Bigfoot Society - Field Report from the First Annual Forks Sasquatch Days in Forks, Washington | Bigfoot Researcher | Mike Casey

Episode Date: June 4, 2022

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exclusive merch, and much, much more. This week I talk again with Mike Casey, Bigfoot researcher from Eastern Washington, about his trip he took over this last weekend to the first annual Forks Sasquatch Days in beautiful Forks, Washington. So hold on tight spider monkeys, because this is one interview you're not going to want to miss.

And yes, that was a Twilight. reference. Thanks for listening. Mr. Mike Casey back at it again. How's it going? Good, sir. How about yourself, Jay? Dude, so good. Of course, if people have not heard the episode I did with Mike, Mike is a Bigfoot researcher from Eastern Washington. You're still in the Eastern Washington area, correct, Mike? Yep, Richland. That's awesome. Closer to the Blue Mountain area. That's right. Very close to the Blues. And you were, talking in the Patreon either today or yesterday, something like that, about how you had gone to the first annual Fork Saskwatch days. And I was like, oh, man, that shirt is really cool. That's a nice shirt, dude. I was like, I got to talk to Mike about this. This is pretty cool. This is rockin. So, dude, tell me, tell me the story about actually, before we do that,

catch me, has cool stuff happened in your Bigfoot world since we last talked? Any cool updates or? We're getting closer to, to the trip for, like, the Bluff, like early July, Tate Hieronymus and Jonathan Easley were, and Ron Reed were going to like Bluff Creek area. So that's super excited. We're getting closer to that. I wouldn't say anything big.

That hasn't happened over the weekend, I guess, that I'm not going to get into yet. Gotcha. Gotcha. Cool. But I do have a date for getting out into the, into the mountains, into the blue mountains. Nice. Nice. So I'm excited about that.

Father's Day weekend. That's kind of the gift that I got. I get to go out there. Yeah. So D-Duck Springs. Like that's where I'm going. Like Paul Freeman's site. You're going to the place.

Well, I'm going to, I'm going to try. I'm going to do my best. I'm talking to a couple of the local guys. I got to figure it out. Now that I have the dates and it's like a. talked about it with the family. Green light. So that's like now I'm now I'm getting into the planning and details.

And I have it on the map where D-Duck Springs Road is. Okay. But then other than that, I don't know. I mean, like Mill Creek Zone. I don't know where to go from there. So that's the kind of info I'm going to be asking around for. If anyone's listening to this and knows like really specifics, like contact Mike Casey. I'll have his info in the show notes, how you can get them on.

social media and like let him know the exact super details that would be fantastic let's make it happen that'd be so cool uh big into history so that's one of the main reasons why i want to go to that paul freeman's side i know it's controversial evidence and all that but sure you know he captured stuff he got stuff he got footprints he got handprints he got hamprints he he meldrum was out there like yeah stuff happens so that that alone just intrigues me i mean it it'd be so cool to like just to get close to the site and be like, oh, wow, I've seen this video so many times. Like, it is right here. Yeah.

Look down the road. Yeah. Did you say that was in July? The Blue Mountain trip is going to be in June. Okay. The Bluff Creek trip and then Tate Hieronymus, he's going up to Bumping Lake. I'll be joining him on that trip as well. That's early in July.

Okay. So, like, you're, you're going to do that. And then he's coming out. I got to be really careful what I say right now. He's coming out to, I can say Iowa to Iowa, and then I'm going out with him for, I'm going to be on an expedition with him and some other. I got to get more specifics from him.

I don't know what I can talk about yet. But it's going to be really cool. I'm looking forward to it to be my first, like, big foot expedition going out in the field. And it's going to be so much fun. It's going to be wild, dude. It's going to be wild. I'm pumped for it.

