Bigfoot Society - Sasquatch Interrupted Our Getaway! | North Carolina

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

What happens when a North Carolina hunter recovering from injury uses the forest as therapy — and finds something waiting for him in the woods? In this gripping episode, we speak with Scott, a lifelong outdoorsman with multiple terrifying encounters across North Carolina. From a fog-shrouded trail in Uwharrie where something massive landed behind him, to eerie switchbacks in Crowder's Mountain State Park, and finally to a yurt near Bryson City where something stood outside the tent... clicking its teeth. You'll hear about invisible giants, ripped-up boulders, missing forest sounds, and the primal fear that still haunts him. This isn’t just about Bigfoot — it’s about what happens when the forest looks back. Featuring locations like Uwharrie, Clingman's Dome, Crowder's Mountain, and more, this episode is a must-listen for anyone who's ever felt followed in the woods.🗣️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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You've got the privilege of talking to Scott today. Scott is an individual that listens to the show over on the YouTube platform. He's a hunter, an outdoorsman, a hiker. He's had some really interesting things happen over the years that he's here to talk about today. So welcome to the show, Scott. How are you doing, sir?

I'm doing well, thank you. Absolutely. It sounds like there's going to be some really interesting things shared today, but I want to make sure that you have the time to share them, and we're going over to the state of North Carolina, correct? Correct. All right. Well, Scott, feel free to take us back to that first situation you had happened.

Yeah, absolutely. So the first experience happened in the early 1990s. I had a friend that had property next to Uwari in North Carolina, and he invited me and my hunting partner to hunt his property. So we took him up on his offer. We stayed tonight at his place the day before the hunt. Unfortunately, my hunting partner had gotten too deep into a bottle of Jack Daniels. He had no interest in going hunting that morning, but I still did.

So I got up that morning very early before dawn. It been raining quite a bit. It was extremely foggy that morning. And I was into traditional bow hunting. So I was still hunting with my bow up along the street. trail. And like I said, it was very, very foggy. Probably couldn't see five yards in front or five yards behind. So still hunting up this trail. There's about, I'd say, a seven, eight foot bank above me on my right hand side of the trail. Then, I'm sorry, on the left hand side of the trail.

And then on the right hand side of the trail, it sloped down into a creek bottom, which was where he said the deer would be, and he was right. So I'm still hunting, being very, very quiet, taking a few steps, watching, listening, and all of a sudden, something jumped off the bank on my left-hand side onto the trail behind me. I could feel the vibration through the ground, and it made a low, guttural one.

I couldn't see it because of the fog. I didn't hear it take off, and I didn't think anything about it at the time. I thought maybe it was just a big buck, but with that deep guttural grunt, it made me rethink it. That was very first, and I didn't hear it take off either. So I don't know what it was. Some people said it could have been a bear.

I don't know. I don't think bears make low guttural grunts like that. So I didn't think of anything about it, continued with my hunt, wasn't able to get anything. So that was the first pretty ambiguous experience. It's such a wild area that Uyri National Forest has a lot of accounts come out of that area.

And you said it was a low guttural grunt. Had you ever heard anything else like that when you were out hunting before? No, sir. I don't hunt hogs and I don't hunt bear. I hunt at that time mostly white tail. so yeah i'd never never heard anything like that before so i thought it was kind of unusual it didn't even scare me or anything because at first i thought it might have been like a big buck that had jumped

off that bank but the bank was like seven eight feet high so yeah i didn't at the time i didn't think anything unusual about it but after my second and third experiences i started thinking about it more and more absolutely how far back on the trail was would you estimate that landing was? I would say the fog was extremely dense. I would say probably seven to ten yards behind me. When it hit the ground, I could feel the vibration through my feet. And, you know, thinking back on it, if it is a buck,

I don't think I would have been able to feel the vibration through the ground. No, absolutely. And I'm not a hunter myself, so I don't have a lot of knowledge regarding. you know, going out and spending a lot of time with deer. But is this something that a deer would even do where it's jumping off of a steep bank about eight feet up and then just, you know, landing down in a trail and then getting out of there? Yeah, it's, yeah, it's possible. They can jump very high fence lines and stuff like that. So, yeah, it is possible.

