Bigfoot Society - MIMICKING SASQUATCH LURES WITNESS INTO SASKATCHEWAN WILDERNESS

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

A Plains Cree witness heads into the Saskatchewan boreal forest before sunrise during a Sundance ceremony. Voices answer his calls from deep within the trees. The responses keep getting closer. Wood knocks begin echoing through the darkness. A powerful wet-dog odor fills the air. Something is moving just out of sight.Later, a lifelong outdoorsman shares decades of encounters stretching from Oregon to Alaska. His experiences include a terrifying nighttime encounter with a red-haired Sasquatch near Salem, massive rocks thrown into a campsite, and a remarkable sighting of a Sasquatch feeding on clams along the Alaskan coast.These accounts come from people who spent their lives in remote wilderness areas and know exactly what belongs in the woods.Locations featured in this episode include Waterhen Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, the Little North Fork area near Salem, Oregon, and remote coastal regions of Alaska.📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the Caring Bridge link in the show notes.

Thank you. Dale, what brings you up today, sir? Well, this, see, I'm in Canada, northern Saskatchewan, just as the, just above the 49th parallel on the west, western, side of Saskatchewan where the Boreal Forest begins right? Anyway, this happened in 2018 and I usually attend a Sundance ceremony and I'm First First Nation Plains Cree by the way from Treaty 6 territory. And my encounter happened 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning in that lodge. This was on a reserve called Waterhand Lake Persnation, right? And I was chosen to go and look for the tree of life.

It's called the Mawattik. And I was chosen, four of us were chosen to go and choose the tree, right? right and I got up at about 4, 4.30 in the morning, made some breakfast, seeing the guys in the center of the circle and cooked my breakfast. As I was eating, they were gone, right? So they went straight south, which was sort of like an open area, I'd say, I'd say about a football field size and then the rest is all surrounded by forest. and I went over to the center of the circle and I asked the the the guy that I was putting it on and I said which way did they go? Oh they went straight south. I said okay, sure. So as soon as I got to the trade line, like it wasn't like, you know, too thick or anything like that at that point, right?

So I called out to the guys. I went in maybe, I don't know, a good, I don't know, 100 feet into the bush. I called out to the guys, I went, who, who! I did that twice. Sorry, that's a seagull flying above me. And it called out to the southeastern side of me, deeper into the bush. Oh, that's the guys. and I didn't think nothing of it, I thought it was just the guys out there, right?

So I marched on, the bush got thicker, I ended up stumbling onto like an old dirt road. It wasn't a dirt road, but I mean a wagon road, an old, long time ago road. And I called out again. I went, who, who! And it called me again. So I thought that was the guys out there. So I walked in, the next thing you know,

I would say a good 50 feet to 100 feet I heard this knock right on a tree trunk and I thought oh that's strange so I kept walking suddenly I called out again I went who what what called me back again this time it was even closer I would say about 50 feet closer and then as I'm walking in this road the bush got so thick immediately and I kept walking and all of a sudden I hear this tapping again right on the tree trunk like probably like 10 feet away from me and I looked I ducked down and I looked around I couldn't see a thing because the bush was so thick and this was in August I mean it's like the dew was uh you know folding the trees over right I mean it was so wet that day

that morning. And suddenly I kind of stood still. And like the previous guy he had on said, there was a smell to this thing, the being. It was kind of like a musty smell. Like a wet dog. This is exactly, that's why I wanted to share my story because I was listening to the guy. And that is exactly what I smell. And then I thought to myself and I said no way. I froze and I looked around. I turned my head around like 360 to try and look. Okay, where is this thing?

Where is this thing? And I couldn't see it was the bush was so thick. And then at the time when I started to smell this and I thought, okay, this is not the guys here. I turned around slowly. as like i'm right on that kind of like a bush trail and the bush was so thick i just booked it out of there and i was like holy smokes i got to camp and i swear to god you know it was one of the scariest things in my life to experience that and then i was you know i was always skeptical right

I'm a skeptical. I got to see it to believe it. That was my thought process, you know, all the time. But when I experienced it that morning in 2018 of August, you know, now when I see, you know, and hear these stories, and I'm like, man, that is similar to what, you know, I've experienced. And it's one of those things where you say to yourself, you know, holy man, Did I, was it real or was it, you know what I mean? I didn't. Oh yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah. It's 100% I'm with you, dude.

