Bigfoot Society - The River People: What We Saw Near Fellows Lake | Missouri

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

What happens when a quiet weekend in Missouri turns into a chilling encounter with two creatures that shouldn’t exist?In this gripping and recent episode, we hear from James, a listener from the Ozarks who recounts a string of intense encounters — from eerie owl mimicry and bone-rattling whoops in the night, to the day he and his girlfriend saw two humanlike figures wading through Fellows Lake… and vanish right before their eyes.You’ll hear stories from the Mark Twain National Forest, Coy Bald, Assumption Abbey, and Fellows Lake — complete with wood knocks, massive pinecones thrown at their tent, overpowering smells, and a close-up encounter with beings that defy logic. Could these creatures cloak themselves to avoid detection? Are there Sasquatch with the ability to become nearly invisible?More than just another encounter, James’s story taps into something deeper — the strange connection between curiosity, intuition, and the parts of the woods we’re not meant to understand.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 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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Selection varies by location. See Lose.com for details. Visit your nearby lows on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's account comes from James, a regular guy from Missouri. We thought Bigfoot was just an internet mystery until the woods started watching him back. I'm not going to really say what happens in this one, but I'm going to say it's an important interview for a few reasons that you'll find out later on. Things are talked about that I think are going to really affect how people view Bigfoot after this interview.

So this is the story of what James saw in the Ozarks of Missouri and why he'll never look at the woods the same way again. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to James today. James is an individual that is a listener to the show over on YouTube, and we got connected about some things that have happened to him in the state of Missouri. So thank you so much for coming on the show, James. How's it going today? I'm doing well.

How are you? doing great. It's a great day able to talk to people about their encounters. You can't beat that. So, you know, James, I want to make sure you have the time to share things that have happened to you over the last few years. So I'm going to go ahead

and pass the mic over to you so you can take us back as far back as we need to go, man. Sounds good. I appreciate that. Well, my story is I've got three, I think, four episodes that I can share. None of them are

particularly, you know, shocking or anything, but they are absolutely true, and I would like to share them. So the first one happened about three summers ago. I was painting a house. Me and a couple of guys were painting a house out on O-O Highway right outside of Springfield, Missouri. And it's a big house that's on one side, on the back side of the house is a sheer bluff, like a cliff that goes down to a river. At the front side of the house, he's got this big pond that him and his wife had, um, stocked full of bass and it's so full that literally when you look down in there you see so many small bass you wonder like how are these things not cannibalizing each other like they're going to

have no problem surviving if they need to survive off this pond so uh this particular day um we'd finished for the day and everybody had left except for me and my buddy cliff who was working with us and we were down at the pond and it had just started raining it's drizzling though nothing heavy. And as soon as the drizzle started from across the pond, we heard who-hoo-hoo-hoo! An owl. I thought, oh, cool, an owl. It's kind of

strange for it to be out during the day, but, you know, I'm not a wildlife expert. So I hooted back. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! And then it hooted back at me again. And so I did the exchange one more time, and then it exchanged one more time, except this third time it went, hoo-hoo-hoo, oh,

like this frustrated-sounding like growl thing, like almost as if like it just realized that I was a person. And the guy with me, Cliff, he says, whoa, that's not an owl. And I looked at him and said, yeah, no, I think it's a saskatch. And he just kind of laughed at me and said something like, oh, you know, whatever, there's no saskatch. So that was literally it for that episode.

That in itself is not too significant. But the following summer, my girlfriend and I and our son, went camping at a place called Coybald. It's in Kissy Mills, Missouri. And by this time, you know, I've already been watching some shows and stuff, and I know a little bit about Sasquatch. You know, a little bit that I've learned from other people. And so as soon as we pull up there, I notice we get out,

we start sending up the tents. And this is like, it's in the Mark Twain National Forest, and it's pretty secluded. There's nobody else out there. It's a wide, a very wide. but slow-moving river, but it's like knee-deep in some places, waist-deep and others. Anyways, we get out there and we're setting up,

and I hear bang, bang, bang, coming from the electric side of the river. I think to myself, oh, that's somebody out there shooting a shotgun, but it sounded kind of weird. It had almost like a muffled quality to it. So it sounded somewhat like a shotgun, but different. And we heard it a couple more times as we were setting up. bang, bang, bang in threes.

