Bigfoot Society - Standoff on the Hill | Oregon (Archives)

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

Originally released as Episode 504 on 8/22/24.Jay is a gold prospector from Oregon who had a close-range encounter in the Willamette National Forest that changed the way he sees the outdoors. In 2016, while working a remote creek near Oakridge with a small group, Jay found himself alone on a steep hillside when he came face to face with something he couldn’t explain.He breaks down the entire experience step by step—from the environment and positioning, to the behavior of the creature, to the split-second decisions he had to make while standing just feet away. Jay shares detailed observations about movement, body structure, and the way the encounter unfolded in real time, along with how it’s affected him in the years since.This conversation gets into awareness in the wilderness, how quickly situations can shift, and what it’s like when something you’ve only heard about suddenly becomes real.🗣️ 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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Greetings from the North Woods of Wisconsin. This is Chad Lewis and you are listening to the Bigfoot Society podcast. All right, Bigfoot Society. I've got the privilege of talking to Jay today. I met Jay at my booth in Sasquatch Summerfest out there in Oak Ridge, Oregon over this last summer of 2024. And we had quite a conversation there, but it was a little loud,

so we decided, hey, let's set up a time for later on after the festival so we can really dig into things. And Jay's also from Douglas County. And Jay, it's a pleasure to talk to you again.

Oh, it's a nice. talk to you too. Well, as you just said, I'm Jay, I'm from Douglas County, and my sighting happened in Lane County in the Willamette National Forest, March 10th, 2016. And how it all came to be, a little background is a good portion of my life. I've been really interested in Oregon's history of the gold rush, and I'm kind of an avid prospector. I'm not a miner, haven't found enough to mine, but I like to go out there and look for it. And one day I was reading about the gold rush like I like to do, and I come across this story. It goes back to about 1863, where a couple of, when we call it fur traders or fur trappers,

they had found some gold and began mining it. And without getting into all the details of that story, it became one of this state's famous lost gold mines. And as far as I'm aware, nobody has found it again and nobody's making that claim. So as I'm reading this story, I'm picking out the details that's included in the story and I'm getting a feel of it.

I got a pretty good idea like I'm sure every prospector does of where this thing might be at, this lost goldmine. So I get a hold of my buddy Allen. He's my prospecting partner. And I talk to him about it. And I say, hey, I think I have a good lead. And we're always looking for new places to prospect and pan for gold and things.

And it says, how about we take a drive up there, which would be above Oak Ridge, Oregon, and do some panning for the day. I got a site picked out, a spot picked out on the map that I'd like to go, you know, pan and see if we can find some color. Maybe there's something behind this story. Maybe we'll be the ones to, you know, find the lost goals. hold mine.

So he said, yeah, that sounded good, and that he'd get a hold of us, well, our friend, Robert, and see if he can come along. And Alan said he also had a neighbor. His name is Matt that liked to do gold prospecting to and see if Matt was available. So it would be the four of us. And I said, okay, good. And minutes later, Alan calls me back and tells me, yeah, everything's good to go. we'll head up there.

I think it was like on a Sunday, if I remember right. And so we took two vehicles, lowered them down with our prospecting equipment, you know, sleuth boxes and hand tools so that we could, you know, scrape out the gold from any cracks and crevices in the bedrock. And we drove. It took about a good hour and a half maybe, maybe even an hour and 40 minutes from where we lived. to get there. Didn't have a problem finding there because, like I said, I had it already marked on the

map right where to go. And we pull in. It's in the morning. It's probably about 9.30, almost 10 o'clockish. And then like I said, it's Oregon. So, I mean, the woods in this state is, you can't even fathom it. It's just nothing but fir trees and fur trees. and fir trees and miles, miles and miles.

As much as some may say that we've logged off every tree, that's a complete joke. So we pull in upon this gravel road, and we park off the side of the road there, and we get out and we're standing there talking about how we're going to make our way down into the creek that we want to be down in there, go prospecting.

And we're grabbing up our hand tools, and everything. And, well, let me go back just a minute. As we're driving to the location, I have Alan that's driving his vehicle, and I'm driving my vehicle, and as my passengers, I have Robert and I have Matt.

Now, I've never really met Matt before. He was the first day I've ever met him, but I figured, you know, one prospect or to another, uh, let's have a good time. So as we're driving up there, we're all, you know, talking and conversating about gold prospecting and, and one thing leads to another and we all start talking about Bigfoot. And, uh, I find out immediately in conversation that Matt, this new guy, I don't know, He's obviously an unbeliever, which is fine. Everybody has their opinion about it. But he is adamant how it's complete bull crap and Bigfoot doesn't exist.

And he's got all the typical reasonings why that he doesn't believe. And I'm listening to him and I'm trying to give him some, you know, rebuttal on it, why maybe it is. is possible and it is out there. And, you know, not everybody's lying when they say they've seen this thing. How could it be? But he keeps going on how he doesn't believe. And I just get quiet about it. And I just figure, okay, whatever, I'm just let it go.

So we find the spot. We park off the road. We get out of our vehicles. We're grabbing up our prospecting tools and things. and trying to find a way that we're going to enter the brush and the trees and everything and work our way down the bank to get to the creek. And I see a game trail that I think we can use. And so I tell everybody right here looks like a good spot to get down in there.

And for whatever reason, I happened to ask everybody Anybody know any good Bigfoot calls And we've all seen At Finding Bigfoot show And how they do their hoops and their hollers Trying to call these things in And everybody kind of chuckled about it a little bit

And they said no they didn't know any Bigfoot calls And I said well I do And they says oh well let's hear it You know, they were all kind of laughing about it. It was kind of a, you know, funny little moment. So I thought. So I took a moment and went ahead and made this big, long, drawn out, big foot call. And when I did it, I really went for it.