You just, your mind tries to take, talk you out of it. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's like, uh, like at that moment and at that time where it, you know, it's like, man, but I couldn't see nothing because the bush got so thick. Like, I mean, these things are smart, right? They're, they're so intelligent that they used the bush to their advantage. That's like you have, you know, these green berets or whatever, you know, to go out, you know, whatever and do all their, you know, war type thing. This guy, I mean, this thing used the push to his advantage.

And I thought, you know, I'd share that story with you and then with everybody else that listens to your podcast and all that kind of stuff. I mean, it's, man. So thank you for coming up. Your story is fascinating. I want to share something with you. So I talk to a lot of people all the time, right? I do a lot of interviews. And I was interviewing an individual from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota earlier today.

And he had a hypothesis and his hypothesis is that when certain ceremonies like the Sundance are done, then that brings them in. And to hear you talk about. your experiences that took place around the time of the sun dance that was happening around Waterhound is just I mean there you go it's fascinating right yeah yeah yeah very very cool um to once you talk to enough people you start to make connections like that and uh just thank you so much for for sharing it's it's always a privilege to hear about things that happen on the different um reservations on and uh in North American. I appreciate that.

Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And thank you for listening to my story. And you have a good evening. Yes, sir. You too. Thanks. Bye. That was so cool. Very, very cool. Hey, Brian, how are you? I'm good. I'm from Oregon.

That's awesome. Dude, I saw your comments. They're very interesting. I just have a few things to say real quick. It sounds like we're going to be talking about things. And I would say we have to be very careful with what terms we use on this platform, if you know what I mean. Well, kind of. I'll try to, you know, be polite. You have to use, you have to use things like unalived. Oh, yeah, yeah.

You have to be careful of saying certain, like, say words like pew-pue, which sounds not smart, but it's unfortunately what you have to do on this thing. Like, what was the word? I couldn't even hear what you said there the last one. Instead of, like Pugh, pew Pugh, it's really, it makes you feel like a two-year-old. Oh. Instead of like something that you would, I don't even know how I can explain it. Like a 44, you know, what I'm saying. Oh, okay. You just got to be careful.

They'll kick us off. So feel free to share. I'm really interested to hear what you've experienced in being out there in Oregon. Well, I'm from North California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska and Canada. I'm 71 years old. But when I was Alaska king crab fisherman 20 years in the Bering Sea, living up in the wilderness, some remote areas. And there's a whole, there's many stories more than one. So it starts out when I'm 12.

I live in Salem, Oregon. On the radio, Captain Frank Hansen, on KBZY, which they still have that station here, says that he has a big foot, froze in the ice, and you can go see it for $4.50. It's in a chest freezer. Okay, when he's in a, he's a captain in the Air Force. He's pilot, retired. So he went hunting in Ohio by Lake Michigan because I got to talk to him when I for like a half hour

and got to see this thing up close and personal. I'm a hunter, fisherman, taxidermy. I know what some fake thing looks like. And it wasn't fake. It was real frozen four inches under the ice. Eyes fixed and dilated. The hand went up to block the pew-pue. because he had pew-pewed it from 100 yards in the gut.

And it went down. He waited, like when you're hunting an animal, you let it die peacefully. But it was still alive. And he unalived it by pew-pue. And it brought its hand up to block it. And it went through the hand and it right over the left eye. Wow. Center.

Okay, blood, and he put it in a freezer. and it was still, you know, blood coming out fresh, it curled in the ice and froze. Every at eyelash in place, it had palms that were light and dark black skin. The hair was longer at the bottom of the arm, down to the elbow, just like a mountain gorilla. But the face was the mountain gorilla,

but mountain gorillas have a bolvis mouth. This had a human mouth with human teeth. And I looked at every hair in place if you make a tack like a wax dummy. You have to put every hair in place and there's a little needle mark by every hair. This had hair just like you got on your arm, you know, how it comes out of your skin. It had all the wrinkles. It had dirt under his fingernails. It was a uncircumcised adolescent male.

