Bigfoot Society - An Oregon Outdoorsman Shares Years of Sasquatch Encounters Near Seaside and Mount Hood

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary experiences of Matt from Oregon, an outdoorsman whose years in the forests, rivers, and mountains of the Pacific Northwest have placed him face to face with something he never expected. From the coastal mountains near Seaside to the shadowed stretches of Lolo Pass and the Columbia River Gorge, Matt shares a series of encounters that have unfolded over more than a decade.What began with explosive wood knocks in a remote canyon while salmon fishing soon expanded into glowing eye shine along the Sandy River, massive tree breaks deep off logging roads, and unnerving activity near his campsites. As time went on, the encounters intensified — figures approaching his camp in the middle of the night, towering shapes stepping into view, and moments so close they left a lasting imprint on his life.Matt also opens up about the deeper questions these experiences raised for him — the patterns he began noticing, the locations that seemed especially active, and the personal journey that ran parallel to his time in the woods. His story spans Mount Hood National Forest, Welch’s, Skamania County, and the rugged coastline of Oregon, painting a vivid picture of ongoing Sasquatch activity across some of the most storied regions in the Northwest.Join us as we explore Matt’s gripping encounters and the mystery that continues to follow him through Oregon’s wild places.🗣️ 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

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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. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Matt today. Matt is out there in Portland, Oregon area. He's an outdoorsman, a hiker, and a fisherman. And he's had some really interesting things happen out there over the years. So he's on the show to talk about that today. How are you doing today, Matt? Doing pretty good. Awesome. Awesome. One of my favorite things to talk to

people about Oregon and especially, you know, really that that cascade region. I know we're going to be going a few different places, but you know, that area right outside of Portland, the Clackamas area, the Mount Hood National Forest is just a very cool place to visit. But, you know, Matt, feel free to take us back to when your whole Bigfoot journey started for you. What was the first thing that kind of got you into it? So, you know, I've heard and, you know, obviously seen the Patterson Gimlin film growing up. So I was kind of always in the back of my head. The very first encounter, I think I was back in college or senior year of high school.

And me and my buddy were hiking down a logging road into kind of a secluded area at the coast near seaside for Spring Chinook. And we had to, it was on like private timberland. And so we had a parker car and hike on a logging road for probably like four miles. And then bushwhack through a clear cut down to a canyon. And then from there, you know, we'd hike this very isolated canyon and just hook a bunch of salmon. And when we got down there this day, it had rained a lot. And we got down there in the river. It was just really high and muddy.

And so we were really bummed out. And so, because we just did all that work to get in there, you know, a lot, many hours of hiking. And so my buddy tried a new rig to fish, which was called back bouncing. I didn't think it was going to work. And we ended up hooking back-to-back limits of salmon after we switched up the technique. And it just, it went from like a total bummed. out, we're not going to hook anything. We just waste their time day to just like, you know, soaring on the clouds of accomplishment. And right at the moment when we finally both got our

limits and we're just kind of sitting around eating lunch, you know, just really happy, we, we heard these wood knocks. And the wood knocks came from about a hundred feet above us because we were in a really deep canyon. And the wood knocks were. so loud that I could feel the sound waves like hit my chest. Like I remember that. The feeling of the sound was like, it was like at a concert. Like when you go to the concert and you stand right next to the big subwoofers and it hits you in the chest. And so when I heard that, I knew exactly, you know, I just knew in my head.

I'm like, man, that's something huge with like a bat. strike in a tree. And so I'm a pretty big guy, you know, I'm like six, five. And, and so I picked up the biggest stick I could. And I would knock back. And I was trying to hit it as loud and as hard as I could. And it responded back, like immediately. But I just, I could not recreate, like, one-tenth of that sound. And so, uh, it responded back, like, immediately. And so, uh, I just, I could not recreate like one-tenth of that sound. And so that was the first encounter. And we never did see it,

but those wood knocks catapulted me into a lot of research. And yeah, it was started listening to Sasquatch Chronicles right when it started, West Ghermer's channel. And I kind of just stuck with that for. many years. I went a very long time in between encounters. And I was cool with that because I wasn't, I was terrified, you know, like, I just wanted to go out there hike and catch my salmon and have a good camping trip if I was camping. And I really just didn't want anything. I didn't want, I didn't want to see one ever. And then, yeah, and so after that, it's probably about five or ten years later when I

had another encounter. And when I talk about these encounters tonight, it's very distinct. They will go from like really mild, really kind of just like easygoing encounters. And then there's a very distinct moment when the encounters just like get really intense and amplified. And I'll get to that. But yeah, so after that first Woodnock experience, I, uh, I, uh, You know, at this point, I've done like years of research. I know they exist. I was talking to my coworker about it at the time. And he didn't believe me.

