Bigfoot Society - Biker Boys vs. the Forest Beast | New York

Episode Date: July 5, 2025

What happens when two thrill-seeking teens hack a new dirt-bike trail deep into the Hudson Valley woods—and the night suddenly goes dead silent? In this adrenaline-spiking episode, Jeremiah Byron talks with Scott, a lifelong outdoorsman from Red Hook, New York, who still remembers the crunch-crunch-crunch of something massive descending an embankment toward his bright-orange pup tent in the summer of 1976. No flashlight. No breath. Just unstoppable footsteps.Scott walks us through blazing their secret trail, the gas-soaked smell of two-strokes cooling in the dark, and the moment he realized whatever was outside could see without light. We also dive into Hudson Valley hot-spots—Kinderhook, Whitehall, the Catskills—and explore the theory of a migratory Bigfoot route stretching from the Green Mountains to the Poconos.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Patreon – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNT🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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towards them in the darkness. This is a story of Scott, the teenager who learned that the forest protects itself and sometimes its own monsters. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. I've got the privilege of talking to Scott today. Scott's an individual I was introduced over on the YouTube channel for Bigfoot Society, and he is on the line to share an encounter he had in upstate New York. Really excited to hear about what he experienced that day when tenting out in the woods, and he's going to tell us all about it. Scott, welcome to the show.

How are you doing today, sir? I'm doing fine. Thank you. Absolutely. This is, I believe, in yield to, You'll share, of course, more about the particular area, but I believe this area has come up on the show in the last few months, at least the general area. So it would be interesting to put another account in the area. But, you know, Scott, I'm going to go ahead and feel free to share any details about yourself that we would need to know that might help before we actually hear.

hear you tell what happened that day. Well, yeah, this encounter happened in upstate New York, a Hudson Valley region of upstate New York, a little town up there called Red Hook, New York is where I grew up. I grew up there in the late 60s, early 70s, pretty much as a teenager boy. The typical teenager in the country type guy, we did a lot of hunting, a lot of fishing. trapping. So we were out in the woods a lot growing up in that area near to Cascill Mountains, played baseball, rode a lot of bikes, and did some motocross, trail riding, all types of outdoor sports like that. So growing up in that area, there was a lot of woods, a lot of streams,

ponds, creeks. And we, as kids back then, you know, we were never in the house sitting down on a couch, watching TV. We were always out in the woods, even day, night, whenever, exploring, just doing all kinds of outdoor activities. So, and that area where I'm talking about, you know,

is very country. A lot of farms, dairy farms, apple orchards, and things like that. So as kids all through our teens from two, three, four years old all way up till 18, 19, 20 years old, we were just

constantly outside and familiar with the woods. But is that efficient? And we did a lot of trapping animals also. So you were definitely no stranger to being out in the woods. You're aware of what animals were out there, what birds is the thing where you're pretty familiar with things that you would see and hear and you'd know what they were. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, you know, we had trapping lines when I was a teenager, and they went for miles up over fields and streams and ponds and creeks, and up over, I don't want to call them mountains, but they were, you know, very big hills.

You know, not really a mountain, but large hills and a lot of fields. And I trapped muskrat in a lot of streams, mink, raccoons, and foxes. And as far as Amman, and as far as Amman, and, and I trapped muskrat in a lot of streams. animals. We really didn't have any bears out there. A lot of deer, of course, were in our area. We hunted deer during deer season. We hunted squirrels. We hunted rabbits. And also we did raccoon hunting at night. A lot of times with coon dogs. So we were out in the woods a lot in the night. As far as the animals go, I was familiar with all of them. Even stuff like snakes, I had a snake collection. We went out in the woods all the time. trying to find snakes lifting up every rock we could, turning over every walk we could do. There was a lot of dead wood in the forest, a lot of trees laying down where we'd roll them over and on snakes. And I had a collection that I had in tanks with all different breeds of snakes. So we were always out in the woods with the animals. The only time I ever had an encounter in the woods with animals that actually frightened me

was a pack of wild dogs. There was one time in the woods when I got scared when a pack of wild dogs, they were running deer. And that was not so much common, but it happened a few times where you hear them barking in a pack and they'd be chasing deer and you'd see the white tails going up through the fields and up over the hills and all that. And there would be six, seven, eight, ten dogs all in a pack.

And one day out in the woods is a teenager, or 12, 13, 14, whatever. I was up there hunting snakes or whatever I was doing, and a pack of dogs actually surrounded me and were growling at me and, you know, like almost attacking me. So I remember that. That frightened me a little bit. But as far as being in the woods,

I knew all the creatures in the woods, all the animals in the woods. And the only thing I ever went in the woods and was scared of it was wild dogs. How did you get away from those dogs that day? You know, I don't remember exactly. I think I just started, you know, going after them because if you show fear, you know, then they sense that and they'll come at you a little more. So I think I just started attacking them and acting like I was going to, you know, fight them and kick them and everything and kind of ran them off. I don't remember exactly, but I just remember having a pack of wild dogs approach me and scaring the daylights out of me.