I didn't really think too much of it. Later that evening, it was, you know, the sun had already gone down and we were sitting by the fire. And I heard it a couple more times from across the river. And I thought, well, that's strange because there's nobody out here. It's dark. And who the heck is out there shooting a shotgun?

And then we got to talking about it and I realized, well, you can't really shoot a shotgun in that click of a succession. and you have to pump the chamber or whatever, pump the rounds in between. So it would be more like bang, bang, bang, bang. Whereas these were bang, bang, bang. So, okay, you know, we talked about that. I thought it was a little weird, laughed it off.

About two o'clock in the morning. And I only know it was about two o'clock because my girlfriend told me afterwards. But it was the middle of the night. We wake up to hood owls. but the weird thing about it is there's like five of them and they're surrounding our camp

and these things sound like they're like they got to be like 50 pounds to be this loud I mean it's just ridiculous loud scared the crap out of us so I get up out of the tent I'm walking around with my hatchet in my hand it quit as soon as I went outside of course

and that was pretty much the end of that one with the exception of the following day we hiked to upstream a little way and we came across this muddy spot in the riverbank, and we noticed that there was a bunch of deer hoofprints and a bunch of slide marks. Like there had been some kind of scuffle there.

But the strange thing about it is we did notice also that there was a bare footprint in the mud amongst those deer prints. And like I said, there was nobody else out there but us. But the thing about this bare footprint, it wasn't super large. I mean, if anything, it was maybe just a couple inches larger than my chlet and I wear a size 10, 10 and a half sometimes. But just that alone, it's just, you know, with it coupled with the other things that happened, it just seemed, you know, really, it really stuck with us, you know.

Yeah, so we just kind of chalked that up to sasswash, especially the thing with the hoot owls. And another experience, which was a few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I, my girlfriend and I, went out to a place in Ava, Missouri, called Assumption Abbey. We found it on a campsite website, and we went out there just to poke around and look for rocks and see if there's a good place to camp.

Well, apparently there's a monastery out there I didn't know about, and we found a road where it says road closed, but we drove down it anyways, we ended up at the river. And this particular incident wasn't what I would call, like, significant. and there's a lot of open-ended stuff about it. But anyways, my girlfriend and I, we were down by the riverbank looking at rocks,

and all of a sudden out of nowhere, it smelled like somebody just took a big dump right there in between the two of us. Like it came out of nowhere. We were stationary. We were not walking. And I didn't really think too much of it. We were just like, whew, man, what's up with that?

And then immediately, like, I felt dizzy. Like, I almost passed out, literally. And my girlfriend had the same experience at the same time. I didn't realize that was going on with her because she immediately just walked over to the Jeep and sat down. And I'd stayed on the bank and continued to look at rocks. But then, you know, like two or three minutes later, I walked back up to the Jeep. I was like, man, that's so weird.

And I told her what happened. She said, yeah, that's why I came and sat down in here. So I felt like I was about to pass out too. So we got out of there. That was the entirety of that story. Now, the final one, it was a little bit more. significant, I would say. It was on July 14th.

The sun was just getting ready to start going down. It was still, you know, light out. And we were at Fellows Lake in Springfield, Missouri, which I don't know if you're familiar with that place, but it's really not that far outside of town. I mean, there's houses within driving distance for sure. So we were sitting in the Jeep at the spot that we had our first date, just kind of reminiscent.

and where we were parked at is kind of like a little channel in the lake and the bank basically is about half a football field distance from where we were sitting and the crazy thing about this is only several football fields distance to the right were people fishing so we're sitting there and we're looking across the water

and my girlfriend says hey what are they doing and I look over and I see these two people waiting in the water on the other side of the lake. We just had a bunch of storms, so the water was really high. Everything was trashed down here. There it was at the time, trees and when it was just a mess. But these two people were waiting around on the other side of the lake and way steep in the water. And the thing about it is, you're, you know, first of all,

you're not supposed to be in the water at this lake. Secondly, it was just, it was gross because of all the storms and stuff. And we noticed that, well, both of these people seem to be dressed exactly the same. They're both wearing like this brown garb, and they both had, at first, it looked like they had bald heads because they had like this lighter-colored patch up towards where I was seeing the head would be. But the more I looked at it, I realized that there was more to them above that light-colored patch. When my girlfriend first saw it, she was like, what the heck, you know? We stared at them for a minute and they were just kind of walking around looking straight down into the water.