So it wasn't huge. It was small. But it wasn't human in any sense of the word. So I'm 12 years old with my grandpa and brother and I'm talking to Frank Hansen about this thing. And it was, you know, I've seen a lot of dead things so I know what's real and not. And it, I guarantee you, that thing was a real big foot. So we all, now, years later, I'm questioning in my mind what I saw. Because, you know, it's just like kind of strange.

and I'm up camping on the 4th of July with my pregnant wife and two-year-old son. We had to hike in. It wasn't at a campground. It was behind a gravel pit, east of Salem up by the little North Fork, by the cement bridge, behind a gravel pit. You could camp there for free,

and the trail went way up into the mountains, and it split and went down the river right there and split and went right through our camp. So we were blocking, I guess, the trail to get to the river, you might say. But we didn't realize that because there was an old campfire there. So somebody had been camping there before. And there was free camping. So we stayed there. You didn't have to pay. So as it's getting in the afternoon evening, we got the whole camp set up, fire going, everybody ate. Now, I'm not drinking or smoking anything that would

cause me to see something weird but we're hearing uh rocks being throwing around this coming through the trees the small ones and we're hearing something walking around bipedal two you know two steps stop we're hearing now wait this was before it was on tv at all in in uh i forget what year it was. Kids about two years. We're on 74 sometimes. But Leonard Nimoy put out a TV show that explains this better after this event. So we're hearing this stuff. So we're come to the edge of the campground. We're looking because it's about there's birch trees about 100 feet tall right by us. And then about 80 yards to the bottom of a cliff, 80 to 100 yards. And then the cliff goes up 100 yards and then the mountain and just timber you know virgin timber no one's logged up

there and uh we're standing there and through the tree tops comes a boulder that lands one to two feet to my right foot hits the ground my buddy had a 357 i didn't even know about he pulled it out of his back pocket and empties it up the hill and you can hear things running but we don't know what it is yet. So when you could hear stuff moving around the whole camp as it got dark, and big branches snapping. And we didn't know what that meant. Then I do now, I had a packed up and left,

but I already had the beds made. And for some reason, only time in my life, and I laid a tarp down, I put branches and ferns, made a nice bed, put a tarp on it, sleeping bags, covered with a tarp. And then for some reason, something told me to cover it with brush. So it was like, I'll keep the dew off everybody. But really, it was camouflage.

And I've never done that ever in my life. But that night I did. So because we're hearing stuff, there was a big stump in that little camp area. And I drugged that over the fire and built a big fire on it. I knew that it's going to burn all night. And I'm sleeping by the fire. My buddy's in a tent about 20 feet away on the other side of the fire. And at midnight, oh, I fall asleep, at midnight I hear him yelling, Brad, Brad, is that you?

I sit up and I see, I'm sitting down. And my head is the only thing with sticking out, so I didn't notice this. But I see a red bigfoot stooping down to look in the tent. And he's going, Brad, is that you? And I'm going, no, I'm over here. And when I sat up, that's when I saw it when I yelled. It looked right at me, ran over to me, kneeled down next to me, looked me in the face, fear came over its face. We locked eyes, and it brought its hand up to break eye contact.

And then turned and went back the other way, and it grabbed the limb up in the tree that I'm six-four at that time. And I had to jump up to grab that limb, and it grabbed the limb and swung into the brush where it was so thick. it'd take me two hours with a machete to go 50 feet. It went through there like a locomotive, and it snapped that limb off. And I saw hair up there, and I wish I'd have grabbed it, but I was 20 years old and didn't think about that because I freaked out what I saw.

The only thing I had with me was a little tiny Cubs-Cout hatchet that wouldn't have done anything but made it mad. But I'm lucky it ran away because, well, oh, I missed it. Oh, I missed a part. Before dark, we walked down. Now, this is why I built the fire. I missed part of it. I'm old.

We walked down. The girls had to go pee. So we're camping in the woods, and he took his wife that way down the trail, and I took my wife the other way. Okay. As I'm holding her hand in my left hand and my two-year-old in my right hand, just as she started to pee, that adult male that was black with gray hair, 45. feet away just down the hill. When he stood up, he was about up to my knees, but he was down the hill. He was huge. And that's a ran so fast, and it jumped, there's giant five to 1500 pound boulders there.

