Bigfoot Society - Something Stalked a Remote Avery, California Cabin While Two Dogs Froze in Terror

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Adam shares a chilling firsthand Bigfoot encounter that took place at a remote cabin in Avery, Northern California. What began as a quiet winter night quickly turned terrifying when two dogs suddenly became agitated and something massive began walking around the cabin, breathing heavily in the darkness.By morning, Adam discovered enormous footprints sunk deep into the snow, stepping effortlessly over a barbed-wire fence and tracking from the cabin down to a creek before disappearing into the forest. The size, depth, and stride of the tracks ruled out any known animal.Adam also recounts additional unsettling experiences from other Northern California hotspots, including Butt Lakeand the Lazy Z Resort near Twain Harte, locations long rumored to be associated with Sasquatch sightings, strange sounds, and the feeling of being watched.This episode explores more than just Bigfoot. Adam connects his encounters to a lifetime of paranormal, spiritual, and unexplained experiences, raising questions about whether Sasquatch may be more than a flesh-and-blood creature.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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Visit your nearby lows on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible, from backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere.

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you can find international helplines at finda helpline.com, which will connect you with local support in your country. If you believe you or someone else is in immediate danger, please contact your local emergency number right now. And thank you for taking care of yourself while listening. Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Adam today. Adam is a listener of the show, and we got connected about some interesting things that Adam has experienced over the years. We were just having a good time chatting before the recording and excited to hear all the different things that he's experienced. So welcome to the show, Adam. How are you doing today? Doing well, sir. Thank you. How are you?

Oh, man, I'm having a great day talking to people about Bigfoot, and it's not too cold. Iowa. It's a great day then. So this area that we're going to be talking about, we're talking a little bit about it, and it's definitely an active area. But, you know, Adam, feel free to take us back to when you started experiencing these Bigfoot-related things in your life. Yeah, so kind of an interesting lead-up. When I was in, I think, seventh or eighth grade, I got in a book, I'd come across a book by Alan Berry and Anne Slate, B. Anne Slate,

having to do with Bigfoot. And it was describing what the Sierras and the camp that they had in the Sierras with Ron, I can't remember his last name, Ron and the Warren brothers and Alan Barry, Moorhead, thank you. And so I'd read the book

and I've been intrigued by it, but thought, yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, this might be some pretty imaginative thinking. And then I guess that same year we'd gone on a trip, a three-week trip across the Western United States. And so at one point we'd ended up in Canada and I'd purchased a couple of big footbooks and thought that was interesting but still wasn't really entirely believing. So when I was 14, my aunt, who's basically like my big sister, She's 10 years older, I mean, so she was 24. I was 14. So she had this boyfriend that had a cabin in a town called Avery, which is in Northern California. And he actually had two cabins on the property. One cabin was a cabin that had been built by his father. And that was the permanent, you know, that was the residence and actual residents that had been built well, built to completion. The boyfriend of my aunt, he was building a new cabin on the side of this hill that was across the creek and up the hill from the uh the cabin that

his father had built the more permanent cabin and so uh i've been up there in the summers before but in this particular year i happened to be there uh the week of christmas um and like i said i was 14 in this cabin that he'd built he was he was an amateur carpenter and and he was kind of feeling his way through the process and so and being young you know he was also not very accomplished carpenter. And so you had the front door was basically comprised of two-by-fours, you know, two-by-fours of the header of the footer crossing across. And then you had plastic instead of glass.

And plastic over the windows where the windows were supposed to be. And so this one particular night, we'd come home back to the cabin from running errands earlier in the day about 6.30 p.m. And it started to snow. And so, you know, we got into the cabin that he was building, the ramshackle cabin. And it had a potbelly stove. That was the only source of heat. Two stories. The cabin had two stories. And so

at a certain point about 11 p.m. or thereabouts, maybe even earlier, they went upstairs and went to bed. And I was on the ground floor. And they had two dogs. One of them was a German shepherd. One of them was kind of a long hair, like a greyhound. And so I'm sitting in there, pull-out couch in my sleeping bag, and it's cold. Like the hot, the pot-belly stove was radiating heat, but not a lot of heat.

And so I was cold, and I was sitting in the sleeping bag, and the dogs were sleeping by the pot-belly stove. And right around, I'd say 11, sometime between 11. 7.30 p.m. and midnight, the dogs started getting really agitated all of a sudden. Like, they were sleeping in this really deep slumber. I can hear them breathing. That's how deep their slumber was. And all of a sudden, just like the snap of a fingers, they were up and agitated and growling and moving all around the floor. And I was like, what's gotten into them, you know? And that's about the time when I started hearing something outside of the cabin. And I could tell it, whatever it was, it was extremely big. I could just hear from the footfalls and there was heavy

breathing. I can hear breathing over the dog's growling, which shows you how loud the breathing was. You know, it was breathing that I could easily detect. And so that went on, I guess, about 15 minutes. The dog's moving all around, agitated me being scared to death. And then after the 15 minutes, the dogs died down, went back to sleep, the sounds went away. And I sat there in the sleeping bag, the rest of the night terrified because his cabin, and I'm not kidding when I say this, a five-year-old could have infiltrated and broken into his cabin, let alone something the size of Bigfoot. And I didn't know what it was at the time.

I wasn't thinking a Bigfoot at all. I was thinking more like a bear. You know, there's a lot of wildlife where this cabin was located in Avery. It was down the street from, from, it's on, I think, Moran Road, I want to say, down the street from the Avery Hotel by Murphy's Camp.

