Bigfoot Society - Mysterious Lights Surround Bigfoot Expedition in Oakridge, Oregon

Episode Date: August 13, 2026

A nighttime Bigfoot expedition in Oakridge, Oregon takes an unexpected turn when multiple participants report mysterious lights moving through the forest. Area 58 Museum founder Priscilla Roseman-Davidson shares new information from Sasquatch Summerfest 2026, recounts her own unforgettable midnight encounter involving multiple sets of glowing eyes, and reveals why the Oakridge area continues to generate some of the most compelling Bigfoot reports in the Pacific Northwest.From Packard Creek Campground and Hills Creek Reservoir to the deep forests surrounding Oakridge, this episode explores firsthand experiences, historical reports, and the remarkable legacy of legendary Bigfoot researcher Peter Byrne. If you're fascinated by authentic witness testimony and one of America's most active Sasquatch hotspots, this is an episode you won't want to miss.Resources:Area 58 Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572788733343Area 58 Youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@Area58MuseumFestival information here:https://www.sasquatchsummerfest.com📖 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. All right, Bigfoot Society, you've got the privilege of talking to Priscilla Roseman Davidson. Again, you may remember Priscilla from previous episodes. She is the owner of Area 58 Museum, correct, Priscilla? Yes, I am. And you are also, I guess you could say the individual that heads up the Sasquatch Summerfest Festival in Oak Ridge every year. Yes, yes, that's me. I'm so excited.

I felt like everything went phenomenal this year. I was ready to hang it up. But this year, like, there was no pushing it. anything uphill and it went it went amazing and so I will be doing it again next year. That is fantastic news. Everyone I've talked to just, you know, on the side has had great things to say about the festival which happened. It was July 10th through 11th, right? Yes. Yes. And just to say a few words I was supposed to be there, my body. decided to get cancer and so I wasn't able to make it. I wish I would have been there. But next year,

well, I guess can we say it? Can we say it now? Yes. Yeah, okay. I am planning on being there next year. If everything goes the way it should, it will, I'll be there no problem and doing the speaking that I was supposed to do this this year but wasn't able to. And my goodness, what a year you guys had from what I heard. I mean, what, 70s, the 70 degree weather? It was great weather. It wasn't too hot. And I was prepared.

I had canopies and spritzers to keep everybody cool, but they weren't even needed. But I'm sure you could feel the love from everybody that attended. Oh my goodness, yes. Yes, absolutely. Did you get the poster, the Peterburn poster with all the signatures? I think it's on the way still. But I will say, I mean, man, I had people reaching out the entire time sending photos, telling me what was going on. It felt like I was almost there. I had so much stuff coming in.

And, I mean, I will say it's just such a, I haven't really talked. talked about the GoFundMe at all, but I do want to thank everyone that went to Sasquatch Summerfest, and, you know, you guys had the raffle, and then you made a very generous donation to the GoFundMe that's in place to help with cancer treatment bills. So thank you so much to yourself and for everyone else that was involved with that. Yeah, it was amazing. I, you know, I had the different raffles and like and this one is a fundraiser for jeremiah and it's like everybody's like okay here give me 20 oh wow like everybody everybody missed you and when i i started handed the the the poster around for a big you know get well card it's like everybody wanted to sign it and

i can't wait for you to get it i can't i can't wait to get it either you know previous years there have been some really interesting things that have happened and people having experiences around the festival. And I mean, I'm thinking I've done so many interviews. There are people, Dr. Love's comes to mind. And I heard there are some really interesting things that happen this year. And I'm setting up some interviews in the future to hopefully talk to those people. I've heard there are some really interesting things that happen this year. And I've heard there are. I'm setting up some interviews in the future to hopefully, There were visuals by two that were not too far away. Actually, it was a little, a bit in Western Oak Ridge that happened during the same time period. Oh, great. I didn't hear about those, but cool. Hopefully, I talked to this gentleman for about an hour and a half the other day, and hopefully we'll be able to get him on the show, but I'm keeping his name a little bit off record,

because I don't have the okay to talk to it yet. And then there were some other interesting things. And hopefully, you know, I'm working on getting some people on the show that were going up with Jason Kenzie up in the woods. And how did that go, Priscilla? So it was a hit. You know, I had to be creative this year because, you know, I'm kind of at war with the city. and I had to figure out things to help with funding because putting on a festival is very expensive, right?

