Bigfoot Society - Bigfoot Encounters of Alberta, Canada and Virginia / Taxidermist Reveals All

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

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And I only just saw it for maybe two, three seconds, as it was running in between trees. But the deer were, I had never seen a deer that's, I mean, he was really, he wasn't even worried about my truck and me sitting there. He was worried about whatever it was behind and chasing them. And I just saw it, like I said, for two or three seconds. In this episode of Bigfoot Society, I talked to Perry a taxidermist. It's a very interesting episode as Perry has an eye for detail due to his trade being a taxidermist.

The episode starts going north to Alberta as Perry recounts a white-tailed deer hunting trip. and then go south down to Virginia with some very interesting encounters that happened on some private land just south of the Potomac River. Before we get into the episode, please take a minute, do something for me.

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All right, Bigfoot Society, we've got the privilege of talking to Perry, who is a taxidermist. Perry sent me a message and he has some things to share about some encounters he's had over the years. But Perry, how's it going tonight? I'm doing great. Can be better. And you had mentioned that you were working on something right before I called. You were working on a turkey or something like that? Right.

I just completed Mountain Turkey. I bet it looks good. That looks good. Yes, heard. Yes, heard. I'm curious to hear, you know, you say you've got two different encounters that happened to you. Let's start with the Canada one, if you wouldn't mind. Okay. I've joined three of my buddies to go to Alberta, Canada, on a white-tailed deer hunt with

Bowen era. And we got there, and they had been up there hunting several times, and it's my first trip. So they kind of had their places where they usually like to go. And so I, so I, I've got to look around a good bit, and I found a really, really nice place. Big soybean field on next to the, what they call the boreal forest, which is huge force. You know, hundreds of miles, you know, through the woods probably to, you know, to find another road or something. It's not just like pig trail roads through there. But I end up going and getting up in the stand right on the edge of the soybean field.

and I've been sitting there for, you know, probably a couple hours and just standing in the field. And I saw a couple of does walk out into soybean field and we're starting to feed. And about 250 yards across the field, there's like a clump of trees and grass and stuff out there that's, I guess, probably 20, 30 yards across or something like that. and just beyond the fence on the other side of the soybean field. And I noticed that part of it, and I was looking, because I'd heard some coyotes yelping in there, and I was just kind of scanning around and looking for a nice buck, and something caught my attention. I looked across there after I kind of looked away, and I looked back,

and there was something standing next to the fence. And first, my first thought was, because, you know, there's big bears up there and all that. I said, man, that's a huge black bear. It was black is soot. And this thing was standing there next to the fence, and it was, like, leaned on the fence. So I thought it was a bear because I'd mounted bears with them kind of leaning over with the paws on the branch or something like that. And I did not have my benigned. with me. That's the only thing I really hate about it because I didn't have binoculars

to really scan over here and check it out. But I got to looking at this thing and I got to notice the way the body was constructed on this thing and it had shoulders on it. They have shoulders too, but their shoulders are more in kind of if you pulled your elbows together and if you got on all fours you'll notice that you're you're in a different position well this thing was standing up and his shoulders was broad and out i mean i'm out i'm out animals for a living now i'm retired policeman and uh been doing been doing tax memory for about 35 years and uh this thing was standing there and i guess in the fences is probably about four foot tall and it was twice that tall so i'm

thinking, well, it's at least eight foot. And I'm still not, like, grasping the situation so much. I'm like, man, I'm sitting here trying to figure out why this bear's got shoulders. If you understand what I'm saying, you know, a broad shoulders, you look at a man versus a bear standing there, the shoulders would be way in, tucked in, even if he's in a standing position. And anyway, I got to look in this thing, and it was watching these deer out there. And then I got to looking at it, and I was like, you know, this thing's, he's got a broad neck on him, but I don't see the nose on this thing.

I don't see, you know, I've seen this thing move. I'm looking at it with just my eyes. I mean, I got good eyesight and everything, but I got to thinking, oh, man. I don't think it's a bear. And I said, for one thing, if he's eight foot tall, which I guessed him at, that's probably six, seven hundred pound bear. And, I mean, I've got a bear in the shop here. It's like 600 pounds.

