Bigfoot Society - Bigfoot Ranch, Pt. 1

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, we delve deep into an extraordinary interview with Connie from Iowa. Listen in as Connie shares her gripping and lifelong encounters with Bigfoot, starting from her childhood years in Jefferson and Van Buren counties. Discover riveting stories of her frequent sightings, including new updates to the legendary Lockridge monster case and various events along the Des Moines River. Connie recounts her chilling face-to-face experiences, the mysterious Bigfoot known as Chapinga, and the incredible tale of Big Red's journey to Des Moines. An enthralling conversation packed with personal insights, historical connections, and fascinating details that every Bigfoot enthusiast will appreciate!Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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and it's a really weird synchronicity because I've been trying to track down Connie for multiple years now and I had a random individual reach out to me over email sharing that she knows this individual named Connie and you really should talk to her. And so it's a huge synchronicity that this all is even happening because I hadn't been successful in tracking her down. But Connie, it's a pleasure chatting with you today. I would love it if you would just show. Share your story what you remember over the years growing up in this situation. Oh, I have a diary that I didn't start keeping until in the 80s, early 80s. And I have a lot of interactions that I wrote down. And so, yes, it's best that you just ask me questions because, and then maybe it'll trigger something.

I'm getting old. Yes, ma'am. I will definitely do that. So, Connie, can you share what part of Iowa this started back? It sounds like you had interactions with Bigfoot all growing up on a farm. And can you share what part of Iowa that started in? Southeast Iowa. Okay. Now, we both know Southeast Iowa is an extremely Bigfoot saturated area.

Jefferson County. Yes, ma'am. Van Buren County. And okay, so Jefferson County and Van Buren County, and this was in the early 80s or all? Well, no, the rejection county was, let's see, from 56 to probably 70. And then I got married in 80 and moved to Van Buren County from 80 to 2000 and 3,000. And so you're just saying that the time frame that you lived in those counties, not necessarily the time frame that you had Bigfoot activity in those counties, correct? Well, I had sporadically in different times in my life as I was growing up in Jefferson County and over by Law Creek.

And that was about the time if you look up, I think it was BFRO. they had had Mike Pfeiffer was a guy. He was a kid back then. That his dad, they lived out by four corners, and that was only like three miles from us. And they had turned it in because his dad seen one eating apples out of the top of an apple tree. I can't tell you for sure what year. Connie, are you talking about the Pfeifers that had the Lockridge Monster case in Lockwood?

Yeah, yeah. You live three miles away from there? Yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. This is insane. Oh, wow. Yeah.

And in a good way, not in a bad way, Connie. Like, that's incredible. Like, you were involved with the Lockridge Monster case. Oh, man. That's a, that's a. Well, I never told no one. I just, my grand. Well, my grandmother, when she told me, when I said, what are those when we seen them out

very picking one morning early. And she says, oh, that's just a tribe of people just like us. And she said, you don't have to be afraid of them. They're just really big. And I thought, okay. And I never was. And then the first incident, I think I was, let's see. Oh, gee, one of the, something's as simple.

Back then you had outhouses. and I had a younger brother. My stepdad says, take him out to the bathroom. He's got to go. So I took him out there and I, and he was probably four, and I was four years older than he was. So I was probably about eight then. Anyway, while he's sitting in the bathroom,

I'm swinging back and forth on the door. And when I swung around, I looked backwards and there stood a great to go bigfoot behind the outhouse. Anyway, that was my first up-close encounter. Sorry, so approximate year on that, Connie? Well, probably 57, 1957. And 1957, and that was close to Lockridge, you were saying? Yeah, yeah, three miles.

So there was Bigfoot activity in Lockridge years and years before the Lockridge Monster incident of the 7. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. This is incredible. No, I don't think this is, yeah. Oh, my goodness. I, okay, I'm, I need to. This is very exciting for me as a Bigfoot person. So I spent a lot of time researching Bigfoot history in the 1970s, Connie. And I know, like, there are guys with the Iowa Bigfoot Center, the Iowa Bigfoot Information Center. And they were researching Lockridge. But so you saw one in 57. And do you remember any details about what this Bigfoot looked like that you saw? Well, he was a lot taller than the outhouse because I looked at him back. I was swinging on the outhouse door and I had my head back. And when I swung around and he was standing back there, he was probably, I don't know what the average highs of an outhouse was back then.

but here's probably three feet or so more, taller than the outhouse at least. Much taller than any adults you would know at the time? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm guessing nine feet. Yeah. And do you remember seeing anything facial details at all? Not really.

