Bigfoot Society - Off Grid with Sasquatch | Smoky Mountains

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

From the Rocky Mountains of northern Utah to the deep hollers of the Tennessee Smokies, something has been there the whole time.In this episode, Brad shares a lifetime of experiences that began as a child in the foothills above Huntsville Valley, Utah, followed him into the remote bow-hunting areas near Curtis Creek and Lost Creek, and continues today on an off-grid property deep in eastern Tennessee.What starts as a strange daytime observation in Utah turns into nighttime activity, unexplained movement through hunting camps, a violent disturbance near a parked truck, and one of the most aggressive vocalizations ever described on the show — heard from just outside a remote campsite.Now living completely off-grid, Brad documents ongoing activity around his Tennessee property: altered access routes, unnatural tree damage, persistent forest sounds, and an area of land that feels intentionally closed off.🗣️ 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 lows 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. You've got the privilege of talking to Brad today. Brad is a mountain man living off grid in the smoky mountains down there in Tennessee. Welcome to the show, Brad. How are you doing today, sir?

I'm doing great. Appreciate the opportunity to share my experiences. Absolutely. I want to point out a few things about Brad's setup, which is probably the coolest setup a guest has ever had. Brad is literally hanging out outside by the fire. So if you might see some smoke come across Brad's screen, that's just part of the ambiance. It hats off to him. I guess it's a little bit chilly where you're at today, right, Brad?

yeah it's about 35 degrees right now yeah right right out out there where you're doing off grid you're definitely you're used to it what what a place to do that to down the smoky's beautiful area but you know Brad I know a bit about what you've experienced over the years and it sounds like your story goes way back to different places so I would say you know feel free to take us back to And you first started having experiences with what you found out to be Bigfoot. Okay, well, like I said, I'm used to the cold weather because I born and raised in northern Utah in the Rocky Mountains. And it's been my childhood growing up in a little town called Huntsville that nobody knew about back then. But 2002 Winter Olympics came through there and that changed everything.

And everyone knows about it now. Part of why I'm in Tennessee currently. But when I was a child, I had a friend that lived, we'll say, in the northeast corner of the Huntsville Valley area there. And me and him and two other friends of ours. So it was Richard, Sean, and Jeff, I believe, was if he didn't hang out with us much. So I'm a little blurry on his name, but I'm a first year his name was Jeff. But anyways, me, Richard, Sean, and Jeff was out there. And behind Richard's house, there was a hill that just went up into the mountains.

You know, well, there was a field behind his house first in horses and stuff, and then just went up into the foothills and on up into the. to the mountains from there. And we decided that we were going to hike up to this point that we could see from his backyard up there, which from his backyard, we thought that was the top of the mountain. We found out later it was just a top of a hill. But we were little kids. And so anyway, we packed our lunches and we headed off.

We took off on up the mountain. We was going to make our climb to the summit. And on the way up there, I'm not sure what initially caught our attention about these trees on the hillside, because the whole hillside is pretty, at this time of year, it was summertime. This would have been sometime around 1776, 4th of July's celebration was going on that year. and we so the whole hillside is kind of a yellow

color with kind of a gray green of sagebrush modeled in with it with an occasional juniper tree and most of the junipers that grew on those hillsides were you know 10 to 15 feet tall

and anyway something caught our attention about these three trees that were up there. And we noticed them, and I pointed out that, yeah, look, they're in a perfect triangle the way they're positioned, and, you know, just silly stuff kids talk about. Anyway, we continued climbing up, and as we kept going up the mountain, something about those trees kept catching my attention. I wasn't focused on them, but something just kept drawing my attention over that way. And I started noticing that, God, those trees seem to be in really weird

position compared to the way they looked before because, you know, sure, my angle on the mountain had changed, but it just didn't seem right the position of those trees anymore. But anyway, we just continued on up and got to the summit that we found out was just a little foothill, basically. You know, in the Rocky Mountains, things get pretty high up there. And anyway, so we decided, well, we've made it here. we stopped down and was eating our lunch. Well, while I was eating our lunch, something caught my attention.

