Bigfoot Society - Are There Really Bigfoot in Iowa?

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Starting point is 00:02:42 Madison County, Iowa, that is. His views, he views Bigfoot as the last great mystery we have. Notice I will not insert any Mothman comments here. He also enjoys uncovering Iowa Bigfoot history. Please welcome Jeremiah Byron back to the Van Meter Visitor Festival. All right, it's great to be back at the Van Meter Visitor Festival. how many people were here last year for the talk that I did? Show of hands.

Starting point is 00:03:16 A few people. All right. So some people might care about something. So last year I was talking about the Iowa Bigfoot Information Center and about how there was the search for Clifford Lebrecht's Bigfoot statue. If you listen to the Bigfoot Society podcast, you will already know this. But the statue replica was found at, yeah, right. It was found down.

Starting point is 00:03:40 in Arkansas at Clifford's residence where before he passed, the great news, and you can hear this if you listen to my episode with David Bekera, who is the owner of the Expedition Bigfoot Museum, he did purchase that replica statue and that statue, taxidermy, whatever you want to call it, does preside down in Georgia now. Now, it's not part of the museum yet. It's in a storage unit in hopes of a second museum that he might be making. So soon enough, you will be able to see Clifford Lebrex Bigfoot on display. Just not yet.

Starting point is 00:04:20 Also, another side note, remember I had said that we couldn't find all of the things that Clifford and Kevin had discovered in the 70s when they would travel around Bigfoot and take all the reports, the tracks. the documentation. That unfortunately was all stolen from Clifford's residence and no one knows where it is. So that's kind of the unfortunate footnote. The other cool thing, though, to tag it on is Kevin Cook actually reached out to me again. He is almost 80 years old now. And he was like, hey, how's it going? And I was like, Kevin, would you ever come on the podcast to kind of talk about what happened back in the 70s?

Starting point is 00:05:06 with your Iowa Bigfoot Information Center. He's like, yeah, it's time. I'll come on, and we're going to get it all documented. So you want to make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on. It should be in the next few months, my chat with Kevin Cook. So super excited about that. And hopefully, there you are, we can find out why Renee DeHinden was actually in Iowa. I really hope he remembers.

Starting point is 00:05:30 So here we go. Let's continue. That's kind of part two from last year. So who am I? My name is Jeremiah Byron. I am the host of the Bigfoot Society podcast. It's a podcast where I primarily talk to people about their Bigfoot encounters. So if you like listening to that sort of thing, you will love this show.

Starting point is 00:05:50 I am crazy and I pretty much put something out every day. So if you really like it, you will like it. But it is fantastic about every five to six emails a day from people all over the U.S. talking about, I had this happen, I'm ready to talk about this now, will you talk to me? And it's enough that I can barely keep up with documenting these stories, which is the best problem in the world to have. Also, Big Society is a safe and respectful platform for witnesses to share their Bigfoot encounters. Unfortunately, some people will say, I don't want to share my Bigfoot encounter because I'm going to get made fun of. People on my job are going to try to get

Starting point is 00:06:36 me canned, stuff like that. Well, I've tried to make a safe spot for people to share their encounters. So I would love if anyone is comfortable, you can raise your hand. If not, that's fine. But how many people think they have seen Bigfoot in the rum, right? Anyone raise a hand? Oh, that's fine. That's fine. Oh, yeah, I talked to you earlier. That was rocking. I've also talked to a few people have come up to the booth. I have a booth over there. We will talk about some encounters that I took actually today in a little bit. How I got into Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Well, first off, I listened to the watch in search of Bigfoot with my dad when I was a little kid. And then in the Van Meter Visitor Festival, a few years back, my buddy Andrew had me be involved with the taping of terror in the skies by Small Town Monsters, which is a great documentary. If you love the Van Meter Visitor, you will also love that one. So after that, I started my own podcast and started talking to people about Bigfoot and other cryptos. Let's see. Now, the question is, what is Bigfoot? Now, there's a few things. Does everyone know what Bigfoot is? Raise a hands. what Bigfoot is, let me see them. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:07:55 we're pretty good like that. At this festival, you should know, but if you don't know, a little bit of a, you know, that is the famous Patterson Gimlin film. Yes, you got it. Good job, buddy. October 20th, 1967, the capture

Starting point is 00:08:11 of the Bigfoot walking across the Bluff Creek area. Cross your fingers for Bluff Creek. There are some fires very close to that film site, and we are all holding our breath that hopefully it remains unburned. We will see. Oxford definition, a large hairy ape-like creature resembling a Yeti supposedly found in

Starting point is 00:08:31 Northwestern America. Now, that's really basic because, you know, there's some people that think, okay, we might be looking at a creature that can go through portals, they can go through different dimensions. Maybe it's a wild man or some kind of man that is between. the different evolutionary positions. But that's the Oscar definition, if you want to know. Now, I thought it would be interesting. Let's look into how Bigfoot is reported in Iowa.

