Bigfoot Society - Howling Terror at Mount St. Helens: A Soldier’s Encounter

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

What happens when campers, soldiers, and scouts all report the same chilling screams echoing through America's darkest forests — and they match the sound of Sasquatch?In this jaw-dropping episode of Bigfoot Society, we bring you a multi-witness collection of encounters from across the country — from the terrifying howls near Mount St. Helens that drove a veteran out of the woods, to a bridge-pounding monster in West Virginia, to glowing red eyes staring from the Oregon treeline.You’ll hear firsthand accounts from Red Bank, Prospect, and Creepy Mountain — stories that include thrown boulders, fleeing deer herds, strange vocalizations, and creatures too massive and quiet to be human.If you’ve ever doubted the reality of Sasquatch, this episode just might change your mind.🗣️ 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. Hi there. How are you? Are he every icon? Yeah, yeah. You were saying you have a Bigfoot story from the mountain, saying Helens area? Yeah, so I just was, I was just going flipping through lives, and I run across your life.

And I'm like a guy that I'm wide open as far as bleeding, that something can be possible. And so I've always enjoyed the outdoors. I've always partake. And I'm not the most avid outdoorsman. but I have did the Long Ranger stuff where you go out and just trek. I've lived in Washington State for since 1987. I was a soldier in the Army here and I retired from the Army and I moved back here. I retired because I like the Northwest.

And so I live in the, I live closer to Mount Rainier. And I did some horsebacking on my head. Mount St. Helens on Mount Adams. But that weekend I was hunting elk, Mount St. Helens. It was the early archery season. I was bow hunting with a friend. It was in early September. And I went hunting with him.

We were going to be out for three, four days, camping, that kind of stuff. So it was during the school year. And it was just him and I, and his son had to go to school. He had to get registered. Had to get to school because school was starting up. So he said, hey, he said, I got to go in. I got to take my kid to school. So if you want to go in, we'll come back.

We'll just go pack up and go back and come back out after tomorrow. I said, there's a lot of work just getting here. So I'm just going to spend the night. So he left, take the kid to school. He had to drive all the way back to Olympia. I was in, we were in down near Woodland, down there's Mount Sah. And we were in the ape cave area. That's where the ape caves. or we were right that we were camping in those in that area it was an early arduce season we had an elk cow tag anyway i'm gonna get going keep on going with it so i stayed the night and i take books and stuff and entertain myself so i put my i had my tent set i went into the tent after dark start reading had my lantern going with the light i was reading a book and i just normally i would just fall out to sleep and not all

off. So that night I just thought I just nodded off into the sleep. And I don't know how long I sleep, but I know at a little bit after midnight, there it goes. I heard something. I woke up to it. I thought I was dreaming. But then I listened. I was quiet. I listened. And I hear it. And it goes again. And then all it will stop. And then it would be a pause. And then it would go again. And the first time I heard it, it was really close. I'm talking maybe 60 feet, maybe closer than that. But it felt like it was sound like it would have been close like 50, 60 feet. And then after that first how yell, it got, I could tell it was getting, it was going away from me.

But I had never heard anything scream like that in my entire life. I had been in the outdoors. I know what they all sound like when they bugle. I've heard stories people talk about Bob like mountain lions and stuff. They scream like women. But this was different. And so I came home. It scared me. I didn't stay at another night.

I didn't wait for my friend to come back. I hunted, tried to get my mind off during the day. It was brown about dark. I packed up and came home. Then I told my wife about the story. She teased him and told him I was a big chicken. And I was like, yep, you should have been there. Me and I probably would have stayed.

But at the same time, I wanted to dig a little deeper. I wanted to know what I heard. I didn't see it. I heard it. And I know I was real. It was not fake. And so when I started Googling sounds of Sasquatch, what does Sasquot sound like? And I ran across some videos off of Google that I had found.

And I found one video of the sound of Sasquire, what it sounded like. And it was the exact same thing I heard that night. And that was my story. Wow, that's Wild Account icon. Thank you for sharing that. Were you, I don't know if you mind me asking, but first, thank you for your service. And were you stationed out of Fort Lewis then? So that was after I had retired from the Army.

But I was stationed at Fort Lewis. I was stationed. Yeah, exactly. So I've talked to a few people that have been stationed there over the years, and they've always had some really interesting stories. When you were stationed there, did you ever hear any stories about people having Bigfoot sightings or encounters in the woods around that fort? Yeah, I sure have. I'm friends with some families with a family that we do, they do horseback stuff all the time. They're always in the woods, in the mountains, that kind of stuff.

And I just haven't been visiting that day, and there was two guys. They were visiting two. And they had stories. And it was more like when they was talking, we started talking about it. So I chuckle right now when people are talking about Sasquot. And everybody kind of have a story, right? And we kind of share it. And I'm listening to their story.

And these guys are like, they were like, yeah, this is what happened. We both saw it and so did our wives. And they had, they were each married, their wife there and their wives could witness it too. And I was like, wow, I've had that kind of interaction with people where they have witnessed it. And they're not only witnesses themselves. There was three or four other, three or four people.

I'm talking about a group like two husbands and two wives that saw it witnessed the same thing. Their experience was different. It was something, it was more or less like we saw it. And this is what it did, those kind of things. And then the wives were like, yep, we were there too. And I live close to these guys, to the farm that I had met these guys on. And this has been a few years ago.