And it's, you know, 75, 80 inches long from the nose to the butt of it. So that's a, you know, pretty fair assumption that's, you know, it would have to be that big of a bear. And it just didn't, a bear's generally got, like, his head like goes right into his shoulders. He's real broad. This thing was different than that. It had somewhat of a neck like a humid wood, but big. This thing was big.

And I just looked at it, and it didn't really move much. It stood there, and at one point, it, like, it pushed off of the fence and stood straight up more. And I was like, man, that ain't a bear. and at that point I'm like don't know what to think about it and I'm like gosh man I wish I had a pair of binoculars I could really scan in on this thing it's driving me nuts you know

and you know I'm out there I have shoddy cell service out there this is you know quite a years back and and cell phones didn't work really good out there and my ride is taking three other guys to the stand, and he's probably 20 miles away from me right now, if I freak out and get scared or something. Because I ain't had a gun up here.

I just had my bow, you know, and it's kind of concerned at this point, and I hear these coyotes again start starting up, and I'm trying to keep an eye on this thing out across or trying to figure out, trying to rationalize it in my mind that that's a bear and not nothing else. And I just could not say it was a bear. I've seen too many bears.

I've been bear hunting in New Brunswick and taking three bears over there. And this thing could not have been a bear. And it's about 150 yards to the main woods from that clump out there. and if, and I was looking towards where these coyotes was coming from. And when I looked back, this thing was gone. I mean, it was probably 10 seconds maybe. Wow. So when I looked back, I was like, well, I'm starting scanning up and down the fence line,

thinking, well, okay, maybe it's a bear. He went down on all fours, but the soybeans wasn't up that high. and I could clearly see the fence. And if he was that tall and if it was a bear, he's going to be probably 48 inches tall at the shoulders, which is, you know, I would be able to see that if he was like moving along. If he went on on all fours and was walking on a forest like a bear would. And I didn't see that.

The only thing I can figure is that thing went into that brush over there and maybe sat down and was watching or the coyotes, you know, come up he just wanted to kind of see what was going on or the cowards come up in there and did their thing chase the doze around and I ended up the leader of the coyotes came up there and I was able to get a shot and take him and as soon as I shot the coyote though I got out on the stand got it out of there and went to the road and I was making a phone call because it was starting to get dark and I wanted to get out of there and I don't get I don't get nerves too much And because I hog hunt at night by myself, 12 midnight, with, you know, night vision in a thermal scope.

And I walk around for hours, you know, hog hunting at night by myself. It's just no big deal. I don't never get freaked out, you know, in Alabama. But up there is a different story. So anyway, got back to the truck, told him what I saw. And my buddy up there that let's just come up there and hunt, he, he didn't have much to say about it. He didn't say it was crazy or anything.

I said, man, I don't know if I saw a bear or Bigfoot, but this thing was huge. And I said it was standing for 10 or 15 minutes, laying on the fence, but it's kind of like he's sitting there. Your daddy's at the football game and leaned over on the fence watching you play football. That's what this thing was doing.

It had so much human behavior, you know, an upright bipedal creature or something would do, you know. But got in a truck, went down the road, and one of the other guys had walked in, went into that deep forest that afternoon. And he was really unnerved about something that happened with him. And he would never, to the day, wouldn't really tell me. what he thinks happened to him,

but he walked in the woods and he said, he felt like something was watching him. And when he walked in, he saw something really dark in the woods following him. And he said it was, he thought it was walking on two legs. And he said, I couldn't see it,

good enough to well tell him there's a bear or what it was, but he said, followed me all the way in. And he said, I stayed in there a little while. And he says, I had a half a mile walk back in there. And he says,

got my butt out of there. He said, I've been waiting up at the road, you know, for y'all to come pick me up. I didn't even hunt. So, and he's a great hunter, killed a lot of big deer with bow. And, I mean, all these guys are professional, big, big game hunters and stuff. And so he, he wasn't going back in there again. He hunted up next to this guy's house the rest of the trip, where it's kind of open. And, I mean, if you want to come out standing, he can walk right over three or four hundred yards.

