Bigfoot Society - Chad Christensen: Idaho Legislator Sees Bigfoot!

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

Former Idaho state legislator Chad Christensen opens up about his real-life Bigfoot encounter deep in the Palisades Reservoir and Jackknife Creek area of Idaho.In this exclusive interview, Chad recounts his chilling night in the wilderness — a 2 a.m. rock throw, glowing red eyes on a ridge, terrified horses, and a scream unlike anything human. He also discusses his background in law enforcement, his time in the Idaho legislature, and why he’s decided to go public after two decades of silence.Host Jeremiah Byron guides listeners through one of the most credible firsthand Bigfoot accounts ever recorded in Idaho.If you’re into Bigfoot sightings, Sasquatch encounters, or government witness stories, this episode is for you.Resources:Chad's FB page - https://www.facebook.com/chadchristensenforidaho/🗣️ 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

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You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible, from backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. 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, Bigfoot Society, you've got the privilege of talking to Mr. Chad Christensen today.

Chad has law enforcement and military experience and was also a state legislator for four years. So welcome to the show, Chad. It's great to have you on today. Hi, Jeremiah. I can get to be on there too. I was an Army MP required for a while, for a while. And I was also a juvenile probation officer. Then I went to state probation and dealt with.

Prolees come out of prison. And I also ran the fugitive warrant team. So when any of those proleaders or probationers in the office, absconded and got a warrant for them, I would run a team that would chase them down and we'd arrest them and put them in jail. So that part of the job was pretty exhilarating. And from there, I went to state welfare fraud investigations

and dealt with a lot of people that scammed the welfare system. And then, yeah, I was elected to the state legislature in 2018, I beat a 30-year incumbent. and a state affairs committee chairman. So it was pretty kind of a big deal. It was kind of statewide news. Hey, this new guy that nobody knows about kind of beat this 30-year incumbent.

So it was pretty exciting. And I spent four years in office. I'm running again in 26. I was in the house for four years then. So I'm running again in 26. You know, being in the legislature was a good experience. I feel like I stood for the people and not the establishment. And for what was, you know, for freedom in the Constitution.

So it was important to me. Chad, we had gotten connected about that you have an experience that you were wanting to share that happened out in Idaho to you, correct? Yeah, I've been kind of hesitated for years. And I've told more and more people after the fact and friends and, you know, my dad. Yeah. So I get into it now if you help me too. And it was back in 2003.

And, you know, it was the area I hunted quite a bit. You know, French showed me this area for deer and elk. And mostly elk, you know, I'd go back in there and hunt elk usually. And my first, it's called Jetnav Creek area. And you go past Palisage Reservoir, which later I've come to know, the area is quite, you know, there's a quite few. stories about Bigfoot in that area, now that I've come to do research. And I had no idea there was that many stories and encounters that were back in the area around Palisades.

So, yeah, you drive past Palisades Reservoir and go into Wyoming and then take it, and go back west and go back into Idaho. And I would hunt there quite a bit. You know, I'd been there in this certain canyon. It was called Skull Canyon. And I'd go in there, And I always feel just a weird presence, harder, harder explain. I just didn't feel right. I was a little bit off, but I'd always just go back at her hunt because it was a good area. And I'd always get my elk and be successful. And then I got my first elk in there probably in the 90s.

And I went back in there and I took my dad and brother one year to do, dear husband. it to deer hunt. I remember one night we were in camp and I was woken up and I heard you know I didn't think of anything at the time but I heard a bipedal

heavy walk at our camp and I know I smelled like a skunk type smell and I just okay this is weird and I didn't think much of it then

and the next day A warden came into our camp and could find me about driving my Jeep on a trail I shouldn't have been on. I go, I didn't know. He says, well, it's parked. I said, okay, I didn't see that. So I attributed that. I told my dad, hey, even that ward came into our camp last night. I heard somebody walking through it.

Well, I don't think it was him now. Obviously, I think it was something else. So a few years later, I was honey milk in that same canyon. And my dad was there. He didn't come up with, he stayed down in the camper, and I went up and hunted in that canyon. And I came across a six-by-six-six-elk, leaving the herd of elk down the canyon. So I shot him, and we got down to my dad, hey, I got a bull.