This has been several years ago that I talked to these guys that we talked and had this experience. But living here in the Pacific Northwest, you hear a lot of stories about it. And there's a lot of believers here, a lot of believers. My neighbor, he's working on a project, he's working on his house right now. He has talked about an experience that he had. And he called it the same kind of Sasquatch experience and stuff. It's really kind of wild when you can't lay your hands on something, you can't see it, to really partake in believing in it.

But it's just you just have to, if you share your experiences, people share experiences, I'm sure that there's a waste. there's something there's something there. I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up here. And I like, like I say, I've been up in St. Helens a lot. Not a lot. I used to hunt up there a lot. And I would be in the mud flow. That's, it was an area called the Margaret. And that's the mud flow on the map. When you look at the map, they call it the mud flow. And that's where the ape caves are located. And then they have what they call big ear bats, bat caves and things like that where you can go in and look around. I've never been in them.

I've never been in them. But that was my story. I appreciate you coming up. Sharon, also is this a story I would be able to use for the Bigfoot podcast that I have? Okay. Cool. Awesome. Thank you and thank you for coming up.

And I hope you're able to stick around for a bit. Hey, Thunder, how are you? Are you wanting to come up and share a Bigfoot story you have? Yes. All right. Feel free to do, Friend. All right. This happened probably about, I'd say, 1981, 82 when I was in the Cub Scouts.

And I live in the northern Panhandle, West Virginia, around the Elm Grove area. And we went to Dallas Pike. It was an old Girl Scout camp. and we were going to we interacted with the boy scouts they always did activities with us because that was our thing to move up from the cubscouts to the boy scouts so we were going to go on a hike with the boy scouts and we were hiking up the hill and all of a sudden they started saying there's a big foot and they just started running after it and i'm like all we're like terrified we didn't i didn't even see it but it's like we all started just running just running

running with them. But later on that day, we were going to have a football game and the scoutmaster and all the other dads that were there helping wouldn't let us go down to the field over the hill because they said they thought there was a big foot down there. And that was like my first interaction with anything. And I was a little kid at the time. That was my first interaction. And probably my second interaction, it would be, it was actually my wife. she told me it was in 2005 probably in let's see may she was coming home from work she worked at a local restaurant and it was probably about two three in the morning she was driving up to our hill to our house and there's a fork in the road where you can go up to the left side comes up to our

house the right side goes down over to see the rocks a bigfoot ran in front of her car and she was terrified and she said it took two steps on on each part of the road and jumped over the guardrail. And what's crazy about it jumping over the guardrail? It's a long way down to the creek. So it either jumped into a tree or it jumped down over the hill and just slid down the rest of the way of the hill. And I know she'd come home.

She was seven months pregnant. She ran in the house. She was terrified. She's like, you're not going to believe what I just saw. It was crazy. That was the second encounter that we had. Let's see, what was the next one? And then I had an encounter two summers ago.

I went walking down our hill and I went to stand on our bridge that we have goes across the creek. And as I'm getting closer, I hear this noise. It sounds like a bullfrog, but it doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like a bullfrog. It sounded like something was imitating one, but it was really loud. I walked on to the middle of the bridge and I was freaked out and I'm trying to figure out what is that noise. And then all of a sudden I hear something crash into the weeds off of the creek bank. It sounded like I was a car come down into the creek and it starts running through. This thing was huge.

It starts running through the weeds and it's just ripping trees and branches down. and it went under the bridge. I'm so terrified. I've never been so scared in my life. I felt like I was frozen. Like I could not move. And then I'm standing there and I can't move. And all of a sudden, something's banging on the iron part under the bridge.

Now, mind you, it's probably 12, 15 feet in the air. So you know it's no person. Something huge is hitting this thing and pounding on it. And I think it's trying to scare me to run off. Then it's doing it on the other side of the bridge. So I don't know if there were two or one, but it was massive. And it just really ripped through the trees. And I finally got enough nerve to move because I was terrified.

I walked off the bridge. I walked all the way down the road. And I sat down at our church. And I sat there for an hour. And this is actually how I found out about the Bigfoot Society. I started looking up videos on YouTube, and that's how I ended up getting into watching Bigfoot Society. And I was just terrified by that. And then this summer, one of our cats went missing, and it was getting towards dusk in the evening.

My son went outside to look for our cat, and it was getting real dark. And all of a sudden, like 20 deer come running in dark. backyard and they look terrified and they just look scared and they're like they're running right beside you like nothing normally they wouldn't even come near you but they would look like they were terrified and he said that he saw something in the weeds he saw two red eyes and they were pretty big and he heard it grunting and growling but we ended up finding our cat but that was another thing that happened but it was it's just that was crazy and then about August this summer, we were walking down our road.

And we just had this real bad smell of something dead, but it was like, it was such a putrid smell. And I told my son, I said, I don't know what that is. It's crazy. And I said, this smells so bad. And what was even more nuts is when we came home from the store, we were walking back up our hill. Down by the bridge, we heard something growling in the weeds. and we smelled that again. So as we're walking all the way up to our house, we get inside and the fan started bringing that smell. And it's like it followed us home.

