Bigfoot Society - Three Nights With Sasquatch: What We Experienced in Granite Falls

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

What happens when a couple escapes the stress of the pandemic to reconnect with nature — and discovers something watching them in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest? In this chilling and deeply personal episode, we sit down with Aren, a longtime Bigfoot Society listener from Eugene, Oregon, who shares their unforgettable 2020 encounter near Granite Falls, Washington. What starts as a peaceful camping trip quickly spirals into a night filled with eerie silence, otherworldly howls, UFOs, and massive footsteps crunching outside his tent in the middle of the night. Aren also shares strange experiences near Salt Creek Falls, Salmon Creek in Oakridge, and the mysterious Mary’s Peak — as well as secondhand accounts from Montesano that will send shivers down your spine. This episode is packed with deeply reflective moments on spiritual energy, instinct, and the thin veil between our world and theirs. Whether you’re a believer or just curious, you won’t want to 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 HereGoodchop (Better Meat): Check it OutSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn More🎙️ 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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Visit your nearby Lowe's on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's story isn't from a hunter or a hiker. It's from Aaron, the listener originally from Eugene, Oregon, who just wanted a quiet weekend in the woods. but what they got was anything but quiet and three nights of silence that felt too still an 800 pound owl that didn't exist

and lights that danced in the sky and footsteps quiet but heavy circling their tent in the middle of the night whatever was out there it wasn't elk and it wasn't alone this is the story of Aaron and the thing that walked beside the tent all right pick for society

I've got the privilege of talking to Aaron today Aaron is an individual who's a listener of the show from the Pacific Northwest, reached out regarding some things that they would want to share today. And it's a pleasure to have Aaron on the show. Aaron, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, and I'm happy to be here talking with you. Absolutely. I know a little bit about what you're going to share, because you did share some before during your sign-up. And this area is a very interesting area.

We've had a few people share regarding this area. So, you know, I want to make sure you have the time to share everything that you need to today, Aaron. So I'm going to go ahead and pass things over to you and feel free to take us back to when this happened to you. Okay, great. Well, I'm going to talk about my personal experience I had. This was in 2020, and it was, you know, early COVID year. and my wife and I lived in Eugene, Oregon, and we had used that time of isolation to go out to the woods

and, you know, learn how to forage and camp, doing a lot of camping and just taking a lot of hikes. And so it's a really good time for us in a way because we were out in the woods a lot. But we missed our friends up north, So we decided to book this camping spot up in, I would say, uh, Granite Falls Arlington area. And we were going to go visit my sister and another good friend of mine because it had been

a long time since we saw anyone. So that was later in the summer of 2020. And, um, we had been camping a lot. And so I was excited to go, but something weird happened before we left. left. I got this like, I don't know how to, what do you even say? It was kind of like a message or kind of a psychic message that I could have some kind of encounter. And I said, to whatever was talking to me, I said, I don't really want an encounter. Just leave this alone, you know. And I am kind of a sensitive. So, you know, I've had a lot of, you could say, paranormal or

kind of strange experiences in my life, but I'm not a chaser of them, at least not anymore. I did in my past, and I just kind of want to be left alone now. But I did, I was very much aware of Sasquatch and, you know, growing up in Seattle area, and, you know, I just kind of knew that it was around, or I hoped it was around, let's put it that way. Anyway, so, we hooked it up to Washington State and from Eugene. And the first day we arrived at this camp site, it was kind of like back behind, it was like a good, I don't know,

quarter mile behind this house. And it was off, you know, we booked it off one of these camping sites you can rent. And it was kind of back in this kind of old second growth forest area. and we pulled up this driveway, and it was like a little packed gravel driveway. We pulled up in our truck and kind of looked around. Set up our tents in the driveway, like in front of the truck,

and then there was a small campground where we could cook and stuff and had a couple logs we could sit on. So it wasn't big. We put our tents up in the driveway, behind that was the truck. And there was not a lot of room to walk, you know, up and down the driveway. You had to really get in the bushes to get in your tent. So that's kind of, it was kind of important.