But let's see. Hey, Daniel, hey, Alan, how's it going? We got them hanging out in the chat for Patreon. Good to see you guys. So, Mike, let's get down to it. So tell me what was going on this weekend. Tell me about this Forks, Sasquatch Days. Forks, Washington had their first Sasquatch Days event,

and it's the, I hope it becomes an annual thing. I think it'll become an annual thing. It was Saturday, Sunday event. I had to work Saturday, so sadly I wasn't there for that part of it. I got there Sunday morning. But I heard Saturday was a blast. Saturday was the big turnout. A lot of people.

I didn't get a full head count of everything. But, I mean, Ken Hamilton, Craig Yanni, they were so pumped and jazzed about the whole thing. It was awesome. I mean, to see the faces on everybody when I showed up and just seeing how, like the smiles. It was so cool. Yeah. And that was my first Bigfoot event. So that was like super cool to just walk through these doors, especially in Fort Washington, the rainforest center, like a rainforest arts center.

It was just super cool. Was it a thing where you were like sneaking in or like were people like, oh, hey, Mike Casey, what's up? No, I don't think it, no, nothing like that. All right. But it was cool because we walked in and standing right there was Thomas Seawood. Oh, wow. Yeah. Sasquatch Island.

Right. Right. And that was, I'm like, you know, a little fanboy moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had these super cool. I should have grabbed them for it. They had like the lanyards for the tickets to get in. I had my little daughter, Ellie. She's three. She was there with me. She was melting everybody's hearts. I mean, she was just walking around, looking at everything, asking everything, touching big foot prints. And there was these masks. Robert Alley. He had his little setup. Oh, yeah. Raincoast Sasquatch. Yeah. And so, I mean, she got to see the masks. Oh, wow.

It was just super cool. And that was just the entrance. You walk through the doors and that's where the conference hall was. And they had the, they had like the back area was all of the other, wow, I'm skipping on the word. Like vendors, stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. They had all them in the back. And then we got there and Toby Johnson was up on stage talking about his book.

and I don't know it was just super cool you know seeing everybody and and we had to enter in quiet because Toby was speaking so it was sort of like a come on and I'm like bringing my little girl Ellie and make sure she stays quiet and respectful and I got to just like look around and I saw everybody and it was it was cool none of the Olympic project team were there

they had some other arrangement for that day I met up with them later, but it was super cool. I can't say enough. Getting to talk to Robert Allie about my, that dark figure I captured on that trail cam. Oh, yeah, right. He was interested in it and he actually had me email it to him. So that was fun chatting with him and him also telling me his stories.

Got autographs. Tom Cantrell. He gave Ellie a T-shirt. Okay, that's cool. We got to talk a little bit. bit and I mean he was he gave ellie the t-shirt and he's like oh i got to got to hook up my number one fan because i mean we're upstairs right before her she goes to bed and we're reading that book uh yeah and it's just ah oh it was awesome yeah that is she is she is she into

the the bigfoot stuff Ellie oh yeah she she she's going around calling squatch squash Squatch. They had the Bigfoot call contest. Okay, cool. And so they call Ellie up and Ellie gets out, but she's all, I mean, she is 100% so animated and wild. But that first moment, oh, she's so nervous. And so she gets up there and she's all quiet.

So yours truly does the first big foot call. Oh, no way, really? Yeah. Oh, dude. So I tried to loosen her up a bit and it didn't work, but I got. everybody else to start hopping up out of their seats. So that was fun. Like, I think it was probably about 10 people got up.

And that enticed Ellie to go up. And she's like, oh, Daddy, I want to do it one more time. Okay. And so she did her little Bigfoot call. She won the junior, junior bigfoot call, which was a hat. Which is just fantastic. She loves Squatch. That is so cool.

And after that, we got to go camping. And the last 20 minutes we were there, she's like, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. let's go find squatch. Let's go look for squads. Oh, man. That's so cool. Yeah.

I want to mention a few other people. Let's see. See, I already said Tom Contrail. Mark Mercell was on the ticket. Shane Corson, Rich Grimor. I know I'm mispronouncing that name. Derek Randalls. Also, it looks like, and, you know,

the new documentary that's coming out, a flash of beauty had the world premiere there too. Was that the day you were there? Was that the other day? That was Saturday. They premiered it. I was there. We got to see the awards and they got,

I think I don't want to mispronounce it, but they got the best film, best documentary for it. So that was super cool. We bought the movie last night. I bought the movie last night, watched it. That's fantastic.