You know, he didn't believe me, but he wanted to go camping with me. And so he loved camping right up 224 outside of S. Decatur. I guess they call it the, was it the Sasquatch Highway or Bigfoot Highway or something like that? It is called the Oregon Bigfoot Highway. Yeah, you're correct. Oregon Bigfoot Highway, yeah. I didn't know that at the time, but he just loved camping up there, you know, kind of past Fish Creek. I didn't know exactly where we went this day, but he was like, yeah, let's go on a camping trip.

He had this trailer he just got. He was really excited about it, getting a little camping trailer for his family. Wanted to test it out. So we drove up there after work on our weekend, like three or four hours. And we lived in Oregon City area at the time. And so I just remember driving through the night well off the main road, up logging roads. And then we finally reached the end of this logging run. It was just completely washed out.

And so we just camped right there. And when he was in bed and I was sitting there. by the fire, I, uh, I heard this, just this weird mumbling in the distance, like behind me. And it sounded like something was having like a hushed conversation. And so, uh, I heard that mumbling. And then the next morning, my buddy, uh, we woke up. And, uh, he was just like, let's just hike up that road and just, uh, see where it goes, you know. Um, and so we're hiking. And, uh, at this point, you know, he's, he's given me a lot of grief over the subject, but, you know, I know what I heard. And I generally like to warn everyone,

at least about, like, what's in the woods, you know, if they're an outdoors type of person, just so they can be safe. And just truly know what's out there. And so we got up there. And on our way, it was either on our way back down, another route or at the last part of going up, we found these tree breaks that were about 10 to 11 feet off the ground, like in a row. And again, we were like four hours, three hours drive up a logging row that washed out. Then we hiked like another five or six miles up the washout. And then found these tree breaks, you know. And I was like, you know, to my friend, I was just like, we think cause that, you know.

I was just like, there's no, he is a really scientific, mind-oriented person, you know. I was like, there's no cable, you know, burn marks around a tree. There's no tracks to have equipment come in. And these trees are, they're pretty big-sized trees. And so once he realized that like something with hands went out there and broke him in a row, about 10 feet, 11 feet high, he had it panic. attack and he couldn't get off the mountain. And so, yeah, I ended up having to, like, coax him down the mountain. Probably one of the worst panic attacks I've, like, ever seen. But, you know,

I wasn't holding it against him, you know, because it is pretty terrifying at first once you know what's in the woods. So that'd be my second encounter. I want to jump in real quick, Matt, to provide some context for that area if that's all right. Yeah. The area you're talking about right there is a really intense area. People may have heard about that area recently in the news and not realized it. And I'm not saying that, so there was an individual, a hunter that went missing in Esticata. His name was Devin Dobeck, I believe.

and he was that was in the same area that Fish Creek Campground where he went missing and then he was found. I'm not saying that it was due to Bigfoot, but I'm saying that this area is wilderness that you're talking about. And whenever I talk about the Oregon Bigfoot Highway, I put a huge disclaimer in there. If you go down in that area, you got to be prepared for anything. you got to have extra tire, extra gas. There's all sorts of weird stuff out there. So go ahead. Absolutely.

After the wood knocks and the tree breaking experiences, I had, I mean, I can't confirm it was a big foot, but just because of the eyeshine, you know, and then actually seeing them and then looking back on it, I'm like, that was probably a big foot. But on the San Diego, river I hiked in before sunrise. And down a trail I'd been down my whole life and just caught some green eyeshine or the

the eye shine was pretty big like the actual eyeballs. And the spacing of the eye shine was really wide. I mean like wider than any animal I'd seen at the time. and it was like off the perfect spot off the trail to like ambush you know so um yeah saw that with some green eyeshine and then another um experience that I had hiking um at night after fishing near Oxbow Park on the Sandy um that was the last fisherman off the bank that day. The sun had just set. And from across the river, I could hear something huge and grunting and making just the strangest sounds I've ever heard an animal make in the woods,

kind of just breaking its way down to the riverbank. And then that about ends it for the, just the, we call it, the calm encounters. and can i ask you something about the first sandy river thing real quick matt i just got a question about that um was that in the same area as oxbow or because i know the sandy goes uh quite a quite a ways right yeah um the one with the i shine that was uh near the the fish hatchery um cedar creek cedar creek fish hatchery at this point i mean And listen to Sasquatch Chronicles and doing other research at the time, like in the early YouTube days, was just probably like my number one way of study in the subject. Because at this point, you know, it's just like I'm having a lot of experiences so far.

