Bigfoot Society - My Military Bigfoot Training

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron speaks with Kevin Lee Gallagher, a fully disabled combat veteran who has served in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Kevin shares his chilling childhood encounter with a mysterious creature in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as curious anecdotes about Bigfoot-related briefings he experienced during his military training in various locations across the U.S. and Canada. Tune in to hear Kevin's harrowing story and his thoughts on what Bigfoot might truly be. Don't miss this enthralling discussion that delves deep into one man's lifelong journey with the unknown.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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Visit your nearby Lowe's on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere. And each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way. you see the woods forever.

So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Kevin Lee Gallagher today. A little bit of info about Kevin's background. Kevin is a fully disabled combat veteran who has served in both the Iraq War and the Afghanistan war. Thank you for your service, Kevin. More specifically, he served as a heavy-wheeled mechanic and a weapons specialist in the army.

Kevin is on the show today to share some things that he's experienced and also some things that in your training, correct? Kevin? Yeah, anecdotes for my training when I was in the military. At the time, I thought there were jokes. Gotcha. Oh, man. Yeah, some of that stuff. Absolutely. And Kevin, you are currently based out of the southern part of the U.S.

Is that right? I am. I live in Alabama. I actually born and raised from the state. I went back to it when I got out of the military. Kevin, let's get right into things. Was there an experience that started you off into the Bigfoot world when you were much younger? Or how did things get kicked off for you? I guess I could say it didn't come from my family. My dad is a space plasma physicist spent his whole life working for NASA and my sister is a wildlife biologist and she spent her whole life teaching

they both would laugh at the subject of Bigfoot as being serious but they know what I feel and they're cool about it but I guess what I'm a little bit too young for Peter

and Peter Patterson that came out in the 60s of the next generation so mine was Harry to Henderson's right

but when I so I guess it started out when I was in childhood is when I had my sighting and as far as hearing about it as an adult

you know I didn't really believe in Bigfoot at that time. You know what I mean? So there's kind of like a chronological order of realization of what I actually saw as a kid. Because as a kid, you don't know what animals

necessarily are around you. I don't know, I didn't grow up in a hunting family. My dad never hunted a day in his life. He's not really big on guns, which is funny because I specialized at one time just on the subject, almost entirely, which is weird. because he wouldn't touch one if you paid him to do it.

He's a pacifist and I like that about him. So maybe it would be best to start. Can you share the experience that you had as a young child that you weren't even really sure that it was Bigfoot at that time? Sure. When I was six years old, I remember getting woke up in the middle of the night. I thought an earthquake has happened.

It's what I thought. But when I looked out my window, I saw what I thought was a bear standing on two legs and a wolf. And it scared me to death to a point where I closed my curtains for 10 years. and I started having horrible nightmares from then on about Bigfoot. And not too long after that, I saw Harry N. And Harrington's made my sister laugh. And I thought I was a jovial comedy. Scared that he had me.

From then on, I thought Bigfoot was going to come get me. I always had this feeling that he was. going to come and get my and I had vivid even to this day I still hear bigfoot dreams which is weird because I don't think I've ever really gone big footing persons I just haven't had the opportunity wow wow so do you feel comfortable sharing what part of Alabama this took place in it happened in Huntsville Alabama it's called the rocket city it's in north Alabama. It's at the foothills of Appalachian Mountains, at the very, very end of the Appalachian Trail actually was my dad's, my dad's childhood home that I grew up in. So my backyard was the foothills of the Appalachian.

And my backyard butted up to a green mountain to be specific. that kind of area you know if there were to be an elusive creature that's where I would be in this area whereas where I am now it's all farmland there's no I don't think I'd ever see one here

unless he's bored and just two on or around because some people think these things follow them home you know and keep eyes on them I wouldn't put it past I would do it if you came to my house I'm going to go to your house.