I got my wife inside. It's like, get the kids ready for bed because we got another document. tonight like she's going to sit down and watch it it it's a great film i don't want to do spoilers but amazon buy it watch it can you can you talk about it maybe without spoilers like is this one is it one worth watching it's different because it uh it sure i mean it's in the name you watch the trailer you'll kind of catch the pitch of it but it's seeing them as how

how unnatural but how beautiful that is. And there was one gentleman and, I mean, I only just watched it last night, but he kind of elaborates on how he screamed it. He was like, you're the most beautiful thing in the world like I've ever seen. Wow. Oh, man.

It's just, it's a different take. It's a different documentary. It's a different vibe, different feel. It's not one that you've seen sort of thing. You know how it's like, you've seen big, documentaries. And they kind of have a basis and a line and a story. This is different. And it's, I really recommend it. I'm bummed we missed the premiere, but I was, it was awesome to meet the crew.

Toby was fantastic. I don't know if you saw the picture. I posted a picture of, um, he put, uh, one of the gray harbor big footprints, uh, the casts on the ground. Okay. And then let, shows my daughter, Ellie and says, hey, what is your, yeah, yeah, yeah, what does your footprint look like? Oh, that's awesome. All of a sudden, he's like, Do you want to take this home? Oh, no way. Gives it to her. Whoa.

The nicest guy in the world. I mean, I was blow. I was like, oh, what? It was the coolest thing. So she has it. We actually haven't hanging up in the front entryway. It's the D print. There's five, I guess, of the Grey Harbor.

And then I purchased one of the paddy prints. So I was just like, you know, thank you so much. And then I got the book, and I can't wait to sit down and start reading the book. And it's Again, the kindness in this community is so cool. It really is. It really is. I agree with you do for sure.

Who was selling the cast there? Or was it kind of like it was Toby. Okay, cool. Toby had his little setup and then right next to him was the Flasher Beauty. I mean, I know it was kind of blended, but they sort of had their different setups. So for the book and everything and the cast, I paid Toby. So it was like he had his own little. booth but it was so cool we got in there right when he was going through the presentation of

these uh they put a little silly putty out there on his property and they went back and they found it and there was this little dirt smudge print and it wound up being they thought like a thumbprint yeah and inside it's a jewel they didn't have a gifting scenario maybe yeah yeah that's wow it's it is it was super cool that was i had a lot of fun Ellie had a lot of fun the Sasquatch, the legend store was right across the street. So we got to go across there. Oh, yeah. Ken Hamilton was super nice, awesome guy.

It was just all fun. Dude, can you talk a one that I'm so glad that you were able, because that's a bit, that's like what, a few hour drive for you, right, to get out there? Forks is way out there. Saturday, Saturday night, I got off work and we drove to Kelso, Washington, which like three and a half hours. And then up from there was another three hours. Wow.

It was a drive. It was a drive. Ellie was a trooper. I mean, she slept for a lot of it. It was frozen soundtrack for up until she fell asleep. And then I got to listen to my jams. But, you know, dad life.

Go with it. Yeah. Yeah. And it was the same thing. You just left the frozen disc in because those are your jams. Yeah. You know, into the unknown. Oh, that's a good song.

It's not a good way. Frozen, too. Yeah. It is. But that area, I mean, I've been out to the Olympic Peninsula. It was for a different reason in a different time of life. It's a movie that rhymes with Twilight. Spoiler, it's the movie Twilight.

That's why we went out there. But, you know, forks, right? But it's a beautiful, even back then, I did appreciate the nature of it. I mean, you've got the whole rainforest. You've got just incredible nature as you're driving. You can't help but notice it all. Yeah. And if you've driven, so I've, I've adventured, I've explored a couple of places.

