Bigfoot Society - Driver Spots Massive Sasquatch Standing Beside I-90 Near Snoqualmie River In Broad Daylight

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

In this compelling eyewitness interview, Offroad X Files podcast host and overlanding researcher Jimmy Toungateshares the encounters that changed him from an interested skeptic into a firsthand Sasquatch witness. Jimmy recounts a terrifying nighttime campsite encounter near Mount Baker and a shocking broad-daylight Bigfoot sighting standing beside I-90 near the Snoqualmie River outside North Bend, Washington—a location linked to multiple independent sightings. Drawing on his work with the Offroad X Files podcast, Jimmy explains how overlanding, remote travel, and modern mapping tools are reshaping Bigfoot research and why Sasquatch activity may be occurring alarmingly close to highways and populated areas. If you’re searching for Bigfoot sightings, Sasquatch encounters, Pacific Northwest reports, or credible eyewitness cryptid experiences, this episode delivers firsthand details you won’t soon forget.Resources:https://www.offroadxfiles.com/https://www.youtube.com/@OffroadXFilesJimmy's link for OnX (Affiliate link) - https://bit.ly/44sGgfH 🗣️ 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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forever so stay with us all right big foot society we've got the privilege of talking to jimmy tungate today uh from off road x files youtube channel and podcast jimmy it's great to uh to talk to you finally i've wanted to talk to you for a while how's it going man uh it's awesome to be here jeremiah uh can't believe how excited i am about this that's awesome our our plaid shirts kind of match in a weird way they do yeah yeah listeners will have to check out the youtube channel a version to to see that for themselves but jimmy you have been popping up in a few things lately uh that i like to watch like uh sailish saskatch channel you were in one of those uh at least one and uh but before we get this stuff like that you know jimmy uh let's start with you know when i talk to people that are into the

subject and it feels like you're kind of a researcher slash content creator yourself, but what brought you into the Bigfoot field to begin with? What was it that drew you in? Well, I was really involved in hiking for a while until I had some health issues and had to stop hiking. And I'm a photographer. And so I was trying to figure out like, how can I still do landscape photography and get out to those same areas? And I was like maybe off-roading or overlanding. And I'd gotten a really big promotion at work and was able to afford my dream vehicle, which was a Toyota four-runner. And I got it all outfitted out and started going off-roading and overlanding, which put me, yeah, there we go. put me out into areas where Bigfoot are.

But I wasn't thinking about Bigfoot. I was thinking more about, you know, like the fun of off-roading the adventure, doing photography, creating content. Primarily, I was creating content for one of my Instagram pages for my four-runner's name is Buckaroo. So it's Buckaroo Adventures, creating content for that. hanging out with friends camping and I went to offroading with a group of friends out near Mount Baker and specifically well we'd been out there all day and we'd planned on camping so we went there's a snow overflow park it's a big kind of circle oval gravel kind of thing where when

the parking lot is full up ahead. People can park there. But there was nobody around. It was in kind of early June. And we got there in the afternoon. I had just gotten that rooftop tent. It was a smitty belt overlander XL. So believe it or not, that thing folded out to a king size plus bed.

It's really big, you know, pretty epic. Had never really used it before. and I'd just gotten an annex that zipped into the bottom that covered the lyr that you climb up in. It was like a big tent underneath my tent. And so I was really excited to use everything. On the driver's side, there's an 8x8 awning that you could pull out, and it's 8 feet by 8 feet. It's about 8 feet in the air. So everything was like really cool.

We were having a good time. We sat around, drank a few beers, had the, you know, fire, campfire, ate supper. And we're all pretty much older and go to bed on the earlier side. So we went to bed like around 10 o'clock, I think, maybe 10.30. And there was nobody else camped, you know, immediately by me. We were all spread out. So what you see there on the screen is, like exactly how it was set up. This was on that trip. So I'm up in the tent and I'm asleep.

And at about 1230, I think it was 1230, I hear something that wakes me up. And I'm not necessarily a light sleeper. I sleep pretty good. But it was loud enough that it woke me up. And so I'm laying there listening to try to figure out what it is that I'm hearing. And it's also pitch black. The inside of those rooftop tents are coated with a lining to act like a blackout from the sun. So even like in the morning, you can't tell it's morning yet. It's really dark. So when it is, you're out in the middle of nowhere and it's dark. It is really dark. You can't even see your hand in front of your face. So I'm listening very intently. trying to figure out, okay, what is this sound? Is there danger? What's going on? And I realize that

it sounds like if you're parked on gravel and you turn your tire, that kind of crunch sounds. That's what I was hearing. And I'm like, oh, well, that's interesting. What is that? And then I hear another one. And then it turns into footsteps. And it's walking around. So I believe it's started, there's kind of a pile of dirt behind my rig, behind the driver's side. And that's where I started hearing the sound. And I hear it walk around the front of my forerunner. And it's walking very slowly, methodically. I can hear this every step in crunch. I'm hearing, you know, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. Until it gets around to the passenger side of my vehicle where the tent door is.

And then at this point, I've already been, I'm like setting up in the tent, listening, trying to figure out, you know, is this, you know, what is happening? And so then I kind of transition to where the tent opens, where the ladder comes up. If you're looking on the YouTube channel, you can see the ladder inside the tent through the tent door. So I'm up at the top of that looking down because some of the windows are open. And I'm trying to see, you know, what is out there? Is it a person? What is it? But it's so dark, I can't see anything.

But I hear something, get to where that door is and kind of take the fabric in their hands and stretch it. And I was terrified at that point. I was like, I didn't know if it was fixing to come in. I knew whatever it was, it sounded very big. And I think I gasped at that point. And then it moves away. So eventually I was able to get back to sleep. I was too afraid to go outside to see what it was.

I wasn't armed or anything. I just had a knife. And so, but the next morning, as soon as I heard somebody up, man, I'm down out of that tent. And I'm outside asking everybody, you know, did you see anything last night? Did you hear anything? and everybody says no. You know, I didn't see anything, didn't hear anything. So I walk around my vehicle and I'm looking to see, you know, is there anything missing?

There are any footprints, anything, any evidence? Don't see anything. But then I realized where the onyness, I had a camp organizer hanging there. And I didn't see the camp, the organizer there. And it had like tent stakes in the bottom. and didn't really have anything else in there yet. I was just mainly hanging it to see, like, it was one of the first times I was using it as well to see, like,

what could I use this for? But it had tent stakes to keep it from blowing in the wind, anything like that. But it wasn't there. And so I start rationalizing and thinking, you know, it was somebody, it was a camp robber. Somebody just came in and they stole that. It wasn't anything weird.