I just, I have to figure out, you know, like, what is this creature? You know, like what is going on? And why are they attracted? It seems like to me, you know, like, because some people go their whole lives without hearing anything, you know. And so one thing I have to bring up is at this point in my life. And right now I'm just like kind of nitpicking the big foot stories out of a whole other experience. had with the the paranormal. So and during this time, I received,

during this time, I received like a full dose of the supernatural and paranormal. And I'm going to talk about what kind of set that off. And so just kind of being, just the person I am with studying like the mysterious. I had started studying the occult and trying to figure out, you know, like, what is going on with this stuff? And when I had started researching into like occult practices and, you know, like what is behind

this? What are the forces? Is this even real? I started to become haunted by fallen angels. and demons. And at this point in time, I, just out of desperation to save myself, you know, from being terrorized every night, I had found Jesus because that was the only name that would keep these entities away.

And at this time, I had a, you know, a Jewish background. And so when these entities came around, I tried like every name, Hebrew name, to try and keep them away. And as like a last ditch, you know, effort, I threw out Jesus, you know, and they left. And so, you know, that set off a whole other list of experiences that I could talk about, you know, on another chance. channel and a half. I've gone on a few channels talking about it. But so right now, leading up to these next experiences, I am literally fighting off demons and being haunted every night. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either

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And I was just like, I really just want to go on a fishing trip to that secretive river by seaside where I had my first encounter. And when I drove out there, I parked and I was just going to sleep in my car just on the edge of the woodline and then wake up in the morning and hike in. And as I was trying to go to bed, I noticed that there was a drone. like not too far above my car. And I just, I just didn't like that at all. And right about the same time that I noticed a drone, I noticed a lot of grunts, a lot of grunts and a lot of tree breaks. And I was probably only like 10 feet away from the tree line.

And I knew what it was. I knew what was going on. It seemed like multiple Bigfoot had come to the tree line. and they were grunting and breaking branches. And I could see orange, eye shine. And at this point, I started, it seemed like receiving, like, psychic communications from them. It felt like my mind was being overwhelmed with just words and feelings and emotions. And I was in my car and my knee was really hurt bad.

Like I was contemplating like how am I going to make this hike tomorrow? And I have graphite fishing rods that were sitting in the car as well. And so when this whole troop family of Bigfoot, you know, are just right in the tree line, they didn't come out of the tree line. They just stayed right there. I think maybe because the drone, you know, kind of the drone was sitting there and just like capturing all of it. I just thought that was so strange. But and so while that is all going on, I started getting hit by what I think is infrasound.

It was an extremely low vibration. And I remember my rod tips, my graphite rod tips, my car were just like waving back and forth. But I, the infrasound was like healing my knee. my knee was just really swollen. I had hurt it at work. And it felt like it was just so soothing on my knee. And I was like, oh, it seems like they're trying to heal my knee before the fishing trip, you know, or something like that. So I went to bed.

I woke up. I went fishing. And a bunch of other stuff happened during that fishing trip. But Bigfoot-wise, that was the end of that experience. I have a few questions for you about that. That is extremely fascinating. That's a pattern I've seen come up on just my show a few times where there is some healing aspect. And I do not know what to think about that so far.

But my question for you is, so you're getting, you said these words and emotions. Do you remember any of the words you were getting or the emotions you were feeling? Yeah, it was, you know, without, I'm trying to, without sounding crazy, you know what I mean. Say whatever, whatever you got. Say it, Matt. You're good, man. I had like a psychic communication with them. And it was just regarding like, are you a Bigfoot family?

You know, like, yes. And, you know, have you guys seen me come? Because I've been out to this spot for years. and it was like the place of like my first encounter. And it was just like a lot of yeses to my questions. But I asked them one question. I was like, is there a bunch of fish down there? They're like, yes.

And they were right. There was a bunch of fish that day. But yeah. So yeah, that's what happened there. And at the same time that was going on, a drone was like 30, 50 feet above the car and that's just like really yeah it just uh it just really uh freaked me out and it just like it made me feel like like someone's watching but it just it was a really it was just a really kind of bad time for me you know um i don't know what to what what what what how to explain that but

yeah that's that's an incredible experience what year was that approximately Oh, 2020, 2021. Okay. The whole demonic thing really kicked up after COVID. That's when it kicked up. Wow, really? Oh, my goodness. Okay.

Right around Halloween, too. Like a week or two after Halloween, that's when it started kicking off. So, yeah, that experience was, yeah, probably 20, 21. Yeah. Okay. In the spring. Um, in the spring.

