Bigfoot Society - Bigfoot Nests and Devil's Creek with Shane Corson (Bigfoot Society Classic)

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

Originally recorded 4/28/20Shane Corson is a Bigfoot research with the Olympic Project. The following interview was the first time I was able to interview him and one of the favorite episode of most Bigfoot Society listeners.The Ground Nests.The Devil’s Creek Property.EnjoyResources:http://www.olympicproject.comMonster X Radio podcast:https://www.blogtalkradio.com/monsterxradioWatch the STM documentary about the Olympic Project: https://tubitv.com/movies/671386/on-the-trail-of-bigfoot-the-discoveryMore discussion on Devil’s Creek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztIscUvzTwhttps://www.youtube.com/@thedevilscreek2279https://redcircle.com/shows/ok-talk-paranormal-tales-of-mysterious-travelsSearch “Devil’s Creek”WATCH THE IOWA EPISODE IN THE “SASQUATCH: A SEARCH FOR SABE” DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY TATE HIERONYMUS // FIND OUT ALL ABOUT MY FIRST BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8O4rvywzECall the Bigfoot Society BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER hotline! Have you seen a Sasquatch and would like to get what happened “off your chest” but don’t have time for an interview? NOW YOU CAN DO IT ON YOUR TIME AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD! Share it here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsocietyTo unlock more bonus content and much more, become a supporting member of Bigfoot Society by joining the Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsocietyBecome a Youtube Channel member here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinSupport Bigfoot Society one time by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsociety To pick up a Bigfoot Society shirt, stickers and more, check out our merch by heading on over to https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigfootSocietySend me a voice message to potentially be used for the show by calling 515-809-0165 Here’s a fun prompt - “Hey, my name’s [your name] and you’re listening to the Bigfoot Society podcast!”If you’d like to send me fan mail, Bigfoot related products to check out or written out Bigfoot encounters then you reach me at the following address: Bigfoot Society 125 E 1st St. #233 Earlham, IA 50072Join our private Facebook group "Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters" for a chance to connect with others who have had similar experiences. Follow the directions to ensure your entry is accepted.https://www.facebook.com/groups/5762233820540793/?ref=share_group_linkTune in to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q) for new episodes of Bigfoot Society, and visit our website (www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com) for all the links mentioned above and more.Don't miss out on the Bigfoot action! —— Affiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.—— MY GEAR —— My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYMy Podcast Mic: https://amzn.to/3AlYwb9My Computer: https://amzn.to/40CCjQyMy Headphones: https://amzn.to/40A8gcrMy Webcam: https://amzn.to/3NqfddhThe best Bigfoot book: https://amzn.to/41x8IcNLose the weight along with me on Noom. Get 20% off your subscription with link below. (Consult your doctor first) https://noom.com/r/GdkaWNddL?1251Join Whatnot and pick up some sweet video games and vintage shirts. Use my link below and we both get $10 credit after you place your first order. https://whatnot.com/invite/bigfootsocietyLearn more and up your creative game with Skillshare. Use my link and get a $50 gift card. https://share.skillshare.com/bigfootsocietyIf you want an amazing website like Bigfoot Society has that is extremely easy to set up and connects to your podcast in an incredible way then check out Podpage. https://www.podpage.com/?via=jeremiah (Use this affiliate link and you help out Bigfoot Society)

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have improved since then. Please don't judge the podcast on this one episode. We'll see you next week. All right, well, welcome back to another episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast, and we have the privilege this time of talking with Mr. Shane Corson. Shane is involved with all sorts of,

it's a cool stuff, Bigfoot. And I'll have them talk about that in a minute. But the way that I picture it is doing research into Shane. It's kind of like if you have the Marvel Avenger movies, and you know Agent Colson is there at the beginning. And then when you start to look for Agent Colson, he's everywhere. So, I mean, you have your hands in everything, sir. Would you mind going ahead and kind of what's a brief summary of,

who you are and what you've done in the Bigfoot community over the last few years, I guess. We'll start there. Okay. Well, I don't claim to have done anything, but I'll tell you, I was born and raised in Scotland, had an interesting cryptids as a young inn. I was always fascinated with, of course, living in Scotland, you're fascinated with the Lachnus Monster and Yeti and other cryptids that are, you know, around the world, always fascinated with the subject of Sasquatch, moved over to the States in 93.

