Bigfoot Society - The Beast of the Bayou! | Louisiana

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

What happens when a lifelong hunter finds himself hunted in the swamps of Caddo Lake? In this shocking and adrenaline-filled episode, we sit down with Mike from Louisiana, a seasoned outdoorsman whose terrifying encounters in the 1980s forced him to abandon the woods forever. From a silent stalker in waist-deep bayou waters to being nearly knocked unconscious by a flying log — and a scream so powerful it shook his entire body — Mike’s stories are as violent as they are unforgettable. You’ll hear about unexplainable crashes, huffing shadows behind storage sheds, and the moment he realized... something intelligent was out there. With activity spanning Monterey Lake, James Bayou, and swamps deep in the Caddo wilderness, this episode is a raw and rare glimpse into the kind of Bigfoot encounter that leaves scars. Don’t miss this one.🗣️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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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. You've got the privilege of talking to Mike today. Mike is from down there in Louisiana, wanting to share some interesting things he's had happen over the years. Welcome to the show. Mike, how are you doing, sir? I'm doing great, Jeremiah. It's good to talk with you. Absolutely. I think it might be interesting first. Mike, do you mind sharing what made you contact the show in the first place that you had shared with me a few minutes ago? I've lived on Cadillac my entire life, pretty much my entire like moved off for eight years to the East Coast career-wise or whatever, but came back and

retired. And these incidents that happened to me drastically changed my life. I was a big hunter and camper and trapper. And the last incident pretty much kept me out of the woods and just terrified me. And so I got infatuated and digging into it a little bit deeper, trying to find answers and started to listen to the missing 4-1-1 stuff, Fred Roll, up a sub-arctic Sasquatch, and ran across your show and happened to listen to a lady that was talking about her encounters on Cadill Lake. And so it just inspired me to drop you an email and see if you were interested in listening to some of the

strange things that I had happened to me on Cadill Lake. Absolutely. And the rest is history, and we were able to set it. it up. Mike, as that area is just there's a lot of activity and a lot of history, but I'm curious to hear what you've experienced. Feel free to take us back as far as you need to to when you started experiencing things in this area. Okay. I had two back-to-back incidences that really made me start thinking about things, and this happened in 1987 and 1988. And it made me think about things. And it made me think about things that happened with me, strange things that happened through the woods when I was younger,

and I'll go back to those, but I want to talk about what happened in 1987. I was duck hunting, and I was duck hunting in a pond that was about a 20-acre pond that was just a few hundred yards from the main bayou, James Bayou, right on Louisiana, Texas line. I don't know if it used to be part of the bayou, I don't know why that pond was there. It was just, but it was there. And the back half of this pond was separated from the main pond by a small group of trees. And the back half the pond was old, flooded timber. And the majority of it had fallen had died, rotted, and fallen.

There was some buck brush in there, but a really great place for ducks to light. And so I built a small little duck blind, just a one-man duck blind with a seat. something to stand on and shoot and put wire around it and brushed it. And when you're in the duck line and you look to the right-hand side of the pond, there was trees, very small trees that were very close together that came out into the water, probably 20 yards or so, but there was really thick back in there. On the left-hand side was an old pine forest growth, and it was easy access into, and that's how I kept my little kayak there and got to my mind.

The night before I went hunting this morning, it had gotten really cold for us here. It was down in the 20s, which is rare, but good for duck hunting. Ducks follow the weather. I was excited about going, and I left about 45 minutes earlier than I normally did, normally did, because I thought there may be some ice on the pond, and I might need to break the ice up, so the duck. that have a place to light. And I got there and it was just a real thin sheet ice on there.

And it broke up when I took my kayak through there. And I got in my duck bind and went to pour me a cup of coffee. And I heard some splashing to the bright of me. And for some reason, Jeremiah, this is so weird, I instantly had this feeling of dread. And I've never had that feeling hunting before anything. This was before the sounds I could really make out what was going on. And so I just froze.

And it was somebody walking in the water. And it was somebody walking in about die deep water. And they were inside that tree line. And that tree line is treacherous. I had shot a couple of ducks that had fallen back in there. And there was a bunch of dead falls. And it was just very, it was very dangerous to be. And I had to go get some ducks out of there before, and it was not comfortable.

