Bigfoot Society - Sasquatch Took Our Elk! | Idaho

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

Join host Jeremiah Byron of the Bigfoot Society podcast as Jason the hunter returns to share an intense and unforgettable hunting encounter in the rugged wilderness near Kellogg, Idaho. Jason, along with his father and friend, had multiple strange experiences while elk hunting, which culminated in a terrifying run-in with what they believe to be a Sasquatch. Jason recounts how they were chased out of the area by the creature, witnessing bizarre events including the complete disappearance of elk carcasses. If you have any Bigfoot activities to report from similar locations, reach out to Bigfoot Society at [e-mail]: Jason's first episode can listened on Bigfoot Society Episode 601.🔴 Subscribe to our Youtube channel and leave a comment here: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail] to call in and leave a voicemail of your encounters for the podcast - Check this out here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety(Use multiple voice mails if needed!)Share 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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the Bigfoot Society. And now let's get on with the show. Three, two, one. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to an individual. His name is Jason. Jason was actually just on the show pretty recently talking about a sighting he had that was over there crossed from Astoria, Oregon, but on the Washington side. And that was just back in episode 601. I got an interesting email where it was actually some of Jason's neighbors that reached out and said, hey, reach out to Jason because he's got other stuff to talk about that he's holding back on maybe. So I was like, all right, I'll give it a try. So it's a first for the show. You never know who's listening, but Jason is a privilege

to have you back on. And I'm excited to hear what else you have experienced over the years. Yeah, not a problem. Hey, I'm going to just lay out the story and tell you what happened. And pretty much you can make up your own mind as to what it was. Me and my father and my best friend lives in Spokane. Dean, we decided one season that we were going to buy some non-resident Idaho elk tags and I'll go over to Idaho bohunting. So that's exactly what we did, my dad and my best friend, we got together in Spokane, bought our tags and headed over to a spot my buddy new,

which is right over in Kellogg, Idaho. And so we traveled up Montgomery Gulch, which is on the north side of Kellogg there right out of town and went up about, oh, I don't know, 10 miles up to the top of the peak of the ridge and camped out, and we're going to elk out from there. A couple days went by, and we found a really good ridge that had some elk that were bugling and whatnot and decided we would hike down the backside of this ridge, and the country was just really rugged on each side, and the backside it dropped down to the

Quarter Lane River on the backside. We'd been getting into some elk, so we decided we were going to go and follow this ridge all the way down, miles down to the river. So we got down to this really beautiful spot, and we're getting into some elk and a little saddle on the top of this ridge. And my friend called in some elk, and we had a big bowl coming in from behind. And so the very first elk to show up was a cow elk, and you could shoot either sex. So I shot it with my bow and got pretty excited and didn't really care about the antlers at the time. So I shot this elk, And so we waited and went and found the elk and started packing out the elk and everything. And we didn't have any ribbon.

So my buddy said, hey, I want you to mark this spot. And so all I had was a dime. So we put the dime down. And we forever called this spot the dime spot. So we packed out this elk and it was miles down in this ridge line. So we boned the elk out, which is you take the meat off the bones and throw them in your pack. And it's a lot lighter. So we packed out this elk.

I was bummed because I wanted to take a nice bowl over there, but I'd already shot. and killed my elk and my friend said, hey, if you've got another 700 bucks, you can buy another non-resident elk tag there if you want. So down to the store we went, and I bought another elk tag for Idaho non-resident. And the next day, we went back to the same exact spot where I laid the dime down, and they'll call were calling again. And it was my turn to call, so I started calling for my friend. And the first elk that came in was a big spike, and he shot it.

And it went right over the edge and died within probably 100. feet or so where the other cow that I shot at died. And so we packed this elk out and my friend wasn't going to get by another tag. And the very next day, we decided that we were going to hunt this same exact ridge. It had just been on fire. So we went down and started calling and we went down to where we shot these other two elk and we got into some more elk. We started walking around and all of a sudden my buddy said, hey, isn't this, you shot your elk right here? Where's all this stuff out from your elk? Where's all the bones and everything? And we started looking around and there was no bones, no elk hide, no nothing anymore. And we just thought that was strange. And I go,

