Bigfoot Society - Intense Bigfoot Encounters of Southeast Missouri with Mike Scott!

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

In this episode I talk to Mike Scott, Bigfoot research in SE Missouri. Mike has been through some wild Bigfoot adventures and you won't want to miss this. I had no idea that SE corner of Missouri was so Squatchy. Enjoy!Resources:Contact Mike: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093290912486Understanding Bigfoot Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@understandingbigfootShare your Bigfoot encounter 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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If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, please contact me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. And also make sure you check out Bigfoot Societypodcast.com. where you can become a member and get extra episodes weekly. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Mike Scott tonight. He's an individual that's had a few interesting things happen to him down in Missouri regarding Bigfoot. But how's it going, Mike? Hey, it's going real good.

I just appreciate you having me on. Looking forward to the evening. Absolutely. Well, Mike, let's get right into it. I know you've got some interesting things to share. So I'm going to go ahead and give the floor right over to you and share with us what you've experienced so far, if you don't mind. Well, my journey with this started in December of 2019. That's as far as the journey of finding my first pieces of Bigfoot evidence.

And it kind of goes back before then. I'm 58 years old. So I'd have been 54 probably at that point, somewhere around there. But I remember at age 12, checking out a book from the library and reading it, called On the Track of Bigfoot. And that stuff, you know, that was published probably in the mid-70s. So that kind of covered things up to that point, what they knew, Carl Crewe or Jerry Crew in the footprints, Patterson Gimlin, things like that. And I thought, this is kind of cool. It's a cool subject.

There's probably something to this, but it seems like everything is up in the Pacific Northwest. And I just left it at that. Then you get busy. You're playing sports in high school and going to college and getting on with your family and things like that. Totally ignored and forgot about anything Bigfoot. It never crossed my mind again until these cable TV shows started coming out. You know, Monster Quest. That was one of the first ones I started watching, you know, finding Bigfoot.

And, you know, you watch those shows and they're made for TV, their Hollywood entertainment. But then you're thinking that everybody's lying about this stuff. There's got to be something to this. You know, these guys really getting on TV and making these stories up. And so had an interest piqued. And then when my youngest of two kids, my son, when he got through playing college baseball, and we were just a sports family, we were, you know, daughter swim meets his baseball games, you know, all that stuff got done.

He wanted to continue to have a hobby that we could do together. And he suggested hunting and fishing and things, you know, we didn't do a lot of that because we were always doing the team sports and things. So I said, yeah, cool, let's do that. And in my county, Cape Girardo County, Cape Girada, Missouri is where I live. We're about 100 miles south of St. Louis on the Mississippi River. The big conservation area in the north part of the county. I said, well, that's public land.

Let's go up there and get the hunt licenses and, you know, do a little shoot and go up there and check it out. for some squirrel hunting and came across a set of footprints, December 2019. These footprints were 17 and a half inches long. They were about eight inches at the widest part. They had about a five-foot stride length. We saw about four or five steps. We saw right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. You could clearly make that out, toes.

And it just floor. me that I was looking at that. And my son even knew what we were looking at. You know, you just, you do the math. Who has feet that big in December, in Missouri? It's going to be walking barefoot. Nobody. We're both, he's 6'6, I'm 6.5.

We both wear his size 15 shoes, and it just swallowed our boots up. And I'm like, it's got. to be Bigfoot. But who would have thought right here? Who would have thought right here in Cape Girardeau County? I never would have thought that. Never would have believed that. And fast forward, that was December 2019.

Well, what happened in March of 2020? COVID. They shut everything down. They closed my work down. I work at a high school. I teach high school. I'm an athletic director in an area of high school. that closed us down.

You couldn't go anywhere. Everything's closed. They can't keep me from going to the woods. So I started going to that same conservation area over and over again and looking around. And every time I would go, I would see more Bigfoot evidence. And then bring a friend, you know, get a couple friends involved. There's three or four of us now doing this. And we're going up there.

You go up there. And then after a while, you know, you go up there. as you see the evidence, you hear the whoops. You know, I guess if you're there enough times, they kind of recognize who you are. And then they start reaching out and making some kind of communications to let you know where they're at. You know, this one's up on that ridge. That one's up on that ridge. Hey, I got three of them watching me right now.

I better get out of here. Get to the car. Leave. Curiosity, come back. After two or three times of that, I'm thinking, okay, they're not going to hurt me. or they would have done it. So you just keep doing a little bit more. And then we decided, hey, let's a couple primitive campsites up there.

Let's camp out. Pitch a tent, stay overdid. And I remember the first few times we did that, you get all these, you know, and we did that. We bought all the spotlights, the game cams, night visions, all that stuff, set up a perimeter game cams, and we'd get nothing. And we'd get nothing. But we knew they were there because we'd hear them in the distance. And then as I started getting into these social media Bigfoot networks, you hear other people talk about, maybe they've tried a little bit differently.

So I told one of my buddies one time, let's just put all the cameras up. Let's just put all that up. Let's just us. And whatever comes in. Nothing lightwise but a campfire. And it was then when they started paying us closer visits. And that's when we started having some real cool moments and some interactions.

And, you know, you communicate back in. forth with one. You know, there was one that I got to where when I would go out there for about a six-month period. We would actually verbally communicate back and forth with each other. I think it was a female. She'd stay in the tree line. She wouldn't come out and expose herself, but we had that verbal communication going. And that went on once a month for about six straight months. And the communication would last sometimes 10, 15 minutes. And then, you know, then she'd go on her way. And so we had some real neat experiences. And still, later on, I'll share my latest experience with,

which is just awesome, but the, up there. And then I got to know some folks that had some stuff. going on on their property two counties away and started working with them. And that's just been in the last year in two or three months that we've been doing that. And I actually had my first good siding at their place. My first good siding was back in December this year. And that's when you, that's when, okay, everything that you've studied, everything that you've interacted with, everything that you've dealt with. in four years, now has finally come to tradition where I'm sitting there looking in the eye of a Sasquatch at about 40 yards.

And no mistake in what you're looking at. And we probably looked at each other for about 15 seconds. And I never felt any fear because I've been waiting for this for four years. You know, I've been in amongst them for four years. And plus, we were on the private property. where the family has a relationship with them. So I felt like, you know, this is cool. This is so cool.

You've exposed yourself to me and let me see you, and I think this is so cool. I just kind of told him that. And after about 15 seconds, he just kind of turned around and mosey back into the woods. He probably had to be about 10 foot tall. The head and the shoulders were so massive. I'm 6'5, a little north of 300 pounds,

and it was three times of me at the head and shoulders. It was really, really crazy. So I have a few questions about the whole, it sounds almost like a habituation-type deal going on. There are a few counties over from where you're at, which I want listeners to realize that. So Cape Girardeau, Missouri is in the southeast corner. So you're very close to southern Illinois, little Egypt area, correct? We're real close to the little Egypt area. The place that we research in North Cape County, the conservation area, is really right across the Mississippi River from the Big Muddy River.

