Bigfoot Society - The Ranger's Confession | California

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

What happens when a young campground ranger in the Sierra Nevada watches a humanoid figure crawl across a boulder — backwards — at 8,000 feet in 29-degree weather?In this chilling and emotional episode, we sit down with John, a former PG&E-affiliated ranger who spent three summers in the remote Blue Lakes region of Northern California. John recounts multiple encounters — including a crab-walking Sasquatch, unexplained whistles in the brush, glowing samurai-like chatter across a silent alpine lake, and even the sound of an ape-like creature being attacked by dogs.You’ll hear stories from Lake Spalding, Wishon Reservoir, and the Sierra backcountry — places where few reports exist... until now.From watching a creature mimic fishing motions for 45 minutes to seeing a terrified Chico State runner return pale as a ghost, this episode is packed with details you've never heard before.If you've ever doubted what lurks in the snowy peaks of California, think again. This one stays with you.🗣️ 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 Patreon – 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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Welcome to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In tonight's episode, you'll hear about a very strange Sasquatch occurrence. One I haven't heard a lot about, and this takes place in the Blue Lakes. region of California. So get ready and see if you can figure out what it was that set this witness on edge. You're not going to want to miss this one. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society.

You've got the privilege of talking to John today. John's an individual I got connected to through email. And he's wanting to share a few experiences he's had throughout his life and just make sure that he's able to get it all out there. So welcome to the show, John. How's it going today? Great. Thank you very much. Awesome.

Well, you know, it sounds like from what I know about what you're going to share, we've got some really interesting things to talk about regarding Northern California. But, you know, feel free to take us back to when these events first started happening to you and we'll fall along with you. Okay. So in the summer of 82, 83, and 84, I worked for a company called Multiple Use Management, and we were basically campground rangers for PG&E campgrounds. So they would start me off in Northern California at Lake Spalding at the 5,000 foot elevation,

and I would stay there and open up that campground. And then when the snow melted, they would move me up to Blue Lakes at 8,000 feet elevation. And so this is dealing with the Blue Lakes area, which is a four-lake complex and four-wheel drive roads that go each direction of it. And I guess I'll start with, I believe it would be the summer of 83. And again, at this time, I didn't believe that Bigfoot were here, but I'm a curious guy, and I'm always, had an interest in the topic, and I interviewed everybody about it because I was fishing for information, trying to fill in the dots. So I got a lot of information over the three years talking to so many people on a daily basis. But I was fishing one morning. I got out before daybreak

because I wanted to float a night crawler on top and catch me a big brown up in upper blue. And the road goes right alongside the lake, and it's a fairly decent-sized lake. It was a really calm morning, not a ripple on the water. You could hear, you could hear a noise would travel a mile. You could hear small noises really well. But as the light started getting a little bit lighter and lighter, I had noticed a figure on the opposite side of the lake. And there's quite a bit of distance involved, but the figure was all black from head to toe. And I figured it was just a guy in a hoodie that was fishing on the opposite side of the lake. Again, I didn't really believe that Bigfoot were part of this area. I figured they were all up north, further up,

you know, above Mount Shast in the coastal area. Anyway, so I sat there and watched the thing a little bit. I wasn't really focusing on it too much because I thought it was just another fisherman. But I watched it for the whole event was probably 40, 40, 45. five minutes. And what it was, it almost looked like it was mimicking a fisherman. And again, you know, it looked like it had a stick in its hand. And you could see enough detail. You couldn't see facial details, but you could see the body outline fine. And it looked like it was waving a stick and playing in the water with it. And I thought maybe it was just a fisherman that had gotten his line stuck, you know, and was trying to get the lure out of the roots or trees.

but it almost looked like for a while there. But then what was weird is about 29 degrees that morning. And I had a North Face Gortex Parker on and a down jacket underneath that. And I was sitting on an ice chest and my butt was freezing. And the ground was slightly damp all around the lake from the morning dew. And this thing had laid on its belly and was running the stick around in the water or fishing pole if it was a fisherman. and this went on for maybe five, ten minutes, and I couldn't see how I go, man, that guy's freaking,

I don't know how he's doing it, because I was freezing my butt off, just sitting on a small little igloo ice chest. And I really didn't think much about it, didn't even question my mind that this even could be a big foot. And then the weirdest thing happened while I was watching it, it got in a crab position where it was, on its back.

