Bigfoot Society - Bottle Rocket Bigfoot! | Oregon

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

Join host Jeremiah Byron with the Bigfoot Society podcast as they delve into spine-chilling Bigfoot encounters in California and Oregon with guests Steve Sumter and Tracey Brooks. Steve recounts an encounter from 1978 in Truckee, California where a screaming creature shook a 60-foot tree, terrifying him and his friends. Tracey shares a sighting near Crescent, Oregon and eerie experiences with strange tree structures and footprints. The episode covers sightings and activities in various locations including Truckee, Crescent, Gilchrist, and Mapleton in Oregon, revealing the mysterious and sometimes aggressive nature of these creatures. Don't miss this fascinating episode filled with first-hand accounts of Bigfoot sightings that will leave you questioning what lurks in the wilderness.Resources:Christmas Valley Bigfoot video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbffFr3ScwSasquatch Summerfest this year, is July 11th through the 12th, 2025. It's going to be fantastic. Listeners, if you're going to go, you can get a two day ticket for the cost of one. If you use the code "BFS" like Bigfoot society and it'll get you some off your cost.Priscilla was a nice enough to provide that for my listeners. So there you go. I look forward to seeing you there. So make sure you head over to www. sasquatchsummerfest. com and pick up your tickets today.If you've had similar encounters or experiences, please reach out to [e-mail]. Your story could be the next one we feature!🔴 Subscribe to our Youtube channel and leave a comment here: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Want to call in and leave a voicemail of your encounters for the podcast - Check this out here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety(Use multiple voice mails if needed!)Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members-only episode every single week. on Wednesdays and sometimes even more episodes head on over to patreon.com forward slash the bigfoot society and now let's get on with the show all right bigfoot society but the privilege of talking to steve sumter and tracy brooks today steve is a listener that had reached out uh with an encounter that he wanted to share and after i read the email i reached right back out to steve and i was like oh man yeah we got to talk on the podcast so uh thankfully was okay with coming on

and brought Tracy along because Tracy's got some interesting things to share as well. We'll be talking about California and Oregon today. So Steve and Tracy, welcome to the show. How are you both doing tonight? Really good. Thank you. Awesome. Well, guys,

I'd say let's get right into it. It sounds like we've got a lot of ground to cover. So I'm going to go ahead and pass the mic over to you guys. And we're going to start with the first thing that was experience so go ahead guys I'll let you take over from here and I'll be I'll be listening okay yeah my first encounter happened when I was 18 years old and I was in

Truckee California it's 14 miles from Lake Tahoe well it was the last day of school and a weekend was coming up and me and I call him my little brother but he was actually my mom's boyfriend son. He went with me and a friend of mine, Danny, went with us. And we drove from Truckee to Bird Eye, California

and took a dirt road as far as we could possibly drive it until we couldn't drive no more. Steve, you there? What in the world just happened? I'm here. Okay. That was really weird, man. We just had a total audio dropout.

Um, okay, so that's, that's no matter. I have electronic things happen to me. I, my phone just went. Well, guys, I'll tell you, I have stuff happen. I have stuff happen to me all the time, too, so we'll, we'll make quite, quite the pair tonight of, uh. Light bulbs. You do? You, wow.

Yeah, he does. Tracy, that's wild. Yeah. All right. I know. I'm kind of a wild. All right. Well, we're just, we're going to try to make this happen.

This is going to be a wild one. Okay. So the last thing I heard, Steve, was you and your friends were driving from truckie to bird eye, I believe. Yeah. And we just took a dirt road all the way as far as we could go. And we found this meadow where we've been driving further, this meadow with a fire pit in the middle of it. And we camped there. Well, my friend Danny had those bottle rockets he was talking about.

So we decided to shoot him off. And, oh, man, after about, I don't know, 20 minutes after we shot them off, something, at the end of this meadow, we heard this screaming. And this one, I don't know, it was probably about a 60-foot tree, started rocking back and forth real fast. And this thing wouldn't stop screaming. I can't describe the scream. It was like a loud scream with a growl in it. And also, I don't know what it was.

It was just weird. But anyway, this thing was pissed. And they ran into the car and locked the door and left me out there. So I just went by the campfire and just started huddling next to it. I could hear this thing walking around the whole meadow around our camp. So needless to say, I didn't get much sleep that night. Oh, my goodness. Let me make sure I get that, right?

So you hear something scream. They lock you out of the car, and you're just pretty much hanging out by the fire while it's like pacing back and forth. And they're in the car locked doors. Oh, my goodness. Real, real door. Wouldn't let me in. Scared of it.