Okay. Still fascinated with the Sasquatch phenomenon. I really did not start getting into Sasquatch research or what I thought was Sasquatch research until about 97. And that's kind of when I got my wheels and was able to travel doing research in Southern California where we moved to around San Bernardina Mountain, Julian area. And then definitely Yosemite was on my radar for a number of years. Yosemite was fascinating to me.

Talked to a lot of great individuals, individuals that had encounters. But I personally never found anything during my years in California. Eventually moved up to Oregon. I got married, moved up to Oregon in 2008. And that's really where I started hitting the ground heavy up in Oregon. Yep. And I had an encounter in 2011 that solidified the existence of Sasquatch for me.

Okay. And from there, I realized that being a one-man band, somebody that is going about their business by themselves was not very productive. I realized that I really wasn't doing research. I was investigating stuff. I read every book out there, been online. I really had no context at that point. I talked to a few individuals and eventually gone involved with the Olympic project after my encounter and gone. gone bald with like Cliff Barrickman and those individuals.

Very cool. And that's kind of really jumped my research in joining a group and realizing that there's more to research than what you think. And I really wasn't conducting research. Now I'm now up in Washington State. Okay. Up in, you know, Western Washington here, where we do a lot of research. And I work, you know, I'm one of the core members of the Olympian project now.

And I work with an amazing and fantastic. group of like-minded individuals, both from the layman world and the academic world. So that's kind of where I'm at now. I've been working on a lot of projects. I've been around the block. And there's a lot of cool stuff going on now. There's a lot of cool stuff that's happened. So I'm very proud to be working with the individuals that I work with and collaborating with them. And, you know, I'm always an optimist. A lot of people get frustrated in this field. Not me. I see all sorts of opportunities. In fact, right before our this interview here. I just got off the phone with somebody that's working on an amazing project,

very scientific project. And so always things going on behind the scenes. I'm sure my listeners listened to Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo as well. You had a fantastic episode on that. And you referenced something that I wanted to ask you, if you had been in the room, I would have asked you right there. So you mentioned the Olympic project. And I believe what you mentioned was, that in the coming year, you would actually be having primatologists coming to the area. Did I get that right from the episode, or maybe did I hear that correctly? Are you talking about the nest area? I think so, yeah.

Yeah, we've actually already had primatologists. Okay. Yeah, we've had primatologists come out to this area. We've had bear biologists come out to this area. We've had anthropologists, archaeologists. We've had even zoologists, which was the most recent two individuals came out from a certain zoo here in the United States, not in Washington, but a certain zoo. I can't mention it. But they came out and we really wanted to get their feedback on these nests.

When it comes to known primate behavior, these individuals work directly with chimpanzees, bonobos, silverback gorillas. So we really wanted to get their feel on these nests. because they're not bare nests and they're not, they're definitely nests and they're formulated. Dr. Meldon talked about these nests loads of time. So it's cliff. They've both been out to the area and helped us collect samples. So, yes, we brought in a lot of academic individuals out there

because we're not, you know, I'm not a scientist. I'm not an academic individual. I'm an explorer. I find stuff. I collect stuff. And, you know, sometimes I'll visually analyze stuff, but I have my limits and I recognize those. And so you've got to bring in.

Sure. people with the right eye. So yeah, we've done that. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. So if listeners do not know the nests we are talking about, of course. So you can fill in details as we go along, of course. But there's so you have access to an area of land where it had not been touched for, was it 40 years? Yeah, 50 plus years.

