Bigfoot Society - Fort Pickett: What We Saw Wasn’t Human

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

What happens when a Navy veteran returns to his childhood ranch near Mount Shasta — and starts uncovering memories of something that never left the forest? In this chilling and personal episode, we talk with Nick, an Eagle Scout and military vet, who grew up in one of the most active Bigfoot areas in California. Nick walks us through four gripping encounters spanning his youth, high school years, and even his time on a secure military base in Virginia.From being shadowed through thick manzanita as a child to hearing bone-chilling vocalizations near an abandoned pagoda, finding mutilated calves, and finally locking eyes with something massive between two trucks at 2 a.m. — Nick’s story will leave you questioning what’s really out there.This episode explores not just what Nick saw and heard, but how these moments have shaped his mission today: to document and connect with others who’ve experienced the same. You’ll hear stories from Mount Shasta, Fort Pickett, and mysterious meadows that hold more questions than answers.If you’ve ever wondered whether Bigfoot might be real — this one’s for you.🗣️ 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 Patreon – 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 HereGoodchop (Better Meat): Check it OutSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn More🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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and spent years in the Navy trained to spot danger. But none of that prepared him for what he encountered near Mount Shasta. A shadow in the brush, a boulder crashing to the ground. zombie like sounds in the dark and one night a pair of eyes reflecting back at him from between two trucks on a military base and this is Nick's story

it's one that spans decades coasts and things we're not supposed to talk about so stay with us all right Bigfoot Society I've got the privilege of talking to Nick today Nick is an individual that reached out to me quite a while ago he's got some interesting things to share from over the years

he is a individual with a military background and also an Eagle Scout as well and grew up in the Mount Shasta, California area. So welcome to the show, Nick. How's it going, man? Yeah, hey, Jeremy, I'm doing good. I'm glad that we finally made this happen. I know it's been a little bit of a process for sure, but, you know, I guess we're here. So it's all the matters now. Absolutely, man. Yeah, glad to finally get here. We've been talking. I mean, it feels like maybe

maybe months, maybe over year, I don't know, but yeah, as you said, the important thing is that we're here, but, you know, Nick, I want to make sure that you have the time to, to share about the things you've experienced over the years. Feel free to take us back to

where these interactions first started happening for you. Yeah, so like you say, I'm, you know, born raised northern California, Matt Shasta, Eagle Scout and then I joined the Navy.

I was in a Riverine Squadron. I spent five years in there, came out, and now I'm working on a ranch and doing kind of like ranch and stuff. And kind of my experiences started a long time ago. I guess my first one, I know I just want to preface it by saying I was pretty young. But it was,

I was being babysat by my cousin and she was basically me and my sister and my Shasta. And we were a pretty good size of meadow outside our backyard. I think it's altogether probably like 700 acres. And it butts right up next to national forest land. I mean, like as a crow flies, I mean, just to the coast, directly west. I mean, there's nothing between us and the coast. I mean, there's the Trinity Alps National Park And I mean

Scott Valley maybe But that's more northern than we are So But we have a large metal out there It butts right up in national forest land And we like to go out there a lot growing up And my cousin kind of knew that So

So She sounded like, oh yeah, let's take the dogs out there And we're taking forward walk and check it out. And we have this path that leads through all this really thick Manzanita. It's maybe, I mean, I sent you kind of like a pin drop to the location. It should just be home. I don't know if you got that or not.

Yes. Yes. It's cleared now, but back in the day, kind of all that, all, everything north up until the actual meadow was all this real thick Manzanita. So, the three of us and we had two dogs at the time start, you know, walking on this trail. It's kind of like a little deer trail through this

brush and it's, you know, maybe six feet high and real thick. I mean, Nancy is like, it's pretty unforgiving. It's a real hard wood too. We're out there and we hear something like we get out the fence, start into the brush

and we start hearing something kind of like shadowing us. and my cousin's probably about 15, 16, about this time. I was pretty young. I was probably around 9. That makes my sister like 11, 11 or 12. It's like late summer. And you hear this thing, like just working through the brush shadowing us.

The dogs are acting weird. I mean, we had Nike and Taz. Taz was a sweetheart, and Nike was a little more, you know, aggressive, standoffy. but I mean they were both like you know not leaving us at all we're just staying moving through the brush and uh

my cousin automatically thinks it's a person and I mean I'm pretty young but uh she thinks it's a person and it follows us for a while maybe 100 meters down on this trail just here it just crushing through this brush and it's it's hard to move through that

and it's just you know it's trailing us pretty good and she stops and it stops. We all stop. And she says, hey, like, this is a private property. You're not allowed to be out here. Like, if you're out here, you need to leave. I'll call the cops, you know, that type of thing.