But I just didn't think I would be able to feel the vibration through the ground, you know. Absolutely. Is this a trail that you took on the way back to? Yes, yes, it is. So when you were going back later on that day on the same trail, were you able to kind of stop in the area where that happened and look around and see if you saw anything out of the ordinary? No, I did not because at the time I didn't think there was anything unusual about it.

like I said until I thought about it years later you know if I'd had to wear with awe I probably would have stopped and look for tracks or you know whatever sign I could find that at that time I was just concerned about getting back to his house yeah that makes sense and not not saying to go into him yet but the other two experiences do those also happen in the Uiri no sir they happened in different parts of the North Carolina Gotcha. So after, well, let's say, you know, you've had now this current day, you have a different way of looking at things. You're obviously listening to some things regarding Bigfoot. Have you looked into this area and found any encounters from people in the area about things related to Bigfoot they've had happen in the URIs? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Be honest with you, if you have missed North Carolina, I love watching. Wyoming, but I miss North Carolina. Anytime I can listen to an experience in North Carolina, I do. Absolutely. Yeah, I've listened to a whole bunch of encounters in the Uri forest.

And at that time, you know, back then I wasn't really aware of all the activity in the UREs, but obviously I am now. Can you think of any reasons that might make that specific forest? It's really a hotspot for Bigfoot activity? Oh yeah, absolutely. There's plenty of forest cover. There's plenty of wild game. There's plenty of waterways.

Yeah, it's just a natural habitat that I think they would thrive in. Not to mention, you know, like most of, you know, most of the, The population goes to URA on the weekends, and during the weekdays, it's mostly deserted. So I think it would be prime habitat. That's true, and this had happened. You had said on the weekdays, correct? This was actually on a Saturday, but it was on private property. So we weren't, you know, expecting anybody else on that property.

Absolutely. Well, Scott, definitely a very, a very, unique, weird thing that happened right off the bat, but feel free to continue with the second thing you've experienced. Okay, so fast forward. December 11th, 2010, I was paralyzed in my right arm and shoulder, 97% in a workplace accident. So I had to have multiple surgeries, I had to go through intensive physical rehab. And so at that time, after the rehab and everything, I was living in Shelby, North Carolina.

And I would go to local state park in between Shelby and Charlotte that borders on South Carolina state line to get back in the shape. Because, yeah, I was pretty much out of shape at that time. So I would go to this local state park and I would hike approximately three to four times a week just to get back in the shape. It's a very steep hike, approximately a four-mile hike, very steep switchbacks. So I figured that would be a great way to get back into the woods and get back in the shape so I could take up hunting again and just be active again. So I would hike this, like I said, I would hike this state park three to four times a week, usually during the weekdays. Because during the weekends, the park was really super crowded.

It'd be difficult to find a parking spot on the weekends. So I would go during the week, and I got to know this trail very, very well, just with the amount of time that I would hike it back and forth. So this happened around, I want to say, September 2016. I was hiking up the trail, and I noticed that there was a two-inch oak sapling on the right side of the trail that was broken off at about a four-foot level. The top of the sapling is about a 15-foot sapling. The top of the sapling was still attached. to the bottom part of sapling that was still planted in the ground.

And the sap was still up. The leaves were still on. The leads had not dropped yet. So I thought, wow, that's interesting. And I found a similar sapling about two inches in diameter. And I was like, I wonder if I could do that. So I tried breaking this two inch sapling and there was absolutely no way I could do it. So I was like, okay, that's pretty interesting.

So I continue hiking up the trail And the trail is very hard-packed with You know anywhere from softball-sized rocks to basketball-sized boulders Half-buried in this hard-packed trail So I continue up the trail And I noticed there were three or four boulders that had been dug out of the trail And there was no sign of like any trail and there was no sign of like any trail maintenance,

no heavy equipment on the trail, doing trail maintenance at all. It's like these boulders were just perfectly picked up out of this hard packed trail and they were nowhere to be found. And there were about three of them like that, three or four of them like that. And I notated that and I was like, okay, that's weird also.

So I continue hiking up the trail and I get up into the switchbacks and I hear a branch break on my right hand side. I pretended to ignore it, and I kept on hiking at the trail, and about 15 yards later, I hear something flood and hit the ground. Again, I could feel the vibration through my feet,

but I couldn't see anything. I didn't notice any deer or any wildlife or anything that would make that sound. and again, I continued to ignore, ignore it, that thump, and continued up the trail. And in about another 15, 20 yards, I heard a branch break on the left side of the trail. And again, they didn't see anything. And I pretended to ignore it and it continued up to the top of the trail and took a rest there for about a half hour, 45 minutes, and walked back. Now, the next day, I didn't want to go up that same trail, so I went up a back trail just because of the experience the day before.

