Bigfoot Society - Oregon Bigfoot Exposed: Close Encounter at Detroit Lake

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

What happens when a man encounters a massive Sasquatch throwing rocks at his campsite in the eerie forests of Oregon’s Detroit Lake region? In this chilling episode, we sit down with Jared, a local who’s had multiple Bigfoot encounters since 2005. From witnessing an eight-foot Sasquatch crouched by his tent to hearing terrifying howls near Garnet Lake, Jared shares his jaw-dropping stories of close encounters with the elusive creature. With glowing red eyes, massive footprints, and strange rock formations, his experiences in areas like South Breitenbush Gorge and Gold Butte Lookout are enough to make any skeptic rethink the existence of Bigfoot. But is it just Bigfoot—or something darker? Jared's encounters leave him with more questions than answers, and in this episode, we explore the mystery of Oregon's Bigfoot Highway and the creatures lurking in the forests.🗣️ 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 Patreon – 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 More🎙️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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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. Tonight's story comes from a man who spent years camping in the remote forest of Oregon. But in 2005, something stalked him in the woods, something with glowing red, dies in a throw of rocks that sent his dog running in fear. The creature was massive, standing over eight foot tall, with a face twisted in a strange, unsettling grin. This isn't a tale from some far-off mountain legend.

It's a firsthand account from Jared, who's had multiple encounters with Bigfoot in the Detroit Lake area, including rock-throwing, eerie howls, and even a strange beast that walked on two legs with the body of a wolf. So buckle up. This story will leave you wondering, what really lurks in the dark corners? of Detroit, Oregon. So stay with us. All right, Pickfoot Society.

You've got the privilege of talking to Jared today. Jared's an individual that reached out to me through email. He's a listener of the show. And he wants to share a few things that he's experienced in the Detroit Lake area of Oregon. So I've been waiting to talk to Jared for a while. This one sounds really interesting. So, Jared, welcome to the show. How are you doing, man?

I'm doing really good. Awesome, awesome. I want to make sure you know, you've got the time to share what you've experienced out there. So I'm going to go ahead and pass things over to you. Feel free to take us back to when these experiences started happening

for you out there. About 2005 and 2004. And then recently, last year, last year, and then 2020. right before the fires came through I've seen a lot of activity and I think they were running out

from the fires or something but the 2008 one I was camping with my brothers and we kept hearing sticks and stuff breaking and then they're sitting by a campfire and then like my brother was telling me

he said quit throwing rocks at me I said it's not me and then a big rock came flying through the trees He's like right next to us. Shined a flashlight out there, nothing. He went back to his talking and stuff, and here comes more little rocks thrown at us. And then my dog was there,

and he went right in the tent, we're really scared. So he thought it was like a squirrel or something up in tree or one of my friends messing with us. So then it kept going on for like an hour or so. More rocks thrown started those at us, or throwing at us. And finally shining out there and seeing like red,

red ice red ice there and red ice so my brother said i'm going to sleep in the truck tonight so i fired off a gun and then it stopped for a long time and then i got woken up in the night by something something ran by my tent and then it tripped tripped over my tent or something to my tent i seen the shadow of it and i shunned a loud there and it was standing right there looking at me over He'd all brown, like a brown's black, seen his face, everything. And it's like human hands, but they're all covered in the hair, and then his face looked like human, but with hair all over it. And then it was kind of like smiling at me.

And then my brother woke up, and he just went like almost a panic attack. He said, I've never seen anything like that's sick. We could never find any footprints after that. And then we were about the morning, he said, was that a dream? I said, no, that was real. and so we have never been up back up that lake again

since then that's wow there's a lot to unpack from that Jared so did that happen at Detroit? Yeah that's all that was like yeah did that happen at Detroit Lake Detroit Lake is above Detroit Lake so it was like by a Tully Lake

I'm sure there's a lot of people on the in Oregon that know where that lake is okay and is that I'm looking it up right now so Tully Lake is this is southeast of Detroit? Yeah, it's towards like barren forks up in that area. Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

So I just want to make sure I heard it right. So it ran up on the tent, so kind of like charged the tent, but also... No, it ran past the tent and tripped over my rope going to the tent where my tent pegs are. It was that close to my tent. Wow. But no smell or nothing. And so it tripped over the tent rope. Did it fall as well from that trip?

