Bigfoot Society - Blonde Sasquatch of the Bogachiel! | Washington

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

What happens when a young boy growing up outside Forks, Washington hears a voice in his head in the middle of the night — and finds himself standing alone in a field staring at the forest? In this bone-chilling episode, we speak with Jared, a lifelong experiencer from the Pacific Northwest whose encounters span decades and states. From a golden-furred Sasquatch rising from a swamp near the Bogachiel River, to a tent-shaking midnight howl that paralyzed his family, and a massive footprint his father swore him to secrecy over — this story will haunt you. You’ll also hear about an elk carcass found mutilated in a bunker in Pennsylvania, whispers from childlike apparitions near the Sol Duc, and an elusive “deer-monkey” creature in the backwoods of Forks. This isn’t fiction. It’s Jared’s life. And it may just change how you see the woods forever.🗣️ 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 Supercast – 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 LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ 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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The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bifah Society, we've got the privilege of talking to Jared today.

Jared's an individual I got connected to. a listener of the show and reached out regarding some experiences that he's had happened out in the Pacific Northwest. We're going to have a good chat today about that, but welcome to the show, Jared. How are you doing, sir? Hi, great. Thanks, Jeremiah. Awesome. You know, you have a really interesting background.

We were talking a little bit about before the show started, Jared. Would you like to start there? I'll start off kind of with a small jaunt, my history with how I even got interested into these subjects to begin with. I grew up in Forks, Washington, graduated from Forks High School about 2000. I was one of the weird kids in town. You know, everybody else was into hunting and fishing. While we enjoyed doing those things, I was one of the kids that was into music and comic

books in town. So I had funny colored hair and all that fun stuff growing up, but I was real connected great with the community and it started when we lived out at Sappho, which is about 11 miles outside of forks, headed towards Port Angeles off a 101. And I remember, I remember, remember when I was probably eight or nine years old. My sister was just born at that time. And there was a sound or something that I could hear in my bedroom that sounded like it was coming from outside. And this low hum sound ended up becoming a voice in my head. and it kept telling me that I needed to go out to the,

there's a field out back behind our house, big farmhouse. And there's a tree line with a forest. And the day before me and my friend had been out playing in the woods, and I left my bike out by the creek. And the creek would flow into the saltuck river there. And I used to throw grasshoppers in the creek and wait for the fish to come up and grab them. And I'd scoop them out of the creek with a little fishing net. So I was showing my buddy this and how to catch the fish out of the creek.

And I had left my bike out there that night. Well, later that night when I was asleep, like I said, I was lying in bed and I heard this weird humming low sound that turned into a voice somehow in my head. And it was telling me that I better come to get my bike because I was going to get in trouble. And I thought that was so weird. I'm like, why do I have this feeling of getting out of bed in the middle of the night and walking to the woods to go get my bike? and so I end up I guess sneaking out of the house this part's a little foggy

because I think I was out of it and this is probably like two or three o'clock in the morning and I realize next thing I know I'm standing in the middle of the field staring at the forest going what the heck am I doing and the voice kind of breaks out of my head

and sound just comes back into the environment and I freak out and I turn around and I run back towards the house away from the forest. And then I can't figure out what the heck was in my head telling me to come get my bike or I'd get in trouble. It was just this really strong voice that had started out as a low hum. So I feel like with all the experience at the place that we're at now with the Bigfoot theories and things that everyone has, that that is somehow connected to one of my first encounters with them. So I think there was some type of mind speech. Something was telling me to come out there. So that area specifically has had a few stories in the past from the 70s and in the 90s of Sasquatch in that area crossing over Highway 101.

And in those exact areas. So fast forward a little bit, getting to my main encounter that I had when I was 11 or 12. and my family went camping. We went out to where the Boguchil River right before it forked off and dumped into the Quilu, which dumps into the Pacific Ocean. And me and my family, it was my dad, my mom, my sister, and myself. And then we went camping with my dad,

best friend, his wife, and his two sons. And my dad's friends name's Turk. My dad's name's Lyle. And so my dad and Turk, they were having a good time and they were doing some fishing and some drinking. And then his boys had three-wheeler's. Me and my sister,

never been on a three-wheeler before. So we were pretty excited just to get to ride with them. And I think the boys were around our same ages as me and my sister at that time. So the boys fired up the three wheelers and we got on the back of them. And we rode around up and down the logging roads from where we were camping that day. Now, this is like, this is probably three. 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It's bright daylight.

And we are headed back towards camp and we're on the back of these three-wheeler's. And we start to go around a bend on this logging road. And I'm not exactly sure I could ask my dad where this exact spot is. I haven't been up there in years. But the exact size

spot where it happened, there's a little creek that kind of dumped out into one of those big those underground metal tubing things that they use for creek water on logging roads and then it flows through that and

into this like swampy bog area and it was just a small little clear cut area. But there was a big bog that just at the end of this creek and we were coming around the bend and all of a sudden we just

smelled this horrible smell I could tell it hit all of us at the same time because we all kind of paused and we're on the back of the three-wheeler and I remember one of the boys going oh who farted and I could remember myself

at that time going much it wasn't me it wasn't me and we stopped on that bridge where the creek water was flowing out of the metal tubing piping. And all of a sudden, it seems like the entire environment, like the air, just the sound and everything just got sucked out of the environment. And I remember smelling that smell. and then all of us looking towards like the west and we saw this huge rock. I thought it was a rock in the bog, in the water.

