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Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Originally released on 8/17/24Jeremiah receives a surprising phone call from listener Cindy just before a July 4th parade. Cindy, from Indiana, shares her 30-year-old story of encountering a Bigfoot family, followed by a UFO sighting and time travel experiences. Cindy's vivid recollection provides a detailed narrative about a baby Bigfoot with changing appearances, an enigmatic UFO hovering nearby, and a group of 'Men in Black'. Following the initial story, Cindy's voicemails delve into more encounters, including a haunted doll, dogman sightings, and ghost investigations, making this episode a thrilling dive into extraordinary paranormal experiences.🗣️ 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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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. The following interview took a long time to get to happen. It's important to know that this phone call was a random call that I picked up right before the July 4th parade. And so I was really not in the usual mindset for an interview. but something told me to pick up the phone, and I'm glad I did. Due to the fact the individual did not have Internet,

and it's the first time I've had to actually send a guest release through the mail. I'm glad I finally got that guest release back, and I present to you the following reports from Cindy. Enjoy. I've been so excited about my Bigfoot story. I haven't been able to tell it for 30 years. She was real, Jeremiah. Maya, she was a real creature.

Nobody believes us. They think we're crazy. And where are you calling from today, Cindy? I'm calling from Indiana, sound mind and body. But I remember this. Both my parents wanted me to tell this story after when they passed away. But we actually came in contact with the Bainfoot family and an asswell child. It was pretty intelligent.

They named her after me because she wanted to know us better. And so they taught her just saying the word hi, they taught her to speak English, and she looked very happy with us, but we can tell she was very homesick. And so finally, we stayed around the park for about six hours, and finally, a Bigfoot tribe came through, and they took her back home. And there was a UFO in the area, and we were wondering if that had something to do with our, we went through time travel. It was about like something like back in the Indian days, you know, when they certainly lived in the caves. That we actually, there were five Binket people and we thought it had something to do with time travel. We tried going back several times after this, but there was no sighting, you know, there was no time travel if things went back to normal in the park. And I actually told somebody about it in Turkey Run.

But, you know, 30 years later, they were nice enough to listen. But anyway, they're nice about that. But we want you know this was God's truth, and we're telling the truth. Cindy, so this happened in Turkey Run Park in Indiana? Yes, it did. But like I said, creatures like that normally don't live there. So what we had to experience was time travel. So what year around was this?

About 1983 in the early 1980s, my dad definitely believed in Bainfoot, and he always wasn't. My dad's name was David Ketcher. He was an Indianapolis public school teacher, Carl Wilde, School 79, Room 5, I mean 5th grade, room 23. And see, back then you didn't go around blabbing about stuff like this. It was called Cabo. People didn't believe in UFOs, and they didn't believe in Bainfoot or Sasquatch or, you know, any of that thing like they do today. Absolutely. So you're saying your dad was kind of like a Bigfoot enthusiast?

Yes, I was. And I'm a psychic, and I had a true paragonal encounter here. It caused me to have some psychic abilities. So they know I have, I can prove my theory. because I'm still having experiences from this. Cindy, can you take us back to that time in 1983 when you had that experience in Turkey Run exactly, kind of walk us through what happened that day? Well, we had lunch at Turkey Run, and they always have great food and a great lodge.

And like I said, it was a father and my mother and my little brother, he was about eight years old then. and I was much younger and much better health than I could walk without a cake. And anyway, you know how getting old is, but my memory is still intact. I am vividly recalling this as if it only happened yesterday, but it was like I'm excited about it because it was like something out of those TV shows that you see on TV about, you know, The Lost World or something like that coming on. But this was true time travel, and as I said, We started to go down the hiking trail, and we saw some deer out there, and we tried to feed them.

They were pretty fair. And the lady at the desk told us that if we saw any bears, she said, for heaven's sake, don't encourage him, don't feed him. So we promised them we were too afraid of bears. But what made us strong to this little creature was she was afraid, and she needed us for protection. And so we stayed with her until her tribe came back. Were you saying the deer was afraid or the bigfoot was afraid? No, we were afraid of the big foot. We were afraid of it, but it cautiously approached us, sorry.

We cautiously approached us and they wanted their child back. And so, Dad, we were planning on taking home. And after the experience, we just found we were going to tell this story. So I'm so grateful. I just found you on the YouTube. I'm in searching all three years for a Bigfoot channel that I can tell this to. I'm so glad you found my channel finally, Cindy. So I'm going to ask some clarifying questions along the way, if that's okay,

to make sure we get the whole story. So you're hiking down the trail, you saw the deer, the deer was afraid, and then get us to, it sounds like eventually then you saw a baby Bigfoot, and then there were some parents involved. Yes, we first. It was like a, you know how you see those UFOs in the movies where they pass out a fog-like thing, you know, that kind of covers the territory? It was like walking through a fog, and we were like, where in the heck are we? Are we still back in our time?

