Bigfoot Society - Top 10 Episodes of 2025!

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

2025 was one of the biggest years ever for Bigfoot Society, and in this special episode, I’m looking back at the Top 10 most-viewed episodes of 2025 on YouTube.Rather than retelling the stories, this episode features original clips pulled directly from the episodes YOU watched the most, giving you a powerful highlight reel of the encounters, voices, and moments that made 2025 unforgettable.These rankings are based purely on YouTube views, making this a true reflection of what resonated most with listeners and viewers throughout the year. From quiet woods to remote backroads, these clips capture the tension, emotion, and mystery that define firsthand Bigfoot encounters.If you’re new to the channel, this episode is a perfect way to experience the range of real eyewitness accountsfeatured on Bigfoot Society. And if you’ve been here for a while, you may recognize moments that stuck with you — or discover why certain episodes rose to the top.🎧 No spoilers.🎙️ No summaries.👣 Just the moments that made 2025 one of the most watched years in the history of the show.Listen closely — some of these encounters still raise more questions than answers. Sasquatch Summerfest 2026 is July 10th through the 11th. It's going to be fantastic and this year, I'll be a speaker!!! Listeners, if you're going to go, you can get a two day ticket for the cost of one by using code "BSP" like Bigfoot society podcast at ticket checkout. Priscilla was a nice enough to provide that for my listeners. So there you go. I look forward to seeing you there. So make sure you head over to https://www.sasquatchsummerfest.com and pick up your tickets today.🗣️ 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 Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible from back. backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. 2025.

What a year. So much happened. So many incredible adventures for Bigfoot Society. got to go out to Oregon again, went out to the Nebraska Bigfoot Conference, and also went on a private expedition in Iowa. That was awesome. This being the first day of 2026, I've decided to look back at the top 10 viewed episodes for 2025. And these are ones that released in 2025 over on the YouTube platform. It's a great way to see which ones you guys really liked.

So let's start off with number 10, when Copsie Bigfoot. And this is a really fun episode from some friends down in Northern Georgia, Scott and Shield Granger from Squatch Fishing Outfitters down there in LJ, Georgia. These guys are great. So let's hang out with Scott and Sheila again as they share some of the encounters they've had down there in northern Georgia. That one weekend, you know, we heard several things just if I had not been there and heard it with my own ears. Somebody could have told me that and I would have thought, man, you're nuts, you're crazy, you're whatever. And, you know, I wanted to believe so bad. We were so excited about it.

But I kept telling Scott, you know, I'm just, I'm not going to say there's some. such thing as Bigfoot until I see it with my own eyes and I'm 110% sure that, you know, that's when I'll admit it. And lo and behold, it was a few months later, I got the opportunity during the day at 2 o'clock that afternoon, about 25 yards away, I saw a big foot. And from that point on, I went from being a believer to a no-er, 110%. Oh, man. Okay.

So there's a lot of stuff that happened to you guys pretty quick. I want to hear what kind of vocals you guys heard on that expedition. Like what kind of things were you running into first? You want to tell him? Yeah. What happened? We had a friend that was on this outing with us that we had met a good bit prior to this outing. And the night before the actual expedition started, we all load up in my truck.

we take off to the woods. He's wanting to show us a couple of different areas. So we're heading up there, and Sheila sees something go across the road in front of us. Well, when she saw that go across the road in front of us, I got on the brakes, stopped, and we all bailed out of my truck,

and at that time, we had a full-size ram, so we had five people in there. And I'm standing right in front of the truck, and Sheila and our friend, he goes on going up ahead where whatever crossed the road up there. We're standing there and we're talking amongst ourselves and the prettiest whoop you ever wanted to hear come from less than 15 yards away from us right to the left of us.

Well, we're in an area that we had never been in. And I say that telling you about that ram because a ram has a really good set of headlights on it that shine way out to the sides. and I'm looking over there where this swoop come from and I look back at another young lady that's standing right there beside me and her eyes are about as big as saucers and she said, did you hear that? And I said, of course. So we're looking for it and never did see anything. But I mean, we got to hear it.

And Sheila and our friend, they're looking where whatever it was crawls through and some limbs are still wiggling in the way there where it is. crossed. After that, our buddy, he told us, he said, you know, he said, these things are up here pretty, pretty thick. And he says, they're real good to mimic things. Now, what I'm fixing to tell you, if there hadn't been five other,

you know, five of us up there to witness this, I would never tell it. And if I hadn't heard it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. So he gets two rocks. And he collapsed. together twice. And right down from us probably not 30 to 35 yards

there's a small stream running something clacks two rocks back twice. And he giggles a little bit and he clacks some rocks again two more times and right off the bat something down there clacks those rocks twice.

So he's playing with that a little bit and he said, I wonder. So he'd done the shave and a haircut deal. You know, the, don't, don't do, don't, don't, don't clacks with those rocks. And we're all sitting there, and this, whatever it is, mimics that back

with rock clacks. And at this point, we're all, you know, like an amazement and everything. We are up here in the middle of absolutely nowhere in these mountains. There is no other person up here where we're at to, you know, do anything like this back at us.

and then we're all talking and he says he's telling us he says you know these things are extremely OCD about things and he does the don't don't do don't don't and he doesn't do it anymore and down at the creek it goes clack clack it finished it no way yeah yeah and I'm telling you if if there hadn't been as many people standing there that all heard and witness this I would Never tell that story. Yeah. And it's still kind of like, people are not going to believe this. And I wouldn't blame them at all.

No, not at all. I mean, because if somebody told me that, you know, right off the bat, my first thing was saying, be saying, I believe your cheese is just about slipped off your cracker. Quit using me. But, you know, that happened. And we were there to witness that. And then we go on up the road.

You have to kind of picture some of these mountain. off the way roads. We get to the top of it and there's kind of like a coal to sack area out there. A dead end into just nothing but woods. Yeah. And we get my truck turned around

where we're pointed out in the event something does happen or anything. We need to get out of there quick. And me and Sheila's standing out behind my truck probably 20 yards away from my truck. And our friend and a couple of people, they go on down a little trail. we can see their red headlamps and everything as they're going down the trail.

As they get on down the trail out of sight, we notice this area up here has like a next level down off the edge of it. Something extremely heavy starts walking around this terrace of this thing. You can feel the percussion in here. Boom. And as this walking, you know, you think like something will just stomping. it was walking so hard. And it gets around toward the front of our truck.

And you could hear it walk up towards a little bit. And I told Sheila at that time, I said, let's see he's on towards the truck. And she was like, why? And I said, well, I don't want whatever this is to get between us and our vehicle. So we started easing toward the truck. And our buddy had laid his cell phone on record on the, on the hood of my truck and as we're easing to the truck

that phone lights up and which I didn't think a whole lot about that at that point in time. It, you know, wasn't nothing out of the way to me. But we get up there and when they get back I tell him that, you know,

you must have missed a text or something, you know, your phone lit up. Well, he looks at the phone and he says, that phone doesn't light up unless you touch it. and he showed me that that phone doesn't light up, you know, unless it gets touched. And which was pretty unique, you know, to say the least, about that point right there.

The rest of the weekend went off, you know, small things happened and not a whole, whole lot. Well, we had, we were, this was our first camping, real big camping, you know, we were brand new to it. But later that night, we were in our tent. And I heard something. He did too walking across the river towards our campsite. And, you know, I'm like, Scott, Scott. He says, I hear it, I hear it. And it comes to the little table we had up there.

We had been cooking bacon earlier in the evening, you know. And you could hear it. You could hear it. And I'm kind of freaking out over there. And this is no joke because we had no idea what to speak. I heard Scott reach over there and unsnap his, you know, holster, which that wouldn't have done any good, I assure you. And this thing is right beside the tent and it lets out this big, like,

it's aspiration kind of thing, you know, and just turned around and started walking off. And again, you could hear the boom, boom, boom. Let me tell you something, I was so scared. Had that thing touched that tent, I would have jumped up and ran with tent and everything. Probably laid myself out with a tree, but I was terrified. But that, you know, that kind of sets up the tone here. That was our first outing for this. And they say, you know, once you start down the, I'm going to tell everybody, if you start down this rabbit hole, be prepared for more questions you will ever have answers to.

