Bigfoot Society - Growing Up Where Sasquatch Is Known, Not Questioned

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

In this episode, we explore the remarkable experiences of Terry, a Navajo woman and longtime seasonal national park worker who has spent much of her life in some of the most remote landscapes of the American West. Raised on the Navajo Nation and later working across national parks and wilderness areas, Terry shares a series of encounters and stories that span decades and vast geography.From time spent harvesting pine nuts in isolated mountain terrain to moments along quiet roads near the Grand Canyon, Terry describes experiences that left lasting impressions and raised profound questions. She also recounts stories passed through family and community, along with observations made while living and working in places few people ever see after dark. Her perspective is shaped by cultural understanding, deep respect for the land, and years of firsthand exposure to the natural world.This conversation weaves together personal encounters, regional history, and reflections on what it means to share space with something intelligent and elusive. Terry’s account offers listeners a grounded, thoughtful look at Sasquatch as more than a fleeting mystery, rooted in place, memory, and lived experience. Join us as we listen closely to a voice shaped by the land and the stories it carries.🗣️ 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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Visit your nearby lows on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible, from backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it, so settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society, you've got the privilege of talking to

Terry today. Terry is an individual I got connected to. Terry was raised on the Navajo Reservation, and is also a seasonal worker at multiple national parks, which does play into her accounts, as you will hear in a few minutes. But welcome to the show, Terry. How are you doing today? Oh, I'm doing fine. Thank you for having me today.

Absolutely. It sounds like it is going to be some very interesting things. Share it as we were talking before the recording. There's, you know, when we're talking about the Navajo Nation, in the areas around it there's so many eye-opening things that happen. So it's always a privilege

to be able to talk to someone who has experiences from around that area of the U.S. But, you know, Terry, is there anything else that we would need to know about your situation before we go ahead and start talking about what you've experienced over the years?

Well, I consider myself quite open to a lot of happenings, but a lot of people would consider supernatural and such. But it's just kind of common for us, especially most of us who are older and grew up without running water and electricity, that sort of stuff. And plus we were a lot more isolated from the outside world. So a lot of things that would happen just opened our eyes and made us aware that there's more out there than what, you know, the typical, you know, civilized life is like. I guess like that's the best way I could explain it.

Yeah, absolutely. Would you say that Bigfoot was a part of your culture when growing up or did that realization come in at a later time? It came in at a later time, but I did hear stories. As I was older, I did hear stories about them already in our mountains. A lot of the stories go way back, but it's not something that they talked about as I was growing up. But later in my life, I did hear a lot of different stories and still to the day there's sightings. a lot of sightings.

And of course, word of math, it all gets around real fast. Absolutely. Well, Terry, I would say, you know, feel free to, I know you have a certain way that you're wanting to present your experiences today. So feel free to take us back to the first thing that you were wanting to share in this conversation today. Okay. Okay, well, I've lived in the Seattle area for around 25, a little over 25 years.

And I had become acquainted. That's how I've learned more about, saw squatch and such, from the natives up here. So as social media got more popular and, you know, groups started forming. A lot of the native groups will talk about, you know, sightings and stuff and I would start, you know, understanding more about, you know, I always thought it was up here from the stories that I had heard, like from books and such. And, but there would actually be actual things posted in the groups like there was a siting

in this area with this tribe and they would all go out and kind of watch and listen and report what they would, what they would hear. And so I became a little more aware of it like that. And it just, along with that, I heard about other types of entities that I didn't know existed. And I thought, then I started to realize that there's more out in the world than just what I grew up with. But in about 2012, I went back to the reservation to help my parents out. and there's not a lot of jobs

on their reservation so it was one of the seasons that we had a lot of pinions falling from the trees, the pine nuts so that was one of the big money makers was who go pick pinions

and process, cleaning them and cooking them and then bagging them up and selling them. So that's what I was doing with one of my friends and we'd go up in the mountains into very remote areas. And usually we would set up a place that we would have like our center. We would have like a radio plane so that we wouldn't kind of wander too far.

