Bigfoot Society - Inside Georgia’s Most Active Bigfoot Zone!

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

What happens when two retired law enforcement officers move to the mountains of North Georgia — and encounter something they can’t explain? In this unforgettable episode of Bigfoot Society, Jeremi...ah Byron sits down with Scott and Sheila Granger of Squatch-Fishing Outfitters to unpack a whirlwind of strange events, from whoops in the night to a full-on bluff charge in the woods. You’ll hear how a single Bigfoot expedition turned a skeptic into a believer, what happened when rocks started flying at their campsite, and why their own home may be ground zero for Bigfoot activity in Georgia. With stories from Ellijay to Rabun County, this episode dives deep into one of the most active Sasquatch regions in the country — and the couple who now leads others into the mystery. Whether it’s tree knocks, growls, clicking sounds, or a Bigfoot who mimics “shave and a haircut,” you won’t want to miss a second of this mind-bending tale from the southern Appalachians.Resources:Squatch-Fishing Outfitters - https://www.facebook.com/SquatchFishingOutfittersTiktok channel for SFO - https://www.tiktok.com/@squatchfishingoutfitters🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to bigfootsociety@gmail.com – 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 Patreon – 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 HereGoodchop (Better Meat): Check it OutSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn More🎙️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:bigfootsociety@gmail.com

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Starting point is 00:01:22 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's story doesn't come from a seasoned researcher or lifelong. believer. It comes from a retired cop in a former federal law enforcement officer who thought Bigfoot was just a myth. That is until the woods of North Georgia came alive. A broad shoulder figure crossed the road in daylight. A truck shook. A tent was approached and somewhere in those Appalachian foothills. The believers became the hunted. This is the story of Scott and Sheila Granger and the night Bigfoot came calling. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society.
Starting point is 00:01:56 You've got the privilege of talking to Scott and Sheila Granger today. Scott and Sheila are involved with squatch fishing outfitters down there in L.A.J., Georgia, up there in northern Georgia. And listeners of the show might have heard of that area already. If you haven't, it's an extremely active area up there in northern Georgia. So welcome to the show, guys. How's it going today? It's going great. Thank you for having us.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Thank you for having us. Absolutely. I've been looking forward to this one for a while. How did you guys get involved with Bigfoot to begin with and start up this Outfitter's business that you have? Okay, let's see. Years ago, we lived in South Georgia. I'm retired police officer for a little over 20 years. Scott's retired federal law enforcement.
Starting point is 00:02:53 And, you know, we would watch all the stuff on television. And the biggest thing was Legend of Vaggy Creek. That was my favorite movie. He had never seen it. And so I had him watch it. And, you know, I talked about this nonstop. Back then, I thought it was just like a unicorn. You know what I'm talking about?
Starting point is 00:03:12 Like, it couldn't be really real. But, you know, we ended up moving up here to North Georgia about eight years ago. And I've seen an opportunity to go. on a Bigfoot expedition. And I was just, I lost my mind, you know, begged him to go, let's go, let's go. He finally consented and we went on that expedition and that kind of like snowballed from there. It did. You know, it was kind of unique.
Starting point is 00:03:41 She wanted to go, you know, and I'm one of them fillers that I try to do everything I can do to satisfy your wife and all, you know, because I like to eat. You know, I'm like everybody else. I'm not going to miss a meal over my baby. doing what she wants to do. Nice. So I went on the expedition with her, and we had a few things happen, you know, that kind of opened my eyes on that outing. And, you know, because I was probably the biggest skeptic in the world.
Starting point is 00:04:10 You know, I was that guy that I'd tell you quit, you know, man, I have hunted and fish and the river bottoms and the swamps all my life, and I truly have. And I did see a lot of things during those times, you know, that. and heard things that I couldn't really explain, but I never put two and two together about it. And after going on that first outing, you know, and getting to hear some things, I opened my mind a little bit more and said, you know, they could be something to do this. And that's kind of how it got started off. Yeah, that one weekend, you know, we heard several things just if I had not been there and heard it with my own ears,
Starting point is 00:04:49 somebody could have told me that and I would have thought man you're nuts you're crazy or whatever and and you know I wanted to believe so bad we're so excited about it but I kept telling Scott you know I'm just I'm not going to say there's such thing as big but until I see it with my own eyes and I'm a 110% sure that you know that's when I'll admit it and lo and behold it was a few months later I got the opportunity um during the day at 2 o'clock that afternoon, about 25 yards away, I saw a big foot. And from that point on, I went from being a believer to a no, 110%. Oh, man. Okay. So there's a lot of stuff that happened to you guys pretty quick. I want to, I want to hear what kind of vocals you guys heard on that expedition.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Like what kind of things were you running into first? You want to tell him? Yeah. What have we a friend that was on this outing with us that we had met a good bit prior to this outing. And the night before the actual expedition started, we all load up in my truck and we take off to the woods. You know, he's wanting to show us a couple of different areas. So we're heading up there and Sheila sees something go across the road in front of us.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Well, when she saw that go across the road in front of us, you know, I got on the brakes, and we all bail out of my truck. And at that time, we had a full size ram. So we had five people in there. And we're saying, I'm standing right in front of the truck. And Sheila and our friend, he goes on, going up ahead where whatever crossed the road up there. We're standing there and we're talking amongst ourselves.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And the prettiest whoop you ever wanted to hear come from less than 15 yards away from us right to the left of us. Well, we're in an area that we had never been in. And I say that telling you about that ram, because a ram has a really good, really good set of headlights on it that shine way out to the sides. And I'm looking over there where this swoop come from. And I look back at another young lady that's standing right there beside me, and her eyes are about as big a saucers. And she said, did you hear that?