And everybody has heard of the Big Muddy Monster in Southern Illinois. So, you know, the big muddy where we go, it's about 20 miles north of Cape, the north side of the county. And the big muddy is just across the Mississippi River. and then we're in the Missouri side. And, you know, there's plenty of, plenty of Sasquatches up there on both sides of the river. So that's the other thing I found out is there are a lot more of these out there than people can imagine. Exactly. Just in my four years,

where we go in North Cape County, just North Cape County, London, that one conservation area, I've seen every size footprint increment from 10 inches to 24 inches. I've seen 10 inch footprints, 11 inch, 12 inch, 13, 14, all the way up to 24 inches. And I can take anybody, there's two places up there. I can take anybody up there on any given day and almost guarantee we'll find footprints because it's it's travel ways for it. Wow. That's incredible. So the habituation area.

So I'm curious right off the bat. So what kind of you said that they are having some kind of interactions or is it a. gifting type situation or what type of interactions is this family having with the Sasquatch on this property? Okay, those guys, those guys have got a, they've got a farm, they've got a little, you know, they grow some produce, they've got some greenhouses. They've, um, and it started with them that Sasquatch was coming and raiding the greenhouses.

They didn't know what it was at first. and they thought people were doing that. Well, we're going to get those people. You know, we're going to set traps. You know, we're going to, well, then they find out it's not people. Or it could be people, depending on how you view the Sasquatch. But they, so, and one of the young men with the family, kind of reached out of one of the Facebook groups like, hey, I got some stuff going on here.

and a couple of Carter, Carter Bouchard contacted him. I got with him and built a relationship with them and made my first visit out on their property about a year ago, January. And I suggested, in addition to what they have, because they learn to share their vegetation with the, with the Sasquatch family that's under. And I kind of suggest that. And I said, look, I said you've got two options here. You can run them off. And they could turn it right back around and make your life miserable. Very much so.

Or you could learn to live with them. And the neat thing was that they were, that the Sasquatch wasn't taking all their stuff. They're just taking portions of it anyway. And they still had a fruitful farm. And then I suggested, in addition to, what they're doing, we set up a gifting bucket and try a gifting program. So, and then we did, we started that last January, and I'd just get the bucket and put the bucket up there at the edge of the woods there and, you know, put apples in it and

peanut butter, jar peanut butter, you know, things of that nature. and started getting some minores... Of course, they really enjoyed the apples, and they didn't get apples at the farm. On this episode of Plant Killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer, Bad Dirt. What makes bad dirt so bad?

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They enjoyed the peanut butter. But they would take, here's the things we started noticing. They would take the peanut butter jar, take it back to the camp or wherever it is they stayed. and then when the peanut butter jar was empty and done, they'd bring it back and set it back in the bucket. And we'd put some of those little sweet and salty granola bars on there. They would tear open the wrapper, take them out of the wrapper, and then they would either put the wrapper back in the bucket

or they'd stick it up there in a nearby tree limb just so we could see it, so they're not littering the forest. And then we come back up and check, either them or me. we gather up the wrappers. They're all right there and, you know, and properly trash it. They leave little glyphs for us. And one glyph was in the shape of a human stick figure. And had very positive interactions.

Of course, I'd go up once every three or four weeks to fill the bucket and visit them. And they entered, you know, I wasn't seeing. them they would see him they had the interactions with him they worked the farm every day and one of the i think the oldest kid in the big foot group would would and he was probably about seven foot tall he would come down and and shadow him and watch and work the farm and curious and you know they're working the farm and looking over their shoulder and there's you know um junior bigfoot or whatever you want to call him you know about 20 yards away watched them and and this kind of stuff went on with them and they got to where they were fairly comfortable with each other and and and um but when

i would go up i wouldn't see him i'd see all the evidence and then and then went up did a couple overnights like just a couple of nights time spent the night up over there but still didn't hear heard them didn't still but then finally it was december when i was filling the bucket up in December is when finally the one exposed itself to where I can see when I'm in the in the in that family and the one of the farm owners had seen him up there in the woods that was talking to him and I said do you see you know I'm finishing the bucket she's yeah she says come over and take a look and I went over and took a look and sure enough and she said there were two other the younger ones with him but they had gone into hiding by the time.

I got over there and he was, you know, we just sat there and looked, you know, about 40 yards away. And I said some real nice things to him. I said, I hope you appreciate, you know, the treats and, you know, they're for you guys. And he just kind of swayed that head back and forth a little bit. And about 15 seconds just turned. You just kind of walk back in wherever the young ones went, I guess, following him back into the woods. So I guess he was coming to say, hey, you know, thanks for the, thanks for the treats. I don't know.

So, like, there's been so many years that you were getting into the subject and then you finally have a visual, you know, citing, which everyone wants to have that. And, you know, how did how did that affect you emotionally during that moment? What were you feeling inside when you're like, I'm actually finally able to look at one? I just felt, I mean, my feeling was this is so cool. You know, and I have, at this point, it's been a four-year journey for me to get to this point. Now, I had seen one evening that I know it was a big foot, but I couldn't just, I mean, it looked like a real dark shadow hopping from behind one tree to behind another tree that about 25 yards during the evening hours when it was almost, you know, pitch dark. I can see that. And then another time

over in Madison County at the farm I saw one peeking around the tree at about 70 yards just kind of you see the head pop I didn't even recognize it until I saw the start seeing the movement

because they pointed out yeah there he is up there he is up there he is up there where I don't see anything but tree and I said you see the boop, you know like a little bulge coming out and going back in but never a good siding to that moment and it was that moment I thought this is just so cool you know was there anything that surprised you about what you were looking at any details that were like

wow this is a lot this is different than what I was expecting than what I've seen in pictures I didn't realize you know they call them Bigfoot for a reason I've seen the prints up to 24 inches. This one's prints were about 20 inches that I've seen multiple times, which probably about 10 foot tall. And the massive size of that head, no neck going down into the shoulders,

and the conical or the head was very exposed to, I just didn't realize the width and the size were just that big. It's just, you know, even though you hear, well, 10 foot tall, 800 pounds, or whatever, it just seeing it brings that the light that these things are really, really huge. And that's what, you know, no flab on them at all, you know, everything is just solid build, body build. So that's interesting. So are you, um, you know, go, I guess go into that a little bit more. So I'm guessing there was some hair on the creature.

But are you saying that you could see things, the sea under the hair as well? No, because it was in the shade of the forest. In about 40, I could see the dark hair. And I could see some of the facial features. I could see on the eyes and the nose that. And you can see it was kind of didn't have a lot of hair on that area. But the rest of it, you just see, because he was on all fours at the time, and I could see him from about to chest up.

So I didn't really see the legs or the length of the arms, but even on all fours, he was almost looking at me in the eye, and I'm six foot five. And when he turned around and started, he stayed on all fours. I could see the back, I could see down. He had a little silver. spot on his back, which they always told me. They called him silverback because of that. And I could notice that.

Is it lightened up in the backside as he went in behind the... So that was... But it was just so cool looking at that. And I didn't think... I thought, well, I just observed him. I didn't walk in toward him. I didn't... Some people may have run toward him to try to

get a better look. I thought, I'm going to respect the situation and appreciate the situation. What's the closest you think they've gotten to Silverback on that property since there's a habituation situation going on? The closest they got to the Silverback is probably that close. It's the kid, his kid, the one that. It's about, he's probably about eight foot tall by now, but they've actually had physical contact with him as far as reaching out, tapping the shoulder and things like that. He gets out and active with him and is playful with him. But, you know, the, so.