and go to the guy's house. So anyway, one of the other guys had an experience. He was on a fence line hunting, hunting the trail. And he said the woods got real steel and quiet. He said he could hear something walking up. Crunch, crunch, crunching the leaves. And it got, he said he could just see something,

but he couldn't tell what it was. he just saw movement through some brush and it stopped and he said he could hear it breathing and he he was kind of freaked out about it and he couldn't really say what it was but hearing him talk about it I don't think he thought it was a bear

and of course it's not going to be a deer because a deer is not really going to have that kind of behavior anyway you know, like a man walking in the woods kind of sound and it leaves. And so he never went back to that spot again. And he ended up hunting with the other guy on the edge of a big field for the rest of the trip. And kind of in the open where you could, everybody kind of stayed out of the deep woods. So that was pretty much my Canada trip. But pretty much everybody I talked to up there have had some kind of experience.

experience of some kind, but up there they wasn't really willing to say a whole lot about it. Because I've always been, I've been interested this for a lot of years, and it's one of those things, you know, you've got to prove to me before I believe it 100%. And, but that kind of rounds up my Canada trip there. I have a few questions about the Canada trip. Sure. So can you say what, I don't think I caught what area of Alberta this was up in? Well, it's been so long. I couldn't tell you exactly what town it's close to.

My buddy up there, his name was Nick. Really, really good guy, hardworking guy. But it was close to the boreal forest. Was it up by Nordeg? Did Nordeg at all? This is Daniel Fischel. And Ryder Strong from PodMeets World. Cat parents unite.

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Right. Yeah, you were good after that. So thinking back, and I know, you didn't see it for a long time, but do you remember anything about maybe the head shape of what you saw over there? Yeah, I was, I'm sorry, what is descriptive than it should have been, but to me, it kind of looked kind of rigid in the middle of the head, which was a bear's flat on top of his head. And that's something that I had to think about, and I'm glad you asked that question because it brings back memories. And that was the thing about it.

I was like, I was waiting for this thing to kind of turn its head so I could see the bridge of the nose and all that. And to verify what I was looking at. And it never did. It was just kind of looking over, kind of looking straight back at me because of the deer between me and whatever it was there. And, but it kind of, like I said, it wasn't flat on the head. It kind of went to a ridge on top of the head. kind of looked narrow at the top or narrowed at the top. From what I remember.

And like I said, I couldn't make out any ears or anything, but on a big black bear, if it was a black bear, which I doubt I'm about 99% sure that it wasn't, you probably wouldn't be able to see ears on the side of his head, their head being that big if it was a big animal. but the head wasn't built like a bear head. It was smaller. And it kind of looked kind of funny because the head was in comparison to the shoulders.

I mean, it looked like a running back out there, you know, big broad shoulders. And that's right there is what I'm like freaking out. What the heck is that? Right. And anyway, I mean, you know, they don't, they don't, if you look at, if you look at, look at a bear, you go on Pinterest or something like that, you look at a standing bear, and then you look at what people portray as a big foot on pictures and stuff like that. One standing up facing, there's a big difference in the way they look.

Just the same thing. If a man was standing out there versus a bear, you're going to see broad shoulders. It's going to be straight across. and but this thing was super wide, super broad at the shoulders and his head. He didn't have a big blocky head like you, you know, in comparisons to his body, like to a human. It just, he didn't look like that. Just had a smaller head. Interesting.

And he looked like he had a neck. And, I mean, like I said, I was the only one out there. And there ain't nobody that big. More than out there. Right. Yeah, yeah. Do you remember anything about its arms at all? Well, like I said, he was kind of bent over a little bit. Okay.