And he responded, oh, awesome. So I still dressed it. and then it was getting late in the day and I said well I'm gonna get this skin to fill dress it and call my friend help me come get it out because he had horses he told me you'd help if I got something down

and so I you know filled dressed it went back down and I called my guy I went out to get some service on my cell phone and I called him hey I got this out down you're still on please to help me he said yes I drove back into town

and we got his one of his horses and they had to back up so we got there back up to that carrying about it was around midnight

so it was late and so we had two horses his horse he was riding on a normal saddle and then we had the other horse which I rode on

most of the way it was a packed saddle so it was very uncomfortable to ride on but I did so we went kind of a different he knew the area well

and we didn't go shut up the canyon like I did to hunt we went kind of up a different ridge and knoll to get down to the spot where we dropped down down in the canyon and as soon as we got up that knoll

and we were looking down in the canyon that my elk was in and the horses started going crazy and my horse put me off and I got up back up again I slipped across the canyon

there was a set of eyes and they appeared to be red and my friend's like you see that I'm like yeah he's like what the heck is that and like wow I don't know I never know an animal to have red eyes we were just nervous

and and it went away and we're like, okay, well, let's just go get to help now. And he told the horses were still really nervous and agitated. We went down on pass where those eyes were. So we went up to get my, we went up to the canyon and the horses, and I just felt like again, like it was someone's off. And I felt like I was being watched.

And just a weird feeling, you know, a feeling of, didn't feel good. It just felt weird. We got to my elk and I was surprised and it hadn't been touched because whatever that was, I thought it probably got to my elk and it was hadn't been touched. I'm like, okay, well, that's good. So we got the elk in fours, corded it up and put on the pack horse. And I took the, I cut the outdoors off to take them. So he went out with the horses.

And I'm, he's like, well, follow me up that knoll again. And on the way out, what we, you know, we saw that, our horses went nuts. And I said, okay, you know, but he was obviously, he was passionate than me, so I was by myself in the dark. And, well, I had a lantern and a flashlight. I think it was a flashlight. So I had the, had the antler.

in my other gear and I was at his sidearm at, you know, with 45. And I went walking down the canyon and I got to his point where I was, he told me to turn up to Noel again and ridge and fall with that area. I'm like,

I don't know that area very well and I don't want to do in the dark. But, so I decided to go down to canyon. And that area where I was talking about why I was supposed to turn up, right below me

had a big set of log downfall huge trees that I had to go over to get down in the canyon and as soon as I started into those logs a big rock flew by my head

and it was I mean it was a big rock it was probably 50 pounds and I could tell it had been throwing a pretty good distance I mean I couldn't see a whole lot in the dark

but I knew it wasn't a short distance it wasn't like 10 feet it had to be like 50 75 feet away or you know that was my estimation and my eyes froze I mean what in the world and I saw

about 75 feet away you know I couldn't see I couldn't make it out very well I saw a figure and I saw it and I saw those eyes look at me again and then turn away

and and then I just so I started moving forward getting real slow and looking up there I was super nervous and I heard it and I heard a scream that I can never explain the pitch it's

that was just a nerving it was high-pitched and it felt like a little grow into a high pitch I guess, the way to put it. And at that point, I just was busting through the

the downfall as fast as I could. And I ran and ran all the way down that canyon to get out of there. And I got to the bottom. And my friend was waiting down there at the bottom of the canyon with horses. And he was all,

me and my friend are always drunk with each other and always playing games on each other. and he was waiting there and for me to come around a corner and he scared me. So I was already scared, obviously, and I'm going for my gun because I didn't know what, but I obviously calmed down and I said, okay, it's him. So that was, you know, a pretty quick story, I guess, but that was just as I experienced. And I've always, we had another friend that, that happened.

had out there quite a bit and he'd always tell us hey i hear this scream up there all the time i can't tell what it is it's not it's not any animal i know and this guy is a quite quite a mountain man and he for him for him to say something like that to me i was shocked because this this guy knows his animals and he's been in the mountains all his life and he's pretty much a true idaho mountain man and it told me that he he didn't know what that that screw that that noise was a screaming up and there just made me even verify even more of it okay this is there's something to this to this i haven't been like like in the canyon since so i mean i i might go ahead eventually one day again but wow that's yeah that's that's some that is a pretty

frightening encounter so just a few questions for you. So it was it was midnight when you went back and got the elk, correct? Right. And I would say when I got down to that spot where it threw the rock at me, I would see it's probably two, two three in the morning. Okay, gotcha. Probably two, probably two-ish. Yeah. So two-thirty-ish, and that's around the same time that you're seeing a figure that's about 75 yards away? Right. Yeah, I would see it. There's no, not a few yards. I would say it was probably and yards, probably 50-ish. Okay.