Anyway, yeah, I could hear this thing breaking branches and limbs all around us, all night long. As that tree was shaking, I could see the sky behind the tree, but I could also see below it a little bit because there was sort of a moonlight, not a

full moon, but parcel moon. And I can see this silhouette of this thing rocking this tree back and forth. It was huge. And it was standing up. It was not a bear. Could you get a feel as to how tall it may have been by the silhouette that you saw? Nine feet, maybe.

Maybe taller. I don't know. It was huge and wide. You could see the black outline of the body. It was just huge and wide. And that screen has got me. Yeah, it scared me. Could you hear any other sounds that night around you at all?

Just the breaking of the. limbs and the branches and stuff as it was walking around the whole perimeter of the meadow so everything else was pretty quiet you know then everything was quiet it was really quiet it did not like those bottle rockets i'm sure so then after so you guys drove out of there you hauled back home so did you tell your parents when you got home or or how did that go down It didn't go over very well. They all said, you guys were drinking, and we weren't. I've still never had any.

They did not believe it. But we knew. We knew there was something there. Mass hallucinations don't occur very often either. No. Right. It was just a weird situation. Did you ever go back to that area, Steve?

I did not. No, I did not. It didn't want us there. I could feel that. Dude, and those bottle rockets off really made it mad. Oh, I mean, you know that was 100% of, yeah, the bottle rockets did not help the situation. Yeah, did not help, no. What approximate year was that, Steve?

That was in 1978. Oh, my goodness. Wow, yeah, that's the year for Bigfoot, dude. I mean, a lot of Bigfoot activity happened in 1978 for some reason. I just turned 18. Okay. Wow. Good stuff.

Good stuff. Okay. So how did that affect your life after you experienced it? Did it put you down the road towards Bigfoot or were you kind of like, I don't want anything else to do with this? No, I was totally interested in it. I wanted to figure out what it was. But there was really not much I could do about it. You know, I didn't want to go back there.

That was off limits to me. But yeah, then after that I moved to Oregon. I lived there before, but I moved back to Oregon into a, in a little town called Crescent, Oregon. Then I moved to Gilchrist, Oregon. Well, the next encounter happened when I was taking my dog for a walk with my friends right down the street here, about a quarter mile. and it was right behind a friend of mine's house, Robert, and he's on BLM land.

But he had this trail that he'd walk all the time with his dog. And so we decided to take the dogs for a walk. Well, about halfway through, there's this little area that open up and there's a whole bunch of fallen trees where we can sit and just sit on the fallen trees and let the dogs run. well I was looking around and there was something caught my eye it was these two trees probably about 40 50 feet high woven in between two other trees into a big X I saw that the weird thing is there was still root wads attached to these things and they were still green

and Robert told me that's kids did that it did not do that and there's no roads back there I took her to this area and her little granddaughter, and she saw all this stuff. But when we went back, it was about a year later when I took her back. And that big X now looked like a giant, I don't know, dream catcher of some sort. Because other stuff was put in it. Yeah, it wasn't in it. It was just weird. I never saw anything, but I started taking pictures of these things.

and when I got back to my house I was going through the photos and there was one in the photo watching us really yeah it was an adult one though it was an adult it was I think it was watching little ones

I'm not sure because in the photo you can almost see a looser one right below it the one skyline I saw was like a young one I'm sure of it because right afterwards that's when I saw that thing. It was just getting dark, not really dark, but it was dusk.

And I saw this thing wobbling by my gate and it was about seven foot tall, six and a half, seven foot tall, hunched over, covered in red hair, kind of an orange color. And I ran out there to see what it was. It was gone. And there's no work for it to go.

I don't know where it went. It just freaked me out. And then here Tracy was there the next day. Yeah, so I took my granddaughter walking up this road, like our little gravel road that we live on, off of it is a spur road that takes you out to the pipeline. And my granddaughter and I would take walks and go out that way all the time. Well, we got to this clearing where the road forks off, and across that little clearing, there was this fast watch peeking around a tree. at us. And I

stopped and I was like, Skyler, do you see that? And she's like, what? And I pointed it out to her and it just kept peeking at us. And I was like, do you see that now? She's like, yeah. And I said, I think it's time we go home. So we just turned and

came back. But later that day I was telling Steve about it and that's when he told me that the night before he had seen it walked past his date. it was the same one most likely orange hair yeah it was kind of like orangutan hair yeah like an orangutan would be colored only like darker towards the skin like but the ends were like orangey three inches four inches long yeah it was big though it was huge my granddaughter was probably five or six so that was probably six or seven years

I think ago now. But we hear wood knocks and screaming and stuff in here all the time. And there's times I can smell it when I walk out of my door. And my dog won't go out and it's just this horrendous, wretched

gas smell. Well, yeah, I mean, I grew up out in the forest, so I kind of know what bears and the different sense of the animals. Elk stink too during certain times. But I know the stinks A little different critters.