With his arms on the fence, and they were really long and looked like stumps. And like said, you know, a bear can have big stumpy arms too, but they're generally not that long. and if they're that big they generally don't appear to have long arms. Like this thing, the more I think about it, the more look at it in my mind, you know, it's just, it's a long, lanky, wide, thick kind of critter. That's all I can say about it. I wish, if I'd had my binoculars, I always had 10 power binoculars, I could,

could have really identified this thing because I'd have had 15 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes to really check it out. But it's, you know, if I would have to say what it was, I would say it is not a bear. And it's a, it's something that I've never seen before. And I've, like I said, I've been hunting all my life. And it's something I didn't want to get close to. It's intriguing when it's especially paired with your, your fellow hunter friend having something happened to him that he's never mentioned to this day

exactly what happened you know yeah and he he would be because those guys were quite a bit younger than me i'm their taxidermist and they just happened to take me on a hunt and i'm like said i'm 59 now but uh they're like 40 years old so i was quite a bit older than them and and they would have probably been more afraid of somebody teasing them if they said something something that's Something, me, I don't care. I mean, it's, you know, you can have an opinion about me. I don't care. I'm not the one that matters when it comes down to the end of the day of what I feel about what I saw and everything.

I'm not afraid. That is fascinating. Perry, I got a question for you. We're going to take a detour for a few minutes before the Virginia one. So let's imagine that you're in your taxidermy shop and all of a sudden a, uh, a, uh, a truck pulls up to the back of the shop and there's something under a tarp in the back and the gentleman says, I'll give you a million dollars, but you've got a taxidermine whatever's in there. And you look underneath it and it's a big foot.

What do you do? What'd you do it? Well, if I could have done it legally, yes, I would have. Sure. I would have tried, but I'd have probably got some of my buddies I compete with. They help me on that. Yeah, yeah. I would freak out.

I mean, really, I mean, there's a lot. That's one thing that I've talked with people before. I'm like, what would you do if you ran up on something in the woods like this? Would you shoot it? If you're sitting in a stand and this thing comes walking by you, would you shoot it? Me? Absolutely not. Because there's, you know, I'm speaking kind of as a cop, too, from 30 years.

have been law enforcement, you know, for one thing, you got, I mean, there's obvious people out there going to pranking and stuff and doing all that. That's one thing that would enter your mind. But if you shot something that's walking up right like that, you're going to be, kind of be like that Dennis that shot the line that came out of the park or something years ago, man, you're going to, you're not going to live it down. They probably end up prosecuting you over something. Yeah.

And I'm not that kind of hunter. I would not do that. I would probably, and I wouldn't look to think about me up and beat my brains out or something like that. Right. You know, I would give it a wide berth to get around me or me. I would back out of there like I would if I'd come up on a bear or something, you know. But, yeah, that's kind of, it's funny because we have talked about that. That's very interesting.

Because, I mean, and you think about it, it's like it's got to be a thing where there's not just one. one by itself. You probably, if you take one down, you're probably going to meet its brother or its brothers pretty quick. So you better be ready. But some wild stuff that goes on down in Oklahoma for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there's, you don't really know what you do until you get put in that position, you know. That's a good point. I've heard, you know, people that had encounters and they'd heard of people, they think that had been killed by them. And other people say, they just, you know, they kind of go on their own way. They know, you know, they're not going. Yeah. They ain't really worried about you hurting them and stuff.

And I'm being sure wouldn't, you know, shoot one. Absolutely wouldn't a shot one. Because I'd have been, I'd have been afraid of, I didn't make a good shot and get killed anyway. but I wouldn't mess with anything like that. I just couldn't do it. Sure. That's one of those things. It would be more of a, man, I'm curious.

I mean, these things need to, they got to cohabitate with us if they're, you know, 100% there, you know, which I think they are. And I just wish I had a better experience with that incident there. You know, I wish I'd have had a pair of binoculars or a rifle scope or something I could look through and really, you know, I just want to see that thing's face and make it out clear. And, you know, that's just one of those things you, you'll ponder on the rest of your life. You know, you get generally, most folks only going to get one, one time, they're going to experience something like that.

And, you know, I'm kind of one of those guys, you know. Yeah, I mean, that's, it'll be with you for the rest of your life, for sure. Sure. Did you ever get any weird calls when you're a police officer, like people calling in a Bigfoot sighting or anything like that? No, I never did. Not in Alabama, I haven't. I mean, I've heard people say they, you know, said they saw something they couldn't identify, but I've never had a call like that. I've had ghost calls and other crazy calls. But I haven't had any kind of Bigfoot calls. because I police in a big city and everything. Oh, okay. And I think the only thing they would call the police home were crackheads stealing stuff at their house or something. Sure.