Plus, there's big alligators in that pond as well. And I could see the moonlight was lighting the ripples from the water from where they were moving. And I could tell it it was just right inside the tree line. It was still very dark. I couldn't see anything. And realistic, though, in the daytime you really couldn't see in there because of the canopy of the trees. He was so dark. But this person just, I could hear him stepping over the deadfalls.

And I knew it wasn't a deer or anything. He would have to jump or a cow would have had to jump. Pig would have been swimming. Deavers and alligators don't make noise like that. It was definitely somebody walking and stepping over the dead falls. And it came within probably 30 feet of me. And I just was froze. And I sat there and I sat there.

I listened to it, walk until I couldn't hear it anymore to the back of the pond. And I'm thinking who in their right mind would be walking through that without a light, first and foremost, and who in their right mind would be walking through that to begin with? My first thought was, oh, it's got to be a game ward. They must think I'm doing something wrong or something like that. And that's pretty much what I thought. And I thought, I'm going to get checked. I made sure I did everything legal and it was a good morning.

I shot my limited ducks by 8 or 8.30 that morning and I gathered my ducks and got my truck and went to leave and expected to get stopped by the Game Warden didn't happen. And I just sensed something was wrong. It was just not normal. Nobody would be walking through that in the dark without a light as cold as it was, as treacherous as that was. and it just bugged me. The next day I ran into the game warden, and I asked him about it, and he was like, there's no way. I'm going to sit in my car in the heater and wait for you to come out. I'm not getting in that water. And that instantly sparked curiosity to me, so I instantly went back out there.

And I had never walked on the bank on the opposite side, and so I went over there. And Lord and behold, it was... clear. On the other side of those trees on the bank, it was completely clear. No underbrush, no thorn or anything. Somebody could have easily just walked down through there. I would have never heard them. And then it made me go, it really raised flags.

And I'm like, whoever this was was really trying very hard not to be seen by anybody. And it freaked me out. to be honest with you. I hunted there a couple more times, but only in the afternoons and I was out of there about dark. It just, there was something wrong about it, and I could not put my finger on it,

and I felt uncomfortable being there. It was a great duck hunting spot. It was the best duck hunting spot I ever had, but it was, something was wrong, right? And I felt it, and I just decided not to go back. spring forward to the next year in 1988. It was opening week of squirrel season, and squirrel season opened on a Saturday. And it rained very hard all weekend long.

And I was off on Monday, and there was a place I wanted to go check down in the swamps that I thought would be a really good spot for deer, and I wanted to scout it and see if I saw any signs of deer and possibly shoot. a couple of squirrels when I was down there. And I got up that Monday morning, and it was still downpouring, raining, and it stopped about 10 o'clock. And I stopped, I parked, I went out to the woods, and I parked at a friend's camp, and I walked, started heading towards the mouth of the swamp.

And I stopped at some old oak trees and sat down for a while, didn't see anything, and the woods were really quiet, but it normally is. when the weather's bad, so I didn't think much about it. And I got up to go ahead and head down to where I was going, and a blue heron alerted on the bayou. And for a hunter, that's really bad, because the blue herons are really loud, and they let everything know for a mile and a half that there's danger.

And so I was like, daggammon. It was the first of squirrel seed, and the leaves are still on the trees. It was still pretty warm. I knew I was going to have a hard time seeing squirrels anyway. But I was like warned everything. But anyway, I'm down here to go look for deer tracks and scrapes and that kind of thing. So the area that I was going to go check out is actually a peninsula down in the swamp.

And it's a white oak flat down in there. and these white oaks trees, they have acorns the size of quarters, these huge acorns. And I always thought that would be a good spot for deer. You got water on three sides. There's only one way in and one way out. So I wanted to just check it out. And I got to the Peninsula and I started doing my stalking hunt like I do, moving as quiet as I can, blocking my movement as much as I can.

And I'd go about 20, 30 yards. stop, sit there for about 10 minutes and look around and listen. And it's kind of a zigzag pattern. And I zigzagged all the way back to the end of the peninsula there. I didn't see anything, didn't hear anything, which were just really quiet. I started my way back and I was going to use my zigzag pattern going the opposite way. And I was stopped and I picked a path to go. and I used trees and things like that to try to mask my movement as much as possible.