And then there was like, just to kind of tell people, there's a Zilkamp site, and then off to the left, there was this beaver pond down below. and off to the right were this kind of hills that went up into the cascades, right? It just kind of got bigger and bigger. And then to the north, there was this ridge. It was pretty high up. I would say about 200, 300 feet high.

And, you know, so it was kind of surrounded by, you know, hills and this ridge, then down below this beaver pond. So, you know, like, we're all cool. You know, we made some dinner. We got there in the afternoon. We're starting to get dinner together. But I just noticed, like, it was quiet. It was super quiet.

And we had been camping a lot in Oregon. And I thought, well, maybe, you know, maybe it's just kind of weird in Washington, you know. I haven't done a lot of camping up here. So maybe there's just not a lot of bug noises or birds or whatever. You could hear a pin drop. And the air was just so still. It was just, like, heavy. And I was kind of freaked out about that.

And around the campsite is about a four-foot hedge of salal bushes. You know, and I just, gosh, I was like, you know, just kept kind of shining my flashlight around, just make sure there was no eye shine, nothing watching us. I just kind of felt weird that night. It got real dark. Dinner was over. And the moon was rising. It was a full moon.

still no sounds no night sounds nothing and we were just sitting and talking and all of a sudden we hear this howl out in the hills behind the camp campsite and it was one of those Ohio howl sounds you know what I mean like started real low and it got kind of higher and it was long and I looked at my wife and I said I think we're not alone and she kind of looked at me and then we heard another one and I said I know what that sound is I think there's a Sasquatch around here and she was like what it was probably I'm going to say about a mile away but it was real loud and I mean nothing has lungs like that a wolf doesn't have lungs like that and I could tell like there was something out there so I was like okay

Okay, cool, you know, that's cool. They're here. You know, I just said, hey, you know, we respect you. We're not going to do nothing. Just leave us alone, you know? And so we were sitting there and just kind of talking about that for a minute. And then we see up in the ridge, she kind of points up at the ridge, and there were these lights up there. And, you know, they're pretty far up there.

But the lights were off the ground a bit, and they were like white, orb like lights. And they were moving around. And I was like, well, that's got to be a plane, right? Like we're looking up really high, maybe the optics or something or kind of an optical illusion or something like that. But the lights were moving kind of back and forth, kind of zigzagging. And I was like, plane doesn't do that. Doesn't zigzag like that. And, yeah, we were just watching them for, I don't know, about 20 minutes.

And I had seen UFOs before down in the desert, down in New Mexico and Arizona. So I was like, well, we have more company. So we just kind of watched the light show. And the moon came up. We watched the moon for a while. And I was like, okay, it's time to go to bed. You know, everything's cool. So still, the whole night, no sounds.

No night sounds, no bug. nothing. So the next day it was kind of a normal day. We went out, we did some stuff, saw some friends, came back, and it was just normal. Like you hear the crickets or whatever they are out there. Birds flapping around. We saw a heron fly by. The beaver was in a great mood. He was jumping in and out of that pond. You know, we ate some dinner. We saw the moon rock.

and we saw the white show again up on that ridge. And, you know, we're backaways. We're in the foothills. And I don't think that was someone running around with a flashlight. There was no house up there or anything. And it was flying above the surface of the ridge. So we just, you know, I just figured it was some UFOs or something, you know. So we watched that for a while and went to bed and it was just kind of a normal night.

We have a couple dogs with us too, and one is kind of special needs, and I have my little dog. So we had two tents. They were set up right next to each other. And the one dog needs a little special medication, low anxiety issues, so we just thought we'd have two tents, you know, and my wife snores, and I didn't want to be around. So anyway, we had two tents, and, you know, that night went by without incident. But the third night, something happened. We got back, we were out in Index, and we were out by the river and got a lot of sun. And we came back and, you know, we're kind of tired, but we wanted to walk around the area a bit,

the area around our campground. And there were a couple trails that one was real dark and had a lot of like old trees. that had fallen down back there. And there was like, it was real dark with trees, but there were some old trees that had fallen. And it just kind of gave me the creeps. And I said to her, you know, I just don't want to be back here. It feels real squatchy to me.

