Bigfoot Society - Terrifying Loon Lake & Bumping Lake Bigfoot Encounters | Real Idaho & Washington Sightings

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

In this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, Jeremiah Byron talks with Rob from Idaho, a veteran Bigfoot researcher with over two decades of experience in the Pacific Northwest.Rob shares terrifying firsthand encounters from two of the most active Sasquatch hotspots in the United States — Loon Lake, Idaho and Bumping Lake, Washington.Hear about eerie yellow eye-shine, a strange siren-like howl, and the mysterious low-frequency hum that shook the ground during a BFRO expedition.You’ll also learn about Rob’s later investigations in Northern Idaho and the Sawtooth Mountains, his possible brush with a glowing orb, and what it’s really like to search for Bigfoot in some of America’s most remote wilderness.👣 Highlights:Loon Lake (Idaho): overnight Bigfoot encounter, glowing eyes, and Ohio-style howlsBumping Lake (Washington): unexplained vibrations and shadow movementSawtooth Mountains (Idaho): glowing orb and green-eyed figure sightingRob’s work with BFRO and Finding BigfootIf you love real Bigfoot sightings, true encounter stories, and cryptid research from Idaho and Washington, this episode is a must-listen.🗣️ 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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The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it, so settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Pickfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Rob today. Rob is an individual that I got connected to over on Facebook, and he's been through some really interesting things. We're going to hear about some experiences that he's had tonight.

He's been a researcher since 2004, and we might hear later about how he was on the show finding Bigfoot as well, and maybe even some expeditions that he's been on. But Rob, welcome to the show. How are you doing today, sir? I'm doing great. Jeremiah, I'm doing great today. Fantastic. I've lived in Idaho for a number of years. I moved here in 1976, and I've lived here since.

But we moved from Beaverton, which is from Beaverton's over by the Portland area. It's like a suburb of Portland. And I remember hearing about a little bit of tidbits about Bigfoot over there. And I think I remember going to Bigfoot movie like an old one. And so it was, I don't know if that's where the seed got planted or what, but I was very young when we were in Oregon. I was six by the time we, I'd turn six at summer when we moved here. So I was pretty young. Gotcha.

And as you're going along and starting to get more into the subject, was there a experience that you had that really set things off? Maybe you're out in the woods and you see something or hear something that really? really affected you. So my first real experience was when I, so I went to a BFRO, like the other expeditions. I think that was 2006 when I went to my first one. And so we didn't have sighting or anything like that, But I know on that trip, some of the, there was a few guys that, I guess, got a, did a cast with Placer of Paris. And we had some movement up in the trees and we could see it. Whatever it was swaying the trees, we could see it on the therm. And it was just almost, it was just checking us out watching us.

And so that was my first experience with that. And then after I got home and I was just continuing to do research on my own or with my friend, I hiked up a little, there's up in the foothills, there's these little areas that you can hike into. And I found like a deer kill. And I don't know what it was that killed it. If it was, it could have been a person, obviously, but it was very unusual. Front legs were missing, no head, and I had a twisting motion on a vertebrae, which I thought was unusual. No hide. It was, hide was totally stripped.

And also what was left of the hide, there was like pieces of the hide, like in a circle around this deer kill. It was just really weird pieces of fur or whatever you want to call it hair around the deer kill. And I just thought that was, if a person didn't do that, I can't think anybody else, and no animal that I know could have done that. And that was the next step. And I sent some of that stuff to Otto Williams and asked her what about it. Because I sent her some pictures and it was just inconclusive. And then from there was my experience, Loon Lake, which is up by McCall.

me and a friend had quite her reasoning experience of Blue Lake and it was we ended up spending the night out there we weren't going to spend the night

we were trying to hike in and out on the same day but it's about a five mile hike and if you don't get busy and keep a pretty good pace you could end up getting stuck out there so that's what happened on that hike

we got stuck out there ended up spending the night ended up seeing something that I had no answer for and we saw yellow eyeshine and we always felt like we were being tracked which I thought was unusual

I've never gotten that feeling before but we definitely had that feeling that night and my friend thought he when he looked out in the woods we were on a trail right like a four-wheeler trailer that trail that we were following. And we were following the trail,

and he saw something, jump over a log, he said. And, yeah, that experience was pretty wild. We also, in the middle of the night, heard what we thought was a siren, which I've heard this thing can make all kinds of noise

and do all different kinds of things. And I didn't know what to think. at the time, if I could have got out of there, I would have. But we're talking in the middle of the night, like 11 o'clock, 11 p.m., something like that. And it was just pitch blackness. And we just heard this, sounded exactly like the siren on the middle of the forest. And we're just looking at each other like, what in the, what was that? And so by the time we got out of there, it was morning.

