybe as what he called a sentinel that was guarding the rest of the family. That was his supposition.

Starting point is 00:09:28 And then last fall, we were at that same place and we were out there at night. And he saw some eyeshine. And he saw a dark figure and it kind of turned around. Now, we look back through my video because all this time, most of the time, I've been recording this in video and I created my own YouTube channel called Saguashmong, just mainly to document our experiences. And there was a deer that went by, but Sam doesn't think it was the deer. So that was a real puzzler for us. So we've just, it's just been an amazing journey of hearing, mainly vocalizations, seeing some interesting structures and wondering where they come from and how they got there, who did that. Was it man-made? Was it Sasquash made. One time we were camping near Turner Goldschover by Terrial Reservoir,

Starting point is 00:10:28 and we were just sitting around the fire and all of a sudden some pine cones started to be thrown at us and we looked up in the trees and there weren't any pine cones right where we were. So that was very odd and mysterious to us. So we haven't had any sightings, you know, class A sightings. Sam may have. seen something but he's not sure is nothing nothing um for sure but just the the adventure and the mystery just keeps us going out there and mainly just we're able to spend time with each other that's the main really important thing that we get to do i i agree i you know i've taken uh i I as well have a child and I've taken him out in the woods to do kind of like Bigfoot camp out, father something.

Starting point is 00:11:29 And it is a really, it's a really special time. I recommend, you know, parents, if you can take your kids camping, it is a great way to bond for sure. You know, you mentioned that you have the Sasquatch Mom YouTube channel. have you ever seen anything upon second review of the footage that you're putting up there or have people pointed out anything after seeing things? People have pointed out things. No, I don't know that I can, I see them myself, but definitely people have pointed out

Starting point is 00:12:06 things. They're like there was this one time in the same area in the northern part of Rampart Range where we go to that we heard some. yips and some strange howls and I happened to catch that on video and I played it and people were like oh that's a bigfoot and then I then last summer we went to the bigfoot conference hosted by Sasquatch outpost and Sasquatch clothing company and I there's a gentleman named Jason Frank who wrote a book and he is a well-known research in this region and he listened to it and he said it was a Bigfoot. So I don't know. But yes, but I have had people say in my videos, oh, yes, there's something there at 3.38, you know, whatever. So yes. That's awesome. I love when the community starts to come

Starting point is 00:12:59 together and you get people throwing stuff into your comments and like, hey, look at that. And it's always a good time. Yeah, yeah. I'll be putting out vlogs kind of like that. I'll be putting out vlogs kind of like that starting in a few months and it'll be fun to see if that that stuff kind of gets picked up people start selling stuff in there but what I love is that there's kids that watch it too and particularly a brother's named Jacob and Noah and they just love to watch my show so that that's pretty humbling that I just love that there are kids watching it and liking it no absolutely I mean you never know who's watching your content. And, you know, I'll be at conferences and I'll have families come up and like

Starting point is 00:13:48 really little kids saying, oh, we love listening to your show. And I'm like, well, that's why I edit out the swears now. Because you never know, right, when the little kids are listening. I know. My most popular video has a swear word in it because we were coming down a trail. We were hearing all these whoops all around and then all of a sudden we hear gunshots and some idiots were shooting off guns off of the road very very short distance from the road and it was illegal to shoot there and i let off that's where we're denierly ever swear so yeah that is in there that's funny you got your pg13 for that one probably yeah right right um you mentioned that Sam found some smaller footprints the one time.

Starting point is 00:14:43 Do you have any estimate of how of their length at all? Or were you able to measure them? You know, I think sometimes we get so excited that we forget about things like that. I don't have that, but I do have that on video. Okay, got it. There you go. We'll have the link to that definitely in the description of show notes. so people can check that out.