Either you're going to be addicted to it like we are or you're probably never going to go in the woods again. Absolutely. Yeah. I agree 100%. Oh, my goodness. Wow. So from what you guys had, the way you've been talking, it sounds like this is, this is more of like a private expedition. that one was it it was another way we went on and we wound up after that helping that group out a good bit

and just going out with friends we'd make from that group and the more we helped out with that group and the more we've seen how things were going in that group and it's a big group and very costly and actually we had done that for you know a pretty good while we would always have people when people would find out that we had went on these things and had been on them things that a lot of folks had a lot of interest in it and really wanted to go but they weren't willing to drop that kind of money on doing that

and we sit back and we thought about it for a lot and said you know what what could we actually do one of these for for people and make it where there's not as many people there and you know get away with money wise and at least break even

so we did that and that's how Squat fishing outfiters got bought. It took a while it took over a year and a half to get everything we needed to get but it's pretty much our life now. Wow such a fun conversation with Scott and Sheila those guys are great. If you want to

go out on an expedition in in Georgia, reach out to Squatch Fishing Outfitters. They will treat you right. That's episode 746, by the way. You're going to want to listen to the full episode for many, many more encounter stories. Let's move on to number nine. They're underneath the cabin. Now, this is from a good friend, Brian,

who currently has a cabin way out in the woods of Indiana, and there's a lot of things that have happened there over the years. So get ready to hear a little bit from Brian in there underneath the cabin, episode number 730. So I got a living room and Peyton come in there, and we had, like so, we had the New Yorkie, and they've been tormenting that poor dog. I mean, they would pack on the windows, the doors, the deck. That dog was so scared that he slept in her, my bed. He used to sleep on the bed with me.

Then he started sleeping under my bed. He wouldn't come out unless I got up to leave. Then that's when he would come out from under the bed. Well, I was in the living room. I was going to feed him, but he was standing under the coffee table. He wouldn't come out from under it. And he kept walking around all stiff-legged, and he was like moving his head down real slow, sniffing the floor.

And he would raise his head back up. And then Peyton came in there. I said, hey, there's something wrong with Easton here. He's not watching him. And Payton tried to get him come up to him, he wouldn't he wouldn't leave the coffee table and i told payton that's well just shut the door because you know the patio door i said maybe something's out there he's sensing something he might be smelling because he he knew they were there like i got videos up and looking out the window and barking

and growling and there's nothing out there that we could see but Peyton got up he went to go slide the patio door shut and then all of a sudden we heard this loud screeching scream from under our cabin because like said our cabin's up off the ground and it's all over down there, but we heard this loud screech like scream, roar all together and once. It just did it, and it lasted for about three seconds. And Payton went out, he shut the door, you know, it kind of scared him and me both. We were like, what was that? And then it scared Easton so bad that he stood there and pooped itself. And I felt really bad. I only had Easton for a week. So we cleaned him up, and I told Payne, I had to give him away to somebody. So I called a

and she took him. Peyton left and took Easton there. And then when Peyton got back, he come in and said, there's a really bad smell outside. I said, yeah, I know I've been smelling too. I don't know if it's sewer or what it is. And we've never smelled it before. And the smell, after Peyton said that, the smell was gone within probably 10 minutes. That was the only time we've ever smelled them was that one time. And that's because they were right up under the house. 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.

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After we got rid of Easton, the activity at the house stopped as far as them hitting the house or trying to scare us. I don't know if they were, somebody said they were trying to intimidate us to see what we would do if we would come out shooting. or, you know, move or whatever, but we didn't really ignore them. We just, what can you do, you know? But I would hear laughing, like I've got recordings of laughing, like a baby laughing, and rock clacking and these woo sounds, you know, kind of whispery woo sounds down the creek. I think the other reason they made, another reason why they made their stuff known, like that was because I was doing all the shooting.

And then the BFRO come out, not the BFRO, they came out later, but the Indiana BFRO came out. And we walked the woods and stuff. We found prints. They casted two of them. And we've seen a really nice one, but it only looked like maybe a juvenile size, about 12 inches, but it was real wide. But it wasn't deep enough to cast. But he noticed these structures that I didn't even notice. I mean, he was telling me, yeah, this land didn't come.

you know, it's been forced here, you know, on the ground and up on the tree. You can see where it's scratch a tree where they forced it down. And we found other structures back in the woods that I didn't know was there. So he did his little podcast that evening, and he was, like, really happy about what he's seen. And then we had another group come out in September. It had a BFRO member and a lot of other researchers that he invited from different states. and they all came out and camped. We had a psychic out there.

They camped for four days or four nights. And the last night we had a bonfire. And we were all just sitting out there talking. Bain had some friends over. We were all just out there talking and telling stories. And I kept hearing something behind me. And one of the researchers, you know, he was hearing it too. And so I would take my phone and see if I could scan the area and get a picture,

but I couldn't see anything on one video. And so I put it on photo, my iPhone 15, and I don't know how, but it sees in the dark. And it picked up this portal, then nobody, you couldn't see it with your own eyes. It picked up a portal and it's something walking through it. And I took a picture of it. And I showed it thereby, and they were like, amazed. Like, where did you take this picture? And it's like, you know, 30 yards from us right there by the trail.

And so they all were happy to see that. And they ended up, you know, leaving after about five days of being there. And then I started noticing these things in the trees, these lights. And they had some kind of metal top with a red light. And it stuck real high up in the tree, about 30, 40 feet up in the tree. And when I noticed it, I would take a picture of it. And then I would, you know, my friend, one of my researchers, know, because I've been in contact with him ever since.

that they've been out there. And I was sending the pictures, he was like, go out and take another one. So I go out and next day and take another one that's gone. But I did this like four times, and four different times. It's four different lights in different trees.

But they were all the same light, just different positions. And then I started noticing these other things when I would walk the trail and come back, I would notice new nest. They're like they build this great big, big massive long nest out of tree tops. And they had these lights,

or not lights, but camera-looking things strapped to the trees. There are literally be straps on them. There'll be like four or five of them out there and circling the nest. And I thought, man, what is that? That's nothing I put up. And it's never been here before.

But once every time I notice them, the next day they're gone. I wouldn't see them again. I still see the technology every now and again. I get pictures of them. And the Bigfoot's are holding some kind of white cube with a black line going

through the middle of it. Sometimes they'll be, I've seen one have a round one. It looks like a round security camera. It just a round white ball with a black lens in it. And they would hold it in their hand and hold it towards me. And they would look down their arm, like, kind of like in trying to stay in line of sight while they're holding it towards me as I'm taking their picture. And I don't know if that's something they're using to distort my camera or my phone or if they're looking at me closer to that. I have no idea what it's for. But I've seen a lot of them have that. And every time I go take a picture, I might get one picture of them without holding that thing, but to take a picture, they're holding it up. Like, they're just, they're going to try to zap my phone or something because they have

zap my Android so much that I can't, I couldn't even use it anymore. It would literally just switch pages or tabs. It would just swipe like on its own side to side or that it would glitch out and have lines going all through it. So I end up just not using that head to buy the iPhone. Like right now they they don't even make an effort in hiding. I see them every day, especially when I burn trash. I go out there and they just they'll raise up out their nest and look at me. There's some nest I'll count you know you're from 10 to 15 of them, but I've got over a dozen nest out there in my woods and I have, I had it logged.

I'm sorry, right before June the 20th, before I seen the first one, I just had it logged. I take it back as after June the 20th, right after June 20th. I had it logged. And that's when they got all the treetops. They started dragging these tree tops into the clearing

of the woods there and make these huge giant nest out of them. There's like little ditches and they're kind of like rain runoff like groove down into the ground. I call them drain ditches, but it's natural from the water running down the hill towards the creek. But they would build a nest right over top of those.

To me, I think they dig them out even deeper and they just live there. But they're building like they built a new nest today that I've seen this morning. It's just crazy on how many they're building. And I've counted probably over a hundred of them there at one

time during deer season last year. I think ever since I told them they were safe there, they got the word out there every other one. Brian's story is incredible. It makes me want to go and listen to the whole episode right now, but I'm not going to, because we got more to go through for the top 10. But you guys can check it out. It's number 730. And I would recommend you do because in that YouTube version of 730, there's a ton of photos and videos from Brian at the end of the episode that you're not going to want to miss.

So definitely go check that out. Let's continue with number eight, 40 years of Bigfoot in Missouri, number 64. In this episode, we hear from Tracy, who's a lifelong outdoorsman down there in southern Missouri, around the Rala, Missouri area, Montauk State Park, Tomstock Mountain, Howell County. There's a ton of stuff in this one. If you're into Missouri Bigfoot encounters, you're not going to want to miss it. and a lot of people loved it. So let's hear a little clip from number 64, 44, 40 years of Bigfoot in Missouri.