Starting point is 00:07:14 And I said, of course. so we're looking for it and never did see anything, but I mean, we got to hear it. And Sheila and our friend, they're out there, they're looking where whatever it was crossed the road and some limbs are still wiggling in the way there where it had crossed. After that, our buddy, he told us,
Starting point is 00:07:40 he said, you know, he said, these things are up here pretty thick, and he says, they're real good to mimic things. Now what I'm fixing to tell you, if there hadn't been five of us up there to witness this, I would never tell it. And if I hadn't heard it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. So he gets two rocks,
Starting point is 00:08:02 and he collects them together twice. And right down from us probably not 30 to 35 yards, there's a small stream running. Something cracks two rocks back twice. and he giggles a little bit and he clacks some rocks again two more times and right off the bat something down there clacks those rocks twice
Starting point is 00:08:27 so he's playing with that a little bit and he said I wonder so he'd done the shave and a haircut deal you know that don't don't do don't don't don't clacks with those rocks and we're all sitting there and this whatever it is mimics that back with rock clacks
Starting point is 00:08:47 and at this point we're all you know like an amazement and everything and we are up here in the middle of absolutely nowhere in these mountains there is no other person up here where we're at to you know do anything like this back at us and then we're all talking and he says he's telling us he says you know these things are extremely OCD about things and he does the don't don't domp to don't don't and he does it do it anyway more. And down at the creek, it goes, clack, clack. It finished it. No way. Yeah. And I'm telling you, if there hadn't been as many people standing there that all heard and witnessed this, I would never tell that story. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:33 And it's still kind of like, people are not going to believe this. And I wouldn't blame them at all. No, not at all. I mean, because if somebody told me that, you know, right off the bat, my first thing was saying, you say, I believe your cheese is just about slipped off your crap. quit using my but it you know that happened
Starting point is 00:09:52 and we were there to witness that and then we go on up the road you have to kind of picture some of these mountain off the way roads we get to the top of it and there's kind of like a cold of sack area up there
Starting point is 00:10:07 a dead end into just nothing but woods yeah and we get my truck turned around where we're pointed out in the event something does happen or anything we need to get out of there quick. And then she'll have standing out behind my truck, probably 20 yards away from my truck.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And our friend and a couple of people, they go on down a little trail. We can see their red headlamps and everything as they're going down the trail. As they get on down the trail out of sight, we notice this area up here has like a next level down off the edge of it. something extremely heavy starts walking around this terrace.
Starting point is 00:10:51 You can feel the percussion in here. Boom. Boom. And as this walking, you know, you think like something was just stomping. It was walking so hard. And it gets around toward the front of our truck. And you could hear it walk up towards us a little bit. And I told Sheila that time, I said, let's see he's on towards the truck.
Starting point is 00:11:13 And she was like, why? And I said, well, I don't want whatever this is to be get between us and our vehicle. So we started easing toward the truck. And our buddy had laid his cell phone on record on the hood of my truck. And as we're easing to the truck, that phone lights up. And which I didn't think a whole lot about that at that point in time. It, you know, it wasn't nothing out of the way to me. But we get up there.
Starting point is 00:11:47 And when they get back, I tell him that, you know, you must have missed a text or something. You know, your phone lit up. Well, he looks at the phone. He says, that phone doesn't light up unless you touch it. And he showed me that that phone doesn't light up, you know, unless it gets touched. And which was pretty unique, you know, to say the least about that point right there. The rest of the weekend went off, you know, small. things happening, not a whole, whole lot.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Well, we had, we were, this is our first camping, real big camping, you know, we were, we were brand new to it, but later that night, we were in our tent. And you, you, I heard something. He did too, walking across the river towards our campsite, and, you know, I'm like, Scott, he says, I hear it, I hear it. And it come to the little table we had up there. We had been cooking bacon earlier in the evening, you know, And you could hear it.
Starting point is 00:12:49 You could hear it. And I'm kind of freaking out over there. And this is no joke because we had no idea what to speak. I heard Scott reach over there and unsnap his, you know, holster, which that wouldn't have done any good, I assure you. And this thing is right beside the tent and it lets out this big, like, it's an aspiration kind of thing, you know, and just turned around and started walking off. And again, you could hear the boom, boom.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Let me tell you something. I was so scared. Had that thing touched that tent. would have jumped up and ran with tent and everything. Probably laid myself out with a tree, but I was terrified. But that, you know, that kind of sets up the tone here. That was our first outing for this. And they say, you know, once you start down the, I'm going to tell everybody,
Starting point is 00:13:34 if you start down this rabbit hole, be prepared for more questions you will ever have answers to. Either you're going to be addicted to it like we are, or you're probably never going to go in the woods again. Absolutely. Yeah. I agree 100%. Oh my goodness. Wow.
Starting point is 00:13:51 So from what you guys had, the way you've been talking, it sounds like this is, this is more of like a private expedition. That one was. It was another way that we went on. And we wound up after that helping that group out a good bit. And just going out with friends, we'd make them that group. And the more we helped out with that group and everything. the more we've seen how things were going
Starting point is 00:14:22 in that group. And it's a big group. And very costly. And actually we've done that for, you know, a pretty good while. We would always have people, when people would find out that we had went on these things and had been on them things
Starting point is 00:14:41 that a lot of folks had a lot of interest in and really wanted to go, but they weren't willing to drop that kind of money on doing that. And we sit back and we thought about it for a lot and said, you know, what could we actually do one of these for people
Starting point is 00:14:59 and make it where there's not as many people there and, you know, get away with money-wise and at least break even. So we did that. And that's how squat fishing outfitters got born. It took a while. It took over a year and a half to get everything we needed
Starting point is 00:15:17 to get. But it's pretty much our life now. Yeah. That's awesome. Wow. How cool is that? I mean, it's a thing where it's obviously you guys love going out there and to make it a part of your life in that way. So now you're like, now I got to get out there. And it's just, that's awesome. How cool. We've met so many good people and become friends with so many people. I mean, we have a ball. Yeah. We've had people leave an outing with us and be. become lifelong friends with other folks that were there.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Oh, yeah. You know, that's a lot of what it's all about. We also guide fly fishing, and we try to incorporate. That's how the name, Squash Fishing Outfitters, come about. We're trying to find something where it incorporated both of men to it, and she would come up with one day. She said it, and it stuck from that point out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I love it. our mannerism of doing things is you know the group we had been associated with and going off with they would they would take a lot of folks on outing and it seemed like when we were there prior to all the other people getting there there would be a good activity happening and everything big for society will be right back after these messages all right quick quiz for the hiring managers out there What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, this is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs.
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Starting point is 00:19:05 So we draw it down before we only take 10 participants at a time. And a smaller group, a group large enough to be safe, but a group not so large to where it overwhelms the forest. I think last year was it last year, the very last exposition, we had a guy that was doing a documentary. Greg Oggles, a very nice guy. him and his young guy that helps him. We were going out to where we were going to go hunting that night, right?