Starting point is 00:15:07 Yeah. Then come back here and you can, they can be like, it was this big. Have you guys ever experienced any weird physical effects when you've been out in the field looking for things? Sam has. Sam has. Before I even got involved in this, we were, we had visited my brother in New Mexico in the Manzano Mountains. and we had taken her camper there, and Sam was going around tree knocking. And all of a sudden, he felt like he had this headache and he was tired,

Starting point is 00:15:49 and he had to go inside the camper and rest. And he told me at the time, he said, I've been zapped. And I didn't really know what that meant because I hadn't gotten into it at the time. But, yeah, that was definitely one time. And then another time, we were out hiking in one of our favorite places. And it happened to him again. He just got a really bad headache and very tired. And so we went back into the car.

Starting point is 00:16:16 Soon we got into the car, he was fine. We started driving around, Rampar Range, and he was perfectly fine. So those were definitely two times I noticed that he may have been what they call that. That's really interesting. it is also interesting how it affects different people in different ways. Right. And especially when you take the individual out of the environment, it usually is like, all right, we're good. Yeah.

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Starting point is 00:19:30 the hard way. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSK. Yeah, very, very strange. Yeah, he was perfectly fine. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I think there's something too infrasound. It's definitely a very interesting thing. Have you started to get to the point where people around your area are starting to become aware, hey, this person is into Bigfoot. You know, I'm going to share my account with these individuals. Has anything like that ever started to happen to you guys? No, unfortunately not.

Starting point is 00:20:10 Most of our connections have been through Jim Myers and more up in that area. So I haven't met too many people around Colorado Springs. I would love to. I'd actually like to start an organization. mainly so that some other maybe younger people can be with Sam going out into the mountains and he could do a little more radical things without his mother tagging along, who isn't in the best of shape and is a slight bit older than him. So, you know, that would be so great.

Starting point is 00:20:43 And also, I'd love to camp out in the Rampar Range. You know, you always hear the stories are of you're in a tent and just, Jim Myers tell stories like that. He's in a tent and he sees his hand print on. But maybe there would be more safety in numbers. I'm a little bit scared of that. I've come a long ways because when I first started, I would get so scared.

Starting point is 00:21:11 It was hilarious. I was be scared to go out at night and now I love it. I love going out on night hikes and I love camping in wilderness areas in my safe. camper but yeah I'm trying to get myself to go actual tent camping in a total where there's no campgrounds whatsoever in these dispersed hiking places. Hmm. I can tell you, but it's it's pretty wild. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:41 So that would be where safety and numbers would be nice besides just my son and I or my son husband and I, yeah, that would be nice. We'll see. But yeah, I would love to know more people around this region that actually do that because I don't know of anybody. Well, well, hopefully through this, people from that region can check out your channel, maybe start a few conversations on the, in your comments, all that good stuff. That can lead to some fun, fun things. Yes, that would be great. Are you okay if we discuss autism and Bigfoot for a few minutes?

Starting point is 00:22:27 Oh, absolutely. Okay. Two of my favorite subjects. Yeah, absolutely. Do you think that, I mean, this is going right into it, but do you think there could potentially be any connection between autism and Bigfoot? That is something that's being thrown around the community in the last few years. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:22:49 in the sense of someone like Sam having a special ability to sense things, I would definitely agree with that. If that, I'm not even exactly sure what you mean because that hasn't reached my ears, but I definitely see in him a ability to, like, first of all, he can focus on this subject he focused so much on it that we were homeschooling when this all started I turned this into a homeschooling science class cryptozoology and gave him a full credit for it because he when he dives into something he dives into it and he did it full force and with he has a lot of knowledge about it so I definitely think that there is some kind of connection with being able to

Starting point is 00:23:47 have that kind of different sense if you know what I mean no I definitely get it I've even been involved with certain groups where there has been an autistic child

Starting point is 00:24:05 present and sometimes there's there's more interactions which you know that and then you're let maybe you're thinking is it because that individual is here. I don't know if there's a way to prove that, but there's some people, especially if, you know, there's an individual.