That's what it was. It was just somebody coming in to steal stuff. So I'm hanging out over at the campfire where we're having breakfast. And it's kind of a little bit more elevated than where my rig is. And I happen to look over and I see the organizer isn't missing. It's laying on top of the awning. And it stretched completely out. And I sent you a picture so you.

can see what it looks like and how big it is. So this organizer is stretched out completely on top of the awning. And this is like eight feet up in the air. I had to get, now I'm five, six. Back then, I think it was closer to five, seven, but now I'm like five, six. Yeah. So I go over there and I get the step stool that I use to put the tent up and take it down. And I pull the awning down. And then I'm standing there trying to throw it back. there like if the wind blew but I could only get it to go like a foot maybe two feet in I couldn't get it to lay flat so while I didn't see anything I was like really afraid by what happened but I really kind of think maybe it was a big foot just messing with me came in maybe I'd have never seen a rooftop tent before

especially one in that configuration with an annex or something like that it didn't bother anybody else and I asked around a couple different times. The people that were camped the closest to me, I called earlier this year, and I was like, and so like this happened in June of 2023. It's not that long ago. So I call him up and like, you know, hey, do you remember we went camping up by Mount Baker?

They're like, oh, yeah, yeah. I said, you're like, did you see anything or hear anything that night? and the person I was talking to was like, no, he's like, does something happen to you? Like, did somebody do something to you or take something from you? And I said, no, I think there was a big foot in camp. And it was just kind of messing with me and some of the stuff in camp there. And they were like, oh, okay. So they didn't want me to tell who they were.

But so that was kind of my first. experience, real world, real world experience with what I think was a with a Bigfoot at that time. So that started bringing back like memories and stuff from when I was a kid. And growing up in the late 60s, 70s, there was quite the Bigfoot craze back then with the legend of Boggy Creek, stuff like that. And I'd remembered my parents would tell me like, you know, I could play everywhere. We lived on a cotton farm way out in the country. Didn't have a lot of neighbors.

So I was a free range kid. And I just ran all over and played in the woods. But they would tell me, you know, be home before dark or the woolly booger will get you or the booger man. And then my grandparents would say the same thing. They lived way out in the country. So, but at that time, I didn't associate Woolie Bougar will. boogers or booger man or hairy man with bigfoot uh but now i understand that that's what it was but even like you know that was kind of my introduction to bigfoot back then so did you grow up in

the southeast part of the u.s then uh central texas central texas okay so yeah that makes sense definitely okay wow that's that is is wild stuff i mean yeah it can get very very very in tents when you're in a tent like that and there's something super close. Yeah, I mean, you've heard the stories. I've lived through also there was a solo camp out. I was on in Iowa and something was walking around my tent. It just feels like your blood pressure is going to just take you out. Yeah, exactly.

It sounds like you were in a similar situation. But was that a time? Was that what pushed you over the edge until like, okay, let's focus on Bigfoot now? Or was there something that that came later? You were just kind of just getting into it. So I've always been intensely interested and curious about the unknown. One of my favorite shows growing up was Unolved Mysteries. Still love it.

Like I've watched all the reruns and everything. Love Unolved Mysteries. Love any kind of mystery. monsters, anything like that. But it wasn't. And so it kind of rekindled my interest. And I started listening to some podcasts that I found and watching YouTube videos and stuff and kind of trying to figure out was that what it was. See if anybody else had similar experiences.

And I know I was listening to your show recently. Well, I've listened to all of your episodes except for the most recent ones. But I was listening to the guy that is an overlander also an off-roader in the Jeep in Oregon that has had some pretty crazy experiences in his rooftop tent also. So I know that it does happen. It was the hook that got me kind of re-interested in the subject and looking into it. But it wasn't the catalyst that finally pushed me over the edge. So that happened in November of last year. So it's been a year in 10 days since this happened.

So it was November 10th of 2024. I'd been camping. It was a week after my birthday, so I went over to Crescent Bar on the east side of the Cascades just to kind of solo camp, decompress, and I actually just stayed like at a campground. I was also testing out some new overlanding gear and wanted to make sure, you know, everything was working perfectly before I go, you know, out somewhere very remote. And had a really nice weekend, was coming back home on Sunday. Traffic was really heavy on I-90 headed west, coming back into Seattle. but before you get into North Bend, you cross the Snoqualmie River a couple different times.

And recently I was back out there and realized that maybe the exit or the crossing that I thought where this happened wasn't quite the one I thought. It was the one after. So it's the exit after the fire training center. on I-90 West where Homestead Road is. I'm coming down I-90. It's like 1 o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday. There's traffic four lanes wide. I'm in the right-hand lane.

It's light rain. And I'm just kind of hanging out because I was tired of all the aggressive drivers. And I contend to be aggressive myself. And whenever somebody else is aggressive, it makes me more aggressive. So I didn't feel like any of that nonsense. I just wanted to continue the relaxation. And so I was hanging out in the right-hand lane. But I'm always, you can ask my wife, I can't cross a creek or a river without looking at it to see like, what's the water at?

You know, what can you see? And so I always, I always look. And so I'm coming down, I-90 West, headed into North Bend, and, and I'm. I get to the bridge going over the Snowquamie River and I look to my right and like 75 yards off the highway, there's a freaking Sasquatch standing there. And my mind just kind of locks up. And I was like, no, that can't be there. I believe they exist, but they can't be standing right there right now. It's the middle of the afternoon.

And there's cars, now I'm thinking all of this, there's cars whizzing by, and it's just standing there. It's looking, so it would be facing northeast. Its back was to me. I could see it from head all the way down to its feet where they were on the ground. It was standing on river rock, so the big rocks in the river. It was kind of a cinnamon color, so reddish brown, dark reddish brown. It had a very long hair hanging off of its arms. Its arms went down to right around its knees.

But what really caught me off guard, Jeremiah, was the size. And it's, unless you've seen one and you've seen the size, even saying how big it is, it really doesn't come across. This thing was massive. It was like four and a half feet wide at the shoulder. And it's just standing there kind of looking across the river. And so I'm wondering like, what's it looking at? Why is it standing there and what is it looking at?

But I only had like, you know, maybe three seconds to take all of this in as I'm driving by. And so as I drive by and I'm out of sight, my mind is still just reeling. And I start trying to explain it away. I started trying to rationalize that that couldn't have been a big foot. It had to be a tree or dead wood or something else that just happens to have like hair hanging off of it six inches longer. So, you know, this thing was massive. So I debated on whether I should turn around and go back, but there really isn't a place to pull off there. And it's really a pain in the butt to get back to.