Dad says, that's the big food is not what worries me. He says, how do we get back into our time? He says, what if we come out at the other end and we're still trapped in their time and not. in ours. But even as we crept further into the wood, the deer seemed to disappear. And there was no, I forgot to add, there was no noise in the woods, no airplanes, no car traffic coming from the modern world. There weren't even any birds, no crows, nothing.

It was silence. Okay, so you started walking through fog, which made you think, well, maybe there's a time travel aspect. Did you actually have a visual on a UFO as well at that time? Yeah, when I was afraid, you think I was crazy. I'm not going to lie about it. I got nothing to hide, and I don't mind if you use my program. People ought to be aware that these experiences happen.

Oh, absolutely. I just want to be careful that once you wish for, you just might encounter. You know, the old same, you know, if you wish for it, you've got to be able to own it. No, I totally agree with that. Just be careful what you wish for. So you're walking through the fog. You say, well, maybe we're in a different time period. Do you see a UFO, correct?

Yes, I did. It wasn't a silver. It was a typical flying saucer dish, but it was black, and it had, like, yellow and white lights underneath. It was making a low-humbing noise. And was it parked, or was it flying up in the air? It was hovering, it was hovering, but like I said, it was invisible to the outside world, because UFOs have this ability to not be detected.

That's why a lot of the reports are not showing up on the Blue Book project that they don't want us to know about. And I think they did find aliens in Area 51, and I think they're still there. I would agree there's some interesting things going on out there that we don't know all of it. Can I say another thing that happened from this Bigfoot experience? Absolutely. When it's fair, it's the men in black. When we experienced the men in black. Okay.

I didn't want to say. I didn't want to say that. Yeah, we could totally get there. Yeah. So you've had the UFO encounter. Then after that, was that when you started to see the Bigfoot or the baby Bigfoot? Yeah, baby, yes, yes. Can you kind of walk us through, like, what you remember, how it looked like,

like how it was acting, a good description of it, maybe. I mean the UFO? Like the baby Bigfoot. Oh, it acted like it was a, when we saw it from the back, it looked like a chimpanzee. And then when,

that's interesting part. Well, it looked at first like it had a chimpanzee's face. And then when it turned around when we first encountered it, it had a humanoid little girl's face and become completely, character resting, but did you know that big foot can

disguise themselves, does anybody ever tell you that before? So I've heard a hypothesis that there could be a creature that changes itself to something that the person looking at it would be more comfortable looking at, and I think that might be kind of similar to what you're saying. Yeah, because when it first looked at me, it looked like an ape, and it was making hooty towns

like they knew, ooh, who, ooh, you know, like all that stuff. I came monkeys or apes sound, and some of the others were running around on all fours, but this little girl was walking on two feet and tried to imitate it. It was that smart. There were multiple Bigfoot in the area you're saying? Five, five, five. Five, okay.

And were they all juveniles, or were they also adults? They were all adults, all adults. There was sort of like an older male would seem to be like the leader. of the group. There was like a mother and father and two, yeah, you were right two adolescents. Two adolescents. Sorry, so you said

mother, father, two adolescents? Yeah, and let's see, wait, but I need one more, sorry. One two, that's three. One more. Yeah, sorry, one more adolescent. I couldn't tell whether they were girls or boys. Gotcha. Now, you said that, so did you actually see the

face of the adolescence change from a chimp to a humanoid type face? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. I was on no medication, no medication at the time, no drugs, no alcohol, nothing. Have you ever seen anything in a movie, like a sci-fi movie that was similar to what you saw that day where it changed its face? Well, not exactly. Not exactly. Okay. They've shown being foot encounters, but they didn't show them having accountants by changing from something to it. I didn't see anything that could have influenced me. Right. That is a thing where I've never really had a report where the person saw the face change like that. It's very interesting. How tall would you say it was?

Well, the mother of the tribe seemed to be like only five feet tall, and the rest of them seemed to be like six feet tall. When they were making gutter old monkey sounds to communicate, the rest of them could speak English like the little child. It was like, and can I mention something else, it was like she had an ESP, and I think this was how she was tapping into learning our language. She could read our brain thoughts, her mind thoughts, and listen to what we were saying, you know, inside her mind. Is there a conversation going on, you think maybe through mindspeak? Yeah, I think she was trying to read her mind. I think they do have ESP, and they can tell what we're thinking. I think they're that smart.