Starting point is 00:09:05 So currently, I, along with you, have access to the BFRO public database, which, you know, if you like them or not, that's fine. It's still information that we can look up on the Internet. So I took a little bit of time and I was like looking through all these reports. And I was like, well, how has it been reported when these witnesses see bigfoot? What are they seeing in the great state of Iowa? Well, here's some examples. This one's from July 16, 2004, Buchanan County.

Starting point is 00:09:33 Covered in reddish-brown hair, not much of a neck, head sunk into the shoulders. Hands come to or below its knees, usually lower than the knees. About seven feet tall, weighed about 500 pounds, looked like an ape-type thing, had an ape human like face. So that's one. We've got 1978 BFRO Dallas County. One of the creatures was taller at about seven feet and the second was about foot shorter. He said they have long swinging arms, a short neck, black hair from head to toe. So that's a different color there. It was upright on two feet. Color was described to be gray brown, much like a tree, height estimated at seven feet. 2015, that's from the BFRO Dubuque County. Here's another one, 1970.

Starting point is 00:10:20 Biafro Fayette County, this is in the northeastern section of the state. It was big, at least eight feet tall, conned head to feet with dark brown hair, had a barrel-shaped body with long arms and legs. It just walked like a human, taking long strides and swinging its arms. So going over this information, we can kind of get a picture of what we're expecting to see in this state. 7 to 8 feet tall, different colors, but you've got the coned conical. head, the arms that are always, at least past the knee, usually lower, barrel-shaped body, not a neck scene. And of course, kind of walking like a human, like that classic video,

Starting point is 00:11:04 if you've ever seen that. So that's kind of what we're looking into. If we're going out, that's what we can expect to see. Now, I want to take a few minutes to go over Iowa Bigfoot history, especially since I had the privilege of talking to a lady came up to the booth earlier, and she was talking about her 1978 encounter. And I was like, oh, my goodness, 1978. And I realized, yeah, not everyone is crazy about Bigfoot like I am. So they don't get it that in 1978 in Iowa,

Starting point is 00:11:31 there were a massive amount of Bigfoot sightings. It was like our just crazy explosion. And she was like, oh, there were other sightings in 1978 in Iowa. Holy Macrolet, yes. And you don't want to miss what I'm going to be going over because you're going to see about it. So that is a picture I showed last. year of Clifford Lebrecht and Kevin Cook, the gentleman in the back I'll be talking to

Starting point is 00:11:53 in a few weeks, hopefully. He's about 80 years old right now. That's their replica Bigfoot that was made by the same guy that made the African elephant and the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Some museum quality Bigfoot hopefully will be on display soon enough. Here we go. These are from the Des Moines Register in the 70s, and this is just to get you a feel about what we were looking at back in the the 70s. We'll be back with more Bigfoot Society after these words from our sponsors. with diet and exercise and adults with type 2 diabetes.

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Starting point is 00:14:56 book and everyone here needs to get it. But you can still get on Amazon and Kindle. You need to get the book because it's 80 pages of Bigfoot history throughout the years, but also other cryptids. So that's my plug for David's book. That book made me go deep into the subject more than I already was through the podcast. So here's a few things. You can see where all these different footprints are, were different places where Bigfoot was seen in the 1970s. You can see the different areas. A is Humboldt. You've got D in the south.

Starting point is 00:15:28 You got B, which is kind of around Jefferson County. There's some stuff there. But you got West Bend. Oddsonson was a large amount of Bigfoot sightings. Renwick, Humboldt was a lot. You've got Out in Clearyon. Here's a few articles I'll share. Clarion, Iowa, 1078.

Starting point is 00:15:46 This one's interest. testing, dark image appeared through kitchen window at 1030, police officers obtained a plaster cast, all this good stuff. There are some where they think might be a hoax, but a lot of them were pretty dead on. Here's another one from Audison. Dozen people reporting a bigfoot-like creature in the Audison area. Apologies if I'm saying that wrong. Also, there are reports of mutilated animals, strange footprints in stampeding.

