Bigfoot Society - Researcher Uncovers Bigfoot Evidence in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau That Changes Everything!

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

Dive deep into the mysterious world of the Southern Cumberland Plateau with Bigfoot researcher and author of Bear Mountain Bigfoot, Randy Hutchings. In this gripping episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron explores unheard encounters, terrifying attacks, and mind-bending evidence that redefine what we know about Bigfoot in Tennessee.From a 1960s horseback attack at Hills Creek, to lost items mysteriously “returned” on White Buffalo Mountain, and chilling juvenile Sasquatch sightings, Randy shares decades of research and personal field reports from one of America’s most active cryptid hotspots.Resources: Randy’s first episode on Bigfoot Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkUcr8dhZgEBear Mountain Bigfoot: The Case for Sasquatch on the Southern Cumberland Plateau: Buy here - https://amzn.to/4oGc4Wu (Amazon Affiliate link helps support the podcastTennessee Wildman  and Cryptid Con info - https://bit.ly/47VAwvOGet a ticket to the 2026 Tennessee Cryptid Campout - https://bit.ly/43nKiW7 Contact Randy here - [e-mail]🗣️ 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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You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere. one leaves us with more questions than answers these are the voices of the people who've lived it so settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever so stay with us all right bigfoot society you've got the privilege of talking to mr. Randy Hutchings again it's

been a few years Randy since we last talk but welcome back to the show how are you thanks for having me back man man I was looking it up and I think it was way back in episode number 3, 53, which was more than two years ago, and a lot has happened on the podcast since then. And just a few words about yourself, Randy. You know, you're the organizer of the Tennessee Wild Mankind. Yes, sir. Awesome. We were talking before we started recording.

That's in its fourth year already. We'll probably be talking about that later on the show. And also, we'll be talking a little bit about a new event you've got coming out in April of next year. 26. So we'll we'll chat about that as well. But the main reason that I wanted you on the show today is to talk about your new book and just talk about Bigfoot down there in Tennessee. And the name of that book is Bear Mountain Bigfoot, the case for Sasquatch on the southern Cumberland Plateau. That's it. Which is fantastic. And I'm a big fan of it. It is great. There's not, I'm trying to think, I don't think there's many books about Bigfoot for that part of Tennessee. Yours might be the

only one. No, I don't think there are besides this one. Not the specific region at least. And it's good. So, you know, in case people haven't, they haven't listened to the first episode, which I would probably recommend people definitely go check that out as well. For the new, for the new ones that are just meeting you for the first time, was there a certain incident that really introduced you and pushed you over the edge when it comes to this big foot stuff. So you go to the not just 100%, but 110%. Yeah, this is real. Oh yeah. Yeah. The first encounter I ever happened, I ever had back in 1997, we had, me and my cousin were at a remote abandoned rock quarry. And we had something vocalized from on top of the cliffs surrounding.

this lake we were at, making this moa, mu, sort of sound. And we thought it was a hunter or something, you know, maybe missing with us at the time and kind of made it jokingly tried to make the, make the sound back at it. And for our time doing this, we saw a 300 plus pound boulder come flying off this cliff and splashing into the lake about 60 feet from us. that I didn't see what did it now to you know I didn't I didn't see that you know that it was a big foot that did it but after I got on the line and did a little checking with the BFRO and got interviewed by a researcher there it kind of just the pieces you know fit together like you would have to one of one thing that happened during that incident was my cousin actually asked me is like you would have to have thumbs to do that right

to throw that rock and so just it's just it's just it. The pieces kind of just fell together after I talked to that researcher. And that would solidify the, you know, yeah, they're out there to me, watching that boulder fly like it did. You've really had some incredible things happen to you over the years. And how many years have you been a researcher in the Bigfoot subjects now? Going on 26, I think. 26, absolutely incredible.