It was at night when I had to do this. And the neighbor's security light just shone across the field to the outhouse, behind the outhouse. And a little, it was just real faint. And, yeah, I wasn't, yeah, I didn't see any real great details. Other his hair was three or four inches long, dark. What color? And then, hmm, what color? A dark color that looked like a brown or black.

Did you notice anything out of the ordinary about the arms? No. All I've seen was the top from over that, the edge of the top of the outhouse that it was standing behind the outhouse. But I do, I don't remember. And then the next time my brother, we were, I don't know. I had two younger brothers that were 10 years younger than me and my brother. And my one evening we were playing outside, and the younger ones were pulling the older brother, which they weren't.

Anyway, and this big foot runs by us, probably two foot from us, runs by us. and my brother, which was older, that, well, he still wasn't over five years old, said, went in until my stepdad, a bear ran past us. And, boy, did he get a skinning for lion. And that's all I remember on that. I just never said anything to anybody other than my granny. and like I said, we, and the morning that we seen them out there, and that was out by Lockridge, too, of Four Corners.

That the Four Corners is actually a few miles north of the town of Lockreeds. So that's where Mike Pfeiffer's place was, and then we just lived a few miles west of there. But... For other people seeing Bigfoot in this area of Four Corners? north of Lockridge? Oh, yeah. I'm sure there was.

I'm sure there was. I'm sure there was. But back then, you just didn't talk about stuff like that. Why was that? You didn't want people to know you're nuts. Sure. Yeah, no, I get it.

It's only become socially acceptable in the last few years. Yeah. But, and then I had, I had encounters off and on all through my life. And what I've learned from my kids and my grandkids, that usually if, because they were all around them, and my daughter had one, okay, for example, she had one that we called Big Red. and she had had encounters with him when she was younger.

And then when he actually put his hand on her back one night, they would make the electrical part of your car not work and stuff, you know. And anyway. Sorry, I have a few clarifying questions before we go past it. So what year is this that this happened to your daughter? Oh, gee. Let's see. Just roughly.

He was a teenager, so let's see. I think Tony was about 17, and she was probably about 16. So she was born in 71. So it was about early to mid-80s. Anyway, they had been, it had been on a Friday night, and all my kids hunt, we lived in the country. So they were raised hunting and trapping, and stuff like that.

And they had been out, it was a weekend, and they had been, went out, and they'd come home fairly early, like 10 o'clock. And about a quarter mile from us was the Des Moines River. There's been a lot of them up and down the Des Moines River. But anyway, this, and we lived in the same area within a five-mile distance, Sorry, the four corners area is what we're talking about right now. No, no, now we have moved to Van Buren County.

Okay, thank you. Okay, now we're in Van Buren County. And my daughter, for example, my, they had pulled in this field just about a quarter of a block from the house. And down over this field, down the hill, was the bottom of the field. the river. Well, they pulled the car up and parked and Tony tried to, oh, the lights went out on the car and Trace told Tony, quit goofing, you know, quit trying to scare me. He says, I'm not. It just went out. Well, anyway, and so he takes, he takes a flashlight that kept going off and on, off and on, and she stayed up at the car.

And she said she got out and was standing there, and she said she could hear Tony walking through the stuff down to the edge of the river to check their traps. Well, anyway, and she said, the next thing she knew, she felt something put their hand over her on her shoulder and it covered most of the top of her back and she screamed and she said you cussed and she screamed Tony don't be trying to scare me but when she screamed he when she screamed he hollered back to her what what do you want so she said that spooked her and she ran all the way back

up to the house which was a quarter mile and it was dark and and out in the country and, yeah, you had a fence or two, you had to climb one. She said she made it in no time. But, yeah, I can, yeah, I can introduce you to her name's Tracy. She can tell you some of the things. But anyway, later on, and later on when she had gotten divorced and decided to move to Des Moines, Iowa, a big red followed her okay and she said she lived i i don't know in an apartment at that time i don't know a couple stories two three stories up and red clumb up the outside balcony and i thought she

would just kind of exaggerating well anyway because I just thought that was kind of weird that a Bigfoot would go down to the capital of Iowa. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Your social media feed delivers plenty of advice. But it doesn't know you. It doesn't ask questions. It doesn't give physical exams or order tests. Doctors do.