And we could hear these calls high up. like probably I'm going to guess it was my phone was dead so I couldn't even look at my phone and see what time it was and I didn't have a watch then but we can hear or higher up we could hear

something sounded sounded like it was calling and I said my friend I'm like what is that and he goes I don't know he's a kid's playing and I'm like I don't know man it's six in the morning kids are going to be playing up on a hillside somewhere

it sounds pretty, pretty unlikely to me. And it sounded, if you've ever heard the Ohio hell online, that's similar to what it sounded like was the Ohio hell, but off in the distance. We heard that for a good, I don't know, over an hour for sure, hour and a half. And at the time we were just trying to get out of there. And then it was crazy because my friend and I got separated.

and then because I was good, I'd been walking so long and it took my shoes off, my boots. And I just left my boots on because I was afraid I wouldn't get them back on. So I didn't take them off or anything, even at night. And so I just left my boots on. And I told my friend, I was just like, run ahead, get help, do anything, just so we can get out of here. And so I was, I was trying to stay. put, but I was trying to see if I could find where he went, because we ended up going on a different trail out than we came in on, which I knew it was a huge no-no, but I didn't want to

separate. And finally this guy in a motorcycle pops up, and I'm just sitting there because I could hear him coming my way, and he's, you Rob? And I go, yeah. And he goes, get on. I'll bring you back to Kim. And I'm like, what? Where's Tori?

He goes, don't worry about it. Get on. I'll keep over there. And I'm like, okay. So I hopped on his dirt bike, and he brought me back to where his camp was. And we were a good few miles away from the car, even when he was his camp. So it set us back pretty far, but luckily he brought us back to my car. And, yeah, it was a hurry recent night.

Nothing I ever experienced for sure. Wow, that's extremely lucky for you guys at the end. So this is like an alpine lake about 6,500 feet up. It looks like when I look it up. Yeah, Lynn Lake, yeah. Okay. And there's an old plane rack back there from like World War II. And those guys had to pack.

He was pretty wild. We went and looked at it and everything. The wreckage of the plane is still there, but he took all the electronics and everything out. Yeah, he was something to remember for sure. and yeah once we got out of there I was just like I always just happy to be out of there finally I don't blame you

what year was this again? So when that happened I believe that was 2009 I want to say yeah I think it was 2009 gotcha I believe so you said you saw some yellow eye shine

how high up was that eye shine would you approximately Yeah, and it was really weird. It was, the eye shine wasn't very high. It was like maybe four to six inches off the ground. And they were almost like orbs, lowly lit, yellow. The weird thing is it was only maybe 15 to 20 feet from us at the most. And I'm just, I was just sitting there with my mouth open going,

what in the heck is going on here? But we didn't, like the next morning, we checked for tracks. We didn't see tracks. We didn't see any. There's nothing there. Granted, it's hard ground, but for something that big, you would have thought it would have left some kind of a mark, and we could not find nothing.

And it was only the next day when I really thought, when we heard those calls, I was like, that's definitely something. I've definitely heard that online before. And then we, just the whole experience on like this, find it hard to be hoaxed. I don't find it hard that somebody hoaxed us. Oh, sure. For me, yeah.

I didn't tell anybody I was even going up there with my parents. And I don't know about Toria and I don't think he told anybody either. So that was, yeah, that was for her reason experience because I did not expect it. We didn't have a sleeping bag. We had nothing to stay warm. Granted, it was in July, and luckily I had my pack and I started like a little fire and gathered up some wood. And so we did that.