Right. I kept having visions and flashbacks of other areas I've been. Completely weirdly opposite of Washington. Well, maybe not one of them. But so if you've ever driven the north shore of Hawaii on the big island, like Waimea, why Laia? I think that's the area where the big waves are. Yeah.

And the cliffs and the white water. That looks like a little bit of it. And then you get to an area that it looks like Alaska, where it's this straightaway. And there's no real mountains as much, but it's just trees on both sides. Just green trees. And so it was just these weird flashbacks as I was driving.

And I was just like, this is the coolest thing. And it was my first time ever going up there. moving up to Washington this was my second time ever coming to Washington first time was a layover in Seattle airport so which is a crazy airport it is but it's all an adventure like everything was new every turn was wild I mean it was the coolest thing we didn't get to explore the whole rainforest which was big big big on my list it's crazy good I was sort of on Ellie's schedule. No, I totally, I totally get it, man. Yeah, totally get it.

The smile on her face was fantastic. It was a, yeah, and it was a kids event. There was other kids there. Oh, really? Yeah, they played out front for a bit. Yeah. Yeah, it was cool. Can you talk to me a little bit about, like,

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Yeah, I'm going to keep that G rated on this. I almost went, but it's like every Bigfooter's dream. Yeah, no, I get you. I mean, you walk through the door. And it's just like, like, wow. And I mean, as soon as I walk through the door, I'm thinking of how much do I have to spend? Oh, that's the thing, right?

Because I was just across the way, and I got the Bigfoot cast, I got the book. And so we got these, yeah, so I had to keep it on a budget. And like, and I want to get you on your Iowa trip. So I have that in my budget. And so sadly, I'm sorry, Ken, we, I mean, we toured, but we didn't get anything. But that's just a reason to go back. It was a fantastic.

I have my eyes on the neon sign. They have this neon bigfoot sign with it, like the patty walking. Oh, really? And it's like a vibrant green. Oh, man. That's what really caught my eye. Yeah. But I do you have like the Bigfoot cave, like the Mike's rum of Bigfoot stuff yet or?

No. I don't have it either. It's sort of scattered. I do what I can with what my wife allows. Like getting the Bigfoot casts in the entryway was huge. That was paramount. That was paramount for me. I was like, what?

And she's like nodding. Oh, we need another one to offset because we only have two. And they're like this. So we need a third one. And my eyes are like, I can get on bigfootcasts.com right now. And so I have a couple other in the carts. And it's just, yeah. But I have this, what is it, the Starry Night Van Gogh painting.

Okay. But there's a Bigfoot in there. That's in our dining room. Classic. So there's Bigfoot stuff in there. Yeah. I'm working on it. I want to try it.

I have this. I wanted to share this. I'm trying to convince my... You have a purple bus. Yeah. How is this not a thing that's ever come up, Mike? This is amazing. I'm trying to convince...

I'm not mine. Oh, it's not your... It's my sister's. Yeah. Okay. I know. It's my sister's... Oh, we can get a little excited.

Yeah. Little. Yeah. I want... Because it's diesel, it can't travel far because it's going to be so much money. Yeah. So I want to keep it a local big footing.

thing. So that that's a, that's a project I think I'm going to have in the winter. So get excited for that. So wait, you're going to, you're going to create that bus into a Bigfoot thing? Yeah. Really? Like the Bigfoot base camp type set up. I have friends that set those things up as like those livable kind of, it's not a vanee because it's a bus, but it's a busy, bus life, bus van life? Van life, whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. Yeah. But I'm going to do like a squash, squash life. Do you know that would be huge? Yeah, try and set it up.

And maybe gas prices will lower, diesel, get better. But we have it. And literally, like, over the weekend, I'm thinking, is like, gosh, that'd be so much fun to just drive up into the mountains. And have, like, cameras set up along the side and just, like, ideas are flowing. Mike driving the bus. This is like, like that scene in the Muppets when. Dr. Teeth is like driving the bus long. It would be great, man.

