Bigfoot Society - You Watch Out for Them in North Georgia!

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

Join host Jeremiah Byron from Bigfoot Society as we delve into a series of captivating Bigfoot encounters in North Georgia. In this episode, we speak with Rick, a retired army aviator, law enforcement... officer, and security specialist. Rick recounts his chilling 1974 encounter in the Appalachian foothills near Amicalola Falls. From stories of glowing eyes and strange noises in the woods to mysterious figures stepping out from the trees, Rick shares detailed experiences that have left him deeply affected. Rick also discusses a highly disputed but intriguing account of a military helicopter crash near Dahlonega, Georgia. He reveals stories of strange creatures allegedly seen at the crash site, exploring the possibility of Bigfoot involvement. Additionally, Rick touches on other cryptid encounters, including a potentially supernatural hitchhiker and eerie incidents involving strange creatures near Kennesaw Mountain. Don't miss this fascinating account of Bigfoot and other unexplained phenomena in the depths of North Georgia. Sasquatch Summerfest this year, is July 11th through the 12th, 2025. It's going to be fantastic. Listeners, if you're going to go, you can get a two day ticket for the cost of one. If you use the code "BFS" like Bigfoot society and it'll get you some off your cost.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 www. sasquatchsummerfest. com and pick up your tickets today.If you've had similar encounters or experiences, please reach out to bigfootsociety@gmail.com. Your story could be the next one we feature!🔴 Subscribe to our Youtube channel and leave a comment here: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Want to call in and leave a voicemail of your encounters for the podcast - Check this out here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety(Use multiple voice mails if needed!)Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: bigfootsociety@gmail.com

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Starting point is 00:01:24 See Lowe's.com for details. Visit your nearby Lowe's on West Pico Boulevard. in Los Angeles. Welcome to Bigfoot Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode. And if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Do you wish there is more Bigfoot Society to listen to every week? Well, there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members-only episode every single. week on Wednesdays and sometimes even more episodes head on over to patreon.com forward slash the bigfoot society and now let's get on with the show all right big foot society i've got the privilege of talking to rick is an individual that i got connected to through the youtube channel side of bigfoot society uh he his uh past is he's a former army aviator
Starting point is 00:02:24 former law enforcement officer and security specialist, and he'll be sharing an incident that happened back in 1974. So welcome to this show, Rick. How's it going? Hey, appreciate it. I just having an last day. I'm retired work part-time now, so I have time to spend on YouTube and research and look into these cryptic things.
Starting point is 00:02:53 And I think it's kind of therapy for me. given what happened so long ago. Absolutely. You know, I'm excited to hear the whole story. I know this summary, but I'd say we can get right into it, and I'll let you take the mic, and you can take us back to when this happened to you in 1974, and we'll go right ahead.