Like they had lost something or perhaps we're looking for something. Their movements through the water were a little weird too, the way that they walked. It was like, I don't know how to explain it properly, but it looked different than a person waiting through the water. It's just that there's so much ease to it. It was weird. It's hard to describe. So the strange thing about it is, you know, we're still staring at them, and they walk to the shore. And one of them is he stays in the water and he's facing towards the shore and the other one gets up, the other person or whatever gets up out of the water.

So this part's going to make me sound crazy, but I don't know how else to say it. As we're looking at them and he's standing up out of the water, as he's coming up out of the water, he seems to be disappearing. my girlfriend like I don't see him anymore I said no he's he's there I can see him standing there because every once in a while I see a little bit of movement so I can see that he's there and then the other one person whatever gets up out of the water it's the same thing

they're both there I can barely see that they're there but at the same time they don't look like they're there and what I mean by that is no matter which way they turned or were standing it seemed like they were the exact same color as the background and it's like it's not like the background was just all one color like I was looking at just the bank and trees but there was like fallen logs and all kinds of other stuff that were like you know different textures and colors and stuff it just didn't make sense to me but that's exactly what happened And they both stood there on the banks for a little while.

And I mean, you know, I can't say for sure, but I just had to sense like we were just staring at each other. And then they both just kind of walked backwards into this black spot in the trees. And that was it. Wow. My girlfriend swears up and down that they were aliens. That's what she thought at first. Just because the way they were moving is so weird and, you know, why the heck are they even out? Like, so on this side of the lake for them to get out and they walked into the woods,

That other side of the woods is nothing but woods for miles and a highway. There's no way for anybody to get over there and there's nowhere for them to go. That is extremely interesting. So I want to make sure I heard what you said right because it is really, really interesting. So you're saying they were coming out of the water and as they were, you started to be able to see almost through them, like whatever was in the background behind them? I guess that's one way to put it. I feel like it was more like they were just so well camouflaged that no matter which way, which direction they turn, like they just blended right in. That was the first thing that clued me into the fact that they probably weren't people.

Absolutely. Have you, have you ever seen the movie Predator? I have. Okay. So you know, like, how it's kind of like shimmery and when. It's Yeah, it didn't seem like It didn't really seem like that though

Like see So I've been thinking about this for a while Since this happened And the only like logical thing That I can come up with And at least close to logical is I wonder if perhaps like Maybe there's something with their fur

That has like a certain type of sheen to it Where like uh You know maybe light spectrums hit it a certain way And it kind of like in a way acts like a mirror or reflects the The color qualities of whatever they're around perhaps or something I mean that's the closest thing I can come up with for a logical explanation.

Yeah. Other than the fact that you can just disappear. It's very strange. It almost sounds like when you hear people talking about, you know, potential cloaking or things like that, it's just, wow, it's probably the coolest example of it that I've had come up on the show, to be honest. And you said this just happened.

This is a few weeks ago. July 14th. Holy mackerel. Yep. Oh man, dude. That's so recent. And for any of the listeners that want to know where this is, so if you go to Fellows Lake, when you pull up on it,

you can either turn right and go, there's like a road there where you could make an immediate left and there's a dirt parking lot. Well, if you turn right, there's like three spots where you can pull off in a car and look at the lake, and it's the spot farthest from the corner. The third spot is where we were sitting directly across from there. That's where we saw him.

And so the area they came out of the lake and then walked towards the woods, it wouldn't have been easy for you to get over there. No, we drove around and realized there's literally no way for us to get over there unless we were to get in a boat across the lake right there and then walk up through where they walked up into. Oh, okay. Otherwise, we'd be trekking, trekking through the woods for, you know, hours and hours and hours. Absolutely. I mean, the first thing I'm thinking is like, wow, what if you, You go over there, are you going to find tracks? Like, you're going to find, I mean, who knows what you're going to find in the woods with a sighting like that?

