Bigfoot Society - The Roar in Allegheny with Amy Bue

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

In this episode, Jeremiah interviews Amy Bue, an Ohio-based Bigfoot researcher and co-founder of Project Zoobook. Amy shares her personal sightings and experiences, including a mysterious encounter at the Meander Creek Reservoir and a chilling night in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. She discusses heart palpitations potentially linked to infrasound and touches upon the scientific and research efforts of Project Zoobook. Amy also highlights intriguing Bigfoot reports and her collaborative work with the Olympic Project. Dive in to explore the eerie phenomena and dedicated research in the quest to uncover the truth about Bigfoot.https://projectzoobook.comShare your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail] to call in and leave a voicemail of your encounters for the podcast - Check this out here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety(Use multiple voice mails if needed!)🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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and the co-founder of Project Zoo Book. And I'm sure we'll be talking about that later on in the interview. But how's it going today, Amy? It's going really well. Thank you, trying to keep cool out here in Ohio. Oh, I know. Out here. Not succeeding.

Out here in Iowa, we're burning up. It's a pretty crazy time. out here. It'd be nicer to be on the West Coast, I think. But I had the privilege of meeting you out at Monster Fest 2. We were able to have a nice dinner with some of your fellow researchers and I guess individuals that you would call your mentor, right? Your mentors. Definitely, yes. Yes. We have a We have a nice group of researchers right around where I live in Ohio. So definitely, especially a few of them, I would definitely call my mentors. Absolutely.

It was a very, very enjoyable chat. And then there was actually outside, there was a whole party going on. I think I caught a little bit of that. But, you know, listeners, if you're able to go to any of these conferences and festivals, like, you know, your Monster Fest in Canton, Ohio, your Sasquatch Summerfest in Oak Ridge, I mean, that's where the real magic is going to happen and you're able to learn things that you would not learn on the Internet. And I would just recommend people start to take advantage of those times. But let's get into it, Amy.

So what was it? We'll start with the first basic question. So what was it that first got you into all this wild Bigfoot stuff to begin with? Well, I saw something. It was 12 years ago. in April and I was a passenger in a car going over a reservoir here in Ohio and I saw something along the shoreline that I still don't know what it was because it was too far away and we were driving and couldn't stop or anything like that but it looked to me like what I would think

Bigfoot looked like and at the time when I was staring at it like from the time we hit the bridge till we got parallel to it. I just was looking at like what in the world is that? And, you know, I was not into Bigfoot at the time, but I knew, you know, the folklore, whatever I thought of Bigfoot. So I knew that this creature, whatever you want to call it, looked like what I had seen, you know, on TV or in movies or, you know, in little magnet. or whatever, you know, what I would think Bigfoot looked like.

And as we went past it, it was holding onto a tree, it moved. It was very tall and wide, all one color. And as we went past it, I yelled out, I think I just saw Bigfoot. And then the first thing I thought after that was how stupid that was, because there's no such thing as it. And, you know, I relive that moment in my mind probably every day. because I wish I could say for sure what I had seen, but whatever it was, that's what kind of sent me down the rabbit hole, so to speak.

Wow. And was that in Ohio? That was in Ohio. And so that was another reason, you know, even though when I think back to it, I 100% can say it was not a bear. It didn't have the stance of a bear. It was not shaping. like a bear, it did not have a muzzle, you know, so I know it wasn't a bear. I can't be sure what it was just because it might, like when I talk to other witnesses and we all, oh, not all of us maybe, but a lot of us say the same thing that Bigfoot, you know, when we saw something, was not supposed to exist. So your mind kind of plays tricks with you trying to make sense of it. And since

I'm a pretty skeptical person, even to this day, even though I can't, you know, I think I would have been able to tell anything else it would be. But in the back of my head, I keep thinking, what if it was a guy dressed up like a Bigfoot? You know, like, you know, it still messes with my mind. Like, just talking about it. I can see it in my head. I think about it, and that's what it looked like. And now I think it absolutely could have been a Bigfoot at the time. time. I'm just saying at the time I thought that was stupid. And I'm like, well, what, what is it?

Because it's not that. But I still can't say for sure because it was too far away and too quick of a sighting. But I definitely think it could have been because my mind has changed a lot since then. Oh, absolutely. I'm sure going from that point of time to where you are now, it's leaps and bounds. But were there any details that you remember seeing that were really hard to explain a way in your mind? Yeah, well, first of all, the location where it was, it was next to a body of water that is under the Department of Homeland Security. So I've never even seen a person out there.

But, to be fair, you know, you have rangers and people that work there, so there could have been a person. It was just really strange to see anything there because you usually don't. So that was the first, you know, thing that caught my eye. But I would say just the breadth of the shoulders. It was so incredibly wide. If it had been a person, I would think they would have had to have some kind of like football pads or something on to make it look that disproportionate. Like it didn't look like a person.

And then it was all that one color. I feel like, say it was 100 yards, and that's my best estimate, because I still go over that bridge. But I feel like I would be able to tell if a person was standing in the end zone across from me on a football field. And this did not look like a person, especially because of how wide it was. And we've never been able to go in there to try to do a reenactment or anything like that. So it seemed to be very tall as well, but I know, you know, your mind can play tricks on you a little bit with how big something is. But it was extremely wide in the shoulders compared to the rest of it, like what I would think a person would look like. Absolutely.