It was pretty odd. I saw the signs. I saw the tree break. The boulders dug out of the trail. The branch breaks while I was hiking up the trail. So I took a different trail. I took a back trail and I kept up to the top of the peak and rested there for about an hour and then hike back down. and I got to this one section of trail

and all the hair on the back of my neck stood up and immediately when the hair on the back of my neck stood up, a tree got pushed over. There was no wind at the time, no foul weather at the time, no wind at all. And I was like, okay, I'm getting out of here and I continued to hike down the back trail into the parking lot area.

and took off. And those were my two experiences, two separate experiences in that same state park. My goodness, that's, were you, did you usually wear the same thing when you would go hiking,

the same type of outfit or different outfits? No, I would usually, I would usually wear shorts in the summertime and a tank top and a backpack around September when this would happen. You know,

I'd wear long, a cargo type pants and a shirt or a light pullover and a backpack. So I wouldn't wear the same identical clothing. Okay. But there were different, there are different things that would probably be uniform, but other things different. The rocks that were picked out of the ground, were those are the basketball-sized ones or what size would you say those were? Yeah, they were definitely basketball-sized ones. and I noticed absolutely no heavy equipment on the trail like they were doing trail maintenance

and I was thinking okay you know teenagers could have been but you know what teenager is going to take the time to dig a basketball size boulder out of the trail and this is an extremely hard-packed trail and I noticed no no fall marks no fingernail marks nothing it was like these boulders were picked perfectly clean out of this word pack trail. Man, listening to this, it's either something was messing with you or something didn't want you there. Was there a reason why you would act like you didn't notice the breaks or why you would purposely ignore them? Yeah, there is. Well, I grew up in Florida and it said, you know, I saw the Leonard Nimoy, you know, in search of and, you know, all that.

So I was always aware of the possibility of Bigfoot, and I was always a believer. I don't like to think that man knows everything that's out there because I know we certainly don't. So I've always been intrigued by the possibility of Bigfoot being out there. And I was basically always believed in them since I was a child. So, you know, after listening to other people's experiences and the signs that they witness, that's why I pretty much ignored the branch breaks and the flood on the ground. So, yeah, that's, I was like, okay, I think I know what this is. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't want to antagonize it.

I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear it and be on my merry way. Absolutely. And especially because these hikes are part of your rehabilitation. So at this point, you know, you've had, so what is your, in 2016, what is your physical state like regarding your, is a right arm and shoulder, right? Yes. Yeah, 2016, after, you know, hiking all year long with them down the same trail and taking different back trails. My cardio was pretty darn good. I had partial use of my right arm and shoulder now,

and I was using hiking sticks, which would help with therapy on my right arm. So, yeah, I was in pretty darn good shape. Okay. I dropped, like, especially during the summertime in North Carolina with, you know, 90-degree heat, you know, light humidity. I dropped weight pretty fast.

I dropped about 30 pounds, in a nice one month. Good for you, dude. Wow. Unfortunately, I've put it back on in a good years. That's the story, right? That's the story. I know what that's like, is what I'm saying.

So it's so, so very interesting. When you had the hair stand up on the back of your neck and then the tree got pushed over, from what you heard, was it a, quick fall or slow fall, like, it's kind of like crack, crack, crack, crack and then fall over? Or do you remember any specifics like that? Yeah, it wasn't a very fast fall. It was like it was gradually cracking and then it just crashed into the forest. And I looked in that direction and I did not see anything at all.

But I was like, I thought it was weird because as soon as I hit that area and it was a different area than the day I'd hiked before it's like the day before I didn't the hair on the back of my neck didn't stand up or anything it's just like I didn't even acknowledge it but this day yeah when I hit that section

of trail and the hair on the back of my neck stood up I was like okay this this is not right and then immediately I heard the tree cracking and the tree push over and like I said there was absolutely no wind at all

Okay, yeah, that's a great detail, the no wind for sure. That kind of stuff. It freaks me out. I've had that happen before in Iowa. It's the freakiest thing. Oh, yeah. So it sounds, though, you're hiking these trails so many times. Let's say a normal day hiking these trails, would things happen?