Yeah, exactly. So you mentioned that this has kind of been in your dreams ever since. What kind of dreams are you having when it comes to Bigfoot-related ones? I've always had it to where there were another hominid species, and they have a society just like we do, but it's all based towards nature. And any technology they have is all nature-based. It's not what we do. Basically, there are thousands of them, you know, in my dreams.

Almost like there's another, maybe even another world that they're the predominant species, you know? Absolutely. What you saw when you were a young child, do you remember? Were you able to see any specific details of the face at all? So this is where it gets interesting. So at the time, you know, I thought it was grizzly bear and a wolf. Well, I start to get older. And as I get age and get older and big, you know, all these big foot stuff come out.

And I start thinking about it. I'm like, there are no brown bear in North Alabama. and this had to been a brown bear if it was a bear because it stood when it was standing on two legs it was taller than the roof of the overhang to my house and my window overlooked the whole front porch so they were just staring at me and there are also there are no wolves in this area either but there are coyotes and wouldn't you know that? that a lot of bigfoot sightings have coyotes in them. I think they work together with coyotes.

We used wolves originally, now we have dogs. I got one that is attached to me almost physically. So you had seen, was it two different figures there? One, a big foot and one that looked like a wolf, or they looked like a combination? Yeah, there was one that looked like a wolf, which I think was a coyote. and there was one that was brown, really shaggy, and was taller than my roof at least by a foot, maybe two foot.

And that would make it between 10 to 12 foot tall. Okay. Now, the wolf type one, was that down on all fours, or was it standing on two legs as well? The wolf was on fours. Okay. But the other one was just on two legs.

both were staring at I just remember they just I had this they would not stop staring at me it haunted my dreams for years I thought I was ridiculously this weird kid like

why am I scared of Bigfoot especially considering it was tied with Harry and Henderson's I've always thought was funny so when you saw Harry and the Henderson's did the way that they portrayed Harry's face.

Did that remind you of what you saw, or is what you saw completely different than that? It, that's when I started, it really reminded me almost exactly what I saw. I saw a very hairy person that was huge. I think they, I think they have to be another hominid. the area that you were living in this area and growing up there was it a thing where you would ever hear other people talking about bigfoot or or seeing weird things like this so there was some stuff i've heard a lot of different weird animal sightings on the military base redstone arsenal um uh now that let's talk about the military thing Okay. All right. So when I was in the military, every time you go to a training area or anytime you go to do training, you get briefed. And you got to do a briefing in and out of every training, which is kind of annoying. And then you got to do a briefing on the training. So never. You get my drift. So Fort Letterwood, Fort Lewis, and Redstone Arsenal, they had a briefing about a hairy bipedal creature. Aha.

If you see a hairy bipedal creature that doesn't have clothes on, do not approach. Don't do anything. Just walk away. Like, it's a snake. Treat it as if it. it was a reticulated python or a rattlesnake treat it like that. And I thought it was a joke because they always did it with a little smirk and they always did it with a little jovial, you know, and they always had a cute little slide that went around

with it, you know. But looking back at it and hearing a lot of your podcasts, I notice I'm not the only one that had briefings. Absolutely. So just for listeners that aren't up to date with where these places are, this is Fort Lewis and Washington State is one of them. Yes. Which is an extremely active area around that base. And then Fort Leonard Wood, that's in Southern Missouri, correct?

Yep. Which is another really active area. We caught lost in the woods, too, which I think is a native, it comes from native foreclore. that phrase lost in the woods it comes from native folklore it wouldn't surprise me

oh and get this my neighborhood is built on Indian barrel grounds for real yeah they try to put one of my neighbors

across the street tried to put it in ground pool in and they dug up human remains and they had to shut down the whole subdivision and no one was allowed to put it in ground full in from then on out yeah oh my goodness the university it took over and everything so wow and this is where you were growing up yes happened okay so it's i think that native americans know about them and always have known 100% uh 100% i've had some really interesting conversations on the show and off the show

with individuals from different tribes and it yeah 100%. Now, when you had these briefings during your military service, were there any interesting conversations after these briefings with, you know, other soldiers or anything related to what had been seen in that slide? No. But I didn't My military experience was in the You know