And this is like something lovely all of its own. I mean, it's distinct. And I've grown up out in the woods. I was like, yeah. If you look Swiss home up on Google Maps and just start going out from it, all it is is mountains around there. And that's where I grew up. Well, us too.

And so, yeah, I've been around it. I know the smell of it. It'll be close enough I can smell it when I come out my door sometimes. Yeah, I don't know if they emit that odor because they can or if they've been rolling in something. I don't know. Exactly. Yeah, it probably smells awesome to them. Perfewan.

Yeah, like, look what I got it. Tracy, how big would you estimate that the Sasquatch was that was peaking at you and your granddaughter? Well, I was probably like, I don't know, 15, 20 yards away. But my guess is because the tree was probably the size around of a dinner plate, is my guess. And its head was at least that big around. And it was probably six, seven feet tall off the ground is my guess. Hard to join trees. Well, and it was peeking around it.

I mean, I'm just saying probably six, seven feet tall the head peeking out of the tree from behind the tree. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business. You need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP. If scaling your business feels like starting over, you need the Intuit ERP. Intuit Enterprise Suite is the AI-native ERP solution that consolidates, migrates, and automates, all in one place. Learn more at intuit.com slash ERP.

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blistering rash disrupted my life for weeks. Don't learn about your shingles risk the hard way. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today, sponsored by GSK. When I've seen it, it looked to be about six and a half feet tall from where I was sitting, but it was hunched over. So I'm sure it was about seven foot tall. I couldn't tell it like his body posture so much is that it just kept peeking from behind this tree at us. Right. Like they hold onto the side of the tree and look, yeah. The thing you didn't come and grab you.

Well, see, that's what I mean, though. I've been around them all my life. That one place I can't, I can hear. Once you've seen these things, you're stuck with them. Well, and that's not fun. Well, they've given everybody such a fear factor of everything. And they've been here for thousands of years. And people live amongst of years.

They don't like it. They're down to the earth, you know what I mean? Right, but I'm not in that cruise. So I get along with them. They come to my camp. This one place that's out in the middle of nowhere that I go camping all the time. And I can hear them across the creek up, this little draw.

It's not actual words or anything, but you can hear the voices and laughing. And, I mean, it's like a family. They're like a family. They live together as a family unit. Tracy, have you heard anything else that comes close to what you hear when you're out there camping? Only once in a while. But most of the time when they're in this close to people,

they're up to something, you know? they're looking for a dog chained up outside or chickens or... Cast or whatever. Yeah, whatever they can grab a hold of easy. They don't usually come in this close. So it's different noises. You hear tree knocks and stuff like close enough you can almost feel it in there. But we are pretty rural.

Steve, I wanted to ask you about something. So first off, you guys are saying this happened about six to seven years ago, so pretty recent. maybe six years ago okay okay um also Steve you're saying you you have a photo that has a big foot captured in the photo yeah it was watching us and there was none of us smelled anything the dogs didn't even know wow so it had to have been up wound with one was kind of down behind a little in it was it was underneath this big old arch that had been pulled down this tree was pulled down into an arch. And it was underneath that, in the bushes.

Do you still have that? I do. I'll send it to you. I mean, I was just going to ask if you would be able to. I would love to be able to take a look at that. That sounds extremely interesting. I'll send you the pictures of the trees that are all bunched in, you know, woven in between each other, too.

Okay. And this teepee thing that were thinking. Is that something I'd be able to share on, like in the YouTube version? Sure. Yeah, okay, cool. Thank you. Yeah, not a problem. So.

You have a four, five, six pictures. Do you have a picture of that? I have, too, don't you? No. You don't have a picture of that. This he's got a plaster cast of one of these things. It's huge. Yeah, it was found in the cottage girls, late bed.

Oh, oh. Oh, really? 122 footprints in a row or something that were cast. You have part of the London trackway. I have one of the footprints. My friend was one of the ones that put the plaster in the footprint. And he kept a few of them. And I was lucky enough to get one for Christmas one year.