And then it had its knees and its hands down below like in a crab walk. And it moved across this boulder in one fluid move in the crab position and moved across the top of the rock. And this was a huge rock. And it, I mean, it was just so smooth and it has all, holy crap, that's not even human. And I'd go, well, if I ever find out there's Bigfoot in this area of California, that's a big foot because it sure wasn't human. and never thought more about it again.

And so I'd beaten every other fishermen out in the lake this morning, and on the far side of the lake about a mile away, maybe if that, I don't know, it sounds about right, but you could hear the two old men coming down to get in their little trolling a lunaman boat and start troll. And you could hear them that it was so calm out. You could hear the fishing poles laying in the bottom of the Lunaman boat, and you could hear as they set their ice chest in it, you know,

because the sound was just being carried across the lake with no breeze or anything. And you can hear them, brough, brough, as they tried to start the motor. And the second that motor fired up, this thing was gone in the bushes and had disappeared. And so that pretty much covers,

that was the strangeness of it, was how the end this was, you know, only about a half an hour into daylight. So it was just kind of weird. The crab walking position was definitely not a huge. Something I was very physically fit. I was running 5 to 10 miles a day at 8,000 feet in training for boxing.

And the movement it did, and I'm kind of a tall, lanky, wiry guy. And the movement it did was not something I could ever achieve or even come close to. So again, I never thought it was a Sasquatch up until later years. And then I saw a, I believe it was Russ Jones talking about an incident where the girls that had dropped the earring and the thing bent over backwards in that crab position. And that's when I decided to give you a call and share what I viewed that morning. Now, there's a lot of different things.

things. Over the three years, I probably talked to nine different people that didn't know each other and all had different stories. So there was, as you come into lower blue, on the left, there's a little pond. It's called Frog Pawn. I did have one of the campers had told me that, yeah, yeah, they knew somebody that had saw one cross the road right there. Again, I never took it seriously, but it was just information I put in my cap. There was also, we had, my dad worked for PG&, and he was the lake tender there, and he got me the job camping there. So we knew we talked to all the PG&E guys, and one of the helicopter pilots that would fly in, we were talking to him, and he said one winter, and he didn't tell me what the date was or what year or anything like that, but he said he flew in there when the snow was 30 feet deep, which is probably about five feet over the chimney stack of the highest cabin that was there. So the cabins were completely submerged in snow, and he said that he had flown in there one time, and he had landed, and that there were tracks. And the tracks went down almost five feet into the snow, and he said, you could see, and he said you could see bare footprints in the bottom with a fairly large stride. And he said he had no idea what it was or anything,

but that was an interesting note that he had come up with. So I had also worked with another campground attendant there. It was just me and him who took care of the whole campground complex. And this guy was Chico State's number two runner in the early 80s. So this was a guy that's as fast as. you're going to find a young fellow. And this guy, I was running five to ten miles, and he could leave me at any time. I was doing it recreational.

This guy was good. So he could literally haul butt. And he would often do 10, 15 miles a couple times a week. He came back one day, and he'd come walking up the driveway. And from a distance of 20 yards, I mean, literally 60 feet away, he was white as a ghost. You could see he was shaking. up. And I asked him, hey, what's going on? You know, what's the matter? I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. And I grilled him as he came up the steps again. He wouldn't talk about it. And I couldn't get anything out of him, but you could see that this guy was shaken up. I mean, it was visible from a long distance away. So I let him take a shower. He had a couple beers for dinner and he sat down to dinner. And I go, come on, man. You know, and he was, I'm not talking about it. The guy was just adamant about not. And, and, And I'm somebody I won't let it go.

