Bigfoot Society - Squatch Man Confronts Bigfoot in Ferdinand State Forest and Has His Life Forever Changed

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

Join us as Greg “Squatch Man” Yost recounts the night that changed his life forever—when a massive Bigfoot emerged from the darkness of Ferdinand State Forest in Dubois County, Indiana. In this powerful, emotional interview, Squatch Man shares his 24 years of encounters, including the terrifying first moment a “forest giant” breathed behind a tree just 20 feet away, his unforgettable Knobstone Trail stare-down, and the remarkable experiences that convinced him the “forest people” are intelligent, aware, and deeply connected to the land.From Clark State Forest to Daniel Boone Forest, from tree knocks to full-body sightings, Greg opens up about fear, transformation, spiritual awakening, and the extraordinary interactions that shaped his mission to understand Bigfoot. Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or simply Bigfoot-curious, this episode delivers one of the most detailed encounter stories ever recorded.Topics Include:• Bigfoot encounters in Indiana & Kentucky• Ferdinand State Forest confrontation• Knobstone Trail “forest people” sighting• How intentions affect Bigfoot interaction• Spiritual and emotional impact of encounters• Eye glow phenomena, tree knocks, and vocalizations• Why Squatch Man believes they are “people,” not animals🗣️ 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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you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Mr. Greg Yost today. During the interview, though, we'll be, we'll be con. This is Squatchman. So Squatchman, welcome to the show. Hey, Jeremy.

Thanks for having me on, man. I'm doing good. I had my Bartay yesterday. Went to Cryptocon down in Lexington. seen a lot of, you know, Bigfoot people, man, talk Bigfoot all day. That was a great day. So, yeah, I'm doing good, man. I love it.

Thank you. That's great. Happy birthday, too. I hope it was, sounds like it was a good one for you. And, man, Squash, man, you're one of the guys that people talk about a lot. It comes up, it's come up a lot over the last few years. And I've tried, I'm like, I've got to track down, Scotchman. Squatch Man somehow.

And you actually tracked me down. And I was like, this is the best. So I'm so glad that we're able to have this interview finally because I've heard that you have had some really interesting experiences over the years researching and just having experiences. Yeah, that's correct. I've had my fair share of them. No doubt about that. Absolutely. So, you know, when I have an individual like yourself where, you know, you just have a.

have so many years of experience. And I want to say that 24 years is what you put down when you signed up. And so when there's an individual with that much experience, you know, can you take us back to, was there a instance or a catalyst where it really launched you into spending so much time to try to figure out what is the answer to. this question of the forest people or big people? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the launching point for me was

back in November of 2002 when a Bigfoot literally walked into my life. Yeah, I was just home from I've been out of the Navy. I spent almost 11 years in the Navy. I was coming off a bad

relationship. I had a couple children and we broke up and went a separate way. She took my babies and I got laid off for my job. I was a union welder. This was back in 2002. It was a very bad year for me. So I started to, you know, I was unemployed. I was getting unemployment. So I was going out to the forest in the woods a lot, you know, to try to get answers of what's going on with my life. What direction am I going? What am I doing wrong? And it seems like nothing was working.

And I don't know if I was going to find the answers out there, but it was quiet out there. It was real tranquil. I could really think and really gather my thoughts. And there was this one in particular, forest, Ferdinand State Forest out in Dubois County, a town where my mother grew up at, again, Ferdinand, Indiana, a beautiful little small town. And I went out there a lot because my grandfather helped design and engineer that forest back in

1933. And my aunt took us out there a lot when I stayed down with them during the summer. summer vacation with your cousins. He took us out to the lake swimming. So, yeah, it was a great place, man. And I loved going there. So I went there a lot, man. It's just my happy place.

And this one in particular night, I went out there again. And ironically, it was about the same time of the year as it is now. It was, sometimes my birthday runs right, like on the day before things, the day after or sometimes even right on Thanksgiving. You know, this year, it was yesterday, so it was four or five days before.

So, so anyway, on this night, you know, my birthday was the next day. Thanksgiving was two days later. And, yeah, I was looking forward to that, seeing all my kin eating Thanksgiving dinner. It was always a great time, Thanksgiving. And so I figured I have one more night. in the force before all the festivities and everything. So I went out there that night and, you know, here in southern Indiana it gets dark at 5.30.

You know, 6 o'clock, it's very dark. So I got out there and I brought my dog buddy. He was a half chow, half a golden retriever, a very large dog, 80, 100 pounds. he probably could have been even heavier. I mean, he was a big dog. It looked like a little grizzly bear.

And he went everywhere I went. And he was with me that night. So I got a little fire going. I brought a pack of hot dogs and buns. You're just going to have a nice little night out there. Wasn't going to stay late. Just go over some things, man. I think some things out.

And it was a very quiet night out there, very dark. No stars, no moon, an overcast sky. And the fire wasn't pinning off much light. And again, this is my first encounter. I knew nothing about this Bigfoot entity. Monsters in the woods. I was in the Boy Scouts, man, and I never heard of Bigfoot.

So, see, I was the last thing for my mind that night. So I'm sitting there, man, having a great night. And a Du Bois County Sheriff pulls up. And he starts talking to me. There's another dog came up. Like a beagle, a blue-tick howl. You know, it wasn't a full blood, but it was, you know, along that lines, I'm a hunting dog.