That's awesome. That's awesome. Jeff Meldrum, the professor of Idaho State University, he has most of that trackway I guess. Oh, really? Are you friends with Tob? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, cool. I am too. So, yeah. That's awesome. Okay. All right. Yeah. I figured, like, it's not one of those things that too many people actually admit they're into.

Right. What happens to see? You have no choice. Um, actually, him and I went adventuring. Oh, really? I tried to take him to that high-trike-up camping, and he ended up with a flat tire like a half a mile away. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, we were just talking about that.

We never made it up there, but he got to talk to another friend of mine, this elderly lady that she took him to get air in his tire, and he got to talk to her for a while, too, that she grew up up there. That's awesome. Yeah, pretty much any of the old timers and stuff out. Yeah, yeah, I see dermal ridges in this print. Wow.

It's a thing of beauty. Yeah, I keep it like a perfect print. Wrapped in bubble wrap, but I'll take it out and take a picture. That would be awesome. Thank you, Trish.

I'll take a picture. Sorry, have you have you share that area where you go camping in? Is that a place we're sharing where the location is, or are we keeping that kind of private? Not so much.

Okay. I grew up over in the, the Swartzwood area, and it's up in the mountains from there. Okay, got it. Yep, that's enough. Near Macleton. Yeah.

Yeah. So, Deadwood, Oregon. Like I said, I've been going here. And I've seen a walk down the road, like up above, because it's a big meadow, and it's a long,

the creek and I can hear them over like this other creek comes down the hill and I can hear her but at the other voices and laughing and stuff come down that little drop. Oh my goodness. And I don't want to disturb anything like that. You know what I'm saying? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't go there. I don't feel any kind of distress or any kind of thing when I go there.

I've been going there for years by myself even and like the only encounters I've had are they've been in my camp. I leave stuff out. They've thrown off. Like, they know what I can share and they're happy with that I shared. Like, that's how I get treated. Like, I don't want to do anything that causes that to be interrupted. Absolutely.

Gilchrist, so you guys still dealing with things over there in current day? Oh, we hear things all the time. Yeah, well, it's only been, what, I've been home for a week from my mom. So within the last week, it was probably 1 o'clock in the morning because my boyfriend had worked until 2.30s. So I was taking the dog outside, and he got almost to the edge of the bed, and he wouldn't go any further. And it smelled like a pig had rolled in vomit and climbed out of the garbage can. It was horrible. Yeah, I know that.

And that was just within the last week. Oh, they're around. this is the time you come back actually well it's cold they don't have regular food sources

that are usually available you tend to follow the deer around I know that I heard that in uh oak

yeah that's the time they head over that way I think yeah the oak ridge area is pretty forest primeval

well it doesn't get as cold as it doesn't either no and they do end up going that way I'm sure. Well, it's the wet side of the mountain, too. There's always water.

Yeah. Okay, that's very interesting. So there's always a water source over there. Okay. Well, yeah, over on the bridge side of the mountains. It's kind of far between. There's the Dishutes River. In the woods of shoes.

Yeah, there's like. In the loft shoots. Yeah, but it's not like that side of the hill where it's wet. Yeah. It's surprised me how close. they were to people. They came in. I mean, they're within walking distance of the neighbors.

Really? And here, too. Yeah, they could, hopefully just hop and skip and jump right to my house. Oh, yeah. And he has, like, I heard him around my house. I'm pretty sure because I know there's no way that somebody could just walk over the top of my fence. But I heard something do it. And then I heard something go, wah, really loud.

And it, it freaked me out. So I went in the house. Oh, man. So it, like, walked right over your fence, you're saying. It stepped right over my fence. The fence is probably about four weeks and four and a half feet of five. But it just walked right over the top of it. Because I didn't hear no chain rattle or nothing on the fence.

It just walked right over the top of it. Have you talked to any of your neighbors to see if they've been experiencing weird things as well? I'm afraid you're going to think I'm nuts. I live in a month's funny. Sure. But really, I haven't really talked to too many people. Okay. I'm a few people I have.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm really not scared of people thinking I'm crazy. I don't care what they think of me, but I just don't want them to, you know, I think you have any weirdness to my family. You can always... You can always bust out the... Hey, have you seen any weird stuff around here?

that's that's a that's a pretty easy one I try that with people are they go oh yeah you for years you finally lost it you know that's what we do you know it makes me mad that

if anything go well it doesn't bother me at least I know what I saw absolutely and I know I'm not the only one that saw the same thing. Well, I will send you that picture of the face.