I would have been like 14, 15 years old at the time probably, maybe 16. We had a pond right beside our house. I'd say it was probably a quarter to a half acre pond. And it wasn't on our property, but we used it all the time. It was absentee owners or whatever. And where we approached it on our property was just like our yard, which was semi-wooded. But about half of it was like very thickly covered, like with cedar trees and just dense brush. You couldn't really see through that.

And there was a house over on that side, but it was real thick woods through there, maybe about 50 yards. And that was behind that pond was the general area, I think, that Roar had come from. And then behind it, there's maybe a six, seven foot dam on that pond, like earthen dam. Then behind it was like about a five-acre lake. And I had gone through there quite a bit, but after we had heard that roar, I hadn't gone through there anymore because I figured that's where that roar had come from. And I don't know, I was feeling cocky on this particular day or something. and I decided I would go back there. And I had a 22 pistol with me in my hand.

I was always hunting rabbits or something. And while I was walking through there, I got about halfway. I never saw anything. I never heard anything. I just became paralyzed with fear. It was like my lizard brain just shut my body off. And I've heard people talk about,

getting hit with infrasound. And a lot of times, and that paralyzing you, but a lot of times it comes with stomach cramps or something, I never felt any of that. I just couldn't move. And I don't know how long

that went on for. I don't have any kind of estimate. But it got more intense, and I felt like it was coming from behind me. Something was coming from behind me. and I just heard this voice that said, shoot the gun. And I was able to click the safety off and pull the trigger.

And the gun went off and pretty much immediately all that dissipated. The fear I was able to clear my head and move again, but I was mad at myself because I wasn't even able to look down to see if I was going to shoot myself in the the foot or not. That's like how intense that that paralyzation was. It's like I was really good on the firearm safety into things, but like I felt that I needed to do something and I just didn't have the ability to do it like what I would consider safely. But the firing of the gun made all that dissipate. And in thinking about that later, I felt like something was doing that to me

and once I fired the gun it scared it off because it was like an immediate dissipation of what was going on and I hurried up and got out of there and never went back there again but I always thought the psychology of what happened

there was interesting because I was very logical minded even as a teenager and for your brain to tell you don't move which is the signal I was getting, don't move or it'll see you. When you're completely out in the open, like anything can see you,

is weird to me. But that was what was going on. My brain was saying, don't move or it'll see you. But I'm like not obscured in any way. That almost tells me that these things have some sort of, and I don't know if it's infrasound, but I almost theorized they have some sort of other ability,

like a mental energy prediction or something like that that they can do. And I've got more on that later. But that's the end of what I had for that location. We had moved in closer to town, and I didn't really have any more experiences like that until about 2006. Talk about those childhood years for a little bit longer. There's some really interesting things that happen in those years for sure.

Did they tell you how big that first? footprint was that they saw right outside the window? I, they were just going from memory, but I did ask, I said, I was like, did it have boots on? Was it like a guy? And they said, no, it was barefooted. I asked how many toes.

And my sister was just like, I guess five. So it really wasn't like, really set in the memory. It was just the general. But I was like, was it big? And she was like, oh, yeah. She said my dad had gone out and put his foot in it, and it was like pretty much dwarfed it. And it wasn't like it was an old print.

It had to have happened overnight. And I then asked, I was like, do you think, I was like, the snow wasn't that deep. But I was like, do you think it could have been somebody with snow shoes on? Which, no shoes aren't really worn down here in Missouri. So we don't really ever get that deep of snow, really. But, and so I was trying to like, at least get rid of all. all the possibilities. But it sounded like who's got a really big foot running around barefooted in snow,

in the winter. Absolutely. That's, man, that is so strange. Especially back then, you didn't have to worry about people that were wearing, like, those vibram shoes that it makes you look like barefooted, right? They were not around, I believe, at that time in history. Do you still keep up to date with the area that house was in? No, I don't have, when we're in the area, go buy it.

occasionally, just for old time's sake memories. My older sister lives in Pennsylvania now, and when she comes back, we might go by it. But now we live far away from it. So we've gone by it a few times over the years, but don't really know anything about what's going on, other than the fact that a lot of people have moved in, so it's not nearly as, it's less sparsely populated than it used to be. Okay. That kind of makes me doubt that there's as much activity as there used to be.

The stories that Tracy share in that episode about Southern Missouri are incredible. You're not going to want to miss it. It's pretty wild. It's almost two hours long. Let's head on to our next episode down the line. We're going all the way to number one. Next up is number seven. The Rangers Confession.

This is episode number 853. I talked to John, who was a former PG&E affiliated Ranger, who spent three summers in the remote blue line. Lakes region of Northern California. And what John encountered during these summers are pretty wild. So let's check it out. 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.

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And with a qualified purchase, you could receive up to $15,000 in free gold or silver. Don't wait. Text iHeart to 50505. They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for a recesses. Like this commercial break, did you need 15 seconds away from music,

or 15 seconds to eat or Reese's? Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for a recesses. In the summer of 82, 83, and 84, I worked for a company called Multiple Use Management, and we were basically campground rangers for PG&E campgrounds. So they would start me off in Northern California at Lake Spalding at the 5,000-foot elevation, and I would stay there and open up that campground. And then when the snow melted, they would move me up to Blue Lakes at 8,000 feet elevation.

And so this is dealing with the Blue Lakes area, which is a four-year. Lake complex and four-wheel drive roads that go each direction of it. And I guess I'll start with, I believe it would be the summer of 83. And again, at this time, I didn't believe that Bigfoot were here, but I'm a curious guy. And I've always had an interest in the topic. And I interviewed everybody about it because I was fishing for information trying to fill in the dots. So I got a lot of information over the three years talking to so many people on a daily basis. But I was fishing one morning. I got out before daybreak because I wanted to float a night crawler on top and catch me a big brown up in upper blue. And the road goes right alongside the lake. And it's a fairly

decent-sized lake. It was a really calm morning, not a ripple on the water. You could hear. you could hear a noise would travel a mile. You could hear small noises really well. But as the light started getting a little bit lighter and lighter, I had noticed a figure on the opposite side of the lake. And there's quite a bit of distance involved, but the figure was all black from head to toe. And I figured it was just a guy in a hoodie that was fishing on the opposite side of the lake.

Again, I didn't really believe that Bigfoot were. part of the of this area. I figured they were all up north further up, you know, above Mount Shast in the coastal area. Anyway, so I sat there and watched the thing a little bit. I wasn't really focusing on it too much because I thought it was just another fisherman. But I watched it for the whole event was probably 40, 45 minutes. And what it was, it almost looked like it was mimicking a fisherman.

And again, it looked like it had a stick in its hand. And you could see enough detail. You couldn't see facial details, but you could see the body outline fine. And it looked like it was waving a stick and playing in the water with it. And I thought maybe it was just a fisherman that had gotten his line stuck, you know, and was trying to get the lure out of the roots or trees. But it almost looked like for a while there. But then what was weird is about 29 degrees that morning.

and I had a North Face Gortex Parker on and a down jacket underneath that. And I was sitting on an ice chest and my butt was freezing. And the ground was slightly damp all around the lake from the morning dew. And this thing had laid on its belly and was running the stick around in the water or fishing pole if it was a fisherman. And this went on for maybe five, ten minutes. And I couldn't see how I go, man, that guy's freaking, I don't know how he's doing it. because I was freezing my butt off, just sitting on a small little igloo ice chest. And I really didn't think much about it, didn't even, you know,

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

And so I'd beaten every other fisherman out in the lake this morning. And on the far side of the lake about a mile away, maybe if that, I don't know, it sounds about right. But you could hear the two old men coming down to get in their little trolling a Looneman boat and start trolling. And you could hear them that it was so calm out. You could hear the fishing poles laying in the bottom of the Lundeman boat. And you could hear as they set their ice chest in it. you know, because the sound was just being carried across the lake with no breeze or anything. And you can hear them, brough, brough, brum, brough, as they tried to start the motor.

And the second that motor fired up, this thing was gone in the bushes and had disappeared. And so that pretty much covers, that was the strangeness of it, was how this was, you know, only about a half an hour into daylight. So it was just kind of weird. The crab walking position was definitely not a huge, something I was very physically fit. I was running 5 to 10 miles a day at 8,000 feet and training for boxing. And the movement it did,

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

I probably talked to nine different people that didn't know each other and all had different stories. So there was, as you come into lower blue, on the left, there's a little pond. It's called Frog Pawn. I did have one of the campers had told me that,

yeah, yeah, they need somebody that had saw one cross the road right there. Again, I never took it seriously, but it was just information I put in my cap. There was also, we had, my dad worked for PG&E, and he was the lake tender there, and he got me the job camping there.

