Bigfoot Society - Spider Crawl Bigfoot in the Backyard!

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary experiences of Mike, whose encounters span from the rugged wildfire zones of Southern Oregon to the wooded creek lines of Southern Maine. Growing up near one of the most well-known Bigfoot locations in the Pacific Northwest, Mike never gave the subject much thought—until a grueling 2011 fire season placed him deep in remote wilderness where he discovered a series of massive barefoot tracks pressed into thick redwood duff, miles from the nearest structure.Years later, after relocating across the country, activity began unfolding behind his own home in Maine. What started as subtle disturbances soon escalated into whistling from the treeline, objects striking the house with force, unexplained silence in the surrounding woods, and an encounter involving glowing eyes that left a lasting impact. Multiple witnesses were present during key events, adding weight to what was experienced.Mike’s background as a hunter and wildland firefighter gives his account a grounded, practical perspective shaped by years spent in unforgiving terrain. From firelines in the Emerald Triangle to quiet New England backyards, this episode explores how encounters can follow patterns across geography, terrain, and time.Join us as we navigate Mike’s compelling journey and examine the presence that revealed itself in some of the most unexpected places.🗣️ 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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We've got the privilege of talking to Mike today. Mike is an individual I got connected to over through Instagram, I believe. And Mike's got some interesting things to share some experiences. We'll be going over into Oregon for a bit with some interesting things that happened to Mike out in the woods. And he's going to share more about that in a bit. But welcome to the show, Mike. How are you doing today, sir? Doing good, man.

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Absolutely. We were just chatting a bit before we hit record. And this is going to be kind of a wild one. It's be an interesting one. The way we're going to do tonight is we'll probably chat as we go along, which might be a little different than some listeners are used to. But hey, that's what we're going to do with this one. So it's all good. Feel free to lead us where you want this to start out at and we'll kind of chat as we go along. okay yeah sure um so i grew up in southern orden and um just 20 minutes from my hometown there's a trivial uh bigfoot live trap uh that is a big tourist hot spot people go and check it out grew up with all that big foot stickers everywhere kind of before the big boom across the country you see them on everybody's back of their cars now and

whatnot. It's always kind of been that way there. Northern California, Southern Oregon, it's very well known for Sasquatch. Never really paid any mind to it. I was going to do the ROTC route, join the Army after high school. That didn't pan out for me. I'm thankful for that now, but I ended up getting in wildland firefighting. And my first season out, I was, was on a, this was my third fire with a company based up southern Oregon, grayback is the name of that company. And we were on what was the nation's biggest fire at the time. And the intensity of the fire was so much so that trees were exploding from the heat and causing fires to start up to a mile and a half away from these exploding chunks of tree.

And so we were doing a process called Gritting the Green. So we wanted to make sure that wasn't fired being started behind us. So we want to get burnt over. And so we're tromping through thick, thick, thick stuff that, you know, there's, I think, the closest man-made structure where we were at on that fire was 75 miles away. And it was a lightning lookout tower. So not even a town close by or anything like that We're in the thick of it eating MREs

You know stinking Sweating working hard And um Well we had been green the green for about two and a half hours And I was greenhorn back then But I had Been hunting for a number of years At that point learned hunt from really good people

And so my tracking skills are probably better than your average bear. Not that I'm you know, any mask or anything like that, but I had to relieve myself. So I'd holler down the line because we all walk in a line about 20 feet apart and we just look for, you know, any embers of smoke coming up because

when it goes up, it goes up, it goes quick. You don't want to get caught in between it. So I yelled this big country bumpkin guy named Jesse about six foot five, 280, massive man. I say, Jesse, I've got to take a dump, dude. I'm going to go on this big redwood tree.

And he says, okay, okay. And he says, so I'm doing my thing. And if you're not aware of redwoods, they have duff, right? And so duff is leaf litter that accumulates underneath the tree. And what's unique about redwood trees is they can get like three feet of duff. And so it's almost like a foam sponginess under these trees in some circumstances, especially when they're like an older tree. tree, right? And so I'm burying my stuff back up and putting my backpack on and then I look on the

ground and I notice, I said, oh my goodness, are those foot tracks? And I'm going up and I wear a size 11 and half boot. And I go up to the first one and I was like, wow, that looks like toes. And I'm looking at it. And it's in this duff, mind you. So it's not super, it's not super like pronounced toes. Right, per se. On the first one I noticed, and then I see a line. Oh, man, there's more, and I'm following that. And then I noticed there's big tracks and little tracks. And like I said, we're out in the middle of nowhere.