Nope, nope, broke my tent rope. I snapped it right off. Absolutely. So, yeah, that must, that, it's amazing. It didn't take everything down, to be honest. So you saw, you saw actual details of the face, you're saying? Oh, yeah, it's trying to light right on it. How close were you?

It's on a flashlight right on it. Okay, how close were you? About 10 feet. Yeah. Out of ten feet. All right. Yep. Were there any details that you remember that really stood out from being able to look at that face so close?

No, like, had canine teeth on it because it was like kind of smiling on us. And then there's like the face was all wrinkly, kind of. It looked like an ape, but like just really, really big, really shaggy hair, like big, like no neck, no neck at all. as a matter, no neck, small little ears, and then like really big arms. By big arms, are you saying like the muscular definition of them? Yeah, muscular arms, yeah. Okay. That long hair, though.

How long would you guess the hair length was? Probably six or eight inches long. Okay. Gotcha Did the hair of it looked like It was was it messed up or or how did it look? That was pretty messed up I think when you fell

He had like pine needles and stuff stuck in it Gotcha How long down Did the arms Stretch on the creature? Oh Past its waist Okay

Gotcha Gotcha. Could you, do you remember anything about the eyes at all? Yeah, there were like a yellowish, yellowish red kind of. I don't remember the eyes where it glows. I shone the light right in its face. Gotcha. Do you remember, was the nose more of an ape-like nose or a human-like nose?

A-pe-like nose. Okay. And were you able to see a shape to the head at all? Yeah, it was like it had no neck. Gotcha. The top of the head, did you notice if maybe it was rounded off or sometime it curved up a little bit? It was rounded off on top? Okay, gotcha.

Was it making any type of face when you shine the light on it or like any emotions at all? Well, it's trying to light on and kind of like put his hand towards his face and then it dropped his hand down. hand down, like, it looked like it was like smiling on us. It was weird. Interesting. Like, yeah. Was there anything that you noticed about it that

let's imagine that we're watching like a Bigfoot show and they're saying, oh yeah, Bigfoot does this and does this and looks like this? Did you notice anything that night that was like totally different than those Bigfoot shows would usually say? No crickets.

Nothing. It was, there was not even a sound that's what it was really weird not even any wind it was like really weird I've never every time I've been up I've been up different lakes before

and there's always like crickets and going and stuff like that that night when the rock started getting thrown us dead silent how hard is it to get into this Tully Lake area oh you drive right to it there are lakes right on the road

and there you can camp there's like three different camp spots oh okay Gotcha. Yeah. So you can drive in on a service road, but is it a while off, let's see, that this, what is it, Santiam Highway would be the nearest big road probably? Yeah, yeah, and then that's the highway. Yeah.

And then you go up a Parrish Lake Road, that's pavement, and then you hit another gravel road that takes the right to the lake. But there's a lot around that whole entire lake, there's a lot of blueberry bushes and stuff. stuff, Huckleberry bushes. Okay. There's like a lot of, a lot of feed for them, I guess, up there. Have you been back to that spot since that time? Went back last year, heard woodnops. Oh, okay.

Gotcha. Oh, man. I knocked on a tree last year up there camping. I got three response back. Oh, really? So it was like, I didn't. Yeah, go ahead. I didn't stay tonight, though.

I just, I just went up there, went fishing for a little bit, and did three woodn knocks, My dog went in to get out the truck. Oh, wow. Was it just you that went back to? So you and your dog? Yeah, you mean my dog, yeah. Wow. That's, and that was 2008, you were saying?

Yeah, that went back last year, yeah, last year, but last summer went back up there. Okay. Last summer I did a wood knock and I had two knocks back and then a help. I said, nope, I'm out here. Same area. Same area. Okay, so you knocked the truck.

tree, three knocks back, and also a howl. And I got howl. What was the howl like? Were you able to describe that at all? Sounds like almost like a wolf, but like really deep. Really, really deep sound. Okay. I think this, like the same howls you're doing on your shows.

Yeah, absolutely. Pretty drawn out or a pretty quick howl? It was pretty thrown out. Okay. Okay. I'm saying, like, probably want me out of there. Right. Yeah, exactly.