That's pretty wild. I'm glad that that turned out the way that it did for you. That is, you know, sometimes you hear things where it's not the case when you deal with wild dogs in the woods. So you were definitely out in the woods quite a bit. And this area, you know, I just also maybe throw in a little context myself. This Red Hook is in Dutch's County, New York. There are more, I mean, there's a few. there's at least five public reports listed on the BFRO.

There's things over the year such as vocalizations, there's visual encounters, there's campers heard and see possible Bigfoot passed by tents on Nuclear Lake. Very interesting stuff, and actually I'll give these guys a little shout out, although I've never talked to them. I guess there's a bait shop in Red Hook, New York, hook line and sinker bait shop where they have

Bigfoot researchers of the Hudson Valley. So that's kind of cool. They have a research foundation going on there is how it's listed on Google Maps. So shout out to you guys. Feel free to reach out. Maybe we'll chat someday as well. But so you sat to say that your account that you're about to share,

there's other things that have happened as well, which is very interesting. but would you be able to take us back to that day when, you know, you were out in the woods and you had this experience happen? Yeah. Well, the, right now what has happened, first of all, I've been a skeptic my whole life. And I'm coming to terms with my encounter, basically. I'm 62 years old now. and I never really reported anything.

I've never really, you know, put a lot of thought into this. But recently, there's been a series of events that's happened that brings me to call and notify you guys and share my encounter. It's just a bunch of things that have all happened. It's like a bunch of pieces of puzzle that have all come together here within the last year, which is encouraging me to make this call to you. and share my experience. So I'll start out with this encounter. It was probably the year of 1976, as I previously stated, we had motorcycles, you know, I had many bikes and motorcycles and trail bikes and things that we rode all over. We had literally thousands of acres around our house,

including power lines that go north and south with trails all through the power lines, and then another set of power lines that goes east and west. And, you know, we had trails that we would take our dirt bikes up and down these power lines. Now, the power lines that go through that area, you can ride those power lines on a motorcycle, you know, all the way from Red Hook down to Fishgill, I think, which is like a good 15, 20 miles one way. And like north towards up, like up by Elizaville, they go. So as kids, you know, when we got on our bikes,

we could just ride for hours and hours exploring all the lands around us. And on top of that, we made trails through the woods to take our motorcycles through, even when there wasn't trails already made like the power lines were. So we had thousands of acres where we could ride all over. Well, this day, it was a weekend. We were out of school. It was a summer break. I was about 13 or 14 years old at the time.

And one of my friends that I was very close with lived about four or five miles away. And he had a trail bike. And I had my trail bike. And it was a Saturday where we would go camping sometimes and ride together. It was probably later in the afternoon, like four or five o'clock, because I remember it was going to be dark in like four or five hours, I believe. But anyway, he called me up on the phone, and he asked me, he said, hey, do you want to get on your bike ride over to my house? And he said, I think it'll be cool. We'll take the tent out in the woods, and we'll ride some trails, and we'll take the tent with us, and we'll sleep tonight in the tent.

And then tomorrow, which would have been a Sunday, you know, we'll pack up the tent and come back and do something during the day. So I was like, okay, so I went out, got my gas can, I always filled the tank on the bike before I left, got my sleeping bag and a two-man pup tent. And we would take bungee cords and just strap those sleeping bag and the pup tent on the back seat of the bike. So I strapped it on, filled the tank, and told my parents, say, I'll see you tomorrow. So I get on my trail bike and I ride the power lines for a while. And like I said, it's probably four or five miles over to his house. So it was about a good 20, 30, 35 minute ride probably through the power lines and then through all these trails we had cut through the woods.

And I arrived at his house and he's got his bike out on a kickstand. He's all ready to go. He's got a sleeping bag, you know, tied down with his bungee cords. And he's got these two machetes. and he didn't mention anything to me about the machetes. So he's got these two machetes, and they're in this green sheath with a shoulder strap. So he says to me, he says, here, put this machete on you. He said, we're going to ride down the road to get to this field there.

And he said, we're going to cut a path into the woods with the machetes. And he said, so instead of us going on trails, we know, he goes, let's make our own trail. We're just going to head back into these woods, make our own trail. and then we'll find a place to put up a tent tonight and we'll sleep there and we'll come back, you know, kind of like an adventure type thing. So I'm like, okay, so we ride through this field, we get to the edge of the woods, we put her bikes on her kickstands. I grabbed the machete, the sheath went over your back, so you just pulled it out from your back.