In years after that, you know, maybe watching TV or movies or looking at magazines, have you ever seen any other? individual that has that same width of the shoulders or did that ever remind you of that in any ways? Oh yeah, I've seen I've seen illustrations of Bigfoot like that other people have said they've seen like Sybilla Irwin does her drawings, you know, based on what witnesses tell her. And definitely I've seen some pictures that look more like that, that very, those very wide shoulders with the thinner body, long arms. Now it was holding onto a tree, but I was too far away to really be able to see the other arm

or how long it was or anything like that. I couldn't see a face, you know, but it just was that consistent color. So I feel like if it was a human, they had to be doing some kind of a hoax or something like that because they weren't wearing normal clothing. Absolutely. And to look at that a different way, have you ever seen that with in maybe if you've been looking at like a sports athlete or a movie star or anything like that or does nothing even really come close to it? Well, just like I said, like a football player, you know, with the with the shoulder pads on, but even more pronounced than that, I would say.

just how, you know, you can have these guys that are really tall, big guys, but they have these huge shoulder pads on. And so they look like an inverted triangle kind of. So it was more like, more like that. Just the body was a lot thinner, I guess, or narrower than the shoulders. It's interesting when I've asked that. I ask that every once in a while. and more oftentimes than not, individuals will bring up Hulk Hogan,

which is kind of a funny mental picture. No, that is true. But I would say, like, even more so than him, like, even the shoulders is even more pronounced. And what in my memory, you know, that's just what I remember being so taken aback by, like, what in the world is that? Absolutely. You mentioned this area sounds very interesting,

and I haven't heard of many reservoirs that are controlled by the Department of Homeland Security. Is it a place where you can kind of talk about where it is or are you keeping it kind of? No, I can definitely tell. It's called Neander Reservoir and it's outside of Youngstown, Ohio. So it's just like such a crazy in my mind at the time, place for something like that to be. The reason it's under that is because it's the city's water supply. but if you drive around the perimeter, it's all fenced in, you cannot get in there, you get in a lot of trouble if you try. I mean, you could crawl over a fence or something, you know, but it's not impossible, but I wouldn't try it.

But it has a lot of signs that say like wild, I think it's something like wildlife refuge area, you know, so it's just kind of mysterious, you know, it really is. adds to the whole thing. And after I started looking into Bigfoot, which was pretty quick after that, whatever it was that I saw, I realized that a lot of people, well, to me, a lot of people have seen things around there. And as the years have gone by, I've talked to people, you know, maybe I was at a library talk or something like that or at the park, and people will tell me their sightings. And there was like a lady that had a sighting of one crowd down in the water with a duck in its mouth. So she got a really good sighting.

And then another gentleman who saw one with a dead deer under its arm walking across a road. So, you know, it's not the hugest forested area, but it's pretty well preserved. And it is something that something could get in and out of following different. waterways and things like that. And you said Neander Reservoir? Yes. So that's so interesting, right? I find a study of names and locations to be very interesting when it comes to Bigfoot.

You know, we were actually, I was mentioning before the interview, Henry Franzoni, and he has that great book, I want a Spear of Seaco maybe, where it is a study into all of the names that are associated with Bigfoot in all the different states. And I mean, Neander, that sounds like another word to me, maybe Neanderthal, but maybe that's kind of going too far, but I don't know. No, I'm sorry, it's not me, it's meander, like with the M. So like it meanders around. No, but I see what you're saying.

I get what you were trying to say, yeah. And there's like a, there's the reservoir and I'm not sure if they call it a creek, meander Creek, I think, not a river that comes out of that. it meanders its way around. But no, that would have been really cool if it was Neander, wouldn't it? I would have been all about it. So you have that citing. And then how quickly after that do you find yourself launching into the world of Bigfoot

research and going different places? Well, it took me about a year before I submitted a report. And back then it was, you know, when you start looking into Bigfoot and stuff, you see the BFRO pretty quickly. I had not been somebody that watched TV shows. I was not into Bigfoot. You know, like back in the day, I watched in search of and stuff. So an unself mystery.

So I knew of it. But again, didn't think it was, could in any way be real. But I started looking into that. But it was about a year before I submitted a report. So I was like, oh, what the heck I'll do it? Because at the time, I didn't think my maybe citing was good. enough to submit because I wasn't sure what I saw and it was kind of far away and all of that. So I thought, well, they won't want to hear that.

Now I know that that's not true because, you know, you want a story of the whole area. And any bits of information that come in are worthy, you know, are good. You know, if somebody hears something or sees something or finds a print or whatever you're talking about, I think that's really good to show the story of an area. But at the time, like I said, I still was, you know, going back in my head, this can't be true. Is this true? Could it have been that? And it turned into, like that year before I submitted my own report, I read and read and read.

I really got hooked into this mystery. It absolutely fascinated me because I had no clue that so many people were seeing things. I had no clue of the potential evidence that we have, the footprints, the audio, all of the witness reports, which is just fascinating in itself. I got into all the history of it. So even to this day, like, whether or not my first maybe citing was really, Sausquatch doesn't really matter to me. You know, it was my jumping off point, but that's what got me interested. and I spent that whole year. I started going to hear, you know, speakers and things like that,

you know, if I would see that somebody was going to be close by. And I really just kind of educated myself in it. Then I submitted my report. And then, like I went to my first Bigfoot conference, I met other people. So then it kind of took off quickly. But I spent a lot of time just really familiarizing myself. with what could be going on here. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages.

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the moment he tasted them and said, That's right. No notes. Just absolute silence. Turns out some flavors don't need explaining. They just need dipping. It's saucy season at KFC with new honey, chili crisp and halapeno ranch. Get dipping with a boneless bucket today. Prices and participation vary. I thought, first of all, I thought, you know, I'm going to, this can't be real, so I'm going to prove to myself it can't be real. And then I thought, oh, you know, this is actually interesting. And all through the years since, I've just gotten more and more convinced that these creatures are real. I found there is a point for me where I experienced some things that after I experienced that it just really rocked my worldview. you and I had been what I feel was 100%, but it just launched me way, way into it area where

there's no way I could come back from what I experienced. Did that ever happen to you or was it just a gradual into, okay, now I'm like 150% big foot and there's no going back or was there a catalyst point that really launched you into it? Well, it has definitely been very gradual, and it's honestly only been the last few months where I even say I think Bigfoot is real. You know, I have mostly always said I am a hopeful skeptic. I think they're real. I'm not sure. And there's still a little bit of that in me.