We'd go like circle that area where we could hear our music. And then when we'd clean up to do that area, we moved to another area. And I just had a feeling like I wasn't alone, even though, you know, like I was speaking one area, my friend was speaking on the other side of our little circle there within range of the radio. So I knew it wasn't close by, but I just had a feeling that I wasn't alone, but it didn't really feel fearful. And that's one of the things I go by is feeling fearful if I actually feel like something's, a threat, you know. If I don't, then I just go on. Probably by about a third trip, we would just go every day because it was just really plentiful. And our third trip, you know, I'd be crawling around on the ground with my hands and knees and would hardly ever look up.

And you're picking them up one by one. You got a badge with you and you throwing them in the back. And then I began to find little piles of them, like neat little piles, like little pyramid piles, like somebody just, you know, carefully let it pour out. And then I would look at it and look around, but I didn't. It's like, that's kind of strange. So I just pick up the pile and start crawling around again. Then I find another pile somewhere as I, you know, as I'm going along. And by my third pile, I looked around, I looked at my bag to see if I had a hole in it. And I looked around for footprints, like maybe somebody was playing a trick on me.

And the ground's too hard to really see. So I just put the pile back in my bag and I just shouted out, thank you, you know. And that day I had quite a, I had gotten quite a bit more than I normally would. do. I went home my family and they're saying wow, you really did good today. I go, yeah, I had help. They looked at me and they

go, help. I go, yeah. I go, yeah, Bigfoot helped me. And they kind of chuckled, but then they looked at me to go, really? I go, yeah, I think so. And, you know, it sounds like, you know, make believe, but it just

that's just what I felt. And so through that, Through that fall, we were still continuing to pit. Every day we go to that same ridge, because especially after the snowstorm, one of the pinyas would fall. So one day we're making our way back up onto that ridge, that we were blocked the road is blocked.

And there were helicopters, like a helicopter flying over that ridge. And it said no entrance except for the residents that lived down that dirt road. And, you know, we're like, wonder what happened. I don't know how we heard that there was a rumor that a Sasquatch had been shot. And then, you know, for me, I felt bad because I thought that that's the one that was helping me.

It was through a family member. It was like a cousin of a cousin that lived in that area. And they had actually did shoot one kind of like at dusk they saw one taking you know like a sheet and they didn't know what it was so they shot shot it. So I was kind of angry about that whole deal. We couldn't pick up there for about for a few days because they had the road blocked. And this is near the canyon. where our canyon, cany shade.

So one day, I was driving in town, which where the mouth of the canyon is. And coming from that road from that area, there was a convoy of Navy glue unmarked government vehicles coming from that direction, like a convoy is seven of them. I think I counted about seven of them and they're coming out of that area. And it was upsetting because I knew what they were carrying.

So that was, you know, I was angry about it being shot, you know. But it wasn't until like a couple of years later that I heard more on story. and the family that had shot it, they weren't told to keep quiet about it, but eventually word came out about it and found out that it was a young female and they took it away and through the next week they had to deal with another one that was running around screaming and then rocks at the house and I'm upset. about the whole thing that just totally happened. But through the years, I heard that,

I told my story in one group, and I got confirmation from an ex-police officer. He told me, he goes, so it was true. And I go, you heard about it? He goes, yeah, I came over. It was, it was, it was, It came over and you get all the radio. And I go, yeah, it was true.

So he was glad to know that it was something that actually happened. And then I heard through somebody else. They had heard about it too through the word of mouth. But the family that did, you know, shoot it. They did, they were very remorseful once they had figured out what they had shot. because, you know, they've been there all this time and, of course, we leave them alone. They leave us alone. But, you know, if they had known what it was, they wouldn't have shot it.

You know, it's something that a lot of the families that live at the base of the mountain know that if one takes the sheet, they just let it go. It's, you know, kind of like a loud. So that was one incident and, like, the most, the incident that really took. told me it was true because in a way I had confirmation that had happened. So through the years of, you know, I started getting into the Bigfoot groups and stuff. And I had never heard anything before about their language or, you know, the theory of their cloaking. But as I listened and started watching some of the films and stuff about it, it kind of dawned on me about some of the things that the language I had actually heard.