So, okay, that, that's actually something that doesn't come up. I can't I can probably count the number of times that's come up on the show on one hand So you're saying there's situations In that where they are actually touching The juvenile like tapping it on the shoulder Yeah like he'll come up if he's if if my buddy who's working the greenhouse

He's a young adult He's probably Close to 30 years old But when he's working a greenhouse the juvenile sometimes if he's getting wood or, you know, he'll come up, sneak up behind him, tap him on the shoulder and then jump back about six or seven feet. He'll turn around. There he is.

Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. You're saying the juvenile is tapping him on the shoulder. Yeah, yeah. But the juvenile is about seven, eight foot tall, though. He's a good size, you know, like a teenager. And he'll be inside the greenhouse and working the greenhouse at night. The juvenile will open the greenhouse door and walk in and, you know, kind of look at him and watch him, you know.

And so he's had very, very close interactions. So there's like there's two ways you could take that. I mean, if I'm pretending I'm the guy in the greenhouse, it could either be, well, he's, messing around. He's trying to prank me. You know, he's having a good time. Or he's saying, hey, I could take you out if I wanted to, but I'm just going to do a little tap on the shoulder, but I'm here, you know? Man. Probably a little bit of both, you know. I don't know.

The, you know, they had one particular day, as he described it. He was in the greenhouse. As he's come to exit the greenhouse, the juvenile was holding the door closed. Like, you know, somebody had prank you, they're going to hold the door closed and not let you out or not let you in. He says, I'm like, you know, he says, so I give it a real hard push and I catch him off guard and I pop the door open. And then he slams it shut and jams and smashes my finger with it. He goes, and I start screaming because I'm in pain. He runs off.

I go take care of my finger. And then from the creek bottom, we called it fools gold warrior kids, those old rocks that had to look like the quartz on there and stuff like that. He deliveries him of quartz rock is like an I'm sorry gift the next day. Really?

Yeah. Speaking of rocks, so you have quartz in the area? Do you have any other big deposit types of – Mostly it's a big limestone area. Okay. Okay, cool. Not like granite.

No, then you got your – there were the granite, probably over where they're at. There is some granite over in Madison County where they're at. They're about – they're about 65 or so miles to the northwest of me where these guys are at. But the – and there is granite. over there, over in our area, and closer to the river, it's mostly just limestone. And so they're over kind of in the foothills of the Mark Twain National Forest and the Missouri Ozarks over that. You know, they're kind of on the eastern edge of the Missouri Ozarks. I was just looking, I was like, I've got to see where Madison County is.

And I was like, oh, Mark Twain National Forest, dude. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yep, that's it. And then where we're at is closer. You go up and down that Mississippi River, and there's going to be Sasquatch activity all up and down through there on those bottoms.

Why do you think that there's so much activity in this corner of Missouri slash Illinois? I just think the river bottoms with the thick forests, you know, you got Shawnee National. forest over there on the southern Illinois side and then you know and then all the tributaries going into the river up and down the river the creeks and the sloughs and the smaller rivers it just it gives any type of predatory animal a perfect habitat you got water source you got food source you got plenty of thick woods covered and you know it's a perfect habitat for you know if you're living off the land absolutely Plenty of vegetation, plenty of game, you know, to hunt and eat.

You know, you mentioned earlier, so you're in the area of Murphy's Borough then? Yeah, we're right. Murphy's Borough is probably across the river in 30 miles to the north, maybe, something like that. It's such a fun story from 1973. Oh, yeah. listeners if you don't know about the big muddy monster there's a great uh doc out there's a great documentary out there there's a great book now there's a festival i got to get down there it's i mean i can drive down there it's probably seven eight hours from where i'm at in iowa but i hear it's a great one

but um have you ever uh you know i would man if i was down there i'd be like what if like the same bigfoot is somehow connected to like the stuff i'm researching that'd be wild man. Yeah, you know, are they, are they the same? To me, I think there's just different groups, different clans. I think they've got clans over there, they've got clans over here. On this episode of plant killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer, bad dirt.

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in certain areas. Now, and I, I, another spot over in Madison County that I've had some activity is another person's private property. And that's, you know, we sat there, he and I sat there one night. And, you know, we had the ice shine of three of them, you know, within 30 yards of us. And just watching that, you know, somebody told me. a few years ago, just you don't have to go treaching through the woods, just build you a fire, enjoy each other's company, their curiosity, they'll come and check you out. And that has worked

for me better than anything as far as getting the interactions. Absolutely. And so let's say you were moving, move into a new area and you were, you were like, you know, I got to find the places. What are the first steps

that you would take to try to figure out, like, what are the areas I'm going to start to look into, to see if there's Bigfoot activity? Well,

what I do is I get on the Google Earth and look at the Google Earth maps, top of graphical maps. And I look where there's water and cover. And if there's, There's water and cover. You're more than likely going to find bigfoots. Now, and you don't have to be too far away from the population.

You can be, they're not always out in the middle of nowhere. And I'll give you a case and point. You know, I started this journey. My sister got involved with me. She actually had a siding on the road one night and has their own story. She did several of my shows when I did my podcast. understanding Bigfoot. We put 37 shows out there.

I hadn't done one in about a year. I'm just kind of, don't know if I'll get back and do it again. I may just not, but she did several shows with me. But we had parents, we had family members, told us, nah, you guys are crazy, right?

Sure, you've heard that. And, but we stuck through our stories, because we knew our stories were true, you know, and we didn't care what they said. We were going to do what we're going to do, and we're going to believe what we know, because we've experienced it. And I'd tell my brother, hey, you come out with us,

come experience what we experience, you know, and then, you know, make, you know, they, so this was this past summer, my parents are both 85 years old. They live up in St. Charles, Missouri, suburban St. Louis, 3 billion population, metropolitan St. Louis, right? And Dad and I were going back and forth. We've got a great relationship, and we're going back and forth, and he's razzing me about this stuff. I said, look, and I was due up to get up there and take him to a doctor appointment on a Monday,

and I was going to come up on a Sunday. I said, tell you what. I'll tell you what, there is a bicycle trail that starts in St. Charles and goes across to Kansas City on the Missouri River. They call it the Cady Trail. Very popular tourist of extra young people ride the whole thing. They raid pipes of it. It's a recreational thing. It's super.

And right there in St. Charles County, about six miles where my dad lives, there's a conservation area, public. conservation area down on that river called Weldon Spring Conservation Area. Katie Trail runs through there. I said, I'll tell you what. I said, let's go, let's take, let's take a drive down to the parking lot there to Katie Trail in the conservation area. And we'll just listen, just sit and listen for the night and see what we hear. I had no idea. I had no idea. I had. Had any other Bigfoot activity in that area except for a story that I knew from about 40,

45 years ago. And we didn't even know it was Bigfoot back then. We just thought this guy's crazy. But we knew he was something that scared him, right? And so we go down there and we park and we're talking. the last cyclist is it's starting to get dark. Last cyclist that gets done riding the bike on that portion of the trail gets in his truck. And when that last cyclist, when that truck pulls out of the parking lot, up on the ridge in the woods, we hear distinct two treinox.

