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Starting point is 00:02:10 over at Patreon, you get a special members-only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes. Head on over to patreon.com forward slash the Bigfoot Society, and now let's get on with the show. All right, Bigfoot Society, I've got the privilege of talking to Mr. Don Neil today, and you might know him in the community by his nickname Biggyfoot. But Don, welcome to the show today. How's it going? It's doing wonderful. A little horse, but I'm doing good.

Starting point is 00:02:43 Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. We were just talking, and I'm getting over some stuff myself. I'm sure half the listeners are as well. It's going around the U.S. But, you know, you've got a really cool bio you provided, and we don't really get amazing bios like this.

Starting point is 00:02:58 I just want to mention it to this side. You've got some really cool things that you have in your past. Besides Bigfoot, you were your license minister, pastor for 53 years. You're an honorary Kentucky colonel, which is awesome. Yes. You've got the presidential flags and wings lapel pin from Colin Powell under George W. Bush, which is awesome, awesome. And of course, you've been officially researching Bigfoot since 2007, so almost 20 years, which is

Starting point is 00:03:30 incredible. So, but, you know, I would love to start, you know, where I usually start when I, when I'm talking to individuals that have been in the community for such a long time that was there a certain event or a thing that brought you into Bigfooting to begin with? Yes, sir, absolutely. Well, like most people, as a child, I was interested who was Bigfoot, you know, extraterrestrial, anything like that was just amazing to our little minds, you know. So I remember watching in search of and many different

Starting point is 00:04:07 programs. So I'm old enough to remember when the Patterson Gimlet film came out and it was released and what made it different than everything else. I thought, oh, no, this thing that's supposed to be, you know, science fiction is possibly really true. And that just picked my interest and I zeroed in on

Starting point is 00:04:23 Bigfoot probably at the age of 13. So it would have been somewhere around 67, 68. So I've always had that interest, but I can't say I was a researcher. But I started preaching at the age of 17 years old, awful young, but I started out 17 years old today. I'm 70. So 53 years, but I began traveling 38 states in the United States and Canada and Mexico. I've traveled quite a bit, been blessed to be able to preach.

Starting point is 00:04:50 So, of course, when I'm preaching and evangelizing, I'm preaching at nighttime. So my days are free. And so I love going around meeting people. and I would ask, I wasn't ashamed at all, I'm a minister in the gospel, but, you know, I'm also interested. I let my mind's open to a lot of things, and so I would ask people in the communities, you know, you ever have anything unusual going on? I've heard paranormal stories, you know, and I've heard different things, but it seemed like I would always run into Bigfoot stories. And for an example, I was preaching in Upper New York and got to speak to some lawmakers, and I said, you know, anything weird, you see some weird things up through these woods.

Starting point is 00:05:27 And they said, oh, yeah, we see Bigfoot tracks all the way. time. I would love to say I was a researcher then and I should have been taking notes and I should have had a recorder. But again, I'm a full-time minister. This is just something. I'm one of them saying Bigfoot researchers. I'm the armchair researcher. You know, I do it on my spare time. I have a career. I have a calling in my life, which is the ministry, but I sure was interested in Bigfoot. But all the stories I should have written down. Then I found myself preaching in Florida by the Ocala National Forest. And one day while I was out observing the course I run into a park ranger and so I was talking to him and of course I go hey you ever see

Starting point is 00:06:04 anything unusual and weird down here and he's like yeah you know we have big foots around here and he began to tell me about sightings they have and how many of the park rangers cannot talk about it they're not allowed to talk about it and again I go hear me said a hundred times I wish why didn't I write these things down so over the years since the age of 13 I've been and 17 years old when I started the ministry I've been kind of doing research then I began to preach to American Indians out west in New Mexico and Oklahoma and Arizona. And I got to go on the Indian reservations and stay for a week at a time. And you have to be welcomed by the Indian cheese. If you're there doing business, they call it, you know, I'm going to be in the community

Starting point is 00:06:45 receiving an offering from the Indians and we're going to minister the Indians. So I have to be okayed for interns had to be there. And of course, their offerings was, I had many revivals on the Indian reservations where they brought us live chickens and corned at fry bread, they called it. And we would receive that and the next day we'd feed that food to the homeless Indians and the hungry people there in the community. We didn't keep any of it. So in meeting the Indian cheese, you know, I got to know them and I'd say, hey, you know, I'm Cherokee Indian.

Starting point is 00:07:15 My family's Cherokee Indian and I always have loved that. I'd say, tell me some unusual stories. Tell me if I'm just interested in anything. Well, they'd tell me about the tall man. I mean, I'm talking about over years of time, different chiefs of the Apache Drive and the Cherokee and the Chippewa, not all at one time. And that even makes it better to me. I love when these things are spontaneous. But they'd say, oh, yeah, the big man of the mountains or the hairy man of the woods or, you know, and I'd see out.

Starting point is 00:07:41 And they would just grab the six to seven foot tall, hair-covered creature that walked up right like a man. And so I kept going, man, everywhere I go, you know. And so I got to minister to Cowboys back in the 70s out in far west Texas. There were literally cowboys who literally stayed on the range on the trail six and seven days in time. They stay in cabins out in remote areas. They were running the fence wire and stuff and got to talk to them. You know, they'd come to me back wolves that they had shot or killed or some big bear story, you know, different places I was at Montana, Wyoming.

Starting point is 00:08:16 Anyway, it would always come back to a big foot. And it's like he would just follow me everywhere. went and and so I was always interested so I settled down and started the church that I now pastor I started my own church and a little organization and I'm here in Kentucky where I'm from and so in 2000 so around 2007 I heard about the BFRO and Bigfoot and I thought well I want to go to one of their one of their expeditions and I went to the expedition and met Harold B&E that you were speaking to recently and I went to one of their BFRO expeditions in the Shawnee National Forest around Garden of the Gods.

Starting point is 00:08:53 And that's when I heard my little first Bigfoot return howl. Somebody made a howl and this Bigfoot returned a howl and made the Harris. And I was hopelessly hooked. But one major thing I left out, because I sure get to talk, it is what literally pushed me into the world of Bigfoot is when a young man, but when I was 17 started the ministry, every year I was in a large organization or church organization. and once a year we would meet in Louisville, Kentucky,

Starting point is 00:09:22 ministers from all the 50 states that would meet, and we'd have a week-long convention. And during that week, we'd have a big dinner, and all the ministers, I'd meet ministers from, you know, Washington State and from California and from Florida, and we'd all get together people I didn't usually get to meet. Now, imagine all these ministers were wearing suits and ties and three-piece suits, and there was this one cool preaching.

Starting point is 00:09:46 He was so cool. He preached on the Indian Reservation, I believe he was in Wyoming in that area, and he was married to an Indian woman. And this guy would come to these conventions wearing buckskin jacket and blue jeans and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. And he was like Clint Eastwood to me. You know, I'm 18, 19-year-old minister. Man, this guy's so cool. I won't give his name, but he was just the coolest guy.

Starting point is 00:10:09 He didn't care to dress the suits and the ties. He wore his clothes, and he would minister to the Indians. And so I got to know this man, and one of the conventions, I got to sit at the table, eight or ten ministers, and he was one of them. Well, I made sure he get a seat just as close to him as I could, and I wanted to just talk to him because he was like, I could say, a modern-day cowboy. And I come to find out the story was he would literally preach to the Indians on Sunday.

Starting point is 00:10:35 And then he'd load up his pack meals and his team on Monday and go out into the mountains that he would hunt for the different wild animals and keep their pelts and sold their hides. And he lived off the land. And he'd come back on the weekends there in this local community. preach to the Indians. Well, I'm just hopelessly hooked. This guy's like my hero, you know.

Starting point is 00:10:53 I'm just so amazed. So we're sitting there talking nonchalantly, and I said, his name was Johnny. And I said, Johnny, I know you've seen bears and elves and you've had a lot of unusual situations. He got lost one time that was out in the woods a couple days, you know, lost until he found his way back where he was supposed to be. And he was an expert marksman, and you stop if I go too long here. And he was just, he was a man's man. He was a modern day cowboy.

Starting point is 00:11:21 And he just so matter-factually said, well, the weirdest thing I ever saw was a big foot. And I go, what? He said, yes. Well, all the table gets quiet, all the ministers, you know, everybody's looking like, this guy can't be serious. And I said, please tell me more. And he told me the most amazing story. I've never forget it that he was out hunting and he had found a place on a little mesa that was high above. It raised up several hundred feet.

Starting point is 00:11:46 And he had found a place on the rock side of this mesa. say he could settle into the rocks and he could rest his gun for a good holding pattern for to sight in on the animals he was shooting. He'd been there three or four days and got several animals. He'd go down and get him, bring them back up to where he was at that higher elevation. You know, skin them, clean them, eat their meat. That was his food while he was there. And he said, I'm not going to leave this spot.