Starting point is 00:16:16 cattle that's always crazy. This one is my favorite from Humbold, Iowa, September 1978. It's cool because a family, three miles northeast of Humble, they were hearing strange howls, right? And it's so crazy because they were calling the sheriff's office and during the phone call, the sheriff could hear the howls over the phone. That's wild that you're hearing that much crazy action. I know, right? Creature. September, 1978. A gentleman scared a creature out by honking the horn and flashing the lengths of a pickup. Footprints that ended in a wooded area.

Starting point is 00:16:54 Wild stuff. Here's another area. This is down by Skunk River. Pella. Oskaloosa had some. And let's see. We had a young boy, 10 or 11 years old, saw Bigfoot on the road near a bridge near Pella.

Starting point is 00:17:09 That was in the snow. So it was in the winter. There's just so many articles to share here. We've got tracks on a snowmobile, around Harvey, Oskaloosa. There was a gentleman, one of the Iowa Bigfoot Information Center, a woman who lived northeast of Oskaloosa near the Skump River, has seen a bigfoot come out from the shadow of a tree during a heavy snowstorm. Just wild, wild stuff.

Starting point is 00:17:35 We've got Stephen State Forest. Stephen State Forest is a weird place because it comes up in the literature, and then I talked to Kevin before, and I was like, like, why was Stephen State Forest so unique? And he's like, I can't remember. I'm almost 80 years old. And I haven't thought about this stuff for 40 years. And I'm like, all right, I'll catch you a break.

Starting point is 00:17:57 And he like moved away from Iowa, move somewhere else, and then went on with his life, had a family. And then this crazy dude, 40 years later, called him up and was like, hey, he used to be in Bigfoot in the 70s. You want to talk about it? And he actually contacted you back. Which is wild. So we've got, all we know is sightings and strange sounds in a section of Stephen

Starting point is 00:18:16 state force. Who knows? Let's see, there's also some molten. We're going to skip ahead a little bit. A fun one is Lockridge, the Lockridge Monster. Has anyone heard of the Lockridge Monster? A few people, rocking. So this is back in the 70s. Lockridge Monster was seen in Lockridge, Iowa. It's a smaller Bigfoot, and it had almost the face of a monkey that's reported. You kind of heard that earlier in another report. So the thing is, is that this farmer, I believe his name was Herb Fifer, had this creature they saw and it kept messing with the animals in his farm like eating the turkeys

Starting point is 00:18:52 all that crazy stuff but it got to the point that the newspapers got a hold of it and these poor the fifers were just news people are coming out people are coming out to the farm trying to mess with them and it got to the point where they just shut it down

Starting point is 00:19:08 they're like we're not going to talk about it anymore they may have seen stuff in later years they just didn't talk about it that's kind of something I'm researching so stay tuned But yeah, monkey face bear, light creatures, slaughterers, farm animals. Now, let's take a few minutes to talk about why is Iowa great for Bigfoot? Because a lot of people I've talked to today, they're like, yeah, I don't know. Iowa sounds like it's all corn and I don't think we got Bigfoot here.

Starting point is 00:19:33 Like, do we have Bigfoot in Madison County and Dallas County? Sure, we do. We totally do. So I'm going to share a few maps with you here. First thing I want, and this is kind of like a geographical map of the state. of Iowa, right? Now, do you see all flat, flat corn lands? I don't think so. If you're not familiar with this type of map, if you see the parts like on the eastern side of the state where it's all kind of like wrinkly and bumpy, that means there's some crazy hills, there's some crazy

Starting point is 00:20:06 gulches, maybe some ridges. That's the stuff that Bigfoot likes to hang out with. So like this area, you can see a lot of crazy stuff. Jefferson County, tons of reports. over the years. Also, if you watch the Finding Bigfoot episode back in the day about, I know you guys are talking about that, Finding Bigfoot Yellow River, I think it was, that's up here. There's a ton of reports up in that area. Here's another interesting thing. So if you've seen Missing 411, they talk about like, you know, Pat, I was talking to you about that earlier, sir.

Starting point is 00:20:39 And they talk about there has to be a food source. It makes sense that a large creature is going to need a huge caloric intake. Now check this out. This is Iowa's whitetail hot zones. You'll notice that there's not a ton of the deer killed per square mile up here. But down here, there is a ton of deer. It might make sense why we see a lot more bigfoot sightings in this area. So we know that certain areas definitely have the food source available.