So we knew we talked to all the PG&E guys. And one of the helicopter pilots that would fly in, we were talking to him, and he said one winter, and he didn't tell me what the date was or what year or anything like that. But he said he flew in there when the snow is 30 feet deep, which is probably about five feet over the chimney stack of, the highest cabin that was there. So the cabins were completely submerged in snow, and he had said that he had flown in there one time,

and he had landed, and that there were tracks. And the tracks went down almost five feet into the snow, and he said, you could see, bare footprints in the bottom with a fairly large stride. And he said he had no idea what it was, or anything, but that was an interesting note that he had come up with. So I had also worked with another campground attendant there. It was just me and him who took care of the whole campground complex.

And this guy was Chico State's number two runner in the early 80s. So this was a guy that's as fast as you're going to find a young fellow. guy, I was running five to ten miles and he could leave me at any time. I was doing it recreational. This guy was good. So he could literally haul butt. And he would often do 10, 15 miles a couple times a week. He came back one day and he'd come walking up the driveway and from a distance of 20 yards, I mean, literally 60 feet away, he was white as a ghost. You could see he was shaken up. and I asked him, hey, what's going on? You know, what's the matter?

I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. And I grilled him as he came up the steps again. He wouldn't talk about it. And I couldn't get anything out of him, but you could see that this guy was shaken up. I mean, it was visible from a long distance away. So I let him take a shower.

He had a couple beers for dinner, and he sat down to dinner. And, you know, I go, come on, man. You know, and he was, I'm not talking about it. The guy was just adamant about not. and I'm somebody I won't let it go. So I kept after him a little bit, but without being too much of a pain in the butt. But I said, come on, was it a mountain lion? Was it a coyote?

Was it a bear? What's got y'all shaken up? And he goes, it wasn't any of those. And he wouldn't come out and say what it was, but I got it out of him. Oh, man, that's a good one. To hear what that individual actually saw. you're going to have to go over to episode 853 and check it out for yourself, but trust me, it's going to be worth it. Number six, Oregon Hunter's Experiences, number 701.

This is one of my favorites. It's a conversation with an individual. His name is Lyle. He's a lifelong hunter in one of my most favorite areas of Oregon, which is the Molala, Colton, Esticated area. The things that Lyle share. are intense to say the least. Let's check it out. It's called Will Hoyt Road.

And there was a spot that I used to love to hunt up there. It always kind of gave me the creepy feeling. It's super big tall, old growth, fur trees. I don't know why it does, but every time I go in there, I just kind of felt creepy. but I loved to hunt it because there was lots of elk and lots of deer in there all the time. Well, I went up there one day by myself. It was deer season and I was sneaking up through the old growth fur.

And underneath this old growth fur, it's just a sea of ferns. And the ferns are probably three foot tall. And I was walking uphill. and as I was walking uphill I was looking at the ground at looking for you know sign seeing if the deer had been moving through there if the elk had been moving through there and this little bowl shaped area it's probably I'd say a hundred by a hundred yards and I could see the whole face of the the hillside side all the way around me. Well, as I'm walking through the ferns, I'm looking down to the ground, and I just start to pick my head up,

and in the corner of my eye, I catch movement. And as I start to turn my head and look, what I saw was, I thought what I saw was a bear. And it was by this big fir tree. And if you ever seen a bear, coming down out of a tree when it just right when it touches the ground its rear legs are on the

ground and its front legs are up above its head still hanging onto the tree well that's the position it was in when i first seen it and right when i my eyes looked at it that was my first thought was bare and i whipped my rifle off and i had a bear tag i've always had a bear I always have bear tag and the season runs during deer season. And so I rip my rifle off and as I'm ripping my rifle off and swinging to shoot this bear

it comes down off of the tree and as it's coming off the tree is when it looks at me and I could see that it had hands and it had a face and it went from bear to holy you know what it's bigfoot and this thing is only 50 yards from me and it went down to onto all fours and it went behind this tall ferns and i had my gun up in it in my mind and i'm going do i shoot it do i shoot it what do i do i do i do i do and i'm like okay

hey, this thing's going to come out somewhere. I'll be able to see it because I could see the whole hillside. And there was no place for it to go other than on this hillside. It had to leave. Well, the ferns moved just for a split second when it went behind the ferns. And I'm sitting there. You know, my eyes are just like scanning. Like, where is this thing?

And I'm looking for it. And I never see anything come out. and so I start slowly creeping up to my left and I'm going to try to get above it where I can look down onto it and as I'm sneaking around I got I mean my eyes are like all over the place just seeing if this thing's going to escape anywhere

and I don't see anything and I make it all the way around 360 degrees all the way around where this thing went behind these ferns, and I never saw anything. And so I finally got the courage up, and I started sneaking up to where it actually was, and there was nothing there. It just, like, it just like vanished. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago.

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and when it came down, it went to all fours, and it went behind those ferns. I mean, I can still, to this day, see it in my head. And I don't know what the heck would happen. You know, I don't know where it went. To this day, I couldn't tell you. And as big as it was, you would have seen the ferns move. You would have seen it come out on the hillside.

I had a wide open hillside that had the only other way would have been right past me. And it never came past me. And that's why I don't ever talk about it because it sounds so far-fetched that I think everybody's like, got that mindset like, oh, yeah, what were you smoking? What were you drinking? You know, so I just never talk about it, but that was my second sighting. And that's the one that it was a reddish color. It looked kind of like a rangatang color, the hair, but the face looked like that Todd Standings, Jane that he calls her, I think. It had that kind of down syndrome me look to its face.

That's my second sighting. The other thing I forgot to mention was as my eyes were coming up and actually visually seeing this thing, there was like a tree knock. And it sounded like it came from that thing, that big foot. But there was nothing in its hand as far as like a stick or anything. So, which kind of leads me to think that there are these tree knocks that people talk about, I think they're doing it with their mouth or something. Because it was so loud that knock when it happened, it had to have been that one right there.

You know, it had to been that animal there that made the noise. It was so loud. It was just like right there. when it happened. And, but as, as I heard that is when I was seeing it, but nothing fell out of its hands. Like it was, like it would have hit something with a stick. You know, if it would have had a stick, I would have thought that I would see like a stick, you know, flying out of its hands or falling out of its hands.

I love those interviews where the individual is not a Bigfoot researcher. They're just a hunter or an outdoorsman, but the things they notice are, incredible when they have that sighting. So there's much, much more in that episode. Definitely worth checking it out. That's number 701 Oregon Hunter's experiences.

Let's head on now to number five, which is North Georgia habituation, part one, episode 659. This is my first part of a two-part episode with Neil from bigfoot talk.com. He's got some wild things going on

in his property. area down there in northern Georgia. The things that he shares are incredible. We're just going to play a little clip from it so you can get a taste for it, but definitely listen to the two-part series from Neal from bigfoottalk.com. Starts on episode 659. Let's get after it. So let me call this Bigfoot expert that I know that's in North Georgia.

Now, honestly, I don't believe anybody is an expert. true expert because nobody really knows exactly what they are, but if there is one, he would be closest to it. Then I called him because I wanted to find out the person that wrote that report because it was a BFRN, BFRO report. I wanted to talk to them and see if I could find the location. That was my goal to call him. Well, when I get him on the phone, then I realized he was in the BFRO. And when I told him the person's name, he said, no, we don't know where that person is. And so you really, you know, that really wouldn't help. But can I ask you some questions?

I said, yes, sure. He said, okay, tell me a little bit. So I was telling him about some of the things I'd seen and that made no sense. And then he said, okay, he said, do you have a lot of animals on the property? And then that's when I started telling them about a deer. Should it be a deer haven. There wasn't that many deer, so I had to start putting food out for them. Deer, you know, feeders with supplemental food and all kind of fed the birds and everything

else. He goes, okay, so you put food out for the animal. Yes, I put food out for the animal. He goes, what do you hunt? I said, no, I don't hunt. I used to hunt as a kid, but I don't hunt anymore because my dad always said, if you're going to shoot something, you better do it to get something to eat. And my wife would never eat a deer or another animal like that, much less cook it.

So I'm not going to just go and shoot something to kill it. I'm just not going to do it. I love to watch deer or another animal. So, no, we don't hunt. And then he said, do you have any fruit trees? I said, yeah, I planted a bunch of fruit trees. And I told him about all the ones I planted and stuff. And he goes, what do you ever have any of your fruit missing?