At least we had something, but still get pretty chilly there even in July. And no shelter up there. It sounds like you did you have to figure out something with that yourself then, put some bows together or something? Yeah, we didn't even we since we were since he and I were

like wondering what the heck it's going on here we basically took turns tending the fire and watching it and took turns sleeping and then we just went back and forth through the night when I didn't get much sleep at all because you closed my eyes

and all I can do is pictures of the whole thing figure watching us. That's all I could see when I tried to sleep. So needless to say, I didn't get much sleep. And yeah, so that was basically what we were doing, just going back and forth, trying to make sure the fire was going. Absolutely, yeah. And so was this experience, would you say it was the time when you were pushed way past

100%? Yeah, there's something out there or had you already gotten to that point? in the BFRO expedition a few years prior? Yeah, I was, by the time, once I had the BFRO experience with the track cast and things like that and hearing other people's stories and coming across, there was even a couple of people that were like habituators, which means they knew somebody or they had experience with one that was ongoing, where there was almost like a relationship where they saw it often. And so hearing stuff like that really piqued my curiosity.

But once we had this experience, I was like, okay, this is tough for real. There's no question. Absolutely. Having all the experience, I was just like, there's no way this got to be the real deal. And that was my first BFRO. Were you saying you had, so you had connections with individuals that had habituation going on? Yeah, when I went to that BRFRO expedition, people share stories and went back and forth and you get a lot of people asking you, what's your experiences with this and that.

And I hadn't had any experience that was my first time. So I was trying to get my feet wet, trying to figure out how to research this and how to get out there and do it on my own. So once I did that, then I did a few of those. And then I'm like, okay, I think I can grasp for this to where I can go out and do it and me have at least one other person. Because I used to go to Loon Lake by myself and nothing happened. I would always go to Loon Lake, always because on the BFRO website was one of the areas where there was activity. So I'm like, man, five mile hike,

but I think I can do it because I hike. I hike enough. I can definitely do five miles, but I was always going by myself. So one time I take somebody with me and I'm having this crazy experience. So, yeah.

That first expedition you went on, was that in Washington then? Yeah, that one was, so the first one was in they call Bumping Lake. Oh, sure. Yeah, if you've ever heard of Bumping Lake is known for activity. Bumping Lake, you go outside of Yakvon,

and then you just keep going and gets to really remote area, kind of how Loon Lake is. Get outside of town and it's really remote all starts. Yeah. Gotcha. So 2006, Bumping Lake, which is a location that's really well known in the community now, for sure. A lot of people know about that area.

I don't know if it was still the same back. then, but we definitely had stuff going on. Just we had, we definitely had something going on with, and we thought it was an owl, right? So it was weird, though, because it was like, if one's an owl, there's something that's answering that doesn't sound like an owl to me. That was the only thing I was trying to figure out.

It was almost like it was something that was trying to draw the owl in. and so for me that was had a question mark that I didn't feel like whatever it was answering the owl was the same thing okay and yeah it was that's what made it interesting for me and then seeing the figure in the trees and he was swaying between two trees just watching us and I'm like wow this is pretty cool because I didn't have any experience at all so I was just like in the experience I can get a great thing. That is, that's really cool. So when you were hearing that callback,

when the owl would make the noise and you would hear something else, was it because it was too loud a noise that it threw you off? Yeah, so, yeah, I don't know. It was almost like it was like we would hear an owl in the horned owl or whatever they thought it was.

And then I'm like, I'd listen to it because they're like, yeah, that's what the horn all sounds like. And then I'm like, okay, I hear it on one end, but then what I was calling back, it was like it was similar and the tone

was about the same, but it seemed like it was a little bit off, like not quite the same as an all, I didn't think. So there was a big question mark there as to what that really was. That and I it was weird, I got a low humming,

there too. A low, kind of like a vibration, like something I could really feel. I could even hear it, but some people just felt it. But it was, it was a really interesting area, really interesting over there. So that's extremely interesting. So you were hearing a low hum noise? Yeah, low hum noise. And it was like, gosh, I don't know how to describe it. It was, I mean, it was even it was an even sound but it was almost so low that not everybody could hear it or feel it okay only some people could that's really interesting yeah some couldn't and it was it was a wild like when you get a ringing in your ear and you can't get rid of it you've ever had that yeah when you get a ringing in your ear and why is it doing that I've had that happen before that that's

how this was like I didn't know know how to get away from it because it was like it was to where I could hear it and I could feel it and it's God this is so wild because I've never had that experience anywhere I've ever been absolutely so were you feeling it that most people say like they feel it in their chest or were you feeling it a certain way then yeah I could feel it it it seemed like it was right on ground level at my feet and it was like uh to me it just felt like a low vibration. And then it was like a hum, like hom, a song.