And my dad heard that. He said, that was two tree knocks. I said, yeah, it was. He said, I said, maybe, I said, my guess is it's signaling the rest of them in the woods that the bicyclists are gone for the night. The other five minutes go by, ten minutes go by, we don't hear anything. Now, if that up there, tree knocked, and he's overlooking here, he knows we're still there in the car. but he knows we're not bicyclists, right?

He's smart enough to know that. So I thought, well, I normally don't do this, but I'm with dad. Dad's got expectations of activity. We're not getting activity. I normally don't do this, but I'm going to let out a couple whoops. That guy up there already knows that he knows it's me whooping. I'm not going to fool him. I may not fool any of them, but I did it anyway.

I normally don't do that. Normally don't have, so I give it a big old whoop, you know, whoop, a couple of them, high-pitched. And after I did my second one, up in the ridge to the left of this, we hear a real loud, long, drawn-out big foot screen, like you'd hear with the Ohio sounds, you know, what are those? And it just set the woods up. We started hearing them all over that conservation area of Ridge just to just yell, yeah, back and forth, back and forth.

It sounded like a whole chorus of them just within a certain distance of us. And it scared my dad. He got spooked. I thought it was deep. I thought it was cool because I've heard the same thing in Southeast Missouri on a few occasions, right? I'm like, they're here. They're here. This is so cool.

And he's like, let's go. Your dad's like gone zero to 60 in like two seconds. Yeah, oh, this is real. And I'm like, I'm like, what are you afraid of? They don't exist. That's hilarious. And anyway, I'll tell you, he'll doubt play it to this day. It was so much fun.

and my sister who lives in Texas, she was coming up a couple weeks later to visit him. She said, I've got to take him out there. So she takes him back out to the same place, and he went and turned the motor off of the car. You got to turn the motor off the car. I'm hearing it. I ain't turning it off.

What if it won't start back up? So she probably brought him back, convinced him to turn the motor off. And then she started, they had some activity too. And it's like two times, you know. So. But that's, but what that tells you is they're all over the place. You can look and you can look at the habit, habituary in the map, what it looks like. And you can say they're probably there.

They probably are. And in this case, they're in a county, St. Charles County, that, you know, probably has a, the entire county probably has a population of three quarters of a million people. So, you know, they don't have to be too far away. And people recreationally ride that bike trail every single day. Without incident with the Bigfoot. Don't even know they're there, most of them. I bet they're just watching them all day long, though. And they're just watching them.

Yeah, they're people watchers. They, you know, I've had that with me on a number of occasions. It's just, that's the fast, that's the fascinating. That's like when I did the understanding Bigfoot thing, I said, what do I want to call the show? I don't want to call it Bigfoot as real. I know that. I don't want to call it finding Bigfoot.

I found him. You know, hey, let's try to understand. what they know and what they weren't they're about. Somebody told me, you're never going to understand Bigfoot. Then we'll always have another show to do or another subject to talk about. Exactly.

You know, I bring this up every once in a while, but someone about a year ago was like, you know, so you're going to start focusing on Bigfoot. Yeah, absolutely. Aren't you afraid that you're going to run out of people to talk to that have had stuff happen?

I don't think so. And now it's like, no, never. It will, I will never run out of people. It's intense all over the, all over the nation and the world. You've dealt with this, Jeremiah, and I've dealt with it. You're probably more so than me where I've had gas on the podcast that I've done that said, finally, I'm able to get this off my chest to somebody who understands. Absolutely.

And I've lived with this for how many years? We had a situation. I work at a high school. And I work in a high school. This is my second year at that high school. I'm athletic director there, and I teach a couple classes. And these kids are wonderful. And this high school is in Bollinger County, Missouri.

Now, if you look at the map, Cape Toronto County, is there in the river. The next county over is Bollinger County. The next county over is Madison County, where I've had big football. activity, right? So it's safe to say if Bigfoot are in Cape Chero Alto County, Bigfoot are in Madison County, they're probably in Bullinger County, too. They are, you know, it's a rural what it county. But most of the people don't know that they are because they, you know, And so these kids, they find out a new person's coming to town. He's not from there.

He's going to be, you know, athletic director teacher classes. They get on there and they stalk you on social media. They find out this guy's, this, this dirty guy's into Bigfoot. So, yeah, they start razzing me. And they had, you know, I did podcasts. I was doing podcasts. And I'm telling my guys, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

And this year, this is just, this is just, we're still in March. This is this month. This is the first of this early this month. One of our seniors, female student, going to be valedictorian in the class, basketball player over a thousand points in the basketball team career-wise, you know, good, you're all-American kid, right? She says to me a couple months ago, there's one thing I want you to do for me and if you have others before we graduate us. So what's that?

She says, take us out to the woods and show us what you know. Show us what you're seeing. Put up or shut up, Mr. Scott. I said, okay. So I got to school to let me take, they sponsored to let me take these kids out on a field trip. You remember the old field trips in school, right? You go to the zoo or go someplace like that. So I had 11 students.

I had eight seniors and three juniors, 11 students, put them on a school bus. And since we're a small school, I also drive the bus. So drive them over to my concert. area in North Cape County where I know the, at least the one thing I know I can show them is footprints, right? Are you going to show us Bigfoot? Probably not. You're not going to see Bigfoot. They're not, you know, they don't, they're not out. I said, I will show you evidence. I had my buddy, one of my research buddies met me up there. He's retired now. He met me, he met us up there, joined us. And so we went out and we weren't, we weren't 50, 75 yards off the bus. And I spot the

first track. And so I called, I said, look at this guys. Let's look at this. Now, it wasn't a perfect track. But you could tell. I said, now get your hands down there. You can see where the, you know, the intention, barely, but there is an intention. You see if you feel toes. They feel Let's get the tape measure out. That track is 16 inches long. On this episode of plant killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer. Bad dirt.

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There'd be an impression where it stepped. And then so, and then the students are looking at it out. Hey, look at there. Look at there. He's right. Hey, look you there. Look at, you know. And we saw three or four steps worth of travel.

And then once I showed them what I saw, they went out and started looking, like kids in an Easter egg hunt. Hey, hey, this might be one here. come look at it. Hey, hey, this might be one over here. Come look at it. And so these kids are seeing, for the first time, you're seeing 16.

This one's only a 15-inch track. This one's 18-inch as long. And they're seeing, you know, and they're getting excited because they're seeing, they know that something is laying these, you know, and these are awful big feet. And so they went up ahead and we got to, we got to an area that I said, I'm going to walk up up the hill

because I've seen some good tracks up there before, and they were going to stay along that little small creek bed, and my buddy was with them, and they were going up there. One of my students found a perfect into creek. bottom, 17-inch print by nine wide toes down and there, that heel into the mid-tarsal break. Everything's showing. I mean, good old inch indention into the ground. And I got to them finally.

And I had thought, because I wanted to have them to have this. I brought a kit for plaster casting. I thought if we find a good track, we're going to cast it. So I got the casting material, showed the kids, okay, follow directions, mix it up. Students mixed it up. Students poured it into the foot. One kid pulls a wallet out. You've got a little credit card.