Oh, yes, thank you. Perfectly well. Do you mind if I ask you about some certain areas in this region just to see if you've heard anything about the areas regarding Bigfoot? Okay. Sure. Here we go. Okay. Have you ever heard of anything regarding there's a small lake over by, you know,

east and the west of Waldo Lake called Spirit Lake have you ever heard of that area yeah you heard of anything weird happening there not really okay but there are several different lakes around here that I heard weird things about oh really

Quinn Meadows is near one of those high lakes up there and that's where my sister was horse camping where she's they found footprints around the trailers. Where's that one? Sitter Pit. It's like the red centers.

But there in the hills off of the 60th. Yeah, there's like a pit. Yeah, that's on Highway 58. Okay, well, that road, we were driving a bit when they, even Lloyd saw it. He had to admit to me that he saw that thing across the road. There was really there, yeah. That was just last summer.

That's the cutoff road from Crescent. to Crescent Lake. Okay, and it goes across to Gilcrest. The Cascade Lakes Highway The Cascade Lakes Highway It turns off across that road. Okay, so...

It'll take you $258. We're in the hills off of that road, but it's the same one that you turn to go to the Cascade Lake where, like, Walder Lake and stuff is just on the way of where all those lakes are. Okay. So, like, we're in that general area. Last summer, we saw in, uh, run across the road about 100 yards in front of us.

But it was broad daylight and there was no way that it could have been anything but exactly what it was. You know what I mean? Wow. That's wild. My voice was a terrible skeptic of anything like that. He's always telling me I'm crazy and that kind of shit. And so, I made. him admit to me that he saw it too. So that tells you something. That's wild. I mean,

I've heard of road crossings even on 58. Yeah. Oh yeah. And on 97. They're all over, actually. People just don't really look. They're too scared once they find them. They're all freaked out. Well, it's like any other animal. You're an animal. You got to treat them with respect like you would any other animal. I wouldn't walk up on a bull elk and try to like pet it. Go pet it either, you know. There's some wild animals do. And you just, if you have that kind of respect for it, I've seen people try. How about the subtle lake area?

Have you ever heard of anything up there? I have heard stuff about the subtle lake. I've heard people talk about things being thrown in the lake right next to them. Oh, really? Big rocks. Yeah. Big rocks. And they couldn't fish because big rocks.

And you say it wasn't rolling down no hill, but it was thrown through the trees. Right. That's how that was at night. And they weren't little. So they couldn't fish. That's really interesting. That's an area I've been hearing a lot about. Yeah.

There's a lot of activity around there, around everywhere around here. Like anywhere in this area, you pick a location and there's stuff going on. It is, I don't know what it is. Like this one, I saw this one video and it was right out here going towards Christmas Valley on Highway 31 near Lepine. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP. If scaling your business feels like start starting over, you need the Intuit ERP.

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of them to get drunk, I guess. But they got a video of this thing running from them and it got away. I'm gonna look that, I think I found the video, I'm gonna watch this after the interview, but it looks like it's from 2012. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna check that out. I don't think I've ever seen that one. That's very interesting. So we'll check that out later. Oh yeah, you didn't see it, but you really can't see its face, but you can see its legs and stuff walking through the trees.

And then running really fast. I don't have walked down the road. I don't know. up spot. There's one other other houses around some miles and she wouldn't walk by it on the road.

It's kind of a trip. Yeah. It makes it so small. Have you heard anything over by the McKinsey Bridge area? Not the bridge itself. No, I've heard around that area.

Blue River, like up the mountains from Blue River, I've heard some stories. And that's kind of like, Kind of the same area as a trail flies. Gotcha. So, yeah, a lot of things on 58.

I grew up over where there was a whole lot of old timbers that were timber fallers and had been in the woods for like 35 years, you know. They had seen everything. Really? And I heard lots of stories from the old guy. Yeah, I worked in a little restaurant. And they loved cabal over coffee in the morning. So I heard all kinds of really amazing things on this week.

Do you remember any of the things they would share with you, like any of the things they would see? Well, I mean, they'd just like, they'd have to leave a saw, and go for a walk and be squatted down and see things walk by. And, you know, things would move trees, like big branches that shouldn't have moved were like drugged to a pile and different things. Like, there's, I don't know all of them. If I sat and really thought, I could probably remember a lot more of them.