And there was thick cedar trees there, and I don't know if you know cedar trees well, but they grow together, they're really thick, but the limbs on the cedar trees are kind of small. So you can cut them with a machete. So we just started, we called it hacking. We just started hacking our way into these woods. And we cut through just enough to get our handlebars through because we were going back into these woods and we were making our own trail just

to get the bikes through. So we'd go in there and we'd hack maybe 20, 30, 40 feet at a time. And then go back to the motorcycles, start them up, ride them in where we cut the trail. through, then, you know, parked the bikes, put the kickstand down, get some machete, start hacking in some more. So anyway, we did this for probably a couple hours, just hacking into the woods. And, of course, if there was like a big log that, you know, went down where we couldn't get our bikes over top, like two-foot log or something, you know, we'd have to go around that. So we just worked our way back into this forest, so to speak, cutting a trail and kind of riding our bikes in as we went. And we got, eventually we got to this, it wasn't a clearing, but it wasn't thick like cedar trees and really thick woods or brush anymore.

There was an opening. And I remember coming into this opening and it was these great big pine trees there. And these pine trees were huge. And underneath the pine trees was all a lot of pine needles. And I remember stopping with the bike there thinking to myself, boy, it's soft. I don't know if you ever stepped on pine needles or not, but it's like a bedding. It's very soft underneath the pine needles. So I said my friend, his name was Tommy.

I said, Tommy, I said, hey, this is a perfect place to put up a tent, nice soft spot here. And the pine trees provide a great cover because we camped a lot out in the woods. And one of the things that was common was the storms that would pop up, thunder and lightning and heavy rain in the middle of night. and the two-man pup tent that we had was made of vinyl. And when it got wet in the rain, if you scraped up against it with your arm or your elbow, the water would come through the vinyl and get you wet. So we knew when it rained, don't touch the side of the tent because the water would come through and get you wet. So these pine trees provided a good safe cover from the weather if we were going to have any that night,

which back in 1976, we didn't know. We didn't have any weather forecast back then. But anyway, we decided to put the tent up underneath a group of pine trees there. Well, once we got the tent up, the next thing we did as kids was explore the area. We had never been back there before. It was hit pretty far back in the woods. We'd camped in the woods a lot and camping at night. You could always hear like cars going down the road.

You could hear the tires at night. when it was quiet. You could hear like an ambulance or a fire truck with its sirens or whistles. You could hear large car engines or like Harley motorcycles with loud pipes. You could hear a motorcycle off in the distance. So you could hear when we were near things. You could always hear different noises and sounds through the woods. Well, we were back there and we couldn't hear anything. So I didn't know exactly where we were because we cut our way in. but I also knew that where we were, there wasn't any houses or roads or construction or anything like that. It was kind of back there pretty deep, and in my opinion, we were pretty far away from everything. So we explored the area there, and we were kind of in a valley, and I noticed we always looked to ride our bikes on.

And of the trails, we were racing motocross too also. So we like to race these bikes. So we would look for places where we could do a jump or a hill or climb a side of a hill, hill, hill climbing type stuff or go around a turn and make a burn with the wheels, you know, to go around faster to build up the dirt and all that. So we were walking around through the area there and we were looking. And I noticed down below us a little way east was a little bit of a low-lying area. And it was either a wet land there or,

It might have been dry, and it was previously a wet land because you could tell that with the green grass that grows up. I don't want to call the swamp, but like if it rained really hard, it would probably be water laying in there. And it could be a swamp at different times of the year, but it was probably a little bit dry back then. And right before or right after that low-lying area, there was an embankment that went up. And I walked over to the embankment, and I looked up it because the first thing on, thinking is, gee, can we take our motorcycles up there, how much of a challenge it would be. And it was very brushy. It was very thick embankment. And it was pretty steep. And it went up, you know, probably, I don't know, 50, 60, 80 feet or something to the top of a ridge line up there.

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So I determined that it wasn't worth trying to get the bikes up there, go through the low-lying muddy area, and then try to scale that hill on a motorcycle to the ones we had. Probably wasn't going to be worth all that. So I turned around and realized that we're down in this valley. There was a ridge up above us and got to know our surroundings a little bit. And eventually it got dark. And here's where the encounter comes in. It got dark and we just went to sleep.

sleep in a tent. Now, the only thing we had as kids in those woods was we had two motorcycles and we had our two machetes. We had two sleeping bags and a tent. That was it. We did not bring food with us. We didn't even have a flashlight with us. So that's all we had. And that's, we were good with that. You know, that was the fun of it. That was the adventure in us. So we just went to sleep and pass forward to sometime in the middle of night. I don't know

exactly what time it was. I wasn't paying any attention, but a loud noise woke me up. And I remember laying on my back in a sleeping bag. We didn't have pillows because we would use like a clothes, like our sweater or some clothing

item, you know, to put behind your head because it was minimal what we could carry into the woods. But I was laying on my back in a sleeping bag, and I remember hearing a noise in the woods that woke me up, and it was a crunching noise. And so as soon as I woke up, I heard this crunch, and it was way off in the distance. And then I heard a crunch again, and it was way off in a distance. And then another crunch. And I got thinking to myself laying there, I said, gee, I wonder what that is, because the forest floor was.

very dry and there was a lot of dead leaves on it. There was a lot of sticks, dried up wood, sticks. And when we were walking around the area, we were stepping on all the dry forest floor and we were making it crunch underneath our feet when we first got there and explored the area. So that crunch and noise, I heard, I said, gee, that sounds like when I was just walking a couple hours ago. So I heard that crunching noise and I woke Tommy up. He was next me in a sleeping bag and I said, hey, I said, are you awake? And I ended up waking him up. And he said, what do you want? I said, well, there's a crunching noise out in the woods that I'm not familiar with, you know, just listen, you'll hear it. And, you know, then you hear that crunch, crunch, crunch.