Starting point is 00:24:26 His name is Chris Noel, and he even has a book about the potential connections between Sasquatch and autism. And, you know, it's just, I think it's also maybe a thing on the mind of the community. I don't know if you've listened to the telepathy tapes podcast that has been it's very very interesting I can tell you that this has helped

Starting point is 00:24:57 my son so much because before we started this and some other things that I'm doing here locally he was stuck in front of his computer he already talked to anybody and then we got involved in

Starting point is 00:25:13 big footing. We went to, like one time we went to a town hall that was hosted by Sasquatch Outpost up in Bailey or near Bailey and there's like what 30 or 40 people in the room and all talking about their experiences and all of a sudden Sam had to talk about something he knew about which was the St. Louis vocalizations and nobody knew what he was talking about. They were all very fascinated and then they came up and asked him about it afterwards. This is my son who is extremely shy and like I said he will he at that point would hardly talk to anyone except for me. He had to speak up in front of a group. I was floored and so and he just progressively gotten able to talk to more people and now like last summer as I said we

Starting point is 00:26:01 went to the expedition, the Bigfoot expedition and we were driving out to one of the sites on a night hike and he and his older gentleman were in the back of a pickup truck and he talked to this guy Bill all the way there all the way back he talked to anybody and i told the the one of the directors of the weekend i told him about sam and what this is it done for him and i i think maybe i was you know i think that touched him deeply so there is definitely something really healing about being out there in the woods and being out there with his community. It has helped Sam so much. That's great to hear that it is so empowering for him.

Starting point is 00:26:50 And it's such an interesting community because you get these events that happened and they're not, they're not written about anywhere and they're usually not in videos. So then it becomes a passing down of oral tradition in a way. way where you have one individual that really knows all the stuff about one certain location and like the Sasquatch activity there or like the St. Louis vocalizations, which I'm not really even familiar with myself. But now I'm super curious about it. I'm like, wow, is this in Colorado or is it in Missouri? I don't know. I think it's Missouri. It's really interesting. Yeah, you have to go check that out. So it is a very cool thing. And also,

Starting point is 00:27:37 empowering. How cool is it that, you know, now he's just, he's getting out there, he's talking to people and really making him, you know, come out of his shell, I guess, in a way. Yes. Yes, exactly. It's exactly what it's done. And now it's interesting. My husband, he's also autistic. He's not been officially diagnosed, but, you know, we think it's hereditary and he has different manifestations of it, different kind of behaviors. And my husband is a bit oblivious. Yes. We have to constantly tell him, don't go too far from us, you know, because safety is so important. You don't want anyone to be separated and not see each other in the woods. So, yeah, he's, and then our joke is when he sneezes, he sneezes so loud that he scares all the squashes away. That's funny. Yeah. So these are a foolproof safety. All he has to do a sneeze, and we're fine.

Starting point is 00:28:37 that's true yeah if stuff gets too crazy and bring out dad and he can yeah you can shut it down that's great you can do that on demand that's funny oh man has there ever a time when you guys have been out there and things got a little bit too intense for you guys well i may have that so but i was a chicken you know like hearing some thing Russell at night or whatever I was and this is the other thing it has changed me so much because

Starting point is 00:29:14 I used to be so afraid of everything and it has made me realize that there are worse things to face than the monster you think that is lurking in the woods is even it's so much harder to face the monster that's inside of you

Starting point is 00:29:30 that tells you you know I'm talking about me that tells me that I'm not good enough or I never amount to anything or all that the more I face my fears out there in the woods, the more I am able to face my own internal and external fears and the bolder I get and the more progress I make. So to me, it's just it saved my life. My son saved my life in that way, especially in just being physical because before this I was not exercising. I was losing mobility. And then we got into this and we had this idea. In fact, one of our goals is to hike the Colorado Trail for 30 miles.

