Bigfoot Society - Prospector Triggers Bigfoot Encounter Near Cave Junction, Oregon And Barely Escapes Alive

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

In this intense Bigfoot encounter episode, a veteran gold prospector shares chilling firsthand experiences from deep in the wilderness of Southern Oregon and Northern California. While prospecting for gold near Cave Junction, Oregon, Josephine Creek, and remote parts of Sierra County, Plumas County, and the American River, what began as a mining adventure quickly turned into a terrifying encounter with something powerful, intelligent, and unseen.The guest recounts being stalked, followed, screamed at, and physically shaken by heavy bipedal footsteps, describing classic Bigfoot behaviors including wood knocks, triangulation, warning vocalizations, and intimidation displays. From night encounters near campfires to daylight experiences in extremely remote terrain, this episode explores how Bigfoot activity often overlaps with isolated gold-rich areas rarely visited by humans.You’ll hear detailed accounts involving Oregon Caves, Happy Camp, Feather River Canyon, and areas near Lake Tahoe, along with discussions on Bigfoot intelligence, territorial behavior, survival instincts, and why prospectors frequently report Sasquatch encounters. This episode also dives into the emotional and psychological impact of these experiences and why many witnesses stay silent for years.If you’re interested in Bigfoot sightings, Sasquatch encounters, wilderness horror stories, cryptids of the Pacific Northwest, or survival experiences in remote forests, this episode delivers a raw, firsthand account that challenges skepticism and raises serious questions about what lives deep in North America’s wildest places. Resources:Adventure Person Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AdventurePerson007🗣️ 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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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 hi there jeremiah here editing the episode just i know there's some parents that watch this show with their kids that's awesome however if you are not wanting to have to have a discussion with your kids yet about high school uh level subjects to do with uh the human

body this might not be the episode for you uh everyone else enjoy this is a good one All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Eric Heiser today. Eric is an individual I got connected to. He's a prospector and explorer, and he's got some really interesting things to share experiences. He's had out there in California, in Oregon, and also some stories to share as well. But welcome to the show, Eric. How are you doing?

I'm doing great, Jeremiah. I appreciate you having me on the program. Absolutely. I love you've got the picture of the Patterson-Gimlin film right behind you on the wall. That's great. love it so listeners you'll have to go over YouTube so you can see that we are trying to do full video interviews when we can so I appreciate Eric doing the extra effort to make that happen today Eric I would love to hear all about what you've experienced you were saying you've been

a prospector for 15 plus years is that right that's correct that's awesome man when did you get started sometime after college I was lost and I I had been drinking a lot and then I discovered myself in the woods. I saw Tom Massey's show, the former president of the GPA Gold Prospectors Association of America, inspired me to get out there and look for gold. I started going out there looking for gold and I just found myself. And I really discovered this part of me that I didn't, I always knew I had it because I always had a passion. And I had family in the gold rush in Australia.

So I feel it was actually genetic. kind of like the reincarnation of a grandfather who is obsessed with gold, the outdoors, opals, and really hardcore adventures. That is so cool. And I think I've talked to maybe one or two that are connected to that community over the years. And, you know, I want to say prospectors and Bigfoot go hand in hand. It's just like people both really get into it. And so was there a time over those years when? And you found yourself as a prospector intersecting with the Bigfoot world or what got you connected with that?

It just happened because the best gold is in the most remote places. So the better the gold, the more likely it is you are to encounter a Bigfoot. And so this is why nearly 100% of the prospectors I know who have spent a good 10 years in these remote types of locations have absolutely had Bigfoot encounters. And so you put the time in these locations and you're really primed for an encounter too because you're in the location. You've got your head down. You're very approachable. You're staying still. You're usually painting or digging.

You're staying in the same spot. So this makes you very approachable for a big foot. And this is exactly why prospectors have the encounters they do. They're in the right location. They're doing the right thing. And they're very approachable. They're not intimidating. They don't have a gun.

They're just leaning over. They don't have a rifle looking around. or anything. They got their head down in the dirt. Absolutely. So when you first heard of Bigfoot, were you on the side where you're like, oh, it sounds like a story

that maybe the prospectors are telling me to get me scared out of certain areas? Or were you on the side of belief pretty much from the get-go? I remember when the show Finding Bugfoot came out and I think I'd already been prospecting at the time.

And a friend of mine, I was joking about the show, oh, it's so fake. And my buddies, no, Bigfoot's real. Look into it. I was like, I'll prove you wrong. So I get on the internet and I start digging. And the more I dug, the more I dug, I didn't even leave my room for a couple days. I realized, after I came out of

my room after a couple days of thorough digging, I realized, you're right. Bigfoot is actually real. There's more evidence to support that this is real than it's not. But I still have that in my head. Yeah, yeah, maybe it's not. Maybe it is. So that was that. I had enough evidence in my head. But it would be several years until I started having my own encounters. Oh, my goodness. It is really cool that your story puts you in the spot where you were able to do that research before you got thrown into it. But can you take us to a point where things really did ramp up to you and you started experiencing what Bigfoot was in real life? Yeah, things started to actually slowly escalate for me.

It was really, it's really interesting because I've had some. several encounters. And some of them I don't really count as encounters because they're gray area. But now looking back in hindsight, I can see that they probably were. And it was just this interesting escalation in each situation was different. It all started when I first started prospecting and I would be going down to this place out of Colfax, California. And actually at that same time when I was out there, there were encounters in Colfax. We're talking daytime sightings, dusk sightings of multiple individuals. So the area had activity around it. And I was aware of that because I was already aware of the BFRO having done some research. And so I had, so at that point,

I was looking, I'm like, okay, that's just interesting to know. And it was just in the back of my, I didn't really think much of it. I would go the same place every week, several times a week. I'd go down this trail that goes downriver. And it was pretty remote. I never ran into people. And so every time I went, it was like, okay, this is cool, this is fun. And there's trees alongside the path going downriver. And this was, I go down this one day and all the trees are broken across the trail. And they're all healthy trees, but they're about this thick, three, four inches in diameter. And they're broken congruently at the same place across the trail.

It was like a sign. And the moment I saw it, I was thinking, this is strange. how could this happen? And there's obviously obstructions on the path. They're congruent. They're the same height. They're all healthy trees. There's no dead trees here. So that was the first thing that had me thinking like, that's odd. I didn't attribute it to Bigfoot though. And so I went on my day, nothing happened. I came back probably some weeks or so later and I brought a girlfriend at the time and we were going upriver and this place is even more remote. And it just gets more and more remote, the deeper you go in there. And we almost, I almost never see people when I go prospecting because

this is exemplary of how remote these places are that I go to. And so we're going up river. And I still don't count this as an encounter, but I do believe it probably was Bigfoot now thinking back on it and hearing what other people say. It's really the same thing this happened to so many others. I was walking with my girlfriend. It's the middle of the day. And there's really steep hill sides on the sides of us. And there's a thick forest on this steep hillside. We're talking it's almost like straight up steep. And we have to go right past it along the edge of the river, like right along the edge of

the forest, scooting along the bedrock in the forest to get to the next area ahead. And as we're approaching the thicket, I hear whack, whack, quack. And it just happened so quickly, but it was so loud. And it was probably just 30 to 50 feet away from us on the steep hill. hillside and it was all fresh healthy trees no wind no dead anything lush beautiful and it was just completely unexplainable sound because it was like hitting a tree really hard with a bat but really quickly whack and then whack just cracking a huge tree instantly and it wasn't like er it was just whack like someone just cracked a big tree and at the time i was just like my girlfriend

and i she had no idea what bigfoot was she's from another country and we just stopped and we were terrified. Immediately we got chills because the whole forest was quiet except for that. And we just look at where the sound came from, super steep, super thick patch of forest right there, right next to us. And we're just so scared because there's no way

we could explain that type of sound. There's no way a human could make this sound. You'd need industrial equipment and have to be so well thought out and it'd take a lot of money. So that was very strange. But I still don't count that as an encounter. It wasn't until I got super undeniable situations. That's when I'm like, okay, Bigfoot has been around me.

