Bigfoot Society - Sasquatch Stalks Southern Illinois Farm Delivering Terrifying Close-Range Encounters!

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

Experience one of the most intense Bigfoot case files to come out of Southern Illinois. In this episode, Bryce Edwards shares decades of high-strangeness from his 642-acre family farm near the Shawnee National Forest, Pond Creek, and the legendary Big Muddy Monster region.You’ll hear about massive footprints, eerie screams, tree knocks, mimicked voices, nighttime whistles, and two shocking Sasquatch sightings—including one broad-daylight encounter of a black, 8-foot creature digging into a hillside.We dig into:• Generational sightings dating back to the 1960s• How Bigfoot may use nearby train tracks and waterways as travel routes• Strange vocalizations captured near ponds, fields, and wooded creek lines• Possible juvenile behavior, territorial displays, and mimicry• New evidence filmed and documented with researchers on-siteIf you’re fascinated by Bigfoot encounters, cryptid investigations, or Midwest Sasquatch activity, this is one of the most compelling Illinois cases you’ll ever hear.Resources:Contact Bryce Edwards: https://www.facebook.com/bryce.edwards.965Pond Creek Monster documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTANBHeVrA🗣️ 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. And each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way. you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right. Welcome back to another episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

I've got friend Bryce Edwards with me from down there in the state of Illinois. Just a neighbor over, really. I'm out here in Iowa. But welcome to the show, Bryce. How are you doing? Thank you. I'm doing very well. Awesome, awesome. I've been wanting to have you on for a while. And we're going to be talking about what's what's been going on in your your property people might have seen the documentary there's actually two documentaries out so far about what you've been experiencing right yeah there's the one that we did for uh joe tury's youtube channel and um redwood or red room films no red yes yes yes yeah red no red room films yes jo's punching the air is like don't mess it up guys

But yeah, we did that one, and then we have filmed one that's going to be on all streaming platforms. But that is in post-production right now and should be coming out soon. That one's going to be called Pond Creek Bigfoot and other high strangeness, because there's a lot of weird stuff going on on the farm. But Bigfoot is like the thing I've seen and everything else. Absolutely. So, yeah, plug for Joe Turrey with. the Red Room films.

Make sure you're following his YouTube channel. He is going out to all the Illinois Bigfoot spots and making great documentary films about the different spots, places that no one else is going out and filming. So definitely make sure you're subscribed to Joe's channel there. He's a good friend. But Bryce, let's get into it. So when did things first start getting weird for you at this? property. Okay, well, basically, it started whenever I was a kid. I was about 10 years old. My grandma told me this story. She told me this story about whenever my dad was probably five years old

and my uncle was like a newborn or maybe one year old. They were sitting out there at her house in the front yard and she said that she saw a honey bear come out of the woods and it was on all fours at first and then it stood up and started walking on two feet towards them. And like in a way she made it sound like it was, you know, not just like a bear would walk a couple steps and then go back down. This thing was coming towards them. So she grabbed my dad and my uncle, ran in the house, locked the doors, and hid in the closet until my grandpa got home from work that night.

Now as a kid, I'm just thinking, okay, you know, 10-year-old. mind honey bear must have been a brown bear i never knew of any bears in southern illinois as far as you know native to the region i know every once in a while we'll have a black bear migrate through but um yeah so then i was actually listening to your show and um you had a guest on named country and yeah from oklahoma that guy was i'd love to get him back on yeah i loved his episode um yeah um yeah i loved his episode um um But he used that term honey bear. And he was talking about Bigfoot.

And then the light bulb went off. And I thought about her story again. And I'm like, okay, that explains her reaction, the walking on two legs, everything. And then on some other podcasts, I've heard some old timers use that same reference for Bigfoot. So I'm like, okay, good. All right. And so that's where it started was with that story being told to me. Now, this would have been roughly 1962, 1963.

And then 10 years ago, my dad, he was over at my cousin's house on the farm. Our farm's a 642 acre farm, probably a third of its wooded, the rest of its fields, and then you've got some ponds, creeks, streams. It's, you know, it's its own big place, you know. and so he was over there, and it was getting to be about dusk, and you had the birds chirping, insects making noise, and across the road from Jerry's in the field over there in the distance, a bunch of coyotes were starting to go off.

Well, dad said all of a sudden, kind of over by the coyotes, the way the field goes, it kind of hills down a little bit into this, like, small wooded area, kind of like a grove almost. and out of that he heard this loud, deep, just roar. And it made everything go dead quiet. Hair on his arm and Jerry's arm stood up. They both looked at each other like, what was that? Because it was unlike anything they had ever heard.

He said, like, he told me he was like, honestly, he's like, son, I swear that was a Bigfoot roar. Now, at the time, I mean, I've believed in Bigfoot for quite a while. But like I never thought Southern Illinois. I always assumed it was just over in Washington and Oregon for the most part. And then, so then, you know, he told me that. And then nothing really much after that. Well, in 2023 on Mother's Day, the month of May, that seems to be the month, these last three years, that everything starts kicking off. So my wife, she wanted to go to the farm.

and get, or go see if we could find some morel mushrooms. And I didn't know if they were still out or not. So I asked my dad where we could look to see if there's any. And he told me, yeah, go behind Jerry's place because my cousin, he passed away in 2018. But his place is still there and everything. So he said, yeah, go back behind there in those woods over there. He's like, where the fallen trees are. He's like, just look around there.

There should be something if there's still any, you know, out. I was like, all right. So we go there. and we park, go through his yard, go to the back, and in the back, before you get to the field to cut over to where the woods are, you've got to walk through about chest-high grass because it's just all overgrown back there. Well, whenever we were walking, I did notice where it looked like something big

had been bedding down, but I couldn't rule out, you know, deer, like a group of deer or something doing that, because I've seen that too. But after what I discussed, in the field, I think it was using that as an ambush spot. Because my son, my oldest son, he was a little bit ahead of us. He got to the field first. He was like, hey, dad, there's some footprints up here. And I was like, okay.

I'm like, hmm, because I was thinking I was like, well, maybe dad was out here or, you know, maybe somebody's out here walking around that isn't supposed to be out here because we're pretty protective of the area. And I get up there. and I see these humongous prints and, you know, toes, the whole thing. It wasn't like, you know, the field, it had been dissed within probably a week at that time. So I know whenever, like, you step in loose soil, the footprint will spread. But as big as these were, I had to go back to the car and get my tape measure out of the glove box.

I wear a size 13 shoe. I measured these from the tip of my shoe to the tip of the big toe. 18 inches long by 5.5 inches wide. My goodness, that's really big for the Midwest. Yeah. Like, that's pretty phenomenal, dude. Yeah. And I was like, holy crap.

And on the first few sets of prints going cut, because what it did, it cut the corner of the field closest to the woods. And there's also a pond right there, too. But the first few footprints had, like, grass and, like, moss. that had, I guess, must have been on the bottom of its foot, and then whenever it was walking through the dirt, it just clung to the dirt instead. But it was heading the same direction we were. Now, these prints didn't look like they were done that day. They were probably about three days old.