Yeah, I mean, I've talked to a few people about northern Alabama. And when you get out in the woods and the big forest out there, there's some very interesting bigfoot encounters to do with hunters that have been reported. And they've found hunters just torn apart underneath their, tree stand and it's just it's some wild stuff you've got it's got have down in that that state for sure yeah yeah i would i would think if um there are any in in alabama they would be more up around birmingham up there with a lot a lot mountainous terrain and bigger woods and if if i was one of those things um survival would be survive i wouldn't want to be around humans

I might want to have them where I could maybe go and look at them every now and in, but have a safe retreat where they know somebody's not going to follow me, you know. So that's why I guess they seek out those kind of areas around here. You know, it's just dense forest and pine trees and stuff like that. It's not a bunch of mounds or anything like that and big haulers and stuff like that. It's more flat where I'm at. Gotcha. Well, Perry, let's talk a little bit about what happened to you in Virginia, if you don't mind.

Oh, yeah, yeah. This is what really got me, you know, I've been listening to the Bigfoot stories and stuff. And like I said, I was scary, man. I've been shot at and been in car chases and been deadly shootouts and all kinds of. I ain't afraid of that kind of stuff, but the unknown stuff is what kind of gets you, you know. And I was working for a plant form and just trying to try something. I was driving trucks.

And we were, me and a bunch of guys were staying at a house down off the Potomac River in Virginia, right on the, you know, across the river you're in, in Maryland. And around King George is where I was at. And this road, where the company would rent a house for you, a bunch of guys, you know, stayed out there and we'd be gone for five, six months a year and come back and have all the time to hunt and whatever you want to do when you come back home and still draw a check. So we had this really nice house, two-story house.

two-story house and it was about four miles down this road, just a small, windy road all the way down was probably 150 yards off the Potomac River, I guess, big wooded area around the house. And I was in the bed one night and it was about 11 o'clock and I think only one of the guys was still awake and he always kept his room, his door shut, music and watching TV and everything. I said, well, I need to go out there and get some drinks. And I had picked up some bread. I was going to make some sandwiches for the next morning because I had to get up about 2.30 in the morning and get started.

So I walked outside, I guess around 11 or 12, something like that. And I walk out to the parking area and my Toyota trucks out there. And I opened up the back door and I'm getting these drinks out. and I'm kind of crouched down because I think a couple of them fell out of the the case of drinks that I had. I crouched down and I heard something hitting my truck,

bounced off my truck or my wheel or something right there and it kind of land right next to me. And it was a rock. And I'm like, I just kind of, I was like, man, what in the world was that? a rock. Maybe I'm just, you know, imagining things, you know, that's that first thought.

But, you know, hair standing up on my back already. I'm curious, real curious. And almost about, just a minute or so later, maybe 15 seconds later, I can't remember exactly. But a definite rock, about two inches, I guess, in diameter, come flying over there. hit the gravel in the driveway and kind of bounced up against the wheel again. I mean, almost hit me. And I look over in the woods and, of course, I don't see none. It's dark out there.

So not to scramble for anything. And my gun was in the truck, my pistol that I retired with. And so I just kind of just slowly just kind of ease overact like I didn't notice that. And I grabbed my gun. I'm like, all right, now I'm ready. I think I even actually grabbed an extra magazine stuck it in my back pocket. I'm like, okay, somebody's messing with me. And then I got to thinking, man, there ain't nobody but us down here.

And all the guys in the house, and I look back at the house, and ain't nobody messing with me. And where this thing come from, where it was coming from, was with the big woods. And so I just, man, I just felt my skin. got that feel and you feel like your hair's just about to jump off your skin, back your neck, you get that feeling, oh, man, just like I used to get when I was a policeman. I'd like somebody's watching me when I'm going in the building with a canine dog or something like that. You always think you're going to walk up on somebody and just had that same feeling about it. I got my stuff and I got me in that house pretty quick.

And the first thing I do is when I went in there. This is Daniel Fischel. And Ryder Strong from PodMeets World. Cat parents unite. We have to look out for each other. Yes, we all know the feeling of being ignored by our little babies a little too well. Yeah, I often wonder to myself, does my cat even love me? Well, there's only one solution to solve that.

