Bigfoot Society - There's Something in those South Missouri Woods (Member's Only)

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

In this special Member's Only episode of Bigfoot Society, I talk to Tracy, a seasoned hunter. We go on a spine-tingling journey through Missouri's wilds, where the unknown lurks in every shadow. From Tracy's first encounter with monstrous footprints in the snow as a child in Rolla to eerie howls and heart-pounding roars in Montauk State Park, prepare for terrifying experiences that defy explanation. Explore the haunted grounds of Taum Sauk Mountain with its unexplained growls and falling trees, and hear tales from Cuivre River State Park, where nearly half a century of cryptid sightings and disturbances are recounted. Encounter the menacing Dogman and other chilling entities, and uncover stories that make you question the very fabric of reality. This episode promises a descent into Missouri's hidden terrors—don’t miss a moment of these haunting tales.To hear the whole episode you can become a supporting member either on Patreon or Youtube. Links below:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bigfoot-society-106036647Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 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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is a special teaser of a member's only episode that'll be releasing today. A conversation with Tracy about his multiple about 40 years of Bigfoot encounters in southern Missouri. There's some really wild stuff in here. You'll be hearing that teaser in a bit, but before we do, I want to do a quick shout out

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which is almost two hours long, you can go over to patreon.com forward slash the Bigfoot Society. become a supporting member there or you can become a YouTube channel member as well. Hear the whole interview there. Enjoy this preview of today's members only episode and let's get on with the show. So we're back to Tom Sock Mountain again. May of 2007, I decided to do a solo camp.

So I set up in that same campsite from the previous year, September of 2007, but I'm by myself this time and I get there I set up camp there's no one else in the campsite I see a tent set up but there's no car there

and I kind of like walk by and look and the doors open there's nobody in the tent I don't really know what's going on I don't as far as I know nobody ever even showed up to the tent which I didn't think was super unusual because that Ozark Trail goes not too far right behind that and there will be people

that hike that and then come in and set up their tent in the campground and you know maybe do like some other hikes and come back to it or whatever so I never ended up figuring out what happened with that there's just a tent with nobody in it but but otherwise there's nobody in the whole campground. I'm the only one there. So I remember, like, I was going to sleep on an air mattress, and I forgot the inflator. So I had to blow that thing up with, you know, by hand with my mouth. And usually I pick up, like, the sticks and start a fire, but like after doing that, I didn't even feel like it. Generally, I clean up my campground of all the twigs to start the fire with. And that's important for later. That took up so much daylight that I'm kind of having to use a lantern to

cook at night and I end up burning. I tried to make some kind of macaroni and cheese and I end up burning it and so I only get about half of it and the other half is stuck to this bowl, this metal bowl that I cooked it in. So by the time I get that eat, I'm ready to go to bed and I just, I knew I was going to get marauded by raccoons. You do every time, but I left all that stuff out, and I was just like, ah, they wake me up, no big deal. So sure enough, about midnight, the raccoons come by. They grab that bowl.

Cheese engines just rattling around for 10 minutes or whatever. You know, that burned macaroni and cheese really puts out a stink, so I'm sure everything in the wood can smell it. So once all that's done, I go back to sleep. Well, about 4 o'clock in the morning, I wake up to, I don't know how to explain it any other different than like sounds like a person walking. It's like bipedal footsteps. And once they get close to my tent, they start, twigs start snapping. You know, the ones I didn't pick up to make a fire with.

So these twigs start snapping, and I'm like, what is going on? So it just gets closer and closer, and then I feel my tent just kind of come up off of the ground. Like, it kicked my tent at the corner. And not super hard, but like enough to pull the steak out. And at that point, I was just like, oh, boy, what are we got here? So there was silence. I can always maintain my silence and there's just silence

kind of a little pause of about five seconds and then I hear the footsteps start coming around and I'm like if it comes to the front of my tent I have a gun I was like if this thing whatever it is a person whatever starts messing with me

and you know it's going to be bad for them stops again I may have made a little bit of a noise stops again for a little bit then I hear it going over and start messing with that bowl and like other utensils I left out. And I was like, this isn't, everything runs through your mind. What could this be? It's like, is this another raccoon?