And you've been, over the years, you've been involved in different organizations in the past, correct? Yes, yes, several, yeah. And that's everything from, is it BFRO to GFRO, G.CBRO, a group called the Blue and Gray. I was a founding member of a group that was around for about four years called the Sasquatch Research Initiative, several groups. Gotcha. Is the GCPRO even around anymore? Because their website is offline. I don't know if you noticed that. I don't know. I've not talked to the guys down there for about a year, over a year now.

Wow. Okay. Yeah, I can't get through to them. So way back machine is still there for us, thankfully, because that website's great. What was your motivation in getting this book out, Randy? Partially, like you mentioned earlier, there's really, I live in what I consider to be one of the biggest hotspots of Tennessee. But you don't find any, like, do you look at the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, Bigfoot siding maps and you look at the BFRO and there's just a big vacant spot in my area.

Just a big vacant spot. And so I was like, you know, I felt kind of after the years of doing the research I've done this area and just the dozens and dozens of people I've talked to, it didn't feel right that like they weren't getting their stories out there. So that's really kind of why I decided just to go ahead and make it, you know, to write the book because it's about this whole region of the southern cummline plateau region absolutely and i'm glad you did because before i read the book you know i was thinking about our previous interview and i was like i know stuff has happened around here but then i didn't

hear a lot but then i read the book and it's an incredible just compilation of all these reports that you've taken over the years and i had no idea about how many other things have happened over the years besides what you've experienced. But just so that everyone's on the same page, can you take a minute to kind of explain what the geographic area really is that's called the Southern Cumberland Plateau? What area of Tennessee that entails? Sure. If you look at Tennessee is kind of divided up into what they call the three sections, which is east, middle, and west Tennessee's. on the border of middle and east Tennessee,

you will see topographically this big chunk of mountain that just goes from Kentucky all the way down into Alabama and part a little sliver of northern Georgia. And that whole cross section, that sliver down there, that mountain is part of the Cumberland Mountains. But that specific region there is called the Southern Cumberland Plateau because mainly because it's kind of flat on the top. not entirely flat, but it's, it's got a very, once you get up there on a road and stuff,

you'll see how it's, it's very flat and not a lot of hills, not a lot of topography up there. Absolutely. How high up to those mountains get elevation-wise? I think the elevation of the plateau is about 1,800 feet. It's not crazy high. But considering, like, from the Tennessee Valley, compared to the plateau there, The plateau has winters that are very, very similar to the same kind of winters that the southern peninsula of Michigan has because of the elevation, where the Tennessee Valley has very, very mild winters by comparison. Gotcha. Is there anything about this area that just makes it perfect or really good to be an area where Bigfoot encounters would happen?

there are more caves in this region than any other area of North America, except for possibly a section of the Northwest Territories of Canada is believed to have more karst topography than this area does. But aside from that, we have over 15,000 caves in this area of the Southern Cumberland Plateau alone. Like we have a five-county region that people talk about, a lot of Spalunkers brag about, that there's more caves in that five-county region than there are in the rest of the East Coast combined. My goodness, that is just, I mean, that just,

it's hard to think about. That's a lot of caves, my dude. It's like Swiss cheese up here. And you think about the stuff that could be hiding in those, probably even other things besides Bigfoot, but we're sticking to Bigfoot for this. But, oh, man, I don't know if you've ever seen the descent. Yikes.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My son, my oldest son, the first time he ever went to, went caving the night before, he said, can we watch a caving movie? So I turned on the descent and let him watch that, which probably was not a good idea because we got to the cave and he was just like, what was that? What was that? What was that? Oh, not good. Yeah. It's a great movie, though. It's wild. It's a wild one. Yeah, it freaked me out and it was in the daytime. Is there in a that you were able to share in Baramount and Bigfoot, that you're like, I'm so glad this is able to finally get out there in the open

and that the rest of the world is aware. Would there any highlights that you were able to share that really come to mind? One that I really, really, like I felt privileged to have heard, was there's an elderly gentleman named Mr. McBride, and I got to visit with him. He's lived up on the plateau his entire life. he was 82 at the time that I took the the the the tail from him and he basically explained how his

uncle back in the 20s for over a week was trailed by a female Bigfoot in the woods and that at one point this Bigfoot actually motioned you know put its arm out and motion you know the kind of the the come to me kind of motion um and his uncle he he was talked about that his uncle was very, very convinced that this, this Bigfoot was sweet on him. And I found that, that, I don't know, you don't come across stuff like that, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's very rare. And I was, when I read that, I was like, oh, man, that's, that's really interesting. I think I've heard it maybe once.