And it was like a blonde, it was like golden blonde on the outside. And as it got towards the center of the, rock, it turned more of a reddish auburn color. But specifically in my head, I can remember the hair, how it was kind of like four or five, six inches off of this thing, just kind of whispering in the wind. So gently and softly, like, that's something that sticks out in my mind so clear. and I don't know why specifically it does, but basically we saw this huge, hairy, blonde, furry rock in the middle of this bog.

And we're all just staring at it, and all of a sudden it starts to move. Sorry, got goosebumps. So this rock starts to stand up basically in the bog and I'm staring at it so hard watching it stand up and boy it looked like it looked like this thing was coming out of the water probably about about six feet out of the water so that's not to mention what the how deep that water was or what it was covering legwise

Now it looked like a big mound. So I'm assuming that we obviously were seeing it from the back. Like its back was facing towards us and we're watching it. And I remember one of the boys, the boy that had my sister on his thing. He's like, it's a monster. It's a monster. He starts freaking out. And he takes off with my sister on the back.

thing. And me and the other boy are still on the other quad and he started, I can't remember if the quads got shut off or excuse me, the three-wheeler if they were shut off or if they were still going because I just remembered that the environment getting all

weird and the air being sucked out of it and seeing this this crazy blonde furry rock starting to move in the water it freaked us out. He starts to take off and I'm stuck staring at this thing as we're driving off and around the bend to the right to get back to camp. And I'm just stuck staring at this thing because I'm trying to see its face and head.

I know I am. But we go around the bend and I never do get to see any facial features of this thing or anything. So we pull up into camp. So we were probably only like half a mile, quarter mile away from where our parents were camped out next to the Boguchel River. And we roar into camp and dads are yelling at us to slow down. Get off the quads. Run up to our dads. So now we're faced in front of my dad and his buddy.

And we're like, we just saw a monster. We just saw a monster. No, really. And they're laughing because they had been drinking. And then my dad starts to be like, oh, you guys must have saw the monster of Boggy Creek. And then my dad's buddy Turk was like, oh, yeah, do you remember that movie, Boggy Creek, Boggy Creek? That's what you guys saw. So they start teasing us about seeing what we saw at that.

moment. And again, the first thing that we encountered was the smell before anything. Then it was the whole environment getting completely strange and weird, which really stands out to me. And then seeing the damn golden furry rock that was moving and starting to stand up. So anyway, we try to to tell our dads about this. I'm not 100% sure what we were saying. It was a little chaotic at that point. But basically, we get settled down, and then I remember we start

building the campfire for the night. And then my dad and Turk get into a side talk after teasing us about seeing the Bogie Creek Monster. They start talking about a time up outside of Port Angeles

at a place called Happy Lake which is I'm not sure if it's closer to Lake Crescent or if it's over by Hurricane Ridge more I'm not 100% sure it's a very very small little fishing hole lake you know

and so my dad and his best friend when they were teenagers or in their early 20s start so this would have been in the late 70s, early 80s, right before I was born. Him and his buddy Turk were up camping and hiking out at Happy Lake. And my dad and he specifically remember coming over the ridge

just to where they could look down at the valley where the lake was. And they saw this huge black thing. that was crouching down by the lake. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Eases with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen-Yang from Los Culture Reesters 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

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That's what they told themselves for years. But I think my dad in Turk, they knew that they existed. They just didn't want to give him to the hype of it all. So they told themselves it was a black bear. So it was interesting to learn that same night that the kids and I had seen that thing that our dads had an experience with us. that they denied completely. So now

here's the scariest part of my encounter. So now it's evening at camp. And, you know, we, as kids, you just kind of move on from things, I guess,

especially if your parents downplay, everything. And I remember my mom, my dad, myself and my sister were camping in a tent and Turk, his wife and his two boys had a camper. And so they were in their camper

and we were in our tent. And I have no idea what time at night it was, but it was in the middle of the evening. And I remember waking up to hearing and so this is the evening time middle of the night I remember waking up

to hearing my mom whisper to my dad pile pile and I'm like oh God what's going on and as soon as I hear my mom saying that I can hear

rummaging around outside like I could just hear like a limb being thrown and hitting the ground or you know just debris hitting the ground from outside

nothing's hitting the tent but I can hear things outside of the tent so I can hear my mom she was telling my dad to wake up and he's not waking up yet and

I can tell my mom's freaked out And so that already makes me freaked out as a kid. My sister's sound asleep. My dad's snoring, super loud. And then all of a sudden I hear this low pitch, this low pitch sound that kind of starts, I want to make the noise, but I know I can't make the noise. So I'll save everybody's ears.

But it starts as a low down winding up pitch. noise and it just revs up in three different levels. Like it went, and then ah, and then the last series of sound is not even humanly possible. And it just shook and vibrated my body. And I'm freaking out. And then at that point,

my mom basically sits up and it was like, Lyle, something's outside, something's outside. and she's cursing and trying to get my dad awake. My sisters still can't wake up. My dad's finally starting to stir too. He's like, what, what?