And I've asked a few people about it. Lon Strickler, he looked at him, and he said about the same thing that, you know, he thought they were a couple days old at least. And I was like, okay, cool, because I want to make sure that, you know, I was thinking right on it. And so we go into the woods, and just as we got into the woods, the tree line right there, one of the trees I noticed, a bunch of sticks kind of made like a TP style leaned up against the tree. But they weren't like big sticks or anything. They were only about knee high and they were just like small, you know, small sticks.

They weren't nothing huge like as far as roundness and all that. But it wasn't the way they were placed, you know, looked like it was placed with purpose because it didn't look like it was just, you know, had a strong wind and some branches fell out and landed that way. So we're over there, you know, of course we didn't find any morels. And, you know, it was really quiet in there. And I didn't really realize that until we all got back to the car and I was hearing like burns and insects. So I was like, okay, that was weird.

So I said something to dad about it. And it kind of, you know, whenever I told him, he was like, well, you know, he's like, right across the road there was where I heard that roar come from all those years ago. And I was like, oh, crap, I, you know, I was like, yeah, that's right. Okay. And so, you know, just kind of left it at that. That was the only thing for 2023 because I was just, I thought maybe if it was there, it was just there for a little bit, you know, because he never said anything else about hearing anything at the time. So then we go to 2024, and this was the year that I had my sighting. So my grandpa, he had dementia, and he's passed since then. He died back in April.

But dad called me and said, hey, grab grandpa and bring him out to the farm. I said, okay, because my dad lives out there. And so I grabbed grandpa. We headed out to the farm. and the way you got to go, you got to cross the bridge. And whenever you cross the bridge, it's kind of a narrow bridge. So you want to go slow when you're going across it. So I was only going about maybe 25 miles per hour.

Got across it, and there's like a wood line from the creek and everything going right there to the right and to the left. But then you've got, right after that, you've got fields on both sides of the road. And I caught movement out of the corner of my right eye. So I looked over and what I saw blew my mind. I mean, about 65 to 80 yards into the field. It's a 40-acre field. There was a big black figure bent over digging in the hillside of the field. Because whenever you go to go to my dad's that way, once you get past the creek, it's kind of flat,

and then it starts to go up a hill for about a quarter mile. And it was right there kind of at the base of the hill digging. And that's what caught my attention was its right arm. It was bent down using its right arm to dig into the hillside, and it was thrashing the dirt back, and that's what caught my attention was the movement. Now, the arm on this thing, take my arm, add another half an arm.

I mean, it was long, the hand opening up and all that. It was black, like jet black. But it did have kind of a weird shine to it or a sheen to it, the way the sun was hitting it, because this was like 3.15 in the afternoon. Sunny day, beautiful day, actually. It was two weeks before Mother's Day in 2024, so the month of May still. But the way that this thing looked, because once it heard the car, it stood up, but I never got to see the face because even whenever it was digging and all that, whenever it would turn to pull the dirt out, it kept turning. away from me from the road.

So when it heard the car, it stood up. And when it stood up, I was blown away by how big this thing was. Now, when I say how big it was, I'm meaning like the height and everything, because the body of it wasn't what I expected. It wasn't like a

hulking body, like say Patty from the Patterson-Gimlin film. This was more of, the only way I really know how to describe it is, there's a Sam Elliott movie called the man who killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot, the big foot that they have in that movie, that body style, more of that leaner kind of swimmers bill, but still very muscular. You could tell it had muscles and everything from that far away in the car, you know.

But the way the body was shaped, I was just like, whoa. At first I wasn't even sure I was what I was seeing. You know, I was like, what is that? So I get grandpa up to the house, tell dad, hey, I seen something big in the field. I'm going to go back. He's just like, okay, I'm like, no, big. And he's like, oh, okay, you know, like, what? And so I hurry up, because I had grandpa on the car and I had my three-year-old with me at the time. So it wasn't like I could stop. You know what I mean? And, because I get that a lot. People ask me, like, why didn't you stop? It's like, I have my grandpa with dementia, my three-year-old in the car. I'm not going to stop and get out and go run after it or something. But I get back down there, course,

it's gone. So I just go on home. I tell my wife about it. And whenever I'm talking to her about it, she's like, well, let's go back tomorrow. I'm like, okay. Yeah, I planned on it. But yeah, that's fine. And, of course, it rained that night. So whenever we get there, I'm walking out in the field, trying to figure out, you know, to where it was and everything. It took me a little while, but I did find it. And, you know, I mean, keep in mind, it was digging in the hillside. So when it rained, the water coming down the hill kind of, it didn't wash out the area completely. You could still make out the prints and everything and where it was digging. But like, I could get my hand in that hole and it had collapsed a little bit from the mud and

everything. So I wonder how big that hole really was to begin with after it got done. The prints, I measured them. They were 16 inches. And the width on them was about four and a half. And it was pretty, uh, it was pretty much. pretty wild because I'm thinking to last year, I'm like, well, those were 18. I'm like, this is 16. I'm like, this is a different one. And so I'm like, okay, so my wife told me,

though, because there's a coal mine out that way, and they long walled underneath there. So most of the people who lived out there by us that weren't family just sold out to the coal mine. We're the only ones who didn't. So it's us out there. And everybody, I mean, all the surroundings properties to my farm is all just farmland and woods. There's a train track that goes to the coal mine that also, I'm going the opposite way, connects to a train track that goes to the Shawnee National Forest. And you know how they say that, you know, Bigfoot will use, you know, train tracks, electrical line right away, things like that, path of least resistance kind of deal for walking and stuff. I don't know if that's how it got up here or not, but I know that there is a lot of squatch activity down in the Shawnee National Forest as well,

so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where it came from. But so, okay, so back to me being into the field. I'm sitting there, and when I'm standing there, my wife said she could barely see me from the car. I'm 5'10. So she said that whenever I bent down to take the pictures, she lost sight of me completely. when I saw this thing bent down, I saw about upper thigh up to its head.

So whenever it stood up, I'm thinking this thing had to be every bit of eight feet tall. Because like I said, I'm 5'10 and she could barely see me. And that kind of blew my mind. So I'm trying to figure out, well, where did it come from? And I'm thinking back to what it looked like. And I'm thinking about how the shine on it looked. I'm thinking, okay, maybe. Maybe it was in the creek and it was water that I was seeing on its coat that was reflecting.

Because the only way I could really describe it was either that or like, you know, how like sunlight hits a horse and how its coat will look sometimes really shiny like that. Yeah. Something like that. The hair on it from the distance I was at, it didn't look like it had long hair on it or anything. It looked like it was kind of shorter haired. But so I walk around trying to see where it came from. and I go towards the creek. I find this area where it looked like something big had been kind of making a pathway through there.