That is so, so very interesting. Yeah, and that's the thing. Like, I wish I had a boat, but the thing is, is I'm not sure that you're allowed to even have a boat on that lake. Like, most of them, I've only seen people fishing from, like, the bridge and fishing from the shore. I've never, ever seen anybody in the water. Oh, and another point would be, we don't even know if you're allowed to go over. over where they were. So, I mean, if anyone's going to try to be Indiana Jones, probably do your own due diligence

so you don't get in trouble. But which means research it, guys. Yeah, definitely. I'm not trying to condone anybody breaking the law or doing anything. I don't see how you would even get over there without a boat in these two dudes or whatever. They did not have a boat. Neither one of them were, you know, like large by any standards. I mean, you know, I was half a football field away,

so it was hard for me to gauge their exact size. But if I had to guess, I would say they weren't much taller than myself, and I'm 5-11. Okay. So when you, you saw them come out of the water, but you couldn't see them the entire time. My question was going to be, if they were coming out of the water,

were you able to see, like, anything, like any water coming off the hair? Maybe it would have been too far away anyways. to see that. Yeah, it was definitely way too far. I couldn't even see any details, like facial features or anything like that. All I saw was that they were both uniformly brown, except for this light colored spot,

which I don't know where that would have been because there was like at least another foot of body above the top of where this light spot was, which we thought were bald heads at first. Are there any military installations around there? I couldn't say for sure. Okay. Not that I'm aware of, though.

Did they seem to be interacting with each other at any point? Well, maybe when they were getting out, because the one had gotten out and was facing towards us, which was the opposite bank, while the other one stood facing it is still in the water for a minute. Well, probably about 30 seconds. It sounded like you've alluded to that they're moving very weird, and it's hard to describe, correct? Yeah, kind of like an effortless fluid.

Like I've heard people say that about like the way they walk on land and I've seen videos and stuff that I haven't really seen any evidence of that, to be honest, you know, in people's videos and stuff. But the way that they were moving through this water, it was like they weren't even like, you know, what people, they got to, you. You got to walk. You can see them pushing their momentum with their legs and stuff like that. Whereas it looked like these things were just on a conveyor belt or something, just easily just kind of glide into the water. And I know that water was deep and not easy to walk through. It had to have been muddy from all the storms. It just didn't really make a whole lot of sense. Absolutely. I mean, so this interview is really unique for this show, at least. It's the first time I've ever talked to someone who has.

describe that while they're in the water because you know people will describe that on land as you said but they'll they'll even i've heard people say where it's like it looked like they were almost like cross-country skiing it was still so smooth but you're saying that smoothness was also when they were in the water as well yeah i mean i couldn't see what their legs were doing obviously but it was like it was like somebody had a toy and was just kind of moving like a shark fin under the water just moving it along but they were looking down as if they were looking for something, like looking straight down into the water.

Gotcha. Were they doing anything with their arms at the same time? Man, I can't say that I remember for sure. Okay. I mean, there's nothing like significant or anything, just, you know, moving along. I guess I kind of feel like maybe their arms were even just kind of straight down, like not even up out of the water because I don't remember seeing like hands or,

I don't know. It was such a strange thing. and like we didn't even think to pull our phones out until it already like stepped into the woods. It was just so shocking and weird and the whole time we're just staring real hard trying to figure out what going on and it was strange. Absolutely. I was going to ask you that, you know, so it sounds like there's no recorded, nothing recorded from the event at all. No, the only thing that happened was like afterwards, Chrissy thought she saw one peering out from the bushes from across the bank. So she pulled her phone out and she tried to zoom in,

but we both have one of those new razor phones. And the camera's really not that great. Like she filmed me the picture, and I couldn't see anything that was significant. Like, I could see what she meant when she was pointing to it. Like, it looked out of place. But for anybody else to look at the picture and not be staring right there at the spot, there's really no reference point.