What were the thoughts that you were experiencing during this time? Well, I sent in my mind, who are you, wherever from? I was afraid we were going to go to another planet. I wanted to go home. I had a favorite TV show on that night. Some kind of show, I forget what. I remember I had some kind of show I wouldn't get back. Kim John's back in those days.

They didn't have these, you know, recorders. very much back then that you can tape with Shill and watch it to it again. But yeah, the only movies I saw back then, they didn't have so much Mayfoot. I saw Bayfoot back in the movie back in the 80s or TV show. Mom wouldn't let me

watch them if they were on. And then she got stuff with me, the real one. That was always so funny. That's really funny. And you know, oh, go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm going to sign about telling us. And when the movie, Paul from here's

Because I know what she did when she took after a precaution. When the movie Poltergey came out, oh, I thought it was great. And anyway, I was in the home. But she said, no, we're going to watch it. It was a library at Speedway Public Library for 30 years, 35 years. And she took me over there to the meeting room to watch the movie. She said, after meeting you and being paid for her, she says, I don't want you watching this movie in all the brain home, something else.

Okay, wow, that's wild. Thank you for sharing that. When you had those thoughts in your head, did you have any returned from the creatures? Not yet. We're still hoping they find us all the way here in Avon. Yes, sure, definitely. Do you remember any? So I'm just going to ask you some questions about different details to see what we can remember.

So do you remember anything about the hair, color, or the length? It was like a monkey, like a chimpanzee. It was a chestnut color. It was on here, and you can tell the woman she had, you know, like the monkeys you see on TV on the monkey shows, you know, live animals, they had a frontie that looked like the chest of a female ape. But they wore no clothing of any time, and the female stuck to high heaven. I remember she had a severe body odor. I wish I couldn't give her a bath that night. Bless her.

You can smell her all the way down the path. Gotcha. Were they, how are they interacting with each other when you saw the group? They come on great with each other except the female getting in along with the older eight-like creature. This is Daniel Fischel. And Ryder Strong from Pod Meets World. Cat parents unite. We have to look out for each other. Yes, we all know the feeling of being ignored by our little babies a little too well. Yeah, I often wonder to myself, does my cat even love me?

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she didn't like it too well I'll say that got you what was it that made you think that the one

creature was like the the older one in charge because it wasn't running as fast. It had difficulty walking, like it hurt his leg or something, like it had arthritis. They were so much like us. It was absolutely phenomenal. What was the hair like for the older one?

It was thick. It was thick covering. They had it on every area except their chest. It was like covered on their chest, you can see. But, you know, it was covered real thick chest. chestnut hair down on their legs. So the older one had chestnut color as well? Yeah.

Okay, and very interesting. I'm thinking real quick. So let's remember, let's go back to what the faces looked like. It feels like you got a really good look at the face. Can you describe things like the eyes, the nose, the mouth? The eyes were black. The eyes were black. Now, when you say black eyes, do you mean the entire eyes?

was black or just the entire eye was black black okay so a full black eye no white spot showing okay and it had a grip it had like a frown expression on its male looked at it like it didn't trust it kept its distance and it howled it us entire time very interesting so you're saying a frown from the male so you weren't able to see the teeth at all no okay but it didn't like me gotcha I felt threatened by it. I felt threatened by it. How wide across the face did the mouth go? Was it very drawn out?

Well, it was a wide, it was a wide grimace, and then it kind of went into an evil smile like it was trying to threaten us. I felt like the little girl was there to protect us from the herd. I felt like she was

our protector because we were talking. It was it. Gotcha. You've mentioned that there was, or how long was the hair? Sorry, there's a lot of questions I have in my mind right now. Well, it's about, oh, like, it's just like, I don't know how to say this. It's just like a chimpanzee. Yeah, it looked like the missing link. It was a cross between a big foot and a missing link, you know, than what Charles Darwin's theory was man came from the missing link. Have you seen photos in books or movies that look similar to what you saw that day? No, just chimpanzees.

Okay. The actual real chimpanzees, that's close as I can describe. It has ears of nose and the mouth. That's what it looked like before it changed to a humanoid face. Okay, gotcha. So when it was a chimp look, it actually had, you could see ears. What was the shape of the head at that time? It was like a regular chimp's head.

Okay. Gotcha. When it changed to a humanoid face, did the shape of the, had changed all. Nope. That's what was terrifying about it. I didn't know whether it planned on, whether it was a meaning or whether it planned on capturing this, but luckily, Dad said it was like it was trying to hypnotize us and, you

know, and staying there so it could do something to us. And dad said, I'm not staying around. And so we finally broke free. And we all ran back down the path through the fog. And luckily, we came out into the, parking lot of the turkey run. And we were just happy to be back. I never want to leave her.

