Bigfoot Society - I Drove Past Something Massive on a Dark California Mountain Road!

Episode Date: January 24, 2026

A late-night drive through Northern California leads into something unforgettable.In this episode of Bigfoot Society, a retired California Department of Corrections employee describes what happened while traveling Highway 199 through Del Norte County, near the Smith River corridor, just south of the Oregon border. The road winds through steep canyon walls and tight curves, a place where visibility is limited and the forest feels close on all sides.The witness recalls observing a large upright figure moving along the roadside, with enough time to notice how it walked, how it carried itself, and how it filled the space around it. The encounter stayed with him, and over the years he began recognizing how often the same stretch of road appears in other reports.The episode expands outward into surrounding regions, including Bluff Creek, Willow Creek, Brookings, Oregon, Curry County, and the Trinity Alps. Hunters, truck drivers, and longtime residents share accounts tied to these locations, involving tracks in fresh snow, missing game, nighttime activity, and unexpected encounters deep in familiar terrain.This conversation focuses on firsthand experiences and the places where they occur, forming a quiet pattern across Northern California and Southern Oregon.Listeners interested in detailed eyewitness testimony and recurring locations will find this episode worth hearing in full.Contact Doug here: [e-mail]🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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Visit your nearby lows On West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles You're listening to Bigfoot Society And I'm Jeremiah Byron In this show we go beyond the campfire stories To bring you first-hand encounters From people who say They've seen something impossible

From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers To quiet farms and crowded highways The stories come from everywhere and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us.

All right, Bigfoot Society. Welcome back. We have the privilege of talking to Doug today. Doug is an individual I got connected to and he had a very interesting thing happen out there in Northern California. a little background about Doug. He is a retired prison maintenance worker and up there in Del Nort County.

This is a very interesting story. Doug, I'm going to go ahead and pass things over to you so you have the time to share what happened. And then we will chat about it afterwards. I had received a promotion up to the Pacific Northwest. I worked for the Department of Corrections for the state of California. and I went to a very remote northern prison along the coast. And I had moved up to the area. I was new to the area.

I only been here for maybe about five, six months, seven months. And there's a very narrow winding canyon pass that goes from Crescent City over to Grant's Pass. It travels through O'Brien and then Caved D. junction in Selma, Oregon. And I was going over into Medford once a week and also over to Grant's Pass once a week while I was up here. So I was still learning the canyon because it's a big canyon and it's a, it's real deep. The roadway I found out later actually parallels the, one of the forks of the Smith River. So the region is known as the Great American River region because there's a great American river every 20 miles up the coast.

So it goes from, you know, like five or six of them. And it's just a beautiful area. So I had had an older truck. It was new to me. It was a 1995 Chevy. It was a duly and a diesel. It didn't have the horsepower of the modern trucks. So that when you step on it, it goes.

My truck was you step on the gas and wait for it to kind of catch up. otherwise if you stepped on it full, nothing would really happen in the gas gauge would go down. So it was a towing vehicle. It was a full eight-foot bed, quad cab had running boards, lights on it and stuff. So I was coming home. It was in the month of February of 2006. Like I said, it was still new to the area. It was cold.

And I pulled over at one of the bug stations that as you enter into California from Oregon, Oregon, you have to get your stuff looked at while it was closed and I pulled off there because I knew I could rest. It was late. I was tired. It was a little bit after midnight. So I just laid there with the engine running to keep my feet warm and closed my eyes because I had to go to work the next day. It was a Thursday. So I sat there at the engine running and it's dark. There's no lights around there. It's not like the city. And I just kept the cab lights on with the doors. and was idling with my eyes closed. And after about 20, 30 minutes, I said, okay, you know, you wake up every now and then just because you didn't want to make sure your feet are okay because it was cold. And I go, you'll be okay because it's a good hour and 20 minutes home from there. It's still. I'd been driving. It was late.

And I left the bug station about maybe 1235, 1230 somewhere in there. So as I drove, you go up and you enter into what's called Coalier Tunnel. So it's a big tunnel that cuts through the mountain and a big, big, big drop down the mountainside. So as I was coming down, because it's so dark there, you get tractor traders for the logging companies that go flying through there at night sometimes. And I've seen them because they scared me a little bit. And their back end is up on the back of the truck. So I had my highlights on and it's so dark. Because you can see the cars coming from a distance, then you just back your lights off so you're not blinding them.

I didn't know until later that the area where I was at was going to be entering into is actually called the narrows. So the roads are only eight-foot roads, very little shoulder on each side. One side is a canyon wall that goes straight up. The other side is the guardrail that goes down on the mountain side right there. So I was driving and you have to watch out for deer and stuff because I've been through there where you come out of that tunnel. And then there's this deer standing right there and they're going 50 miles an hour. So my truck was such that it goes, you can put it in one or two. That truck had it where you could put it in gear number two.

I just let the weight of the vehicle go. So I was just cruising, foot off the gas, foot off the brake, going through the tunnel, going down the hill, everything was fine. I came to an area and they've done some construction to the area with barriers and the road signs and things like this now. But it had a 20 mile an hour curve. There was no flashing light, but there's a flashing light there now. And as I was watching, I was looking at my lights because my truck, even though it was a four-wheel drive, it sat like this. So it wasn't up and lifted or anything. It was like this.