And it was about on track number seven that I saw a perfect, I mean, perfect footprint. And I'm just jaw drop looking at this thing. And I'm like, oh, man, I got my boot next to it, 11 and a half. Boot measures out about foot wall. it was right about that footmark, but it was wider than my boot. And you could specifically see each toe. And I'm like, whoa. You know, so that was my first ever encounter.

I saw nine tracks, mom and babe, babe tracks. And it's just out in middle of nowhere. It was, the fire was too crazy. There's people's houses and stuff on the edge of the fire farther away where we were getting burnt down and stuff. Nobody's putting on fake Sasquot shoes and stomping. around in the woods, right? In that circumstance. So that was what got me. That is really wild, Mike. So this is, you said, uh, within like 30 miles of Applegate, Oregon. Yeah. Yeah. That's where the trap is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, and, uh, so the tracks that you saw, how far apart were the tracks from

each other? So it looked to me, it looked like a, like, something. that if I was doing a big lunge as far as the bigger tracks, I could accomplish. But then again, you've got to think if it was a mother and a baby, she's not going to be at full pace, right? She's got to keep up with her young. If her mother, if the baby's walking with her, if it's too big for her to carry or whatever, it was walking side by side with her, right? There was only two of the smaller tracks that were noticeably like, yeah, this is definitely a

footprint. And it was a little bit bigger than half of the females, what I'm assuming to be the females track. And so I would say the gate was probably three and a half maybe feet. And it was pretty good, pretty good gate. Gotcha. The way, could you tell the way it seemed to be walking, were the tracks lined up one in front of the other or side by side? I was in such awe and kind of disbelief at the moment. I had to bring you back in time, I had a razor two at the time, and I was going to take a picture of it. And before I took a picture of it, one perfect track,

I called that country bunk and guy, Jesse. Jesse, get over here. He said, what? And he comes running over and I say, slow down, slow down. He's running. And he ends up stepping on a stick that's like nine feet away and ends up blowing under the duffet, it rises up and blows all the toes out of the one perfect track. And I'm like, losing my mind at him. I was like, do you see these?

These are footprints, dude. And he's like, I guess. You know, I mean, this guy eats crans. He's not. He's not. and I'm like and I'm just losing my mind over it. I'm like I can't believe you just blew out the one. So yeah, I I would say they seemed to be.

I do recall that it was there wasn't any striation as far as the tracks were very linear. I do remember that that they were close together and it wasn't like turning or anything. They knew exactly where they're going in their head in that way. And it seemed now that you. I probably was more in line than side by side. Okay. A few more questions. Just a few more about this one.

So can you provide the approximate year? And you told me the name of the fire, but can you say that again? And also, are there any other location descriptors for the area that you were in? Yeah. So this was 2011, summer of 2011. I'd say probably mid-June. Spent a lot of time. And so what I remember is this was

it's like the third day of fire that we were on. We had to hike 16 miles in off the forestry road to get to our where we base camped out of. And then we had to, we're hiking about 16 miles every day, not including the work, just to get to the fire from our camp where we could get food helah dropped in. So I remember, gosh, man, I wasn't, I wasn't at a point where I was running, I guess, I wasn't in charge of really knowing where we were at or anything.

I was just figuring out the ropes, you know, I was 18 years old. I do recall that there was this area, right before, right before we got there, there was this big area of large granite boulders, granite boulders, granite quartz boulders, like, seven, eight feet tall and kind of like quite a bit without any exposed mountain side. Like we're in the mountains and it's steep as hell, but it's like these big kind of rocks like almost seemed mythical. You know, it was like weird. Whoa, this is beautiful and weird.

It was just in the middle of nowhere. And then we went down a valley across little creek and then it was all these big old growths. And that's kind of where it happened. Okay. I don't really have any specifics more than that. but yeah in the heart of southern Oregon. Gotcha.

And what was the name of the fire again? That was the, I was at the very rock or the very point. Very point fire, I believe. Gotcha. Okay, thank you. Yeah. So then you have that experience where you see these large tracks and that kind of, that affects you definitely.

And then after that, do you start looking? looking into things or how to, what kind of path does that lead you on after that? Yeah, definitely. That definitely got the cogs moving. I had had my first weird experience at 14 with my family in the middle of the lake, I had a UFO experience. And that's kind of got me down that path.

And then, so I was kind of already interjectory on that. But they didn't even think Bigfoot was real or, I just thought it was a kooky hippie thing. So, yeah, after that I definitely started looking into it, but podcasts weren't really around back then, at least to the point where it's on your phone and stuff. So I didn't really start hearing other encounters from other people or doing serious digging

probably until, I would say probably after I had a couple, other UFO experiences and I just started digging into the whole topic as a whole and just kind of caused correlations and then started getting into Bigfoot and then you know I got an iPhone that I can pull up a podcast song and then I just kind of delved into it from there so I'm not very tech savvy as you know um so it's uh it's not something that I would jump on my desktop at home and go research after school. I was shooting squirrels and causing a ruckus, you know. Gotcha.