Same girlfriend, some years later. I think I had other situations where I was with prospectors and we looked up on hillsides and I saw some, it looked like a tree shaking. And I'm like, that's really weird. But it was so obscure. I didn't really think too much of it. I was like, gosh, that's Bigfooty. And my friends, yeah, that's weird.

I remember us looking. It looked like a figure behind some brush shaking stuff. And I have video of it, but I never even analyzed the video. In fact, it's a tragedy. I never analyzed any of the video of my encounters. But that's another story. I have, people even say I have Bigfoot on video. I didn't even check.

But I'm going too soon. There's a lot of trauma associated with this. Of course. Bigfoot is terrifying. When you realize Bigfoot's around you and it's real, it's the scariest thing in the world because there's no defense. There's no protection against Bigfoot. I carry a gun, but it's not even for the Bigfoot. It's for people.

It's for scaring animals, like a noise deterrent, boom, or myself. I'm not letting you take me hostage. But I do carry a gun. I would never use it on a Bigfoot. Never, ever. I'd sooner have them kill me. So my girlfriend and I had been prospecting. who's coming with me a lot.

We started having these weird things, and I'm like, you know what? I think I got to go out there and try to having a Bigfoot encounter. So I said, you know what, let's go prospecting up in Oregon. I know some places where I can go nugget hunting. And there are also places with historic Bigfoot encounters going back to the 1800s. And that's where my Bigfoot road trip came in. Oh, man. And so I went on my first and only Bigfoot road trip,

and I went looking for Bigfoot and Bigfoot found me. And it was absolutely terrifying. But it wasn't even my most terrifying encounter. My most terrifying would happen a couple years ago. So we go, we're in southern Oregon between Cave Junction and the coast, which if you look it out on the map, there's nothing there. And we're going 20 miles west of Cave Junction on dirt roads that are so impossible to get through. And it was a maze too, because there'd be multiple forks. I had no idea where I was going.

I would just cut, take a fork, take a fork. And we're, I think we're on a branch of Josephine Creek. I think it's Jackson County. But I think it was a fork of Josephine Creek. It goes east-west, the river. And so we're following the river. I'm taking random forks. And then we come to just this little clearing area next to the river,

surrounded by forest with a big mountain on the other side of the river or creek. I'm not sure. And this mountain, when you look at it, was really interesting because it went really high up and then it plateaued and then it went further high up and it was just like a full beautiful ecosystem it had cover it had level areas it had water coming off it in different areas it was like a fully sustainable place for bigfoot to live full time and i think this is where they're living full time and why we had our encounter this area if you look it up on bfro josephine jackson county i forget which one you will find historic encounters that go back to i think they have one

of some hunter giving meat to giving venison to a large eight man that approached him. And this is in the same area of that. But incredible ecosystem. So during the day, I had a metal detector. I was mostly metal detecting. I was doing some panning. I was going through all the old mine washes, ground sluces, sampling, detecting. We started hiking up the hillside on the other side of the creek. I was making whoops. I was doing rock clacks. I was doing wood knocks. I was doing woodnocks. I was making a ruckus while I was detecting. I'd stop every once in a while, whack my flip-flops, and then continue detecting. And we got later in the day, and we were like, all right, let's camp here.

And so we had a relatively flat area right next to the river there and set up our little tent. Took us, by the way, two hours to set up and less than 10 minutes to get out. And we had all this stuff closed lines and all our stuff laid out. We had a little fire pit. and we're so I made a ruckus during the day and then I have a campfire and the sun is setting it's a pretty quiet night it's there's not really much of a breeze at all it's really peaceful and I've got this fire going and at one point we're getting close to getting ready to go to bed and this fire pit had a large trunk of metal inside of it that I wasn't aware of and somehow

I hit it with something and it was like the loudest thing in the world. It was like, oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. And it echoed for miles down this canyon. It was so loud. I was like, Bigfoot wasn't coming then. Like that literally, like they could see the campfire.

I made a ruckus during the day. There's the loud, obnoxious, metallic bang. And then on top of all that, it was my girlfriend's period. And so she goes behind the tree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why.

Yeah. So it's everything together. And in hindsight, I realized this, I could have lost her this night. 100% you could have, yeah. Because she was going to go pee at one point. And she was like, hey, could you come out with me? I was like, I'll watch you. You're only 10 feet away.

Only 10 feet away. So she goes right next to a tree about 10 feet away just behind this tree. And she pees, releasing her pheromones and the breeze is just carrying those pheromones through the canyon. This is just me in hindsight, piecing things together. goes pee and then she comes back and now I realize how dangerous it was you can't let people 10 feet away from you in Bigfoot country, especially women, especially women around their period. So I'm there. My girlfriend goes pee. We're like, okay, we're going to go to bed now or try to. So we lay down and I had in my back. I prepared for the possibility of a Bigfoot encounter. I had a GoPro.

Next to me, it had a one button mode. So I clicked the button and it would just start up within a second or two. And so I was ready just in case something happened that I would turn on the GoPro right away. And I was like, whatever it is, I'm going to encounter it. If this happens, it was very peaceful. We're laying down. I think probably about 10, 15 minutes go by. My heart's racing. I'm a little scared because we're in such a remote place.

I don't think I'd ever slept in a place this remote. It was, we're 30 miles from a town. I don't even know if they have a thousand people. Cave Junction? It's not hardly even a town. Do they even have a gas station? Maybe. I don't know. It's so small. And here we are. I don't even know how to get out of this place because I took all these forks and the huge boulders and going around stuff. It was like, this was crazy. We're deep. And like just somebody go on your map, go to Cave Junction and go 20 to 30 miles west. And you'll be like, whoa, dude. It's just scary going there. It's so wild. And once you get to where we were, you can see how green and thick it gets with the canyons. It's just such a perfect full-time ecosystem for them. So we're laying there in bed, and I'm just starting to feel like, you know what, maybe I will be able to sleep here.

This is actually really nice. And I'm listening to the forest. I'm laying on my back, which actually would be an important factor. I'm laying on my back, and I'm listening to the forest around us. There's leaf litter and twigs all through the forest nearby. And I hear what sounds like something very slowly walking in the forest. but I'm immediately trying to justify it away. I'm like, no, it's not.

It's a deer. It's a bird. Because birds can actually make a lot of noise. And they brussel around and brushes and stuff. It can throw you off. So I hear what sounds like something really big, slowly walking on the ground. Like, it's if you're slowly walking on a bunch of twigs and they're just slowly cracking, right? So I hear what sounds like an elephant trying to ninja its way through the woods.

And I'm just immediately, as it's happening, I'm going, No, it's not real. This is. It's just, it's not what I think it is. And it's like, and then it stops. And I go, okay, that was weird, but it's nothing. It's nothing. It is a deer.

There's tons of deer. They come by, they lick your clothes for salt. They get close. This is a known thing, but it wasn't like deer because hooves, they're like pitter-patter. They're not, and it'll break some twigs, but this was strange. So I'm laying there and I'm like, there's nothing. Yeah, there's nothing. and I'm like, okay, you know what?

