Bigfoot Society - Sasquatch Terrors in the Woods: Dewayne's Bigfoot Encounters in Oakridge, Oregon

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

It's HERE. The interview I never thought would happen.Dewayne's side of the Ronnie Roseman Oakridge episode (Episode 420).Dewayne recounts his chilling encounters with Bigfoot in Oak Ridge, Oregon. Dewayne shares spine-tingling stories of strange noises, intimidating roars, and mysterious tracks, and details harrowing nights in the woods that left him with lasting fears.Join us as we delve into his firsthand experiences, including a memorable night with researcher Ronnie Roseman where they were surrounded by a group of enraged Bigfoot creatures. This is an episode you won't want to miss and an incredible update to the ongoing Bigfoot stories of OAKRIDGE, OREGON.Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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So if you've heard my interview with Ronnie Roseman, which is about a year or so ago now, and it's an episode that's gotten pretty popular where, you know, I'm not leaving, even if they tear me apart in the Oak Ridge, Oregon area. And in that story that Ronnie shares, there was the individual Dwayne. Now, what happened is Dwayne actually reached out to me the other day, and he's okay with, discussing what happened along the years from his point of view. So this is an interview that I never thought would happen, but I'm so incredibly excited that it is happening. So, Dwayne, how are you doing today, sir? Oh, I'm having, I'm having a great day. I'm looking forward to coming out to Oregon in about a month, a little over a month, and having a good time out there for the Sasquatch

Summerfest. Dwayne, let's let's get right into it. So, I'm going to ask you right off the bat, you know, being from that area, what was the first thing that you remember hearing about Bigfoot when you're in that area? Somebody would say something about it, but usually it was pretty quiet. You know, people didn't want to admit to nothing or anything like that. But, you know, over the years of just being in the woods itself, you know, you have... hear these noises and you can't really explain it. I mean, you try to ride it off, but, you know, just more and more builds up over time and it's until something, you know, amazing and terrifying happens that, you know, it's, it's crazy, but, you know, it's like we go out camping and

we're hunting, me and my dad, my brother, and we're always in the woods. I started getting into the high lakes, like, when I was one. My dad would, he made me a special life best and he packed me up there with his rubber wrapped up into these lakes above Oak Ridge that you got to walk between 30 and seven miles to get to. So I've always been in the woods. But it probably started up there with, we'd hear knocking. And we're seven miles up in the woods. And then all of a sudden you get knocking and noises. and can't ride it off.

You know, you don't know what it is, but it's just weird. It builds up. And one time we went into Devil's Lake, you got to hike up over a hump and then down into a bowl to get in there. Trout all day long, pick salmon berries to come out of there. My friend, he had a bear tag. And he sees this black hair skimming through the brush really fast. So he bails out the truck and starts by all the truck. pursuing. And this thing is moving.

Unbelievably fast. But it gets to the, and the thing just kind of on two legs, I'm like, I can't go after that pair. It just didn't look right. But, uh, you know, once, uh, I gave a friend of dog. And, uh, it was, uh, up on tire mount. He was going, uh, the back road home. And he got a flat tire and the dog got out and it wouldn't come to him so i had to go up there to get it me and my wife tapping on the hood of the car and hollering for him and uh all of a sudden you just because it you know it just kept getting closer and closer and closer and next thing you know i got this little jack russell you know they barked everything i mean everything

It was under the seat crying and shaking and my wife was screaming, get in the car, getting a car now, and this thing was just coming up over the ridge. And so she sped off down this dirt road, around the corner, down and around another corner and pulls over because she can't contain herself too well. And then she says, I don't cry in the whole time. So she took off again. cried all night at home. And then went up and the next morning, me and my

to find the dog. We found the dog. But right where we pulled over, it had come down the hill from the top where we were. And it was like 18 inches long or so. I'd say nine inches wide at the hill. I mean, just massive track. And she stopped going in the woods with me.

So no more really running around the woods. And if you're camping above Oak Ridge, where I always go as a kid, and I'm up there by myself, and I'm camping. And then my dad comes up, and then my son, he wants to go on it. And so he comes up, and he, you know, breaks out the guitar. He's singing, he writes songs. He's incredible. And we're having a good time, and we hear these nests.

noises. I'm like, do you hear that? It's like monkey sounds kind of. My son's friend, he says, no, that's an owl. He said, that's an owl. I said, no, not that. Not the owl. Listen. And then they heard that. And the next morning, they went down into the swamps and they were hunting down to the edge of the water looking for deer or elk or whatever they were. And They come across the Bigfoot track down there. His friend didn't want to do that. And he went and got some plaster of Paris, but we're in Oak Ridge, Oregon. So by the time he got back, Rain, it, you know, ruined the ability to cast the track.