It was a tow truck kind of. And so when I had my highlights on, they went up higher and out further. So I was driving and I was watching my lights as they went through the guardrail on the side. And they were projecting the shadows onto the trees. So I was just going through there nice and slow. My foot wasn't on the brake or on the gas for nothing. I was just coasting maybe about 12 miles an hour. As I came around the corner, I was watching the projected.

shadows up on the mountain or on the on the side there all of a sudden i saw this just huge giant shadow and then i followed it back immediately to the roadside and right there in front of me was this giant thing and i'm looking at it and the first thing i thought in my mind because it was it was huge i thought to myself giant gorilla that's the first pot thought that popped in my head was giant gorilla. Then I looked and I was watching a walk and I said, no, it can't be a gorilla. And there's a number of reasons for that. But the first one was, is he was walking too upright. He was too straight. And as he was walking, I went, oh, so that's what he looks like. So I go, that's what the Sasquatch is. That's the first thought that went in my head. So now I had probably about

maybe about seven seconds, six, seven seconds, where I got to just take it all in. So there was things that I noted in my mind right away because I was probably about 80 feet from him or so, but he was right there. And the first thing I noticed that his head was between his shoulders because his shoulders were so huge and massive. The color was, I'll call it.

it dark charcoal smoky gray and he wasn't completely covered in hair. It looked like the real thick hair up here on his shoulders and neck and upper body was like what you would think of like a llama. It was real thick and long like that and it was kind of mangy looking. And then he had no hair on his bicep tricep area and then it started at his elbows and went over his hands. His hands went down almost to his knees. I saw him swinging his hands. I got to see him take. I counted the steps with his right foot. I saw his right foot come up three times as he was walking. And he had bare butt cheeks. I saw his bare butt cheeks. He had his hair went down the middle of his back like a lion. It Ved down his back. And his back was just huge.

he had bare lats. The sides of his back had no hair on him at all. He had bare butt cheeks. I could see hair off of his hips as I got closer to him. And then his upper thighs were bare too. And he had hair that was on him. But then as soon as it got to his knees, it was like his elbows. From his elbows down over his hands, covered his hands.

Then it was from his knees and it covered his feet. But I saw that when his foot come up, And when his foot come up, I could see the bottom of his foot. And when his hands swung, there was a unique swing in his arm. His arm went forward a certain way. But when his hand came back, his wrist turned a certain way. It was weird. It had a little curl to it, kind of like.

So his hands were going in the walk. And the thing that I noticed was, as I took it all in, is that when he wasn't completely covered in hair, what I saw, if you want to call it hide or skin, it was kind of like, think for a minute when you looked at the Lord of the Rings when they had the orcs, their skin was kind of like smooth, but it wasn't smoothed or oily. It was kind of like, like a, like a buffalo hide kind of like or something.

Like, you know, it was that, but I don't know if there was little fur on it or if it was skin or whatever it was, but on his back, I saw these like scab things like, they were black. his palms were black bottoms of his feet were black like a dark dark charcoal black almost and his foot didn't have an in-step he didn't have like we have a figure eight almost in our foot an instep look at a giant moccasin almost and you could see his foot when it came up so he picks his foot up differently than we do too because when i was watching him walk his leg came up and i could see

his foot didn't go back and then back a certain way it went like a step and then it went And it kind of picked up funny. It was different. So I was watching him walk and I'm driving and my jaw is just like like this. So I'm looking. Well, on my truck I had running board lights on the side. I had cab lights on the front. I had lights on the wheel well too. And then there were lights across the back of the tailgate too. So when I drove up next to him, he wasn't startled. He didn't try to avoid me or run away or nothing. He just walked. So as I'm driving, I'm just like, I'm like holding the wheel and looking. I'm really astonished and amazed, and I'm just looking at him. So as I'm coming up next to him and I go like this and I look up out the window, and I see how big he is. The muscles in his back when I was there looking at him,

they were almost like the hunchback in Notre Dame because you look at the muscles. These are trapezias, and you've got your trapezoids, and you've got your muscles in the back, and then it's lats. Very thin, tiny waist. His legs were one-third of his body size. So from his hips up, he went up like a big V, and he was at least two-thirds, that upper body was his entire size.

So his shoulders were just huge. He was probably at least close to maybe four and a half to five feet wide. He had no neck because the muscles were so big, but I could see a little head on the top to where it was between his shoulders. But as I drove past him, I was looking up. I mean, I was straining to look up at him. Now, the truck wasn't like my new truck now. I have a newer truck that's lifted a little bit, and it has the horsepower.

But as I was driving, I looked up at him. He didn't turn a look at me or nothing. I just looked at him. So his arms look long and skinny like a basketball player. I'm six foot two. I can touch eight foot two ceiling. No big deal. I've played against seven-footers in basketball because I've been this big since I was 15.

My coach in high school was 6'9. He was the second string center for the Chicago Bulls. I played down in the Los Angeles area. So I know height pretty well. And I used to be in the military, so I was an officer in the military too. So I'm very good with observation. And you can tell I might be a little bit over descriptive on some things. But people tell me that.

So as I drove past him and looked, I looked up at him. I was really kind of scared, to be honest with you. I was amazed, astonished, and just like going, wow, this is just unreal. Time kind of almost stopped and stood still as I kind of coasted past him going, what the heck is that, you know? And when I drove past him, I could tell you more about what I saw, but when I drove past him, I said, Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around.

I want to see it looks like from the front with my lights on him, you know. But I was scared because right there, this immediate S turns, and it went into a little curve right there, and I couldn't make a three-point turn. There's no way. It would have been like a five-point turn. And I was scared because as I drove past him, I was looking in the mirror at him, too. So I looked in the mirror to look at him. And I didn't really think about it until I started pondered a little bit more.

I don't know if it was the reflection of the tail lights. I didn't step on the brakes or nothing, but the lights and the lights across the tailgate are on, and it shined up on him. And the lights on the side were orange. So he was orange when I drove past him this way. He was all lit up kind of orange. When I drove past him and looked in the back, his eyes did glow.

The color of them is what I would call like fire orange or like fire red kind of almost because they were orangish red kind of like. And I don't know if it was a reflection so much of my lights. I don't think it was a reflection, but I saw it was his eyes were orange, orangeish red. He didn't pursue me or nothing like that, but I was afraid that maybe he would because where I went into the S turn, he could have run, come down and then got across. and then bin right in front of me, because I was coming back in an S-turn kind of like. So I was looking to turn around, and I'm going, here, here,

and I didn't know what to do. So at that immediate point, as you come around that bend, it squeezes even more narrow and goes into this thing that wiggles back and forth like this. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Rees with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang. This is Bowen-Yang from Los Colterisceris with Matt Rogers and Boen-Yang.