You know, without, I've had some other experiences, but never the smoking gun. There it is. I am 100% convinced, right? I've never had that myself. But it's been in the last, you know, this year where I'm like, you know, I keep saying that. And that's true because I think a lot of us, there's an occasional day where you get up and you spend so much time doing this, so much effort trying to figure this whole thing out that there are some days, at least for me, where I'm like, man, what if it's not real? What if I'm wasting my time?

You know, it's just, you're going to get down a little bit. And I have zero expectations of ever seeing something. Like, I think I could go my whole life and never see something again. And that's okay, but it can mess with your mind a little bit. But anyway, I keep getting off track. Sorry, but I have come to the conclusion. And there have been some things along the way that have brought me here.

So kind of aha moments if you want to say that. But I've come to the conclusion that when maybe I haven't had that absolute moment, but people that I trust with my wife have, you know, friends that have become family. And if I, you know, if they would say pretty much anything else to me, I would believe them. You know, so why am I not believing them on this? Does that make sense? You know, and it isn't been so much that I wasn't believing them, but I, and I think it's healthy to be skeptical, you know, I think it's healthy to not think everything is

Bigfoot, but there's just so much in my mind overwhelming clues toward this being a real creature that I can't, I can't throw that away anymore. So now, you know, I do have that occasional doubtful day, but I really think that, I absolutely think they could exist and I really think that they do. Some of the things that have sent me on that way of not just spend people who I trust that have told me their stories, but one of the things I do a lot now is I go to outdoor shows like hunting and fishing shows. Every year, I go to several of them. and I get so many hunters and fishermen and women who are telling me their stories. You know, I used to have people say, well, if Bigfoot was real, the hunters would see them. And I'm like, they do, they do see them.

There are so many reports that I've gotten over the last, I'd say, five years from hunters that I don't think everybody is lying. And when you are talking to a hunter that goes out for bo-season looking for bear or, you know, whatever it is, they know what a bear looks like. So I think your possibility of misidentification goes way down when you're talking about that. So if everybody's not lying to me and hoaxing and everybody's not misidentifying something, there's something out there. What it is is up for speculation, but I don't think everybody's lying about it. And I talk to people who have such an emotional reaction, like visceral reaction when they're telling me their story. You know, I'm a teacher.

I know I can't tell when everybody lies to me, but I feel like I have a pretty good judgment of that. And there have been stories that have been told to me that I absolutely believe these people. I know exactly what you're talking about. I experienced that in Oregon, and there were people with loggers and barbers and construction workers and hunters that were having so visceral reactions in front of me that I didn't even ask them a lot of questions because I didn't want them to be in that emotional state for too long to damage them again, you know? It's just it is extremely intense. And there's no way that, you know, I agree with you that all these people are lying. And they're not selling books. They don't have a YouTube channel.

They just saw something. And they're trying to come to grips with what they saw or what they experienced. It's crazy. Over the years, have you been able to go to any actual in the field spots to try to research Bigfoot for yourself? face to face in the field, I guess you'd say? I do. I have and I do. I live about, I think, like 10 miles from the Pennsylvania, Ohio border. So I actually go out to PA a lot more than I do Ohio for research purposes. So the Allegheny National Forest is my home. I always say my grandpa had a hunting cabin up there.

and my whole family spent, you know, our childhood and teenage years and everything going to that cabin. The cabin's no longer there, but I still go to the area where it was. And I go there for nostalgic reasons and because it's so beautiful and I love it there, but I also go there because there are so many Bigfoot reports in that area. So I spend a lot of time in Pennsylvania, also in Ohio, especially in Columbia, County where there are a lot of reports, but all over Ohio. And now, you know, over the last several years, I travel quite a bit. So I go out to the Pacific Northwest when I can make it out there, both as a member of the Olympic project and just, you know, doing my own research. I go to

Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan even. I went out to Montana with some members. of my project a few years ago and plan on going back. So wherever I can make it to, you know, if I'm invited out there to look into a specific, you know, case or a specific witness report, I will. But my favorite thing to do is just to get out there on my own and hope something happens. So you've mentioned all these places. Have there been, has there been a time where you've been in a certain place? And even though you may have, you know, you may not be 100% at that time, but something has happened and it's hard to explain away.

And it's just things got very, very intense and hard to wrap your mind around. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Which one do you want to hear about it? Yeah, let's go for it. I have several things like that. I have several things like that. I had another possible siting in 2018 in southern Ohio.

I had something really strange that I don't know whether or not, you know, it would be attributed to Bigfoot. But something really odd happened in Pennsylvania. And then when I was out in Oregon and Mount Hood National Forest, it was just, We had hiked in several miles, and there were just so many odd sounds going on. There were, you know, knocks and some yells and things like that. We were, you know, remote camping out there and found a possible footprint across the lake where we were, like, fishing for our supper and everything where we had put, you know, how, I don't know, if you can still buy them, but you used to be able to go online and they were called like Sasquatch Farramone chips, which they were not really Sasquatch, but they were, I think

they were like, had guerrilla urine or something in there. So we, somebody that I was with had bought some of those and put one in a tree across the lake. And we had weird sounds coming from there, possible footprint, trees breaking and things like that. That was just a lot. Like, We were the only people out there that we knew of. And I always say that to be, you know, total disclosure. Could there have been other people, I suppose, right? Because we were there. But this was not a campsite or anything.

We were just camp by lake with our shovels if you had to go to the bathroom. You know, it was like just very remote. And that was a, it was creepy. You know, it was wonderful. I loved it, but it was a little creepy. Also, when I was in Stevens County, Washington, I have never been anywhere where I was felt such a feeling of, oh, just there was something out there. Like, it was very, and it wasn't like a really good feeling.

It was more foreboding. The woods were beautiful. There was nothing like a creepy about where we were, but it just had a different feeling to it. I don't know how else to explain that. But I felt like, you know, we heard some odd noises there as well. But the weirdest one that happened was in Pennsylvania. You want me tell you about that one? Absolutely.