You don't really want to stick around for that stuff. But yeah, Jared, that's a wild first way to see a big foot. Absolutely. But yeah, feel free to continue with any of your other experiences you'd like to share. So the next one was a bright. bush bright bush road we were up me and my brother's up driving around up there came around driving down the road and my brother seen something sitting on the side of road hunched over i said what is that i thought it was like a deer's under a bear but it was light brown got up like we were probably

about 20 feet from it got up as oh my gosh and it took two steps across the road and then i slain on the brakes for across the road and that sucker was it's had to have been over 10 feet tall light brown color and we got on the truck I tried snapping a pitcher but it went up to bank so fast and the smell that one stunk it was eating it a rabbit dead rabbit on the side of the road my brother tried going after it and then it made this weird like grunting sound at us yelling like a scream my brother came running back down we got in the truck and left but I had never smelt something

so rotten before it was not the rabbit it was the creature that was that's all we saw in that one we saw the face oh yeah go ahead yeah yeah yeah we saw the face on that one

it didn't look like it had hair all over his face and big big teeth on it also canine-like teeth yeah canine teeth I don't know what kind of big foot that was. Yeah, I was going to ask you. So would you say what you saw that time was similar face details-wise to what you saw in 2008?

No. Way different. What were the things that were mainly different? All hair on his face, completely covered in hair. And a little slightly bigger ears and a bigger nose. and then his eyes, he looked, his eyes were like, I don't know, like, squinted a little bit. He looked mad that we came up on him.

The way is crouched over is weird. How was it weird? Do you remember any details about what made the way it was crunched over or crouched over weird? Well, he was like, you're standing, I was like laying down on his knees, like laying down on his arms, just munching him on that rabbit.

it and then when he took off, when he stood up, let's when we realized how big it was. It was like a cinnamon color, tan color. But it went up, it took two steps across the road, and that's when he stopped,

and the smell. It smelled like a skunk, skunk, rotten meat. And then it went up the bank. That's when my brother ran after it, and then it screamed. And he came back now, we got to pick up and drove that ground.

road for 80 miles an hour and kept looking behind to see if it was chasing us. And when you drove away, were you going back towards Detroit or did you go up towards Estacada? Back towards Detroit.

Yeah. Okay. Makes sense. Wow. Yeah. Did you get any feeling as to if it was a male or female? I think it was a male. Okay. The way it,

the way how big it was. gotcha I still have not gone up that road that was in 2006 right when I got to high school I've still not drove up that road since

my brothers have not drove up that road since I don't think I'll drive up back that road again have you heard of any other people having encounters or sightings on that road yeah well my other buddy. It works for the foresters who retired. Seam one up there.

Oh, really? Yeah. It wasn't that cinnamon color one. It was like a dark brown, but he said it wasn't very big. He thought it was a bear walking upright and he said, no, bears don't walk up right and go up a steep up bank upright.

That's what, yeah, he saw just about the same area. There's a big, like, when two mountains come together, there's a big canyon in there. And the road goes, right through it. I think they're using that canyon go up through there. Does that area have a name

or just known by locals? It's called South Brightmoosh. South Brightmoose. South Brightmoor's Gorge. Got you. Okay. And there's, you go out very top, there's lakes up there, hiking, too. Are, uh, have you, um, have you driven that road

from Detroit Lake up to Estaceta the whole thing before? Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. yeah it's just there's a lot of activity that's been reported it actually has a name i don't know if you're familiar with it has a name uh where it's actually called the oregon bigfoot highway it's pretty wild yep it's uh one of the most active areas in oregon so i am not surprised at all that you had that experience uh down in south brighton bush gorge area yeah that's it about one week i saw Another one, or this one's just like a few minutes long, though.

So like, do you want to tell another story? Oh, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, sure. So this was from last year. Me and my buddy worked with the Forest Service. He's retired now. Hiked up a lake up, bright bush, no trail, bushwhacked all the top. So his lake, got to the lake, and we've seen footprints.

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And then my dog starts like whining. And he said, you know, we got to get out of here. There's something in here. Because on the back of that lake, there's a big cave up there. You can see it in the trees. And so we walked around the lake and start fishing. There's boulders stacked up there. Rocks.