But this one old guy, he was always telling these stories, different things he'd saw. And, yeah, he saw a mother with a baby at one point. But that was probably, wow, I don't even know if I was born yet. honestly it's probably like the early 70s late 60s early 70s to maybe the mid 70s like the story I heard my dad was telling me he was a logger and he would tell me things about things out in the woods in the middle of the night on these ridges that were walking around screaming and yelling all night long and he didn't like it so he chewed his gun

into the air and it would stop him for a while, but he didn't know what it was. Do you think that the Rangers are, and the forestry workers are aware of what's in the woods as well? I think a lot of them are. If they aren't, they don't spend enough time doing their job. That's right. A lot of them are totally aware of these things. A lot of them have covered these things up. I don't know why.

Why are they trying to cover this stuff up? I don't understand that. It's just like spaceships or, you know, they have a scare tactic to make everybody afraid of it. And they have a crazy if you say anything. There's a certain amount of people that go missing every year that's on their agenda. You know, like most people. Would they make a deal with someone? It's likely.

Do you think there is a large amount of people that get? that go missing every year in this region? There are a lot of people. Yeah, all the time. Yeah, that was just, like, in the last five years that I can remember, there's been like three people just the crater lake went to see. Yep. Oh, wow.

To my knowledge, to my knowledge, they were never found. Some were, but, oh, really? All they found was the bones and, well, the, yeah. Just the, did you say just the bone? where they were looking. Just the bones, and it was in a sitting position. Are you serious? With parts of the clothing attached to it.

And not just that was just one place. Three of them. Hiking trails. This one couple were walking along the trail at Crater Lake, and all of a sudden her husband just started walking towards the edge of jumped off. Jumped off into the lake. Yeah, off the close.

Oh, my goodness. And then she said we're still alive at the bottom, but he crawled into the water and planned stuff. I don't understand that. I don't know. I've never heard anything like that. That is, wow. I was talking to one of my acquaintances in the Bend area,

Randy, and he was telling me that, That area west of Crater Lake is known for some really aggressive Bigfoot encounters, so much so that the locals in that area will call it badfoot instead of Bigfoot, which is really interesting. Have you guys heard anything down in that area? Yeah. Yeah? I used to go fishing. I lived at Sutherland for a while, and I used to go fishing at Lomolo Lake. and there was times my dog would cower around my feet while we were fishing there

and my dog was a big dog he wasn't really afraid so I'm figuring that it was probably something to do with that yeah I keep my eyes and ears open all the time when I'm in the woods now well my ears especially because everything goes too silent there's something up yeah i usually had that feeling that something's around oh yeah i mean when i was out in the woods in oakridge like we we experience that extreme quiet multiple times and it just it really messes with you like i i wasn't able to handle it

it was it was too quiet you're a little eerie there's something out right here yeah it's like perfect silence it's almost hurt your ears Too much. Then Kenitis kicks in. That's true. Well, unless you have that all the time anyways, you know. Yeah.

Right. You don't know it. It's totally noise all the time. Yeah, exactly. You hear a lot of things about this area. You hear a lot of sightings crossing the road. I don't think I've heard a ton of aggressive encounters. that I had was I was out on my back porch, which is enclosed with a big tarp all the way around it.

And something was there. I could smell that stink like Tracy was talking about. And I was walking towards the edge of the tarp and something smacked it really hard. It scared me. So I went in the house again. And then I had all these trees out in my backyard just twisted into knots into like a big nest. All my trees were twisted. out. How near your house was that?

About 30 feet. Oh, boy, that's too close. Yeah, that was before I had my entire yard fence. I need a fence. Most of it is like a six and a half foot fence, but some of it is only like a four and a half foot fence, and that's the ones they walk over. Right. Yeah, mine doesn't have one at all. Have either of you experienced any other interesting things you would,

relate to Bigfoot? Give me time and I'll tell you more. It happens all the time around you. Oh, yeah, absolutely. It'll keep happening. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those times I won't even want to take my dog out because I think there's something out there.

Well, I hear things. I hear them moaning and howling and getting trees. Well, it's pretty bad when the coyotes quit yapping. And the coyotes follow them around. I think they'd get out of it away a little bit, too. Well, you just go quit. you'll hear that howl and everything else

left over yeah and I've heard tree knocks it put the big light far in us yeah you can almost feel the air moving light well it didn't help that I was knocking

on the tree a little earlier though oh it's your fault you're getting them wrapped up okay wow planning on it I was just good buddy later on I heard this

really loud and right close to me look Yeah, it's really eerie, though, to be out there at night because I'm alone. My stupid dog would probably hide behind me if there was really something wrong. It's so, like, it's kind of spooky. And she goes across the road for me, but that's still quite a hawk. Sure.