And I talked to the sheriff for a while. and he really wanted that dog and I'm like, well, it's not my dog I said, you can't have the big one there but you can have that other one he goes, well, I get off at 6 in the morning I'm going to come back out of here and if he's out there, I'm going to get him.

I'm like, well, I'm not going to be out there that late but hey, you're welcome, I mean, you're the sheriff, not me. So he took off and there wasn't nobody not a sow in the park, you know, late November night. Most people's getting ready.

for the holiday. And so, yeah, I had the whole state force to myself that night. Not a soul in there other than the sheriffs that just left. So it wasn't 15 minutes later. I heard this loud noise coming down off the hill. Yeah, I mean, I was cornered back in this little remote area back off a little rock road over a dam. and the lake was through the right. There was a little cut out there.

I had enough for like four or five little camp places, picnic tables, some fire pits, and that was it. And there was a bigger hill there that butted up against the lake there. And there was a hiking trail up on the top of that hill I've been on. So I knew the area very well. But this noise was coming down to hill. I've never heard nothing like this in my life. You know, and it was like,

whiz. I mean, just crash and break and sticks. He sounded like a Sherman tank was coming down off that hill. So there was a big tree there. And he stopped behind that tree there. And it was only like

20 feet from the picnic table and my little fire. Yeah, and I'm sitting there on a picnic table. trying to comprehend what's going on, man. Well, what, you know, what's, what just happened, man? He just walked down at a hill and stopped right behind that tree there. So I started hearing the loudest breathing I've ever heard in my life. You know, and it was like,

yeah, what happened to me or what? Then I guess figured it out. He was breathing. He just coming down up at a hill in about nine. steps, a big old hill, he'll come down it like it was nothing. And there he was right there, 20 feet away, breathing, loud, loud, loud. And my dog and his other dog walk up to the tree about 10 feet in front of the tree, and they

stop. And they're just sitting there looking up at the tree. And I'm screaming at him. Buddy, his name is Buddy. I'm screaming at him. Get back here, buddy. He wouldn't even turn around, nothing. And him and that other dog is sitting there.

Yeah, like they were hypnotized or something. Wouldn't move. And as far as me, I was, you know, I'm not going to kid you, man. I was pretty frightened. I wasn't at the point of being scared. I was frightened. There's a big difference. Yeah, I just got out of the military.

I know how to handle myself in a lot of situations. I'm good with firearms. I consider myself pretty good under pressure. How to handle things when they pop up. I mean, you've got to be, you know, make split decisions, man. And I was pretty good at that kind of stuff. And I didn't have an answer for what was behind that tree. All I could tell.

think of as, you know, back when I was a little boy, mommy, there's a monster on her in my bed. Help me. But, but not, it wasn't nothing like that. I was out here in the woods by myself. There were suddenly definitely a huge, 20 feet away from me. And I didn't know what to do. So, um, my car was parked like a couple of feet right from the beginning table. Yeah, I just bought it.

Back in 2000, it was a brand new Pontiac Grand Prix. I called her Black Beauty, man. She was beautiful. And, yeah, I had a firearm in the car. I had a cold 45 in the console. So I knew I didn't have a weapon. So I started realizing I better do something quick, man. There's a good chance I'm going to die.

I mean, I put this as a life and test situation. I had to go on full alert. I had to do anything I could, man, to get out of there alive. That's the way I was thinking right then. So I got my gun out. And, you know, a lot of times, man, I call a magazine a clip. You know, I'm old school. That's the way we used to call them.

And on some interviews, I call them clips. some, but a lot of people, I did an interview, and a lot of people were getting on me for calling it a clip. Hey, well, whatever the case. You know, the story wasn't about my gun. So, so regardless of I called it a clip or a magazine, that they knew what I meant. So, so anyway, yeah, I had a magazine halfway in the gun anyway.

It was a cold 45. So when I reached in and grabbed it, yeah, I jammed it up in there. I cocked around. the chamber and I was ready for this creature. Again, no idea what it was. So the only thing I could think of, man, is start very boldly and loud, start talking to it. And that's exactly what I did. I told them I didn't want no trouble.

Tell them I didn't know what it was. I didn't know who you were. I mean, at this point, was it a human? I mean, I had no idea. I just know it was something really big. He says, I kept telling them, hey, you come around that tree, man, I'm shooting you. Said, I got a gun here, man, and I will kill you. I go, you mess with my dog or me?

Don't make me do it, but I'm going to do it. And I cussed at him a lot. I probably used every cuss word in the book. and I was getting Yeah, I was getting pretty angry Yeah, me and my son You know, not back then My son was a two-year-old boy back then

But, yeah, I always like saying You know, when a man gets cornered When it's a life or death situation That man's got to go in the warrior mode regardless of what kind of man he is, what kind of training he's had in the military. I mean, every man has that mode. They probably don't know it, but it's in there. So anyway, I turned into that warrior mode that night.

And I was going to fight this thing. I mean, I was waiting for him to come around the tree. I was going to blast him with everything I had. but he didn't and buddy wouldn't turn around or come to me so I had to walk up that 10 feet and grab buddy with my left arm he'll lift this big large heavy dog in my lap

and take him back to my car at the same time holding my pistol up there knowing this thing is going to come around when he sees me vulnerable like that so I got back I got buddy in the car and I drove back to that dam. I was just telling you about, you know, I was shaking like a leaf on a tree.