And so when you would get out to his cabin at night, when you were driving the road down to his cabin, it was completely pitch black. You couldn't see anything. No street lights. The nearest neighbor was like miles and miles away. So I knew likely this was. wasn't going to be a person. I was suspecting a bear or something like that.

And anyway, the next morning, I woke up and the dogs had to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom. And so I put on my weather gear and I went outside with the dogs. And just uphill from this cabin, my aunt's boyfriend's cabin, if you went up the hill about, I guess maybe 80 feet, maybe not that far, maybe 60 feet, but from there on up, the rest of the hill, the upper part of the hill, that was all forestry land. And they had barbed wire fence that separated the boyfriend's property from the forestry land. And the forestry land, that was all field, an empty field up above. I don't, you know, come to think of it, I don't know why that field was empty the way it was, because there was forest everywhere around. But for whatever reason,

and there was this patch of empty field. And so when I went out the next morning, I could immediately see that there were these huge footprints. They were, you know, anywhere from like 13 to 15 inches, I'm thinking now from an adult perspective, because I was 14 when it happened, I'm thinking probably 15, 16 inches. And the thing that really was staggering to me

was that the footprints sunk so far down in the snow, like the footprints went three to four inches deep into the snow. And being only 14, I wasn't very heavy, but I couldn't even put like a dent in the snow. Like, you know, I would have had to jump up and down. And even then I couldn't have gotten it to that depth. So the depth and the size of the footprints, the stride, the stride was, I couldn't replicate the stride. I tried. It was too long, too far.

And so what I noticed when I looked up the hill, you could see. this sequential line of footprints that started at the top of the horizon and came down the hill, sequential, came down the hill, got to the barbed wire fence, you had one footprint on one side of the fence, and then you had another footprint on the other. Like this thing, it just stepped over this barbed wire fence. And the barbed wire fence came up, you know, like to my chest. So it was over five feet tall. And that staggered me.

I was like, holy cow, like this thing must have been huge to be able to just step over this barbed wire fence. So it stepped over the barbed wire fence and then the footprints had tracked downhill from the cabin to the creek and then it jumped over, it leapt over this creek and then gone up over the other side past the permanent cabin, the one that the father had built, and then across the street and up into the woods. And so I tried, I didn't have a camera at the time so I couldn't take a picture of the footprints and I tried to get my aunt and her boyfriend to wake up and get out and have a look and I couldn't get them to get out of bed. You know, they'd been tired from the day before and they just wanted to sleep in.

And so unfortunately, the foot tracks were lost to, you know, history. But after the fact, they had that cabin, the cabin that was the more permanent residence, that was rented by a friend of theirs named Lou. and Lou had been a Vietnam veteran and he'd been he'd been sprayed upon during Vietnam the Vietnam War with Agent Orange

and Agent Orange had given him MS and so a highly highly intelligent individual who had physical handicaps from the MS but he was always extremely kind to me and I trusted him he was a good man roughly about their same age

mid-20s. And so when this happened, a couple days later, I was talking to him about it, and I was like, you know, like, I saw these footprints and this thing walked by the cabin in the middle of the night, and I think it was Bigfoot. And have you had anything like that? And, you know, anybody who lives around that, and that's like an everyday regular occurrence to them, he was pretty nonchalant in his answer. He was like, oh, yeah, you know, people see Bigfoot here, Bigfoot all time. And I was like, well, like, what do you mean? And he was like, well, he's like, I've had friends. This is happening to myself, driving along in the middle of the night. They hear what sounds like a woman screaming. And they stop and they pull over and they get out of their car

and there's nothing there. There's nobody there. It's just pitch black. No streetlights, no cars, no nothing. No, no women. And he said sometimes they would pull over because they thought they heard a police siren coming at them and they would pull over. So I thought that was pretty fascinating. But I always felt whenever I was at that cabin, especially at night, I always felt like I was being watched. And, you know, another related Bigfoot story would be that, and I didn't have like tangible evidence left behind like with this instance.

But my family and I, we used to go to a play. place called But Lake. And But Lake is up in Northern California by Chico by Redding around there. And when we would go, it was a lake that was largely unknown to a lot of people. You needed to go down this dirt road, down this steep mountain on a dirt road, and then down in the valley was the lake. And so you would basically have where the same families would vacation there every year during the summer. And so whenever we were there, I always felt like something was watching me. And on this one particular occasion, we would go, we would stay a week and we would water

ski all day and have the campfire at night and tell stories and all that. And so this one particular day, we were out water skiing. And I saw the sun glinting off something on this inlet into the lake. And I was like, huh, I wonder what that is, you know? So I got my grandfather and I was like, look, there's this silver glinting in the sunlight. Like, what is that? You know? And so he drove the boat over and we went over to where the inlet, the finger, you know, came into the lake.

And got out the boat, walked over to the saw. It was a brand new saw. It was one of those saws. And I don't know the term for the type of saw. But it wasn't a traditional saw. It was one of the saws that shaped like a D. D is in Delta. And it was brand new.

And I remember sitting there and looking around, I'm like, hello, hello, does anybody leave their saw out here? No response, no reply. And I thought it was odd in that the area where the saw was located, yeah, there was forestry back a certain ways, but there was also a lot of easily viewable territory all around. And so there was nobody there. I couldn't see anybody there. And I always thought it was so odd. somebody would just leave the saw like that. So years later, 40 years later, I talked to this gentleman, and he was a Leo, law enforcement officer, and he was from the Bay Area in California. And he was like, yeah, my family and I, we would go, and we would have summer vacation at But Lake. And we had Bigfoot of counters at Plet Lake.