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to the way difficult. And that's scary because it climbs a little bit. And that's where I've seen the trucks come flying through there at times. And I said, don't try to make a, don't turn around here because you can get T-bone because those trucks come through there pretty fast sometimes. And so I was looking for a place to pull out, to turn around. And I finally got to a point where I was at, I saw an actual road that I could go on. and it was Little Jones Creek.

And I said, well, don't do it because you've driven too far. It's too late. You've got to be satisfied with these. You didn't get a chance to turn around and see him. And more likely, if you do turn around and go back, try to look for him, he might not be there. But once you get to the point where you think you saw him, if you turn around then, come back, maybe he's going to be in the middle of the road right there

and he's going to confront you. And the size of this thing was such that it would have, It could have easily ripped him a truck door off, no problem. He could have pushed the truck over the side of the mountain if he wanted to, too, even though it was a pretty heavy older one. It's just it was huge. So when I drove past him, at the closest point, I was maybe about eight feet from him. And when I drove past him, those long, thin, skinny arms that I thought looked like basketball player arms,

they really weren't skinny at all. They were big. And his chest, his chest was up close to his chin. His chest was huge. And from the profile of him, I saw how his chest was just huge, and it was bare. I could see hair, but I saw a lot of skin there, too. And I saw his ribs. Then his stomach sunk in to his waist.

So he didn't have a quarter ounce of fat. The muscles on this thing, if you want to call it Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he was super, super, super lean. And his biceps weren't bulky around like the Mr. America universe guys. They weren't round and bulky. They were just long and thick. He was just monstrous. So the view from the side was that his head went back. It sloped back like this a little bit. It had like hair missing. He did have a, wherever he call it, a furrowed brow where his eyes were. He kept looking straight. He didn't have a gorilla nose or nothing.

It was a human-type nose. It was big and wide. He had hair that started to grow off of his mouth on the side there. He didn't have a mustache. He had like the Wolverine thing kind of like going on. But it was all up here in his body. And the hair on his arms where it was, it got to his shoulders and stopped. And his shoulders were like giant watermelons.

They were huge. His trapevious and back muscles were so pronounced. He tapered in a V, tiny waist. I saw his butt crack. I saw hair hanging down from his groin area. I didn't see any genital or nothing like that. But I did see hair hanging down there. So I was thinking back on it, it was about as rare as rare it could be.

It was very strange to me. me. I was new to the area. I, you know, what do you do? I was, the mountain pass there, like I told you, it's scary. There's one section not even too far from there when you're getting over to Patrick's Creek. When you go through the pass and the roadway there, you got to watch out the truck, the almost hits you. And there's a rock there where there's a shelf hanging above your head. And there's a little tree growing off of it right there. It's about as, if you want to call it that squatchy as it could be, and it's all granite. The river is right there.

I don't know where he came from. His hair looked like he could have just got up from laying in the leaves. You know, I didn't see any leaves in his hair or nothing. But his hair was all kind of wispy and wavyly kind of like, but it was just very unkept. So I went home. My son was there. I didn't say nothing to him. I went to work the next morning.

I told one of my co-workers who's a fisherman and a hunter who's been up here for, had been up here like 28 years and he's gotten multiple elk, deer, bears, fished out in the ocean on the river forever. And he was part Native American because of his grandparents. And when I told him, he just didn't say nothing. He just stared at me like I was nuts. and he didn't say anything, didn't acknowledge it, didn't feedback or anything. So it was kind of like I was looked upon like, oh, you've been up here seven months and you've already seen a Sasquatch, you know? And the thing of it was, I just shut up and didn't say nothing anymore because it was the element of ridicule.

And I got to the point over time where I did mention it to some people. and it got to the point where over time I eventually met someone that I married, and when she was going with me through the mountain pass to come over here for medical and dental services and stuff, I just mentioned to her, says, you know, hey, I saw a Sasquatch coming up on the road right here, and I showed her where it was. And she started peppering me with questions. And she asked, she goes, well, how big was he? I told her, and I go, she goes, did he have a neck?

And I said, not really. And she was going back and forth. And she goes, you really did see him, didn't this? I said, yeah, I'm not just saying it, you know. So I've done research. We've gone out looking quite a bit. I've gotten on to the reservation. I've actually gotten into the snow where I found footprints in the snow and took some pictures.

It's not too far from where the Patterson Gimlin film has been. We've been to a few conferences. I've got to share my story and experience. at a couple places, one place I think it was, yeah, one place. And I've met some of the different figures in the Bigfoot community where they've spoken at these places and I talked with them. I got Dr. Meldrum to autograph a replica of Patty's footprint. We've been over to Bluff Creek a number of times, Willow Creek,

I hiked around. I made an initial report a few years afterwards to the BFRO, and there was no acknowledging of nothing. I waited a couple of months, and then I contacted them again. They finally got back with me. They asked for some specifics, and I gave them an actual pinpoint on the Google Maps,

Google World, I think it was. So I gave them a little pin, a red pin dot. And next thing you know, I heard him talking about it on one of the podcasts, and apparently when I first passed him up and I went to the turn right there in that immediate turn, there's a creek that comes off the mountain and it's called Monkey Creek. So apparently James Bobo Faye had an incident up on the mountain on the top up there because we've been up there where he did an Ohio yell and it sounded like three of them came from a mile away

and the scaredest girlfriend is so bad. She said, you get me out of here now. So my fiance was with me. We went out and we went looking and it's kind of eerie out there. So I don't know if it's real or true or not, but she said that when we were driving out, the windows were down, she said that she heard woof, something went whoof, like this to us.