And we waited. We heard nothing. And then we kept on moving again. And I'm like, right as we started moving, whatever it was, started moving. and just big through the brush, you know. And you'd think that if it was something, you know, more quadruped, more of a quadruped, it'd be a little lower. I feel like you'd be able to navigate kind of underneath the brush a little bit better.

I think it was just going right through it. And, I mean, we've had Black Bear back there before. But again, it's nothing crazy. I mean, a little bit smaller. And it followed us for probably, I mean, all the way up into the meadow. And it's a deer shell again. So it's real close quarters. And we just wanted to get out of that.

And I remember my cousin being real scared. And we're kind of following her. And, you know, we don't really understand what's happened too much. But we make it out to the larger meadow there out of the brush. And we decide we're going to walk, like, directly through the meadow. So we have like a large, you know, line of sight on either side. And we can still hear it from whatever it was. falling

like in the tree line and we ended up fall in the meadow it crossed a couple fences crossed a some railroad tracks to and made her way to the nearest road

it was about four miles and got someone to call my mom and she came picked us up and was pretty upset with my cousin for dragness on a

a three-mile excursion out in the woods but she's pretty adamant that someone was following us but I mean I didn't really think too crazy much of it at the time but then my later encounter is kind of to go back and think about it so

yeah I guess that was kind of the end of my first experience there so if you go right back from my house there's some railroad tracks running right through it. I don't know if you see that one. Yeah. So we went all the way back in that little kind of dirt spot. Oh, wow. That used to all be Manzanita.

We're going through that and we cut through. And I mean, my cousin, you know, 15, 16. And we're staying out in the middle of this field. We had to cross those little rivers. You know, there's a barbed wire fence on either side of that. railroad track to, you know, keep cows off the railroad tracks. I mean, it's a seasonal thing, a seasonal, like, grazing pasture, but then all the way over to that road up there.

So, I mean, it was a hike for sure, and my mom was not super happy with my cousin. I mean, again, I take that story for, you know, with a grand assault because I was, you know, I was nine, but that's how I remember. and just looking back, I think that maybe that could be associated with it. But I guess if you're okay, I'm going to go into my second encounter now. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, and I dropped another pin to that one kind of location, which that happened, right? So me and my friend, I'm not going to name names because he's doing other government stuff now too.

But so growing up, there was his house that just like continued to be abandoned. we called it the Chinese mansion, which I mean, I don't know if mansion is the right word, but I think it's like eight bedroom, six bath, and it's kind of a weird

combination of like like Japanese and 70s style, like decor inside. It's interesting. But every family that moved in there, stayed there for like a couple of months, and then moved out.

And then is, you know, they're asking like, you know, at the time, like $300,000 or whatever for the property when it's way, it's worth way much more than that.

And attached to the property, there is a, uh, what's it called? It's like, it's a Japanese structure. They're like super tall. They're kind of like,

I think it almost like a, a church of some sort. It's like a pagoda or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so they have one of those right next to the creek there that runs through the meadow as well. And so it was late summer in 2015. So it was like the summer of my sophomore year in high school, right? So we decided me and my buddy, we're like, all right, we're going to run up there, like, go down the driveway.

And like, we're going to check out this old pagoda because it's up there. I mean, no one's lived there, like, you know, for a hot minute. And we're just going to look in there, check it out, and see what happens, you know. And we ride our bikes down there. It's really not that far of a bike ride. We get there. The sun's kind of setting it's like, you know, 7 o'clock during the summer. So the sun's kind of starting to go down.

And we have a chain across the driveway. And we just decided we're just going to drop our bikes there at the driveway. and there's a really thick like area of pine trees right behind us like Douglas fir

you know where like all the saplings grow up and it's just like it's almost like a wall if you know young trees and then on the other side there's the river

or the creek right and so we drop our bikes there and we're getting off and we're just talking about going back there and like oh yeah we need to hurry back.

And like as we're talking, this is the part of like, I feel really silly saying, but from that like those pine trees, it sounds like like a zombie noise. It's like I'm assuming, you know, like

Minecraft is. It's like the zombie was just a real deep, like, you know? And then followed by like just like some chatter. and the closest thing that I can describe it to is like is the old man and the Sierra sounds and I mean we like we pause

and it's like it's just it's such a deep noise it's crazy I mean I want to say you feel in your chest but you know like it's just it was so deep and we stop and we both look at the pine like the pine tree there. I don't see anything. And then from the other side of the creek, we hear a repeat of the same exact noise, just in like a slightly

higher pitch. And we were both pretty freaked out by that. And I mean, we just, I didn't say anything. We just looked at each other, grabbed our bikes, and we paddled home as fast as we could, you know. You told my parents, I'm like, oh, yeah, we heard like a zombie in the back, or like, you know, on the side of the road over there by the, the China house.