You have to go a couple miles down, then take an exit, then go back a couple miles, and then circle around. And so I just ultimately decided not to do it that day. But I knew right away I wanted to come back and take a look at it. So two weeks later, I drove back out there and went to Homestead Road exit where the fire training center is. And I came back around. I drove down the road kind of on the other side of the river. looking to see, is there a place that, you know, you could see through to see, you know, exactly where it was standing. Are there any trails, anything? It's pretty heavily brushed right there.

It'd be pretty difficult to get down to the river from there, from what I saw. So then I came back up and went really slowly back on. It's a very short exit to get back on I-5 or I-90. and I'm looking and I don't see any dead trees. I don't see anything that could explain what I saw. So I was able to roll out the possible and what I'm left with is kind of the impossible. And that's it. There had to be a big foot standing there. So I went on another podcast earlier this year.

And two weeks later, I get an email from a guy who said, hey, Jimmy, I was hunting on the east side and coming back over. And kind of that same area, I saw Bigfoot standing off the highway too. And he sends me a Google map. And Jeremiah, it's the same place. Really? Oh, my goodness. And then I did an episode with a Flash of Beauty where they interviewed me about all of this. and somebody contacted me and they're like, Jimmy, I saw one in the same place.

So there have been myself and two others have seen a Bigfoot standing in that same riverbed. So I really think that they use that as a point of ingress and egress, in and out of the North Bend area coming down the Snoqualmie River from out of the mountains. but like it's private land on the west side of where the river is and then it's like really difficult to get to from there so but like why why why be standing there in the middle of the day just kind of looking around kind of it doesn't make sense but i i know what i saw and that was the catalyst that gave me this intense burning desire to like i need to figure this out no. Oh man. That is that is incredible. I don't know if I've even heard that on my own show where there's two other people that have had a similar sighting in the same exact area where the witness had the site.

That's awesome, dude. That's like, yeah, there's no question. Three seconds, super quick. during that time were you able to see, did you notice anything about the shape of the head or what the face looked like, anything like that? Well, I didn't see the face because it was facing away from me. It was facing to the northeast and I'm headed west. But what I could see is the top of the head, the back of the head, the back, the shoulders. It had long hair. and one of the things that really kind of struck me, like I spent an intense amount of time thinking about this and trying to recall every detail because it happened so quickly. But it's really quite amazing, Jeremiah, which your mind can capture in a split second.

It can capture an incredible amount of detail that you can then refer back to and recall. So the head wasn't conical. It was more round. it didn't have a neck so I think I might be related because I don't have much of a neck either and some of the folks in the Flash of Beauty video didn't quite get that joke I said it must be a Tungate and they were like what's a Tungate like it's me I don't have a neck either but so I noticed it like it didn't have a neck it was just a head on the shoulders and it came down the trapezoids were just like immense coming down into these

huge shoulders and then the arms hanging straight down the the hair on its back was long but it wasn't matted and that's something that really stood out to me is it actually looked kind of well kept and i would have thought it would have been all matted and have you know stuff caught in it and would look kind of like maybe dreadlocks or something but it didn't look like that and I don't know if it's maybe they, because they spent time in the river, that maybe it helped wash that out or if, you know, maybe they groom, who knows. But that was one of the things that really stood out. I didn't, the legs were like really big. It was standing flat-footed.

So really other than like the head, the shoulders, how big the shoulders were, the arms, the size of the legs. I don't really have any other details. Okay, okay. The whole thing covered with hair, you would say? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, it was thick hair. It wasn't thin. You really couldn't see the color of the skin. At that distance, you just saw the color of the hair, which was kind of a cinnamon, so a dark red brown. Right.

The size of the head, when you think of, let's say, objects in your house, is there anything that? comes close to what the size of it was? No. No. Oh, is just massive? There's nothing that big in that. Not even my own melon. It was thinking about it.

So remember, I'm seeing it from like 75 to maybe 100 yards away. And at that distance, you know, it looked like it was two or three feet wide. So it's probably quite a bit wider than that and part, you know, right up close. Oh yeah, because that's, I mean, that length is about, what, like three tennis courts? Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty impressive. Everything was really big, and it's shocking how big it is.

I was really kind of taken back. I went down to Margie's Outdoor Store in Benj in Washington to interview James Shubski. And in the store, they have a big foot there with kind of like a measure. tape that goes up to like 12 feet. And when you get to, I mean, this thing from the distance I saw it, I estimate it was probably eight and a half feet. That is so huge, man. It's like shocking when you're standing close up, how big something eight and a half feet is.

And to think that, you know, we get reports of Bigfoot that go up to like 12 feet out there. That's my answer. Yeah, 12 feet or, I mean, depending on who you talk to, and where they are. I mean, yeah, it could get higher,

but yeah, 12 for strike. Man, in Oak Ridge, the people I talk to there, they've seen some big boys out in the woods. So when you're looking at, you're looking at it for a few seconds.

Are you able to see any muscle definition? Was it very muscular or lean or could you tell anything like that? So, yeah. It was kind of in between. It wasn't like leufragno muscular, but it looked like it could toss a big tree, like very, very easily with the size and the girth. You know, like the legs, the arms, everything was just huge about this guy. But it wasn't like leuphrigno.

But you could tell, you know, it definitely has a lot of power. it wasn't lean like a basketball player it was more like on the well-built on the well-built side of things and that's wild oh i just i can't imagine that you must have just gone nuts when you were getting those messages about like yeah i saw one in the same the same area we i know some people and i can send you the email from the hunter so you can see what oh yeah that'd be cool with a picture And then the other comment is in the Flash of Beauty video comments. So it's available publicly. But I called my wife because we talk about everything.

We don't have any secrets. And so I got a little ways down the road. And once I kind of my mind settled a little bit, I called her. And I'm like, honey, you're not going to believe what I saw. And she's like, what? And I said, I think I just saw a Bigfoot standing off I, 9. And she's like, no, you didn't see a big foot. And I'm like, no, I really think I did.

So I went from like being an intense believer to a very intense knower in the space of like three seconds. Yeah, absolutely. That's true. That's a big difference. And once you get over that line, it really does change things. So then after that, it's just you're 110% into it. And I mean, I've seen you're doing all sorts of cool stuff. You're doing stuff where it's like, oh, man, that is really cool.