And I looked back over there, now to the left of me, and I'm noticing there's only two trees over there. And I think, am I crazy? I know there were three trees. There's only two trees on that hillside. And so I turned to my friends and asked them, you know, how many trees did we see on that hillside? And they're all like, there was three. where did the third tree go? And so all of a sudden there's four kids,

their hair on the back of our neck stood up, and we're like, when did trees start walking away? Because there's, you know, only two trees there now. And now, like I say, these trees are between 10 to 15 feet tall, most of them. So whatever it was, that was there that walked away, was something that looked like a 10, to 15 foot tall kind of conical shaped like a juniper tree grows out in the open sunlight like that

and we at that point decided it was time to head back home and we took off running down that hillside and we got down to the bottom and back into the field with the horses and stuff and we'd decide okay we're safe you know we slowed down we was just walking across the field of that time. The horses in the field, they were used to us being back there all the time. They weren't reacting to us

whatsoever. We was about halfway across that field and those horses went crazy. Like, I've never seen them back like that. And they were,

they ran out towards, the way the field was, it was kind of a big, huge square field in their house sat in the front, right corner of the field. And so part of the field had road frontage on it. And they ran all the way up to that roadside of the fence and was just back and forth, back and forth like they were looking for a way to get out past that, out of that pasture. You know, just completely irrational behavior.

Never seen him behave like that before that. And so we all just like, we need to get inside. So we ran inside the house and, you know, his, I remember his, mom yelled at us, you kids settle down, whatever you're up to you. You go settle down. So we went and hid in his room until it was time to go home. Well, that next morning Richard called me, and he said, did it come to your house? And I said, what? And he said, did it come to your house?

Sorry, I'm getting a little teared up because rest in peace, Richard's not with us anymore. but I said no it didn't come it didn't come to my house what are you talking about you know and he says well last night something pounded on my bedroom wall and he says and I looked and I could see its head looking through the window

now Richard's bedroom that had kind of one of those it was a one story home but it had those high up windows that only folded out so they weren't down normal eye level They were like along the ceiling line of the room. And so for something to be looking in through that window from outside,

it had to be 10, 11 feet tall, which would match with the size of what we assumed was a tree up on the hillside. But he says, yeah, it looked in the window and just stood there for a minute, and then he heard a low growl, like just a rumbling growl, and then it walked away. and we decided that that was our warning not to go back up on that hillside again, and we never did. We, you know, just, okay, we get the message. We won't mess with your area, and you don't kind of scare us in the middle of the night, no more.

So we didn't really tell anyone about that, because a lot, you know, we wondered if we'd get in trouble for going, hiking up the hill like that, because I don't think we really told his mom what we were up to. We was just, you know, kids off adventuring. But, so we never really talked about it or anything after that. But then years later, I started bohunting. And this is what attracted me or got my attention to your podcast as you were interviewing. I can't remember his name, but some guy there in Ogden area. And he was talking about Curtis Creek.

And that's the area where I used to be. go bohunt and uh i started going up there bohunting and first year i was up there i was with a group of guys and we we'd gone in further back in than he was talking about we was arbs basins about halfway to get to where we were go we we were back in by a place where that everyone calls the island and uh and it's just the way the road goes around a certain high mountain it's kind of creates an island the way the road goes around it, so I'd call it that. But I set my tree stand up

on the top of that mountain and hunt bohoed up there on top of that mountain that was the center of the island. But anyway, we were off on the east side of the island that year, and I heard something in the middle of the night

come through Kansas. It was obviously not moose or else, you know, it was bipedal. You know, you can tell when something's walking on two feet. It just sounds different. And I was in a tent. And so I just kind of laid there and was real quiet and listened to whatever walked through and it walked on through and kept going. It didn't stop and mess with anything.