So I don't know this to be true, but I have it in the back of my mind that somebody maybe was there cutting up firewood. and they had an encounter and they dropped their saw and split. I don't know that for sure, but that's my guess. The other time, my family and I used to vacation at this resort called the Lazy Z, which is located in Twainheart, Twainheart being in Northern California, and Twainhart being a town that's just outside of Jamestown,

Jamestown being more well-known, better known than Twainhart. But the Lazy-Z, Magnetka, significant resort, brilliant place to go and relax and vacation. As a matter of fact, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell used to vacation there. And so over the years, I got to know the family. And we would stay in one of the cabins every summer. And so I always felt like I was being watched there as well. And then just recently had come across some information that, yeah,

the people the lazy Z had reported, having Bigfoot experiences around the resort, around the lazy Z. So that would be the gist of my Bigfoot experience. Now, one thing I can tell you, just my own personal observations, a little biographical information, autobiographical. I lost my father when I was nine, and I lost him to addiction and suicide. And it was really jarring for me, especially because of him.

Oh, that's very kind. Well, thank you. Well, yeah, it was tough. I mean, my parents, my mom looked like Natalie Wood, my dad was a more handsome version of Robert Redford. If you watch Robert Redford in the sting, or if you watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, that was my dad. Only my dad was more handsome, I thought, than Robert Redford. And so, you know, and he went through the cowboy phase where he looked like Robert Redford and Butch Cassidy, and then he liked to slick back. his hair and that was his sting face. And so to, you know, I was enormously proud of my parents. Like, you know, it was like having Hollywood royalty as my parents. You know, their attractiveness was obvious to one and all, especially me. And so to lose him like that, and lose him just overnight like that. And what made it really compounding, really compounding, was that that was 73. And back then, you know, they didn't have the Betty Ford Clinic. They didn't have, people didn't really understand drug addiction

and so not to go too far down the rabbit hole but my mom was going to have it out with him because he was on the cocaine train and so she'd sent me to stay with my aunt the same ones like my sister and I'd been staying with her that night that Saturday night and I was sleeping in the sleeping bag

on the living room floor and I had this dream and in this dream I basically dreamt my dad's death is what happened. I dreamt my dad's death. I woke up the next morning. I didn't see him shoot himself, thank God. But I knew he died. I knew he was gone in the dream. And so I woke up the next morning in a flop sweat in my sleeping bag thinking, you know, thank heaven it was a dream. And that was about time my aunt walked into the room. She was 19. And she said, Adam, I don't know how to tell you. So I'm just going to tell you your dad died last night. And it was like, it was like having God

kick-drop me, the drop kicked my head. You know, I went from being a goofy nine-year-old with goofy nine-year-old thoughts to feeling like I was 80 years old with a snap of the fingers. And so that did two things. It turned me into a hardcore atheist and it turned me into a hardcore realist. And so all these experience that I had had, all the paranormal experiences and the bulk of my experiences have been, paranormal with the spiritual with the demonic things like that unsolicited didn't solicit these experiences but they they found me nonetheless and so that's how i'd come to know that these things are true the world is so much more than people realize and bigfoot at one point i was like many i like

jeff moldrum dr meldrum who just recently passed rest in peace um but he thought bigfoot was giganticithicus uh i've since come to realize that Bigfoot's far more than that. It's far more than a giant ape or gorilla. It has capabilities that far surpass those creatures. And so, yeah, the world's a fascinating place. But listen, you guys do a phenomenal job. I really appreciate your channel.

It's a subject that, you know, I have family and friends, my own children. They're like, Dad, don't be saying this stuff in public because people think you're crazy. But thanks to the Jack Link's commercials, Bigfoot's not such a taboo subject anymore. And so what you guys are doing is you're enlightening people and opening minds to the fact that, yeah, this creature does exist. It is out there. Where that cabin was located, I'm telling you, nobody, nobody but nobody would have come stolen by that cabin in the middle of the night.

And the fact that the dogs reacted the way they did. was really a powerful endorsement that the experience was something other than my imagination. So I guess that's about it, unless you have any questions for me. Yeah, a few, definitely. So the unfortunate losing of your father, so your paranormal interactions and Bigfoot interactions, they were all after that point in time, correct? Yeah, that's correct. What ended up happening is that that was the first psychic experience I had.

And then from 17 to 45, I had all these crazy experiences that, once again, unbidden, unsolicited. But nonetheless, they visited upon my life. And so I come to find out that, yeah, these things, are all real. And that was kind of the instigator. His death and his death was very, very impacted to me. But the one good thing about his

death was it kept me away from drugs. Instead, I went the other way. I jumped into an alcohol bottle when I was 16 and stayed there until I was 30. But it kept me away from drugs. I don't remember a lot about his time. I just remember that

his, a lot of things changed when he got on the cocaine train. He was very fastidious beforehand, whereas afterward he didn't care about his appearance as much anymore. And so things, his priorities changed, you know. But, yeah, you know, a lot of people think that having that psychic thing is a gift, it's not. It's a curse. Or at least it's proven to be a curse for me.

I've had a lot of precognition. and when the precognition arrived it was always bad it was always foretelling as somebody dying however and having said that and now that I'm thinking of it I've also had a lot of spiritual experiences

and so I went from being somebody who is a hardcore atheist and not religious in any way, shape, or form to where now I'm extremely spiritual, still not religious, this, but extremely spiritual, because I've had a lot of experiences with the spiritual and the paranormal.