No, absolutely not. Those were the only two, and I've been hiking these trails for good, year and a half two years and those are the only two things that happened to me and it's like around the september october time frame all the other times i'd hike that trail no weird experiences whatsoever it's very strange no sign of yeah no sign of tree breaks nothing unusual except for those two days right are you able to share the the park that they happened in or is this something that we need to keep off the year or keep off there yeah i'll share it it's prouders mountain state park the crowders mountain yep okay and it borders it borders

king's mountain state park in south carolina and what what really freaked me out is after these experiences at crowders mountain i looked up the statistics on the park and that park gets millions and millions of visitors a year. But what I found during my days of hiking that park was most of the visitors are on the weekends. It's even difficult to find a parking spot usually at the park on the side of the road because the park is so crowded. So, you know, it's the absolute last place I would ever think about having an experience at, but it did happen.

And like I said, these experiences, for during the week, during midweek, when hardly anybody would be there. There might be one or two cars in the parking lot, and that was it. Gotcha. It's, yeah, that's an area, you know, I, for listeners that don't know you, I have a map on Bigfoot Society Podcast.com where I've been putting the report encounters from the episodes on this big map of the U.S. Looks like the closest thing I have to there so far is in Bowling Green, South Carolina,

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I don't think I've heard of Crowder's Mountain, so I have to look into that. But it sounds like this was not the most intense experience that. you had, though. No, sir, it was not. Would you be able to walk us through what happened during that time? Yeah, absolutely. So the third experience, or technically the fourth experience, I would say, we've been going through a very difficult time.

I had a mother that had Alzheimer's and dementia, and we had to put her into a dementia award, which was not very pleasant. So it was a very stressful time. My wife was working third shift as a CNA at a local nursing home. So I figured it would be a good time to have a weekend get away. So I surprised her by Renton Yurt in a campground about 10 miles west of Bryson City, North Carolina. So she was happy with that.

I picked her up right after she got off work and she was working. working third shift. She was a trooper and she was able to stay up for most of the day after working a 12-hour shift. And so we drove up to this campground about 10 miles west of Bryson City. The campground was, I want to say, maybe three-quarters of a mile off old highway 74. And there's about, I don't know, 7 or 8 yurts, 9 yurts, something like that. that this campground rents out. So we showed up on a Saturday. The campground was packed.

There's probably about 50 people there. I don't know if it was like a church outing or family reunion or whatever. So these yards are laid out in different spots in the campground. And they're all connected by gravel paths. There's a shower house, restroom facilities in the shower house area. And so we get there and it's crowded. And I'm thinking, you know, this is not what we signed up for. We wanted, you know, make some nice peace and quiet.

So the caretakers of the campground happened to be there. And I was asking them about the wildlife in the area, you know, because I was curious because I'm a hunter. And he's like, yeah, we got turkey, plenty of turkey, deer, fox, all that. and he said actually last year we had a bear trying to break into the yurt next to yours. I'm like, oh, okay. So we did want to spend the day in the crowded campground. So we decided to go to Clayman's Dome, which is like, if not the highest point east of the Rockies,

one of the highest points, I believe. So we went to Clayman's Dome. We hiked up the Cleanman's Dome. Can't really call it a hike because it's a paved trail that goes up to Cleveland Stone. Spent the day doing that. After that, we went back to Bryson City and had a good meal, ate at a Mexican restaurant. Picked up a 12-pack of beer, headed back to the campground, and it was absolutely deserted. So we were happy about that.

So we built a campfire out in the campfire ring outside of the yurt and sitting there enjoying the fire and it's getting towards dusk. We're listening to the frogs and the crickets and the birds and everything and enjoying the campfire. Started getting just before like dark dark where you can't see anything. And I noticed something extremely fast, low to the ground. ground and all black, just shoot across the trail probably 60, 70 yards away from where we were sitting. It's just a black flash out of the corner of my eye, low to the ground. So I was assuming it, you know, probably a fox or whatever, you know, some small little four-lady

creature. And then after that happened, all the all the sounds went dead quiet, no frogs, no. no insects, no birds, nothing just dead, dead quiet. And it's getting to the point where it was getting dark, dark. So I told my wife, I was like, okay, it's time for us to head into the yurt. So we head into the yurt. We get it in the bed. My wife is playing a game on her phone.