So I go in there looking around. I found some more prints, took pictures of that too. And then I found this tree break. Now, this tree break, it wasn't just like a branch broke down and it's hanging and that's it. This thing was twisted around two or three times. To me, that says something did that with intention. And it was about 10 feet. up in the tree where it broke it at.

So, I mean, it's not like I'm jumping up there hanging off of it. You know what I mean, trying to break it. And something that did that, wouldn't twisted it like that, would have had to have had hands. I agree. If I could jump in for a bit, which

listeners are absolutely hating this, but we talked before, and this is how we're going to do this interview, guys. So, my apologies. But I did have a few questions about when you actually had the sighting. So the whole sighting you had, was it from the back, like you saw just the back, or did you see the front? I saw the back and the side that was facing the road.

I never did see the front. I never did see the face. I really wish I could have because I want to know what his face looks like. But it, like I said, whenever it would turn, I mean, you can see the back muscles on this thing. And like this, this siding, it, you know, because I was driving, it took like five seconds. But whenever I'm looking at it, it seemed like time just stopped. Like, I don't know.

That's the only way I know how to describe it. Absolutely. So you were seeing the side profile, the back, were you able to see things like the shape of the head at all? Yeah. It was round, but like towards the top it kind of did the cone. But it wasn't very pronounced looking, at least from that distance. Maybe up close, you know, it would look a lot more pronounced. Okay.

But from that distance, it wouldn't look very pronounced. And the distance you said, it sounded like it was about approximately like three tennis courts, right? Did you say about like 75, 70 yards, something like that? Yeah, like 65 to 80. Where in. Okay. So a little closer. Yeah.

Hmm. Did you, were you able to get a view at all? What the size of the head would be. Like if you were to able, if you were able to compare it to like the size of a household object, is there anything that would come to mind? I would say. Now, this is just a guess, but I would say take like maybe like a basketball, like the width of a basketball, and a little bit, you know, taller than a basketball would be height-wise. The upper body on it, like it had big shoulder muscles, trap muscles. The trap muscles were big enough to where it didn't look like it had much of a neck.

Because you can see that whenever it was turning and doing the thrashing in the hillside. Absolutely. From what you could see, did it look like it was completely covered in hair, or were there parts that did not seem to be covered in hair? From what I could tell, everything looked black to me, but it's possible that its palms weren't. You know what I mean? It's possible that it didn't have any palms. But whenever it threw its hand back and everything with throwing the dirt out, I didn't see any like hair, looked like hair follicles or anything on it.

Because you can see some hair follicle. It just wasn't very long. Yeah. How long would you say the entire time was that you were able to have a view of it? About five seconds, max. Five seconds, okay. Which I know that's not very long. But like I said, whenever I was looking at it, it was just like time slowed down or something.

I mean, I know I slowed down. But it was just like, whoa, you know. And then, you know, just had to get Grandpa up there. So that's why I just went ahead and hurried up and got him out of there. I was hoping my plan was to get him out, get him into Dad's house, get back down there. And hopefully whenever it took off walking, because it went walking further into the field. So it would have been heading south. and there's a small area of woods right there with another field behind it and then an area of about two miles where it's nothing but woods.

But we didn't go back over there. And this is Southern Illinois. You said it's close to the Shawnee National Force. So is it more like western, the western part of Southern Illinois then? Or I guess I could be central too Yeah it's kind of the central Southern part of Southern Illinois yeah Yeah got it

Got it got yeah so not over by like Garden of the Gods Yeah that's east of me that that's about maybe 20 miles east of me I would say Okay And that's so you're you're so I mean you know Gotta follow the roads on that they can take shortcuts Yeah absolutely they can do whatever So you're kind of like you've got Garden the Gods and Shawnee on one side of you. And then on the other side, if you go far enough, you've got like Murphy's Borough.

Yeah, Murphy's Borough. In there, I would say Murphy's Burroughs within 30 miles. So you've got giant city state park over there. And you've got in between the two, you've got Ferncliff State Park, which is also part of the National Forest. Okay. And for people that are not up to, aren't aware of like Illinois Bigfoot stuff. So big muddy monster, that's Murphy's Borough, if you've heard of that. So that's why that's important.

So, okay, wild stuff, Bryce. How did this change things for you after you had this siting? It must have done something. Yeah, it blew my mind. It made me want to get out there and find. more signs of it, try to have another siding, which ended up happening earlier this year, and I had a witness

with me whenever it happened. It was Joe's cameraman. But, yeah, so, okay, so that happened, and I'm sitting there, like, I mean, it was so weird because, like, I'm sitting there, and at first I'm like, I know I saw it. I've got the pictures

of the prints and the dig and everything. Like, it was there. I was like, I got to talk to somebody who knows about this. stuff, though, because I'm like, you know, was it a bigfoot that I saw? Because I think it was, you know, everything to me inside said, yeah, that's a bigfoot. So I contacted Joe Doyle. I don't know if you know who he is or not. Oh, yeah, Helden Holler. Yeah, I contact him. Yeah, he, he was very gracious to give me time to hear, hear what I had to say about it. And I showed him the pictures and you know he was like man he goes based on everything you've told me he's like

i think that you saw saskwatch because everything the behavior and all that he said that you know that's everything that him and jesse have either come across or seen happen things like that and um you know so that was very like talking to him really helped me out because i was like okay cool all right and then you know he told me you don't get some audio recorders out there get some trail cams out there, you know, just anything you can have to help you get evidence. And I was like, okay. So I told my dad, I was like, hey, we need to get all this stuff and get it set up out there. And then I got to thinking about it because I've known Joe Turrey for a few years now.

We've been friends for probably three years now, four years now. So I hit him up because I know he makes documentaries about these things. And I was like, hey, man, so you want to hear something wild? And told him about it. And he was like, dude, he's like, yeah. I told him, I was like, you want to come down here and check it out? You know, because Joe's got all the cool gadgets. You know, he's got the drone.

He's got everything. And he was like, yeah. So it took a while with our schedules to line up to where he could come out because of both our work schedules. And so he ended up coming out. When was it? I think it was July. June or July. He came out this year.

And that's whenever we filmed the Pond Creek Monster for his YouTube channel. and since I can never get his YouTube channel name right, if you go to YouTube, just search the Pont Creek Monster, it'll be the first one you see. And then there's a couple other shows I've been on that have it on there too. But yeah, it was wild because when he got out there, we did the interview in the field, and then we did like a daytime investigation there.

And we didn't really get a whole lot of action. action that day. But we did come across another dig site. And what was wild about that was it was a lot closer to the road. See, what happened with the field is the farmers that we rent the land out to farm and then we get a cut of the profits at the end of the year, they couldn't farm that field because there was a pipeline being put in for, I think, natural gas.