And so, yeah, that was kind of the beginning. My father passing was the beginning of that. And I would surmise that maybe the reason why I haven't had more Bigfoot experiences is because I haven't been out in the forest for a long time now. You know, there was a while there where I was in the forest quite a bit through vacationing and all that. And now I've not been in the forest for a long time. But most of my experiences have been mostly ghosts and hauntings

and haunted places and haunted things and demonic and spiritual like that. You mentioned really quick that you feel that with Bigfoot specifically there is something else going on rather than the viewpoint of, it may have been just a really big prehistoric ape. Yeah, I mean, so, and that's, I've, I do a lot of reading. Like I said prior to our interview, the only, the only talents God's trusted me and trusted me with her being a big mouth and being a storyteller and a writer. And so I read voraciously, and that subject, I've been reading books.

on that subject voraciously for many, many, many years. And so, you know, nothing firsthand for me to have that conclusion, but more like reading the eyewitness reports of others and learning their experiences and what they'd experienced and that leading me to the belief that Bigfoot is so much more like the famous story with Teddy Roosevelt and the Trappers, you know, that he'd written about, Teddy had written about President Roosevelt, written about in his book

and talking about Baalman, Baalman and the other mountain man and their Bigfoot experience. And so Bigfoot goes, like if you research the first newspaper article about Bigfoot, it goes back to, I think, like, 1685, the first recorded

instance. And then you consider that there are Bigfoot sightings all over the world, except for like islands. But any land blocked mass, you find Bigfoot. You find Bigfoot sightings. And so there's something, obviously, these aren't, you know, creatures like grills or age that can be easily photographed.

These creatures are highly intelligent and highly empathetic. And they can read us pretty well. I mean, they don't like guns. That's been my finding. They don't like guns. they don't like people encroaching upon their territory and when that happens they pretty quickly let you know that they're around based upon my reading absolutely and did you just hear these incidents where you know let's say i mean here's here's here's one that happened to

me specifically uh where you know out in the woods in Oregon and you verbally say to the woods to the woods, hey, if there's something here, can you make a noise and you get a response? And, you know, like, how do you explain that? It's unexplainable. There's definitely intelligence

there. Yeah, the rock knocking and the tree knocks, that requires an opposable thumb. Like, you know, bears can't do that. Other animals in the forest can't do that. And then you've got this creature that

not only is wood knocking and rock knocking, but doing it with cadence. Like there's an intelligence there. And so people, you know, have knocked three times, only to have the three knocks repeated in the distance. And not only that, but it seems to me, like they use wood knocking and tree knocking to triangulate. Like it's a form of communication because there have been people that have had,

there was a gentleman who owned a hotel and strawberry. and unfortunately poor guy died when a tree fell on top of him and killed him but he had gone public with his he had all kinds of bigfoot stuff going on around his hotel in strawberry California and he'd reported you know like he was surrounded at one point by multiple and he could hear them you know one would wood knock or rock knock to his left one would do the same to his right in front of him behind him and so these creatures are far more intelligent than people realize. It's not just some animal out there with rudimentary thinking.

There's intelligence. There's intelligence there. And the first time I saw the Patty film, namely having to do with Roger Patterson and, geez, the gentleman he was with, I'm sorry. I'm starting to get more brain fused now that I'm into my 60s. But, you know, they'd had that situation with Patty. And when you watch that footage, to me anyway, like right away, being the hardcore realist and natural skeptic that I am, I was looking at the footage going, you know, could this possibly be fate?

And I'm seeing muscles roll under the fur. I'm seeing muscles bulge beneath the fur. I'm seeing this ponderous gait of this huge creature where you go, okay, something that size, this is the gate it would have. I don't believe for a moment that that's a person in a suit. It's just too organically perfect. And one of the things that I thought really fascinating that I recently read about was that the reason why they surprised Patty possibly was that they were on horseback. And Bigfoot, you know, they have a relationship with horses.

They're not threatened by horses. They've been around horses. As a matter of fact, some people reported that the Bigfoot, like to weave the horse's mains and tails, which, you know, I don't know why they would do that, except maybe to be nice. But a lot of people surmised that the reason they were able to surprise Patty on that day was because they were on horseback, and they'd been on horseback, I think about three weeks. And so they were way, way back in the forest.

And I think that the Bigfoot Patty likely heard them, but identified those noises as being horse noises and not being humans. I think that's how they surprise Patty. But that's just a guess on my part. I don't know that for sure. You know, could be anything. But it's a far more fascinating subject than people realize. And people, I would say this, from an eyewitness perspective, you know, people ridicule you for it, but you know what you know. If you experienced it, listen to your heart. Your heart knows better than everybody's passing judgment on you. And so, So if people are ridiculing you, I mean, my own kids still ridicule me about it. And I'm like, you know, you're a child of your opinion.

I know what I know. And that's good enough for me. Absolutely. I agree with that. I've been through some really interesting situations myself with people. But hey, that's how it is. That's how it is. And it's, you know, you just get, you stick to just to what you know and what you've experienced.

but you know if you would be willing to share if is there a certain situation that happened to you then that made you transition from being more of a hardcore atheist to someone who was more on the spiritual side yeah so that's a fascinating story basically by nature, by my natural nature, I'm an empath. But I've gotten to my late teens, early 20s, and I became somebody who was really arrogant and really nasty. I'd had, like we all do, we all scar each other. And I'd had people scar me and pain mean, and I'd grown jaded. And I'd become a really obnoxious person. I was the kind of person that, you know, I had a storm cloud over my head,

and people would see me walking toward them, and they'd turn around, do an about face, and go in the other direction. And so when it happened, it was a perfect storm, so to speak, in that I was getting more and more obnoxious and more and more arrogant and more and more and happy. and several things came into place simultaneously. My mother was having some issues with her life, and she was going through a really fierce depression,

really, really fierce. And so I was having to deal with that. And when people go through really serious mental neurosis, you know initially people were very helpful very kind and looking to be there for that person but as time goes by as the weeks turn into months and the months turn into a year people go back to their lives most of them within months and that's what it happened with my mom like one by one all the family and all the friends started going back to their own lives and so it was just she and I um you know, toward the end there.