My daughter, she works at a bar. And this guy named Ronnie comes walking in there, and he's asking all about Bigfoot, you know, a nice guy. but my daughter says, you know, my dad hears these things up here. You might want to talk to him. And that's how I met Ronnie. I went down and my daughter introduced me to him and he wanted to know. So I told him all this stuff. And he says, well, I'd like to go up there with you.

And so I took him up there. And first he's wanting to go down by the swamps. And I kept trying to tell him this. It's all happening up here, man. But we went down there. And this other old guy that come with him, he's another wonderful guy. He lives in Montana, and he's into research and all that. They decided we're going to spin the night down there, and we set up a bug screen.

And, you know, because it's swampy down there, a lot of mosquitoes. We're hearing things. And whistles, little whistles. I mean, nothing extravagant but whistles. and nothing big really happens down there so we pack up and we're getting out of there and we get these little rocks and stuff being throwing at us all the way out of there

so we get to the top and I finally talk run into going up to this other spot where I camp at and we get up in there and old logging unit there's an old road that goes down through there and I mean it's old. So we walked down in there a little ways and there's a trail coming

across and there's these these barefooted tracks you know. You could have said they might even have been a person if they weren't so wide but they were small. I said look at this man and he's checking it out and he decides

and said you know what I'm going to town I'm going to get some bananas and stuff and he starts feeding them and you know there he's going to make friends with them and everything's good and we need to spend the night. We do. And my dad, he was like 82 or so at the time right in there. And he goes with us.

My dad, he went to bed. You know, he always does. He gets up early. And I talked around as long as I can, but I'm disabled and I've got to get off my feet. I can't sit for a long time because it hurts. So it's like real low in my back, so I can't sit right. So I go lay down, but I'm still talking to Ronnie. And he's telling me this stuff and stuff, and he lets out this horrible sound, man.

Like what he had heard right behind his tent. And I said, man, that was kind of intimidating. I would have scared me. And we're talking pretty soon. He says, he says, Duane. He says, are those those monkey sounds you're talking about? And I said, that's them. And he said something like, oh, no, get ready for the coming attraction.

But they just kept coming closer. This is the deep on both sides of it. It's a dead end road. You just can't make it up very well in the daytime, let alone at nighttime. There's all this noise coming, and it just keeps getting closer, man, closer and closer and closer. He comes in the tent with us, man. These things come up into our camp, like in a single file group line in our tent up there.

And they were scur-they were making sounds. They said, knocked out. They were sounding like coyote. Big one. He sounded like a raven or a crow. He'd make these noises. They had these weird monkey sounds. I don't know what gibberish or talk.

I don't know what was going on, but I was in panic mode. I'm telling you, panic mode. I was just bringing this guy up there, you know, and all this just wants. Nothing like that's ever happened. My poor dad, he was praying all night. He said, I can't believe this has ever happened to me. And the Raven, he's stomping up to the tent, and you can feel it. I mean, you could feel their voice right through your body.

And I'd talk louder and keep back up. and they all make noise and all make noise and he'd stomp up closer and I'd talk louder again it was incredibly intense I mean intense you just would never think that something like that could ever happen ever and there it was I you know her granny telling was was going on in my name I just, and how much everybody was interested in it, I wanted to weigh in on that a little bit. There was moonlight out. I was conscious enough and terrified enough that I wouldn't even raise up enough to see my silhouette on the edge of the tent. I wanted to give no clue where I was at in there at all.

So I didn't even look, but by the sound I could tell. and they were on the ground and right next to us. And all around it, maple and trees, and then another open field and separate sound. But they were close enough that you couldn't mistake the sound at all that you could tell where they were coming. You could hear the individual voices of these different. Ronnie says about five.

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Hmm. That sound seems to show. Everything happens for a recess. Really? Really. I'm telling from, you know, what I believe, I just believe it was more. I don't know.