So I was like, okay, we need to do like Jason Kenzie Adventures and it was phenomenal. It was a huge fit. We ended up doing multiple days of the Jason Kenzie adventure because people wanted to go out there and be in their own documentary, you know, with Jason Kenzie. I was searching for Sasquatch. So we went up to, you know,

to both nights, me and my husband went with. And so there, me and my husband, we stayed back at base camp while Jason took them out and explored the area. But there, there was multiple people who had seen lights moving within the forest. Oh, wow. And Michelle Heaton from the Sweet Home Sasquatch, she's, she's, She's going to set up an interview with you because she's excited to tell about what she's sitting out there. Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah. She's, I have a list and her name is actually on the list. So I will reach out after this for sure. So this was, it was up in, and we can edit this if need to. It's up where in the first year there was the visual with you and check. Dad, Datema, is that right? Yes, yes. So I have an area, you know, I don't bring people to my dad's area.

Well, yeah, exactly. Out of respect for him. Yeah. But this area that I went to, it's my area. I hate calling it my area, but, you know, it's a national force. But this is where I was called to. I just I had an overwhelming feeling to go back to this spot and it did end up being one of my dad's spots that he would go to. It's not his main spot.

So that one is sacred and I'm not sharing that. But now this one is a couple of years ago, I had an overwhelming feeling to go back to this spot. And it was so squatchy. And I was like, I have to go get my dad and bring him back here. And so we drove back to town and brought my dad back to the spot. And he's like, who told you? And I'm like, what? And he's like, and now he gave it up.

He's like, oh, son of it. And then my husband starts laughing. And my dad walks out into the woods and he grabs a gifting bag. And he's like, yeah, this is this is one of my spots. It's like, how crazy is that? It's like of all the, I mean, really millions of square miles here that you can, you know, in the national forest of the Cascades. It's like, and I found the spot not trying to.

It's like, it's just amazing. It baffles me. But so I had an experience there on my. 50th birthday yesterday was my 52nd birthday um thank you uh i needed to get this moss out and i was getting ready for my festival and i was so busy and now it's like approaching midnight on on wednesday and i'm like you guys i have to leave you that's searching for saskatch i'm like i have to leave you i have to go get moss um because i have to get it out tomorrow and uh chad datima he's like uh he's like you know what He was, I'll go with you.

And I'm like, okay, cool. So, you know, he's 6 foot 10. And so if you can imagine his arm reach when he's, you know, reaching up to pull moss off of these trees. We go up to my big foot spot. And he's grabbing the moss out of the trees. And he's handing it to me and I'm bagging. And we're just talking.

And we were out there for like 20 minutes. and, you know, we weren't there for Bigfoot and we were just, you know, talking and carrying on and he's like, Priscilla, you know, I told you dad that if he ever needs to ward off Bigfoot, all he needs to do is just tighten the lens on his flashlight. And as soon as he did that and he tightened the beam, there was ice shining.

And it was about, honey, how far do you think that? About 50 yards. I'm terrible with distance. So about 50 yards ahead and the eye shine just shows up. And, you know, I didn't think I would be scared. But I was panic-stricken. Like, I couldn't control it. I'm just like there's something very large staring at me, not very far away.

And I'm like, okay, I'm going to go to the car. And my granddaughter's in the car. You know, I'm just like, okay, don't run. Like, try not to panic. And I honestly, I didn't think that I would be scared if I, I seen one out there. But, you know, and then a second set of eyeshine shows up. And it's like a foot and a half off the ground. Man.

And I'm just like, is it spider crawling? Because I can't think of anything more terrifying. I know. And so I just I hurry back to the car, but not run. And then Chad stays out there for a few more minutes. And he said that he saw a third set of eyeshine show up. And so he's in the car. And so now I'm pulling away very slowly.

And we're looking over where we've seen the eye shine. And as I'm pulling away, now that. There's, I shine where we were standing. And, you know, I don't think that they, there was no ill intent with him at all. I mean, we were very vulnerable where we were. So it's like if, you know, if it wanted to do something bad to us, you know, we were quite away from the car. But it was just, you know, if you don't expect to see something in the middle of the woods. at a very late hour.

It was just past midnight. It's one of those stories I will never forget. I mean, that first year, Sasquatch Summerfest, I remember I told you, I was like, I got to be there for the first year because I just remember, it's going to be crazy.