So I kept after him a little bit, but without being too much of a pain in the butt. But I said, come on, was it a mountain lion? Was it a coyote? Was it a bear? What's got y'all shaken up? And he goes, it wasn't any of those. And he wouldn't come out and say what it was, but I got it out of him. And what he did say was that something trailed him.

He was on a trail. and he was out in the middle of nowhere out there and he was coming back on the trail and for about he said in between a half mile and a mile something was off in the brush trailing him and breaking through the thick brush

as fast as he could run on that trail it kept up with him for a long distance on his run and that was all I could get out of him he wouldn't admit to it and he wouldn't talk to anymore and after he had told me those details that was, you know, he climbed up and basically was done at that point with sharing any information that he could.

So, and there were other campers. There was a Girl Scout camp there, and there was supposed to be one that had, there was a reported of one going through the Girl Scout camp that somebody had reported. I think it was the gentleman who was the person responsible for hiring us. for multiple use management having the actual contract in that area. I think he's the one that had reported the Girl Scout Company had actually somebody, something like that running through. And so that is my story there.

The only other stories that I have that might be of any value to anybody was my dad also worked at the Wish on Lake complex. So granite construction and the PG&E were putting in a pipeline that went from a Courtney Reservoir to Wishon Reservoir. Wish on Reservoir is an elevation of 8,000 feet. It doesn't have like Highway 80 that goes up and over the summit. It's just a two-lane highway that goes up to 8,000 feet and dead ends pretty much at Wishon Reservoir. And so this is when I was 15. I'm 62 now, so you can do the math. So this would have been the later 70s when this took place.

But we were walking across the dam, and you could walk across the dam at this time, and you could look down in that crystal clear water, and you could see big browns floating along, and you know, you're always wanting to try to it. But the water was down so far. It wasn't a place that you could really fish with any competence. But my dad and my uncle Mike, who was exempt foreman for PG&E over in northern, California for general construction. They were having a conversation, you know, talking, I forget whatever, they were talking

about with. So they had their, they weren't focused. Now I'm sitting there kind of standing around twiddling my thumbs. Something below that dam in the drainage. And it was kind of a wide drainage. And there was a lot of brush involved. But you could, all of a sudden, you heard these dogs started barking. And what sounded like an escaped chimpanzee from a zoo that was.

was being eaten on by dogs, and it was probably two or three dogs that were barking and chasing. And you heard movement, so that's why I'm saying chasing. But they were chasing whatever this was, and it sounded exactly like a pissed off chimpanzee that was screaming bloody murder while the dogs were chasing it. And this went on for two, three minutes, and, you know, and I, you know, hey guys, you know, to my dad and my uncle, I was 15, hey, what's going on? What's that? And, you know, and they just, you know, kind of, you know, whatever, they were busy talking, don't interrupt us.

But there was that. And at that same lake, there was another time we were fishing in a cove. And I heard this loud, it was, it's what, what people I think refer to a samurai chatter. And I heard, and I thought it was two Asian gentlemen that were fishing. around a curve where I couldn't see him. We were in a little cove and it was like on the opposite side of the cove. But this was really loud yelling. It would be like them yelling having a conversation at the top of their lungs. And this went on for probably a period over 90 minutes and it was off and on.

So it would go on for a little bit, be quiet, go on. And so I'm sitting there fishing in this cove and all of a sudden the boat pulls up and that was my dad. He's going to come take us. We're going to go to the opposite side where the water comes in the lake. So he picks us up and we take off and we had out of the little cove I was in as we went around that bend at the end of the cove, I expected to see a couple fishermen over there from all this noise and yelling that they were making and fishing for so long. And when we went around the corner, there was absolutely nobody there, nobody fishing. And we were in the only place you had to pass by where we were sitting to get to where they were at or have a boat.