They kind of smooth it over at the top. Make a nice smooth top. And that track is sitting there in the ground, 17 inches long, 9 inches by the widest part. And I wanted to set up real good. By this time, they're hungry and they want to go get lunch. But I wanted to set up real good. My buddy says, hey, let's just do this. I'll come back tomorrow and get it.

Let it get good. Because I'm worried about it. Well, if we start taking it out of the ground, I don't want to fall apart. We've got a mile to walk back to the bus. and so my buddy goes back and gets it, the next day gets out of ground. This is just a perfect, perfect footprint that these students found, cast it, and made their day. And I'm working on getting it cleaned up,

and what we're going to do is all the students that were on the trip are going to sign the flat part of the cast, and the school's going to let us put it on display. display case in the lobby in school. Now, how cool is that? And these kids, most of them are three quarters of a way or

better to believe in what I'm doing. And thinking this guy is not so nuts after all, because we saw this much. And so word links, you know, spreads at school. What we did, I got to cast in my classroom and now you got other groups wanting to go out. Other groups, why can't, why can't, what you can't do?

We just got to get a group. We got to, you know, get a, you know, get or, you know, you can be the next group to go. So, um, that's the kind of thing, educating people. And we put that of the Simo Bigfoot encrypted research Facebook page that, uh, my friend Susan Perez runs here out of Cape Girardo. We put the pictures of story on that Facebook page, and then Barb Hartman, another one of my co-hosts on Wednesday nights, our co-panelists on Wednesday nights. She put it on her No Drama Bigfoot Facebook page. And I had somebody comment on the Simo Bigfoot page from just in the county to the north of us in Perry County, right along the river.

this is so cool I've been looking for a group to be able to share with this I had a sighting when I was a kid and I haven't been able to talk to anybody about it because my initial conversations were dismissed you didn't see that

you were dreaming that you know and so I I reached out to her and you know and she and I are going to be talking soon. But I thought, yeah, that's why we do what we're doing, because there's so many people out there that have had that encounter.

And they've got nobody to share it with because their initial sharings were discounted. Absolutely. And you probably have experienced that. I experienced that. My sister experienced that. But I thought, screw it. I'm going to keep telling the story because. it's true.

Yeah, that is so cool that you were able to take some kids out from the school and kind of open, open their eyes to what's really out there. But a question I wanted to ask you, you know, you might have an interesting viewpoint of this because you have had that visual, you know, face to face. It's a basic question. But so what do you think Bigfoot is if you had to categorize? Well, you hear a lot of talk about that. The spiritually, I'm a Christian, Christian belief,

and I believe like us that they are part of God's creation. Now, to what extent they were created, some people say, well, biblically is from the Nephilim and this dead. I'm not going to discount that, except for the only thing that makes me question that is the Nephilim were fallen angels and demonic and all that stuff. And these things have been nothing but nice to me. The total opposite of what you'd expect from demons, if you will. All my experience has been real.

chill. And I know people been bluff. My son was bluff charged once, but I know I know that's out there too. But, but I've, to me, that's where I'm at with it. But I also know, um, my buddy Tom Cantrell said they're flesh and blood and something else. There's something else going on with them, too. He says, I don't know exactly what. And I kind of agree with him on that because because I haven't, I don't have the evidence that there, you know, some people say, well, they're part of an alien group or they can just disappear in the thin air. I haven't witnessed that. I'm not going to discount somebody else's story because people discount it mine. I'm just going by what I have learned in four years.

And, and, but I do know on three different occasions, three times in my life, three times in my life, have I seen orbs? And all three of those times were in the presence of Bigfoot activity. But I've been in the presence of Bigfoot activity multiple times where there were no orbs. So do they have something to do with each other? They might. You know? But they don't all the time.

So, you know, I just try to, as an educator, I just try to be common sense about things. exactly the orbs that you saw were they a certain color or shape or size or well the one the one time and i got a picture of it of the orb it actually if you blow the orb up you see the big foot behind you know right there with the orb i got got on my phone i could text it to you but the but um that was green the other two times The orbs were clear like light bolt, like a white light, like white lights. So it's it's really interesting. You know, I've gotten more and more accounts over the last, I would say, six months.

I think people are starting to get not as scared to talk about the orb thing. I think it might. I think people are starting to accept it more. I think back in the day there, you know, people would bring it up. And it's like the mind speak because I've been,

I've communicated with them multiple times, but not through mind speak. I talk in English and they will vocalize back to me. Sometimes it's a grunt. Sometimes it's a little gibberish. Sometimes it's just, they might get an

call back from them or something like that. You know, okay, got you. Or whoop or so, and we'll go back and forth. I don't know that they know what I'm saying. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell that we're on friendly terms with each other, you know. Exactly. But I've got one of my research guys says that he'd had some mind-speaking activity with him and told me what they said to him and told me what he, you know, and I'm like, my first thought four years ago. ago was you're crazy.

But I don't think that anymore, because I've talked to enough people that have had those experiences that I think there's something to that. But I don't think everybody has that experience. I haven't had that experience. But I've talked to enough people that have. And so, you know, I'm not discounting it. And that's part of that. There's something else going on, you know.

I've had people that have been hit with the infrasound that have told me what that was like. I've never been hit with it. So I can't, you know, and I was as close to, I had one outside my tent door one day, and we were no more than five or six feet apart. It was just a tent wall separating us.

And, and, and, and that was interesting. That was, that was, that was two years ago, April. Two years ago, April, we were camping. And my buddy Bill and I, and he had a friend who was a total skeptic. The three of us were camping. We were in the tent.

And we hadn't really had a whole lot. We were, you know, getting in there for the night. And it had been raining and it had been cloudy. So the lighting was not good because there was cloud covers, keeping the moonlight for being there. and Bill and I had both fallen asleep. And the first sound I heard was a foot-crunching gravel. There was a little gravel drive where Bill had his truck parked.

And when I heard the foot-crunched to gravel, I woke up. And when I woke up, our skeptical buddy was sitting up in his cot, and he was on high alert. And he looked like he was, you know, and we stayed quiet. Next step crunches the gravel. Next step crunches the gravel. We had a tarp out in front of our tent because to keep it from trek and mud into the tent because it had been raining.

And the next step is on the tarp. And the next step is on the tarp. So he's got two feet in the tarp. He is right there on the other side of the tent wall from us. I know what it is because I've done. I've dealt with it. This guy is just on high alert. He knows that something is out there walking around on two legs.

It's pretty heavy footed. And I'm sitting there saying to myself, talk to it. Talk to it. Say something to it. But I was like, I couldn't. You know what I mean? I'm like, he's that close. I, I'm going to let him make one more move.

And then I'm going to say something to him. And then he's next thing, you know, two, three steps. He's back into the woods and gone. And I didn't. I, I, I, I, I choked. I wanted to talk to it, say something, see what it would react, how it would do, what it would, you know. And I, and I didn't do it. And I think walked into the woods and it was too late.

And my buddy Bill's still snoring. He didn't woke up yet. And so I asked the guy, I said, so, so what, what did you hear? On this episode of Plant Killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer. Bad Dirt. What makes Bad Dirt so bad? The answer? The ingredients.