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Everything happens for a recess. Well then, and as that time, was still living, let's see, when I first moved down to Missouri in 16, I would have some that would stop by, I lived in a mobile home that was by a pond and it was the last one next to these couple fields. And anyway, and I would have them stop by when they were traveling, when they'd migrate and they had stopped and see me. they were just like my neighbors.

That's all I can, the only way I know how to explain it. Anyway, and Trace decided she came to visit me and she decided she'd move down there because things were so much, you know, more inexpensive down there than it was in Iowa. So she moved down there. And right after she moved, Big Red showed up scratching on the screen door of my mobile home that I lived in and wanted to know where Trace was. And I told him and he showed up at her place. And she had a boyfriend that seen him and freaked out.

He didn't have nothing to do with her after that. Do you have contact with that boyfriend still? No, I don't. No, I don't. But Trace, Trace could tell you. And yeah, and then my, yeah, I don't know. So you just, yeah, ask me some more questions. Yeah, absolutely.

I have some more for sure. Okay, so here we go. Let's rewind a little bit. I know you moved away. I just found that out. You moved down to Van Buren County. So you weren't in Lockridge area when the actual Lockridge monster sighting happened. Do you remember anything about that time period, though, when they started having some

crazy stuff happened on the fight. farmers farm? No, what happened was Mike's dad just happened to be working fields with the, you know, I don't know if it was plant. Well, if it was, they were probably picking corn or beans or whatever because it was in the fall because the apples were right. And his, when he went and he was doing it late at night and the headlights of the tractor shine is shown on the.

one by the apple tree, I guess, or something. That's what Mike told me. And, yeah. So, so, yeah. But, yeah, it was just, it was just, I didn't know. Sure. I don't know if there was a family that were Native American that lived down by there, too. But I don't know if I should say their names.

Probably not. But they did say that they had seen them. Oh, really? But I just never, I had just never, and gee, now about most of the family's dead. So I don't know. I couldn't tell you. And what family are you talking about specifically when you say that? Are you talking about the Fifers?

Are you talking about the Native American family? The Native American family. Gotcha. Do you think there were multiple sightings of Big Phyllis? in that area that were never talked about outside the Lockridge? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes, yeah.

Do you remember any other sightings around that same time period? Other things you heard? No, not really. Okay. Not really. When, yeah, yeah, I just, yeah, I can't. Like I said, that's been a long time ago and I'm old. It is really a long time ago.

You said you had heard sightings around the Des Moines River. Do you remember any of those? I lived by the Des Moines River for 40 years at Benton's Port. And, well, actually on the south side of Benton's Port. And, yeah, a lot of people have seen them, but they don't, they wouldn't talk about it to your normal people. I mean, you know, they just wouldn't open up about it. Very few of them. and but I know a few that come to me and said,

hey, I've seen this and this and this. And but I, but my family, well, the last, last few years, probably from 90 to 2016,

seen them every day. Seen them every day. Morning, noon, night, it didn't matter. They were like your neighbors. I definitely want to get to that part. Before we leave Van Buren County,

though, I want to check on a few things. So I've heard many things about Van Buren County over the last few years. Did you ever hear anything around the Eldon or Dodds area of Van Beren County? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Can you talk about that for a while, please? Yeah, I can. My dad lived, my dad before he passed, lived between agency, Iowa and Eldon, Iowa.