It's better left said Not said era You know you don't you don't rock the boat back then You don't divulge information necessarily Unless you're asked directly for it I was always trained to do that Like overly trained to do it which is not a good way to do you become a secretive person if you live like that

sure it makes more sense why you have to really retrain yourself when he get out of the military because they did that's that's how it was in the i would say the early 2000s and the like all the 20 teams those years under bush junior and under obama Right. Absolutely. To ask specific as well, just in case. So during your time at Fort Lewis, did you ever hear any stories that were shared around base about sightings of Bigfoot in the woods around the base at all? I did at the parade grounds in the Yakima where the tribal lands are. We did training out there all year long. That Yakima is considered part of Fort Lewis, even though they're separated by four hours. It wasn't related to military training.

I was just, I've always been drawn to Native American tribes and information and history and stuff like that. So I was talking to some Native Americans and they told me a story about it. Ah, gotcha, gotcha. So it's just you happen to be in the area because you're up there, you know, for your training, etc. And you had talked to some individuals there. I totally get it. Yeah. I have had a medicine man ask me, how did you enjoy the conversation you had with the old hairy man as a kid and his pet?

Oh, boy. I think that thing was talking to me, too. That's incredible. I've heard of stuff like that before, too, where, I mean, there's no possible way that individual would have, have known that about your history at all. Because I wasn't even thinking about it. It was weird. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, man. That's some wild stuff. Was there a point in your life then that you started to kind of connect the dots when it came to what you had experienced as a child and what you had heard during your service? Yeah. Over these last, I don't know, 15 years I've been working hard on my mental health military message you have mentally. And no, I don't think I'm perfect yet, but I've done a lot of work and I'm doing that work. That's when I've uncovered and figured out a lot of the stuff that I just never knew at the time.

I wish I realized what I now know. You know, really hindsight is 2020 and age is, you do get something with age. Wisdom is real. Is there anything you can share about how you had your journey to figure this out in the last few years? Really, it's just opening yourself up to infinite possibilities. and start talking about your dreams and everything that has happened to you, and find someone that you care about and that cares about you that you can share your soul with. I didn't have a soulmate the first half of my life.

I do now. And that's what's made all the difference in my life. And vice versa. It's like a mirror, you know. when you do something it's mutually that because i i think most relationships uh are one-sided and that's why they never really work whereas those those soulmate that's a two it's a full equal relationship you know 100 percent i i agree with that um thinking back to to the training or the briefing that you went through and the slide that you had seen, how they portrayed it.

Do you remember any details about that or does that drawing or whatever they used? Does it look, did it look familiar to anything else that you've seen? I think they portrayed it more, the more human-like purposefully when they were showing of stuff because they purposely meant to say that it's human-like, no clothes. But too big. Yeah, that makes you wonder when you hear stuff like that. And I think Fort Leonardwood was where they gave the most in-depth briefing. But I almost thought it was a skit they were putting it on, you know?

At the time, that's how I portrayed it. I would never have thought that he was being serious. I never saw it personally when I was in Fort Lauderdwood. And I spent a stupid amount of time in the wood. it's right right um

so the individuals that were giving these briefings were they specific specifically trained individual I have not been through the military so my knowledge of stuff like this is very low so okay

whenever you join the military the you know your first uh anywhere from uh three months to some training the last 96 weeks

Wow You know I think there's another one that the nuclear training could be you know it's years of training But once you get out of training you go to the regular unit And every regular unit

has a echelon of leadership And in that echelon of leadership and in that echelonel leadership is a training officer or a training non-commissioned officer, which is the other part of the rainbow, the ones that actually work. Not the ones that just tell people how to work and don't actually work. So, yeah, I was a training NCO for 10 years. It was fun. Almost.