Starting point is 00:03:19 Well, I'm 67 now, and I was 15 years old, and I grew up in the North Georgia Appalachian foothills. I was one of those kids who, you know, of course, we didn't have texting, we didn't have internet, we didn't have, you know, any of modern things. So, you read books or you watched some of the old TV shows that came on back then, like in search, of or if you were lucky to find another documentary. I remember
Starting point is 00:04:00 seeing the legend of Boggy Creek about back in 1971 and I thought that was a really scary movie and then
Starting point is 00:04:14 there's got a pink or burn that put out a little paperback book and he was from Oregon and I bought that book and read it and I thought, well, that's interesting. And, you know, I lived out
Starting point is 00:04:29 the country, non-year-s neighbors. We're probably a quarter mile on either side. We lived up on a hill, and we were not too far from Amacolo Falls, and that would be a state park that
Starting point is 00:04:47 marks the beginning of the Appalachian Trail. And I wasn't too far from the Dawson Peckage County line and hill country
Starting point is 00:05:00 and my dad and all this family were depression-era farmers and we grew up with stories about boogers and they
Starting point is 00:05:11 you know ghosts they called hanks and they were talking about being out walking at night and something would follow them
Starting point is 00:05:20 and when they would stop it would stop I remember my dad walking home backwards one time he told with his knife out from church on the old dirt road
Starting point is 00:05:32 he said every time he would stop whatever was up on top of a hill there it would stop I think we've heard those stories before people blaming it something pacing them and stopping when they would stop so yeah I heard burger stories growing up because we called them boogers and
Starting point is 00:05:50 they'd say you know don't don't go out at night the bookers will get you. I had an aunt that even she lived not far from where our encounter happened. She claimed this big airy man walked her on the side of her house
Starting point is 00:06:06 one night. She was on the front porch rocking and she said she just froze stiff while it looked at her and she said she closed her eyes. Started praying even when she opened her eyes. It was gone. And a lot of people thought that was just a
Starting point is 00:06:22 wild story. And I didn't believe it or not, but one cold early March night in 1974, myself and three other boys, teenage boys, one of them was old enough to drive. We were out on the back roads near the Amicolola River, which is fed by Amicola Falls. and there was an old intersection and the road was just barely paved at the time and the two roads that fed off of it one of them went into a wooded place which to this day there still hasn't been any houses
Starting point is 00:07:03 building there. It's interesting that it's still just open woods but the other road went down to the river and so we were coming up to the intersection and there was an embankment that was about chest high. And we were spotlighting deer, and we weren't going to shoot them, but we were just
Starting point is 00:07:25 trying to fight a deer. And the guy driving, he had a little 22 pistol, which was of no significance for a deer. So we were coming at this intersection. And
Starting point is 00:07:41 up on the bank there, we saw these glow of the eyes. It was a three sets of glowing eyes. And so it was a buck and two-dough. And the you know, we got decided, hey, there's some deer. So
Starting point is 00:07:56 our friend was driving, pulled up and parked the car and we got out and it was a two-door. And so the guy that was sitting in front of a big writing shotgun, he had one of those old B-cell flashlights
Starting point is 00:08:12 which put out of account of a dim light. And now the guy sitting in the backseat with me, his family were known to be poachers, and they were, they'd get a deer in where they could. So I'm sitting at this intersection, and we're out just looking at the deer, and they're frozen. and for the deer in the headlights, well, the car still had the headlights on. And so, but in retrospect, the two guys in front,
Starting point is 00:08:55 they walked up pretty close to them. I'd say they were within about 50, 60 feet of them. And they were just standing there. And they should have bolted because they were talking. And the deer was. just frozen. And so we were still standing by
Starting point is 00:09:18 the car. And over my right shoulder, about a 45-degree angle, it's nothing but woods. I hear crashing sound. Was it a tree limb that fell or
Starting point is 00:09:32 what? And there was something sounded like sounded like sounded like sounding like hitty footsteps. And
Starting point is 00:09:45 I looked on my right shoulder and the guy was over the other side the one whose family were known to be deer poachers. He says oh my God, I bet that's a game board and we're caught. And I said, I don't think a game ward was going to make that
Starting point is 00:10:01 of noise coming through the woods. About that time, the hairs on my body started standing up. And I got real just, I don't know, scared. And like goosebumps, kind of scared.
Starting point is 00:10:20 And out of my peripheral vision, this little narrow road there, it was so narrow that if two cars met, even if they pulled over in the ditch,
Starting point is 00:10:35 they would have probably scraped each other's doors. And so something, at the time, I thought, well, that was something or someone. But something took a step down off that bank. It was big. And then it took one more step.
Starting point is 00:10:58 And it was to the other edge. And then on the third step, it was up on the other side of the bank. So basically three steps. And it was one of those. feels like your mind freezes. And as I talk about it, I still see that, that, I don't know, maybe one and a half or two second, it's frozen, and I'm trying to process it. And I look over to the other guy, and I said, did you see that?