It was crazy. But that was my counters. Wow. Thank you for sharing those. Were those also in the same area, the last ones that you just shared? The first one was in Dallas Pike, but all the rest were in Elm Grove. Okay. Gotcha. So that is pretty much a current situation where stuff is happening pretty recent. Yeah. And honestly, I can say for the most part, I probably wouldn't even notice a lot of this stuff going on had I not start watching Bigfoot Society because then I noticed things.

Yeah, absolutely. It's just crazy. I've been wanting to tell you for a long time. I just had to get up the nerve to do it. man i appreciate you you coming up and sharing what you've been through and if you continue to experience and stuff please reach out my email is bigfoot society gmail dot com or you can hop up on one of these shows again in the future but do you mind if i use this conversation on the podcast you can use it sure awesome all right hey man thanks for coming up and hopefully you can hang out down the audience for a bit all right thank you brother thank you wild stuff wild stuff All right, let's see here.

Hi there, how are you? Hey, how's it going? Hey, doing good. Are you coming up to share a Bigfoot story? I am. So I have two Bigfoot stories out of Oregon. Okay. When I first came to Oregon, I am originally from California.

I had heard about Bigfoot, and I never gave it that much merit. I thought maybe, I don't know, I probably don't believe it. So I moved to Oregon about 10 years ago. The first year I got here, I was doing a solo camping trip. And I was on BLM land at this little pond about an hour west of Eugene. So I'm there, the only person. And at night, probably around midnight sometime, I hear these howls all. over. Some are close, some are far, every direction, if I estimate, there probably had to be

20, 30 of them. And I'm like, okay, what does this? Because I'm a pretty avid outdoorsman. I know what a wolf sounds like, coyotes. I know the noise is bear makes. I'm like, what is this? It sounded huge and it sounded powerful. I'm like, all right. I'm not going to get out to go find out because the closest one to me was probably I don't know, 100 feet away. And the farthest one, maybe a thousand yards off in the woods. So I'm super tripped out. I know I'm the only one there.

I can't figure out what it is. And honestly, I wasn't about to go out there and look because I'm like, no, I'm not taking that risk. So nothing happened that night. I ended up leaving a few days later. I'm telling my friend the story, and they're like, that sounds like a big foot. I'm like, what are you talking about? They're like, yeah, the Bigfoot how? I'm like, bro, Bigfoot doesn't how?

What are you talking about? And so sure enough, I googled it, and I listened to recordings that other people have posted online, and my heart sank because that's exactly what I heard. And there's no other description, like just the intensity of it. Like, it feels almost like a powerful big beast. Like, you can tell. So that was my first experience that kind of tripped me on. okay, there's more to the Oregon forest than you think there is.

And years later, I had gone to eastern Oregon to pick up a puppy, and I was like making a road trip. So at the time I was living in Eugene, and on the way back, they started to get dark. So I found a local campground, and it was right at Settle Lake, just outside. of sisters. Yes. So I'm at Settle Lake and like we didn't plan on camping there and we found a campsite.

It was the last campsite in the very back and it was really nice. It was right on the water and then there was a small forest patch behind it. So we set up camp. I'm super tired from driving all day and I got two dogs. I have my Rottweiler and then the puppy I just picked up. the fire was like dying out. It was just colds. There was absolutely no noise, no nothing. All of a sudden, my Rottweiler starts going crazy. And still to this day, I haven't seen him that crazy. And I'm like, what is it? So I have a super bright tactical flashlight. I hit the turn

on the direction he's barking. And I see these huge red eyes glowing back at me. And it was close. It was like, 60 feet away maybe and it was in the tree line and in the tree line it was pretty thick but there was almost like a window where there wasn't any brush and all I saw were the eyes and so my dog's freaking out right I'm trying to grab my dog so he doesn't go charge it and then I'm looking for something hoping some sort of protection right I turn my flashlight around for a quick second, I turn it back and it's gone. And the crazy thing to me, what I still can't figure out, is my flashlight's super bright. I never saw the body or anything. All I saw with these big eyes. I went to that area in the morning and I tried looking out from the window in the trees,

and I'm 6'3 and I couldn't look out. So he had to be at least nine foot tall to look out where that area was. But the thing that blew me away is he never made any noise coming in and out. And it was dead quiet. If my dog wasn't there, I would have never known. And I'm like, how can something that big move so quietly? And even where I'm at now, there's, I live in the woods in Southern Oregon now, and behind me is thousands of acres. And there's bears, there's mountain lions.

And you can hear them move. And, but I still can't figure it out. So yeah, after those two experiences, I was like really blown away and turned into a believer. But honestly, after being in Oregon this long, I will say Bigfoot is probably the least of my worries in the woods. Oh, wow. Really? I've had weird experiences in the Oregon woods. And so when I went on this, after I had these experiences, I went online and I started looking at forums and reading people's actual comments. And I realized there's a lot more weird in Oregon woods than you think. And like I've personally seen orbs.

I've seen other things. I've heard about crazy stories. And so I realize, like looking back, I think about it. I was just in a little tent by myself. There's tons of squashes around me. They could have easily done anything. They didn't try to intimidate me. They didn't bother me.