And that was, I was, that was the second thing that happened. I'm just going to chronological order here through the, through the years, you know. So, I don't know if you have any, anything you want to ask about that, but. Man, it, it, it, you hear stories like that and it's like, it really makes you wonder what's going on the property now. And, like, if you were, have you ever been have you been back to that area since that that situation or no yeah yeah i mean i think i don't think anyone in my family i mean my sister had an experience out there too but no one in my family really loves going out there around you know like dusk

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Yeah, and it was, it was interesting, too, because that same summer, like, before we had that experience, right? They had, like, let some cattle out there, and we'd hear them at night, like, just going crazy, I mean, freaking out. And we'd go, you know, and we thought, like, maybe, you know, some teenagers were going out there messing with them. We got, we got permission back in those days to go out there and, like, walk our dogs, whatnot from while the owners, you know, like repair some fences if they needed it or let them know if their cows got out or, you know, some high schoolers were going out there and, you know, having a bonfire drink because, you know, wildfires are a big thing up in, you know, the north here. So, like, just let them know.

And we had permission to go out there. So we would hear the cows going crazy out there. So the next morning you'd get up and we'd got to check on them. And they have calves, you know. just like we'd find them they'd have like legs or neck's like broken and I think we found probably five or six just in that one summer

you know like three months oh my goodness and we've called yeah we called the owners a couple of times and they ask them and they come out and they check on like yeah like probably a cougar but there's there's no bite marks There's nothing like that. You know, it's just broken legs and thrown in the same place.

All right. So just for my clarification, so this is the same property as the pagoda? No, so the pagoda is across the road. And then that's like where the ranching land starts, right? I don't know if you can see that. This should be under encounter two. for that pin drop, but you can kind of see where that is

in relations to like the actual property. Okay. So you were buddy-buddy with the owners of the ranch? Yeah, at the time, yeah. Got it. It went over, it came under some new management later down the road. But yeah, at the time, we were, we were, my dad knew the owner of the ranch and we went to school.

with some of their kids or, you know, my sister knew one of their daughters or something like that. All right, yeah. So this, this, the, the, the pitcher's really starting to get painted for me here. So you've got this, this ranch area, this huge meadow, you guys were, were, you know, something was walking beside you in the woods. And then you've got this other area with the pagoda. You're hearing the Sierra sounds over there. But also, the owners of the ranch are having to deal with just, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, their calves just being taken out in really weird ways.

So there's a ton of activity happening in this area so far, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, at least back in that time period. I mean, I've only been back maybe five months about. So I'm kind of curious to see what this summer's like. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I talk to, I mean, I think Eric got in touch with you and I met him down to China Flats Museum, right? and he recommended some audio recorder.

So I'm going to go out there this summer and kind of set that up and see what happens. Oh, yeah. Eric is a great dude. He is sending me emails with people to follow up on. And he's like, hey, I got another phone number. The guy wants you to reach out. Eric is a great dude. China Flats Museum.

People need to check that out. It is such a great place. I need to get out there. one day myself. But yeah, Eric's a great dude. But yeah, are you thinking

maybe getting some some like handheld recorders like a task cam or or maybe something a little bit? Yeah, I had one. Yeah, so I have a task cam right now. I just got it.

I was talking to Eric about my experiences when I visited and he recommended this one. So I got one of those. Spot off Amazon, you know, got a little windscreen for it

and I try, pod so set that up to what we find so yeah absolutely i'm excited for that but really i mean during the winter time i ain't like really not much happens out here but it seems like late summer you know this seems kind of be the time for it if anything growing up in this area did you hear a lot of stories from like in school or people talk around the town yeah there's stuff weird stuff going on or like we don't know what's going on or is it just the stuff you experienced? I mean, I had my experiences and I've talked to a couple people. I mean, like one of the kids I went to school with was, I guess, their grandpa was really into the whole Sasquatch phenomenon, the big footing.

He had like casts and stuff. And back then, I never believed. I mean, my dad is a big non-believer too. He's, you know, and growing up in Scouts too, I mean, we'd bring it up and. talk about it. And I'm like, ah, it's not real. It's just, you know, whatever. Crazy people there, you know, out there's drunk or whatever. But yeah, I mean, you know, talk to people around here. I don't think it's uncommon for it. I mean, I got a, so McLeod. I don't know if you more my clouds at, but it's, it's near here.