Starting point is 00:21:13 for them. Here's another way to look at the elevation. You can kind of see on the eastern part of the state. You definitely have some crazy hills going on. This is interesting. So it may not look interesting, but if you have known about the NAWAC guys down in southeast Oklahoma, I believe it was Dr. Russ Jones on wide open research was talking about, you know, you want to look for the places where there's a lot of annual rainfall. Like there's kind of a high amount. So what do we notice about this map? Not in the whole state, but definitely down here, there is a high amount of there's 39 annual rainfall inches per year. That's pretty cool. That kind of shows us there could be something else going on here. This is a, I just want to shout out this guy, my friend Scott,

Starting point is 00:22:09 from the Bigfoot mapping project. If you don't know about this and you like Bigfoot, you need to check it out. But this is kind of cool because there's a map he made. He's done this for every state. I was Bigfoot byways. And you can kind of see going off of the data he has that there could be these different areas where Bigfoot might be able to travel around different wooded byways. and some of these, if you were to overlay this, you know, really get into it, you could kind of see, yes, some of these are by big state parks or forests that have had lots of action.

Starting point is 00:22:47 So it's just another way to be like, yeah, we've got stuff going on for sure. Just to point out, southeast Iowa is a place where I get a lot of reports from, extremely forested and gulches, super hilly. That's your Jefferson County, Schemeck State Forest maybe, stuff like that. Yeah, we got North East Iowa extremely forested and gulches hilly, many places to hide. So I'm going to take, we're doing good on time. I'm going to share a few encounters. And this, this has been my favorite festival because I've never had people come up to me and be like, you know what, I actually have something happen.

Starting point is 00:23:23 Let me show it to you. Or let me talk to you about it. And I was like, oh, this is great. Can I talk about it in my presentation? They were like, absolutely. So we're going to do some very, very new. reports here, but I want to talk about what I had my presentation first. So this is a fun one. Yeah, I know. I heard Saylorville, right? Get ready. This is so weird. So I had this lady

Starting point is 00:23:47 contact me on Instagram and she's like, I got to tell you something that was weird. So I was going out to the southwest part of Saylova Lake, which is central Iowa. Everyone's probably familiar with it. It's a huge lake out there. And she was going there at night and, you know, she was just hanging out and all of a sudden like she sees this thing in the bushes, lit up eyes, it rushes at her, she barely gets back in her car, crazy. And like up to this point, I'm like, okay, sounds interesting. I hear a lot of these, but the twist is what she said about what happened the next day. So she goes back to Saylorville because she's like, I need to look more into this.

Starting point is 00:24:29 I need to see what happened. And she's on one of the beaches at Saylorville Lake and these. random people come up to her and they're like, hey, what are you doing? And she's like, oh, well, I was just kind of looking around at stuff. And she didn't want to lead right into the Bigfoot stuff, right? Because some people think that's weird. Who know, right? But what she said was the random person was like, hey, you ever seen any monkey people around here just, you know, randomly? And she was like, oh my goodness, what's happening around Sarva Lake? So I don't know. It's a weird one. And that happened in fall of, I think it was a few years ago.

Starting point is 00:25:10 And so I put on my skeptical half of men. I was like, well, what? You know, we have an age research center in Des Moines around the Easter Lake. And I was like, well, what if there was an escaped monkey, right? So I contacted them. And I was like, you guys didn't have any escaped monkeys around this time. They're like, no, stop talking to us. We keep our monkeys under Lunk and Key.

Starting point is 00:25:31 But they're a great facility, though. They do great research. So that's a weird one. I'm not really sure. I need to really spend some time around SalaVo, I think. Another weird thing about Seralva Lake, and this is not Bigfoot related, but if you go to Phantoms and Monsters.com with Lon Strickler, he just released an article where there was a humanoid sighting around Salavel Lake, like back in 2017.

Starting point is 00:25:55 I'm like, oh my goodness, what is up with this area? More Bigfoot Society after these words from our sponsors. It's a little pill with a big story to tell. I take one's daily Jardians at each day start. And for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, Jardians can lower the risk of cardiovascular death too. Prescription Jardians, Empigalphlosin, 10 or 25 milligram tablets, are used to lower blood sugar along with diet and exercise

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Starting point is 00:28:35 Around Goldner Woods, there was a road siding. And also my friend Kate Hieronymus, who's a researcher, was there and actually heard some woodnocks one night a few years ago. So there is stuff going on in Madison County. Also, a gentleman who's here is allowing me to share this. We got a few things back in the 90s in Erlum, him and his buddies were in a gravel pit area. there was a large rock that was thrown at them out of nowhere. That's one of those things that makes you wonder, like, what is it? That could just chuck a huge rock at him.