And she's like, there's something outside, Lyle. And my dad's like, what? And she's like, you didn't hear that? And he's like, it's just elk. It's just elk. And I don't know. I've never, I've heard some. bugle and it can be kind of creepy especially if you're nearby or close or not expecting

an elk to bugle but this was no elk this this sound made made everything around us vibrate it felt like like i just had this innate paranoid paralyzing fear in my whole body when it happened and I'm just traumatized. And I can't remember exactly. This is the part that's so strange. We're hearing all this commotion outside. There's this three-part howl that happened and shook us all. My dad refuses to get out of the tent.

He's out my mom. He's like, it's just out. But he won't get out of the tent to go look or scare it up. She's like, my mom, that's what she said. She was like, go scare it off then. Get him out of here. He wouldn't. He wouldn't get out of bed.

So it seems like we were all in this paralyzing fear. My dad won't get out. He's barely even awake. He's out of it. My sister's still passed out and asleep during all of this commotion. And my mom and I are freaking out, and I'm just sitting there paranoid. So here's the... Here's the other strange part.

When all that commotion was going on, I just felt like I couldn't move. I felt paralyzed. And sorry, it's making my heartbeat really fast. You're good. So, and I'm trying to recall everything because this is the part of my story that it gets really weird because we're stuck in the middle

of all this commotion. and my mom's freaking out. And this is why, you know, you don't forget things like this when your mom and dad are in some kind of crisis and you're a child and you're just like, what is going on? They can't handle it for you. So I remember my dad not getting up. He didn't get up. He didn't get out of the tent.

And the next thing I remember is, We're back asleep. So it went from all this crazy commotion and the howl that had paralyzed me and freaked me out. And my mom's freaking out, trying to get my dad to get out of the tent to go scare off whatever's outside. My dad won't get out of the tent. My sister's not moving or making the noise or doing anything. She's just asleep as far as I know and remember. And all of a sudden, like, it's daytime.

Like, we went from where we were totally panicking and having a crisis to where the next thing I know, it's morning. So I don't know if some type of weird shock thing happened to me or what, but there's parts that I cannot recall after that. terrifying howl and the noises going on outside of the tent and my mom freaked it out inside the tent so uh oh oh i do remember the dogs barking uh right right when i woke up i can hear they they had two dogs and two dogs were barking and then they just stopped barking and it got real silent before the all the commotion happened outside the tent and right before the how and then so the next thing I remember is like I wake up and we are the lights coming through the side of the tent you could hear the river roaring next to us and I get up and I see my dad's not in bed but my mom and my sister's

still asleep. So the tent door is halfway unzipped, and I crawled outside the tent, and I see my dad, and he's standing over about 30, 40 feet away from where the tent is. And he's standing over by the sandbar next to the Pogisho River in this bend where we were camped at, and he's standing staring down at this spot in the sandbar. and I rummage over there and my dad looks up and he sees me standing by the tent and he's like Jerry come here come here and he kind of does the two-finger wave come over here thing and I walk over there and he he bends over and he looks at me with these big eyes and my dad

and he looks at me and he says don't you tell your mother or sister and he points down the ground. And on the ground, there is one single huge footprint in the sand. Here's the other weird thing that I don't get. It seems like there should have been more than one footprint in the sand from like the area because there wasn't a lot of trees in that area right there or anything. but this footprint was you know again

I was really young so I'm estimating how big the footprint really was but it was obviously a Sasquatch footprint a big footprint and you know my dad wasn't the kind of guy to like

make up that kind of stuff he's you know my dad's been a logger in the woods for 40 some years now for as long as I've been alive and he's just not creative enough to do that type of stuff. So I know my dad wasn't making it up. So I don't feel like my dad put the footprint there or anything to freak us out. But it's just strange that there was only one footprint in an area that should probably

at least had two or three footprints around before the river rob. covered the ground again. So I always thought that that was very strange. So my entire encounter from out in Forks when I was growing up was very, very strange to begin with. I had a lot of the mind-speak stuff, especially when I lived closer to the woods. always seemed like something was trying to get my attention when I was younger out in the woods.

When you're a kid by yourself, I've had some paranormal things happen out in forks. That's what kind of got me started on my life's journey to study and look into all of that for several years until I moved back up to Oregon in 2000. 2009, I moved back to Portland from Dallas, Texas. I didn't have any experiences in Texas with any of that type of stuff, unfortunately, but I was pretty much in the city most of the time. But there was a time in Pennsylvania. I lived in an area of Pennsylvania after high school. And I don't know if you're familiar with it was a town called Elvira.

and it was one of those towns that during World War, two, they kind of demolished or got rid of for whatever reason, and they installed a bunch of bunkers out there. It's actually behind Allenwood State Prison, which is the famous prison in Pennsylvania that had some of the mafia members and everything in it. And so this prison, behind this prison,

Allen Wood State Prison, is this big sprawling field. And then next to that is this old, one of the oldest probably cemetery graveyards I've ever seen. It had graves from the

early 1800s in it and everything. And so it's just this one single long road. So me and my family, we took a class on Since we had so many strange things between us in our lives, me and my family, just to kind of cut things short, we took a class at Susquehann University on paranormal research one year. This was like 2002. It was at the time when ghost hunters show on TV was just becoming a thing in MTV's sphere.