Yeah, 50 plus years. So like a logging company. And there's these nests that were found on. there. And I mean, they're big enough for, I believe, as either you or Cliff said that you could lay down in the nest and it was quite comfortable. And man, it's just, it's fascinating. There is one part where it's like you're saying from one nest, you could see the other nests. And I thought that that was very fascinating. Yeah, the, the Huckleberry. So all these nests, there's 22 nests bound to date, spread along a ridge line. And, They're spread out on fingers or saddles or ridges, depending where you're from the country.

Everybody calls it something different. But you have a ridge line with a finger or a ridge or saddle coming down. And they're spread out on multiple saddles, fingers, ridges, and whatnot. And they're definitely formulated. They've been constructed intelligently. They're not something that's been haphazardly put together. And by what I meant when I said and when I say that you can see from, nest to nest, well, that's on purpose.

The Huckleberry branches have been stripped completely of leaves, whether that was a food source or on purpose to see from nest to nest. And they're very strategically placed these nests. But yeah, you can see every nest and they range in size from, you know, about three feet to about nine feet in size and circumference. So, I mean, huge, huge. That's awesome. Over a foot in depth.

I mean, just huge, a lot of material. That is very, very cool. A question I also thought of the other day is so, of course, right now we're in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. How has that affected the work of the Olympic project? Tremendously. You know, nobody gets paid to do Sasquatch research. We all have day jobs.

We have families. And so it's really, there's a lot of something you can do at home. And fortunately, we do have access to, you know, when it comes to research, we do have access to timberland. We have gate keys and whatnot. And that's where we conduct a lot of our business. But this whole COVID thing, regardless of what you think of it and how it's affected you, it's affected everybody, economically, socially, you name it. And so I can speak for a lot of enthusiasts, bigfoot researchers, you name it, that it's affected a big time. You can't get into some areas that you used to be able to get into legally. I mean, sure, I'm sure people are sneaking out.

here in Washington, they closed down. It's opening up May 5th, all the trails and parks and whatnot, but it's affected it tremendously. And what it's really done for the Unlema project, recently kind of jumping ahead here, we've come across some newer nests, finally, after searching for four years, five years now, we came across a new nest.

I can't really get into the details right now. Okay. But a partner of mine by the name, of Todd Hale. He's a one project member. We were out scouting an area that Derek Randall's and I had scouted two weeks prior. Well, we went back out to this area and came across something physically making a nest, did not see it, but spooked it. It sounded very large, sounded by pedal. Oh, wow. And it was quite the experience. And I won't get into that right now. That's some stuff we're working on. But we did come across a nest in the making or multiple nests in the making. And we came

across a lot of other really unique and very cool tidbits to this that it proved a lot of things to us. So we were in the right area, the right time of year, the right circumstances, and we just got really lucky and walked upon something, making a new nest. But get back to your question. Well, I have some samples that I've collected that we've collected as a whole as a one project that I can't send it anywhere right now. You know, and it sucks because.

some of these samples, you know, they, they go to junk after a while. It's time-sensitive sort of stuff. And some, you know, we got some hair samples, for example. Some of that you could visually analyze. But to do any real work on it, it's, man, it's really been, it was just this whole virus is the worst timing. And we talked about that as a group, the worst timing ever. Unfortunate, but upwards and onwards.

You keep plugging away and we'll see if we, anything comes from this. No promises, no guarantees. exciting. It tells me we're doing something right. Regardless, you can say regardless of what's making these nests, we came across whatever was making it fresh. And that's, that's awesome. That is really exciting. And maybe you can start to see a pattern like, okay, it's this time of year. You know, who knows the data that you'll get from this? Like this, that is super exciting. And that's, you said that's very recent that happened. Yeah, this happened back in February. So I mean, Super recent.