They're three to four feet around. They're stacked up. feet tall. No equipment can get up there. Then my buddy said, how is that, how does something do that? And then he's, then you're figuring out, I said, oh, it's got to be a big foot. No, no person can move those rocks like that. They're stacked up to a wall. It's about 10 feet long and about six feet tall, perfectly stacked rocks.

About four feet, three to four feet around diameter, perfectly stacked. and we were just sitting there fishing for a while and then like it was about noon so I said we gotta get out of here because we I mean we didn't hear anything but then the birds stopped everything stopped and we heard a big branch break and there was a lake

and then my dog started whining and we got out and started walking down and we ran in three bears 10 feet away and he said there's no way there was a bear up there so I don't know what that was up here I said I'm never going to sleep again Wow that is wild Did that lake have a name that you were at?

Garnet Lake. By Oak Lake. That's behind Oak Lake. It's a walk. Interesting. Interesting. So you have the 2006, 2006, 2008, and 2024. So three different times that you've had sightings.

That's incredible. And then I had another sighting in, I think, what was it, 2018 around there, somewhere on there. That was up French Creek Road. My dad's, my dad's seen one up there too, and we were up there driving around, and we stopped for a little bit, and that's when you seen, seen a flash or something. It was no, it was no bear on two legs running. So that dad went up there when his kid and seen a white one. all white. Oh, really? Wow.

Yeah, he said he's never seen anything like that before. The one we saw up there was just we just seen a jump and ran across the road on two legs. And there's a cliff on the side and we got out and looked at straight off. I don't know where it went.

It either jumped off that or jumped off and went underneath the road or something. I have no idea. But that one, we've seen that one up there. We stopped, and it's like a bad smell, too. It's like rotten, really rotten, whatever they are. It looks like French Creek Road is you hop onto it down by Detroit Lake.

But how far up did you have to go up before you had that sighting? 10 miles. Oh, wow. Okay. About 10, 11 miles. Yep. And then last sighting, it's not a big foot at all. So, there's a couple people in Detroit that I've seen it.

You might start with that one? Yes, absolutely. So, and for context for me, just because I haven't been to this area, so I know about Detroit Lake, but there's also a small town of Detroit in this area as well, you're saying? Yes. Okay. How many people, roughly? Well, right now, people that live there is probably 200,000.

Oh, wow. Okay. Maybe 100 now, but they're all moving out because the town burnt, the whole town burned. All the restaurants, or one restaurant, all the restaurants burnt, and then one store made it. Is that the Mountain High grocery store? Yep, Mountain High made it. Wow. So only, the town has only one thing left. That's wild. Well, now they have a food cart there and everything. Oh, okay.

There's all new houses already, big house. is built, though. Like roughly in the summertime, there's probably a thousand people live up there. Oh, wow. So normal 200 tourist time goes up to a thousand. That is wild. Thousand, yeah. My goodness.

So yeah, feel free to share what people are seeing in this town of Detroit. Well, I saw it. I saw it. My friend saw it. And then two people around Detroit saw it. and they won't even say anything about it. It scared him so bad. It scared me really bad.

I don't walk around at night anymore. Never again. So me and my friend were walking down the street with some other people with my uncle. And you're looking down next to my uncle's garbage can or something, standing on four legs and had his head in the garbage can. Well, the garbage can is up to your waist to the lower waist. He said, that's a wolf. and it was like

I've never seen anything like that but so as I seen it it stood up on two legs and my friends said what is that I don't know that in it so we're just standing looking at it and it started walking towards us so we started walking away from it but it

we thought it was a werewolf there had to be a dog man so we noticed on that one it had like a dog head on it and really like his eyes were like look mean drill dripping out of his mouth so the drill dripping on his mouth and then he had like we seen the arms had fingers three fingers on each hand never seen anything like that and then it started walking towards the other way and then it reached out this howl like

i've never even heard an animal howl like that before and it took off running but i don't know I've never, I don't know what that is. Everybody says a wolf that got his front feet cut off. There's no way. It's an animal's that tall. It's like eight, ten feet tall. Oh, wow. Oh, my goodness.

I don't know what that is. Because we were up last year. We were up last year. There's a hill in Detroit called the, take lookout hill. You'll see it from Detroit when you ever go up there. But we up the last year cutting trees, and we heard a howl up there twice.