Starting point is 00:29:09 I had, we had a yard sale this year in our hometown over in Madison County. And I was passing out my car in a jet. I was like, here, you know, check in my podcast. And a guy was like, you know, a weird thing in Pamel Park down in Winterset. So supposedly him and his buddies back in the 80s, They were driving around and all of a sudden, they go around the corner and Pamel and they say there's a big foot in their headlates. And they said they took a shot at it. Now, it's one of those things where it's like, I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy, who heard it from a guy type deal.

Starting point is 00:29:45 So I'm not sure, but it's just cool that there are these stories around here in Iowa. Let's continue here. I try not to use AI art anymore because I'd rather support the artists and I don't like AI. AI like let's not let sky not happen let's support the artist so I'm like I used to have AI art and I said oh my goodness I can't use this anymore and there's not a lot of really cool big foot pictures I'm not at AII so I use this one this is a different situation in Iowa but I do have a recent episode if you want to check it out where gentlemen was looking for I believe it was different minerals and he ended up him and his buddy went to a spot in southeast Iowa and they're cooking kielbasa

Starting point is 00:30:26 at this campground and he's like, we started hearing weird noises, which I thought was an elk at first. And my buddy's like, there's no elk in Iowa anymore. And then I'm just, I'm really summarizing the episode,

Starting point is 00:30:39 but he started, they started hearing what they said sound like Sierra sounds. And they heard, here's a campsite, they hear a whoop over here, a whoop over here, a whoop over here.

Starting point is 00:30:51 They're like, we're surrounded. This is not good. It got to the point where they get so freaked out that they're trying to tear down their tents and get out of there. One guy is like, I'm not tearing my tent apart. I want to take the pulls out. He's like, we're going to get us killed.

Starting point is 00:31:05 This is wild. And he's shown his flashlight up and actually saw something in the woods leap away. And he's like, I don't care. We are out of here. So that's at a certain wooded area in Iowa. That's a few episodes back if you want to listen to that. There's also a gentleman who contacted me. dancing Iowa 2003 squirrel hunting.

Starting point is 00:31:29 You chased out of the woods by a creature that sounded like a deep chimp or a chimp with a deep voice. And that beat its chest like a gorilla. And he would just skid-daddled out of there. This gentleman actually went on the Bigfoot Crossroads podcast so you can actually hear his encounter on that. I have some people, podcasters are like, I don't want to shout out other podcasts. I love shouting out other people because, you know, we just, the waves. raise each other. Why not help each other out? Potential bigfoot areas. Before, actually, let me share the encounters that I took here today. So these are some

Starting point is 00:32:06 interesting ones. Gentleman came up to the booth and he said back in Minburn in the 1980s, he and his buddies were around a river and they saw a big foot in the river. They could see it kind of sticking out of the water, his hair coming down because it's wet. And, And so just a really interesting anecdotal episode. He has agreed to chatting on the podcast. So hopefully we'll hear more about that. A lady came up to me about an incident in Madrid, 178, Bigfoot along a riverside as well near a river. And there was Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:32:49 She felt that was right behind her. So there's definitely more to that story. We're going to get that story. and she's agreed to come on the podcast as well. There was a couple that came up to the booth where they were out in Newton into 2019 and they're painters, but they found a footprint

Starting point is 00:33:06 and they were able to cast the footprint. This is by a K-O-A, I believe, campground. So this year has been phenomenal at the festival as people are aware that Bigfoot is coming into Iowa. It's in Iowa or they feel good enough so that they can actually share these stories. I just wanted to point out a few areas. So we've got the northeast part.

Starting point is 00:33:29 This is where a yellow river is. And these are geographic area maps. We've got this area can have some fun. We've got Chamech State Forest. That part's pretty wild. I like the southern Iowa drift planning because that's where we are over here. And over in this area, Jefferson has so many crazy big foot and cars. And I'm going to say, I'm just going to do a little teaser.

Starting point is 00:33:54 because I'm researching something and I can't like I got to get my stuff right first but let's just say some stuff that happened in the 1970s didn't stop happening in the 1970s and that's all I can say because I don't have my stuff but I can do a little like Marvel like Nick Fury like

Starting point is 00:34:11 foreshadowing thing there so just you know subscribe to the podcast hopefully I'll get my stuff together the goal is to go full time with the podcast by the end of 2024 and it's going to happen So then we're really going to go crazy and start traveling. So get ready. Boone is a cool area too.