He's like they're going to be. be friends or something. And I'm with the other group that says, man, I don't think I ever want to do that again. But, you know, it was horrifying. It was terrifying. My dad, you know, he's got a little problems with his memory and he doesn't like talking about it much. But once in a while, he'll say something about it. And it was just unbelievable. The whole experience was unbelievable. It was more than other creatures. In fact, you know, when I didn't mention, when me and my dad went up there to camp before this had happened,

we went up and set up a camp up there. There was this big, I'm thinking bear maybe, but now I'm pretty sure it wasn't. My dad's like, what is that? And I roared back, you know, I was younger then a little bit. Like, what are you doing? I said, I'm letting him know I'm here, and I, You know, things a younger man will do.

If I'd only know, probably never would have. And after getting way more experience with bears, I learned what they sound like real well. And it was definitely not a bear, but I didn't know that then. You know, I had to move around the mountains. I moved, I went to Montana. I had to hunt up there. The Gallatin Valley and the Bridger Mountains, it's beautiful.

But you have to contend with animals up there. You know, there's bears, grizzlies. And my brother and I, it's 24-inch cutthroats out of that lake. So we're looking around, and we come over this hill, and there's this beautiful blonde grizzly bear with a cub. And she took immediate, I think, at least in, I'd say maybe three seconds flat.

It was on top of us that fast, and it abruptly stopped like into a baseball diamond or something, you know. And it slaps dirt and chunks of ground all at us, you know, through it, and her ears, you know, folded back, and she's bouncing on her front legs and just woughing up the store. That was, you know, that was panic, but it didn't bother me too much. That was, I knew what a bear was, and I could live with it. that. I knew about bears. We just backed out of there real carefully. I had a shotgun on us. We were definitely not too worried. I never put a strap on it because if you have to reach for something in those cases, you don't have any time. So, but we backed out of there and nothing happened

and it never really blocked me into going into the woods. It was another occasion that a grizzie come on us. My father-in-law was wanting to videotape a moose. And then he flashes over to a bear and he mentions it. He goes, look at that bear. I said, no, no, no, no. That's a cub. That's a cub. Yeah. You know, we had to get out of there in a hurry, too, and get up on the point. And And then I said, look, that's her, and she was coming dead out of us. So, you know, I'm used to wildlife. In fact, the moose scared me more. They flat all the way across the field can look up at you chewing a cut of grass or whatever

and then come at you with a rage you would never believe. It's just amazing. So the moose terrified me a lot more. But this thing up there, man. I was just going to ask you, how you felt would. those large predators over in Montana, did you feel the same with these creatures in Oak Ridge, or was it even more? I've only slept out in the woods twice since this has happened, and I'm still, I have a hard time

going up there. When Ronnie said I had PSD, he wasn't lying. I try. I want to go. Just gets to me. It's, you know, I can't run. I can't, you know, I'm hobbling around on a cane, and there's a group of them out there, you know? It's not like one big foot or a happy little family. It's like there's a tribe of them out there. I never thought that in my mind until that surprising incident. I was dumbfounded. And Ronnie, you know, Ronnie the next day he's like, he says, man, I wonder what cost all that.

I said, you did, man. That noise, man. and within 15 minutes they were on their way and they were mad. So I don't know what he said to them. I hope anybody else that just are playing games, you know, and blowing noises out in the woods that, you know, they might end up getting a little bit more than they want someday. Absolutely.

So you were in the tent and you hear them come up in a circle around the tent. What happened the rest of the night then? Well, you know, they were how far they were going, but eventually we couldn't hear him anymore. I'm panicking. Nothing like this has ever happened or the thought of something like that never happened, you know? I was panicking all night, man.

I don't know if Ron slept. They didn't say nothing. My dad, he started snoring. I stayed awake all night. I couldn't even get up and go pee and tell you. and go pee until in the morning when somebody got up to watch the other way. You know, I just didn't, I just didn't feel safe. But the whole night, I was awake all night long.

I laid there just listening for every sound that I could hear. It was unbelievable. There's no way you could have got away. I felt like they wanted us to get out of the tent and run. Just how I felt, you know, that they wanted. I tried to call around my number isn't working. I'm going to have to go up to his house. I want to go up there and look around again.

You know, the more time I spend up there maybe the easier it might get, but I don't know. I'm hoping. When you were up there in that area, did you experience anything else out of the ordinary, any weird sounds that didn't belong or see anything that was strange? My brother saw what we thought might be a, a UFO once.