You know, I would be up in a room for hours at a time trying to talk her out of committing suicide. And then I had stuff going on at work. And so all this stuff was coming together all at once. And so we'd come to this moment where, you know, I was under the belief that my life was everything that was to the left of me, only to then find out that everything that was real was to the right of me. And so basically what God had done was he'd put a veil over my eyes for six months leading up to the explosion and had me thinking that everything was true to the left

of me when everything to the right was with actual factuality. And so there came a nexus point between my personal life of my mother, my work, which was extremely stressful, and my attitude. And, you know, basically I came to a moment where I had two little children who were lying upon me, and I was staring into the abyss, and there was no safety net under us. And it scared me six ways to Sunday. And just prior, you know, as all that went, I equated to dominoes on a table. It was like, God stacked these dominoes on a table, all these events that you'd never think in a million years. would be aligned with one another. He took all these random events

and he stacked them one beside another and lined them up like dominoes on a table. And then it was like, I could almost hear him say in my head and it's the psychic thing that I've got. I could almost hear, okay, here we go. And he pulls the veil off my eyes and I'm like, oh my gosh,

everything in the left of me is not my reality. Everything the right of me is my reality. And not only, you know, we're in trouble. My children are in trouble. And I need to grow up in a real hurry. And the way that these things all came in alignment with one another, there was a strategy there. There was a purpose there.

These things couldn't have all come together, you know, spontaneously. You know, that just couldn't have happened. There was a purpose. There was a design. There was a strategy. So that was the first instance. And then the second instance, which was. just as profound.

I worked the graveyard shift for 35 years. And so I'd gotten off my shift on this pristine, I'd worked this Saturday graveyard shift, gotten off the shift, this pristine Sunday morning. It's beautiful out. And I remember at the time as I was walking from the building to my car and driving down to the freeway thinking, this is like, you know,

This is like a Sunday that's more pristine, more beautific, more radiant than any Sunday morning I've ever seen before. I mean, it just seemed different. On a cellular level, on a psychic level, I could just detect it. And so I get on the freeway and I'm going down the freeway. And as I'm heading down the freeway toward my home, on the right-hand side, it is this huge stadium, rock concerts, shows like that, huge stadium. and I'm looking at the clouds because I've written over 200 short stories because I'm 283 pages in my first novel. I'm constantly looking for material for my writing. And so this one morning I'm looking at the clouds over to the ride of me where the stadium is for inspiration for my writing.

And I see something out of the corner of my left eye and when I swivel my head around, it was a cloud bank that was easily three times the size of the arena. I mean, it was huge. And I'm looking at it, and I'm thinking, am I really seeing this? It looked like a three-dimensional ice sculpture. It literally did. And it was the face of Jesus. I could see hair that came down with the shoulders. I could see these wise eyes, this patrician nose,

this, you know, refined mouth and goatee and beard combination that, you know, just looked like it had just been sculpted. You know, the entire thing looked like an eye sculpture. That's literally what it looked like. And it was staring down at me and everybody beneath me. And I remember the analytical side of my brain, which is never very far away, kicking in going, okay, wait a minute. Are there jagged edges? No, there are no jagged edges.

Is there anything like you normally see with a cloud bag? Is there hazing in certain parts of the cloud? And certain parts of this cloud are thicker or thinner than a lot. other parts of the cloud, you know, is there anything that's normal here with the cloud? And there was nothing normal. It looked like an eye sculpture, like somebody carved Jesus's face out of a cloud and then suspended it up above me and everyone else with that face staring down at us. And so I witnessed that for about 10 minutes.

And I didn't have a cell phone. I didn't have a camera with me at the time. But being a realist and knowing how the ravages the time work, knew over time the memory would fade from my memory and so when i got home i'd forced myself to sit down and write out a story about that write it down because i knew over time the memory would delineate the details would delineate but um that was really profound for me and uh you know it it couldn't have been anything other than what it was and then the the last thing i'll say with regard to that subject was that when my mother died, my mother was a hardcore atheist, just like me. And

she'd contracted breast cancer. And so, you know, I flew out to Arizona to say goodbye to her. I got in the call, you know, that she wasn't going to be around much longer. And so I'd had to fly out to Arizona to say goodbye. And when I got to the hospital, pardon me, even though I was know she was only 62 years old. When I got to the hospital, she looked like my 92-year-old great-grandmother, literally, that pain had ravaged her to the point where she looked like she was 92 years old. And she was cognizant. She couldn't speak. And I was feeding her ice chips and trying to comfort her, trying to assure that everything was going to be all right, that we loved her, that we were there for. And so at a certain point, the hospital administrator approached us and said, you know,

look, the conclusion, it's foregone. You know, we can keep her alive for like another three weeks, but she's going to be in great pain. We're not going to be able to save her. The cancer has progressed to the point where it's metastasized into her soft tissue, into her bone, and we're not going to be able to save her. And we'll keep her alive for three weeks,

but she's going to be in a lot of pain. Or we can do hospice. Well, I didn't know anything about hospice. I was really ignorant about it. But after she advised us about it, we all decided that we wanted her to be in hospice. And the difference between the two, hospitals try to heal you. And so they're looking for curative, anything that's curative. With hospice, they're looking to remove all your pain.