I would love to talk to you about you were able to go on kind of an adventure trip with a mutual friend. His name is Randy from the Bend area. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, definitely happy to talk about that. So it kind of, can I start with something that happened earlier? Oh, I guess it kind of all leads into the same thing.

Absolutely. So I had this intense desire to figure out, okay, what is this? But then also listening to thousands of interviews on podcast, also understood that it's a cathartic process and people need help. And so I decided, you know, one of the ways that I could help and contribute besides creating content would be also to create a safe space for people to talk about their experiences that happen when they're overlanding, off-road, dispersed camping, things of that nature. And so I decided to form off-road X-Files. I was also a huge fan of the X-Files, watched all the reruns and everything. So I wanted to kind of tie the two together and generate curiosity from people. So that's how off-road X-Files was formed.

So then I had to like figure out, okay, how do I get out and research? So I start going to conferences and talking to people and making connections online. And I got into a couple different groups. And then I started posting like little ads that I would use chat GPT to create with a picture of me that then it would take and turn into a cartoon with my drone and my camera and my gear. I'm also a professional fraud investigator, so I've been doing investigations on a professional level for a decade with Amazon, and then prior to that, I also did sales compliance investigations.

So I have about a good solid 15 years of being a professional investigator, and I have skills that I can offer through that, how to build modus operandi and patterns, and how to figure out what criminals are doing. All of that translates into research and tracking something. And so I wanted to make myself available and see if anybody would bite. So I created a couple of these ads and I made them funny. Like, you know, I bring my own snacks and I'll tell you jokes around the campfire and somebody bit.

And ask somebody else that knew me like, you know, what's Jimmy like? and he was a pretty solid guy. He's very, you know, intently interested in the subject. And so I got invited to the Blue Mountains. Oh, nice. And that's kind of where it started with my first big research trip. I'd been out researching in the North Cascades, you know, kind of by myself and with a guy I was researching with at the time. But I go down to the Blue Mountains, and I met a lot of people there.

And we went down to the Paul Freeman site. And so I got to know some folks. And through getting to know those folks, I got invited to other things. And so that's how I ended up at Mount Adams is I got to know the Browns pretty well. And we've become really good friends. We hang out a lot. We've researched together. And so I started going on these trips with the Browns.

And the Mount Adams thing was one of their annual trips. and I happened to I was there for Thursday to Sunday Shane Corson had been there earlier in the week and I just missed him but he got one of the best screams that he's gotten to date from anywhere

so I know you've heard that yeah they showed me they showed me the audio pretty quick I was like whoa guys that's something wild So being out in the Blue Mountains with, you know, this big research group, I made some good friends and that helped me kind of get my direction set to where it is now with researching with Sarah and Jonathan and some other folks. And we've become a pretty tight group. But we get out there.

And on Friday night, I'm sleeping up in my room. We've been watching movies. And I go to bed kind of on the earlier side, but it's like, I think it was 11, right around 1130. I'm laying there and I'm listening to a podcast and I think it was yours in the tent. And I'm not kissing butt, but I'm pretty sure it was your podcast. Thank you. Because I had some downloaded that I wanted to listen to. So I'm laying there and I'm listening to your podcast.

And I hear, uh, e, except it's a lot louder and a lot longer and also sounded feminine. And so I, like, I look at my phone and I'm like, it's 1132. And I'm laying there and I'm like, somebody has to be a call blasting. That's just too perfect. But the sound came from back in the forest behind where I was. There's nobody camp back there. Everybody was kind of in a circle around. So the next morning, I get up and I go around and I start asking everybody,

you know, to anybody call blasting last night. Nope, we don't do call blasting in this group. So I start asking around and two other people heard it as well. And so we start pulling recorders trying to figure out, did anybody capture it? One person captured part of it that had a recorder back. that area but they didn't get the whole thing and then they hadn't cleaned up their files in years on the recorder so we didn't know like which file it was to get back to it so like the next

day we're sitting there me and Steve and some other people are sitting there analyzing audio all the audio that we pulled from the night before and Steve says hey one of my buddies Randy his crew's coming through here and they're overlanders doing a Sasquatch expedition. I was like, I got to meet them. So they come into camp, and since they had a dog, they were down in banishment camp because we don't allow dogs in the main camp. And so I walked down there later on with Steve and he introduces me to Randy. And Randy's like, I'm so excited to meet you.

I'm like, how do you know who I am? It's like, I've been following you on Facebook. book. Like, oh, that's awesome. So I got to meet Randy, and we sat there and talked, hung out for a good while. Then they came back up to camp, and we sat there and analyzed audio and stuff. And then I ended up doing a whole episode with him called Sasquatch Overlanding Expedition on my podcast, where I interviewed him about that whole trip, how he prepared for it, anything special they had to do, how, you know, what methodologies of this. they use to go out and look for Bigfoot.

So it was like a really great episode for me because I got to tie it back into off-roading and overlanding, which I try to do as often as I can so that I stay consistent. Randy is one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet, and I was able to talk to him for a few hours in person at Oak Ridge last year, which is really cool because I've interviewed him a few times, but it's definitely way better when you're able to talk to someone in person. You know what I mean? I'm going to see him this weekend. Oh, cool.

You are? He's going to be at Fast Quatch Summit. Oh, right. Yeah, my friend Slay is going to be at that too. So, listeners, you'll want to check out that episode of Offroad X-Files to get the whole story. Were there any highlights? from that adventure that you got into with Randy, though. Yeah, they had some interesting vocalizations.

They had some interesting experiences while they were camping. They were very remote, and I believe they followed part of, they did go through part of the WABDR, Section 1. So in Oregon, Washington, and other states, We have backroad discovery routes. Okay. So I've literally driven from Carson, Washington, all the way to packwood on dirt roads. Oh, that's amazing.

Two hundred and 225 miles in about eight hours because we had to make some stops. But it's very remote and very rugged. There's areas where you're like, you definitely have to have four-wheel drive and lockers to get through it. So it can be pretty intense. And they did part of section. one, I believe. But it's like, you know, there's nothing out there. You may not even see people during the summer, you will.