He was pretty close to what they call the Cardinal School, the Eldon Community School. And I don't know. It's maybe five miles from there. Anyway, and my dad had moved back here. He had lived in Missouri for years. And he moved back to Iowa to that place. And he got, he bought a patch of land.

and moved a mobile home on it. And out of the clear blue sky, he wanted my son, my oldest son, to drywall the one side of his trailer, cover up the windows and everything. And we all thought that was kind of odd, you know. But then I started hearing from, people about a half a mile from where dad lives that they were seeing a couple of bigfoot.

And my dad, he wouldn't talk about things like that. He gets very, very seldom. And because I'd had, back in the 80s, I'd had an encounter with a big mountain lion. And they said, oh, no, mountain lions don't exist there. in, you know, in Iowa. And my dad said, well, when he was 14, he ran across one when he was driving a truck to go pick up coal to take to Ferfield. He went to Eldon Rock Quarry or Dowd's Rock Quarry. Anyway, and he had to get there early in the morning, so he was first in line.

Otherwise, it would take you all day. And they sold coal. Anyway, and dad said he had fell asleep. and while he was waiting and he woke up to something digging on the side of the truck and it was a big mountain lion trying to get in his truck. Oh my goodness. So anyway, he just never talked about things. And I, the only thing he told me before he got bad, this was, he died of cancer. and it was about a year after he had my son drywall all the north side of the or the west side of his mobile home and cover up all the windows and that he said there's some really strange stuff goes on around here at night and that's all he said and I knew exactly what it was I knew I knew insurance but yeah but there

As back in the early 80s, there was, I started hearing stuff about up and down the Des Moines Rivers. Like one night on a TV show, they were talking about a female Bigfoot that had been seen up and down the Des Moines River from Van Buren County, clear to the mouth of the river. Anyway, down there by Montrose. Do you remember what show that was? Sorry? Oh, no. Okay. No, can't remember.

Go ahead. Been too long ago. But anyway, and then one night, my husband and a friend that he had, my husband brought him out, and they were drinking. And I said, and he worked for the Dowd's Rock Quarry. And I said, have you ever seen or heard anything? strange around there when you were working? He said, yeah, yeah. He said that there's a lot of caves down in there from, you know,

where they can drive their trucks down in there and get some of that rock and stuff. And he said that one day he turned on the lights down at this cave. And he said it was about a quarter mile from, it had a, opening out by the river and he said it was about a quarter mile from the river that he was in this big cavern that they had dug out to get a load of rock and he said there was a little pool of water there and he said he found he said he looked at me and he says i never seen anything but I found scat as big as your arm. And I said, really?

But that was just back in the early days. And this guy was pretty, pretty, and he wouldn't talk about it when he was sober. Sure, sure. That's incredible. You don't hear about stuff like that in Iowa, where it's like the large scat. You always hear about that in the Pacific Northwest.

But the reason I brought up Eldon and Dowd, was because I had an individual I talked to once, and he told me about how back in the 1940s, there were sightings of something called the Yehoutis, and they were just labeled as giants or Bigfoot. And was that anything that you'd ever heard of over the years? No, but back in the early 90s, I got a call from some people that lived,

oh, I don't know, but not very far from Eldon. lived on the south side of the river, and they had an old graveyard on their property, and they raised horses and cattle and stuff, and I can't say their name, but they're prominent people. One of the sons had me and my son, and I can't remember if my daughter was there or not. But anyway, we did go research and the horse was dead. Its neck had been broke. And they kept having a lot of cattle come up missing. And we did find some big footprints in this old graveyard.

How long were they, do you think? Oh, I think they were like about 18, 19 inches. I figured it was a female for that size. Okay. From what I, a female or a juvenile male, but that's, but and that was, that was, yeah. So I've heard, I heard different things around, but most people don't, like I said, a lot of them, now the old timers were just getting so they kind of open up to you. And, but then most of them are dead and gone now.

So, yeah, it's getting to the point where a lot of people that were involved in that period of time, they, not a lot of them are around anymore. So it's an incredible privilege to be able to talk to you, Connie, for sure. I want to thank you for that again. But anything ever happened around Shemak State Forest that you'd heard of? Oh, dear. Oh, well, see, where we lived. Okay, we lived about a half a city block from the Des Moines River for 30, 40 years. And, let's see. And on one side of us, about five miles to the west of us was the state. Oh, what the heck? Lake Seguima and what in the, oh, my, I'm.