I got out of there. But every summer, I'm in Detroit right after fireworks go off, that thing howls. So it made it through the fires, but it howls either right after the fireworks or early, early morning. I don't know what it is unless somebody turning into one at night on certain types of the year. I don't know what it is. My uncle's seen it twice, and he said he's never seen anything like that before. And you're saying other people in the town have seen this as well. Yeah, my uncle's seeing it.

There's a couple other locals that seen it. People live up on the hill where it goes up there at. I've heard the howls at it. It's worse. It's like a wolf that's really long. What you saw, did it have a man's body or a wolf's body as well? Man's body. It looked like a man's body.

Really? Just ripped, though. Oh, boy. Like a bodybuilder. Bodybuilder just, like you can see the muscles in his legs. His arms and three fingers. That's all I remember. It has three fingers.

His fingers came out of his hands, three fingers. Okay. His feet were huge, though. So I don't think it runs on four legs. I think it runs on two legs. But I don't know what it eats up there, but there's no, there hasn't been any deer around town for a long time. Just for my notes, what year was this that you had the sighting of the dog man there? 2018, 18 or 17.

Some around there. Do you think a lot of people are having sightings of things in this Detroit area? Yeah, they're not talking about it. Why do you think they're not talking about it? Nobody believes it. Nobody believes. I told a bunch of people that I work with, they said, told that don't exist. I said, you know, there's stuff in these woods that you guys have never seen before.

So I'm in the woods every weekend. I've used you out fishing in the woods somewhere or out mushroom picking or anything like that, but I'm only way out in the woods. Have you, just off to the side, have you heard of any sightings of things down by, do you know the subtle lake area? Yep. Have you heard of anything down there? Yeah, I've heard of sightings down there. Oh, really? Mm-hmm.

I haven't seen anything down. I don't spend that much time down there's, but most of my time around Detroit area. Gotcha. Do you remember any details of what was, of what happened down there? Nope, or cell lake, nope. Okay, no problem, no problem. Anything in, like, Estaceta or Malala or Colton? Nope, it's heard about people seeing them out there. Yeah, yeah. I've heard people seeing the dogman and Sio.

Sio, Oregon. Okay. Wow. Yeah, I've heard people seeing it over there. And then I talked to people in Mill City, they've seen, they said they've seen some weird, like either Werewolf or Dogman in Mill City area. That's where I live at currently now. But I have seen, I went out to Pottie Island because I heard that one show about that guy talking on Pottie Island in Detroit. They got Detroit Island

Absolutely, yeah I've been out there before My hair went up my neck I heard stuff breaking I've never seen a bear out there I've seen a lot of deer The dog He heard that and freaking right between my legs

Really That was almost near the top I don't know what's out there What he said? That was That was that Not last year before that 2012

Okay But yeah I heard sticks break it up there. I used to camp up there, but I'm not camping up there anymore. I was out there that year picking motions out there and heard stuff breaking. I thought it was a deer, but my dog usually, he was sniffing the air. Usually snips a deer when the deer comes around. So this guy he sniffing the air, and he bolted back down to me.

I started smelling as weird. I smelled something dead, so I thought it was a dead deer somewhere. but now I think about it I don't think it was a dead deer I've smelt that same smell before how hard is it to get out to that island you gotta walk

when the lake's down or take a boat out there okay okay gotcha so the lake levels will go down or rise certain times a year yeah yeah so the lake right now

it's almost full so you can't get out there but the lake will go down in August September they'll be down so people usually walk out there. I don't know what lives out there, but there's something on that. But the island's not very big. It's only, what does it take? It takes about half an hour to get to the top, 20 minutes by walking.

You get to the top. So it's not very big. And then if you want to walk around it, it's like we usually do, the lake goes down, you walk around it. And it takes about four hours to walk around the whole thing. But it's not very big. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. So you're saying there's a hill to climb up on this island?

Yeah, yeah. Okay. That's very interesting. Just, I mean, not a lot of area, but maybe just enough for something to hide out. Or something to hide out, yeah. Yep, yeah. Absolutely, man. Have you ever talked to any of the Rangers at the Detroit Ranger Station before? Well, my friend that worked there said they used to have a guy employed that was looking for Bigfoot. time. He never saw tracks. Okay. But he never, never saw anything.