Like, whenever there's a first year festival, it's going to be, it was crazy. So how many, how many people again were able to go on that, the expedition with Jason? Was it 10? Well, so I limited it to eight.

Okay. And then I had another eight people come up to me that said, if there's anybody who cancels, please let me, you know, fill the spot. And I was like, okay, so after, you know, I'm writing people's names down. And then it's like after the eighth person, I'm like, hey, Jason, do you want to do another one on Saturday? And he's like, yeah, absolutely, let's do it. So we ended up bringing another eight out on Saturday. That's fantastic. I don't think I've let you know this yet.

So ever since you first announced that, that that was going to happen, and then it sold out really quick. And then I, man, I had email after email after Jeremiah, is there any way we can get in? Can you get me? And I'm like, I can't get you in. It's like it sold out really quick. And is that a thing you think will happen again next year?

Oh, absolutely. And we're going to plan for more. Okay, cool. So, I mean, Jason is going to plan to maybe even come in a week early and just do adventures until, you know, up to the festival. So, yeah. That's really cool. Okay. Fantastic.

And then let's see. Oh, and I wanted to add. This is exciting too. So, you know, Dr. Simeon Hein. Yeah, great. He's a quantum physicist. He does the remote viewing. It's just a brilliant, brilliant man.

He's going to also do something like the expedition, but it's going to be on remote viewing. So we're going to, I'm going to do like 20 tickets, and we're going to have like a meditation class at the park. and then we're going to go somewhere off off of the site, you know, off of Greenwater's Park and do, you know, experience the remote viewing with Simeon Hine. That is. So I'm super, super excited. That is a once in a lifetime type deal. That's very, very unique.

And I'm sure a lot of people are going to be excited about that. How did the speakers go this year? Well, so the speakers went excellent. It's like I'm, gosh, the love in the Bigfoot community is amazing. I always expect that, okay, you know, nobody's going to show up. But everybody shows up. And it's just amazing. I mean, we had, so Jason Kenzie and Ashley Stinnett, M.K. Davis returned.

Don Monroe, Rich Drummo, Dr. Robert Alley, Joe Bealart, Michael Beaver, some UFOs over UFO, and Simeon Hine, you know, Tobin Alicia, they're freaking amazing. Like, he's such a natural at being an emcee. And Alicia, she's coming back as a speaker next year. Oh, wow. Okay. And she's going to be talking about all the activity on their property. in the Olympic Peninsula. Awesome.

Yeah. Oh, my goodness. And I'm not just saying this because I love the festival in Oak Ridge, but I am aware of most, I would say probably all the Bigfoot festivals going on. And the work that you put into this festival to get really good speakers and quality speakers is amazing. I mean, it is not beatable. I mean, you do a really good job, Priscilla. So, hats off to you. Thank you.

It's great. And I wanted to say the way the community just help me out when I did have some speakers that weren't able to make it. Like Michelle Heaton, like she stepped in and she's like, oh, I would love to be a speaker. So she was able to fill that first spot that was going to be David Osborne because he was going to play music. and just ended up not being able to make it. And then let's see, who else? Oh, and then Sarah Brown. Oh, yes.

And for me. Yeah. Yes. It's like, it was just amazing. And it was like, yeah, you know, I'm down to speaker and like I'm getting messages of, hey, I can fill in. And it's like, wow. It's like it

The community is amazing It's everybody wants to to help and and be a part of and it's it's like we're one big family you know It's like a family reunion every year It really it really is and I will say You know I have a really I have a really large bird's eye view of the entire community and this community, it's almost like a separate community inside the Bigfoot community, the people that get together for Sasquatch Summerfest in Oak Ridge.

It's very unique. Everyone is talking to each other, sharing stories, good vibes, good attitudes. No one's like, hey, that guy's terrible. Like none of that that I've ever seen, at least. And if you want to go to a good festival and have an experience that you'll never forget and just like able to meet people and have good conversations, you got to get out to Oak Ridge for this. It's totally, totally worth it.

Yeah. So do you want a little snippet of who's coming back next year? Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. So we have some of the same and some new. So we have, so Penny Rummel, and she's an author and experiencer. Sarah Brown, she is coming back. You know, she's a tribal member and has some incredible evidence.