Starting point is 00:12:08 I'm in a good spot. So it's overlooked in a valley. There's about a 400-yard field, a clearing down there, some kind of weed or grass that the animals kept eating. and he went down there and got settled in his rocky spot on this rock cliff and he settled in for the guy's canned feed. And he said the early morning, this sunup, he said, I've seen something in my peripheral vision walk out into this field.

Starting point is 00:12:30 And he said, the first thing I noticed it's walking upright like a man. And he said, what in the world can this be? And he said, there's no way I could be seen. This is important to the story. He said, I'm camouflaged. I'm sitting in these rocks. There's no way I can be seen. I'm three, 400 feet high.

Starting point is 00:12:47 looking down at this field and this thing comes walking swinging its arms seven to eight foot tall solid black from head to toe and is swinging its arms extremely like an extreme swinging motion and it stops in the center of this field and reaches down and starts grabbing these

Starting point is 00:13:03 weeds and pulling them up and it's eating the roots he can see the dirt clumps on the on the ball of these weeds and whatever it was this creature was eating them so he thought it's not a man but at the time wasn't sure what it was So this expert marksman, and he's got this big gun, some, you know, I don't know, he was telling the gun.

Starting point is 00:13:22 It was powerful enough to bring down bears or any big creature, moose, or anything. And he's got a super scope. And he raises it up, puts it on his creature, and he says, this thing's got two arms and two legs, gigantic feet. You can barely see him in the grass, but he sees his feet when it's walking. And he said, this thing's neck goes right into its shoulders. This is my first experience of faith, live eyewitness. and I'm sitting there fixated. I'm not even breathed.

Starting point is 00:13:49 I think I'm just so listening to what he's saying. And he said, so I raise my scope up and I'm thinking, do I shoot this thing or not? And he said, I believe that with the power scope I had and the power gun, I could kill this thing. But he said, as I raised the scope up and got it to its face, he said, I let my finger off the trigger because he said, I was looking into the face of a human-looking creature.

Starting point is 00:14:12 He said that the rest of it looked like gorilla, the rest of it looked like animal, but its face was human. And he said, I let go of the trigger and thought, there's no way I could kill this thing. Impossible. And he said, then it did the most amazing thing. Well, I'm thinking, first of all,

Starting point is 00:14:27 you're telling me you've seen a big foot. What could be more amazing than that? And he said, I'm sure I'm hidden in these rocks. I know I can't be seen. And I've got it right in the scope. And he said, that creature stopped chewing, stop doing what it was doing, and turned and looked straight up at me

Starting point is 00:14:43 like it was looking straight through me at that scope. He said, and I thought there's no way you could see me. He said, it dropped that grass and turned and at a walking pace, which was equal to him running. It wouldn't have left out of that field and was gone. And I'm just, I'm ruined for the rest of my life because that just blew me away. That was just amazing. So add that to the rest of the story. So I go through all the years and I'm, you know, asking people about Bigfoot and I read all these stories.

Starting point is 00:15:10 So in 2007, back to modern times, I go to that KBR, I mean the BFRO expedition in Garden of the Gods. I meet Harold Biddy. I hear my first return howl and the second night we got return knocks. And that's when I thought I'm going to become a researcher. Again, I can't do it full time. I don't get to do it, you know, all the time. But I do it as much as I can.

Starting point is 00:15:32 And I've been very blessed. I believe God has blessed me that I get to be involved in a lot of these expeditions. And I started doing several expeditions with the BFRO. Then I found my problem. was I don't have a lot of free time. I'm a full-time minister, evangelist, pastor of my own church, kind of family to raise. So I thought I need to Bigfoot in Kentucky. I can't keep going to Illinois.

Starting point is 00:15:54 I've been to Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, you know, Indiana. But I can't keep going, you know, three or four day expeditions. I've got to be home every Sunday. That's my busiest workday of the week. So I found a group called the KBRO, the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization, which is led by Mr. Charlie. Raymond. And I contacted him and told him what I was interested in and I'd been to some B.O.4 expeditions. And he was so kind. He was so free. I can't speak well enough about him. He said, sure, come and go

Starting point is 00:16:25 with us on an expedition. And I got to meet him and we began talking. It wasn't very long. He said, would you like to be invited to be a researcher and investigator for the KBRO? And you can take care of the Western Kentucky portion of the state for me. And I just could not believe he offered me. I was so honored. And so I've been doing this. that sits around 2007 or eight, somewhere along that line. That's when I got my first clear camera. I went and got a flare thermal camera and got into it and began to interview people. So I like to tell people that right off the bat, I myself have never actually seen a Bigfoot. And a lot of people don't like that. Bigfoot Society will be right back after

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Starting point is 00:19:54 That's freedom to be. Use as directed. If you haven't seen one, you know, you're not part of that end group. But what I like to tell people is that I have experienced, I feel like everything that you can experience in the world of Bigfoot research with the exception of having a visual daytime sight. I have had hits on my thermal camera that I am 90% sure is Bigfoot. I've had them howl and scream and whistle and grunt. I've heard their jibboring talk.

Starting point is 00:20:32 I've seen their eyes shine at non. might have been surrounded by more than one on several occasions. I've had them push down trees near me and hear them run off by peal steps. I found their footprints, which my wife and I have found their scat. And over time, I think I felt back on it. And I believe since when I was a young man until now, which I now record all of my interviews with eyewitnesses, I've interviewed around 100 people, a little over 100 eyewitnesses from all walks of life.

Starting point is 00:21:01 And the eyewitnesses are why I really believe. even Bigfoot. Not the howls I've heard, not the footbridge I found, not even the skit we found, but the eyewitnesses. And I believe in people. I love people. I studied a little in psychology before I became a minister in my high school. That was some of my studies with psychology. I love speaking to people, studying people, and watching people. So I love to interview people, these eyewitnesses. And I'm going into another part of my story. You stopped me at any time. But when I got to meeting people, of course, there's always, there's liars. You know, there's people that were drunk and there's people that were on drugs. You have to weed that out. But I'm pretty good over this amount of time,

Starting point is 00:21:43 17 years now, of reading a witness out. And when you talk to a, I got one story, I'll tell if you're interested later, but I'll tell him my Bubba story. I spoke to a young man from Eastern Kentucky. He was country to the core. He was a true hillbilly. You know, you're talking about a man's six foot four or three hundred pounds. And he tells me a story of his big foot. side in and he tells me that he wet himself. And the man's standing there shaking and tears in his eyes. I believe that man. That man saw something.

Starting point is 00:22:14 And I guess I'll go ahead and tell a story. Don't let me go on too long, Jerry. You got it. You're good. But this man's in Eastern Kentucky. Okay. Kentucky, people, I love Kentucky. I'm a lifelong Kentucky.

Starting point is 00:22:26 So anything I say, I'm not belittling anyone. I'm not being condescending. I'm telling the dad as it is. In Eastern Kentucky, Those are a different group of people. They're very seclusive. They're very secluded people. They keep to their self.

Starting point is 00:22:39 It is the hardest time I've ever had getting witnesses to talk is in far eastern Kentucky, Harlan County, and places like that. Listen, they just don't talk to strangers. And I had to go down there for 20 years. I've been going full of riding in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky two and three times a year. So I've been 36 or 38 times. And it took me almost that long to get some of them start telling me their Bigfoot stories. someone that used to laugh at me.

Starting point is 00:23:04 Now when I go, they say, hey, preacher, we got a new bigfoot sighting I want to tell you about. So they open up. Finally, I'm not a stranger anymore. I loved it when I first went out there to the mountains. They called me a flatlander because I live in western Kentucky where there's not as many hills and mountains. But to my Bubba story, I had heard this young man that had a sighting, and they said

Starting point is 00:23:24 he's a heck of a man. He's a monster of a fella. So I go to meet this man. His mama calls him in the house. This is so funny. and I'm 5 foot 8 I weigh about 280 but this guy comes in north she said Bubba come in here and talk to this man

Starting point is 00:23:37 about your big foot sighting and this guy walks in the door and he almost has a duck to come in the door I mean he's I can't tell you what a monster of a man I tell people his neck was big around as the top of my leg he had on big overalls and I don't know if he had anything else he was just gigantic he shook my hand

Starting point is 00:23:55 and his hand just my hand was lost in his hand and he pointed his finger when I tell this story at presentations, I acted out. But I'm sitting here looking up. I'm looking up at this fella. And he looks down and puts his finger right in my face. He said, preacher, I'm going to tell you my story, but you better not laugh at me. And I said, no, sir, I'm not going to laugh at you.