And the real key there is that we hypothesized originally that the older nest that we were led to. We didn't discover the old old nest. They were discovered originally by a timber cruiser in a really remote area doing his job. These areas aren't places you go hiking in, you go hunting in, exploring in. They're off trail. They're hard to get to. It's a nightmare. And he came across them.

Well, we started to mimic what he was doing for years. and possibly came across some very, very old nest. So we're kind of on the right track. Maybe we don't know. And then we come across this and that was in the month of February again with the same elements. You got the salmon coming up, these creeks. You got a lot of things going for you.

So you're right. It does add value to that and it's exciting. Tell us we're on the right track. Oh, man. That is very cool. You've also been involved with the devil, Creek project. And that was a few years ago where there was a lot of that, you know, those stories going around and, you know, what was going on. Would you be able to kind of,

you know, there's a chance there's some listeners that, you know, when I say Devil's Creek, they might not know what I'm talking about. But would you be able to maybe give a summary of that scenario? And then you'd mentioned before our call started that you actually have some some new things that you can share, some things you can't because it's, you know, special situation. But yeah, if you go ahead with that, that'd be awesome. Yeah, absolutely. So several years ago, Derek Randall's was contacted by an individual by the name of Donna. Her husband's name is Greg up here in Western Washington on the east of the Olympics. And they had a lot of suspicious activity going on on their property. Well,

Donna's husband Greg, he worked all around, he works all around the country. She was rarely home. And Donna had all the stuff, weird stuff happening, noises, stuff happening on the property. And her husband Greg, when he was home, would witness some of this. The majority seemed to happen when she was home. But he got to witness a lot of unique things, especially audio, things they found on their property. And so they got a hold of Derek Randalls of the Olympic project. And he came out and Derek's not an audio guy. And so he got them in touch with David Ellis of the Olympic project, who is like the audio guru. He looks at audio visually on a sonic visualizer program. And so he's not just listening because your ear will play tricks on you.

But if you can visually analyze something and listen to it, it really adds value. And you can compare those recorded sounds to the Macaulay Library of Sounds, for example. So you have a context and a baseline to compare unknown sounds, at least unknown to you. And so David and Donna really started placing audio recorders on the property. Well, I mean, the backtracked a little bit. Donna had a siding near her property, you know, when they were driving up the road to their property just down the road. And it's been coined Devil's Creek.

And let me clarify something. There is no Devil's Creek. You know, there's no Devil's Creek. It was a name made up by a third party that got involved. And, you know, at first, a lot of us really didn't like to name Devil's Creek because there are Devil's Creeks around the country. We'll be back with more Bigfoot Society after these words from our sponsors. On this episode of Plant Killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer, bad dirt. What makes bad dirt so bad?

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That sound seems to show. Everything happens for a Rees. This was a pseudo name, just a made-up name. We stuck with it mainly because there was a lot of individuals trying to find this area, and we wanted to throw them off. They were trying to. Yeah, that was smart. That was smart.

That was very smart. Yeah. They find spots. So we stuck with Devil's Creek, not the greatest name, and a little bit disingenuous, but there was a reason behind that. Now, don't. Don't get me wrong. There's a lot that creek plays a huge role in this whole experience, this phenomenon. And so after David L started recording stuff, Donna, you know, previously had her siting, I started getting involved in going up there, placing audio. And I spent quite a few nights out there on the property, had some of my own experiences. No sightings. And I do have flea equipment. I tried very thick, hilly area. And it wasn't like every night.

It was every once in a while. But this went on for several years. And I did get the chance. Donna called me up one day and said, basically backtracked a little bit some more. Don and Greg actually moved out of that house, planning on renting it or possibly selling it. They got another house.