They left me alone in my tent. And the other time, it was just spying on. Like it was looking at us. It wasn't being hostile. It was just looking at us. And so I'm like, okay, he could have done anything at any time. I never felt threatened. I was more like, what was that? Right? Blown away. But after my other experiences with the orbs and stuff in the Oregon forest, I'm just like, okay, this place is wild. And I'm not talking about like the campgrounds. I'm talking like the BLM land, the forest, the areas. around like my property backs up to the same forest that's connected to crater lake so there's all kinds of weird stuff that goes on out there but it's just a weird place so this big foot kind of opened my eyes to everything else I got a few questions for you that's incredible stuff I actually stayed at Settle Lake for a few days in July so I know exactly what you're talking about the first account that you shared

that that small lake would you be able to share just the name of the lake if possible yeah so the I believe it's called Holt or Horton it's a it used to be a logging area and so it's not even a real lake it's a man-made pond that they used to use for logging gotcha but yeah or Holt or Horton cool I'll do some research into that and then so you say you're down by crater so does that I'm guessing that I've heard a lot about the Union Creek and prospect area is that an area you're familiar with I am yeah so I'll use that road that goes through there to go out the Central Oregon pretty frequently sure I'll go

to Los Creek Lake and those areas and prospect is one area I personally won't stop it especially at night okay so I I've heard that from another person too, that they won't stop. Why won't you stop there? It's the energy you feel when you come right into it. It feels dark and parts of Oregon forest definitely feel like that. Other parts of Oregon forest, like the woods behind my property, I've never had that feeling. And I'm out pretty far in the woods.

Other parts of Oregon, it's pretty eminent. And so I don't know what's going on, but I'm not going to find out. Yeah. I'll be honest, I drove up to Detroit. I felt that very similar thing when I was driving down to Detroit. It was a very weird feeling driving into that area. But have you heard of any Bigfoot sightings or anything in the Union Creek Prospect area? I have heard of them in the Prospect area.

I have not personally. Prospect Cave Junction is like another area. You'll notice there's like hotspots. Pretty much all the forest on the west side of Highway 5, right, along the coast, those areas are all thick. And then you have most the areas around Crater Lake. And then that forest that kind of goes from like sisters down into like bend area. Yeah. There's a lot in there around Mount Hood.

There's a lot. It's really that cascade range is what I've found from talking to people. There's so many sightings up and down the Cascades. I haven't gotten a lot from southwest Oregon yet, and I'm not sure why. Like the Rogue River area? Yeah, so that's where I'm at, actually. But the forest behind my property, it's all BLM, and it connects to, you could walk to Crater Lake if you knew the direction from where I'm at. I feel like the people from Grants Pass into Cave Junction, they're probably not likely to go out and talk about openly or especially like on social media.

They're more like those kind of folk. That's been my experience. That makes total sense. Man, this has been a great conversation. I appreciate you coming up and sharing what you've experienced in your time in Oregon so far. far. I have a Bigfoot podcast. Is this a conversation I could I could put on that platform? Yeah, feel free to put it on. And yeah, thanks for having me on. Absolutely. Hey, Michael, how are you? Good. And you know, doing great. Are you coming up to share a Bigfoot story you have today?

Yes. Yeah, feel free to go ahead. Okay. It was a personal sighting about, uh, five or six years ago in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee an area called Cookville Crossville a lot of people know Crossville more it's a tourist town and I was heading back to Ohio and going by the Camberland River and I was almost to Del Hollow Lake a very well-known beautiful lake there A lot of woods, big areas, large areas of woods, an estate park right there. And I can see up ahead, no traffic, and no traffic behind me.

It was on a Sunday morning. And I can see approximately three football fields actually more a quarter mile ahead of me. there were the river was on the left bank left side and it was a very narrow strip of bank that came right up to the road and on the right side was a cut out mountain and i looked and saw what i thought was a big bear and I got really excited. I wanted to try to get a picture of it. So as I got upwards toward the bear or toward the area, I drove probably a third, really flooring it

because I wanted to try to get a picture. It was down on all fours, and I realized that it was very large, and I'm thinking, and what's it doing on the side of the cliff along the side of the cutout? Why is it on the other side? And as I'm thinking that, all of a sudden it stands up. And when it stood up, it was incredibly large.

I estimated right around eight, maybe nine feet. It was very tall. But when it stood up, I realized and took the first step, I was still too far away to say with any certainty that it was a big foot. But absolutely, when it took his first step, it wasn't like a bear. And I've seen bears walk on their feet and very well versed in the Bigfoot footage that's very famous universally of the Bigfoot walking. But it was incredibly human-like. It did not walk like a bear.

And it swung its arms, had very long arms, and it's as if it knew I was speeding toward it, so it must have heard, had great hearing, because there was nothing coming the other way. I was the only one there. And as I got closer to the animal, it hurried it went right over the back quickly and it did not have any earmarks of a bear in its walk secondly it had a very slender waist and that was the thing that stood out to me well they didn't

have a belly it wasn't a barrel shape like a bear and as a matter of fact I knew at that point that if I could just get there quick enough, I might get footage of a big foot because it had all the earmarks, huge shoulders, a very large head that was just right on its shoulders. There was no neck like a bear. And most importantly, it was right on its shoulders. There was no neck. And with all the earmarks of what I saw, I immediately pulled off the side of the road, jumped out, got my phone, got my camera ready, and threw some, I didn't see it, but when I threw rocks, and I knew it didn't have time to go far, when I threw rocks, just like the gentleman before me, but I've been listening to your show a little bit, but I definitely know that it literally went through the brush like it was not caring whether

it broke anything or not. It was definitely breaking brush, and we're talking larger brush, saplings easily, and I never saw it again. That was it. and I was so excited. I just, I can't say 100% certainty that it was a big foot, but I know one thing. I saw and I see plenty of bears in Tennessee. I see them out of Detroit like you talked, and it was not a bear.