We was up there with a friend hunting. And, you know, that's about it, you know. But I will say that, you know, when I was younger, after all that he was talking about some book. I don't know. He was trying to sell a book or something. I wish I'd have bought it. I can't remember the name of it.

It was a long time ago. And it was about that area that would always hunt in. And it was the end, you know, you know how little things to get started in town. There was another time on the bottom where I was with my brother-in-law and another guy. They were trying to get a deer up there and haven't never got one, so I took them up there. And it's steep ground, and you have to work when you get one to get it out. And I had my Walton up there, the fire. going in and I was just kicked back, you know, resting away for the next day and this noise of breaking branches and, you know, it was just being tore up.

All kinds of crazy noise. And my brother-in-law and the other guy, Mike, he was panicking. So I said, well, just shoot around off up in the air. You could hear this thing come in making all this noise, but as soon as they shot, you heard not one sound. We got out flashlights and looked. We could find nothing. But we heard it come in right close to the camp. And that's kind of right underneath

of where we camp at the top and all the stuff would happen up there that I told Ronnie about. That's probably a I mean, it was normal. Me and my brother had to hike up there at 12 years old would hike up that trail all the time.

You know, we run up and down the mountain and up and down the river nothing weird really happened i've been up there my whole life wow even before i could drive we would my brother and i would hike that trail and go up there we were we were always always up there always main time when something happens it sounds like it's it may have been because ronnie made that sound then can think of that was that was That's how I seen your podcast. I watched these things after that happened, all kinds of things over and over again. I try to make sense of it.

I try to get a clue to understand it. Like other animals that you know, you know their habits. You know what to do and what not to do. How to camp, how to, you know, not take toothpaste and underarm deodorant in your tent. You know, around a grizzly bear, that's not a smart idea to always change your clothes into sleeping clothes after you cook and eat, you know, all vital important things to know. But this thing don't even know what it is. Prepare. How do you wrap your mind around that? It makes you wonder what might happen if someone was to play sounds like that for an extended period of time in the Oak Ridge area.

know, it could be interesting. I would say be prepared and, you know, try not to hurt them, try to get away first, you know. I don't think they would deserve that. So we'd like to know more about what they are. And, you know, I hear all these different things like one thing I'd seen on there where a guy had been, you know, camping on property got from his dad building a cabin and him and his son was camped out on in a tent, and this thing drug him through the woods for, you know, God knows how far. And, you know, things like that, it's like, wow, I mean, what could have happened?

You know, maybe, I don't know. I just, I can't wrap my head around it still. I'm still trying to figure it out. I wanted to ask you about the monkey sounds you heard that one night with Ronnie. Have you ever heard any other monkey that sounds similar to it? That's why I say monkey life. It was, you know, because my kids always hated me. I would like to watch documentaries on, you know, everything, animals and all kinds, about all kinds of things.

I like history and, you know, interesting things. And so I've been around a lot of animals. And then the ones I can't be around, you know, like I've been to the wildlife safari you see. And then the rest I watch on, you know, natural. National Geographic or something like that, but I'm always watching things on even the smallest. One time I was up in the high lakes, we were up there fishing me and another friend of mine. We're just fishing away, but then all of a sudden this hillermite crawls out of the water and up, you know, and starts cracking open. So, you know, we focus on this thing.

We watch this dragonfly crawl up to stem and dry itself. flop and, you know, flutters its wings a bit and it takes off and this great big B zooms down and swoop and we've watched it forever. So I'm just interested in, even the smallest things, you know. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Your social media feed delivers plenty of advice, but it doesn't know you. It doesn't ask questions. It doesn't give physical exams or order tests. Doctors do. At the American Medical Association, we believe the best care starts with a real conversation with someone who understands the science and your unique health. So stay curious, ask questions, but when it's time to make

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Like this commercial break. Did you need 15 seconds away from music? Or 15 seconds to eat or Reese's. Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for a recesses. I never heard anything like it. It was, you know, it got some tapes out from, I think, Ron Moorhead, something like that. Yeah, see, I'm not a guy that was even looked for them or paid attention to any of that.