He hit them boulders and they're moving. And he just was gone, you know, skipped over those things. He probably hit about five, six rocks and they all moved. Well, later on the next day on the way out, I got in there and I could jack 550 with my legs in gym class and I school, and I was in perfect shape. I was 21 years old that year, I think. And I couldn't budge none of them rocks that he moved. So we just picked up everything packed out, and I never went in the woods again unarmed or with people. I just can't. Yeah. From what I saw. Okay, now many years later, I'm fishing up in Alaska. We're sitting in the boat, and the elders told me there's Bigfoot over here. And, you know, I'm thinking, well, I saw one once, but I'm still questioning myself.

I saw the one when I was 21, and I'm really not questioning that anymore. But I'm still like, you know, you still kind of want, because that's something you're not used to seeing. And there's a big gris on the boat. And up in Alaska, when you go to the beach where there's pebbles, beach, you can, you can just dig one hole and fill as many buckets of clams as you want. We get five buckets out a little hole. Well, there was a grizzly bear standing there on the beach eating clams. All of a sudden, he sniffs the air and gets up and not walks away, runs. Well, about within four minutes later, a big foot walks out of the thing, sits in that hole and starts eating

clams. And the elders are like, yep, there he is. We're on the boat so you feel pretty safe because you can leave. It was a big boat. So after that, the guy is on the boat, go, oh, we got to go to Port Chatham.

Nice. So it's about 50 years after that event happened. So, and I've already been into all the villages, and I know the kids and the elders, and they're telling me that story that I'd never heard of until then. And I was probably 20, 21 years old then.

And so we go there, and we're on the beach, and I walk in the old post office. I stand on the dock, and I walk around the tree line. But there, I've seen things that you can't explain. Science says isn't real, more than one thing, like the UFO thing. I seen that as a kid the same year as I saw the Bigfoot. And I was in my grandpa's living room, which looked over the whole Salem from West Salem,

and I'm looking at the sky. Now, this isn't Bigfoot related, but some people say it is. But this wasn't related to any of the stories I had. I just saw it. So I'm looking, it's just, there's a sliver of a moon, and to the left is two stars. And it's still blue sky. and it's just starting to get like, you know, dim light. And one of the stars is just brilliant.

So I'm watching it, and it just keeps getting more brilliant, more vibrant, until it comes right into our atmosphere of smoke and fire. And it looks like it's coming right at me, but it's really six miles away. And it comes down over the city, and it stops, and out of that cloud, a 325-foot, 335-foot, tick-tacks, silver thing pops out. And I can tell how big it was because it was across town and we're on the hill and I could see it was three blocks long. So later on I went over there where I grew up the other side of town and paced that area off was 335 feet. That's pretty big. And what that thing

did though. It was front page news in the Salem paper and the Oregonian, I think I was in the ninth grade, so I think it was 1969. 57 other people saw it, according to the Oregonian, and 52 was reported the next day. But when it came into the atmosphere, it stopped, and then it went two more places. That's called triangulating its, what do you call that? Yeah. the Willamette Valley, faster than your eyes could track it. You couldn't, you know, you're trying to catch up with it. Then it triangulated again, stopped, came right back to where it came in and

it flew out and was gone. But it was in the news, and I told my parents and grandparents, Sunday, it was on a Sunday dinner right before the last day of school. So I tell them, now I'm going to get my head shaved. Right. And I, Dad, I'm not lying. I'm not back and down. You can beat me if you want to. I'm not backing down. He says, well, you have all weekend to think about it. So when you come open school, be ready to get your fanny whooped, you know. So at school, I'm freaking out because I know my dad, he's got a good belt or switch,

whatever is going to happen, you know, I'm about. And I'm a kid, so I put cardboard down my pants. But at school, they showed the newspaper and they go, did anybody see this? And I'm like, oh, here we go again. And I slowly raised my hand, you know. So now I'm a hero at school. Everybody wanted to know what I saw. And I told them.