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but the guys, the younger guys, I don't drink or anything like that. They were drinking pretty good. One of the guys went out and back, and he had a hamming back there, one of those that you can kind of roll up around your body and sleep in. I guess you could use it to keep bugs off of you or something, you know, at night. And he had fell asleep in that thing, and about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. He'd then passed out.

No, he was drunk now. But he'd be passed out in that thing. And he said he woke up and something was kind of pushing up against him. Now, he never seen anything. He said, but he said something. He think it was one of us messing with him. He didn't nobody acknowledged anything and nobody had been out there. And now he said he heard it walk off in the woods.

But that's pretty much the end of that story. That's all he could say about it. He said, look, man, I woke up. Yeah, I was still a little drunk. He said, but I sobered up really quick when something touched me through the, you know, through this little hanging thing, a hammock. And he said, scared to kiss out of him, you know, and he was serious. And so I'm intrigued.

I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued with that, you know, so I don't know, it's probably, we were kind of getting toward the end of our tour up there, I guess. And I noticed one day when I come back home, I'd been in the store and I'd come back in. You know, I had rock throwing, something touched my buddy in the backyard, came home, a tree locked off about nine foot up, eight or nine foot up, just broke over like we hadn't had no weather, no bad weather, no nothing.

There's no reason for that tree to just snap over, but it was in the back. backyard. And I called my wife and told her, I said, hey, you know, told her about, you know, we've watched this stuff and just kind of freaky that how in the heck is this tree? I look for another land that might have fell out of a tree and hit it, bend it over and broke it. But the tree was probably about four inches in diameter, and it just snapped. And it was not a dead tree because it when it is splintered when it rolled over. So, and I asked some of the guys, is, hey, y'all ain't been out here munking around. and break any trees because, you know, we're renting this place.

We don't want to be responsible for, you know, paying for a tree or anything like that. And there's no, no, nothing about it. So that was the second incident or third, I say third incident there. And then it was pretty much, there was a bunch of deer and a bunch of game around. I mean, there would be deer in our front yard and backyard and all up and down the road. all the time and just a really gaming place. And one day I was right before we were done and were leaving out, it's like late July.

And I was coming up the road headed back out. I was going to go to Wind Dixie or Win Dixie or Walmart or whatever it was up there. And when I was coming up the road, I saw a deer out the right. outside of my cab of my truck on the edge of the field, and it was running full bore across that field with his tongue hung out. And I noticed a bunch of other deer running out of that same. That's the same brick of woods that all these encounters kind of come from. And the deer, and I stopped the truck.

The deer ran right up beside the trunk and stopped and looked at me and his tongue hanging out I kept looking back toward the woods, and I saw something running through the woods, chasing those deer out the corner of that field, and it was running. It was tall, whatever it was running, it was black. And it, you know, obviously wasn't a bear running on two legs, but something was running on two legs through them woods. and I only just saw it for maybe two, three seconds as it was running in between trees.

But the deer were, I had never seen a deer that's, I mean, he was really, he wasn't even worried about my truck. And he was sitting there. He was worried about whatever was behind him chasing him. And I just saw it, like I said, for two or three seconds, and then it went out of sight. But the deer, they would run out in the field, and they stopped around and looked,

hundred, 150 yards out from the edge of the woods. And they stopped and looked back in there. And they all looked like, you know, they'd seen the devil. And it was maybe, I don't know,

maybe a few nights or a week later, I got all the stuff and was out of there. And I said, I ain't coming back. But I know this. Everywhere up there, if you, you know,

they have Bigfoot, sculptures and, like trees that they've carved out with a chainsaw. They're everywhere, even up in Maryland. They were all over the place. And, you know, I get to talk to people about those things because I think I wanted to buy one, but man, they were expensive, man, like $4,000 for one of those sculptures. And I said, I'll just leave it here.