I still couldn't process what was going on. I just felt a lot better than I was in my car. I felt safe. So I drove back up to that picnic table and I hit the lights on my Grand Prix, the bright lights, and I let that area up. Agents who are Realtors do more than open doors.

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and I'm driving up slow you know thinking to myself what is that and I got up to the picnic table I could almost get out you know right there you open the door and there's my stuff I got it in there

and I left and that little dog was still sitting there so I'm like I'm like God why are you doing this to me I mean now I got to rescue this other dog so I guess better judgment man I elected not to maybe I should have maybe I shouldn't have

but I feel I pushed my luck enough at night and if I wouldn't went back there who knows what could have happened but I got away from that I got away that night and it changed my life. And it changed my life for the better. Here I am.

I'm trying to find myself. I was a lost man. I was a broken man. And this thing walked into my life and he changed all that. Now I'm a very popular man. People love me. The Squatch Man. I got great stories.

I got great evidence. I got great. pictures. Everything I do, man, is great in the Bigfoot thing. I found out that they really like me. And I'm at the point out where you wouldn't believe some of the things I can do with them. Yeah, I'm not going to jump over the whole 20 years of experience, but, you know, that was your first question. What got me into that? And, yeah, there's my answer, Jeremy. Squashman, what an incredible introduction to the world of Bigfoot. My goodness, and that's a new area for us.

But maybe for listeners that didn't look it up, that forest area is just west of Hoosier. Yeah, there's been a lot of sightings. I mean, there's been a lot of sightings around that area. After I did that interview, you wouldn't believe all the people got a hold on me from, you know, around Ferdinand and around Du Bois County up that way and said they had encounters in that forest

as one young lady I'll never forget. She got a hold of me one Saturday morning and she almost was panicking. She said her and her mother were jogging through there and won't come out on them.

And I'm like, did it attack you? And she's like, no. We were just running down a trail and a run out and brought up us. Stop. We stopped. And he growled at us and into the woods, walked away from us. And she goes, I try to tell a couple of people, man.

And they just laughed at him and go, there's no big footson part man. So she goes, and I found out about you through a podcast. And I told my mom, we got to talk to this guy. So that's what I'm in this far, man I don't really care about evidence I'm not in it to research them I'm in it to find out everything I get about them You know, and I think I've accomplished a lot of things so far

And I've learned a lot of things about them And I do know The main thing You got to go about it the right way you know if you go out there with bad intentions a bad heart if you're a bad person you're not going to get no action from them but uh you know take me for an example i'm a good man a very good man a very good heart i love people man i love the welfare people i love the welfare of animals pets but both domestic and wild animals i just got a lot of love man for all good God's creations, man. This is where it all starts. And I think I share a lot of them with the forced people.

And I think that night out in Vernon, I like to call that the awakening, I think they wanted to see what kind of man I really was before they started really, should I say, getting into my life. And every since that, man, it's been incredible. I mean, I got some stories

that would flat out blow people's minds. And the good thing about a lot of these stories, I got a lot of witnesses that have been with me. It's just not me sitting there and telling the stories. A lot of people have seen what I can do.

And that's where I got the name Squatch Man. Yeah, a lot of people, man, are you a Squatch or are you a man? Are you a hybrid? I mean, how do you know? so much. And that's where the that's where the name Squatch Man

developed from. And I kind of liked it. So I'm like, hey, that's cool. But, but, yeah, there's,

I mean, there's so much information out there all over the internet. You know, there it is, they're that. You know, from what I can see,

I agree with some of it. I don't agree with some of it. You know, some of it's so far out there. I don't know. will get these things at. But it's a wild and crazy journey that I have been on, and I would tell you a few more stories here on the podcast today, Jeremy.

Was there a certain time that made you start referring to them as the forest people? Yes, that would be the second time in my second encounter. I call this one the Knobstone Troum. stair down. We're again with my dog buddy. And we were out hiking. And this was three years almost to the date of my first encounter.

And we're going down the Knobstone Trail. It's supposed to be one of the ruggedest, hardest trails to walk other than the Appalachian Trail. A lot of people call it the Many Appalachian. I mean, it's a hard trail to go, 66 miles, the whole trail. So sometimes after work, I would go out there. This is around Clark State Forest.

This is in my county because I figured if I didn't want to go to, you know, the way to Ferdinand all the time, man. Because that's where I had my first encounter. I said, well, maybe there are another force around here. So I started going to Clark State Forest around Deems Lake area, up around, you know, Henryville. You know, the Clark State Forest, very well known. It's Indiana's oldest and largest forest. So I'm like, well, I'm going to start looking in here.

I mean, if they're here, I'll find them in here. So, yeah, I started hiking around, man, started to start. researching that forest. And, you know, I still didn't know nothing about them. You know, that night, I called that thing a monster. I wasn't sure it was a big foot. I didn't know what it was. Yeah, I know it was very big and it had a big, very arm on it.