Starting point is 00:24:17 There's no way. And so he begins with the story. And he's got a hunting spot that his grandfather left him. And he shows these, I'll get lost in a lot of words, but clover and rye. and they sow these seals that the bucks will come to and it makes their angers grow bigger and they get these big old bucks. So he said, I've got a hunting spot

Starting point is 00:24:37 and he said, if I found somebody hunting on my property, I'd whoop him. He said, if I didn't shoot him, and I believed every word he said. And he wasn't being mean, that's just country. And he said, nobody hunts in my spot. So his story was he was up in the tree stand. He'd been there since early morning before daylight.

Starting point is 00:24:54 And it starts getting daylight. Here's something come crashing through the woods. Just make you an unwinded. unbelievable sound and he thinks, well, this has got to be the biggest deer. You know, I've never seen. I've never heard one sound like this. So he stands up in his stand, just a monster of man. He's got a 30-out six.

Starting point is 00:25:09 I'll never forget that. Got a scope on it. That's a big gun. And he said, I'm ready for this buck to come out. And I'm going to take me a prize buck. And he said, all of a sudden, now this deep, dark brush outsteps this deep foot tall, hair-covered creature, looks like it's black and maybe a little brownish to it. And he's standing there sniffing the air.

Starting point is 00:25:29 and look it around. He said, and I freeze immediately, and my first thought is, is this gun enough to take this thing down? He starts down the power of his 30-odd-six. And he said, same thing. He raised the scope of and looked at it. And he said, man, if it didn't look like a human being in the face. And he said, at that time, the thing turned and looked at me.

Starting point is 00:25:49 And he said, I put the gun down. And he's looking at me. He said, now, preacher, I wet myself. I've learned through the years, Jeremiah, people will lie. but most of the time people will lie to make their self look better in a situation. You know, it's just human trait. We will lie to make ourselves look better.

Starting point is 00:26:05 We'll hyperbole, you know, to enhance a story, but usually not to degrade ourselves. When this boy's standing there six foot, three or four, 300 pounds are bigger, it just looks like a monster of man. He says he wed himself. That man's tears are going down his face, down his nose. This guy's telling me the truth.

Starting point is 00:26:23 Why would he tell me he wet himself? And I know this man had an experience. This guy saw something step out of the woods. It turned after it smelled the air. He said, I believe it smelled me there, and it turned and walked off. And he said, I come out of the woods and I've never hunt there ever again. Now, he gave up his favorite hunting spot that he would have whooped any man that he saw in there, and I believe he would have.

Starting point is 00:26:44 So I believe in Bigfoot because of the amount of witnesses I've spoken to. And I guess I'll go along this line now. You know, I tell people this and when I do my presentation, I'm a non-denominational preacher, but I'm in the Pentecostal background. It's kind of a lively church. You know, we get with the program, you won't go to sleep in our church. So, but one thing I know about

Starting point is 00:27:06 Pentecostal holiness people, we call them here in Kentucky, these are people, I mean, they don't go to movie theaters. They're still like back in the 20s or 30. These people don't, they don't say heck or darn, because that's cuss words to them. They live a very strict life according to how they see the Bible. I'm not knocking them. I'm explaining.

Starting point is 00:27:25 And I respect them that they believe. because they believe what they believe wholeheartedly. And they're just, you know, a few steps from being Amish in the way they live. I'm they're country people. And I say that to say this. If they tell you a story, you could write it in stone. And I remember interviewing an elderly lady. She was up in her 80s.

Starting point is 00:27:43 She was a Pentecostal holding this lady. She won't say shoot or darn. That's cuss word. And they sure don't lie. They think the devil will come out of the ground and grab them and get a hold of them. So I was interviewing her, and she was in her kitchen window, and this is far east of Kentucky, and she looked out in her garden, and she said, this haint, I'll never forget it. She said this big old haint come walking out of the woods.

Starting point is 00:28:08 Now, I've looked up and found out there a lot of old-timers here in Kentucky are calling spirits or ghost, they'll call them a hate, or something that can't explain, something that's scary to them. She said, this haint, come walking out of the woods and started picking my vegetables up out of my garden and eat them. She said, I said, what did you do? And country people are so cool. They don't get scared like some of us do. She said, I started hitting on that kitchen window and said, you get out of my garden. You quit eating my food. And she said, it looked at me and it turned around and walked off. And, you know, I'm talking to this woman that is not going to lie to me. I mean, she feels her religion is its day. People may make fun of that. But I believe witnesses, when they're like these people

Starting point is 00:28:48 that have no reason to lie, that are not going to lie, and certainly degrade them. herself or tell a lie when she thinks, you know, it's going to be her salvation at stake. And so I begin to believe in Bigfoot mostly because of the witnesses. Now, again, I've heard the howls. I've seen the eyes shine. I went out one time by myself, two o'clock in the morning in Ohio County, Kentucky, which is the next county from where I live, had a 44 magnum on my side. I carry that more for not just for a Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:29:15 I don't need to kill a Bigfoot. But in my years of research, I walked upon a marijuana patch one time at 9. And there was a man with a loaded high-powered rifle there. And that scares me pretty good. And I knew I was ready to fix because he was watching this crop, see. And I'm smart enough to know that. And he said, what are you doing out here? And I said, fella, I'm going to tell you, but you're not going to believe you.

Starting point is 00:29:37 I said, I'm a preacher. And I'm out here looking for Bigfoot. And thank God he started laughing. And he said, well, I think that's crazy. He said, but you don't need to be here. And I said, yes, sir, and if you'll give me time, I'll be gone from here. And he said, you turn and go back that direction. And so, you know, I was scared for my life.

Starting point is 00:29:55 And I turned around and left. And so, and that's another time, not too many years ago, I came in another county and walked up on a meth lab. And I knew immediately when I saw the coolers, the aluminum full, the batteries, and I pulled my gun out and backed my way out of there. And I thought, boy, I walked into the wrong situation. I did call the state police, and they did come and say that it had been a working lab, but it had been abandoned recently.

Starting point is 00:30:20 Or I would have been in big trouble. I carry a gun for those rays of snakes and taillies and any kind of problem like that. So I'm sitting at the foot of a big tree. It's 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm telling a lot of stories here, Jeremiah, but you just tell me when. But I'm sitting there my gun. I've got my back to a tree. I've got my audio recorder shut out, and I couldn't find nobody to go with me.

Starting point is 00:30:42 And I've been there about an hour. And all of a sudden, it just didn't steal of the night, this big tree behind me, I hear it start cracking. And it just all zoomed, shakes, the ground. It hits not too far right behind this tree I'm sitting at. And I just freeze. My blood runs cold. And I hear these steps start walking away. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And I knew immediately what happened. This big foot had pushed this tree down. And you can hear it stepping, just pounding as it's walking off. And I did the strangest thing. I tell this to people. I can't believe it to

Starting point is 00:31:15 this day telling you this story. I stood up. I walked to my truck about 100 yards away. And I come home. I left my audio recorders. I left everything there. And about halfway home, I'm thinking, hey, that's what I was out there for. That's what I went to hear. What am I doing? But they called the fear of flight or flight.

Starting point is 00:31:38 That literally hit me. And I ain't said I was unconscious. But I knew to get in that truck and leave. And I didn't hear that creature approached me. I was sitting there in the dead silence. I don't know how it's got a thing like that. And it pushed that big tree down. and it was walking away, and it made me go to the truck and leave.

Starting point is 00:31:56 I went back the next day and got all my audio recorders, which were not by me that I had scheduled them in other places. But I believe in Bigfoot for all those things, the hoops and the house. But I guess the point I make it, I believe because of all the witnesses I spoke to. Absolutely. I mean, I'm right there with you. Once I started taking reports, actually just this summer out in Oregon, like face-to-face, it becomes very, very real in a different way to you for sure.

Starting point is 00:32:28 And I love your background having that, you know, being a preacher since age 17. So you have probably a very unique way of looking at things. Over the years, have you come to a realization about what you think Bigfoot is, or is that something still up in the air for you? Isn't that the $64,000 question? Yeah. When I first got into the research, I never thought about what it was when I was the minister traveling, getting these stories. Again, I wish I to roll them down.

Starting point is 00:32:59 I could write a book. But again, my life is the ministry, and that's my calling. That's what I do. And I was just asking questions on the side. But since 2007, now I say we record every interview. We write down notes. At the KBRO, the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization, we look at one of the groups that record our eyewitnesses. We videotape them and play their video.

Starting point is 00:33:21 of their site. It seemed like everybody really loves that. But I thought at first, when I got into it in 2007, it was an as-yet-uniscovered a North American bipedal ape of some kind, and I went into the gigantic epithicous offspring deal. But I wasn't into it probably six months. And after I interviewed, I like to say from a professional, nobody's a professional, but from being an actual researcher and taking notes and recording, as I talked to people, that left me quickly. They're so human-looking. I just love when the people say, and I'll tell some stories in a minute, and these people are not part of Kentucky, they call it a gorilla. These people, I love reports from people that don't know what big foot is. I love that.