And I'm like, I don't know. You know, she's been listening to me about Sasquatch for years. And people think I'm nuts. But I just know they're out there, you know. And I kind of have this, I kind of have a level. for them because, you know, they're kind of like the, they're kind of like free beings, you know? And I just, I like the idea of these beings running around free. And, you know, certainly we're not free.

So I like the idea of a wild kind of humanoid creature running around. You know, it just makes me feel like kind of expansive thinking about it. So, you know, I've always talked about it. But I don't really, I'm not a big advocate of chasing them. I think just leave them alone, you know. And, you know, if you come across one, it's kind of like a gift. But I didn't want to come across one out there because it just felt real creepy. So, and when I first got that message before we left, I felt like it just felt weird.

Like I just, I didn't want to have an encounter, you know. We just didn't. So anyway, the third night, we came back. We went down that creepy trail. We walked around the property a bit. And we were walking back to the campsite. And my dog, I have a little shit to, he was all of a sudden stopped in the middle of the trail and was like stunned. He was just, he wouldn't move.

He was like kind of in a little fugue or something. And I kept trying to like say, hey, you know, come on, dude. let's go back to the site. It's not too far, but he couldn't, he couldn't move. So I picked him up and I said, gosh, is there something wrong with him? And my wife was like, oh, he's probably just really tired. But I'd never seen him like this. We had taken him out to the woods a lot. So maybe he was tired. I don't know. But we got back up to the site and I put him in my tent with a little bit of food and some water. And he just was, he just kind of like tipped over and laid down. And I was kind of worried should I bring him to the vet? And she was like, no, he's just okay. I'd never seen him

like that. So anyway, we got to making dinner and stuff, and I started feeling real nervous. I just started feeling like my anxiety was like real visceral, my body, and the sun was going down, and I just, it was quiet again. And I was kind of so nervous that I didn't even want to eat. you know, I just, I didn't say anything to my wife, but I didn't want to scare anything, but I just felt like there was something around. And I would do the flashlight thing in the bushes and around the back. And I didn't see anything, but again, so quiet. And she was like, you know, we heard the beavers jump in the lake. That was the only sound we heard.

And we didn't see any lights. And she was like, you know, I need to, I'm just exhausted. I'm going to go to bed into her tent. my whole body was just vibrating. And so I went into my tent and I was like, well, I had some old, this is how old I am. I had a CD player with like headphones and I brought the CD to play just in case I needed to have some music to go to sleep. And I put those on and I was just trying to calm myself because I just felt so uneasy. And anyway, I must have fallen asleep.

But I don't know. It must have been maybe an hour or two later maybe. I woke up to three sounds that seem like there may be maybe about maybe 100 yards away. I'm not very good at my distance. And, you know, I thought I was original in saying this, but I've heard it since on people's encounters. It sounded like an 800-pound owl. And I was like, there were three exact same sounds, and they cut through the night like butter.

It was, whatever made those sounds had lungs that I just can't even imagine, like whales' lungs or something. And it sounded like they were trying to be an owl, but that wasn't no owl, okay? And I was just like, I just kind of shot up, and I was like, what the heck was that? And I just didn't know what to make of it. It just kind of woke me up. And I just, something was out there, not too far away. But for some reason, I just put the headphones back on and just tried to, like, go back to sleep. You know, I just, like, just don't think about it, go back to sleep.

Well, it must have been, I don't know, another hour or two later, I shot up. And my body, my whole body was in full on, full metal jacket terror. Okay, I was like, my heart was racing. I thought I was going to throw up. I was in absolute state of terror. And I was in that state before I even woke up. It's hard to explain that. But I wasn't even quite awake to know why my body was shaking so hard.

And I was just like trying to get control, you know, and then I hear a footstep. And it's right outside my tent. And it was like really quiet, though. It was a quiet footstep. And then, like, I thought, well, this can't be a bear because we kind of, we did the, you know, the thing you shouldn't do. We left our dishes unwashed after dinner. And I thought if it was a bear, we hit rooting around out there trying to get some food or whatever. But this thing was right outside my tent.

and whatever it was was huge because I heard the second step. And it was trying to be real quiet, but it was like crushing the crushed gravel. You know, the crushed gravel, like how they crush it so it's almost solid. But I can hear the sound kind of crushing. And I was just, I was like out of control. I was terrified. And I was like stopped breathing. But at the same time, I was worried like I was going to throw up.