And so that field hadn't been touched yet with a, plows or anything. And so you got like the old corn cops that were left over from when the combines went through the year before. And there was this one spot, maybe, I don't know, 15 yards off the road, like just as you come into the field. We parked, we pulled into the field with our vehicles and just parked right along the edge. And the funny thing is, we didn't notice it whenever we got out. We noticed it whenever we were coming back and getting ready to go up to another area on the farm. But we noticed these corn cobs that were all kind of put around in like a circle. And I would say the circle was about the size of a big Christmas wreath. And inside it, it looked

like something. First we thought it was a footprint. But then whenever we got a closer look at it and everything, it was actually a handprint, like something that dug in there and been scraping. Now, what it was after, I have no idea. I mean, maybe it saw it. mall, maybe it was going for grub worms. I have no clue. Because like I said, it was not a very deep hole or anything like the one I found in the hillside was. But so, you know, we, we videoted it. We took pictures as best as we could. And then we went to another location. And it was where I had found those 18-inch prints at. And I showed him the area. We talked about that. And then him and his cameraman had to get back to Springfield.

So they left right around lunchtime. And he told me, he told me, he's like, well, just look around out here, man. It's like, if you find any more prints, you know, take pictures of them, send them to me, and I'll edit them in that way we can have them for the documentary. He's like, anything you can find that can help us is going to be great. I was like, okay. So I go back out there. I think it was later that week.

And I used a really good camera. And I went out there and this is the weird thing. So I've heard on, or maybe I shouldn't say weird because I don't want to sound disrespectful. But I've heard this one podcast, I can't remember who it was. It may have very well been on yours. There was a Native American talking about Bigfoot. And he said, if you're going to go out there looking for him, you need to announce yourself. call them Forest Brothers,

welcome them, let them know your intention, that you come in peace, and, you know, like ask for a sign of their presence, things like that. So I figured,

man, what the heck, I'm going to give this a shot. So that's what I did. I just said, you know, Forest brothers, welcome to my family farm.

You guys are more than welcome to make your home here. All I ask is that you respect the land and respect our properties. I was like, I come in peace. And, if you could give me a sign of your presence, that would be great, but you don't have to.

And I'm out there in the field where I have my siding looking around. I found some more 16-inch prints, which tells me it was probably the one I saw, and then I found some that were 14-inch. Now, they had the toes in them. It wasn't like, you know, somebody in boots or something like that walking around out there. I found that, too, but these had the toes. and I'm out there for about 10, 15 minutes, and I'm not very far into the field. I'm about maybe, I don't know, quarter of the way into it. And coming from the creek area,

I start to hear this really strange sound. Now, the only way I know how to describe this sound, it's going to sound silly, but take like if you were really hungry, and your belly started growling, but that was your voice and you were mumbling. Oh, yeah. That's what I heard coming from the creek area.

And what sucks about the creek area now is the winter we just had, there was a big ice storm that happened. So a lot of tree branches broke. Some trees fell. And so now everything out there is like perfect camouflage for these things to be just standing there and you wouldn't see them. So, like, I can't even find where the tree break was that I found in 2024. I can't even find it anymore because everything's so broken right there on the tree line.

Everything looks like a break. But I hear this sound, and I never did get any bad vibes from it. I didn't feel like I was in danger. I just heard it, looked over that way. I can kind of guess about where it was at, like where the sound was coming from. and I just kept mine in my business, you know, taking pictures, things like that. And it did that for a good five to ten minutes. And not like consistently, but like it would, it would just, it would stop for a little bit and then it would start it up again.

And so I went up to Dad's house, showed him the pictures, and then told him about that. told him what I did, you know, as far as the Native American approach to trying to have contact with these things. And he goes, huh, okay. He's like, yeah, he's like, I've kind of heard stuff like that before. And I'm like, you're just now telling me this? And, but he always called it the warbler, because he said to him that that's the sound it makes, like a, like it's saying warbler, you know? Yeah, he didn't realize we were talking about the same thing. it first. And

so then he started telling me about how he'll have a lot of fires at night because after grandpa died, that's just what dad did a lot out on the farm. He'd just have bonfires every night. And he said that he would start to hear

like that sound. Whoops. He's been whistled out. He said the whistle was a really shrill whistle. It was about good 10 seconds long whistle. And I asked him, I was like, well, did you flash your spotlight out of it or anything? He was like, no.

He was like, I just kind of looked over my shoulder. He's like, you know, I didn't see it. He's like, but it was coming from back over where one of the ponds are. There used to be five ponds on the farm, but after the coal mine came through, two of them drains, so now we only have three. But all three of them are stocked. And so that's another food supply. A ton of deer out there, raccoons.

I mean, you name it as far as like woodland creatures go. you know, like the ones that, you know, we know about. Right. We're out there. Foxes, everything like that. So he was telling me about all this. Well, you know, dad interviewed with Joe for the documentary. And he told all that stuff on there.

And then Joe was telling dad some things to listen for because dad said, like, you know, I'll hear some owls, but they sound really weird. He's like, he was like, they'll sound like an owl, but then they won't finish like an owl. Like it'll, it'll sound like, like a 400 pound owl. And,

and also there's a, like that set of train tracks I told you about, he said there's been times before when a train would go through, but the train's like gone on over to the coal mine. And then he'll hear a little bit later after that, he'll hear something try to do a train whistle. But whenever it finishes, it'll be like,

you know, train whistle and then, bruh, like that. So I gave him the Ohio house. And I was like, did it sound like this at all? And he was like,

yeah, it sounded a lot like that, but it didn't carry on as long as those are. And I was like, okay. And it's kind of funny because now that,

you know, he knows what to listen for and things like that, stuff that he just thought was, you know, just a weird sound or something. You know, and after talking to me and Joe,

He's like, man, he's like, he's like, you guys got me, got me looking over my shoulder all the time out here every time I hear anything. Right, right. I'm like, yeah, way to go, Joe. But, um, no, man, it was, it was wild. So, like, that was 2024. I'm looking at my notes here to make sure I didn't miss anything. And no. Okay.

So this year, or not 24, that was earlier this year. I'm sorry. Earlier 2025. So then, and either, I want to say it was late August, Joe came back out because he said, it was so weird. Whenever the video on his YouTube channel came out, within a month, it had like 12,000 views. I wasn't expecting that many views. I thought, you know, if we got 500, that'd be cool, you know.

And it was so weird, you know, I wasn't expecting that. at all. So he was like, we're going to do a full flesh documentary on this. I was like, all right, cool. And so like I said, late August, him, a cameraman, and

his buddy Jason Dickerson, he's part of his research team. Like you do, those two that are the ones in all the videos. So they came out and you know, we redid the interview.

and everything. Also, Tony Gerard, he used to be in some of the episodes of Monster Quest. He came out there. He's a cool dude. I've talked to him way back in the day. Yeah. I talked to him once. He's a cool dude.

Yeah, that guy is so knowledgeable in all sorts of them. Oh, yeah. He found native growing passion fruit out there on the farm. I didn't even know we had it. It was just growing wild out there out behind Dad's house by one. of the barns out there, like you're going to go towards where that pond is. And, yeah, he showed that to Joe and everything. And then Joe showed me because I was at my kid's soccer game when Tony was there.