But that time of your things are starting to wrap up. Very, very cool stuff. So when I'm thinking of overlanding, how crazy do these roads get out there when you're doing a track like that, that eight-hour track? Are you having to like go over boulders and stuff? just really redded out trails or? It depends on when you go. Like if you're talking early July, the snow is just melting. It kind of goes in between Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens,

section one does all the way up to Packwood. And then you can go from Packwood to Ellensburg, and then from Ellensburg to Leavenworth and then Leavenworth to Canada. So it goes dirt roads all the way to Canada. pretty crazy it does get very rugged you definitely want to make sure that you're prepared can it be done in a stock vehicles like a stock forerunner yeah there are bypasses for some of the harder stuff unless it's rained and getting really rutted out and then like you know sometimes to get through it you have one person push through and then you start winching people

across. Oh my goodness. I can't even imagine that. So guys, if this is like serious stuff, this is not like you're taking your rental from the airport and you're going out in this road. You're not doing that.

If you do it, you're not coming back alive. Seriously, probably. You're not running a Rubicon and going out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're definitely not. Man, you are, you are pretty much,

almost, I would say, like, you've probably, gone through some crazy adventures to get to the point where you are now where you can handle stuff like that, I'm guessing. I've almost died a couple different times. So one of the things I do is I'm a trail guide and an ambassador for on X off road. So I go out and map trails and write guides for them that are then published for people to go out and do. So I go out to like some crazy areas that haven't been driven in years old logging cuts and drive down them to see like where they go. And I was following one of my buddies who was in a Subaru cross trek that's lifted.

And we overland together a lot. And we're going up, we're over in the Olympics, trying to get to Spider Lake, but we're not going spider lake by the normal Forest Service roads. We're trying to go over a pass to get to it. And so we're like driving up the side of the city. of this mountain where we go through like this crazy brush area where I've got this forerunner I just hear as the limbs are coming down pinstriping it. Yeah, yep, yep.

It's really hard to hear, you know, like that paint being scratched right off, but it's what it's for. But we finally get through all of that and we get up on the side of this mountain and there's been a landslide. And Jeremiah, it's a vertical drop outside the driver's door. I look over and like, you don't see any ground there. it's just air. And so we get around the side of this mountain where there's been this landslide.

And I see there's this big mound of dirt. And my buddy and his Subaru is driving up over this mound of dirt. And I'm looking at his wheelbase. And I'm like, he's barely fitting over that. I'm not sure I can fit. And he's like, oh, you'll be fine. He's like, I'll spot you. So I get up to it.

and I start going up this mound of dirt, and I start to slide a little bit, so I just stop, kind of take a breath, I put it in four low, put it in gravel mode, and then step on the gas, and as I start going up my rear and start sliding to the left. And I'm like, I'm fixing to go off, so I just stomped on it, and I sent it and went flying over the mound of dirt. Got across, I almost hit his Subaru. We get up to the top where the pass is, and there's so much snow. It's like two or three feet of snow at that point. We can't get past it.

So then at that point, I know I have to go back across that. That's the only way back down. And I was shaking. Standing there, and I'm like on the radio, I'm like, I'm not sure I can do this. And he's like, oh, you'll be fine. I'll spot you. And I'm like, okay, I've made it across it once. I'll just I'll do it again

and so I made it back across but like I called my wife later that day and I'm like you know I almost went off the side of the mountain and so now she tells me when I walk out the door she's like don't do anything stupid I still do but that's that is horrifying it can get intense goodness I can't imagine going to that Jimmy

I mean I was about I barely got over what's the pass from, let's see, like, come on, rainbow Oregon, and then you go up north and then you, the Sanneham pass, that one. I had to go over that to Settle Lake. And like, that's nothing probably compared to what you're talking about. But even so, all of a sudden you're on these huge mountains.

I'm like, oh, my goodness, this is a lot crazier than Iowa. But it's beautiful, though. You should look at some of the pictures on my Facebook page or the Instagram of going snowwheeling, we'll go out and drive on top of two or three feet of snow and air our tires down. Oh, man. And go camping. But I was up like, it was with another buddy and a forerunner and we're, you know, maybe 40 miles from Canada out snowwheeling up this mountain going out to Twin Lakes area. And we're about 6,500 feet up. And the snow's getting really nasty because it had been raining a lot and we start breaking through the snow and hitting ice.

And so it's another situation where the passenger side is a vertical drop off and I'm going around to bend on a mountain. And so I'm starting to hug the shoulder more and more and it's kind of this way and I ended up sliding into the little ditch there and getting stuck. So I've only really gotten stuck a couple times in it, but I was like really stuck this time. but I just had a winch installed on the front end of my forerner. So I called my buddy on the radio and he gets turned around and he comes back. And we hook my winch up to the front end of his forerunner.

I sat there and winch myself out of that ditch. And then we turned around and went back down. Oh, my goodness, you are wild. I can't imagine that, dude. It gets the blood flow in Jeremiah. Yeah, absolutely. But, like, that's how you get to the crazy Bigfoot. spots like exactly yeah you get out to places where nobody else is out there and that's where they

are oh my goodness um so the on x thing that's awesome that's really cool um man i have so i love onyx not a sponsor but i also love onx and such a great great app everyone should use it um i've i've tried for years to get a connection within onyx because for this reason because i'm like there's got to be someone in this app business sphere universe that has amazing bigfoot stories because they have a bigfoot icon in onyx that you can choose when you're putting a marker in it's like someone's got to have a story yeah i just haven't gotten through yet so um being an ambassador i also get to work with the program managers for the application. And it was earlier this year, I sent him a really long email and I'm like, I have a whole list of ideas.

Like, we should be at Bigfoot conferences. Yes. People that are Bigfooters go out into these remote areas and they need to know how to get there safely and get back safely. And then I also think that we should work with Matt from the Bigfoot mapping project and we should add big foot siding layer into onyx. So not only can you navigate out there, but you can find where the big foot siding was reported and then navigate to it safely. Because and this isn't a commercial for on X,

but they've also added like turn by turn navigation. So you can be off road on the dirt road. And as long as you have selected your endpoint, it will give you turn by turn directions even on muddy, dirty, rutted roads. it'll say like turn right in 20 feet. Wow. And it may be a road you're even having trouble seeing. And then you're like, oh, there it is.

Yeah. So it's a great tool. Yeah, that's solid. It is really, man, great ideas. Yeah. Really, man, they need to, they need to get on one of the Bigfoot podcast. Right.

And I don't care who it is. maybe me wink wink but uh they need to get out one of those podcasts because as you said like the bigfoot community loves that app and like it's just it it would be so cool to talk to someone who like really knows that app but also you'd be a great person to talk to to them for sure because you like know the whole overlanding thing but uh i've been thinking about doing a video on how to use all the different features uh that are built into Anex to be able to go out in Bigfoot find locations because once you have the GPS coordinates from a report, you can get there. Put those GPS coordinates right into Anex and then hit navigate

and it'll take you from your house to where that siding was. There's also like really important features in there for wildfires to show you where current wildfires are, avalanche slopes, snow levels. They've now added the Big Three cellular service. Select AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile. You can go into layers and select T-Mobile, and it'll show you where there's voice or text. Oh, wow.