It was fun. Most of my time, I ended up doing a lot of training stuff. I guess because I was good at it. I was really good with electronics and I was really good with slideshows. And I ended up being really good at public speaking. I never thought I would be. Gotcha. Gotcha.

So the individuals then that were giving this briefing, were they, do you think they were specially trained to give the briefing on, on what you saw on those slides? Well, looking back at it now, you know, because at the time, I didn't know that all this stuff, but officers, you know, I knew about the, I knew who my training officer was, you know, but I didn't know how he did his job.

I was, you know, when I heard all these briefings, I was a, under a specialist, I was a private. I wasn't even, I wasn't even, I wasn't even in E4. I was at E2. This is Daniel Fischel. And Ryder Strong from PodMeets World. Cat parents unite.

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Sure. So that's why I thought they were jokes, you know. But now that I know how things really work, they had to plan and give that full briefing. Whereas they do do skits like that, you know, people to let loose for morale. You know, military isn't always serious. You know, they do let, they do give us a little bit of leeways as training NGOs, you know. for moral reasons. But most of the classes we, in time that we, a lot,

that stuff is planned out months, if not. I was three years out when I was training NCO for a battalion, which is 30,000 soldiers. I was in charge of that much training. It is a lot. Now that, you know, I look back at it, I was, never not busy ever wow

that's I can't imagine the amount of things you were keeping track of guys they don't ever their brains don't ever get to cease to stop it's never ending for them and they're going to be pulled in like 30 different directions or a hundred different directions you know especially nowadays they're doing now in spec ops some cool stuff my friends that are still in there the future tech that they have that's some cool stuff

they're not going to have to be in the fighter jets I can't imagine not even a not even a year maybe they're going to be in a chair like I am right like Ender's game yeah yeah yeah and you're going to have a whole fleet of airplanes under your belt operating at a time

100% you said there were times when there was there were skits but then there are other times obviously where they're not so were there any details that you remember that would lead you to believe that what you had seen during that training was not a skit my training when i was in alaska because the canadians did the training and i didn't think about it at the time but right after I did at the time right after the training that we were given, I did think about it immediately. It occurred to me like, why would they jump around at this time on their time? I was like, dude, why would they be having a skit, you know?

It occurred to me that had to be real. they had to have been seriously talking about it and showing us they they showed us pictures that there was these trails and they showed us pictures of signs that they have up on those trails beware of Sasquatch. Okay. They had a beware of Harryman. So just to ask for clarification a little bit. So at one point you were also in Alaska having training from the Canadian military. Well, when we do cold weather training, we go to Alaska. Oh, okay.

Gotcha. All U.S. Army, we just go all over the place. I did training in California. I did training in Louisiana. I did training in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, three places in Alabama. There's trainings everywhere. I think they have lost more training areas than you would be scary.

It would be scary to know how many. Absolutely. So the training that you received in Alaska, was that different in any way? Talking about the Bigfoot-related training, was it different than what you had received in Washington State and Missouri? Oh, yeah, because they went to as far as to say, don't go out by yourself in these certain areas, period. Always go out in threes.

And they always wanted us to go out in triangle formations or box formations. They never wanted us to just go single file or none of that. You know, in the movies, you see how everyone gets picked off going single file? Because it's the stupidest way to walk. You don't do that if you're strategically. strategically or walking, you don't ever walk like that. You do a box, whereas you're a two or two, or you do a triangle. People wonder, what's triangle formation?

Well, that's because you've got a group of people that are making a triangle, or you've got a group of people that are making a box. That's what I mean when I said those things. Okay, that's what I was thinking. So you're in literally the shape of a triangle, you and two other individuals, and then you're also moving forward at the same time. Okay, gotcha. Triangle is neat because you can be three to 16 people,

whereas a box formation, you really got to be like 4, 8, 12. You know what I mean? Right. And just to ask one more question about the Alaska-Canadian stuff, so the areas that they were referring to were these areas then in Alaska or Canada? They're on the board.