I'm reading the book. And we were doing that for about 15 minutes. And then all of a sudden my wife just starts. frantically tapping me on my left shoulder. She was sleeping on my left side. She starts tapping me on my left shoulder. And immediately I hear very heavy bipedal footsteps walking along this one of the gravel paths. When I say heavy, I being really heavy bipedal footprints or footsteps.

Because remember the campground was crowded at one point. And you can hear people walking along the gravel path, and it didn't sound near as heavy as what this thing sounded like. So I hear these bipedal footsteps. It walks up right behind the headboard of our yard that we're staying in. I immediately stand up in my plexers. I grabbed my pistol at a little H&K 9mm. I'm standing there and not hearing anything.

and this thing starts either mouth popping or popping its teeth together. And that's when I racked around in my pistol, figuring, okay, if this is a person, they know what racking around in a pistol sounds like and they'll take off. And so I racked around in my pistol, this thing did absolutely nothing. It's just standing there popping its teeth or its gums together. my wife whispers to me, set off your truck alarm. So I set off my truck alarm, nothing. This thing is continually popping his mouth behind our headboard of our bed.

I set the truck alarm off two times, and I figured, okay, if it's so bare or whatever, the truck alarm will scare it off. This thing did not move. It just sat there and popped its teeth together or its gums. not sure which one it was. I'll tell you, Jeremiah, I've never felt fear like that in my life. I've spent most of my misspent adult life in a motorcycle club, so I've been in some very tense situations with people, and I've never been this freaking scared in my life.

I was like, it was like a primeval fear took over me where all I could feel the blood rush up into my head, and all I could hear was my heartbeat and my ears. And I'm standing there with this pistol loaded going, okay, if this is a person, do I shoot through the tent and possibly face murder charges plus ruin a fancy $30,000 yurt? What do I do? So I stood there, I don't know, maybe 45 minutes, didn't hear any more mouth popping or teeth clinking together or anything. didn't hear this thing walk off at all. So I lay back down in bed and eventually I fall asleep. And it's to the morning time.

We get up. My wife heads to the shower house, take a shower. I get up. I walk around behind a yurt where this thing was standing. And I saw half a footprint and then a full footprint that was, I would say, between 14 and 16 inches long. Air footprint, you can see the toe impressions. I wear a size 13 boot, and this thing exceeded the length of my work boot by a good two to three inches.

My wife gets out of the shower. I motioned her over to where I am standing behind the yurt. She takes a look at the footprints, and she's like, we're getting out of here now. and that's when we packed up our belongings and we got the heck out of Dodge. And that was my final experience with whatever this thing was. Scott, that's intense. Oh, my goodness. Wow, dude.

I mean, I can't believe you made it through that. That's a lot of stress to be under for that long of time. Yeah, that was supposed to be our reliable. and we can get away. Yeah, you need another weekend from that one. My goodness, did you, I know you were in a rush to get out there. Did you happen to get any pictures of those footprints? No, no, I didn't.

So the substrate there was like hard packed. Sure. Granite substrate and a lot of leaf litter, a lot of pine needles at leaf litter. And I had a crappy cell phone at the time. So I thought about taking pictures of it, but I'm like, nobody's going to believe me anyway, so why even bother? You know, my wife saw him and she knew what they were, and I'm like, that's good enough for me. Yeah, that makes sense. And that's even better detail to know that, you know, this ground was in such a way and you're still seeing those footprints.

How heavy would that have had to have been to leave those footprints then? Yeah, and what got me was like when we heard it walk up behind us, I would have thought if it was like a wild animal, well, of course it's a wild animal, but you know what I mean. If it was like any other thing, it would have just, you know, sniffed around, made a circuit around, you're looking for food or whatever, but no, these footsteps walked up this gravel path and walked right up behind our bed. And when I walked out there to look where it had been, it's like from the ground to our headboard would have been a good, I don't know, around six foot to the top of the headboard from the ground outside to the yurt.