It would just be a brown blob. So there was no point in referring to it, I guess. Gotcha. Did it seem like there may have been other people that saw the same event, like you look over, you see people on a boat, they're pointing at something, anything like that? No, there's no boats on the water. A few football fields to the right, there was people fishing on the bank, but I didn't even, like, I didn't even think to look over there to see what anybody else was doing. We were just, like, glued to this thing. And it, like, you know, the way I describe it, it seems like it lasted probably longer than it did.

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known for bigfoot sightings or interactions at all uh i don't know i mean not that i'm aware of okay we weren't we weren't there like for any other purpose other than we were just there reminiscent because that's where we had our first date years ago absolutely absolutely the funny thing is is though you know, my girlfriend, you know, I've been talking about Sasquatch for probably three years now. Okay. And she's been laughing about it, you know, the whole time until we went camping last year. And now she's like 100% believer. And she even refers to me as like a Sasquatch magnet because it seems like every time we go out, there's like something happening now.

I definitely get that. Have you, so when you say you've been into the subject for three years, like you're listening to things or how far into the subject have you gotten? Yeah, just like listening The podcast and Watching videos and stuff like that Like I'm not like a You know Investigator or anything like that

Although I'm definitely much more interested now Because the whole thing with the camping and the owls and all that Like I feel like that was pretty significant Especially if someone were to be there and hear how How loud these owls were There's no way there were owls Not to mention I've never heard of owls Like traveling in groups and surrounding camps

I have had I've had that same thing happen where you have the owls around your camp and it sounds like they're huge. And it is absolutely, it can get pretty scary. I mean, that happened up in Iowa. Same night I had someone walking or something walking around my tent. It was like two or three in the morning. It's very, very, very weird stuff. Is anything else out of the ordinary happening, any other strange things?

besides things that are Bigfoot related happening to you? No, not really. I mean, I guess I could mention that my kid and my girlfriend have been saying that there's weird things happening at the house, but I mean, they've been saying that for months now. And I don't know, as far as the paranormal type of stuff goes, I try to just ignore it because I feel like if you give it too much thought and energy that if there's something that's happening,

then you're just all you're going to do is perpetuate it more. Yeah, I get it. You're kind of already there, though. Not to freak you out, but it's like you're at the point where if I hadn't had to known that, I would have said stuff is probably going to start happening or potentially could start happening. But so are these like or shadow things or? no they say that they're just hearing weird noises and stuff and things moving around the house when they shouldn't be wow my goodness um hmm but you know the world's a strange place lately

i mean we got this like my girlfriend comes back all the time with where you know he's telling me oh there's a light in the sky following me and i just kind of write them off and then i hear him telling this mom you know so low and i just i don't know i try to ignore that kind of stuff because i don't want to perpetuate it. Like I said, all my life I've been, this is going to make me sound crazy too. I've kind of been sensitive to a lot of that stuff most of my life, and I've learned to just ignore it because when you ignore it goes away. I get it. I 100% get that. I mean, keep in mind that if you are listening to Bigfoot, I think maybe you could be ignoring certain parts of the phenomenon, but on the other

hand, you're definitely not ignoring whatever's happening with the Bigfoot side. Yeah, I mean, there was definitely, so the funny thing, Jeremiah is like, so when we went to Assumption Abbey, I guess it was a little more than a few weeks ago, the place where we had to smell and we both felt dizzy. On the way home, I looked there, I said, man, you know, things have been getting crazy lately. I wouldn't be surprised if our next incident is an actual sighting. Oh, wow. And I said that kind of jokingly or whatever. And man, you know, A couple days later. I couldn't believe it.

That is, that's wild. Oh, so this Fellows Lake area, do they have people that work there, the equivalent of Rangers down in Missouri or anything like that? I've never seen like Ranger type people. It's more like a, it's a, it's a, it's a, we'll use, like, they have a, like, a public area, like a couple different parking lots you can park in, and then if you go like the opposite direction that we went, there's an actual like park area where you can pull in.