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So this town is called Elvira. And it's right outside of Elam's Port, which is a small Amish community. You got to know that it was pretty crazy going from Forks, Washington, and then moving to Pennsylvania in the middle of Amish country. I went from one segregated community to the other. That's why I rushed back and moved to Seattle in between those times, because I needed some of the city. but what was I saying oh Elvira that's right so we're back me and my mom my stepdad sorry me my mom my stepdad and I think my sister was there I can't remember I'll have to ask if Sissy was there or not but she or we were back in the bunkers oh my gosh they were across the so it was

It was like the fourth or fifth bunker back from across where the cemetery was. And of course, there was a bunch of spray paint and everything on the ground and around the walls of the old cemetery where people had, like, you know, written satanic things and all this kind of stuff on the walls. And so it was already creepy. And then you would walk into these big concrete dome bunkers. that were in the back of the woods. And some of them were locked.

I guess they sell some of them off for people to use the storage. And they were on the, I think they were on the game lands back there too, a part of Pennsylvania. Anyway, the point of I'm trying to make is we are investigating and kind of just seeing what we can see in these old bunkers. They're all spray painted. Most of them are locked or you can't get into, but there was one that didn't have a lock on the door.

They had these big metal doors. Well, we saw one that was open, and we opened it up a little bit more, and we peaked in, and we went back into this concrete bunker. And when you stand in the center of these things, sound just bounces off of everything and everywhere. So it sounds really cool. If you do any type of chanting or, you know, singing or just being fun, everything's echoing, everything's bouncing around. Great place to do investigations because it's really dark. So we did a few of those, me and my friends, after this. But the time that it was the middle of the day, this afternoon, walking to the bunker.

and there's a baby fawn deer that was just tore up. It looked like somebody, it looked, basically what I saw, it looked like three or four dudes grabbed a baby deer and ripped it apart, which is not possible. But at that time,

with all the things in the environment being like, you know, with the satanic graffiti and everything around. I was thinking that some real sick people mutilated this baby deer and left it in one of these bunkers. Now, fast forward, so this is like 2002, 2003, when that happened. Fast forward several years later, after also hearing stories from that area, too. I think that some type of crypted animal, whether it be Sasquatch or a dog man, because I am a firm believer in all of this for sure.

But I know for sure that, or I don't know for sure, but I know in my heart that that was a cryptic encounter somehow. because there's no way that this deer was completely mangled. And the other thing is that we found very strange is that there was no bugs either. Like it was really hot in Pennsylvania, and I know it was the summertime. So it was hot and humid. But there was no maggots, there was no flies,

there was not any kind of like, stuff you normally see with death when something's been left out to sit. There just isn't one of any of that, but there was no like blood in the concrete bunker. So I don't believe that the deer was actually killed in the bunker. But it was tore up in pieces. I remember the ribs being ripped open. I remember the hind quarters looked like it was tore off.

And me and my stepdad and my mom, we just cannot figure out how that happened to something. And, you know, we chalked it up at the time to, you know, like cultish, occult behavior in the woods by weird people. But now that we've had some time to digest and learn about

cryptids, especially in those areas. I believe some kind of Bigfoot or something got a hold of that deer, and that's what ripped it apart. Because there's a lot of strange things around it, too. There seems to be a lot of paranormal activity around encounters, whether it be a UFO encounter, Sasquatch.

Yeah. So my goodness, you have lived through a ton. No, that was, I mean, you've got some incredible accounts that you lived through. I have a lot of questions, a lot of things we can go over. So are you saying then that the Selvira, Pennsylvania area, were there stories then of other encounters with Bigfoot or maybe other cryptids? Yes. Yes.

and I was actually hoping or thinking that you might have heard some or been familiar with some from that area too. I'm not sure. But I do believe the BRFO had had some stuff from that area out there, the Allenwood, Pennsylvania area. Gotcha. Gotcha. We'll have to look into that. I haven't gotten anything personally. I'm looking at my personal map on the website, but I wouldn't be surprised to look up.

BFRO website and check that out for sure. Were you also getting mind speak interactions out in Pennsylvania or was just a Washington thing? Well, I think it happened more to me when I was younger, to be honest. I think I distracted myself from a lot of that type of stuff when I was when when I got older as a teenager. You know, and I don't want to put it like a whole bunch of credence into this, but, you know, you meet people in the paranormal communities. And I was just a stickler for like, we got to tell the truth about this stuff. We got to be honest. You know, I don't want to do this, the hokey thing.

Like I was kind of frustrated with people not taking it serious enough because of some of the experiences I've had. I'm like, this is serious stuff. This is really going on. And so as a kid, I know I had that stuff happen to me a lot more. As I got older, I kind of shied away from it, even though I know that I was what people would consider sensitive, still am to this day. But it's really easy for me to get hyper-focused on it. And then you're getting anxiety and all these other things all the time.