what was your elk at? What did you shot? Let's go look at it. So we went the other 150 feet away and found the spot where he'd shot his elk. And to our disbelief, his entire carcass was gone and the hides were gone and everything and just not a trace of what was going on. We thought, man, there must be a big bear or something to hear. Maybe we should hunt this for bear and sit over one of these. So we continued hunting a little bit and came back up to the same exact spot where I laid the dime down on and my buddy called in a nice bowl and I shot it. So we went over to it and we took the head, which is pretty typical and my buddy packed out a front shoulder and we decided we'd go back to camp, grab my dad and head back to the south and get the rest of it. So we went back to

camp, grabbed my dad, told him what was going on and we left all of our stuff there except for our packs, our guns are bows. We left it all at camp and we just hiked back into the spot. We got about 100 yards from where my elk was laying and we were traversing down this hill, which was just unbelievably steep. And my buddy all of a sudden grabs me and he looks at all weird and he says, did you hear that? And I'd stop for a second.

I could hear some crows or ravens in the background. And I said, what do you mean the ravens? and my dad was like had this disbelief lip on his face too and he's, listen. And you heard from across this canyon, maybe about two and a half miles away, you could hear what we fought with someone screaming and it sounded like, get out of here. And my buddies, what is he talking about?

And I'm like, I didn't sound like a person. What do you say? And my dad goes, get out of here is where he was yelling. And we were like, nobody goes, we're in the national forest. Nobody can tell us where we can hunt. What is it? What is going on? And so we just played it off for a second and stood there and maybe about a half mile closer.

We hear the same just gigantic, get out of here, you know, but it doesn't quite so get out of here, but just about like that, just as loud as can be. But this time it's a half mile closer, and we just stood there and everyone's, what is going on? Is that a person? What is that? And then you heard what appeared to be snapping of just huge trees and rocks and shale slides coming down the other side of this hill, which immediately made all of us hair stand up and we all started

paying attention as to what was going on because this animal had already gained a mile coming down this hill, something that would take you all day to traverse, was already down a mile and was yelling again, but this gentleman was just roaring through the canyon at a mile away. And we were like, is that two different things? And my buddy is like, what is going on? And then you hear all these trees and shale slide and everything just rumbling down the hillside. And now it's at the bottom of this canyon. Now it's covered maybe two miles of the steepest terrain in the world.

And it's yelling from the bottom of this canyon, maybe 500 yards away from us now. And it just starts yelling again. And now it's so loud that we all just run all three of us, run for our lives up the top of this hill. And you can hear this thing breaking trees and branches and just flying up the hill. and yelling the most monstrous sound you've ever heard that sounded like, get out of here. And so we all got out of it as quick as I could.

Everyone was scared to death. Nobody wanted to be left behind. If you fell behind for just a second running up these hills, you would just do whatever it took to get past the next guy because no one wanted to be in the back. We got back in the truck and discussed what we could possibly do. We went back to camp, and my buddy's like, well, let's just get my gun, grab your body.

We'll go back in there. We'll recover this elk. We just could not figure it out. We thought, that has got to be a big foot or something has came to those elk you shot. This is just not believable. So we went back with guns and burrows, and we walked back down into that spot. It was just dead silent. No elk calling, no sounds anymore.

And we get down to where the elk is, and there's no elk anymore. It's completely vanished. Three quarters of an elk, four or five hundred pounds of carcass, is completely gone. There's no drag marks of any kind. The elk yet there's no blood leaving the trail. The elk is just completely gone, vanished whatsoever. And I know there's some grizzly bears in that area,

but I've never heard of a grizzly bear yelling from canyons away, something that's audibly almost like a human, nor do I believe a grizzly bear to pack a 500-pound elk without leaving some blood or some type of marks there. We all discussed it, and from that day on, we just all believed that was 100% had to be a Sasquatch. And from the other elk that we had shot there and been deboning that the carcass was, we're missing, that it had came in from those other elk. It must have been right in the area, and we didn't found the third elk almost complete.

It had claimed it and sat above us in this huge ridge on the thickest of timber two miles away and knew that it could hear us we were coming. And when it did, it scared us out of there completely and ran us out of there. And so the elk was gone. No more of the elk. I'd already put the tag on the antlers. So I then drove back to Washington pretty disappointed that I only had a little bit of meat and the one from my cow. But it was one thing that just could not be explained that what had happened to us.