And I saw a spot and there was a low spot in the ground and there was a big mud puddle there. And I was going to go by it. So I started that way. And as soon as I got next to that mud puddle, this huge splash just splash and just soaked me. Scared the heck out of me. And my first thought was, oh, crap, a gator. And I looked down and I realized it was just a few inches deep. And then I thought I walked straight up on a deer.

I looked and I didn't see the deer's tail flagging. I didn't see a deer going off. And I'm thinking wood duck. I'm looking. There's nothing flying off. And I'm confused. And I look back down in the water and there's this half-rotten pine limb about, I don't know, foot in diameter, about two feet long sitting in there.

And so I thought, oh, a squirrel was running across the rotten limb and it fell. And so I looked up and there was no pine tree up above me. And right about that time, another pine limb, confined by the left side of my head past my ear. I'm talking, Jeremiah, within an eighth of the inch of hitting me with velocity. I jumped and I instantly went to turn around to my right to look behind me and something let out this scream. It was a short scream. It was just a couple of seconds long. It scared me so bad. I can't even tell you what it sounded like, but I can tell you what it felt like. It felt like I was electrocuted or something. It shook my entire body.

And before I knew it, I was like 10 steps into a full run. My body, my mind had not computed what was going on. And when I finally, my mind finally caught up with my body as to what was going on. And my mind was like, okay, this is not a flight or fight situation. This is a flight and fight situation. This is, you're in bad spot here. So I got to the bayou. So I had one side of my self-protected, and I stopped, and I kicked some squirrel loads out, and I put some slugs in my gun.

And I looked, maybe five seconds. I stopped. I heard nothing. I saw nothing. I looked to my further to my right to make sure nothing was flanking me. I saw nothing. I heard nothing. So I just took off on a run.

I ran all the way back to my car and completely terrified me. The feeling that that Yale made is really undescribable. It really is. And that's when I realized there's something out there. and that's something that was out there was not throwing pebbles and pine cones at me to get my attention. That thing was trying to hit me. And for years I thought about it and thought about it.

I thought maybe there was a young one there, it was protecting it and this, that, and the other. And now I think about it. I think that it felt threatened by me. I had a gun. I think that it felt threatened by me, by the way I was moving through the woods. And I think that it felt like I was going to see it eventually. And I think he was trying to separate me from the gun.

I truly do. And unfortunately, he didn't hit me with that because if he would have hit me with it, it would have definitely knocked me out, maybe even worse. So that ended my hunting career and my camping career. I'm still an avid fisherman, but I have just never felt comfortable going back into the woods again. And it's a shame. And I'm thinking back on it, my kids, my oldest child was a baby when this happens. And my two boys don't even know the person I used to be, the big outdoor hunter, camper, all this stuff. They never knew that guy.

It was terrifying. It was terrifying. Then I started thinking about odd things. that had happened before that and started putting the pieces together. And I just remembered something in the last couple of weeks that I could have had a sighting. I was 10 years old, and my dad had a friend who was a big hunter, their own bunch of land. He asked me if I wanted to come to a deer hunt, and I was like, yeah. And so my dad took me in.

My dad was in the hunter, and they basically drove me out to this, box stand and set me in a box stand and they went back to the camp and probably had some drinks or whatever, but they weren't hunting. They just dropped me off. They gave me a flashlight and tell me to walk back to the camp after it got dark. And if I shot, that they would come out and help me get the deer out. I sat in the stand and didn't see anything. And then all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose about 150 yards in front of me. And I see these. And I see these, little trees just swaying all in the in the air and stuff crashing and all this stuff and something huffing and puffing something was angry and it was done and I looked up and

every now and then I could see something big and something black in between the trees and this went on for a long time this went on for like maybe 45 minutes an hour and right before dark, it stopped. It got dark and I was like, I didn't know where this thing went or what it was. I wasn't getting out the stand. And so finally, my dad drove down in a truck and got me from the stand and asked me why didn't he's worried about me. Asked me why I didn't do it. And I told him what had happened. And there's a gentleman that had a farm five to ten miles from there, and he raised a bunch of bison, a bunch of buffalo. And my dad told me one of those bison must have got out, and it's a good thing you stay in the stand because those things can be pretty aggressive in their mean.