Yeah. Cool, cool. So what would you think the next thing that you had some sort of experience that related to Sasquatch was? For sure. So, and this is something that we were talking about earlier, that I, and I didn't find this correlation until later listening to podcasts where I'm not sure if you're familiar with I couldn't tell you

the researchers have you seen that the researchers who they claim to have via thermal videotaped a portal with Sasquatches

and all this stuff and it's only picking up on thermal and the old, two old dudes go in there both die of cancer like three months later

I'm talking about I think Tony Merkel did something about that oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I think I'm talking about yep so it was that that document

entry that it clicked for me where they had talked about when these supposed portals or whatever opened up or I'd heard it on I think a West Grimmer podcast too where someone said they saw a orb and then a Sasquatch and they're hearing these like loud almost crunching metallic crazy sounds but very metallic sounding I definitely heard that out there in the woods probably five or six times fighting fire thinking it was was a piece of machinery. I mean, there's machinery and stuff out there, but you usually hear the machinery. It was just standing alone and you're like, well, that's weird.

But there's just so much chaos and pandemonium and making sure you're not getting perked by fire. So it's not really on the forefront of your mind at the time. But that is, that's really the only other Sasquatch encounters that I have. can you uh that i can tie anything to can you describe a little bit more about what the metallic sounds were like that you were hearing those five or six times yeah man it was all very similar each time and the weird thing about it was uh it just uh it it was so it was so loud it was just so loud and so almost It's not like a car crash where it's metal on metal.

It almost sounded like, like think of a panel of a door just like crumbling it on itself, really fast and violent. Like, you're like, whoa, like sharp, definitely metallic sounding, but just unworldly. Like very just kind of in, I remember one circumstance where we were all talking to our boss and was kind of giving us the plan.

for what's next and then we heard that sound pretty close probably three 400 yards away and three quarters of the crew snapped their neck and looked into the woods and we're like what is that and they just wrote it off they're oh it's just whatever you know because a lot of a lot of man if they don't know they just write things off especially scary absolutely you know what I mean, we all tend to do that sometimes. Right, yeah, logically, I think our minds try to do that to save ourselves somehow, kind of write it off. Is this also in Southwest Oregon and around the same time period? Yeah, so I popped fire for six years out there.

All the Bigfoot encounters or metallic sounds and those footprints all took place in either. southern Oregon or northern California. But really in that Emerald Triangle, in the thick gold woods, that's where it was happening at. So. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay.

Did any, did Bigfoot ever come up in conversation between you and any other firefighters on your crew? Yeah. Yeah. So I, I, after the footprints, Oh man, because I was the young buck out there too And oh, I just got hammered by everybody

And like I said, that first company I was working for As great and grandiose as they are They're not very free thinkers Very redneck and set in their ways You know old dogs, you're not going to teach you a new trick to So yeah, I just got berated You know, they're crazy, you know I'm not talking to you guys ever about this again

So, yeah, that was that. But then the other five years, I ended up leaving that company because I just didn't get along with those guys too well. And I went to another company and I had had talks with some of those guys. But I never experienced anything really with that company. We weren't in the thick of it as much as my first company. Absolutely. So the new company was more understanding about what you'd got. gone through or were they also like, oh yeah, we've had stuff happen out here.

Oh, oh, definitely, definitely, yeah. Plenty of other people who've had encounters that I've met over the years, especially men who spend their time in the woods that much, for sure. Gotcha. Were they talking about like, oh, yeah, we've seen something or more we've heard something and we've seen tracks, stuff like that? So this is actually, I, tracks I've met probably from the firefighting community. out there, probably five or six guys who have seen tracks at some point of time.

Probably another handful of guys who have seen like something jump from bush to bush, tree to tree, and they're like, what was that? That wasn't a bear. Most of these guys are avid hunters, know their way around the land, know what animals are out there, aren't, you know, most of them have killed a bear. They're not too worried about anything out there, You know, and it scares you, you know, you're not, especially when you don't know what it is. So, yeah. But yeah, they were much more understanding that company for sure. But, yeah, I, this is a little off topic, but that speaking of other people's encounters, I was, I was living in Washington.

I was doing custom fireplaces. I was listening to a Sasquatch Chronicles and had a customer asking me what I was listening to. And I was kind of embarrassed. I was like, Sasquatch Chronicles. And they're like, oh, is that a podcast? And I was like, yeah, yeah, it is. And then the wife's like, you got to tell them. You got to tell them your encounter.