So then the next day was your knee completely healed then or how was that going? It felt better. It felt better. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It felt better. And, um, during that fishing trip, I did find, uh, some bigfoot scat.

And, um, yeah, that was like, like, I was expecting like this next day, like, huge reveal that come out in broad daylight you know we're just talking to you matt you know and they did not it seems like they only come out at night did you go over to that tree line uh the next day and see if you could find any tracks or or anything like that um i didn't i i intended to but when i woke up in the morning uh before sunrise you know i was just focused on getting to the river get down there fish, catch my fish, because, you know, that's why I'm there to do. And then on my way out, on my way out, you know, kind of look around. But during that whole fishing trip, I just, I got harassed by the Timberland property

owners who never really have harassed me, you know, fishing there before. And so that just like really put a damper on, you know, going to that tree line and like looking for prints and stuff. Were they trying to just get you off the property, you think? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I wonder if it was their drone then.

Who knows? After that fishing trip, you know, just suffered a lot of other paranormal things. And then I got another fishing trip lined up. It was like literally the very next fishing trip. and this fishing trip happened later in spring. And so this next Bigfoot encounter was really, really scary, really intense. Me and my buddy had a plan to go anchor his boat in the Columbia River Gorge, in the Columbia River, right below Bonneville Dam.

In the springtime, right off the tip of this island, in the middle of the river. And in the springtime, the Columbia is the highest and the Willamette is usually the highest and has the fastest current. And my buddy bailed on me at the last minute. And so I was pretty bummed out, but I knew in my head that if I could just get to that island, I could fish off the bank with a technique and camp on the island. And so I, in my head, I set out to take one of my whitewater rafts. And I was going to launch at Beacon Rock and, you know, row my way to this island. And so I got out there. I barely made it out to the island.

The river was so fast, like extremely fast. And I probably craw, I probably rode across like a mile of river. In the gorge, like I think the Columbia is sometimes like a mile and a half to two miles of crops. And so I made it out to this island and I set up camp, got in a really good fishing spot. And then the encounter happened somewhere around 1 or 2 a.m. it was kind of doing a light rain and the weather was slightly raining and it was kind of keeping me up. And so I remember I was frying some fish over the fire right around 1 or 2 a.m. And I looked up from my campfire just across, it was a small island too.

And looked across and I saw three sets of glowing orange eyes. like bigger, bigger than a golf ball, but smaller than a baseball in size. And so there's three sets of them, three creatures. And I just looked up, you know, with my headlamp and the fire and saw them walk in. And they must have been about, I don't know, 40 feet away, 40 feet away when I noticed them. and they weren't they weren't like peek in or looking they're just walking straight up on me you know um and so uh i jumped up and uh i started screaming at them and uh i uh they they wouldn't stop and so because of the increased of paranormal activity i was experiencing and then just

kind of like my, uh, my lifelong fear of bigfoot and what's in the woods. I had gotten myself like a green laser, uh, that shoots, you know, one of those ones that shoots like 10 miles.

And the reason I got that is because long ago on Wes's channel, he had on some guys that said, uh, the green laser, if you shine it in a big foot's eyes, it will permanently blind them. And so I had this laser on me. And,

when these three bigfoot were walking up on me, and they weren't stopping, I took out the green laser and I just, you know, I didn't want to, like, hit it immediately in the eye and piss them off, you know? I kind of, you know, waved the laser around. They weren't stopping. And then so I remember, I finally got one right in the eye. And the second I hit one right in the eyeball, they all three. stopped at the same time as if they were like linked up as like one mind and uh then they all kind of

turn to the side and walked away but um and at this point they're probably like 30 feet away and uh you know i couldn't see like colors or you know the color of them it was at night but um i could see their whole dark form and uh when they turned and walked away it just it was looked like they were doing like this like forward moonwalk and uh it was it was freaky and um i uh i uh i just i couldn't believe that those creatures swam across the columbia river at night you know the the current must have been like five or six miles an hour you know during that time but uh and so after i finally you know shown the latest are in their eyes and they left.

I was just probably the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I called my mom, you know, just to tell her what happened. And I remember she laughed at me. She laughed. And so right after that, I was in Schumania. It's in Schumania County, the area I was at. I called the Schumania County Sheriff's Office. And they sent a boat out.

And the boat sat anchored right. right off the island in the river, like a Schemann County Sheriff's Office jet boat, you know. And they sat with me all night, you know, to, I think, you know, observe. And, you know, it brought me comfort, you know, so. In the morning I left and, yeah, that was really scary. That's intense, Matt. I got a few questions about that.