And I said, well, when I planted on, they were just real young. The only one that's made something is the peaches, but it's really weird because I have dating around it and on the ground, and fabric on the ground. And every time for two years, we've had some peaches on it. And during the week, when they're getting ripe, I'll tell the family, hey, the peaches are getting ripe. So this weekend, we're going to go pick some and make the peaches collar. come Saturday, every peach is gone. No seeds, none on the ground. And some of these were eight to ten foot tall.

Plus, we had an inning around, which was away from it, quite a ways and six foot high. And nobody where the house is, you can't see us from the road. We sit way back in the wood. So he said, okay. He said, you have any other fruit going to business? I said, yeah, our figs. I like to make fig preserves. I said, there'll be a bunch of figs getting ripe,

and I'll go out there, and they'll all be gone, except for one or two that's half right. I said, our persimmons trees would make persimmons right off, so they must have the way they did the plants. I said, and they go missing, and the deer aren't getting them because the deer can't get to them because of the deer nating around it. He said, okay.

He said, so you feed the animals, animals, you've had this stuff happened, you've got fruit going missing, you've got fruit teas, you're feeding animals, you're not doing them. He said, I got a good idea of what's going on. I said, okay, well, what's going on? He said, you know what's going on. That's why you called me. You have a big foot. I said, I've got a big foot. And he said, yeah, you have a big foot. I said, well, what, well, what are they trying to say? What are they trying to do? He said, they're letting you know they are there and want to cohabitate and live with you, coexist with you there where you're at.

Now, that blew my mind. I'm like, you know, I've liked to watch the stuff, but I really didn't know anything about Bigfoot at the time. And I was like, really? I said, how do you know that? He said, okay, let me ask you some more questions. I said, okay. He said,

on your road, do you find trees pushed down across it a lot? I said, we've never had a tree pushed down across the road. He said, okay. He said, have you ever had anything run by your house

in the middle of the night hitting it two or three times? No, we've never had that happen. Have you ever heard growls from the woods around your house when you're outside at night? No, we've never heard growls outside. Have you ever heard rocks or sticks or something being thrown on your roof at your house or on the barn nearby?

No, never heard it. He said if they didn't want you there, that's what they would be doing. He said, they're just letting you know that they're there. They evidently have been watching you and see that you're friendly to the animals, you're nice people because of all the stuff that you're doing. And so they want to coexist with you. Well, that kind of blew my mind. I'm like, okay.

And then we kind of ended the conversation. And I'm like, all right. So I'm type of person that goes by the motto, trust, but verify. I trust is what he said, but I wanted to verify what he said. So after a little bit of thinking, I was like, this was after a while, after a few weeks, I was like, what can I do to try to find out there really here? So what I decided to do is that one big trail that they had walked on and smushed everything down, I was going to go put two headless nails in a tree and stick red apples on it.

I was going to stick them up as high as I could and find a tree that really didn't have any limbs on it for other things to get to it. So what at the end is I stuck a red delicious apple on each other down. Then I raked all underneath it. Now, the leaves and all were so thick that it didn't get to the dirt, but it got to the soft wet leaves underneath it, which compressed easy. So I go down there, the next time I go down, there and I believe it was the next day, but it could have been two days later. The apples are gone.

That's good. I looked and there it was. In the in the leaves, there was an impression of one that of a human-like foot, 16 to 16 a half inches long, and I have my answer. So we do have big foot. Bigfoot, Bigfoot is here. So at the time, I thought the Bigfoot, like most people think, Bigfoot's just a normal everyday animal. So I decided, okay, well, I'm going to try to, this is unique. I'm going to try to find out how we can communicate and learn about them, because nobody really does.

And if I can earn their trust and let them know that I'm willing maybe I can learn more about them and everything to find out, you know, all about them, find out as much as I can. So I kept putting apples out there and they kept disappearing. And so I was trying to think I needed to interact with me. So down there near where I was putting the apples out, I had a stump feeder. Now, the stump feeder was level and on the top it had the reins. and I said, I'm going to gift them some blue marbles.

I saw a show one time where they were talking about liking blue marbles. So I'm going to put some blue marbles up there to give them as a gill. And it's within probably 15, 20 yards of where I'm putting the apples. So I put the blue marbles up there. That was on a Sunday, and I think the next Saturday when I went down there, the marbles were gone. I'm like, this is great. They're not on the ground.

They're all gone. So I went and told my wife, she wanted to see it. So we drive down there. Sure enough, they're gone. Now, to go down there, it makes a big you by just kind of the way the stream is and everything. My wife does all the mow and thank goodness. I got her a real nice zero turn

so she can do the mowing, it relaxes her. She loves to mow. So we're going around that U, and when we get to start going up, on the northernmost side, there is a huge river rock on the left-hand side of the trail. This thing's got a weigh 100 pounds. And there's another one that weighs about 60 to 80 pounds

on the right side of the trail, right next to it. My wife stops and looks at them and she goes, where did these come from? I said, I have no idea where those came from. You know, they're huge. Neil has definitely gotten more than he bargained for with that property and the stuff is still going on. That was number five, North Georgia Habituation Part 1, episode 659.

Let's continue to number four, stuck on the island with Sasquatch, which is episode 714. This episode is another, Outdoorsman from Oregon. His name's Joey. And he shares some really interesting things in areas that are extremely active. Silver Creek Falls State Park, Detroit Lake, Waldo Lake Wilderness, some really cool encounters shared in this one.

It's actually one of my favorites. I will tell you it's a privilege to hear encounters from Detroit Lake area. I actually tried to stop there. I did stop there in July of 2025. And people don't really like being asked about Bigfoot or sharing stories to an outsider. At least they didn't to me. So whenever I get someone on the show, it's a huge privilege from that area. Enjoy this clip from episode 714, stuck on the island with Sasquatch.

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Hmm. That sound seems to show. Everything happens for a recess. It was at Detroit Lake in 1995 on the 2nd of July. My birthday is 4th of July. And it was on the island at Detroit Lake, Piety Island, at the boat camp there. me i was there with my friend steve and his girlfriend were in my camp we had taken a campsite furthest up the hill away from other people that had come out there

there was about a dozen of us that had come out to boat camp i had a jet ski and we'd done this several times right there they do the fireworks at detroit lake on the third so there's always fun to celebrate my birthday and to see the fireworks there swimming and fishing and whatnot So on the 2nd of July, I had just finished kind of partying and hanging out in a campground down on the beach with my friend Sean and his girlfriend, several others. That was kind of the meeting place for everybody on that trip. And my friend Steve and I and his girlfriend, Nancy, returned to our camp. So I was pretty late. I'm not really sure what time, maybe 11, 12.

I don't know. They went right to bed. Our tents were set up next to each other. They went to bed. I wanted to wind down a little bit. I'd build up the fire in our fire pit, had an established fire pit there, cement with the metal swinging grill. And I had my sleeping pad laid out by the fire.

Didn't have a camp chair, so I'm laying there with my head in my hand up on my elbow on my side, watching the fire. and I had my friend Steve's dog, sushi, a big old chocolate lab laying by me. I was kind of using her kind of like a pillow. Very cool dog. I want to add right now that this dog, whether it loved deer or hated deer, I'm not sure, but if a deer was anywhere around our camp whenever we went camping, she was out of there chasing it, it was almost a problem because sometimes she'd be gone an hour or two.

We always wondered if she was going to come back. And she wouldn't bark or anything. She'd just be laying there one minute and the next second just take off like a rocket. We knew what she was after, right? So she's laying there by me. And my fire was dying down. So there wasn't much flame left, but there was plenty of smoke coming up off the fire. And that was one of the advantages of laying off.

that pad if it blew my way it kind of just went over the top of me and didn't get any of my eyes so anyway i'm laying there and sushi's at my head like i said and she lets out a little growl kind of a low low growl and gets and goes on alert so she's sitting up now and kind of looking off up the hill from me and i'm i was checking her out to see where she was looking at but she hasn't taken off and I was wondering if it's a deer how come you're not chasing it already and I hear a stick break big stick break and very close to camp and it made a crack I mean it sounded like a big stick you would put over your knee or stomp on to break it but it

it got my attention and now sushi is very worried and whining a little bit about it and So I have a pen light on my key chain in my pocket, one of those little flashlights you screw clothes to make the light come on. So I get that out and I turn on the light and the battery and it's real crappy, but it's still making some kind of light. And I kind of get up on my knees and I'm shining it through the smoke and up the hill above my camp there. See if I can see anything, kind of at ground level, where you might see it. here and something catches my eye and what what I see is I raise my flashlight up and from behind the tree behind camp maybe 10 feet behind the fire ring I see one glowing eye I don't

know if it was red or yeah I think it must have been I remember being a yellow glow but big this eye peering out from me behind the tree and You know, my mind's going nuts right now. I can't figure out what it is. So I stand up and I wasn't really afraid yet. I had to figure out what this was. I wanted to figure out what this was. So for whatever reason, I stepped right across the fire,

right across the grate through the smoke towards this thing so I can get a better view of it so the smoke isn't in my way. And as soon as I get across it, It goes behind the tree and comes out on the other side. Now I see both eyes looking at me. And it's big. And I know what this is now. I can see the outline.