And this thing was like a good, I want to say, foot and a half, two feet above our headboard. So. Oh, wow. So you're saying those sounds. were coming from something that was about at 7 to 8 feet up? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How tall are you? I am 6'3. So you're standing there, listening to this thing,

you're having to look up at it as it's doing this weird mouth pop noise. Yeah, I was looking pretty much parallel with it really. But, yeah, it was. It was terrifying. When I say, you know, I've never experienced fear like that before. I don't know if it was hitting me with infrasound. I don't know. But immediately all the blood rushed up to my head and all I could hear was my heartbeat.

That's when your body starts reacting in that way, that's a bad place to be in. I know that from experience. It's just, it's bad. My goodness, did you, so you got out of there quick, which is probably a good call. Did you ever give a call back to the place to be like, hey, what do you guys have going on there or anything like that? No, no, I didn't because they probably would have just said it, you know, like the caretaker told me earlier. All of Bear tried to break into the yard next door. So I thought about writing something in the logbook, but I didn't.

It's like, nobody's going to believe me. You know, why bother? I mean, I get it. It just takes that one person to share and then all the other people that have been waiting to share to be, oh, maybe there's something to what I experienced. But I get when people don't treat you with respect what you experience. It doesn't feel good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll be 60 years old.

this October. I'm not really concerned anymore about what people think. I know what happened. And, you know, that's exactly what happened. I'm kind of curious because I've heard, you know, after listening to, I've been listening about every day to your show and, you know, multiple others, just trying to see if anybody else has ever had that mouth popping or, clicking together experience because, you know, some people will say, oh, it's a bear, it's a hog, or, you know, that I know it definitely was not a bear and it definitely was not a hog. And after that, after that black figure ran across the trail real low to the ground and everything stopped.

All the noises stopped. I'm like, okay, this is going to get interesting. Yeah, absolutely. And the mouth pops, they do come up more often than not in accounts or you read about them. And the great thing about your account is you have the actual, even though you didn't get a visual of whatever was there, you got visual of tracks where the tracks should be. And it sounds like, I mean, you're aware of what bear footprints, footprints of a bear look like. and these were not footprints of a bear. No, it was not like a double step of a bear or anything like that.

It was, yeah, half a footprint and then a full footprint. 14 to 16 inch. That's pretty solid. Oh, have you ever been back to that place again, or is it a place where you're like, now we'll go somewhere else next time? No, after that, we moved, I moved to Wyoming in 2019. and I'll travel back occasionally once or twice a year to see my daughter and my grandchildren, but that's about it.

We haven't been back to that place and no desire to. Now, just to the side, you know, Wyoming is a pretty wild area. Have you guys ever been to Yellowstone or any places like that out there? No, we have not been to Yellowstone yet. If we do go to Yellowstone, I want to go during, the offseason that the weather allows. Sure. The weather predicts everything out here.

When I go hunting, I usually go over around Saratoga, around Sierra Madres. And to date, I have not had any weird experiences when I go hunting out here. But I do make it a point when I go hiking or I go hunting out here. You know, I'll say in my head, hey, I'm here. I'm not looking for you. I'm not looking to bother you. I'm just here to get food or go hiking. You know, I'll make a practice of saying that in my head

and hopefully not have another experience because I don't even look for these things. I don't want another experience. I don't go looking for them. I don't want to go looking for them. But I'm acutely aware of what signs they leave and if I go into an area and I happen to see those signs

and I'll vacate the area but as of yet yeah nothing nothing is something to me out of the ordinary out here yet so hopefully I don't know about the theory of them

marking people that I've heard I just I don't know I'll know what to think about it I just know I don't want another experience like that yeah that makes sense then you might even

so a reason you might also be listening to stuff like this is to figure out the places not to go to you know yes exactly

like don't go to Palisades Reservoir on the the Idaho Wyoming border I wouldn't go there right that's a pretty

active area but oh my goodness Scott some very interesting encounters. I appreciate you coming on the show and sharing. We don't get to hear a lot about North Carolina, but I think it's really important that listeners know what kind of things are going on out there, especially around the Bryson City area.

And I appreciate you coming on. And I just want to make sure you were able to share everything that you came on the show to share today. Yeah, absolutely. You know, when I was in North Carolina, I used to go hunting in the South Mountain region area. Yeah. That area has been really active also, just that whole area of North Carolina. I mean, in fact, you know, everything in North Carolina from the coast to the mountains is just a really, really active region. So.

Absolutely. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show. I do have a few things to say to you off air. But thank you so much for spending some time with. me today, Scott. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube, hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode,

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