So you're saying it's on the Washington side. I'm guessing was that Cascades Island then? It was Pierce Island. Pierce Island. Okay. Gotcha. You actually could see like the silhouettes of them as they're walking. Yeah.

How tall would you estimate that they were if you could see that? 10 or 12 feet tall. They were huge. To me it seemed like three big males, you know. know, just three of the biggest big foot. Yeah. That's interesting. And the way that that Schemania Sheriff Boat reacted and just kind of hung out with it really

makes you wonder if they've gotten calls like this before. And they're like, oh, we may want to hang out here for a little bit. That really, really makes you wonder. But that is wild. Have you ever been back to that island since? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I fish there every spring. And with some of my buddies, I don't bring up the encounter.

But, you know, I was there last spring catching fish. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, This is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs. You'll get matched with candidates that meet the skills, certifications, and everything else you're looking for.

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Just being, you know, in my head like, oh, that's right where they came up right there, you know. So, yeah, I've been back there quite a bit. I'll be back there next spring. But yeah, I would like to mention, I haven't confirmed this, but I've always kind of heard that the Schumania County, I think it was like the first county to like recognize Bigfoot. And I'm pretty sure it's a felony charge to kill one if you had the chance. I haven't confirmed that, but something I've heard. There was an ordinance that declared the county of Sasquatch Refuge made the willful sling of Bigfoot a felony punishable by five years in prison, which was later

amended to a gross misdemeanor, one year in jail, $1,000 fine. So yeah, it's something you don't want to do in Skamania County, in other places too. That has kind of happened in other counties, too. What year was this again that you had the incident by the dam? I'd say 2021 or 2022. Okay. Gotcha. At this point, it just felt like, it felt like, Like, I just had really dark forces that were trying to kill me, trick me, scare me, you know, all because I had looked into the occult and found Jesus, you know. And so it was, I truly felt like the devil was just trying to use whatever tool he had to scare the crap out of me and to make me lose heart. and faith. And it was, you know, on top of these Bigfoot encounters, you know, again, I'll say, like, I was, I was being haunted daily, nightly by spirits. So, um, anyways, uh, so this, uh,

brings me to my next set of encounters. Um, this all happened in Welch's. And, uh, at this point in time, I had just had enough of Portland and it felt like God was telling me to just immediately leave Portland and just move to Central Oregon and just get away from just everywhere else having bad experiences at, just kind of have like a fresh start. And, you know, so at this point, in my head, you know, when, when God tells you to do something, you know, you should listen and follow through. And so I, I literally left my life. And I just went up to Mount Hood to just hide away from a lot of other stuff that was going on. and I really just wanted to hide in the woods and, you know, work in a small mountain town. And so I didn't have any friends up there yet up in Welch's, but I found a cool place to camp in the National Forest. And I went out and I got like three part-time jobs.

And so one of my part-time jobs up there. was cleaning out Airbnb's. Another one was tree cutting arboree with my friend who talked to me about getting on your show. And then my other part-time job was working at a Mexican restaurant in town. And so I'm just, you know,

hiding away in the forest, camping and just working all these part-time simple jobs. And I remember, you know, I'm out there in the Mountain Hood National Forest every night sleeping. And the first weird thing I heard was just laughing in the woods. Just heard some laughing. And, you know, I was really like hoping like, you know, God's going to protect me from more encounters. but that laughing in the woods at night, like, was just the start of more encounters. And the, I forget how, like, how long it was of me being out there before I saw this Bigfoot.

But again, it was at night during a full moon. I walked from my tent to my truck just to, to get something. And I was using a headlamp. And when I got out to my truck, I could just see like just those huge golf ball glowing orange eyes in the tree line just off the road, you know, probably like 40 or 50 feet away. And they're at my eye level, you know. And so I just, I turned my headlamp on really bright. I started like bobbing my head up and down, you know.

Like I was just kind of scared and just trying to just do something funny. And the Bigfoot started bobbing his head up and down too. And, you know, just kind of mimicking me. And the eyes were at like, you know, my eye level, six or seven feet. But then, you know, when he started bobbing, he stood up and he was at like 10 feet tall. And so, you know, I was just like, man, I got to go to bed and wake up for work tomorrow so I just walked back to my tent and went to bed. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness, dude. We got to talk for a few minutes about this area. Oh, yeah, and I want listeners. This is off of a low, low, pass road. Yeah, exactly. And I was, I was going to double check that with you. So, listeners, if you've heard Lolo Pass in Lolo

Pass Road come up on the show. This is the exact area. This is the Mount, uh, it's also called Mount Hood Village too. Um, the episodes this area has come up so far, uh, Gary Allen's episodes. Uh, you've heard him how he takes his electric bike and his girlfriend takes his horse up there and how they experienced all that stuff. And then there was the gentleman who was at a campground in this area and they saw a dark figure down close to the ground and then it stood up to be a very tall Sasquatch but then it turned into a black form of smoke and went over the creek nearby. It's just a very, very strange area. Lolo Pass is extremely active so I was like it's got to be the same area.