It's just on kind of the more eastern side, like, of the mountain. Whenever there, there's a little thrift store, and it kind of specialized. in like Native American stuff. So I dropped in there one day. I was home on leave. And I found a first edition of one of John Green, his books. Oh, wow.

Yeah, kind of cool. Of course I bought it, but I had to talk to him. I was like, you know, like, do you have any, like, experiences? And he's telling me about over in the cloud. I just wanted to come in and see him the books. And just been like, if I saw one of those, he was like, what? He was like, yeah, I saw one of those, you know.

He just, I was like, yeah, I was out one night. I was, you know, working, went out to my truck to leave, and saw one of those things jump the fence and run to the woods. So, I mean, I think that this is a pretty hot spot. I mean, as the crow flies, I've measured it before, because I'd like to go see the Bluff Creek film site. you know, Patterson Gimlin. It's probably about 60 miles as a crow flies from my house.

So, I mean, they're around here. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. And then, do you only, am I good to move on to the third? Yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay.

Yeah. So the same, same meadow. So there's that lower meadow and the upper meadow, or the small, which is the lower one. and the larger one, which is the upper one, more northern. So we're walking up there towards the larger meadow. It's me and a different friend this time. It's, again, late summer, but 2016. So I'm going on to my senior year in high school.

And we're walking up there, and the road is kind of cut out of this little, like, ridge line here. So it's real, you know, real steep on one side. and the other side has like a little embankment. And we're walking. And then all of a sudden like a branch. I mean, it's been cut because they had done some like fire reduction out there the year, or two years prior.

And it was like a firewood like size piece of log. I just flew down and hit the side of the side the bank, maybe 10 feet in front of us. You know, rolled down in front of us in the road and we're like, man, you know, that's kind of crazy. Like, it probably got stuck in a tree during like, you know, the logging and fire reduction.

I guess the wind blew it down and we were, you know, looking up in the trees and I mean, it really wasn't any wind, but like, man, well, good thing it didn't hit us. And, uh, continued out there. and I mean we had probably just reached that log that was in the road and then it's probably about football-sized stone you know first off we hear we hear this thing hitting like branches coming through and then a football-sized stone hits the embankment on that same side and rolls in front of us and we we look at we look to where lefts and you can see the branches like in a perfect arc like where it'd just been like hitting branches flying over and it kind of leads to a larger the incense cedar probably 60 meters 60 70 meters out and we're just looking at this stone you know the size of a football they just been chucked at us and it just I just

about faced, went right home. Like, yeah, we're not, we're not doing that, whatever that was. And, uh, just, just turned back and went home and that was the end of that one. But does, do you think the ranch owner has any idea what's going on with his property? Uh, so it's under new management. I don't, I mean, maybe at the time you did. Yeah. I mean, so that river or that creek, I guess, runs all the way through the larger meadow down into the smaller meadow under the road by the Pagode House.

So I think they kind of follow that stream there. But he had a property like a little campsite kind of. He had like a mobile trailer there and, you know, some like horseshoe pits kind of right along that little creek. And they go out there, you know, once or twice a summer and just kind of hang out, have a little party or whatever. I can't imagine, you know, owning that property for so long. It was a family property, you know, so his dad had owned it before him. And then he inherited it and then his, you know, it keeps on going, right? I can't imagine they didn't know that there's something like that going on, you know, especially if you're spending all that time out there.

And, you know, the other properties, I can't imagine they're losing as many cattle as they were out there. So, you know. This is wild. It's absolutely wild. It's like if you were, if you were going to have a huge land area where you could. I get involved with some really good Sasquatch activity. I mean, it's in a perfect area.

I mean, it's like you've got Mount Shasta right there. I mean, dude, it's nuts, man. So cool. Yeah,

it's, yeah, so I'm excited. I mean, and it's, it's unfortunate. I mean, until,

you know, my other encounter years, which I, you know, talk about in a second, but it's like, I don't really connect the dots. I mean,

the first two stories, and I told you, you know, it's like, all right, you know, weird, but I didn't, you know, I didn't see anything. I mean, in the first encounter, it's like, all right, you hear like some, like, strange kind of zombie moan and then some gibberish coming from the woods, you know, like, you know, all right, maybe there's some, someone doing some illegal substances out here, right, or something, you know, I didn't really put two and two together. and then by the time that I kind of put it together, it's like I'm training. I'm, you know, in the delayed entry program for the Navy and getting ready to go. So it's like I really have time to go out there and check things out, which is unfortunate. But, you know, I'm excited to be back.