Any less. So about 50 yards, which is about the length of like two tennis courts. That's an example of what that is. So around 2.30 in the morning and then, how much of, were you just able to see the figure, sorry,

were you just able to see the silhouette of the figure? Or how much of it were you able to see? Right. I didn't see much detail. I saw the silhouette a couple times, but sometimes it kind of faded into a dark background. But, yeah, the silhouette, you know, I knew it was huge with that silhouette. And I definitely looked by a peatel to me the way it moved. And across that, it was on the side of it, a ridge.

It wasn't on a flat, it wasn't on a flat ground, on the side, you know, all the time that we saw. the eye is on the side of the ridge or I was walking down the canyon is on the side of the ridge and it moved on that side of that steep bridge with ease when it followed me for a little bit I don't know how far to follow me but when I saw it it was on you know it was when walking next to me it was on that ridge and it seemed to be a very large bipedal yeah and that mass to it wasn't skinny you know, it was mass. And so when you say it had mass, were you able to, to estimate, like, you know, was it very muscular or lean, or was it, did it look like it was a certain length across

at the chest or anything, anything like that? Yeah, it seemed broad and muscular, right? It definitely didn't seem like it was skinny and very, very wide. from shoulder to shoulder and very wide when it turned sideways I could see it was wide that way as well tick that way

were you able to get an estimate of how tall it seemed to be not real well but I would just kind of ballpark figuring it and maybe some of the rocks and boars and trees around it you know I would I would just guessing

eight feet Gotcha. At any time when you saw it 50 yards away from you and it was moving, it's walking, did you ever see anything glowing at all or anything that made any light? No, I don't think anything it was glowing. I think it was a reflection. I think when I saw its eyes, it was a reflection from the moon. is what I think it was

you know the first time I saw the eyes across the canyon with my friend I think that redness coming it was reflection I believe from

the light was there so I don't think it was glowing I think it was reflected from you know the light from the moon sure were you able to see any of that reflection

when you were looking at it when it was starting to move walk away after the rock was thrown at you yes yeah yeah it would be look for it would turn look at me and then i see the eyes looking at me

and they would they would have a turn again and go to walk forward and it was back again maybe probably three times i probably saw it turn its head to it to me and saw that reflection when it was on the side of that ridge i see that i see that reflection of the eyes what what color did it seem to have for reflection. Red. Okay. So it was red at that time as well. Yep.

When it made the move in order to turn its head to look at you, could you tell if it was more of a having to turn its whole body or was it able to just turn its head and look over? I think it turned, I think it was kind of both. I think it was its shoulder turned too and its head would turn a little bit with it, I believe. I thought I kind of, so more of his body, I think, turned first. You know, a shoulder turned back and it turned towards me. And, you know, I believe they had turned some too. Sure.

But most of the body, yeah. Was there anything that you noticed that would have made you think that you're dealing with a male or a female Bigfoot? No, I could make that out at all, no. Gotcha. How did this affect you after you had this

encounter and then, you know, you go back home and you try to go about your life? Did it affect you in any ways right off the bat? Oh, yeah. I mean, I just I went nuts on researching. You know, before I, you know, I was kind of,

you know, I never dismissed Sasquatch or Bigfoot being, I didn't I wasn't one of those people that like oh that can't be true and it's there's no way I always have an open mind about it but I didn't know it existed and I didn't really put my thought into it so when I after it happened to me yeah I became and done on researching it and looking at other people's stories and and just finding out to every tribe in the world has a name for it and and the encounters, the people's witness encounters are just so consistent with so many things that I came across. You know, the smell, you know, I thought, I didn't small anything out of the canyon, but in my camp, I realized, okay, nobody was big foot.

I came into our camp, and the smell was consistent and the rock throwing, and the eyes seemed consistent for a lot of people, and so many behaviors, you know, people have done. They'll make up those things and it's so consistent. And being in law enforcement and witnesses are important. And when their stories are consistent, that's important. You know, people aren't. And of course, there's going to be some people that are fraudulent in their stories. And when those people, when a lot of people, most of them are very consistent in their stories, okay, something's to do this.