Okay. So this is the one where I'm still not exactly sure what to think. But I saw nightmares about it. And when I say nightmares, it's more like I wake up kind of panicked. you know, nothing really bad happens or anything like that. Nothing bad did happen, but it was just such a scary feeling. So basically, I think it was about a year and a half ago now, I could be, could get my times a little different.

But I got a call from a reporter from the Wall Street Journal of all places. And he wanted to do an article about Bigfoot, like a paragraph that was going to be on the front page. It was kind of a teaser thing where I forget what they call that, but it's, like he had written one about somebody who used to be the world champion Pogo stick jumper or whatever. You know, it was like something more lighthearted. And he got a hold of my name because I was a featured speaker at a festival in that area. And so I said, sure, we can do that. But then he was asking me a little bit about what I do. And I started telling him about Project Zoo Book, which I'm sure we'll talk about it here in a minute.

And he got really fascinated with the whole thing. And he's like, wait a minute, you mean it's not just for fun? Like you think Bigfoot could actually be real? And I'm like, yeah, I do. Long story short, he got really involved in what we were doing. Interviewed a bunch of people. It ended up being like a lot bigger. of a deal, I guess, if you want to say it that way, then I thought at first.

But after he was done writing everything, he, well, no, he wasn't done yet. I guess he wanted, like, some experience, too. So he asked if myself and some of Project Zoo Book would take him out camping and looking for Bigfoot. And I'm like, we sure will, but just fair warning, we probably won't find anything. just because, you know, I don't normally, you know, I'm not somebody that goes out there and find stuff all the time. But I said, you know, so you know what I mean? Like I didn't want him to feel like he's going to come out. We're going to see Bigfoot everywhere, although you always hope that.

Right. So he came out in a photographer and the night before they arrived, myself and some of Project Zoo Book members who were also my friends, we went up to the area where we were going going to be camping. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGYN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states. There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it. You can order it through DoorDash, another major

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Pacific Northwest, those forests are huge. The Alleghenies might not be as big, but you can go to places in them where you're not going to see a lot of people. And so to get to where we were going, like there are some spots carved out there, but it's, again, not a campground, no bathrooms, no running water, nothing. You're just, you have a place where you can have a campfire. And the road to get there, especially at that time, was so horrible. Like, I kept thinking the potholes were going to swallow my car. And I have a reason for saying for mentioning that, which I'll tell you in a minute.

But it's hard to get to. You know, it's not the easiest place to get to. So anyway, we went up the night before, the evening before, because we wanted to set up camp and have everything ready for them. And so we were not in Bigfoot mode. You know, I remember when I first got into this, somebody warned me like, before you can get out of the car, put your audio recorders on. you never know what you're going to catch. But I wasn't thinking about that. I'm just like, oh my gosh, the Wall Street Journal is coming tomorrow, so I better get cracking.

So we didn't have any cameras set up. We didn't have any audio equipment set up, nothing. We were just like, let's set up this canopy, you know, so in case it rains, let's have some firewood, all that kind of stuff. So that night we were ready and we went to sleep. Never did any kind of research, nothing. and we just were ready. And my friend Tina was in her van, because you can drive up to the area we were at.

You know, there's some places to park. So she slept in her van on a cot. Next to her van in a tent was Monica. And I'm saying, kind of giving you an idea what it was like because that's important to. Then I'm so bad at distances, but I, I don't know, like maybe 20 yards away was me in my tent. And then further away from me were our friends, Kevin and his daughter.

And they were in tree hammocks, like tent hammocks up in a tree. And their dog was on the ground beneath them. So you kind of get the setup a little bit. So we had gone to sleep. It was dark. this area that you're in you cannot like very rarely get a text or a phone call or anything to go through it's you know there's just no service up there so I'm in my tent and I couldn't sleep right away it was very windy at first and I was like playing a game on my phone like something you didn't have to have

Wi-Fi for and I was reading a little bit and as I was doing that, I feel this, and I think I had like dozed off kind of, you know, I can't, I can't remember. It was just kind of like, oh, I need to fall asleep type of thing. And I feel this really odd feeling. So I don't know if you knew that I am much, much better. But a few years ago, I got really sick and I was put into heart. failure by when I got a really bad doubt of COVID. So I had been very sick, had a lot of heart

problems, and have been recovering ever since. So the reason I say that is like I thought something was wrong with my heart. Like it was just like felt like it was like vibrating, beating really heavy. And I'm like putting my hand on my chest. I'm like, oh my gosh, what's wrong? And I wasn't feeling nervous or, you know, anything like that. So I'm like, why is this happening? So I'm lying there. And it kind of, the feeling kind of made me start to feel a little bit panicky because I'm like, oh my gosh, we're really far away, not just from a house or anything or to call anything, but to get to a hospital, it would take a really long time to get to. So I was nervous, but I just lie there for a little bit. Lay there. I'm an English teacher. I just lay there for a little

a bit. And I had to think about it for a minute. And I was nervous, but that finally went away. And but it shook me up enough that I just kind of was awake then. I'm like, what the heck was that? So about an hour later, I'm lying there again. And I, oh my gosh, like, even to say it, Like, I wish I could describe what this was like, but I can't to, I can't, but I'll do my best. So I'm lying there in the dark. I had tried to message and tried to text Tina and the others, but it was windy. Like I could have yelled, but I was also trying to, like, not ruin everybody's time, you know, so I'm like, uh, you know, I'm fine.

I'm fine. I'm fine, so I was trying to convince myself of that. So about an hour later, I'm lying there, and out from the woods, like, to the left, past Tina's van, but to the left of it, so kind of behind where my car was parked, I hear this god-awful roaring yell come out of the woods, and all I, I just remember freezing. Like, oh my gosh, it was absolutely terrifying. I wasn't in my head thinking Bigfoot at the time. I didn't know what to think. I am not like the world's most knowledgeable person when it comes to animal calls, but I'm pretty knowledgeable about it. I'm a certified volunteer naturalist in Ohio, had to go

through different training and I also train myself, you know, take other classes and I train myself about animal calls and things like that because I always say I think it's important to know what isn't Bigfoot, you know, like what other things are making noises and leaving tracks and things like that. So I knew it was not a bear. I'm, what it sounded like to me was like one of those warrior men, those island warriors. where they do that, is it the Haka? Is that what it's called? Just that, those yells, you know, that they do.