It just walked through camp, whatever it was. But I could tell it was big. I could tell it was bipedal. And I laid there and wondered, I wonder if that's that thing we saw when I was a kid, you know. Well, that was all that happened that year. The next year up there hunting, and I was with the same guys in the same area. And I didn't hear anything, but got up the one morning, and they're all like, did you hear that last night?

What? Oh, there was some kind of something out there in the forest making all kinds of noise, and busting branches and tearing things up. And I was like, oh, no, I slept right through. It didn't hear nothing here. Well, that night I did hear. And I think it might have been because I was keeping an ear out, you know, sleeping lighter than normal. I don't know.

But something ran through the forest above where we were at. And now I've hiked up into that area. And you could barely wiggle your way through it. It's so thick. It's just thick, thick. Conifer forest, just hard to get through. And something went through there like it was running through the park. And it, I mean, branches and just, the sound was just unbelievable how much commotion it made

as it just ripped its way through the forest, whatever it was. And, you know, every one of us came out of our tents. I was in a trailer actually that year and come out of our tents of trailers going, what is going on? And we didn't hear anything else. So we all just kind of settled down and went back to bit.

Well, the following year, up there, Bowhunting, I didn't have any experiences, but the year after that, was up there and I'd gone up by myself. And I was on the other side of the island, so this would be the west side of that area. And I pulled into a little spot right past a place they call Red Ponds. And I was sleeping in my truck.

No camper or no nothing, just sleeping in the back of the truck. I got a big crew cab. And something hit the side of my truck. And, I mean, it rocked that truck. It woke me up from dead sleep. and I looking around trying to figure out what's going on

shining flashlight never saw nothing no explanation for what it hit the truck what happened and so I was awake from that point until sunlight started coming up

and I got up to hike up to my tree stand to do some bowman before the sun came up and I'd hiked up there to that thing I don't know how many times But I got about halfway up there, and I got struck with a sense of fear and unease and just discomfort that I can't explain. Because I didn't hear nothing.

I didn't see nothing. And I'm used to being out, I mean, I'm out here in the woods by myself for days on end. And I'm used to that. but something spooked me so bad that I turned around and went back, got in my truck, and decided I was done hunting that season, and I didn't hunt that season. So I decided I was going to get over that spooking and took my wife up there camping the next year about three weeks before the Bo Hunt started. And we went over, there was all kinds of people up there riding ATVs and campers and there, you know, all kinds of just activity going. on, just up and down the roads. And so we had gone over to a spot that was kind of back off, away from all the roads,

and it was just another spot that's kind of southeast of that island area there, and set up camp there. And we was having a nice time. Well, I had a job interview. We were spending a whole week up there, and I had a job interview on Hill Air Force Base, I had to run down there to go to an interview. So I went down to that and left my life up there. I wasn't that worried about it because there was all those people who had been there all, you know, the whole time you'd been up there. But I got done who's coming back in that afternoon.

And there's nobody. There's nobody in any of the camp spots, all the, no ATVs, motorcycles coming up to the down the road. I mean, it just, everyone had just gone home. And this was a Monday. You know, so it was Monday morning that I had gone down to, you know, do the interview. And so the further I get back in there, because it's about eight miles back in there

from where you turn off the pavement to get all the way back into where we was at. And the further I got back in there without seeing any other campers and stuff, the more I started worrying about my wife. And I was happy when I got there to find her okay and stuff, but just nobody up there at all.