So you can get into a situation where you need to make a phone call urgently. You can pull that up in the layer and see, okay, I need to go right here to get voice service and make a phone call. Holy mackerel. I didn't know that. That is, is that in the, was it the off-road one?

Yeah, Onyx off-road. I believe they've also probably added them to hunt and the hike also, but definitely in the off-road. The other cool thing, and I know listeners are like, oh, this is a great ad for onyx. Well, it's awesome, guys.

So the other cool thing is, let's say hypothetically you are going out with some people. and it's an area where you don't know where you are. But it would be great if you knew how to get back if something happens like to the, you should probably know how to get back, right? So there's actually a place where you can track, you can track your route, which is really helpful. I use it all the time.

It leaves breadcrumbs. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, it's cool. If you look at my onyx map, there's breadcrumbs everywhere in Washington. and like everywhere I go that is a dirt road I have track on. And then if it isn't already mapped, I'm mapping it also. Taking pictures and then writing guides for it. So they are having a sell right now for Black Friday.

So it's a good time to subscribe. It is. If you're interested, if anybody's interested also being an ambassador, I have a discount code. You can just send me an email. I'll reach out and I'll get you the code. Also, they've recently added grouping. So if you're going out with a group of friends and you all have on X and you get in that group together,

and I haven't played with this yet, but it'll show you where everybody is. Oh, no way. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. I need to look into that. Do they just like release updates on, do they have like a YouTube channel? How do they release updates?

Like, how do you know all this? Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Actively going out there. Yeah, it's pretty constant. And then, like, we find out about stuff way ahead of time and sometimes test it before it comes out live. That's fantastic. But, yeah, it's a great product.

It really is. And if OnX is listening, thank you guys. Another thing I wanted to talk to you about is, you were at the conference in Packwood, right? Yes. How was that? So there's the conference in Packwood, the Legends of the Mountains Town Hall. Oh.

I think that Mel puts on, if you're talking about Randall. Sorry, yes. I was meaning to say Randall. So tell me about the conference at Randall. The Camp Out Conference thing. Yes. So the conference at Randall is Saskatch. watch beyond the footprint.

And I'm actually the host and MC for that. I was incredibly honored to be asked to do that, especially with how new I am to the community. But it was so much fun. And I think that this conference has so

much potential with like especially the camping part. And we actually have a planning meeting coming up in a couple weeks. that I'm going to with the East Lewis County Chamber of Commerce. So we're already actively planning next year.

But it was great for being a first year conference. We had a pretty decent turnout. There's tons of improvements that need to be made, and we're going to make those to make sure that, you know, like it's successful going forward. But we're planning on doing this for perpetuity, and I've been invited to be the host for as long as I want to be. So I'm pretty excited about that.

but we had a great lineup of speakers. We're already talking to folks for 2026. It's going to be in September again. But like one of the great things about the conference is the ability to camp out there and hang out with people. So there's campfires, you know, there's parties, get to hang out with the speakers and get to know people. But like even if you're coming in from the East Coast or somewhere else and flying in, you can rent camping gear from REI and go pick it up in your rental car and go camp for the weekend. And then take it back and drop it off to REI on your way back out of town.

I didn't know that. So you don't have to get a motel. You can rent camping gear at REI. Okay. That's actually huge. I'm going to look at, you know, is there a way we can work something that with REI where people can order the gear ahead of time, pay for it, and then REI deliver it to the campground. Like, that would be huge.

Man, you're making some good deals. Yeah. So, like, at, and it's a huge property. So it's a working, a working farm. And where the campground is, I think is a couple hundred acres. And so it's really spread out. They had nice, clean porta-potties everywhere. Beautiful campground. right on the river, the college river. They had a 5K race there, but I think it was around 11 o'clock in the morning. I had introduced Barb Shoup, and she was on stage talking, and it was transitioning that part of the day where it was starting to get a little bit warmer. So I went back over to my rig to change shirts.

And I'm standing there, and I'm with my friend Janice. and I hear this. It was like really loud, and it was back over kind of where Mark Mersell was camped. But this one was not Mark if you've seen that video. I hear that story where Mark's watch or whatever, right. Oh, that was awesome. Yeah. So, but this wasn't him.

He was over at his table when this occurred. Oh, man. But during the day, I heard this really loud scream. And then, you know, there were definitely coyotes in the area. at night that we got on recorder and stuff. But we did hear some other kinds of vocalizations that we can explain. It's definitely, it's in a super squatchy area. It's in the triangle.

So there's a triangle from Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Randall's right in that triangle. So there've been reports, I think there have been 40 reports right around Randall since the late 1800s. And those are like credible reports. So it's an active area. But the conference itself, it has a huge amount of potential.

I'm really excited about it. And I'm really excited to get to planning 2026 here in a couple weeks. Yeah, I heard nothing but good things about that. Oh, good. That podcast is about that conference because I was, my buddy Jonathan Easley was, I believe he was there. He was one of the speakers. Yes. And he told me all about it and it sounded like a really, really good time.

So did you also go then to the Packwood Town Hall? Yes. Oh, man, that must have been incredible, the stuff you heard there. Yeah, that was pretty neat. that's where I sat down with Brett and Joe and he interviewed the Flash of Beauty that I did. There was a great little venue at the, I believe it's the Longmire Brewery, tasty sands. Had a couple beers. Nice little venue, good time of year, a lot of great presentations.

It was good. It's more on the smaller side, which is nice. rather than, you know, like a big conference. That area is on the list eventually to get up. I mean, I've talked to so many people from Packwood, but also have you ever been to, I think it's Ashland, Washington over by Rainier? Yes. Yeah.

Okay. Have you had any experiences over there? Because I've had some interesting interviews from, that area, some researchers have really gotten into some wild stuff over there? No, I haven't. Okay. I haven't done a lot around Rainier.

Like you said, I'm pretty wide-ranging when it comes to research. I spent a lot of time down in south central Washington. Skamania County. Oh, yeah. Was just down. I've become really good friends.

with one of your former guest, Henry. And you know who you talk about. Henry and I hang out a lot. We were together a couple weeks ago, down north of Golden, down the Simco Mountains. I went down to interview him and shoot film for a little documentary that I'm making called Bigfoot in the Ponderosa about his sightings.