And what was weird was I had been sleeping in woods like that in a tent, you know, and I heard everything at night. I very common was whippoor, You would hear them, the birds. You would hear bullfrogs that were ponds, croaking, off in a distance. You could hear a lot of crickets and a lot of insects

through the night. So I was familiar with all these noises. I was even familiar with regular animals walking through the woods at night like raccoons were very common, coming up to our tent. Possums were very common. And those type

creatures, you could hear them. They kind of scuff. around when they go through the woods, you can definitely tell, and they wander. And that's the key word here. Like most animals just wander, even deer. You can hear deer walking and you can hear wandering through the woods, like they're searching for food or whatever. But this crunching noise was completely different than what I've ever heard. And it alarmed me. And so we just, we just laid there and we started listening very intently. And the other thing was, there was, there was no, noise in the woods whatsoever, which was a little weird because, like I said, usually heard birds or frogs or something. So the woods became dead silent, which was odd. And then this crunching noise. And this crunching noise just started getting louder and louder and louder like something was walking. And it was walking through the woods and it was coming. And I don't want to say towards us, but it was coming directly towards us. But it was coming towards our direct.

based on the loudness that it was getting. We spent and we were dead silent and we just kept listening and it got louder and louder and louder. And I could tell it was off to my right shoulder, which was where that bridge line was that I originally looked at to take the bikes up that ridge line and up that embankment. And that crunching noise just kept getting louder and louder until it got parallel with us. So it was on my right side as I'm laying there. And it got so loud that I knew it was parallel with the tent now up that embankment. And then it stopped. And we were both sitting in the tent.

And I said that Tommy, I said, that sounds like a man that's walking. And he agreed with me. He said, yeah, he said, that sounds like a man. And I said to him, I said, well, did you tell your father, you know, where we were going? And he said, no. And I said, well, my father doesn't know where we're going because the first thing I thought of is our fathers are out looking for us. Maybe they think we're lost or something. So we talked about if it could have been a father looking for us and we both decide, well, our dads can't, they don't know where we are.

So they're not going to be coming out here because we were convinced it was a man. so it is stopped and next thing we know and I don't have the exact time I don't know if it was a minute five minutes or a couple minutes or some seconds or whatever but the next thing I know is we heard it coming down the embankment and and it come down the embankment it crashed through brush and you know all that dead wood I was telling you that was laying there on a forest floor some sticks leaves limbs and things like that. And I, because I knew that embankment, I'd looked at it earlier that day. And I said, boy, whatever it is, it's coming down that embankment.

So it comes down the embankment and it literally walked up to the tent. And we could hear it walking closer to the tent and it stopped. And we were petrified because I thought for sure at that point we were going to see a flashlight. I was looking for the tent to light up. The tent was very thin vinyl. And you could see, like, if there was a light inside the tent, you could see it. And if there was a light outside the tent, you'd be able to see it through the vinyl of the tent. It was very thin.

And I thought to myself, well, somebody's going to put a light on us now and somebody's going to say something. So we sat there and, you know, originally I told Tommy, I said, well, let's just pretend we're asleep because we don't know what's out there. We don't know what this is or whatever. Let's just pretend we're asleep. We're not going to make any noise. Let's be quiet. Just everybody, and let's hope this thing goes away because we don't know what it is.

So we waited and this is another thing. I don't remember how long it was. I don't have the concept of time. But anyway, there was a certain amount of time. The woods were dead quiet. We were dead quiet. And we were listening. And I did not hear any breathing.

I did not hear any noise. It was dead silent. It was dead. dead silent, standing outside a tent, and the woods were dead silent. There was no noise whatsoever. And I didn't, like I said, I thought there would be a flashlight. I thought I would hear somebody saying something. None of that happened. We just stood there, was sat there, frozen, scared, scared of death. Two little kids scared of death now. We don't know what's about to happen. And just all of a sudden, it just turned around. And by the way, there was no odor,

no smell, nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing. And all of a sudden, it just turned around. And it started walking back up the embankment where it came from. And we could hear it crunch, crunch, crunch, right through the woods back up on top of the hill. It got up to where it was and then continued on the path that it was going, wherever it was going. And we could just hear it crunch, crunch, crunch, and just walk away into the distance.