Starting point is 00:30:14 You got to get in shape. And now I have a reason to get in shape. And so I've changed in that way too. And I can thank my son for practically, well, literally saving my life. Wow, what a journey for both of you. That is fantastic. Have you have you so it sounds like you're over over the time you know you went from being fearful to not as much did you find that that affected the interactions at all well I can unfortunately I can't say that I've had any particular interactions I've heard I've heard some vocalizations you probably have heard some responses but so far it has

Starting point is 00:31:03 been that close, but it would be interesting to see what happens when it is closer. I have had like, I don't know if this means anything, but I've had some interesting dreams, I've dreamt about Bigfoot's. I even had a, when we were out in Lost Creek, I heard, and I don't know if it was my sleep in my sleep or if I really heard, I heard a Bigfoot howl. And then I was in this paralysis, like where you didn't know if you were asleep or not. And then I did fall asleep for sure. And I had a dream about a Yeti.

Starting point is 00:31:39 But I told Daphne Myers about that not long after because I think we went back to Bailey and talked to her. And she said, yeah, that campground, there were some vocalizations like a year ago. And people were so scared they got out of there. So maybe I really heard a Bigfoot vocalization. I don't know. But, you know, to, I think somehow it's interesting that I've had all these dreams about them. So I don't know what it means, but it's interesting to me. Yeah, I agree with you.

Starting point is 00:32:15 You know, when I came back from being out in Oregon, I had some of the most vivid, intense dreams I've ever had in my life. And it was a little, I'm not really sure what, what, make of it still. It was almost like you were really in the dream. It's very weird, very weird stuff. Yes. Yes. And these Bigfoot, well, they were both females, the tutoring they had, and they were, they weren't scary. They just had this huge sense of peace about it. I don't see them as scary monsters, although, you know, they can be and some can be more aggressive than others, especially if they're guarding their territory or their families, but I don't look at them as horrible, horrendous monsters

Starting point is 00:33:04 that go around killing people of purpose. I think there's different kinds, but around here I see them as peaceful beings, not that I'm going to be foolish about it, but that's how I see them. I have a lot of respect for what people call the forest people or Sabah, or whatever you want to call them. You know, besides, you know, we did talk about you have your YouTube channel, but you've also are an author of fiction as well.

Starting point is 00:33:38 Would you be able to share a little bit about or about your Bigfoot theme fiction as well? Yeah, yeah, of course. So, so that first day that we, the first time that we camped over Meridian Campground, I had an idea to write a novel about a teenager. who has Asperger's or autism that meets a junior Sasquatch. And so I've been writing that novel since 2019, like just in bits and pieces. I'm probably halfway through the rough draft. And that has been so much fun.

Starting point is 00:34:20 And I've used a lot of my experiences. And also just I've, since then, I've listened to a lot of podcasts with people's experiences and kind of weaved all these kinds of things together. So I don't know if I'm going to get it done this summer, but hopefully by next summer. And then a couple of Halloweens ago, I got an idea to write a short story

Starting point is 00:34:43 and it's about a prank that this brother pulls on his brother. And that comes from when I lived in Albuquerque when I was a child, my two brothers came home one day scared and white as a ghost because they said they saw a big foot. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Reistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Los Colteracist with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. Spend your balance instantly with the Venmo debit card in an end up to 5% cashbacks on your favorite bundle of brands when you join Venmo's stash. Your rewards come from bundles of brands you can keep or switch every 30 days so you can choose the ones that match your everyday spending. The more you do with Venmo, the more you get.