It wasn't a scream, really. I might have called it that in the past, but it was more of a really big, deep, loud yell, like, aggressive. And like now when I look back at it, I feel like if I was standing in front of whatever, whoever was doing that, like my hair would have blown back like in a cartoon. or something because it was just so powerful. So I'm in that tent and I'm like, oh my gosh.

Like I was just thinking like we're all going to be murdered by somebody or something. You know, I just, it was, I was scared. So I was quiet for a little bit. And then I was just like, I got to get out of here. I didn't want to be in that tent, you know, like a sitting duck or whatever. So, you know, and I've been, I've camped places like I've camped where there have been grizzly bears and mountain lions and, you know, scary things. And I'm not sitting here saying I've never been scared before because I have, but never to the point where I was like, get me out of here and I made a move for that. So my stomach was upset.

It was just really scary. So I ended up getting out of the tent and I went over to my car. And, you know, in the meantime, like, I had called out to Monica. She finally heard me. And she was like, are you okay? And I ended up in my car. And Tina said from her van, like, she heard Monica and I talking. She could see me with my headlamp on, like, looking around all night because I just sat in my car scared.

So fast forward to the next morning, like nothing else ever happened that night, but I could not sleep. and the next morning we were all bedraggled and sitting there drinking some coffee. And Tina was like to my left, Monica was to my right. Kevin was over further to the right. We're all talking. And we were talking a little bit about some different stuff. And then Tina said, well, in other news, I think I'm going to have to miss all of this whole thing today with the reporter. And we were like, what happened?

And she said, well, I think I was having a medical emergency last night because I was having these really bad heart palpitations. And I myself and Monica just like whipped our heads around because we had already talked about the yell and stuff. But I had like the yell scared me so much that I wasn't thinking about the heart beating weird stuff. And we're like, that happened to me. That happened to her. Now, didn't that happen to Kevin? he was up in the tree though so I don't know if that's why and he was further away but another thing when that yell happened I heard it Monica did and Kevin's dog started barking

and the dog was barking toward where it came from and also the other way and it wouldn't settle down until Kevin like unzipped his hammock tent and brought the dog in with him so it was like everybody was experiencing something, but Kevin didn't hear it. It was windy. So I don't know. Like, I don't know the dynamics of why some of us experience certain things and why so it was heard things and others didn't. But it was interesting how we could kind of corroborate things.

Still don't know what that was. And I don't automatically jump to it with Bigfoot, although, who knows? There's been lots of sightings there, which is why we were taking. them there. We tried to do our due diligence to figure out what that could be. You know, we looked into fracking. If there was any fracking going on around there, if there's any seismic activity going on around there. We, the reason I talked about how bad the road is, like I absolutely am sure if it was like some kind of a truck or something coming up there, we would have known that. Like, that would not have been, that would not have been a secret of any kind of. kind of vehicle came up there, but that's not what it felt like. And for several weeks after that, especially Tina and I were both having these weird nightmares about it, like just like waking up, panicked, like, oh my gosh, there's something there, there's something there. And I said to her, you know what it reminded me of that weird vibration, you know, I said it reminded me kind of

in Jurassic Park where the glass. of water was vibrating when the when the T-Rex was walking around you know like it was like boom or like a bass and a music or something so I don't know what it was Jeremiah but I still think about it and the last time well the last several times that I've been up there I've still I haven't camped in a tent I've camped in my car I slept in my car because it really shook me up I don't know what it was. So that's that creepy story. That's an extremely creepy story.

And I don't like to talk about myself a lot on these, but in this case, I'm going to because I have also experienced that the way you described it is the same exact thing that I experienced when I went out a month or so ago and my son. Do you know Tate Hieronymus? I do. I don't know him personally, but I know who he is. Yeah. So he has a research area in Iowa. and we go there and my kid wanted to go out in a Bigfoot adventure. And I've talked about this before, but pretty much what happened to me the night we were staying over when it was dusk is I started having heart palpitations exactly how you described it.

And I thought that we were going to have to drive immediately to a hospital. And my mood changed. And it was even to the point where I almost walked away from this completely until we left the area. about 10 minutes away from the area my mood changed. And I've always wondered what that was, and it's just really interesting to hear you describe what happened to more than just you. And I've been trying to figure out, is this an infrasound thing? Or what is this?

Because it's in an extremely squatchy area, too. We've talked about that. Somebody brought that up to us. And I'm like, I don't know if that's what it was. I suppose it could have been. you know, I'm open to that explanation. It physically affected us. You know, I mean, my mom's going to say this is TMI.

But the real reason I got out of the tent to get to my car was I also had to go to the bathroom. Like it just affected me, my stomach and everything. So, sorry. But, I mean, I, but honestly, that's happened to other people. So really, that's an important detail where it was like it just. shook my entire self up. So I don't know if that's what it was or not. I don't know, but it was really disconcerting for sure.

It is. I can definitely see how that would be affecting your dreams. That's a scary, scary thing to live through. And after this, I will have done other episodes before this comes out, But I've also experienced the roar out in the Willamette National Forest similar to what you experienced. And it's just the more I get into this and it's like there's something going on out in the woods. If people in different parts of the U.S. are experiencing similar things like this, it's just some kind of, this is a mystery. It needs to be solved.

And I think this is a perfect segue into if we could talk about what you. you're doing with Project Zoo Book to further the solving of this mystery? Absolutely. So Project Zoo Book in a nutshell, we call ourselves a think tank of researchers and scientists. And we started in 2018. I think I first met our first two primate zoologists in 2017. but we we kind of started in 2018 to really talk about things. They had a Bigfoot lunch club.