It's facing me. I can see the outline of its left side. It's not all the way out from the tree, but I can see it plainly that I'm standing right in front of a big foot. And as soon as it's blinking at me too. and as soon as I see it in full view it squats down like you know it's getting like the call of nature it squats down and puts its hands out in front of me or out in front of it on the ground and I've still got my light and my arm extended completely out in front of me and I'm shining my light right on its

eyeballs and I can see it and it's massive you know I don't know how tall it was I never measured it but It was a good 9, 10 foot tall, soft, bigfoot, huge. It seemed like it was even bigger than the one I'd seen in 1979. And it's squatted down. It's completely broad. It's just massive. And a couple seconds later, and I'm just frozen there with my flashlight, a couple seconds later, it starts moving away from me down the hill towards the beach.

And Susha has taken off. She's nowhere to be seen. She didn't bark or she decided she didn't want any part of this thing. And it moves away from me. And while it's moving away, it's standing up and squatting, standing up and squatting, going up and down, up and down. And it kept its eyes on me the whole time. And it got down the hill from me 30 or 40 feet, still looking at me.

And now all I can see is the eye shine. And it got to a point where it was the, the angle of the hill it was going to disappear and i got the creeps like i i became now i'm ready to act and i went from my fire pit to my tent in about a half a second i just dove into my tent breathing heavily i was i was petrified at what i'd just seen sushi's nowhere to incite i jumped in my tent and grabbed my sleeping bag and put it over my head like a like a child hiding from a monster in his bedroom, you know, that was my protection, was that thin walled tent, my sleeping bag. And I'm on my hands and knees with my bag over my head, and I don't know how long I stayed

like that, just hoping that whatever happened that it didn't come back and, you know, kill me. I felt like when it moved away from me, it might be trying to come around behind me, which is why I acted and ran to my tent. So strangely enough, after all of that, I fell asleep. 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

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Susha had come back to camp and was walking around in front of my tent a little bit. I called her into my tent and zipped it up and went back to sleep with her. And I got up real early. I didn't sleep much. Got up real early, got my fire going and some coffee. My friend Sean saw me doing that from the camp down by the beach and he came up the hill with his coffee cup to get some coffee from me and I told him what had happened and he was he was blown away he started looking around on the tree again the forest floor was there was not conducive for leaving any tracks so there weren't any tracks or anything later in the day I followed a abandoned fire road or whatever that wound around the backside of the island to the top to see if I could find any more signs or

tracks. I did not. On top of Piety Island, there's a slash pile of abandoned timber, quite a sizable pile that was never harvested but is still there, moss covered and weathered. And when I got up to the top and saw that, there were some real dark holes inside this pile of logs that made that, you know, a very creepy feeling standing there looking like there was something in there looking back at me. And I didn't stick around long and went back down to camp. By the time I got back down, there was another family that was camping with us with their kids that had come out in a ski boat. And my friend Sean had told him what I had seen. And this fellow shared with me that, well, he was at a Boy Scout camp pretty close to Fur Lake.

when he was a kid that their scoutmaster had seen a bigfoot while he had gotten up in the night and there was one in their camp at the scout camp and made everybody clear out the following day. He said it was a surreal experience because not only did he had never heard one before, but to actually have to leave the camp because of one. So he packed up his kids and everything and took off that day on the 3rd of July. he didn't even stay for the fireworks. He was like, he felt like he was in danger if we had one right there on the island. I stayed two more nights and I didn't worry about it on, you know, the 3rd of July there was fireworks going off. It sounds like a war zone there. I didn't, I didn't think about it that night and then stayed the night of my birthday on the fourth and went home the fifth. And it didn't really, didn't really bother me. I guess thinking back,

You know, again, I was 10 feet from it or closer when it was squatting down and I was standing there with my little light. You know, I could hear it breathing. And he could have reached out and snapped me like a twig. And he didn't. He just checked me out for a second, maybe five or ten seconds it was squatted down before it started moving down the hill. But the way it moved down that hill was very strange, how it stood all the way up. And went down almost to the ground up and down three or four times before, you know, I high-tailed it and jumped into my tent. Man, that is one of my favorite episodes.

Such a good chat with Joey. Again, that's episode 714. Let's head on now to number three out of ten. This is episode 799. Wildlife Biologist comes forward in Pennsylvania. Oh, my goodness. This one is wild. Matt Carter is a former wildlife biologist from South Carolina.

West Pennsylvania was on the show. His family has this secluded 20-acre property. Matt is really getting a ton of data and having some intense experiences on this property. Everything from bizarre howls to weird smells, unidentified bird calls. And Matt is a gentleman who has authored his own bird book, Birds of the West Virginia Northern Panhandle too. He is the author of that book. So he knows his stuff as a wildlife biologist. Check out this clip of episode number three out of ten. This whole episode is just awesome. I stood up and I walked over and I was staying there just looking and then all a sudden I hear like clean as day a wood knock. And I was like, oh, that's weird. And my mom said, what?

I said, you didn't hear that. I said, that sounded like somebody took like a stick or, you know, ball bat something to smack the tree. And she said, are you? kidding. I said, Mom, I would never joke about wildlife stuff. And she said, well, what would do that? What kind of animal? I said, well, you would need hands to actually pick something up and smack something like that. And then we heard a second one. And she heard it this time. And now the dogs moved from where they were to between me and

like, you know, where you can't see from the campfire. And then we heard another one answer it back further up in the woods. That was when I'm like, okay, time to take the dogs in and it was very hard to get them inside that night like they really did not want to leave like where they were like they were like they were really freaked out even walk over towards that part of the property because we kind of had to walk that direction to get back to the house so that was like the first like real weird thing out here wildlife wise and I'm like okay something's in that woods making noises that I don't know what it is and that's a problem because I've been doing this you know for a better part of a decade at that point

and I've spent thousands of hours. I worked on the breeding bird atlas from West Virginia. I was doing 100 hours a week in the woods and all these other projects. So I'm very aware of what's in this whole area. So that was kind of it until that fall. So like a few months later. So that was around June. So around September, October, it was like four in the morning because I'm a bit of a night out.

So I was just sitting here on my computer. and then I started to hear what sounded like a hyena. And I know it's not a coyote because I've since found a video from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which I can send you to link to, that they're actually talking about these vocalizations that they caught. And they're talking about Sasquatch. 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-YN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states.

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Because none of them knew what these exact sounds I heard were. And what was weird about it was I went over to the window and I was just listening. And as it sounded like it got closer, I wasn't able to move. It was like this wave of fear hit me. And it's probably the scariest I've ever been. because I was on the second story of my house inside, but I couldn't almost physically move until eventually it got to the point where I was almost crying. I was so scared and then the noise just went away and then I could start to move.

Which makes me wonder if that was some form of infrasound that hit me because it was very weird that I couldn't move. So after that though, it was really when things started to pick up. so now we start getting like odd bird calls at night so what i mean is there'll be owls calling but they're not owls the voice is too deep and the cadence and the rhythm is wrong so typically like you know if like the great horn now you'll get like one long or one short and then a couple more after that this isn't even doing the right amount of notes let alone the voice is too deep to be an owl and at times it'll go if like the ho ho ho ho then it'll turn a like real deep at the end. So that's clearly not an owl doing that sound. And we'll get like other weird animal calls to like geese and other things coming from the woods. I'm like there's no, there's not going to be a random goose living up in the woods.