So I didn't actually get to meet him. But he was there. But, yeah, so let's see, trying to see if I forgot anything. Oh, the night before, not the night before, the Wednesday before Joe came out to do that. I was, I borrowed my dad's lawnmower and brought it back on the trailer because it was a riding lawnmower. I live in town and he lives out there on the farm. And so I brought it back and it's about 9.30 at night and we're unloading it, getting the trailer, took off my car and everything. And before I get, I'm getting ready to leave and he goes, hang on a second.

The boys forgot their soccer ball here. I'm going to go grab it. All right. Well, he wasn't more than three. or four steps away. And all of a sudden, you hear this, it was faint, but you heard a whoop and coming from over in the direction where the pond is and the same direction that he says he always hears whoops and where that whistle came from.

And I'm sitting there like, it was so faint that I almost ignored it. And I was like, wait a second. I go, hey, dad, did you hear things? He's like, yep, I was waiting on you to say something. He's like, I hear that stuff all the time out here, son. I was like, wow, because, I mean, there was no mistaking. It wasn't like an owl that just, you know, hood. Like, this was a whoop.

And that blew my mind. So whenever Joe came, I told him about that. And, you know, he just said, okay, he's like, whenever you're doing your interview, just throw that in. I said, okay. So we did that. And then we, let's see, we took a break for a few hours. and like Joe was camping here in town where I live, and then him and Jason, Tony had went back home by that point.

And so whenever we go to go back out there, a little closer to evening, so it was probably around 6 o'clock, which summertime, you know, it doesn't get dark here until about 9 o'clock at night in the summer. And what we were going to do, my wife, whenever she was pregnant with our youngest kid, my grandma, whenever she was still alive, she would come and sit with her and while I was at work and would tell her stories about

weird stuff out on the farm. And she told her about the honey bear story, some other things like she swore up and down. She saw lights in the woods that weren't, you know, like people with their headlamps on or anything. And she had, um, she had, um, she had, um, just some other, you know, not really big foot more on like, like seeing like UFOs, things like that out there. Which, I mean, I've seen that too out there. But, you know, so Joe wanted that, you know, Amber's to interview to be about all the stuff that grandma told her. And so then we get, we're getting ready to get over to where we're going to do that at. Because what we were planning to do was a kind of like a get a bonfire going over there and do like a fireside chat, you know.

And so we got everything loaded up in Jason's truck. He has this great big truck. I think it's a Ford F 350. And me and the cameraman were sitting on the tailgate and then Joe and Jason were in the truck. So whenever we go to back out and pull onto the road, I can see, me and the cameraman, we can see straight down the hill going towards the creek. Standing in the middle of the road, right by the bridge, which is right next to the field that I had my siding in 2024, is this very tall, completely black, same build as before thing standing there.

And I go, I go, are you seeing this? And the cameraman, he goes, he goes, yeah, he's like, is that a person? I go, from this distance, I'm like, this is a quarter mile up here. That is a very tall person, if that's a person. Plus, they're totally black. And the cameraman, good guy, but he's a big skeptic, you know. And he's got to see it to believe it, even though we were looking at it. But he just kept trying to, like, rationalize what it is instead of, you know, realizing that, you know, there's an eight-foot-tall black

thing in the road down there. And he even went as far as to think, well, maybe, because you know, country roads, maybe it's the tar mark in the middle of the road. And I'm like, it's standing on the tar mark. I'm like, no. And it was wild because

like, you know, whenever I told Joe and Jason about it afterwards, they were like, why did you say something? But like, the whole time, I'm just like, I'm talking with the cameraman, and he's confirming what I'm seeing, he's seeing it too. and I mean, I was just in the moment, you know? The way that it was looking at us, it didn't have, it, I wouldn't call it an aggressive posture or anything like that.

The thing is just big and built, you know. But like I said, it's not hulking. It's just built like, you know, like a swimmer's build or something. And it was kind of leaning a little bit to its left. And to me, it was almost like a curious posture, like trying to figure out, were we coming down there towards it or were we going away? And I mean, I just kept looking at it the entire time as we were driving away from it and then I lost sight of it because, you know, the hill and everything. So I told them about it. And like, you know, they were like, you should have hit the truck or something, got our attention.

And, but, you know, I was like, well, it's down there. I was like, he saw it too. and yeah and so we go ahead we get everything set up to do my wife's interview and by this point in time we've got the fire going uh joe handed me a parabolic dish to use to just kind of scan around see if i could pick up anything and um my dad brought amber up the the uh i guess you could call it like a driveway basically what it was is the coal mine on my property that I personally own out there. They wanted to dig a well. And so, you know, they gave me money to let them do that.

And they dug the well, but they didn't hit water. So I got to keep the money. And they pulled in this nice driveway for me. Oh, cool. And you got a big hole. Yeah, and I got a big hole. But, yeah. But they, so that was there.

So, you know, my dad, he brought her up in his truck. And we got her all situated, sat down by the fire. Joe's getting the camera adjusted to her. Jason's got the lighting set up. And the other cameraman, the one that was sitting by me that saw it, he was just kind of going around, like shooting B-roll film. And like I said, I had the parabolic dish. Well, right behind us is this big brush pile of a bunch of the broken tree limbs

and everything from the ice storm. And dad just stashed them all up there. And then that burn pit he had right there, just burn them a little bit at a time. And so I'm scanning around. And behind us, the way it sounded on the parabolic dish, it sounded like it was distant.

But I could pick up movement. And it sounded bipedal to me. And I even said it, I was like, hey, I think we got something back there walking. And I was like, And it sounds by a pedal. And they're like, oh, that's cool. And I'm just like, I don't know.

I was like, I don't hear anything else so other than just footsteps. So keep that in mind. So we get ready to start to do Amber's interview. And suddenly she goes, okay, who just threw a stick at me? And we were like, what? Like, we're all looking at each other. Like, I didn't throw a stick. You know, none of them did either.

And she was like, you guys seriously, none of you guys did. Like, she looked back to Jason, like, you didn't do it. it. He's like, no. And what she said was that a stick, she thought Joe threw it because it came from, like, behind us though, but it came from, you know, our direction. And it, it wasn't a big stick or anything. It was more like a, like a twig, really, whenever she picked it up. But it hit her in her lower leg right above her ankle. And it really freaked her out whenever all of us were like, no, we didn't. throw a stick. So I'm thinking back, okay, I heard those footsteps. I hurry up and turn around, turn the parabolic dish back on, and I can hear footsteps in a hurry going away from us. So what I'm thinking is after I turned that dish off, it must have got a little bit closer and got like, I mean, that, that brush pile is probably about 30 feet long and very tall. and so I'm thinking that it must have just like

grabbed a stick and just threw it over you know and it happened to hit her and which to me just from you know I'm no expert not that there really is when it comes to crypto zoology but to me it seemed like juvenile behavior because I feel like if it would have been an alpha

or anything like that it would have done a little more than just throw one little stick and then run off like that, you know. It wasn't dad either because dad went back to his house. And, um, you know, so we did her interview. And on this particular night, it was the lunar eclipse. So it was, you couldn't see anything out there once it got dark. And so we've got flashlights. We've got, um, I think Jason had a,

night vision camera and I think there was a fleer or a thermal one of the other but um my dad comes back picks up Amber and takes her back to her car and she goes ahead and goes back home and then we go out and we go and to the field where it was the field which field was it It was the field on the other side of Dad's house, the field that has the pond and all that. And we go back there, and I've got the dish going, and I'm picking up some vocalizations, sounded like whoops. You could also hear a pack of coyotes going off, and it sounded like there was something close to them that was trying to mimic them, but it was so much lower in the sound. that, like, you know how coyotes how they get really high-pitched at times. And this was, like, sounded like something trying to do that, but was failing.