We did a lot of training on the board. You get dual training. And, you know, honestly, our military has worked so closely alongside Canada for decades. That's why, yeah, don't get me started about politics. Right. Freaking assholes. I get you. I get you.

I feel so bad for the military in that way. It has to be rough. It has to be so rough right now. I can't imagine it. Right. A question for you and we'll see if you can even do anything with it. So you had all this time that you were a training officer. So you were giving out these trainings to like your battalion.

was there a time then when you were given a training to do on Bigfoot related things or anything else that could be considered weird in the same category? No, unfortunately. Gotcha. That would be cool. It would have been really awesome. But also I was in the military pre. they just Obama had just passed

the Freedom of Information Act when I was out processing out of the military I really got out in like 2010 okay so yeah unfortunately I didn't get those glory days of live free to say everything that

go out on a mission and actually come back and there's no black that you have to put in you know what oh yeah i didn't even think about that yeah you have to do all the you know i don't know people realize though if you look at the obama era post and freedom information act and look at all of his missions unless they were like seriously classified for uh operational reasons you know you don't want to get people die you know you know Right, yeah, exactly. You know, where they are and how they do their business needs to be secret for years because they don't just do things one way.

They do things a lot of ways, but we use that book off it. You know what I mean? Right, yeah. So based off of what you experienced as a younger child and what you had heard, at different places during your military career. Do you have any thoughts about what way you lean towards is Bigfoot more of a undiscovered great ape or some kind of human or anything like that? I think there's some kind of human like the Donovans and what's the name of the small people that we found skeletal remains now? of other hominids and to where scientists now see there may be as much at one time a couple hundred

different hominid living on the planet at the same time and they're just most of them died out as far as we know well it's can't it can't be too crazy that the ones that didn't die out that we think are dead are still around and one of them is maybe giant you know that i can't ever i'm not good with remembering words because of yeah i totally get it uh you're absolutely right down function as well as used to i i totally get it but yeah you've got every maybe i could try to fill in some of the the blanks um you've got everything from gigantic epithicus to uh that's what i was trying to say to i believe most that is a hominid see that's a hominid or you've got like peranthipus which i believe is the one that a lot of people like cliff and others

believe that's what bigfoot probably is so i mean there's yeah like i said there's lots of different hominids that existed so why not they've got to be it would make a lot of sense especially considering how the Native Americans classify them and how they don't ever really say

they're animals they're like no they're not animals they say no they're not animals they always say that but it's like it's funny how white people gloss over that I don't yeah we have a way of

of glossing over things until we are out in the thick of it and it's just hitting us in the face. A lot of things I hear I mean really if you talk to individuals and you read the stories it's almost like it's a

it's a forgotten tribe or they have that kind of relationship you know. I don't know how scripted these TV shows really are you know but that the most recent Bigfoot show they're finding Bigfoot

But those guys, they're entertaining, but they seem like they're real serious and how they're allowing them to portray it. And I read what they do afterwards and what they put out. I wonder if they're going to be allowed to come out with it soon. I would say looking at the shows that have come out over the last, let's say, probably 30 years, our best. ones to look at would be Finding Bigfoot is a really good one

and also Monster Quest back in the day had some some really good stuff that was put out but finding Bigfoot I would say is up there but there's probably some

different opinions on that which is fine but well you know I think a lot of it is because they have to make and entertaining, obviously. Right. TV's TV. I mean, but,

I don't know. I think, I think people that help those shows exist, that's what's going to make it to where the government feels okay with that information coming out. The reason why the government

has been holding back, if they really are holding back, which I think they are. I think so, too. And I think it's because they don't want, But mass hysteria. I mean, we already have hundreds of people going through the woods looking for them.