And then it was just even. And it was just really wild. I don't know how I described that because I've never had that anywhere else but there. That is really interesting to hear that brought up almost. This is almost 20 years ago we're talking about. Right now, people are really looking into that hum noise. It's being recorded all over the U.S. in different spots.

And I try and his guys are really looking into it. So it's cool to hear you talk about it in a situation that's almost 20 years back. Do you remember who the leader of that expedition was? I do. His name is Kevin Jones. Okay. Kevin was there. Yeah.

He was there for that one. And he was there for that. I went on another one in Northern Idaho. He loved that one as well. That's awesome. It was him and, yeah, Kevin Jones. And then Mike Pierce was a guy that he and I became friends through the second one. He's from Spokane.

Gotcha. So the second expedition was that after the situation that happened in Loon Lake then in 2009? Yeah. So that was, man, I would have to look up there, Chuck, but I think it was like 2015 or 2016. when I did that. And it was just kind of like it was a thing because I had a whole group of us

and a guy in the group asked me would you consider doing this because they had one in Pocatello one time in eastern Idaho and his name, Brandon, Tenet. They wanted to have him go out with them and I guess it just didn't work out because he was getting married

and he had a lot of stuff going in his life so he backed out and then he handed it to another Rob, Rob that I know, Rob Fields, well, that Robb turned him down and then that Rob gave him my name. So then I'm like,

I'll do it. Oh, so you were leading it then? I was leading my own group, yeah. Wow. But I wasn't, yeah, I wasn't leading my own. I wasn't leading, I wasn't leading the BFRO stuff, but yeah, I was leading my own group, and we'd go out and we'd do stuff and see if we could get anything recorded or things answered. Because when in the beginning, it was just me and Tori in 2004.

And then once I started doing a, I did my, my Northwest Bigfoot page, Then it just started growing. People, yeah, people started joining up and people were more interested in going out and seeing what they could dig up. And I'm like, okay, great, I'm down because that was the whole reason I started the page is to meet more people that would want to go out and do it. Interesting. So in this either 2015 or 2016, do you remember, were there any interesting things that happened in the northern 9th? Idaho expedition? Oh, yeah.

Okay. That one, yeah, that one, that one was pretty interesting. A funny thing about Northern Idaho is they have a lot of stuff going on out there, but they don't get recognized as much for some reason. But I did have, I didn't have any sightings on that one either, but we did have activity. We did calls. and the minute we did the calls, coyotes,

or when we did the calls, we were getting an answer to the calls because we were doing on a speaker. So we got to get a call back. The minute that call would start up, the coyotes would just go off. And then you couldn't hear anything. Like the coyotes were so loud

that you couldn't hear anything with coyotes. And then we did a night drive. one night and we went out we had uh we're actually in Kevin's Jeep and we had a we had a let's see we had a camera up on top of this car so one was pointing up and then I was holding the one that's pointing back to see if something would pop out of the bush and on that night we did a night walk and when we did a nightwalk, I was sitting down and Mike was letting me use this. I call it bionic ear. So with that ear, you can hear a circumference of, I don't know how many feet,

of probably at least a couple hundred feet all the way around you. And when I did that, I was just sitting there in the chair, and you can hear it's so sensitive you can hear something as little as just like somebody shuffling their feet and just walking around so I'm trying to tell everybody just can you still for just like a couple minutes

or something because I think I'm getting something here and I recorded what they call Samurai Chatter and that's supposedly supposed to be like the way that they talk. They call it Samurai Chatter. And it was funny when you played it back, it almost sounded like Scooby-Doo. Because he did like a little funny laugh almost.

And it was really, really wild. Sounded like gibberish. And then it was almost like he did this giggle. And that was super cool. That was really cool. And he played it for the group and everything in the next day. So that was pretty awesome.

So your buddy got that recorded. It's not something that you recorded, though. No, because I used his equipment. Gotcha. And I've always wanted to just get that sound bite of that of just like five or six seconds or whatever it is. Because I'd been using it for about an hour. But that was one little tidbit I got. And then also my buddy.