I was trying to be, you know, not cheap about doing this big foot call. And everybody was impressed. They said, wow, that was really good, you know. Anyway, we didn't put much past it. We start working our way down the bank. And it's probably about 100 yards, maybe a little more to get down into this creek. We're following this game trail. Could have been an elk trail or deer trail.

It's just a game trail. We're following it down through there. And we get all the way down to the creek. And we start setting up our sluice boxes and getting out our hand tools and looking for different spots that we each want to prospect for gold for. And we start in. And we start digging and prospecting and doing our thing and BS and having a good time. And once in a while I get kind of the feeling like we were being. being watched.

Because every once in a while I would look up from what I was doing and kind of glance up the hillside from where we came to get down in there. Whereas I couldn't see anything, but you just get that feeling like maybe you're being watched. But you pass it off because you know, well, you're the only people up there in that area. It's pretty remote. There's no other vehicle traffic on the rock, dirty roads. no other cars parked up in there.

It's just us. So I go back to work and everybody else is doing their work and time's going by and we're having a good time. And it gets to be about, oh, I don't know, maybe about three o'clock.

And I kind of tell everybody or mention to everybody that you know, maybe it's a good time to do a cleanup and see if we got anything today. Because we're going to need to start packing up our gold equipment and we need to get it up out of here. Because at that time, it's spring and, you know, it still gets dark a little earlier. And especially it gets dark in a heavily timbered forest and lots of old growth.

So you had a three-story canopy. So it really gets dark quick. Everybody agrees. And when we start breaking down our gold equipment, equipment and doing our cleanup out of our sluice boxes and panning out the concentrates and didn't find any gold unfortunately which is you know nothing new in my little world it seems like maybe i just am not good at it but anyway we start collecting up all of our tools and i'm loading up two five gallon buckets and uh

of tools and I'm grabbing up my backpack and everything. And then I grab one of the sluice boxes that we were using. And I tell everybody, well, I'm going to make a trip up. And everybody says, okay. And so I begin the journey, you know, up the side of the hill to get back up to the vehicles with the first load of equipment. And I make it all the way back up to the truck. and I put the tools and things in the back of the truck and turn around and start heading down through the brush and the woods and back down to the creek to get another, you know, another load of equipment and tools because it's going to take us, you know, a couple of trips anyway. And I start down the hill and I probably get, I don't know, like I said, 50 yards, 60 yards, something like that, halfway down.

and I see my friends Alan and Robert they're coming up to hill with a load of tools and I happen to tell them I go well you guys are about halfway there just keep on going where you're going and you know the truck and the car will be up there at the top and they said okay and I told them I'm going to go back down to the creek and grab up some more stuff and help Matt grab up some more stuff and so we passed each other

and the way they went up the hill and the way I went down the hill and I got back down to the creek and there's Matt and I start grabbing up those five-gallon buckets that are loaded down with tools to make a second trip and Matt's got his stuff in his hand and we start coming across

the flat portion there's a flat portion from the creek before you hit the bank in the hillside. And so Matt is right next to me or right behind me. And we're hauling our equipment and tools. And then we get to the hillside. And at that point, that's when it starts getting steep as it climbs up to the vehicles. And so I start up the embankment and I probably make it up between 50 to 6.

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I locked eyes with one of these things. And it was no more than about 30 feet in front of me. And it was squatted down, squatted down just like a baseball catcher. And had its knees were flailed out to the side and its hands were between its knees touching the ground. and it was looking right at me with a real wide-eyed shocked expression on its face. And that was the only time I've seen this thing have any kind of whites to its eyes. And I'm sure I had the same expression because I was pretty shocked too.

And then I started feeling my heart rate pump in the adrenaline dump. and this thing starts swaying side to side in that squatted position. And I'm starting to panic because I've seen chimpanzees and whatnot do that swaying motion. And sometimes it's when they're excited, sometimes it's when they're angry, you know, who knows and how's how do you determine what that means? But it made me real nervous swaying side by side like that. And that's when I turned

my head and my shoulders downhill towards the right to look down back at Matt because he's about 50, 60 feet below me on the flat still. And I yell at him. I says, Matt, I said, get up here next to me. I say, I am looking at a big foot right now. And he says, what? And I says, yeah.

I'm looking at a big foot right now. Get up here next to me. And Matt, you know, he's the unbeliever. and so he's trying to pass me off or whatever he's trying to do. He says, oh, that's cool, man. Yeah, I've got to go back to the creek and get more equipment and bring it to the base of this hill. He says, just be cool with it, man. Just be cool with it, man.

And he turns around and starts walking back towards the creek. And so now I'm yelling. I don't know, wait. Did you not hear what I said? And I can notice out of the corner of my eye because I'm trying to keep an eye on this thing while I'm trying to look back downhill at Matt. And I can see out of the corner of my eye,

but this thing from a squatted position is slowly standing up to a full upright position. And when I see that movement, out of the corner of my eye, I turned my shoulders and head and body back towards this thing. And it squats down. Almost squats down so fast it was like it was in free fall. And it's back in this squatted position. And then I'd try to turn my shoulders and my head back downhill to yell at Matt.

Did you not hear me? I says, I'm looking at a big foot right now. get up here, get over here. And he's yelling back at me, it's cool, I'll be right back, just be chill with it. And I'm thinking, oh, man, what an

idiot. And I'm losing sight of Matt because, you know, he's getting through the brush and he's going back towards the creek. And then all of a sudden Matt's gone. And I notice out of the corner of my eye this thing is starting to stand up again.