So hopefully I can go out and kind of explore a little bit more. And I'm thinking about putting together a some type of reporting system just for the area. I think it would be cool to, you know, once you're released like a little magazine or something with some, some local reports, at least that we have a big Fourth of July festivals. It would be kind of cool to sell those there or something. Oh, so is it like a local town, Fourth of July festival thing? Yeah, we have the country's largest small town gathering for the Fourth of July here.

Oh, wow. Yeah, one year we had to replace the entire sewer system. It goes from like a town of like $5,000 to like $15,000. thousand in one week. Yeah, it's kind of wild. I would I would definitely encourage you to start becoming

the guy for that area that you know, I mean, eventually it'll happen if you start talking to people and people will start to know, you're the guy. I'm going to come to this guy with the weird stuff that I've encountered and it will come, man.

But yeah, it'd be interesting if you can also find I'm sure there's other people in that area probably right now where you know you could maybe even make a team but you know it's such a good area dude I mean you you

would never run out of reports it'd be so cool so I'm excited to see what comes from this in the future for sure the fourth here right so the fourth encounter kind of breaks the norm a little bit but I mean I think

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I mean, the time too, it's like, you know, my dad's like, man, this is, you know, complete BS.

And I'm like, yeah, it's BS. I mean, not seeing it, you know, you know, they do anything crazy on that show anyways. But anyways, so this last report I have kind of breaks in norm.

It happens in December. It's December 3rd. I'm up pretty late. I had gone through kind of a rough period in my life. I went through a breakup and I was upset about it. And it was about 2 a.m. And I like was just getting ready to lay down. I don't know if I said it's not that December 3rd, 2018.

that is. Just about to lay down. And like as I'm sitting on my bed to like get in, I just hear this like, at first I think it's an air siren, like the old air raid sirens from World War II, you know? I think it's that, but just slowed down and pitched down.

And I mean, it just like, it starts, it just keeps on going up and up and up and volume. And it, and it starts, like, resonating with my window. Like, I can feel my window vibrating. And then I start feeling it in my chest as I'm sitting there in my bed. I'm not in bed. I'm just, I'm sitting, like, on the side of my bed. And it just keeps on going all the way up and then down.

And then that's it. And that's the only thing that happened. But that noise reminded me enough of like the calls that they make in that show where I'm like, oh, man, that's probably what that was. And then I've been kind of looking for that sound for a long time. And I found the Ohio Howls. And that was the closest thing that I could find for the longest time until you released episode 694. with the garden of the gods and that noise oh yeah yeah is yeah is like exactly the first recording you played exactly it

mine was maybe just a little bit longer but I mean like I was I heard that I was I was driving like I told you I listened this like on my way to and front work right the ranch is probably like 20 minutes 25 minutes maybe from where I live right this is almost perfect I was on my way back listening to that episode and I heard that and I pulled off to the side of the road and I just like had to I played it like four times and I was just like that's crazy

and I looked it up and it's I mean it's the same noise that I heard here in northern California that they're recording now you know years later in the Garden of the Gods which is about 1,800 miles from where I am and that's crazy

and I you know I'm used to being around large random You know, we had all those cattle out in the back, growing up, go to bed during the summer, have your windows open, you hear them out there, you know. And then now I'm working out there, and you know, feed the bulls. And, you know, they're hooting all, and making all their noise. Nothing compares to just like the volume that whatever was making that noise made that night. It was crazy. And I saw the Paul Freeman footage, you know, from a, from a.

was it 1994? I just look at like the girth of the animal that like was walking through that video. And you're just like, man, like that could probably, you know, resonate, you know. So that was my last encounter here in Northern California that I've had. It was just like put all the dogs together to you. I mean, like I got up and my, uh, My dad and my sister both sleep with earplugs in. I don't know how they do that.

But my mom's a super light sleeper, and she got up. And I, you know, came out scared or came outside my bedroom and walked into the kitchen. And she gets up and she's like, what, what's that? You know, and I'm like, oh, I've no idea, you know. So. Do you know why they sleep with earplugs? They're just like sleepers. Oh, okay.

Yeah. I mean, they just need like complete quiet to sleep. It's interesting. All right, sweet. All right. So that was my kind of last experience there. I mean, nothing visual so far, anything like that. So from there, I joined the Navy.