Well, not nearby, but about hours away from this place. They got another house. So they're paying two mortgages. and they wanted to do something with this property, but they knew that it was important for research. And so they weren't ready to give it up. I mean, God bless them, because we did record a lot of neat stuff on the property,

experience a lot of neat stuff. And as they were living on this separate property, they were trying to fix up this house, and they hired a contractor, a contracting business to come up and fix one of their, like kind of a guest house slash garage. And lo and behold, this guy, one of the contractor,

had a siding, possibly two sightings in the area. And he knew nothing about the Bigfoot phenomenon going on on the property. He knew nothing about it. That's the best part. That's the best part where he's like, it's a little weird. I don't know what's gone. That's awesome. Exactly.

Exactly. We talked about this on Montstrikes Radio, my podcast. But the point being is that it was just, it was phenomenal. And going through this area over the years and studying this area, some of the elderly neighbors that live close by, one of the women who has an apple orchard in this area, she knew there was Sasquatch. She straight up told Donna one day without Donna really, you know,

insinuating anything. Yeah, it's Sasquatch. It's up in this area. So there's a lot of collaboration there, a lot of ideas there where other people are aware of this. Other people have seen something. And there's no, it's not that they're having a discussion on Sasquatch. It just pops up.

Okay. And then historically, in this area, there's multiple reports. So when project gets taken in personally, I've had people that are close in the know of this area that have talked about other reports from neighbors and people within a couple of square miles. Some of the lakes in this area, there's reports.

So why Donna was having this activity on the property? I don't know. You know, she was home alone. Her house was like a lot of really big windows where something from the forest line could watch her. There was apple orchards in the area. A lot of hypothesizing here, but no doubt she had a tremendous amount of activity on this property. Now, fast forward, there was some unfortunate events that took place.

Unfortunately, Don and Greg sold the property and they no longer have access to the property. There's still stuff going on in some adjacent areas that I follow, but it's not an area you can get into without getting into trouble. It's private property and all that stuff. So it's a real shame there, but I get. That's terrible. You know, paying two mortgages and just that Donna did not feel comfortable staying there anymore and they had to leave. So as far as devil's creek's concern, there's not really anything ongoing there now as far as research. I'm not been in contact with the new inhabitants.

They're not aware of any of the stuff that went on there. I'm not sure if they're experiencing anything. That's a story in itself. It's like, did they know what they were getting into buying that property? And like if they're just slowly, I don't think it would be slow. I think it would be quick that they would figure out like, there's something going on here, you know, who knows? Right.

I mean, all bets are up. I don't know. I do know that there's still some occasional activity in that drone area. I still get reports from that area. I do still visit some of the adjacent areas. But it's not, you know, as far as the property is concerned, I can't get access to that. And definitely, in my personal opinion,

they definitely have Sasquatch stuff going on. I mean, no doubt about it with the multiple sightings from different individuals and the things that I've heard with me. I've had rocks thrown and stuff like that. And I couldn't spend enough time there. I really wanted to capture something on a FLIR. And I spent many nights there by myself, edged the property, had a lot of experience. I never got anything on FLIR. The brush is so thick and whatever it was would never get close enough for me to get on FLIR.

So it is what it is. Yeah. Man, thanks for sharing. That's a really cool update. I had no idea that that happened. Yeah, that's not really good shared. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. But I'll tell you real quick, I'll tell you, Don and Greg, sorry to interrupt you. Don and Greg are two fantastic, phenomenal individuals. I have the utmost respect from Donna and David Ellis did phenomenal audio work on the property. And I know Donna is very thankful for David Ellis and Derek and myself. Two stand-up individuals that didn't ask for this. It just happened.

And they were willing to. go along and do what they could to a certain extent. And unfortunately, things didn't work out with their lives and with the property. But the chance to get involved with one of these rare occurrences where you have this consistent activity happening on the property, not necessarily year round, but consistently, that's the sort of places you want to be in. Because I'm not a, I'm not per se an ambulance chaser. I don't, you know, those days are past.