And I was like, oh, what? And so he told me, him and his father-in-law, we're going to hunting. And juvenile Sasquatch, they're out in the middle of nowhere while they're setting up their fire. and the other ones building a tent. A saswatch came, a young saskatch came screaming, waving its arms over to through the middle of our camp, pushed the old man into the fire,

and they just ran straight through, screaming the whole way. They said they left their guns, their tent, jumped in the truck, and dipped. And I was like, did you ever get your stuff back? He's like, yeah, we came back three days later with a bunch of guns and a bunch of people and got our stuff. I was like, that's crazy. Yeah.

So. Pushed them right in the fire. Can you just, share the, I'm sure you can't share the exact location, but the region, is this like Olympic Peninsula or? Oh, you want to. Yeah, it was around that area. I forgot about, I did have another encounter out. Okay.

National Forest with my daughter and my wife. Yeah. I forgot about my dogs. I forgot about that one, too. That one, we can get to that one too. I guess while we're on the West Coast next. Yeah. This was actually probably about six months after I had heard that story.

Living outside of Seattle for like three years and just trying to get away from the city, we went out to Olympia and did some camping, no cell service, and I thought it would be a good idea with my daughter to walk around the campsite. There was only us and one other family. It was kind of in the middle of summer, but I guess it was, It was before Fourth of July, so it wasn't very busy. And there was us and the camp hosts and then another young family who had two boys. And I had my daughter who was, I think, six at the time.

And the kids are kind of playing, whatever. And then we settled down and eat dinner. I was like, hey, you want to go for a walk before dinner? Or before bedtime? She was like, yeah, sure. Walk. And I was like, do you want to do some Sasquatch hoots? She's like, yeah, sure.

So we're doing like big old bard owl hoots. And I haven't I haven't been drinking for a couple, number of years now. But back then I still was drinking. And I probably had good five beers or so. I was feeling pretty good. I was sleeping on dirt. And I was going to sleep good. You know what I mean?

So I passed out. I wake up at like 233 in the morning to what sounds like an 800 pound owl on top of my head. so loud. Like I shot up out of bed. I grabbed my 44 magnum. I crack that thing back and I'm looking and I'm like, oh my heart's just sweating cold sweats it. And I'm like, what's going on? I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. My tent's not shaking. It's not moving. But it just sounds like it's right on top of me. And then the next morning after breakfast I go out and I ask the, I was like, hey, You hear anything last night to my name, to the guy who's closest to us. He's 800 yards away or whatever with his two boys.

He's like, yeah, I think I had an owl on top of my trailer. I was like, it's actually coming from over that way. I heard exactly where he's coming from because I'm in the tent. He's like, no, it was too loud. It had to be on top of my camper. I was like, dude, I'm telling you, I think it was a Sasquatch. And then he didn't let his kids play with my kid anymore for the next two days. And I was like, oh, dude, I ruined that one to my kid.

That's terrible. But it scared him. He, like, put his kids inside the trailer right over after that. He's like, we need to go and, rightfully so. We're out in the middle of nowhere with no cell service. And you got little kids. Kind of freaky. What?

Sorry, before, did you say what forest that was, or was it a certain state forest? Oh, with the, with, yeah, that was the Olympia National Park. I should ask my wife. fun. It was in Olympia National Park. I bet she knows the campsite, dude.

She's good at the end. I can't remember birthdays and names, dude. I'm just over here, just scratching away to survive. Somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula, it sounds like. Yeah,

yeah, it wasn't right on the coast. It was more in line. It was a, like a pay-for campground that's maintained and stuff. but it's just wilderness out there. There's no showers, portal potty.

They did have portal. They did have port parties. They had two portal bodies. But just nothing. Okay. Woods, beautiful woods. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah.

That was interesting. So. Now, would you say those are the main encounters then that you had where you experienced something and you're like, out in the woods and something happened. No? Okay. No, that's like the little stuff.

Happened out west, surprisingly. I don't know what's going on with this janky charger, though. I might have to go. I know. I was working. I just don't want to. Oh, now? I don't know what's going on with you're saying.