But I had mistaken it for something else because there was another time we're up on a different mountain. It was in the summer. We go to a family land and just to cool off because, you know, it's. It's in the desert. And then the mountain, it'd be at least 15 to 20 degrees degrees cooler. So we go up on the mountain and for a cookout or something.

So there's one area we went to as we came through the pine trees and stuff and we're coming to this big opening where we're going to cook out. I heard like voices in my head which is, you know, I know it sounds crazy, but it just, and then it's just, to me, it sounded like a bunch of voices chattering, and they're all talking at once, and I couldn't understand them. And as we parked, I had told my mom, I go, I hear voices when we pulled in, I go, I heard voices.

I go, I couldn't understand them. There was too many talking at once. months ago. I go, I think it was, I told her, I think it's the Masanis were talking up here. The Masanis are like the grandmas, like the elders. So I thought it was something like spirits, you know. And I go, it was just a lot of chatter. I couldn't understand it. So as we're setting up to cook and everything, my mother kept looking toward that direction where the road came and where we came and And then I asked her, go, what's wrong? What do you see? She goes, something like a shadow.

She goes really tall. She goes, kind of like it's got a hat on or something. It's really tall. She's that. They keep going from through to tree. But what I looked, they're not there. And then we just brushed off and we continued with our meal for that day. So it wasn't until, like, years later, when I heard a recording of the chatter,

I realized that is exactly what I heard. And then, you know, so I put that together. I thought, wow, you know, it's kind of a just a realization and understanding. Okay. But it's so weird, it's like because I feel like it was in my head. It was, I didn't hear it physically. I heard it in my head. And it was something I had never heard before.

And then another, probably like another year later, so I saw one of the films about the cloaking. and there was an actual picture and you know this is before AI really went crazy so this was I don't know probably about eight years ago or so and saw somebody had posted this film one that they thought was cloaking and then I just kind of thought at the same time

that well maybe that's what my mother saw because she could see something moving like a shadow or something but she couldn't really see it but she knew it was tall. So that was like my conclusion, you know. And, you know, so I told her about that.

And she was, well, probably, maybe, you know. I guess in a way we just kind of take things, you know, into consideration or just like, yeah, that's probably what it was, you know. It's just because of the things that we grew up with, we always know that there's more out there that we can't see. But they are there. But like you said, there was always, when she talked to her co-workers and such, there'd be a report of one that one lady was looking through her binoculars toward the

mountain, the base of the mountain, and she saw one actually taking a sheep and climbing up the rocks. Other stories, one of my uncles he told me of a story that somebody told him. about him like trying to hitchhike out on isolated road one night. He couldn't get a ride. So he crossed a ditch and found a place by some rocks and went to sleep. But he was woken up and below night by the sound of like, you know, the earth kind of rumbling. And when he looked up, he could barely see, but when he looked up over the rocks, he saw it like, oh, I don't know, probably he said, I guess he said something like 40 to 60 of them, all going in one direction.

And then, of course, he just kind of slump back down and let it go by. It was like out in the field away from him. So these are stories that, you know, get passed around us all the time. One of my uncles say that one's always going by. He showed me pictures of the ones that went behind his trailer where he lives. but like I said, I've lost stories on the reservation about them. Even my grandparents had some that I learned later that they would try to lure, you know,

kids into the woods and stuff. And they would actually have to stop one of my aunts, which is a little girlfriend, from following. Like they were camping out and sleeping in the back of the truck, and they would have to keep an eye on her because in the middle of night, she would just start walking toward the, you know, get out of the truck and start walking toward the woods. So like I said, there's just been a whole lot of stories and still hear stories on ongoing basis. But that was my biggest story and, you know, just kind of what happened in the beginning. And then my last encounter was in 2023.

I had worked several seasons up at North Carolina at the Grand Canyon. And toward the end of the season, in 2023, I had gone home for my weekend. And as I was going back to work, I was going back up on the Cadet Plateau. And as you're climbing, you go on the Waii Road. And then once you reach the summit, you come right around a corner and then it kind of flattens out. And it's all surrounded by ponderosa pines. And it was about dusk, so it wasn't still a little bit light.

