Bigfoot Society - Solo Camper's Horrifying Encounter! | Granite Falls, Washington

Episode Date: November 28, 2024

Join us as Dean, a longtime listener and outdoorsman, shares his chilling encounters with mysterious creatures in southern Washington State. From his childhood experience in Battle Ground, WA in the early 1980s, where he witnessed a massive figure with broad shoulders and hairy arms, to eerily similar roars and screams during his adult expeditions in the Cascade Mountains. Dean's detailed recounting of these events, including unexplained three-knock sounds and a terrifying night alone with heavy scratches left on his truck, will leave you questioning the unknown lurking in the wilderness.🔴 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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I'm very well. How are you? Thank you. I'm doing good, able to talk. Bigfoot on a nice rainy Iowa night, so I'm excited to be here. But, Dean, is there anything about you that listeners would need to know before we get started? Not that I can think of. I've spent a lot of time out in the mountains, out in the woods, and I have always enjoyed being out in the wild and whatnot. Yeah, so I've had my share of experiences. Dean, I'm going to have you go ahead and take us back to where we need to be. Let us know that the area we're looking at today, and I'll let you take it from here.

Okay. Yeah. Back in 1982, 1983, I was about maybe five, six years old and lived out in Battleground, Washington, that's Southwest Washington. And we were, back then, Battleground, Washington was like a very small town, not very big at all. And we lived on the outskirts of that out in the woods. And we were renting some property from a guy that my dad knew. And we were basically me and five or six other kids were out there in the woods on the edge of the property playing. And I had seen somebody or something walk up behind a tree and was watching us. and I myself, I've always been a protective person.

I've always washed out for people around me and whatnot. And so I gathered up the other kids that I was playing with and said, hey, there's somebody out here. We've got to go back home. I ended up getting my dad and the guy that we were renting the property from, they brought a couple of guns out with them. And I remember when they were walking up to where I had seen that thing and just seeing the size of them, compared to what I was seeing of that thing. And its shoulders were broader than the tree. And this was a good-sized tree.

I remember it like it was yesterday. And this was a good-sized tree, and I seen both of his shoulders protruding out from both sides of the tree. And, yeah, and I remember my dad and that guy walking out there and just thinking, that thing was a lot bigger than that guy. I didn't know it at the time, but I'm thinking that guy was a lot bigger than you guys. what are you guys going to do? And I remember when it would lift its arms,

it had, to me it looked hairy. Like it had hair just hanging down from its arms. As I got older, we lived next to a military training camp for a little while. And as I got a little bit older, I thought what I had seen at that point, what I thought I'd seen was a really big guy in a gilly suit. I didn't even know what a gilly suit was until, I had lived across from that military training camp.

And I've always remembered this incident like it was yesterday. And maybe about four years ago, five years ago, I was listening to, I don't know if it was your show or another Bigfoot podcast that I was listening to. I was listening to this guy speak. And in fact, David Pilates, I don't know if you know about missing 411. I was listening to, it might have been him, but they were talking about Bigfoot, and I'd never really consider their thought of it being Bigfoot, but the person that was talking on the show,

their experience sounded an awful lot like mine. And so that was where, or when I started thinking, was that what I seen? did I have my own did I have my own encounter or something like that and as they were saying that these things or

whatever they are that they like to watch kids or fascinated or I don't know I don't know too much about the phenomena but yeah ever since I heard that show I've been this last four or five years I've gotten a bit more interested

in wanting to know what's out there and what's up because I've spent a lot of time in the woods and I've heard god awful I don't know if you want to call them screams or roars or whatever. I know that ain't a bear. I know that's not a cougar. And I just, I've always wanted to find out, you know, what, you know, these things are that

I've heard or that one thing that I've seen. So, yeah, that's pretty much my little bit of a story right there. So you've heard roars and screams in other parts of you. So in your adult life, you've been hearing those as well in different areas. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've spent a lot of time in the predominantly the Washington Cascade Mountains. When I was younger, I used to go out and do a lot of hiking, and I'd go out and spend anywhere from a week to two weeks out in the middle of the mountains.