I'm getting old and forgetful. But anyway, they had a state park there that was, consisted of about 600 acres there at Tia Sokwa. And you just go straight west or east, and then about five miles, and then we lived there at Benton's Port. And then about 10 miles to the east of us was Simic State Park. and it's like 6,000.

And there was a little, and there was a little crick there that was called Bear Creek, where they said that there was a lot of bear back in the early 50s. That's why I got that name. But anyway, and this is the route that the Bigfoot would travel. Bigfoot Society will be right back

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Everything happens for a Reese's. They had a mile or two before they got to the one end of the Bear Creek, and then it, and then Bear Creek went all through our. property. Plus we had old Indian burial grounds on our property and our lower 80 acre field where we planted corn a lot of times was the last encampment that Black Hawk had before he was civilized and moved to Iowaville. So yeah and so they would travel back and forth and and there were times that and And they like horses and two, and I always had horses. And yeah, anyway.

So that's how that is. Sorry, how did you know that they liked horses? Because I had horses that, first of all, they would take and they would braid their mains and tails during the night. And I would have a chain that I would. ran through around the post and through the gate, and it was padlocked. And it had to be lifted way up, and it was a heavy chain. And it had to be lifted way up in order for, and they'd let the horses out.

Really? Yeah, stuff. But they would do these braids and different things. and twists to the horse's tail. The females, the female Bigfoot will also take, and they would sometimes, it used to drive me crazy because the females, when they braid their hair, Shepinga used to braid her hair all the time.

And she would take tree sap and stick it on her braids so it'll stay. Well, they do that sometimes to the horses, mains and tails to make it stay. Okay, very interesting. That's actually, Patty had asked me, she was like, there's a few things you might want to ask Connie about. And Chupinga is actually one of those. Do you mind if we talk about, I don't know if there's a way to transition into if that's an individual that you knew during this time where you would see Bigfoot over the years? She was her for seven and a half years.

We've seen each other every day. And where was this, this was happening? This was out of our farm. Was it in Van Bering County? Yes. Okay. So that same area, for seven and a half years, you were seeing this female Bigfoot. Yeah.

I had all kinds of experiences. I had, and my grandkids, we had, what was it, 120, 119, 119, acres of land and I had a grandson would just he is five years old and he would just or more than hell and he was always he took after his dad and he was always wanting to take off and I told him I told him I when he was five I said you stay up here in the yard because you go down to the junk ditch which we everybody back then had a junk ditch and then you fill it up some place that was washed out

and you'd fill it up full of stuff and then you'd bulldoze it over and anyway I said to Spencer I said you stay away from the junk ditch don't be taken off stay up in the yard I said if not the junk ditch monster all eat you

Because I had to scare him because he wasn't scared of anything. So he's staying with me, and all of a sudden I look out and I don't see him. And here he comes. He'd been down to the junk ditch. And I said, I said, didn't I tell you when he got off the house? I said, didn't I tell you that the junk ditch monster would eat? He said, no, I already talked to him. And he said he wasn't going to eat me.

Nice. That's great. What time period was that? What year do you think? Okay. Well, let's see. Spencer was born in 91. So, and he was about five years old. So around 96. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Can you share about the time that Chappenga saved you? From, she saved, well, oh, about, well, we had, okay, on. Our land was V-shaped, okay? And one side was, the north side was the Des Moines River,

and the other side was Bear Creek. But we had a little bit of Timberland over there on the other side of Bear Creek. But anyway, and there was a couple miles from our house to the next house, and there was a creek, it was called Brewerland. Bear Creek and there was a bridge down there. Well, we had meth makers go down there and make math. And one Sunday evening, I always carried a 410. And one evening, Neilman was up watching TV and I was always outside.