And I had a line of cars behind me falling me up the mountain. And so as I come around the corner, there's two dirt roads that go off in both directions. left and right after you come up around that corner. And they're wide, they're very wide, because a lot of people pull off right there and stop and rest. And just right when I came all around that corner, there was a figure that was crouching down probably about 30 feet off the road there on my right side.

And it was crouched down, and I could see the silhouette of it. And it was like, crouched down on one knee with the other leg extended out to the side. And I just kind of thought, that's strange. Who's way out here? And there's no vehicle around. And I thought, that's really strange, but I can't stop. I have to keep going because I got a line of cars behind me. And then as I got down the road a few miles, I just had to pull over because like all of a sudden, before I couldn't make out what I saw, but as I got down the road, it was like all of a sudden the picture became very clear of when I saw.

And then I finally could see the details. And the first thing I thought was, how did you do that? Because what I think, like I said, they've been in my head before and as funny as that me sounds with some people, you know, I know a lot of people could laugh at all this, but it was just like, I just kind of thought casually about it and then drove off. But as I got down the road, I started, I couldn't stop thinking about it and then I started seeing the details. I remember the details. And then I could remember seeing the shape of the head. Also the fact that it wasn't smooth, like you could see, you know, the hair. The lake that was extended out to the side was extremely long, but it wasn't very, it wasn't like I would expect to be thick.

It was like kind of thin, thinner than I would, you know, think of a soft squash. and because I was thinking I didn't see any outline of clothing it was just all dark but I remember so remember the details of the top of the head

was like fuzzy like and then once the biggest memory that came was the highlighting at the face kind of that like the protruding part the triangle like an upside down triangular arch protruding from the head. I couldn't see details of an eye, but I could see like the brow, the brow line that

heart highlighted down around the nose and that's what I remember seeing highlighted. It was protruding from the dark space of a silhouette. and I just when I parked I thought how did you do that how you know how did you do that to me you you know I saw you and that game they're in my head they're always going to be in my head but um I can still see the image very clearly but I just in my mind as I just said okay oh thanks for show you yourself you know And I wondered if anybody else behind me saw it because it wasn't that far off the road. A few weeks later, my mother told me don't go back there, but of course I did.

I went on that road back there just to see if there's any sign of anything. But it was a few weeks later. Of course, there was no sign of anything back there on that room that goes toward that area. But just out of curiosity, I had to go and look. I'm always on my own and I just always go on the backroads and stuff just to explore I've always explored things

even as a young girl I would go out on horseback and explore all by myself but those are the two main incidents that I had but I'm always expecting something and now I'm back up in Washington State

and I'll be out in the Olympic peninsula and I had worked out there before for a season and I've been out and around and on the trail this stuff I was expecting but I haven't had an experience out in Washington yet but another thing that happened that I still wonder about happened to me up in Kings Canyon Sequoia National Park I worked up there for short short while in the winter time. And I'm still trying to put this together. This was probably in

2002, I think. I can't really remember the date because I was there for such a short time. But we had a really heavy winter. My truck was totally covered. So I had to dig it out.

From top to bottom, it was just one big mound of snow. But I woke up in the middle one night and I looked out my my room, not out my window from my room. And I had this view out into the woods and I had woke up and I saw

like lights, three lights across so you could probably consider it about a quarter mile away or less. It's hard for me to tell exactly the distance. But I saw these lights and it was they were moving smoothly

they started out from the right of my view and made their way to the center and I just watched the move and I just kind of thought oh well I'm not sure if anybody can walk out there because the snow is so high

I'm five three and the snow is up to my hips it would be hard to just walk out there And I thought, well, we got a lot of the maintenance guys worked through the night with the machinery clearing the roads on a constant basis. Maybe that's what it is. Because I had come into the property at night in the snow, I didn't really know the roads yet. So when we had gotten a clear day and as warm, I decided to walk on the road off the practice. to see what would have been over there.

Were there cabins over there or something? I didn't know. I started walking on the road that went around to that area. And as I started down that road, I had crossed over a little bridge that covers crosses like a creek that goes to the lake. That is right there. There's a little lake there that the property is on. But as I was walking down the road, I was descending.