I mean, it was so scary. and my heart was beating so fast I'm sure whatever was out there heard it so I was trying to breathe real quiet and not make any more sounds and then I heard another step and it was just kind of like going to the right of my tent and

I just knew whatever this was freaking huge because the crunch took a long time to crunch you know what I mean of the footstep. So at that point, I was like, okay, I'm going to throw up here because my body was just shaking. And I grabbed my backpack and was like rooting for some peptobismo or something.

And I heard it one more step. And then the next thing I know, I'm serious, the next thing I know, I woke up the next morning. I don't remember passing out. not a person who's ever passed out in my life. I woke up the next morning, and I don't even know how that happened. So I went out of my tent.

I didn't say anything at first, but I tried to kind of stomp around outside my tent to see if I could make that sound, and I couldn't make that sound with my boots. So whatever was out there was walking on two legs must have been pretty freaking huge to make that sound because of the pack gravel. So I told my wife, I said, I had an experience last night, but let's just start packing, let's go. And so we got all our stuff in the car and we took off and then I kind of told her what happened.

And so that was kind of like that. And, you know, I remember that day so well because as we were driving back to Eugene, it was the day of the big fire down there, of the holiday farm fire. I can see the smoke in the distance. And I went from, like, it was kind of a terrifying experience I had that night into a very terrifying experience in Eugene and in that area down there. So I didn't really process it for a while because we went into like two weeks of, danger, you know, from that fire that was happening. And so that was kind of it, but I will say

about two years ago, so what was that? In 23, I was talking to a buddy of mine up in Washington, and we had since moved up here to Washington State. And I was talking to him, and he asked me, do you know about Bigfoot? And I was like, oh, yeah. You know, he says, I listen to the Bigfoot podcast. And I was like, yeah, I need to. You know, they said, if you ever had an experience, I said, well, I actually, I kind of think I did, you know. I can't 100% say I did, but I told him about it.

I told him the area. He said, he kind of looked white. He said, you know, my buddy is a hunter. And he goes up in that area, and he's run across a family twice up there. and he won't tell me where because he doesn't want he wants everyone to leave him alone but he's run across a family

like you know person to person up there so I was like well that makes a lot of sense then because I can't I can't figure else what else would be that big that came off the hills

because they couldn't walk up the driveway and so I think that I think it was a Sasquatch I do especially if you kind of I put everything together, the noises, you know, the silence, and that just feeling of being watched and stuff. So that was my first experience.

And I'll stop there for a sec, if you have any questions. Yeah, absolutely, Aaron. That was, man, I can't imagine going through that. I don't know how you did it. I definitely have some questions for you. Did your wife experience anything that night at all? No, because she just passed out. She was tired.

She was tired of sleep. Her dog was also on anti-anxiety medication, so that dog was asleep. My dog was asleep. My dog was like down for the count, you know. So it was just me. Gotcha. And it sounds like you left extremely quick the next. morning, but any footprints at all or maybe markings on the truck windows that you noticed at a later time?

Gosh, I didn't even look. Okay. There's no footprints because it was so, it was that pat gravel, you know. There were no footprints that I could see either. What CD were you listening to when you were trying to go to bed? It was probably like a flute, like a Japanese flute. Okay. Yeah.

That's cool. It's pretty relaxing, right? Yeah, I was trying to relax. I just felt uneasy there. I really did. What did you have for dinner that night of, I guess, the third night? We had a couple steaks. Okay.

Gotcha. Yeah. were all three nights kind of meat-based like the steak meal? Yeah, we're big meat eaters. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah. So you were definitely making some delicious smelling smells for a creature or Bigfoot who is totally into eating meat.