I just liked being outside. And I thought I smelled something in the air. And the creek bridge was about a quarter of mile from our house. And anyway, so I walked down to the way the smell was coming from the creek. And on each side of the creek, well, on one side there was a real steep heels where the Native Americans had burial grounds there. and the other and a lot of cedar trees. Well, I'm, I go walking through the timber

and I see a car sitting down there by the creek. And so I sneak down there and I get under this cedar tree and I'm watching these three guys and they're making math. And it was, it was on a Sunday afternoon. in our evening, and it was probably, it was close to getting dark whenever. Anyway, and I was laying up there on the ridge, looking down and watching them, and one of them found me, okay? Well, they took me down underneath the bridge where they was cooking that stuff,

and I thought, wow. and they took my trusty 4-10 and everything and they just was and they was trying to decide what they was going to do to me and it didn't sound like it was good whatever it was you know and anyway and by then they knew I would if I walked I'm a horrible whooper and if I walked they know it was It knew it was me. And anyway, but I didn't work this time that I recall. But I remember they was about done doing their stuff, and they was starting to load stuff up.

And I had one guy next to me, and it had me kind of tied to this old air conditioner that somebody had dumped out. I can smell. I can smell the big foot. Or I get vibrations. It's like a, or I get these vibrations. What did it?

A bear down there in Tennessee, he called it infrasound. That I could feel this when they're close. Well, anyway, I started getting these feelings, and I went whoop, real little. And that guy looked at me and he said, be quiet. So I did. And the next thing I know, Shikpenga was standing next to me. And when that guy looked up and the other two were walking away from it,

they ran when they seen her. And she got me out of how they, she was able to unhook me from whatever they had me tied up with. I can't remember. It's been so long ago. But I scared them. And Shepinga wasn't real big. She was only about eight, eight and a half foot tall.

And she had a shoulder span of probably four feet or a little bit more. Did she have a similar color pattern or what color was Shepinga? Shepinga was, I've never seen one like her before. She was kind of a light beige, but on her stomach and a, one boob, she was like white and light gray. The hair? Yeah. Interesting.

Some of them I've seen hair that had like four inches long, but she or hers wasn't that long. It's maybe two inches. So similar to what we see in the Patterson Gimlin film then, is that kind of? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I yeah in some of my books

I had I worked with a guy than ex-Pice sketch artist and he did several sketches for me that we worked with

with Shepinga and Big Red and baby boy and yeah all that Connie you have books you've written

oh I haven't I've got a diary that like I said of things this happens that's probably three or four inches thick that yeah and yeah and it's got it's got like police sketch type style drawings of big foot in in them yeah yeah yeah that i that i i for my own personal use i had a lot more but right right oh golly about about 95 somebody broke in our house and they took everything in mine that was Bigfoot related. I had electronics and

stuff, you know, that I, and game cans and stuff. They never took none of that. They just took all my, my Bigfoot stuff, pictures and stuff that I had. So after that, I didn't do pictures. So you had, are you talking about the sketches or did you have actual pictures of the Bigfoot? I had actual pictures. You did. What were these taken with? What kind of devices? Well, I usually had a little camera that I had that I had that I carried in my pocket all the time.

Okay. And sometimes you could get it. If you caught them unaware, you could get the picture. If not, they project this, this energy. that makes them, the pictures all deformed or, you know, where you can't see them. But, yeah. The diary, was it a diary of, like, different Bigfoot cases you investigated over the years or just what you noticed? No, no, just different experiences that I had.

Okay, gotcha. And that my family had. Okay. Have you ever considered making that public in some way in order for people, other people, to learn about what you? you've experienced over the years? Well, I've thought about it, but it takes money. And I'm on a limited income. And so I don't, yeah, I just don't.

But, yeah, I've thought about it. And if anything happens to me, my granddaughter, when my oldest granddaughter gets everything of my Bigfoot stuff. But, yeah, oh, have you ever heard of MNBRT? The Minnesota. Minnesota Bigfoot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Abe Del Rio, yep.

Well, Abe, when I had a show that I was doing on podcast, I started it, and that was, I can't remember what year it was. close around 2000, I think. Anyway, and maybe I was on Campfire Shadows or something. I don't know. I was on somebody. Vic's show, I think. But anyway, Abe called in and talked to me, and he wanted to talk to me later.