I wasn't going that straight across. I was descending. And the land was a little bit slightly higher than the road, but it was also descending. And I walked for a while, went around a corner, and I kind of looked at the situation of where my room was and straight across to where I saw the lights. and the land is not as it was not high enough for somebody to be walking over there or driving or anything.

There's no road there neither because the road I was on is going down. So it was just an interesting thing that I saw those lights. I don't know if there were orbs or anything but there were three lights straight across my room across like a wide area

where the creek was and it all went down from a field from there. So I heard about the stories about orbs associated with bigfuss and stuff like that, so I don't know what that's, but I have seen other orbs before growing up and I don't know if it could have been anything spiritual

or anything to do with them, but that was the other thing that happened to me on one of my work work trips. And I just thought it was interesting. and I'm still trying to piece that together. That's for me, it's that always piece these stories together and kind of figure out what it was

and what caused it and everything. But those are probably my most interesting things that I've had happen. Terry, thank you so much for sharing what you've heard and also what you've experienced. As a seasonal worker at different parks, would you hear

Bigfoot related things shared with other or shared by other workers as well or do you think what you were experiencing maybe was something you knew? Everywhere I go, I make it a point to ask people especially the local community if there's any stories or any sightings. One thing that does, I do remember right now,

I was working up in the Cascade Mountains up in a town called Sahigan. And one of my coworkers, him and another one of my co-workers they went, hiking, I can't remember what lake they went to, but they had taken pictures of footprints at the edge of that lake. And they're both very tall, tall young men, at least six feet tall. feet tall. And they took a picture of the footprint and they're pretty tall and they had, they tried to follow the strides of the footprints that they found and they had a kind of leak from one footprint to the other because they were so far apart. I can't remember any

stories right now, but I do make it a point to ask around. And hear anything's... I think that's great. You're able to do that. That's really cool. So if you think about everything that you've heard and you've experienced, do you have any thoughts about what you think Bigfoot is based on all of that? Well, basically, I think they're a different type of people because of their intelligence, their abilities. I don't consider them an animal.

I consider them a different type of people. They all have their own different tribes also, their own, probably their own dialects and languages. and their own cultures, depending by regions, just because being native, we all have our different little languages and cultures also. Everything kind of gets thrown together as one major culture. It's not. So I believe they have their own different groups and everything. I believe that they probably have their own groups and everything. They probably have their own meetings also. And I believe they all have different, you know, from what I've seen or heard that they,

they look different in different parts of the world. And even in our country, they have different temperaments. Probably the ones that are living very remote in the mountains and stuff are less tolerant than the ones that live close to society. But that's for me, for me, it's just always, it's a different type of people. And they deserve a lot of respect, and we do respect them very much.

What do you think the best ways to show them respect would be if you're going out into an area where there could definitely be Bigfoot activity? Well, just go about your business. If they want you, if they want to let you know they're there,

they will try to have an open mind about it and realize that there is more in this world than just what, you know, you're basically seeing. And that'll help you get over to fear. That's when it thinks I read about these stories, that people that, when they encounter these beings, that they get traumatized by it. It's because it breaks their perception of the world. And I don't think anybody should be traumatized unless they're threatened. Because if it was going to hurt you, it's going to hurt you. But you need to have an open mind so that you're not, I guess, injuring yourself in your psyche now that.

It's better to have an open mind or something. mind is something that seems unreal and can't possibly be there. If you open your mind that it is there, you're not going to be traumatized. But being respectful is just backing off and letting them have their way. I would even talk to them and say, oh, you know, like, I'm sorry, I'll just, I'm just going back over here, because I believe they can understand. even if they don't understand the language, they can read it in your mind. You just basically have to show them respect because you're in their territory.

And I believe they are very curious and it's probably been a lot for them to understand us and they're curious. But just showing respect for anything. If you're out in the woods of stuff, you don't want to do things to make them angry. And that includes in polluting their world. I'm sure they don't like seeing garbage laying around, things like that. Respecting their privacy, respecting distance. And I'm sure they know what firearms are. And like I said, if they want to hurt you, I'm sure they will.