But on the way home, I'm walking home. And all my relatives are in the front yard. And I'm like two blocks away. I can't tell everybody's smiling and holding newspapers. But I'm thinking, oh, great. All the relatives came over to watch Brad get his beating, you know. Because I'm in trouble and I'm going to be grounded all summer. But when I got there, everybody's, I'm never going to call you a liar again.

My dad's there because it's made front page news. Right. What a wild story. Incredible. But that's not even all of it. Because another time fishing. And I have parent, as a kid, my mom told me I had second sight. So weird things have happened.

He said my grandma had it. Can you explain what that is? Second sight is you kind of know when certain things are going to happen. It's not like you're going to learn the lottery number. But out of the corners of your eye, I called them shadow dancers, and you'd see a dark figure movement. Well, they say that's a ghost or a demon or whatever. So in my bedroom, I'm like five, six,

years old, I go, mom, there's something in the closet that comes out. And it has dark red, green eyes, and it's just, he goes, and it's just a giant shadow. But the room is like, you're afraid half to death when you see this thing. And I've seen it probably four or five times that are watching me. And my mom goes, oh, you're dreaming, put a nightlight in there. Nightlight ain't going to help. Oh, Tabith is here. I haven't got to see her before. She does really good music. Anyway, I see that thing, and finally my mom goes, just cast it out by the name of Jesus Christ and by his blood and by his stripes, and it was gone. Never saw it again. Well, now we don't own that house.

I went to Alaska Fish, and I'm 70 years old. I come home, and I parked my Maserati in front of the house where I grew up and I go, everything started. It was a white Maserati hardtop convertible, really nice. And I park it there and take a picture, and the ladies 90 years old comes out of the house. And she goes, I know who you are. I go, how do you know who I am? She goes, you're Brad.

You grew up here. I go, yeah. Well, I know everybody in the neighborhood. You know, she does now. I've been back in many years. And we start talking. So I get to go look at where the house I got to grow up and tell her stories.

And she goes, your bedroom's haunted. You know that. There's a porthole in there. My ex-husband did some real evil stuff in his life and I'm sure he's burning in hell now. And he opened a doorway in that room and I go, I closed that doorway when I was five. So that's kind of confirmation of what, you know,

of what that memory, you know what I mean? So you, sorry, sir, you're saying you closed that as well. And he opened it by doing whatever evil she was talking about. He opened it afterwards. Oh, many years later. Oh, my goodness, that's wild. So I'm supposed to go back with a priest or a Catholic. They already did it once, but it's not closed.

So she wants you to go back and do the same thing you did when you were five. Yeah, but at that time, I was hurt, had CFS leak, been 40 years in bed from a concussion and spinal injury, and I was too weak to try to do anything. I didn't want to fight that. But now I'm doing better. So I got a concussion, and they told me I'm going to die. You're going to put me on morphine in 91. I spent 40 years in bed with migraines and spinal injury, and then a miracle happened.

And I heard, I played guitar, write music. I was a fisherman 20 years in the Bering Sea. So now I'm in bed, and I quit playing guitar. for 30 years and I heard the word music. I get up, I could barely walk to the coffee pot at that point or the bathroom, but I get up, walk out in the yard, there's no one in the house, there's no one on the hill, it's an old house built in 1853 by monks who had a Catholic boy school on the hill in Seattle. It's called Church Hill by South Park. Okay, that house was haunted and the next house that I moved in right after. that was built the same year by monks and it was haunted to that's another story weird things have happened to brad we're playing uno there and we see an old man walked by the dining room

window on the sidewalk like four or five feet from the window turn right come right towards the door walk by that window but the space between the door and the window is just you know four inches the door's wide open we're playing you know i'm sitting right by the door we all see the same person we all i get up and there's no one there every all the kids are with us they get up run around that whole they go every which way trying to find this person and they got we saw a ghost well that happened a whole bunch of times but there is also the dark shadow things that were there and one had a hunchback one was skinny and it was I was sick there they told me I'm going to die they put me on morphine I got clean I got off it they said I'd never get off it because I was on 320 milligrams and I'd have a stroke or a heart attack if I could sit up in three number eight dilatas which the doctor said was equal to 12 grams a day and you're going to die