It's not, okay. It's charging right now. I just don't want it to die. I'm going to try to. Okay. The nervous sweats going through all this right now. Stinking and stuff. dude. I'm not

just, okay, so next I guess is out east. So we moved to from Seattle, we moved out to Maine. We got our first house. We lived in Southern Maine. I was telling you before you started up the recording, I had a lady tell me. She was like, oh, do you know this creek out, out in this area? And I was like, yeah, it's right

in my backyard. And she grabbed me by the collar and she says, it's haunted. What are you doing? in there. It's like I got a house right there and I'm not moving. This is after a couple of encounters and experiences. And anyway, yeah, she got to talk to me because my wife and I own a food trailer as well and I have a Sasquatch sticker on there. And most people just, you know, whatever. But anybody who has seen something or whatever, they usually are like, they want to tell you because people think you're crazy. So, but yeah, my friend.

first encounter out here was I had gone to go get some lobster rolls, which are big out here. Totally. With my girls and ice cream. And my sister, she moved out east with us, too, from the West Coast. She had gotten divorced. She just wanted a fresh start. At this point, it had been six, seven months since we've been here in Maine. And she had herself a boyfriend.

And they kind of had just first started dating at this point of time. We have a bonfire in our backyard, the fire pit. And they're having a bonfire back there. And it's springtime. So I got to preface this. The encounters, all the encounters that I've had behind my house have been spring or fall. So that's just when it's happened. over the span of two years

oh I've been here three but over the span of two years it's been four serious encounters some other ones where I'm like is that something jumping from that tree to that tree kind of thing not jumping from tree to tree but like dashing from build you know

basswood to oak tree or there's a couple old growths back there that have enough cover for you know you can see me if I was had behind it. Definitely not something big if it was sideways, right? So, uh, anyway, uh, and go ahead and feel

free to cut me up because I, I'm a chatty Kathy sometimes. So, uh, you're good so far. We get home and, um, they're out there and they're having some drinks and, uh, hanging out and I go down and I say,

Hey, sis, what's going on? She's kind of wide-eyed and she's looking at me kind of crazy. And I'm, thinking, is this guy being weird to you? Like, I'd only met him once or twice. And I'm like, you know, like, are you okay? And she's like, I don't know. And I like look at him. I'm like, angry. She's like, it's like, it's not him. And I'm like, what's going on? And he's, and then I look at him and he's like down at the fire. And he looks up and he's a wide eye too. And I was like, what's going on guys? I'm like, grabbed my, hey, I always have gone. I'm like, like, done. I was like, what's going on? I was like, what's going on? He's like, there's something in the

woods. And I was like, someone's in the woods. He's like, no, I think there's something in the woods. I was like, is it a bear? Like, what is it? I don't know. Maybe it's a bear. Okay.

And he's from the area. So, you know, we have, we do have a fisher cat in her backyard that goes across. I don't know if you're familiar with that, but it's just a big, mean, weasel. But they make crazy screaming sounds. They don't, they don't make, they're not humanoid on two feet. You know what I mean? but yeah so this is the only time I have experienced the spider crawl I said I said what's going on he's like I don't know things have been whistling at us

and throwing things at us I said what and not that this is kind of weird to throw in there but I do think it has a correlation my younger sister was a it was her time a month at that point of time. And there was a lot, there was like, there was a lot of activity that spring especially. And that first encounter, it seemed like there was two different maybe juvenile males is what I can speculate them as. But there was definitely one, as I'm looking in my backyard, across the creek, there's one off to the left. and then there's one off to the right on our side of the creek. But you can actually see them?

Well, you see silhouettes. Okay, okay, got you. Yeah, yeah. It's not like in the light of the, they're outside of the light of the fire. But the one that was on our side of the creek, the spider crawl, I thought, this is when I went inside. I was like, no, that's just not for me. Because it was like from bush to bush. And I was like, what is that?

you know, I'm going inside. And I had seen the one, and oddly enough, this big basswood tree, similar to oak, it seems to be, it's the biggest tree in the area. And that is where I've seen every time either where I've seen it numerous times peek out of it, I'm like, just because it's the biggest vegetation there, that's what I've noticed. So before we go inside and I'll call it quits, I'm like, okay, this is weird. And before we called it quits, we're up on now up on my back deck, which is about 30 feet away from my fire. Fire's still ripping.

And we're having. And then I hear a whistle. I think it's a human. I grab my maglite, which is like 1,200 lumens. It's waterproof. It's super nice. and I like a cop

pistol maglite I'm like boom like what is is do I got someone in my backyard being weird you know because we have some property and

um uh oh now this charter's being walking again oh my goodness um anyway I should probably just go get my stinking charger

uh and yeah so I maglided it and that's when I saw the spider thing uh and I was like oh left. I had like a MLB pitcher, fastball, an acorn about an inch from my head and blew up on the

siding of my house. It was thrown so hard an acorn. I was like, oh. And then I was like, I mean, we were saying a lot of other words. And then my little sister started crying. She was like, and she just went inside. And Dan's like, I can I stay here tonight? And I was like, yeah, dude, that's funny. Like so, because, you know, they were hanging out. He had had a couple beers and he didn't want to drive, but everybody was pretty shook up. So that was the first experience here in me. Oh, wow. Okay, so when you saw it spider crawl, how quickly was it moving?