Wow. That's a great story. I haven't heard a lot from Tennessee from a bit. I was wondering down or looking down the comments, you have quite the fan club down there, you got a lot of people that are excited to see it tell them all thank them so much from bottom of my heart i'm taking a hiatus from my show because of a relationship with my wife she doesn't want me out on the world scene without her she has an incredible she has an incredible collection of alien evidence from skull ancient alien looking skulls with brain trepination holes in them and

she lives in Mexico very near the pyramids and yes I'm a writer about all the mysteries and if I could I don't want to take your time are you familiar with the mothman I am Michael but I will tell you I have as it turns out I've got about eight people that are also wanting to come up and talk about Bigfoot but can you so I don't have the time to talk about mothman but can you share a little bit about your books for a minute just so people can check it out. Oh, absolutely. Like you, they can Amazon me, Michael Brumfield, 31 books. My newest is actually the 31st. It will be out next week. And it is titles, do halos solve mysteries, the angel halo, because I filmed a little drone-flowing saucer. They're using it right now on Age of Disclosure. And I personally think

it's the best they have. I'm biased, but no, I'm not. I'm neutral. This is a side saucer video that is the size of a little trash can lid. What I explain is in that cover is that if we are seeing them now and they were seeing them 17,000 years ago, we are still learning that life is getting smarter every day. So could people be watching us? like we watch ourselves now. And ultimately my books deal with, why wouldn't they live with us? So the Moth Man has red glowing eyes.

I was going to share my personal, not my personal experience, but when I wrote my first book, it was with a gentleman who literally saw the Moth Man with red glowing eyes. It looked just like a big foot. He thought it was Bigfoot. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yes. Yes, and I just wanted to share that because it is a very famous encounter where I grew up. They made a movie about it with Richard Gere. And my father crossed that bridge right before it collapses as a truck driver. I was six years old. I remember it vividly because traumatic moments you remember. And my buddy saw the Bigfoot.

He thought was Bigfoot. It turned out to be Mothman. the same night. And this is only 50, 60 miles from Perkersburg, West, or Point Pleasant, West Virginia there, Marietta, and that's the yearly moth man. So I say they're all connected, and I could be wrong, but the title of my newest book, Do Halos Solved Mysteries. That's next week.

The Little Angel Halo, it clearly supported what happened to me when I saw my little flying saucer hover above my head. And it clearly supported and matched. It has to do with my thesis about money and how money can derange people's focus on solving mysteries, helping life and thinking logically. Yeah. So that's it. Michael, I'd say people really need to go check out your books over on Amazon. They sound fascinating. I'm going to check them out. But Do you mind if I take this conversation we had and put it on my podcast to get the word out about things? Oh, no, not at all. Not at all.

Very good. But you're just the end, the stinking thing, where I live, a man I grew up with, and he is absolutely rock-solid, best dad person I've ever met in my life. when he told me his story, just like those other people, he said that Bigfoot, he didn't see it, but he said this creature was huge, come right up on them deer hunting, and was screaming, and he said I needed to listen to the screams because he did Google others, and he said, this is real, Mike, and I said, I'm open to that, yeah. So I love these story, but the main thing was this Bigfoot got right up on him and was trying, he said was trying to get them to run.

But they panicked and just crouched down in this great big pile of thick stickers, thorns, yeah, blackberries and the woods. And he said that this thing literally got within. He figured at a. maximum of 20 feet from them and it stunk so bad that he couldn't even hardly describe dead flesh didn't smell that way but it was an ungodly filthy stinking odor of somebody who hadn't taken a bath in forever and it just it was a wretched stench and he said and then they just they couldn't stay there anymore. They panicked and busted out of the thicket and run as fast they could

down, straight down the hill, and it was dark. They took a chance on risking their life, and it never came after them, but they heard it scream again all the way down. They heard it scream several times, and that was his story. You didn't get to see it, but the similarities, yeah, the similarities with the stench, with the brute force of crashing around, you know, what it was breaking, about little things, like a bear, a smaller bear. They described intentional breaking of some pretty large saplings. It wasn't just a little snap. And so, and then it would beat the ground with it.

It was trying to scare my buddies, like he's wanting them to leave immediately. My goodness. What a wild story, Michael. Thank you so much for spending some time with us, Sharon, about things out there in Tennessee and West Virginia. And I appreciate that. I am going to check in with some other people, but thank you so much. I hope you can hang out in the audience for a bit. Oh, thank you so much. I've spent about an hour, so I've got to get some sleep.

I'm in Nashville now. So you got a great radio voice. Oh, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. You have a good one. You too. Hey, Kat. Thanks for being patient. I saw that you know a few people I know as well. I'm pretty good friends with the Woodwalkers guys.