And in fact, one time I heard what I thought was a woman screaming, and I'm out there middle and nowhere. I'm like yelling back like, hey, where are you? I'll help you. I'll help you. Tell me where you are. and nothing ever, nothing ever yelled back or anything like that.

And I've heard Trey Knox, and you're out so deep that it's not a very likely chance that there's somebody out there. You know what I mean? Like, you're way deep. And to think that you're hearing these things, you know, that, like I said,

I don't know if there's screams or roars or whatever it is that they do. Yeah, I've heard them. I've heard the Trey Knox. I heard the whatever kind of noises it is that they're making. I'm curious about the roars in the screams because I, and you may have already heard this on the show, but I did experience something similar to that down in the Willamette National Forest this July.

Was the roar in the scream separate or did you hear at one point where they were together or combined in a way? No. Yeah, no. Separate. Yeah, no. The screen that I heard, like I said, it sounded like a woman the one time. That was only, maybe, definitely one time. I'm not sure if it was another time as well.

But then the roar or, I don't know, roar, growl, whatever you want to call it, that was like, that was God awful. Like I see some of these YouTube videos, people recording these things. And I'm thinking, I've heard that before. I've heard that. They're terrifying sounding. Like literally, like, you literally want to pack up camp and get out of there as quick as you can type of thing. You don't know where they're coming from or what? Absolutely.

Did you have any physical reaction when you would hear those sounds personally? Yeah. You feel like you're maybe only an inch tall, whatever it is. If it breaks my camp, what am I going to do? There ain't no way that I'd be able to defend myself against something like that. is that I, for me personally, as deep and as ferocious as these growls or roars or whatever they're doing are, there ain't a way that I could ever sound that mean or big or like, I couldn't even, these things, like, whatever it is that I'm hearing or I've heard, I'm sorry,

whatever it is that I've heard, it's like you can hear it through the whole mountain. I couldn't scream like that or roar like that. Have you heard anything else online or at a zoo that comes close to the roar that you heard that day? Yeah, I've heard one or two videos that have put, I've heard one or two videos where it was like, yeah, that's what I heard. I know that's what I heard. Some of the other videos that I've watched, I almost wonder, this person faking this or has this person gotten this? from somebody else's video type of thing or whatever. Because anymore, with AI and all these people,

they just, they want to make videos just so that they can get click beta reviews. You know what I'm saying? So it's like anymore, you really don't know what's real or not, unfortunately. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I wish I had a recording of mine. The audio I had at the time just wasn't good enough to record the sound. It was too far away, but we still heard it. It was really loud.

It was too far away from my microphone to keep. catch it. And yeah, that's one of the big regrets I have. It's not having a better microphone, but it is what it is. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, I totally feel you because a lot of the things that I, or my experiences, like back then, a lot of the time when I was spending a lot of my time in the mountains, this was before cell phones really had videos or cameras, like the way that they are now. I'm almost 50. I don't, I don't do a lot of the stuff that I used to do. I don't have the energy to go out and do the things that I used to do, unfortunately. But back then, when I had that energy and I was going out and doing those things, cameras didn't have,

cell phones didn't have the cameras and the videos like they got now. So I've never got a chance to be able to record my experiences, which I was really to have. One night in particular, this was up in past Granite Falls, Washington. I used to go way deep out there. And my truck, I get my truck in as far as I could get it. And I'm sitting out there one night. In fact, I think that might have been where I heard what I thought was a woman screaming. And I just put out the campfire. I was going to bed, laying down, getting ready to sleep in the back of my truck.

I had a canopy over the back of my truck. And I had a huge Rottweller at the time. And this dog, he was not, he was a very good guard dog, wasn't afraid of nothing. and after I put the campfire out, I heard something walking around out there, two legs, you can tell something just by a sound, you can tell something is on two legs or four legs. Whatever this thing was that I heard walking around my truck

was on two legs. I have not a clue what it was. And when it had put its hands or paws or whatever you want to call it on my truck, the back part of my truck where I was sleeping, the whole side of my truck, or one whole side of my truck literally went down. That's how heavy this thing was. And I was, my dog wasn't even growing. Whatever was out there, my dog was like, no, I don't even want nothing to do with that. And so I'm thinking, God, if my dog is not trying to protect me, I was afraid to even breathe, honestly. And I ended up getting up the next day.

and got out and looked at the side of my truck where that thing was, and there was three scratches going down the side of my truck. Thankfully, that thing ended up walking away, because I didn't, my canopy, the door on my back canopy didn't lock. So whatever that thing was, didn't try to open my back canopy because, like, I would have been, I would have been screwed. How long were the scratches on the side of your truck? They were a good, I'd say six inches.