So we went out to where he had his first two sidings and he's had some other experiences there. And it was a great location. It's a cattle ranch in the mountains, about 5,000 feet up. And where we stayed is where the cowboys have been camping out to gather the cattle at for the winter. So they had a canvas tent there. We didn't stay in that. I stayed in my rooftop tent.

But it was a nice area to camp in. And then, you know, we're out there, you know, big foot and driving around, talking about Bigfoot. But I had like this really crazy, I don't know if you want to talk about this, but I had like this really crazy experience that night. Absolutely. So I had my forerunner all set up and I decided, I had brought my ground tent, but I decided because it was going to be a lot colder I was going to sleep in my rooftop tent.

But it was supposed to be like 32 degrees. so I had, I was sleeping on top of two blankets and I didn't bring my diesel heater with me because it wasn't ready yet. I hadn't had it prepped. But I get up there and so I have a big thick fleece, dark green blanket over me and then a dark gray electric blanket. And it's like covering my head. So I'm covered head to toe with blankets and I'm sleeping on my right side. And sleeping really well and then around 4 o'clock in the, morning this bright light wakes me up and it's shining jeremiah it is shining through the blankets

that's how bright it is and so i kind of pull the blankets down and i'm looking and so remember i'm on my right side uh the bottom of the tent is probably eight feet up top of the tent's like 14 feet up and there's this light shining through the tent going through the fabric of the tent through that it also has that blackout material in it. And it's orbiting above my tent. It goes, so I'm laying on my right side as it's going up about, it took about three, maybe four seconds for it to go completely over my tent. As it's going over, I'm rolling over. And when it gets to the left side of my tent, the light goes out. And I was like, holy smokes. What was that? I'm like, was that Virgil, coming out of, because his trailer was right next to me.

I'm like, was he coming out and was that a flashlight? So the next morning we'd get up and I'm like, hey, Virgil, did you get up about 4 o'clock in the morning and go to the bathroom? He's like, no, I have a bathroom inside. So I don't need to come outside and it was too cold. So I'm like, huh, that's interesting. So we kind of start talking about what happened. And then we're out, you know, driving around the property doing our thing.

And as we're talking, we both realized like, hey, we had recorders out and wonder if we got anything. Oh, man. So we get back to camp. I get my laptop, and I had a recorder, a task cam DR7X on my driver's side front tire, which is to the left of where the tent is. So remember it was coming from north to south over me. So it would have been right to left, right over where that recorder was. so I get the recorder and I'm sitting there and I start the recorder at 10.30 p.m.

At 1038 in like five seconds you hear four tones. Kind of a uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and there's quiet for a few seconds and then you hear static. And then it does it again. And it goes on for a while. And then you hear a sound and Virgil and I

we're standing there playing this in real time on the recorder or on my laptop using Adobe Audition and I have a spectrum analyzer up so I can see the signals and we're looking at it and then you hear something

that sounds like a mechanical funk and then like pressurize and he's like dude was that a door for a UFO coming down I'm like I don't know if I want to stay here maybe we should leave.

Wow. And so we said we had like a very serious conversation. Are we going to spend another night? Because this happened on Friday night. Are we staying Saturday night? But I'm so curious. I'm like, I've got to find out what's going on.

So I eventually figure out that sound with the thunk and the pressurization is Virgil's heater coming on his trailer. So I was able to debunk that. And this is like a really critical part of any. kind of investigation that you're doing not just to assume things and accept things, but you have to think about it rationally and figure out what does it really mean? And if you can explain it, it needs to be explained. That way, once you explain everything, if you're left with anything else, then it's the, like, the impossible. The things that you haven't considered or that aren't known or the fantastic, like maybe it was a UFO.

So this goes on randomly. Sometimes it overlaps with the sound of the heater and stuff coming on, and sometimes it doesn't. So I get back home. I set the recorder on my mantle and I let it run for eight hours. Play it back that night, look through all the audio, there's no defects, there's no static, there's nothing. So at that point, I know it's not the recorder. that evening after work, I go out and I put my recorder back on my front tire in my parking space, and I let it sit there for two or three hours running, bring it back in, nothing.

You can hear traffic, you can hear all the normal stuff. There's no static. There's no tones. There's nothing. So Virt reached out to me, and he's like, I want to let you know I took my trailer. and I set up everything exactly the same is when we're in the Simco's and I put a recorder next to it and it's just beautiful audio. No static, nothing.

So we've been able to roll out my rig. We've been able to roll out his trailer, his truck. We've been able to roll out that it's the recorder because it functions just fine here. So it has to be something about that location. So going back Thanksgiving weekend, And we're going to camp there and set everything up again and see like, you know, does anything happen? But I also followed a Mufon report. Oh, okay.

That's cool. It's a case 145-005 or something like, I can get it. I posted it on my YouTube channel on the video that I did about this. I did a 22-minute video with like that morning. As soon as I got up, I recorded what happened. So I would remember it and I would have it on video and audio. And then as I'm kind of investigating and the whole thing's unfolding, I'm like interviewing myself and recording everything and analyzing the audio where people can see it. So it's pretty interesting.

I love that. But Mufon has reached out and they want to talk to me and investigate it also. Oh, really? Oh, that's really cool. So, yeah, that'll be very interesting to see what happens in your follow-up. And I'm sure you may even do something about the follow-up expedition on your channel. too. Yeah. Perhaps. Yeah. That's cool. I'm hoping there will be a part two. Well, they'll be a part two. It'll be a part two. Nothing happened or something happened and this is what happened and this is what we're able to explain. And this is what we're left with. But everything is all about the evidence. Have you ever done anything out by the Lake Cushman area? So I have off-roaded out there. I haven't done any investigations. But I've,

Spent a lot of time offroading around Hama Hama and that whole area. I've driven on dirt roads all the way from kind of the Belfare, Washington area, Sky Comish, all the way to Quinault, Lake Quinault on dirt roads. Oh, wow. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, that is a, it's one of those areas where there's a lot that happens around Cushman over the year. I've had some interesting stuff happen up in the North Cascades. Like, well, you know, I had the whole experience around Mount Baker. Then not too far from there, east of Darrington.