Starting point is 00:34:00 They're not thrown to make it a big foot. They're not looking for a big foot. So the first thing out of their mouth is a gorilla because of its shape and covered in hair. But I thought it was a North American bopulate, now I do not think it. But I still have not come to the conclusion of what I think it is. Now I'm studied in the Bible. I've studied in the Greek and the Hebrew, and I've been blessed to say. study under Bible scholars who believe in the Aramaic Hebrew and teach the Aramaic Hebrew of the Bible.

Starting point is 00:34:25 The first five books of the Bible written by Moses was written in Aramaic Hebrew and there's many secrets hidden in that. So I know about the Nephilim who were on the earth in the anti-deluvian age, the fallen angels. I haven't connected them to that. There's a lot of researchers that do. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. This is Matt Rogers from Las Colchiris with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen-Yang from Lost Culture Research with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. Spend your balance instantly with the Venmo debit card and earn up to 5% cashbacks on your favorite bundle of brands when you join Venmo's stash.

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Starting point is 00:36:19 What if I'm not ready? I see a whole highlight reel of everything I don't want to happen. Missed shots, turnovers, letting my team down. And for a second, there's doubt. But then, I realize I've done enough to be where I'm at. The early mornings, the extra reps, the days I wanted to quit and didn't. So, I smile. Self-doubt is natural, but my smile is a reminder that I'm resilient. To put more smiles out into the world,

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Starting point is 00:37:39 That's freedom to be. Use as directed. I don't want to be offensive to anybody, anywhere. They have their belief. I have mine. I don't know exactly yet where I place a big foot, but I tell people this. I don't know what it is, but I know who created it. There's not a creature living on this planet that God, the Creator, did not create.

Starting point is 00:38:07 Yehovah created them. And so they're created. I don't know what their purpose is. and a lot of people, this is probably something I shouldn't approach. I'm living in a day where the Bigfoot world from when I started in 2007 is slowly moving over to the paranormal, the spirit, yeah, paranormal, supernatural side of it. I'm reluctant to go there. And let me tell you this, you might find this interesting.

Starting point is 00:38:31 I believe in the supernatural realm. I call it the spiritual realm. I believe in that more than I believe in Bigfoot. As a minister, I don't know how far to go with you. I'm an open-minded minister. I've seen UFOs. I have seen unexplained lights in the woods, but I don't connect that to Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:38:47 I have had supernatural. People use that term. I don't like it paranormal. I use spiritual. I have seen demonic entities that show themselves. I have had people call them exorcism. I have cast demons out of people in a church surrounding a person who was having problems with demons. I've been there.

Starting point is 00:39:06 And you can watch these TV shows, and they make it look pretty good. That's Sunday school material compared to what is. really like in real life. So I believe in that. And I believe in extraterrestrial life. And I believe I can find that in my Bible. I believe that we're not the only creation. We're the sheep that went astray of the 99.

Starting point is 00:39:23 But anyway, to go there, I'm not connected to Nephlin, but whatever it is, my God created it. And I don't believe I'll be harmed by them, but I also don't believe their spirits. But anyway, I don't know what they are, Jeremiah, but I know that God created them. I'm still trying to figure out what they are. and a lot of people get on to me, say, you're a preacher. You're not supposed to get out here looking for spirits. And I said, well, I don't think I'm looking for spirits right now.

Starting point is 00:39:48 Spirits, as far as I'm concerned, don't poop. They don't have to urinate. They don't have to have food to eat. They don't have to leave handpringance. They don't have to leave their hair on a fence wire. If they're spirits, if they can pop out of a tree and I'm going to make people upset, and I don't mean to. But, you know, I listen to everybody's theories, and I've always respect people. But I find a lot of times they don't give respect back.

Starting point is 00:40:08 I don't, if they can pop out of a tree or pop out of an interdimensional wall, then they wouldn't be, we wouldn't be seeing them, and they could sure stay away from us. But that's me for right now. It's some kind of flesh and blood creature who has some unbelievable traits about them. Listen, people say,

Starting point is 00:40:25 well, I've seen one that disappeared. Well, I've seen a deer in the woods. I've been a deer hunter for many years, and I've seen a big, point bug deer. I'll never forget walking to my stand. And I thought,

Starting point is 00:40:34 you come off behind that tree. Buddy and you're busted. I got you. I've watched you walk in here a couple of, a couple hundred yards. He stepped behind that tree and he never come out. And he never left. And I come out of the tree stand and don't see the deer. Now, I can say he disappeared or I can say that that buck was smarter me. He may have got down and crawled. I've seen deer get down and crawl up under falling trees to get away from a hundred. I had one buck deer one time come to me. I know I'm

Starting point is 00:40:58 speaking at random here. I remember watching one buck deer back in about 12, 2000, maybe 2001. and I watched you come out of the field into the woods I was in and come straight towards my stand and when he got a stool a little too far to shoot, he stopped smell the air and I watched that buck beer. He did not turn around. He began to walk backwards,

Starting point is 00:41:18 just like he was putting his foot back in the same tracks, and he backed all the way out of the woods into that field and then turned and took off running. So what I'm trying to say, people say they disappear. It may look like they disappear. And in our presentations at the KBRO, I say this. I believe they are smarter.

Starting point is 00:41:35 Now, let me explain. I believe they're smarter than we are. Now, they can't operate a phone and they can't be on a computer. But when they're, they've lived their whole existence is to be in the woods and stay hidden so much that a lot of people don't even believe they exist. They believe it's a fairy tale. A lot of people laugh at you, though it's not as bad as it used to be. I'm telling you, we're living a whole different world today than in 2007 and 8

Starting point is 00:41:58 when people would look at you funny and walk away when you mentioned Bigfoot. And now everywhere I go, I mean, I don't care to mention Bigfoot. I wear Bigfoot shirts and Bigfoot hats. And I do that to get people to talk. And people turn around and say, hey, you believe in Bigfoot? I'll say, absolutely. They said, let me tell you when I saw one. And they're open now, telling about it.

Starting point is 00:42:17 So it's a different world that even just 17 years ago. But they're smarter than us in the woods. Imagine their whole existence since the days the American Indians were hearing the Americas and White Manhead and came yet. And their whole existence is not to be seen. And I believe when we see them, they mean for us to see them. I don't believe we see them by accident very, very often. But people say, well, they could disappear.

Starting point is 00:42:40 They quit leaving tracks. I believe there's an explanation. I believe you can send Green Beret, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs out into the woods, and they're not going to find a big foot because we've stepped into their territory. They've had their whole lifetime to perfect being stealth and staying away from us. And you're not going to walk in the woods and find one. And so anyway, I went a long way around that. But, you know, I believe in a lot of things.

Starting point is 00:43:06 I'm not closed-minded. I've had a lot of supernatural experiences I could share with you. And I believe in spirits. And I believe in the spiritual realm. And I believe in extraterrestrial life. And I've seen lights in the woods when I've been out big-footed. And I've seen UFOs while I've been big-footing. But I don't put the big foot in the space yet.

Starting point is 00:43:24 I happen to be out at night. And I find this with a lot of city people. You know, we don't usually spend our time out in the woods at nighttime. Now, we're home in our comfortable heated houses, laying in our comfortable beds. If you get out and go in the woods at nighttime, you're going to see some pretty amazing things. I have taken people from Louisville, Kentucky, in big city, and taken them out big footing. And we're sitting there in our lawn chairs in the pitch black dark of night. And they look at the sky and say, oh, my God, watch that.

Starting point is 00:43:52 And I said, what? I said, I said, that's satellites. He said, you can see satellites. Yeah, if you get out of Louisville, if you get out of the city and get out of the country, You'll see some pretty amazing things. So I've seen, I'd say the orbs they called, I've seen orb's going through the woods. I've seen a little rod of light, you'll go through the woods. I just didn't connect to Bigfoot.

Starting point is 00:44:11 Other people are welcome to if they do. I think I happen to be in the woods at night. And I happen to be seeing things that people don't see because they don't go out of the woods at night like they shit. But I don't relate it to Bigfoot now. I'm open-minded if I ever see a spaceship land and a Bigfoot walks out of it, then I'm sold. I'm convinced. yeah it's just it's such a weird thing and and the thing that i've started to notice in the reports that i take is that it's like you have these individuals that have some sort of

Starting point is 00:44:42 uh interaction or they have a sighting or some sort of close encounter with a big foot and then they get home and weird stuff starts to happen and i'm not sure how to explain that because yeah on the one end you've got got, you know, like something making tracks, but like what else is going on? I don't know if we really know. You don't want to hear my theory on that. I don't believe I want to show to be a success, but I do have a theory on that. And of course, my theory comes from the viewpoint of a minister. Yeah. I'm coming from the viewpoint of a Christian and a minister. And I don't put my religion. I don't carry a Bible around deep people over the head. I believe in living the Christian life. I believe

Starting point is 00:45:22 my life should be the only Bible people have to read and see that I'm being real and sincere. but I personally believe, and I hear these, well, I don't want you to hear your listeners to be offended. I'm not out to offend anybody. Again, I will say, I listen to. I've talked to people. I've been to conferences with speakers who said they came from spaceships. Another speaker said they were a time travel, and I respect it. I said, well, that's good.