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So it definitely was not me. I know that. And he said it was like a face pressing itself against his tent. Oh, really? So he can see like the outline. me. He could see like the outline of a face on the ins from the inside of it. So he told me. And I'm like, I don't know what to tell you, but it was not me for sure. And I've heard different things like I've heard, like my friend said he did an M&M thing. And he set out M&Ms in a certain order. And then he said like in the morning,

like M&Ms were still there, but they're rearranged in different order. So there's definitely stuff going on. I don't know how they communicate, but I think that's, I think that could be a way that they communicate. I just, I haven't figured it out. Yeah, I mean, there are definitely a lot of really interesting experiments that people have tried to try to get communication going. And I think that would definitely be a version of it.

Sometimes, man, there's one guy where he, like, would leave a piece of paper and a pen out and then see if they would write something back, tick-tac-toe, all sorts of things. I think that was Kawani who did that in one of his books. But so I've talked to people in Northern Idaho, Kellogg, things like that. So you're saying Northern Idaho, though, is what it seems like. Okay, so yeah, so we were, I say Northern Idaho, it wasn't way up there. It was, I believe it was between Lewiston and Moscow. So I guess there's a lot of action on the Clearwater. They were telling me on the VRO, when I did finding BigFRAO people, but they were telling me that they get a lot of action on the Clearwater.

That's cool. That's all to know. Yeah, we did go out there a couple times. Gotcha. So when you were involved with finding Bigfoot then, was that Idaho-based? That was also Idaho-based. So we went to, we all meant Cordellane, which is, that's almost the top, not quite, but it's up there. So we all met Cordellane.

And then from Cortaline, we just zipped up and down, just went like all over the place. because I had met when Tyler called me, Tyler Bounce, he called me and asked me if I wanted to do some stuff for the show. He met me and McCall. And McCall for me is two to an hour-hour drive. So I think he was only a few hours north of there or so. So it was halfway for both of us. And then we just did a little night thing.

he wanted to see if you could get any activity of it, we didn't get nothing. And then in the next month or so, that's where we met up in Cordillane. And I think I was there for four or five days, something like that. And did a lot of driving and stuff like that. I was in the clip where they're outside of the casino. I was in that scene somebody I guess saw one in back of the casino up there close to court lane

I was in that scene and then I think I was in one other scene but yeah did a lot of driving for sure that's cool so you were going out with Tyler before the show started filming to try to drum up activity yeah okay yeah yeah and come to find out Tyler was, come to find out Tyler was on that

BRFRO versus BFRO expedition I went on. I guess he was there. Oh, that's cool. But I didn't know Tyler at the time. Yeah, he was, he's in California camp. I didn't know him at the time, but

yeah, that's where he stayed. So it was cool to find that out. And that from there, I meet Cliff and everybody and that. So it's cool. Oh, sure. So you have these really cool experiences being involved with a few BFR expeditions and finding Bigfoot, but you're also going out a lot on your own. Was there ever a time where you felt like maybe you were able to get a sighting or something in close proximity outside of what you saw on the first BFRO expedition?

I did have another experience. That's the thing. I had another encounter in the Sautus, and I went out with a guy that's Travis. He's in the Bigfoot, Lives in Idaho book, and the series of books that Becky Cook wrote. And he and I did go out, and we went to area in the Sautus called Redfish Lake, right outside of Stanley there. and we definitely felt like we were being tracked and it was one of those things. For something so big, it doesn't make a ton of noise, but it's enough that you notice it. And then like when you stop, it stops. And then you keep going and then you're hearing it again.

And you stop and it stops. And so it's really wild. But we got when we're, we just hiked a couple of times. miles the first day because the next day was a really a longer hike and harder for sure but the first night we just hiked a couple miles into a camp spot campground and we saw exactly what looked like a i don't know what to call it some people say that's the portal but it looked like a shining light in the sky and it was only maybe 40 feet above our heads and I was like, do you see that?