And so I turn back towards, it and face it. And it squats back down. Then it slowly stands up and squats back down. And then finally, I think it realized that, no, I see you. I mean, for crying out loud, you're just 30 feet right there in front of me, and there was no real underbrush in that spot for it to hide in. It was pretty open right there.

And the sun was coming down good through the trees right there. and so I had full sunlight on it. And so it slowly stood all the way back up. And it took about a step and a half to my right, where it would be side healing. And it stopped, and it stood there. And it squared up to me, shoulder to shoulder. And we started having a staring contest at that moment. And my heart rate is going.

the adrenaline's going and it's standing they're looking at me and I'm looking at it and the only thing moving on this thing is his eyes would blink every once in a while but I have this real stoic expression on its face

almost like a good poker face you couldn't quite get a read on it and it gave me the impression like yep here we are what are we're going to do about it because this It's between where I've got to go to get back to the truck.

And I don't dare feel like I should be moving as close as it is to me. And so I'm looking it over and I'm looking it over and taking in the details of this thing. And I start locking eyes with it again. And I must have made too long of eye contact because it flipped its lips back and it showed me its teeth. almost like a dog does when it snarls at you. And I didn't know how interpret it other than it wasn't happy with me making eye contact. So I broke eye contact and I turned my shoulders a little bit away from it so I wasn't squared up with it and I kind of leaned forward and hunched my back so that I would look a little bit more submissive and my posture. but I'm still looking at it out of the corner of my eyes

and I'm looking at it from its feet up its shins and thighs and torso and then eventually I find myself looking at it back in the eyes and it didn't like that. It showed me its teeth again. So I'd look away, turn my body away, hunch over a little bit and I'd begin the process over. And as this is going on, You know, it's just like a high stressful car accident.

You know, time slows down. Your brain works quickly. And all I can think about is, you know, Matt's down at the creek. I can't see him. Alan and Robert are up there at the vehicles. It's me and this thing. Is this how it ends for me? Am I going to become just another.

missing person. You know, is this how this is going to happen? Because my friends are going to wonder, well, where the heck did Jay go? You know, he was just right here. I'm thinking about my friends and my family, what they would think. And, well, at the time I got done thinking about all those things, I'm guessing it's about three minutes

that went by. It was quite a while that I'm standing here looking at it. this thing. But it's not moving and it's not growling, but if I make too long of eye contact, it shows me its teeth. So eventually

it turns around and starts walking up ahead of me. And I'm a little relieved. At least it's moving off and away from me. And now I can see its complete backside very, very well. A lot of detail in it.

And it's walking up of me and it's using the same game trail as we were using to get in and out of there. So it's basically kind of leading me out like it's heading back towards the truck and the car. And as it's walking up ahead of me, you know, the distance is increasing now from like 30 feet to 50 feet to 60 feet to 60 feet, 70 feet. it's getting closer to be about 100 feet up there ahead of me, maybe even 150, and I'm now thinking to myself that, you know,

any moment I'm going to lose sight of this thing. Because the underbrush was getting a lot taller in that area. It was getting a lot shadier in that area and darker in that area. The tree canopy was a little thicker. It wasn't letting in all the sunlight through. And I thought, holy crap, if I lose sight of this thing, and that's where I basically got to go to get back to the vehicles, I could be setting myself up for an ambush situation,

and I was not thrilled about that. So I yelled at it. What else am I supposed to do? I yelled at, hey, and it was still walking. It was like it didn't even hear me. and now I'm really panicking because the window of time of losing sight of this thing is getting closer. And so I yelled out in a more commanding voice.

I mean, almost like you get from a drill instructor in the Marine Corps. I yelled very powerfully, hey, and the thing stopped. Stopped dead in its tracks and it turned all the way around. And it starts downhill towards me. And I am panicking because now I'm, thinking, oh crap, what did I do, you idiot? You know, in one regard I had it made, but in another regard, I didn't want to be ambushed because that's where I had to go,

and I didn't want to take any alternate routes to get back up to the vehicles. So it takes anywhere from four or five, maybe six steps back downhill towards me, and thankfully it stopped. So now I'm guessing we're about 75, maybe 80 feet away from each other. And we're having another stare down. It's looking at me and I'm looking at it. And I don't notice it showing me its teeth, but we're definitely looking at each other. And I'm panicking because I'm thinking, crap, where is Alan and Robert?

Where is Matt? So I start yelling at this thing. I start yelling, you got to go. Get out of here. at the same time I'm yelling this, I'm using my right arm and my pointer finger to swing out and point off to my right. Get out of here. Go! Like you'd try to be aggressive with a bear or a cougar, you know, trying to intimidate or scare the animal.

But it wasn't moving. It didn't care what I was saying or what I was doing. It was just standing there with that stoic. expressionless face. And I'm panicking. And I'm thinking, oh, crap. And I look back behind me and Matt's not anywhere. He's not coming.

And I'm thinking, what's taking him so long? And I'm thinking, where's Robert and Allen? Because they should be coming downhill to help Matt and I get some more equipment out of here. So I started yelling for Robert and Allen. I'd yell Robert. And the thing's just standing there looking at me. And then I'd yell, Alan.

and they weren't coming. And I'm watching this thing. And then I yell again, Robert. And then Alan. Robert and Alan ain't coming. And I'm thinking, crap. Because if they were coming down to help Matt and me, we'd have this thing sandwich in between us on the hillside.