And I know there's going to be so many comments after that statement. They're, no, Big Feet's plant. No, you get it, guys. There's a weird thing, though. It seems like in most encounters, they're drawn in, there's like a, the campers will be cooking bacon. I've noticed that pattern. It's very weird. But yeah, steak is, there you go, that would do it.

You mentioned coming across one is a gift. What? Can you explain why you have that thought process? of why you think coming across one is a gift? Well, for me it would be. But, you know, thinking that and then having that experience, and I can't say 100%, it was, but I'm thinking it's about 98%.

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Hmm. That sound seems to show. Everything happens for a recess. But I'm kind of of the, you know, minds that these are kind of extra special beings. and, you know, in the First Nations people say that Sasquatch has real strong medicine. And if you have an experience of that, it's, you know, they have very strong medicine of truth, you know. And I just think that's pretty cool. I have a lot of respect for them.

And I never want to make them, I would never want to be intrusive to, to, you know, to, these beings because I do believe that they need to be left alone. And I just think that it would be a very powerful spiritual experience. And I will say to, as I mentioned, I am a sensitive for better for worse, mostly for worse, but I'd never come across anything with that kind of energy in my life. And I used to do work with, how would I even want to, I don't want to even get to woo-woo, because I don't want people to think that I'm totally into the woo-woo. But I used to do some medicine work and would do some spirit work.

And back in the day, and I came across a lot of stuff for good or for bad. And I came across when this energy was right next to me, I felt like it was almost like a reverse energy of anything I've ever experienced. It's like a reverse energy of human. It was like a wild energy. And that may sound crazy, but I've never come across anything that felt like this. And I'm a big feeler. And I can, you know, feel places. I can feel beings.

I can feel things. I've never felt anything like this before. See, I think that's incredible. And it's really cool because, yeah, I believe there are some individuals that have the ability to sense energy and different cultures and religions. And there's so many different ways to say what that is, right? But I think that that is an actual thing in people. And also, I just need to get on a soapbox for a little bit. I swear, if I, if there's one thing I get accomplished in the next 20 to 25 years is that I wipe the phrase woo-woo or woo out of the community, seriously.

Like, so because the way that I do it is, I think it's just, you know, we need to take everything that is happening to people and consider it, right? and not just, you know, totally just kick it to the side. Like, oh, it's too crazy or it's too freaky. No, there's stuff we don't understand. And science doesn't understand it either. And hopefully we will eventually. But, man, it gets to me, you know? It's like just people are experiencing some weird stuff,

and we have got to give it credence. You know what I mean? But, yeah. Yeah, I respect that. Because, I mean, I can't hope that I have these, I've had these experiences in life. Right. Just a lot of, like, stuff we won't get into. But some of them I didn't necessarily like it all.

I'll tell you that. But I do believe that we've lost as humans or whatever we are. You know, I have my own theory about that. But I think we've lost a lot of our instincts, a lot of our kind of instinct. a lot of our kind of instinctual body. We've lost our connection with nature to a very large degree, to a devastating degree, and that these beings, whatever they are, if they are the original beings here and we're kind of more of a mix or vice versa, I think they do have more gifts.

And, you know, I think they do have more senses that we have, somehow maybe due to our, what do you call that, conditioning or whatever, we've shut down over the century, whatever. Now, after you had this three-night experience, did you find that, did anything out of the ordinary start happening afterwards, like when you got home or did your senses become affected in any way that you realized or anything of that? You know, we went right into that big fire situation down. And gosh, like half of Oregon was on fire. So like I said, I didn't have a lot of chance to really process that. But I did write it down. And I didn't really get back to it for a little bit.

Yeah. I've mentioned a few things, a few times on the show. But I'll mention again just in case anyone. has experienced, but I think that sometimes I think based on, you know, what people tell me is, I think that sometimes when an individual is in an encounter like this or maybe in an area where there are Sasquatch, it almost maybe unlocks something in the person. I don't know, I'm still kind of working through it, but it is another pattern that I've found that has kind of come up in multiple, multiple encounters over the years. It's very, very strange. So something I'm still working through. After this, when you're, you know, you're to the point, you're past the fires,

you're processing everything through. You're like, what happened, what happened. Did you ever at any point be like, oh, I wonder if this exact area has also had other things happen in it? Maybe I look on, you know, BFRO or the Bigfoot mapping project to see if other things have happened there? I think there have been some on BFRO. I think there's some things up in, you know, Granite Falls area.