There's like picnic tables and it's a pretty large area, but it's kind of another portion of the lake. But the place that we were at, it is pretty generally populated, but I just don't ever see any like official type people over there. Gotcha. So not a thing where after that happened, you'd be like,

oh, let's talk to the guy over there, see if other people are having weird stuff like this happen as well. Yeah, I mean, honestly for for at least a few days to a week i don't know this is going to sound weird to you but i somehow completely forgot about it and then remind me of it and then we both kind of marveled at how did i just completely forget about this thing you know that's that is a pattern that does you know come up sometimes sometimes you you'll forget certain things maybe it's like your brain wants you to forget it and you know sometimes after something like this happens you

you will, people will go to sleep really quick out of nowhere. It's just, it's very, very strange how the human body and mind reacts. Feels with stress and trauma. Absolutely. 100%. 100%. Well, the thing is, is I don't remember feeling like, I mean, I was amazed by the whole thing, but I wasn't like, I would put this, 100% shocked because, you know, like I said,

I've had a couple other incidences before and I kind of almost felt like, you know, it was coming. and especially But at the same you go ahead I was just going to say but at the same time I wasn't really keen on like telling everybody

you know I 100% get it and that makes sense what you said especially if you're saying you're a sensitive individual even though you have been kind of

pushing it to the side it makes sense that you would get that feeling that'd be like okay something is coming we're probably going

to have maybe even see something and boom it happens right? Totally not. I mean, what are the chances

that I said those exact words and for that exact thing to happen? I mean, it just makes this all sound not much more like, you know, fake or something. But it's not at all this is 100th century.

I think it's a thing where to me it sounds like you're an individual that is just trying to work through things, figure out what it is that's going on. And sometimes that can get really confusing. it can get really weird and you just need to make sure that you're grounded to the right thing

while you're working through that. Well, you know, plus I've recently come to the conclusion that like it's not going to do anybody any favors. Like, you know, in every other aspect of my life, I thrive on honesty and being a straightforward person even to the point of like sometimes it works against me. So why do I want to take this over to, you know, I think it would only help for people to know.

So I want people to know where it happened. I want people to know that it happened. And not because I want people, everybody out there looking for Sasquatch or anything, but the more people talk about it, the more people realize that it's happening, like right where they freaking live, like maybe people will start being more open-minded to it.

And maybe as more people are open-minded to it, we'll start getting a little closer to whatever the truth is in that situation. Oh, 100%. And maybe even someone will reach, out and be like hey fellows lake totally had a sighting there too you know and things like that even though it seems like a small deal for that person to reach out it can be a huge deal because it can help you know James be like okay what I saw was actually there and I can deal with this you know and it kind of works both ways so people have had things

happen around that fellows lake area of Missouri you know please reach out to me It's Bigfoot Society at gmail.com and send me an email. But yeah, James, this is some pretty wild stuff, dude. Yeah, and also, if you don't mind, I did want to take a second to say that, you know, anybody that's listening, if you're from the area and you're curious, or if you want to share with me as well, something that happened out there. If you know, feel free to email me. I'll talk to anybody about this at this point.

Absolutely. Is that a thing where you would want to provide that email address? It does get a little bit daunting for me to try to pass on information all the time. That's fine with me if we want to just say it on the air right now or whatever. That's cool with me. Sure. Okay. It's Eschelon symbiotics at gmail.com. E-C-H-E-H-E-L-O-N-S-M-Y-B-I-O-P-I-C-S at Gmail. And no matter how crazy it may seem what you have to say or whatever,

you know, just feel comfortable reaching out to me if you feel like doing self. I'd love to hear from anybody that's actually any kind of experience in that area. And that's the Springfield, Missouri area, or more specifically to that lake area? Even just the southwest Missouri area because we go camping and stuff. Like I said, that one thing happened in Kissy Mills,

which is down Mark Twain, which I believe was like southeast of us. 100%. Oh, man, James. I want to make sure that you were able to share all the things that you came on the show to share today. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Wow.

I love ones like this because it's just a few weeks old. It'll be cool to see if other things come out of this. But, you know, James, thank you for being willing to come on the show and share what you're going through, what you've experienced with your girlfriend. I appreciate the chat today, man. Hey, no problem. And I appreciate you being here so that we can talk about these kind of things. Hey, Feather. Thank you.