Yeah, nothing. But they were like, yeah, yeah, you know, had an experience. I was on the Potomac or one of the rivers or little tributaries off of the Potomac and ran into one of these things. trying to scoop up fish and there was just stories like that everywhere oh yeah my my son sees them and and um you know there's uh i think there's like a i think if i remember right of off a 90 think 95 may have been the main drag to going up from like fredericksburg up to uh to to Washington, that big main

interstate. I may not be right about that because, you know, it's been since 2017. But there's a military memorial, I think it's a marine place up there, and

I'd run in some people that said there's a bunch of government land around there and they've been hiking out there and stuff and said they'd seen them up there and had experiences with them. Really? So, I mean,

was everywhere, everywhere up there. And, you know, you come from Alabama, you don't hear much about it. And you get up there, it's like everybody has got a story to tell about it. Right. And there's too much. Yeah. If you could remind me, so where you saw this creature running through the woods real quick, that was private property or was it like a public land state forest type deal?

No, that's, that's probably all that land back in there's private. of property. The story was told to me a colonel or a general that was on the battleship or aircraft carrier when they signed

the Japanese signed their surrender. I seen a picture of the man that had bought all that land in there and he's dead. That is his wife

or granddaughter or, you know, is the only one that lives down in there. And he owned all that land back in there. But he had a picture of him when the Japanese were signing their surrender on whatever ship they were on. And I don't know who, I can't remember what important officer was there. It could have been MacArthur or somebody there. I don't know. But I did see pictures because that's who we were written in a place from.

and our company was renting the place from. But I can tell you this, not, I would not live. I mean, for as a hunter, yeah, but I wouldn't go out of dark out there. Oh, yeah. That was freaky. Somebody throw a rock. I mean, hey, you know, what's the chances? I mean, you'd have to walk four miles down in there just to snoop around.

you know, you can't, you know, there wasn't no vehicles out there, there's just ours, and that was it. And an old lady lived down the end of that road, and that was it. And I don't know anybody in the right mind would walk in them, as dark as that is, and then woods would walk around out there. No. But it threw rocks at me. And that, I mean, when it happened, I was like, I'm thinking, good night, man.

This is like right out of the story I've heard, you know. Right, yeah. Growing up. And then a tree busted over. I'm like, good night. I told my wife about it, and we discussed it. Crazy. Thinking.

I haven't seen that like that in Alabama. Right, exactly. Thinking back to like the, and I know it was only for a few seconds that you saw the creature running through the woods when the, the deer were nearby. When you saw it running for a few seconds, was it near any deer at all? I would say the closest it was was about 50 yards. Okay. And now you think about this now, I just thought about this.

You run out of deer and he's going to be in the next zip code. At least his deer around here. You take a run out. I mean, within seconds, they're going to. on. And whatever this was was running fast. And he wasn't far off the hills of at least one of the deer. And this one deer looked like he'd been chased for a while, I mean, because his tongue was hanging out of his head. And a deer don't get winded running, you know, 150 yards out of the woods. They don't get that winded like that. It's like...

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When they're completely stressed, that's kind of an indicator right there when they're stressed, because I used to raise deer years ago. And I've had dogs come around a pen and scare them. And, you know, but it takes a lot of agitation for one to get, I think, to be hanging his tongue out like that, you know. So whatever it was was after him and scared the crap out of them.

And me too. Well, yeah, absolutely. So I was asking that to see, was, did you see it run by? anything that could give you an indication of how tall it might have been? Well, all I remember is that this thing's like 150 yards across the field in a wood line. Yep. And I never went over there to like try to figure that out. Right.

But for me to see it, if it had been like a human or something in a black suit, which, you know, there's no way it could have been. It just because there's no way they would have been able to get that close to a deer running like that and kind of keep kind of keep up with it, so to speak. And whatever it was was big, tall, and was running fast. And I was thinking, you know, first thing I thought is I always thinking it's a bear, you know, but this thing wasn't running low to the ground. This thing was running high. and it was on two legs. And, you know, you see it and you just, you know, at first you don't, you rationalize, try to figure out what was that?