And the only boat that came in that area was my dad. So that again, Wish on Reservoir, that's in the mountains above Fresno, California. And then other than that, I was a water well driller, and I commuted up into the Tahoe area for Ken summers. And we drove around a lot of areas, I think it's 397 or 395, 395 that goes in between Truckee and Sierraville. And you kind of go, you really don't go over a summit, but you go, you sort of go up and down. And about halfway through that one night in a place where there's no place to park a car, and it was up a 20-foot cliff. There was a, some kind of, kind of a road sign, and I forget what the exact road sign was, but there was a human-looking figure

standing up against the road sign with his hand on it in a place where there's no people, no parking, no cars at nine, I think it was wrong, it was after, it was a little after nine o'clock at night. And you could just see the silhouette standing up there. It was kind of weird that in this mountainy area that there was be somebody just standing there in a place you really couldn't even cross the road. And again, everything I say could have been a person, could have been just a person standing up there, but why it would be, I don't want to say, you know, everything I see is a freaking big foot, but that was a, it was kind of a weird, a weird place and it was basically in the middle of nowhere. So I don't know why somebody would be

standing up there. But those are my, the stories I've got to share. Wow, those are fantastic accounts. And thank you for sharing those. I mean, I don't think I've ever heard anything from the Blue Lakes area. And just for you to be able to be cognizant enough at that time to be able to interview people and just ask, hey, you know, have you ever experienced anything weird? Maybe you said something like that and you still remember it.

I'm a talker. I like to talk and I and I chat with people and I did forget to add that I was cross country. I was so there's a at the below Blue Lakes there's a blacksmith. The remnants of a cabin and ain't much remnants left. But there were people there in the 1800 and I collect the old bottles from the 1800s in California. and I love the history and the anthropology side of the whole thing. So I would go cross-country around there, and I would look for stuff. And I was in between, on the far side of lower blue, there's a small ridge that kind of goes up, and on the other side of that ridge is Twin Lake. And there's a road on the next Twin Lake on the opposite side in that little sort of valley

that that lake lies in. I was coming down that ridge cross-country, and I'm moving through, and I heard a whistle that was, it reminded me of a hunter going, hey, I'm over here. And that's the gut feeling that I got. And I yelled out, hey, don't shoot. I'm over here. I thought it was a hunter going, hey, I'm over here. You know, don't mess with me. And I just let them know because I didn't want to get shot by some freaking moron camper that was out.

hunting when he shouldn't have been. And we did get deer hunter every once in a while that would camp five miles away. And there's also a place called Bear Valley. And they would go down to Bear Valley and hunt that area, you know, five miles away down a four-wheel drive road. So anyway, I didn't know what it was, but I went and looked for, and that whistle came from ground level. And it was a loud whistle.

And it wasn't a normal bird whistle. I've heard, I've been out in the woods my whole life. never heard a bird sound like a human whistle, that close anyway. You can usually tell the difference pretty, pretty easy. But I heard that, and I went towards the whistle where I heard it from, which is only like 20 yards away, 20, 30 yards maybe. So I walked that, you know, 100-ish feet, and there was nothing. I couldn't see anything. The brush was, I got to a point where the brush was so thick. I couldn't investigate any more into it and that was just

okay, never thought much more about it. I did tell that to BFRO and I did talk to Buzz It, Bob or Robert Strange and I had a conversation with him and told him about that whistling event and it is posted at the BFR's

website. I'd never even mentioned the the crab walking one because I didn't even think at the time. I never even put two and two that it was a, you know, I never even thought about it. So it wasn't something that I had to, you know,

go and tell anybody. But that was another aspect of that general area. And after we hang up, I'll probably remember some other people said. That's how it goes. So dang long ago. Wow, that is very interesting. And you got to talk to,

I believe that individual is, That's Bob Strain, which that's very cool. He's a great guy to talk to. I've talked to his wife, Kathy, is very knowledgeable. They're both knowledgeable about Bigfoot for sure. Right, great. Wow, wow. A few things I wanted to clarify or ask you about, especially the crab walking incident.