And then this day, we all know it was a big foot for sure. And that's the story. It was pretty wild, pretty crazy. Jason, that's probably one of the most intense hunting accounts I've gotten so far on this podcast. Like, that is wild, dude. What year was that? You know, that was probably, it's been about probably 10 or 12 years. And I hadn't really told that story to anybody, except my neighbors are in, on the Bigfoot Society. They listen to you all the time. And after they heard my story, I said, yeah, but there's another story I have in Idaho where this thing took my elk and stared at

out of them when I got done telling them that story, they were like, you've got to tell that story. I'm like, well, I don't want to sound like a psycho or nothing. I've had these encounters. I did not see it. None of us seen that animal, but nobody was going to stick around not for a second to find out what was smashing up this hill. It was a very large animal, the size of a thousand pounds, at least to be making that

kind of racket and snapping the trees and everything else it was. The hillside where it came from was just as remote as could be. It was a two and a half, three mile long hillside that was almost straight up and down as brushy as can be. We chased out in there. And it was an entire day's adventure to make halfway up the hill. How this thing came down the entire hill to the canyon and then up the other side in that kind of time frame. There's no way any kind of bear could cover miles in just seconds like that. So I figured it would be a good idea to tell that story because I'm absolutely sure with the vocalization that it was doing, the yelling and screaming that just,

echoed through the canyons, almost human, but almost inaudible to what it, you know, you couldn't quite make out exactly what it was, but it sounded just like, get out of air. But it was a monstrous voice. And so we all talk about it to this day. Everybody in camp, we tell that story once in a while. But it was an unbelievable thing, especially with the entire elk being completely gone. All the carcasses being gone without a trace, not a hair one leaving there. me first off shout out to your neighbors for reaching out you guys are awesome and i've been talking to them

through email a little bit man there this is such a weird one because it's as you said it was able to cover a massive amount of territory extremely quickly and have you ever heard anything that was the same volume roughly as nothing like this this thing was roaring it was two and a half miles away the canyon were real steep and we were across from it so we were maybe a mile and a half from this point and it was just so loud it just boomed through the canyons and it was a monstrous hair standing on the back of your neck sound and it sounded like a person yelling get out of here but it was not quite that but at first thought it was like did he just tell us somebody yelling get out of here and it was just when it got closer it was just

echoing. It was just to the point where when it was a half mile away at the bottom of the canyon and coming, we were running for our lives. We had no idea what this thing was, but it was just scary as can be. When you hear someone in a different language, but you can still figure out what they're saying because of the tone and how they say something, was it like that, or did you actually hear the English words? There was no English to it. When it got closer, when it was down at the bottom, Canyon and was finally yelling. It was so not human. It was just, gha, like that. At first, maybe just it sounded like that's what they were saying. But when it was closer, it was just this, just, but it almost sounded like a person trying to speak of sorts. I totally got you. Have you ever listened to, listen to the Sierra sounds or any Bigfoot recorded audio online yet?

No, I know I've never have not in any way. Okay. It would be really interesting if you're able to listen to that and tell me if it sounds similar. And I can send you a link after we're done with this. That would be really interesting.

Yeah, yeah. I've been, I used to crab up in Alaska and lived in Codiac for five years. Did a lot of hunting and fishing and hiking all around there. And I'm familiar with the grizzly bears. the Codiac brown bears. And I've heard about every kind of sound they can make from just living up there and being around them all the time,

especially on the rivers fishing. And I've never heard of a grizzly doing anything like that, yelling like that or even sounding like a person in which this thing did. When you went back to that area and everything was gone, was the dime still there? The dime was absolutely still in the exact same spot. Oh, that's weird. It was right on the biggest ridge that heads down towards the back side of Corderland and the other side of Kellogg there.

And it's about a two and a half, three mile, four mile ridge, something like that. It's really steep and just a beautiful trail, elk trail right on the top that just led all the way down to the river. And this spot was unmistakable. It was a little saddle or bench in the ridge. And the elk were using the cross back and forth, the easiest path. And you couldn't miss this spot. any weird smells around the area? No, nothing that I can recall at all.

Of course, we were just chasing the Alka, the Elkhare just, the Alper just absolutely packed on this ridge. It was, it was exciting. We had eight or nine bowls going at one time. My dad, he had a seven by seven bowl on this ridge, five yards, and couldn't get his bow back all the way. And it was just an exciting spot. It was just as best out hunting that you could ever achieve.