It was a good thing you stayed in the stand. And I never thought anything else about it. My dad, I was 10 years old. My dad, to me at that time, was the smartest man in the world, and he said it was a buffalo. It was a buffalo. But now I question that. Dan and we sprang forward, that was probably, that was probably 1973 when that happened. So we jump up to 1978 and me and a buddy were running lines at night on the bayou.

And it was cold. I remember it was cold. And on the bayou we were on, we were always told on the west side of the bayou, if anybody comes hollering or whatever you go over there because there was not a bridge over the bayou and there was no phone lines over there and if somebody was in trouble it was like an hour drive to the hospital. We were down there checking our lines and all of a sudden we heard somebody hollering and we shined our light over and there was this gentleman on the end of this pier and so we cranked the motor up and went over to him. and this guy just jumped in our boat and was like go and so we did and we went about a hundred yards down the bayou and my buddy shut the motor off and we looked at him like what's the matter

are you okay and he was like I came to go deer hunt with my buddies and I was coming down the road and I hit something and it was on all fours but then it got up on two legs and ran off And I came all the way to the camp, and I came out to see if the door to the camp was open, and this thing must have followed me, and it was attacking my truck. And to be honest with you, Jeremiah, we were looking at this guy like, it was the 70s, right? So I'm thinking, okay, this guy is on some acid or some mushrooms or something. And then the buffalo came back into mine. I thought maybe he hit one of those buffalo made him mad.

And this road that's over there, it's very undeveloped road. It's a dirt road. He couldn't have been going more than 25 miles an hour when he hit whatever he hit. And so I'm thinking, we were thinking all kinds of things. We never thought Bigfoot, right? So the gentleman came back to our camp and tried to make some phone calls, but it was like 4 in the morning and everybody was sleeping. This guy was terrified.

And I think he got angry. at us because we kept saying there's some guy that has Buffalo over there. He was finally quit talking to us. But he told us he wasn't going to go back to that camp until daylight. So we stayed up with him and took him back. And when we pulled up, we saw that there was other vehicles there. I wished we would have stopped and got out and looked at the guy's truck and whatever. But we retired and we left.

I actually, after I had my encounter, had contacted BFRO and told them about that scary encounter I had and also asked them about this encounter of the gentleman supposedly hitting something. And they never got back to me. But I know the gentleman, I'm 62 and the gentleman is probably 10 to 15 years older than me. I don't know if he's still around. but if somebody hears this that knows something about that encounter, I would love to hear from them because I'd love to hear more on that. I wish I'd have paid more attention instead of just thinking the guy was crazy or just scared of being in the woods is basically what we thought.

The next year, we were at the same place, running lines, and we decided to quit and we came in. And the camp, you had to use a key to lock the door. front door. And we left and we got down the road and I thought, man, I don't remember if I locked the door or not. And so I said, I'm going to go back. And so we turned around. We went back. I had my car running. We both walked up to the, on the porch. And I had locked it. But my buddy said, hey, I want to get a Coke out the fridge. So I unlocked it. He went got a Coke. And when I was locking it, that right beside the house was a small storage shed.

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And something started huffing and puffing behind that thing. And it sounded agitated. And it sounded madder than hell. it was more breathing with a guttural kind of growl at the end of it. And I looked at my buddy and I said, don't run. And about that time, this thing let out of yell. And it was one of those yells just like the yell that I heard when I was on that Peninsula.

You felt it. And I looked at my buddy was already getting in the car. He had taken it off. So I took out running and got in the car. and we left out of there and we laughed about it. We talked, what could it be? We do have an occasional bear every now and then and have wild hogs. We did go out there to go look to see if we see tracks the next day,

but it's pine forest and it's all pine straw. And we laughed it off. We didn't think, even though we're only 25 miles from Fowl. But my dad just told me that was a movie, and it wasn't real. I believe it. Nobody spoke of back then. of encounters or anything like that. I had never heard of anything.

So the last thing we were ever thinking about was a Bigfoot or a cryptid or anything like that. But that's pretty much the things that have happened to me. Now, since that time, I have had a few strange things this happened. I was fishing with a guy. We were down in the bayou. We were catfishing, and we heard a muffled voice come from the swamp. and it actually said the guy's name. And the guy looked at me and said, did you hear that?