And so we did that. Got that on there. Jason had this thing called an Aztec death whistle. And I don't know if you've ever heard the sound these things can make. they're really I think they're really scary sounding they're weird yeah at night I'm gone

yeah no thanks he blew it once and he blew it down the direction where me and the cameraman had seen it standing in the road and then he blew it once didn't have anything no sound nothing like I didn't hear anything on the dish

so waited about 30 seconds did it again. Now, a word of warning, don't point the dish towards him, towards somebody with an Aztec death whistle because that will really be loud in your ears.

But he did it the second time and instantly got to reply back with a solid knock. And I mean, really? Yes. And the knock to me was almost like a knock it off kind of thing.

you know yeah and i said i was like oh i was like we got a knock and i was like and it was a strong one and um so then we start walking down that way and you know we're shining the lights around trying to see if we can catch any eye shine or anything like that we've seen a bunch of deer um we didn't get any eye shine down there um actually that night we didn't get any eye shine at all um that was in October. So, but we did find, so in the opposite field, where the train track is and everything, the train tracks towards the back end of the field,

it actually kind of cut the field. You got like two-thirds of the field in front of the train tracks, and then the rest of the field is behind it because they built it up and everything. And the creek right there on that side of the road, they rerouted the creek. Before it was just a straight shot, and now on that side of the road is kind of,

kind of zigzagged, but I don't know how they did it, but now there's always water in it all the time. Used to, a lot of times the creek would be dry. You could go down there and find arrowheads or something. And it was too deep for us to get down there and too overgrown, really, to even be able to even try to find any like footprints down there. But we did find some footprints in this little, like, roadway, I guess you could call it, like a service road or something. Because it was just gravel and you got parts that were washed out and there was some water standing and coming out of the water on the furthest side of the puddle found prints with toes. And that was pretty wild. How long would you say?

I would say they were probably about 16 inches. Okay. Because I didn't have my tape measure on me that night. but they looked very similar to what I had found in the field where I had my siding and all that. So I was like, okay, all right, so we got that. And then I want to say that was pretty much it for that night. Like we did some overhead drone footage, and I think he had a thermal on the drone whenever he did that.

And then, so, yeah, he's like, okay, he's like, well, he's like,

we got what we got. He's like, you know, he's like, we'll come back out and do some more, um, later, you know,

a couple months from now. I was like, okay. So he gets a hold of me in October. And he says, hey, he's like the 17th, we're going to come out and we're going to do a live stream night

investigation on the channel. I was like, all right, cool. and that night was so weird because we had all kinds of equipment issues that night. Like everything just didn't seem like it wanted to work. Parabolic worked, but like it wasn't even just that. Their GPS, like where they were camped at, they camped down in Dixon Springs.

And there's a back way you can get to get to the farm from there. It's a lot quicker. And Joe knew that, but he couldn't remember exactly how to go. and the GPS kept trying to take them all the way to the interstate, which ended up adding an hour's worth of drive time. So yeah, that was really weird. So originally we were supposed to meet about, I think, 6.6.30, something like that. And they didn't end up getting there until about 8.

But in the meantime, I pulled up to the farm, and I went down the main road, and I saw my dad on his tractor right next to my cousin's house. I was in the field there. So I pulled over at my cousins and walked out there and talked to dad. And I was like, hey, you know, just reminding you, we're going to be out here tonight doing an investigation and everything. So I just wanted to let you know, you know, it's us. And he's like, okay, that's fine.

He was just sawing up some firewood and putting it in the front loader of his tractor. And so it was like, all right. I was like, well, I just let you know. So I go ahead and go to his house. And so it was probably. about 7 o'clock, and it was starting to get dark at this point. Because by then, you know, in fall around here, about 7 o'clock, it would start to get dark. Now it gets dark at 5 o'clock.

But I'm sitting there, and I go ahead and I just turn, I roll down my windows, and I turn my car off. And I'm just going to sit there waiting for them to get there. And I'm like, I'm just going to listen, see if I hear any whoops or anything like that. well, this kind of freaked me out because where I'm sitting at in the car across from my dad's house, there's a field and the field is shaped like a capital L. And in like what would be like the 45 degree angle of the L, there's woods right there. And I know, like I've always heard people describe hearing them running through the woods how it sounds like an elephant. just blasting through there. Well, I heard that.

And, I mean, it startled me because it was like, it was very quiet. And then all of a sudden just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, running. And I'm like, what the heck? And about 15 minutes after that, it did it again. Now, I'm trying to rationalize this to myself. I'm like, okay, could it have been a treetop falling out, hitting every branch on the way down? Well, there was no win, so it wasn't that. So I'm like, okay.

So I'm like flashing my light over there, even though dad always said that he never did because they keep, they'll continue, you know, doing things. Well, I wanted to see if I could see it. So I'm flashing the light and didn't see anything. It did it again. I'm like, okay. So they get there. I tell them, I'm like, hey, guys, I've already got activity. I'm like, and it's right there and told them what happened.

and they're like, all right, let's get our gear. And they were, you know, you could tell that they were kind of frustrated because of the GPS issues and all that. So Jason carries this, I don't know what it is, but it'll let you know about like lightning strikes in your area and things like that. There was no clouds. And that thing started going off saying lightning strikes, one mile of your area, two miles of your area. there's no clouds and no lightning started having equipment malfunctions that was weird we end up hearing what sounded like something mimicking a person saying hey it was like hey that was weird also something mimicking a person laughing and that was creepy because it was like

you know it was just like what like you know shining lights around couldn't see anything and like Joe calls it a disembodied voice and I mean it had to have come from a body you know but that that's what he calls it and I'm calling it mimicking

because the way it sounded we got it we got it we got the audio of it and everything I mean it was creepy And then not too long after that, when we're walking, we're going along the edge of the woods there and going further down into the field, got another solid tree knock. But it wasn't like the one I heard before where it was like the knock it off, you know, tree knock. This was just like a boom. And that was it. And, you know, we got the audio of that.