And what really got me was because there or Cougar, they have four, you got four claws or five claws there. So whatever this was, like with it only having, there was only like three scratches. I'm thinking, am I dealing with an alien? Or did I have an alien walking around my truckless side? I just, I didn't know what to think. I really didn't. I had not a clue what to think about what that was. because whatever, like I said, if it had been, if it had sounded like it was on all fours,

I wouldn't have been as terrified. Because who, like I said, I've spent a lot of time in the mountains. I've spent a lot of time in the woods. And I've never even walked out around the middle of the frigging deep woods at night without a flashlight. Who does that? Who does that? And so it was really scary or terrifying to think, unless you've got night vision, which not too many people are just carrying around night vision with them. What would be out there on two legs not walking around with a flashlight in like straight pure darkness?

That doesn't make sense logically. No, not at all, not at all. And I've tried to figure that out for years. Like, what could that have been? What could it have been? And I'm still, like, when I think about it to this day, it's been 20 years since that. And I think about it to this day, and I'm thinking,

what could that have been? So, yeah, my mind is still boggled by some of these things that I've experienced. Were there any footprints on the ground around your truck? Not that I could see. The ground, I was looking for them. Where I was at, the ground was quite hard. It was like really packed down earth. So I wasn't able to tell.

But I looked off to where in the direction that I heard it walking off. But honestly, I didn't see nothing. I didn't see footprints or anything like that. No, I'm sorry. Was there any smell you noticed that night? Not, you know what? Had I known to pay attention to something like that, I would have. Bigfoot Society will be able to.

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out there in Battleground. Not even when I was a kid, do I remember or recall a smell? I've heard people mention a smell before, but I don't recall anything like that. Not only that, but like I said, it's also

been so many years and I didn't know that's something that he had to pay attention to. You mentioned your dog was really not involved at all. He's just pretty much hanging out. Did you notice any noises in the woods that night at all? If I recall correctly, that was one of the nights that I heard the tree knocking and what I heard sound like a woman screaming. In fact, I believe I, no, I might be wrong about this. But if I recall, that was the same camping trip that I had taken before I had put the fire out, where I heard what I thought was a woman screaming.

And I'm like yelling, hey, where are you? I'll help you, I'll help you. And I didn't get nothing back. And I heard Trenux. I did hear Trenux. But aside from that, I don't recall anything else about that incident. So, you know. It's really, that is.

really a horrifying situation once you put all those details together with the tree knocks, the screaming, something walking around your truck being pushed down on the side. The tree knocks, were you hearing them from just one area or were they from multiple areas as well? If I remember correctly, it was only coming from one area. Now, like I said, don't quote me on that. Like I said, it's been 20-something years since that experience right there. I do recall definitely from one area. I don't recall from multiple areas. But yeah, you are right. It was an absolutely terrifying experience.

That is something that makes you feel like I'm not very big. Whatever it is, it didn't sound like it was a small, the tree knock didn't sound like it was coming from like a small stick. You know what I mean? It sounded like it was coming from like a log being banged, a log being banged against a tree. You know what I mean? Absolutely.

You know, I mean, it's not like it was whatever was knocking was banging something large against the trunk of a tree. That's the best way that I know how to describe it to you, bud. So the campsite you were at, how hard was it to get into that campsite? Did you have to travel a pretty long ways into the woods? Or what was that like? I did. Yeah.