Oh, good. Excellent. Were you at Hollins? Was it last year? I wish I could have gone, but I'm out in Iowa, so I wasn't able to make it down. Okay, okay. I went and that whole year was definitely, you know, Misty Haynes? Yep, Misty and Spencer. Greg, right? Yes. Yes. I was one of the, me and my husband were one of the first people there at Hollins when we went camping. And you really need to go.

It's quite an experience. Now, we had several people get violently ill when we went and were hospitalized. It was a real unique situation. But let me start with a little bit about myself and my first experience. I was living in Utah, and I'm sure you understand Utah has a lot of activity of various types. And I was living in Ogden. I was a young child of four or five. And my dad had a Native American friend that lived in Ogden Canyon.

And we would go camping, horseback riding and such back when we were young. When I was approximately five years old, I'm a wanderer. I love the woods. I hike. I will disappear. Nobody knows where I'm at. And it happened. the mountain of Ogden Canyon.

And they couldn't find me. They went on horseback looking for me. And they said that when I returned, that I returned saying the man with hairy hands brought me back. That was my first encounter. However, I now live in Alabama. Uncle Jack, he was our native friend, said that there were things in the woods that we weren't supposed to talk about, discuss, exploit, things like that. They were to be revered and kept

silent. And, of course, there were some things we weren't supposed to mention at all. And And anyway, so I kept that to myself all these years. And when I met my husband and we live outside of creepy mountain, actually creepy mountain is my backyard. And I have a rock, a huge rock at the base of our, we have five acres up against the mountain. And I would go to this rock. And I'm a Christian.

That's where I would go. and pray and just have quiet time. I've always been an adventurer, nature person, and that's where I feel at peace. I started hearing steps coming down from the mountain, and almost a purr or chuff. And this would happen on a daily basis. I would get up pretty much before the sun. actually rose and that's what I did daily and this presence would be there approximately about maybe 10 yards away up against this lob-lolly pine that we had that's got a weird curve to it and then eventually I started from my peripheral seeing something almost, it wasn't that red rust everybody talks about.

It was almost gray, a dark gray. And I wouldn't move. I didn't want to make eye contact or draw attention. I would continue doing what I would do. And as time went by, flowers would show up on my rock. A pile of acorns or rocks. I even had some half-eaten persimmons on that rock show up. So I would, again, continue.

But then I saw a hand. And I'm not kidding. He approximately 8 to 10 feet up, and he would rub on this tree to the point after time, he would rub a smooth spot on this pine. Matter of fact, when we cleared the backyard, we kept the pine because he literally rubbed it raw. and he would rub it why I would sit there and pray and just meditate. Then he one day peaked around and I just slightly and looked him in the eyes. And he was old. He was old.

He was gray. He was worn. He was not this rust. Everybody spoke of. And the smell was not of like wet dog, I would hear the stories. My husband would say, oh, it was that sour, wet dog. No, he had a smell of naturally forest, dirt, pine, but it was almost mixed with a wildflower jasmine kind of smell.

and it was so significant and I didn't feel afraid. Matter of fact, I was totally calm, but I did not want to be obvious or draw attention. And it wasn't a growl, it wasn't a bark, it was a chuff, a purr, chuff. And that continued up until we cleared the woods to put my son's trailer back there. And that was the real close encounter that I had. However, when we would go to Holland, now then there was a time, I was gathering chickens, moving them from one pin to another, This is about 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock at night.

And I have a handful of chickens. I got critters everywhere. And I'm not a spooky person. I love the nighttime. I'm barefoot in the woods. That's just me. I was raised that way. My daddy had a way with animals in nature.

He was a Marine sniper. But when he'd go in the woods, he could literally call deer out of the woods. But so I'm carting these chickens, and I hear this almost like a boulder running down the mountainside, and that's creepy mountain. It's coming down, and I thought, oh, my gosh, if they're after me, there's nothing I can do. I've got a handful of chickens just come at me already. And I'm just standing there waiting, and it stops right at the base of the,

mountain. And of course I can't see a dagum thing because it's dark and I'm moving these chickens because the roostin's best time. It stops. I stand there just waiting. I don't hear a growl. I don't hear nothing. I hear something that just stops, turns around, and marches right back up the mountain. But when creepy Holland's happened, I think it was last year, I've got cancer and I don't remember exactly. We were the first people to camp out there before the big meetup. And everybody from all over the United States came over there. And it was marvelous. But that first night there in Holland, I go walk in the woods and my husband and one other man came. And they're chit-chatting at the campfire and they're doing their thing.

And I told my husband, I'm going to go do my walkabout. And I had my little video camera going. And I think Spence has the recording. And I'm going through the woods and I'm coming back and I can almost see the camper and you hear it beside me. something, you hear the footsteps and you hear the growls. And that one was a little bit spooky because that's the first time I've ever heard it be aggressive. Maybe not aggressive, but definitely territorial. And you can hear it clear as day.

And I'm trying to get that camera up, trying to look around, see if I can get an actual photo. and it's just wild. I get to the campground, and I'm trying to tell my husband, and I can't remember the other man that was there, and we couldn't find the photo. And it was the next day I found the video, and I said, here, listen, and they freaked out. Oh, and I got a picture.