Spent a couple years in. I got back from my first deployment. I was back home for about three weeks. and we had to keep up on our weapons qualls is ex-specialty command, so everyone needs to shoot. And I'm a gunner's mate, or I was a gunner's mate, so we run all the ranges. So I was back for three weeks after deployment,

and then went out to a range in Fort Pickett. I believe now it's been renamed to Fort Barfoot. but it's in Virginia. I'm going to way back in the sticks there. It's probably about two and a half, three-hour drive from Norfolk. And so we went back there to get everyone to call when I was, you know, line coaching, all that. In the first four weeks were fine, I worked on the small arms range the entire time, which was how much of cool.

I liked the R.S. out there and it was a good time. But I ended up volunteering to stay for an extra two weeks and just doing some night watches, right? So the cruiserve range ended. And it was just a couple stragglers for small arms. And we're out there and all the weapons, you can't just leave out on the range at night.

So you have to have an armed watch out there And there's TPI so two-person integrity So it's me and a watch partner And we're staying in night watches See how I'm going to get into this So So I'm just trying to pull up the range here So one of these nights we're out there

And it's probably February of 2023 And we're We're out there And one of our We have two range task or like watch tasks out there because it's already on a military

base so we're not really worried about anyone actually like showing up or bothering us or anything it's a closed range you have to make radio reports every hour on the hour you know saying that all conditions

are normal and we're out there I have to keep the fire going and we have to clean a couple cruiser of weapons like while we wait This is a 12-hour watch. So from 8 p.m. until 8 a.m.

And then the rest of the range staff shows up, shows up, you know, takes command of the range. And the shooters show up maybe 30 minutes later. So we're out there. Keeping the fire stove. We're cleaning some 50 cows. Have our little headlamps on. We have just the red light going.

It was particularly cold. that night. So we were just like really trying not to go out to the fire or trying to sit in the truck as much as we could. Let me just kind of describe the range here a little bit.

I don't know. Do you have the Google essentially or the PINN essentially? I do have it pulled up. It's kind of out there a little bit. Yeah, it's out in the sticks for sure. And I mean, most of that stuff you see to like it's a very empty base.

It's not like, you know, all those barracks are full. I mean, they use it for the Syrian refugees back in the day just because they had their room. So, I mean, the base looks big, but really there's not a lot going on out there. There's some training center for something kind of important out there. But other than that, I don't really know what else is out there. It's always super quiet every time we go out there. It's a little creepy. So you've got the range going down there kind of towards the southeast.

And then you're going up and you see that little green awning there. Then we back a state truck up there that has like our mobile armory on it. All right. And then the fire pit that we had is just like a like a 50-gallon drum, right? like a hobo fire. And it's between that awning and that red like conics box there.

I don't know if yeah, I see it. Yeah. And then where all those little trees are, it's probably a good 10 foot kind of hill drop down.

And then there's that little car junkyard which they use for like scenario. as they take different cars from there and make different barriers and whatnot. But anyways, so we're underneath that awning, doing our gun maintenance. And we're just finishing up with some of our 50 cows. We're like, all right, we've cleaned the allotted amount of weapons that we had to for that night.

Like, let's throw something else on there. I'm going to pee, and let's get in the truck, start it for a little bit, crank the heater, and just hang out you know and I'm walking over there to pee I have my red light on I throw a couple like piece of wood into the fire

the drum I'm peeing and as I'm turning I turn kind of towards that little ledge there right and there's that little white building we have two other state trucks

there and they're parked you know there's like a four foot gap between the two of them. And one of them is a state truck that has a conics box on the back of it for our dunnage. And the other one is a state truck with a conics box for our actual ammunition. And they have, you know, reflective placers on the back. And I pan by it with my red light. And I see the reflection of two eyes from between those two trucks.

and I'm like, oh, there's a coyote over here, right? And I'm looking at it with my red light on. And I'm kind of looking at it. I'm like, man, that thing's like really far up there. And I'm trying to switch to my white light. But the way these headlights work, or headlamps, it's red, It's red, green, and blue, and they have to hold it down for like three seconds to get a white light. And they're kind of finicky. I really could not get my white light going.

So I'm just strobing it with all these different lights. And there's things just like looking at me. I'm looking at it. I'm like, God, you know, there's four hinges on the doors of these Connix boxes. and it's already on top of the truck. And these eyes are looking at me between the third and the fourth. So like all the way at the top. And I'm like, I'm really starting to try to like focus on my,

my vision's kind of getting adjusted to the dark a little bit. And I can kind of make out like the headlines or like the contour of like shoulders and a head. And then I start like, I'm just looking at this thing. And I can't really see any details of it because of the reflective markers on the back of these conics boxes. And just as I'm able to kind of make out some shapes, it turns, but with its entire body. Like I can see its shoulders and its head, move, duck down, and then it comes up real fast. and then a rock hits on top of that metal, metal awning.