I would never want to travel out in space, because you have no control. And I would never want to go to another planet because I'd be too scared now. So absolutely, I'd be right there with you, right? So your dad got to thinking that they were trying to hypnotize you or keep you in that area. So they can take us back wherever they came from.

Did he ever say, I'm sure you guys talked about this, or maybe you didn't, did you ever say there was a certain point where something happened where then I realized they were trying to hypnotize us. Dad, dad broke the spell. They were trying to work on him the most because he seemed to have the most control. And they wanted me for some reason, but I don't know why. They were trying to get me because I was communicating with the little girl most. remember, do you remember anything about the arms of the creatures, like lengths or how they look? They look like, I'm sorry. She was swinging them like walking, almost wasn't like a person, but was swinging the arms like an ape would if they walked more than a while, short while on

legs. Go swinging back and forth. And the hands were they covered with hair or how did they look? Oh, yeah. They looked at it is. She had the dark fingernails that a chimp would have. And can you imagine living right now when you couldn't shave or do anything else to the bathroom? Well, the question is, is like, if that's all you know, is it really a bad thing to you, right? I don't know. Well, I want to take a shower once in a while. Yeah, well, you know, I would too, but I know what that's like, right?

So when you saw them as a group, were they doing any activities together, like creating structures or cooking or cooking or. They were washing in the tree. They were washing in the creek. They were washing their hands, I think. Had to have a kill or something. Okay. They were washing their hands and they were hooting. They were bouncing up and down on their legs, like squatting at the water and going,

gosh. Oh, very interesting. Do you think there was any maybe, like, fish catching or fishing involved? Could them in, could them in. I wouldn't go and stick around to find out. Yeah, right. So it sounds like, so you were coming into this foggy. area with the UFO and then did you see them alongside the creek or when you came upon them

they were actually in the creek they were actually there already doing their thing very very interesting um do you remember anything about the forehead of the creature it looks like a human forehead with the wrinkles okay was it pronounced three wrinkles yeah yeah three wrinkles and like I And all of them, even the little girl had black eyes, black eyes. I definitely have more questions if you have a little bit more time. That's fine. That's fine. Sure.

So, so, so, so, so, okay, did you see them walking around a lot? Well, they were kind of squatting at first. Then when they saw it, they ran back into the bush. At first, they were just trying to make kinds of conversations, like, growling and snapping. in each other. Boy, they didn't get along very good. When you see something walk, it's called the gate, how a human will walk. It has a certain gate to it usually.

Did it have, these creatures have an unusual gate to them, how they were walking? It was like an ape-like walk. When you see a chimpanzee, it wasn't human. It was like a chimpanzee walking, tried to walk. Gotcha. Like they didn't have that much strength. Okay. What was the posture of the creatures like?

kind of been over like sloping forward yeah yeah it wasn't straight up like a human okay did you see any ways that they had been affecting the environment around them in that area

yeah it was totally calm probably quiet it was it was odd like there was nothing for the present with you except the clothes on your back what you brought with you gotcha any like pushed over trees

or broken tree limbs or things they might have been. Nope, nothing like that. You mentioned a few times where they'd been making sounds towards you and towards each other. What kind of sounds did you hear in general in that time? Is there monkey-like creatures? Gotcha. How long do you think you were there in their presence for? About an hour and a half.

An hour and a half. Okay, so that's a really long time for sure. I told you they were out to get me. They wanted me because I have psychic talent, and I could communicate, and they were trying to control dad's mind so they could get control of me. They didn't care much about my mother or my brother. They were non-believers at the time. But, boy, mom sure changed after that.

An hour and a half, so was it, were there certain activities that happened during that time, or were you just kind of staring at each other and like, oh, I don't know what's going on here. Should we get out of here? I was trying to break free of their trans. Like I said, it was like they were trying to prove us in a hypnotism-like control. I was just marked for him. All I think I said was that I want to go home and he says we all do.

Oh, that's actually really scary. They wouldn't let us go. Yeah. I mean, they wouldn't let us go. Oh, so it wasn't like... I'm lucky to be here. Yeah. I'm lucky to be here today.

It wasn't like you were just hanging out there. It's like you guys want, you didn't want to be there for the hour and a half. You were trying to get away. No, no. Wow. No. Okay. So.

I wanted to go home, Brian was starting to cry. He was a little boy. The funny thing is, is that I've actually been to Turkey Run State Park in Indiana back in the 90s. So it was a while back. What particular, can you share? Oh, it's a very nice place. It is, yeah. Can you share what particular.

part of the park this took place in? It was around the end. Okay. When you first come out and you go across, and I was out, you know, this is back in the day, this is hard for me to remember. Sure. Know exactly what was there, but I remember the inn itself, and some of those state parks had a horse rides, and I used to ride a horse named Ranger with my friend,

With my grandparents, I always wanted a horse, but Grandpa had a farm, but he didn't live on it. And he said, I'm not getting a horse sending. Right, yeah. Horses can be fun, but they can also be quite a handful. From what I remember, this state park has very deep canyons for that area that you can offer. Oh, that's where we were at. That's where we were at. Holy mackerel.