I think I'm going to fall asleep. I'm going to fall asleep. And then, move, boom, boom, boom. And I felt it resonate the power of the stomps go through my body because I was laying on my back. I could feel the power of these stomps go through my body. And it was very obviously something that was extremely powerful, extremely heavy, intentional bipedal, unless there's two-legged elephants out there in Oregon, the most plausible thing immediately

in my head was Bigfoot is here, because what else could this be? I had already done my research. I was in a Bigfoot area. I had done everything right or wrong, depending on the way you look at it. And here I am. This thing's tiptoed. And now it justifies, oh my gosh, it was sneaking up on us. and it's very close by. It has stomped, and it was just like that. Boom, boom, boom, boom! And it just threw my body. I felt it.

It was just like I could see it with my mind, just right there near us looking at us. And I just immediately, my eyes welled up in tears, and I turned on the GoPro. And I have this video. I had it posted at one point. I took it down and old channel, but I'm going to repost it because this is the video.

Someone says I actually got Bigfoot on the video. video. Very scary situation. I turn on the GoPro and I just say in a very cracked voice, Bigfoot, he's here. I'm just so scared because I'm like, I'm going to open this tent. I hold myself no matter what I'm opening the tent. So I have the GoPro on. I have my headlamp on and I unzip the tent and I look out into the forest and I start scanning the forest from where I think the sound comes from. These trees maybe 20, 30 feet away. There's tons of of them. And I'm just looking at these trees, scanning them with my camera and my light. And I'm just overwhelmed right now. And I'm expecting there to be some thing. But there's so many trees where

this thing could hide. And we're just so scared. My girlfriend goes, I don't want to be here anymore. You hear on camera, I don't want to be here anymore. Let's leave. I want to get out of here. And we're just so scared because something's not right. Something is near us. And I had told her about Bigfoot and she was like, yeah, whatever. But at that moment, she realized we were in for more than we bargained for. And I got what I came for and I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready for this experience. I came ill prepared mentally. And I also felt like this was, I don't know, it didn't want us there. If it's going to stomp like this, it's maybe telling us to get out. But my girlfriend was scared. I was terrified. We just, we left half our camp there. I left the camera

on a log nearby with light shining on us as we take down our camp. So there's a video of us. The whole video is I get up, big foot's here, I unzip the tent, I put the camera off to the side. You see us. You can see the forest in the background with light shining into it. And for about five minutes, 10 minutes, we're just throwing stuff together, throwing it in the back the car as quickly as we can. And we just left a bunch of stuff there too. And we just jump in the car and we start heading out of there as quickly as possible. I'm still rolling the camera. You can see the drive out. And some guy swears I have a big foot on there.

It's possible I do. But I literally, even when I posted the footage back then, I didn't even go through it. I didn't even analyze the footage. Now with my better software, I could probably change levels, contrast, brightness, and just combed through there and see, is there some little thing poking out? And we were so scared. I hauled out of there and broke the vehicle getting out of there. and we get back to some tiny little crummy motel out in Cave Junction area, and we're just so full of adrenaline.

We just, we couldn't, we didn't sleep that night. It was like, oh my gosh, can you believe what happened? That was crazy. And it was exciting after the fact, but at the time it was terrifying. And then we would have several more encounters that trip, which I still don't consider encounters, but I believe they probably were. during that road trip, I would drive at night along remote forest roads, and I would drive slowly, and I would stop every couple miles. And I'd take off my flip-flops and go, whack, whack, whack,

and I would just do that. I'd do these little, and then I'd just wait and listen. And I'd go, okay, let's get back in the car. And we'd drive a couple miles. I'd stop. I'd whack, whack, whack, whack. It sounded like rock clacks. It just resonated. It was disruptive. Several times I did this, there was a couple incidents, incidences where this really caused an uproar like instantly and I can't really explain

what would make the sound or why at that exact time because there's a few times where we were near the Oregon Caves and I go whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, and almost right away it goes whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, and it was like three different directions

around me and I'm like, okay, that's strange. I think I have that on video too. And then that was strange and I couldn't get them to go again. So I held up an apple in the air because I brought all these apples and I put apples on logs nearby just as a good gesture in case they were Bigfoot. And so I did have some of those encounters like that where I had some responses for my calls. But it would be several years later until I had my most intense encounter, which was a few years ago. My goodness. I can't imagine. I'm trying to think Real quick.

Yeah, this is really intense. That is extremely intense. How was your girlfriend after all that for the rest of the trip? I'd tell you what, she was full of life after that. It woke her up to everything. I think it turned her world upside down because that girlfriend, she was from a country where one of the few countries that maybe has no Bigfoot phenomena. I have to double check, but I don't believe that part of Eastern Europe is really known for it.

and she had never heard of it she didn't believe me and she was like yeah she just was along for the ride having a good time but that was the moment where she goes okay this is probably real

something's going on and my poor wife gosh I dragged her on adventures and she's been to hell and back with me and she doesn't even really want to go to the woods after the things I've taken her through

oh wow yeah that part of southern Oregon though if you look at it it's just really the perfect corridor if I were a big foot I'd live there yeah you may mentioned Oregon Caves, and that is, that area, I believe, is well known for Dr. Matthew Johnson's citing that happened, I want to say it was maybe about 20 years ago now. So that's around the Oregon Caves

area you were talking about. And then there's all sorts of, that area where you're talking about west of Cave Junction, yeah, dude, there is, there's nothing out there. There's absolutely nothing out there and there's some wild stuff that happens so after you you're going along for the bigfoot road trip and you're hitting your flip-flops and getting responses was that the wildest thing then that happened at the end of that trip the climax of the road trip was our i think it was like our first night no it was never a second night we stayed a campground out around ashland area or Grant's Pass, actually. And then the second night is when we went out to the Josephine Creek area. And yeah, that was the climax of our road trip because feeling and hearing the power because,

okay, now I have heard and felt Bigfoot. And I just know in my head, there is nothing else this could be. I have had black bears, grizzly bears, even polar bears around me. I've had the biggest game, mount lions, you name it. I've had it very close to me. I'm aware of these behaviors and sound. This thing was powerful. I could feel it through my body. It was like it shook the forest. It shook the earth. I could feel the tremors travel from its feet through my body.

And bears, they can't even do that. They got these padded feet. They're not bipedal. They're not heavy enough. They don't have any ability to do this. So I knew immediately this was Bigfoot. And people, oh, yeah, you're biased. It's like, well, you tell me what it was.

Someone give me a good explanation. what it was. The most plausible thing is actually Bigfoot. And so I knew right away it was Bigfoot. That's why I said, Bigfoot's here. And I knew Bigfoot was right next to us at that point in time. Potentially several. Absolutely. It's tricky, I think, because I know a lot of listeners right now are probably like, oh, man, he's got video and it's just hanging out. But guys, like, when you're in a situation like this, it's very hard because going through stuff like that's very traumatic. a lot of times I totally get it. You just don't want to put yourself back in that situation. Have you ever considered maybe like a YouTube channel where other people could maybe even try to analyze it for you by watching it?

Yeah. To get back to what you're saying here, yeah, I will do that. I will repost this, but there's a few reasons. There's several reasons why I haven't. I had to take it down and I haven't put it back up. One of the reasons, just one of them is the trauma. And that wasn't even the traumatic one. That one is more so with the girlfriend. I have to edit out her voice and her likeness. Because we're no longer together. So I got to go through and really comb through it and make sure I'm not revealing the location.

I mean, whatever. I'll reveal it. At this point, it's been long enough. I don't care for that one. But the next encounter I had that I haven't talked about, this one is an extremely gold rich area. I found the best gold of my life. And now that I've said that, I definitely can't show it.

But people, they just know it. They know me. there's a missing gap in my life from the prospecting community. I stopped posting and I was focused on getting rich on gold. And that encounter, I'm spinning the camera around, revealing the location. There's monuments. You can very clearly, for prospectors, it's a small world. They know the forest well, and you could just show a little mountaintop and they'll know.