Something's going on. Sure. So, yeah, since, you know, 20 years, I just became, and then researching it. So it changed me for sure. I became assessed at times and researching it. And, you know, Dr. Meldrum is close to where I live. So I would, you know, email him and call him and pick his brain a little bit. And I became to respect him. You know, he's at his science, you know, things that he's come across and he articulated things for you will how okay yeah you're right the mid-tossel break that's it absolutely

you know his his explanations were I'm like okay yeah you're right or something to this and and I believed him I didn't tell many people the story for a long time and I didn't tell my friend that night he knew someone was wrong with me and you know he kept asking on the way home what's wrong and I know I'm good all right quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, this is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs. You'll get matched with candidates that meet the skills, certifications, and everything else you're looking for, or go a different way and get no traction. Seriously,

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heard those screams up in the area. He told me, yeah, our when from work, you know, he's heard his screams up there for years and he can't put a, you know, a creature to those screams.

So I think he believed me because of what he said that. And I finally told a friend of mine, we were pretty close during that time. We're not, he's a deputy sheriff. I won't use his name. And it finally told him

and when I did it, he's like, oh, I could tell if something was, honest, his demeanor changed. And I knew something was, he knew something. And I kept a push to him. What are you, what something's, you're thinking about something that you want to tell me, I think. So I kept bugging him. Tell me what you're thinking. And he finally told me, he came across the Sasquatch, what he believed to be a Sasquatch over in Ledore, Idaho. He told me and my friend, he was an outlawful police officer and him were riding full withers down,

what they call eight-mile trail up in Liddort, and they were coming down this canyon. It was towards, you know, he was trying to get dark. They're still light enough to see well, but the sun was starting to go down. And he came out of a corner and he said, his friend was ahead of him. So his friend had passed whatever this thing was. And he came up, he came on his corner, and he said, this thing was off the trail. So the trail to the right dropped. And he said, this thing was standing off the side of the trail, and his back was to him,

and it put his arm out to kind of protect itself from the four-wielder as he passed. And he said, that thing was as tall as him on his foot-wether. And I was standing down below the trail. So he thought, okay, this thing is like 10 feet tall. And he went past it. He went down to the trailhead and met up with his friend. And he told his friend, his friend just laughed at him and said you're full of it. And that's why he was so hesitant to tell me.

I don't think he told anybody besides me and maybe his parents. The story. But I tell us pretty cool that, you know, okay. You know, what else is out there that I don't know about? People, you know, friends and family have experienced. And since I told him my story, he eventually told me his. And I think a lot of people's reports or people's encounters don't get reported. You know, I know that the BFRO has, you know, a map of how many recordings are across the nation.

And I'm like, okay, it's probably only like 10% of the real reports if it's that much, you know. Looking back to when I was a kid, and it's not far from the area where I had my encounter, you know, we would go, you know, on family reunions to, it's called the Kelly Cannon area, which is, like I said, not too far from Palisades or had my encounter. And I remember, be with my cousins, and we took Huckleberries and I was, you know, in a canopy of trees. I remember one time I looked back, way back into the canopy of trees, and I saw that same thing, red eyes. And I would hit my cousin, hey, what's that back there? And I, in one time, I heard it, I saw it swaying back and forth, and so did she.

And we point out to her cousins, hey, look back there, what is that? You know, some of the cousins didn't care. But we did, me and my female cousins online. So after my experience amounts and then looking back to that, I'm like, okay, that is possibly a Sasquatch. After my research, and I came to realize, okay, a lot of them are pretty curious about kids and their kids being playful and they come down and watch kids being just silly and playful. And that was interesting to them, I believe. So that made sense to me that, okay, that's why that was there watching those. Chad, a few questions for you.

You know, you're coming forward with your, you know, your full name and exactly who you are and that you were a state legislator. And not only that, it's not that you're retired, it's that you're also trying to get back into this position as well. Why come forward now with what you experienced regarding Bigfoot in these areas? You know, I've never been afraid of truth, I guess. I've always been one that's true support to me, and I don't want to. And I know people, you know, some people might get all of this and think, oh, or chance at a new job. And, you know, they probably already do the ones that don't like me.