It was just an action-packed spot. The elk were just sick in the spot, no other hunting pressure whatsoever. We just had it to ourselves. But the elk were just everywhere. So I could imagine if there was a predator around, it would definitely be drawn into this because the elk were just as thick as you could ever have them. When you would hear those, the yells and the screams, did that affect you in any way physically? It was just definitely something to think back that every time I go in the woods now,

I'm sure all of us remember what that yelling sounded like and how crazy it was. That thing completely just covered miles of ground and then started running at us. It was run for your life. All of us were running for our lives at that time. We figured it just wasn't a grizzly bear. It was definitely a big foot. Whatever this was, it was something that you were running for your life without question. It was instant.

As soon as it started coming, we all knew it was run for your life. a little scared going back into the woods sometimes. Just remembering that actually took place, especially when we hike in it before daylight or leave your tree stand or whatever, way back, miles in the woods, right at dark. It's definitely something to consider for sure. There's a website called the Bigfoot mapping project. And if you look at the Kellogg, Idaho area, there are a few reported sightings. It would be interesting for you to look at that to see if there's, if any of the, those are close to that area where you had that encounter.

Yeah, if you went from, if you went from Kellogg, like I said, at Montgomery Gulch, that's right in Kellogg there, and one of the roads that leads to all the National Forest roads. And if you were just ahead exactly due north of that, over the top of the ridge, back down on the other side is the Quarter Lane River. And it was just that exact way, just sitting above the Quarter Lane River there, due north of Kellogg there, that's exactly where. it was. On big ridge that goes all the way down to the river. It's probably four or five mile

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Everything happens for a recess. In the truck when you had the sighting after crossing with the bridge. Yeah, me, my guy, we were in the truck. Yep, yep. That was actually the last day of season, this past hunting season in Washington. So when you were talking about what happened after that sighting, did this incident in Idaho get brought up at all in any way? Yeah, we've been talking about it nonstop.

It must have been a Sasquatch. There's nothing else that I could ever explain that could have done anything that took place unless there was an actual Bigfoot, and that's what it was. I didn't wasn't really much of a believer. I just thought it either had to be that or a grizzly bear. And I've not thought about it up until I had that encounter on, I think it was the 19th of September this year, where I actually seen the one standing in there, which was just unbelievable.

I was like, instantly I looked over and I was like, Bigfoot, right there, big foot. And still looking at my dad, he's like, what then? So now we're a firm believer that everyone would absolutely agree that so had to be a Sasquatch in Idaho. There had to been one there. Absolutely. I want to address that for a little.

I've never had an episode where people have reached out and are like, dude, it's just a statue. And I'm like, man, I don't know because he says he saw it walk off the stump and walk away. And I've been asking these people, can you get a photo of what you're talking about? And no one has sent me a photo yet. So, I mean, I believe you do. And you're talking about a nasty story there? Yeah, totally. Like people are trying to call you out.

This is so weird. Not too far from there. Maybe I had mine was exactly at the mile marker or whatever. I think it was one exact mile from the Astoria-Megler Bridge right there out of Magler. But it was exactly one mile. Me and my dad actually have been over there. We went back late archery elk over there. and there is a big foot, I don't know whether it's a cardboard thing, but it's miles down the road.

Now, I can't tell you whether or not this thing had maybe been tricked in by that particular thing and was in the area for that. But there is, in fact, some type of maybe something down the road two or three miles, but it's way past where I've seen the actual Bigfoot out. Okay. Gotcha. So that kind of clears things up then for people that have seen that. It's not the same area, but it's relatively close.

It is relatively close to that, as a matter of fact. Yeah, and I got my, me and my dad looked at that on the way when we were over there, late archery all cutting. But it's not 80 feet from the road in the swamp where we've seen that one physically and had binoculars on it and watched it walk away. That's a whole different story there. So have you been back to the dime spot at all? I have never been back to that exact spot.

I've hunted over there every year since that happened, 12 years, work or whatever. And literally, we're just not going to go back there. It was too scary. I don't blame you. It was just too incredibly scary. It was a run through your life. I just have not been back there. It's a mile and a half or so hiked to where this dime spot was away from the roads and whatnot.

Pretty dark, deep timber. And I just, I'm not going back to that spot. It was crazy. It sounds like a life-changing experience for sure. And then you combine that with actually getting the visual that, you know, both. And now both of you have to live with both of these encounters, which is a really interesting situation that both of you were there. Yeah, my dad, he's from Centralia.