So that area is even more challenging. But if you look at my channel trailer on Adventure Person, I have a small clip from that video. and it's me, and it's very unflattering, by the way, extremely unflattering of me to show you like how serious I am that this is real. You see me looking into the camera and I'm crying and I look like crap. I got big bags under my eyes because I'm so emotional and I just say, there's a big foot right over here. And that's the only thing I've shown from that so far. And I just released that like a week ago.

And it's just part of a bigger compilation too. It's, oh, here I'm adventure person. I'm exploring. like to go do epic stuff and oh yeah i'm also into bigfoot and paranormal stuff oh yeah i'm also into this other stuff so it's just like a moment in there but a little teaser because it is something i will be pursuing potentially for the rest of my life so yeah there's a lot of reasons why i haven't showed this footage you got ex-girlfriends you have sensitive locations legal implications you have the trauma going and reliving it is intense it's hard for me to watch the footage even thinking about doing this

interview last night and brought back a lot of emotions. I started to get chills and shivers, kind of feeling like Bigfoot's hovering over me. And I just know that my quest is not done regardless. And I'm ready to embrace it now, though. And that's why I'm here. And I want to own this, and I want to share with people these experiences so they can have the right frame of mind and approach this in a serious way without getting hurt. Because I used to think Bigfoot was 100% benevolent and peaceful. But it's not true. Bigfoot is mostly peaceful, most of the time. But when you don't listen to them, like the kids in the Ural Mountains, the Diatloft Pass incident, that's what was going through my mind, the most recent encounter with my now wife.

I was thinking, if we don't leave right now, we might get killed. So when Bigfoot yells at you, especially when they scream or do anything menacing, you need to listen. I agree with you. 100% is extremely important to listen. have the right intentions out there as well. I think it's a huge part of it as well. So you've gone, you went through all of these very traumatic experiences with your girlfriend at the time. And then, but it didn't stop you. You kept going to try to figure out what is all exactly going on with this phenomenon. It sounds like things actually got more intense as you went out there to have more

experiences. Yeah, I realized at that point in time that I didn't even need to look for Bigfoot. I was going to continue looking for Gold and sooner or later Bigfoot was going to find me again and Bigfoot did find me again seven years later. I was and now I'll tell this story. This was my most recent encounter. This was right before I went on the reality show Frozen Gold, which most people probably know me for. It was shortly before going on the show. This was I think the year 2020 right? I think it was the summer of 2020. And I grabbed my then girlfriend and I'm like, we're going on an adventure. We're going to the woods. This was a location. I found accidentally. And it was unbelievable, the gold I found. It was the stuff that people dream of. I had been

looking for gold for over a decade. And I had, if you look at my channel trailer, I know what good gold is because I have pants full of nuggets and pickers. I know what good gold looks like. I have a vial of nuggets right here to prove it. And lots of gold right here just to show you. It was spectacular gold. And there's a reason why the gold was so spectacular. This area had a history of encounters. And encounters would follow my encounter as well from friends who went to the same location.

And they didn't know about my encounter either. They told me. And then I don't even know if I told them. They just told me and I'm like, wow, that's crazy. They went to the same area and had encounters. and they were chased out like I was. So when you go to this place, I'll tell you, it's in Sierra County, California. And you look at Sierra County.

It's like the thickest woods, some of the thickest woods in California, some of the biggest mountains, some of the thickest woods as a whole, as a county. And so we're out there in deep Sierra County. This place is so remote. We're talking, I don't even know the closest town. You're so many hours from the closest town. And they're not even towns. They're just like Cave Junction.

Like tiny little. I'm sorry, people of Cave Junction. I'm sure I don't know enough about Cave Junction. I was just looking at it. It still doesn't look very big. It looks really small. So we are so remote. We're going on this dirt road for a long time.

I had only been to this location once. It was so overgrown. And I have this video of me driving out there. And these big branches going over the car. And I'm just like, wow, people are not going. out here and I even say something, I'm like, wow, it feels like we might have a Bigfoot encounter out here. Gosh, that's crazy. Wow, this is a good place for Bigfoot. And actually before we left for the trip, I had a sensation. And I couldn't put my finger on the sensation. I was like,

something's going to happen this trip. I don't know what. And I had learned to understand these emotions to the point where I could tell how the trip would go. I would just in my mind put things, ideas and I'd hover over the idea and if I started to get the hair on my neck I'd say that's what's going to happen. I never thought about Bigfoot but I was like am I going to get injured? Am I going to find gold? Is someone with a gun going to threaten me like has happened? And it's like, no, I think I'm going to be okay, but something weird. Like I just had this unnerving feeling before I even left and I'm like something feels weird about this trip. So here we are. We're going through the forest and I'm getting that sensation again. I'm getting that I'm, I'm,

starting to get scared. It's the middle of the day, but because of how remote it is, I'm starting to get scared. And I'm seeing how overgrown the road is. And I've been on remote roads that are still groomed. But this one was not groomed at all. Huge branches and brush all through the road. And we get to this area where I had been preparing for this, by the way, for years. I've been preparing for this moment to mine this gold for, I don't know, three years since I found the gold. Because I needed the right equipment and the equipment needed to be special made for that location and that material. And so, okay, I've got the equipment. It's in the back of the car. We're going to get the gold of our lifetime. You won't believe how rich this is, babe. Oh, this is going to be

awesome. So I want to go down there and sample one last time before I get the equipment out of the car. So like, all right, we've parked the car. We're in a little clearing about 100 feet in diameter. And everything else is just thick forest and mountains for miles. There's creeks that converge around us. Like, middle of bisecting creeks and then there's like a rugged road off to the side so we go down towards the creek we get to this hidden location i don't want to reveal too many details because prospectors are smart they can figure this stuff out no absolutely and so we're big footers so yeah definitely be careful so i don't want to reveal exactly it's really easy to reveal the location eventually i probably just will i'll just say screw it i'll just dump the footage and you guys go have it out

go good luck with that gold and this goes to show you like how serious it was because i haven't been back and i'm terrified to go back so we're going down this hillside and the place for the gold is very specific if i hadn't gotten this one pan i went to realize how spectacularly rich the area was everything else didn't pan out that well there some flakes here and there that you wouldn't think much of it i probably did a hundred pans in the area over my first trip with a buddy and so when i came back with my wife, here we are, and we go, it's the place where the gold is, it's like you have to go in there. It's, it's a cave. It was a cave. It wasn't, it was a cave and it was hidden. It was really hard to find. And you could look for the cave and not find it. It was up on a hillside shrouded by brush.

But when you open up the brush, boom, there's a cave. And I was looking for the cave. I had been there once before. I couldn't even find it. It took me like an hour or so. I was passing it multiple times. That's how hidden this cave is. And so I'm like, all right, cool. Let's go in there. Go in the cave. And it's like really dark and lots of rocks and slimy and just full of water puddles and stuff too. The groundwater seeping in there. And you're sloshing through water and mud. And I get in there and I hike into the cave. It goes deep, this cave. I didn't go to the end. had hiked in a couple hundred feet and it's just so dangerous in there. So slippery. There's a lot of sharp stuff. It's crazy. And so I'm like, I just want to verify the gold is where I thought it was.

The verify, double check that it's as good as I remember before I get the heavy equipment out of the car, hike it down the hill, hike it in the cave. This is going to be a big painting. So I'm like, all right, babe. Like I did the pan. I'm like, boom, thousands of colors, just exploding with gold. when you get the right layer of the material. Because I had sampled even in the cave and there's nothing. But then there's this one handful of material I found hidden in the muck. And in the muck hidden in between layers was a layer of really dense clay. And I took the clay and I'm rubbing it and working it.