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and explore how precious metals may fit into your retirement planning. And they'd see this thing from the top down as I'm looking at this thing. from the top up. And they're not coming and I'm panicking. Finally, and I'm guessing another two, three minutes go by, this thing starts moving off to my right, almost as it was taking my direction, you know, just a few minutes before as I was swinging my arm

and pointing off to my right, it starts sidehilling off to my right, which would be its left. and I'm watching it starting to side hill away from me, off to the right. And it makes it about 100 feet off to my right, maybe 120 feet off to my right. And just like before, the underbrush in that area over there was getting a lot taller and thicker. The canopy was denser, so there was less sunlight in there. There was more shadows and shades in there. and I eventually lost sight of this thing.

And I thought, well, that's fine by me because I've got to make a B-line and go straight to get back up to the trucks. And it's off over there to my right somewhere. That's fine. So I grabbed each of those two five-gallon buckets. I tell you what, I had all the energy that I needed and all the adrenaline I needed to get all the way up through the brush and that hill. and get up there to the trucks.

And as soon as I broke through the brush and hit the rock road, there was Alan and Robert, standing right there by the vehicles, lost in conversation, just BS in a way about whatever it was they were talking about. And I am coming unglued. I am starting to yell at them and talk, a million miles an hour

to which is confusing to them because they're trying to understand what I'm saying and I'm throwing the five gallon buckets of tools in the back of the vehicle and then I'm throwing off my backpack that I had on

and I'm trying to unzip the backpack which was difficult to do because I had some chest waiters I was wearing down in the creek when I was prospecting. And chest waiters are what fishermen typically

wear to stay dry from the water. They like to stand in the water and do their fishing. They use these chest waiters. And I had a pair of those. And I had them rolled up like a sleeping bag really, really tightly

and it took all that I could do to get those squeezed inside that backpack and get the zipper closed to where the zipper was I'm busting and breaking. So I'm yelling and screaming at Alan and Robert while I'm fighting with his zipper

to open up my backpack. I'm grabbing a hold of my neoprene chest weighters and I'm trying to pull them out of that backpack because they're tightly squeezed in there. And at the

bottom of my backpack, I have a 40 caliber pistol. And I retrieve that pistol and immediately put around into the chamber. Now that got Robert and Allen's attention. They're like, whoa, what is

going on? And all I can say is there's a freaking big foot. I was just looking at a big foot. We have got to get out of here. And I'm using the keys to open up the truck because in the console of the truck,

I left my flip phone. There was a flip phone back then that I had. and I'm putting this phone on camera mode and I have my pistol on my other hand and I says, you guys don't understand while you're up here jacking your jaws, I was down there halfway on the bank having a stare off with this big foot.

I ain't kidding you, I'm serious as a heart attack. And they said, really, what? And you can see that they have wide eyes expressions because now they're listening to me. And I'm telling Alan and Robert, yeah. And Matt's... Jay, you there? I'm sorry. The person you are trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet.

Please try... Hey, Jay, I think we... That was weird, man. We got a disconnect there somehow. Sometimes during these interviews, weird tech stuff happens. But can you... Sorry about that. Whatever happened there.

That's all right. I don't know either Yeah, dude You would probably not be surprised though The last thing I heard was I ain't kidding you, I'm as serious as a heart attack Okay, okay Yeah

I was talking to Alan Robert And I told him I said I'm as serious as a heart attack I says Matt Is still down there at the creek We got to get down there and get the equipment, and we've got to get Matt out of here.

We got to go. And Robert and Allen, they both agreed. So we start back down through the brush and down the hillside, and we're kind of taking our time, and we're really looking, all three of us, because we don't want to get ambushed by this thing. We don't know if it has bad intentions or good intentions or neutral intentions. We don't know.

we don't see it as we get back down to the creek and we find Matt and there's Matt struggling to get more equipment and so we all three pitch in and grab the equipment and we tell Matt we got to get out of here and I'm telling Matt yeah we have a big foot here and I just got done looking at this thing we got to go I don't think we should be around and Matt's like oh yeah yeah I know you said that

yeah whatever you know you and your big foot stuff. And I says, man, I ain't got time to argue with you here. You know, there are a lot of animals that are out here, you know, that you never see when you go out there, but you know they are. I says, and this is one of them. I said, I don't care if you believe or not. We've got to go.

The day is over. And so all four of us with equipment in hand start working our way back up the hillside. towards the vehicles. And my head is on a swivel. I am hyper aware and vigilant of everything around me. Because now I'm looking around every tree. I'm looking behind every stump, every log that's laying on the ground. Every shadow, you know, that could be one.

And we all four make it back up to the vehicles. No problem. No other sightings. no nothing. And we put the the rest of the equipment in the vehicles, get in our vehicles,

turn around and drive back down off the rock road down to the main road to get out of the area. And the whole drive back, I just cannot stop talking about the experience.

You know, telling everybody about it in the situation and how I was panicking because well Matt wasn't coming up from the creek to greet me and how Robert and Allen weren't coming down the hill to greet me and why did it take everybody so long

and how I could have just became missing and you guys would have been no wiser to what had happened to me and I could just picture, you know, the sheriffs and search and rescue getting involved and I kind of scolding them but it wasn't their fault. It was just the way the situation played out. And this thing was one of the most terrifying things I think I've ever seen in my life.

I mean, when monsters become real, it changes the paradigm in your life. I mean, it is one thing to believe that these things are out there. It's a completely other thing to have it thrown in your face. looking at one. And the one that I seen was, man, this is just so typical. I don't know how to describe

it in any other way that other people haven't had have done in the past. But when this thing was squatted down and we locked eyes and then it eventually stood up. And I'm looking at this thing.