I want to see more. Like, I'm excited about that, the Squatch Bus. That would be cool, dude. It'll be cool. It's an idea. I'm still trying to convince my sister because she was dead set on having it. I mean, a little purple bus and something like that, but I'm working. It's going to be a cell because she has already painted it purple and put little purple bus on it.

But I think you can, you can work your magic. Came painted. She didn't paint it. All right. She did the little purple bus, but that's it. That could be painted over. Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

Tell us a little bit about the camp inside of things, if that's anything you can share. Yeah. So like you said, the Olympic project was part of the event. They were there. They had their boots. I sadly missed their presentation and everything. But I got to, so last minute. Mike didn't get a place for us to stay, didn't look into hotels or campgrounds or anything like

that. A few weeks ago, Shane Corson had offered a little corner of the property for Ellie and I to like just go and camp on, right? And I was just like, God, that would be fantastic. Yeah. And it was like maybe a week before, like last weekend or something. And I'm just like, and I hit Shane up being like, hey, is that offer still there? And he totally come on over. All right. So jazz and excited, right? I'm like, I don't watch movies. I watch documentaries.

Like these guys, Bigfoot influencers. I mean, they're just, they're my heroes. I want to learn from them. I want to watch them. I want to like over the shoulder just every minute. So bad. So I got the offer. We're on Ellie's schedule.

She gets hungry. We go eat at the in place in forks. And then after that, we just. just, you know, head out to the property. It's about a half hour outside forks. And don't want to get into that details. Yeah. I was like, I don't know if we can say that.

We'll say that. All right, all right. You can go anywhere. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so we get there. We pull him already heart. I mean, so it's like I get on these podcasts with you. And I mean, it's, I get anxiety.

I don't know what it is with these. I get it, dude. I get it. But the heart starts racing, right? And Ellie, she's like, oh, I'm nervous. I'm nervous. She's already saying it. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, uh-huh.

No, it's okay. Don't be nervous. You know, trying to be the, uh-huh. Right. And we pull in, and there's Chris Spencer walking into the barn. Wow. And I'm like, oh. Oh, man.

All right, Ellie. So we park. We get everything. We're going. And we go into the barn. Like, we knock and we go in. There you. is and it's like hey Chris I'm Mike Casey I hope I'm not barging in but he's like oh no no no no

everybody's out on a hike we knew you were coming by if you want to go and set up your tent and everything I have to I have to explain it like this because this is how I mean I wish I had a GoPro I wish I had a GoPro right here something out of a movie yeah for me at least so I'm we're talking to Chris he's like yeah I mean you can take any of these spots I drive your car around over here look out for the potholes and everything and i'm like all right all right i'm just kind of bringing it all in and everybody has their little set up camps and everything oh man i'm shaking again this is no joke um and so we pull over there we get to the spot it's like this far kind of corner i set up sort of in between where chris said uh Shane and todd

hale were set up yeah and um so we pull i pull in ellie's there She's there. And I'm pulling out all our tent stuff and our camping gear. And she's like, oh, daddy, daddy. There's people in the woods. And I'm like, what? And I turn around. Dude, here's where I wish I had, like, gladiator music or some sort of instrumental theme song.

Because here comes the team. Here comes Todd Hales, Shane Corson, their families. Derek Randall's in the back. I mean, oh, we. And they're like coming out of the woods like in the field of dreams when they come out of the cornfield like that kind of thing. That's what I yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I saw one of them was wearing like this vibrant orange hat. So that's what we first saw. And then you saw Shane in his little under armor camo jacket and then Todd and his. That's awesome. That's awesome. I even geeked out. I even geeked out and told him all of this. Like do you have no idea what that did for me?

Like the whole scenario is set up for that. I will never forget this. That's awesome, dude. Oh, I'm pumped. Yeah, and so, I mean, got the introductions done. It was fantastic to meet them. It was so cool. Ellie got to go and play with some of the kids.