But, you know, it's just my personality, I guess. I don't, I'm not really afraid of things like that. I'm just, the kind of person just always, you know, speaks the truth. You know, when I was in office, I was pretty hated by this, you know, what we call the establishment. for speaking the truth about what happened in the legislature. You know, I would out them for, hey, there's this corruption there and they're, and I would point it out.

So I was a big target for that reason for speaking truth and not, and the people know the truth and what was going on. So I've always been one, never been afraid to shy away from the truth. And, you know, I can't say definitively that when I saw it was at a big foot, but all signs point to that direction, of course, obviously, if I'm calling you and explaining the story to you. And my friend that had experience in that order, I mean, that was Cruz the bill to him. And he was so hesitant to tell me that he was like he was trying to offer it to me,

hey, this is what happened to me. Please believe me, you know, he was so hesitant to tell me. And I'm like, okay, this is, this is true. He's not lying to me. You know, it's just, I've always been wanted to seek truth. I don't care what people think. It's just too long. I am, I guess.

During your time as a legislator so far, did the topic of Bigfoot ever come up in conversation or did people know that, hey, Chad's the Bigfoot guy, you know, anything like that? No. No. I never, I never brought it up to anybody of my fellow legislator. are in that realm of politics.

And I mean, I wouldn't shy away from it. I guess I never came up a topic. And, you know, the friends I made there, you know, there's ones I trust. And I would tell that story too. And it just never came up. So I guess I didn't think about telling anybody that. Have you heard of any other government officials that have also had Bigfoot encounters, anything that you've heard through your channels over the,

the years. Oh yeah. I mean, I've done a lot of research and her stories from, you know, police officers and I mean, not in our area. But yeah, I've heard lots of individuals that were government officials that were, you know, forest rangers and police officers and, you know, their experiences and how they were told to be quiet. And, you know, if you don't be quiet, you'll lose your job. Well, you know, I did show one up in North Idaho, a story that came across doing research and it was a state employee that was out in the, They're doing some kind of surveying, I think, out in the forest for like a month at a time. And they came across a family.

And then, you know, this guy was written with his job, hey, if you don't be quiet, you know, you're going to lose your job. So I know I know that would happen to an Idaho state employee. I don't, I think it was up north or maybe central Idaho. You know, I came across some stories of guides over that same area around Palisades, Satchewish Chronicles. I came across a story of a guide over in the area where I was. And he had like three encounters. Michael Cal, he's a lot more prevalent than I thought in that area.

What do you think it would take for the topic of Bigfoot to be widely accepted or disclosed? You know, I don't, I believe that there's been, after, you know, like about 20 years of research, I do believe there's been body sound and, you know, good amount of evidence that's been found. I think the government just covers it up. So I don't know if anything that we, any evidence that we find can be really put on the mainstream science and media. I don't think it's, I think the government covered it up so much and threatens people that it's not a possibility to be, to get to that point, is my opinion. I've heard stories like that as well, some of them that can never really be put out there into the public, but there are some definite stories out there of the government showing up in different areas, like maybe even the Navajo Reservation and showing up with black SUVs and, you know, taking whatever it was off in their vehicle. Right.

I didn't think he was telling a story about, I just saw a story of my friends over in Lederer. He went back to that area like a few days later because he was curious. I would have been scared to go back, I guess. But he got curious and went back to that trail, and he started up the trail a little way. He was also then everything was taped off. And he, you know, the trail was closed.

and he came across a Ranger that was really close started questioning the Rangers and the Rangers started saying hey you know the closeness trail because of a Cougar has been having problems and he's like you kept questioning him I don't believe him so he kept questioning the Ranger the Ranger got little stinky with him and so yeah that did happen with him I forgot to mention that so I think the Rat Ranger knew something was going on there with what he saw so did he so that's that's why he was so that's why he was so He questioned that ranger so much. It's a tricky subject because, and I've never heard this from, just from what I've heard,

I think a lot of those guys, you know, if they do start talking on record, I mean, they're going to lose their job. Actually, I can say I've talked to one guy out in the Pacific Northwest, and yeah, he won't come on there. But he's had stuff happen out there. in, and, uh, let's just say the PNW. Uh,

this is pretty wild. Um, wow. Yeah, it's, it's, it's getting close, man.