And I was like, there's no way this is a raccoon snapping all these twigs, you know, walking on two feet or anything like that. So I'm up the rest of the night until daylight. And I get up, and I thought my cooler would have been gone through and everything wasn't. And so in thinking about that afterwards, I was like, why wouldn't whatever this was, you know, raid my cooler? Well, I think it smelled the burnt macaroni and cheese, and it just went for that. What I do with my coolers is usually I don't do anything with them after I go camping and they get a little nasty. So I bleach them out and real good. You use a lot of disinfectant on them.

And I don't know, maybe it couldn't smell food in it because of that. I would think if, you know, if it just knows what a cooler is by side, it would do that. But I don't guess this one did or whatever. But, yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a big foot because the next morning I got up, I intended to do a hike. about a five-mile hike. I just felt I was like followed the whole way, at least down off of the mountain. I didn't feel like it followed me back up,

but it went down into the valley that I went down into with me. I'm pretty sure because I just had that sneaky, you know, something's watching me feeling that whole time. And then not the way back. So that was a pretty intense thing to get your tent kicked. Oh, yeah. I don't know how I would. Man, I don't think I could, that would be hard to deal with.

Like, you're inside the tent. It gets kicked enough so that the steak starts to come out. Dude, that's. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I checked that the next morning. The steak was like up out of the ground. Yeah. Did you see any footprints around or anything like that?

No. The way they do their campsites there is they bring in a lot of sand and like a chipped up rock gravel. Okay. And so, no, not really. And it was kind of, for May, it was kind of dry. It did rain that morning. Like my whole hike was drizzled on, but that's kind of after the fact. But it really didn't rain enough to soften the ground for footprints anyway.

But anyway, in November of 2000, I'm back in Hal County to the property again. So for a couple years, I'm just going, Tom'sug Mountain, Hale County is where I'm having my stuff. We actually had footprints. Like, I was working a job at the time, so I was only going on a weekend. So I went the first weekend, and I would talk about Bigfoot. Like, I didn't really care. I'd get some guff over it.

But, like, I would talk about it. Well, anyway, I come back the second weekend, and they're like, hey, one of the guys, one of my other cousins, is like he found four footprints over. There's this little pond in the middle of the woods. There's like a little clay dam that somebody built and created this little pond. It's not big, maybe 20 feet across, 25 feet across, something like that. And that year, one of my cousins works for US 4.

forestry actually. And he said that we were in a 50-year drought in that area at that time. So that made sense to me that a big foot would come up to that little pond because those rivers, both the rivers there are what's called, and here we're getting into a little geology here, are what's called losing streams, which means they're in limestone and the, the, Basically, the rock under the river is so cavernous that unless there's enough flow to fill all of that up, it doesn't flow on the surface. So you have to have a pretty good rainfall at that point in the river. Now, on downstream, on the 11 point, there's some big, fairly good-sized springs that keep it flowing constantly. But there, you'll end up, it's dry bed a lot of the time.

So, you know, the animals aren't getting their water out of the rivers in times like that. There's little seep springs around. You know, they'll just create like a little five-foot pool or something. But anyway, we had footprints on this pond just up in the middle of the woods because that's where things were coming for their water. And so they told me that, and I was like, I was excited about it. So I was like, I'll go over there tonight. So it's probably like 10 at night. I grab a flashlight.

I go over there. I had no idea what to expect. I didn't have the right tools. Found out the next day I had to have a rake to rake the leaves off. The leaves had like fallen in that week between the two weekends. But I go over there the night before, and it's pretty close to the driveway of my other cousin's cabin. and I'm walking down the gravel road and as soon as I step off

into the leaves I hear something start to move just maybe 50 feet away from me so all I've got is like a little petzel headlamp not particularly bright and it's not even one of these it wasn't even one of these newer ones with the you know it's one of the old bulb kind

so I'm like, I wonder what that is. I'm thinking maybe deer or something. So I take a few more cautious steps, and every step I took it took a step back away from me. And so I would advance a little bit, and then I would retreat a little bit, and it would do the same thing.

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