Starting point is 00:19:39 So Scott was in the lead truck. We had like three or four vehicles. Scott was driving. Greg was in the passenger seat and his friend was in the backseat. And had one run right across the road in front of them. Oh, yeah. Both of the guys got to see it. They were a little shake in it.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Yeah, they were. They were. it and you know and here it is we're filming a documentary and everything and it's
Starting point is 00:20:04 no cameras rolling yeah that's the age old story yeah something truly
Starting point is 00:20:13 amazing happens and you're there doing this specific thing but you don't have any cameras but we did get footprints
Starting point is 00:20:20 yes we did we went up the side of the ridge footprints we got I think was like 18 and a half inches is that 17 and a half it was awesome and
Starting point is 00:20:29 you know those guys were shocked and everything and it's it was a very good out of but we you know the best thing I enjoy we've done this for a few years now
Starting point is 00:20:40 the best thing I enjoy is when new people come you know with expectations oh this is bull crap this is not real blah blah and then something happens and I'm thinking about the last last year we had a gentleman
Starting point is 00:20:52 you know he believed in it but he's never seen anything and we told him these jokes up here like throw stuff. So he was standing there and all this rocks get thrown and he about loses his mind. He did. He did. And it's that's, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:08 we have a pair, husband, wife team. They're both Dennis. And she drug him to one of our addicts. They come on a very regular basis, super great people. And she was the believer. He was the, sure enough, just
Starting point is 00:21:24 like me, big skeptic. And but he wound up getting to see one first through a thermal. And after that moment right there, now he's ready to get up here every chance he gets now. It was so funny because after he's seen it, he came back down to the campfire and he sat there and didn't say a word. I said, are you okay? He said, yeah, I'm trying to absorb what I just saw.
Starting point is 00:21:50 You know, you get quiet because I know in my mind, you know, it sent me about three days. I was trying so hard to convince me. myself, they had to be a bear. They had to be a bear, but I knew it wasn't a bear. Are you guys going all over North Georgia then, or you probably have to keep locations a little bit, you know, in the back pocket, but is it all over like that LJ area or? It is. We spanned out, we spanned out from LJ all the way over to Rayburn County in that region right there. And the big thing is we have several areas that we monitor very closely.
Starting point is 00:22:36 And this isn't a weekend thing for us. You know, this is a four to six day a week thing we do. And we keep real close observation on these areas. And that's how we determine where we're carrying folks, you know, on our next outings and everything. because we may have two areas that are very active at that point in time. And we have to, we always want to carry folks, you know, to the area that's the most active at that point in time, you know, to afford them the opportunity or the best opportunity and chance to get to have an experience. Yeah, have an experience or even possible sighting.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Now, we've taken people out before and had to leave, you know. Of course, if you see a mama bear with cubs, you know, you don't want to stay in that area. Or if something, you get that feeling or something's being thrown or the growls and stuff, we're not trying to put anybody into any danger. No. We push that envelope a little hard on ourselves, but when we have other folks out there, we maintain the most safety as possible. Scott, you said a phrase that it was really, quick, but you said you have a group that's, that was something like a group that's large enough to be safe. And what, what do you mean by that? Yes. When the, when situation and things like
Starting point is 00:24:09 what we do, you want to have enough people there that enough numbers like to show a little bit where you have it deters something for wanting to, you know, encroach on you. More than one or two people. Yeah, more than one or two people. But not big enough to where it makes things shut down. And we don't do this by it. We have a crew that helps us and thank goodness for them. Oh, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:24:41 If it wasn't for them, you know, we couldn't get accomplished the amount of things we do. And that's what I mean by that. And I hope I answered your question. No, I think you did. Was there a situation that you guys went through where you had to learn the hard way? Like maybe you didn't have enough people present and just things kind of escalated? No, it happened with, well, it was me and Scott and a couple of others. We were out scouting.
Starting point is 00:25:12 We weren't really, we weren't doing our thing yet. We were out scouting. We were bluff charged. Oh, wow. Yeah, we were hard bluff charged. that there were four of us, and that was it. And it weren't a lot. We were all right there in a very tight-knit group.
Starting point is 00:25:29 We were kind of spread out a little bit. We're walking along, you know, checking out some areas, it's at night. And we heard it coming off the ridge above us to our right. And when it started coming, I mean, it was, oh, my goodness, it was coming. Like a back truck. Yeah. Well, the mountain laurel up here in these mountains in certain areas, you know, is pretty thick. And that stuff was tough.
Starting point is 00:25:57 As soon as it started coming off that ridge, everybody spins their head around, so all the headlamps are pointing up in that ridge, and you could literally see that mountain laurel parting, I mean, as it was coming down. And it stopped within about 10 yards of us. I mean, just all of a sudden stopped. I don't, we don't know if it jumped over top of us. If it come to a trail right there, you know, a cutoff. on a trail or something or what it done, but it immediately stopped.
Starting point is 00:26:24 But we were both braced for impact, you know, and like you were going to get run over by a linebacker or something. Yeah, I had done, like, prepared for, you know, like a rabbit squatting down. Oh, yeah. And then we've had some other things happen, you know, where we've had things thrown, you know, a small number of people there, and I mean some big objects thrown and things like that. it's and you know
Starting point is 00:26:52 that's kind of where I get to have enough people to be safe but not enough people to overwhelm things and I think people when they, like I say when they come on these expeditions especially the ones that are skeptics
Starting point is 00:27:05 that's the best ones you know we had we had a couple that come and he did get to see actually they both got to see one farm that night and they had we have a base cam and they had put their camp
Starting point is 00:27:17 or tent on the edge there you know, ground everybody else's, and, you know, that's where they wanted to be. That's fine. But apparently, we got back to a 3 o'clock in the morning, everybody going to bed, settling down. They had some stuff happened to them, and they got up and sat around the campfire all night, too scared to go back to bed because of all the stuff that was happening. So it does follow you back sometimes.