And then you kind of play it back in your head and you're like, oh, my God, being that, that thing was running on two legs. And it was big. That's all I can tell you. I wouldn't say it was six foot tall. I would say it was beyond that. It had to be. I mean, I've been a trained observer for.

for 30 years and I don't have the answers to everything, but I've been a hunter for forever since I was, you know, seven years old, I've been in the woods hunting, and I've seen a lot of things. And that's definitely something that caused a confusion in my head. I mean, I don't get confused about it. I mean, I see them all the time. I can look at something in a split second

and tell you where it is, but I couldn't tell you what that was in a split second. It just freaked me out because I'd never seen that ever. And I've seen moose, bear, elk. I've been in Wyoming hunting out there, been everywhere, and I have never seen nothing that big like that ever. It's fascinating accounts, definitely. And that is, that's pretty much all I have, that I can recall that I've, you know, I've been up to Cades Cove where they said they, you know, had some issues of there with people running into them and everything and, and, uh, taking my wife up there and, and, uh, where's that at?

We, Cades Cove is in, uh, Kentucky. Oh, I'm not familiar with that. I'm not Cades Cove. I'm not, I'm sorry, not Cade's Cove. I'm talking about laying between the lakes. Oh, you. You've been to LBL. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, that's... I've been to case code, too.

That's in Tennessee. But LBL's in Kentucky. And I'd been up there hunting me and my wife went up there on a little mini vacation and stuff. Oh, really? And she said she heard some hooping off and then a holler and everything. I didn't hear it, but she says she did. And my buddies at a local shop up here, the bow shop was like I had told them about it. And when she came in there, they were getting.

giving a hard time. They're like, who, co, co, you know, messing with her and stuff,

and we laugh real hard about that, but she said she would never go back. There's some weird stuff. We were out. There was nobody.

There was nobody, man. It's nothing but woods for two miles. There's nothing, and she swear she, I was putting up a darn, I got bad ears

from shooting guns, all my life. I was up there putting a trail camera up kind of over heel there, and she was at the truck and she heard some holler in her hooping down in the woods down there and when I got down there she had her eyes look like Adam Schiffeyes you know real wide and stuff she's like get the truck we're out here yeah I mean and I've talked to people where they have had really interesting things happen in that forest for sure it is huge yeah I mean some of the

white oak trees you'll ever see. And there's, there's graveyards all through there. All up. I mean, that's what we did. We drove her little Toyota forerunner. We would go up these little old roads and stuff,

and we, I don't know how many we looked at, but we found graves from, we found a couple from the 1700s in the graveyard up there. A lot of, from the Civil War. And,

uh, I mean, you don't hear highways back in there you don't hear nothing it's this way back in the woods and uh but yeah there's been a lot of uh a lot of sightings and stuff up there of bigfoot and even even uh well it's primarily known for for dog man sightings and some pretty yeah vicious ones at that i've talked to a few people about that but uh there's there's definitely some some Bigfoot sightings and encounters in that LBL region. So that's very interesting that your wife heard those sounds.

Who knows what could have been out there for sure. Yeah, it was trying to think of the cab. There's a place where you can rent in cabins. Gosh, it's been several years since I've been there, but you can first part of November, a lot of bow owners in there, renting them cabins. And it's the only place home of LBL, that you can rent cabins.

I just can't think of it right off top of my head. But they hold a whole bunch of cabins down there. You can rent. Cell service down there sucks. Yeah. But you get up on the other side, kind of, I guess, the northern side of the LBL is a little bit hillyer. You can get a lot more better service up that way. But you walk off down and bottom, you can't get no cell service.

I don't like being out without a sale, you know. grew up without one, but man, we like it. Yeah, no, I get it. It's weird not being able to connect with loved ones or a safety professional if you need one. But sometimes you go to areas where you just, you can't do it. But Perry, this has been a really fascinating chat, some super fun accounts. Thank you so much. I hope people listening to this, maybe this will jog something in their memory about something they experienced in Virginia or Alberta, Canada.

And you're more than welcome to send me an email. If you'd like to share what happened to you at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. And we can start the conversation there for sure. But Perry, thank you so much for spending some time with me tonight. Absolutely. Have good day. Here at 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.

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 everyone of you listening. This is Daniel Fischel. And Ryder Strong from PodMeets World. Cat parents unite. We have to look out for each other.

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