Oh, it's creeping, dude. Oh, it was so creepy. It was trying to be quiet. The only reason I picked up on it since I heard a teeny little stick break. And I was like panned over. And that's when I had the bag light. And it was just like a flash, like a furry flash into this. thick it's like a bunch

of fern and what's that other plant a brushy plant and very thick. Can't see through it with the flashlight. But yeah, it was just maybe a three foot gap in between those where it was like oh, what was that?

So I didn't even get like really color definition on it, but for whatever reason like a ashy gray stands out to me, but I don't know. It was all within millisecond. So it just was weird. So that was the first encounter. I'm sure you have heard the theory that just like any large predator, they use waterways as highways. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. So that's not anything new on my book as far as being a hunter and stuff like that. But so it'd make sense. Springtime, fall time. Use it as a highway. Gotcha. I'm covered in nervous sweats right now, dude. Oh, I don't blame you. I mean, man, if I lived through something like that, that would be with me for probably

forever. So you're having multiple experiences at this one property over there? Yeah. So it kind of ramped up a little bit. Not as far as like there. That's the only time where I was definitely sure there was more than one. But I almost had the feeling like one of those adolescents had an interest in my little sister. She's a beautiful young woman, you know, but she, I remember coming home a couple times where she's like,

and, you know, my wife was out doing something with my daughter or whatever and it was later or whatever. And it was just her and she's like, I don't want to take the dogs out. It's weird out there. And here's the other thing, how people talk about just being dead quiet, like unnaturally quiet during these events. I've experienced that every single time. Something weird has been back here. Like no cicadas, no grasshoppers.

We had millions of frogs like in the springtime that come out of that creek. No frogs, no nothing going on. Um, so that's definitely no worthy as well. But yeah, the, um, I guess the second encounter after that. So yeah, she, she said numerous times, two, three times where she was like, can you take the dogs out? It's weird out there. And like, yeah, sure. Dogs, whatever.

Um, no mind, you know, uh, except for, uh, I guess, I'd probably be the next. time. So this next experience, same place, same house I'm at now. I went out to take my dogs out is probably about 10 o'clock at night on a Tuesday. I have a pit bowl and a red nose pit named Waffles and she's a sweet and she's real dumb and she barks at the mailman. She doesn't know what's going on. My other dog, though, she doesn't bark at anybody and she's very smart. She's Shepherd and pit and lab. I don't know. She's a very good dog.

She's very smart too. And tough. And I was being impatient. I didn't even really notice until it was kind of too late. She had her tail tucked touching her stomach, which this is the only time I've ever seen that dog do that. I've seen her stare down a mastiff and win, you know, who was trying to bite me. And he was like, oh, never mind.

And ran the other way. She's tough. and so I'm like having to drag her off the deck I was like come on Willow go go pee in the back and she's like not wanting to even step on the grass she's on my driveway she doesn't want to go in the backyard and I'm like what's going on and yeah I literally was dragging waffles downstairs

what's going on with these dogs waffles peed at the driveway like I said she's not very smart so I was like whatever dumb dog go inside and then Willow wasn't going on the dirt and I was like okay that's kind of when I was like and then I noticed the tail and I was like okay what's going on and so me and my neighbors have big I don't know it's probably 30 feet deep of untouched woods that divides our properties and it was in between that finger that separates our property and it was about halfway up

into my like maintained part of my backyard. So we have three quarters of an acre back there and then it ties into a, then it's the power companies for like half acre and then it's a 40 acre horse farm and then it's wilderness. So it's, there's not any houses

or anything in that area. I just figure I put that in there. But yeah, in between this finger, I look up and I see a pair of glowing red eyes. Not eyeshines. I've heard the glowing thing and I always thought it was BS because I've heard about it before this experience on other podcasts and I was just kind of like maybe suckers were glowed and they were like in the moment they seemed like they were the size of golf balls I mean huge like really really big and really far apart like not Andre the giant I don't know would do it justice like really far apart um and it was a overwhelming sense of fear.

I've had all sorts of animals from hunting or firefighting. I've been 10 feet from a charging moose. I've had, you know, I've killed five bear. I've, you know, been able to smack an elk on the butt. You know, like I've been up on stuff. Rattlesnakes, I couldn't tell you how many times. This wasn't anything like that. This made me feel like a child.