So, you know, we have all this going on. and we're out there. We think we're live on Joe's YouTube channel because on his phone and everything it says we are. Well, I've got people texting me like, hey, I thought you guys were going live. I'm like, we are. And they're like, I can't find anything about it.

So for whatever reason, it never was popping up on his channel that we were live, even though on his phone it said you were live. And, I mean, he still had the footage from it, so he just posted it a week later. But that was really weird. Because you figured that plus the, thing saying with the lightning strikes when there was no lightning or clouds around us at all,

it was just a starry night, plus the GPS deal, plus the equipment malfunctions. There was just a lot of strange stuff going on that night. And then what got me the most, though, was, you know, hearing them running through the woods like that because the only thing I can figure is because we did see deer in that field. And in the direction, the sound sounded like it was going, what I think was going on, because those deer were fixated on looking at the woods. Like, they saw us and they didn't run or anything. They weren't worried about us.

They were staring at the woods. So we go back into the woods. And I'm not sure that we found where it ran through or not, because it looked like something had been through there that was big. but I mean with the ice storm that happened and all that kind of stuff I can't really say for sure and that's the only thing I hate about that because there's so much broken branches out there now I don't know what was that and what was them but we end up they ended up staying longer I left at 11 because I had to work the next morning I had an overtime shift and so I had to leave

about 11 o'clock but Jason had these electric bikes and so they went and they went to some different areas on the farm and they ended up finding this pathway where they found prints and it was about it was going along one of the fields

I can't remember which field he said but it was going like about 20 feet and then it went in like there was this big opening where like something big had been going through there a lot into the woods So they've got the footage of that.

And, you know, that was pretty wild hearing that because I was like, wow. So then I'm sitting there and I'm just thinking about everything. My dad keeps telling me about things that he hears. And he's like, yeah, he's like, I'm still hearing stuff out there. I'm like, really? And he's telling me he's like a lot of times, you know, it's the whoops. and the occasional like mimicking an owl or the train whistle thing. But just two Sundays ago, so November 23rd, my wife, that was her birthday,

and she wanted to go out on the farm and have a bonfire. I was like, all right, it was a Sunday night. And it was really foggy that night, too. Like that whole day it was foggy, and especially that night. Now, when it's foggy out there on the farm like that, it is extra creepy out there. So we get there about 4.30. Dad's already got the fire going for us. And, you know, he visits with us for a while.

He goes on back in the house. Well, we're sitting there, and we're probably sitting there maybe 30, 45 minutes. And all of a sudden, from over my shoulder in like a diagonal, So it would have been, if I'm thinking, the direction and everything like that, when I found those 18-inch prints, that woodline right there, it sounded like it came from over there. Could have been a little bit past that, but over in that direction anyways. We heard the most scariest scream I've ever heard in my life.

It was very high-pitched. went for a good solid 10 seconds or more. And it's to me, when I heard this, it sounded not like feminine. And then whenever it ended, it sounded apish. So I look at her, I go,

did you hear that? And she was like, yeah. And I'm like, wow, what was that? You know, I mean,

because like, I'm, of course, I'm thinking Bigfoot because of the apish finish. on it. But I also know that, you know, fox can make a high-pitched

yell like that and sometimes deer too, but this wasn't that. This was way louder and from a distance to be that loud where we were and it being as far away as it was. There's just no way it was a regular animal out there

on the farm. So then, I'm on alert at this point because it's foggy. I can't see anything. We've got the fire going. I kept in mind what dad said about fires out there at night. And I'm like, okay, I'm like, well, I'm like, maybe it's one of them down there. And I start kind of walking around the yard over there. And then across the road in the field by where the pond is, but going about maybe halfway down to the creek, I hear another yell, but it didn't sound the same as that one did.

it sounded more the only way I could really describe it is it kind of sounded like something that was like ugh you know like like it sounded like great like you know got to do something or whatever you know

it was it had bass in it it very well could have been that um belly growl mumble you know

but louder because it was like I said, it was down in that field. I knew that much. And it also sounded like it had a hold of a deer because I could hear a deer noise too. And I'm like, okay, I've got stuff going on over here. Well, right after that, one of her friends pulls up that we invited out there. Because at this point, we're like, okay, we're going to go here in a little bit. Well, then her friend pulls up, so she starts talking about.

to her and everything, but I'm still on alert, looking around, listening, everything like that. So about 20 minutes goes by, and I hear something in the woods that's only about, at the most, probably 30 yards away from us. I hear something to the left. I hear something to the right, and then I hear something in the middle. So I'm thinking there was three of them there. And the only thing I can figure, because that one sounded feminine, the first that scream I heard, is maybe that was like the mother Bigfoot, either yelling for the kids or yelling to her mate and one of the kids,

because there was three. I could distinctively hear three different sets of walking and, like, hurriedly walking and then stopping all along the woods. And it wasn't like it went here and then scooted up to here and then scooted over to there. It was like you had this going on, then I'm hearing it over here too and in the middle. And all ways for them to get up there, they could go through woods and not be seen. At some point the one that was over in that field across the road would have had to have crossed the road to get to those woods, but it could have came right up undetected.

And the fact that it was foggy as could be, I couldn't see the wood. I knew they were there, but I couldn't see the woods. So that was wild. That was within the last two weeks, you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, that was two fingers ago on November 23rd, about 545, 6 o'clock at night. Do you have audio recorders set up out there at all? We have two that we have bought, and they should be here soon, and I'm going to get them set up out there.

Good. Yeah, I'd recommend that. Yeah. Because, wow. Yeah, because I mean, like, I lived out on the farm most of my life. My dad's been out there for basically his whole life except for a little bit of time in the 70s. And we know what regular nighttime animal sounds sound like. And then we're hearing this stuff now.

And because, you know, thanks to Joe, dad knows what to listen for now. And, you know, I learned a lot from Joe, too, on things. So I'm listening for certain things as well. well. It's, yeah, it's, we're going to be getting a lot, but there's already, there's already several trail cams out there, but we're going to get the audio recorders too. And like, I was thinking back to whenever I was a kid, you know, the whole family was alive back then and lived out there. And my grandparents, they lived on the main road. Well, instead of walking up the country road and then going to the main road, I just cut the field and walked through there.

And there was a spot of woods right there too. And I remember as a kid, always hearing what sounded like a farmer building a barn or something or, you know, working on a fence or something like that. Looking back on it, there was no new barns ever built. Could have been, you know, fixing fences. but now knowing what's out there, I'm wondering if it wasn't Woodnox I was hearing as a kid. Yeah. But like I've never had a, other than, you know, hearing that scream that just startled me.

But even then, I don't think it was like screaming at us. I think it was just screaming for the others. So I don't know. But. Yeah. And like anytime I go out, I'm never armed. I don't do that because whenever I do the Native American thing, I always say I come in peace.

And, you know, I mean you no harm. Well, if I go out there with a shotgun or, you know, a machete or something like that, that's going to send the wrong message. Yeah. No, I totally get that. The first time that you did that verbal that, you said that, you know, hey, you kind of were. were taking the initiative and talking to them. Did you notice, I don't know, it's such an interesting thing because it feels like not only are you talking to them, but it's kind of like an invitation as well. Yeah.