And it was just I'd never seen so much gold. We're talking like tens of thousands of pieces of gold. You call them color, right? It was insane. It was absolutely insensitive. It was old-timer stuff we're talking about here. And I'm like, wow, I was so excited. This is spectacular.

I had found lots of good gold and deposits, but this was something else. Like, this was something that could make you rich. And I'm like, all right, it's here, babe. We're doing it. We're getting this stuff out of the car. And so we got out of the cave. We get out of there. And we're hiking back up to, we have to hike out of the area.

and we're actually parked on top of the mountain. The cave was a bit below on the mountain. And so unfortunately, I've already revealed this location. Some people are going to figure it out, and they'll probably. But at this point, I don't even care because I want them to just, I just hope that I'm worried about the Bigfoot more than anything, to be honest with you. Because I know a lot of people don't have the respect that you and me have for them. They'll just be like, ah, screwed, it's a monster.

And you're shooting at it. It's like, come on, man. that's like shooting a person, man. So I have a lot of respect for him. So we're heading out of the cave and we're going back to the car and just as we're cresting the top of the hill to go towards the

meadow, that's when I hear the first sound. And it's before I tell you the sound, let me tell you, when I was a kid, I was in Costa Rica sleeping on the Turtle River, El Rio Tortuguero, and it was in the jungle, and I was with my dad. And at nighttime, we heard

the howler monkeys. And And so I remember exactly with the howler monkeys. Sound like I have that whole encounter on video with the howler monkeys. And this was so much like a howler monkey. And so the moment we're cresting up the hillside, I hear, and it was just so intense, so loud and projected right towards us from right behind us. Maybe, I don't know, 100 feet or something. And it sounded just like that.

It sounded just like an extremely loud. it deep howler monkey. And I had heard Bigfoot recordings. I didn't hear anything like this even. But it was obviously ape-like. You could hear it. It was very, it sounded a little monkey, but with the depth of the power of an ape. It just, and then had the raspy end. And the second I heard it, my wife and I just look at each other, and I got the chills. And the timing of it was perfect, too, because we were cresting the hillside about to get to the level area back to her car. that's like the human area right that's where maybe if humans go to the area that's where they park right so i'm like wow the timing of that was weird too so a few seconds go by and i'm like first i'm like

that was a big foot then i tell my girlfriend like no it's nothing is our imagination dog it's just a person i don't know i just shrugged it off i'm like it's not real no there's no bigfoot here then it happened again and i'm like this sounds like big foot that sound like big foot and i'm like okay I shrug it off. I go back to the car and the forest goes quiet and we're like, okay. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, let's just think for a minute. So I get out of sandwich and I start eating a sandwich. The sun's starting to set and I have to make a decision quickly. I have to decide, are we staying here and mining and sleeping here? Are we leaving? And I still wasn't convinced that we had a big foot. And so I start eating the sandwich and I'm like, no, it's a dog. Someone's out here with their dog. And I try. try to convince myself that it's a dog, even though it was very clearly an ape on a PA system turned up to max. You know, like, you know, and so I'm like, to try to convince myself that this wasn't a dog, I go, you know what, I'm going to go, I'm going to sing. So I get up on this log that's three feet tall. I stand up on top of it with my sandwich, and I'm like, I start singing some song from the radio. It was like some cheesy pop song. And my voice bellows through the canyon. I can hear my voice.

just echoing so well through the canyon. I'm like, wow. And just as I start singing, it erupts again. It just ro! And then another one, because this one I'm hearing is this direction. And then another one over here. My wife looks at me and I start to tear up. I'm like, oh my gosh.

She's like, I think you pissed him off. Oh, my. I think I just accidentally antagonized Bigfoot. But at that point, I realized something is totally not right. And then the rest of it just everything went so quickly from there. The sun was setting very quickly. I'm looking at my wife. She's scared.

I'm scared. There's these strange sounds in the woods. There's obviously ape. And then I just set in motion a series of events where there's, and then I'm like, I have my camera rolling. Unfortunately, my phone was in a case, in a thick case. that's completely covered. So it totally screwed up the audio.

Granted, even people with parabolic mics say that, I don't know about parabolic mics, but a lot of audio systems don't record Bigfoot. Like, I think you need a very high-end setup to really capture anything that's close to what you actually heard in the field. So I can hear the bass, but when I've listened to the audio, I can barely hear it. I need to try to boost it and see what I can do, but I don't know.

So I'm sitting there, I've got my camera. I'm like, this is crazy. I'm so scared. At that point, I'm starting to. My head's just racing because things are going so quickly. I have to make decisions. If we're going to leave, we have to leave quickly because the sun's setting. I don't even know how to get out of this place.

There's no internet connection. The GPS doesn't work. And I hear it, roo, row. And then behind us. And I can feel them. There's a triangle around us. I'm like, and then I can hear them moving. It's roo.

And now that one over here is over here. The one over here is over here. They're moving so quickly. So the one that was maybe, let's call it, 500 feet up the creek this way, a few seconds later, it's 500 up the creek this way. Either that or there's so many of them, but there's at least three of them. And they were forming a perfect triangle around us. The one part that I wasn't hearing noise was the exit, the place we were supposed to, the place we came in, the little rugged road. And so things just were getting crazy. They were just screaming insane. And they were just, they were moving. And it was getting louder and they're getting closer. And I just look at my wife, I realize at that point, this is, we're not, I'm not mining today. There's no way I'm going to mind today. That was out of the question. At this point, I'm like, I have an opportunity to get a video of Bigfoot. And there's a little game trail that went down to the creek. It was like a hundred foot drop. And I was like, if I run down there quietly on the heels of my feet, I can run like a ninja. I might be able to catch it off guard. And so. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to run down real quick, babe, and I'm going to catch it off guard. Come on, follow me. I love her, but she's not very fast.

She's not nimble. She's not an outdoors person. She didn't grow up running on rocks through rivers and creeks. She grew up in another country and a city. So I start running down this road and I realize there's no way my girlfriend can keep up with me. She's terrified. I'm about 50 feet down this game trail trying to cut off the big foot where I believe they are at the creek. and I feel like I'm really close.

And I just realized, oh my gosh, I'm so worried about her. And I jog back up really quickly and I look at her and she's just, she's so scared. She's sweating. She's covering dirt. She doesn't know. And I'm just like, I can't leave her here. She can't keep up with me. And then I started to get these images of the Dietitlaf Pass incident because I had seen the

autopsies and three people were bludgeoned to death by unknown forces, which were most likely a bigfoot or several bigfoot. And I realized, okay, those kids were warned and they didn't follow the warnings. They were warned by the locals. The native people in the area warned them. They go there. We don't go there. That's for them. If you go there, you expect to be killed. And especially if they warn you and those kids were warned, they had encountered a big foot. They even had a photo of one. And so that was the last photo they had, the kids that the Diet left pass. My point is that they were warned by the locals and they were warned by the Bigfoot. And they didn't heed the warnings, and they all died.

And this was the biggest mass murder of Bigfoot probably that we know of. And nine people died. Three murdered by Bigfoot. The rest were terrorized and forced into exposure deaths. So I'm having that go through my head. I'm looking at my poor girlfriend. I'm like, if I was there with a guy who was into Bigfoot and he'd be like, yeah, let's go to the creek. But she couldn't keep up.