And she goes, there's no dogs and I heard whoops. So I don't know. You know, sometimes people get a squash fever where there's a squash under every leaf and every tree. So like I said, as I started talking about it at work, there were some Native American friends that I talked to that sort of tell me about their experiences and how they'd seen him. And the similarities were just amazing. And that's what got me to go and look. So we've been in some areas where they've seen them quite a bit. I've read a lot of books since then.

Some of the books are from David Politees and The Missing 411. One of them is the tribal Bigfoot and the Hoopa Project. But he had some more witnesses. And one of the witnesses I found out in the area, I saw what I saw in 2006 of February and then the next summer of 2007, a truck driver was there, and I believe he saw the same one. I've talked to him about it since, but he's never confirmed with me, the color, things like this. He's just an interesting guy.

He's seen him twice up here in the same vicinity, and the picture was drawn. I've met Harvey Pratt. I showed Harvey a picture of what I drew. Someone at work, Native American inmate talked to me one day. time in level one and he said, Doug, you should sketch your sketch of what you think it look like. So I did a little sketch of it. And when I showed it to Harvey Pratt, Harvey said, you got that right. And I go, what do you mean? He goes, they have a cape. So Harvey says, that's what happens. What you think of it, it's like one of the Viking coats that they wear. You know,

it's all hairy like a buffalo or something, you know, big old bangey thing, kind of like coming down. And then it tapered down and in his back was bare. And it came in like a lion where it V'd down his back, down the middle of his spine. So when I drove past him, his mouth was open like this. He was walking like that. And I couldn't really see his teeth, but I'd imagine they were kind of grungy maybe. I'm guessing, I don't know. But he just walked.

And his mouth was down on the sides like this. He had hair out the side there. And he just walked. But like I said, his chest. was huge. His arms, the, his arms were huge. So guessing heightwise, if I was outside of my truck, I would have had a hard time. I wouldn't have been able to have jumped and touched the top of his head. And when I was younger, I could touch my elbows on the rim. I bumped my shoulder in the backboard. I've had my head in the net. I can jump really high. But I'm older now. I can't

jump like that anymore. But I guessed he had to be at least between 9 foot six and about 10 foot four, somewhere in there, about 10 feet, my guess was. And when I looked at him, because his legs were kind of like a frog leg, they were frog legs kind of like. They were very lean, very muscular, but they weren't bulky. From what I saw from the back with his butt cheeks, I guessed his weight originally about maybe about 600 pounds. I wasn't sure. But I've got friends that are about an inch bigger than me that weigh like 400 pounds and they're big, they're strong men. But you touch them and they're squishy. So I do know that muscle weighs more.

So looking at it now and being a little more critical in my process of thinking, the weight of this thing had to be between 800 and 1,000 or more pounds. easy because he was over 10 foot tall. The muscles were just amazing. His feet, like I said, were black. I didn't see the instep. It was like a moccasin. His fingers were long, but the hair actually covered his hands. And I only saw his hands when they did this little twist and turn coming back. So it'd be nice to, yeah, it was like a, it's like it just turned funny. And then when I mentioned it to my friend about my experience. He was telling me he saw the same thing. When he was hunting, one cut across front of his truck, and he said, and he actually mimicked

the movement of the arms. And I go, that's how his hand turned like to me. He goes, yeah, it turns funky in his wrist. So the one that he saw was the color of our caterpillar. It was black and red, like an orange. And he goes, it's like the color of our caterpillar. So listen to different people talk. In this area, my wife worked in a business where she knew someone that had been one of the mail couriers up the mountainside, up in the back river area. And she was up there early in the morning like 3.34 o'clock delivering mail or newspapers or something. And there was a big white one that poked his head inside of her door one time and scared the daylights out of her so she quit. And so this whole area up here is known for it.

I've heard all sorts of stories. You know, not too long ago, they put out an announcement saying, hey, if you've got some parabolic mics and recording devices and stuff, we've got an account. We're on this one hiking trail. They didn't give specifics. Because sometimes everybody is like after proprietary things. Everybody wants to be the person with the badge and look what I discovered, you know.

That's not me. To me, I don't know what it is, okay? I never had any experience of thinking about it. When I was in high school, back in the 70s, in our drive-in, we were all standing around and watching the movie in high school. And it was the Patterson Gilman film on the screen. And a friend of mine since grade school says, oh, look, this proves evolution. Look, and I'm like, going, you know, and I've never, I've never bought into, you know, that we come from monkeys and stuff like that, you know, billions of years and slime plus time, and there you are, you know, it's from me to you via the zoo, you know, and I've never thought that.

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different. It was very big, very muscular. It was monstrous. He's huge. And, uh, but the hair

was interesting. The hair was really neat. And like I said, it was different than ours because even though it was thick up here, down off of his hips, when I drove past him, you could see they were long and they were like thicker. And it was like, I wouldn't call it like, you know, a C&N of me or nothing like that, but they stuck out longer on the side. And then he had

these pock marks on his back that were like maybe he'd gotten hurt or shot or stuck with a with Elkhorn or something. Who knows? I don't know. But they were they were, they were black, like scabby things on his back. And his skin was smooth. But like I said, he even had some of those little black things on his butt cheeks. I saw his butt. It was bear. And so there you go. If you have any questions. Absolutely. Oh, my goodness. This is probably one of the most detailed accounts I've heard. And it's fantastic. Just it's incredible that you're able to, to remember all those details hats off to you.

I did want to I looked up Bigfoot mapping project real quick and it looks like in that very similar area where you're talking about there was also another because did you ever talk

to Daniel Perez for a newspaper? I've never talked with them there was somebody in Willow Creek that I tried to talk to that got real nasty with me on the internet one time.