Not even ATV riders and stuff. I'd never seen it like that Even both There's always somebody up there riding You know But anyway So I was happy to find her okay And we settled in for the night

And we're sitting around the campfire And Just doing our thing All sudden from I mean it couldn't have been 100 yards away Just up on top of the hill That we was right there next to

came a howl stream I don't know what to call it it was just a huge streaching howling I mean just deep

thunderous like a lion and a gorilla and an elephant all going off at the same time or something just undescribable, but it was obviously a displeasure with us being there was the immediate message I got from the sound of the, you know, it was a territorial, get out of my house trying to just howl, just angry howl. My wife, of course, looks over at me. I was like,

what's that? I'm thinking, okay, what don't I get to tell her this is without terrifying her? because at that point I was convinced that that was Bigfoot, but I can't tell my wife that, right? So I'm trying to say, well, maybe it was a moose or an elk or something that got damaged to its throat or trying to come up with some crazy explanation to have my wife freak out in the middle of the forest at the middle of the night. Anyway, she wasn't buying my crap. She said, I don't know what it was, but I'm going to bed.

And I tried to pretend like I wasn't spooked because I was really trying not get her scared. And so I sat out there by the fire for about 15 minutes, and the longer I sat there, the more spooked I got. Because I was here in movement like it was slowly making its way closer and closer and closer through the trees towards me. And so finally, I decided, okay, I'm going to quit. pretending to be a tough guy and I'm going in the trailer. So I went in and told her, yeah, I think whatever it was went away. And we managed to settle down and go sleep that night. But we got up and left that next morning.

We didn't stay. We was going to stay like three or four more days than that. We got it and went home. And that's the last time I ever went up to that area and camped or hunted or anything. And then we moved to Tennessee. And so that brings me to the next phase of my story. Because the land we bought is completely undeveloped, off-grid. I mean, I had to, first thing I had to do is create the road to get in here to even start clear an area to start building anything.

You know, everything you see behind me, I've milled out of my own forest and hand-nailed together myself. but the beginning of that process coming up in here the little road I'd cut in and stuff I'd been up here working all day gone home one night and had me a little excavator up here I was clearing out a spot to get an RV into and I come up next morning

and I had where I had to park at that point because I hadn't graveled the whole road and it was wintertime so the road would get real mucky so I couldn't drive the truck all the way up in so I'd have to park the truck down at what I called the turnaround spot at that time and then I carried two cans of diesel fuel up the mountain to get to the excavator and get back to work. I got up to where, just to where the excavator was, and there was a tree, sapling, well, big, you know, 20-foot-tall sapling. had been bent over across the road,

and the top of it was tied into a root ball and stuff in a way to where I literally had to get a saw and cut it to get it loose. It was like it was just twisted into there with such force that it walked in, and I had to cut it to get it to come out. No other tree around that had to follow. that could have possibly pushed it over and made it do that. No explanation, whatever. I

immediately took it as a sign that something was telling me that it didn't want me here. So I spent a couple days wandering around the forest and

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I'm not here to take it away from anybody, you know. And since doing that, I haven't had anything happen that seemed to be aggressive, which I'm very grateful for. But I do get notices, I guess, the best way to put it. They're not aggressive, they're not, you know, nothing screaming or howling at me in the night, nothing like that. But just noises in the forest that don't, you know, nothing. coincide with the sounds that I normally hear. I'm sure during this podcast you've heard the

pilated woodpeckers going off in the background and the little rins and the the forest has got its own music that it makes all day long, but I'm so in tune and familiar with it that anything that's outside of the norm catches my attention.

And I hear Knox. There's trees that there's a ridge line here that I find trees that are all broken in the same direction showing a path guiding you right up the path if you watch for them and follow

them they're all there and they're all trees that are broken you know there's trees all around them no other reason why they no other trees broken just one tree right there and snapped in a way that is you know obviously it's been grabbed up high and snapped over you know, the wind doesn't just snap the top of a tree off.

They bend the top of a tree like that and not cause chaos to the trees around it at the same time. And so I got that going on all the time here. But back up on the back 40 of the property, I've only been up there a few times, but we found an old cabin up in there. It's an old hunting cabin somebody has built and abandoned. And it's hard to get to because, well, first off, it's got trees that have fallen over on top of it. And then all the way around it, the whole forest, there's trees that are fallen. And they're falling just in a way to where they create a barrier.