I think it's pretty active up there. I don't, you know, BFRR doesn't seem like it's updated a lot. I actually contacted the owners of the land and said, hey, I think I had an experience there. He was like, oh, it was just some elk or something. I said, you know, the elf locked on two feet and, you know, one's on top of each other, maybe. you know, like, but it was on two feet and he was like, well, it was just some elk, you know. So he didn't want to get into it. Yeah.

So I had it, you know, I grew up up there. We had a cabin up in the near Machias area, a little bit further than Machias in, you know, between Matias, Granite Falls area. And so we had a lot of land that I would walk around when I was a kid. and I always felt like there was something up there but I didn't know you know and that was a long time ago you know I'm in my 50s now but yeah

I just you know I kind of grew up knowing there was something out there the other thing I wanted to ask you before we continued was when you live down in Eugene did you ever hear of any Bigfoot related things happening down there well we had some

we had a couple weird experiences I can kind of go through those pretty quick. You know, one of the areas you talk about a lot up at Salmon Creek and out of open. Yeah. So this was during that same year probably, or maybe it was the year after, I don't know. But I got a message, one of those messages, quote unquote, to go to Salmon Creek. And I was like, I don't even know where that is.

So I had to look it up. and we found that it was out near Oak Ridge. Okay, cool. So we went out there, and whenever I get a message, I just do it, you know, because usually the messages have always turned out really good for me in life. So we went out there, and we were walking down the trails and stuff, and there was this one area where it was just super creepy. I felt like super creeped out, and there was a smell.

It was really, really strong. And it smelled kind of like a horse, but maybe some manure. But there was no horses around there. Like we were back on the river, on the creek or whatever. And I just kind of like brushed it off. And then we came back on that same trail. And I kind of smelled it again. And I was like, well, maybe it's a dead animal or something.

But I just couldn't get out of their fast enough if that makes any sense. So I don't know if it was in the exact area that we walked by the first time, but I did feel a little bit uneasy on that particular visit to Salmon Creek. And then the other experience we had in Oregon that was significant was we were out near Mary's Peak area, near the coast in the coastal range and we were camping nearby and we decided to go to Mary's Peak which is kind of like a little mountain

and I was doing some foraging and I was working on getting some devil's club and my wife took the dog her dog up further to explore the trail up above where I was working on the devil's club and she got up there away and next thing I know she's coming down the trail kind of white face and her dog was like running down and I said what's going on and she's like I don't know but we hit something up there and we were told not to come up any further like we were not to go any

further the dog wouldn't move and I just got kind of hit and I said okay um let's get out of here and so, you know, I had just finished with my little forage and we got back into the truck. And she was like, I feel sick. I feel like I have a headache. And I feel really out of it. And I said, what exactly happened? She's like, I don't know. We just couldn't go any farther.

Like the dog stopped. And like I was told, do not go any further. And so I said, okay, let's get out of here. So we moved back to the campsite and I said, I wonder if you got hit with some, I mean, it's just a theory, but some of that infrasound, because it sounds like something was telling you not to proceed. And she had a headache and she was kind of nauseous that whole day. So I did look up Mary's Peak on the FRO and, yes, there have been experiences up there. So I think she had her experience that kind of It was kind of a humbling experience for her there

Yeah I mean absolutely not surprising Especially I mean I've heard Multiple interviews I brought up The Salmon Creek area of Oak Ridge There's even stuff documented

Back to the 70s I think in John Green's file. But thank you for sharing that I think that was something that you hadn't even planned on bringing up, correct? The Mary's Peak experience? Yeah. Yeah, I forgot about that. That was weird. That was really weird.

So we don't know what that was, but she was told not. to proceed. And she got the message and she was like, white as a ghost coming down that hill on that trail. So we go out in the woods a lot and have not had any weird experiences up here. We live in north of Seattle near Skagit County. And we go out in the, you know, the foothills a lot out there. And I, you know, I'm learning that's actually not really safe to go out there.