They called it at their zoo in the primate department, because especially the two that I'm talking about, but the other zookeepers at the time were also interested in Bigfoot. And I stumbled across one of them out in a Facebook group, and we became friends and our colleagues. And it's longer story than that, but long story short, from that time when we first started just having kind of group phone calls, I knew at the time that at least I hadn't had a lot of scientists that were taking the topic of Bigfoot seriously. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago.

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So I felt like, I mean, maybe it sounds dramatic, but I did feel a responsibility. to bring people to them that knew a lot more than I did. You know, I have read a lot and I experienced some things, but although I don't think there are experts in Bigfooting, there are people that know more, you know, or who have experienced more and know about certain topics and all of that. So we just started having these, every other Thursday night, we started having these phone calls.

Then it turned into Zoom calls once that became more popular. and we've been doing it ever since. We, you know, we have independent researchers in Project Zoo Book where I always call myself kind of the coordinator of things where, say, one Thursday night, there's a whole bunch of us on a Zoom call and it could be like we have a certain topic, like, infrasound, like we were just talking about or something like that, where we might get an expert in the scientific arena to talk about that. We have some primatologists that will talk about great apes in different behavior.

We have wildlife biologists. We have marine biologists. We have anthropologists, et cetera. And everybody brings something to the table where we will discuss things about, you know, if Bigfoot is real, because a lot of our scientists are, still hopeful skeptics, like what I call that. Some have had experiences, so they know it's real, they say. But we're trying to, number one, make the topic of Bigfoot less taboo in scientific circles like Dr. John Bindernaga wanted to happen. So we're kind of standing on his shoulders and

furthering that, a lot of our scientists are still, I always say, in the Bigfoot closet where they are very open to it and perhaps even saw one, but are worried about losing their funding or credibility. Unfortunately, I get it. I always say I'm the mama bear of the group because if they don't want to be involved openly, then that is fine with me because I think someday that's going to happen. I just support however much they want to dip their toes out into the public world of all of this. So we have some that have spoken with me at different places. We have others who were interviewed for Doug Hichick's upcoming Sasquatch Legend Eat Science documentary. And then we have some who probably will always remain a bit under the radar or undercover because of their jobs.

I always say that to not just the general public, but to people in academia, some people, not all, but some people, if a scientist says they are seriously looking into Bigfoot as a living, breathing species, that they might as well be saying that they are looking for Smurfs. I say that a lot, but I think it's a really good analogy. For some people, others are more open to it. And another thing I want to say about it, I have a couple things. One thing I want to say about it is that we don't claim to know exactly what Bigfoot is, our interest, and our area of study is, could there be a living, breathing, pooping, mating, natural creature out there? Like, that's where our research is based.

I personally have friends who look at things very differently, and I'm fine with that. I think everybody should take their interests, take, you know, their experiences, and follow the path that, you know, they're kind of interested in following. So, and maybe the answer is somewhere in between all of it. But, you know, I hate it when people are always fighting in the Bigfoot community because to me, a lot of times when people talk about, like, the woo or more paranormal, supernatural things. And I'm not just saying this to be wishy-washy or not, but I truly think that some of that is just science we haven't put a name to yet, or we haven't figured out how it works yet. So in Zubuk, Project Zoo Book, we're definitely, you know, using scientific method, seeing

where that takes us. That is what I think Bigfoot could be, but I'm a cheerleader for. for other groups or individuals that take a different stance, I guess. The other thing we hope to accomplish is, you know, we have all these different individuals, whether you talk about the scientists or the researchers, and we have a lot of different projects going on. So we might have a lot of things I can't talk about,

and I'm not trying to be vague, but, you know, just out of respect for the scientists, but we might have, you know, this researcher and scientists out in the Pacific Northwest working on a micro study of an area, or we might have a couple of the scientists working on data collection, you know, from different reports. There's lots of stuff going on, and we get together on those Zoom calls to talk about what people are doing, to listen to witness reports, to share our own experiences. And we hope that someday just there's a lot of crossover between the Olympic project and Project Zoo Book.

We have a lot of members shared. But we, so we share the goal of being able to someday take any bits that we've either learned or conjectured, you know, because again, we're not experts. We're trying to figure this out just like everybody else. But when and if Bigfoot is confirmed as a new species that we would be able to take what we've learned and hand it to the powers that be in trying to help preserve and protect them as a species. So that's our goal. We have a lot of fun. We've been going strong for six years now.

And I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do and one of my favorite things that I'm involved in. It's refreshing to hear someone else say the same viewpoint that I personally hold, which I've always felt that like kind of you said, it feels like you're doing a cop-out. But, I mean, that is literally my viewpoint too is that it's probably a physical creature that can do stuff that science can't understand you. That's what I think.

know and why not I mean there's so much we don't know I think it's to me personally I think it's arrogant to act like we know everything right um there could be two different things going on one with a physical creature and something else that people are experiencing I don't know but I'm not afraid to say that you know I think absolutely think Bigfoot could be uh just a I don't think any animal or person is normal. But, you know, I think it could be a earthly creature. And that would be so cool if that's what it is. And that's where our work is focused. I always say that while I'm out looking for Bigfoot, wouldn't it be awesome if I found a new fungus or something like that, you know, especially as a volunteer naturalist. That would be really neat. But I think it's

important to be looking outside the box too that's where most of the scientific discoveries are are outside the box absolutely there is just so many i would say it there it's weird stuff and it would be great if we could in some way discover that yeah there is maybe some animal that can um affect affect our hearts or um even maybe that the way that we think that we think or the way that we hear in certain areas. I heard some very interesting theories out in Oregon over a week or so ago. The UAP community or the UFO community has been having a field day over the last few years with just different things coming out, different disclosure things.