But the other thing I wanted to mention was, as I believe they're a type of people, and I believe they're a natural part of this world, and there's so many theories right now that they're somewhat related to alien, you know, things. I have a different perspective on that. I think that they are probably being studied. I don't think they are being sent here. I believe they're already here, but they're just also being studied. And maybe they're a bit more accepting of what's going on, and they're probably able to communicate. So like I said, it's an open mind.

I know it sounds great, some people, especially people who are granted in the cities and the suburbs and everything and don't really. have much experience with the natural world. But that's my theory. And like I said, I know a lot of people laugh about it and stuff, but that's my theory. And that's what I would pass on to our younger people, is don't give it to your fears and be open-minded about it all.

That is really, really good advice. let's say if someone just they want to get out there, they've got so much fear, have you found there's a way to get over that fear, like the fear of when you're outdoors in these areas, it's dark out, you don't know what else is out there? Is there a way that someone can get over that? Well, for me, it's just been exposure to a lot of things growing up. When I was a child, I was extremely afraid. But I believe that my grandfather showed all of us through example to not be afraid.

That he would just, I don't know if you want to hear about some of the experiences growing up. I'll tell a little bit about, like, when they talk about things like skin, as such and it was a very real thing and and basically what we encountered was then more like coming around and trying to just cause problems for you they would come around their house and you could hear the dogs just going crazy and they would come around the house and they play with the door knobs and scratching the windows as such We don't know what the real intent was, but they were basically just kind of harassing us in a bit. My grandfather was just one of those who'd get up.

He'd be upset. He always had on his songs that he would sing for protection. He'd get up, go to the door, drive a weapon if he had one there. He'd go out the door and he would just cuss it out and tell him to go away. And we would follow him to the door. If we were brave enough, we would look out the door. There's probably only one time that I saw him. But he would just, you know, curse at it and go away and everything.

I've seen other relatives of mine who have faced them down and tell him, I know who you are, you know, and, you know, leave us alone. And basically, I see those strong people. kind of face up to it stuff and I realize that's basically what I have to do is just be strong be strong because if you're in that situation when you're out and you're afraid you can't give into the fear and we have the strength within ourselves to ward off bad things so if they're out there working they can get in your head and And you need to just get over the fear because the fear is going to cause you more harm than anything else.

And try to be logical about the thing, about the whole situation. And you can't speak to them through your mind and just say, I'm curious. I'm sorry. I don't, you know, be truthful about which why you're there. But fear is just something that you just have to stand up to it because, if you don't you're going to hurt yourself you can hurt your own um your own sight you know your your mind you can hurt your mind just you know that's the place where people had to deal with the trauma because they got so afraid that they if you damage a part of their brain and i believe

that we're strong enough to just stand up to do the fear and Like I said, again, just be very respectful. Well, I think that is some great advice. Thank you so much for sharing it. I'm very glad to share it. There's just a lot of stories growing around and misconceptions about things and stuff. And I'd like to give my side of what I've, you know, learned.

And like I said, growing up my grandfather's stories, And his encounters with different things and how he handled situations. I didn't realize until I was much older that I had learned a lot from him. Especially when I had returned to the reservation as no longer a kid. I was much older. And I felt things that used to scare me. I had no more fear. I was just able to let it go.

That's it. Well, Terry, I appreciate you coming on the show today. And thank you for teaching us some things from a viewpoint that most listeners will not really be able to experience that. But I think there's been some great things shared about how we can get over fear when we go out ourselves. And thank you so much for coming on the show today. Yes, thank you. I was happy to share. Thank you very much.

Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon? And you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's recent number. one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's going to be wild. I'll probably, I'll say this,

there may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else because let's just say sometimes it's, well, you just got to be there. We'll leave it that. More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oak Ridge Woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year, you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a trek deep in the wild forest outside of Oak Ridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is searching for Sasquatch. This is a once-in-lifetime deal.

It's just, trust me, it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest.com, and listeners can use the code B-SP, like Bigfoot Society podcast, in order to get a two-day pass for the price of a one-day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can, can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oak Ridge this year.

We can talk about your encounter. I was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it. And I'll see you there. 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,

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