I don't, you know, Derek Randall's, I mean, the president of the coach, the coach, the co-founder of the Olymp project talked me this years ago. You know, he, for years, he's been in research since 1985. And he used to go to Idaho. I mean, living in Washington, would go to Idaho at the drop of a hat looking for, you know, if there was an encounter, he'd drive out there or wherever. And you can get a lot of good information on that, but it's almost, you know, the crime's done.

And to find a place where there's a lot of activity and it's ongoing, that's really not ambulance station, you're trying to do a conductive study there and figure out what's going on. So that's something I think when those occurrences happen, and it's happened a few times in my experience with this research and some others, that's the places you really want to be. Very cool, very cool. I'm going to throw out a random left field question just to see if anything sticks. I'll switch. It doesn't.

We'll go to somewhere else. So you've had all these, you know, you're focused on Bigfoot. I'm in the Midwest area. We have a lot of like things flying around, thunderbirds, stuff like that. Have you ever run into any weird stuff? I don't know. Is that a thing where those actually will come up in the Pacific Northwest, like large flying cryptids or anything?

like that or not really a thing that you run up against? Well, here's the thing. You know, growing up, I was involved, interested in a lot of cryptos. It's not involved. I was interested in all sorts of cryptos. I'm well-burst on a lot of cryptic. It's up here in the Pacific Northwest. I mean, you go to Portland and, you know, there's a big sign that says keep Portland weird

down in Oregon. It's great. Yeah. And it is weird. You know, the Pacific Northwest is a weird spot. There's a lot of things that, you know, people will claim to see. You know, they have a Cadborosaurus on the West. the coast that apparently it's like a water cryptid because from San Francisco all the way up to

Alaska they call it caddy there's um of course the the large thunderbirds uh there's you know teradactyl taranodon sightings apparently you got UFO sightings um I personally never seen any of that stuff and I spend I mean I live in the woods and I spend ungodly amount of time in the woods I'm never personally come across you know I've never seen any weird orves or lights you know, none of that stuff. But you do hear stories from credible people that claim to have seen, you know, Cadbarosaurus or a flying cryptid that's much larger in acting peculiar. You do have people claiming to see lights in the woods or UFOs.

I mean, Washington State, you know, I think one of the really first big UFO sightings was around Mount Rainier back in, ooh, what, the 60s, 50s or 70s, I forget, flying discs. So it's an area where there's a lot of stuff that happens up here. and different cryptids, you know, we know, mainly though, my focus and mainly what I come across is Sasquot sightings up here. And it's way more prevalent than people will ever guess. You know, for every, you know, one siding you hear about or two sightings you hear about, there's, I mean, I can only imagine how many more sightings are out there that, you know, from people that are either not willing to talk or just don't have an opportunity to talk about it.

Very cool. Very cool. You'd mentioned before that you have actually, you spent time in the Yosemite area early on. Can you go in? So I visited that area. It's a beautiful area. And I'll just, I'll paint a little picture. When we drove there from Cupertino area, you lose cell service like two hours outside of the park. It felt like it was nuts.

And there was a part when we were like. driving around in this little electric car up these hills and like we had to stop and literally if you had stepped you always hear people say this if you stepped a foot off the road you would be lot like you'd be done it was prehistoric and it was amazing um do you have any um you know can you recall anything that happened uh around that area or like any uh cool stories about researching that area? Yeah, I mean, so from when I, one of my old girlfriends worked at Yosemite and that really was a, a kick in the pants to get up there even more so.

But Yosemite, my first, I remember going through a tunnel and coming to an area, inspiration point and seeing the Yosemite Valley. And it was absolutely amazing. A guy from Scotland that got to witness that, you know, I was, you know, enthralled. I could see why Theodore Roosevelt and some of these others, you know, said this is God's country. It's just amazing. It's just amazing. So I fell in love with it. And of course, I heard about all these Satskwatch reports in the Sierras and Yosemite and all that. So I made it a point, you know, even though from I lived in San Diego, it was like 11, 12 hour drive. I would do it as much as I could. And I did it for years. Wow. Amazing area. I've been all around Yosemite backpacking Yosemite. I've been up to Hapdo. I've been all around El Cap.