so I lived I says God has another plan for me and it took me a year and a half half of withdrawals on top of the migraines and the spinal injury to get clean. Now I'm doing way better. I'm playing music, writing music, meeting really great people. Big names in the industry, put it that way. I got the Zoom call before AI. I was on a Zoom call with Paul McCartney because one of the songs I wrote were inspired because I saw the Ed Sullivan show in 64 was my birthday. So I got to stay up and watch that. So I wrote this song with him in mind. And I can kind to tell that to you if you would get that. It was like, she was like sunshine on a cloudy day, like a breath of fresh air in the middle of May. Is that, uh, do you have that published anywhere?

No, that's what I'm trying to get it patting down before I put it out. Oh, you're trying to do it right now. Okay. That's what an incredible story you have. Wow. What an incredible story you have just so entire life is fascinating. Oh, well, I almost got eaten by two grizzly bears, and I think God saved me. Where was that at? Up there in Alaska, when we were, let's see, walking, we were hit the beach in Glacier Bay, and there's bear tracks and moose tracks all over the beach. So we don't have a gun, camera, and we're 20, so we're stupid.

So we're going to follow this crick back in through this slew and back in to see where the spring comes out. But it tightens up till the brush is so close. I didn't feel safe in there. We're walked in really quiet. But on the way out, we're talking normal, me and an old man named Tom. And as we get in the middle of that swamp, you're about ankle deep in mud, about three inches of water over that. We hear something big getting up 40 feet behind us. branches breaking and then we hear this roar that just like the bass in a concert wasn't as bad as that

but that brought fear and you got weak in the knees and you about just like we're just paralyzed was turned around real slow and looked now we're so close to this bear that i'm six four and he's on a little rise just above the swamp. So he's about four inches higher than I am. But I'm looking straight as this belly button. We are so close to that bear. His head's so big as eyes point out. And he tilts his head with one eye,

then tilts his head with the other eye because he can't see us when he looks straight at us, but he can smell us. And I go, don't move until he looks away and then back away slow. And I'm thinking I'm going to get eaten right here right now. He roars again, which is, oh, I thought I was going to lose my everything. And held my ground and he looked down. And when he started to lay back down because we didn't move, we backed away slow.

Then he laid down. Well, he was laying on top of a moose he killed. and all he cared about was garden that moose, and we weren't going to get any closer to that. But when we got out of that swamp, I hit the beach, ran through that brush, tripped on a little thing, and then got off the trail, and I was like a locomotive getting down to the beach.

I didn't stop. I was all scraped up, but I didn't slow down. I picked up a 30-man wooden skiff, turned it around, pushed it 15 feet back in the water, where two weeks before, 30 people tried to move. that boat two inches on the dock we had to use the crane couldn't move it but adrenaline that that stuff works no 100% yeah and i had the boat running and back in the water before tom got back to the boat that's wild brad that was the first bear thing oh my goodness you have some incredible stories thank you so

much for coming up and for sharing, you know, your Bigfoot encounters, your UAP, your UFO sightings and everything else you've experienced. I appreciate you coming up, sir. I got a whale one for you if you want to hear it. I got the other bear one too if you got time. All right. Let's hear, let's hear two more if you're willing to share and then. Oh, you have no problem. Okay, the second time, it's the end of the season, so it's fall. That's one of the bears are the most dangerous because they're going to eat anything they can to get fat for the winter. So I'm with 11 girls in icy bay, a little cabin, and the airport is a deer trail with the brush cut down so the wings don't hit the trees when they land. So it's about 150 some yards to the woods and we're walking towards where the plane's going to land.

and we're about 300 yards from the cabin, the big meadow. Out of the woods comes a big red kodiak. It's huge. I'm telling my brother, do not do your bear imitation, because it's really good when people hear it, but compared to a bear, because I already heard one up close, you ain't poo. Right, right.

So my brother, he's not packing a full six-pack, but he won't do this again. He roars. That bear stood up, looked, smelled the wind, enclosed within seconds, 40 feet from us. Now he's standing out. I go, right? Don't run. He's doing the same thing looking, and he doesn't know where we are because we're not moving, but he can smell us.