Starting point is 00:27:40 But, yeah, I mean, they're both believers now. Yeah, we are. And it's when we found out the next morning, they had both set up around that campfire. all night long. And they're stoking that fire, keeping it going. I told him,
Starting point is 00:27:55 I said, man, why didn't you wake me up? And he said, he, you know, very nice guy. He said, he said, we really didn't want to bother anyone. I said, buddy, I said, that's what I'm here for. And needless say,
Starting point is 00:28:06 next day they did move that, their tent system on up there very close around everyone else. I told Scott, I said, I don't think they'll come back. I be, dog. They signed up for, how many, three or four since then.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Three or four times. since. Oh, wow. That's an intense experience that they had. In this area... It was for the moment. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. In these areas that your guys are going to, you know, I talk to people from all over the U.S.
Starting point is 00:28:39 and there are definitely different, you know, sometimes people are seeing things that look like in orangutan or sometimes it looks like an old man or a humanoid type figure. Is there, are there any, you know, common things that are usually seen in the sightings that your people are having when they are being taken out on these expeditions? What I saw, the one I saw, like I said, that was 2 o'clock in the afternoon, not 25 yards away. and it made a noise.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Otherwise, I probably went to look that way. It made like a clicking noise, and I took a step back and looked about my 4 o'clock. And it was behind a tree. And, you know, you're looking. This was in September, so there wasn't a lot of green foliage left or anything. I'm looking at it, and it moves a little bit.
Starting point is 00:29:39 You know, I'm seeing something. I'm looking at it. It's looking at me. There's no doubt. It was behind the tree. It had his hands around the tree, and his left shoulder. was on the left side, but the right shoulder's on the right side.
Starting point is 00:29:53 So, I mean, the tree was, he was way bigger than the trees, what I'm saying. And he was like a cinnamon color. But it looked like a huge person to me with no neck with like a red, reddish fur coat on. But the face, it had no hair on the face. It looked like clay. Yeah, like gray clay. You know, and I looked, and I thought Scott, our friend was right behind me, but apparently I went on at the ridge by myself, and I remember saying, Scott,
Starting point is 00:30:24 and he said something way down the ridge, you know, and this thing starts moving a little bit more. I'm looking at him, he's looking at me, and then, you know, bouncing, and I said, Scott, like that. And when I did, it dropped down and just, it just dropped like a puff of smoke and was gone. Well, he recognized, you know, something's wrong, and so they come running up the ridge. And when they get up there, I'm just shaking all over, like, you know, just had a huge dump of adrenaline. and I tell him, I said, there was a big foot there, you know, and pointed. And my friend and I ran over to the tree, I had pointed out to Scott. And if I had called out over the radio, I didn't realize it was a decline.
Starting point is 00:31:02 So I would have thought about six foot, but by the time I got down there and seen that it was on a decline, it would have had to be in like seven and a half, eight foot tall. The ones that we're typically encounter up here, they're, They're more human looking than apish. They're more kind of, I would call it like Neanderthalic. Yeah. Looking, the, everyone I've had the opportunity to witness, have, you know, you hear a lot of people say about the conical-shaped head. Everyone that I've had the opportunity to witness has had a roundish, round more round head, not that.
Starting point is 00:31:47 up jettisoned conical shape. And no neck. Yeah. And the no neck thing is just from their traps, their muscles and everything being, you know, you think of an Alabama linebacker, you know,
Starting point is 00:32:02 sitting there without his pads on how he looks like he's trappies muscles from the top and from the base of his school out to a shovers. That's kind of how these things are. And they can move. And that age you'll say, and if people say, well, they don't have.
Starting point is 00:32:17 any day they have to turn their body to be able to turn their head that's wrong these things turn their head um i've witnessed that personally in the daylight of them turning their head and it's uh the only variation we have up here pretty much that we've encountered and noticed is color and size yes the uh we have seen black ones uh like Sheila said that the one the one one she's seen was a cinnamon color type brown. We've had people report to us. They've seen gray ones. Wild one.
Starting point is 00:32:59 And one white one. But that, you know, they had that primate look, typical look, but more Neanderthalic. If you can imagine that. And I think at times, as we go to several different spots that we take on routine, I think they recognize this.
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Starting point is 00:35:37 know. Sheila, you said something in your account that made me almost fall out of my chair. And I'll explain why, but I have to be, it's going to be vague. So an individual reached out to me from Iowa. I'm in Iowa. And he had shared about how he's been checking out this area where there's been wood knocks happening howls
Starting point is 00:36:09 but also there was a night where he had him and his friend there and they started to be surrounded in this wooded area and the
Starting point is 00:36:19 the creatures that were out there started clicking at them and I was like I've never heard the clicking thing and I've been doing this for years
Starting point is 00:36:28 and when you just said clicking I was like holy mackerel so is that a thing you guys are experiencing a lot down there where there's like these clicking
Starting point is 00:36:36 things happening? Yes. And, you know, at first, I'm thinking, like I said, it had to be doing that to get my attention. Otherwise, I had no reason to look where I was looking because I was at the top of reach looking over it, you know, looking at the dirt roads and everything down there. And I had to take a step back and go to my four o'clock. But that wasn't the first time we've been in the woods before and had the clicking. So we were associating it to, it was wanting us to look that way, maybe while the other one
Starting point is 00:37:04 moved to distract us. Well, then we've just recently heard from other people that this is a, what do you want to say that, like a mating thing or something like that? That's when I about fell out of my chair. Oh, Jared. Yeah. Now I don't have to compete with other fellows. I've got to compete with a big area. I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Not a forest pride. right yeah we've heard we've heard the click it's not maybe it's a ton popping thing i'm not sure how they do it but it's definitely a click and we it's very noticeable it's not something you know that did i think i heard that no it's very noticeable what it happens the the only other thing that that really has freaked me out uh Scott and I were putting out we're hiking in the woods of course and we were going to set out audio. We were sitting way back in the woods and I started hearing something. I said, do you hear that?
Starting point is 00:38:12 And he says, now I hear something off to my left. I said, no, no, no, stop. Listen. It kind of sounded like somebody was like driving in a tent stake, you know, that kind of repetition. But then all of a sudden it was almost like you're in front of a gorilla cage. It was like, like it was building itself up. It done about three or four times.