And as long as I could hear it crunching through the woods coming to us, I could hear it crunching through the woods leaving us from the point of where it came down the embankment. So, you know, the next thing we thought of was that it had to be an escape prisoner. That was what we determined happened to us because at the time in the 70s, our local news had reported in Duchess County, by the way, that there was some prison escapes. and as little boys, you know, 14 years old, we knew that that could be something that could happen in Hudson Valley where these guys were running from the law. So we just chalked that up is that that had to be an escape prisoner because, you know, he didn't have a flashlight and he was traveling through the woods at night. So that's kind of exactly how we figured that. Now, being petrified, after that happened, we waited until the crack of dawn, which was probably a couple hours away.

So that might have been like, say, 3 o'clock in the morning, I'm guessing, don't know exactly. But say, 5, 30, 6 o'clock, you know, the light started coming up. And the minute the light came and up where we could get up and see. We got up as soon as we could see. And we packed up the tent, the sleeping bags. We started a motorcycle and we got out of there. And pretty much that was our encounter. And we really didn't talk about it too much.

Our thing was that we didn't really know of any big foot back then. We really weren't familiar. We didn't think it was a big foot. We didn't really know of any. We didn't hear of any. Now, jumping backwards a little bit in time, I do remember the legend of Boggy Creek movie came out in the early sense. 70s and we did watch it, but that was something that we thought was like a monster movie.

We didn't associate that with like a real life thing, especially in our area where we grew up. We weren't aware of any big foot reports. If we'd heard of any big foot reports like the Patterson Gimlin film, that was something that was out in California, you know, way far away. There was nothing that we knew of around our place. So now fast forward here, that happened in 1976. I never really thought about any kind of encounter or anything like that. So all these years went by. And the next thing that happened to me with regarding my skepticism in a Bigfoot was 1996.

I had the opportunity to be a salesman. out in the Midwest, so I went out to Pacific Northwest, selling signs to businesses. And I traveled through Northern California, went through the Redwood Forest out there, and stopped at a bunch of local businesses. And, you know, everybody knows about, you know, Bluff Creek and all that. And I happen to drive through that area. And one of the things that happened to me out there was I realized that everybody I spoke with in that area believed in Bigfoot because of the Bluff Creek and all that.

And if anybody's ever been out there and you talk to people, they are all convinced that Bigfoot is real in that area and that either one of their relatives, a mother, a daughter, a grandfather, an uncle, or a brother or whatever, father, whatever, most people will tell you stories of their family having encounters out there. And I was out there for a month or two working at area. and I left there and I came back to New York at the time. And I was convinced at that time that there are people that believe in Bigfoot, mainly from that area.

So even in 96, 20 years later after my encounter, I really didn't put much into what happened to me. I didn't really tie those two things together, even though I was actually convinced in 96 that people believe that there is a Bigfoot. All right, so fast forward to 2011, 2012. Everybody knows about the show that came on TV, Finding Bigfoot. Well, I had thought that the show was interesting. So I started becoming a Finding Bigfoot fan just for entertainment. And I thought that the characters there, Bobo and Cliff and Renee and all, I thought they were entertaining.

So I started watching that show. And there was a night when it came on, I think it was 2015, 2016. So it was a few seasons into it. I had my family watching it with me. I have a wife and two daughters. And I had told my wife and two daughters probably about this encounter at one time. Then I just said, you know, we don't really know what it was. It was probably a man.

I'm not sure. So we're watching this show Finding Bigfoot, and it was one of the episodes where they were in upstate New York covering either the Adirondacks or the Hudson Valley. I'm not sure. But I'm sitting there on the couch and I'm watching the show, and I believe it was Matt Moneymaker. And I got my whole family there with me. And I believe that he said on a show that there was big flocks in the Huxon Valley, and he said that they had had sightings there in the 70s and 80s and whatnot, and that he believed that they traveled from the Green Mountains through the Hudson Valley down to the Pocono Mountains.

all right well when he said that i just about flew up off the couch because whatever was walking through the woods when i was in that tent there was one thing about that that stuck out whatever it was it was traveling and like i said something was traveling it was not wandering or like a deer or an animal it was traveling from point a to point b and that was something that shocked me but i never put it together until Met Moneymaker said they travel from the green and if you if where my

encounter was was exactly that path if you drew a line from the green mountains or the Berkshire Mountains you know over that mountain range by Massachusetts and Vermont if you if you drew a line

I that's right where I was in that tent straight down to northern part of New Jersey and New York and New Jersey state line through the Hudson Valley to the top of the polka and that's that really woke me up because that was a shock to me that he'd mentioned that and that was kind of like another piece of the puzzle where where I started thinking about gee you know what was that and that was like I said probably 2015 which is like 10 years from now So fast forward to last year, I bought a TV with the internet capabilities on it, which I didn't have one before that.

And my kids started telling me, hey, Dad, you know, you need to watch YouTube and check out these new platforms and all that stuff. So right away, I decided, well, I'm going to do a search bar with the Bigfoot stuff so you guys come up and all the different YouTube videos. So I started watching some of those things just as something to do. And the next thing I find out is about Whitehall, New York, which I didn't know anything about Whitehall, New York. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that will listen to this podcast and hear about the beast of Whitehall. So I started watching all that. And then I'm watching that, and that was the summer of 76 that they said. on the Whitehall show.