You're in hospice because your death is inevitable, and they want to save you from the ravages of the pain. that's, you know, savaging your body. And so when we moved her to hospice, it actually, in some ways, it made it easier, but a lot of ways it made harder because she looked like she was 45. She looked like she could just roll right out of bed

and, you know, goes rollerblading through the halls of the hospice. And so it was really difficult. And so the night that she passed, I was staying at the home that she shared with my stepfather, they lived out in the boonies, Arizona, where you could hear the coyotes at night and all that.

And they didn't have neighbors very close by. And so that night, after being at the hospice all day, we'd all come back to the home and we were all exhausted, my family and I, and everybody went to sleep, as did I. And I fell asleep about 11, and then about 3 in the morning, 233 in the morning, maybe a little bit later than that, but roughly in that range.

They had one of those doors. They had the front door and then they had a storm door. And the storm door had the kind of door handle where you had to twist it from a horizontal position to a vertical position and then pull the door open. And so when we got home that night, my stepfather closed the storm door, locked the storm door, closed the front door, locked the front door. And then we'd all gone to bed. And my family and I had been telling him, you know, be ready. She might come and visit us. And he's Irish.

and the Irish have a really strong dread of the paranormal. At least that's my understanding. That's certainly the case with him. He didn't want to talk about it at all, didn't want to acknowledge it, nothing. So that night I went to bed and I'm sleeping on the living room floor, my sleeping bag, and they had two couches by the front door that shaped an L.

So the lower part of like a capital L was by the front door. And then you had the other couch. that intersected it and made it the L. That was like the backbone side of the L. I'm not really coming up with a good analogy, but that's basically what it was. And my aunt was sleeping on the couch nearest the front door, and a family friend was sleeping on the other couch.

And so about 233 in the morning, I hear somebody at the storm door. I can still hear it in my head to this very day. And they twisted the handle three times, angrily, furiously, twisted the handle three times. like chick, chick, chick, like twisting it from a horizontal position to a vertical position, but violently so. And then pulling on that door with all their might to the point where the home shook.

And so that kept happening over and again. Chook, chook, boom, bam, bam, bam, bam. And I'm looking at the door and I'm thinking, am I imagining this? Like, you know, like, is this my imagination? And at that point, their cat walked up and their cats. looking at me and looking at the front door and looking at me like, are we really seeing this, hearing this? You know? And so, yeah, that went on about 10, 15 minutes, 15 minutes maybe. And my aunt never woke up. The family friend never woke up. I remember seeing my aunt's bare foot.

She'd take off her socks or whatever. And her foot was sitting by the door handle to the front door. And she never woke up. And I was trying to muster my courage to go up and open the door. door, the front door, so I could see who was on the other side of the storm door. And I was reluctant to do so. Like, I'm running things through my mind going, okay, could this be a stranger in the middle of the night in the middle of the Arizona desert in the middle of nowhere? You know, what could this possibly be? And so just about the time, you know, it had been at least 10 and maybe 15 minutes that

I had surmised that this was something else possibly. Could be my mom. I was just about ready to get up out of sleeping bag. go to the door and then it stopped. And so then the cat and I are sitting there looking at each other like, is it going to happen again? What was that? And I guess about an hour later, maybe, the call came into my aunt's cell phone and she answered

it. She started sobbing and right then I knew my mom had died. So the other thing that kind of brought me, you know, to a spiritual stance was that when my mom died, you know, we started the five. in the fire pit about 6 p.m. in the evening woke up the next morning when we went out at like 10 a.m. By the time everybody had roused themselves, gotten dressed, that fire was still going, despite the fact that no fire would have ever been, you know, it had never been replenished with wood. It burnt all through the night, all through the morning. And there wasn't a lot there

when we started at 6 p.m. So the fact that the fire was still there, that was crazy. And And then, you know, I flew back into town and went back to work the next day. And at the time I lived in this house, this huge brick house that to me, I live on the East Coast now where it's very, very humid. And so that house would turn into an easy-baked barbie oven during the summer. The heat, the sun would bake the brick all day long. And then at night, it would be impressively hot. all the time during the summer. It was oppressively hot.

We had air conditioning. The air conditioning couldn't keep up with the brick and the size of the home and the landlord, the owner that we were running from. He refused to take care of the AC. And so back then, you know, whenever I would get off my night shift and I would go to sleep, I would go into like a death sleep. You couldn't wake me up. I mean, nothing could wake me up for like the first three, four hours.

And back then, I was a single dad. I was working the great air shift. I was only getting like two to four hours sleep a day every day for years on end, which is a terrible way to live. You feel like you're at the bottom of a pool at all times. You see everything, you hear everything, you interact with everything, but it's all muted. It's like being at the bottom of a pool.

And so you're just constantly exhausted. Well, I came home. I went to work that night, and then the next morning, you know, I was in the midst of the death sleep and this really deep sleep and she woke me up by saying my name right next to my ear. She actually woke me up to where I went, you know, I heard Adam and I was like, what? You know, and the same thing with my children and other members of the family.