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Starting point is 00:37:51 And climb down this rock and take down. this girl and take it away. And so this was the question that I had growing up. Was this real? Did they really see it? One of my brothers says, oh, it was probably somebody pranking us. And so it gave me an idea to write a story about these two competitive brothers and their little sister and how they encounter a bigfoot in Washington State. Because I also used to live there. I was a military brat, so I moved around a lot. So yeah, so I wrote this story all about these, uh, this family and they're encountered with Bigfoot on Halloween. And then I decided to expand it and write these short stories that kind of go along for every month, like when will

Starting point is 00:38:41 be Thanksgiving, Christmas, et cetera, and they'll move around. They'll be in Washington State, then New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado. And I'm going to put some of those different, like I'll take, take some of those stories because this is set in the 70s and so is my novel and I'm going to take those old stories and kind of talk about them and you know bring them out that way so it's it's really fun and then and then I'm also taking all of my videos one by one I'm taking the transcript of it and turning it into a story and then explaining it more in print of what happened and And all of these will be and or are in my substack account. I have a substack account, and that's where I'm publishing them right now.

Starting point is 00:39:34 That's awesome. And how wild is it that this subject has kind of been following you through your life? And you have that history from the earlier part of your life. That is interesting. Yes. Yes. In fact, when I was 14 and I lived in Littleton, Colorado, I thought, the Bigfoot was going to come over the hill, come up my room, and take me away.

Starting point is 00:39:57 And I was so frightened when I was 14. This is so funny. That's how scared I was of Bigfoot. But yet, there was this huge fascination. My brother David and I used to, we used to go around in the Hamous Mountains looking for Bigfoot. Of course, we didn't know what we were doing. But, you know, so I had memories of actually doing that. Not that it was, you know, on any grand scale, but that actually was a problem.

Starting point is 00:40:23 part of my childhood and Sam just touched this part of me, this nostalgia part of me. So it was really neat. That is very cool. You know, you focus on the Pikes Peak area. Do you have any advice for people that might want to check out that area focused on Bigfoot activity in different places? well there is actually a lot of sightings in the pike's peak area and a lot of them are in teller you know obviously teller county but but along rampart range road the back side of pike's peak i had a friend who saw a bigfoot come through bar camp bar trail camp or bar camp trail or something um this is a campground that is on the trail that goes up to pike's speak on the east side and she saw a big foot so there's Skagway reservoir there's

Starting point is 00:41:28 been sightings there it's just all over my best piece of advice is to go look at either BFRO or the Bigfoot mapping project and that will tell you where those sightings are and what we try to do is we try to look for those sightings and go to that site and talk about it from the original sightings. So we do some of that in our research. But yeah, go to BFRO or the Bigfoot mapping project. There's so many sightings around here. Is it one of those regions where you really have to do your homework before just launching into an area?

Starting point is 00:42:07 Or is it pretty easy access to get to these places? That depends. Some of them, you know, you need a four-wheel drive. I would, some of them are pretty rough roads. Now, we haven't ventured into too many wilderness areas. Here, the wilderness areas are more like up north and Lost Creek and stuff like that. But I would say, when you're going to the woods, always be prepared, just like boys' guys, right? So you want to be able to especially defend yourself against bears or cougars.

Starting point is 00:42:48 Those are probably more of a danger than anything, although we've never had any problems with that. But you want to be prepared if you're going to go into the woods. I'd say that's the number one thing. So you have enough water and you have some kind of protection, like maybe it's bear spray. and you have whatever it is that you need to be in the woods. You have a good map. So those kinds of things. That's pretty solid advice.

Starting point is 00:43:19 Yeah, yeah. I mean, look what happened to the people in Washington State. It went out, what, in December and they died? You just have to be smart about it and be prepared. That is definitely an understatement. You know, the elements can change on you and especially that area. Oh, that area? It could snow in July.

Starting point is 00:43:41 You don't know. Yeah. Do you guys ever talk about, you know, man, if we could go to this place in the U.S. too, to look for Bigfoot, that would be really cool. Do you guys have like a bucket list of places to go to or just kind of focus on Colorado? Well, I'll tell you, I have a nephew who lives in the Olympia. I'd love to go there. Oh, my gosh. I also have a niece who lives, his sister lives in Reno near Lake Tahoe.