And I'm like, well, that was the year in the summer. It was August, I believe. And I think Whitehall was 76 and all. And I'm like, well, wow. Geez. And then, you know, that thing would have been traveling through our area. And I'm like, boy, this is a lot of coincidences here just happening to me. So anyway, I learned about that.

And then, of course, I started investigating more stuff. And then I found out also that there was a sighting in Kinderhoekness. York. I believe that one was a little bit a couple of years later, but that the White Hall, the Kinder Hook, and then the Red Hook. And then I also learned that there was some sightings in Sussex, New Jersey back in the 70s in the same time frame. And that's that, you know, the area that Moneymaker had put together where he said they traveled from the Green Mountains or whatever down through Hudson Valley into the top of the Poconos. And I don't know if any researchers have run into what I have here lately, but it's a really weird coincidence that all these locations of these sightings and then that map, if you go look through the Hudson Valley there, I mean, there's a lot of coincidences here.

And I just thought to myself, man, there's a lot of coincidence here where, you know, maybe, maybe something is of this. But I do know one thing about my encounter, and I have told this to people now that this is all come forth like I'm describing it here. Whatever, whatever was through the woods that night, I am convinced that it was by beetle. I'm also convinced that it was extremely heavy. I'm also convinced that it was very athletic. And I'm also convinced that it could see in a duck. those four things right there nobody can tell me that that's not true bipedal extremely heavy very athletic and could seem a dark i mean that there's no way that those those four things

aren't a fact about the encounter i had so you know having said all that that's that's where i am today and i'm just shocked over um all of the people that are reporting sites such as myself now that we have platforms such as yours. And I think there's a lot of people probably that have encounters from the 70s and the 80s, such as myself, that may not have realized their encounters, kind of like what happened to me a little bit, but also ones that may have encounters where they just haven't gone public with them and told the story, such as I'm doing now. I think that there's probably a lot of people my age.

I'm 62 this year. And there's probably, and I encourage people if you have a story or something like that to come out and meet with you guys here on a podcast and tell your story because this phenomenon is really, really taken off with these coincidences. And then I started looking at Jeffrey Meldrum and the research he's doing out in Idaho State University. which is very impressive. And also we have the survivor man. I started watching his stuff just recently.

And he's getting involved in it. Very credible guy, you know, searching for evidence. So, you know, you got the entertainment factor of a lot of this stuff going on with Bigfoot. But then you also have some serious studies on it. And I'm just coming out with my story because I think it's worth bringing this out for people who, like myself, that are our age. And now there's platforms where we can go ahead and let everybody know what we've experienced. Absolutely.

What an interesting account. Thank you for sharing it, Scott. And there's just there's some interesting things that I noticed too. It just, it makes sense that something would have come and check out, checked out your campsite due to the fact that, I mean, you're you're slowly riding those motorcycles into this area. Let's say if there was something nearby, it's going to check out, okay, what's, one, what's making all the noise. Two, what's, you know, they probably were able to figure out, hey, what's cutting down the branches of the trees as well.

but it is extremely interesting and compelling, especially what you brought up that, you know, it had to be able to see in the dark. You did not see a flashlight. It was dark. Did you notice anything about the sounds of the forest during that time? It was very quiet,

and he couldn't hear the whippoorwill or the frogs, the bull frogs. It was the whole time, And all you could hear was that crunch of the footsteps. And it was very loud. It echoed through the forest. You know, it woke me up. And yeah, it was very loud.

And talking about, to your point, I will tell you, I don't know if it had a keen sense of smell. This is Matt Rogers from Los Angeles with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen-Yang from Los Colterisceris 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 days, so you can choose the ones that match your everyday spending.

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Somehow, whatever it was, didn't need light and knew we were there. and I can't explain that either, but I will tell you the bikes that we rode, we went through a lot of streams, and when the engine got hot from water being splashed on the motors or the motorcycles, and also mud. We went through a lot of mud, a lot of water, and when it splashed up on the exhaust pipe or the head of the engine, you could always smell like a burning smell off those trail bikes we had. And so there was an odor of like a heated machine, you know, hot engine type odor that you could smell off of those engines that lasted there quite a while because that mud would stick to it and burn into the paint of the engine, you know, and it would smell for quite a while with the engines hot. And also the bikes, when we parked them on their kickstands and they leaned over on a kickstand, the carburetor, we had carburetors back. thin on them and there had a football in them and the gas would slowly drip out and maybe