And then that same night, I went to work and I'd gotten off of work at 2 a.m. And I'm coming down this hill headed toward the freeway from my work building. and in the distance I can see all these electrical storms going on the distance on the horizon and all the power where I was or I was coming down the hill headed toward the freeway incidentally headed toward I was heading toward the stadium that I had referenced earlier was going to skirt around that and go to the freeway and so I'm coming down this hill and I'm noticing that all the electricity is out in all the area around me there nothing's lit the stadium

lights are out the gas station down the street the lights are out at no lighting anywhere and and so i'm i'm seeing the storms off on the horizon these chain lightning storms and just the rider in me was fascinated and so i'm watching this and i see to the corner of my left eye and bear in mind like my car is coming downhill so the headlights are pointing downhill but off to the left i see this cloud and it's I'd say if I had to reference it, it was about the size of like, I don't know, maybe three bread boxes put side by side, maybe larger than that. About the size of like a small dog, maybe a little bit bigger than that. And I see this cloud. And, you know, at this point, it's like 2.30 in the morning, 2.30 a.m.

And it's glowing. And it's glowing blue and purple and silver. And it was roiling. In other words, like there was the content inside of the cloud, the contents of the cloud and the inner part of the cloud were roiling. They were rolling, rolling over and over. And I saw these silver stars that were glittering and rolling as the cloud was roiling. And it's coming toward me, and I'm thinking, that's crazy.

How can that cloud glow like that? fiercely illuminated because the way that clouds glow, the way we see rainbows, it's the dust, the dust particles in the cloud and the sunlight reflects or an ambient light source reflects off of the dust particles. And that's what gives the impression of glowing. Well, the problem with this was that that cloud, there was no light anywhere near it. It was pitch black night. The only light, the only illumination in the area was coming from my headlights. And so, and in they're pointing downward and this is to the left. And so this cloud floats over to my car and it stops just above the roof of my car. I mean to the point where I could have stopped the car,

climbed up on the roof of my car, and touched it. And so I like roll down my window. I got my head out my window. I'm steering up above the roof of my car at this cloud. I'd slow down to about five miles an hour, maybe 10 miles an hour. And the cloud is tracking me. And at one point, point I made a U-turn and the cloud executed the U-turn as I executed the U-turn and stayed with my car. And so the whole experience, you know, maybe 10 minutes and then eventually the cloud, you know, drifted off and took off onto the horizon. But I know that was my mother's soul. I know it was her soul.

It couldn't have been anything but her soul. Logically, you couldn't explain it any other way for this cloud to be glowing the way it was. It was so vibrant. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life, except for the birth of my children. So that definitely kind of drove home the point that, yeah, we are spiritual beings. And one thing I'll tell you, and I don't know if you want to include this with the show, but our world is so much more spiritual than people realize.

And right now, we're in the midst of a spiritual war. kidding. I mean, like, it's a crazy thing to consider, you know, and that you look at the movies, you look at all the things that we've seen, Terminator movie, Skynet, pathogens running amok, all these crazy things, eyes wide shut, all that. Yeah, and then you come to the point where you realize, okay, these things are all real. The devil is real, hell is real, God is real, heaven's real the soul is real ghosts are real

one thing I'll tell you and like I said my Bigfoot experiences are pretty limited and like I said I think that's because I haven't been out in the forest a lot for many many years

but on the other side of that coin on the spiritual paranormal demonic side yeah I've had all kinds of experiences and so the more spiritual you become the more the other

side comes at you, the more the devil wants to claim your soul. And so there would be times when I would be lying in bed and I would feel something, someone climb into bed and spoon me. And I'd be looking at it logically, like I look at everything logically. I live by myself. I'm an empty nestor dad. And I'm thinking, okay, could this be my imagination? Well, no, the sheets are moving. I can feel the mattress going down. I can feel something moving and moving. the mattresses it moves. This is not natural. This is not normal. And so, you know, after paying for about 10 minutes, it would go away. And that's no longer as prevalent as it used to be. But anytime I go to go to sleep, I always get, I could be thinking about being at the lazy Z and relaxing and

trying to get my mind into a meditated state to where I can sleep, which is very difficult for me because of working graveyard all the years and insomnia. But it's gotten to the point where that's no longer occurring, but what does occur is I go to go to sleep. And all of a sudden I have this barrage of violent imagery that hits my head, hits my mind, and I have to pray for about 10 minutes, and then eventually it goes away. So the world is far, far more than people realize,

and we're heading toward the apocalypse, to be honest. That's what we're headed toward, in my opinion. Not everybody believes that. I respect the opinions of others. I used to be an atheist. So, you know, and even now, I've suppressed my atheist to the darkest, deepest corridors of my mind. But even now, I can hear him going, oh, come on.

Like, that's not real. But no, it is real. And I know it's real based upon my experiences. It's definitely real. So, yeah, you know, take that for what it's worth. But I can tell you, the devil is definitely real. I had an out-a-body experience. I've had experience of leisure boards, all that.

And you have to really be careful about the choices you make because there will be an accounting when you die. And I'm not saying that in a threatening manner, please understand, but more a beneficial, you know, beneficial preventive manner. Like, be careful with the choices you make because there will be a life review when you die. and by the way one of the things that I thought was really fascinating just on a bigfoot note real quickly there's a guy named Tom T-H-O-M I forget his last name I

want to say his last name is Contrell but he has a very very interesting experience his life with Bigfoot and all things Bigfoot quite fascinating and actually now that I'm thinking about it it wasn't him it was Coon Koonbo was the one that was telling the story. And he'd found the horn. The goat horn. Have you heard about the goat horn? Yes.

The Shofar horn. I've heard you speak on this. It's very interesting. It's a fascinating thing to consider. Yeah, I kind of like look at, like I've noticed the cryptid sightings are going through the roof. And it's like, okay, well, it's either because people feel more comfortable talking about these things, not unlike what Jack Lynx did for talking about Sysquatch now.