Hey, hey, thanks for coming up. Do you mind if I, yeah, yeah, do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my Bigfoot podcast I have? Oh, absolutely. Thanks. Yeah. What brings you up today? What would you have to share?

So I moved to Florida, North Central Florida. I don't want to give away my exact location, but from Texas a little over a year ago. And the kids are different. And so I'm sitting out on my back patio. We have a screened-in patio here in Florida because of the exorbitant amount of insects. And we have a privacy fence, and there's this palm tree, this same, Palm Spolm, that I forget it, this palm tree on the other side of the fence. and it's happened two times two different nights, like several nights apart.

You know that sound that that alien makes on that Predator movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yes, ma'am. I heard it. I heard it twice. I don't know what it was, but that's what I wanted to share. Oh, my goodness. Have you nothing, no like wavy mirage moving around, right? It's dark.

It's black. I have little lights on here, you know, but we don't have floodlights yet. I know we have a lot of marsupials and rodents and raccoons and things like that that'll come around the fence and in the yard. And I've heard. Critters lose their lives and then being carried off through the woods. I mean, the jungle. We live in a jungle.

So, what is a freaking jungle? I love it. And I've heard a lot of strange things out here. I mean, I can go conspiracy on you. If you stay up late at night, you can hear some things. But I heard that particular sound twice. And also, here's a lot. another creepy thing. So with these lights on the back porch, they're like Christmas lights,

so they're darkly colored when they're lit up. So you can't really see outside. But there have been whatever animals coming up in the yard up to the screen. And they're not raccoons because I can shine a flash flight out there and they're larger and I don't know what they are. It's weird. It's very strange out here. Just come alive from Florida. Absolutely. Do you have any, you know, a good way to get stuff not to mess with your place is to put up game cameras? I don't know if you were able to do that. Financially, I'll have to look into it. But I would love some, those not, those noculars. The night vision ones.

Oh, sure, sure. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, definitely. I say game cameras because the IR on them will, will scare some stuff off, you know, sometimes. So my people are. No, I want to scare them off. I want to see what the heck they are.

You want to. Okay, so you want them to. Okay. You want them there. All right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm from Texas.

This is cool. Bring it on. Well, hey, let me know if you see the prejudice. I'm used to coyotes, you know, and small deer, bobcats, copperheads, things like that, an occasional jaguarundi. But out here, I'm telling you, these things will eat you. Oh, my goodness. Wow. We're Louisianaans.

I mean, we got gators. crocodiles um i've seen tree people um you know shadows in the trees and stuff i can see those out here yeah um spiritual spiritual spiritual creatures um they're they're you want to look it up it's it's um under folk lore and legends and stuff so yeah this um this um this um you're um you're Up in Georgia, there's some strange stuff going on. A lot of conspiracy about this stuff, just like Bigfoot. And I have looked at photos of Bigfoot. And I've seen footage of people showing some movement in the trees and stuff like that.

Very realistic, because I can tell the difference between anything touched up. being an artist. But anyway, I've seen a lot of things that I know it's real. So. Yeah, you've got some interesting stuff going on there. I mean, keep me in mind if stuff continues to happen, you can always reach out through email. You got me Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. Yeah, absolutely.

If you don't mind following me back. Yeah, sure. And if you want me to send you crazy stuff that I need help looking into, I'll send it to you. And I need some graders. Sure, absolutely. It's a pleasure talking to you. We need to know. All right.

Absolutely. Yeah, be in touch. Have a good one. You too. Good stuff. I mean, some wild stuff going on down in Florida. It sounds like maybe be careful if you're going down there. as we are talking to people all over the U.S. right now, from coast, literally coast to coast.

Real quick, this is Jeremiah editing the episode. That last small Florida interview, I put that audio clip in there not knowing what it was from the latest TikTok live. And weirdly enough, both of them kind of have to do with the Predator movie. So it's kind of a weird synchronicity there, but I just wanted to point that out. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. James Story is one that grabs you not just because of the water, the whoops, or the vanishing figures, but because of how raw and recent it is and how close it happened to home for him. So huge thanks to James for sharing what happened near Fellows Lake,

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