Here's that, and he's the one that's armed. Nick, dude. Did you hear that interference? No. I jumped out of my skin. Holy mackerel. I hope it got caught on the recording. On the audio.

You're doing great. Just, yeah, keep going, man. Sorry, that interference freaked me out. Yeah, so those things between these two trucks. I see its eyes. It's up higher than it should be. As I'm kind of putting two and two together, it like, you know, moves its entire body, throws something.

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or whatever. And my armed range partner hears that. And I told him like, hey, I think there's a, you know, a coyote over here right when I first saw it. And he's a great, you know, really? And I was like, yeah. And I started looking at it, flipping through my lights. And that happens. And he's already walking over.

Here's that, you know. And he starts seeing him from crazy, you know. Hey, mother. you know, when he sees the eyes now too, he's you know, hey, mother, you know, I have a gun, I'll shoot you you know, like, and you see this thing,

I don't think it knew that he was there at the time because it goes, like, you can see its body move. Like, it's looking between me and him. And at this point, this guy has drawn his M-9 and is yelling at this thing. And again, it's still like, I just have a single red light on it. And the reflective tape on the back of this,

and this truck is really keeping that light from penetrating any farther than, like, so we can make out any details, you know? And it just turns around, ducks down, and we didn't see it anymore. And then just about that time, I get my white light to turn on right and my buddy my watch partner again I'm not gonna

say it's kind of generic but I'm not gonna say his last name but comes over and he's like dude what was that I was like I don't know and I have my white light on and he has the gun and we're going around and we're like

looking behind like that white building and as we're doing that we hear just something start just just running through some trees

back behind the cars there that like car locked so it had ducked down and somehow managed to stay away from the light and get over there

and was just plowing through these bushes at that point or these trees at this point. I mean, not like knocking them over, but you know, could hear it breaking branches and whatnot. And we opened up our mobile armory and we got some M-500s. We load them up with double-a-buck, pulled out some 31 bravos, hooked those into our helmets, and we sat in that truck, and it was the longest night of my life.

We just sat there all night with shotguns. night vision looking out the windows. And there's that little, I don't know if you can see that building kind of north of the range. Yes. Yeah, there's a light post up there too that just was flickering on and off. And every time we do that, it'd mess up your NVGs. You're sitting in there just like after experiencing that. And it was, it was just a very long night.

And then our relief came, you know, 8 o'clock. We got there a little early, she was nice of them. And we told them what happened, and they didn't believe us. And, you know, they thought that we were, like, just messing with them.

Yeah. It was quite an experience. Yeah, that is intense. How did that conversation go with the guys that were relieving you? Was it like, hey, there's something out here messing with us,

or did you go straight to, it might be a big foot, or, like, how was that? No. I mean, at that point, Like, I was pretty, like, you know, I had only had that call up to that point, and I was pretty reserved with, like, talking about that stuff.

I mean, again, I still don't know what it is, but I, you know, you know, saw their shoulders and the head. And, yeah, I didn't have much of a neck. And we, one of the guys that was relieving us, we called up, we called him Big Red, had a, he was probably, he was probably, like, 6, 6, 6, 7, something like that. his son's coming up so we went down to where we saw it and his head just like was barely at that third um third uh like the pivot on the door yeah so i mean it's probably seven eight feet maybe that's where the eyes were at yeah i mean i was what yeah they just showed up and and we told them hey we we saw something

between the two trucks, its eyes were at this point, and it threw a rock at us. I mean, we just kept it pretty simple, and they're like, you're joking. And we're like, no. And I mean, the rock was even up on the awning still. And me and me and my other washburn, we were pretty ready to be out there at that point. And, I mean, that happened probably like 2 a.m. And we had another six hours of watch just sitting out there in the truck, listening, had the windows cracked. That's intense.

After you tried to tell the other guys that were coming, they were kind of like, whatever about it. Did you then have a conversation with your partner like, okay, we're not going to share this anymore? Or did you keep sharing the story to other people as well on the base? I mean, not like not on the base. I mean, it was kind of like a two-day thing. We had a pretty skeleton watch crew, and our guys kind of told those guys like, hey, you know, Nick and his watch partner saw something out there.

and you caught a little flack for that. But, I mean, it doesn't feel too much like slackness. You're just telling the truth. It's like, that's what happened, you know. I mean, later, the guy that came to the, like, six, seven guy, had come out and talk to me. He was like, yeah, like, they were out here before in Fort Pickett's where we usually do all of our ranges and whatnot.