It's not like they all got blown by the wind and fell over, wonder. direction. They're like lattice work, and they're not chopped down. They're pushed over. They're, you know, root ball still attached, a tree falling over. And both times I've been up there and fighting my way through to even get to that cabin, I've just got the direct impression that something did that intentionally and doesn't want anyone up there. that gap. I mean, it's the only conclusion I can come to. You know, if I could see, because I know the way the winds come into this mountain, the way they blow, they, they come from one direction. They don't blow back from the other direction hard enough to blow a tree over,

because they'd have to come over the mountain and then back down to do that. And so just the way those trees are falling, it's like, okay, now these aren't, these aren't fallen because of wind. These, something has made these trees fall over. And so, I just kind of leave that area alone up there. I figure I don't need to go up there for anything anyway, and it's hard to get up in there. And I just get the impressions. Somebody uses that and doesn't want me up there messing around.

Eventually, I'll probably build me a road up there enough to clear out some of that stuff out of the cab. It's got all kinds of usable stuff in it still. It's just hard to even get to, and I can't imagine trying to haul. stuff out of there by hand. I'd have to build a road there to even do anything about it. But just kind of a crazy spot up there that I can only, I can only assume it's the same creatures that have been making the other signs around here in the holler that, just, and you can call me crazy, but I believe it's Bigfoot. I don't think you're crazy at all.

That sounds like the potential for very active area. You said, is it just you there or your wife is there as well? Me and my wife and her cat. Okay, cool, cool. Does the cat ever react to anything in a weird way? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's times when the cat, he wants to be out and underfoot all the time. He wants to be hanging out with me when I'm out doing things. His favorite thing to do is wander through the forest with me, and especially if the mama's coming with us, then he's really happy.

But he gets times where he doesn't want to be outside unless I'm outside. And he's usually quite independent wanting out, you know, monstering all night long. He's living his best life up here. But he does. He definitely has times where he just, he wants to be inside and he wants to be close to daddy. He doesn't want, he wants somebody to make him feel safe.

And I, I noticed the behavior, you know. I guess I just always assumed he had to run in with a coyote or possum or or, or, you know, We have the whole gambit up here. We got bears. We got it all.

I've had turf wars with the bears, letting them know that, no, they can't scare me out of here. Learning to speak their languages, you know, marking my territory. But they finally quit leaving us alone. They decided I'm more dangerous than I'm worth. But we get all kinds of critters here. I mean, they're just, it's, we're out in the woods.

And so definitely a lot of activity for wildlife just in general. But like I say, I do know there's things I hear in the forest that don't account, they don't account for normal sounds. They're unusual activity. Has your wife ever experienced anything when she's been, I don't know if she goes on, walks out in the woods as well? or she doesn't go out on her own she stays she's she's pretty dependent on me as far as feeling safe and secure up here she stays in the trailer a lot of the time or she has business that she runs

out of bristol so she goes there and does that a lot too so she's not as adventurous and outdoorsy as i am But she's, I think her only real experience has been the camping experience in Utah and then the things that I've pointed out to her, because I've shown her the signs that I've noticed around here. And she's like, oh, wow. Yeah, okay, I see what you mean. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. So you're seeing a lot of trees. that are affected. Have you ever had any, seen anything that looks like footprints around your cabin? Well, footprints would be tough around here.

I mean, I've got ground that I've cleared, that I watch for stuff like that, but the only thing I've ever seen is just bear tracks and, you know, other smaller critters. But the forest around here is just covered with leaf bed. So, and anywhere that those leaves are there, it's because there's a rock sticking up through it.