Starting point is 00:45:44 I see your theory. That's wonderful. But when I give my theory, they just want to cut that off, you know, and I said, okay, I'm used to that. It's okay. But if somebody's, my personal opinion, not my personal opinion, if somebody's in a woo, see the bigfoot creature. And they live 3, 400 miles away. They go home, and the next night it's standing to foot their bed.

Starting point is 00:46:03 That is not a big foot. That's a demonic entity. That's a spirit. If you see a creature step out of a portal and walk and look at you or starts telling you your secret life and giving you secrets that nobody else could know but a fortune deller or some people say that they've talked to them and they healed their body of kidney stone or tumors, my opinion, as a Christian, as a minister, is that's a spirit. And the reason somebody said, well, how can that be connected?

Starting point is 00:46:28 We're so into big footing. And it eats you up. Bigfoot will take your time. You can get so involved. I know people that got into it and everything they buy is big foot and everything they eat is big foot. And they live and they can't go out enough night week. And that's wonderful. But when you get into something like that, your spirit and soul, your mind gets so open that I believe these demonic entities.

Starting point is 00:46:49 They look for an opening. They'll come if they're invited and what better way than to come looking like a big, big foot, boy, I can hear people screaming now. And you've welcomed, you're open to that ideal. And so here's the spirit. If I see something 400 miles away and come home and it said to put in my bed, I'm going to start rebuking the devil and Jesus night. Now, that's me.

Starting point is 00:47:09 People could laugh. That's me. That's how I see it. Until I'm convinced otherwise. But the only person I know that could, the only creature I know that could heal me is the Lord God. And I'm a devout Christian, so I'm going to give all the credit to God. But I'm not going to let something speak to be or tell me my, you know, my pastor, read me, my children's names.

Starting point is 00:47:27 So when people have that, I respect they had. I believe they had that experience. I believe that. But I just, in my mind, think we're dealing with a demonic experience. That is so interesting. It is really interesting because a lot of these people that have these situations, like the only way that they can get out of it is, well, most of them is to rebuke using the name of Jesus.

Starting point is 00:47:52 And it's like, well, okay, you know. Isn't that true? I've heard so many stories of that. There's, you know, there's something to do it. And I'll tell people this. You know, if I find out Bigfoot is, if you allow me to go this direction for a moment, if I ever found that Bigfoot is a spiritual creature, supernatural, paranormal, again, I call it spiritual demonic.

Starting point is 00:48:12 My days of Bigfoot in or over instantly. I'll sell my thermal camera and all my listening devices and all the things that accumulated because the Bible tells me, I feel, as a Christian, that I'm not to go looking for evil spirits. I have power and authority over any evil spirit. See, I believe that. People call me fidate. I believe that. The Bible says that man was given dominion over all the creatures of the field and the animals of the air.

Starting point is 00:48:36 We are the dominant species. And as a Christian, I have no fear of any spirit, devil, or demon. But I'm also not supposed to go out and give them stupid challenges. There's an amazing story in the Bible, if I'm allowed to share it. Absolutely. There was a man named Skeva, and he had seven sons. and the story is called the Seven Sons of Sceiva. It's in the Bible, New Testament, and I believe the New Testament.

Starting point is 00:49:00 Let me check myself there. And the New Testament, and they were following the Apostle Paul, who's one of the greatest of all the apostles. And they would see Paul, he'll pray for people, and they'd be healed of different diseases. But one thing Paul did a lot of, he'd cast demons and devils out of people, and they would manifest them demons would come out

Starting point is 00:49:18 and come out of that person screaming and hollering. So these seven sons of Sceiva, They really, I'd say they really weren't churchgoers. They were just spectators. And they loved to watch the show, if you will. They loved to watch Paul was the big hit. It was a circus come to town. So these seven sons of Stephena said, let's do what Paul does.

Starting point is 00:49:36 So the Bible said they went and found him a demon-possessed person. And they came up to him and laid hands on him and said, in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches about, come out, you demon. And the demon said to them, Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you? and the Bible says that demon come out, that man they whipped all seven of them, tore their clothes off, and they went running down the road.

Starting point is 00:49:59 So that story basically says that we are not to go looking. You know, if I run into a spirit, again, I've been in church services and ran into demonic field people. If people want to believe that,

Starting point is 00:50:09 that's fine. I've experienced it. And so, you know, I have authority to pray that, I'm not afraid of that demon. But if I'm going out looking for a demon and said,

Starting point is 00:50:16 hey, I challenge you to this contest, I'm going to get my, I'm going to get my butt looked because I'm not to, do that. God's not to be made a mockery. It's not a challenge. So anyway, that's one of the theories I look at there. But I love the stories where people say, I saw this big foot and got scared and said in the name of Jesus, go away and it went away. And I'm going, don't you see?

Starting point is 00:50:34 Don't you see what you're dealing with? But again, that's not theory and my thought. I don't want to be offensive to anybody. Do you think that the theory of Mindspeak could be somehow related then? I'm not past thinking that's possible. I don't interest sound as possible. I don't know. I'm I've been with people on Bigfoot expeditions who were blasted, who I was on one expedition with the BFRO and a man named Ron Bowles. Yes. He's a, you may have had on show. Ron Bose fantastic researcher. I need to.

Starting point is 00:51:04 One of my first expeditions, Ron Bose was the leader of our group. We were at Standing Stone State Park into the sea. Oh, here we go. He was in front of us. Yeah. And he was in front of our group walking. And all of a sudden, he just stopped, just stopped everybody. And best I can remember, and Ron can correct me if I'm wrong.

Starting point is 00:51:21 But he stopped right then, and I believe, you know, he said, everybody stopped. And for a minute, I can't say, I don't know if he got busy, if he blank, but he just said, I've been soundblasted. And we stopped the group, but best I remember, we backed out of that area for a little bit. But, you know, he was a man's man. He's a big fella. And I believe him, but he was stopped. But another friend of mine, his first name is John, the researcher. And he went with a female researcher to a place where there had been just recent sightings.

Starting point is 00:51:48 And John was a very huge man. He was about 400 pounds. But he could research. He can get out the woods and walk some. But they went to the place of a sighting. I believe it had happened just a day or two before. They got out of the vehicle and the lady in the walking towards the woods and John just freezes. And he says, I can't move.

Starting point is 00:52:05 I can't move. And she said, what? He said, I believe I'm being blasted. I believe I'm, I think there's another term they used. But he stopped and he said, Donna. He told me, said, Don, I couldn't move. He said, I wanted to go forward. But he said, I just a fear overwhelmed me not to go forward.

Starting point is 00:52:20 And he said, I told her, I've got to go. back to the car. He said as soon as he turned and didn't take two or three steps back to the car, it left him. So he stood there a minute and said, give me a minute. And he called his breath. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Reistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Los Colteristers with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Spend your balance instantly with the Venmo debit card and earn up to 5% cashbacks on your favorite bundle of brands when you join Venmo's stash. Your rewards come from bundles of brands you can keep or switch every 30

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Starting point is 00:54:04 I see a whole highlight reel of everything I don't want to happen. Missed shots, turnovers, letting my team down. And for a second, there's doubt. But then, I realize I've done enough to be where I'm at. The early mornings, the extra reps, the days I wanted to quit and didn't. So, I smile. Self-doubt is natural, but my smile is a reminder that I'm resilient.

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Starting point is 00:55:16 There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it. You can order it through DoorDash and other major delivery platforms too. That's freedom to be. Use as directed. I'm so sorry, I'm hoarse. I don't usually sound like this. And he said, I thought, well, let's go and go then. He turned around and didn't get three steps back to where he was, and it stopped him again

Starting point is 00:55:44 instantly and he said I was blasted with Infracent. He said, I absolutely believe, just go away from here. Don't come in. He said, I told her, we're not going in the woods and they laugh. So I believe that's very, very possible, you know, and mind speak, we're perceptive creatures. You know, how many times I've heard somebody say, I feel like somebody's looking at me? I've had that experience in my life, you know, standing somewhere. And I think, I feel like somebody's looking at me, turn around, there's somebody fixated, looking at me. You know, we have that ability. We have that extrasensory perception. I believe. that we're very we're spiritual well think about this here am i we are a body of soul and a spirit according

Starting point is 00:56:20 to the bible we have a body a soul and a spirit we are two-thirds a spiritual beat more than we are one-third a natural beat so you know i believe in the bible somebody said do you believe in the spiritual realm i said well i believe in the bible's probably 75 percent spiritual yeah you bet you know i believe in donkeys talk and axe heads floated and water turned the wine man yeah absolutely Right there with you. I mean, people don't realize how much if you look, if you take some time to read through it again, I mean, there's some wild stuff in there, man. It's, it's, you know. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:56:57 Absolutely. Yeah. It's some awesome stuff in there. I love it. I love it. Awesome stuff. I want to ask, go ahead. I was going to ask you about a certain part, certain location area in Kentucky.