You hear several instances of males, of male Bigfoot trying to mess with females. Yeah. But I've never, I don't know of any other story off top of my head of a female Bigfoot trying to do the same to a male. Exactly. And that's why it was very interesting. Another one that I thought, it really took me back when I read it was the Hills Creek attack. Yes. Yeah. That happened back in the 60s.

Yeah, go ahead. So that was, there was, we talked to the nephew of the, of the lady that this happened to in the story. And basically there was, it was this gentleman's aunt, his uncle, and the uncle's soon to be wife. It was a girlfriend at the time. But they were riding horses in the Hills Creek area of Tennessee. above what's called Hills Creek Spring. It's a big huge spring, puts out just hundreds of thousands of gallons of water a day.

And they were trekking on horses and the trails above this spring area. And as they were going up this hill, they basically said that this large monkey-like thing comes jumping out of a tree above the ant and lands on her and the horse with such force that it takes the horse to the ground, and he begins pummeling the lady with his fists in this, you know, aggressive fashion.

And by the time they get the horses turned around to see what's going on, this thing has jumped up and is running off and back up into the woods. And the woman had just a mental breakdown from what we were, you know, told from this instance. Like she wouldn't go, she wouldn't go horse riding anymore. She wouldn't go hiking up there where she was a, very outdoorsy before this, she wouldn't go up in that area at all anymore. My goodness. Is this a place that you have investigated yourself as well? Oh yeah. Yeah. The Hills Creek area actually

funnels into a hollow called the Dry Creek Gulf area, and I personally have had several instances that happen up in Dry Creek Gulf. Wow. Would you say that this account from the 60s of, I mean, probably the most aggressive attack that I've ever heard on this podcast. I was thinking about it as I was reading it, I was like, I've never seen anything that even comes close to this. Is that an outlier for this area? Or have you ever, or have you heard things that are similar with other aggressive reports? I have spoken to several people that have had aggressive encounters in Dry Creek Gulf in that region,

but nothing to the degree of actually being attacked to that degree. you know, like trees being pushed down while they're camping. It's like kind of, they took that as a threat, you know, an intimidation display. But not not, not being directly, you know, attacked in that fashion. No. It really is wild stuff. And this Cumberland, Southern Cumberland Plateau area, do you find that there's patterns in the reports that you, get from witnesses where, you know, okay, so this one, here's a white one, here's another white one.

Do they all look similar or do some of them maybe look more ape-like and some look more Neanderthal? So it's across the board. We've actually, I would say it's across the board from the descriptions we've had. But what are you talking about with individuals and correlations? There is an area up there that's about six and a half miles by six and a half miles square on Highway 8. We call that the Sasquatch Highway because of all the activity going on up there.

But on Highway 8, and it seems like all of these houses are sharing the same individual that's window peeking. And the reason that we believe it's the same individual is they said that they've seen a gentlemanly gray swath of hair that comes off of his brow. and this has been like these are people that are miles apart on the highway down there have no idea that their neighbors are describing the same you know literally the same gray swath of hair yeah it's crazy that's uh that's the atticus uh bigfoot right that is atticus yes yeah right yeah that comes up in the book and it's it's a fascinating read i mean uh listeners we you really do need to to get this book because, you know, we're kind of just skimming the surface here with a few things, but it is very cool. You go into how some of those individuals have had interactions with Atticus, and I believe there's involvement of Tibetan singing bowls and all sorts of interesting factors in play. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great, great read.