So I'm kind of bad on the names. You know, so some of those sounds that I heard on there, a little different, too. It's unexplainable. But the mimicking other animals, and incredible. Incredible. So I just want to clarify. So you're saying some of the things you heard were similar to the Sierra sounds that Ron Moore had recorded sounds like. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, definitely. And then, you know, the tracks the next morning. when we got up and looked around, man. It was different-sized tracks. But that big one that kept coming back to the tent back and forth, it was like 23 inches long. It was so huge that it would just go out, you know.

No way. I'm glad you brought that up because that's actually a question I wanted to ask you is when you woke up the next morning, were there things you noticed that made you think, okay, what happened last night actually did? happen. Oh yeah, where they came in and went around the camp and you know a lot of the spots it was either solid or pine needles and didn't think in good but every once in a while you'd find a place where you know a fern had been kicked out of the way or there was fresh dirt

there and you would find a little print or two you know but that uh that print was unbelievably big man unbelievably big. Did you see situations where there was like kind of a trackway where you saw print and then maybe a few feet ahead of it you saw another print from the same animal potentially? Oh yeah, yeah. That's happened through there definitely like where he was feeding him where I found that track coming out. He put it in there and then we go back up there to check it and now here's the other direction.

The bananas would be gone. I mean, just gone. Nothing there. And one time you put this a pastry in there. Right. Like you bought it a box, those clear boxes at the bakery at the store, you know? The cobbler, yeah. Yeah.

He put one of them up there, man. And I was simply amazed. We got up there and things were gone. And this box was empty. and it was sealed again, not broken, stuffed back in the bag. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. I went up there once with him, and a bear.

He'd left peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and stuff, and a bear got into it, and you could tell. You know, things were chewed up, and you could tell it was a bear. From the tracks and everything else, and it's like, Ron, you're beating bears. I better be careful with that. You're feeding bears, yeah. Wow.

But I was just blown away. And, you know, his dedication thinking that, you know, he's going to get close to him. He's, you know, it's kind of amazing. But we'll see in the end if he is. I've heard stories of that same thing happening with other people. Maybe he will. I don't know. Yeah.

hopefully there was a time when you guys were out there and then Ronnie decided to stay there by himself correct yeah we went up there to to a check the food and stuff they left up there and look around you know and my daughter went with us and uh so we're get up there and we're I'm with my daughter and her Ron's got his car up there so I had my daughter turn her her Jeep around, you know, because after that happened, it's a, like I said, it was a dead end road, and I don't feel safe anyway. So I had her turn around, some leap the keys in the car, you know, just in case we have to make a quick escape or whatever.

But we're walking around up there, and then that same whistling starts, and my daughter starts whistling back. and the thing whistles back and my daughter whistles back and she's walking around and getting getting a little bit closer to well these things started getting excited and and it started getting hopped up pretty good and a few sounds went off and then then all of a sudden that's freaking out that's down over the edge which tells you that something has disturbed that squirrel either walking towards you or walking away from you

if you can't see it, but something right there is moving because, you know, if you ever hunt, you know, those squirrels will tell on you all the time. You know, you're trying to stalk up on an animal and all of a sudden they start chattering and going off because you walked under the tree or whatever. Well, they do the same thing to everything else. So, you know, this, here, this nether,

noise and then noise he starts I was like oh no that's the big one and uh so me and my daughter she she want to go and I really didn't want to stay and I tried to talk Ronnie into going he says I'm going to stay and I said okay man that's on you but you know if you don't come home I'll come look for you and we left he said he's going to stay and then when I see him the next day he says they were roaring he was he says I mean I almost wanted to run I almost wish I did amazing day but we go up there every once in a while and see how far I can you know go up in there and move around to it's quite a place it really sounds like it and if listeners haven't heard Ronnie's episode you need to go listen to it because the his part of the story after

Dwayne leaves, gets very intense. So it sounds like since that time, you haven't actually been a, you haven't been up to that same spot again because of the PTSD. Oh, I've been up there. Okay. In fact, that was my daughter happened after that. I've been up there with Ronnie only during the day, maybe three times or four times. That's why I tried to call him the other day. I want to go up there again and see how I can maneuver and feel.

Have you ever been up there without Ronnie that there's, and there's been a situation happened with any of these creatures, you think? Yeah, the time went like there with my son and the monkey, yeah. I heard the monkey sounds, but they never asked me or tormented me, and I never thought twice about it. but I never really thought about it. But after, you know, the build up and all the things and, you know, you start understanding, sometimes you'll get a smell on these things and sometimes they won't smell.