And he goes, yeah, I see it, I see it. And I'm like, I go, holy crap, what the heck is that? And I don't know. And I'm like, I don't know either. And, you know, that thing. But then all of a sudden, that ball slowly drops into the trees and then just disappears. And I bet within five minutes, we see this figure pop out. it was just on the perimeter,

just on the edge of the trees, right at the edge of the campsite. You see this figure, two legs, pop out of it, goes from one side of the trees to the other, and flashed green eyes, and if you've ever seen Patterson Gimlin film, the form was perfect for that film,

arm's sway and everything. flash green eyes at us and I'm thinking whoa what is that and the thing it was taller than the first one I saw slightly hunched back I could see that

a conical head and it has a hunch when it walks and then it just when a flash green eyes it just kept walking and it just kept cruising and that was the last we saw of it

And then we were up there when we went up to the lake, second night, I got a whoop. And then I asked Travis, he goes, no, I didn't hear nothing. And I'm like, what the heck? You didn't hear that? Because our tents were right together. So I'm like, he goes, no, I didn't hear anything. So I'm like, okay, that's weird. I know I heard something right after getting into my tent and getting ready to go to bed and stuff.

and here it was, whoop. And that was all I heard. After that, I fell asleep and I didn't hear any more. And that was it for experience, yeah. Wow, that's incredible. What year was that, would you think? That was, so that was, trying to think of what year that was. That had to be 2017, I believe.

that was after that was after my finding Bigfoot stuff I think it was 17 or 18 but yeah I was always trying to do something every summer where I'd go out with somebody or do something or

do like camp out or whatever so that was the one I did with him and yeah we had that stuff happened and kind of interesting that same area there had been a guy that had disappeared. This guy was by

himself though. He was solo. And he disappeared on a hike and I've talked to his mom on the internet, emailed her back and forth because they did a book on it. He wasn't from here, but he was, that place is like a resort area, like a summer

resort where people come in from everywhere and they work there for the summer and then they do their thing and then they go back to where they came from and this guy was from out of state. And I think he was in an area called Grand Mogul. I think that's where he got,

I think that's where they were searching in. Lo and behold, they had searched this area like the guy that was heading the search and stuff, doing the search and rescue for it. He said they'd searched a certain area like three or four times

and they came back and his stuff, some of his stuff was laid out on the trail, almost like it was meant to be found. Oh, wow. Yeah. So it's one of those, yeah. Yeah, so it's one of those where somebody actually disappeared and they could find them. And that was before, that was like, I think that was about 10 years before I did that, did that hike.

That's why I wanted to go to that area. I was like, okay, we need to see if we can get over there and figure out what's going on. Okay. After talking to his mom. It looks like Grand Mogul is a mountain peak that's just outside of Redfish Lake. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha.

Interesting. Wow. That is quite the encounter you guys had. So was it around dusk or what time of day was it that you had to happen? Ours was right around, it was right around dusk. It was light enough to where I could see color. fur and see what color it was. But it was to the point where it was starting to get dark.

But I could see, clearly sees a light brown color on the fur down to where like it was almost blonde on some of his leg. It was, yeah, I would say it was dusk. Sun wasn't quite behind the mountain, but it was close. Sure. The next day were you able to find any tracks? Did you look around over by where it was? We, yeah, we tried to look around and we tried to see if we could see anything.

Of course, I couldn't find anything, couldn't see anything. It would have been walking in grass, but at least you would think you'd see something, something where it was pressed down or something like that. But the way this thing moves is so stoff. It's almost like I've heard different stories on how it moves. Oh, sure. Absolutely. I've heard, yeah, I've heard story where, like, it was even keeping up with a car.

And a car was going 50 miles an hour. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Yeah, I've heard that before. So you mentioned that you experienced the hum out in Bumping Lake. Do you think you've ever experienced anything that comes close to infrasound when you've been out in these areas? That's what crossed my mind is, was I infrasound or was it something? else since not everybody could hear it and I could also feel it too. I've never experienced anything like that anywhere else that I've ever been going in the mountains a lot and being a skier and

never had that anywhere else I've ever been to. So yeah, I can't put my finger on what it would have been other than I clearly be felt. It's just funny because when, And I, originally when I had the experience of the home and stuff, I was just like, I dismissed it. And then, of course, Kevin was like, is anyone else experience a hum or feeling anything? And I'm like, no freaking way. So I'm not crazy. Somebody else is experiencing it too. And then come to find out there was a few of us that were having that.

Because I thought I was going crazy. I'm like, what's going on here? I'm thinking I'm imagining it. Like, I was just missing it. Wow. Was there ever a time where you were almost, it was like they wanted you to leave an area when you're in on a, let's say, research trip, or there was any kind of aggressive interactions?