I'm like, yeah. He said, was that my name? And I'm like, yeah. And there's no way anybody was out there. And we moved the boat. We went down the swamp a little bit and found a new place to go. Another time I was out there and I anchored up to fish and had that just that weird feeling that something was wrong.

And first cast, I hooked a fish, a good fish. And I heard something, but I was concentrated on catching the fish. And all of a sudden this tree cracked and fell into the swamp on my right-hand side. It scared me. So I'm fighting this fish, trying to get this fish in. And I'm like, I'm going to get this fish in. before I could get that fish into the boat, another tree on the left-hand side of the bayou came down and crashed into the water.

And that freaked me out. And the wind wasn't blowing. It was not a storm. It was just as calm day. It could be got the fish in the boat. I untied my boat and I got the hell out of there. But that's pretty much the gist of everything that strange has happened to me.

You got any questions? Yeah, Mike, you really have had a lot of wild stuff happen over the years. If you look at everything like chronologically in order, it's no surprise that you got to a point in the 80s and you're like, you know what, enough is enough. And you take into consideration the stuff that you experienced as a younger man as a boy, You're about 15 years old, I believe, when you had that incident with a guy jumping into your boat saying that he had run into a Bigfoot. It's absolutely wild, dude.

Yeah. Yeah, and I'll be honest with you, Jeremy. The last thing on our mind was me and my friends both were Bigfoot. Even though we were right here to Felt, we even knew some people that were in the movie. But nobody talked about it. And it's really strange. Oh, and I've got to tell you this. So the gentleman that I was fishing with when we heard somebody murmur his name out there, right?

About three months ago, stopped. He saw me out burning some brush and stopped. And he said, Mike, I got to tell you this. He said, we were down where you had your encounter. And I had my girlfriend. We were going for a boat ride down to the swamps. And he said, you know the old duck line back there? And I said, yeah.

He said, we stopped. and I was looking to just see what kind of shape the duck line was in to see if it was salvageable. He said, I was thinking about maybe using it this year. And he said, and all of a sudden I heard a big splash. He said, and I instantly thought it was a beaver, but it didn't sound like a beaver. And for people that don't know, a beaver will slap his tail on the water, but it sounds like a slap or it sounds like a gun going off. He said, this sounded like something heavy throwing the water.

It was more like a caduce. And he turned to start the motor, and he saw this huge rock come flying, and it landed right beside his boat. And this was three months ago. And this guy is a young guy, but he's an experienced woodman and boatsman and all that stuff. And he scared him. And he got out of there. And he made a point to come tell me about it the next day. So it's still ongoing.

It's still ongoing. I don't go out there. I stay in the boat. Absolutely. And all these that you're telling me about, these all happen around Cattle Lake then? Yes, they were on Cattle Lake on the very north end of the lake. If you look at a map, you've got the main lake.

Now, where the other lady had her experiences on the complete opposite side of the lake, on the west side of the lake over there. mine is really way north. So if you look at the map of Cadill Lake, it goes into James Bowdo. Then you'll see where it basically turns into swamp for probably, I don't know, seven, ten miles of swamp. And then it opens up into another little bayou, and they call it Monterey Lake. And most of my experiences happened on Monterey Lake.

or in the swamps in separating Monterey Lake from Genius Bayou. Oh, yeah. I'm seeing that. Man, that is way up there when you get up to Monterey Lake. You're really, really going up there.

Yep. Okay. Yeah, and when I was a kid, I used to explore and stuff, and I literally took the very north end of that and hiked following creeks all the way into Arkansas. If you look at that, have you ever heard of the Mike Woolley incident?

in Louisiana. Yeah, less than hours drive from where we're at. The big ticket in East Texas has got a lot of reporting. That's about an hour's drive from us. But we all share the same watershed. So you put all that together. It's kind of okay. I can see where they migrate and could migrate down through here easily.

Oh, absolutely. And most of my encounters, all my encounters. were in the fall or in the winter. I never had anything happened. I never had anything happened. Weird happened in the spring. I never had anything weird happened in the summer. I used to camp

by myself when I was 11 years old out in these bayous and stuff, and I loved it. And nothing scared me. I was taught to respect nature and understand it. And as long as you respect it, you will be okay. And I never had it. Like I said,

I never felt uncomfortable in the woods as a kid. And for this instance to happen to me to just completely keep me out of the woods, it was just a life-changing event for me. It was terrified me. I'm not going to lie to you, Jeremiah. I scared me. Oh, absolutely. It's just when you're out there by yourself can get really interesting.