And then I talked to one guy out there, and I told him, I've seen stuff. He said, I've seen, I've seen a couple. They won't talk about it. Nobody talks about it. Oh, at the Ranger Station, they actually had that conversation off record with you. Yeah. Wow. A little bit, yeah. But I noticed before, because if I bring a gun with me, I won't see anything. If I don't bring a gun, I see something. I don't bring a gun. I see something. stuff. I don't know if they can sense. Right. I think they can sense that.

Usually I pack a gun on my side when I'm out mushroom picking for case a bear comes towards me. But every time I don't have a gun, I either hear something or my dog gets really scared. So I don't know what's out there. I don't know how they can sense that. What kind of mushrooms are you guys looking for out there? Chantrells. Chantrells. Cantrells. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah.

Very interesting. I didn't know if you had, do you have more else out there as well? Yeah, just started looking for them yesterday. Yeah, those are big in Iowa, yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. They get massive.

Yeah. Yeah, we go out every once in a while. And you can find, I mean, you know how it is you find your huge patches and then you're very careful not to tell anyone. Oh, I know.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Man, it's such a wild area. I mean, there's so many people having sightings. And as you said, not a lot of people are talking about it. But do you think, man, I bet your forest service friend, retired forest service friend has some interesting stories. Do you think he would ever be interested in talking about what he experienced? Yeah, I talked to him today a little bit He wanted me to mention stuff He saw one That's called Gold Hill Road

Gold Hill Mountain Gold Hill Mountains up by Elk Lake And he was on a fire up there Back in the 80s He came across a cave And he said there was This weird hay Or weird hair

And smell Coming out of the cage So he walked back in a little bit And they heard a grieve row. And he said, we're on fire, so we had nowhere to go. So we ran out of there. And then they had, they camped a half mile away, had rocks thrown out of them all night. Big rocks. Man, that's, that's some wild stuff. Gold, Butte, Gold Butte lookout. But he said, I don't know if he could ever find that cave again, because they got dropped off the helicopter to fight a little fire down in there. But he, he said, I've never seen anything like that. I've never had rocks. extra not before. I said, well, I have. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago.

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Or 15 seconds to eat arreases? Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for a recesses. that's pretty cool so there is a fire is a fire tower up there yep i want to try renting it out this year it's like seven dollars a hundred dollars a night but it's booked up for seven years oh for seven years yeah oh my goodness you got to get on the list then wow yeah that would be quite a night yeah i've heard a bunch of people having sightings up by oak lake up there through a bright bush Let's see, elk lake.

Let me take a look here. I'll have to look more into that. So that is up in the bright bush area? Yep, yep. I tried getting there last week and couldn't make this to it snow. Have you ever heard anything around Bagby Hot Springs? Yeah, I have. I have a little, or some, I was talking to somebody today,

so I was something up there. They thought they got out of the hot springs and went back, with rain in the woods. Yeah, it's a weird area. I've had a few people tell me they've experienced some really strange things in that area of the hot springs. Yeah. And it's like sometimes I'm driving,

like I have cameras up in the road. It's up where I have a bunch of cameras up there, get a bunch of bears on my cameras and deer. I was driving at her last year and I was coming on a row and I smelled this weird skunk type thing. There's no skunks up that high. It's at 4,000 feet. and then my dog was in

he's looking out the window on my side by side he got right on the floorboard he's never done that before and then that day that was last year that day there was as soon as he smelled that I stopped and see what that was it was so bad

I had to cover my nose I never smelled something that worse like a skunk but ten times worse than a skunk and that time no birds nothing I stopped sending my tie-by-s off not even a sound bad odor.

I had to cover my nose. I couldn't take it. There was only one time. I went back up there next day, nothing. Do you have any thoughts about why there's so much activity in this area of Detroit and Brightbush? Well, I think it's because

there's a lot of huckleberry bushes everywhere. There's a lot of wildlife up there. A lot of deer up high, a lot of bears. A lot of rabbits, grouse. There's a lot, yeah, there's a lot of, I think there's a lot of, there's a lot of grass growing and a lot of berries everywhere.