Do you think that we might ever get to the point where there's like a Bigfoot disclosure heyday or maybe not? I think there could. Absolutely, there could be. You know, if they are real, and I do think that they are, but let's say they are, I do think it's just a matter of time

for that to happen. You know, I've never, ever been a huge conspiracy theorist, but I find myself more and more wondering about things like that, especially after the UAP information that's come out lately, you know, being a friend of Micah Hanks puts me in that, in that, you know, he started, heart started me being really interested and all of that. And I'm like, wow, you know, here I am. Oh, they would tell us if they knew anything and nope. So I think, I think that there definitely could be a day of reckoning where

you know, I don't know if that's the case, but I think there could be where we find out, oh, we've known they were there all along. Why not? Absolutely. Your research from the years and going different places, do you have a feeling where, man, it feels like probably this area of the U.S. is at the end of the day, it's going to be the place where it all goes down? You know, I mean, just from spending time out there, when you're in the Pacific Northwest, I was told, and I've never researched this for myself, but it sounds right, I was told that in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, you know, covering that area, that there are like 50, this is true, I don't know, but I've been told that there are like 50 small aircraft missing. And to me, that's not even hard to believe because when you're there, those forests are so huge. And here we are looking for something where they can move around. They are intelligent.

They can hide. You know, there might not be that many of them, you know, compared to a bear or anything like that. So I personally think it could be out there. What I do, what I think. it should, where I think it should come from. And, you know, I have mixed feelings about it. I just spoke at a library and one of the people asked me, like, why are you trying to expose them?

Why don't you just let them stay hidden? And I'm like, believe me, I hope that they stay hidden. You know, that would be the best scenario. Like, I selfishly, I would love to have a really good sighting just so I would never doubt it again, you know. But that would be the perfect thing is if they just stay to themselves and it's always a mystery and they'll be protected like that. But I just feel that someday it's going to come out and it's going to be people like us that are going to have to fight for them to be protected. But back to your question, if and when that truth comes out, I hope that it comes from our indigenous.

people, you know, that's probably the thing that keeps me going the most and the thing that I have the most interest in and the most respect for. You know, I was out in Montana, a group of us from Project Zubuk were invited to go out to the Blackfeet Reservation there, overlooking Glacier National Park, and these wonderful ladies invited us out there. We camped on their private land. They took us on a hike where different in a meet to pee, and I hope I'm saying that right, but Harryman sightings had been. We talked to different members of the Blackfeet Nation, and they told us about their experiences with the Harryman, and they were just so matter-of-fact about it. You know, you had asked me earlier about, were there, was there any times when I kind of

had an awakening about, or I'm not sure if that was your word, but like an awesome. moment about these, that would have been one of them, spending time with the black feet and just that it was taken for granted that they were real. Another time is when I was out at the nest site for the Olympic project. And I was there with two primate specialists and the looks on their faces when they talked about how those nests looked so much like the gorilla nest they had seen over in Africa. you know, those were like my, oh my gosh, Bigfoot is real moments, you know. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages.

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going to be involved in protecting Bigfoot, the hairy man Sasquatch and the meet-to-pe, whatever you call them, skunk ape, I think we should listen to them. Oh, I absolutely agree. And so you were, this is really interesting because this is an anecdote that I've heard and also said multiple times. Usually when people ask me what I, they, what my favorite Bigfoot evidence is, and I'll say something to the effect of, well, the Olympic project found these nests and they brought these primatologists out there and the primatologists were like, wow, it seems like this. And so you were

actually there for that. I was there, yeah. It was two of our two from Project Zoo Book that we flew out. And I was already in, I was already a member of the Olympic project at the time. But even numbers of the Olympic project, not everyone has been to that nest site. So I didn't automatically assume that I was going to get to go. But Derek, Randall's kindly invited me. me to come along, so I was like the fly on the wall, super excited about it. But I will just never, ever forget the looks on their faces. These two individuals worked with great apes. You know, one of them was over in Africa. The curator at a zoo he used to work with was one of the first scientists that had ever seen across river gorilla in the wild. You know, he had lived

there for eight years on the border of Cameroon and Nigeria. and he finally saw some cross-river gorillas for 10 seconds, and then they were gone. And after eight years, you know, so these are people that know what they're talking about. And they've never said for sure, you know, and even the Olympic project, we don't say for sure that that's what's making the nests,

but it absolutely seems like it, you know, it really does. And the primate specialists, they were like, you know, these look like what, you know, like the nests had different personalities. They talked about how like chimpanzees will make different nests. Like the females often take a lot more care and making their nests in the males usually just throw some, throw some, you know, sticks or whatever down, you know, whatever plant material they have and sleep on that. And they were talking about how guerrillas set up their nests in the wild and how

the nests there in the Olympic project really mimic that with the sight lines to each other. And they were talking about how there were some smaller nests that were up in some bushes. And they weren't very well made. And they said that they looked a lot like practice nests that guerrilla mothers will use to teach their young how to make a nest. And then we would talk about things like, you know, orangutan. only have young every seven and a half, I think, years. And so maybe this area was a birthing area of how, you know, it's really, really remote. And you have to like belly crawl to some of the areas there.

And there's a means of aggress down that embankment down to the salmon stream and plenty of food. And just that's what's so cool about Project Zubuk. when they got interested in Bigfoot partly from listening to stories about it and noticing bits and pieces of and clues like bits and pieces of information that somebody like myself, you know, I'm an English and reading teacher. I wouldn't know that that's something that a primate would do. So that makes sense? Like they, you know, they would pick up on things that we wouldn't pick up

So it's just so much fun. It really is. I've learned so much. Learned so much. That one, the bit of conversation that you provided about how they look at those nests is, I mean, that is incredible. Thank you for sharing that because I know it's probably something where, you know, you wouldn't know that information unless you were there with those people to observe it. That is very special. Asking about a certain area, just because I like the certain area, have you ever had the privilege of going to Oklahoma at all?

I have not. I would love to. Just haven't made it there yet. It is on my list for 2025, hopefully. I hope you get to go. I'll be going back to Oregon for sure. But I've always wanted to. to check out Oklahoma, especially the southeast.

But, yeah, I hope you get to go. Yeah, I've been out to Texas, but not to Oklahoma yet. Is that like the southeast Texas? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think that's the southeast. It's like the four corners. Okay.