Starting point is 00:38:31 And the fourth one was like, oh, like something was mad. bad. You know, so, of course, we go down there to try to find it. We did get the audio put up, and we were gone for about three or four days. We came back, and we brought two friends with us, my best friend and her husband. So Scott and him went back in the woods to retrieve the audio, and she and I were around a fire. We were in the woods. We just went as deep as they were, and it was just me and her.
Starting point is 00:38:59 And we're sitting there, and I start hearing stuff, and this was about dark. start hearing something and it's getting closer and I've got all this on audio and I said you hear that and she says no I don't hear it because she's she's not going to let the fire go out she was busy trying to put wood on the fire and said I don't listen and it's the only thing I can liken it to if you've ever heard an alligator growl that real guttural growl I got 14 on those recorded it was coming up from the ridge to I was getting closer and closer to us. Yeah. Yeah, there's 14 of those growls on that audio. And right at the end of the last growl, one of the prettiest whoops you ever want to hear. But it's, and we'll catch that on two different audios on a recorder
Starting point is 00:39:51 and on shoot a phone recorder, which was pretty neat. Yeah, I don't know. You know, I sent it to a friend of mine, and they said that, you know, they thought it was an alpha male that, you know, no women needed to be by their self or children. Well, let me tell you something. You were talking about your friend having a situation where they were out in the woods, you know, they were thinking they were being, you know, surrounded.
Starting point is 00:40:19 This is another reason why, you know, we use the number of enough to be safe. Me and Sheila, and three of our other friends, we were out just camping one evening and over the weekend. And we had a situation where we were at, where we had at least three, at least three different individuals, just outside of the light of our camp, tree knocking. I mean, these things were beating on trees like they were no tomorrow. And whooping. And whooping all around us.
Starting point is 00:40:53 And we were surrounded that night. And that was an extremely very uneasy feeling. You can tell them about 2.30 that morning. Yeah, that about 2.30 that morning. After we're all bedded down and everything, we've left lanterns and everything running this particular night because of all the activity and everything that's going on. We had something walking in behind our tent within. We were in a camper. No, that's a different.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Oh, is it different? Okay. Within 8 to 10 yards of our tent and walk in and I fully expected to start hearing the kitchen tent, the stuff, you know, start getting rummage through. and it didn't, but it walked in between our tent and our buddy. He used to always go with us. He sleeps in a hammock of all things. And it gets so very close to him, and you can hear it leaving out like it's going to go past him.
Starting point is 00:41:51 Well, it doesn't get probably 10 yards past his hammock, and he turns around and does a woodbock right there. Next morning, I asked him, I said, I said, you heard that last night. He said, of course I heard it. He said it's by the words, but he said, of course I heard that. He said, it was right there. And I said, did you see it?
Starting point is 00:42:10 And he said, man, I did not open my eyes. Are you crazy? That's the best thing to me. That's my most favorite thing is when you're asleep, and I love tent camp, as you can hear it all real good. That walking reminds me of Jurassic Park with that cup of waters there and the percussion. It just wakes you up from a dead sleep and you know instantaneously. That's what it is. and what she was asking me about was we had a we had a little small camper as a little 13-foot you know a little behind camper and we were in pretty close to that same location um we were up there and we had bedded down for the night and we had them whooping all around the camp and they were they walked into the camp and we had parked our jeep right behind our camper right there
Starting point is 00:43:02 And we had two that were, you know, sitting over there right in behind our Jeep just whooping. And we're giggling about, you know, that whooping over there. All that kind of settled down a little bit. And I had to cough all of a sudden. And when I did, I coughed really hard. The moment I coughed, that little camper we were in got pushed almost off the blocks that it was on. So it scared us and we scared them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:32 And then she would ask me, says, you going out there? I said, of course not. I'm not because I know what's out there. The next day, we could see like where something was on its knuckles, you know, and had crawled it there that way. You could see really good muckle impressions. Oh, yeah. We've run across and had, you know, a lot of experiences and things,
Starting point is 00:43:56 some good, some not so good. But overall, you know, we've had a blast with it so far. I mean, we're not experts by any means of that word. I mean, we learn stuff. We learn from people we talk to. Yeah. Yeah. To me, an expert will be a person that could tell you exactly what these things are.
Starting point is 00:44:16 Their origin, the whole nine yards about them. There's no one out there with those credentials. No, there's not. No, and no experts yet, for sure. Anyone that's been on any of your trips, have they ever? experienced anything similar to what people call infrasound? No, not really. We've had a lot of severe nervousness, but not that part, yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:49 Headaches and nausea, but nothing that I would, you know, attribute to like the old thing where you hear people talking about getting zapped and things like that with infrasn. No, really. To me, it's almost like intuition, like when you know you shouldn't be there. We were in an old, old graveyard. And as soon as we got out, it was like you could feel the tension so thick, you know, and it was not good. It's like your hair just stands up. And I told Scott, we need to leave. And everything was dead quiet, you know, when you get out and there's no birds, no, nothing going on.
Starting point is 00:45:25 But during that time, if I hear any, like a twig break or anything, I start taking pictures. because if you can't see it with your eyes sometimes, if you start taking random pictures, you know, and I did get something on that. Yeah, a good picture. That, you know, try to take your photos in the direction of wherever you hear. The least little thing is, you know, the big things are obvious, and they're not going to show those to you too much.
Starting point is 00:45:53 It's that little small, like small twig crack or anything. That's what you're looking for. Yeah, yeah. And we utilize that on a lot of our expeditions. You know, when I have a group out on the hiking group, I have one team member that he stays on the backside of our hiking group. You know, he's monitoring both sides with thermals and behind us and everything. And one particular evening, we have something thrown at us from the right-hand side.
Starting point is 00:46:25 Well, when things like that occur is his job, he starts to start. in the entire area with thermals. And that particular evening, he caught one on the left-hand side. What come from the right was just a distraction. He caught one on the left-hand side over behind a rock, peeking up over a rock watching us. Now, this rock's not 35 yards from us. And everybody's watching him through thermal, you know,
Starting point is 00:46:55 peeking over the rock. He's getting up high enough to where you can see his head, shoulders, arms, upper torso. So that went on for a pretty good while. And then I walked out there with this critter. My intention was for him to get up and walk off or to run off so everyone could see him move away. One of my best friend's son, he's in his mid-20s,
Starting point is 00:47:24 he asked me if he could go with me. And then had a short discussion about the do's don'ts and whatever is when we go out here. So I let him go with me, and we get out to this rock. I'm watching paying close attention the whole time going out there. And about, I was almost out there to it, and my team member told me, he hollered to me, and he said, I don't see it anymore right this minute.