Very scared to my core. And I was kind of sick afterwards, too. I wasn't throwing up, but I was, like, shaky and sweaty and, like, just kind of very distraught for a couple hours. I didn't really sleep that night. So I wonder if infrasound was a thing or if that's even a thing. I don't know. I didn't have any sort of major long term, anything like that.

But I definitely was shook up. So I look up at these eyes and, yeah, man, I yelled at this thing. And I don't think that the words I chose were my own. I feel like I had some help from the big man upstairs or something because I, when I yelled at this thing, I didn't even think about it. I literally looked at it and shaking like a leaf. I yelled at this thing. I yelled, I yelled, Jesus Christ is king like that. And I like ran inside right before.

And I was like this. And then I was kind of like this. And then I heard it say it back. And I don't know if that was in my head, but it was slow. and it was a weird, almost robotic cadence to the speech. And that's all it was. And then I went inside and it was a mess. It was a mess inside.

And I was like, okay. And since that point, I've only had one other encounter. And it was two weeks after the point. We got a food trailer. And I was doing inventory at the end of the night. It was like 11 o'clock or something on a Saturday. And so I was doing inventory and I walked out and this thing was like five feet behind me. And I didn't see it.

But as soon as I went to step down out of my trailer, onto my stepstool to get to the driveway, it shifted its weight intentionally and I could hear it. And it made in the air while I'm stepping to the ground, which is only six. seven inches or maybe a foot, right? It scared me so bad in that split second in the air. I rolled my ankle so hard. I'm fit. I'm agile, dude.

I butchered my ankle like, crack. And I was like, because it was like, I just heard it. And the weight of it, just shifting its foot just sounded so massive. And it just scared me, dude. I literally ran inside that time. So that's what I got, man. Those are those are my Sasquatch. Bigfoot, whatever you want to call them.

We call them frog man back here because we got all these frogs. And for the first year and a half, we had all these frogs. And then after what I believe to be the two encounter, we haven't had any frogs since. So I'm like, maybe just ate all the frogs. What was the approximate a year, time of year that you had your last event happened? Late fall of last year. Okay, fall 25. Yeah.

Yeah, fall 25. So there was two encounters, fall 25. There was the first, so we moved in the summer of 24 was our first year here. So it was the spring of 25 and then the fall of 25 were those two other encounters. Okay. Yeah. Have you, have you talked? to your neighbor at all, any of your neighbors to see if they're having things happen?

Or is it you're just dealing with it yourself? Yeah. I don't think a lot of people here in Southern Maine have the mental capacity to be able to even entertain that. Not that they're not intelligent. I just think a lot of people can't even think about that with just everything going on in the world. And it's kind of one of those things. Unfortunately, I feel like, your eyes have been open to something because you've experienced something,

kind of pick up on those things a little bit quicker than your average joke. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that I missed fighting prior through the years that probably now would have been like, oh my goodness, what is that? You know, but when it's right in your face, it's hard to deny, right? So, yeah, I did ask one of my neighbors about it. He's a good, good old Marine. double dog but he's he's like what like never mind and then I'm not going to ask my other neighbor

because she's got a bunch of young teenage girls I don't want them getting freaked out so yeah and then yeah so it's it's just it's just it's interesting but yeah I think the thing that helped me the most through this whole thing was having the my little sister and Dan in that one experience because finally it's like okay everybody's seeing this everybody's experiencing this we're having acorns throwing at us from deep in the woods like 90 miles an hour blowing up on my siding you know they could hit us but they're coming this close you're like where's this coming from flashlighting nothing you know and if it was a human messing around they would know better around these parts so uh because if if they're not going to get shot by me being weird

in my backyard, Mr. would happily oblige. Oh, yeah. I mean, out there in New England, you're not messing around on people's property. That's not a smart idea. You're going to get taken out. Yeah, yeah.

So you'd kind of mention this before we start recording. Are you having stuff going on then inside the house as well? No, no, no, no, no. Thank God. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

yeah yeah yeah um no no weird spiritual activity man i uh nothing like that uh although i saw some dark stuff in the streets of seattle but that's neither here nor there or big right but uh yeah no no uh what they call that the hitchhiker effect none of that none of that going on um yeah just just very uh very jarring man because I don't know how you would I don't know how you would deal with something like that as far as like physically if you needed to. I got some big guns but

I don't know if I'm quick enough or have enough bullets to put one of those things down. You know what I mean? Not that that's my end all goal. I would rather than just leave me alone but it did come to a point where I was worried about it because it seemed like one was very interested in my little sister because every time she would go out

and take her dog out at night, She would say it's I'm getting whistled at in the woods or whatever and I thought there a couple times I literally threw on boots and rushed out slamming across the creek with gun in hand light in hand and being like I'm going to find some weirdo back here. Right. I did that two or three times. Have you, uh, have you heard the whistle yourself? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Are you able to replicate that? whistling over the phone is probably not that good. It wasn't any sort of, it was just one pitch. Now, the time where there was two, this is the whistles, what made me for sure there was two because we heard a whistle off the left, heard a whistle off the right within 20 seconds of each other. All right.