So up there, you go out past Granite Falls, Washington, and I forget the name of that area. If I remember correctly, it's not Baker National Wilderness Area, but I forget the name of the road that goes back that way. But if you get off the road, you get off the main road, and literally you're probably driving for a good. 45 minutes to an hour, maybe even an hour and a half, if I remember correctly, to get back just to get to your spot. You're going down gravel road. And I happened to just find, this was the place that I used to go. It was an overgrown road that you wouldn't even know that was there. I just ended up happening to find it by happen chance. And I thought, hey, I'm going to give it a try. Take my truck back here and see what I find. And that was how I

ended up finding my camping spot. It was overlooking a, it was overlooking like a valley. That's the best way to put it. Yeah, it was a valley. You had literally mountains on all sides and you drive in through, there's some tight, narrow spots where you're literally having to look at your window just to make sure that you're not putting your tire over the edge, you know. That's how tight it was.

But, yeah, anybody driving past and, Just to get from the dirt road back to where I was at, that was about another 30 minutes, 20, 30 minutes, just to get to that spot. Yeah, it's out there. It's definitely out there. That sounds to me that there is no possible logical way that there was supposed to be another person out walking around your truck. There is no, no way. Overgrown road that no one else knows is there. it's hard to get out there.

Dude, wow. No, definitely not. Yeah, definitely not. Like I said, I used to spend a lot of time out there. I was maybe, I was about 25 years old at the time. Like I said, I used to spend a lot of time out there. I used to, like, on my days off, my days off, and my weeks off of work, that's where I was at. When I was not working, that was my spot.

That was where I was at. When I spent a lot of time out there and all the time that I did. spent out there, that was really the only incident or only time that I had that experience out there in that specific area. Yeah. And obviously you can tell. And I didn't have any firearms or anything. So you can only imagine how terrifying that was. It was nerve-wrecking, man. It was really nerve-wrecking. So really all you had was your dog for protection. And at that point, your dog was like, dude, you're on your own pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like I said, he was a huge raw waller. That dog wasn't afraid of nothing. And I think whatever was outside of that

truck that night, like, even broke that dog's spirit. You know, I mean, that dog was out there. I don't want nothing to do with it. Absolutely. And you also had another thing, now I'm looking at my notes, is your fire was out. So that's another thing that you could have potentially used to protect yourself. You could have grabbed a stick that was on fire if something I'd charge at you, but that was out.

So that was out of the question too. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was out of the question. Yeah, I just, what's funny about the whole situation or that whole situation was, like I said, I heard what sounded like a woman screaming

or whatever. And before that, before I had decided to bed down for the night, like I had to feel like something's watching me. You know what I mean? and most of the time when you have that feeling that something is watching you, most of the time you're right. And I had that feeling that night before that, before all that ever took place,

I just had this feeling. Like, and like I said, I've been out there, I don't know how many times. And just that night, it was like, it was a very eerie, it was a very eerie uncomfortable feeling. and I for the longest before I better down that I had this feeling that you know something something's out there something's watching me but then I'm telling myself before all that happens I'm telling myself oh you're just freaking out you're just tripping you're out here alone you're just you're being a wimp whatever and lo and behold all of a sudden that that stuff happens and I'm

thinking my god that my feeling was right whatever I was feeling I was spot on about whatever it was that I was feeling so absolutely and it's best when you get a feeling like that to definitely pay attention to it especially in situations like this and just some listeners might need to be reminded he didn't have a cell phone at this time i mean this is 20 years ago yeah yeah all day and not only that but even back then even if you did have a cell phone i believe i did have a cell phone but the cell phone service out that far, at least back then, was very choppy service. You were lucky to have service if you even had your cell phone on you. Absolutely.

I imagine now cell phone service is really good in the area like that. But back then, even if you had your cell phone, no, you don't even plan on having the internet or anything out there. Pretty much you were on your own during that situation. You're on your own. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely.

Any of these areas that you've had things happen, have you ever gone and looked to see if there are things on the web about other people having situations happen in the same areas? That's funny that you bring that up. So that was what, like I said, when I had, when I was listening to that, like I said, I can't remember if it was a thing about David Pilates or whatever. but I was listening to that podcast four or five years ago or whatever it was.