So, and he had never seen a big foot, but he had heard him and this and that. Well, anyway, so I invited him down. And I've been friends with Abe since 2000. And he was with me. When he would come down, he would stay a week or two usually. And we slept days and bigfooted at night. So I could talk to Abe and he'd be able to tell me the same,

how he experienced the same exact things. Yeah. For something as simple as there was some wildfires out west, and this is, and one night, and he got picture, he had videos and stuff, but like I said, he had some of it to me, and I had to delete it because people were taking it up and stuff, and I didn't know that much about things, and I just didn't know, I didn't want anything happening to them. because the first time I met Scott Nelson down in Oklahoma, I said, well, they speak, and he said, no, they don't.

And I said, yes, they do. And I didn't like him because he basically told me I was a liar that they don't speak. And they do speak. And they can speak any language to anybody at any time. And that's how that is. They called me Ani. They called my son, Tony, Oni. they called they said my granddaughter jess had holler jessie gessie yeah so so and so yeah so you're talking about

scott nelson who's been analyzing the sierra sounds yes and oh on the sierra sounds the first time i listened to them was back in 2000 and i had been and you have to i never knew how to explain they talk but And this is how I learned to say this. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Your social media feed delivers plenty of advice. But it doesn't know you. It doesn't ask questions. It doesn't give physical exams or order tests.

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It said everything happens for a reason, but maybe everything happens for a recess. Take noise-canceling headphones. Do they block hearing to heighten taste? Hmm. That sound seems to show. Everything happens for a recess. One night I had, my dad was in the process of, Diane and he was in Knoxville and and I stopped and pick up a friend, an older friend that

didn't drive in Fairfield and brought her down for a couple days. While Shepinga, I had been gone with my dad and Shepinga was out by the driveway and my friend, her name was Connie also. She was, she had gotten some of her stuff and was up on the porch waiting for me to get something out of the back of the jeep and and and Chippinga wanted to know where I've been and what I've been doing and I told him that told her that my father was dying well anyway and and this was this was after mid this was midnight one o'clock by the time we got out there to the farm and anyway Connie when I walk up to her she says who was that and I said oh that

that's my friendly neighborhood neighbor, you know, that's my neighbor. And she said, well, do they have a cleft palate? Because they talk just like my cousin that had a cleft palate talked. And this is how they talk. But anyway, but I was listening back in 2000 these Sierra sounds. And I can't remember, but on what part of it, was but i've got i've got the cd here that i'd have to listen to it but anyway they they're they're saying something to to the big foot and the big foot replied goodwill you want he goes goodwill

you want and that's what i have told everybody when they when they meet new ones or dealing with them, you ask them first, goodwill you want. And they understand that. But it was about 2000 that I didn't know you could. Well, yeah, it was when I've really started getting to communicate with them real good. It was after Janet Carter came up. Did you know Janet Carter? Hold on. So you Janet Carter visited your property in Van Buren County? Oh, yeah. She come up and stayed. I've not had, yeah, no, but that's incredible.

Well, anyway, well, I had talked to Mary Green. Mary Green and Janet had wrote a book, and I was telling, I had one night, like when I first got a computer, and I was talking to Mary Green, and I told her that I was telling her that the little ones would pull my doors off the hinges and come in the house and track mud and crap in and get in my deep freeze. And she said they had that a lot down there in Tennessee. And then Mary introduced me to, oh, and this is when I was, this is how long ago it's been.

And I was like 48. And I had this one, don't laugh at me. He was hustling me. And I had talked to Bear, what is Bear's real name? Oh, gee, can't think of it right now. But anyway, from downtown C, he was one of the Bigfoot Outlaws. Yep, I'm aware. I know exactly what you're talking about.

Okay. Okay, anyway, I had talked to Bear. and Bearhead told me that they seemed to be leery of the red Bigfoot. And Big Red is red. Anyway, but anyway, this one night, my daughter was forever trying to scare me and stuff. And my kids were like me. They run around at night, you know. And one night on a full moon, I seen something.

kind of white in it and my yard had like 130 trees in it okay and then around when i lived at the farm and then around on two sides it was a heavy timber or what do you most people don't know what timber is i found that out woods or forest heavy forest but anyway and i thought it was her trying to sneak up. I was sitting out on the back deck talking to my friend Connie on the phone. And it was midnight when it o'clock and everybody was in bed. And I seen that white hair and it was kind of tall. And my daughter is six foot tall. Anyway, and I thought it was her getting ready to scare me. So I just kind of ignored it. Well, the next thing I know, there was this big foot. And my back deck was, it was.