Do you remember roughly about how tall it was or also did it have a certain color to its hair, if you saw any? Right, right, right. So it was black, and this was, you know, the same way when you see a brown bear that's all black. It was just that same, you know, it was black from head to toe. And it was an even color black. You couldn't make out, I couldn't make out of, again,

even facial features because of the distance involved. But when I say black, it was the same color black from head to toe. It didn't have like a jacket line or, you know, or light black, you know, and with different colored pants. So, but it, but it was black. And I would guess it to be, it didn't have a big stocky bill. It was, if I, my best guesstimate would be six foot tall and just a human size build. It didn't look, you know, super, super broad.

I've heard some people say, you know, that they're the size of, their body shapes. like a 50 gallon barrel or just huge, you know, thickness-wise. And it looked no different than a human at that distance. You know, 40 to 45 minutes, that's a really long time to watch something, especially, you know, something like a big foot. Did you notice, you know, you already mentioned that it was waving to stick around, playing in the water with it. Were there any other, like fidgety movements it would do or,

maybe that was really nothing you can really so the distance that this thing was away you couldn't see fidgety you know you could see the basic you could see if somebody somebody that far away

you can you can make out their arms and legs and head quite clearly you know I couldn't make out a neck or or lack of neck again I thought my my impression was at the time was that it was a guy

with a black hoodie so yeah you did I didn't see a neck. And I'm just going to say with that kind of a distance, there really weren't any details that I could add, or I would have probably shared it with you. It was just one of those things. I never would have even remembered this event if it wasn't for that crab walk.

The thing going upside down, but the weird part about it was, the rock was, you know, it had a dome, and it moved from one side of that rock to the other in one fluid motion upside down with its back facing the rock. And that was just the, that was like, holy crap, you know, it's a, you know, I go, that's not human. I go, if I ever find out, again, if I ever find out Bigfoot or in this part of California, that's a Bigfoot. Forgotten it for, for, you know, a long time up until, you know, I got to going, oh, yeah. So it was a very quick transition when it went to that crab walk?

So I didn't, what I saw was when I looked over back across the lake, all I saw was it in that crab position. And then in one, it went, it had, so its back would have been about two foot, there was like a two foot gap between its back and the rock. and it went up and over the top of this rock that was probably, if I said it was eight foot, and it just was fluid the way it went, you know, with its back up and over to the other side. And it didn't disappear. I don't remember when it went to the other side of the rock, it didn't disappear completely, but I didn't see what it did after that. Gotcha.

Yeah. I mean, very interesting accounts. And so when you said you were hearing samurai chatter, I would assume you probably also heard the Sierra sounds. I've heard some of them, yes. Okay. Was that similar then to what you heard during those 90 minutes? The volume and the loudness was similar. The words being used, I, I, I, you know, I don't remember, I mean, I just remember the loud, the loud chatter because I was, it was so many years ago. I don't remember the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I was, I was, I was used to, and, and, um, and, and, um, and heard the searry sound. And, um, and, um, and, um, and heard the sierra sound. Gotcha. But I talk more, I believe, is it Ron Moore?

Ron Moorhead, yep. Yeah, Ron Moorehead. That's something I actually was kind of curious about on the side, but man, how cool is that to know that, hey, you're in the general vicinity of where Ron and Albury captured that audio back in the early 70s. Very, very cool. Right. And I'm sure you would have told me if you had, but during the samurai chat or anything at that, there was not anything captured on audio or video, correct? No, this was in the late 70s, so it wasn't in a time where people had cell phones or

or any sort of equipment with it, you know, and I'm just a, I had a 13-year-old brother and a 15-year, you know, maybe in 15, and we're sitting there, you know, and dad took us with him. We were sleeping out at night and, you know, and I never heard the samurai chatter in the week of outdoor camping right there in that general location while dad was working. We never heard, heard or saw anything, but the only thing I do remember is the samurai chatter and then the screaming below the dam that sounded like an escaped chimpanzee with dogs on his tail. and, you know, I wish I would have known a lot of the stuff that I know now because I spent three summers at 8,000 feet. How many, you know, if you heard a howl, you know, you go, what's that?