Starting point is 00:34:30 So Boone up by the real road. I've got a few fun interaction reports up here. So keep your eyes open around Boone. And also like the Raccoon River over here. Oh my goodness. There's so many Raccoon River reports. So if you're in the campsites by the Raccoon River, keep your eyes open. It could get wild.

Starting point is 00:34:50 This over here, so at the Puk area, there's so many reports. that come out of Dubuque, there's a gentleman that he was talking about how this area, all I can say because he's like, I'm going to make a book on it. So, you know, keep it on the deal. I'm like, okay, I'll keep on the deal. But all I'm going to say is like this area, keep your eyes open because I have never heard reports to the extent the number of reports in any other place of Iowa. But this area right here, Dubuque, oh my goodness.

Starting point is 00:35:26 This area, Jefferson County, keep your eyes open down here. And, of course, we have up in the northeast section. All right. We went over there. Oh, so we got a few minutes left. So a few people might be curious, like, how do I go look for Bigfoot? At the end of the day, you're really good. It's like you're going camping, but you're kind of getting ready to see a huge ape creature in the woods

Starting point is 00:35:52 that could mess you up. So just be careful of that, but you know, you want to have things like camping gear, backpack, a tent, tell people where you're going, please, for Pete's sake. If you have the onyx app, you can give an exact location. So important to let your, you know, loved ones or whoever know so that you don't get lost out there and then you're in trouble. Bigfoot in gear, if you really want to get into it, you can get, I recommend a task cam audio recorder. And once you get to the area, have it recording once you leave the car.

Starting point is 00:36:27 Because a lot of times when you go out, these researchers will hear the wood knocks. They'll capture them right after they turn off their car because from what they think, a few of them that I've talked to, the big foot are signaling once they leave the car. Hey, these guys are in the area. Or as you're leaving, sometimes you'll hear the knock. And it's like, okay, they're finally leaving. Thank goodness. Also, you know, the cool thing is a lot of us have our phone devices.

Starting point is 00:36:54 So remember, you can record audio with your phone. You can record video with your phone. You can keep a notated diary of what happened during your expedition. Please keep that because, you know, you get months down the road and you won't remember what happened. Super important. There's a few basic things, but I do want to mention real quick, keep an eye out. on my buddy Tate Hieronymus is going to come out with a documentary again this year. We did go to a certain area this August, me and him and some others, to look for Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:37:30 And I'm holding off on that info because I don't want to spoil his documentary. So I'll shout it out in a few months. A few things as we are getting near the end. Did you meet Kevin Cook or Clifford LeBrek and see their traveling Iowa Bigfoot Information Center exhibit in 1970s at the state fair? I wouldn't really like to talk to you about it. It would be fantastic. And if you had pictures, it would be so cool.

Starting point is 00:37:52 You can contact me at Bigfoot Society, gmail.com. If you have BigFling Counters of Madison and Dallas County or really anywhere in Iowa, please feel that you can reach out to me through my email. I know this is a side thing about the VAM meter visitor. I've heard that the VAM meter visitor has been seen in the woods behind an elementary school. If there's truth to that, please reach out to me. I think that would be really cool. Any Bigfoot stories.

Starting point is 00:38:21 I'm your guy. If you need to be anonymous, I can make sure you're anonymous to hear interviews with Bigfoot witnesses and more. Learn more about Bigfoot. You can go to Bigfoot Societypodcast.com. And this is my phone number. Don't worry.

Starting point is 00:38:36 It's a Google voice number. So don't be, oh, my goodness, he's putting out his actual phone number. It's fine. But please make a note of this. If there's like, oh, I need to talk to this guy. and you can't make it over to my booth, please send me a text, leave me a voicemail, and then we can start the conversation about what you experienced.

Starting point is 00:38:56 But again, thank you for listening. If you haven't come up to the booth yet, please head over to the Bigfoot Society booth. I would love to talk to you about what you experienced if you had a Bigfoot encounter, and we can start from there. But again, who knows what the future will bring. Thank you so much for listening today. The Bigfoot Society, our goal is to provide a platform for those that have encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter in a safe and respected environment. But we need to hear your story.

Starting point is 00:39:34 If you've experienced something that you just can't explain, please send me an email at bigfoot society at gmail.com. Then we can start the conversation. I know a lot of you have not shared your encounter at all. It's been 20 years, and it's time that you get this off your chest, and then you can get some well-deserved for rest, because I know you haven't been sleeping. I understand what you're going through, and I appreciate every one of you listening.

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