Okay. Where it shows that cliff overhanging. So you were in the canyon. Was it that the area that you had seen these creatures in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where the fog was. Now I'm going to tell you. That I thought we were done for, I thought, boy, this is Edgar Rice Burroughs, Los

World. I said, we're going into it. I always liked that movie, but I never wanted to experience. You never wanted to go yourself. So the thing about that is that part of my life, like I wasn't super into Big Five. I'd watch some stuff before we kind of got out of it. I was like junior highish maybe. but going down that canyon, I remember it's a different, you feel like you're going somewhere else and you just really get some weird.

You get some weird vibes down there, I remember as a little kid. I bet it's haunted. I meant it's haunted. I don't know. I would wish the people, if they've also experienced stuff there, that they would reach out to me. Your father, was there an event that led him to first believe in Bigfoot before this? Yeah, he saw a UFO before this. I didn't want to say this.

Okay. But he had seen a UFO earlier prior to this, and that's how we got into this. I am. That's how I saw the man in black was before this experience was, but he had had an encounter. He said, can I tell you another story that happened with Babefoot after this experience? Oh, absolutely. This is where we're getting it. Go ahead.

is where we're getting into, sorry. My dad had a UFO experience. And then that same year, he went to Indiana State Fair. And, you know, Indiana Coliseum Explosion? Dad said that he felt like he went through time travel after this. He was at the Indiana State Fair, which is your business. My mom and her other were coming back from some of those SNAT stands, and he said that he had spoken to a young woman that was dressed.

or fashion closing that the fire Coliseum was back in the 1960s. And anyway, he had met a young lady, and she said her name was Lydia, and she had to get back to her family in Fort Wayne. Now, my question is, does a young lady by the name of Lydia Hunt the State Fairgrounds from the Coliseum Explosion that night? Oh, goodness. Wow. Yeah.

That is really interesting. And what year was that again, that your dad experienced that? That was back in the late 1980s. Wow. Oh, that's wild. Can you share the, you said there was a men in black aspect to everything? Yeah. Yeah, they had not looked like men.

They were, when they came to him, you know, in that experience, they had no faces. Really, faceless individuals. And they were dressed in all black. The typical black hat, the black suit, the black shoes, but they didn't say anything. They just observed him. They were at his front doorstep, and they just observed him for about five to ten minutes, and then they disappeared. They did speak one thing that dad looked at him. He always like Frank Edwards, you know, flying saucers.

He said, I never thought we've been doing this. But all this is true. And that one guy said, our way on earth. yet and then they disappeared. That's very interesting. Oh, here's a question. Over your time with the Bigfoot and Turkey run,

were you able to get any pictures or was there any evidence? No, we didn't have any pictures. No, we did not bring. But we do have the memories. We do have the memories. Absolutely. Which are priceless for sure. I wish we would have had a camera. We would have been millionaires by now.

I wouldn't have had to go to this retirement home, and I didn't live like I wanted to. Absolutely. I don't like retirement home cooking, however. Did you? I don't know.

Maybe I should have been captured by the UFO. Maybe they would have had better put it on another plan and on here on the same menu, I swear. It's the same lunch and dinner every day.

Never varies very much. And it's the same thing. Now, wouldn't you rather be captured by the UFO than eat this same menu every day? Come on. You have a beautiful spirit, Cindy. I'm really thankful for you sharing everything today. Did you ever look to see if there are any other encounters like this and Turkey Run over the years?

Yes, but they had nothing but their encounters and things like. Like I said, we've ever chosen to have this experience so we can tell others. Do you still want to use my story? Absolutely, yeah. It's an incredible. So what's your name? What's your name? So my name's Jeremiah.

Pardon me? It's Jeremiah. So after this... And what's your name of your story? The name of your channel. It's called Bigfoot Society. So what I would like to... Is this a regular telephone number or is it a cell phone?

Yes, yes. Is it a cell phone? Regular land phone. But this is a true story. I'm not hiding any details. I'm not making any of this up. Was this a good interview today? I'll tell you, this is one of the coolest ones I've ever had and it was unexpected.

So I'm glad you called. Oh, I just... But you will have me, you will have me. I want to be on your, I like you, and I like your show, and I want to really be on your broadcast. Well, thank you for calling, Cynthia. I really appreciate it. And you have a great July 4th, okay? Will you call me back when this happens?