Now, Alicia Pfeiffer, like I said, from Olympic Strange Days, and she's going to, you know, share her sounds that she's had on her property. And it's great. It's great audio, great evidence. Robert Alley is going to come back, Dr. Robert Alley. so William Morris from the Sasquatch puzzle Awesome He's happy to be a presenter

Darrell Adams from the Al Moon Lab He's going to join us We got Michelle Heaton She's coming back Jason Kansi Adventures Dr. Saminheim Remote Viewing And of course Jeremiah

That's right That's right we're going to do it We're going to do it We're going to, I'm saying awesome, awesome to everyone. That is a solid lineup. So it's going to be, it's going to be wild times, as always. And that's going to be good stuff. Now, I remember last year in the year before, well, last year in year before, how was, what kind of food did you guys have this year?

You had some good food last year. Oh, yes. So we had a Mexican food truck. Nice. And it was phenomenal. Simian said it was the best festival food he's ever had. And then we had pizza, you know, woodburned pizza or whatever. What's that?

Oh, yeah, the Urban Crest pizza. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then we had gourmet hot dogs and I think it's just those three. Okay, nice. And then Mazatlan did the VIP dinner, which was a. hit oh my gosh monsalong they catered you know in the community building at the park um so i had 40 seats 40 seats enchiladas cheese enchiladas beef enchiladas and you know we had chicken enchiladas and you know chips and salsa and so we all ate um and then we um jason kenzie he he talked

you know not too long there was like maybe 10 15 minutes and And then Simeon got up there and he talked. It was just a fun, personal bowl experience where, you know, all the speakers were in there, too. So it was just more intimate, you know. Which is that's a good VIP dinner right there. You're able to connect to some of the speakers and have maybe conversations that you wouldn't be able to have, you know, when. the rest of the festival is going on. So that's,

that's fantastic. Yeah. I need to pat myself on the back, but I was very proud of myself. All right. We'll let it go. So one thing I was curious about, because I remember you talking about this.

And how did it, because you, it wasn't just Sasquatch Summerfest attendees, but you also had a large amount of mountain bikers too, right? How did that go? Yes. So I needed to do things to help with costs and the finances of throwing the festival. And there was a mountain bike group that there is 400 of them. And yeah, so I shared the park with them to help save on those expenses. And, you know, I didn't have to pay for the porta potty's and it helped with Saturday's fee of the park. or Friday's fee of the park.

And so they were able to mingle with our group. And for the first time ever, they had a Sasquatch in their logo. Wow. That's big. Yeah. Yeah. So they were excited. It worked out well for the vendors because they said Friday was great because

the bikers kept coming over and, you know, buying merchandise. and so I loved it. I thought it was great. So I thought that I wasn't going to be able to do camping because of the mountain bikers being there on Friday. But next year, because I'm going to join forces with them again because it was great. But next year, camping is going to be available in the West field. And I'm not charging for that either. So people can just come in and they can set up on the lawn.

Yeah. That's a big deal. So is that the lawn that's, is that over by like the playground, that side or the opposite side? No, no. So the playground is the east end. Got it. Okay. The west end is the, the field just goes on forever on the west end.

And it's the trap stop. Okay. Cool. That's fantastic. I mean, just the fact that you're doing camping for no cost, that's a really big deal for people that are in a tentee, you know, to be able to save some cash potentially. Yeah. My goodness. So the wild thing is that you not only have the festival, which the festival is amazing, but you also have. I want to make sure that, you know, there could be some new listeners.

They know that it's not just to come to Oak Ridge for two days a year. Like, you can come to Oak Ridge anytime, and it's a beautiful place, and I would recommend it. But you have the Area 58 Museum, and you can go there, and you can just learn so much about Bigfoot and get some really cool Bigfoot swag. But how are things going with the Area 58 Museum? Great. I'm not there as much as I want to be because I'm, you know, I got nine grandbabies and I just, I end up being busy. But I let everybody know if they call me the day before or message me, you know, go to the Area 58 Museum Facebook page or call me. It's on the sign outside. It's 541-731-467-7-3. I will show up even on my days off, on the weekends. I will come down and open up if I'm not there.

Which is, that's a huge deal for you to do it. And I've had people reach out to me and they've been like, we, we stopped there and, you know, Priscilla was able to come over and show us around. I mean, I will say it's, it's got to be the largest collection of people. Peter Byrne memorabilia out there. It has to be.

Oh, yes. Yes. I have all of Peter Burns journals. The first one, 1956, starting. And he journaled every year of his life after that. So I have gloves for people if they want to look at them. And, you know, it's amazing. And I have his van that he would have shipped to Nepal.