Starting point is 00:11:34 And his eyes are just wide open, mouth open. and so he starts saying let's get out of here let's get out of here and I'm saying yeah yeah let's go and the two guys in front they didn't see it and so we're we're screaming
Starting point is 00:11:56 there's somebody coming or something coming no we're not going anywhere they said whatever that was that crossed the road started angling toward where the deer were standing it was making more noise.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Or either it was just the same amount of noise it was making because it was getting closer, you hear it better. But it was walking toward them. And I don't know, I would say it got within about 80 to 100 feet of the deer. And all of a sudden they boldly
Starting point is 00:12:35 like they were shot from a cannon. And now, the nearest house was probably a half a mile as a crow flies and there was a big farm down the road behind us in an old church across the road from us that you can see and then down the road by that church so I'm at this point starting the term I used is I was I was scared with fear I was I don't know how to describe it unless you've ever had happened to you. You know, as a law enforcement officer, I was shot at and had a gun pulled on me at one time. And it's a different kind of fear. This was a palatable fear that was making my stomach feel strange. And that was when the two guys in front quit talking.
Starting point is 00:13:41 and they knew something was coming, and they shined the light down that direction. And so the deer were already long gone. But there was a lot of like old brush and on the side of the fence up on that bank. And something was walking up where it was slight incline. And we're still in the back. and I've got one foot in the car
Starting point is 00:14:13 and I'm saying, let's go, let's go. And there's a guy, he's already in the car. And something walks up, there was a tree. And I'm going to say it was probably
Starting point is 00:14:29 two feet in diameter at the base, maybe a little more, maybe three at the base and tapered, of course, it went up a little bit. But there was this odd looking limb that grew out and then went up at an angle like an elbow. Something, and you can see the outline of it,
Starting point is 00:14:50 because the headlights were not pointed directly at it, because he had the headlights pointed it where the deer were. So all of a sudden, something walks up, and you can see the right side of its torso in an arm and part of the leg. and I'm not thinking straight. You know, I'm not thinking later on. It dawned on me that it appeared there might have been some hair or fur or something that you could see.
Starting point is 00:15:27 But at the time, it was just an object. It had the shake of a big man. And its head was behind that limb that come out. and you've heard the tree peeking that people talk about that a Sasquatch or a big foot is supposed to do. Well, this thing would rock to the right slightly. You could just barely see part of a head in the face. And I don't mean to see it to make out any features, just the outline. and so all of a sudden the guy up in front
Starting point is 00:16:12 reaches in his car, the driver, the old guy, he grabs the old 22 pistol and he stands behind the door and aims the pistol, he says, who are you? Tell me who you are. And the guy with the decal light, he is already, and I've already got back in the car.
Starting point is 00:16:35 and he's already got one foot in the car and the decal light pointed toward the tree where this thing's at. And again, this driving says, all right, if you don't tell me who you are, I'm going to shoot. And I remember saying, no, no, no, let's go. And the guy in the back was saying, don't shoot it, no game for it.
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Starting point is 00:18:23 Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today, sponsored by GSK. Because he was still thinking it was a game board. And about that time, you hear pop, pop. And there's a hesitation of about a second. and the guy with a flashlight, he's already in the car with the door closed, and the guy that shot, he threw that little pistol on the floor, and he started that car, and we went out of there sideways. It was an old Pontiac GTO, and it was a house of a car,
Starting point is 00:19:03 and we went out of their sideways, and we drove about two miles to a, it was a server station, they had a coke machine in front, and it was where the main, that road went into the main highway. We pulled over there and I'm, I'm feeling nauseous and I'm just anxiety. And the guy in the back is he's just jabbering. We're all talking loud. What was that? What was it?
Starting point is 00:19:39 And the guy in front gets out and he goes and leans over the car like he's going to throw up. and it goes to the Coke machine and gets a Coke, and I think he's drinking, maybe he's silly stomach. And then he still, you know, been over like he was going to throw up after that. And so we're only two miles from where this happened, and I'm saying, let's don't stay here. Let's go. Let's go home because it was a school night.