I'm just curious. I can cut this out, too, if I need to. Are you able to share the campground that this happened at, or is that a thing where you're kind of keeping that up your sleeve? Yeah. No, no, no, no. I don't care. You know, like, I'll tell you exactly where it happened. So when I found this spot, it was, it's not the campground that's all the way at the end of,

low pass road you know that big camping area on your way up to those that waterfall

really nice beautiful waterfall up there I was camping like Ramona Falls yeah I was camping like in between

people's houses there was this little sliver of national forests that came up and they crossed over this creek with like

a parking spot And so I was just like, I'm going to park my truck right here and I'm going to camp and, you know, drink creek water and, you know, just kind of hide away. But yeah, I was literally these creatures, where I saw these creatures was literally in everyone's backyard area. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, because there's Airbnb's up that road for sure. Yeah. So you weren't at an actual campground, but you were in a place where you could camp. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, my goodness. I'm not surprised at all. That area is just bonkers. The stuff I've heard. My goodness. Yeah.

So did you stay there for a few days or were you like, I'm out of here? I was just like, all I know is I can't go back to Portland. I have to move away. And, you know, at the time, my family was just not, and friends, just what we're not believing while I was going through. So it's just like I'm on my own and I'm just going to hide away up here in Mount Hood and, you know, make my way to Central Oregon. But yeah, so another thing I'd like to add is I was working cleaning out Airbnbs, you know, is one of my part-time jobs. And, you know, some were just like right down from where I was camping and, you know, kind of all over the Welch's area.

and every single one of them, they, they always are just like, all right, make sure you lock up the garbage, Matt, you know, like we, we have problems with black bears.

And, and I would go out there and look at some of the damage. Like, a lot of people in Welchers have like these elaborate, wooden crate, locked garbages, you know, and,

oh, the black bears keep breaking into them. I'm like, you know, the big foot are breaking into your garbages and all your food, you know, so.

Wow. That's what I think they were doing is they were coming down low, low, pass road, and they would just, you know, go through everyone's neighborhood, go through their garbage, and then people just chalked it up to Black Bears, you know, so. Oh, my goodness. So working in that area and living there for a while, would you hear stories from people that were also having Bigfoot encounters or sightings in that same area? No, I kind of just kept it low key, you know, only certain people, because I only knew my coworkers, you know, from my various jobs up there.

That one, the tree arborist that likes listening to your show, he, I was sharing with him what I was going through, you know, and he was just like, dude, you're crazy. I don't know if I believe you, man, but I kind of believe you. While I was living, camping and welches and working, I had another encounter where one came, I was sleeping in my tent, you know, and one came a foot away from my tent. And it was going through my food, the place where I stored my food. And it was during a, like the moon was out. I don't know if it was fuller or not, but I just remember waking up and seeing,

you know, something making like the noise it was making, uh, was, it was just like demonic. Like, it was just like a really dark, demonic grunting breathing,

you know, it just, it, it's just, it did not sound like a, like a good animal, you know, but it was hunched over,

just going through my garbage, you know, and I was just laying in bed and I was like, a foot away from it. I was just like, Yeah, this is my life, you know. This is my, this is my everyday. Yeah, same area, low, low pass.

Oh, wow, dude. I don't know how, how you survive just like mentally, just knowing that they're like right there and they're messing with me, dude. Oh, my goodness. Was this really recent or was this like 2023 or what would you say? Yeah, I'd say this was about 20, and yeah, and 20, Yeah. Yep.

Okay. Spring of 2023. A lot of my encounters happen in the spring, I've noticed. Yeah. I think they hide away in the wintertime. So, but. Absolutely. Yeah.

So, so then within the same area of Welch's, but in a different side of Welch's, I had driven my truck up the Salmon River. And so on the complete other side of town from where I was camping and having these Bigfoot experiences, I had driven my truck up the Salmon River. And I just felt like sleeping in my truck, you know, and just kind of camping out for the night. and I woke up to one big foot coming within three feet of my car window. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse?