She was just so scared. I felt so bad. I'm like, she's my responsibility. Like, I can't leave her here. And I'm just like, babe, we got to get out of here. We got to get out of here. These things are screaming at us. They're closing in on us. The sun is setting. And we jump in the car. And I'm just fish tailing and freaking crashing into rocks. And I just start high tailing it out of there. And I'm just so scared. It took us forever to get in here. And we're taking these roads. I'm trying to use the GPS. But the signal comes in and out. And I felt like we're making progress getting out of the area. This was the scariest thing. This was like a nightmare. We thought the nightmare had. ended from all these terrible sounds triangulating around us. But as we're leaving, we drive for an hour through the dark, thick woods with brush

through our car. And I stopped the car and we're exactly where we were an hour ago. No way. Oh, no. Oh, no. What the heck did that happen? There's no way that could have happened. It was like, we're in a time warp.

I'm like, this is crazy. And it was such a scary thing because we knew, like, they were in the area and they could jump out to the car, they're going to jump in front of us. I'm like, this is such a nightmare. We just drove for an hour. We're running the long gas. We're terrified. We can barely see the road. It's so overgrown. And here we are exactly where we were an hour ago, driving through all these roads, taking cut, cut, cut, cut, driving through these scary, dark forest roads. And here we are exactly where we were one hour ago driving in these woods. It was the scariest thing. We thought we were going crazy. It was like we went through a freaking portal.

And we just wound up right back where we were. And I had never had that happen to me because I have a pretty good sense of direction. This has never happened to me in the woods. So I'm not going to attribute that to Bigfoot, even though they're known for these anomalies of time and things like that. I'm not going to jump to that conclusion, but I will say it was very strange that after driving for an hour, I wound up exactly where I was. I don't know how that happens. Yeah, absolutely. So then I drove another hour and a half, two hours, and we weren't there anymore.

And then we got onto some road we recognized. And that was it. Oh, my goodness, dude. But how, let me ask you this, Jeremiah. And because I know you've interviewed a lot of people. You've heard a lot of stories. I've never heard or read of an encounter where Bigfoot make that kind of sounds like this kind of like monkey. monkey-esque howler thing i know they've screamed at people but it seems rare doesn't it that they

scream at you it happens to be honest it did happen it happened to me in the williamette national forest two summers ago it is kind of rare the whole um uh howler monkey i've heard that from witnesses not so much on the show and it's i don't hear it a lot but that is it's a good it's a good example of what it can of what it can sound like absolutely yeah yeah i mean it had the depth and the power of what people described like a lion or something like it has the kind of guttural has a quick bit like a lot of times it'll be like a longer the longer ones you hear this more they go but this was totally different this was very more primate-esque it was just you know had that raspy as a deep gutteral to a raspy end

And it was really loud. It was super loud. So I felt like this was a warning for us, a clear warning. We don't want you here. Get out. I'm thinking of Diatloff Pass. And I'm like, we might get murdered. We won't survive that. I'm definitely not mining. I'm definitely not sleeping. I don't have Bigfoot equipment to cast or record them. I don't have forward looking in for red equipment. I wasn't ready for anything. I wasn't ready to mine. I wasn't ready for Bigfoot. I wasn't ready to sleep there. So it was like, We just have to leave for our lives. That's what we did. But you know what? So sometime after my encounter, it was not long. It must have been only a matter of weeks. A couple close prospector, actually was a close friend of mine.

He bought and sold claims. He still does it. He told me a story. Gosh, I keep revealing the location more and more. It's all good. Whatever. I just hope that they have respect for Bigfoot and don't shoot it. If they do find this,

I just hope that people recognize that they are dangerous. There's tons of them. If you do shoot one, there's still several there to back them up. You're probably not going to escape with your life. If you do, you're a godforsaken murder and everyone's going to hate you who knows that Bigfoot's real because you've shot essentially a person. Just keep that in mind. But I want people to know that before I get into this. So other people had encounters in the same area.

It was this guy tells me a story. I hadn't even told him my story. And he goes, yeah, I sent these guys to look at a close. in this canyon and they had to leave because something was like screaming at him and throwing stuff at him and he says they think it's bigfoot he laughs it off all those crazy guys oh my gosh and i'm like i didn't tell him anything but i'm like wow i was in the same canyon i had the same thing happened to me and i believe there there are historic encounters in the area in bfro database there's a couple and these are And gosh, it's, and then there was, so you have a history of encounters going back to the 1800s, and then you have my encounter, and then you have people right after me who had encounters.

And they're all intimidating encounters. For me, that says, obviously they want you out, but they want you out for a reason. You're intruding on their resources. You're in their backyard. You're in their living room. It's where they hunt. They eat their food. They recreate, whatever.

That area did have encounters after me as well. In fact, one of the encounters, it was, yeah, this guy hurt himself trying to run away from the big foot. He like broke his ankle or something. Oh, man. Wow. Yeah. And get this. After my first encounter in Oregon were the boom.

I saw my time. I told two prospector friends of mine, my friend Eric and my friend Sam, God bless him, Sam. And they laughed at me. We were about to go on some hike to go get gold deep in some canyon in Placer County, California. We went to this place all the time together. And so I told him about the encounter, I think is at the end of the day. And they go, oh, you're so full of crap. Bigfoot's not real.

Bigfoot's not real. And I'm like, all right, fine. I don't care what you guys think. But just promise me that if you guys have an encounter, you give me a call. And guess what? Less than three months later, I got that call. And I'm jealous, but I'm happy it happened to them because they were so skeptical of me. They were hiking out of this canyon that we had been to all of us several times.

We were going there just about every week. and they were hiking out of the area, the sun's going down, there's this trail, and there's a, on one side is a cliff, like this steep, and it's just full of thick Manzanita. And then there's a little trail, and then there's a thick, full of Manzanita, so thick, you're not going a foot into that thing. So it's impossibly steep on both sides, way too thick with Manzanita on both sides. And these guys are hiking out of there, and all of a sudden,

a nine-foot ape man walks right in front of him and crossing the trail. And it just goes up, the super, the impossibly steep just pops up. It takes like a step across the road and takes another step and it disappears in the Manzanita. And they saw it clear as day, maybe 300 feet in front of them. And they were so scared because they had to pass where it was. And where it went into was like the thickest part of the forest too. And it was just so thick with Manzanita. we're talking like as big as Manzanita can get, as thick as they can get, you can't see into it.

I mean, that stuff is so sharp, it'll cut you open. So they saw a big foot, and he didn't want to say, you're right. I didn't need to hear it. I knew I was right. Because I was just happy he saw it, and he knew something was up. And keep in mind, me and this guy had seen something up on a hillside, shaking a bush, a figure. And even then I wasn't saying, oh, it was Bigfoot. It was Bigfoot.

It takes a lot for me to say, for sure, that's Bigfoot. those guys saw it, but also a friend from Oregon who was a prospector. We'd been talking regularly. And this guy grew up in Oregon, Southern Oregon, and I talked to him. And we were talking about prospecting. I said, man, I had this big foot encounter. And he goes, yeah, I'm not going to say it's not real, no, because most my friends have had encounters, but it's probably real. I don't know. And I said, you know what? Just tell me when you have an encounter, because I believe you will, because you're a prospector in Southern Oregon. Just give me a call. Could you? And he goes, yeah, sure. Guess what? A couple months later, I got that call.

And he goes, bro, you're right. He's real. He walked right in front of my car in the middle of the day. He was driving on some forest road or something and right across in front of his car. Just and he was looking at it for 10 seconds. He's just so in shock. And he's just watching this thing and he's going through the trees. He's like, yeah, dude, I saw a big foot. I'm like happy for them.

but I will say another reason why I didn't share these encounters is because I felt like they weren't good enough. I felt like I didn't have Class A and I feel like there's definitely huge emphasis on Class A and some people don't want to hear from you if you have out of Class B. They're like, we don't care. We put more emphasis on what we see. I felt it with three senses. Someone who just saw it had one sense. I heard it. I felt it. Okay, maybe just two cents. Okay, because I felt to go through my body and I've heard its power from its voice. I've heard the power of its footsteps. But, and yeah, I may have seen one, but it wasn't like clear.