That's up in Washington. That's where we grew up. And we used to, we were back in the day before warehouse that closed down all the roads up around St. Helens. We used to be able to just drive all over in the logging roads up there and whatnot. My dad would always take us kids and the family up there and we'd spend days just cruising around and watching and looking at the elk and whatnot. And we had, my dad used to have pictures of a huge footprint that he's seen crossing out of this big, huge ridge line that crossed the road was about a 24-inch, just bare foot track that he had pictures of. And I don't know what happened to those pictures, but he used to have pictures of a huge big foot.

track that was coming off a hill, crossing the road, and then down into this big canyon, too, as well. And that was up at Mount Sinaians. Oh, my goodness. That must have been just wild to see. Oh, this, I'm so glad that you were able to come on. He used to have actual pictures of those, but they've been lost over time, but they were probably about 24, 25 inches or so. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Did you also say that I just want to double check? There are other weird things that you've experienced as well? Well, there was one other animal that I've seen. I didn't see this thing scanned up by any means, but like I told you before, my entire life,

I spend 300 days at least a year outdoors, out in the woods, doing something out there, whether it's working or hunting or hiking or just game cameras or whatnot. So I'm real familiar with any type of animal that's in, you know, the Pacific Northwest, by all means, all mammals, real outdoor avid sportsmen. This happened up in Longview, Washington. The exact location was on the corner of Delameter Road meets Coltrick Road there. There's a coal creek is a smaller river-like creek that flows up, and there's a waterfall right at that junction there where Coal Creek and Delameter meet.

Anyway, I got a friend that lives in a house, a few hundred yards. up the hill from there. And we, when we were a little younger, we used to all go up there, drink, and party and whatnot, and all everyone just get together up there. And one night I was up there with my girlfriend, and it was getting pretty late. It's probably three in the morning, and we hung out there, because it was just absolutely a pouring down rain, just monsooning the outside. And so about 3.30 in the morning, we decided to leave, and we hopped on my pickup, and this lady lives above where this trick is, maybe 200 yards or so. And she's got a real steep driveway, and it goes down and goes along the road to the creek where the waterfall is down below. And we got about halfway down

our steep driveway, and my girlfriend grabs me, and she goes, look at that bear. That thing's huge. And I stand in front of me, and, oh, I seen this bear walking up the road just out of her driveway. So I hurried up and turned my high beams on. And we got to about 30, 40 feet from what I thought was this gigantic black bear, and it was walking right alongside the road and walking right towards this, and it was just pouring down the rain, just one of these inch and hour type of rainstorms and blowing wind everywhere. And I could not believe the size of this bear as it was walking up towards us on this road. You could see about every muscle in the same body, and it had this roly-poly style walk that black bears do, and it just nonchalantly walked up to us to maybe

20 feet in front of the truck and was looking in our direction. And we were just in awe to size of this, what I thought was a bear. And it was probably 700, 800 pounds, which would be above and beyond. Black bears get to be sometimes 500 pounds. In rare instances, maybe I guess they could get to 700 pounds. I've heard of maybe a couple. But this thing was in that unbelievable size category and muscular as can be. And as we were sitting there in awe of the size and looking at this thing, it turned and walked right in front of our car at 15, 20 feet. And instantly, I said, that is not a bear. Its face was elongated, not to where it had just a short, stubby style bear nose, but it was protruding out maybe six inches or so with really long six to eight

inch hair hanging down off of it. It was pouring. And of course, all the hair that was on it was just really long and hanging in the rain and whatnot. But the most incredible thing about this thing was it had a tail that was about five and a half feet long, maybe three to four inches, really thick. And it had eight inch hair hanging off this tail. The tail was hanging, not hanging, but it was almost stiff out. And you can see all this hair hanging along it, which was really shaggy. And bears don't have any kind of tail. And this tail was really pronounced and really thick. And I'm like, that is not a bear. And my girlfriend said, what is that? And I said, I have no idea. I don't know what that is. And then it turned again, walked back away from us on the road,

and then turned towards the creek and crossed the road again. And so I raced right up to where it crossed, this time when it went over into the bushes and rolled down my window and I shut the truck off. And just going down into this creek, it was crashing and smashing trees. We're talking 15-year-old trees that are 8, 9, 10 inches thick. It was just snapping them and a half going, and then it crossed the river there of the creek and just made it just a huge sannie, like a big horse or something crossing the creek. And I just couldn't believe what I had seen. It was no animal that's supposed to be around here.