There's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of, weird instances with humans out there. So we don't go out as much as we used to, but we do go out, you know, up in Watham County and stuff. So I haven't had experience like that since. But I have a friend who had an experience down in Montessano

of a uproof experience. And I can tell you about that too at some point. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, absolutely. You said, was that Montesano? Is that Washington? Yeah, it's in Washington. South West Washington.

Kind of a little bit south of the peninsula. You know, there's a lot of logging out there. So this is the last story I have. Actually, my niece, this is another, just a little side thing. I can't tell her story, but my niece grew up visiting her grandparents in the woods and she would get visited as a child by the monkey man. Like several times. Yeah, so she has her own story.

But I will say, I believe her. And I just know these things are true. I know that they're out there. So, because I have another friend who had an experience down in Georgia that was like just absolutely terrifying story. But I can't tell her story either. But she saw him right up close, right outside her house, like kind of. creeping around her house and stuff. So, but this, this, um, friend of mine down in Montesano, okay, so he owns this, he, well, he's not with this anymore, but he owned this patch of land. He had a

house on it. And he was a, um, a prayer man, a Lakota prayer man. And he had a ceremony on his land. And there was a whole bunch of people that came, some from South Dakota. And some people from Washington came. And it was a four-day ceremony. And I was there on his land as one of the cooks. I was cooking for the people. And I was cooking in this little barn that he had. So I know his property, and I know what he's talking about when he told a story. And he told a story. And he told a story to my closest friend at that time. She's no longer with us either, but this guy would not tell, he was a man of few words, let's put it that way. He was very, he didn't talk much. And he was kind of a serious man. He was a prayer man and he was very devoted to his spirituality. So

anyway, and this barn, this little white shed or whatever that we cooked, in was, I don't know, let me sink here, 100 feet from his house, I don't know, something like that. So he had an experience after the ceremonies were done, and we all had experiences at that ceremony, but after that was done and over maybe, I don't know, within that year, he was one day was at his breakfast table having his coffee, and he looked out toward that shed. And there was a 10-foot Sasquatch just looking right at them, just looking straight through that window at them. And they looked at each other for a while, and my friend, he just kind of nodded to him. And the Sasquatch kind of pushed off from the shed and just slowly walked up this hill that's in the backyard of his property.

And so he saw it right at front. And he's not much for reaction, but he did tell that story. And if you told it, it's true. And he would also put people up on that hill in Humbleytechus ceremony, which is the Vision Quest ceremony. And I have a friend who he put up on the hill for that four-day ceremony up there. And she said that when she was in that ceremony up there by herself, she could hear the Sasquatch sing. She called it in. And she was just praying, please don't come and please don't come and visit me.

She said they were all around during her ceremony. So, yeah, that was the, that's a secondhand story, but I know these people, I knew these people, and they were people I trust very deeply. We had a little bit of a blip when you had shared what she called the Sasquatch singing. Could you repeat that, whatever she called it, please? Oh, she just, instead of saying that she heard them, you know, howling, this woman said that she heard them singing. Okay. And, you know, she knew what they were. And she just prayed, please, please don't come and see me.

I got just, you know, she was up there in the dark for four nights, right? So she didn't want to be terrified, you know. But they're up there. Yeah, they're out there. Oh, I mean, absolutely. looking on a map at that area and it's not too far from Lake Capitol State Forest, which is known for a lot of activity and also, you know, you've even got Shahelis around the corner, although looks can be deceiving on maps. Let's see. Okay, it's about an hour away,

so not too bad. Oh, man, thank you for sharing that secondhand account as well. There's no doubt that Washington, the state of Washington, has activity all over the place. And this is just, you know, some other, just some more pieces of evidence that you can add to the long list of things happening in that state. Would you ever want to have a visual siting yourself if you were able to have that? or is what happened that night enough for you? I wouldn't mind it because I'm always up for an experience, whether it's like good or bad, but I felt a little vulnerable for some,