Starting point is 00:57:09 Just one that's come up a few times recently. Have you ever, have you heard? anything come out of Webster County, Kentucky? Several sightings I've heard from Webster County, Kentucky. And recently on one of your programs, and forgive my bad memory, I tell people I have half-timers, but you interviewed a young man from Webster County, and he was going to a certain coal mines area site. He had a name for it and was going there.

Starting point is 00:57:32 And so I went to look at that up, and not far from that, the area he's going to is a little community called Wheatcroft. and one of the first reports I got back in 2007, eight, nine, when I started researching Kentucky primarily was a story from an elderly lady. It was called the Wheat Cross Bottoms Monster. And I don't know if that young man knew that story or not,

Starting point is 00:57:54 but amazing story. This lady was 89 years old. She lived in a little country home out by herself. She cooked all the time. She was quite the baker, apparently, apple pies and pecan pies. And she was quite a cook. And she was famous for leaving her screen door, you know, she had only the screen door closed. Her kitchen door would be open.

Starting point is 00:58:14 Her front living room door would be open. And people that would visit her house said, well, you could smell the apple pie. You could smell the pecan pie and the breads. And people would go and visit her. And people would buy her pies and cakes and these breads from her, you know, and help her out. And one day she was telling the story. Somebody went over there and her back screen door at the kitchen was ripped from off the hinges and laying in the guard. And somebody asked what happened.

Starting point is 00:58:36 And she said, she was cooking. baking apples for apple pies. She had two or three sitting on the table. Of course, the smell's going through the screen. She said, this big old tall-haired monster walked up on my porch and grabbed that screen door, and she said it just pulled it, plumb off the hinges. It was after her pies. And she took a skill of the hot grease that was cooking up.

Starting point is 00:58:58 And she grabbed it and threw it on the creature. And it led out this unbelievable scream, help my voice cheese it. And she, it turned around and run off her porch. And I love that. country woman, she wasn't scared. She challenged. He wasn't going to take her pies. She threw that hot scald and greased on it. And so they went and, well, I understand it, repaired her screen door. And the story got started of the Wheatcroft Bottom monster. And that's in Webster County. Oh, that's awesome. I'm going to have to look that up, see if there's anything

Starting point is 00:59:26 on the internet about it. That is just a fascinating story. It's amazing. And it brings up another thing. I love how country people, of all my interviews with all the people I've done said this once. I love speaking to people who don't believe in Bigfoot. I love it because they're not prone to make it a Bigfoot. But I love these country people. This woman, his 89 years old, lives by

Starting point is 00:59:50 herself, and she didn't scream and run and hide in the corner. Her first thought was to grab that hot skill of the grease and throw it on that creature. I love the old woman who said it was a haint. I mean, her ideal is also it was a ghost or a spirit. I have a story here in Millenberg County, Kentucky, of a lady that had

Starting point is 01:00:05 apple trees again in her backyard. This is right here in Ohio County, not hardly seven miles from where I'm sitting right now. And she lived by herself. She may have been in her 90s, if I remember the story correctly. And she heard a noise at her back door. And this creature, something had been stealing apples off her apple tree. She looked out there, and this creature is taking these apples and taking apples off her apple tree. She opens her, this is Kentucky.

Starting point is 01:00:29 Now, a lot of city folks won't understand. She opens her door with a 12-gauge double-barrow shotgun and unloads on it. And it takes off screaming and runs off. of the woods, and she said, he's going to quit stealing my apples. That's so cool. I just love that. They don't think they get afraid. How dare you take my apples to my apple pie? That's funny stuff. Oh, my goodness. Just such a, Kentucky is one of those really interesting states when it comes to Big Five, like Kentucky, Tennessee down there in the south. But have you ever done any research down in the land between the lakes area?

Starting point is 01:01:08 Ricard? Yes, absolutely. What a real hot area. What a fantastic area. Yes, sir. And the first track that I ever have, the only track, matter of fact, I have ever cast. Now, I've run up on other tracks. I wasn't much at casting at first.

Starting point is 01:01:24 But in 20, help my mind. 20, my wife and I were at Land Between the Lakes and I walked up on a footprint, and I was able to get the material cast it. And it's, see, it's 17 and a half inches long. It is seven inches wide. at the toll section and at the hill the foot is five inches wide, a five-toed footprint that I got at land between the lakes. I've been down there many times.

Starting point is 01:01:47 We went to with a group at a local cemetery down there. I don't want to give the names just, you know, yet, but it was one of the bays in the LBL, and we went into a graveyard. We had to walk a mile a mile, a half, to this real secluded graveyard. One of the first thing we saw when we got there is a black-looking, old-timey, old English-looking gate around it.

Starting point is 01:02:08 which just added to the surroundings. And it was a foggy night. And we walked up to the gate. The first thing I saw was a tombstone that said, had a man's name that said murdered. Right across the front. I thought, man, this is right out of a Stephen King novel. And we stepped right inside the gate of the graveyard. It was told silence.

Starting point is 01:02:27 And all of a sudden, this gigantic tree right over in the woods, just boom, hits the ground. And we hear a big wood knock. And I said, well, we're at the right place. But LBL, I've been there on several occasions, probably seven or eight times or more, and at different spots, it's so big, you don't have to go to the same place. LBL is probably in western part of Kentucky is one of the most lively spots for Bigfoot activity, I'd say, in our whole state. Well, that's really interesting to hear. Kentucky is, it is a weird state because on the one side you've got LBL, but on the other side, as you kind of mentioned, over there in Harlan County, which is a weird state.

Starting point is 01:03:02 because on the one side you've got LBL, but on the other side, as you kind of mentioned, over there in Harlan County, which is super wild. You've got that Daniel Boone National Forest, which, man, there's some crazy stuff over there. I can tell you that, of course, I'm partial to Kentucky because I'm a Kentucky.

Starting point is 01:03:21 And when the BFRO, they have sites listed in each state, and we highly respect to BFRO, and they have Kentucky somewhere, I don't know, we're 13th or 14th in sightings. But when you get our site, the KBRO site, Charlie Raymond has a site that's, it has, we have sighties of every Bigfoot sighting that's been turned into us and Charlie lists them by county. And you go on there and see each county and how many sites. Of 120 counties in the state of Kentucky, we have sightings,

Starting point is 01:03:48 I've always said 98, but I think I've got to update that. We've got sightings out of 100 of 120 counties. They're all over the state of Kentucky. But if you take R over 300 or is it 400, I have to check with Charlie, our 300 and some of it. sidings and added to the BFO sightings, we end up somewhere around fifth in the nation in Bigfoot sightings. Oh, really? Wow, that is really cool. I

Starting point is 01:04:12 did not know that. That's awesome. Yes, sir. Oh, wow. I would like to share one more thing if I may. Absolutely. I'm not watching I've said this twice, but I was leading up to this. I want to lead up to this. Again, you know, if somebody wants to see Bigfoot or

Starting point is 01:04:30 somebody's looking for Bigfoot, I've had a I remember one report, somebody said, I just saw Bigfoot on such or such road over the next county. So I jumped in my vehicle. I go driving over that way. And when I get there, it's a Bigfoot cut out that somebody had standing in their woods. And, you know, so you get, sometimes you get off on the wrong trail. You know, you get on the cold trail. But I love when I received Bigfoot sightings from people that don't believe in Bigfoot.

Starting point is 01:04:54 And I'm sitting here looking at a map I'd like to share with you. And in my part of Western Kentucky, I'm blessed to be near Ohio County, Kentucky. If you go on the KBRO website, it's one of the higher counties of sightings listed in, especially western part of Kentucky. Ohio County is one of the larger counties of the 120 counties in Kentucky, yet it's one of the least industrialized. It has more wooded and more old banded coal mines, strip mines, from back in the 40s and 50s. And they turned it into wildlife refuge, and you can get permits to hunt and fish on these lands. But I'm talking about you could go for miles and miles and miles. of just wood, thick, uncut timber, whole standing timber.

Starting point is 01:05:36 So Ohio County, no wonder, had so many sightings. And I spend the majority of my time researching in Ohio County and the majority of my witnesses. But I'm looking at one section of the map, and I do a presentation called when Bigfoot sightings coincide. And I love to share it. It's one thing to get a report. Oh, this county, we've got one report in the last 50 years. Okay, that's wonderful. But I love it when what I'm about to tell you, these stories right here.