So he would have his own living quarters and transportation. when he went on, you know, safari. So, and I, you know, have, you know, his history there. I have his writing desk and his books and so many pictures. And it's quite a collection. It's really fun to share it with people. It really is when, I'm trying to remember the last time I was there and you go in and it's just like, wow, there's a lot here.

and really you could, it's even though it feels like, oh, this is kind of a small place, but when you get in there, like there's a lot of things in here and I could spend a long time looking around if I had the time. So, so much stuff. And like, that's not even talking about,

like you have track casts there. You have the knee prints from Tobe Johnson, right? You still have those? Yeah, well, okay. So Tob took those two days ago. He said that he needed him. He's bringing him back in September, though. Oh, okay.

Hey, that's a good museum when you have alternating out exhibits, right? So that's okay. That happens to everyone. So you never know what you're going to find there. Do you have any new things since I was last out there in, I guess it would be last July? So, okay, so this is fun. Now, Peter, Peter Burns lived to be almost 98 years old. Right.

Right. He passed away. Let's see. So, what, three years ago, he passed away. He would have been 100 years old this last August 22nd. Now, Kathy, she had been paying on storage for the last, like, 15 years. And she told me that she's done paying on this. storage and wanted somebody to go through it. And I was like, you know what? I will drive down

Southern California and go through it for you. And, you know, I got to keep Peter's stuff that was in the storage. Now, some of the stuff that we got, so I got a, um, his writing desk, which is beautiful. And I got things, you know, there's trinkets, you know, lots of, he loved elephants, um, lots of, Lots of, so I got little elephant pieces and stuff like lamps and, you know, just antiques. Was that? Oh, yeah. And the stuff is from Nepal. Oh, yeah.

So it's all, you know, it's beautiful stuff and all antiques. Now, the fun thing is, you know, you know, the finger that. Yeah, I was going to ask. So I am currently looking for that finger that, you know, in 1957 he led three expeditions into the Himalayas where he was looking for anything Yeti related when he was funded by the Texas soil millionaire Tom Slick. Right. Right. So where he had discovered the Yeti scalp controversial, you know, some say it was the hump of a bit of a bit. a yak. And then he found the print out in the middle of nowhere. Ain't nobody faking anything,

you know, out in the Himalayas. Oh, yeah. And then, and then the hand, it was a skeleton. Now, you can't take anything out of the area. So what he did was, he went back with Jimmy Stewart. The actor. You know, from it's a wonderful life. They were best friends. So they went back to the monks that had these items guarded and they got them drunk. And then they took a finger off of that hand skeleton and back into, I believe it's the UK. I've been saying the United States, but I think it's the UK. Right. But, so they smuggled it back in Jimmy Stewart's wife's lingerie.

Right. Because back then we didn't, you know, have GSA. Yes, they were going to go through a woman's lingerie, especially she was a celebrity. So I am currently looking for that finger in the cases, the boxes of stuff that I got from storage. And if I find it, I am going to. to, you know, make an announcement and send it back to the monks.

Which is really cool. I mean, that is, I think a normal person would be like, oh, we, we shrug it rich. It's going to be the best exhibit. No, get it back to where it needs to be. Like, that's really cool. Hats off to you guys. Yeah, that's how curses begin. Yeah, totally.

Yeah. Restore what needs to be restored. There you go. Now, yes. The cool thing, man, the number. Number one, I'm trying to remember, you have this little photo book of like, they're like photos from the Patty film. Do you still have that? Oh, yes, of course.

That thing is cool. Yes, I have original photos that were taken from the original film. Yeah. So I keep those locked away. I'll bring them out on, I don't know, if the spirit moves. Right. Yeah, I know. I wouldn't just leave those out for sure.

That blew me away when I saw it. Now, so you've got stuff for, I would say, Bigfoot enthusiasts, but more like Bigfoot nerds like me where it's like, I'm going to go looking at Peter Byrne stuff and, oh, there's is like journals. This is amazing. But you also have stuff. Like if there are people where they're making a vacation, you're like, we want to go find Bigfoot. We want to do this. You can also help those people out as well, right, with what you got. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. So my museum, it's very inviting. People come in and, you know, I have coffee and tea and I'll show them. We'll talk. We'll

You know, Bigfoot. And I will show them the maps of where we've had encounters throughout Oak Ridge. And I will set them on their way to, you know, spots where people have had experiences. And if they, you know, I've done this a few times. Somebody wants me to take them to the location. I will do that. Wow. And I'll come check on them.