But you didn't make any notice of it. I wonder how many good sounds I could have, if I was there and had recording equipment that I would have just, you know, been able to record instead of, you know, hey, what was that? And not even remember it now. Absolutely. What a fascinating account, a group of accounts, really. And have you ever, in the time since then, look to see if there's been other sightings or encounters in these same areas? Yes. So they're in the general, not far from where I had my, the crab walking siding, is not far from.

is not far from, I think it's Snow Lake, but they're on the BFRO website. There's somebody that actually got a print and photographed a print in that general neighborhood. So I do know that's there, but they listed mine as, I believe, is fishermen,

here's whistle, you know, here's, I think it's whistle in the wood or something is what they had put down for that event. Gotcha. it. And nothing else about the Blue Lakes area, though? No. And what's funny is every story that I'm telling you is not in there either because, well, the PG&E guy, you know, wasn't something he was really interested. And he's deceased

now, so it's not like I can, I can't go back and confirm with him any other things. But I grilled him pretty well while he was there and he didn't have anything, you know, extra to add about it or say he had ever saw anything from flying over the sears for, you know, his whole career. But he did mention that, you know, with 30 foot deep snow that he did find, he says, you could see that it wasn't a boot that it was actually a foot print in the bottom of those, you know, in the snow, when the snow was 30 foot deep, which is interesting because it's, you know, 8,000 foot with 30 feet of snow. I want, you know, how does something stay alive in that kind of environment? You know, it's,

you would think, I've always been curious about the migration pattern of them and, and, or if they migrate, but, you know, that kind of goes against that. Yeah, this interview is a great example of how important it is for an individual that has, you know, accounts like this to reach out to a show like mine or you could do other shows but at least have it documented in the public somewhere because there's no other accounts that I can find either of Sasquatch activity around this blue lake area, the blue lakes of California and you've got a ton of them and this could be the only time that it's talked about although it'll be interesting if other listeners reach out maybe they have had their own activity in the same region but well that's

part of my conversation with you and doing this is I'm hoping that that other ranger, who was Chico State's number two runner, I'm hoping that he hears it and comes forward with, hey, that was me. And I doubt that he will, but maybe he's taken an interest to it in his later years and wants to share his what he actually saw that day. But it was, it's just hilarious, it's not hilarious, but it was such a stunning thing to see a guy, 50 feet away and see him why he was a ghost and knew that something was was radically wrong just from the look at his face from a distance and you could see it. Absolutely.

So, yeah, whatever it was, it scared him and he didn't. And this guy was straight-laced. I mean, he would drink, you know, maybe one, maybe two beers when I say he was drinking beer. He wasn't, you know, a six-pack or a 12-back kind of guy. He was one or two custom, you know, fancy beer and, you know, he didn't smoke. And, you know, he was just, you know, he was a stand-up guy.

And I don't think he wanted anybody to, I don't think he knew how to process whatever it happened to him. And, you know, maybe it was a mountain lion or bear, but the fact that he denied that it was any of the wild animals in that area, leaves me open to, you know, to lean towards, you know, the possibility of a big foot. Absolutely. And I'm trying to stay as objective as possible. Right. Right. Yeah. And that individual is more than welcome to reach out if they would like. They can reach out to me at Bigfoot Society, Gimid.com or anyone else with info about the areas that are talked about in this episode.

But wow, what a fascinating conversation. And John, thank you so much for coming on the show, spending some time this afternoon to share what you experienced. to make sure that you were able to share everything that you came to the show to talk about today. Absolutely. I think I've picked up everything. I don't think that there's any other details right off the top of my head that are worth mentioning. Fantastic. Well, again, thank you so much for coming on the show today, John. It's been a pleasure. Thank you, sir. Just want to take a minute to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. John's story is one of those rare accounts that haunts you, not just because of what he saw crawling across the boulder, but because of the questions that leaves behind about

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