Yeah, yeah. But, yeah. It's kind of sketchy knowing something's right there and you can't see it. Right. Smell it. You can hear it just like, I don't know. You can really feel it more than you. Yeah, like.

I don't know, 30 yards from my house. Well, that's where I hear the tree knocks from is probably that far away. Probably 30 yards. I'll usually walk out at the front gate and then put my flash bite out. Yeah, look for eyeballs before. I've seen eyeballs. And they're not on the ground. No, they're up at high.

How high up would you say there? The deer's out. Too high. Too high. Yeah, right, right. Right, too high. Yeah, I got to. You know, around the tree, you know, that's...

I've... Or not a deer. Yeah, they're like... And usually it's in her yard, I see it. Yeah, it's kind of golden, green colors here. Because our yards are filled with trees. Yes. Now, let me ask you this.

So, I talk to a lot of people about the Oak Ridge area. And every once in a while, in the interviews, there'll be other weird stuff that comes out and it's not Bigfoot related at all. I've had people say aliens or yeah aliens

UFOs stuff like I've heard that but I've also heard things like fairies gnomes stuff like that dogman

oh you've heard dog man in this area yeah really oh yeah I haven't heard I haven't heard anything around here

but I've heard about them in other places. Okay, but not in this area. That's good. Not in this area that I know from. But who knows? You never know. I mean, anything can happen.

That's true. But it is a beautiful, it's, it's the beautiful, the most beautiful area I've ever seen, but it is also the most weirdest, the most weird area I've ever experienced. I don't know what it is. This is weird.

I do. Well, it's funny you think you should say something about flying saucers because right just behind Tracy's property, I see this thing going back and forth all the time. And when I flash my light at it, it goes behind the trees. I told you that I have that orb that rides with me in my car. It's weird. It rides with you. And this thing is flashing all kinds of colors. I took a picture of it.

Remember where I told you? I have that picture of it. Sometimes I think they're involved, but I don't know. I think that there's something to it because I think they know each other. Yeah, they probably do know it. Yeah, there you go. Let me ask you this. So you guys have experienced what we call Bigfoot multiple different times in this area.

If you were to have to categorize it, would you categorize it as some kind of big monkey in the woods or some kind of human type creature or how how would you describe it? I think it's like a very Indian of some sort. I think it's a very big giant Indian intelligent. Like covered in hair. Very intelligent. Because it's more human and it is ape. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's very intelligent. They're aware and they know. Very intelligent. They speak. Yeah. Well, not in our words, but they do have their own. But I've heard people hearing French come out of them and Indian words come out of them.

They've got to pick up on some of it. Oh, yeah. Or we picked up on something. Is that from this area? I've worked with it all over the place. I actually bought a Canada. The place I go camping all the time, I've, I've actually heard voices and laughter and stuff coming from across the creek.

Like you can tell it's like different voices, but there's no actual like, you can't hear words like you would hear. It's mumbling. Yeah, it's just the sound of voices and laughter and like, so I know they have a language. I know they're very intelligent or they would have been in a zoo by now. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here, and one here, and one here, you need the Intuit ERP. If scaling your business feels like starting over, you need the Intuit ERP.

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Right. More like a Neanderthal. But yeah, but they have intelligence like we do. Or more, more they live for the land not to destroy it. There you go. Yeah. That's great. That's a great way to put it, actually.

They don't. That's why the Indians live here for thousands and thousands of years. They just took what they needed. Yeah. That's why they got along with the Indians. Exactly. That's why I don't really feel threatened by it. And they never have.

Tracy is part Indian. Oh, okay. Very cool. Very cool. I've grown up out there too and had them like just feed away from me like all the time. I'm frigid. Start giving things and I don't really want them hanging around my house. Oh, my hell would potato's out for them or orange or something.

But I've never had them actually raid my camp either. But it's like they know I'm sharing what I can share if they get used to it. stopped is they live there i'm the ones isn't they think oh we've got 10 of them i want five that's funny that's funny never having next fortune kind of a good copy it's just there's a lot of stuff that happens to rock down that hill at my son and i that time was the worst encounter and it was short-lived and we gave them their space and right they're telling you easily with little rocks and the bigger you've wanted to do. I leave them in Little Rock.

Did that happen in Gilchrist, Tracy? I don't want no bigger. No, that was over up out of Mapleton up in the mountains. Okay. That's, let me see. More towards the Oregon Cotes. Got it. Yeah, Florence, and then Mapleton is just up river from Florence.