Thank you. A location that, and I can't remember if it came up the first time, but it came up a few times in this book, which I thought was very interesting. It's White Buffalo Mountain. Yes. What's the weirdest thing you've experienced or heard of from White Buffalo Mountain? Me personally, and this isn't in the book, the weirdest thing I've experienced personally up on that mountain.

And I, this has happened to myself and two other people now, individually, like a separate times, completely separate times. It's like we have been gifted lost items back. At one point, I used to walk around with a prospecting hammer on me at all times because we've a lot of fossils in this region, and it's an easy way to get fossils out of rock and stuff. I lost my prospecting hammer up on White Buffalo one time. and weeks went by. I'm coming down a different part of White Buffalo

on a different trail. There's my hammer, right in the middle of trail. I still, to this day, have absolutely no way of explaining that. You know, was it Bigfoot that did it? We talked earlier about other stuff in caves. There's a lot of legends of live. little people on that specific mountain too. So it's like, you know, did something gift it back?

My friend, though, he lost a survival knife on that mountain. And he lost it on top of the mountain. We know right the area that he lost it, but we couldn't find it. We spent 45 minutes at one point one day backtracking, trying to find this guy's survival knopf. There was a gift from his sister. And as we're ascending several weeks later, we stop on this log that's across the trail. and we're going up a different trail.

We stop on this log. We have about a 20-minute little conversation between us just shooting, you know, proverbial, you know, and he looks down at his feet, and there's his knife, sitting at his feet. So that's, there's weird, weird stuff on that mountain, specifically on that mountain. I actually have gotten to talk to a Yuki elder

named Mr. Iron House. And Mr. Iron House was telling me that in his people's traditions, they got absorbed by the Cherokee Nation, basically, the Yuki Nation did. In their traditions, why Buffalo Mountain is considered a sacred mountain. And it's a mountain of doorways, as he put it.

And when I ask him to explain what he meant by doorways, I'm like, do you mean all the caves that are on the mountain? He's like, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about portals. And I'm like, okay. and he's like, yeah, there's certain times a year, doorways will open up on the mountain. And I'm like, well, what happens if you go through the doorways?

And he's like, it depends on the kind of person you are and where you end up. Oh, man. So, wow. That's a wild place up there. That is really intense. Have you ever experienced anything up there where, like, you're, you know, some people will report they're walking along. They feel electricity or something out of the,

ordinary or things change gets really quiet is there anything like that ever up there for you the the strangest thing that i've had happened to me in wild buffalo is i got zapped or what they call zapped and i but but i'm pretty sure that was you know saskwatch behavior that happened so i'm not sure what what they do when they zap you if it's infrasound or or whatever it is but but uh that that that zapped me so it when is that when it hit me it felt like all the energy came out of my body like just at once and I literally had to sit down and take a nap on the mountain. The researcher guy I was with was freaked out

because we were having wood knocks happen around us when this happened. He was like for 45 minutes, I'm expecting them to come after me, you know, because you're laid up in a ball out. Oh, that's, that is one of, that's scary, dude. So, yeah. Let me make sure I get it right.

So wood knocks everywhere. and all of a sudden you're like time to take a nap. It sounds like was it in the fetal position or just kind of roll up? Yeah. I just rolled like laid down and rolled up and that was it. How did you get out of that? Did it just like leave all of a sudden or? I just woke up. Yeah, I just woke up and was and was like, whoa. And even when I woke up though, I felt completely drained.

I've never felt anything like that out in the woods, any other place. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see. to look up like U.S. government geological maps, you can look up like, I've been looking up like magnetic anomalies and see if that's something where it occurs in that mountain area. Yeah. There actually is a well-known magnetic anomaly up on the plateau called the, I think it's called the mid-crustal gravity high. there used to be the Cumberland Plateau Observatory, seismological observatory,

was up on the mountain for several years doing seismological tests. They were actually monitoring nuclear tests in Russia up there. But they found that gravity high, which is supposed to be some sort of weird electromagnetic effect that's up on the mountain that goes up to 5,000 feet up above the the plateau. But that is extremely interesting because, I mean, you start looking into that and then you start looking into where the Bigfoot encounters are reported. And I think there could be some correlation.