Well, that's not good. Sorry about that, whoever that is. But this is on Bigfootencounters.com, and it sounds like on September 22nd, this is in 2005. So, I mean,

same, similar time frame, there was a trucker that had a sighting of one that he said was about eight foot tall, about 800 pounds. So very, very interesting. That area sounds like it is just extremely active, which, you know, we definitely already,

most listeners would be like, oh, yeah, Del Nort County for sure, but like to know a specific area like this where, you know, and you talked about Boba was encounter as well, which was very cool. But I do have some specific questions for you, Doug, as well. Did you notice anything about the shape of the head itself? Um, kind of conical from what I could see from the distance, but I don't know if that was because of the way it was positioned within his muscles and his back. It was low. His back was so wide. His shoulders were so broad that all of a sudden I saw this little peak at the top like this in my hand, this like that.

When I drove past, the head was round, but his head went back. Like I said, his forehead went back like this, and he had a receding hairline. And then his hair went into his shoulders right up here. So it was all real big like that. So like I said, his jaw was like that. It was down here and he was just walking. He was up straight, but it seemed like he was leaning forward a little bit. You know, not a whole lot, but he wasn't slouched forward.

So the interesting thing, like I said, was the ratio of legs to upper body because his upper body from his butt up was huge. which is really some of your details well all the details but some of them specifically are really cool to hear like the one you just pointed out and also how it was lifting its foot off the ground really really cool stuff to hear could you see any ears at all were there any present ears not that i could see because the hair was all up that way okay um you mentioned there were like weird scab-like things on more on the back. How big were those scabs? Were they small or large? They were noticeable right away from when I saw them from about 80 feet and I was just traveling about maybe, I was maybe going 12 to 15, 16 miles an hour.

It says on the sign there 20, but I wasn't going that fast around the corner. But when as soon as I saw them and looked, it was that you could see them. There was a couple of them. There was a big one on the right side in his lat area, but there was other ones, too, not a whole lot, but there was a big one in his lat area on his right side. So, I don't know what it was. And if I say it that his skin was skin, but it was like it was hide. It was like, like I said, it wasn't smooth. It was weird.

It was different than ours. It was like you would think I've never seen a rhino up close or an elephant, you know. I don't know if it can't puncture it or whatever, but just it was weird. And like I said, there were a couple little ones. I don't know if they were moles. You know, they could have been moles or something. Right. Because I saw some similar ones on his butt cheeks.

His butt was tiny. And his butt was very lean. Everything. His legs were sinewy kind of, if you want to put it that way. And then his bicep tricep area was as big as the length of my thigh. I'm six foot two. So I don't know how long everything is here, but when I drove past him and I saw these long basketball arms, but when I saw the long basketball arms, they were big. And it was a long muscle. And, but his forearms were, I forgot to tell you this. His forearms were Popeye forearms.

I didn't know if it was because of the hair, but his forearms were flipping huge compared to, like I said, it was like, think of it like shaving a poodle. Like, you know, they got the, his bicep tricep was like lean and skinny and nothing. Then all of a sudden, he had these big old Popeye forearms that were covered in hair. Those were monstrous.

Those his forearms are monstrous. And then the Indians told me that the reason they wear those, those boots like those fuzzy type, it's like an, it's an angora goat or angora sheep, whatever it is. They wear those boots because those are ceremonial boots because they're doing their dance, you know, and they're in replication in a sense of the hairy man. And that's what his legs look like too, because the hair started to grow. right about his knees and then it covered his whole leg and it went over his foot i couldn't see anything because it was like the hair touched the ground and when his foot came up all you saw was the

bottom of his foot and like i said it was big it was real big i wear size 15 and his foot was it was huge so did it kind of look like almost like hairy bell bottoms then or yeah well it was his hair was real, if you want to call it shaggy, but it was just, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, mangy kind of like I said. When I looked at him and I was driving past him and I was saw him from a distance, you'd have felt like he had, there's a chance that he had just come up from the river right there, because I've been back to that spot number of times, and right there is a pullout, and there's an area that goes right down to the river right there, but it's pretty rough. You try going down, good luck getting back up. Where he came from and why he was walking on the road, I don't know.

But his hair, look, it was mangy and nasty. It was thick and clumpy and, you know, I've heard reports of people saying how some of them glistened in the sunlight or whatever, and they look very well groomed and things like that. He wasn't groomed at all. He was pretty mangy. So if you want to look it up, if you look up is called Gigantopithic. I don't think they're a gigantopithecus. I don't know. If you look up Gigantopithecus tropical on a Google search, you'll see in images right there, there's a pencil drawing, and there's a tropical on the left, there's a gigantopithecus blacky in the middle, then there's a six-foot man right next to him.

The one on the left looks like exactly almost like what I saw. Turn them around, make them about two feet taller and wider, and that's what it's. looks like almost almost it's a good good depiction of it but he had the face of the blackie because his nose wasn't upturned like an ape nose it was flat wide broad human type nose and um the six foot man there if you have him raise his hand up and look the one that i saw was a lot taller than the one you see in that drawing so yeah i i found the exact one it looks like this is actually, you can find this on BFRO.net. It's the Bigfoot Giganto Theory, and you can find the line drawing on there.

But yeah, so the one on the left, but with the face of the one on the middle. Yeah, and a lot taller and bigger, less hair, but like that. And it was more grungy kind of like. But you see how his shoulders were rounded and he's standing there kind of one that I had wasn't all rounded. He was, like I said, his chest was up here by his jaw. He was big. I'm just amazed. I was astonished, amazed.

I'd love to see it again, but there's an element of fright to it too because I've heard different stories of different people. I'm told that they used to be called stone giants. The Nez Pierce Indians up in Montana and Idaho in the Canada area there, they called them stone giants because they would rub up against them a tree and get sap in their hair and they'd go on the riverbank and roll and get hair and rocks in their hair and apparently when the french canadians that were trappers came through there with with rifles they they loved them and welcomed them because they had thundersticks because they were no longer a prey they could actually defend themselves and no longer in a sense be cannibalized and um you know i don't know i'm not trying to cause any dispersion or just

thoughts. Everybody talks about them. There's certain people to talk about them how they look like they're your forest friends. And there's a lot of people up here that have had experiences with putting out food and different things like that. But other people, some folks don't want to talk about it. But one of the buddies that I know, he made a comment. He said that one of his girlfriends years ago, her uncle was up here hunting and elk hunting. And he had smelled something and turned. And the next thing you know, he woke up 13 miles away in a of water and his rifle was gone. You know,

these are some of the things that you hear around here. That was Del Nort County as well. That was up in Curry County in Southern Oregon. So that's where it's right there, cross over the border. So that's where I was a resident. I was with the Department of Corrections for a number of years. I've been up here for about 20 years or so.

lived in Oregon, relocated. So it'd be nice. I don't know. Some people say that once that you've experienced it and known that you've seen them, there's some kind of connection where maybe you can see them again. I don't know. People talked about where they've come from. I don't know.