Oh, wow. I've been all around there. And I always like to backpack, you know, off trail and off country. I personally, you know, I've had a lot of bear encounters up there. A ton of bear encounters. There's bears up there. Oh, yeah. I'm chasing for my camp up there.

I never personally had a big foot encounter up there. I came across one impression I thought was interesting. Could have been a double bear stamp. The most interesting thing that I took away from Yosemite, besides just that it's so vast. And, you know, there's, a lot of people that go there. I talked to a former park ranger.

She was a female, and she was working the L-Cap area below the base. Okay. Near a hotel out there, and she had something throwing rocks at her, and when she looked up from this little bluff, she saw this black shadow, and it took off bipedally up the hill.

And I heard that first person. Now, we're talking 97 through about 2006 is kind of the time frame I would go up there. Really, I didn't, back to 97, I had a beeper. I didn't really have a cell phone. You know, so it wasn't like I could get cell phone reception anyways.

That's awesome. You know, there are a lot of missing people in that area, but I'll tell you, it's easily, you can get lost up there easy. And, I mean, the last time I was there last summer, I realized I will never go there during the height of the season. I took my family down there. They had never been there. My eight-year-old daughter and my wife, we took them out.

I took them out there on our way down to stand. go driving down from Washington, we stood, we sat in our car for over an hour trying to get into the park. It was a nightmare. Yeah, really. There's so many people, millions of people. Wow. I forget the number, but it's over a million people that go through the park every year. You got that many people come through a park and you got a lot of tourists from out of the country. They don't speak English, that had no business being in the woods. People are going to get hurt and people are going to disappear. So there's no shock to me that I always get, well, you know, somebody's a hot spot. Well, yeah. But there's, when you have that number of things,

people to go through that area, it's to be expected. You know, I can't count many times that I came across hurt people or lost people out there while I was hiking and the amount of dangers out there. Oh, yeah, all the time. I mean, I experienced that up here in the Pacific Northwest, hiking the Olympics. Sure. People that are unprepared or ill-prepared and don't know what they're doing. So, yeah, I mean, Yosemite, I have no doubt there's probably Sasquatch down there.

I just, you know, and talking to a few people that had experiences really solidified that for me. But I never had an encounter down there. But, you know, when you live 11, 12 hours away and you're kind of like glorified camping because you're just doing it for a weekend or four days or whatever, you can only do so much. And it's an area that you need to live in. The Sierra's beautiful, tons of wildlife. And if you think Yosemite is primordial or, you know, you know, Jurassic Parkish, come up to Washington State or Oregon, specifically Washington State up in the Olympics,

where you got moss and rainforests. I've been there. I've been there. Yeah. Yeah, we hike, we hike the whole, uh, is a whole rainforest. Oh, whole rainforest is crazy. Yeah. It's nuts.

I'm, yeah, we've been to the, the forks area and, and all that. Um, that's a different story. But the whole rainforest is simply beautiful. Oh, amazing. Unexpected part of the trip, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Um, man.

As we start to kind of get towards the end of our time here, um, what is what is kind of next for I know the Olympic project is probably the main focus of your your time with squashing is there anything that maybe you can

tease this with something that you guys are working towards or I guess you did say that you found these new vest which nests which are huge that's that's a huge deal because you thought that you that was a dead end, but then finding new ones, that's incredible.

So, yeah, yeah. So basically, so, you know, this initial nest site that was discovered by this timber cruiser was probably the most exciting thing and still is the most exciting thing I've ever worked on based on a number of factors based on just so many different things. And, you know, historically speaking, there's been other nests found, but just not this many and not study like this where you have unknown hair that matches primate hair is Dr. Meldron Miltoya.