Originally, when I got into this, I wasn't really afraid of. going out alone and things like that. It was only later. Probably I watched too much missing 4-1-1 stuff. I don't know, but I don't go out alone at all anymore. But, yeah, I've never had like bluff charge. Never had any of that stuff. Never had rocks thrown at me.

That's pretty, I would say that's pretty aggressive behavior. If you ask me, if you're getting rocks, growing up, but I've never had any odd stuff. So I'd have to say no. The only thing I've know is like when we saw green eyes, I've been told they said that means stay away or that means danger from what I was told. Okay. Yeah. That's it somebody was telling me. So I'm like, yeah, I was in there trying to approach it. Definitely was quite the deal. It was quite the experience. Yeah, Rob, is this a thing you're still doing today, or have you backed off a little bit from going out? I still go out.

I haven't, I didn't go out really this summer. I went to Eugene and I was hoping to have, I wanted to do more stuff. I did go to Walla with some friends and had a guy interview me because he's got a podcast. and he's got a lot of followers. So he did interview me for the McCall one in a group of us, Mint Walla for like Paul Freeman, the area where Paul Freeman did some casts.

And he had a lot of sighting stuff in that area. He's a forest ranger. I don't know if you know of him, but yeah, that was the first time I'd been to that area. So that was cool to see that. Do you remember what podcast that was for? Jonathan's? He's got a name he uses like a handle or whatever, like Sask, Sask, Q-U-I, which is in his real last name.

It's Jonathan Easley. Yeah, we're... Easily, yeah, that's what it is. We're good buddies. Easily, yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. Okay, that's cool.

Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, he's got a YouTube channel and he goes out and does a lot of stuff with this kind of thing. Editors, no, Jonathan Easley. YouTube channel is Western Bigfoot Exploration, and everyone listening to this should be subscribed to it. It is incredible. Back to the show.

So were you also going out in Eugene then and looking around places out there? I wanted to, Eugene. I didn't. There was a girl on my page, Michelle, that I guess she's got an active area, and I was hoping her and I could. her and I could meet, but it didn't pan out. I wonder if that was... Because they got a spot over there.

I wonder if that's the Shale. Yeah, from Sweet Home. Yeah, from Sweet Home, yeah. So I was hoping her and I could do something together. And I'm also friends with Jeff. I don't know if you know if Jeff Rohn. Oh, yeah. Jeff's a good guy too.

Yeah, absolutely. Jeff's really cool guy. He's in that Flash of Beauty. Yep, and he knows all about the Oregon Bigfoot Highway. And there's so many places near Eugene. Like I go to east of Eugene when I go out there. I go to Oak Ridge and that area. And it's just such a heavily active area.

It is wild when you get out in the woods out there. It's intense stuff. But yeah, hopefully you get out there. And you're able to go to some of those places with those guys sometimes. Yeah, for sure. It's cool out there. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's great.

It's great. It has a lot of camaraderie. I like that. Yeah, me too. And then it's a good way to connect and it's meet a lot of good friends that way. I still talk to Cliff once in a while, all that kind of stuff. Rob, thank you so much for sharing some of your encounters from over the years. I really appreciate it. And do you mind talking for a few minutes about your Facebook group you have, Northwest Bigfoot? And if there's anything else that you would want listeners to know like that?

Yeah, so Northwest Bigfoot. I know people listen to your podcast. So that's what got me interested in your podcast. I'm like, holy cow, McCall. What? And then, yeah, I was just like, oh, that's awesome. And McCall has a lot of history of activity, like even going back to the 60s. Oh, wow, really?

Stuff that I even know. Yeah, stuff that I even know about. But a lot of activity. There, Cascade has got some activity too. which is a little bit south of there. And yeah, so that's what got me interested in it. And it's nice to meet more people that might want to go out. And if they could take me into the area where they had their experience or that kind of thing, I would love it.

That was the whole reason for my page. Absolutely. Yeah. So I will have getting groups together and things like that. It is all about people connecting. And I'll put the link for Northwest Bigfoot. in the description so people can check it out if they are interested. But Rob, thank you so much for sharing more with my listeners about Idaho and also Bumping Lake.

And I appreciate you coming on the show today. Yeah, thanks, German. Appreciate it. 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,

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