It looks just almost like a bear, but more muscular, a little more broad, but it had a tail, and I've never seen anything like that in my life. But that's the other thing. It never stood up on two legs. It was always on four legs. But it seemed to be smaller in the back section of the waist, more of just a little, it's skinny way down from the chest area more and from the rib cage down. And to this day, I don't know what this animal was.

It was absolutely massive. It was to the 700 pounds, maybe even more. It was absolutely as muscular as to be. Every muscle in its body you could see with the way it was rain and it was soaking wet. You could just see every muscle in its chest as it was walking up. It was just incredibly strong looking. And the tail was humongous. The tail was four inches around, just super thick and maybe five feet long and real stiff.

And there's no animal in the Pacific Northwest. It's supposed to be looking like that. Oh, man, that is confusing. And just to think that there could be another large animal out there that we have no idea what it is. I mean, it could totally be the case, though. There's so much woods that's forest that's unexplored out there. I mean, I can see it. Yeah, and like I said, that was right at in Longview, Washington, right up, Cole Creek.

Where Coal Creek and Gallimeter meet is a waterfall there. Anybody could, we could find that on any map. I'm sure any aerial photo, and it was right there. And the steelhead were at the time running up that creek pretty heavy. And that waterfall, I know stops a lot of fish there. I don't think you can steal a fish there. But we were sitting around a couple times and watching the steelhead roll in the hole below the waterfall. So I know there was some fish in there, whether it had came up out of there or not.

I don't know. But that's exactly where it crashed off too. But it was an animal that was completely unexplained. And to this day, I couldn't tell you what that thing exactly. actually was, but it sure wasn't no black bear. When it turned sideways and we could see it clearly in the headlights, I was just like, what is, what am I looking at here? Did it have any ears you could see? I didn't notice the ears. I think that just the tail with all the hair hanging sideways along it and the rain was such a stumper in its body getting, it went from

being really huge up front and a big barrel chested to really skinny. in the waist area and then smaller in the legs than way smaller in the back half than it was in the front. It was rather large in the front, very muscular animal. Gorilla style, like the big male gorillas or something like that, it was very muscular. Something I had not really experienced was the bears too much. And it had a lock of the bear. It was, muscles were almost getting in the way of how fat and biggest animal was as it was walking, You know, it had the straight on appearance and every kind of thing you could think of to be a bear. It looked just like a bear from that angle until it turned and I seen the tail and I just, I couldn't explain to you this day what that animal was.

I don't know if there's been any other kind of sightings of anything around that area, but that's something that I've seen and that that's where I've seen it. I got a hunter report from Longview just this year, but it was nothing like that. it was definitely more ape-like. Was there anything feline about what you saw at all? Nothing whatsoever. I would, until it turned sideways, I would have told you it was the biggest black bear that you had a world-record black bear.

Proportion, this thing was gigantic. And until it turned sideways that I seen its face was much longer than a black bear. And the tail, no bears have tails. This one had a five-foot. The tail was unmistakable. And it was very stiff and curled up. And it was just, it was mind-blowing.

I'd never seen anything like it. I couldn't explain what the animal was. There's no animal like that here. We're supposed to be anyway. Jason, we'll see if anyone else has seen this around Longview. I might have to make a new podcast. We'll see. Yeah, it was an animal that is just unexplained.

That's for sure. And these stories obviously could be verified. My father, he sits here and he's been on the phone and sitting next to me and listening to end all these two, but maybe sometimes you can get him on the podcast as well. He was right there and seeing the same thing I did in both, both this, the Astoria and the Idaho encounter. We will definitely, we'll talk about that because it is always interesting when you have situations that are observed by more than one person because we all have our own different ways.

Yeah, exactly. My friend there, Dean in Spokane, he was with us too as well, and I assure you he would be in all I have to tell the story as well what exactly happened. Jason, I appreciate you coming back on the show to share some other things that you've experienced over the years. We will definitely be in touch. If there's anything else that ever happens out there when you're hunting, feel free to reach out as well. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. But those are the craziest things that I've ever experienced, especially in the Bigfoot encounters.

That's about the highlight of my 50 years of being out. in the woods every other day. No problem, man. Thanks for having me on, man. Absolutely. It's been a pleasure. And yeah, we'll talk to you later, man. You have a good one. You too, bye. Here at Bigfoot Society, our goal is to provide a platform for those that have encountered

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