And so there's not really any bare soil. Now, having said that, I've seen a lot of places where something has slid in the leaf bed that, to me, looks like it would have to be either a bear fell down and slid a little ways or something a really big foot stepped and slid a little ways. But it's a big slide, you know. And if you've ever hiked around in an area like this, you know what I'm talking about. When you step on, when you're going up a hill and step on and the leaves slide under your foot, it makes a little pile of leaves with a skid above it that makes it obvious something slid there. And, you know, the size of a skid like that that my foot would make,

It was only half the size of these that I've seen. And I wear a size 13. So something with big feet, it looks like to me, has gone up a few of these slopes and slid in areas getting up to the next spot. And that's the only thing I could test. You know, unless a bear, like I say, it would take like a bear's bouncing, off his butt coming down there to make some similar size

skid like that. So, once again, you know, no real tangible evidence, you know, and things that I have seen, it's, you know, you either understand and believe or you come up with some

reason not to, I guess. But, uh, I know what I've heard. You know, in that sound we heard in Utah, um, there's one of the Bigfoot shows that was on TV. I don't remember which one, but they were up to that same area. They was coming up from the other side up in Logan, Utah.

But those canyons, if you follow them up, they come to the same point up there, Lost Creek area. But they was doing a show up there, and they were out doing their nighttime investigation, and I heard that howl on their show and immediately recognized it. And they heard it too. And they were like all wide-eyed. But yeah, I've heard that how in real life and on television. And immediately recognized it.

It's unmistakably the same howl. A really interesting story, how things have followed you since that early age. And now it sounds like you're dealing with it pretty regularly. on this property. Yeah, well, I get the impression that they've accepted my, you know, my explanation as to why I'm hearing what I'm doing. And they've accepted me as part of the forest. You know, even the animals, the way the animals act, there's birds that come check on me

every day. If I'm not out doing my thing by seven o'clock in the morning, there's birds outside the trailer chirping and making a commotion until I come out and they know. that everything's back to normal. The noisy guys back at his game. But the animals that they've accepted me. The forest is,

I feel like it's embraced us here. And beyond that, I feel like the Sasquatch presence has also accepted that we're just part of the forest. We're not, we're not a problem,

so to speak, you know? and that's kind of the energy I get even when I out in the forest, except when I was back up in that back corner of the property. That's the only place I've been out here since that initial encounter here that I felt a little uneasy about being there. And I have to wonder if one of them wasn't close by saying, hey, you know, you're kind of getting into our area. Because I think they have that ability to,

whether they call it, the infrasound or infrasound or the ultrasound, whatever, the deep rumbling down, whatever. I'm not a wise man, I don't know. Yeah, infrasound. But I think it has something to do with that. I experienced when I was bow hunting up in Utah and what I've experienced up there because just an unexplained uneasiness, you know, just which isn't natural for me. Absolutely.

Has anything else happened on that property that was out of the ordinary, but maybe not related to a Sasquatch in your mind? Well, I have to wonder if there isn't some kind of either Native American or possibly civil war era. trauma here that can't really say that you know any spirits or ghosts or anything like that have manifested or anything but just sometimes at night when I'm sitting

outside listening to the forest I hear what sounds almost like I don't know if it's male or female but just a just like a soft sigh like a and I

every time I hear it I always look around and listen and wonder, God, did I hear somebody sigh? But I never do any, hear any follow-up or anything, but I do hear that. Probably once every two or three months. I'd spend a lot of time sitting out at night, just enjoying the sounds of the forest, watching the bats flying through the moonlight. I'm just an outdoors guy. I enjoy being out here by myself.

Most people think I'm crazy, but. It sounds great to me. It sounds like a great idea. I think more people are trying to do it, to be honest. I'm not going to pull anybody's leg. It's a hard lifestyle to take on. You've got to be willing to take on whatever comes your way. But it's definitely rewarding.

I wouldn't trade it for anything. I feel like I'm the richest guy in the world, even though I ain't got any money in the bank. At this point, Brad and I lost connection, possibly due to the off-grid setup that Brad was utilizing. But we were able to have a great conversation nonetheless. Thank you to Brad for figuring out how to do what he was able to do with his off-grid lifestyle and coming on the podcast today

to share what he's experiencing down there in Tennessee. Have you ever heard Aldiak, 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 year's 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, uh, 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. 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 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 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.

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