And this kind of goes on until like early June of 2024. So I've been trying to get back into shape just because I'm trying to be healthier. And our property, like I said, it's a 20 acre. it's mainly a like an open field and in the back left corner of that field there's like a little stand of woods before you hit the actual woods like there's a little like stretch of like clearing between it so it kind of goes it has a grade too like it kind of goes up into that corner but then as you go up to the right hand back corner it's really steep so it's a nice workout like you get this gradual grade and then you come back down on like the right side and you just do a circle and I think all together it's like a quarter mile or half a mile it gets a decent lot so what happened was I was walking back towards that corner towards where that pond is and I noticed everything went dead silent and I mean dead silent no birds no bugs nothing and that's really weird for that to be happening in like early summer late spring you know

when everything should be going crazy or something should be doing an alarm call you know some kind you know, there's a whole bunch of different species like Blue Jays, you know, there's a tough to tip mice, and something should be alarming to me coming back there, but nothing. So I thought that was weird that it got like quieter and quieter, the closer I got to that pond. So I just sat there at the pond for a second. I'm like, this is, it just felt off. And then that's when I heard, but sounded like I was convinced it was a person. person, but everything was so grown in at that time I couldn't see, you know, what was walking around, but it was clearly two legs because it sounded just like a huge person walking.

And it kind of freaked me out because nobody should be back there. All of our dogs are like essentially like guard dogs. So everyone knows just don't come up here. I mean, we've got guns. I mean, Southwest PA. So no one should be back there messing around. and it started to bother me because I said hello and there was no answer. So then I'm like, okay, what do I do now? Because I'm convinced this is a person and I'm like they're not answering. And normally if there's someone out in the woods with you and they're not answering back,

they don't have good intentions. So I said, just so you know, I can hear you. I said, I can't see you, but I can tell like the general area where you're at. I said, look, I live in a house. house over there. I said, so I'm not far. Someone will come looking for me. I said, and the second thing is, I'm not back here to cause problems. I said, I'm just going for a nature walk, and I'm going to walk up to the opposite corner back here. There's a game cam that a family

friend has. I'm going to put the SD card back in it that I got yesterday. Because that was what was weird was the day before everything was flying when I was back there. So, still nothing. No one's saying anything. There was no smells, though. So I didn't smell anything this time, but there was something, like, you could tell it was over there because I could hear it moving around. So I said, okay, I'm going to walk up here now. Still, you know, nothing's talking back to me. So I start to walk up like the woodline, and I noticed, though, even though nobody's talking, it's paralleling me. So I'm like, okay, I don't like this, because now not only is somebody, you know, my mind at this time, not talking but they're paralleling me

so it's like there's stock in me so I keep walking up and as I get closer to where there's like this little watering hole they actually dug with a I think like a backhoe or something and they put a game camera

out there you know to see like what would come up there so the closer I get to it now I start to hear it's like a you know almost like something smack in its chest not like a rough grouse because that's a very, anyone that's heard those, they know exactly what that sounds like. This actually sound like what I was just doing. Like something smack in the chest.

It was huge. And then the, like, the bush starts shaking. And that's when I start to hear, you know, almost like the Sierra sounds, but without, like, words to it. So all this together is really confusing me because I'm like, what, you know, what is, I don't even know what's happening right now. Because I'm, as a wildlife biologist, I'm trying to rash. this because you know it's like well that could be you know in my mind i'm still thinking that could be rough to grouse but then what's going to shake what's going to shake the you know that's a huge

bush that it's shaking and i'm like i don't know what's going on and i was terrified because i'm like there's something here that's enormous and you know i did the dumbest thing i've probably ever done in my life jeremiah and anyone listening dear god don't ever do this you know I'm like, ha ha, you know, maybe it's Sasquatch. Well, that was dumb to take this as, like, not anything serious that I was in a bad situation. So what did I do? I just laugh because this is so stupid.

Like, even if you don't know what the animal is, you should never, like, push to see, oh, am I going to instigated and do something? I barred my teeth like a chimp would, and then I did the back to it. it with, you know, smacking my chest. That's what that noise is. That was the biggest mistake I've ever made. Whatever that was, barreled through there then. And it almost, I almost got to where I could see it.

And I was like, nope. I started the backup then. I kept my eyes facing towards the woodline. And I just walked slowly back. And I just kept watching because I'm like, I'm convinced at this point, I'm going to die. Whatever that was was crashing through there. and I could tell now, this is no joke. Like, things are real serious, real quick.

And I just felt like whatever's here, if it wants to, I'm dead. There's nothing I'm going to do. Because I know people say they've seen Bear, but none of this fits a bear. Like the snorling, the shaking the thing. I've heard Bear do weird noises, but none of it like this. Wild stuff going on with that one in Southwest Pennsylvania. Definitely check it out, guys. whole episode. It is episode

799. Let's head on now to number two. The number two most viewed episode of Bigfoot Society on the YouTube platform for 2025. Here it is. Episode number 756.

They found that hunter torn apart. This episode is an extremely intense conversation with Mark Plow Boy Green, down there in the foothills of Alabama, who had some really incredible encounters down there by creepy mountain. This is one that you really do not want to miss. Anything, any conversation with Mark Green is incredible. And you guys loved this chat on the channel.

So let's go ahead. We're going to play a clip of this. You can check it out. I had found me a big white oak tree. a very big white oak tree, and that's what I had, you know, sit down against, and I was facing that into the greenfield where I could see anything, you know, that would enter the green field. And behind me was a big swamp.

I was sitting there listening to beaver, splash the water, and, you know, and I could tell the water wasn't too far behind me, maybe 100 yards, maybe something like that. Well, about 3.30 that afternoon, two doors entered into the field. They came from behind me where the swamp was, and they went to feeding out in the field. Of course, that got my hopes up that later on, you know, a buck might be trellying them. So, you know, I knew that was a good thing by those two doves coming in there that, you know, they might draw a buck in there. So probably for a good 30 minutes or so, the doves were just feeding around. They'd raise her head, look up a little bit, and they'd go back to feed, and everything was.

going good and probably sometime a little after four. Like I said, I did not look at my watch. I just knew it was getting late afternoon. Probably around 4.15, somewhere in that neck of the woods. I heard a little commotion in the woods behind me. Of course, my thoughts went to, here he comes, here comes the buck. Because the doves look straight up and look back. They'd stare a while, and then they'd get relaxed again and go back to eating.

Well, this went on a couple of times. And this probably got to, you know, 4.30, somewhere in that neighborhood. And all of a sudden, these two doles just throw their tails up and blow and run out the opposite end of that field faster they could go. Well, of course, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, that's a buck. He's fishing to bust out in this field, and I'm going to get a shot at him. But I noticed he didn't come on. you know, this is what I'm thinking in my head. He started kind of moving in behind me slowly.

And, of course, I'm still thinking, well, maybe he winded me. You know, maybe he got a whiff of me, and he's trying to get behind me to see if he can get a better smell of me and see where I'm at. Before, you know, because buck deer, they are very cautious. This went on probably for another 10 minutes or so, and I can. hear that subtle movement in behind me. And I could tell it was getting a little closer to me. And my curiosity finally just got the best of me. So I started easing up the side of that tree.

Of course, this tree was big enough to conceal me. I don't know how many inches around. It was at least a 48, 52 inch tree. So, you know, it was pretty big. So I ease up and it stands still for a minute or so, and then I kind of piqued my head out from around that tree looking back into that swamp. Didn't see nothing for a minute or two or what seemed like a minute or two, and all of a sudden I caught movement maybe 60, 70 feet from me.

And I got to looking, and I couldn't really tell what I was looking at for a second when I first look, but I knew something was there. and at first I thought I was looking at another human because when it peeped out from around the tree, it had a, you know, human sort of shape to it, and I could see the shoulders. But what struck me odd about this was it didn't have no orange on.

And, of course, in my mind, I'm thinking, yes, somebody just snuck up behind me that I messed up my hunting. But also, I didn't really feel right about it because I was looking at something and didn't have orange on. So that day, I had left my bonoccas at home. I didn't bring them with me.

So I'd done something I shouldn't have. I pulled up my rifle. Even though that was just 60, 70 feet away, this place is very full of palm meals about waist high. It's real thick behind me. So, you know, it was hard to judge what I was really looking at. I just knew it might, you know, kind of looked like it had a human form to it.

but I did pull up my rifle, looked down the scope, and of course, that's one that really pulled it in. And that's when I could see what looked like a shoulder with hair on it, part of the chest, stomach area, part of the leg, very hairy. And that's when I ended up bringing a gun up to the, you know, the scope up to the head. and that's one I pretty much realized I really wasn't looking at a human. I could not see its face. And how I describe it is kind of like the younger teenagers that wear the hair where it flips over in front of their face. This is basically what it was, you know, how it was. It had its hair kind of hanging in its face where I could not see facial features.