You have nest formulating constructed. The Huckleberry breaks and snaps and how it was formulated. You needed a plausible thumb. You had rocks that had score marks found. You had bush nests off the ground that were constructed like the ground nests. So still, it was and still is the most exciting thing.

Now, going forward, well, finally, after four years, we've come across some possibly new nests, but actually being, I just, you know, we had as a goal as a team was to find more nest and as new as can be. I had no idea that we were going to come across something making a nest. Oh, man.

As it was being made. And now we got some samples. We got some casts of different things that I'll eventually release. We've had some really key people involved with helping us cast this stuff. And so going forward, really, it's, we're just, we're not ambulance chasing. We're studying with one area, this one vast area, as much as we can collecting audio. You know, we do use some trial cameras, but lightly. And we're just, you know, studying the area, getting all the known animals in this area,

all the sounds they make so that we can roll in or roll out what we're recording if it's suspicious. Collecting data from this new nest site, looking for new nest sites. but the same time we're also, there's the thing, something's making these nests and making them for a reason. And, you know, part of you when you're out there and you feel guilty

because you disturbed something. And the amount of work that went into making, like even this new nest, it was in the, you know, the process of making it, the amount of work when my partner, I disrupted it,

you know, when I got back to our camp, because it was in the evening, and we just kind of, we backed out of there. It was getting dark, went on it, you know,

I don't care what's making. I didn't want to disturb. it and didn't know if we're in a good spot to be disturbing anything. So we went back in there the next day with a few more people and discovered what we discovered. But part of you feels guilty for disrupting something, making that. But, you know, it is what it is. And, you know, and we'll study that area. You know, it's disturbed.

So we're constantly looking for a new nest. The same time, we're also trying to be not jerks, you know. You know, if something's making a nest for a little one or a baby or a newborn, you know, who are we to go in these areas and disturb them? and disrupt that amount of work. So it's a catch-22. The same, you know, science moves on, but the same time, you know, I don't want to,

I'd rather come find the nest later after it's been departed. Yeah, exactly. So that's kind of where we're at. And that's where we're focused on is finding new nests and studying this nest and learning everything we can about these new nests. And the Lent project is not about proving Sandswashed exists. We're about studying what we already pretty much know to exist, the majority of our LIMA project members.

So we do have to get to get to. and those individuals that never had an encounter. But we're about collecting as much data. So when that day comes across that Sasquatch is proven, we already have everything laid out there for academia to look at. You're good to go. And yeah, it's so fun. And it gets us out in the woods, which we enjoy and we have a great group.

Right. Because at the end of the day, you're still spending a lot of good time in nature, which there's nothing wrong with that. If people want to keep track of what you're doing, what is the best things for them to look at? Website or social media, what have you? Yeah. So we have our website is, we're still building upon this and working on it. A lot of us, like I said, we have Dave Jobs.

So it's hard to keep up. But we do keep up. So Olympicproject.com, you can send emails there, anything, audio and all that. that you can share and we will get back to at some point in time. David Ellis kind of really leads that part of me at this point in time. Of course, I do host my own podcast called Monster X Radio and you can reach me or my partner Gunner Monson at Monster X Radio 1Gmail.com. And, you know, so I'm on Facebook, Shane Corson. So if you got any, you know, you can reach out to me on Facebook at Shane Corson and I'm on Instagram, Twitter and all that stuff. But

The Lentproject.com is probably the best way. And we have lots of resources and lots of individuals on there. David Ellis, Derek Randalls, myself, just a ton of, you know, Cindy Dosen, a ton of different individuals from different backgrounds and different fields that may be able to help you out. Or just check out the website. It'll be updated even more so down the road here. That's awesome. Yeah.

Very cool. Well, thank you again, Shane, for coming on tonight and spending a little bit of time with the Bigfoot Society podcast and some pretty cool updates. I'm sure all the listeners out there will be checking out the Olympic Project website and keeping track of what you guys find next. So thank you again, sir. Thank you, Jermon. I appreciate. Yep.

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