You know, if it's a couple days. I won't stay out with them. But I'll come up and check on them, make sure that everything's okay. And, you know, bring them water or supplies from town. So and then also like on, let's say there's a gift shop side. So you're also selling stuff that people could buy and like kind of supplies too, right, for doing that sort of thing? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I have, I call it a Bigfoot Go bag. Yep.

And it has HydroCal and measuring tape and tweezers and vial and like gifting stones and everything they need, like if they find a print that they want to cast. So I sell those and people can buy. I have Peter Burns mold where he found a print in 1960 in Block Creek area. Same place where the Patterson-Gimlin film was, what's done. So in 1960, Peter found a print there. In 1967, it was when the Patterson-Gimlin footage was taken. So seven years prior, Peter found a print there, which possibly could be the reason why they were there,

Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson were there in the first place. Sure. You know, it's possibility. But I have that mold from Peter Burns, so I do sell Bigfoot prints from Peter. And then I just have some fun stuff like, you know, stickers for your car and, you know, just novelty items. Okay, so you're using the mold to make new track castings? Yes. Wow, that's awesome.

Yes. Oh, man. That's really cool. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah, I gave, on the BIP dinner, I gave one print to everybody that attended. That's a big deal, Priscilla. Like, that's huge.

Yeah. Wow. Good. Good. Good for you on that. Now, when you, I'm curious real quick. So you're, sometimes you take people to different places and you leave them. You say, good luck, have fun, and maybe check on them later.

So have you heard. from any of those people that they've had experiences after or anything happened after you dropped them off? No, not really. You know, they love being out there and unfortunately, nothing happened. Oh, man. Bummer. I know. I know.

It's, but I mean, I'd like to say that, you know, they had one walk through their camp, but they didn't. Well, that's the thing with Bakefoot. It's like, you never know what's going to happen. It all depends. It can depend on, are there fires around? Are there not fires? The food supply. I mean, there's so many variables.

But I would say your chances are a lot better if you're able to be in an area like Oak Ridge or the Willam. National Forest or Mount Hood or pretty much all these different places in in Oregon. Do you still have books for sale there as well? Oh, yes, yes. I have a ton of books that they were from Peter Burns Cabin. So they're all signed. And I even have the hardback of, oh gosh, what are they called? the gentleman hunter but they're all signed and numbered i i have all three of there's a

the red series blue series and green series um but most of them i i sell for 50 dollars that are are signed um there's some that are you know 30 and then it goes up from there depending on how rare they are well yeah i mean you are in reality that could probably be the only place in the world where you are going to find some of those books for sale, especially signed. I mean, you may find one on eBay every once in a while, but you're not going to find them all

in the same room for sale, which is, that's a really big draw for super bigfoot nerds that are definitely into Peter Byrne. I would say that's why you need to definitely check out area. 58, for sure.

Also, another thing I want to point out is you have a really good YouTube channel And if people like, if you're listening to this show, it's because you like listening Bigfoot stories, Bigfoot encounters. Do you have some really solid ones recorded on that YouTube channel? And I'll link it in the show notes. Is there? I would, I would, no, if you go back to the beginning, there's some solid ones for sure. There's some really, really good ones on there.

Yeah. I, with Alicia, Alicia Pfeiffer, you know, she was with me and she was helping me. You do add those cool little videos. where it's people saying, I'm so-and-so, and I believe in Bigfoot. Those are pretty cool. So,

yes, I love doing that. And I've focused putting those on my, my Facebook area 58 page. Mm-hmm. That's right. Yes, definitely we've got to get the Facebook page.

People need to follow that over on Facebook for Area 58. There's a lot of good stuff on there, and that's how you'll find out stuff about. it but have you let's say this my I guess I could say over the last year or or last few months or whatever have you heard any cool stories from people that have come in off the street anything that that's like yeah okay so there was a young couple from Vanita this was April 4th they came to Oak Ridge to put their boat on the water and they were at a Packard Creek campground, which is just like seven miles south of Oak Ridge.