Okay. Got it. So you're where I'm in? Iowa or Ohio? Yeah, I'm, well, I'm a central Iowa, but I, I'm going out to Oregon again this year. I like going out there. It's fun.

Right. But, yes. I'm here they have that festival. It's a good time. Every year. When does that take place? I believe this year it is July 11th and 12th. Maybe me and Tracy can head that way.

That would be cool, actually. Yeah, it's a great time. There's a lot of cool people there. and I mean, everyone's into Bigfoot and the weird stuff. So a lot of crazy stuff happens. It's a good time. So, yeah, definitely check out. Yeah, I have some friends who lived in Dexter,

which is not too far from Oak Ridge. Yeah, yeah. They had Bigfoot encounters there. Oh, I don't, I would totally believe them because I've heard a few things from the Dexter area and the Fall Creek area, which is. right over there. But yeah, that's a wild area as well.

I lived in Lorraine. Oh, did anything, did anything happen in Lorraine when you were there? Um, actually this one night, I was, well, my trailer one side of it was probably like one story off of the ground

because it was on a hill. And so my living room window was probably like 70 feet off of the ground. And I was reading books to my kids in the living room, floor one night and I had my window open and I looked over and there was a hand and a face in my window. Did you grab the shotgun?

I jumped up and got my kids back and went and closed the window. But yeah, I mean, it had to been pretty tall to be looking in my window like that. It just had his hand like rested on the edge of the window and looking in. But yeah, my kids and I like, across the living room, we were only probably like 10 feet away, maybe. You know, it was spooky. Yeah. And then Goutyville Road.

I lived on the Lorraine side in like two or three driveways up from the end of Goutyville. And there was quite a few encounters that happened up on Gowdyville Road. And I'm pretty sure I encountered one. It was late though. It was dark. But I could hear something moving over in the brush. My dog wouldn't get out of the car, and that was his peeve spot on the way home from town, so he always got out there. But he was trembling and wouldn't get out.

So I'm pretty sure that was probably what that was. Yeah, once you've seen these things, you know they're there. Well, that's not far from Cottage Grove Lake either. Right over from Cottage Grove is Lorraine, right over the mountain. Gowdyville Road takes you over that mountain. And, yeah. Yeah. And yeah, that's where I lived for a while. But that's where I had the, like, they were, it was looking in my window. It freaked me out because it had to be really tall to be just like so nonchalantly like the hand up on the edge of the window just looking in. It had to be pretty like eight, nine feet tall at least. That's freaky. You know, we had talked about cottage. Yeah, never a gentleman. Yeah, absolutely. We had never talked to.

We talked about Cottage Grove a little bit earlier, and I've been hearing a lot of weird stuff from that area. Also, Dorana Lake and Sharps Creek. Have you experienced any weird stuff down in that area as well? No, but all of my family lives in that area. So I've had two uncles that were actually riding together. It was a Culp Creek over at Cottage Grove. My aunt lived up there and they were going to my aunt's house and it was probably, I don't know, it's 7, 8 o'clock at night, they said. It was dark, but it ran across the road in front of the truck as they were going to my aunt.

That was on Culp Creek. My aunt and her husband, I'm not positive exactly where it was because one of my uncles at the time lived in Lerang, and they were on their way either to or from Cottage. Grove from my uncle's place and they had one on Cottage Grove Highway. They had to stop because it was crossed in the road up at the top of it in the corners. They had to stop and it went across the road right in front of the car. Guys, it has been a fun time chatting with you tonight as Steve Sumter and Tracy Brooks. Thank you both for coming on the podcast. Is there anything else you would want to make sure you share before we have the end of our conversation today?

Well, I have a question for you. Oh, sure, yeah. Have you ever seen one or had any encounters? So that's a really good question. I had some weird stuff happen out in Oak Ridge last July. I did not have an actual sighting. I heard some... you knew there was.

I knew they were there. We got screamed and roared at by something out in the woods. I mean, that was crazy. Yeah. But I have not had an actual, like, face-to-face see something. I mean, I missed having it by about five hours

because of when I came in through the airport. There was another group up there, and they saw one jump out of a tree. It was crazy. So. Well, I will send them pictures to you. I'll send them. directly to your phone. Is that okay?

Oh, yeah, you can do that or my email, whatever is easiest for you, man. So, yeah, definitely. Okay, not problem. Cool. And, yeah, Steve, thanks for reaching out. And Tracy, thanks for coming on as well. You're welcome. Thank you for having us. I just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you, all my listeners, for listening to the podcast.

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