And I always like thinking, you know, back when I was growing up, you know, I love to show a lost in space. You know, they had a lot of monsters like that on there, you know, big hairy monsters. and that's what I kind of wanting to think about. Yeah, it was like one of them, Harry Monsters on Lost from Space. But, but, I mean, this wasn't an old TV show, man, and this guy was real.

So, so, yeah, I always had that in my back of my mind, you know, that I wanted to see one up close in the daylight and really get a good look at them and see what they really look like. Yeah, all I seen was that arm that night. So, uh, Yeah, I got my wish at the afternoon. Yeah, I'm walking, buddy. We go about two and a half miles, and I had a turnaround pointer where I always sat down.

I had a bowl of water, and water and stuff like that in my backpack I carry. So I got the ball out. I gave buddy his water. I'm drinking my water. And this little buck comes walking by. and he had uh those anglers were just coming out man it's the blur on him and he's a proud little fellow man just you can tell he was a cocky little guy and uh he's just prancing by you know about 30 40 feet down the down the little hill there we're up on the trail and he didn't even mind us

or not man look right at us and yeah i like to call him rudolph man man, you know, being around Christmas now, he looked like Rudolph. So there was a big wall there of ivy and honeysuckle and vines. You know, stuff that usually stays green, you know, a little longer than the other leaves that fall off. So it was like a wall, big wall there. You know, and he goes prancing behind that, and I figured that'd be the end of that. So then we hear, oh, heck break out over there. heavy footsteps, branches breaking.

Just an all-out melee going on. You know, buddy's ears are raked up, and all of a sudden, and here comes this deer flying out of there. He wasn't thrown out. He was fly it. He flew out on his own, hit the ground, jumped up again. And I can honestly say, I've never seen a deer move like his, more or less a little one like that.

I mean, he was literally flying down that ridge. And buddy has a bad habit of chasing animals. So I didn't want to go running through the woods. I mean, it was about 5 o'clock. It was going to get darker in about a half an hour. So I reached down and put his leash on his collar. You know, and I'm kneeling down. You know what I'm talking to him?

and I'm like that buddy ain't that beautiful that's why we come out here man see stuff like that and then I asked him I go what do you think but he's scared that little guy so he's doing his last

and all of a sudden his head goes from there and he just whips it over there and immediately starts growling hair on his body coming up I mean I've never seen the dog like

gets before. And I'm like, oh, gee, what is it? So I didn't even look up yet. So I'm thinking to myself, it's got to be, it's got to be a big foot. It's got to be a big foot. So I got to know, man. I looked up and I was wrong. It wasn't a big foot. It was two big foots. And every standing right there where that deer just come out of. And one, one, one, one, was a big reddish, big reddish one. He looked very old, man. He was an ancient one. You know, people always ask me,

how old did he look? Well, to be honest with he, he looked like he was about 150 years old. His hair, his hair was all recited. He had wrinkles in his forehead. His skin was real weathered. He kind of reminded me

the last picture I've seen of Chief Doranamo that they took him before he died almost like a Native American face on him lips like ours a nose like ours this wasn't no eight

it wasn't a monkey it wasn't some big Neanderthal man what this was was a body that looked like ours is a lot bigger and a hairier with a face that looked a lot of human

than it did anything else. And the other one was a big black one. And I call this one Little Kong because if ever such thing as King Kong, this would be his son. This thing was enormous.

You know, the classic no neck, four or five feet shoulders. It looked like bowling balls up there on their shoulders, biceps, it looked like telephone poles. I mean, he, I mean, it was like a superhero. You could not imagine how built and buffed this guy was. I mean, he just looked, I mean, it's undescribable how,

how I can describe him other than, you know, almost godly looking with his body, you know, like a god, you know, the old Greek gods. He looked like one of them. And he was a lot more serious than the other one. When I looked at the other one, it looked a lot, you know, more soothing, more comfortable. You know, like he was a grand elder, you know, letting me know, man, I'm safe. And the other one, yeah, I can tell he's a lot younger. His hairline went right over his eyes.

Yeah, you can barely see him. I was set back her, you know, big ridge, a big forehead, and his eyes sucked back in the forehead. And he had, like, gray skin, other than the other one had, like, ruddy's tan skin. And, you know, just by looking at him, man, his chest and everything. Yeah, if he was going to do something, I was going to die that day. there's no way I could ever defend myself against him and his dad, his granddad, whoever that old one was.

But we just sat there and buddy's gone crazy. Yeah, he's trying to protect me. That was my boy. And he was doing a rent-1010 that day. He would have died for his owner. He would have died for me, protecting me from these creatures. And I don't like calling them creatures now, but back then they were. And a lot of people will say, well, most dogs are scared of the big, well, I'm sorry to tell you,

Buddy wasn't that day. So I don't care what the naysayers want to say or whatever. You know, unless he was there, you don't know how Buddy acted that day, but I do. And man, he was a beast that day. So anyway I'm watching them I'm looking down at Buddy I don't know what's going on

man everything's going through my head and it's just my last breast coming up here I just seen them try to get that little deer I'm sure they're hungry or me and Buddy next um yeah I was like

God help me man God help me because I didn't have no weapons I really don't like carrying firearms anymore. I didn't have a knife on me anything. I didn't even have a walking stick. So there wasn't nothing I was going to defend myself. So I was pretty much, here I am.