Can I have your phone number again? I forgot it. It's 515-809-0165. 1555, what? 515-809-1-16-5. 0.15. 8.09.01 again, please. 0.165.

0165. I can't wait. I can't wait. Awesome. Well, thank you for calling. Cynthia. It's been a pleasure chatting with you, and I look forward to

I'll be sending something in the mail, okay? But you really do think I'll get on your show. If I get that release back, it will, yeah, definitely. Thank you. Thank you. Cindy's story is far from over as you can see from the following voicemails I received from her,

and I now have more questions than ever, as you'll soon find out. Hi, Jeremy. Sorry to bother you one last time, Dave and I saw a podcast about viewers' comments, and you said you like to have a dogman story. Well, have I got a story for you? It stemmed from a UFO. Remember I was telling you about the UFO, this true story. Now, back in about 1980, 79 through 1980, my father was a school teacher in Indianapolis School 79, grade 23, room 5, and he also had a license to be a principal.

And, well, anyway, it was some evening on a weekend that he was traveling down in Country Road in Brown County, Indiana, and he had a new puppy with him. She was a Dotson puppy, and her name was Sandy. Well, here's where the story begins. Dad was coming down the road, all of a sudden his car got sold, it died in the middle of the roadway, and dad was starting to panic because the doors, the windows to the car wouldn't open, the radio was shutting on and off, and the car was stolen.

So finally, the car went completely silent. and then he heard a low humming noise that sounded like it was coming from above the car he was driving an old mobile at the time and it was fairly new car back then that anyway he and the dog was trapped by a UFO he finally got the window open and he said it was this stifling inside the car

you couldn't breathe and the dog was having trouble he picked her up and let her breathe out the car window to try to get some air well anyway here's what happened and the UFO was carrying on maintenance noises and he saw white and yellow lights underneath the saucer was a traditional black flying saucer. Well, as it was busy doing whatever was going on at the time,

he was set back in time to 1956 to 1957 for about an hour, he still was unable to open the car doors to get out. But anyway, he began to get in time. had really panicked now. The times and scenes were delayed back to that time. He saw no more modern cars on the highway. Even the farmhouses and the regular houses that met along the way and the billboards were gone.

Everything was back to the time. And then he was stuck in that time frame for about half an hour. He can see and hear the cars pass by and the people talking in the cars. They were that close. They seemed not to notice him. So finally the UFO left, and about five minutes later, he suddenly came to himself, and he was on the outskirts of Indianapolis from Brownsburg, and he had no idea about the time frame in his watch.

One thing my dad says that right before he blacked out, he saw an alien staring through the car window at him, and they looked like your typical alien entities with the wide, almond eyes. And this one was kind of gray, green, looked like a man. But anyway, he was staring in through the car window before my dad

passed out and found himself back in Indianapolis, where here's the thing. He made it back home, and he was absolutely terrified. And mom was at his favorite meatloat dinner for supper. And she said, Dave, what's wrong? She said, you look like you see your ghost.

And he said, worse. And when the doorbell rang for about six weeks, later. Dad refused to open the door and always ran into the bedroom or either had mom answer it or he didn't answer the door. He wouldn't even go out and get the bail. But anyway, he was

straight and the man in black and by the way he didn't see him when he regained his memory. He dreamed about him every single night for about oh six weeks prior to that time. But he had nightmares. He woke up

sweating. He had trouble breathing. He had very harsh breathing spells. He panicked. Anyway, after about a month, they decided to go on with their life. So the puppy was still there, and she was still kind of fidgety. Well, anyway, the next thing, but that's a UFO cause was, you know, I told you about that incident we had a big foot, and I didn't tell you about another big foot siding,

or I don't remember we had two of them. One was at this grandmother's farm. I don't think I told you this because I didn't think about it at the time. And it's kind of escaped my mind that it's true, too. He was on my grandmother's farm in Winchester, Indiana. And again, the same scenario, he saw a white alpine oboeuvre, and she was hiding around one of the buildings. He put up no trespassing signs on my grandmother's farm.

There was a 100-year-old barn there, and a creature fell through the flooring. And he helped it out, and he fed it and everything. But anyway, it was much like the other one that we saw, and we're wondering if it's not a new species of Beeput in Indiana because we had two sightings of it. And, you know, have you ever wondered about Bigfoot where Bigfoot really comes from? Is it a descendant of Neanderical man? Is it still in evolution, or is it an alien?

in from another planet. I mean, we had two sightings of it. But we're in the last part in case you're wondering, here's the part where Dogman comes in. You wouldn't hear a report about Dogman, okay? Well, you've got it. Here's the part of after the animals dispersed, and we saw they were safely going back to their woods home

on my grandmother's farm, and it had a 100-year-old barn, I'm told you about. And, but anyway, after a month after that, Dad had another sighting from the UFO. We don't know why it was following us, and the man in black, we did determine that we saw them on one occasion. They don't look anything like they do in the movies. They're far more too terrifying.