So I try to not focus on it. But yeah, I believe that Mindspeak was something that came to me at our early age. A lot of it, I believe, is because of the area that I grew up in. I will tell you that out in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula is a strange place. race. You know, I grew up there. I thought, you know, a lot of that stuff was normal because of growing up there. But, uh, yeah.

It's just a lot of strange paranormal type stuff. And, and some listeners are going to be like, oh, yeah, Twilight. Right, right. No, guys, it's, it's for real. Like, this, take that whole stuff out of there because there are actual really intense things that I've heard that go on in that. community for sure now now I don't want anybody to the internet quote me or anything on this but I but it might be worth somebody looking at do I did

hear that at some point either after the Second World War until the 70s that the Navy I can't remember if it was the Navy or the Air Force but they used to blast extreme low frequencies across the Olympic Peninsula. I don't know what the purpose was for, and I don't know why, but I remember just reading because I'd always go back in research and try to figure out what was going on in that area to make any of this stuff happen. And so I found it interesting that they were subsonically blasting extreme low frequencies across the peninsula for several decades.

Yeah, that's kind of weird. And I'm not sure why or what, but yeah, it'd be interesting to learn more about that. Yeah, if anyone can do some research on that, feel free to put it in the comments on YouTube. It'd be interesting to see what can be found. Yeah, because I believe there's a correlation between that and paranormal activity. So even when I was younger, I was like, if we could just build this stuff, device that can generate electromagnetic fields. You know, I totally

went all Ghostbusters since that was my favorite movie as a kid, too. Since experiencing so many weird things. I mean, in the Bigfoot community we have, it's, it's no question that those low frequencies, you know,

yeah, it's connected to Bigfoot for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I have definitely questions about going back to your, your interactions and forks. So when you saw the one that was kind of golden blonde and reddish Auburn, how far away from you were, how far away from that were you? So it was like 40 yards at the furthest.

It wasn't that far. Yeah, that's really not. That's like a tennis court and a half. And I guess my perception because of how wide, you know, I need to say how wide this thing was, because that's the other thing that stuck out in my mind. Like the hair thing, like that's, I don't know why I was so hyper-focused on the hair blowing in the wind. But, you know, I thought it was a furry rock. I literally thought I was looking at a furry rock that was like something from like Jim Henson's,

you know, closet somewhere, like one of the reject Muppets. Like, that's what it looked like to me. It was so weird. But then when it started to stand up and move, I mean,

my heart sunk, but I was just enamored. And I was just, I just was staring. And I remember staring. And I really wish that the kid didn't, I wish he, froze up and didn't take off on the three wheeler because I was on the back

of it just holding on to them. And we'd only stopped there for for like 30, 40 seconds before we realized what was going on. And the whole reason we stopped was because the smell was so strong and powerful.

We were just, you know, gagging but also laughing and being funny about it. And then it just went from this fun happy moment to instant dread and fear. So, yeah, it's a roller coaster of emotions for sure. Absolutely.

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That's why Forks is called Forks, because the Saltuk, the Klaw, and the Boguchewil-Rivir River all meet to the three rivers form the quillew and then they dump into the ocean. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, that makes sense. So was it before it turns into that river or is it like closer down to? Yeah. So it was closer to where it turns into the quillew. Okay. Because I remember we drove. towards the push, actually, to get out to this spot.

So heading down that way, not that we went towards the push. We obviously trekked a little bit further south after that. But I'm going to ask my dad. I'm going to get the spot. And I forgot to ask them before I called you. But I've been wanting to get this information for myself. because I want to go back out there. Oh, yeah.

I don't get to make it back home as often as I'd like to. I go up there and visit as often as I can. I've heard that there's a lot of stuff that goes on around Mora campground, and I was curious if it was over there, but it sounds like it's a different area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, another good one is where the tribal police guy, and he watched the Sasquatch cross right over in front of where the fish hatchery used to be. I mean, it's kind of funny to think about because when you go into La Push, I mean, it's so small.

It's such a small area. And it's just funny to me every time that I drive past that part. I'm like, oh, are we going to see Bigfoot walk across the street here because of his encounter? You know, and he's been on a few TV shows or whatever exactly. Yep, I know exactly. So I just think it's funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's that area.

Yeah. Yeah, more beach, Ruby Beach. That's awesome. So the day after you guys had the tent experience, did you get any stories from Turks family at all about what they experienced? That's right, right. I'm glad you asked. No. So as far as I know, they remember.

So here's the thing. about five years ago, I brought this up to one of Turks' boys. I said, hey, do you happen to remember? He's like, I do remember that. He's like, I forgot about that. But no, they didn't have any experience that I know of. And, you know, after my dad told me not to say anything to my sister and my mom about the footprint that was in the sand and stuff

and he's telling me not to say anything to him because it would freak them out or whatever. You know, I don't know if anything was said about it the next day or not. I can't remember that. I really can't remember it.

I can't remember why how we went from total chaos to being asleep again. Almost like shock. I guess, you know, I've never experienced time loss quite like that, you know, in the other time. Absolutely. Does everyone in your family that was there, does their story line up with yours, how it's like, is chaos and it goes to sunlight? Right.