But the only advantage I did have, I was up on the trail looking down at them. But still, we were almost still looking out. that's how tall they were. You know, and they were 50, 60 feet down that trail. So they ever had to be nine, ten feet tall. And it seemed like forever, man. Three, four minutes. I said, come on, buddy, man.

It's time to get out of here. So, so, again, I had them leased up. I bent down. I threw his water bow in the backpack, slung it over my shoulder. I took all. I looked over at the two people, because they were definitely people. And I said, sorry, we're not on the menu. I don't know why I said that, but I did.

And I said, come on, buddy, let's get out of here, man. So we're walking down, and I'm looking. They're still standing there, not even moving. So, yeah, being a military, man, I think. I figured they would have come up high or come down low and flank us. You know, when I wasn't looking, man, you'd get a better angle of attack on us. You know, a lot of people don't, or enemy, whatever, you know, they don't like having a disadvantage coming up a hill.

So I figured never going to come out. So I was looking for a weapon, you know, a nice size stick or rock, anything, anything that helped me defend me and my dog. Yeah, I did pick up a knife-sized stick, and we made it back to the car, man. I never seen them again. I think about the Ferdinand charge, and I think about this one,

the Knopfstone Stairdown. I think about it a lot, because both of them taught me very big lessons. One, They're friendly people and two They look a lot like us Take away the hair And the huge size

They are humans They got two legs, two arms, hands, feet heads, brains Exact same bodies as humans, male, female. They reproduce their family unit It's there so much like that, like us, it's just too similar to be a coincidence. So that's why I got the idea that they're more than, you know, more than some kind of ape out there, man, and they're people. Was there a time after that that you feel that there was any form of communication that ever opened up back and forth?

it's funny you said that I got on tape one of the best audios ever or one speaking and they let me know that day that they don't want me using no equipment

they don't want me using audio recorders they don't want me using cameras flur cameras night vision cameras infrared cameras they do not like that stuff.

I mean, yeah, a lot of people use it. I haven't seen much stuff come from them, but a lot of people use that stuff. I don't. Because when I did put my recorder back by my gifting stuff, where I camp out, I give them gifts,

mainly food items. They love it. In return, they do stuff for me. And on this one particular day, I had four or five people camping with me. And I said, look, I'm going to sit my recorder back there by the gifting stuff, hide it under this tree here, put leaves on it, and see we can pick something up. And boy, when I got home the next day, I played it 24 hours.

And when I got home the next day, you even not believe some of the things I've heard. But the main thing I heard on it, I mean, I can speak a whole hour about what was on that tape. But the main thing was on it was one, you can hear. one walk right up to it, pick it up, and tap on it like this. He taps on it. And then he goes, you know, very similar to that. And another one walks up.

And he goes, y'all way, what does it? And then you hear him go, oh, he'll like disgusted. So you hear the big one that found it Takes about five steps I mean you hear all this is going on man 50 feet from us Wherever at the campfire You're cooking hot dogs

This is this high noon when all this happened That was the mark on my audio This happened at a high noon So all this is going on back there So he takes about five steps And he rips a branch out of a tree you hear it and does a real loud tree knock. And we're all sitting up,

or we all heard that tree knock. And I'm like, oh, that's cool, man. Hopefully my recorder got it. So I got that all in one day. But I figured they got pretty mad because they don't want me using that recorder. So I quit using it. And if I do take pictures, I ask first. I'm going to take pictures.

if you don't want to be in the picture, leave. If not, hey, be my guest. And I teach other people to do this. And you would not believe the pictures we have got from up there at my camp. A lot of forced people. And then there's another night when I come to realize that they know who I am. I have one come up behind my tent at 3 o'clock in the morning. and I'm just about sleeping.

It's just about halfway between sleeping and not sleeping. And I hear a... They're kind of like at breathing. I heard it Ferdinand. So I got up all my elbows and I'm like, man, no way. Is something just called my name? So I'm like, oh, man. And I'm telling, I'm talking to myself.

I'm like, no, man, you're hearing things. And then nobody called your name. I got to lay back down, I go back to sleep, man. So I saw all my elbows. And then my, and then you know my other voice is like, I don't know. Sounded like somebody said something to me. I like to go at all angles. I like to write nothing off or dismiss anything.

Yeah, until the writing's on the wall. So, so it was a good, good five minutes went by. And this time, no mistake. Brick is really loud, really loud. So I'm like, OMG. And I don't know if you ever heard this, I have. If anything ever calls your name from the woods at night, don't answer it. I mean, I heard that before.

So that was in my line. I'm like, I'm not answering. I am not answering back. So I said I had two gentlemen from a hall right next to me and one of his name's

Bob and Bob yells out Hey Greg, you okay? So I'm thinking I'm like, yeah, I'm okay, man, why? What's going on? She goes,

why just heard you yell, get out, man, and what's going on over there? So we got out of her tents and I'm like, okay, what did you hear? What sounded?

It was real grass for me, man, but it was like, get out. And I go, what about this? It would sound more like this? Greg. He goes, yeah, that was it. He goes, well, what was that, dude? I go, what do you think it was, man? I said, I can't absolutely tell you it was a bigfoot, man.