And anyway, what happened was we were sitting at home in the living room having suffered one evening. We were just watching the news on television, and Mom was cooking some type of breakfast meal because dad said he was getting tired of everything else and wanted, like, you know, pantates, straggled eggs, patties, you know, bacon, something like that. So, she, blah, excuse me.

And anyway, we heard a little growling sound, and dad turned down the TV sound, and he said, what's that noise? Is it Sandy? And I said, no, it doesn't sound like a dog. So Dad went over there to the sliding glass door, and Mom opened up the curtain. the drapes.

And when she pulled the drapes, we all received the shock of our lives. There before us was dog-banded all his glory. He stood between five feet and six feet tall. I'm not kidding. You look just like a werewolf. You thought

Bainfoot's terrified. Well, Bainfoot's tame compared to this guy. He was frosting at the mouth and just glaring us with those evil green eyes and it had black, we'd call them in the middle, but it didn't look like entirely different. They were dark.

But anyway, it was growling and snarly at us, and mom said, I'm going to hit him with a broom. And dad said, no, you're not. He went into the back bedroom, grabbed his silver coin box, and took it to the window and showed it to him, and that thing let out a streak. I swear, I will never forget this as long as I live. It howled like there was no tomorrow, and it dispersed into the woods, and we never saw it again. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want anybody to see this.

But anyway, just remember next time if you take a hike in the woods, bring food for bayfoot, you don't want to hungry bayfoot after you. And also as a process, take some kind of a silver medal or something that can't be Sterling. Sterling doesn't work on God, but ask you, solid, silver, like a cling, or something else that's made. Here's the climate of the story caused by the UFO, Bigfoot, and the siding of Dogman. Well, anyway, after that, we slowly have recovered and tried going back to our lives. But this thing or whatever the UFO was, these strange creatures seemed to plague as all of our lives while we lived in town, siding in the neighborhood.

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By the time I hit my 50s, I'd learned a few things. Like how family is precious. Work can always wait. And 99% of people over 50 already have the vital. that causes shingles. Not everyone at risk will develop it, but I did. The painful, blistering rash disrupted my life for weeks. Don't learn about your shingles risk the hard way. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSK. There is a creek with woods behind us. We weren't imagining things and we would have no reason to tell to tell tell because it really happened because after that,

that entity that called himself, Jeffrey, the alien I was telling you about, he followed us all of our lives, and I've seen them when I met him, and what happened was months ago in June, I was allowed a ghost investigation in my apartment here, and they were just, they wanted to know about our spirits too. They were kind of intrigued. Nobody made fun of us or anything. They wanted to believe it.

And so, you don't have to worry, aliens are already are here. This one's been observing it has predicted the deaths of four aunts and uncles. They died. My parents both died. My grandparents, all four, died. As a result of this alien appearing to me in predicting that they would die. And then he also possesses a haunted doll here. He knows that it's my favorite because, you know, I collect porcelain.

antique dolls and on their memorabilia. And anyway, it's attached to a rag doll here that was homemade by somebody

at a thrift store and it seems attached to that and the medium that came to the ghost investigation held the doll and said it feels sadness

would I hold this doll it feels like death and I said well of course it has predicted all those people's deaths in our family and has seen it

The other doll that was antique seller doll, it was dressed in a sailor suit from the late 1950s, and it was a toddler-sized doll with blonde hair, and I named him Andy, and when I talked to the voices on the EVP mirror at the ghost, I actually got to use the equipment. It was exciting. I'd love to prove other worlds. But anyway, the voice coming from the doll in the mirror, when the medium asked him, who he was. I said,

Hi, Andy. Say hi to the nice ladies here. There are three of them. And Andy says on the EVP meter, my name is Andy. My name is not Andy. It's Andrew. And we didn't know anybody by the name of Andrew.

The alien was playing tricks on us. It was trying to spend it. Anyway, sorry. This is since again. I hope I'm entertaining you with my mysterious stories, but true stories. And we're wrapping this up now. The last time the aliens spoke, he said his name was Jeffrey,

so we just kind of left it at them here, what the heck. But anyway, Jeffrey said that his name was Jeffrey, and he said he warned me, he said, and he would be watching me. So I don't know what he meant by that. And he said, if I tried to destroy the doll, which he was in happening, his alien spirit or whatever was inside the doll. It said that if I tore it up or disposed him in any way I burned it,

I would die in five years. If I gestarded it by any other means that I would die in three years. So currently I have the possessed dollar whatever it was. But anyway, Jeffrey is here, and he says, tell you hi, and he hopes that he gets his story on one of your podcast, because people need to know these things do with this. Thank you. Jeremiah, I signed your official report the other day, and I got a new one for you.