I mean, for example, you've got like the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, Washington, tons of reports, but also some weird magnetic anomalies out there as well. Yeah, yeah. So just, it sounds like, it sounds like a fascinating area, but one that you probably would. wouldn't want to take lightly going up to white buffalo mountain, especially if it's, you know, by the tribes in the area, it's regarded as a, as a sacred area. You'd want to definitely treat it with respect, I would think. Yeah, I've, I have, I have nothing but respect for that mountain. There's been twice, I've tried to ascend that mountain in August, and I got suns sick both times. Whoa.

And I literally took it personally, like the mountain was like, no, you're not allowed here on August. And to this day, I do not try to go up that mountain in August. Hmm. Oh, man. That is something definitely that makes you think twice and being aware of the places you go to. Also, this area, is it an area where do you ever experience, besides Bigfoot activity, any high strangeness events in the woods as well? I've heard stories my entire life from locals about weird stuff up on that mountain.

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I think how I want to ask this. Based on your years of research and talking to people that have had activity and having interactions yourself, do you have any thoughts about what you might think Bigfoot is in this particular area? What I think they are personally, and this is, I went into this, I'm not going to lie, I went into this, when we first found our hotspot, I was very, very devoutly, of the, you know, intelligent cryptid ape camp. You know, it was a flesh and blood, really clever ape that for whatever reason we just haven't discovered yet. I do not long, I no longer believe that.

I believe based off what I have experienced myself, especially in our main research area, that these are some sort of, like the Native Americans said, there's some sort of human tribe. They're a cousin species to us or, you know, maybe as far removed as us as Neanderthal is. But they're related to us somehow. They're as intelligent as we are, I think, based off just reactions we've had. Yeah, I think they're closer to us than we feel comfortable admitting. Was there a certain event that happened that made you make that switch from one viewpoint to the other?

Mostly, my third sighting involves seeing a juvenile. And when I saw that juvenile, I was going through Mountain Laurel, really, really just tons of Mountain Laurel. And when I saw it, it was up under a root ball. And at first I thought it was a hole in the ground because it was so dark. And then it shifted. And when it shifted, I could tell that it was, it went like this and it was shifting from looking at me to

tucking its its jaw down onto its show it's it's a chest kind of similar to the way a kid does whenever they're in trouble that like you know like they're trying to hide to not to not be in trouble and Jeremiah that thing did not look like a monkey it looked like a kid it looked like a black-skinned black-haired kid And it affected me so much that when I got home and my wife, you know, prided out of me what I saw. Like I broke down into tears.

Like it really affected me deeply. I mean, as a father, like just my wife said, you know, what did you think was going to happen if you kept going up there? You know, what did you think you were going to see? And I always was like of the opinion, you know, I'm going to see like something ducked behind a tree or I'm going to see maybe something and poke its head up or, you know, something like that. I'm not going to see a kid looking like it's scared and trying to hide from me.

And so that really changed the way that I felt I went about this. Because now it's like, I don't feel like I'm dealing with a bunch of a pot of apes. I'm dealing with a family. Absolutely. I remember us having that conversation in the first time we talked. And even back then, I could tell it, extremely affected you. And you talk about it in your book, too. And, and, um, you know, a person, a person will, will talk in a certain way and they'll write in a certain way. And in both ways, you can totally tell.

It affected you probably one of the most intense things you experienced in your life, I would imagine. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was wild to, to listen and also to read it. Do you believe there's any times where you've had any communication in any way with the Bigfoot that you've been interacting with in these areas? Well, I mean, it depends. If you consider wood knocking, you know, to be communication, then more than I would like to admit. Like, we regularly get wood knocking up in our main research area. And I, to this day, still do not understand why. I don't know if it's, I, I just have this weird feeling that it's just them being friendly.