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sound like somebody broke him. He goes, the next thing I know, he goes, it's messing with things in the back of the truck, you know, moving things around, checking things out in the back of the truck. He goes, then it started coming across the gravel, and I thought, that's what I woke up, and it started coming across the gravel. And then he had experienced everything I experienced. and that was that was a that was a big foot he came in to visit us and this guy's like and of course this guy went back to his way and then bill will say oh he just he just he's putting

it out of his mind he said no i didn't experience that that really didn't happen but it did and two in it i mean yeah yeah that's that's wild uh have you guys ever heard or experienced um zipper noises down there like unzip it tense yeah i haven't no okay have you heard of that down there at all well we got a young man who is uh well he he came to our group is a total skeptic come to one of our meetings one is Susan advertised these meetings who'll have a quarterly luncheon somewhere

and he camped with this one night and he had a little individual one person tent that he set up about 20 yards from the other tents and he had the strings on the tent okay the strings he said something was like picking the string like a guitar

you know ding ding ding at night overnight and he didn't he says I because I thought maybe just the wind or the wind's not going to do that you know on those 10 strings and that's probably it's probably a big foot to come in And because there's no other animals just going to sit there and do that to the string while you're in there sleeping. Based on the things we experience and stuff like that. I said, probably it was a big foot that come into the camp and it was doing that.

And, you know, that's, you know, that's, you know, that's the closest that we've heard. I have heard of weird. Yeah. It's, it's a, it's a, you know, that they will live. let you know that they're in the area. They'll do different ways. They'll do different things to let you know they're in the area. And so you can, you know, like in my case, I'm like, should I unzipped the tent and go out and see this thing?

Right. And I'm like, you know, he's, you know, in your mind, you're like, well, how will it react if you do that? Yeah. Will it feel that I'm being aggressive with it? I mean, I don't want to tangle with it, right? I'm not going to win that. Well, if it feels I'm being aggressive with it.

Is he coming in and doing this much, but he doesn't want me to, you know, or do they actually want me to come out and have an interaction? I don't know the answer to that at this point. And that's why that night, like I said, I choked. I didn't do anything, you know, and let it walk off. But. And then you just, you know, you just have that regret. Like one, my first, my first time I went out in Iowa and what a, I was just, I was just so excited.

And I was like, you know, texting different people. I was in my tent by myself. And I was texting random people. And Shannon was like, you got to do the baby cry sound just to see what happens. I'm not going to do the baby cry sound. And she's like, just do it. And I was like, no, I'm not going to do it. And I regret, I wish I would have done it because it's like you, but that kind of can set off a lot of things.

That can set off actual predators as well. So maybe you want to be careful of that. Well, that's why I don't, I try not to yell and do all that stuff, you know. I try not to do that because you don't know what you're communicating. You don't know what else you're setting off, you know, things like that. Bill, I mentioned Bill. Bill and I had camped on one occasion. There was just the two of us.

And we were setting in for the evening for, we were hoping to have some good activity with the Sasquatches. and about some people pulled up to hunt coons. They had a couple, about two or three coon hounds, got down into those, you know, started going down into those woods, and they were in our vicinity, and you can hear those hounds of yapping. And I thought, well, there goes our night.

And I guess at some point into their coon hunt, We heard the loudest, the loudest Bigfoot roar that we had ever heard. And I mean, this was your Ohio howl on steroids if you're there at the time. And we never heard another yep out of those cunehounds. And I was kind of getting worried. I thought these dogs, you know. And then about 10 minutes later, you can hear the hunters throwing these coon dogs in the back of their truck. And then you'll peel it out of the gravel getting out of there.

And I thought, I wish I knew who those guys were. I'd love to talk to him tomorrow and find out of, you know. But and then my next thought was, I hope the Bigfoot doesn't associate us with being the Coon hunters. Right. Because we're up there in the tent. vulnerable, right? So I'm thinking, oh, you know, you start praying that. Well, about an hour later, we hear from out, you know, we're in the tent. It's, you know, we're, we hear, and this is in since we hear a hoodal, immediately followed by a little up-down whistle,

and then some rock-clicking. What sounded like rock-clicking. Hood-out, up-down, whistle, rock clicking, Houdau, up-down whistle, rock-clicking. And this is going on. And they're probably about 40 yards from the tent.

And we're hearing that. I said, Bill, I said, I think they're talking to us some way or another. Bill's a good whistler, so when they got to the up-down whistle, he replied with an up-down whistle.

Then the Houdao and the rock-clicker quit, they started whistling back and forth to each other. And this is going on, you know, whistle, whistle, whistle, whistle. And I said, and this is when I got the guts. I said, let's walk outside the tent. This is so cool. Let's walk outside the tent. So we walked outside the tent.

And they continued, he whistle, he whistle, he whistle, he whistle, they go back and forth. They're down there and they're getting trees. And I'm thinking, come out and just come out and show yourself to us. and it wouldn't do it. And finally, the whistling stopped and, well, okay, I guess they're not going to show themselves to us. So we go back into the tent, zip it back up, lay back down. And then once we're settled into the tent, behind us, there's a gravel parking lot. And all of a sudden, you can hear them walking across the gravel parking lot on the other side of our trucks.

Step, step, step, step, step, step, going off to where they're going. don't and and they're they're incredible they are incredible that's wild have you heard of any situations you said something a while back and it it made me think of something and so the question I have is have you heard of any situations where Sasquatch has made people's lives miserable in your area or state? Yeah. I'll talk about a couple of, like I say, this is a conservation area that we go to. And of course, it's surrounded by farms and people that just have property and want to be out in the middle of nowhere or whatever.

And there's not a lot of population up there 20 miles north of Cape. and these guys, they'll come in and with their side by sides and that. One couple stopped one time and talking to us. And he sees me, he says, I've seen you up here before, you know. And we try not to let them know what we're doing, right? And so finally, my buddy asking me, if you noticed anything strange, any weird activities up here?

No. Okay. Well, they're, they're, um, so the guy leaves. He comes back about 30 minutes later. He says, I had a great Pyrenees. I found him down in the hollow on my property dead with a broken back. he said you ask about things strange he says you go something would spook my horses down there at night that great parent you know they're they're guard dogs right and he goes he ends up with the

broken back down there he says he didn't get hit by a car because the the the roads of just a little gravel road that nobody ever travels I mean you know your dog's not going to get hit by a car you know he said it was it was it would be down there and bottoms is what would have done that because there's no teeth marks on it because there's no scratch marks on it there wouldn't be a mountain lion you know we do have mountain lions there too I saw one a couple years ago what would have done that I said well I said probably bigfoot I said because whatever the big foot was doing causing the horses to to react, causing the dog to react.

They thought they don't want their cover blown. So let's eliminate what's blowing the cover. Probably Bigfoot. They're out here. He didn't know that. And in another situation, and my son was, he was actually the first one to find the tracks that first day in December 2019.

he's into hunting, he would go up to that same conservation area and deer hunt. And I remember this, and he knows Bigfoot so up there because we had interactions. But he still go up there and he deer hunt. And other people deer hunts,

not like people don't, you know, they're not up there killing hunters, right? And they know hunters are in the woods. and when the hunting seasons are. He tells me, he says, hey, I'm going to a new place in the morning. I hadn't been to, but I think it's a real good spot to go. I said, why don't you? And he lived here in Cape at the time.