Starting point is 00:20:15 And for anyone that thinks that we might have been drinking, or smoking anything. I was a straight-laced athlete football player, and I hadn't even tried a beer yet at that time. So I didn't know what alcohol tastes like. Even though my dad was a moonshine shower at one time, I'd never tasted it. So we finally get in the car, and he starts taking us home,
Starting point is 00:20:45 and the guy that was sitting in front. He kept saying, you're all right, man? And he would just shake his head and I'm sick. And then something went on the way home. And by the way, that's the road where my aunt lived at the time that he claimed that she saw. The wild hairy man. It was about another mile or so down the road from there. And so we get, you know, on the way home.
Starting point is 00:21:17 And finally the guy in front of you, he says, you saw his face, didn't you? And he was real quiet. He kind of nodded his head forward. And he's like, what did it look like? What did it look like? And he just wouldn't say anything. So we get home and I was so scared that night that every little sound just had me paranoid.
Starting point is 00:21:49 I slept sitting up with a double-barrow shotgun across my lap, and I just couldn't, you know, we couldn't sleep. But we had decided that we were going to go back up there the next day in daylight and check out where we were at. So we went to the place hoping that we might find some evidence of that or some footprints. You could only basically sit there. a walled out area. I think we did see a couple of deer
Starting point is 00:22:20 tracks on them where there was some mud. But up there around that brush that was close to the tree, it was just some walled out places which I suppose could have been where something was walking. But
Starting point is 00:22:36 I was 511 at the time before I did the old age and arthritis and shrank a little bit. But I reached up toward that tree and I could touch where that tree limb came out that its face was behind
Starting point is 00:22:54 and with my arm almost extended I could touch the bottom of that limb so if my arm was two feet long and I'm almost six feet tall you can figure that's where this thing's face
Starting point is 00:23:10 was not the top of its head, it's face So then we told a few people and we got told, oh, y'all are lying, y'all are crazy, y'all, what we all own, what we're all taking. And I had remembered a story, something that happened a year, a year previous. And my mother even came in and told us, and she was not one to tell any kind of a story. she didn't believe anything like that, you know. She said that she had been told by a friend of hers that lived in that area
Starting point is 00:23:53 that a game warden had been out looking for poachers, state game warden. And that he called in on the radio and said, okay, I'm leaving my truck, so-and-so. I'm going to go out and look for signs of poaching or, you know, if I can catch any vehicles, you know, moving about. about, well, he never did report back in. And this was told by several people to be true. They said that it was around midnight when he went out and that they lost contact, had people out looking for him.
Starting point is 00:24:32 And that just about as the sun was coming up the next morning, a farmer on a little side access road going into where his cows were, saw the game warden walking with this 1,000-yard stare in his eyes. And his clothes were disheveled. And he picked him up. He says, you know, what's going on? What's going on? They said the guy was just dehydrated and disheveled.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And he was real frightened. And he told him that he had seen something big. And he said, he said, it's hair. head and his face looked kind of like a bull and he had a flat nose. He said, you know, it was almost like you'd taken hammers and hit it in the eye and flattened out its eye sockets. And I remember that's what my aunt said. She said it looked like somebody hit in the face with a hammer and that I'll register with
Starting point is 00:25:35 me. And interestingly enough, that story went away within two weeks. nobody was talking about it and the last I heard is that they said that the game warden was transferred or relocated somewhere else so that that story went away and ironically the the guy that I was that was driving the car that night about this was all in 1974 so you fast forward a few years and and I would see him in church. And later on, I would make a little remarks like, hey, you want to go back up on the river and look for the booger?