It was salt and pepper colored. I mean, it wasn't brown. It wasn't red. It wasn't black. It was salt and pepper. Like an aging man. It gets that salt and pepper, that gray

and white hairs kind of 50-50 mix. You know, your base coat is kind of a gray color. People have used the term navy ship gray. Yeah. It was like a Navy ship gray, but it had white highlights coming through it in a 50-50 mix. And even though it was a gray and a white color, it did not look like it was aging.

I mean, this thing looked like it was at the prime of its life. It was very, very muscular. Every bit of eight feet tall, it could have been eight and a half. feet tall. But it was three to three and a half feet, maybe even four feet wide at the shoulders. And the shoulders

were like bowling balls. The muscularity on this animal, this creature, whatever you want to call it, it reminded you of a professional bodybuilder. This thing was

muscular yet lean and I just couldn't stop staring at it. I mean, the shoulders, the biceps, the triceps, the forearms on this thing, you know, the chest, you know, the six-pack abs that I had, the quads, calves, everything was just perfect. I mean, Ronnie Coleman would have been envious of this thing, especially when it turned around and walked up ahead of me.

I could see the backside. It had that perfect upside-down triangular or a V-shaped to it from the shoulders to the waist. Its buttocks was even muscular. The hair on it was probably three to four inches. It was very, very well groomed. I mean, it looked like you took it to the dog groomers. It looked like somebody specifically. I spent hours on it brushing it and brushing it and brushing it.

I didn't see any mats in its hair. I didn't see any twigs. I didn't see any leaves. It didn't look like it was dirty from any dirt or dust. The thing looked well groomed. Beautiful animal. You could see through the hair to the skin in different places too. It was almost as when a man ages and he starts getting thin hair and you can see through the hair to the scalp.

You know, you get portions of its body where you could see through the hair to the skin and it had a dark gray skin. Especially when it was in the squatted position, you could see on the inside of its legs and a little bit on its calf muscles. it was almost bare skin, no hair. But on top of its thighs and over the shins, there was more hair, longer hair. Now you could still see through it to the skin and you could see the striations of the muscles. Same thing on its chest and on its stomach. It was almost like a peach fuzz for hair. but almost like a bare chest area.

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you could see more skin than hair. In the face, it looked like it had a beard like the Amish with no mustache. longer hair coming off of the jaw line. But above that, again, was kind of like peach fuzz. It was still hair, but it was a lot shorter, shorter hair. And it had a human-style hooded nose. The face was more oval in shape and looked longer and almost flat.

with these beady black almond-shaped eyes. And the only thing that would move is his eyes would blink a couple of times, which is, you know, that's normal. And his lips were thin, a little thinner than hours, but a lot like ours. And it seemed like from the top of its top lip to the underside bridge of its nose, was a little wide. It looked a little funny to me when I seen it that way.

And it had a forehead, but all you can see above that deep brow ridge on its forehead was only about one inch section of skin before the hair started on the forehead. and the hair grew backwards towards the top of the head. And when I was looking at it face on, shoulders, shoulders squared up with it, its head looked round. It looked completely normal, you know, like our heads are roundish. However, when it turned around to start walking up ahead of me, I noticed then from the back of it, that its head came up into that that cone type of shape like you'll see on a gorilla. And all the hair on the head grew up to the top of that cone.

And at the top of the cone, it looked like a big old calic sticking up there off the top of the cone of his head. and they do have neck muscles, but you can't really see it because those trapezius muscles connecting from the back of the head to the shoulders are so thick and so large, it makes them look like other people have said, like a football player wearing a helmet. Like the head is set down there in between them shoulders.

You can't hardly see that neck. They do have necks, but those trapezius must. muscles are so big. I can only imagine the strength that these things have. It was just a beautiful, incredible animal. The feet looked just like our feet. I was shocked to be able to see the heel and the foot and toe definition. It had hair over the top of its feet, and the hair was.

would cut off about where the toes would begin. And it had toenails really similar to ours. Even its fingernails were a lot like ours. Its hands were like ours. There was hair on top of the hand, but not on the palm. And the hair would stop on the hand right at the knuckles right there, where the fingers began. I just, I was scared.

I guess you could say there's a lot of fear and adrenaline going on but at the same time when all this is happening there's the other part of me where I am completely awestruck I'm captive I cannot stop looking at this thing because in a lot of respects

it was a magnificently beautiful creature species whatever it is Bigfoot. I mean, call it by a thousand names. The thing was beautiful. Now, I'm happy that all

I'd ever did was show me its teeth. And it didn't make any real sudden or really aggressive movements towards me. And I'm sure I'm heck glad that it didn't scoop me up and just start walking off with me.

Because, like I said, the horror that my friends would go through trying to figure out where the heck did Jay go. So that kind of wraps it up, but I'll tell you what, there has not been a day since that day that it has not gone through my mind. It has haunted my mind.

You cannot get it out. It just, I don't know if that's what they call PTSD or anything like that, but it changed. is there's just not a moment or not a day where there's not a moment that you don't stop thinking about this thing. That is extremely incredible. Probably the most detailed description I have yet to hear. Thank you for sharing that.