overflow a little bit so so like when you park your bikes they would stink for a while of this hot you know heated engine with mud and water on it you would smell like that and then you would also smell gas and it was common for them to stink like gas for an hour or two you know or whatever after after we parked them on the kickstands so so i know the bikes probably had an odor through the woods that evening. And the other side of that was as far as seeing, you know, the tent was bright orange and the bikes were there next to it, parked on their kickstands. But the moonlight, where we were under those pines, it was dark under there. We were shaded by any moonlight. I don't even remember moonlight, to be honest with you, it wasn't like we were in a field where we were all lit up

and you could see us with moonlight. We were under a canopy. We were under a thick canopy of pine trees. So even walking through that forest, even looking, if you could even, I'm not sure, I've never been L.C. at night, but if something could see at night, I'm not sure how much vision they could even have

from that ridge lying down to where our tent was with the motorcycles park next to it underneath those thick pine trees in that dark area where we were in the forest. And like I said, well, that's another thing. You know, to this day, to this day, I'm just amazed that whatever it had, whatever it was, didn't have a flashlight. And now I'm thinking even if it had a flashlight, how the heck did it even know where we were to come down that embankment to walk over to where the tent was?

It's so much stuff just doesn't make sense. And like I said, as boys, we just figured it had to be a man. But we didn't, we couldn't explain why a man would be out there. And then we couldn't figure out how a man would be. out there without a flashlight. Because we thought, hey, you have that flashlight out in the middle and night like that, they walk through the woods. And that's the story.

Absolutely. It's such a weird account. Over the years, when you were still in that area, did you ever hear any stories or anything about other people having weird experiences or maybe Bigfoot-related things happen in the red hook area? Well, no. You know, absolutely not. And that's one of the things that has stumped me for all these years. You know, one is in the 70s, nobody had any technology with, like we do now with cell phones or cameras and stuff like that, you know, like we do readily available today. You know, we had black and white TV. You know, we had three channels. You know, we had a wall phone and it was a party line where you had to pick up the phone. phone and see if like there was five other people talking because it's called the party line back then. Our phone company, Red Hook, had the patch cords where you had to notify the operator.

You want to make a call. So, yeah, the technology back then was nothing like it is today. And no, we never heard of really anything of any other reports. And we probably wouldn't have. Now, I will tell you back in Red Hook back in the day there was UFO. reports back then, though. We did hear about UFOs because there was a, what they call a UFO flap along the Taconic State Parkway, which was right near where we lived also. And there was a big UFO flat back then. And we had UFO investigators coming in. I think that was a little later, probably closer to the 80s than in the 70s. But there was reports of UFOs back then that we were aware, but never a big one.

That's very, very interesting and really not surprising that there would be a connection to some other paranormal thing like UFOs. Did after you had this experience, did anything else weird seem to follow you in your life? Or was this the main weird thing that has happened so far? No, you mean regarding anything paranormal? or just Bigfoot related. I didn't have a paranormal thing happened to me, like in 2004 or five, I think. 2005, I had a paranormal thing happen to me.

But that was in a house, and that was totally different. But this thing that I think I had a Bigfoot encounter with was pretty much the only thing regarding, like, the woods and being out there in the woods having an encounter. and like I said, this was something that happened in, I think, 1976, but since then, really nothing, I've never had anything else happen. Gotcha. It's just something I'd check.

Sometimes individuals that have had encounters of some kind with Bigfoot, they will later on in life have other things happen, whether it's, you know, as you said, sometimes more paranormal, but there seems to be some connection between the two. So you're saying it was more of like a haunted house type thing? Well,

I'll just tell you real quick. I'm not embarrassed about it, but we were, my wife and I were together. We were actually living with my mother at the time. We started a business together and we moved to a new location

in the country from from upstate New York and my mom wanted us to come live with her and she had a big house so she said hey come on down live here startup I have multiple companies at the time she said start a company down here live with me for you know a year or so to you get the business going and then when you guys get the business going you can go ahead and buy your own house to where we are now actually so so we moved in with my mom just to get a company started here which we still have to this day that's 20 some years ago. And we were living in one of her bedrooms in her house.

And I worked every night until 11 or 12 o'clock starting this company. And that's seven days a week working as much as I could. And I got home from work one night at 11 p.m. And my wife was in the bed sleeping in the room we had at the time. And I took a shower, got home from work, took a shower. and I go to get into bed and she's dead asleep. And as I'm ready to lay into bed, this big loud voice comes over in the room. And the voice said two words.

It said, out you. And it was a deep voice from a man. And it said, out, O-U-T. And it said, you, Y-O-U. And I heard it clear as day. It just like yelled it in a room. my wife was sleeping and you know i i said hanging i said did you just hear that and she was all groggy have asleep and she says yeah i heard it she goes who was it and i'm sitting i go well that's the

problem i don't know who it was and and she said well well you know who are you talking to and i said i'm not talking on nobody it was a voice in the room and and and and then i got thinking it was really weird to hear two words out you So I asked her, I go, let me ask you a question. I go, you heard it? And she goes, yeah, who was it? And I said, I don't know who it was. And I said, what did you hear?