I don't, I know this sounds lame. There's nothing deeper to it, but like, I don't think so. That's the way it feels. It's just like, they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up now. You know, but there has been a couple of instances where I've had, we've heard vocalizations up there several times. one time we had vocalizations with we were sitting out there for over an hour

and just it sounded like a baby like a human baby started babbling and we just look at each other and right after the baby stops babbling some things goes say saw and I don't know what saisaw means I don't know if that was the name

you know, it was like, shut up, if it means shut up, if it, what? But like, it was very much a reaction to this baby babble. And I, to this day, I'm convinced now that, like, one of the females probably brought her little one in to look at us. And the baby got bored. And she was, you know, exclaiming. Is that brought up in other, in witness reports as well, where they hear them say strange phrases or, or maybe things that can be attributed to different Native American words or things like that? Most times when I've talked to people, they don't generally have specific words that they heard.

Okay. They're just like, you know, I heard some gobbledy gook or I heard some, you know, some kind of ramble that sounded like language, but I couldn't make out what it was. Gotcha, got it. I just, the dealers not know that the CISA and like there was another instance where we got yelled at and we got yelled at the word awa. I don't know what AWA means. But at the time, we were, we had been gifting peaches in this one specific area. And we had taken these peaches out and we would always take a peach out and eat the peach where we left the peaches to show them like, look, you know, they're good peaches. They're not, they're not poison.

Something like that. That's what was going through our heads at least. And we had that awa yelled at us. And I actually had a really famous author that told me he was like, I think they were trying to tell you, I, want. It's, you know, I want. I don't know. It's very interesting.

You know, sometimes, I'm thinking of a few times out in the Pacific Northwest that they've captured on audio, some form of maybe syllables, and then I'm thinking other interviews I've done. I think the word Enoch or knock has come up a few times. Knock, I've heard knock several times, yeah. Yeah. Is that something you've heard yourself? or you've actually heard knock.

I've heard like the vocalization knock. Yeah. It's not a knock. Wow. Oh my goodness. Well, there you go. Wild, wild, wild stuff. Let's talk a little bit about you have a great, a great, well, I don't know.

It's a conference, right? It's a con. Yeah. So the Tennessee Wild Man Con, and you're already in your fourth year, which is wild. This last year, our third year was this last August, and we had 1,200 attendance, over 1,200 attendance. We've moved the con to a much bigger facility that can handle all the attendance and all the guests and stuff that we have. But no, it's gotten way bigger than it was the last time I talked to you, yeah, definitely. Wow, that, I did not know you were over 1,200.

That is actually, that puts you up there in the rank. with the other other guys I'm thinking of right now. That's awesome. Every year we've done it thus far, we've had M.K. Davis. We've had Helbin-Hawler, Jesse and Joe of Helbin-Hawler. Chester Moore has been there every year thus far. And then we usually have like the guys that are always there every year because they're nearby and they don't care to travel. And then we'll have guests from farther out.

like this last year our guest of honor was our Scott Nelson from the Sierra Sounds, the cryptolinguist. He was really cool, really, really got along well with him. Another year we had Ron Moorhead as our guest of honor. This last year we had Tim Kumbow Baker. Yeah, yep, yep. We had all together, we had nine, nine special guest speakers and then we had five special guests on top of them.

We're just there to visit with fans and stuff like that. Wow. And that's just that doesn't include vendors, right? No, no. We had 86 vendors on top of all that. Oh, really matter of 86 vendors? Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, we sold out all of our vendor space. And is it a lot of Bigfoot stuff or I know some places are like, only bigfoot stuff but some places are like okay be big foot but it can be other stuff too what what kind of vendors we try to keep the uh we it's two floors that we're using so we tried to keep all the all the really bigfoot associated stuff on the first floor and then all the other stuff you know about the second floor gotcha we had a a game company that came this year and got a table and they were uh they were promoting their crypto uh crypto uh crypto zoology capture Bigfoot game there.