So whether you're telling, hey, you know, this or that, I don't know. I've heard the rock click in some places. They tree slap in some places. They whistle in some places. And then the gay animals, you know, I don't have answers for that. Was it like, was it like? Yeah. It was kind of like that.

Yeah, it was just a short, yeah. Yeah. That's not, okay. Yeah, woods. So I go out to this place in Oregon near Oak Ridge and the first year I went out there. Yeah. We're like 30 miles out in the woods in this. one area. And when this, when there's this one, uh, young lady out there. Yeah. With us, uh,

this one time and other times, uh, something will start whistling at her from the woods. And what I saw happen was that whistle came out from the woods and then, but then she would do it back to it. And like, for a minute, it was like back and forth, back and forth. But then it started moving. away like it was trying to get to follow it away and it was the freakiest thing I've ever seen in my life. It was so weird dude but it was it was that same exact whistle

so yeah it was it almost sounded like a human whistle like a hey come here hey yep it wasn't it wasn't some drawn out thing or like weird hit or anything it sounded very like that's where I was like okay are there some crazy crackheads there's not crackheads here and say they'll freeze to death

in the winter you know it's not the west coast so I don't know I don't know man oh no she's yeah she's out of here now I'm actually in the right now so our guest room so yeah it's uh but yeah definitely uh felt that that tension there like it was interested on her and she was like I said she was freaked out a number of times where she's like can you take her dog Daisy she's like can you take Daisy outside I just don't want to go outside I'm freaked out and I'm like oh okay like I was like, you can grab the 12 gauge if you want.

She's like, no. You can grab any of the other ones. She's like, no. Okay. Wow. You know, and you've heard the stories whether, I don't know, maybe, I'm sure you have of them, the ancient, like native stories of people saying, you know, take your women, they'll take your kids and stuff. Oh, yeah.

Sure. And one thing that I find interesting is. is in these stories, the validity of them, I don't know. But there's a story I heard from a minor that says he got swooped up by one in the early 1900s. And then there's another one from a native American gal who, when she was a young girl, got swooped up to. And they both said that they had pine tar smeared over their eyes when they were taken into the woods. Okay. Interesting. Yeah, which is interesting.

And then in both of these accounts that I'm referring to, I think I heard one of a long West Grimmer. I can't recall where I heard the other one. I think it was the this is like an old old like a guy prospect and for gold. Interesting.

Yeah, the other one was a native gal and she, they both said pine tarp and they both in both these accounts, the reason they stick out in my brain is because they both said they conceived children with these Sasquatch. Oh wow. Yeah, and so the guy, he

that's where it was it was the it's the Inuit guy from Alaska Who Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm gonna have to look this one up I haven't this one up crazy Sasquatch Stories this guy who told this story

And he does tours and stuff like that And yeah he's a He lived in the woods He's been on West Grimmer I believe He's kind of a crazy Indian guy But he's got some wild stories. But yeah, anyway, both of these accounts that people said they had kids with Sasquatch

and they both reported that they were half hairy and half smooth. And I'm like, weird. And then on both of these cases, the validity, I don't know, but these old accounts, they both managed to escape. And in turn, the Sasquatch brutally killed their offspring in front of them as they were escaping. One guy on canoe and the other gal. she was crossing a river or something

of that nature. I was like, whoa, dude. And so I've heard of people saying you've seen Sasquatch skin a deer with their thumbnails, like literally skin one. That's what the minor said that it did to their he was, I don't know, dude.

It's just, it's some weird stuff. Are you familiar with the account of in Eastern Europe where they had a young Sasquatch chained down. Oh, yeah, yeah. 1640 or whatever it was, right?

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't know, man. Some weird stuff out there, man. Definitely. I want to make sure, Mike, that you were able to share everything that you were wanting to talk about on the show today? Yeah, yeah.

Okay, cool. I just need to take a shower. I'm covered in weird stinky adrenaline sweat right now. reliving that stuff. Yeah, I appreciate your time. Well, thank you for taking the time to come on the show and to share what you experienced out there in Oregon and in Southern Maine. I do appreciate we don't hear a lot from New England, so anything we can hear from there is definitely important. But thank you so much for coming on, man.

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