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And so this encounter, you know, it was, it was just. different and the facial features you know it looked like a really stereotypical uh like half man half gorilla but more gorilla and so when i had this encounter it just seemed kind of uh suspicious to me because um at the same time you know i'm coming out of being haunted by um fallen entities and uh what i can't say about fallen entities, demons, fallen angels, what have you,

is that they shape shift, they can take on different forms. So, but yeah, I mean, like, I definitely saw a big foot with green glowing eyes right from my car,

or car window. And, yeah, it was just completely different. And then immediately after that, just like, um, at the top of the ridge going down to the river,

I could see two other sets of green, glowing, huge, bigfoot eyes, kind of like scanning around and looking, like kind of peek in over the edge. And so, yeah, that was the other experience I had in Welch's. So it's interesting, you're saying half man, half gorilla look to the face. What were the features that looked more manlike that you remember? Maybe just like the eyes and maybe the nose wasn't, maybe the nose was more guerrilla-like. But I just, I remember its face was just like the bottom half of its face was like a gorilla. But I just, that's how I remember it was like a man-like gorilla, you know.

just like your stereotypical look I want to make sure I got that right so you are thinking that because of the other spiritual things you have going on in your life that what you're looking at because it looks a little different

it might actually be like a shape-shifting demon or something yeah oh wow dude yeah how long was it looking at you for oh probably probably like a minute a minute and then

and then it kind of just walked to the tree line and just kind of stood there while these other two you know big foot sets of eyes came up I could see their eyes you know scanning around and yeah

and then just kind of stood there in the tree line and just yeah was staring at me I think it was kind of like bowing or doing something weird like that and after I'd had enough, I left. You know, I just started my truck and got out of there. But, yeah, so that was Welch's. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah. Oh, my goodness. They're everywhere up there, and they come in and eat the garbage. So if you want to have it, you don't have to go far away into the woods, you know, to find them. I mean, you can, but you can just. You can just go out there and just kind of chill out in people's yards, you know, and they come in and take the garbage, you know, because that's an easy meal. And, you know, why not? Yeah, absolutely.

Now, just there are also bear up there as well, correct? Oh, sure, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's black bear. I've never seen a black bear up there. I've seen more Bigfoot than Black Bear in my life. I think I've seen one or two Black Bear my whole life, maybe only one.

I have another encounter when I moved out to Central Oregon. Okay, yeah, go ahead. Immediately following this, I'm pretty sure. So I went out to Central Oregon to move back in with my father. He was suffering from just a bad back. He's had multiple surgeries, you know, and I was just trying to leave Portland, start a new life. So that was like the first anchor I had coming out to Central Oregon. And so I, this happened in the town called Culver, just out there in the desert.

And we lived near this mountain called Round Butte, Round Butte. And I just, I really wanted to go camping and have a little bonfire. And so I drove to the top of the mountain. And the top of the mountain called Round Butte was only about half a mile from my father's house. And I drove up there and I took my dad's little dog. It's like a, it was a brand new pup. be a Yorkshire Terrier. So I was like, yeah, I'm going to take the little dog outside finally.

And we're going to go camping and have a campfire, you know. And round Butts, the tallest mountain in that area outside the Cascades. And when you're up there, there's just a room for one vehicle, maybe two and a place to camp. And it just goes in like a just a perfect round circle. And then there's like a little road that leads down the mountain. So I was camping on the mountaintop having a bonfire. And I noticed I just started getting really bad spooky vibes, you know, like I'm being watched. And then I started hearing weird female voices off in the distance.

And, you know, I just, I felt these vibes before. And in my head, I was just like, you know, it just sounds like another Bigfoot. is like sneaking up on me. And so I hopped to my Subaru, you know, put the dog in the car, hopped in my little Subaru. And I started just like revving my engine and driving around the top of the mountain, you know. And I took out the green laser. I was like shining it everywhere. I think I started kind of, you know, yelling out the window.

You know, in my head, I'm like, I'm just going to reestablish dominance and scare this thing away. Because I was just like kind of sick and tired, you know, of having these experiences. And, you know, finally I was, you know, near my car. And I just, you know, I just wanted to kind of shine it on a little bit. And so after I did that, I drove the half mile back to my father's house. And when I got inside, you know, it was probably around like 8 o'clock. I got inside and I was like, hey, dad, you know, like I, you know, at this point, he's still kind of unsure about Bigfoot.