But I think a big fuck, man, was right there behind my tent calling my name out. And a couple more people were waking up. Like, dude, that's unbelievable. I mean, one knows your name. So that was about it for that. So I found this forest right in my same county that's full of Bigfoot's. So I started, you know, I was really excited, man. I started going out there a lot.

I still go out there a lot to this day. Two or three days a week sometimes. and there's this one creek there. Always walked the same creek all the way back to the lake. And back, it's probably two and a half, three mile high. Nothing big, but I'm getting old, and it's all I need. And there's a lot of activity on this creek. I call it the enchanted creek.

So much goes on. One day, I'm casting a baby print. And it looked like a little bigger than the baby, like a, yeah, people call them juveniles, adolescents, whatever you want to call it. It's like a little voice print next to the baby print. So I'm casting both of them. And the significance behind this, because this was in March, cold of the winter. And back in July, right on that same Greek, I had an encounter. where I got zapped.

And for people to don't know what that means, um, well, I tell you the whole, uh, what happened. I walked up to this,

um, it wasn't a cave, but it was, um, it was a war shout out, like on this bank by the creek. And there's a lot of room in there. And,

you know, and a big fuck of it could get in there and cool off, whatever. So I was taking a picture of it to show my buddy at work. you know, a good place. You know, we're one can hide or cool off. You know, this was in July, a hot summer day. I was out there sweating like a dog that day.

I remember it good. So as soon as I snapped a picture with my phone, I started sweating real bad. I got real dizzy. I went down to my knees, man. I thought I was going to throw up. I was disorientating, man. I didn't know exactly which way to go.

and I'm trying to figure out what's going on, man. So I got away from that area, and everything went away. So I'm like, man, what was all that about? And it's kind of scary. That's never happened to me before. So when I got back at the house, man, I looked at that picture, and there's a mother in there that must have just had birth to a newborn as the baby looked blue

and it had red eyes and just like some human babies man that they're born blue so I think I got I think I walked up on a mother just giving birth and she's zapped she's a zap the heck out of me and let me know

hey we love you do but you're not getting this close so I learned I learned a valuable lesson that day and back to them foot prints. So I'm casting them. And again, this was in March

a number of months later. So I'm trying to think if that baby print was that the baby I'd seen in the cave. You know, five, six months earlier? Are they up and walking this soon? I'm trying to figure out.

Yeah, do they walk a lot faster than a baby or, you know, sometimes it takes a baby, a human baby, 12 months or longer to start walking. So I was just thinking of all kinds of stuff. And out of the corner of my left eye, I see a brown figure, man, up on the ridge line, up over the creek.

I go right up the bank from me. And I'm, you know, and I'm, the first thing to go into my thought was, what is a UPS man doing out here? Because it was all brown. That's the first thought I had. And I'm like,

I don't sound right. So I glanced over. Holy cow. It was a female walking down that ridge line. I mean, not one or two steps. I've seen a good eight or nine steps where this gal that looked like she was gliding down that ridge. Her head was barely moving.

It wasn't bombing like he was walking like a human. This is the first time I ever seen one walking. and the reason I know it was a female, I've seen her breast. It wasn't like Patty. It wasn't a real big female. I tell a lot of people that this is like I call it the shock body. You know, big but tall, but not, you know, a thousand pound body. I mean, you know, maybe 300 pounds at the most.

And seven, eight feet tall, I don't know. It's hard to tell off there on that ridge. but I watched her take about eight or nine steps then she went down over the ridge and I'm like wow

I mean that's like winning the lottery that day and I mean I'll never forget you know I never forget all the stuff that I see you know I don't talk about stories much but what I do man it brings back memories you know like it just happened that day

you know just like getting zapped and I've been zapped twice more after that and it's no fun. It sounds like one of the worst things that you can go through regarding Bigfoot. Do you have any thoughts about how a person can make sure they have the right intentions when they're trying to go out and look for Bigfoot? Yeah. Well, first and foremost, man, you got to have a good heart. No if-ins or buts about it.

And you can't go to Walmart, you can't go to the dollar store to buy a good heart. You either got one or you don't. You're either a good person or you're not a good person. I mean, I'm not here to judge people. That's Jesus and God's job. I'm just here to give you my perspective and my philosophy of what these beings are out there.

And I do know being a good person has a lot to do with it. I mean, I've known people that have been out there 30, 40 years. I've never seen nothing. Zilch. And then there's people like me. They walk into my life. Why?

Did they choose me? Do they like me? Do they know something about me that I don't? and then I started figuring all out, well, you're a good dude. I've never hurt nobody unless I had to. I help people all the time. I'm a religious man. And that's the most important factor of the force people,

of being a godly man, that they're all about God. I mean, if I got one on tape saying, Yahweh, that's what the Jewish and the Cherokee Indians call God Yahweh, Yahweh, Yaw. It's pronounced different ways. And I got one on tape saying this. So it's all about, man, it's all about whining yourself,

you know, with the universe, with God, with your heart, loving yourself, loving the environment, not going out, polluting the environment. doing your part as a human to make the world a better place. You know, don't complain and moan and wrong about everything. I try to change it, man. Fix it. You know, we need more good people in this world.