So my sister remembers the first part. She will confirm that we saw the furry rock starting to stand up and we freaked out and went to camp and told our dads about it. She knows my part, you know, she knows the part of the story that me and mom experienced. And I will say that my mom does remember, but she wants to keep saying that, no, it must have been elk. Your dad said it was elk type thing. but Jeremiah we never went camping again after that as a family never after that night we never did anything like that again and we grew up in probably one of the best areas for that type of stuff especially in the summer so it it did something you know to because yeah we

never went camping as a family ever again uh and this is when I was is 12, between 11, 12. So, yeah. What's the last time you talked to your dad about it? Last time I talked to my dad about it. Well, he was here about a month and a half ago, and we were actually, I got my dad. Now, he's not into watching this stuff, really.

So he's not about it. I did bring it up. I brought it up then to him. I said, yeah, I remember the time. we went camping, we had the Bigfoot thing. And he's like, oh, yeah, I remember you kids were freaking out. That's all he said about that. But the footprint thing is what I need to grow them on next.

And I'll do that. I'll do that. I'll talk to him about that. Because I just broke my dad into talking about this stuff. Right, exactly. Because he's been, he's, you know, he's been in the woods for 40, some years. And now he's doing that regressive thought

stuff now where he's like well hey I thought something was this but maybe it was more tied to this now he's starting to get there. So he's starting to connect his weird experiences that he's had

you know. But like I said my dad's not like super creative I guess I would say he He can't make his stories up, is what I'm saying. And he's the reason that I even got into this stuff to begin with, because his dad grew up in Port Angeles. My dad grew up in Port Angeles,

and the house that my dad grew up in was heavily haunted. We're talking full-body apparitions, things moving on the walls and pianos playing haunted. So I wouldn't even stay the night or visit my grandpa's house for any longer than an hour back then just because my dad's stories freaked me out about his house. Oh, wow. This is really intense stuff. Yeah. Well, and my aunt, his sister, and my grandpa confirm it, you know, and their stories are, you know, you ever have a ghost show. those are some good ones too.

That's what got me going into this stuff. The encounters between myself and my dad. My mom likes all this type of stuff. She likes to listen and watch the ghost shows somewhat and everything. But when you try to get her involved or try to get her to do an investigation, she wants nothing to do with it. She just is like, no, no, no, no, no. I got enough.

Oh, yeah. It's way, it's, I mean, that stuff is way different once you cross that line, even with Bigfoot. Yeah, you cross the line and it's,

then you're potentially bringing it at home. Yeah. And so, any more questions? Because I, yeah. Yes, absolutely.

Because I know I'm missing stuff. Going back to when you were in Sappho, Washington. So was that pretty close to the Salduck River then? That is right. alongside the Saltuk River. So I can tell you, so the house that I grew up in it,

it was known as the Rixon Homestead. And my mom grew up there. She was raised at that house when she was a kid. And it's about 11 miles outside of Forbes headed towards Port Angeles. So my mom grew up there. Big farmhouse, big barn. everything. And she said that she never remembers having any, like, creepy, weird, paranormal

stuff happening to her when she was younger out there. But she did say that that had changed by the time we had moved out there. So my mom grew up out there and then we lived in town and then we had a small house in town. And then my dad was logging quite a bit outside of town. So it was just a little bit closer for him for work. So we had a chance to rent this house out for ourselves, the same house that my mom grew up in. Beautiful piece of property. If you look it up on the internet, it's gorgeous. It's Rixon Road right off a highway 101 and you'll see, I think it's a bed and breakfast now.

Every time I try to go out there, it's always closed down or nobody's there to go see it again. But I spent about three years of my young life out there. And that's where the mind-speak thing happened to me. I had an encounter right near the Salt Duck River. There's a creek that dumps right into the Saltuck River alongside of that house about, I don't know, like two, three hundred feet away from the house is the creek. And so there's this old, old concrete. bridge from like the early 1900s that was built there. It's all roped off or a fenced off now. You can't drive up that road anymore. But I actually had my first paranormal, a scene, an apparition,

two apparitions, two little boys standing on the opposite side of that bridge one time when I was, I would go down to the creek because right before the river, beavers had built the dam under the bridge. The bridge covered the creek, but then alongside the creek about another 50 feet away was the actual Saltuck River. So I would go down to the creek and I'd break up the dam with my foot. And then I'd climb back up to the top of the bridge and watch the beavers fix and rebuild the dam. And one day I was down there, middle of the day, daytime. and I broke up the dam and I crawled back up the embankment

stepped back up onto the bridge and I was looking over the edge of the bridge and then all of a sudden I just I got a weird feeling and I looked to my left and standing there two little boys and I got excited I was probably eight or nine

at this time and I got excited because there was no other kids out there I mean I had to play by myself in the woods all the time so I was excited that there was just any other kids out there so I was like and I don't remember seeing them say anything but I just remember again

in my mind hearing come play with us and they turned around and they ran into the woods and I said oh wait up and you know when I was a kid I was kind of a chunky kid not so much anymore

but when I was younger I was a dough boy and so I remember I had some shorts on and my sandals and I'm running through the sticker bushes and the twigs trying to catch up

and I can hear these two boys running but I can't see them anymore but I could hear them laughing and I'm like hey guys wait up wait up and next thing I know that I don't hear see anything and I'm in the middle of like the sticker bushes like what the heck and then I can hear

my mom yelling for me for dinner time and so I ran all the way back to the house or got to the house and my mom does remember this and she she will confirm this one that I came into the house just so excited and happy because I had found two kids to play with but but they were too fast They got away from me. They were just too fast, I told my mom. And she thought I was weird as hell. She's like, there's nothing out there. She thought at that time that I had made that story up.