That makes, that makes perfect sense. Yeah, perfect environment, lots of resources, a lot of water. Have you ever been to Ripplebrook before? Yeah, I drove through it. Because that's, uh, I've been absolutely. So you've driven through, have you talked to the, the rangers there? Yeah.

Nope. Okay. Gotcha. I hear that's interesting. I only, I only see that, I only see Bigfoot activity, though, from July to October. Okay. I don't know if they're moving through the area or migrating through here. I don't think they're up here in snow in winter times.

It's one of those questions. It's like, you know, do they, is there some kind of hibernation going on? Maybe they go somewhere else, you know, we just don't know yet, right? No, I don't know. Yeah. No idea where they go. I did, like, I went up last week, this wood knocks got nothing, nothing back.

I just went up, uh, French Creek Louis, did that. Gotcha. There's big mountains up there stuff. Nobody goes up there. A couple wood knocks, not a single thing. So it's a, it's a pretty, uh, I mean, when you go out there, it's just you, there's no other hunters or,

no, I should have, I never seen any, but nope. Oh, well, when I go? where my cameras are, I take myself, by and there's nobody up there. And that's, it's, there's a couple of spots just straight off, it's a thousand feet down. And there's, there's a lot of activity up there.

But I think this year, I'm going up there and spend a night up there by myself. I don't know, I'll bring a friend with me. So have you heard of, you've heard of activity happening up in that area from other people as well? Yeah, oh yeah. A lot of people that live in Detroit.

Got it. There's one guy that talked to you. will never go in the woods again after he saw one he saw one about five feet throwing him when he was hunting oh my goodness five feet away five feet away it was crouched he was walked through the woods and this thing was crouched over behind a log and then when he got close to log it thing jumped up he he said i'd never he quit hunting he didn't think these things were up here oh man he he learned that day for sure wow yeah yeah i can't imagine Like my mind just cannot comprehend that.

Do you still talk to this guy? Yeah, a little bit. Wow. He won't say nothing. He won't say nothing about it. Yeah, absolutely. No, I don't blame him. But wow, that's just, that's an incredible account.

Yeah. So you're saying most of the individuals from Detroit are having things happen up on this French Creek road. French, French Creek and Brighton Bush. Yep, makes sense. And then I think I'm trying to get a picture. My uncle had one on trail camera. Really? But his house burnt in the fire.

Oh, Jesus. And I think he has a SIM card on him. I'm going to talk to his son. I've seen the picture. It's the actual picture of Bigfoot. And like he showed a couple people and they said, well, that's got a seat. Got a suit way up in the middle of nowhere. Oh, wow.

Okay. So you've seen it. Can you describe what you saw in that picture? big black big big black one not the same area where i had the rocks thrown at me okay because he put his camera way up in the tree and had it pointing down and that thing walked right next to his camera and then it got a picture and he looked up at it was big really big wow but he's been he's been up there before my uncle has he won't talk he don't talk about it all because he's a known people i believe him stuff because i've seen it but he's like you seen one before we're just

stand there, wobbling back and forth, swaying his arms. And then he came up to, like, like, sticks stacked, like logs snapped off

and stacked like a teepee area. Like broke off. Yeah. I saw it once last year. Out there at that lake we went to. Perfect. 12, 12 inch logs completely snapped

and stuck into a tree. There's like six trees, six of them. all around the tree. I've never seen that. There's no way a human can do that. Oh, my goodness. Have you heard of anyone in that area having just weird things happen?

Like, let's say they go out and all of a sudden, like they can't move or they're moving, not, like, they feel like something else is making them move, anything like that? Yeah, it happened. Well, yeah, it happened. My other friend up there. He saw something and he said, like, just like, oh, like made me fall asleep he fell asleep and then he woke back up and said i don't know what i even saw oh man so he was just out there in the woods and it made him go to sleep yeah oh i did so last year i was up there i forgot to tell you this one last year i was up there i was up by the cooper's