The DNA project is real interesting. I don't know. You know, I'm not the guy. I think of it now because I've listened to different podcasts that are all over the internet and you get some amazing stories that are scary to death and some that are interesting. I just know from my experience, I was afraid that he could rip the door off my truck, that you'd never find me if they'd find my truck. You can't hurt this thing. Okay. Honestly, there's people that talk about it where you're going to shoot them from the side or do something and bag them and the government coming in and men in black or whatever. I don't know. My whole thing is, is we want to live somewhere where we can be out in the wilderness and maybe have a little hobby farm or something, you know.

and if they come around, they come around. The story that I learned from the Native American that told me about it, about drawing the picture, his name was Freddie, and he was over near Lake Tahoe at the reservation over there. And he saw him when he was a little boy, like nine years old. Him and his little brother and sister were walking home. And there was a real big one over by an apple tree, and it was pursuing them, but it had a limp.

and they went to a neighbor on their way home through their house and got a ride home because the big monster was coming after him. And they could see him as they drove away. And they told me whether it's true or not, I don't know, that I was chosen and allowed to see him at that time. I do know that it's very rare. It was quite an experience. I had a really hard time at that time. I had relocated and was going through a divorce. but the thing is, it was very unique.

I've gone out many, many times, like I said. After one of the first snows of 10 inches, we were driving in the area where the Native American friend of mine has many sightings from his family, his family scene multiple times. I just stopped to use the restroom, and I looked, and as I was walking over, I looked, and there it was, and I went over, and I go, those look like footprints,

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way to talk or But it was 10 inches of snow. It was the first snow of the year, and it was 10 inches in that area. And like I said, I wear a 15, and it was bigger than my foot, but it had toes in it in the snow. So, it's a neat area. I'm told that if you just go out there to go out there and camp, just camp, and wear the same clothes. Every weekend. Go out every weekend and just camp because they'll make themselves known to you.

My wife's afraid. She thinks they're going to hurt us or throw something at us. And, you know, I already have a crack in the windshield. I don't need any more damage on the vehicle. But someone said that they will make themselves known to you. And I don't, you know, to me there's an element of fright and fear. And I've talked to different people that have had experiences where all of their electronic. equipment has just died. All the batteries die, and they check them before they go out. They get out there. They're done. People that have been, have seen them put their hand against the tent and stuff like this. I don't know. All I know is one of the ladies that I spoke to told me that she was with someone who had been an Army Ranger and the guy had a lot of experience. And when it came right down to it, he was just scared somethingless. He was, he was scared to death. And there's no way he would do anything because it just, it's admitted. a sense of fear to him. So whatever the powers are, I've listened to Ron Moorhead and where they were camping because that's where, that's kind of where Fred's reservation is near that area where

Ron Moorhead was up in the mountains and recorded the Sierra Screams. So, like I said, I feel very fortunate to have had that experience, to see him close. I don't make myself out to be any type of an expert or anything like that? I don't know. But at the same time, I would, I'd love to see him again, but you're not going to see him behind a cage in a glass where you feel safe. And I don't know. If it's such that, because we travel through that area quite a bit still, we even came through this morning for a dental appointment and we're on the lookout all the time. There's been some fires in the area, so it's just decimated it. It's, just horribly burnt.

But a lot of people have experiences that don't share them. So that's part of it. Oh, yeah, 100%. I would say probably half the stuff I hear is you're not going to hear it on the show. Or it's just there's a lot of people that share off to the side. So living in Southern Oregon for that time, time. There's so many weird things that happen in southern Oregon when it comes to Bigfoot.

Like that's where the really weird stuff happens, I feel. And you don't hear a lot from that area. Did you, or were there any other accounts that you remember hearing over the years from Southern Oregon? Yeah. I was in a gym and one of the girls that was teaching an aerobics type class for the ladies. I saw her on the internet one time social media and she had a picture of Bigfoot and I'm a believer on it.

So I messaged her and I said, hey, you know, people started hearing about how I'd heard it. I'll tell you a couple. And she says, oh, yeah. She says, it was Fourth of July. There was one about nine feet tall, walked through my yard right over here, you know, 9, 30, 10 o'clock at night. She goes, I know it was a Bigfoot. And then I'll just tell you, my workout buddy was one of the three founding families of Brookings, Oregon.

His great-great-grandfather had jumped off a Russian merchant ship up in Port Orford, Oregon, swam ashore in the cold water, hiked down over 200 miles and married into the Indian tribe. Now, he's part of the tribe registered with him, and he's got red hair and freckles. One of the nicest guys you ever meet in your life. his family owned a big, big ranch, 9,000 acres up here. And they'd split it when some of the family members decided to leave. So it's 5,000 acres now. But they were gold mining and all sorts of stuff up in the mountains and done different things. And he said to me one time after I told him,

I'd kept it to myself quite a long time. And you've got to get people up here kind of tight-lipped. They don't share a lot of stuff. So he told me, he goes, yeah, my dad's. not one to exaggerate, but he had been working up off the river one time, and he went down to the river to wash up his pans and his tools. And he smelled something really bad, and he got down to the river and sort of washing it up. And he saw footprints in the river bank right there, and they were fresh. There was a big set, and there was a little set.