Do you mind if I ask you some questions about what you experienced? Yeah, yeah, sure. How long were the arms? Well, they're longer than ours because when it was standing there, the top of its middle finger on both arms were practically touching its knees. So they have longer arms than ours, and it seemed like from the elbow through the forearm, the forearms seemed to be long. than from the elbow to the shoulders. And that's what I noticed about the arms. And the same thing with the calves,

from the knee down to the foot. They seem to be at an awkward length. Like I said, they look like a man. I mean, they're shaped like a man as far as two arms and two legs and a head, torso, and all that. but their limbs are at slightly different ratios than ours. That's the best way I can describe it. Yeah, that definitely makes sense from what I've heard in other places as well.

Did you notice anything weird about the gate of the creature or the way that it was moving? Oh, yeah, I missed that. When this thing started walking up ahead of me, first of all, it was completely, completely silent. I didn't even hear a snap of a twig. I didn't hear the crunching of a leaf. And when he did it, and I've heard this being described by other people in the past,

and it's a great description. It was just like this thing was on a Nordic track, like on a set of snow skis. It just glided through all that timber and brush and maneuvered through it effortlessly and smoothly. I mean, its head wasn't bobbing. It was like it had a stack of books up there on its head. And those books were perfectly level and not moving.

It just glided. So I'm imagining that they probably walk better than we do. Because it looked completely like it wasn't exhausted. It wasn't tired. It had no problem going up that bank and that hillside ahead of me. No problem at all. I mean, it didn't even break a sweat. Like this thing does it all the time, like walking on a flat sidewalk.

The Nordic track thing, that's a really good way to put it. That's a new one for me. But, I mean, that definitely makes sense. I haven't been able to see one yet, but that really makes sense. were you able to see specifically how the feet would move as it was moving up the hill? Was there anything out of the ordinary about the feet itself? I wasn't paying that close of attention to how it was, its feet was. Yep.

I was more or less, I've seen the back of the legs moving. I've seen the muscles of the buttocks moving. but I didn't I didn't really see the feet I didn't I don't really remember anything like that when I talk to witnesses

sometimes they will describe it in different ways and I'm curious if either of these or any of these apply to what you saw some people will say well it looked like some kind of monkey or Neanderthal or just a guy you would see

walking down the road or an orangutan to is there any way to summarize what you would see like is it something you would see

in a zoo or just down the middle of the road and Oak Ridge you know well this is yeah I want to say

something is super controversial because the Bigfoot world is always split on so many things the Bigfoot world likes to argue about so many things.

I don't know when there's ever going to be unity, but I'm going to tell you just how it is. Go ahead. And you can like it or not, hate it, love it, keep it, leave it. But we all know, I think, what we're talking about when I say it, have the Muppet face.

We have somebody in our community, our Bigfoot community, some people like and believe, and some people don't. And people have termed it or nicknamed it the Muppet face. Well, I'm telling you, that's what the face look like. Look like the Muppet face. You can get over it.

That's what it looked like. They had that oval face, peach fuzz on the face, except for the jawline, have that longer beard, the beady black eyes, the human nose, the almost human style lips on it and slip to the mouth. That's what the face looked like. As far as the body, and you've heard this many times,

it looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Ronnie Coleman at the peak of their careers, up there posing up there on the stage. You can see every striation of the muscle, every definition. I often tell people a good thing to do on a Google search is just type in hairless chimpanzee. And you take a look at that and you see how ripped those things are,

that's what this thing looked like. You could see that type of definition through the hair. You could see through the hair to the skin and you could see those muscles rippling. I'll tell you something else that's interesting about the whole thing, is when I got home and I looked on the maps at that general area where we were at. I didn't know this prior to this happening, but as I re-looked at the map system, I had our location pent on the map. We knew where we were at. We specifically drove to that location to do some gold prospecting.

However, when you widen your search away from where we were at, no more than three to five miles away, there's a drainage creek. This drainage creek on the map is literally named Baboon Creek. you know and that's a big curiosity for me you know a lot of it is how did these creek names or these mountains receive their names you know I can understand lightning ridge well you're going to have lightning strikes on that ridge right

that's why you would name it that or deer creek right there's a lot of deer in the creek right or in that general area of that creek there's a lot of deer or elk valley, right? But here you have something in the Willamette National Forest, which is almost a million acres, that says Baboon Creek.

And this drainage creek is a non-significant creek. I mean, most of the time in the summertime, I imagine it's one of those drainage creeks that goes bone dry. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGYN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states. There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it.

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Get your free wealth protection guide when you text IHeart to 50505. That's IHeart to 505.05. But yet the Forest Service on their map has it named as Baboon Creek. So my question is, how did it receive its name? I mean, you look in the area, and there's no rock formations in that area that would resemble a baboon. So how did he get its name? Oregon has exotic pet laws as far as I'm. I understand.

You're not allowed to own an exact pet like a baboon. So a family out on a Sunday drive and their pet baboon gets loose in the area is probably not why they name that drainage creek baboon creek. I assume, and I'd like to believe just my opinion, that at some point you had someone that, that either did or didn't work for the Forest Service, have some kind of siding or encounter right there in that general area. When they got back to the office, they told their fellow employees about it. And when they decided to issue out a new map for the year

or however often they like to print out maps, maybe they decided then that they would name that area or that drainage creek baboon creek i don't know that's something you'd have to ask the forest service about so what are the odds that only three to five miles away there's a drainage creek that has happened to be named baboon creek it's one of those places that you know well i can say i've talked to it more than a few people about the williamid national forest and the bigfoot activity there and the people that are really into it which um in this interview anyways names won't be named um that that that place always gets brought up as it's hard to get to but there's stuff that happens there that is absolutely

crazy. So it is one of the more intense areas. Only being what you said, three miles away from where you were at, that really makes you wonder. I mean, that's not a long, long trip at all. No, I would guess I could get there in about seven minutes from where we were at. Have you ever gone to check that place out? No, but I like to. And sometimes that's the difficulty is ever since that happened I can't go out and recreationally do anything without bringing somebody with me

and he used to be able to go out alone no problem I believed in Bigfoot yeah I thought he was out there but I thought the chances of me ever running into one was pretty well slim to none but then it happened and now I think there's Bigfoot everywhere

or the possibility that there is and I've got to bring somebody with me if I want to go out there and do anything. And sometimes it's just difficult to connect with people and their schedules and my schedules and match up days off to be able to go out and do things like that. So no, I haven't been back into the area.