And the forest people don't like a lot of people. There's probably 95% of the population that would ever see one. Because first and foremost, they don't believe in them. uh i've seen all these podcasts and all the remarks and everything and people are you know you wouldn't leave all that hey people pit out on bigfoot ain't real you know and people like me or we're just all bunch of nuts or whatever but but that's the thing man if you're going to get into this man you got to have a thick skin and you don't worry about what the peon say oh yeah yeah i mean they can say whatever they want up there on the peanut gallery.

I mean, I know for a fact, what I know. I've seen it. I lived it. And nobody's going to tell me any different. I mean, they can believe me or they can't believe me.

I can care less. Because I'm not here. I'm not on here for that. I'm out here. Let the true-hearted people, the good people know the way to the force people are through your heart.

man. And once you you've build that first that interaction with them, they're going to know what kind of person you are. I think they go after people with good hearts and they go from

there. I mean, there's a lot of people like me. I'm not the only one. But again, I don't get into other people's business, man. I don't I speak highly of everybody. I'm not on here.

This guy, I don't like him. I don't like her. Hey, to each their own, man, whatever you want to go about this. There's no book written. You've got to follow these rules.

So it's how you want to take it. And this is the way I've taken it. And it's working great for me. Is there a way that, So the tapes that you've mentioned where you've recorded things, are those available publicly anywhere or are those just like personal? Oh, I got them. No, I haven't personally put them out on, you know, public media. I played it at, I spoke at Bigfoot conferences.

I play them there. But, yeah, people love it. And let me add on my tape that I sent to a sound expert in Quantico, Virginia, that gives you an ideal that came back non-human. And that's even with the Yahweh. So, yeah, it was English language, but it wasn't a human speaking it, so to say. in the first four, he was talking this all in, I call it Squatch Talk. That was totally non-human.

Yeah, and this came back from the man in Guantico. The speech specialist that does this for a living every day. So that was good to know, man. It wasn't somebody out in the woods hoaxing or nothing. Then I knew it wouldn't be anyway, but you got to be sure. It sounds like people definitely keep an eye out for when Squatchman does presentations. I'm guessing you probably do. Yes.

Actually, I did like five. It was just this past year. And, yeah, the Indiana Bigfoot Conference. It's always a great time. I've been there two years in a row now. I spoke at one down in Kentucky down by Mammons Cave. about a month ago. That was a really good one.

I went all the way down to London, Kentucky, down by Tennessee. All these communities, they're all popping up everywhere. It's the Bigfoot phenomenon. Everybody wants to know all about Bigfoot. And that's where I feel most comfortable at, letting these people know my perspective on it. and they really seem like what I tell them. I mean, I have huge crowds at my presentations,

good reaction from the people. Yeah, they like what I say, man. And there's not a lot of people like me. But, yeah, I just went to Cryptocon down in Lexington, Kentucky, yesterday. I'm good friends with a lot of them guys down there. Yeah, Russell LeCore. from Expedition Bigfoot. Yeah, he was there.

He's a great friend of mine. He even autographed and gave me two of his books he just wrote. I have her birthday present. Yeah, great. Yeah, great man, Russell, man. I can't speak enough good things about the guy. Charlie Raymond, man, he gave me a book he just wrote. Yeah, Bigfoot Encounters in the Daniel Boone Forest.

Charlie's one of the first guys I met when I got into this He's just like the rest of us man He loves Bigfoot And you gotta love people like that man I mean they stick to their guns They don't shy away when people try to bash them And I mean we know what we know man We know they're out there

And a lot of people just can't swallow that No way Bigfoot's not real how come they never caught one how come they never killed one how come one's not in a zoo the circus on the laboratory

you know the table where he's about to get all cut up you know how come that don't happen I get asked that all the time and I got one answer they're too smart for that you'll never see him do that I mean, these things can do a lot more than people can wrap their finger around.

So I don't even want to get into all that. But, yeah, we ain't talking about some dumb animal. That's all awesome. Yeah, that's, it's a whole, I mean, that's, you could talk for hours on that. Squash, man, I've got one more, one more question for you. And so thankful for the time you're able to spend with us today. let's let's pretend you are put in a completely new part of the u.s where you'd never been before and you say okay i got to figure out where are the places i'm going to go to try to have an interaction

with bigfoot what kind of what kind of things would you look for or do in order to find these areas that would probably be the best well um for what i've been i've been about to tell you right now, we'll probably blow your mind. But wherever I go, the forest people are there. I don't know if they're there already, or they follow me there.

But everywhere I go, you know, that's why I want to end this interview by telling me what I can do now. You know, I raise my hands up. I ask them to do stuff for me. I communicate with them. And a lot of times they do stuff for me.

I would tell you a couple quick stories. We got a little time left. I give you an example of what I can do with them. Okay, I was going to move to Washington. And I had my dear friends, Pac-Man paranormal, with me, Ernie Denise Pike and our daughter. And we were having a share. show for a well-known

personality that he's on coast to coast as she does interviews on her every now and then very well-known personality and she wanted to have a show where Bigfoot meets paranormal and see what techniques work and blah blah blah so anyway

I was showing Ernie and the knees you know, well, what I do, man, how I communicate with them. So I told him I was moving to Washington and I really, you know, I'm bummed out, man, I'm sad. I said, I may not ever be back here again. I go, can you do something really big so I will never forget something huge? You know, make this force come alive.