Like, yeah, that's what I picked up from it. And do you feel like stuff picked up after that or was it kind of the same? Well, as far as things that I was discovering, hearing myself, my dad talking about an uptick in him hearing things, I believe so. I believe that, you know, they understood me, however that's possible. And, you know, because like I said, like, we used to have, back whenever we farmed it, which I say we, it was my grandpa and his brother, there was livestock out there, you know, cows. before I was born, they used to have chickens and pigs out there too, I believe,

and maybe some goats, and never had an issue with, you know, livestock being massacred or anything like that. So, it's been a, I mean,

it's been a peaceful time with them, you know what I mean? And like, if grandma saw one back in 1963, that's at least 60 years. If not, Not more. And an interesting history lesson about the land itself. See, the farm's been in our family since the 1860s.

And before that, there used to be in the field where I have my sighting, there used to be a Native American settlement there. You don't say. Yeah. I was going to ask you. I was like, there's something there. Absolutely. Yeah. On top of that, in the field across the road where the pond is and everything, where dad always hears the vocalizations from, I'm not exactly sure where at in the field.

Dad knows. And my grandma's brother remembers seeing the remnants of it when they were younger. There used to be a fort there. And whenever I did a little research on the fort, I'm not going to give the force name because then somebody went to the point right where it is. But when I did a little research on it, I found out that that fort was one of the first ones built in America's expansion westward of the Ohio River. So, you know, there was some clashing going on. Oh, big time. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness. I can only imagine the stuff that happened. Oh, yeah. I mean either. I mean, it's wild. I wonder if maybe because I took that approach, the Native American approach, to doing it, if maybe they were there then. Could be, don't know.

I know at least 60 years. I bet there's some kind of burial site on that property, too, and you might not even know about it. Yeah, I mean, there's little hills that I've wondered if they could be burial now. Yeah, absolutely, dude. Wow.

And especially thinking about after that pipeline went through back there, because they went through some small hills. So who's to say? Dude, so here's what I've been thinking the whole time. You need to have some connection with someone on the mining company side. Yeah. And be like, okay, what have you guys experienced?

Because you know, they probably, I would guess they've had some stuff happen when they've been doing stuff. Yeah. I know, I've got a couple friends I went to high. high school with that they're bosses at the mine, but I don't know if they're like bosses down there in the mine or if they're above ground or what, but I could talk to them and just see if anybody's ever reported anything. Yeah, you can always throw out the whole like, hey, guys ever run into anything weird when you're doing your mine stuff over there and, you know, unless you want to jump right

into the Bigfoot thing. I mean, that's all what your comfort level is. Yeah, they know me. They know, they know how I am. Oh, you know. They're like, you know, I'm that guy in the friend group. That's cool. That's cool.

So you can jump right to that. Yeah. Wow. Bryce, I mean, I'm thinking real quick. And this is probably, I would say, from what I've heard, it's probably the most active area of current day for Illinois that I've heard. I mean, you hear all the Peoria sightings and stuff, but like this is very concentrated. And, I mean, going back to the 60s, like, this is a very, very special thing.

When is Joe's documentary going to be out? I'm not sure. He said that it's pretty well finished. He's just in contact with all the different streaming service companies and getting all that stuff set up. and he said that he's like this documentary is going to blow your doors off he's like it's awesome i haven't seen it yet but from everything he told me he's very excited about it he does a great job the wildest thing though is that stuff is happening like all the time yeah it's just like it just keeps going and going and going and going and that to me is

is very very exciting stuff uh are you keeping a journal of everything that's happening. Yeah, I just keep writing it down on my notes. Okay, good. And like, uh, anytime I get anything. If I talk to dad, he tells me something new. I'll make a note. I'll write the date, all that stuff, as long as I can remember the date. And, um, yeah, um, it, I see, my whole thought was, well, since it kicked off in May, they must migrate. But here, you know, it was really cold. It's cold now. It just snowed last night. Um, It's and they're still there. So I'm thinking that they just,

they make their home there. And they're just good at staying hidden for the most part. But like after I gave the invitation and welcomed them and everything and told them, hey, it's okay for you guys to be here. Now they seem to be more comfortable making their presence known at times. Exactly. It'll be interesting to see if, I don't know if you guys are going to get in Iowa.

we're going to get the polar vortex and Thursday the 4th. And I'd be interesting to see if that hits you guys down there. And if that does anything, like, kind of drives them out. Like, oh, we got to get further south or maybe they just, maybe they just find some place to get warm. Who knows? Yeah, there's, I mean, with the coal mining and all that, I would assume there's caves out there. I know, Jim, east of our property, there's a. there's an old mind that like, I mean, we're talking like long time ago mine, that some people I knew back when I was younger, they went in there and they were like, man, we got chased out by something big, dude.

I was like what? And they're like, yeah, man, it was big and hairy. Really, really, really did not like us being there. But they didn't feel bigfoot. I mean, we were teenagers then. And I don't know that they knew about Bigfoot. And, I mean, I knew about Bigfoot, but never here, you know. So I wonder about that.

And, you know, because that would be a good spot for them to go and hold up for the winter. And, I mean, because that, you know, old mine shaft that, like, the openings right there on the ground, you know, you can just walk right into it. Since then, though, there's a gate now. used to you could just pull right in and go to it but now there's a gate but the opening is still open so interesting yeah my goodness yeah bryce this one you've got some it's some wild stuff going on um my goodness it's very very very very unique uh i i would say it you you you probably you're going to have more sightings in the future, I would guess. I want to see the thing.

That would, yeah. That would be wild. Thank you so much for coming on for sharing what you've experienced so far. And I mean, I'm going to be definitely keeping an eye on this one because it is changing week to week, which is pretty, pretty wild stuff. is there a way that you've been sharing? I'll occasionally post stuff in groups, but most of the time I just reach out to people on Messenger and just talk to people, you know,

or, you know, like say like other podcasters will reach out to me hearing like either the documentary on Joe's channel or just have heard about my story and just want to hear it from me, you know, on their show or something. I have no problem talking to anybody about it, you know, I mean, I'm not trying to hide nothing from anybody. I think it's awesome, you know, because it's Southern Illinois. And the last time anybody heard about Bigfoot here was the Big Money Monster back in like 72. That was the big one. Yeah, absolutely.

That was the big one. Man, my goodness. People can probably best reach out to you, I'm guessing, on Facebook. Yeah, just Bryce Edwards on Facebook. My profile pictures, me and my wife. Awesome. Good stuff. Well, dude, I appreciate you coming on tonight and sharing what you've experienced so far.

We'll definitely keep in touch and keep an eye out for what happens to you guys out there. out there with the Pine Creek Monster next. But thanks so much for coming on the show, dude. Oh, thank you so much for having, man. It's been a pleasure and an honor. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.

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