Starting point is 00:47:47 So then I thought, I said, well, he's laid down behind that rock. He's going, and I told the young man with him with me, I said, be careful. I said, we get over here, this thing's loud to jump straight up and take off. So we get over there and we look around behind the rock with our headlamps and there's nothing there. So immediately, I pull out a big white light and shine in the direction I thought it may have went. And it wasn't there and I'll start scanning the area. And as I come around, I put the light right in this thing's face.
Starting point is 00:48:21 He is 15 yards away from us, squatted down with his back towards us. He's looking over. He has his shoulders turn. He's looking at us. Well, he had something on the ground right there that he was just not willing to leave. I don't know if he had a deer or what he had there to eat or whatever, but he wasn't willing to leave it. I told the young man that was with us, that's when I become very nervous,
Starting point is 00:48:45 you know, more so because I had him with me. And told him, I said, let's ease backwards away from this and ease on back to the group. So we did. the whole time I'm keeping not directly on him, but the cast of the light on where I could watch him. And we ease on back and get away from him. And then we kind of ease the group on the way because like I said,
Starting point is 00:49:10 he wasn't willing to leave what he had. So at that point, that wasn't a really good place for us to be. And that's actually the closest I've ever been to one. Yeah, he was a little sick up by that. Well, there was another time we were close to that same area. I think this is kind of like in the beginning. And remember we had the guy that you think they reached out and grabbed his ankle.
Starting point is 00:49:35 Scott always tells everybody, you know, if something happens, don't run. Because once you run, you've become prey. And, you know, Scott always tells them, I will tackle you if I need to to keep you from running to get hurt. He said, now if you see me or Sheila running, you better try to keep up. Or if you hear one of your guys say you have found a run. to go. But yeah, that same particular area, I did have an individual take off on me. I'd check this area the night or the day before, I'd carried folks up there and had a small game trail leading up to this area, game trail about a foot and a half wide. All the foliage
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Starting point is 00:52:47 15 yards away from this individual. I hear the pop. I mean, it was that kind of pop that I honestly thought he got snake bit. And that loud. And he stumbles around, about falls down and then goes to take off and I
Starting point is 00:53:04 actually catch him. And get that all settled down. Because I think he's snake bit at this point in time. So I would pull them Britch's legs up and look, you know, and no wounds or anything. So he's on over there to where you're standing. that and I'm looking around there's no rock there where something's thrown or stick or anything
Starting point is 00:53:25 nothing there and I look at that game trail and this game trail now is not a foot and half wide it's all the foliage is pushed down to the ground a good foot and a half more on each side of the trail and it's that way for as far as I can look down that side of that mountain on that game trail And after seeing that, I didn't say anything to anyone, but I kind of had it in my own mind of what had happened. And it's, you know, it was a pretty unique situation. Well, the next day when I carry him all up there and he gets to get back up there to see where he was standing at and all that, he tells me then, he says, he said, well, all that
Starting point is 00:54:11 tolias, and he notices it. He said, all that foliage is and everything's pushed down. Then I told him, I said, yeah, the day was the day was. before you came here, that foliage wasn't pushed down. That's the only time we've, you know, people talk about the smell. That's the only time we've ever smelled an awful
Starting point is 00:54:29 putrid smell. I mean, it's like hitting a brick wall. We smelled it before, but not like that. I mean, yeah, to that extent. We smelled musky, the dog, you know. That particular evening, and you kind of have to picture this a little bit, because from where our sitting group is at a fire ring,
Starting point is 00:54:48 to where these individuals we hike to is up the side of a mountain. Once everyone heard about these smells, we're smelling on the way at this mountain. Scott went up the side of that mountain three times that night. Good exercise. It was, but I slept well.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Just for everyone to get smell these smells. But I don't want, you know, people say I'd like to go on the expedition, but I can't hike in. It's not that. You know, we, we still, at a base camp, everybody's kind of camp together, whether you're in a small camper or 10 or whatever. And then we don't go to, sometimes we won't have to go anywhere. We don't go too far away from that to where we'll go and build a fire and whatever, whoever wants to sit there
Starting point is 00:55:32 and whoever wants to hike will lead to hike or change off back and forth. But to be honest with you, once you build that fire and just start talking and you're their entertainment, they're going to come to you regardless. I mean, we've had to follow us back to the, to the base camp. And we hit when our hiking group has on the hiking group gets followed back to the firing area too. The very first expedition we ever had, Scott had one group and I had another.
Starting point is 00:56:00 So we stopped in one area and I mean it's pitch black, dark, pitch black. We only had one guy in that group and the rest of females. I think what was about seven people I had, something like that. And we were sitting around the fire ring and out of the wood line because we're totally circle. by woods out of the woodline rocks started getting thrown but it was funny because they were only getting thrown at the
Starting point is 00:56:24 one male in the group. Yeah, that would, and everybody picked up on that notice that the only male there is the only person getting rocks thrown towards him. Yeah, of course he was very uncomfortable and I said, yeah, they don't want you here. That's wild.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Oh my goodness. Wow. And, you know, us utilizing the fire ring you know, in a sitting group and a hiking group, we do our best to accommodate anyone, you know, that wants to do something like this. And it doesn't matter about their physical abilities. You know, if you can't hike, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:57:02 We have that sitting area that you can participate. And a lot of times the sitting area has as much or more activity than the hiking groups. Yeah, yeah, that's true. And females, I don't know what it is. You know, that's true. females and children. Well, we have a lot of activity out of our house. We did not buy this house with that intention.
Starting point is 00:57:24 We had no idea when we bought our cabin, but we found out. And when our grandkids are here, activity increases. Oh, yeah, a lot. That's for sure. Yeah. We've had them, let's see, jiggle the door handles, open the screen door, slam it shut. Our daughter-in-law was the biggest skeptic I knew of, And she got it when I was going to go sleep on the couch.