It was the first place it was being released. Like we were there, you know, their initial exposure to the world, which I thought was kind of cool. Wow, that's awesome. It's like a board game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

I'll have to get the name of it and send it to you. Yeah, I totally love stuff like that. So definitely, definitely pass it over. There's not too, there's an old antique one, Bigfoot board game from back in the 7th, 70s or the 80s if people can look into that. That's an old one. It's hard to find.

So you've got the Wildman Khan, but then this coming year, April 2026, you have something really cool. And you brought it up before we started, and then in my mind, I was like, oh, yeah, I've totally heard of this. So it is actually a really cool idea. Do you mind talking a bit about what the Tennessee crypticamp out is going to be in April? Sure. It's going to be from April 13th to the 17th of 2026. What we kind of did was we've got a dream team of researchers. And what we're doing is we're actually hosting it on our primary research area that I talk about in the book.

And what we're doing is we're bringing in these research. researchers from all over the U.S. We've got Jesse and Joe from Helbin-Haller. We've got Ronnie LeBlanc from Expedition Bigfoot, Chester Moore from Dark Outdoors. They're all coming in and we're dropping them into our research area

with 40 attendants. We've got eight spots left so far, but 31 attendance so far. Dropping them into the middle of an active Bigfoot area that has continuing you know, activity and seeing what we can accomplish. Over four days.

So that's wilder than I thought because I didn't make the connection about it's in your research area. That's a really, really big deal because, you know, I'm thinking there's so many guys out there that are like, they're not going to let you go into their research area. But it's, you're pretty much opening up the gates and you're like, yeah, come on in. And let's bring some friends along too. we've been in that research area for 12 years now. Wow.

And we kind of figured, you know, we're like, look, unless you know exactly where to look, like we kind of know where they hang out in that area. I'm not really worried about, not hugely, about other researchers coming in and souring my area, because they've been there for over 40 years, that we've got research, or we've got reports going back 40 years now in that area. So I don't think they're going anywhere. Okay. So is this, I can take this out too. Is this area one then?

Yes. Okay, cool. If I need to take that, I'll just let me know. No, you're good. Okay, cool. So some people are just like very protective. And it takes a while to get used to. You're very giving with your information, Randy.

That's pretty cool. I think that's one of the problems with Bigfooting is. No, it is. Nobody wants to share any information. It is, yeah. Yeah, it's going to be our potential. Let's say we're not going to say our downfall because that's too negative and not fun. We'll say potential downfall will be the not sharing information.

It's just crazy to think about. But so when people sign up for this, is it a thing where they're putting their tent up and they're tent for a few days? Or what does that look like? No, they have cabins. You're going to be put in a cabin with another. person, if you get a ticket, we've got actually a couples ticket that's actually cheaper if you get the couples ticket. But if you get the couples ticket, you get your own private cabin. Otherwise, if you're in there as a single person, you're going to be put into a cabin with another person.

But the cabin's got beds, electricity. You're not roughing it really. That's kind of one of the pluses of where our research area is. It just so happens to be next to a very nice group campside. Oh my goodness. That is like very rare for these things. Extremely rare. Are, uh, and people be, uh, cooking over a fire in things of that nature? I know.

We've got, we've got a tavern keeper for the whole time. Uh, for, for $100, you can feed yourself for four days, the whole four days, um, there at the, the camp out. Uh, they'll be, he'll be cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner. Uh, if you don't want to bring, if you want to bring your own food, you're welcome to bring your own food. I noticed some campouts don't want you to bring certain kinds of video recording equipment and stuff. We don't care.