Now I'm getting my geography wrong. Yeah. Like, where is everything? Yeah, I went down there, like, for a Bigfoot conference a few years ago, and then I traveled around a bit down. went down to Arkansas and Boggy Creek and all kinds of stuff. So it was a fun trip I made. Do you get a ton of reports, I would imagine.

I mean, it sounds like you get a ton just from wildlife nature shows, hunting shows. Do you get a lot of reports about how the individual, what they saw, they describe it as an orangutan? I have had a few. I've had a few like that, especially from that color, you know, that kind of reddish, brownish, orangey color. I had one of my favorite reports I ever had was actually from Alabama, and they described it more like a gorilla than an orangutan, but it was down like on its knuckles. So, and I don't hear that very often, but they saw something by a bridge and it was crouched down like that. But, you know, once in a while, like an orangutan, not too often. We get a lot in Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania, we get a lot of reports of cream color or white Sasquatch.

Oh, that's interesting. I've gotten, I mean, there's, of course, the Northeast Alabama and then, uh, Northeast Pennsylvania as well, that is really, really interesting. One of my favorites was from a wildlife exterminator who had no interest in, never thought about Bigfoot, but he was calling coyotes in an area. And he saw what he described as a four-foot-tall, white, creamish-colored primate that he thought escaped from somewhere. and didn't think about it as Bigfoot until later on when he started getting interested. And he's like, oh, my gosh, maybe that's what it was because he couldn't figure out what it was.

You know, and he never, his brain didn't go to Bigfoot because it was four foot tall. You know, but in that same area, the same summer he had that sighting, there was another gentleman who showed me pictures of some footprints that were like a quarter mile away from that sighting, that were very unusual footprints that matched a lot of prints that we think are from Sasquatch. So something's out there. Oh, yeah. The stuff I hear from Ohio alone is some weird, weird stuff. Mm-hmm. What do you do specifically with the Olympic project, Amy?

me? Well, when I'm out there, I go out, we go out to the newer nest side and the old one, and we do a lot of research out in that area. The last time I was there, I helped Shane Corson to like change batteries in the different, in the different recorders and things like that. So I do just go out there and help with that kind of thing. But I'm more of a, you know, I live in Ohio, So I'm a Midwest representative of it. I do a lot of speaking at different places, trying to get new scientists involved in. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal

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Prices and participation may vary. Prices may be higher for delivery. The mystery of Bigfoot, and so I tell people a lot about the Olympic project and share that with different scientists. I'm working with a certain university, their biology department. And so I'm kind of spreading the word as a Midwest representative. of it. But when I'm out there, I go out and help as much as I can. That is really, really cool. First off, I want to say, thank you for spending some time with

me today to talk about your research and Project Zoo Book. And it has been fascinating. But before the end of our time, I just want to say, so I know there's a few listeners, at least, that they are scientists or some related field. I talked to, I mean, I talked to an individual from India the other day in the wildlife conservation community. And so I know these individuals are listening to my show because they reach out. But if you could share with these listeners, how can they reach out to you if they're interested in, you know, finding out more about Projects You Book and maybe it's something that they can help out with? as a scientist. That would be wonderful.

That's really why I do what I do. So I really, really appreciate that. My email is Bigfoot Amy, AMY at gmail.com. So it's easy to remember. We are finishing up working on a website. And when it gets finished,

we're going to make it interactive, where people can go on there and ask like certain types of scientists, certain questions. So we'll have our primatology. and our zookeepers and our anthropologists, wildlifeologists, all on there. Some of them, you'll get to know them personally, others, just because of their jobs. Again, they might have like a little cut out of a silhouette or something like that, but they'll be on there to answer questions.

We'd love to hear people's stories. So there will also be a way to get a hold of us. I think you even can now get a hold of us through that website, but it just comes to my email Bigfoot Amy at gmail.com. I would love to talk to people if you have a really good sighting where especially if it does seem like you were saying like more great apish in the sighting especially. We would love to hear that. But no, we would we would love to talk to more scientists and people who love them.

That's fantastic. And do you have any upcoming events that people can meet you at or talk to you at? person? Sure. In, oh my gosh, I'm forgetting dates, but in September and October, I'm going to be in one of the weekends I'm going to be in Indiana for their first like Indiana Bigfoot Conference. I'll be in Michigan at their Bigfoot and Brews, B-R-E-W-S, not B-R-U-I-F-E event. And I'm going to be in Kentucky at a conference as well. So I have that. If people are on Facebook, they could friend me and I have information about that.

On Facebook, I'm just finishing up a whole summer full of libraries where I do things for both adult and kids because the kids programs here in Ohio and PA have had like a cryptid theme. So I've been all over the place talking to kids about getting out in nature. and, you know, I always say Bigfoot is so much fun for kids, so where they might not go out to look for a snake, they'll go outside to look for Bigfoot. So that's another good thing. I'm going to be here in Pennsylvania, not this weekend,

but next weekend I'm going to be helping with an event that is raising money for a hunt of a lifetime. It's kind of like make a wish for critically, ill kids, but they want to go out hunting. These kids are hunters or fisher kids. And so we raise money for that. And some of the kids want to go, not hunt to shoot, but want to go look for Bigfoot. So I'm going to be involved in that. I'm sure I'm missing some things.

But those are the big ones that I'm doing. All my outdoor shows start back up in the spring. Wow. That is awesome. involved with way more than I knew about. That's really cool. But Amy, thank you so much for coming on. It has been a pleasure. And I'm glad that we finally... I'm glad we finally got to chat on the podcast. Thank you. Me too. Thanks so much, Jeremiah. This was fun. Thank you. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you

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It's your support that helps keep the show going, and I extremely appreciate it. If you want to join in the fun, you can join over at patreon.com. forward slash the Bigfoot Society. I'll see you there. And again, thanks for listening. You're her and I can get on here. We can tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there listening.

It's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks? I know what I saw. I know what's out there. That's all I care about. Please let people know.

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