Starting point is 01:06:00 this started coming to me, and I've got a map here, and these people, neither of these people knew the other person. And none of these people, I'm going to tell you about, believed in Bigfoot. We're talking about old-time farmers. We're talking about old-time country people, and they were under each other. And I'm going to bring the Bible into again. The Bible said, out of the mouth of any two or three, let a thing be established. Jerry Clare, the comedian said what that means is, if you hear two or three people from different places, tell you the same story, it must be the truth. So I'll start with this.

Starting point is 01:06:33 My brother happens to work at a huge granary here in Kentucky, and he's worked there for 25 years or longer, and he deals with farmers. They bring their corn, the wheat, their different grains, and he runs the granary, and they unload their trucks there. So he's fringed with the farmers. He knows all the farmers in two or three counties, and they all know, you know, he's a very talkative, likable person. He's very personable. And so he loves to tell stories. and talk to stories about farmers and stuff. So he's a real intricate part of my story.

Starting point is 01:07:06 He comes to me one day and he said, Bob, there's an old farmer you need to talk to you. I believe he's seeing Bigfoot. So I said, yeah, I'd like to talk to him. My brother talked to him in the meantime and said, you know, my older brother believes in Bigfoot, he researched and the guy said, what's a Bigfoot? I love it.

Starting point is 01:07:22 The old farmer said, what's a big foot? And my brother said, well, you know, it's a creature people believe exist. And they think they're in Kentucky too. And he said, no, this is a gorilla. that I'm seeing on my farm. And my brother says, you know, we don't have gorillas in Kentucky.

Starting point is 01:07:36 He's the, well, I guess it escaped from a zoo. I look, you know, this is how their mind is figuring out what they saw. They're trying to make sense of it

Starting point is 01:07:43 when there's no sense to be had. So the story of this farmer is that for the last five or six years, and this was back at about 2009, for five or six years when he gets in his combine, and he's combined and his wheat and his corn and out in the steals, there's this gorilla on his property that comes out of the different. from woods and stands there and watches he. He said, now when I get close to it in the

Starting point is 01:08:04 combine, it goes back in the woods and stays hidden. But if I'm going back out in the field, it steps out there and said, it just watches me like it's curious. And he said, it's been going on for four or five years. He describes it being eight to nine foot tall, covered in dark black, brownish hair, from head to toe.

Starting point is 01:08:22 It stands upright like a man. And when it walks, it really swings its arms. I mean, the extra, just unbelievable, I was looking searching for a word, but just extreme swinging of the arms. That man's explaining a big foot. My brother said, sir, you're seeing a big foot. He said, I don't know what that is. He said, it's a gorilla escape from a zoo. Well, we all know it's not a gorilla that escape from a zoo. But I love it because that man is strongly trying to explain what he saw. So I mark this on my map. I've got it in front of me on the computer.

Starting point is 01:08:51 So about a year later, maybe two years later, 2011, we get a report at the KDRO, and this young man his honey on some property he's bought. He's got his wife and his daughter. Let me throw down. They're not hunting. He's scouting out his hunting area that he's bought. He's got his wife and his daughter and another friend is with him. And they go over to camp out for the night.

Starting point is 01:09:12 And when they get there, the river has flooded and they can't get to their hunting spot. So he gets out close to the woods and they sit up a camp. And him and his friend is going to start scouting for deer sign, getting ready for deer season. So him and his friend are walking away from their campsite to go look and they start, it's at night. They hear these coyotes howlety. So the man said, I'll stop, just have fun. I yell back at the coyotes.

Starting point is 01:09:37 And all of a sudden, when he does, something starts yelling back at him, the most unbelievable, long, human lungs couldn't do it, scream, and made all the coyotes shut up. And the man says, man, we've got to go back to the camp. My wife and daughter, they'd be scared to death. And I'm telling this store best I can remember, but I'm very close to the facts. They come back to the campfire, and it begins the night of this creature. whatever it is, is walking around crashing the trees, walking around all night around their camp.

Starting point is 01:10:04 They keep the campfire big. His daughter's scared. His wife's nervous. He pulls out his guitar and starts singing and playing songs. And surprisingly, the creature's calm when he's playing his music the way I understood it. But when he stopped, it'd start making noise. And it keeps them up most all night long. And there's something walking around the woods.

Starting point is 01:10:22 And I think they holler, you know, get away, leave us alone. Well, if I mark this on the map and he named that area, it's a couple of big knobs or heels we call it here in western Kentucky. We call them knobs. And he named Bigfoot Mountain. That's what the man named just for fun, you know, because they believe they was having experience with the Bigfoot. On the map, I'm looking at the farmer who keeps seeing the gorilla every year that he's harvesting his crops

Starting point is 01:10:46 is three miles south of the man who's had the sighting at Bigfoot Mountain. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture East. with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Los Culture Research with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Spend your balance instantly with the Venmo debit card and earn up to 5% cashbacks

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Starting point is 01:14:19 So when I'm telling you, the sighting is only three miles apart, I mean, that's a big foot. I mean, just like inches. That's very close. And neither this farmer doesn't know the man who named Bigfoot Mountain. I hope I'm not being confusing. But there's a signy. So I marked this on my calendar. About two years later, I go up to a gas station here in my town, a little country town. I live in a little town of 300.

Starting point is 01:14:40 We're a little rural country town here in western Kentucky. Everybody knows everybody. So I'm getting gas and I've got a Bigfoot sticker on the back of my truck. And the lady pumping gas says, do you believe in Bigfoot preacher? And I said, yeah, I sure. do. She said, my daddy saw one. I said, we're at. She said, over on the point in Ohio County. Now, that doesn't make sense to anybody out there listening, but if you know this area, listen, the Bigfoot Mountain I'm just telling you about is on the point in Ohio County.

Starting point is 01:15:09 It's a peninsula, a strip of land that is surrounded on one side by the rough river and on the other side by the Green River, and there's only one way in and one way out of this peninsula. It's three or four miles long, and there's some thick woods and a lot of river banks. And she says, on the prediction on how can't this is right there where bigfoot mountain is so i said would you get report for your dad she said he's in the hospital he's got a heart problems he's dying i said would you ask him to relate the story to you i won't go bother him in the hospital she said i'll ask him if he'll talk to you preacher so this girl punched my gas she's there all the time every day i go in every week she's there so the next week i go and she said i spoke to my father and my father don't really feel

Starting point is 01:15:49 like having company but he related the story in detail and this man was at the point in Ohio County and he was fishing and he called several catfish and he kept hearing noises behind him in the woods behind him. He's sitting on the river bank and he turns and looks and he doesn't see anything and he's thinking what is that? He could hear something move

Starting point is 01:16:07 and he turned around quick one time after about 30 minutes of this and he said there's this monster staring at him from behind the tree. It sticks its head out. It's about seven-day foot tall. It's got hair all over its face a long looking beard but it's got a human-looking face.

Starting point is 01:16:23 It's really weather-worn. It's rough-looking, you know, skiing. He said, like an Indian, like an American Indian. And he said, it's looking at me. He said, and I don't know what to do. I freeze. I turn around. I'm thinking, you know, I can't run.

Starting point is 01:16:35 I'm too old to run. What am I going to do? And he turns back around and it's behind another tree. It's come a little bit closer. It's looking. And the old man figured out, again, I love country people. I repeat this a lot. He said, I know what it wants.

Starting point is 01:16:47 It wants my fish. And he turns around and says, you're not getting my fish. You can forget about it. I do love that. He said, you're not getting my fish. And he said, this creature turned around and starts walking, it stops behind the area of the tree and looks back in it walks until it walks out of sight. Well, I go back to my map, again, please excuse my voice.

Starting point is 01:17:08 I go back to my map and I mark exactly where it's at. It is one mile north of the Bigfoot Mountain Siding, of the man who was surrounded all night, and it's three miles farther south to the farmer that sees the gorilla. So here we got Bigfoot sightings. years apart, coinciding in the same area, and I ask each one of these people that I could talk to, do you know such and such farmer?

Starting point is 01:17:33 Don't know him. Do you know the man that's over here on Bigfoot Mountain in the Kauffman Road area? Don't know him. So these people are not relating stories that they've heard. They're telling separate stories, and they don't know each other. So as if that ain't enough,

Starting point is 01:17:46 my brother comes to me about four years ago, one that works at a Gratery, and said, you need to talk to one of these truck drivers. One of these truck drivers has been seen a bear that walks up right. It's over eight foot tall. Well, I said, Bob, you know bears don't walk up right any length of distance. He said, well, what you're going to be really interested in is where he saw it at. I said, where did he see it at?