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but I suspect everything happens for a recess. Like this commercial break. Did you need 15 seconds away from music? Or 15 seconds to eat a reason? Reese's. Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for Reese's. Right before dark, two yellow lights were sitting there hovering. And my friend was up there too and he took pictures and I took pictures of it too. They look like, I don't know, it's weird, they're just hovering right there in one spot. And then they're just sitting there watching them. They just vanished. They can completely see

these, that's weird. I don't know what that is. Everybody said, oh, that's a weather balloon. There's no way that's a weather blowing. Why would be two sitting right next to each other? Yeah, there's no way That's that's that's not it How big approximate did they look? Well, like when you're looking on the sky They're probably about an inch around Okay

They're like sitting in one spot though for a long time And then we took I took a picture I took a picture and I took a picture and gone Like they knew we were there or something I don't know what that was I've seen some lights up in the sky before red and orange

and everybody said well it's a helicopter drone who would be out in the middle of nowhere for the drone way at like at midnight and it seemed like these three balls circled around I don't know what those are

if those people are up way up there flying a drone around you got a few more questions for you and okay just thank you Jared for everything that you've shared

so far got a few, they're going to be really at a left field. But just based on stuff I've heard from other places. So I talked to a lot of people from down in Oakridge. You haven't heard anything from down there, right? No. Okay. But I've heard some weird stuff besides Bigfoot out of Oakridge.

I'm just curious if you've heard anything like that out of up in this area. I've had people that have reported seeing gnomes in Oakridge and also ferries in Oak Ridge. Is that anything that ever had's talked about? I've heard about that. Really? I haven't seen anything around D.TRAE, though.

Okay, so you've heard about people seeing fairies? Yeah, one of my friends, he passed away, but he saw he saw a weird, weird ferry type thing. They ever thought he was like, high on something. And he don't lie at all.

He saw it around. Somewhere, it was close to, where was it, it was over by Courtsville. Corsville or Corsville Creek over there. He saw some bird of things over there. I don't know.

That's all he told about was it South Ferry just flying around. I don't know. I don't know what those are. I've never seen one. I'll hope they want to see one pretty soon. Oh, Courtsville. That makes total sense.

Yeah, Corsville, that's another name for Green Peter Reservoir, right? Yeah. Oh, of course. Yeah, I mean, that area is crazy for big foot and weird stuff. So that makes total sense. I mean, that's where the giant door is, if you've ever heard about that.

Oh, yeah, I heard about that, too. Yeah, absolutely. You know, over the years, you're talking to a lot of people. There is another thing that sometimes gets reported to me. Have you ever heard of any individuals that feel like they have gotten any type of communication from the Bigfoot out there, like them trying to talk to them through their own. mind or anything like that? Nope, I've heard any of that.

Okay, gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. Wow. This has been just, there's a lot of information in this, Jared, and thank you for sharing about some really good specifics about the town of Detroit and Detroit Lake in that area around it. I really appreciate it. If there's ever, you know, any people you run across you're talking to and you feel

like they might need a platform to share what they've experienced. You can always feel free to, you know, pass on my email or any of my information, contact info that you have. You can feel free to pass that on to them. Yeah. Thank you for coming on for chatting today, man. Well, I'm going to try this year, I'm going to go camping. I'm going to try getting video one.

Oh, dear. I think I'm going to go that same spot where I got three rocks thrown at me and see if I get one the daytime. Oh, wow. But I've, I've never seen any babies, though, like small ones. Mm-hmm. Just usually, like, one, I've only seen one. I know there's more out there.

I know there's, there's got to be females and males, unless the males are just moving through. Yeah. But I'm going to try to get, I'm going to try to get one of a video this year. Are you using a plan to use just a phone or an actual video camera? I just my phone. Just my phone. Okay.

Well, I mean, keep me, you know, if anything happens, definitely, you know, I would love to hear an update about what happens when you go out and try that. It can get very interesting sometimes when you attempt to do that stuff. So it would be interesting to see what happens. Yeah. I'll do that. Awesome. Awesome. Well, Jared, yeah, thank you so much for chatting.

And if you ever have any questions about anything, you know, feel free to reach. out and I'll do my best to help you, but, you know, thanks for hanging out today, man. Yep, you're welcome. Yes, sir. I'll contact you if I see anything more in the summertime. Sounds great. We'll keep in touch, man.

Do you have a good one? All right. Yep, you do. Bye. Yes, sir. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Jared's experiences in the forest of Oregon are not just wild,

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