eight, nine feet off the house was built on a hill, and the deck went out. So it was like eight or nine feet off the ground. And I'm sitting out there at the table, and about four foot from me, all of a sudden, this big foot just pops up. Well, anyway, he's standing there, and he's looking at me, and I'm talking on the phone, and I just pretend like I don't see him. and he's four foot away from me. And the moonlight was shining through some of the trees, you know, on him.

That's when I discovered that they have eyelids, like two eyelids, one that goes from the top to the bottom and then one that goes from side to side. Anyway, and I would glance at him and then I just kept talking to Connie. And finally I said, calm. I got a big foot here, and I'm going to have to let you go. And she says, pal, I think you need, this is before she had heard the one talk. And she says, I think you need to get some on some kind of nerve medicine. Because I never talked to her about it.

Oh, wow. I just didn't. And I said, okay. I said, I'll talk to you later about it. Well, anyway, so I hung up. And by then he went over to the other side of the deck. And his skin, he had the prettiest, his hair was silver. It was silver.

And it was more than four inches long. He's the only one that I'd seen that had hair that long. He looked like a hippie. And I had a picture of it, and somebody on Facebook had got the picture. Well, anyway, and what was, I was friends with Dimitri and Igor in Russia. And Dimitri, after a few years, we figured out when this one with the silver hair, well, he told me his name, just call him the ancient one. So I did.

And I said, anyway, and anyway, so next. or the next day or two, I was, it was late at night and I was sitting on the porch and he come up and sat down beside me. And sometimes he had talked to me verbally, other times he had talked to me telepathically. And he said by our way accounting

that he was 72 years old. And basically, but then anyway, Dimitri and I, after a couple years, figured out that in the summertime here, he'd be at my place, and at the other time, he would be in Russia. Oh, so you think that the same bigfoot was going between the contents? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And because I had taken a picture, and I'd showed it to Dimitri, and Dimitri was an artist, and he drew the picture, and a picture that looked just like it. but he had drawn like 10 years before. And I thought that was kind of neat. But since then, Dimitri's past. Right. That is fast. They invited me.

And I laugh because I'm an old fat. I'm an old fat woman, you know. And one night I get a call or a text from Dimitri saying, do you want to come over here and do a big foot expedition with us? And I laughed. Because I'm a hillbilly. I just, you know, and I thought, I can't, you know. Old fact, I think I wouldn't last 10 minutes in some of those hills over and there.

But, yeah. Is the property in Van Buren County still in the family, that farm? Nope. Nope, nope. And since then, well, part of the reason that I left was I started having encounters with, I was what they call, the Bigfoot called me, was the babysitter. Okay. Every day around 4 o'clock, the adults would go off to go hunting, okay?

And I would babysit. And if anybody, they had an area where they left the young ones, usually with an adolescent female, sometimes an older female. female but if but if anybody come around i would wolf and some and they would come back part two of my conversation with connie the skinwalker ranch of iowa part two will be released soon on bigfoot society but if you'd like to hear it today you can become a member of the patron over at patreon dot com ford it slash the bigfoot society or become a youtube channel member in tier two thanks for listening please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube,

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You heard I can get on here and we can tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there listening. It's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks? I know what I saw. I know what's out there. That's all I care about.

Please let people know. Please let them know if you ever see one of these things. You need to tell. Because if you don't, then shame on you. You know, shame on you. There's more. Monster Fest 2 is coming. up soon in beautiful canton ohio and i will be there doing a live podcast if you've ever wanted to meet

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And new guests, new speakers, people you won't. I mean, the coolest thing about last year is that I got to meet people I was not expecting to be there. People like Les O'Dell, John Hickenbottom, really cool big people that I never would have thought that I would have met before. And Seth Breedlove made it happen by making this incredible. for the community to get together Monster Fest in Canton, Ohio, June 28th through 29th. Guys, do not miss this year. If you missed last year, don't miss this year.

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