You know, and, you know, this is kind of funny. It's going to make people laugh. But she said, it sounded like somebody said, F you. And I said, no, it was not F you. It was out you. And she goes, well, who said that? And I said, I don't know. Who said they come over and a room.

So anyway, yeah, that, and to this day, you know, But that was, I guess, a sign somebody telling me to go ahead and move out and buy my own house, which we did. I bought, you know, we were looking for a house like the next day. We found the house. We bought the house and we moved out. But today, I can't, you know, we make a joke about it now, but it was clearly out you. It was not FU. It was out you.

It was O-U-T. I heard it as clear as day. And like I said, she was sleeping and thought it was F-U. And I said, no, it wasn't F-U. It was out-you. That's wild. Oh, my goodness. You definitely do hear weird stuff like that every once in a while. That makes you wonder. Yeah, and I cannot explain that. Right.

You know, there's two things in my life I have no explanation for, and one was the encounter. I described the day. Like I said, that was something heavy. It was bipedal. It was athletic to scale up and down in the bankment, and it could see in a dark. I'll swear on a stack of Bibles that that is the truth on that. I cannot explain how something walked up to that tent in the middle of night in the pitch dark like that and then walked away. And I cannot explain how somebody told me out you in my bedroom one night. And there's only two words and it was out and it was you. And it was very loud and it was clear as a day. I could play it back in my head like it happened yesterday.

And that was probably 2003 or four. And believe me, I woke up the next morning, told my mom, thanks for everything. It's time for me to get out, Ben, buying a house. And we did. That's funny. Well, Scott, it's such an interesting account about another occurrence in the Hudson Valley. I just want to say thank you for coming on and for sharing what you experienced back

on that day in 1976. It's very, very interesting. It would be interesting if other people have experienced things in the Red Hook. area and if they have, they can feel free to reach out to me. They can email Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. I'd love to talk to them. Absolutely. We thank you guys for all you do with the podcast and getting people to call in.

Hopefully, maybe some people hear the story of mine. I'm 62 and, you know, maybe there was other people such as myself that might come forward and tell an encounter such as this. And I mean, we're looking at almost 50 years ago, and here I am for the first time, you know, coming out with this only because of all the events I described, all these pieces just started coming together. And I thought myself, there's just so many coincidences here.

Maybe I do have something here I can share. So I did it. My name is Jody. I'm from the Leachic Band of Ojibwe. I grew up on the reservation. My age right now is 57. It wasn't until the time my dad passed away at the age of 50 that I first seen Bigfoot. I've heard many encounters by my family, my no comice, which means grandma and Ojibwe.

My was-been, we're still great friends today. But him and I, when we used to do maple sugar camps out in the woods, we've seen tracks. When he used to go deer hunting, we've seen many tracks that we've taken pick up. of and recorded. And we've also heard Gigi Sabe, which means Bigfoot in Ojibwe. I not only seen him once, but I've seen him twice. My brothers, I have six brothers. One has passed since, but from COVID, but we have experienced sounds, tracks, visions of Gittis Abbe, Bigfoot. Nobody will ever believe our stories, and either did I, when my father and my no comis and my mother and my brothers were telling me their stories of sightings.

But it's till the day you see Gigi Sabi for yourself is the day that belief sets in. I'm a Christian. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Do I see Jesus? No, but I feel him within my heart's soul and my mind.

But Gichisabe, I just thought all my friends and family growing up on the Levitic Indian Reservation were just full of it. I heard many stories. I see many tracks. And I don't know.

I've smelled him and heard him. But it wasn't until the day I seen him, not once but twice, that I used to live next door to my parents, that I drove over there. I was so scared to leave my house. It was the second time that I ran from my house, jumped in my car, and drove to my mom's about 20 yards away. I said, Mom, I just seen Bigfoot. I just seen Bigfoot. She goes, oh, my goodness, let me hurry up and,

and just mix this cake and put it in the oven. It was wintertime. So she started clearing her truck off and getting the car to start, and I was just standing inside the house. I'm like, Mom, get in the house, getting the house. He's right over there by my house. And she and I waited for about 15 minutes until all the snow kind of melted off of what she brushed off

because I wasn't going outside, and I usually do everything for my parents. We drove over there. And she was praying in Ojibwe and told Yichisabe to not show itself to me anymore for your scaring my daughter. My mom took her little flashlight and she ran around my camper and she's seen the tracks. If she would have never, ever, ever seen those tracks, I don't think any of my siblings or my growing children would have believed me. Am I glad my mom seen the track? she's always told me as an elder, an Ojiboy elder, never tell people that you've seen Bigfoot.

But now I am getting a voice, seven years later going on eight. He is real, or it is real. And I believe they go through portal dimensions, and I believe they can become like a cloak. Like you can't see them. and I do believe that they choose to let you see them. There's so many things in the Ojibwe culture that I believe today that Gittisabe is real. If you'd like to share a voicemail to be potentially featured on the show as well, head over to Bigfoot Societypodcast.com and hit the share your encounter button.

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