Bring all the video recording equipment you got. Bring audio equipment if you got it. If you've got thermal, if you've got, this is the time to bring it. Everybody's bringing all their good stuff. Bring yours too. So this is an extremely rare event. I mean, I'd almost say it's almost like a unicorn because as you mentioned, you don't have, you know, there's other. events where if you capture stuff, well, let's leave it there. You know what I'm talking about,

but you guys are very cool in that. Yeah, if you want to just enjoy it or if you want to go and like make a vlog with a video camera, I mean, that's cool too. And just the fact that man, you're in in the field with people like Jesse and Joe and Ronnie. That's very cool. That type of access is something that you are not going to get over the internet. I mean, let's face it,

at the end of the day, guys, you have to get out in the field. And once you do that, things open up for you in ways that they went before. And that's when things start to really click. And that's when the whole, be careful what you wish for kind of comes into play.

Because you never know what's going to happen. It's fun. I've experienced it too. my goodness this this is really really really cool Jeremiah if you could come down here man for it I will I will save you a spot my goodness it's tempting it's very tempting it's very tempting because listeners like I so this podcast it releases at 1 a.m. the day it releases I would say

if you hear this you need to immediately okay so do they go to a certain website I'm guessing to get tickets you can go to event brought event bright okay so I'll have the link

in the show notes for this I would say if you're listening to the episode right now pause it go get to tickets immediately and then come back and finish the episode because

man eight eight tickets left and we're filming November 10 it's going to be pretty tight. So guys, make sure you immediately go and try to get in if you can. And hopefully,

I mean, I could see this being more than a, more than a one-year event. What do you think? We've got plans for the future, yeah. Plans for the future. That's awesome. The cool thing about Randy is in,

people that have read the book might have picked up on this. And if you've heard the first interview we did a few years ago, you know, Randy's no stranger. to doing events. I mean, you've done other events.

So this is not your first rodeo, which is a big deal. I mean, Randy knows how to make these things happen. And another plug for the book, if you want to read probably one of the best accounts that I've ever heard, and I'm so glad it was in the book, too, what happens when a larping event gets connected with Bigfoot activity, it is incredible. And I would say, let's not say it now because we need to have, let people need to go read it. It is such, such a cool story and that just blows my mind whenever I hear it or listen to it. But Randy, thank you so much for coming on the show.

But I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you would wanted to share. And also if there's ways that people can keep up to date with what you've been, what you've got going on as well. okay well thanks for having me jeremiah i really appreciate it um i do have another book that's coming out uh probably in the next two months uh i'm doing a book on the tennessee pygmies uh the little the little people graves that were found in the 1800s and that's going to include several uh because where people's coming over over the years i've got over i think seven total uh sightings of little people crypted little people, so I've got those in the book. But I'm working on that.

But aside from that, I'm mainly focusing on the camp out in April, making sure that's going to be awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, it's got to be a ton of work to make something like that go off without a hitch. And

if there's, let's say if there's listeners that are listening down there and they're like, oh yeah, I've totally had something happen on the southern Cumberland Plateau, and I've never talked to Randy and here's Randy. Is there a way that they can best reach out to you to report what happens? Yeah, sure.

You can either email me, email me at Tennis Squatch. It's T-E-N-N-E-S-Q-U-A-T-C-H at g-mail.com. Or you can find me on, the easiest way to get hold of me is find me on Facebook. I'm on Facebook. I've gotten, I don't know how many reports

off Facebook since I was on Hulu like last year, so. Oh, when were you on Hulu? What was that show called? Out there. Crimes of the Paranormal. I was on episode seven, I think it was. Either seven or eight.

The Smoky Mountain Nightmare was the episode I was in. I got to check that out. That sounds pretty cool. Go to Hulu and check out Randy on that show. That sounds pretty awesome. because and we didn't really get into this but you know it's besides Bigfoot you're also into paranormal stuff as well oh yeah yeah so definitely check out check out that show to get Randy's viewpoint will you ever come out with any paranormal books I've been thinking about it

okay yeah right well cool cool cool cool cool well Randy thank you so much for for coming on best of luck with Tennessee Wildman con and the Tennessee Cryptid camp out that's coming out and we will have to keep in touch for what the future brings. Definitely, man. Thank you, dude. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're

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