Starting point is 00:26:19 He would not even make eye contact with me. He would just shake his head, you know. And then there was a girl that lived up there. And she lived in the next county over, and her folks had chickens. They had chicken houses. And the chicken houses were, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:26:40 about 100 yards off that road that went in to the intersection where we were at. And the interesting thing was I told her about it in revival. I said, hey, I'm going to tell you something. You're going to think I'm crazy.
Starting point is 00:26:59 And then I started telling her, and she got this blank look on her face. And she says, oh, I was coming home from a football game one night. And I think what you saw ran across the road in front of me. And she said, then one time her uncle went out and ran something out of one of his chicken houses and actually fired a couple of shots from a shotgun up in the air.
Starting point is 00:27:25 So we weren't the only ones that knew about this. But it's just nobody wanted to talk about it because nobody wanted to be called crazy. And trust me, I got called everything. that you can think of. So getting back to the guy that was driving, his cousin was one of the first people to build a house in a subdivision that was not far from our location. I think it was about a mile in the other direction.
Starting point is 00:28:00 And this was a story that got out, and was told. And he actually, this guy that was driving actually told it, He said, well, he said, his cousin and then built a house, and they had just got moved into it. And they had gone out to eat one Saturday evening. And I believe this was in the fall of the year. And when they came back, something had busted down the door of the kitchen. He had guns and they had other things.
Starting point is 00:28:37 jewelry, nothing was stolen, just something had ransacked the kitchen. And they called the police out and the sheriff's local sheriff's department deputies
Starting point is 00:28:53 out at the time. And so there was nothing that they could find evidence wise. It's just that they thought somebody really strong to just kick the door off the hinges.
Starting point is 00:29:08 And we never did hear any more about it after that. Supposedly a local group of hunters that got together and went out and I don't know if they found anything or not. Nothing was ever. Nothing was ever talked about. And of course, I'm still a teenager at the time. and, you know, I just heard what I heard mostly through the grapevine. But then going a few years later, and I get into the military and become an aviator and helicopters, oh, hewis.
Starting point is 00:29:55 And there was a crash of a cobra helicopter up in Delonica. This is highly disputed, but it's also highly rumored. And as a matter of fact, we have a Bigfoot Museum north of us, and the guy up there that runs it, he has this story there on video for people to see his little video production. Helicopter crashed up near the Ranger camp above Delonica, Delanga, Georgia, which of course is further to the northeast of Amicalola Falls. And that's in the area where we had our encounter. So the chopper crashed, it was foggy and rain.
Starting point is 00:30:48 He hit the side of the mountain, and it caught on fire, partially burned the air crew. and some MPs, a couple of volunteers, I believe those five people were dispatched up there to secure the site until the next day when the investigators could get there. And with all the other people to try to recover the remains and the wreckage, investigate what happened. So they set up a tent and they built. fire and they're about um as i recall they were approximately a hundred to 125 or 30 feet away from from the site and so somebody was going to stay up and they're going
Starting point is 00:31:42 do a guard shifts every couple of hours so one of the guy that was up supposedly heard this clanking sound and he thought well what is that and the first thing his thought supposedly was that it was a bear trying to get in because the air crew were still in there they covered it with a tarp
Starting point is 00:32:06 but to try to you know to in respect to the remains of the of the pilots so he starts yelling hey bear bear something a couple other guys get up and run out
Starting point is 00:32:21 As I remember, two of them ran down and saw two or possibly three. What they thought at first were men trying to get into the cockpit. I can only assume maybe they were going to try to get the bodies. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down, business. You need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP. If scaling your business feels like start starting, starting over, you need the Intuit ERP. Intuit Enterprise Suite is the AI native ERP solution that consolidates,
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Starting point is 00:34:11 It's kind of morbid to think they would use them for food. We have, some people have claimed that Bigfoot will predate on people. But anyway, they fired up in the air. and the way these things took off running, then they ran too fast, and it was obvious they weren't people, but there was two or three of them according to the report. And so that was when I was still in the military.