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This probably lasted maybe 10 or 15 seconds at the most. I think when I raised a rifle, probably it thought I was probably fixing to shoot it because what it did was it went down on all fours and shot out of there back into that into that swamp behind me the first thing i noticed is when it left how fast it was this could catch a deer if it wanted to this moved a lot faster than a deer i mean i've never seen anything move that fast when it left and of course it went on all four so i wasn't able to see it as good because it got done down kind of even with the palmetto's.

Of course, it's getting on close to dark. Fear came into, you know, struck me. Because I knew then I didn't see, you know, wasn't a human I was looking at. So, you know, I started getting scared, getting dark. So I decided to come on out of there. I started walking up the field. and I was looking back behind me a good bit too. Got up to about where my friend was in the middle and hollered his name out.

He'd come on out of the woods. I asked him if he, you know, seen anything, heard anything. He said, no, it's just been deafly quiet in him. I said, well, did you see anybody or anything? He said, no, I said, well, I've seen something. And he didn't say much back, and we just kept on walking. We got up at the end of the end of the day. the field and realized her other friend had done come out and went to the truck.

So we got on to the truck and we, you know, of course, we're getting ready to put her stuff up and my other friend looked at me and said, Mark, what's wrong? And I said, what are you mean? He said, well, you're wide as a sheep. I said, well, I've just seen something down there in that swamp down there. And we kind of left it at that. I didn't say nothing else about it. We drove home.

We didn't talk about it. bring it back up. The next day, he gives me a call, and he said, you seen a Bigfoot yesterday, didn't he? I said, how you know? I said, well, that's what I think it is. I said, well, how you know? He said, because I've done seeing them before myself. And come to find out, he'd seen him on his property right here where we live at.

So that's my first sighting and encounter that I know of, that where I actually physically laid eyes on one. It was probably in between the six-and-seven-foot range, kind of a brownish color, not real dark brown, but I'd say a light brown color. And what I could tell out of it, you know, what little bit I could really tell, you know, it wasn't real bulky beefed up. You know, it was more lanky looking what I was looking at. I'm going to go listen to that episode right now, but I'm not because we got one more.

We got the number one most viewed episode released in 2025 for Bigfoot Society on YouTube. Here we go. Get ready. it is. Peoria County is full of them. I was not expecting it. You weren't expecting it, but man, you guys loved that episode. It blew the other numbers and stats away by a ton.

So it's a great episode, though. I mean, Bill had some great things to share his encounter near Jubilee College State Park in Peoria, and people love to hear encounters that are having. happening in this area of central Illinois. It's wild. It blew me away. It wasn't an Oregon episode. It wasn't a Washington episode.

It was a Midwest Illinois episode. Check out this clip and then listen to it for yourself. Well, I'll tell you, Jeremiah, as I say, I'll tell you, I was a skeptic until 2011, May 5th, to be exact, 2011. I had my first experience here in Peoria County. Excuse me. And I was out Morale Mushroom Honey on private property. And not too far, probably approximately about five miles from Jubilee College State Park. I'm very aware of the property.

I've hunted deer for years, deer hunted, turkey hunted, squirrel hunted. You name it, I've done it. Just that one day I took my lab. She was a female dog, the Labrador Retriever. I took her with me, very obedient. And I decided to go out to a spot that I've always hunted for years, probably a dozen years prior to this incident. As I was walking through, got out of my pickup truck.

It was a nice sunny day. It wasn't no cloud cover or anything. and as I got in there started walking through, my dog went ahead of me as it normally did. And she started walking away, and the next thing you know, I'm looking around, I'm starting to pick up mushrooms. And I hear a noise off to my left.

And what I mean by noise is it's trees cracking. I heard the leaves brushing, you know, where someone had been walking. And first thing comes to my mind is maybe a thing. It's either someone in turkey hunting or a deer running through the timber, running through the brush. I stopped, but I knew something was watching me. I had that eerie feeling something was watching me. Most hunters will tell you when you're in the woods, you know, out in the timber if you're hunting,

most animals, squirrel, birds, when they see you, they'll stop. They'll go dead silent. that day it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop and as I looked over to my left I thought I had seen something some movement

I wasn't for sure so I act like I was pretending I still knew something was there I act like I was still going to pick up mushrooms so when I kneeled down there's an old deer trail there and I knell down

and as I kneeled down I was looking around trying to scout the area like where you have, who is it? All of a sudden, I hear a big yell. I yelled that I've never heard in my life. When it yelled, I kind of like, uh-oh, you know, what's just the same? Oh, Kyle, necessarily, now ain't no human being. And I just pretended like I was going to, you know, pick up mushrooms again. and in my mind I'm thinking that wasn't nobody no man he couldn't yell that loud the deepness of it and it scared me I was scared

then again about maybe 10 seconds later I heard another one and then I could hear trees breaking branches breaking off and I could hear the you know the footsteps so I knew it wasn't a deer And the second thing that come on my mind is maybe somebody's out here turkey hunting and they're running through the woods. And I spooked them or something, you know. And it ended up it wasn't fat either. As I went on hunting the mushrooms, I stopped.

If I took a few steps, I could hear the brushing in the trees cracking all to my left. And when I would say approximately maybe, I would say 40 feet, maybe at that. All of a sudden here comes my dog running back to me which are hitting her tail between her legs all the way up to her belly and her hair up from her neck all the way down to her back. And she had her head down in a submission and she was growing and looking off to where I had heard the sounds. And I thought, uh-oh, my dog scared somethings over there. She wouldn't be doing that. the dog came running toward me and it laid down in front of me by my feet and I told her to stay and she was turning off, rowling toward where I was hearing the trees break and I heard the yell.

And again, I heard another yell and the dog started to bark. And it scared me to the point where I just sat still for a few seconds and I thought, it's going to get me. It's got me now. I have nothing on me. And my dog, I grabbed the dog by the collar and I walked backwards. I jumped into the, put her into the passenger side pickup that I was driving. And I was pulled on the side of the bean field. There's a little area where the tractors go up along the fields to do the cornfields and the bean fields. And I was parked there. So I backed up. I went, probably, it was only probably

maybe 50 feet from where I was parked at. So I backed up, got the dog in the truck, and I went to go around and I thought, if this thing's going to get me, it's going to get me now. I hurried up, got the truck, and I got out of there as fast as I could. I backed the truck up in reverse.

Got all the way over into the other end. I backed up about three blocks, turned and went down the road. And I went down on the property approximately about a mile and a half from where I was at on the opposite side of the timber. So I thought I was safe and I was trying to get in my mind like what did I just hear and see it? Wow, you know, and my dog wouldn't even get out of the truck. It was that scared. And anybody that knows Peoria County or the state you can look it up or Google it, Kickapoo Creek's got tributaries off of that. and it's not far from the property.

It's on the property of joining property I was on. But there's tributaries that will walk onto this property also. It's not real deep, probably a few inches, but it's always flowing. And we used to keep cattle on that side. And I went over on that side, thinking I would be okay, and I walked down into an area heavy in thorns and brush, timber. When I get down there I see a bunch of footprints, tracts.

And it goes across the creek and up a 30 foot embankment. And there was about a four inch tree sticking out of the side of the hill. And it was broke freshly off and the track looked like it took four feet across one foot. You could see where it went up the hill and broke the tree and then it was gone. It was gone. that was it.

I went ahead. I just went and decided to go back to the farmhouse. And I get out and I go to the woman that owns the property. And she was in her mid-80s. She was out and alone and she was messing with the garden. And my nickname was called Elmer, because I'm short, and that's my nickname. And the lady there goes, hey, Elmer, what have you been doing to my horses? out here. She said, somebody's been coming out here all week, and my horses have been jumping

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And her name's Mildred, and I said, well, Mildred, I don't come out here at 2.30 in the morning or 12 o'clock at night or anything else. said that wasn't me. And I said, what do you mean they're acting up? And she said, yeah, the one jumped the fence. She said something's been spooking them all week. And my brother-in-law, who was a well-known tracker and hunter, his name was William. He was a caretaker there also, like a handyman,

knowing him all in life. And he pulled up and he goes, hey, what's going on? He heard her asking me about the horses. And he goes, well, I told him what had happened, and I said, no, horses have been acting up, and she thought that was me. I said, but I want to tell you what just happened to me. He looked at me funny. He goes, hey, that's strange.

These horses had been acting up. I wonder if they didn't, you know, something, they didn't sense it. And where I found the tracks at, Jeremiah, where right below where the horses walk out of the barn. It's like a little pasture area that goes down into the creek. And that was in 2011, May 5th, 2011 in the exact. I'll never forget that day. Congrats, Bill.

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