I felt vulnerable for some reason. Like, if I was out hiking and I happened to see a Sasquatch, or I would love to see it for the experience, but I would definitely hightail it out because I do. want to be very respectful, you know, and it'd probably be scary, but I'm up for the experience, but I'm not going to seek that experience if that makes any sense. Absolutely. So what I take from that is you're not the kind of person that's like, okay, I'm going to take a weekend off,

go to a hot zone and start banging on trees. No, that's not going to be you, right? I don't know. It just doesn't seem right to me. Gotcha. Yeah. But I'm not someone. I'm not judging people. I just, you know, I kind of want to be left alone, so I don't want someone like stalking me. So I wouldn't want to do that. I just, I really like the idea of them being free and being left alone. You know? it's it's interesting you know

I've found it and I don't go out all the time but I have found that if you just go out and you hang out and you just chill out there that's a lot of the times when when the stuff can happen when you just kind of chill out and let

whatever happens happens so it's kind of interesting Yeah, I got one more experience I had. Just to add to your, and I forgot about this, but could I share it really quick? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. So we were out, we went out past that Oak Ridge area. I just forgot for a minute. But we went out past that Oak Ridge area a bit.

And I was looking for this waterfall off the highway. And I thought we had found it. But we parked and I saw this little trail and I said to my wife, you know, I'm just going to go up this trail and see if I can hear anything. So I think I'm hearing something and maybe if I hear it, I can, you know, I'll call you and you can come up. We can find this waterfall. Well, I was going up this trail. It was a little bit icy. And I was out there probably about a quarter mile and I heard the whistle on one side of the tree.

trail. And I thought, oh, you know, must be a bird. It sounds like a human whistle. Then I heard a whistle on the other side of the trail. And I was like, okay. And I kept on walking. And then I heard another, like a real kind of low whistle. And then I heard it on the other side of the trail again.

And I said, okay, y'all, I'm leaving now. I hear you and I don't want to be in your space. I'm leaving. And just then I hear my. wife say calling my name really, really loud and said, come back, come back. And so I just kept saying, okay, I'm leaving. Please just let me be. I'm going to let you be. I'm leaving. Because I've heard about these whistles, right? And that they were like walking with me and whistling on both sides. That kind of freaked me out. And so I got back to the car and she was like something,

I just knew I had to call you back. I knew something wasn't right. And I said, yeah, Yeah, someone was tracking me out there and whistling both sides of the trail, and I just couldn't get out of their fast enough. And so we just kind of sped off. And I kind of forgot about that experience, too. But, yeah, that was out there in that area. That's some creepy stuff. Was that Salt Creek Falls? I think that might have been.

I can't. I can't. be sure, but that sounds kind of familiar. Okay. That's weird stuff, so, yeah. I was trying to find it, and I couldn't find it, but I went up this trail, and then I started having those whistles on both sides. Yeah.

So it was Salt Creek. Yeah. Okay. Were there been experiences up there, too? I have heard a few things from that area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so.

Really. Really, you could say that about anything in the area in the Willamette National Forest is what I'm finding out. And I mean, the whole Pacific Northwest, but I've pretty much only gone to that area so far. Just some really interesting things you've shared tonight. And I just want to thank you for coming on to share those. It's cool to hear more things from the Granite Falls area of Washington. in other places as well. I just want to say thank you for coming on, Aaron,

to share what you experienced over the years. Thank you, Jeremiah. Keep doing your great work. I enjoy every episode. I appreciate that. And if anything else ever happens, feel free to, you know, you've got my contact info. And, you know, always feel free to send my info out to anyone.

You might know that needs a place to talk as well. And thank you so much. Thank you. Have a great night. You too. Okay. Bye-bye. I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

Aaron's story is one that lingers, not just because of the gravel-crunching footsteps or the white orbs dancing above the ridge, but because of the deep feeling that was carried that they weren't alone. So huge thanks to Aaron for opening up and sharing. such a powerful and vulnerable experience with us. This one's stuck with you. Please consider subscribing to us on YouTube, hitting the bell icon, and sharing this episode with a friend who's in the Sasquatch, a good campfire mystery, or just weird things in the woods.

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