I was researching in that area for the first half of this year and did some camping and solo camping out there. And I was camped with one of my overlanding buddies in the research area. And it's actually probably about two miles from according to fish and wildlife, Washington State. They get the most reports from Buck Creek Campground. And that's two miles from where this little story happened. Pretty remote, rugged area. I'm camped in like a cutout to a little clearing. I pick that spot because it has open sky for a set up.

my Starlink, but it's right on the river. And so I'm parked facing towards the river, and my buddy Austin is parked facing away from the river. And our ladders are both coming down kind of maybe eight feet apart from each other. And we camp this way a lot. We camp all over Washington and Oregon. And so, but like the closest campground is two miles to the west. And And then the next closest campground is like maybe four miles to the east, Sulphur Springs. And there's a few pullouts, but they're like over a mile away. So we're sitting there. It's starting to get dark.

And we're kind of sitting behind my forerunner. And I have, if you've seen pictures of it, I have a swing out hitch that has a table on it for cooking and stuff like that. And so we're sitting behind it and I also have a refrigerator freezer cold beer. So we're sitting back behind that and I'm about five feet from the tree line. And the river's over here. And I keep hearing something to my right in the trees, but it sounds like somebody's having a conversation, but it's just outside the edge of my hearing. And so I'm like looking over and Austin's like, dude, what's going on? I'm like, what do you mean?

He's like, you keep looking over there. I'm like, well, I keep hearing something. I said, do you not hear that? He's like, no. I said, I keep hearing like somebody talking over here to the right back in the tree lines, but I can't quite understand what they're saying. But I'm like, you know, maybe, because I try to rationalize everything, maybe it's the whole like water paradigua type thing.

So, like, you know, babbling Brooks. Yeah. There's a whole effect that goes with moving water, you know, running over rocks and things where it can sound like somebody talking. I think that's why they call them babbling Brooks. It sounds like somebody babbling. So I just kind of attributed it to that. We go to bed at 1030.

And at 11.05, I'd already gone to sleep, but I had a recorder running. You hear the first tree knock. And it's quite a ways away. It's pretty distant. And then over the next minute and a half, you hear a succession of tree knocks that get closer until eventually the last one woke me up. And it sounded metallic, almost like a gunshot. But it was like right there, and I'll send you the audio so you can hear it. It's pretty eye-opening.

So that happened right there in the Swaddle Valley. So I get home. And I don't know if this explains it or not, but I was telling my wife, about it and I'm playing the audio for her and she's like, that's crazy. She said, have you looked at your rig? It's like, well, yeah, I did a walk around the next morning to see if anything was out of place, having had that experience at Mount Baker. So we go down to my parking spot and start walking around and I realize that on the passenger

door, there's a new dent about the size of a rock that was not there. I mean, I regularly clean that rig, so I know where every dent, every scratch is. So I don't know if it's possible to, I'll send you the audio file of that so you can hear it. And maybe you can tell me if you think it's a rock, but it definitely has a metallic quality to it. So that may be an explanation. But you hear it get closer and closer and closer. Yeah, I'd love to take a listen to that. That would be pretty cool.

man, Jimmy, you are getting involved already. I mean, it's only been a few years. You're already been in some crazy adventures. I love it, man. It's like, what are you going to get into next? Man, we're planning 2026 and like the rest of this year too. So this weekend I'm going to the Sasquatch Summit and Ocean Shores at the Kinnock Casino. Then Thanksgiving weekend, I'm going back to the Simcoe Mountains.

to go down and see if we can recreate what happened or get something new to happen. We also have some interviews to finish up with some events that have happened out there. It's a really interesting area. And then after that, there's one more research event that I know of before the end of the year. And then I've already filling my calendar with stuff for next year. Yeah, same. My wife's like, when are we going on family, vacation. I'm like, well, you better plan it soon while I still have weekends and stuff open

because 2026 is going to be a banger. Yeah, I get it. I get it. I have a, I have a certain amount I can do. Yeah, you get it. There's like there's three or four areas that we're actively researching that have a lot of activity going on. And we're kind of spreading ourselves around hitting those areas as often as possible. One of them on the Olympic side, kind of where the Grace Harbor Footcast was. We're doing some research out there with Jonathan and Sarah and their crew.

And we've gotten some pretty interesting vocals and heard things while we're setting in camp, moving through the brush nearby. And one of, one of our research partners. I won't tell his story because it's his, but he had a really, really interesting siding in the middle of the night

across into a little clearing where something may have, there may have been two that split apart and ran. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah, it was pretty crazy. So we're planning on going back, you know, to that area again. Just trying to get us.

much research as we can to keep documenting and collecting evidence to contribute to the community. I think that's great. I can tell you definitely got a good heart for this, Jimmy, and you're really getting out there and doing some solid research, but also helping out with different events. It's a cool combination. But I just want to say thank you for coming on the show and for sharing everything that you have been involved with so far. You know, we'll definitely be keeping in touch.

But could you take a few minutes and share with people again, you know, just remind them how they can keep up to what you're doing out there, the YouTube channel and the podcast and just everything you've got going on? Sure. So kind of your one-stop shop is my website, www.offroadxfiles.com. There's no hyphens, no periods, other than the www. in the dot com. It's all one word off-road X-Files. You can get to my podcast through there.

You can get to my videos. I have my favorites, links. If you want to see like what my build is for my forerunner, so I've put like probably in excess of $30,000 in modifications into my forerunner. It's fairly unique. But I have the complete build listed on the website with all the different things that are installed. Eventually, I'll do a complete video series on how everything works and why I picked it, because I think that's important. Also, select videos, my podcast, my podcast is on Spotify, but I found that YouTube is way more successful with getting people to listen.

And I'm trying to move towards having video along with the podcast as well, so there's something for them to see as well. That's the biggest complaint I've had is it's just audio with a static pitcher. So I'm going to try to raise the bar on that. But my podcast, Offroad X-Files, is on Spotify, IHeart Radio, Good Pods, Audible, Amazon podcast, and YouTube, of course. And then also I have a Facebook page, Off-road X-Files. There's two pages.

One is like an actual page. go to that one. That's where I'm primarily active. The other one is like you have to accept friends and all that. Awesome. Well, definitely that's how you're going to keep up to date with everything Jimmy's got going on. But thank you so much for coming on. Man, we'll definitely keep in touch. And hopefully I'm able to meet you at some event out there someday. For sure, you ought to come out to the conference and hang out. It's going to be a really great one. And then people can also keep up with the conference at BeyondThefootprint.com. We'll have all the latest. We'll be posting pictures very soon from, sorry, there was a delay in getting the pictures

from the photographer of the event, but we'll have a lot of pictures coming out. But I really appreciate the opportunity, Jeremiah. You're absolutely one of my favorites. And I'll continue listening. I'll keep you posted on what's going on. Awesome. Thank you, Jimmy. 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

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