Bigfoot Society - I Joined a Hippie Commune and met Sasquatch! (Member's Only)

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

In this special Member's Only episode I interview LaDema about her deeply fascinating and chilling experiences around the Sixes River in Oregon during the 1970s. LaDema shares her journey from Las Vegas to an 80-acre hippie commune where she encountered compelling Bigfoot stories, close calls in the wilderness, and a terrifying night that led her to believe she was warned by a Sasquatch to leave. With gripping details about life on a primitive commune, hitchhiking adventures, and encounters with enormous footprints, this episode is a must-listen for anyone intrigued by Bigfoot legend and lore.Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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A special thank you to the members that are supporting Bigfoot Society. And I hope you enjoy this episode. It's all about a young lady back in the mid-1970s who started. stumbled onto a hippie commune and got more than she bargained for with the Sasquatch that live nearby. It's an incredible episode. In fact, I would be able to put this whole thing up on YouTube due to some of the content. I mean, it's wild. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can become a supporting member, Patreon.com forward slash the Bigfoot Society.

Or hit join second tier on YouTube. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Ledima tonight. She reached out to me about some really interesting things that she experienced around the Sixes River area of Oregon a little while ago. But Ledima, so glad to talk to you tonight. How are things going? Good, good. Thank you for having me.

Absolutely. And it sounds like it's a very interesting story. I'm going to let you go ahead and launch right into it and share what you would like. regarding this story. Okay. I was about 18 and I met a girl that knew some people that lived on this 80-acre property right off Sixthes River Road on a commune. And I was really interested in what that would be like and had nothing going on in my life.

I lived in Las Vegas and she was passing through. And so I hooked up with her and we hitchhiked from Las Vegas up to Sixes River, Oregon. And when we got up there, we stopped at a house that was up there. And immediately they started talking about Bigfoot and their experiences with Bigfoot. And all kinds of tales like they were telling me about how they were outside in the, bushes or trees over on the left side of their house, which the house is still there. Trees have grown up, but the trees started moving and stuff in their dog, a large lab, started barking and ran into the bushes, whatever it was, which, from what I've seen,

that's not normal for the animals, but this one did. and whatever it was, threw the dog out of the bushes, out of the trees and bushes. And so that was one of their tales that they told. My friend that night, because it was kind of like dusk, you know, I was getting dark, went across the street with their little girl to the river. There was like a sandbar over there and came back screaming because they felt the ground shaking and come back screaming into the house. Bigfoot, it's Bigfoot.

About that time I was like, okay, because I don't think I really heard anything about Bigfoot too much at that point until I got up there. We stayed there that night kind of talking and stuff to these people, and I was getting to know them and stuff. And of course, you know, they were looking at me. like, oh, city girl. Up here in the mountains, you know,

wanting to experience it. They knew I was in for a big treat. What years is this, Lidima? 1976. Wow, okay, cool. About 1976. You know, there was hardly anybody that lived on Sixth's River Road. Hardly anybody.

Now, there was some construction going on. I think they were building the campgrounds, Sixers River Campgrounds and the Edison Recreation Campgrounds right there wasn't even built yet. No houses. One person lived on the river side of the road, a man, a hippie guy that had lived there for a while. He had an a-framed house on that side of the river or the road. but other than that, he was the only one that was on that side of the road, on the river side of the road at that time. And then the 80 acres, there was maybe about five or six people.

They had goats that everything was natural. There was no sugar, no tobacco, no nothing. Everything was grown up there. And it was a real commune. And I guess some lady had 80 acres there. that these hippies, you know, live there. And so in the morning, we were told that the cabin that we were going to stay in, which was across the river, had been burnt down by the construction people

who were getting rid of all the homesteaders at that time, and that we had to go further up into the mountain to stay in this other cabin up there. And of course, I'm like, I have no idea what I'm in for or anything. And so we get escorted up the road like a mile past everybody. And across the river, we crossed the river on big boulders that were there. I looked and looked and looked up the river recently and they're not there no more. I think there was a couple of them. but yeah I couldn't find where we had crossed the river to go up about a half a mile up the mountain

and to go up the mountain was like a trail I'm assuming now that it was an animal trail of some sort we had to cross over a big tree that had fallen across the ravine and the top of the trees were at the bottom of this fallen tree so we had to walk across this tree and it had moss on it and stuff. I actually think I belly crawled across it the first time because I was afraid. I mean, yeah. So anyway, we got to the cabin. The cabin was hand-built.

It was maybe the walls were maybe about six, not even six foot tall, maybe five foot tall, all the way around. It was built up against a big tree. There was a big piece of plastic. that was the roof. And there was a barrel that they made for a stove of some sort. It was kind of hidden up there. You used kerosene for light and stuff.

There was some books and stuff. They had hand-built a couple of, like a bunk bed there, and the refrigerator was a hole in the ground underneath the bunk bed, the bottom bed. So it was pretty primitive, pretty primitive. And then you walked down to the river to take a bath. It was real primitive. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube,

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Maybe there's somebody else out there listening who's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out and now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks? I know what I saw. I know what's out there. That's all I care about.

Please let people know. Please let them know if you ever see one of these things. You need to tell. because if you don't, then shame on you. You know, shame on you. Wait, there's more. Monster Fest 2 is coming up soon and beautiful Canton, Ohio,

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I mean, the coolest thing about last year is that I got to meet people I was not expecting to be there. People like Les O'Dell, John Hickenbottom. Really cool big put. people that I never would have thought that I would have met before. And Seth Breedlove made it happen by making this incredible place for the community to get together. Monster Fest in Kent, Ohio, June 28th through 29th. Guys, do not miss this year. If you missed last year, don't miss this year. Head on over right now to smalltown monsters.com. I hope to see you there. This is Daniel Fischel.

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