If you don't mind, do you mind? No, go ahead. I don't mean to be taken up your time. I'm sorry. No, so the great thing is that I really can take as long as I want. So you're good. Now, I do want to make sure that people get the context of this real quick because this area is the same area where they found the hunter at the bottom of the tree stand with his arms pulled out of his sockets, right? Yeah, the arms and legs, literally.

Yeah. Okay, and I wish I had the picture with the boot beside it. The boot was 12 inches, and this is much more. That's just one. But you can see how his toes are dug into it. He was in a running position. Let me get the other photo. And guys, this is Holland's hunting camp down by, it's in Alabama.

Look at the length of it. Yeah, that's wild. And I'm sorry, I don't have to. the other picture. But yeah, craziness, crazy there. Now,

this actual footprint is not at Hollins. This is at a hunting club by my house. All of this, which Hollins is only about 20 minutes from me.

You got creepy Mountain and then you got Hollins and they're all right there. Wow. Yeah, I'm telling you. Someday I really want to get down there. You need to. I need to make it happen.

What is the... So, how about this? You knowing so much about that area, Hollins and being there, et cetera, what is the craziest Bigfoot interaction you've heard someone has had down there? Oh my gosh. Do you know Flat Rock?

Yes, I have... I've never talked to him, but I know who you're talking about it. Oh, my gosh. He has so much and he has such recordings. He's had some really wild experiences. No, that ain't a bear track. I've, I lived in Utah.

I know bear tracks. Oh, whoops. Yeah. And actually, the black bear in Alabama are small. They're a little bit bigger than a German shepherd. We don't have anything that big here. Heck, our deer aren't even that big. But, yeah, it's, I would say Flat Rock had some experiences, rocks thrown, everything.

Actually, the last meeting we had, do you know Mark and Rebecca Green? Yep, I just interviewed Mark a few months ago. He is. He's good. They are marvelous, yes. They've got some wild stories as well. and precious people. And yeah, we've, but in my backyard, I've had friends just come and camp in my backyard.

And some really, I mean, if you've heard of them talk about something that almost T-Rex sound, roar, you can hear that from my front porch. Oh, man, you can hear that on your property. That's amazing. Oh, yes. It echoes all through our little, we're just like in a bowl of the mountains. But no, that's just a little bit of my personal experience. And no, please, anytime you want to come, hit me up.

We'll give you a place to stay and show you around. Take you to Hollins, creepy mountain. You're more than welcome. That's awesome. I'll make sure I'm following you, and I appreciate that offer. I'll keep that in mind. But thanks for hanging out for a little bit, Kat. And we'll stay in touch for sure.

Thank you. Is this audio I can use on the podcast? Babe, you can do whatever you want. All right. Thank you. Thank you. You have a good one. Good stuff.

She's so nice. She's very nice. Hi there. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. How about yourself? Doing good. Were you coming up to share a Bigfoot story that you have?

Yes. There's been like that I visually saw myself one and my father and my stepmother witnessed an encounter. I live where this happened at was in Red Bank, Tennessee on my encounter. I was, I'm 49 now. And again, this has been a moon ago for mine. I guess I was probably about seven or eight years old. And the area of Red Bank, Tennessee, where we had lived, we had like a ridge. You know what I'm saying?

So one night, we were just sitting around and it snowed. And you kept hearing like somebody trying to shake, like the side of your house or tap on it or, you know what I'm saying, stuff of that nature. And just a, like a, it wasn't like a big roar sound, but it was something that. in the dark at my age. I was like, oh, this is not right. My step, my daddy, he's real big into like Bigfoot stuff that nature. So he says, let me go catch this right here and he says, we're going to walk out there and find out what we got. So as soon as we turned on the porch lot, there was a print very similar to that the lady that was just on there. All of it were the it looks like claws. It was more of, I guess it was probably,

maybe I don't know let's say maybe two and a half inches wide maybe and lengthwise from toe to heel I don't know I guess probably give or take somewhere around that same measurement all right but they were more of a roundish color or not color but more of a roundish look on the toes and then like where you're where the bridge of your our feet are they were real flat and like a muscular you know what I'm saying tight very unusual footprint but again I mean we're talking pretty long fairly wide and it went and just went around the house and at the area it was at my sister's room now all of us back to my sister wasn't into no boys nothing this that the other way like and so

that was the encounter I experienced all right but now Now, my father and my stepmother, there's an article that has been written up in the Chattanooga Free Press, Chattanooga, Tennessee. It's around the Fallenwater area, Boy Scout Road area. So just give you landmarks here. And I've heard stories growing up. But anyway, my father, we used to, there's a creek that they called it like around Sandwich Road. There's a creek. So we used to all go fishing and this.

and the other and there's a little railroad bridge and whatnot so one not him and my stepmother were out riding around and just having a good old time across the street all of us knew the guy across the street and he had a turban shepherd okay so it got to the point where some of these thugs this and the other they believe they're trash and all that kind of stuff anyway he's like well he said before i let anybody in here he says i want permission i won't you y'all are going to have to give me permission I know you got who's there. So my father named you got permission to go in there.