It's still considered Oak Ridge, you know. It's in the national forest. And her husband was, he used to be a forest ranger. So he was very familiar with, you know, animal sounds and everything. And they were hearing the howling coming from across the way. And she said that she was terrified. and they had their one-year-old baby with them. And during the night,

something came into their camp and walked around their tent while touching it and made a complete circle around their tent. And she said she's never come back to Oakridge again. Oh, no. Yeah. I was actually able to interview that. You helped me set up,

you got me connected to them, and I was able to actually interview them for the podcast. And yeah, they were freaked out still. It was pretty wild. Yeah. Now, the coincidence about that encounter is that that is the exact same location that another guy who had come into the museum a year before, he had an experience with about 20 other people in that campground. that heard the same howling coming from across the forest.

And they had no idea. They had no idea that there was another encounter that happened there. Yeah. I think, do you have that one recorded on your channel? I'm trying to remember if you have it. Yeah, it's on the YouTube channel. Okay. And it's Randy Powell.

That's right. Yeah, Randy's, yeah. Man, I remember the last or the two years that I was able to, to be out there and people were putting some weird stuff on the map

down by Hills Creek Reservoir like weird I think one of them was like chimp-like noises

or primate like noises over by Packard I had another guy come by the booth and the other

side of the reservoir is where I rode down or I drove down and I had a I had that weird

like I don't know if Israel or is a Hulu But I saw a silhouette of a big foot go into the vines of a pine tree as I was driving by. I don't know. It was weird as I'll get out.

And I think Carlos has also had some things happen when he's been camping down there. But that reservoir has a lot of really, really weird stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So on the east end, which is the 23 road. So Packard is on the 21. And then the 23 is on the the east end. There's been so many reports from down that way, like past CT Beach.

There's the Boy Scout camp, which just got purchased. And I'm not sure what they're doing with it yet, but I think it's going to be some kind of a retreat area open to the public. but there's been so many reports from the old Boy Scout camp. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I mean, this whole area is just, it's, you know, it's squatchy. It is, it is so squatchy that people, I mean, I remember Ronnie's told me a few times. They're seeing Bigfoot from the mobile station up on, up on the mountain.

I mean, and that's wild, a sighting from the mobile station, and it was up on the hill. wild wild stuff well it's like you know that that mountainside that's behind the mobile state you know our town is only two miles long so it's like the mountains that we have here it's endless national forest behind them yeah and it should tell you something uh when you go into the ranger station so the first year i went in and they like well we had a little little chat and they were they were And then the second year, I was like, oh, something's different. And I noticed that you talk to them and they have Bigfoot pictures actually behind the front desk on the wall. So out in the open.

And I was like, oh, man, okay, what's going on, guys? But they're fun to talk to. They're great people down at the Ranger Station in Oak. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're great. Yeah. They're good stuff. I heard that they're now sending, when people have Bigfoot stories, they send them on down to your area, which is pretty cool.

Yes, yes, they do. Pretty, pretty good stuff. But, Priscilla, it's exciting news from this year for the festival. You know, I'm sorry, I couldn't make it, but next year, it's going to be fantastic. And it sounds like it's going to be even crazier than this year. just keeps getting better and better but thank you again for coming on the show and spending a few minutes to talk about what you've got going on

and did you have, before we wrap things up, did you have any other closing thoughts in our time together? No, no, I think that's it. I'm really excited for you to talk to Michelle Heaton with her experience up there for the adventure. and I hope that everybody gets a hold of you that went on the adventure. I handed out your business card with your number on it and said,

Jeremiah absolutely wants to hear from you, even if you didn't experience anything, like just get a hold of them. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. And actually, real quick, I'm going to say, If there's anyone listening that was at the festival and not involved with that, but you also had Bigfoot stuff happen, because there's people that just go off by themselves and have stuff happen. Please reach out to me.

Send me an email, Bigfoot Society, gmail.com. Half of it is getting everything documented that happens in the area. And I'm over 50 interviews from just Oak Ridge. So it's very important that it gets documented. Very nice. Yes. So I'm so looking forward to next year. You know, I was ready to quit.

I really was. And then this year was just so easy and it was so fun. And I actually got to sit down and listen to the speakers this year. You know, and it's like, okay, no, this is working. I'm so glad that it's going to keep going and just keep getting better and better. And thank you so much, Priscilla. It's always fun. with you. I hope you have a great rest

of your weekend and we'll definitely be keeping in touch as things continue to get bigger and better for Area 58 and the Sasquatch Summerfest. Thank you. Have a good one, Jermar. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say

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