Oh, cool. There was another three-year-old there named Kyler, so she got to play around with him and run around in the grass. After the hike and everything, a couple people went and mapped. you know things happened schedules went around right right right right right connections dude

well yeah connections but here's when I'm going with it I feel so bad and so embarrassed more because I have this idea and the dreams and you know how you go somewhere and you have an idea and it's like oh my God I'm going to sit down by the campfire and have a chat with him I'm going to talk to him I have so many questions about this

I'm going to get to go into the Olympic Project's born where in the past, the documentaries, I've seen the bar where it's like cast and the big, big foot and the heads and the, all this stuff. Ellie and I go and lay down in our tents and watch Moana. And the next thing I know, she fell asleep. I fell asleep. I wake up to a lady, I don't know who it was, but screaming, Mike. From what?

We fell asleep. Oh, no. The team all thought that we'd either gotten lost in the woods because, like, got turned around on the trail because we were dead silent in there. We weren't snoring. We weren't breathing hard, which is weird because I'm a heavy breather. Right. But they thought, like, they were like, are they in there?

Are they asleep? That's funny. And so we woke up at 6.30. Some people were packing up. We had a drive. I didn't get to have the moments and campfire chats with the Olympic project because we slept through. But the Moana memories when you were old and gray and you look back, that's the stuff that you're going to remember. It's true.

I get it. I get it. It's true, man. I apologize so much. Yeah. I got the morning with them. I got to chat. I was so apologetic.

And Derek Randall's all of them. all of them the biggest hearts it was the coolest thing so welcoming for somebody random to show up and then just sleep in the back corner and then be like oh sorry guys and then to still be like oh dude we're we're just happy you guys are good and you know dad life you needed rest that's that's right dad life yeah that's the number one yep for them to even invite me back out there or to I mean, it was cool. Like, I didn't burn a bridge, and that's what I was really afraid of. You got some solid connections, I'd say, from this for sure.

And I am so happy that you were able to go out there. It was cool. Did you meet Mark Mercell at all? Now, got to totally miss him, sadly. Someday I want to meet Mark. He's like, dude, that's one of my most fun interviews was talking to Mark. He's a good dude. He can't Saturday night.

because he was one of the speakers, so he spoke Saturday, camped Saturday night. And again, Todd Hill even said Saturday night should have been here. It would have been crazy. I know.

Classic Todd Hill. But, you know, I know. He came out of the woods. I shook his hand and like, be Todd Hill. He's a... Legends. Legends.

I'm talking to him soon enough. Actually, I'm talking to a few of the Olympic project guys coming up. In the next, the next few ones are, I believe, Olympic project members, which I have really been waiting for a long time. So I am, I am pumped for that. But Mike, it has been, it's always fun to chat with you. Hopefully our pads will cross one day. Yeah.

One day. That would be so cool. That would be so cool. I'm trying to set up this thing. So I'm trying to get out to the blues. I'm trying to get a spot out there because it's the closest. It's the closest to me. I loved going to the Olympics, but it was such a drive.

I really want to shoot to the blues. And so I hope people will stay tuned. I know from the last time we chatted, nothing has happened, more kid pictures and Bigfoot-themed photos. but I'm eager and excited and the plans have begun for June 18th I'll drive out 19th, 20th, and 21st. I'll be out there. I love it, dude. I love it.

Me too. So real quick, before I let you go, share with the listeners how they can. So let's say either contact you or keep up to date with what you're doing. but, you know, definitely contact Mike with any Bigfoot info that you might have about that area of the blues. Big biggest, I mean, the one that King's most on my phone would be Instagram, Squatch Mike. If you'd send a message there, that'd be fantastic. Facebook, Mike Casey. Either one of those.

I haven't really put the email up there. It's such a weird old email from Ghost Hunting Days. It just doesn't make sense, but it's linked to everything. Yeah, exactly. It's just like, I mean, you could, but, you know, one of these days, I'll actually have like some placard or something I can post up and like, there it is. But Instagram or Facebook, Mike Casey, Squatch Mike. Perfect.

Perfect. Well, Mike, I'll chat with you. I'll be chatting with you later. But thanks again for coming on so much, too. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it, man. Real quick. announcement before we head out.

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