You know, made it cool with the college kids and the public at large. So now people are more forthcoming. But, yeah, you know, I wonder about all the cryptid sightings, the explosion of cryptid sightings. And it's like it's either that people are more comfortable with reporting what they're seeing or that there are a lot more experiences. You know, not unlike all the people disappearing in all the national parks, you know, the Missy 411 phenomenon. on. That's crazy to consider too. I think it is maybe a combination of the two where people are getting more comfortable with sharing. They're realizing there are certain places they can share now where they're going to be allowed to share without being made fun of. And then I think that,

as you said, there's definitely a spiritual warfare going on. And we do have to be aware of that and make sure that what side are you on, you know? And that's really one way, one way to say. Yeah, that's definitely where we're at. And it's, it's, unfortunately, I think it's going to get worse as, I mean, as things get revealed, it's going to get wild. But if you're on the right side, you're okay, you know. but Adam, I just want to say, thank you for being open to sharing your story. I knew that you had an incredible journey story to share,

and I'm so thankful that you were able to do that on this program. I'm really appreciative of you doing that. I think it is going to help a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, I kind of delved into the paranormal and the spiritual, but these things are very important. important to know at this time in our society, in the history of our world, you couldn't have found. And when I was 18, I remember I lived across the street from my high school. My buddies would come home for lunch.

And on this particular day, we'd had our lunch. We were walking back to high school to go to our next class. And they were exploring religion and all religions at that point. And so we're walking to my school, and they're talking about Ezekiel and the apocalypse and the end of times, the rapture. And I was still an atheist then. So I guess, you know, I hadn't made the transition yet to becoming a believer. But I was like, oh, come on. Like that's garbage.

You know, that none of that's real. Like the stuff you see in the Terminator movies, that's not real. Like, that had just come out. That's never going to happen. Never in a million years will then come to find out. it's all real and it's all coming to pass and people don't know because the media hides a lot you know they don't they don't want us to know what's going on

because then that creates fear which creates chaos and instability and they don't they don't want that they want to keep everything on the down low so but yeah and I can tell you that my belief system is just not from my own experiences but from people I know that have had experiences and so like I knew a guy that had an NDE and he's 65 started his own company retired was a millionaire down to earth one of the most down to earth logical people I've ever met and and he knew my history and writing and my use of psychology in my writing and so he volunteered to me that he'd had this experience and he's like I go down the tunnel of light.

Jesus is waiting for me at the end, as are my loved ones who passed on. I go through the life review. He said, he described the life review as starring in a movie about his life, like starring personally. So he basically was in every single moment that he ever lived in his life,

not only from a firsthand perspective, but a third person perspective. And he said that he felt everything that he felt on every moment and everything that he made others feel. And you're not judged by Jesus or God when you go through this. You judge yourself. And he said when he got to the end, he was told by Jesus, you're not down there for fame, wealth, power, influence, material things.

You're there to love and be loved and to learn to enhance and grow your soul. That's it. The rest of that stuff, that's all fools. that the devil uses. He uses that to get people to make mistakes. Like the biggest ice he ever told humanity, and I'll stop at this, because, like I said, I got a big mouth.

But I got to keep that fat guy's stereotype going. But anyway, you know, yeah, he's got the glasses check. Has he got the beard, check? Is he balding on top? Check. Does he have a big mouth? Does he put people to sleep while he's talking about? Check.

Yeah, that's me. But, you know, he told me, you know, he was told by Jesus, you know, you're there to only love and be loved and leave the world in a better place, and it was when you found and learned. The other stuff, that's all Satan. That's how Satan gets people to make the mistakes they make. That's how he gets them in the hill. And so, you know, it's a definite challenge, you know, to walk the right path in this day and age because temptation is everywhere, you know. But last thing I'll say, if that interest, you two things you might want to explore. Father Dan Rehill, who actually met the devil in person. And I'm not a religious person. I'm just very spiritual. But Father Rehiel is the kind of priest that I find very approachable.

And he talks about his experiences of meeting the devil in person twice over. And it's fascinating. Another film, now that I'm talking about that, check out Nefarious. Nefarious, according to Father Rehill, and he's an exorcist. he said that's the most accurate film about exorcism and devil plus demon possession that he's ever seen um the ferrious very well made just like sound of freedom uh no gore it's more of a spiritual psychological thriller but very powerful um but check out that and then uh can i plug another channel on here would that be just sure go ahead check out touching the afterlife is a great

YouTube channel, as is soft white underbelly. If you want to get a look at reality and humanity, those are the two channels I would suggest, as well as missing 411. Adam, I think that's great that you've given us a lot to think about and to look into. I appreciate you coming on the show, and thank you for giving us a lot to think about and to look into. And yet, keep me in the loop. If anything else happens down the road, you know, we would love to hear about it.

But thank you again. Thank you. Thank you for your time and being open-minded and not interrupting me. You're an excellent interviewer. No, I'm not kidding. Like, you watch these interviews and it's a great subject. And you're like, I'm so fascinated by this. But then the interviewer keeps interjecting themselves.

And so you're learning more from the interviewer than the subject. You do a great job. I had to listen to the old ones. You'll hear a different person. But yeah, it took me a while to get there. So all right, man. Well, thank you so much for hanging out. And I do appreciate you sharing your story today.

Not a problem at all. It was my pleasure. You guys have a great channel. Love everything you do. Thank you for everything you do. And be blessed. Have a nice day. You too.

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