Starting point is 01:18:07 On the peninsula, I know how county, at the point. I said, are you kidding me? So I speak to this man, and this man loves to fish along the banks of the Green River. It's just chunk full of catfish. And this man found a secluded spot. He goes down the point of this peninsula of the point in Ohio County. And about halfway down, I'm looking at a map so I hope I can visualize this. Here's the point where the old man just told him Bigfoot he couldn't have his fish.

Starting point is 01:18:34 One mile south of that is the man that's had the site in Bigfoot Mountain that surrounded his campsite. Literally a half a mile between those two points. I mean, it gets mind blowing. It just gets almost unbelievable. This man is fishing along the bank. He's found a good spot. He's been going there for several years. And he tells my brother, he said,

Starting point is 01:18:51 When I'm fishing, of course, I look to the right, I look to the north, I can see the point. It goes down to a little town called Livermore, Kentucky. But he said, if I look through the south, you can see these big woods. Guess what woods that is, Jeremiah, Bigfoot Mountain that was named by this other fella. He can see it. It's about 500 yards away. And he said several times when I'm fishing, I see this upright walking bear that walks from the riverbank up through those woods, the woodline, the edge of the woods. and then I'll walk lower, then sometimes I see it walking back.

Starting point is 01:19:24 And my brother said, how far does this bear walk on his hind legs? And he said, the whole distance. And my brother said, don't you know that's not a bear? Bears don't walk up right that amount of distance. He said, well, I know what else could it be? So here's another man that doesn't believe in Bigfoot. He thinks he's seeing a seven or eight foot tall at that distance, he's guessing, walking upright, coming from the river.

Starting point is 01:19:45 And he doesn't know any idea. Can let me take a drink. he has no idea that that's Bigfoot Mountain, that that's where the other sighting took place. And he said, I've seen it on several occasions over the years as I'm fishing. So there's one, two, three, four, I'm looking at my map,

Starting point is 01:20:03 and they're just three miles, four miles apart at the longest, but these three sidings are not a half mile apart. Now I'm coming to the end of this story. I'm telling you, this is when it gets real. This is when it gets amazing and why I love doing this research. So come down here to, this area. I speak to the elderly man and woman who hear screaming behind their house. The woods

Starting point is 01:20:24 they live in, they lived there for 50 years. They call it the screaming woods. And he said, it's nothing at nighttime to sit on your back porch and hear these loud screams and howls. So they direct me to some people right down the road from them that lives not a half a mile down the road. And I go down there and say, what about these screaming woods? And they said, oh, yeah, so we were out here not two weekends ago. And we were burning our trash. People here not part of Kentucky. We don't have dumpsters. You burn your trash in barrels.

Starting point is 01:20:52 We have 55 gallon barrels. You burn your trash at night. And they said, we was burning our trash and said something started screaming from the graveyard across the road over there. And said, they started screaming out loud. It said, it was shaking the metal on the side of our little shed and said, we quit burning trash and went in the house. These two spots are marked on my map, and they're not one mile east of the Bigfoot

Starting point is 01:21:13 mountain siding. And so now I've got one, two, three, five, I've got five sightings on this map all here, which is about an inch that you'd half apart on my map, and I'm about to shut up. So I have a nephew. He's six foot tall. He weighs about 290. We grow on big down here.

Starting point is 01:21:31 He thinks I'm the craziest thing. He said, Uncle Donnie, I can't believe that you go out looking for Bigfoot. You know better. And then I can't. He'd laugh at me. I'd say, Elijah, I was out there and I'd heard a Bigfoot howl. He said, yeah, sure. Boy, he just laughs.

Starting point is 01:21:43 He thinks that's the funniest thing. He said, I'm the Bigfoot you're seeing. You know, he's a big, big guy of a fellow. So one night my sister calls me, 11 o'clock at night and says, you got to talk to Elijah. And I said, what's going on? She said, we were over at church in Centertown in Ohio County. And we were coming back home, which is coming down by Bigfoot Mountain. They got across the bridge into McLean County, the county I live in.

Starting point is 01:22:06 She said, and he saw Bigfoot. She said, he's white in the face. He can hardly talk. So I get him on the phone. I said, Elijah, what's happening? He said, Uncle Donnie, Uncle Donnie, I'm so sorry that I've made fun of you. I'm so sorry I didn't believe. He's driving his mom's tired.

Starting point is 01:22:21 He just got his license. He wants to drive everywhere. So she's letting him drive, and she's playing over to drive her seat. They've been to church service. It's about 9 o'clock at night. They're headed back home. And he said, when I ran to the curve, I saw eyes shine. Well, the first thing we do when we see it here in Kentucky, this part,

Starting point is 01:22:37 you better slow down because we are eat up with deer. It's nothing to go down the road to see deer's, dead deer's laying everywhere, you know, where people hit them with their cars. We're overpopulated with deer. And I love it. he said I saw the eyes shine. My first thought was dear, so I let off the gas and I start slowing down. He said, as I get closer, I'm thinking, my God, those eyes are awful tall.

Starting point is 01:22:58 And he said, as I got close to my headlights hit it, there stands this seven-foot tall creature. Its eyes were as big as golf balls, if not bigger, and they're at least four to five inches apart. And as I drive by, it turns his head and watches me pass by. He said, I almost wrecked the car. I almost went off the road. And he goes down the road a little bit, and I think of how big he is, he says, mama, mama. you got to get up and drive. I'm shaking so bad I can't drive.

Starting point is 01:23:21 I just saw Bigfoot. So she gets out of the car and takes over in the driver's seat and goes to driving. And when they get home, she calls me. So that's 11 o'clock at night. 11 o'clock to the next day. I meet him at that place. It was a driveway by an old country house. And I meet him there and he's still shaking.

Starting point is 01:23:37 He said, I don't even want to be here. I said, look, it's daytime. You know, that was last night. And I interviewed his story. It's on the KBRO website. It's on my Facebook page and my YouTube page. where I put all my interviews. And he tells the story and says what he saw it.

Starting point is 01:23:52 He did not believe at Bigfoot. He laughed at it. He thought his Uncle Donnie was crazy for looking for. And now he's a 100% believer. Guess what? Not a mile, not a mile from Bigfoot Mountain and not hardly a quarter mile

Starting point is 01:24:05 from the people who heard the screams that shook the metal on the roof. So I went up to the house these people's driveway and knocked on the door and I said, excuse me, I'm down here at the end of your driveway. I said, I'm not here to cause any trouble. I just want you folks to know everything's okay. I'm doing an interview with my nephew

Starting point is 01:24:22 who saw a Bigfoot last night here at the end of your driveway. And this elderly couple in their 80s, I guess, so we're not surprised at all, so we hear them scream all the time. And it just gets, so I've got eight spots or nine marked on this map on the peninsula of Ohio County, Kentucky, and the farthest is three miles away. I hope I've painted a picture. That's when Bigfoot sightings coincide. None of these people knew the other people. They did not know there were other each two and three and four years apart with the one farmer. He's been seeing the gorilla for the last five or six years that he was harvesting his crops. And these people don't even believe in Bigfoot at all.

Starting point is 01:25:00 And when they tell you, they saw Bigfoot, listen, we're crazy not to believe them. Anyway, isn't that exciting? I love that. That is absolutely incredible. That's the kind of stuff I love where it's just, it's, there's no question that it's there in that area because everyone is seeing it that is not related. Oh, my goodness. That is such a cool story.

Starting point is 01:25:22 I just want to say thank you so much, Don, for coming on the show and for sharing what you've experienced over these almost 20 years and just some incredible stories. And are there ways that someone could reach out to you if they're listening? They'd be like, oh, man, I'd also have something going on in the same area or anything I thought. Absolutely. Absolutely. First and foremost, they can go on to Facebook and look up KBRO, Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization. They're welcome to do that. Charlie Raymond, a wonderful organization. He is an honest and he has integrity. He's among Bigfoot researchers. He's held in high steam. Of course, they can find my Bigfoot page under Don Neal. That's E.A.L. And it's under Biggiefoot. I also have Biggiefoot in the name. And they can contact me there. And I have a YouTube page under D, my first letter of my name, Neil. And be glad to you. that to hear anybody's report, and I just want people know we're here to believe you. We're not

Starting point is 01:26:19 going to make fun of you, and we're trying to do scientific research, and Charlie Raymond is working on presenting to our state that if we can find evidence and proof that Bigfoot's here in Kentucky to make them a protected species. So we're a no-kill group, and we believe, so if anybody's got a report, we would love to hear from you. We're very interested. Oh, that's incredible. I didn't know that. That is great, great to hear, but, man, Don, thank you so much for coming on the show, I'm sure we will be in touch and keep doing the good work down there in the great state of Kentucky. Thank you for this great opportunity, Jeremy.

Starting point is 01:26:55 And again, I'm so sorry, I've been hoarse. This is not how I usually sound, but thank you for this opportunity. Yes, sir. I just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you, all my listeners, for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed. Share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter

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