I said, why don't you come over and get me? I'll go out with you and sit with you. And next morning, I get up. It's about 5.45 in the morning. I get up. I let the dog out. And I get a text digging on my phone. And I don't have my glasses on.

Oh, Ramsey's on his way over. Well, he's a little late. He should have been over here 30 minutes ago, maybe. So I just, I ignore the text and I start getting dressed. But then five minutes later, the phone's ringing. And I picked the phone up, and I said, I'm just non-shodily. Where you at, man? And he's breathing heavily into the phone.

And he sounds real shook up. And he says, I'm up here in a field. I said, oh, you went up there hunting and you didn't come over and get me? I thought you're going to come over and get me. Dad, I'm up here in a field. I just got chased out of the woods. I said, chased out of the woods by what? He says, you know what?

I said, you should have come and got me. Well, what would you have done? I said, I don't know. I said, but he's, so I said, I said, I said, come home. I said, we'll go get some breakfast, talk about this. Then we'll go back up and check things out. And the area that he went when we got there, there was a game trail perfect deer you know game trail and this area had two arched long thin trees arched kind of over the game trail

and you know they'll do those tree arches and i don't know if it was just a sign like it's a good spot for us you know yeah whatever i just theorized it is he went to hunt that morning where they were they wanted to be and they didn't want him there. And he didn't, he didn't, he had a little, little spotlight headlamp to get into his place. It pitched dark and he couldn't see the big foot. There probably were two of, maybe two of them. They growled, screamed at him, broke trees, shook trees, chased him. Bluff, probably Bluff charged him.

He couldn't see. He didn't fire his, he didn't fire his rifle. And I've told him, don't shoot unless you absolutely have to. I said, everything I researched, they will let you leave the area, just leave the area. If you run into something like that. I said, everything I researched, they'll let you leave the area. As soon as he got to the field, they left him alone. As soon as he got out of the woods into the field, they left him alone.

And, you know, we went back to the spot. I saw a couple of 18-inch footprints in that area, too. I spotted it. I said, yeah, you were wrong place at the wrong time. And then the next time he calls, he says, I really want to hunt that field back there. He says, but he said, will you go with me today? I know you're, he was, you're not afraid of these things.

and I just feel better if you went with me. Yeah, I'll go with you. But he had that experience. He didn't like it. He didn't want to have anything to do with him. Yeah. You know, a lot of accounts I take it, it just, it almost sounds like they just, they want you out of a certain area. Or, yeah, they just want you out a certain area.

And once you get to out of that area, they'll kind of just leave you alone. That's wild, though. Have you had any conversations or connections with up here, we call them DNR officers or forestry workers or law enforcement officials about Bigfoot? Yeah, Missouri Department of Conservation. Yeah, their field, they're field agents. We were up there one night. We had a little, you know, they got two little primitive camp areas up to this kind of. conservation area, and we up there, and this is in January, my goodness, a few years back,

and got a fire going, there's spitting snow, and, you know, got a tent. We were camping, and there was four of us up there at the time. I think one of, one was the three of us were going to camp, one of us, one was going to go home when he felt like it. And we just up there talking and a game warden making his rounds stops. And it comes over to check us out, you know, starts asking questions. Yeah, he's got to find out. Are we up there for, do we mean no good?

Are we up, you know, it was during COVID. And I finally said to him, I said, look, I said, we're really, we're not hunting. We're not, and nobody was really getting drunk or anything like that. I said, we just come up here to get away and be somewhere where we can just sit. down and just visit with each other without having to put a mask on, without having to worry about social distancing, without having to do any of that stuff, just to kind of get away and just chill and visit with each other. And he's like, oh, okay, okay. He says, well, he says, I feel like, though, I probably better say something to you, though. He says, there could be, because I don't have

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So did he know you guys were Bigfooters when he said that? Nope. No, you know what? We didn't mention what we were up there doing. Oh. We didn't want him to know. We didn't want him to know. I was like, we just was someplace we'd go visit with each other without having to put a mask on and social, you know, just try to be normal.

And when he said that, I said, what did you say? Oh, I don't have first-hand knowledge, he said. I'm just telling you, from some things I've heard, there might be some in the area. Just beware. And then my buddy says, that's why we're here. That's what we do. And then, okay.

So I said, well, so I showed him some pictures on my phone and some footprints I had. This one here. I took that picture 300 yards right over there down by that old bar. And this one here, these were cast over here on the other side off the boat ramp, you know, different things like that. He's like, whoa. Yeah, yeah. Okay, you got the evidence. Well, we've exchanged contact information.

And I have. I've got a cell number in my phone and he's got mine. And they're okay with us going up there and researching. I sent him a text most recently and this plastered cast our kids did told him what we did and what we found he's like, you know, he's like, that's awesome. And then we had another conservation agent

he said, oh, he says, well, he goes, if you want to check out other places, he gave us a couple other wildlife areas in Southeast Missouri, you can go there, you can go there. He goes, they're there too. Now, but, now the state of Missouri says they don't exist.

Well, of course they do. The narrative of the Missouri Department of Conservation is it's a mythological creature that does not exist. But these two field agents say, oh, yeah, be careful. And the one guy who said to me, he says, because it floors me that you guys actually spend the night out there in your tents knowing what's out there. And I told him, I said, they have not been harmful to us. They showed us nothing but peacefulness. And, and, you know. So.

That is awesome that you've got some guys on the inside like that that are on a talking basis with you. That's so cool. But these Sasquatches, they have got, they are very disciplined. and they got a sophistication with their units, call them claims or family units, whatever you want to call them. I mean, I'll sit up there at that parking lot. I sit in that parking lot during deer season. And, you know, the firearm deer season,

which is, you know, state holiday probably in your state and my state, right? Yeah, pretty much. the the the um and when the hunter comes out of the woods onto the gravel parking lot about 70 yards off the way you hear whoa 10 minutes later next turner runs out comes out these hunters are oblivious to it they act like what's big but but you have a saskatch watching the parking lot hunter out hunter out they know exactly how many cars are parked, how many people are down there hunting, when the last hunter gets out of the woods and when they can go start roaming.

That's how sophisticated of a system they've got going. And if they've got it going in Cape Gerrano County, they've got it going all over the country. Absolutely. That's how they thrive and survive, and that's how they thrive and survive, and that's how people hunt without knowing they're out there.

Yeah, I mean, it reminds me of what the Olympic project out in Washington says. you know, Chris Spencer, Shane Corson, they say that you're going to catch a lot of stuff when you get right out of your vehicle. So you better have a sound recorder going because that's when you're going to hear like, oh, they're back again, you know. It's crazy, dude. And they've got their, what do you call them, day watchers, whatever you want to call them, that are positioned in certain areas. And, you know, and they're going to keep an eye.

on things. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, that's why they're, you know, and I, and I, and I, did I tell the hunters, well, like my son is, you're not going to shoot your way out of it. Now, unless you absolutely have to. I said, but, in the same time, they know that you've got a gun, so they don't want you to shoot your way out of it, you know. Yeah, absolutely. To the side, if there's a conservation officer, DNR, or whatever, you'd be labeled in your state.