I mean, make it bang. And within seconds, seven, eight trees got pushed over. I mean, crack and bang, and I mean, two foot, three foot, Indiana, red oak trees getting snapped in half like little twigs all around us. And there was a tree

hanging over the one-way road we were on and Arnie's wife, Denise, found it. She said, hey, I found one of the trees and they push us up out of the root ball. Like a bulldozer did it. There's no way in a heck a man could have did this. And we were all right there anyway. There wasn't no people there.

It was just us there in a dark forest. This was Memorial Day weekend five years ago on Monday night, Memorial Day night. There was a spring shower going by, but it was already passed. It wasn't no wind or nothing. It was already quit rain. since anyway we're looking at this tree that got pushed over by the roots. So we go back up 50 feet away. I counted it out many of times.

That's all this happened within feet of us. All of a sudden, that tree that's going across the road I just told you about, was hung up in another one right on the other side of the road, in a branch about 30 feet of high, and it wasn't flat on the road. so all of a sudden you see that tree going I mean violently shaking I mean violently shaking like a hurricane

and Ernie's like look man look look at that black blob up here and about 30 feet up there's a big black blob like Ernie just said shaking the heck out of this tree and then that one cracks I mean

I don't know Have you ever heard a hundred foot, two foot trees cracking? But it's very, very loud, man. It's scaring fruit out probably anybody. And we're just standing there, man, just loving it. So they get done with all this. And I told Ernie, I said, look, dude, I can't believe this. And he goes, Greg, you asked for it, man.

You asked for this. So what I like to do, we thanked them, we clap, we cheer. and we gave her praise for such a show of power. So we walk up in front of the van there. We all went in the Ernie's van. So every now and then the lightning from the passing summer storm would light up the area just a bit. So it lit up and I'm looking between these two trees right there in front of us

and there's five bigfoot standing there. I'm talking big boys. shoulder to shoulder to shoulder all the way across a 30, 35 foot area. Five of them took that whole space out, standing shoulder to shoulder. And it was only a flash and it was gone. So I'm like, oh, M.G.

And before I could even say anything, Denise goes, you won't believe what I just seen. So I'm like, well, let's hear, man. What did you hear, Denise? she just said what I just told you so I'm like oh man's I slapped her high five told her I seen him I already seen them

so not only did we get that we got to see the people that did it so I mean if that gives you any idea that they do stuff when I ask them another good example Ernie had a guy come all away from New York I give you his first name was Stephen.

He wanted a big foot of encounter. He's never had one in his life. It was just me, Arnie, Denise, him and one of his buddies from up there. We were their only ones there. I asked the forest people

it was Father's Day just this year. Back in June, just this year. I asked the Forest people, I said, hey man, his Father's Day today. and there's one I call Big Red. He's my buddy.

He follows me everywhere. He's got beautiful red eyes that glow. And that's what I call him, Big Red. So I asked him if he could do something special for all the fathers. I said, look, I know you're a dad, Big Red. I said, do something big for us. Push over a tree, if you want, bro. So it wasn't 30 seconds later.

Again, right on Keith. you hear it was and this man has wrote memoirs how I changed his life that night and that's just a few examples of what I do but I can talk to

him man and they and they do stuff that I ask them I ask them to light their eyes up eye glow I could go out to the woods any night of the week and they will be out there just like you said any woods

Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, they follow me everywhere in the U.S.C. Iglow. They don't always push trees over. That's a big order. I'm not going to ask them to put trees over all the time. But occasionally I will. And they do it. I'll ask them for a tree knock.

They'll give me a tree knock. But when it's all said and done, like these two women from Tennessee told me, just a couple of weeks ago, just remember Squatch, man. Nobody can do what you can do. And I have hundreds of witnesses that have seen this.

This just ain't me speaking. This is, I got so many witnesses that have seen me do this. So, I mean, there's not too many people like me who can talk to the forest people and get them to do stuff. And that's going to be, uh,

You know, when I'm dead and gone, people will probably remember me for that the most. You know, that, my relationship with them, my encounters, but mainly the respect and the love we have for each other. And it goes far, man. That goes far. So, I mean, I feel like I'm a very lucky man and a very blessed man with what I got going on with the forest people. Thank you for sharing that with us. When you signed up, there's a, so if people want to try to reach out, they can find out. Yes, I'm Greg Ghost.

Facebook. You want to follow me? Hit the Friends button, a Friends request. I still got over, I think I got like 3,500 friends. I mean, you're allowed, what, 5,000? See, I got plenty of room. And, yeah, I love, I just love telling my stories. I got great evidence pictures.

I post from time to time. And I got, you know, on Facebook, you know, on the YouTube channel, Squatchman TV, Journey to the Truth. I got quite a few episodes on there. Yeah, ever since COVID hit, back in 2020, we haven't been back running since. My son moved away, but he's coming back. So, you know, just bear with me. I'll be getting new stuff out.

But what I got on there is pretty good. And I got a five-part doctor mentor about the Louisville goat man. People would love seeing that. I proved that the Louisville goat man is more than a myth, more than a legend. He's real. I had a good time coming on your show today. It seemed like a very nice young man, and I hope people enjoy my show, and I hope I told people some stuff they needed to know,

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