So I would feel that over the last, let's say maybe 10 years or less, we've really started to experience a disclosure in the UFO or UAP phenomenon field. And it's slow. It's really, really slow. Do you think that will ever happen on the big foot side of things or, are we probably

a while away from that? Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I know, you know, in my research, I came across to Army manual in that same area that you just mentioned, the Pacific Northwest

and Washington, where they, in that manual, they were talking about, you know, if you come across to Sasquatch, this is what you do. So, and that was a real Army manual

for training. But so I think it's kind of been in and out. I think if we're going to print something like that in an Army manual, I think it can be kind of gradually come out into that in that realm of being more open and honest about this discussion. You know, and what was to me, you know, Dr. Meldram was very open about it and I appreciated about him. He was just, you know, we were kind of like that, you know, I liked that way that we were just, we cared about truth.

And that's what he cared about. And to see all these professors, you know, like crap really, really bug me, you know, that was, you know, they made fun of them. And his colleagues that wouldn't talk to him and made fun of them. So I guess my point with dad is just getting past that childishness and, and have an open mind and, and stop. stuff in science away like they did you know you know

meldrum had good science behind what he what he knew to be true and stop dismissing that I guess it's going to be the key to the key to that I think you know oh absolutely I mean

Dr. meldrum was a fantastic individual I there's going to be there's quite a void to fill and and hopefully we all realize that you know we need to

step up in that regard and I believe some people are are, would you be able to talk to individuals that might be listening to this particular episode that are, let's say, in higher, maybe government positions or,

etc., that might have knowledge about, you know, Bigfoot that they're not coming forward with. And why, is it, oh, wow,

did you hear that? I didn't. What was that? I just had some really fun interference on my side. Wow. Oh, boy. Okay. So could you take a minute to maybe discuss about why it would be important for those individuals as well to come forward with what they know about this subject?

Yeah, I think it's important for, you know, for a number of what, you know, the reason I mentioned before is just, you know, the truth. I think the truth is important. I think people deserve to know. what's out there. I think there's beings out there that you know, I think some are very docile and friendly

and some are some are aggressive. You know, I think they're a lot like humans. I think there's different personalities involved. I think it's important for people to be aware of the impossible dangers out in the wild.

And I think, you know, these government workers or officials you know, they, but what to their, to the public, I believe, in my opinion, you know, to tell the truth. You know, there are people to go missing in the mountains every year. And I think,

I think some can be attributed to these creatures. I think they have, have kidnapped people and taking people. And I think that's, and I think, like I said, I don't think all about that, I think a very small portion of these beings are aggressive. but there are some that are

and I think people deserve to be aware of what's around them and the possibilities of you know being out there in the forest and their surroundings I think you know these government officials owe it to the public to speak up and tell them what's going on I agree 100% and to put a little

plug out there I guess for the own my own show if you are listening and you do have something to share and even if it is off record and anonymous and it can't go on the show, I'd still love to talk to you. I think that information is still important. And if you do want to come on the show and share whatever you know, please reach out to me at bigfoot society at gmail.com. But Chad, man, this has been such, such an interesting conversation in an area where, you know, I've had a few people on from the Palisades area and there is some weird stuff going on in that region as as you've experienced yourself and if other people have experienced stuff around there please reach out too but you know chat I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you came to the show today to share about yeah I had those three different experience I wanted to share and you know I know my experience as a kid was pretty brief but that's right and I had experienced

experience in the mountains. I look back to my, you know, I came to my head and like, yeah, I remember that as a child. But yeah, I did share all the experiences that I came to share, yeah. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for spending some time on the show today. It was a privilege to have you on. And I wish you best of luck to, in the future as you try to get a, I guess, another, it would be another four years in the state legislator of Idaho. It was two year terms. Two years. But yeah, I'll find you, I'm going for the Senate this time.

And before I was in the House, so I'm going to get run for the Senate this next in 26. So hopefully, yeah, I'll get a two-year term if I get in again. Yep. So, yeah, I appreciate that. Fantastic. And just asking, is there anything that you would want people to follow, you know, regarding yourself or anything like that? Sure. I mean, I guess my Facebook campaign page is check resistant for freedom loving Idahoans is my Facebook page.

And yeah, follow that and for more campaign information. And that'd be great. Awesome. Good stuff. Well, Chad, thank you again for coming on on the show. It has been a pleasure chatting with you. And we'll have to stay in touch maybe for the future. You have a good one, sir.

Yeah, you too. Thanks, Jeremiah. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something. directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch, or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI, a federal agency, or working intelligence, and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter,

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