And you know about Bigfoot, or you had an experience and you want to reach out, you can reach out to me, Bigfoot Society at GEMA.com. Even if it's just to chat off air and off record, that I have no problem with that. I talk to a lot of people off record. but Mike have you have you heard of any situations where um could be like a big foot related to like a missing 4-1-1 type thing or like it could have been responsible for a person that was missing

or anything like that they had a situation about a year and a half ago down here in southeast Missouri where a deer hunter went missing. And he was down, he was from Sykston, which is 30 miles south of me, but he was over in the Mark Twain area, over in east, probably west of Popper Bluff, down there around the current river in that area. And he went missing, and they found him dead a couple days. later. When he went missing, here's what's strange about this.

They searched the area and they found his rifle. And he wasn't there. The next day, as they're searching the area, his body was back at the place where they found his rifle. And a lot of people, you know, speculating Bigfoot got it, Bigfoot got him, Bigfoot got him. And my theory on that was, I don't think so. I don't know what got him.

He may just had a heart attack and die. I don't know what caused his death. They may have, something may have taken him somewhere because he wasn't there where the rifle was at. I don't know why he would have left his rifle to go, you know. And when they found the body where the rifle was the next day, my guess is that possibly a Bigfoot brought him back to that spot knowing they were going to look, you know, that's an area they were looking. Because the last thing the Sasquatch wants is a bunch of law enforcement officials

scoring through their territory. I would think. So they, I'm thinking, my theory is they brought the body back. There's your body. I don't know what caused it. Maybe they did. Maybe they did. Maybe he was ready to shoot.

I don't know if it was, if it was Bigfoot that got him or not. I had, it had heard me all the details since then on that's been kind of hushed up. Right. But, but, but, so, so it's, it's, it's sketchy, you know, nobody really knows for Sure, but somehow that body got back to where that gun was at. They went there the day before. That's a tricky situation for sure. You hear in Oklahoma a lot of, but there's a few instances of, you know, Bigfoot trying to get into houses or becoming extremely aggressive.

Is that a thing that you guys have to deal with down in Southeast Missouri ever? I haven't heard of that. Now, I have heard knocking on the walls, knocking on the windows. I had a lady on one of my podcasts. She's from over to Springfield area north of Springfield. And she said that there's one that, I mean, he's at her bedroom window every night between two and three in the morning tapping on it. Oh, man.

I said, you're not going out to see what he wants? She goes, no, no. No. Time to put some game cams. She goes, this is every day. As I said, put up perimeter game cams. They'll stay away from there. Yeah, they'll be out of there.

But I've heard of that. Heard of that that, that, you know, things like that, peeking in the windows, not going to. I haven't heard of one trying to get in the house, though. Not a personal story from anybody. Gotcha. I read some encounters. I read some encounters where maybe they perhaps did in that. So even over at the place where I go in Madison County, they've gone up to the house.

They haven't tried to get in the house. So they've gone up close to the houses in the house? Yeah, they've been up to the porch, you know, but they haven't tried to get in the house or been in the house. So they're like getting up to the porch but not quite crossing that point of no return because they've, Not crossing that. That could happen Sunday, but man, that's wild. Because they've had gifts left for them on the porch right there outside the door. Oh, really?

Just, you know, they come up and leave a gift in return for the food they're getting or something else. Exactly. Do you know anything about a place called Marley Woods down in Missouri? Place called what? It's called Marley Woods. Marley Woods. Yeah, it's just shot in the dark. It's a, you know, Skinwalker Ranch out in Utah?

Yeah, I've heard of it. So supposedly there's a version of that somewhere in Missouri, where it's like a lot of UFO stuff, but also some Bigfoot type thing. It would have to be over in the Ozarks, I guess, although. Yeah, I would guess too. Yeah. We, you know, I had a guy that's, um, He's doing a documentary on this Grand Tower UFO thing from about 50 years ago over in Southern Illinois, which is a big buddy area across where we research.

And we saw what I'm just going to say it was a UFO because we couldn't identify it as anything else in the sky one night when we were up there. And that thing was doing all kinds of things that aren't. known any aircraft that we know anything about. And so we just, so he'd found out and he wanted to know I couldn't, he was down doing some interviews. I was out of town when he did that. But he's putting his documentary together. My buddies, I think, interviewed with him.

But I did talk to him on the phone. I said, that's what I saw? I can tell you that it was related to aliens or not, but I did see something in the sky that was not a normal thing in the sky. And so, but that stuff is, yeah, that stuff is, you know, and if, like I said, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if they're in the in this country, which I believe if they were recognized, there's more than enough, they would not be on an endangered species list. Uh-huh. And nobody knows about that that.

And I'm not going to, I'm not going to say those other things aren't real. There's no tell what's out there. I got one last question for you. You know, you're hearing a lot of accounts and stories in your corner, Missouri. Do you ever hear any accounts or sightings of non-Bigfoot creatures in the area? I haven't heard anything related in our area to Dog Man, probably the closest thing related to that. Well, I mean, what's his name, put out a documentary recently?

My friend Miguel was Sasquatch Theory about a... Yeah, he's a great dude. A dog man siding over to the west of us. Mark Twain area again. The... Somebody reported a couple years ago, And they described, and this was like right in Cape Girardeau. They just, what they described as far as the creatures, probably the closest thing we would call it would be the Mothman.

Really? Big old Batman type thing flying around, you know. And they said there were two different sightings within about a month of each other and the Cape Girardo city limits on the outskirts of it. and I'd heard about that, but didn't follow up on it because, you know, but who knows? And how long ago was that? You said a few years? That's probably about three years ago, probably about three years ago, probably about three years ago.

I hadn't heard anything since then, but I did hear, too, in the same region with about the same month of each other. And, and, you know, I, I didn't, didn't know, I didn't get any names. I just heard about it. So, you know, I'm diving into Bigfoot. I don't have time to dive into everything. That's the thing, right? When you start focusing on a thing like Bigfoot, it's like, you don't have time for anything. Yeah.

You know, I get it. And so. Get it. Mike it has been it if really fun time chatting with it you are a wealth of knowledge about Bigfoot in general and especially in your corner of Missouri such a fun time so thank you for coming on I appreciate that I appreciate you invite me I know we first contacted

about seven or eight months ago about this yeah and this and finally got together and I've enjoyed my time I've enjoyed sharing what I what I've experienced and hopefully your audience gains a better understanding as well. Hopefully they enjoyed it. Absolutely. Do you mind taking a few minutes how people can, if there's any way to keep up to date with what you're doing, how to contact you? If they have reports in your area, the Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, all that good stuff.

Okay. Yeah, my email address is real easy. It's all one word. understanding bigfoot at gmail.com. I am with the Facebook page. I'm on Facebook as Mike Scott. I'm on Facebook. I'm a part of the

Seamo, Southeast Missouri, Seymow Bigfoot encrypted research group on the Facebook page. They're welcome to join that and get on that. They can kind of keep up with what's going on in southeast Missouri, and they can contact us directly through that as well.

Those are the easiest ways. I hop on the Grizzly is on the Hunt podcast on Wednesday nights. Most Wednesday nights at 8 o'clock on his channel as a panel as a panelist. And so I'm out there. Love it. Good stuff. Mike, thank you so much for coming on. No, thank you.

I really appreciate it. You got a great show. And I'm glad I got to be a part of it. So I just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you, all my listeners, for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever.

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