I don't understand that either. What does it smell like? It's dirty garbage there. Like, we used to, our dump used to be on the ground. Now it's all in big containers. that they haul off to the recycle, whatever center. Our dump is just the place they dumped all the bags and, you know, mowed it over with the cat after it got full or whatever.

And all these bears would come in there and eating the garbage, the garbage bears. And Kay kind of, it was like them, but maybe a little more musky and rancid. But once you got there if you're into the outdoors, but, you know, I can, I can smell a moose. I can smell an elk.

I've smelled deer. Got to probably be closer and a little bit of rain helps with them. But I've never smelled the cougar. I don't know what it smells like, so I don't know if I've smelled one in the woods or not. But everything's got its own little smell. I always could tell the difference in the smells. Like you can smell when you're walking into a herd of elk, you know it's a herd elk. The smell is intense.

the musk and the smell of these things is just gnarly but then sometimes when they're around you don't smell them it didn't i don't know that is very interesting i've heard that from other people too where sometimes there's a lot overpowering smell sometimes there's not but have you been ever been to the spirit lake area east of oakridge oh yeah oh yeah yeah i've been all over all these lakes My aunt, she worked for the Forest Service. And in fact, I got old maps I haven't gone through. She died not too long ago, and I kept the maps. But the old maps that she has, has, you know, little lakes and things on them that aren't

on the new maps at all. And some of them are, like, right off the road. You can go in there and catch a fish. And you drive by that lake a million times and never know it was even in there. and it's just right Spirit Lake is a thing that's come up in a few conversations with people I've talked to from the Oak Ridge area

where they say there's been some pretty interesting Bigfoot encounters that have happened up there. Is that anything, did you experience anything weird when you went to that area? Wouldn't say weird. Maybe once in a while something you couldn't, you know, a sound

you couldn't explain or or a knocking and, you know, you could ride it off, as somebody else, but there ain't nobody else around. But, you know, nothing real big. It was, you know, pretty...

Most of my life, it was, you know, it could be, it couldn't be. I don't know. I wasn't into it. But, you know, that are just repetitive and you hear everything else and you've got to kind of

analyze what it could be. And it could be something else, but highly doubtful, you know, like when you're packed into the lakes. It's very seldom have I ever seen anybody when I was back in there. I seen a Wolverine in there up in the Eddie Leo's basin one time. It's the only time I ever seen one in life, except, you know, on TV. And it was a beautiful, and a fisher, too. Not many of people who are fishing on the bank. man it was a chipmuck over there chirping and i'm trying to catch a brown or a brookie i mean

and the next thing you know this little fish chipmunk and it's just wailing and screaming and it goes running off and my goodness that's wild dwayne little creatures uh yeah i mean nobody nobody around except for those little animals wow i really appreciate your time talking uh today. There's just one more question I got for you. Thinking back over the years, you know, you living that area, have you ever heard of a time where there's been an individual that's actually had a face-to-face sighting where they have actually had eyes on the creature itself?

And they're like, yeah, I saw one. Oh, yeah. People I know that they've got cast. So they've got all kinds of things and documentation. And they've been, they've kept it forever. You know, it's a guy and his dad. I knew the younger guy. Well, I knew his dad too.

He does a lot around old courage. But my dad and a guy named Ron Maycock one time said that after this encounter, my dad had said that they were. going up above Oak Ridge, you know, past the lake here. And one, it was like a gray one, it ran out, and they never spoke of it ever. Then that one that I had seen that it hopped up on that, that leg, and ran off on two legs we wouldn't chase. Now, I don't know what it was, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a bear that he was following.

And if I could see it clear as a day, one handed up to the top of that, that we had to work to get up and help each other to get up. I wouldn't go after that bear. I don't think that was a bear. I'm going back. But there's other people. I think when you get here, you might be amazed. There's quite a few people probably that have had the encounters.

It's just all over the place, I think. I'm going to be ready to talk to some people for sure, Dwayne. I will be ready. Man, it's been such a pleasure chatting with you this afternoon, Dwayne. I never thought I'd be able to actually talk to the guy and the other guy in the story. But just thank you for reaching out to me. This has been a real fun time. And I hope to maybe run into you when I'm out in Oak Ridge.

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