And I guess back in the day, you know, 1800s, whatever before the base was actually there. There were like some homesteads out on the base itself. And they bought the land from the families, right? But they still had like some graveyards out there. And they would go out there just to like check them out.

I guess one weekend they went out there like at night to check out of those graveyards and it's not like civil war time frame I'm not sure exactly

uh like those houses were out there but um so they went out there to check out those

those gravesites and I mean they're in government vehicles and they're out on these range roads which seem to go for you know

miles I don't know how many you know miles of road they have out back there on those bases um

um but they're out there, they're driving around these dirt roads and then all of a sudden they get stopped by two unmarked black SUVs with dudes in civilian clothes with guns

that say, hey, you're not allowed to be back here and then tell them to get back in their truck and then they'll escort them out. And then escort them out. And so I don't know what's going all there, but

I mean, I was just kind of nice to hear that someone else had had like something else a weird happened to them out there. So it's nice to have that kind of camaraderie with me at least, you know, kind of have a shared experience even with, was exactly the same, you know? Absolutely. Were you and your partner at any time told to not share what happened to you that night? No, I mean, we never like tried to make any formal report. hoard of it. It's just kind of a

weird encounter. And, I mean, we talked about it a little bit kind of, you know, in the barracks, but other than that, it's not like, you know, we're like, you know, found our lieutenant or whatever. I'm like, hey, you know, sir, this happened to us, you know, and they should probably

check into that, you know, but. Right. So as far as I know, it's only a bunch of, you know, any, E4s that you know about that. That's some wild, wild stuff, dude. I mean, those are the, stories that that make me wonder um it's like you just you just had enough you know yeah you just saw enough and i mean it's hard to logically explain away what you saw i mean you you were seeing

outlines yeah it's yeah it's kind of hard to tell it's kind of hard to tell it's like it was the entire thing like black or was it just you know was i just seen outlines, you know. So I don't know. He's just getting the eye shine. I'm trying to turn my light on. He just was not having a good time. And then, of course, right after it, it dips down and goes off.

And I managed to get that thing on. But, yeah, I don't know. I've heard stories, too, of them, like, getting down on all fours, be crawling off or something, you know? Oh, yeah. and I'm not sure maybe that's what it did because I mean we did a pretty good scan I mean there's some trees there but they're cut up pretty high

so we had a pretty good view and there's not a lot of places it could have gone and then we kind of started moving down past the fire pit and we're trying to get like a look at it because we thought gone but behind the white building and then we hear it crashing through the trees, you know, back behind that, you know, I mean, that's some good distance. I mean, I don't know. I haven't measured that. But, you know, maybe 100 meters in, you know, Olympic sprinter speed. Yeah, without making any noise until it gets to some type of consumer. It's impressive. But, yeah.

So, Nick, you've had some really interesting things happen over the years. I mean, out in Northern California and then out in this base in Virginia. And I mean, it sounds like you are, you're going, you know, going gung-ho to see what you can find next. And you're going to start talking to more people in that area of California. are you prepared for you know if you start looking around in in california for if you are to have a really good visual sighting like let's say in the daytime are you prepared for that no yeah i mean i've thought about that before um and just like do i like do i want to see one you know because I mean at this point I've had

rock star and I just heard noises and I've seen outlines of something I think really I'd love to have an actual 100% visual sighting but I mean my ideal sighting be

me you know on a highway doing you know 50 and see one run across the road and I'm like oh well good thing I'm in my car you know I don't say, I don't think I'd want to be out in the woods at night and, you know, see one. I mean, even during the date, I mean, on a couple miles from my house, I don't know if I'd want to see one. I mean,

I don't know if they're particularly aggressive. But, I mean, I think that, you know, every animal has the ability to be aggressive. And they're obviously large, you know, and strong and fast. So. this is a fascinating account across the years. And it's really cool because, you know, as we said before, you're keeping going with it. I cannot wait to see what you're able to hopefully find next to Northern California. And just I want to say thank you for coming on the show. And I also want to, you know, make sure that you were able to share everything that you wanted to share tonight. Yeah, I think that's it. I mean, I don't know if I did an amazing job of describing it. It was a little nervous to come on, but

I mean, it's behind me. I feel like it's important to share your experiences, even if it's not in the best detail, but I think it was a great sharing of some really interesting things that happened on both sides of the U.S. But just thank you for coming on the show, man.

Yeah, man. I appreciate you. Have a good one. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. A Nick's story isn't just memorable because of what was seen or heard, but because of how it all connects across years, across states, and across some seriously remote ground.

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