So this is another reason why I haven't shared it until now is because I'm like, I'm maybe a little ashamed or something. Like you get all these people with class A's and I'm like, I didn't have a class A, but I felt like I had good class B encounters that were totally legitimate. Yeah, I, there's a, a lot of people in the community that'll be like, oh, he didn't say anything. Man, I know some shows that are like, it's only class A's. But see, the thing is, like, I do this show so that people have been infected, even if they just heard something. And a lot of times people just need a place to share

what they've experienced to people that aren't going to make fun of them. And that's why I do this show. But Eric, would you ever want to get to the point where you would have a visual site? Have you had that discussion internally? Absolutely. I think I've gone back and forth about dedicating myself to that. And I'm finally at the point where I say, you know what? I'm ready to do that. I'm ready to postpone all my gold stuff and focus full time on getting my class A.

So that way I can tell people I've heard him, I felt them, and I've seen him. But for all the class A's I haven't had, my people I know have had. And it's just crazy. It just, there's so many stories of other people I know. There's my two friends who didn't believe me. There's the Oregon guy. And then check this out. This area along the American River, very remote area, a prospector friend in mine,

we were talking regularly and he had just gotten on to really good gold. He had just found a 10 gram nugget with his buddy. It's beautiful. And they just found the nugget. and all of a sudden something up in the woods above them on the hillside starts screaming and throwing trees down on him and I believe he had the visual of a large figure and it was throwing giant logs down in their direction and they never went back ever and this was the best gold they found I'm telling you about the best gold I ever found and I haven't been back and this was life-changing gold

I'm terrified to go back. Like, they warn me. They're going to kill me if I go back. They warn me once. Like, why would I go back? Gold's not worth your life. Granted, I thought, like, I could go back and get evidence. And I would do that, but it's got to be the right person.

I don't have that right person. I'll go back with a Bigfooter who's, yeah, I love and respect Bigfoot. If they are too aggressive, we'll leave. Just the same kind of mindset that I'm going to have going into it. But at the same time, I go, I don't know to just go somewhere and start friends. I know there's plenty of bigfoot around here. And I know there are because I have so many more encounters that I haven't been told, including this friend of a friend, he's a hiker explorer.

Somewhere, he actually really didn't want to give away the location. So I'll respect him. Let's just say it's near Lake Tahoe. It's very close to Lake Tahoe. He was hiking along the ridges of Lake Tahoe, and he came across a cave. And out of the cave came a big foot. it walked right out. And he saw things like things hanging up, like pieces of deer meat and stuff like that

or something. And he saw a big foot. And it chased him out of there. And he doesn't like talking about it. Doesn't like revealing details. Wow. Because he's actually, and you'll see this a lot, which I'm sure you've seen a lot. It's really funny is people are really protective about the big foot.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. During my. Yeah. During my road trip, my Bigfoot road trip, I stopped at Happy Camp, totally out of the way. But it's such a great place to go. And so I interviewed the people at the person who owns the general store. They collect all the encounters.

They're like you. And so this person had all these encounters from people in the area. And there are people there who are feeding the Bigfoot, leaving them apples and having some form of interaction. It wasn't like, here's an apple they hand it. They leave it hanging from a tree. and they see him come and get it at night. And these people, some of them have Bigfoot sleeping in their property. Like they see them sleeping there.

These are just some chill, whatever, elderly people just like feeding the birds. And they're like, they respect and love the Bigfoot so much that they don't want to go on camera. They don't want to get interviewed and they won't tell you where they live. And so I quickly learned that. And I've experienced that for myself because I have reverence for Bigfoot. And they're pretty good at taking care of them. themselves, but I know that there are people, malicious people, who could potentially kill them or harm them. And it always bugs me when I hear people shooting them. I always hate hearing that

because I feel like it doesn't do any good. Just all you did is ruin the life of this thing that don't want you there. It's like, you break into my living room and then you shoot me. But I'm like, get out of my house. I have found that to be the case. And then family, friends and people I've met who have had encounters and they didn't even know they had encounters. For example, my dad was telling me like, oh, begfoot's not real, son. Why are you doing this? Why are you wasting your time?

And I'm like, Dad, I bet you've had an encounter and you don't even know it. For example, maybe you're in the woods one time and you just heard some sound or a rock or something. I'm like, Dad, was there any time in the woods ever in your life where you heard something that you couldn't put your finger on? And I just waited. And I saw him and he's thinking. And then all of a sudden he started to get teary eyed. started to cry. And he does not cry. I never see my dad cry. And he starts to cry. And he goes,

and he tells me a story. I only heard that one time. I somehow got him into it. He recalled something from when he was five years old. He was in the woods with his father. Idaho, I think it was, deep woods. And they were hunting. His father was asleep, snoring really loudly. And he's there wide awake and he hears this really loud, terrifying scream. So I play for my dad sounds recordings of Bigfoot and he just, he says, turn that off. I don't want to hear it. And he gets so emotional. I knew I hit a nerve. It was one of these recordings, I forget the name of it. It was like the Ohio one where it's like, roe. Mm-hmm. Sure. Because what he explained was this like loud, guttural, projecting long, sustained roar, which is really indicative of, I think, this intimidation roar that they have,

which they have a recording of. And I just hit the nail on the head. And he got so triggered. And to this day, I haven't heard this story again. But I believe my dad had a big foot encounter didn't even know it. It was deep in his brain. And I picked that out. And the better one I heard was a girl locally working at grocery outlet. This high school girl is 16 or something. Grew up in this place. I live now, Dayton, Nevada. And I'm talking to her. I don't know how it got out. I'm like, yeah, I'm like going out in the woods doing crazy stuff looking for paranormal stuff or something. I don't know how it came up. But she's like, yeah, I was at the cemetery last week with my friends and we were like hanging out. And it was dark and something was like chasing us out of there. And I'm like, interesting.

So I started asking questions. Could you see its outline? She goes, yeah, I saw a really dark outline. I'm like, they're at a cemetery. So I'm thinking, is it a shadow person? Let's rule out shadow person. Okay. When it chased after you, did you hear it stomping? Did you hear its footfall? She goes, yes. Ding, ding. Okay, this thing was like nine feet tall, very big, loud footfall, and right behind her was a huge mountain full of caves. That mountain is right behind me. It's a mountain with man-made caves and natural caves. The place is so rugged, people who try to go up there in a Jeep flip. I know a guy who had to flip two jeeps going.