I haven't been back to where I had my encounter and I haven't even done any of that there. I know right where it's at. I still have it GPSed on my map. so it'd be no problem for me to drive right back there and take a look around but i sure and heck is i'm not going to do anything like that by myself oh yeah absolutely i think that's that's wise too for for anyone who's into this uh not not to do the going by yourself uh route um so getting a good look at it do you think that is there any way that you could

protect yourself from a creature this big and so powerful? No, no. Even if I had my handgun, you know, my availability, which in the moment I didn't, it was at the bottom of my backpack, and it would have been a real deal trying to tell this thing, okay, big guy, just stay there and don't move while I slip off my backpack, fight to open up this zipper, grab a hole of my chest waders, and wrench them out of this backpack

to retrieve my handgun and then point it at you in defense. I mean, it's a 40 caliber handgun, but I don't think even at a short distance of 30 feet, it's going to have any kind of penetrating power to be able to penetrate the sheer mass of this animal. I mean, if it is related to a primate, if it is, then primates have, I don't remember what the number was, but it was a crazy number, like 20 times denser muscles than humans do. So it's going to be hard for even a high caliber bullet to penetrate all that tissue to get to a vital organ.

and this thing is thick. I mean, if it turned sideways and you were to look at the front of the chest to the back of the chest, I mean, that sucker had to be two feet or two and a half feet thick from the chest to the back. I just don't think it'd be wise to

point a stick, point a weapon, point anything at this. this creature. I think the best thing anybody can do is to do a lot like what I did. Don't move. Hold your ground. Don't do anything rash. Try to stay calm and collected what you can.

And just let it move off. You know, let it get tired of you and just move off. And I think that's what it did. It got a good look at me. It realized I wasn't trying to be a big, big threat towards it. Maybe it felt no real challenge from me. But I think that, you know, if it wanted me, it had me dead to rights,

especially at 30 feet away. It wouldn't surprise me, especially if they're in that squatted position, that they would literally be able to take one. one leap through the air downhill and be right smack dab on top of you. And it'd be over. It'd be over. You'd be done. But none of that has happened.

None of that did happen. I'm obviously alive to talk about it with you today. But I think if you're experiencing things out there that are considered maybe aggressive in nature, just turn around and start. and slowly walk your way out the way that you came in. There's no need to ag it on for what? To put you in more danger or the people you're with in more danger, just take the sign.

They don't want you in the area, get out of the area. And that's kind of what I did that day, especially when I had to make a stupid Bigfoot call that I never thought would have any results. I mean, is that why I saw it that day? Did I happen to call it in? I don't know. I mean, it's possible.

But if you see one or you have one throwing grapefruit-sized to bowling-sized rocks through the woods at you or they're pushing down trees or they're doing things like that, I think it's a pretty good sign that you just need to pack it. it up and get out of there. I mean, don't push the issue. That's just my opinion of what people should do.

I mean, treat it like anything else that's wild because you've got to understand a lot of the translations from Indian languages will literally translate into one of two things. Harry man or wild man.

emphasis on wild is the difference between a wolf and a dog are they both canines yes but you know that thing is wild and you don't know exactly what you're going to get from it so give it respect give it space the Indians used to say that when they would see signs of these things in an area of the woods

they'd give them a wide birth. The Indians would go off and hunt somewhere else. They'd leave that area alone. And I think that's how we should continue to do it. The Native Americans, well, they've been around them longer than, you know, as white people. I think we need to listen to them when they say, you know, this is how you should treat them and behave and everything else. and some of the Indians say that they like to eat people,

need to stay away from them. You know, I think we need to listen to all those things and consider all those things. You don't have to believe all those things, but at least consider them as a possibility. Excuse me. Absolutely. I definitely, definitely agree with that.

I've been doing a lot of research into Oak Ridge, And it seems like the more I dig into it, it's a very intense area. Or maybe I'm just not used to how Oregon is in general. Do you think that that area is intense more than other areas in Oregon when it comes to Sasquatch? Or do you think the whole state in general is just out of control? There's a lot of rural areas in Oregon. I mean, once you get outside of any small town or low, larger town or city.

I mean, it's just nothing but woods. I mean, you got to understand a lot of these people that live five to ten miles outside of a town in a rural area. Your backyard is nothing but Douglas fir trees and forests. Whether that's a national forest or it's timber

company owned it's forest and if you fly a drone up or get in a plane it's nothing but miles and miles of forest it goes on and on and on I mean basically we all kind of live

in the woods I hate to say it that way but just take an aerial view of it the umpqua national forest is 900,000 acres the Willamette National Forest is well it's about the same

it's 900,000 to a million acres you go to Mount Hood I mean it's in the three sisters area same thing and holy crap you go down on the Oregon California border and that's the same

way it's rural it's nothing but woods and mountains and woods I mean there's no wonder people get lost in this state And it's pretty easy to get turned around. It all looks the same if you're out there wandering around and you don't have the skill sets to, you know,

navigate yourself in and out of areas. But I don't think there's necessarily certain hotspots. I mean, you could encounter these things almost anywhere in the state to be completely honest with you. And I think, you know, there are certain areas where there's more recreation. going on, more human activity. And I think that to a large degree, these things are, you know, a little curious by nature and they want to check you out.