And they were talking about their, what they, the research that they've done about Bigfoot and their characteristics and stuff like that. I, it literally, the person that I was listening to, like I said, their experience totally reminded me of my experience from back when I was five or six years old. And I literally, I didn't even know this until that. But I thought, I wonder if there's a website where they record Bigfoot sightings. Lo and behold, I ended up Googling and finding a website where they actually record that kind of stuff. And lo and behold, again, around that time, 1982, 1983, Battleground, Washington,

they actually did have, if I remember it was only one Bigfoot sighting. So it's weird that I had that experience in the same time frame that somebody else had that experience. So I'm really glad that you had mentioned that or asked me that because, yeah, if you look in that timeframe, whatever, I can't remember what website it was at this point. But if you look at that time frame that I had had my experience, there was actually a siting out there. Going back to that battleground sighting that you had, so you mentioned a few things where, you know, you had seen the shoulder with, you'd seen the arm, the hair hanging off of the arm. And I know you're, you know, this is five, six years old, so a very long time ago. But did you happen to remember seeing any other details about the creature besides that? I remember barely seeing that thing's face.

At that young of an age, I just thought I was looking at a really big guy. You know what I mean? Because it was popping its head out from behind the tree. And I thought I was just looking at a really hairy guy. And that's exactly what I told my dad and his friend. Hey, there's somebody out there watching me and the other kids. And they ended up going on, I followed them out there to where I had seen it. to point out, hey, that's where it was at, type of thing.

And I remember watching them walk up and telling them, hey, it's behind the tree, or it was behind that tree. And I remember watching them walk up to where that thing was at. And I remember, because I was looking at a branch where its head that his head went up to, there was a branch a little right above that thing's head. So that's how I was able to size it up. You see what I'm saying? So when my dad and that guy walked up, and I'm seeing how small they are, and they weren't...

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And that thing's shoulders was literally protruding out from both sides of the tree. And I remember my dad and him walking up and I'm thinking, I think it was a lot bigger than you guys. What are you guys going to do? Whatever a five-year-old thing said at that age is what I was thinking. I didn't even usually a kid when their dad is doing something or an adult they trust is doing something that they know that they're going to protect them. Usually that child will feel protected. but I remember thinking like you guys are nowhere near the size of that guy.

Like you guys are a whole lot smaller than that guy. And that's what I was thinking because I'd never seen a guy that big. Right. And so that's, yeah, that's where my mind was at that time. Do you remember a color to it at all? Yes, I do. It was, I remember it like it was yesterday. How do you describe the color?

And I'm a painter. So it was like a brown. It was like an amber brown. It was like a brown, amber, reddish color. That's the best way I know how to put it to you, but I'm sorry. If I could give you a better description, I would. But I do remember it being a brown with a reddishness to it, if you understand what I'm trying to tell you.

Or if you understand the color, I'm trying to tell you. I absolutely do because that's used a lot, that kind of description. Yeah, absolutely. I totally get it. You said, so the head was peeking around the tree, were you able to see maybe a shape to the head at all? Yeah, yeah, it was, oh, man, I'm not good at descriptions, dude. I'm so sorry. The best one I know how to put it, I remember thinking he looked like a monkey. That's literally how I remember describing what the guy looked like to my dad was he looked like a monkey.

Aside from that, I don't remember much of anything else to like the description. I just remember thinking that he was very big, very mean and scary looking. That's all I remember. And the fact that it looked like an ape man, that's, yeah. I'm doing the best I can here for you. Oh, no, you're doing absolutely great, especially since it was a very long time ago. Do you remember the particular things that made you? you think that it was mean or scary at that time?

Just the fact that we lived out in the woods, like, way on the outskirts of the battle around, knowing that they're, like, you know, where we were at, there wasn't no other houses, and people don't just go trotting on to other people's properties like that, at least at that time, they didn't. That's a good way to get shot. And I played out in the woods, I don't know how many times, and it was a safe area. You didn't have to worry about people just going around out there in battleground, Washington. You didn't have to worry about that type of a thing back then. Just people going, scoping out properties or whatever. That crime out there was pretty much null at that time. Absolutely. And one more question.