This is how rugged this mountain is. It's almost impossible to get up. And I can't wait to do some investigations there and look for caves. But I believe that this girl had an encounter with a big foot and she didn't even know it. My goodness. So, yeah, you literally have places you can go to in your back. yard. Yeah. In fact, this claim I was looking at buying a couple years ago, the guy who is selling the claim was looking at claims in the same area. And it was the middle of the day,

he was with his partner and the guy selling the claims. And they're in the edge of the woods in Plumas County, middle of the day, a little clearing area where people are mining. And they're talking about the claim and the ground. And all of a sudden, something starts screaming at him from the woods and they're so scared they pack up and they get out of there and they don't get the claim. And so literally every single person I know who's been looking for gold for a period of time in the deep woods has had an encounter. It's those who have had an encounter and those who have not yet had an encounter. And usually they don't have it because they're unlucky or they just, they're in the wrong places, they're doing the wrong things. They're not everywhere. You just

you've got to be in the right place, the right time. But if you spend enough time in the deep woods, they'll come find you. It's just a matter of time. Like we were saying earlier, the gold and the bigfoot, they're in the same place. Yeah, 100%. The untouched gold is in remote canyons where you can't get cars. And those are the same places where Bigfoot live. Like remote places of the Feather River canyon, for example, there's a lot of encounters out there. It's along the PCT, the heavily forested, most remote section of the Feather River, they're all over the place. I actually believe they're way more extensive than we think. Like someone I know has seen the bones of the red giants at the Lovelock Museum decades ago. Now, they since removed those bones from exhibit. Exactly. And someone

has reported seeing what appears to be a red giant from the cave that the Indians had a battle with these apes. I'm sure you're aware of this. The natives in the area and the apes, the, what do they call them? The red giants were abducting the Indians and they had what they called a war. One of the many wars between Bigfoot and natives throughout the U.S. So they tried to burn, smoke them out, burn them down. And if you look at the evidence, they have giant like tools, huge like flip flops and stuff. Like I don't know if they're flip flops, but woven, braided, like sandals that are like huge. So there's a lot of evidence to back this up. There were bones.

I believe there still may be bones associated with those red giants from the cave. They went in there and they found bones. But now the bones aren't on display anymore in Lovelock for some reason. They're just, that place doesn't display them. I've heard that as well. It's very strange. Why would those be taken away? Who knows?

Maybe someone has an idea. But, may, Eric, you're really going after it. I cannot even imagine where things are going to take you next. It sounds like pretty close to where you're at, but you are going to be going. after it. It's so amazing you are going to put the gold the gold digging on hold

until you get what you're looking for regarding Bigfoot. That is cool. The truth is that when I look at these two things going to get rich on gold, which I've done, I did eventually succeed in getting spectacular gold, just not

there. I see gold as a selfish activity because it's, I'm getting gold for me. Oh yeah, you can watch me or whatever, but that's still a selfish thing. But going out there to seek the truth that betters mankind, the knowledge of us, our existence, and this unknown ape primate of the woods, that is so much more of a noble quest. And to me, it's one of the most fascinating things in the world. I do believe Bigfoot's more or less always going to be there and the Goldwill too. But for me, I have unfinished business. And now I think I've been reawakened because I started reading

this book by Meldrum. And for people who haven't read this, Meldrum is too scientific to say it, but this is proof of Bigfoot. If you know nothing about Bigfoot and you read this book, it has so many layers of evidence and proof that Bigfoot is real. Undeniable, unhoxable evidence. Granted, I was pretty much aware of a lot of stuff in there, but there's so much in there I was not aware of. even more layers of credibility, of science, of analyses, of these events, situations, tracks. People don't even realize Patterson Gimlin had tracks associated with it, too. So even if you could do the impossible and recreate this highly sophisticated suit,

which we still don't have the technology to create, you still can't create the casts. Nobody can create a cast. No one. We don't have the ability to replicate the detail of these casts. love that book. It stirred it back in me and that's where I'm talking to you again. I'm like, you know what? I got to finish what I started. I don't know if there's an end to this quest, but certainly seeing a Bigfoot, I'm tired of people downplaying my encounter. If I were to tell someone, I know they're going to downplay it because did you see it? Dude, I guarantee if anyone was

with me, they would know that at very least it was something they couldn't explain, but most likely they would attribute it to a big foot too because it's easy to just be on the armchair quarterback ah that's not big foot right exactly you be in the tent with me and you feel this power going through your body you hear the screams projecting at you the speed the sounds the shaking like all these things combined like you can't replicate this it's real bigfoot is real and this is real so i know i have to see one and i actually believe it's not hard to see one too I believe there's a lot of them out there. Most of the time they have to want you to see them

from what it seems they usually let you. Sometimes they get caught off guard. Let me say another thing. I was on this reality show Frozen Gold and we were more or less all prospector, some of us not so much. But we had all spent our lives in deep remote locations. And I believe there's one person I didn't ask about it, but everybody but one person I know had been,

Bigfoot encounters. No way. Wow. And during the whole side thing, when we were in Greenland, we had so many other paranormal encounters. It was crazy. Oh, my. So literally, this one person was in Oregon, lived in Oregon when she grew up and she saw Bigfoot twice. And then these twins on the show, they had an encounter and they didn't know it.

I had to explain to them that they did because they were going into this location and then they smelled like an on-off switch of trash. It was like, boom, all of a sudden, wet dog trash. The same thing everyone says. It smelled like a wet dog. It smelled really pungent. And they heard these like weird whistles and stuff. And I'm like, you had a Bigfoot encounter. You didn't even know it, but you've had an encounter. That's exactly totally exemplary of what Bigfoot do. They have this musk gland. They can turn it off like a switch. And that's what they had happened where it was like And these people were super sensitive. Like they've had so many paranormal encounters.

And I think these people lend themselves to these types of encounters too. And so they had the sensation. And then there's the trash smell and they had the whistles. And then this other guy almost hit one with his car. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, the river half guide, Christian, that dude was, I don't know where he was driving. He lives up in, he lives in way northern California, like around weed or something like

that. Oh, my Shasta, yeah. Yeah, somewhere around there, I think. And he says he almost hit one with his car. I don't. Yeah, absolutely that area. Yeah. So literally, everybody who spends their time in the woods prospecting, they get encounters. It's just such a perfect combination to have a Bigfoot encounter. Eric, I love it. This is an incredible conversation. It's really opened my eyes even more so to the world of prospecting and Bigfoot. Thank you for sharing your accounts and your stories on the show.

Please keep us up to date with your quest to get more information and to have that visual in the future. And can you share a little bit about how people can, you've got the channel that just started up so people can check that out. And you had mentioned that earlier. I'm trying to, this is more of a lifestyle channel. I've got, I've started like 12 channels over the past 15 years. And I just keep trying different stuff. and it's not a Bigfoot channel. I don't know if I want to commit to a Bigfoot channel.

This is an adventure channel. I go out, I have adventures of all sorts, including gold, Bigfoot, or just cool animal encounters, swimming with sharks, hanging out with grizzly bears or rattlesnakes. So it's not a Bigfoot channel, but I do plan on having a percentage of Bigfoot content ongoing. I do feel like at this point, I want to just put it out there and say, look, this is why Bigfoot's real. Here's my encounters.

but it's not a Bigfoot channel. So people can hit me up if they want, and I will be doing Bigfoot content. And I'm definitely going to hit you up when I see one. You call. I'll say it right back to you. I think the best story ever of Bigfoot personally, I think is of a prospector,

and that's Albert Ostman. Oh, sure, yeah, classic. That's the best story there is. And the information he gave in there, people not know how many details he gave that predated modern primatology that was then corroborated by Jane Goodall's findings with the chips. Things like the size of their penis and what it looked like. And people are like, oh, Bigfoot, big dick, no. Bigfoot has a very small penis, just like the gorillas.

Because if you had a large penis, huge swinging balls, it's going to get caught in those manzanita. So they have a big time in he, I believe. And he saw things like that. He details the smell of the breath, like honey and then there's some signs behind that as well but Albert Osman that was real he was a prospector carried off in the night in his sleeping bag people who haven't seen that encounter they got to look that up I think he even attested to it on his deathbed as I recall yeah it's signed affidavit as well yeah it's a classic you can read about it bigfoot encounters.com has it on there you can find it in a few books too yeah it's a very good one but Eric man thank you so much for

hanging out. I'll have the link to the channel, your channel in the show notes for this episode so people can check that out if they want. And yeah, keep us in the loop. And thank you so much for coming on today, man. Hey, I appreciate what you're doing, Jeremiah. Thank you for having me on here. I appreciate it. 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 or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet. If you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground,

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