Starting point is 00:44:13 That would be amazing. So yeah, definitely. Those two places. Also, my parents are both from Wyoming and my mother lived in Sheridan, Wyoming when she grew up. And so I know that there's a lot of sightings there. We would just love to go to the Bighorns and to the Wind River Reservation area. there's a lot of sightings there. And in Riverton where my dad grew up.

Starting point is 00:44:42 So I think that would be awesome. So definitely we would love to. Now, in 2020, we went to South Dakota and to the hill country. And we did do a little bit of big footing, but I don't remember anything too significant happening. It was fun. But definitely, yeah. And then our ultimate goal,

Starting point is 00:45:03 and not that we would find any big fit over there, but we'd love to go to Scotland. and then go to like totally different subject and sea lockness that would be really fun too so i mean that that would be phenomenal but yeah scotland i mean there are some of the highland areas and you've got yeah you know your wild man stories and exactly exactly right but right you never know i think it would be well it would just be fascinated for one thing i'm i'm of scottish scottish ancestry so I'd just love to go there again, but yeah, that would be fascinating. That would be our ultimate dream there.

Starting point is 00:45:48 Do you, and this is kind of putting you on the spot, but do you have any advice to, let's say, if there's parents that are listening where they have autistic children where they are super into Bigfoot, have there been any lessons that you've learned over the years as you, you started to get into this subject with your son? Well, I would say give them time and space. I mean, my son struggles with energy, so he's not always able to go when I think I want to. So I have to be patience. And then sleep is a huge factor. So if you're going out camping,

Starting point is 00:46:37 making sure that they get adequate sleep, I know it's difficult when you're out there camping, especially if you're in a tent. But that has been something that has thrown us off. If Sam doesn't get the sleep that he needs, then he just doesn't have the energy to go out in the mountains. So definitely thinking about how the kids can get sleep is important. And also you want to make sure that your insight of each other at all times. having walkie-talkies would be really good as what we have. But yeah, definitely my number one thing would be don't let them out of your site,

Starting point is 00:47:21 train them never to get out of sight because it could take a second and they're gone. I don't mean to scare anybody is, but it's just the facts. So you want to make sure that they're always in your site and they know to be in your site. No, I think that that is great advice as well. I mean, it's, yeah, it's definitely not to scare anyone, but it is, yeah, it's a conversation that that needs to be said. How many stories have you heard of an individual being there one second and you turn around, turn back? They're gone forever. I mean, it's so easy to turn your back for a few seconds and then they're gone.

Starting point is 00:48:01 That is so easy. So, yeah, just having that is so important. even with us and we're three adults. You know, we don't, you know, unless we have the walkie-talkies, we don't go off by ourselves. Absolutely. Dana, it's been a really fun time talking to you tonight. And thank you for being so, so open with your view of the subject. It's just such an interesting and unique one.

Starting point is 00:48:36 Do you mind spending a few minutes? reminding my listeners how they can keep up to date with what you guys have going on with your search into Sasquatch out there in Colorado. Yeah, I'd love to. So my YouTube channel is the handles at Squatch Mom, S-Q-U-A-T-C-H-Mom. That's my channel, and I have 100 videos right now. I'm going to have 101 very shortly because I just finished it. So there's that.

Starting point is 00:49:13 And then honestly, I just started my such text, so I don't know the link. But if you wanted, I can give it to you. But that's the other place where I write about Bigfoot, either through fiction or I write recaps of the experiences that we've had. That's great. Yeah. I'll make sure to have both those links in the show notes. but Dana, thank you so much, Dana Beasley, for coming on the show.

Starting point is 00:49:39 It has been a pleasure. It was fun. Big Fitting is my number one therapy. It's just, it's my lifesaver, so I love it. I just wanted to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Dana's story is a reminder that sometimes chasing mysteries into the woods leads to unexpected healing, deeper connections, and moments that you never forget. So huge thanks to her and her son Sam for sharing their journey with us. If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to us on YouTube, hit the bell icon so you don't miss any notifications, and share this episode with a friend who'd appreciate it.

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