And then fast forward until my senior year of high school, I took a buddy out there, and I hadn't been out there since we had lived out there. And I took a friend of mine out there during October in the fall. and I started telling them about the beavers, like how I would go break up the dam and then come back up and watch the beavers rebuild it. Well, as I was telling him that story, I totally remembered that encounter of seeing the two ghost little boys

at the other side of the thing. And like this, you know, the story came back to me. And then I remember telling my buddy. And then it freaked my buddy out. So we drove to my mom's house. We drove into town and went and asked my mom, I was like, mom, mom, mom. Do you remember when I was a kid?

And she's like, yeah, I do remember that. I thought you were just blowing smoke. But yeah, just a lot of paranormal stuff. Absolutely. What type of clothing were they wearing? So that's, yeah. So that's something I specifically remember, too. They were wearing like a polo, these polo collared shirts, right?

Like, what are those ones that have like little animals? Like some have like a crocodile. else. Oh, like a polo. Yeah, like a polo shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Like 80s. Like, so 80s, well, yeah, it was more like 40s, 50 or 50s style, I guess, polo cut shirt. Okay. Yeah, it was like 50s, 60s because, and it had this, like one shirt had a turquoise and white stripes, like a big thick stripe of turquoise and white. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Eistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen-Yang from Los Culture Reesters with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Jang. Spend your balance instantly with the Venmo debit card and earn up to 5% cashbacks on your

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mouth move I just heard come play with us and they literally turned around and both ran into the woods at the same time at the same speed and then they went through the sticker bush and then I tried to go through there too and I was just getting all hung up by all the other bushes and twigs that are wacking me as I'm trying to crawl through this bush to catch up with these kids and I remember as I was trying to come up behind them, I can hear laughter. Like, just kids laughing. And then it just was nothing. And then it just faded to nothing.

And then I'm standing in the middle of the sticker bushes. Like, where'd they go? Where'd they go? You know, and to my left is the Salduck River running alongside of me. I'm literally running alongside the Salduck River. chasing these kids. Oh, man. And I find it also interesting because it's a cross

there's a crossways there because I told you that the crick dumps out into the Saltuck River right there too. And so that that just makes me think of the constant energy source that's constantly going on there, you know, the river and

the creek just creating a lot of energy. So I think that has a lot of doing stuff to all these natural energy spots. Yes, and I agree with you 100%. The other weird thing from your stories

is that so you have two different times when you have something that is, well, that and it's trying to get you to go somewhere. Yes, yes. Yeah, I didn't even connect that.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The woods wanted me, and I've always felt that, Jeremiah. I tell you what. Okay, okay. I grew up, I grew up there in Forks. I wanted nothing to do with Forks when I was there, for the most part. Now, don't get me wrong. I did football. I played sports. I was a good kid in school. I did all the right things. I was a big part of my community.

Big ties to the community. It's a small community. So, and I did a lot of stuff for, uh, for the American Diabetes Association. Oh, dang it. Side mission got me coming off. That's no problem. I do have another question

about Sappho. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd mention that you're, what you experience in Safo. Like, there are other people that have also had Bigfoot encounters around 101 in Sappho as well.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mary Clark Road. I don't know if you've heard of that. I don't think There's a lot of action near Highway 101 in the Mary Clark Road. There's an area called the A Road up in Forks, which is a road that leads up into several series of different logging roads. And there's actually a story about a different type of cryptid.

I never experienced anything, but I've heard stories from close friends of mine. three of my friends experienced they call it deer monkey it is a yeah yeah I know I didn't know if I wanted to bring it up no go ahead go ahead I'm gonna go there

I'm gonna go there okay I heard about this story when I was in high school so this is like 1998 or 99 and my buddies who knows they were probably drinking and smoking, going up the A road to party.

But they freaked out because they encountered something that ran right in front of them and they almost hit this animal. But they called it Deer Monkey. And I'm like, Deer Monkey, what the heck? And so from what I know, my friend Tasha, she had told me about it first. And she's like, yeah, it's like this weird kangaroo.

So that's the number one. It's kind of weird because I heard this story before I knew about certain things. And now that I know certain things that I can't unlearn, it makes more sense to what it might have been, I guess. Anyway, so she said it was like, it had like a kangaroo style body with a long, long, thick tail, but the hair was shaggy on the tail, right? So hair was hanging off the tail. It had the

weird hawks, like the dog legs or whatever you would, like the kangaroo style body. But it had a snout in antlers, like a deer. There's a two-point, she said.