Starting point is 00:57:49 And that's when she says, I heard something walk on the porch, jiggle the door handle. She said, I got it, went back to the bed. And she said, and a couple minutes later, it starts tapping under the window. Well, we had other people say the same thing that stayed here before it taps under the window. It just, I guess we've gotten so used to it. We just, if it wanted to kick in the door, I mean, what are we going to do? A few people listening to this are going to say, how do you, they're going to be like, that sounds like ghost stuff.
Starting point is 00:58:18 Are there things at your house happening that make you think, oh yeah, this is absolutely 100% a Bigfoot related stuff that's going on? We can slay it. This is no joke. When we first moved here, we were like laid in bed while awake because like I told you about the footsteps, you know, there's a little path at the end of our house that goes down there to the water. And I call it the pit cemetery path.
Starting point is 00:58:41 I don't know why. But you can hear it run. Boom, boom, boom, boom. it would turn our motion detector, push them up. It would, oh my gosh, think what else? Let me tell about the motion. Go ahead, go. This home when we first bought it,
Starting point is 00:58:57 it had floodlights on all corners. But the floodlights were activated on a switch inside the home. And I went and turned the floodlights on one evening, and they didn't come on on the back side of the house. And I thought myself, I said, you know, that's pretty unique. Have both bulbs blow at the same time. Now, to get to this corner of our home,
Starting point is 00:59:21 it takes a 12-foot A-frame ladder to get up and change those bulbs. So I break out my ladder the next day, having me two new bulbs. I run up the ladder to change these bulbs out. When I grabbed the first bulb, it's loose. It took four quarter turns to tighten that bulb back up. Well, I reached over and grab the other one.
Starting point is 00:59:43 It's loose also. and the same exact thing, four quarter turns to tighten this bulb up. Now, this house does not vibrate or have any kind of rattling in it like that to cause those bulbs to loosen up on their own. And I got thinking, I said, wait a minute. So I run down the ladder, run back in the house,
Starting point is 01:00:03 run over, flip a switch on, and the lights come on. And I'm laughing to myself. I left right then, went and picked up two motion detector, lights for that side of the house and install them. Well, when I installed them, had them all set like I wanted them.
Starting point is 01:00:23 Because we're laying in bed at night in our bedroom. We can actually see that one particular light come on. So I'm laying there waiting on that light to come on. And nothing happened that night, the first night. But the second night, the light come on. I was like, oh, yeah, we got you now. well the motion light at the other end of the house Sheila's now a hospice nurse
Starting point is 01:00:48 so sometimes she has to work in the evenings and comes home after dark so we set that one up so when she pulls in under the carport the light will come on so she can see you know a lot better to get to the back door and I had it set just right for and everything when she pulls up one day and she says hey that light didn't come on
Starting point is 01:01:09 so I walked down and looked and the head the motion detector head on that light was pushed all the way up to the roof light. Well, these heads on these things, you know, when you put this light together, there's teeth on these things that interlock to hold them in position. And you can't hardly move that thing without breaking it and do that. I had to physically take that thing apart to pull the head back down to reset it. and it's, you know, little things like that right there. Well, we've been sitting at our fire pit in the front yard.
Starting point is 01:01:48 I know exactly 650, and it's recorded. And we're sitting there and just right across the road. Now, mind you, we're on a dead end road. There's five houses on this road, and you can't see each house, like, you know, I can't see the neighbor's house or whatever. And we're like in a basin in between mountains. But something started right there across the road, and I'm telling you, it would give.
Starting point is 01:02:12 you chill bumps. It was like the biggest loop to begin with. And right after that, the coyote started kicking in. And it just in the house. Oh, yeah. So I'm sitting there and Scott gets up and he said, I'm going to the house and get my gun. I said, well, I'm sitting right here.
Starting point is 01:02:27 And I recorded that. And it continued doing like that, but the rest of the night. I mean, we can leave audio on the front porch, you know, and get all kind of recordings. I can be in the bathroom getting ready in the morning, had the window up. And they'll start howling down the, down the, down the, the way there, you know, it's just not unusual. No, not a bit. I guess.
Starting point is 01:02:50 You know, we've become used to the fact that it and everything and a lot of our neighbors, one of our neighbors in particular, he's had a society now here, and he'll text me in the middle of the night and say, hey, step out on your front porch and we all step out on the front porch and they're on the ridge is howling. And these things are smart. I'm telling you, they're observance. Scott was staying back and forth in Florida for a while. He was down there with family.
Starting point is 01:03:17 And so I was here at the house by myself other than my little dogs. They know when he's not here. It might take him a day or two, but activity will increase. You know, I've got, like I said, I've gotten to the point. I just don't matter. I'll come out here and go to bed because if they wanted to come inside, there's nothing I could do to stop them in the first place. But about 4 o'clock that morning, I heard something out of that bedroom window.
Starting point is 01:03:39 I just made a mental note of it. when I got up to go leave the next morning, I go around there and look where I heard the noise. Sure enough, there's a huge track right there. It's on our TikTok page, you know, it was right there at the window, so that's not unusual. No. And prior to be, you know, fixing the motion detector lights, we'd be here at the house, the side of the house will get slapped. Gas tank. Our gas tank would get slapped.
Starting point is 01:04:04 Our meter box. Something about that meter box. They love that meter box for some reason, but they will, they will, they will, they will flat fire out of it. There was one time our neighbor Texas and told us to step outside. He's at the very end of the road. Scott went out there first and then he called
Starting point is 01:04:20 me outside and I go outside on the front porch and something let out some kind of, I tell you what, it was like a war cry. It's the only thing I can like it to. But again, I had that ratat thing where you just don't know whether to run, you know, what to do.
Starting point is 01:04:36 It done that and about, I don't know, about five seconds later on the other side of the house, there was another one that let out one like that. I don't know if they were fixing the fight. I don't know what was going on, but it scared me to death. And up here on these ridges, there seems to be like a clan that stayed in this area all the time. And two times a year in spring and in the fall, the activity around here picks up dramatically. And you can tell it's like two titans.