Do you realize how many people would do it if they do it was real? It would be intense. Hundreds of thousands of people would be in the woods. And all that pristine wildlife is really going to get destroyed. Well, that and I mean another way to look at it is, Imagine the amount of search and rescue calls. Exactly. It would be crazy the amount of people that are not prepared to go out and they'd be like, oh, it's the gold rush for Big Club.

I think the number's already mind boggling. Do you, I mean, have you, I look at the missing totals out of Alaska and especially the frontier states like Maine and places like that. It's pretty, actually, it's a couple thousand people. It's really wild stuff. It's crazy. It's a lot. And it's a lot. It's a couple hundred at least a year.

Appalachian. You know, Appalachian is the most dangerous trail. Appalachian Trail is the most dangerous trail in the world. Where people die on our Appalachian Trail, our little tiny, mighty Appalachians that are the oldest mountain chain that's still alive, you know. Right, right. extremely old mountains for sure. You're right.

A lot of people end up having some serious issues on there. I hiked some of that when I was like in high school. But even more now because you have to deal with a lot of people being attacked on the trail by people with ill intentions. There's all sorts of weird stuff that happens on that trail 100%. Oh, yeah. I grew up hiking. I had a dad that was a backpacker. He went through a 40 stage where we went backpacking every weekend.

That's awesome. So I wouldn't be too far off to say that I might be, I don't know, 60 miles shy of doing the whole thing. Wow. That's really cool. I've done Connecticut and Massachusetts, which, you know, there's a lot left to do, but it's still pretty cool. some cool stuff to go through. Being a veteran and talking about, you know, things that you experienced during your military career,

were you nervous at all coming forward with what you experienced during your time in the service, or how did that play out? Before I met my wife now, yeah, I was very selected for years on what I talk about. But it's because that's the mentality that they want. They don't want everyone knowing what we do and how we do it. Now we live in a world that we feel like we can start sharing. You know, and that sharing is caring.

And it's okay. Right. People will freak out maybe, but they'll get over it. It'll start to think about it maybe. And maybe these truths need to start being told. I think you're 100% right. It is at the point. I think so personally I think it's at the point where I don't think anyone really cares if people are coming out and sharing about their Bigfoot story, which is like I think back in the day you had a lot to lose if you were putting it out there.

but at this point, now that we've said aliens and all that, and UFOs and NHI and however you want to say it, I mean, I think it's a perfect time to throw other stuff into the mix, too. I'm surprised Trump hasn't done it for us. Oh, wouldn't that be crazy? Because he would do it.

He would. Totally would. He's, you didn't care if there's science pun. Yeah. Hey, Bigfoot, too, guys. That would be, man, what a crazy thing. There's no telling what he could sneak on past if he did that.

Right. Yeah, exactly. Oh, man. Wild stuff. Kevin, extremely interesting conversation. I haven't had many individuals with military background like yourself that have been able to come on to the show. So I appreciate you doing so. A lot of them send emails.

but it ends up not happening. So I've been able to talk to a few people. But thank you so much for, especially for coming on camera as well and sharing what you experienced during your time and also your citing as a younger child. I do greatly appreciate it. And thank you so much for coming on the show today. Thank you for having.

I love your show. Please don't ever stop. That's not in the cards. So we'll see what happens. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon? And you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can.

If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous years. reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's going to be wild. I'll probably, I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else because let's just say sometimes it's,

well, you just got to be there. We'll leave it that. More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oak Ridge Woods. Now check this out. 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-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 get a two-day pass for the price of a one-day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can, can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oak Ridge this year. We can talk about your encounter. I was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before.

It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it. And I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet,

if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI, a federal agency, or working intelligence, and you've stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about, and if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search-and-rescue responder, who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense, if you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field or trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract

who has found evidence you're not allowed to report, if you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat, and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or anything with clearance, and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous, you can reach me at bigfoot society at gmail.com.

The world needs to hear what you've been forced to carry alone, and you're not alone. You've got the story. We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us

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