And every time you'd go in there, that turned shepherd would bark across street. So that night, that very night of this encounter, the shepherd only barked one time. Okay. So as they're sitting there, and my father happens to look

in his rear view mirror. Now, they're right at the edge of the creek. Okay, because you can pull off down in there. They're right at the edge of the creek. So from the top of the bank to the top of the water is about, give or take, is probably about five foot. Okay. So from the water to the bottom, you're averaging probably five-ish, six foot, right? And so he just happened to look up in the rearview mirror.

And lo and behold, there was some animal of what has been described type. Not necessarily, like she said, like a grayish color with kind of red eyes that had its front, Paul's hands, whatever you want to call them. And was sitting there with the paws on top of the bank. Like he was at the bottom of the creek. So my daddy was going to get out. What is this? And then there was a, it wasn't really like a, from my understanding, like a, Like she said, it was kind of like a dirt stench type smell, not something that'd be like,

you know, get out of here, smells worse than garbage or so on. So anyway, so my father decided that, hey, look, we might want to get out of here. As soon as we had to drive off, that German Shepherd was laying behind their car. Yeah. And so as time went on, this was in the 2000s. And I've heard it growing up, because a lot of folks back, say back in the 2000s, the 50s 40s somewhere in there of my grandfather's era that people used to trot on that creek a lot and there's a few of them that kind of lived on the edge of the creek and that their trot lines would get robbed

so one of my grandfather's real good friends decided we're going to try to check into this as somebody taking our our cats or what and they caught this same very type animal in the middle of the creek raising the trot lines up and biting the fish from the gills down and leaving the head on the truck line yes and then there was like I said there was an article it was on our news like WRC channel 3 news and then in the Tadanooga free press there was an article in the mid 2000s over you can look this up it's a Northgate RV park is what it's called it's right there in that same area of they were tracking footprints of that very size like a little family it came down like in the fallish time like it was and then the folks like over in the fall of water

areas which is that's all i'm just giving you landmarks that's that's the hickson area of tattanooga same place 37 what is it 37343's area code but some of the old timers we're talking about where they would come down off the mountain and like the little huntshacks or whatever and that they would try to from them being on the outside like it was their territory and try to tear up things to demolish and then we had another encounter as she would do this talking about the tree sizes or whatnot on around from right over there what they called old hickson ponds We were sitting there on that same very creek further down from where I was just talking about the Boy Scout Road area And we were sitting there and there's a it's like a little cliff so you can climb down to be right there against the water There were trees one night we were just sitting there just having a good time fish wasn't really biting And then all the sudden you know like running the running sound and then saplings probably about say eight to ten inches around

were like just pushed over. And then again, in some of the areas, because there's a little bit of sand, like where it would flood and stuff of that nature. Same type of prints around that area. But I just thought I shared where you can, you know, back up into there if you need to. And again, it wasn't a long, drawn-out story

or anything like that. It was just a brief thing about, wait a minute, we got somewhere around here that doesn't see y'all. But I just thought I'd not. to come on here and since I'm not the only one. I tell you little friends or something of that nature, man, you're just looking for spooks. You know what I'm saying? No.

So I just thought I'd done it's out in Tennessee area, a Red Bank, Hickson area, file of water of having encounters. And like I said, I was born in 76, having encounters of things of that nature. I appreciate you, Sharon. I had one guy come on the show once. And he was talking all about your area. He had things from Lookout Mountain and Rackerel Mountain caverns and Bloch Springs Branch in Signal Mountain and Harrison Bay State Park. Yes, sir.

It was really intense. That's episode of 71 if you want to check that out. Let me write that down here right quick. See, that Signal Mountain, Fottomwater Mountain is the next mountain over from Sycam Mountain. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. So what did you say that episode was I'm sorry? Just look up Bigfoot Society, 871.

871. Yep. Like I said, I'm not about being out in the woods and stuff like that. And I growed up on that creek, but it's a little nerve wracking. I don't go alone if I go down there and I'm just going to leave it at that. Because, again, the encounter that we had there sitting there on the rocks in the creek and out of nowhere in the middle of the dark. all with the lantern. Then the next day, you'd go on that side of the property.

And then you start seeing these fairly good size prance, as I told you there. But eight to ten-inch round sadlings, an average man, an average bear, it's going to take a minute or two to push it over. And that's even if a bear could push it. But it was like somebody ran through there, like with a bulldozer or something, it wasn't Really much sound running through there, but it was like they were just, one of them straight over, and you can hear them. Wow.

Yeah, splash off in the water, yeah. Yes. I appreciate you coming up, sir. Is this a conversation I can put on my podcast to let... Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I don't have no problem with that at all, you know, because like I say, you hear that from a lot of people.

Oh, man, there's nothing such like that and this, that, and the other. but yet again like you're this what you're doing here in the podcast if there's nothing like that out there my question though with that is there it's very rare for sightings and as used to be in a deer hunter where do they go to not be able to be seen you know what I'm saying somebody's going to be doing something absolutely but yes feel free I don't have a problem I appreciate you coming up and I'm going to check in with some other people but stick around down in the audience, but thanks, thanks, man. I appreciate it.

Yes, sir, and you have a great wonderful evening, and everybody out there, including myself, y'all be safe if y'all get out there in their moods. You do. You all have a great evening. 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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