Growing up in this area, Yeah, so when was it that you had seen the Boggy Creek movie, Legend of Boggy Creek? I saw it when it came out. My dad took us to Texarkana to go see it. I was nine. Okay. And I was like, oh, crap, that's good. But my dad told me that it's just a movie.

And my dad and my mom and my mentor that taught me hunting and stuff. My dad was not an outdoorsman. So I had this mentor, wonderful old man, taught me to. hunt and fish and trap. They didn't have a problem with me camping out in the woods by myself and going out by myself. As a kid, you're thinking, well, if there's something out there that could hurt me that I don't know about or I haven't seen yet, they would tell me, and they wouldn't let me go out there. But as far as the Boggy Creek movie goes to this day, if I'm at somebody's camp or a house

that's out in the woods and they have a couch sitting next to a window, I sit at the kitchen table. Yeah, don't sit on that couch. Yeah, I still, to this day, will not sit on that couch. Yeah. That's really funny. Yeah, yeah, it is. I think that's what most people think of with that. That's what I think of with that movie is that it's like an amazing jump scare.

Yeah. Have you ever seen the movie, the creature from Black Lake? I haven't, yeah, actually, I need to look that up. You need to look it up. It's actually really good. and it's filmed. Where I had my violent encounter is about 200 yards from where they filmed the scene where the monster snatched a guy out of a boat.

Really? Honestly. Yeah. Yeah. It was about 200 yards down the swamp from there. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That's awesome.

So when you were the one account you shared where you heard, something huffing and puffing. I know that a lot of people will bring up that maybe was a deer. But the cool thing in your situation is a yell. It was black. It was black. It was not a deer and it was not grunting like a deer. It was black.

Now, could it have been one of those buffalo that got out of that guy's farm? It's not like we have wild buffaloes in Louisiana and he stretches. But this guy did have a big herd of buffalo. and he raised them for years after. Could it have been a buffalo that got out of the tent and had been down there? Absolutely. But it was big. It was not a deer.

And it was black. Black. And it wasn't snorting like a deer. This was a continuous, this was a continuous huffing and puffing and puffing and tearing trees down and shaking trees. And it was, whatever, it was not happy. But like I said, my dad said, probably one of those buffaloes got out and they're nasty and just be aware if you see a buffalo in the woods to keep your distance from it. And okay. And it could have been.

It could have been one of those buffaloes that got out. I don't know. But it may not have been. Absolutely. Yeah, it's wild to hear stuff like that out there. I was just solo camping in Iowa. And it's, it's, oh my goodness, what time was it? It was late.

I was the only one out there in this area, way out there. And all of a sudden something is like out, moving outside the camp and like making this huffing noise for a second. But I do, sometimes you got to do a little research with sounds. And I was like, almost 100% sure that was a deer. But still, man, it freaks you. Right. Holy mackerel. When you're not expecting to hear.

When I was a kid where I used to camp, it was down in the bayou. And I will tell you, Cadill Lake's a beautiful, amazing place. If you've ever got a chance to come see it, it's one of the most beautiful places in America, I can tell you. But it's full of life, full of wildlife, just everywhere. But at night, it really comes alive. And it's a roar. It literally is a roar. All night is so loud with all the frogs and insects and stuff.

It used to, it was like gray noise to me when I was a kid. It would just put me right to sleep. Now, what would wake me up is when it got quiet. And this was way before cell phones or anything like that, but when it got quiet, I knew a storm was coming. I knew that a big thunderstorm was six to come and it was six to start running like hell. And it always did. It was like the weather predictor. Something could have been walking around my dead gum tent.

And it would have had to have been awful loud for me to hear it. Because it is a roar down in those vows. It is super loud at night. But I never had any problems at all. I kept my camp lit up. I had three Coleman Lannards. I had a strong ropes around my camp site. And I'd fill them up at night before I went to bed

in case I got up and had to take care of business that I wouldn't step on a snake or something. but I never had any issues whatsoever. Never. Strange. Down in that area, what do most people think that Bigfoot is? Do you have any thoughts about that, Mike? I don't know.