I'd love to tell you my first encounter with the UFO. You heard about my dad's inside the adventures. Well, this is something that is out of time and space. It's called The Night I was nearly adopted by the Black Eye children. The Black Eye children, let me tell you, not an innocent and childlike as they seem. The creatures I saw that night will really astound you. It was far more than anything we could ever imagine here on Earth.

They're far more superior and more advanced than we are. But anyway, there I was. I just had my left knee operating on. I had a bad fault. I had to have surgery, unfortunately. And I was recuperating at home in my bedroom. and I had a new Pat Katz named Patty Kate. She was a tighter striped kitty with an orange spot on her forehead,

which made him real cute and unique, and dad called her Patty Cake. Well, anyway, Patty Cake was about a young kitten at the time, and Mom got me a parakeet for a companion. I always wanted to teach a parakeet how to talk. Well, anyway, I got my wish. I got a new parakeet, and his name was Petey, and he was white. and, you know, intelligent. And that night, after watching the news, I decided to read a bed for a couple minutes of magazine.

And so, anyway, Peeney was starting to hit up not just by then and really wanted to annoy us, you know, myself and the cat. Sometimes you like to make noises, loud noises to annoy us. sometimes he'd whistle and my brother would come in to the room and he'd say hi to him then he started belching or you know make another weird noises to annoy the burn they'd really go at it but anyway while peony was tearing on suddenly the room got real still and the TV set went off and lights went off and I couldn't get out of bed I was suddenly paralyzed but it wasn't with fear it was like something was trying to tie me down to the bed, like some unseen force. Well, anyway, at this particular time, you know, the window was still shut, and the air inside was starting to get siphling.

And when I looked around the room, strange fog-like substance was in the room, and I thought, oh, no, have the aliens come back to finish the job? that anyway, within a few minutes when my eyes became adjusted to the darkness of the room, guess what I saw, you guessed the two alien children, the black-eyed children, they heard dark skinned. Hi, this is Cynthia. I got another story for you. Have you heard of the airplane pilot that stole the plane from the airport? His name is Rich, and he crashed landed on Ketron Island, K-E-T-R-N.

Anyway, that's my last name, and I can communicate with the pilot, and he started me off on this quest on YouTube, and that's how I meant you originally. Rich had suggested that I hadn't contact with you. He's sort of like an agent, and he helps me on my endeavors. But anyway, that's how I meant you, was through Rich. Well, anyway, he's sort of like guardian spirit now, and he crash-landed his plane on Catcher Island. and he associates me with him now because my last name is Ketron. And when he was on my ghost investigation team that day, we were trying to help cross him over. But he was so lively.

He taught for about two hours that night through that machine. And, you know, we also met the alien creature named Jeffrey about my UFO at Spirits. I had back in 1980. My dad and I both had two separate locations. There was a red probe in the backyard that was light-taking pictures, everything. And that's how I met Jeffrey, the alien. And we got him on our ghost investigation meter. And when they asked him what his name was, he says,

Jeffrey and the two ladies said, we don't know who he is. And I said, well, I know who he is. But anyway, after that, you know, we met Rich, and he crushed and landed his plane on Ketron Island, and it came to me when I saw the newscasts, you know. And I asked him if he wanted to communicate, and he's been assisted me ever since. So he wants everyone to know that he's sorry for committing suicide. And, you know, it wasn't right, but at the end, he changed his mind, and he didn't want to do it, but he ran out of fuel, and he didn't have a choice.

So we hope we can help him cross over to the other side. I was hoping that maybe you can use this story for one of your other shows, paranormal shows. I thought you might be able to use it for one of your other shows. It's a completely different, and he was there at the investigation, and he was one in their number one guest that night. They enjoyed talking to women, and so do I. Well, anyway, thank you.

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 reason 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. trust 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 BSP, 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 get,

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, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI, a federal agency, or working intelligence, and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about, and if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search-and-rescue responder, who's heard screams

or found tracks that didn't make sense, if you're in a firefighter, you're in a firefighter, the logging industry on a remote oil field or trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul and if you're a biologist a wildlife specialist or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report if you're a pastor a missionary or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith or if you work in the shadows CIA NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous, you can reach me at bigfoot society at gmail.com. The world needs to hear what you've been forced to carry alone

and you're not alone. You've got the story. We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube, hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with a friend who's into mysteries, monsters, or the unexplained. And if you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple Podcast,

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