So he said to himself, if there's a big one and there's a little one, I'd better get out of here. So apparently there's some lady up near Coos Bay. who's back in the hills there a little bit, and she does some dogs and stuff. And I'm told that you want to talk to her because she's got stories. And then there's people here in Gasky, Oregon, or Gasky, California, that have been around forever and they have stories. So when I was at work, I mentioned it to one of the guys at work, and he said, well, he had a friend that was in Gasky that his daughter got up one time

and she was in the kitchen looking out the kitchen window and getting a drink at the kitchen sink, and she looked out, and there was a huge one that just walked across the yard. He reached over and he grabbed the tree and just snapped the tree as he walked through the yard. She told her dad the next morning, they went outside, and yet the tree branch had just been twisted like that, just twisted right like that. So the stories that are in tribal Bigfoot and Hoopa of the different people from this area, they're interesting. So one more story and I'll let it be, but I got a friend whose dad is with the tribe in the Urock. He is one of the last, I think he is the last one of the tribe that can make a canoe out of a tree, out of the one tree, and he burns it and uses hand tools.

And he's an amazing craftsman. He had been a timber feller his whole life. I've been retired for a while now. But he makes those once in a while upon request. and sells them for a bunch of money. But he had gone hunting with the sun, and they were in the Trinity Alps, the Trinity Mountains over here,

over by Weaver Whiskey Town, between Reading and the coast over here in the mountains hunting. And he goes, how come I, I've been out here in the mountains my whole life, and I've never seen anything. And then he mentioned, well, there was that one time with my dad. Well, they were camping on the top of this mountain, and they saw this blue orange,

down below. And it was going right like that. And it came up, and it came up right where they were in their camp. And then it went down and went away. And he looked at his dad and says, what was that? And his dad said, I don't know. You know, then they don't talk about it anymore. They don't try to figure it out.

They don't rack their brains. But they saw something. And so the stories of this whole vicinity, of what you can do and what you can potentially find. You've got to go out and you've got to put yourself out there to have the potential of an experience that you don't know what would happen, but you've got to be careful. And I know of the one I heard it on a podcast. It's not too far from over here. It's near, I think, Castle Crague or whatever the mountain is over here.

It's over in Reading and the mountain area over there. It was a girl who was part of the forestry or something. and she heard him running and coming from a great way off, and he came up a mountainside, and he came up over the top, and he landed, and he was howling and screaming, and she was just camping right there on a hike out in the wilderness for like three or four, five days.

And then he just saw her, caught eyes, and stared each other for a while, and then he sort of howling again and took off running, and there was no footprints for nothing, but it scared her quite a bit. Well, it's not too far from where we are, and I'm trying to tell my wife, you know, let's go camp out there sometime,

and she's like, no, I'm not going to do that. And then I tease her and tell her that I'm going to tire to a tree and cover her and honey and see what happens. But I'm being funny, you know. The thing is it would be interesting and neat. But at the same time, like I said, I hear these stories from different podcasts where there's the potential that you could be, you know, taken, killed, eaten, you name it. I don't know. I don't think they're your friendly forest friend. I just know that that thing was so huge.

I was scared. I was amazed that he was not startled by me. He didn't have a care in the world. And he didn't even look over at me. But when I looked in my rearview mirror and saw in the back where he was, and I looked at him and the look on his face with those fire eyes, that was enough for me to go turn around, turn around, turn around. let's get the lights on them and see how he acts, you know?

Because the scary thing about it is that truck I had, you couldn't step on the gas and get out of there fast enough. You have to step on the gas and go for it to go. And then I talked myself out of turning around because I had gotten maybe about anywhere from maybe five or six miles down the road where I found a road where I could safely turn around and come back. And I thought, don't do it. You've already seen it. It's late enough. I'll just give you just so that you can see that what I'm saying is legitimate and confirmed kind of. That Christmas, I had gotten a phone for my daughter, and she wanted to exchange the phone that I'd gotten for her previously because her older sister, I'd gotten her phone, and it was the Blackberry.

So the Blackberry was like a very professional, personal assistant. It was a nice phone. I liked it because I had a keyboard on it. But the keyboard was so tiny, my fingers didn't do too good on it. Well, she wanted social media. So she said, Dad, if you're going to get a Blackberry, how about you give me yours, or I'll give you mine, and then you get a phone for me. I want the iPhone.

So I got her an iPhone for social media. So before I started going through the canyon there, when I left Grant's Pass, I thought, just turn the phone off. You're not going to use it because there's no reception. And the first thing I thought when I drove past him was get a picture, do what you can. You know, because the thing is, though, is that that Blackberry, when you start it up, you watch it go across with the start up there for like three minutes before the time it only gets over there. And finally it logs on and comes on.

Then you've got to put in your password. And I'm thinking, there's no way I can make this canyon with my Blackberry phone to get a picture. And it wasn't a very high-quality camera. but like I said, I know the area. I've been back. It'd be neat because we've gone there in the evening or we've just parked where I know the truck driver saw him. And we've just sat there.

It's pitch black in the dark. And we've got spotlights. We're sitting there waiting. We're there from 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock in the morning thinking that maybe he'll come by or see us or something. Nothing happens. I've done that number of times. but I do know that if you go on to the reservation, there's a chance, you don't want the Indians coming around

and giving you a hard time either. But I've thought about it where we just went out and camped and just sat there and, you know, I'm not going to go out walking and trying to knock on wood and do all sorts of different things. I was told just sit there and wear the same clothes because like when you go elk hunting, they do is called vent covered.