Starting point is 01:05:11 have met each other on the ridge side up there because it will sound like Battle Royale going on up there. And like I said, that happens about twice a year in spring and fall here. I've walked out of the back porch before and, you know, you can know what's, especially a woman, I know what's in my yard, what's in my little flower garden there or whatever. And I looked over there and there was a quartz rock sitting by the front stairs. And I said, did you leave that there? So I think they do stuff like that, you know.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Yeah. Like the rocks at the light. Yeah. Did you tell him about that? No, it didn't. You know how when you weed eat your yard and everything, you mow in your yard, you know what's in your yard. And I had just weed-eated not a day or so before out behind the house here. I mean, and Sheila were out there for some reason, and we were walking around a look, and there's two quartz rocks laying about three foot apart.
Starting point is 01:06:11 you know, parallel to each other and I see these rocks and I look up there, those lights. I told her, I said, let's come back, you know, just after dust dark and see something. So we waited until just before dust dark and we walked down that path.
Starting point is 01:06:29 And as soon as it was dark enough that I knew those motion lights would come on, I started walking up toward the house. As soon as I got to the quartz rocks, right now the light comes on. And I'm giggling to myself about it because they're marking where that light comes on. So I pick their rocks up and I leave them the same distance apart and moving forward toward the house about three feet. And I said, well, y'all won't know where your marker is.
Starting point is 01:07:00 Now you'll trip the lights. That night they trip the lights. And, you know, it's like a game. You know, and we call this playing a game sometimes. But, you know, it's like a game. Okay, I caught you this time. So, yeah. We enjoy what we do.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Otherwise, we'd probably be traumatized and moving a big apartment in the middle of Atlanta somewhere. Right, right. I mean, obviously, you guys are having some stuff happen around your house. And it is very interesting the perspective because all have things like you've just shared to me from people. and they will be just out of their mind just like what is going on. But I mean, you guys are into it, which is awesome. And it's on in how you look at it. I do want to ask on expeditions, what do you think is the weirdest thing that has happened?
Starting point is 01:07:57 That's just like, I don't really get what that was all about. Probably your orbs. Yeah. We worked out on one evening, and we had an orb appear in a food plot of all places, and this orb was about the size and shape of a Nerf football. Well, this orb appeared, and it traveled down the side of that food plot for a distance of about 75 yards. And there are four of us witnessing this orb. and it's
Starting point is 01:08:38 she was in in that area with us but she was up in an area behind where just out of sight where she couldn't see this light coming this or and
Starting point is 01:08:49 once it got about 75 yards up the food block coming directly towards us it turned and went off into the forest and behind the burn but once it went in behind the burn
Starting point is 01:09:03 we didn't you couldn't see it anymore didn't it wasn't illuminated or anything like that. So we come back the next day and walk over there behind that burn and all the foliage is crushed
Starting point is 01:09:17 down to the ground like something it bedded and laid right there. And hindsight, thinking about it, I kind of wish we had to walk over there to that burn that night, but we didn't. Yeah, we're still trying to figure that the orbs out. Yeah, that Orbs, you know, they're a, that's unique.
Starting point is 01:09:39 You know, haven't got a real good grip on that. I don't think anybody does. My thing is probably, my thing is the tracks. You know, we've seen tracks. I've seen tracks in the snow and fall on, and they just disappear. Where did they go? Yeah. But when a track line just totally disappears in an area where,
Starting point is 01:10:02 be it snow soft terrain like that I mean if you're in some of this rock hard train I totally understand them disappear but not in snow and soft terrain when a track line just totally
Starting point is 01:10:17 disappeared I mean it's no longer there and there's nothing around for something to jump up in the trees to travel in the trees where the trees aren't big enough to sport something when we first got into this we went down this rabbit hole Scott and I both were in agreement.
Starting point is 01:10:34 You know, okay, we're just going to concentrate on Bigfoot. I don't want to talk about all this other stuff that people are talking about, orbs, dogman, all these other cryptos, blah, blah, blah. You know, this is just too much to bite off at one time. But I'm telling you now, once you start down this rabbit hole, forget it, because there's so many branches, you know, like I said, with the tracks, with the orbs, and that went a dog, Bigfoot, that was a dog man, that was this, it was that. I mean, it's just like you're going to have way more answers and you'll ever,
Starting point is 01:10:59 or questions rather than you'll have answers. Oh, absolutely. I definitely agree with you. The more I talk to people, it's like, and the weird stuff is definitely part of it. And way more questions than answers at this point. I don't know if that'll ever flip around. We'll see. But, man, guys, it has been just such a fun chat with you. I'm sure there, well, there's a few wrap-up questions, I would say. So you've mentioned a few times where you've taken. photos, you've had audio recordings. Are there any places that people can see these photos and hear what you've recorded? I post a lot of that on our TikTok page, squat fishing outfitters. And we utilize the TikTok page for posting stuff like that more so than our Facebook page. And we encourage people. We enjoy this so much. We've been helping this little lady that's having a problem with supposedly a big foot. You know, we have not seen it yet.
Starting point is 01:12:07 I don't, it might be a bear. It might be a possum. Who knows? But she's terrified to death, you know, and we're trying our best to help her. So, you know, if people want to ask us, if they're having problems, we can help them in any way or tell them, give them ideas. We're all about that, too. Absolutely. That's awesome.
Starting point is 01:12:26 We have a Facebook page, watch Facebook page, watch Facebookers, and our TikTok page. if people are like you know it sounds like i would love to look into maybe checking out an expedition with with you guys what's the best way to to contact regarding that the best way to contact us is through messenger on facebook through our squash fishing messenger or our phone numbers our phone numbers are on our page they can text either one of us That's fantastic, man. You've got some really cool stuff going on down there. North Georgia is one of those places.
Starting point is 01:13:09 I just love to talk to people for North Georgia. It doesn't matter if it's northeast, central, or northwest. There's a lot of stuff going on in that state up in the north. But guys, you know, definitely stay in touch. I'm sure you'll be getting into even more crazy things. But I'll have the links in the show notes for how they can reach out. to you and maybe take part in expedition themselves. But thank you again for coming on the show.
Starting point is 01:13:37 It has been a fun time, guys. Thank you so much for having us. If you get over this way, come to go with us. Yes, sir. Just wanted to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Scott and Sheila's story is one that lingers, not just because of the rocks thrown in the dark or the truck that shook, but because it shows how quickly a life can change when you finally see what you thought was impossible. So huge thanks to Scott and Sheila Granger for sharing their powerful
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