Did you get a feeling at all as to how tall it probably was? I would say, If I remember correctly, in fact, you know what, after I listened to that podcast, I went to try to find that property that we were living on a few years back trying to find it. I couldn't remember which one it was. I was wanting to go see that tree as a man now. I was wanting to go see that just so I could get an idea of how big that thing was. And I couldn't find the property for the life of me. I remember about where it was at. I just couldn't remember exactly where it was at.

But I would have to say, I would think 10 feet, that's my best guess for you. Yeah, that's my best guess. And this thing, I would say, as for the shoulder width, I would say at least a good four or five feet shoulder width, sounds about right. That's, yeah, as white as that tree was. Like I said, that was a big tree. and if I remember correctly, it had to have been about to get four or five foot shoulder width to it,

which you think about four or five foot shoulder width, that's whatever that thing is huge. Oh, it's a massive animal. Yeah. Or creature or, you know, have you ever thought of that too? Do you think we're, you were looking more at a giant ape or maybe some relative of human or, Have you ever thought about that before? No, I've never really, never really thought about it. I've always wondered if those things are,

I've always wondered if those things are relative to the, to the ape or primate species or whatever. But no, that's not something that I've ever really much thought about. I've always just wanted to know what it is. That's always been my curiosity is just to know, what that thing might be or what it is or whatever. Yeah, I hear you on that. It would be great to get some solid information,

and I think we might get there someday. Yeah, I hope. I would also, I would love to someday have a sighting, I think if I keep going out to the Pacific Northwest, that'll probably happen eventually. Yeah. Dean, I just want to say thank you for taking some time to share what you've experienced over the years,

if you had the chance to, would you ever want to experience anything like these situations again? Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I would totally, in fact, that's always been a big, it's funny because as terrifying as that situation is, there's still that curiosity there of i want to experience that again i want to see that again

or i want to hear that again um because it's you just there's the need to want to know there's the need to want to want to want to discover something new or whatever yeah no i think you're right it's one of the last mysteries that in the uap UFO thing but i think it's one of the last mysteries we have in a world that is so knowledge and information bombards us all over the place and yet there's this one thing that we just can't get the answers to and i think it drives i think it drives us all crazy maybe drives me crazy a little bit oh yeah yeah same here same here One thing I wanted to bring up to you, because I think it was your show. There's a couple different podcasts that I listen to that deal with this subject.

And I think it was your show, but I apologize if it wasn't. But I do remember the host asking the person that was on the show if they were Native American. And they say, yeah, I've got such and such Native American in me. And he said, that's really strange because a majority of the sightings that people are, the people that have these experiences are Native American, which I thought was really strange when I heard that because I have Cherokee and Blackfoot. I'm Cherokee on my dad's side and then I'm Blackfoot on my mom's side. So for me to have heard that, I was thinking less strange.

I'm part Native Americans. What's up with that? I just thought that was a really interesting question that a podcaster had asked that person. Yeah, I'm baffled by it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was me. I think I know exactly which one you're talking about. And it's not a thing to say that like you can't have a sighting unless you have that. But it's just it is a commonality that I've started to notice through my interviews, which is a lot of people. People, something will come up with, they have a Native American background. And even on top of that, a large amount, say, is something to do with Cherokee as well. And then there's, yeah, there's just some interesting details. There's another detail I've noticed that certain, sometimes it comes out as certain blood types. I think it's a RH negative. Yeah, it's just, it's very interesting.

But I think that anyone can have an encounter. and it all comes down to what your motivation is, what your mindset, if you've got the right, the word escape me, escapes me. If you're the right, I don't want to say right type of person, but the right type of heart, I guess is one way to say. It is another way to say it. Absolutely. But it's escaping right now.

But, man, Dean. I think you have to be open to that kind of a sentence. Exactly. Yes, that is exactly what I'm trying to say. You hit it on the head. You do have to be open to a wide variety of things, if not. you're probably going to look right past it. Absolutely, yeah.

Dean, it was a pleasure having you come on the show to, I'm glad you're able to come on and share a few different times in your life where you experience something out of the ordinary out there in Washington. And thank you so much for coming on. Man, yes, thank you so much for taking the time to hear my story, man. Like I said, like I told you before, I've never really had a platform to be able to tell what I've seen or heard. And I thought it was just really cool.

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