And then they'll kind of decide on their own if they want to, you know, let you be or try to intimidate you out of the area. But I think, yeah, there's a lot of boating and kayaking and a lot of hiking trails that people like to use. all of those are still in remote areas of the state and it gives anybody the opportunity to have an experience or a sighting but I can't really say definitively that one place is going to have more activity than the other

I think that is based off the time of the year and where the food sources are because when we were there on March 10th that's springtime and in that creek that we were gold prospecting in, the salmon were running. I mean, I could have walked out in the creek and just bent down and grabbed up a spring salmon. I mean, they were flopping and everything in through there. So it's a great food source.

As far as I understand, these things love fish. They love salmon. Well, we have a spring, a fall in a winter fish run. in all of the creeks and streams that feed our rivers. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGYN recommended brand, and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states.

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Text IHeart to 50505. So I would guess that, you know, maybe we interrupted it getting some fish for the day. I mean, that's a possibility too. We also suspect that they love huckleberries. And you've heard reports, reports of them going as far as eating deer and eating elk. So I'm assuming that these things have a range that they go through throughout the year.

And whatever food source is in these areas is where you're going to find them. You know, spring, fall, winter, if the fish are running, you have a good opportunity that they're feeding on fish. If the berries are ripe, well, there's an opportunity that are feeding on berries. If there's no berries and no fish in the moment, they're probably going to switch to deer and elk and other things. And so you kind of use that as a guide if you're out there trying to look for these things. You need to place yourself in areas where those food sources are plentiful and ripe. I did not come back from Oakridge the same person.

I will say that I experienced some things that were very weird. I ended up having bacterial infections in my legs that I had to go to the doctor, urgent care for that I got up in the woods. Like, Jay, it was nuts. It was absolutely, that area is crazy. Oh, wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you know, that's all right. I mean, I still got my legs. But it's just weird.

It's just weird. They didn't really, two doctors in two different states had no idea what happened. So be probably wearing pants in the woods when I go out next. That's what it comes down to.

Always a good idea. Yeah, always a good idea. But what year again was that when you had your encounter in Oakridge? March 10th, 2016. Wow. That is, yeah. Wow, that is so recent.

It hasn't been a day It has gone by. I have not thought about it. Do you ever... Has what happened there? Has it affected your dreams? Or is it constantly in... This is kind of weird to say, but...

Is it constantly on your mind almost to the point where, like, you're looking around at the real world, but you almost see that same area? I'm not even sure how to explain that. But... I know what you... I think. think I know what you're getting at. Yeah, it's, uh, I've never dreamt about the experience. I've

never had nightmares about the experience or woke up in a cold sweat. And I don't even know how to put a number on it. But, uh, I find myself daydreaming a lot about that experience that day. Just reliving it in my mind. No real emotions attached to reliving it in my mind, just can't stop reliving it in my mind. I think the way to describe it would be in comparison, possibly, now I'm not a vet, I never served in the military. But it would be like someone who was in the military and unfortunately had to take the life of other peoples.

And I think the first time that happens for a military vet taking someone else's life, life, I should say, I think there's not going to be a day that goes by in that man's mind where he doesn't replay that in his mind. And that's the same thing with me. I don't dream about it, but during the day, I often think about it. absolutely and that's the best way i can i can describe it for myself and my own experience that changes you man yeah it no it it definitely it definitely does and uh i just can't imagine to the effect that actually having a visual sighting does that um yeah it's i wish matt

would have seen it i wish matt would have seen i wish he was an unbeliever i already believe I didn't have to see one in life. Right. I already believed it. It was out there. There's enough circumstantial evidence out there. But I want him to see it. If I could have just got him to come up there and stand next to me, he would have seen it too.

Do you think he's still an unbeliever? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I didn't quite get along with his personality anyway, especially on the drive there. I got a real feel for the guy. And I was like, ah, I don't really. don't really click with this guy, but that's all right. We're going to go out here.

We're all going to have a good time and make a day of it, you know. Jay, it has been a pleasure chatting with you. I mean, it's a fascinating account. And I'm glad that we decided to take the extra time outside of, you know, we only got, I want to say, 15, 20 minutes at the festival. And this was much needed. to spend the time so that you could really, really pick it apart. And thank you so much for coming on today, Jay.

You're welcome, absolutely. You got my number, and you can get ahold of me anytime. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay true.

tuned because it's pretty cool Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one. I'll be one of the speakers. It's going to be wild.

I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else because let's just say sometimes it's well you just got to be there. We'll leave it.

that more about looking for big foot in the oakridge woods now check this out you may know jason kenzie from his documentary series searching for saskatch well this year you can not only go to the festival but you can also sign up for a trek deep in the wild forest outside of oakridge with jason kensi to the bigfoot spots to look for bigfoot there's only eight sports but spots to sign up for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is searching for Sasquatch. This is a once-in-lifetime deal.

It's just, trust me, it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest.com and listeners can use the code BSP, like Bigfoot Society podcast, in order to get a two-day pass for. for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oak Ridge this year.

We can talk about your encounter. I was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it. and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.

If you're in the military, any branch, or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot

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if you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field or trucker with government contracts, and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul, and if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract, who has found evidence you're not allowed to report, if you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat, and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or anything with clearance, and you've seen what the public hasn't,

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