It just seems like now in the last seven, eight years, when you get to talking about it, people will openly say, man, let me tell you what happened to me, or this happened to my dad or whatever. Before then, you didn't hear much. I haven't really heard much on what people think they are. I think, you know, with everything I've been watching and hearing, and I think they're more human than they are anything.

I think the DNA shows that they're more human. I think they've got the ability to think and reason. I think that this thing got aggressive with me when he did because he knew I was a threat. And I was. At that time, if I would have seen it and it was staring me down, I'd have probably shot it. At that time, I probably would have. Now, if he was walking away from me, no.

But I think that they can think and they can reason and they're smart. and the fact that, Jeremiah, this is what's so crazy. So when that really scary incident happened to me, I call myself a very patient hunt, I move very slow through the woods, very quiet, I take my time, I don't move my head around when I'm stalking. I use my eyes. I mask my movements.

I'm smelling. We have a lot of cotton-mouth snakes here, and they smell really bad, and you usually smell them before you see them. same thing with copperheads you can usually smell them before you see them they blend and with everything so I did not see anything I did not smell anything and I did not hear anything and that freaks me out because I'm a I was a pretty observant hunter and an observant of my surroundings and the fact that I never heard anything and the fact that

that I never smelt anything or saw anything. It blows my mind. I don't know where this thing could have been to where I didn't see him. Obviously, I passed him twice. There's only one way in and one way out. So how I didn't see him twice, I don't know. That blows my mind. It's got to be a very smart animal.

Oh, absolutely. And you really hit the nail on the head there that the thing I always notice is how there really is a massive intelligence. It's not, it is not dumb. Like, you always hear about, you don't sneak up on it. You don't fool it. You're definitely not going to trick it, that's for sure.

I think, yeah. I think that it was doing what I was doing, and it went down in that peninsula. And the only escape is one way out. There's water, unless you're going to take to the water, there's water on three sides. I think he made a bad decision and he got trapped. And like said, he obviously felt threatened because he had made a decision he was going to try to take me out or separate me from my gun.

So I think what happened was he went in before me and that's within that blue heron alerted. He saw him. he alerted everything down there that hey there's something bad coming to your way and i just followed it in and i had him trapped is the way i'm thinking about it now after i've had all these years to think about it wild stuff wild stuff why do you think people are at the point down there where they're coming forward with what's happening or they're more likely to share it with you now. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. When I bring it up or sometimes we're sitting around the campfire, having a fish fire, somebody will say something and it'll spark a conversation. And, you know, this happened to so and this happened to my daddy or this happened to me. They're way more open about it than what they were back in the 70s and the 80s. You just never heard anybody say anything at all. So I think people are worried me or, or, you know, They're just way more open to it.

I didn't say anything to anybody for a long time. I told my wife at the time, she knew something scared me, but she didn't believe in Bigfoot and stuff like that. And so I didn't tell anybody for years. I just kept it to myself because I didn't understand it. I didn't really know how to explain it. Absolutely. It sounds like you're still able to go fishing, though.

Correct. You're still able to go out. Oh, yes. That's my hobby. And as a matter of fact, I go down in the swamps. I fish your swamps a lot. And I go right past where my encounter happened. I go by there very quickly. I just want to let you know. These boots will never get on that piece of ground ever again. But I do. And like I said, there's been a few times when I've done there fishing, and I get this odd feeling that something's not right. And I move. And I move. And this only happened a couple of times since this has happened, but it has happened. And I listened to my gut and I got out of there. Mike, you've had an amazing life when it comes to being out in the outdoors, the byws, and the swamps, and what you've experienced is definitely intense. And I just want to say thank you for coming on the show and for sharing with us your experiences. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you came to the show to share today. Thank you for having me.

I enjoyed talking with you. And maybe hopefully, like I said, I hope that somebody listens to this, and especially the gentleman that said he hit one, if they know anything about it, or reach out to you. I want to hear about it. So if you're from the Cadillac area and you've had some weird areas, reach out to Jeremiah. We'd like to hear them.

Absolutely. Mike, stay in touch. If you ever have anything else happen, but hopefully it cools down for you. You're welcome to reach out. But thanks for chatting. You have a great rest of your day, sir. You too, Jeremiah.

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