But it had like arms that were like, she said kind of like a dinosaur's arms, like, like, crouched up kind of like a, I don't know, like in Jurassic Park like they have one there. That's how she described this animal to me, right? So, so she told me this story. So then I had to ask the other two boys that she was with if they had it. And then my buddy, Piquet, he did. He admitted. He's like, yeah, dude, it was weird. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. It moved weird. Oh, that was the other thing. The color of it was like a deer, like a deer's hair. That was another reason. I guess why they

called it deer monkey. But it was up on two legs and it had this weird long tail thing. And it just sounds totally out of left field. Like I had never ever heard of anything. Here's the interesting thing. After I had finally decided to email. you and talk to the story, I went to chat GPT just to see if there was any, if it can gather information better than I could about deer monkey because it just stuck out in my mind to bring it up. And I asked chat GPT. And it did find an encounter about another person's encounter about this deer monkey thing out there. No way. So there is, yeah, so there is an encounter from somebody that told

part of the same story and I'm not sure if it was one of the people from that night but here's the other thing there's two people that have passed away that had also encountered this thing. Sounds like

if I was thinking outside the box or whatever I would think oh that sounds like some Native American Windigo type you know spear finger type creature

like a kangaroo with antlers and a long shaggy tail right that's really strange were you able to find that actual encounter because sometimes when you when you ask stuff in chat GPT it'll make stuff up that it's looking

for okay so let me see if I could grab my phone and see if I could recall that that conversation I had with it because it said that I thought it gave me a resource

from where it pulled Oh okay that's cool Yeah nice Yeah yeah yeah yeah cool cool My brain gets a little scattered on some of this stuff But I can answer specific questions You're good you're good I have probably about one more question

You mentioned that So in Sappho you had mentioned Mary Clark Road So is there a lot of activity that happens on that road then? So there's just a ton of activity that happens in that general sense. So I'll tell you this, from about the right before the Claylock area on South 101, Highway 101, till about Lake Crescent area and just before Lake Crescent. That whole area is just, it. has a certain feeling.

And I always told, like, I always told my wife and everything. I was always like, you can feel when you get there. Like, I know when I'm home because I can feel it. Like, it was always just this weird thing. And then I was talking to my mom. And she, she does it too. She knows what I was talking about. She's like, yeah, no, there's a vibe.

There's a vibe, definitely. When you get into a certain locations. one of my favorite so the Mary Clark Road I don't have any specific stories I just know from people on other shows talking about it and I'm like oh yeah that's up by the Mary Clark

Oh gotcha okay cool cool cool Yeah and then The other Oh Oil City Road Just before the whole rainforest As you're heading south headed towards Aberdeen

right before the whole raven forest there in Claylock, uh, the oil city road, like one of my favorite big foot encounters is of the tow truck driver in the 70s, who was picking a guy up right there at the top of that hill. And, uh, cottonwood campgrounds an area where a lot of people have, because that's on a little city road right there.

But, uh, back in the 70s, there was a tow truck driver guy who was, He was either the tow truck driver or the truck driver waiting for a tow, one of the two. And he was stuck up on that hill in the middle of winter, waiting for the toe, or the tow guy was waiting for a truck. He basically saw a Sasquatch, heard something, saw a Sasquatch looking at him in his truck cab, and he shot it with like a 357 in the face. And it took off into the woods running.

That's a pretty popular story. You might recall that one somewhere too. And that's like just south of town, right outside of town. Wow. I've never heard that one. That's wild, though. I'll have to look into that one. Yeah, yeah.

So I think the keywords are probably Oil City Road, Highway 101. Okay. Late 70s, I believe it was like 78, 79, I think. So between 76 and 79, I'd say. So it's just such a good story. I've been listening to your show probably for the last three, four years. I appreciate that. Thank you.

Well, yeah, no. I appreciate it because I like that style. I like that you're able to just ask folks to let them run with it, even though I feel like I stuttered and sampled all over. the place today. Well, I think it's important for individuals to be able to get their full story out. Yeah. And just to be able to run with it.

Most people have never gotten that chance. And that can really lead into some interesting conversations. But, you know, Jared, I just want to say thank you so much for chatting today. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you had wanted to share on the show today. Yeah. I mean, I do want to say this to everyone listening. It is important. It is super important that we all take this stuff a little bit more serious.

And we try to figure out what is going on and why these encounters are happening on a more, on a larger basis than they want. before now. I know the internet has opened up an avenue for people to tell their stories and get their opinions out there, but I feel like it's really important and that we're at a pinnacle of time that this information gets out there in a legitimate way where people aren't laughed at or pointed fingers at because that's what kept me away from all this for a long time, even though it's been my entire life for the most part. The paranormal stuff has been a part of my life since I was a kid. And I didn't ask for it. It just came to me. And it is important that we give a little more credence to people's encounters. Be legitimate. Be truthful, be honest.

You know, like, if I didn't remember, I didn't try to fill in the gaps. I just say, I can't remember. You know what I mean? So, yeah, I agree with you, Jared. that right now. This is, I think this is a very important time for people to reach out with what they've experienced. And if people do want to do that, you're more than welcome to you can send me an email, Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. And I will respond to you in a few days because there's a lot going on in that email.

But I will get back in touch with you. But Jared, thank you so much for coming on the show. Is great chatting with you. And, you know, keep us in the loop. if you hear anything else out there and you spend a real privilege talking to you today. You too. Thank you. I do head up in that area a few times a year.

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