They want to make sure that the animals can't smell you. I was told, don't worry about it. Just go out in the same clothes. Let them get comfortable and recognize you. So, like, your red shirt, you'd have to wear that same shirt every weekend and go out in that red shirt and not worry about it and let them see you and go out there. And then I did go on the podcast with Wes from the Sosquatch Chronicles. And he got me thinking on some different things.

too, so I don't know. I listened to his story, but it's hard to stay with certain people sometimes. But apparently what he experienced, and he said that he's a big guy too. He said he could have laid across its shoulders, the big one that jumped down out of the tree. You know, I just know that I'm very fortunate. It was a wonderful experience. I still got the bug in me a little bit. It would be neat to see him again.

but, you know, we get busy with life and good luck. I haven't had the chance to go out and hunt, be in a situation. Oh, the one that I'll tell you about is the Indian friend that I had had. He went hunting and it was near Bluff Creek. And he said every year they got deer. That year, there was a scarcity of deer. His son got one right before sunset and they got down to it. And they were about 20 minutes away from where the trucks were.

And they thought, well, let's go get the vehicles and bring the vehicles over and use the headlights while we dress it out. So they cut us throat, let them bleed out. They went to go get the truck. When they came back, the deer was gone. And the blood spot was there. So they came back in the morning and they looked and they saw something like a quad had gone in. So he was thinking maybe two of them had gone in and taken the deer. And his son took a picture of the footprint that they got right there.

But his son had had three or four phones since then and he couldn't find the picture. So that was that area. So the very next year, he hunted the same area. And he got a deer himself. And he got it dressed and he got it loaded on the truck. And as he got it loaded on the truck and he was driving out, it was getting dark and his wife was next to him in the car and he had one of his his young baby son in the back here in his chair and he was spotlighting out the window

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That was the one that was the cataport. No way. Yeah, he said it was about 10 feet in front of the truck. Oh, wow. Now, he's got a real big, big Ford lifted, a newer truck. And he said he got to see it go across the road. And he said the muscles were amazing. And he said that's one who said he's one who said he saw the hands.

swing a certain way. And he said he was big. Okay. He was about as big as his truck. But he said he went across the road so fast, but it was amazing. He said he saw it right then. He said, his wife said, I should text my mom. I got coverage. And he looked up and that's, he said, what? And that's when he saw it go across the front of the truck. So that's the area, the same exact spot where his son had had one the year before where the deer went missing. So people have talked about it. that maybe they know at certain times of the year they hear that sound that there's a deer down or something's shot. And maybe they have a chance of picking up something fresh and easy. So I don't know.

In the books, I know of two officers, I'd never talk with them, but the two officers were elk-cutting in this area out here. And they came up a hill and came down and sat down and were taking a break. And they looked across one of the lakes. And there was one in the water up to his waist right there. And he was huge. and then they caught eyes with them. And as he was in the water getting out,

he yelled out this giant yell that scared them daylight. Scared him really bad because it was so loud and it reverberated in him. So I enjoy it. My wife and I listened to your show. We listened to it last night. Thank you. We've been listening to this for probably like the last maybe four or five years and been out and about, but the last few years right before I got to retire, I was out of the area.

So we've just, we've had fun. Some people go, oh, yeah, he's just talking, oh, I don't believe him and all the stuff. Well, my attitude is, I don't care what you think. Yeah, exactly, right. Doug, I really appreciate you coming on the show. And, I mean, as I said before, it's one of the most detailed accounts that I I've heard in the, it was a seven, six, seven years I've been doing this.

It is extremely detailed. Thank you for sharing what you experienced that day. And anyone who is listening, if you have had a similar siting in that same area, I would love to hear about it as well. Or southern Oregon, you can reach out to me, the Bigfoot Society at Gmail. If someone wants to get a hold of me, I've been, we were supposed to last summer go out with that truck driver to an area. He says, I know where they're at. Okay. And he said you got to bring, you got to bring a weapon to be able to protect yourself because they know if you've got a weapon or not. He said that they'll be there. He goes, we're going to be across the water from them, but they'll come across the water to you. So he's, he's, he,

He's different. He's about 6'7. He saw one when he was 11 years old. It followed him on his bicycle when he was camping up in the very same spot off of the Siscue Forked Road and off of Highway 199. And we went back and told his parents they laughed at him. So he's the truck driver that saw that real big one. And I saw a sketch of it. And it looks like the one that I saw. I think it was the actual one that I saw too. His name is Travis. And, Travis, I've run into the store and we've talked about it and it's kind of neat. But he goes, yeah, I'll take you up this summer. But you know what? You don't hear from them. And there's all sorts of people. You know what? You do it as a curiosity, the show, you're professional, you have the equipment.

You can tell from certain people that they're in it for trying to make themselves famous in a sense. Or they want to be. Exactly. The wrong reasons. They've got all these desires. and sure there's a financial burden into doing all of these things. But you know what? I met Dr. Meldrum, but he had a job at the university, you know.

I know David Pilates, he does his books. I've met him. Very interesting man. But I get vibes from people, okay? And there's a lot of folks. They're in it. They're interested. But you know what?

All I know is there's. There's an element of joy and happiness about me. I'm glad I saw them. It was kind of freaky that I did. At the same time still, like I said, there's no reason that I don't think that they made themselves known to me. I don't know. I do know that there's all sorts of stories where Dave's talked about how across the Klamath River, he'll see a big old giant pile of poop and then pile of bones.

And there's girls that have gone missing up there, you know. I don't know. what the story is. I just know that it's interesting. And it's just, it's very different. If anybody wants to communicate with me and say, hey, Doug, would you like to go out? I'd be, I'd love to go out again and see if I could find him. But like I said, we're going to relocate out of the area and go somewhere else. Right. So, all depend. Well, gotcha. People can, or listeners, you can reach out to Doug. It's Brooklyn. Brookings Harbor Dad at Yahoo.com, and I'll have that in the description of the episode.

So you can easily see that. But Doug, thank you so much for, again, for coming on the show and for listening along. I do appreciate that. And we'll have to see where this one leads. Maybe we'll have some people reach out with things they've experienced as well. So thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oakland? 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 years. 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.

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with the cost there appreciate that priscilla i hope to see you at the booth in okraidge this year we can talk about your encounter 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 the logging industry on a remote oil field or a 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,

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