I was just like, man, I just heard one on top of the mountain around Butte, you know, with the dog. And he's like, really? Are you sure? I don't know, Matt. And the second, it must have been like 30 seconds to a minute after getting home and explaining everything to my dad that we both heard the Bigfoot roar at the house, probably like 50 feet away. And, man, when it roared, it sounded like a lion, man. And then, like, I want to say gorilla, but it was, I just, I remember it being like a lion man, which is like, this is a huge, um, ampla, just a just a huge, it was just a really loud sound. And I don't know, I can't remember if it shook the house. But, uh, we both heard it.

and scared us to death. And that night, my dad was like, here, Matt, like, I'm putting a shotgun right in your window, you know, and I got mine in my room too. And my dad became a believer after that night. Oh, Matt, that is, that's absolutely wild. That is out in the high desert, right? That area. How recent was this encounter with you and your father? I'd say that was in

23 Okay Gotcha 2022, 2020, sometime around there. Oh my goodness. Is that the most recent

thing that you've had happen or have you had other things happen since then? I've had a couple more experiences. Also on top of the experiences I've shared, there's a couple other ones recently where I've heard screaming

in the early morning at the coast at some other fishing locations and then at another trip where this was two winters ago near Lincoln City I took two of my really good fishing

buddies up into the mountains up there to go fish for winter steelhead and there was like a rare snow the night before, you know, at the coast is pretty rare. And the snow was already kind of melting when we got up to the location. And, you know, at this point I told my two buddies, like all these experiences are like, yeah, whatever, Matt. And but, but, you know, they're good guys. They're my good friends. And when we pulled up to the fishing spot,

I got this on video. It's on my old Picks Google phone. We got up there and I looked up ahead and I was like, oh, this is like a secretive area, not really expecting anyone to be there. And I looked up ahead.

I was like, oh, no, like someone beat us to the hole because I could see, you know, footprints going up, you know, the trail in the melting snow. And then when I got up to the footprints, they were, probably about like 14 inches long. And, you know, just, I just remember them being so wide, like six inches wide, seven inches wide.

And I, and, you know, I, I have like a size 11 or a 12 foot. But I just remember like sticking my foot into that track. And it just looked like my foot compared to like Shaquille O'Neal. And I was like, look, I told you guys. Like, there's the tracks right there, you know. but yeah that was two winters ago and then my most recent encounter was last summer I had I had just kind of prayed to God and I was just like you know I have had all these scary Bigfoot encounters at night leaving me half terrified with probably some like PTSD you

know that trauma I've been dealing with. And I was just like, you know what? I just, I would like to see a happy, safe daytime encounter. And God definitely delivered the very next fishing trip I went on. I was just hiking out. And I just stopped at a place I would never have stopped. I just got this feeling to stop on my way out. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos.

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So that was awesome. Are you able to share an area that? that was, I know you might be able to, or you don't give away your fishing spot, definitely, but what area was, was that around? Seaside, the mountains behind seaside. Oh, okay, so that was seaside, where I, where I had the first wood knocks and then had the family come out. And, yeah, that same area. Wow.

Yep. that is really cool that uh that you're able to have that that good experience to so many people i think go for years just having really scary stuff but uh good on you for asking specifically yeah yeah yeah and uh yeah that that basically uh wraps up most or most of my bigfoot encounters um I'm leaving out like a lot of just like other weird stuff I've found and other weird noises I've heard, you know. But yeah, those are my Bigfoot experiences thus far in life, you know. I have a question for you. Why do you think it was that the name of Jesus was the only thing that made those things stop for you?

because he is the king of king and lord of lords and it's a spiritual battle we're fighting and truly it's just a name that carries a lot of weight and a lot of power and you know I firsthand experience with stopping entities dead in their tracks and, you know, getting Bigfoot to leave me alone or go away, you know. So what I've learned is that there is a stark spiritual connection with Bigfoot, UFOs, lights in the woods, you know, orbs, balls of light, and, yeah, demons. So I truly believe that the Bigfoot are remnants of the Nephilim. They're definitely a, they're definitely children of the fallen. The Nephilim, in the book of Enoch has said that, you know,

not only did these fallen angels produce giants with human women and creature, giants with human women, but they had a, it says in the book of Enoch, they corrupted all flesh. So then that, you know, that tells you that they, uh, they mix themselves to put it, you know, in a better terminology with animals. And so, you know, I've, I've heard a lot of other eyewitness accounts with, uh, other cryptids. And so I just, firmly believe that ever since the devil got kicked out of heaven he's been down here on earth kind of like a mad scientist mixing himself and making monsters you know just monsters out there i will say i will say this there is definitely some extremely evil things going on in this

world but if the book of revelation has anything to say it won't be going on forever you know what i mean right yeah amen he's coming back jesus is coming back and uh and uh people will have to answer for for what they've done so uh matt you've got some you've got some incredible accounts thank you for sharing. Keep me in the loop with if you experience anything else out there, I'd love to hear about it, but I'm glad that you are, you're on the right path, and it sounds like you're trying to figure stuff out and you're well on your way. But thank you so much for coming on on the show today. Absolutely. Thank you. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods

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