So when the bearer looked away, I go, you go. right, I'll go left, he's going to only one of us. So right, when it looked down, the first airplane showed up. I got 11 girls standing like 60 yards behind me.

They're looking at the bear. They're not even running. I'd have been running. I guess I was way closer. So right before the bear decides he's going to just come down and close in on us, the first plane shows up.

Little bush plane, sees the bear and does a power dive on the bear between us and the bear, scares him back in the woods. I'm knocking on wood. God save my rump that day, you know. Man. So that was like another, you know, traumatic moment. So now he will go to the whale story. It's more funny than anything else. So we're cruising on the ship.

It's like Indiana Jones stuff, Brad. I was supposed to write a book. I got way more. You should. I got way more. So I'm a welder, fitter, engineer, deckhand, king crab fisherman, all that. So my, I'm welding because we got the worst skipper in the fleet, and he keeps crashing into other boats or a dock or whatever,

and he broke the bow. He hit on the front port side quarter, you know, where you usually come in and bump real easy. But he's crashing into everything because we find out the skipper's shooting all the coating in the medivac kit. He's loaded. You know, we got rid of that skipper. But anyway, I'm welding that. And on a ship, you never throw anything into the wind because it's going to come back on you.

Right. So I'm welding. And all of a sudden, I get hit. And it's like five in them. I'm welding all night. It's just barely getting light. and it's getting light, and I'm just looking at my weld and my hood's down. And all of a sudden I get hit with the most rotten, stinky, funky, smelly fish spray.

And I tear my hood off because I think the cook had something rotten. He threw it into the wind and it got all over me. I threw my hood off, jump up, and I'm ready to, you know, fight somebody. Nobody's that dumb. And I'm covered with this stuff. no one's there. So where did this come from? I'm looking around. I look down over the ship. I'm around on a 380 foot knot ship and there's a hundred foot whale. Scratching his belly right below me watching me weld on the barnacles on the ship,

scratching the barnacles off his gut. And I look right at this giant eyeball, look right in it. And I go, hey, buddy, good morning. You're going to get flashburn if you keep watching me well. So he kind of rolls back over and hits me again. And I'm going, oh my word, I know exactly what it smelled like for Jonah in the belly of the whale. It was bad. That's hilarious. You know, so that was, and I look out, and it's daylight now, so between me and the

horizon, there's 150 whales in Bristol Bay, all spouting and, you know how they breach because they're back in the feeding grounds. oh this is why don't I have a movie camera you know yeah awesome moment but there's there's other ones to you know so Brad what what you really should write a book man that it would be fascinating you you really should consider doing it but thank you so much for coming up and and sharing some stories from your life I appreciate it I hardly ever tell that those stories because people think you're crazy. You should tell them more.

You should tell those stories. Oh, I do. I tell them to the kids, know them and everybody. There you go, man. I'm a storyteller, so I write music and they're kind of like ballads.

So there's a story in each of those. I love it. You have a beautiful day, nice meeting you. What's your name again? Jeremiah. Jeremiah, I'm Brad.

Pleased to meet you. Great to meet you. And good luck, sir. You too. Have a great day. You too. Wow, what an incredible, incredible story. Guys, it is getting late here.

I unfortunately do have to head out. I know there are so many people wanting to share, and I apologize, but I have a very early morning tomorrow. There are a few ways that you can share. If you have a Bigfoot encounter, a Bigfoot story to share, you can send me an email right now at bigfoot society gmail.com. I'm looking for people that can share experiences through voicemail. I have a voicemail set up, and I'm really looking for a lot of people to share their encounter on voicemail.

And you can do that by going to speakpipe.com forward slash bigfoot society. I appreciate everyone being here tonight and for sharing your experiences. and we will see you next time. Thanks again, guys. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods

and experience it for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous years.

You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year, you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a trek deep in the wild forest outside of Oak Ridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot. there's only eight spots to sign up for this and yes this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series which is searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just trust me it's going to be a wild wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest.com and listeners can use the code BSP like Bigfoot Society podcast in order to a two-day pass for the price of a one-day pass.

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