Starting point is 00:34:54 And I had later on, I'd gotten injured and medically discharged. And so in my life progression, I was out in the country as, a rural deputy sheriff. And I used to get these calls and going out to people's houses about, oh, our motion sentences are going off and
Starting point is 00:35:19 we look out and there's nobody there or we hear these footsteps and people would hear these, you know, what they thought were housed and they would say, well, it's a mountain line. Even though the, supposedly there was no mountain line in Georgia, I think Kentucky or West Virginia was supposedly, even though we're having sightings of them now. And my brother, who's 86, told me they used to hear something coming around, scream like that around their chicken houses when my dad had chickens.
Starting point is 00:35:56 This was back when I was just a baby. I don't remember it. But he described it as like the sound of a panther. I looked up some what were supposedly Bigfoot calls or sounds online and I played them for it and I said
Starting point is 00:36:17 is this what you used to hear and he looked at me and he says yeah I said well here's a bobcat here's a fox here's supposedly a mountain line I said no listen to this again
Starting point is 00:36:33 and it was supposedly a bigfoot screen. And he said, that sounds like what we used to hear. And he said, that's interesting. He said, we all thought it was a panther because they claimed there was a black panther that would run down the hollow behind the property where the chicken houses were. So anyway, that was, you know, that's another older story. but going back to the present,
Starting point is 00:37:08 or the more recent past days, I have a friend who moved into a new subdivision near Kennesaw Mountain. I know a lot of people know where that's at. And at the time, now it's extremely populated. But this was back in the probably mid-80s, maybe late 80s at the most. And he lived in a cul-de-sac, and he bought the end lot, which was, there was a big drop-off down
Starting point is 00:37:46 behind it that went to a creek. And they were, the only big separated them from, from Kennesaw Mountain was the main road that went in there. You could see it from the back of his property. So if you were to walk down that hill through that hollow and up it, you'd cross the road and you would be at Kennesaw Mountain property, actual location. So he calls me, and I hadn't heard from while, and he said, hey, he said, he knew I was in law enforcement. He says, do you know anything about any reports of any? just this is what he said
Starting point is 00:38:30 just big coyotes and I said what do you mean and he said well he said we get a lot of deer
Starting point is 00:38:41 that just congregate in our cul-de-sac and he said they'll just stay in the round there and said I've heard coyotes and he's a big deer
Starting point is 00:38:50 hunter and he said I know I've heard coyote calls and he says I think they're scared and they're scared and they're
Starting point is 00:38:58 to our cul-de-sac and he said sometimes I'll look at there and there's a dozen of them. And, but he said early one of the morning he was on his back deck drinking coffee and there's a stream that runs down that hollow. He said he had to do a double take and rub his eyes and this was his word. He said, I saw the biggest black dog I've ever seen. He said, so I'm just wondering and he says, can you get in touch within your law enforcement contacts or game warden people and see if there's any reports of any oversized coyotes he said he said he said it looked more like a cross between a coyote and a big german shepherd but that it was black and he said i swear it's uh its shoulders for
Starting point is 00:39:53 had to be waist high. And so I talked to a game warden friend of mine. And I told him the story. I even went back and told him, I said, you're going to be crazy. You're going to be crazy about it. I'll tell you the story about what I saw when I was, you know, and I'm in law enforcement. By the now, I'm a criminal investigator.
Starting point is 00:40:15 And so I've sort of progressed. And I said, I know you know I wouldn't lie to you. So here's what happened. and I told him about what my friend saw. And I said, so have you ever heard of anything like that? And he just kind of had this sheepish look, as we say, on his face. And he said, oh, I hear a lot of things, but I don't know anything like that.
Starting point is 00:40:40 And it was just one of those things where I read his body language in the expression on his face. And I sort of got one of those tacit answers. from him, just from his reaction, I think he actually knew something. He probably just couldn't tell me. But anyway, to that end, you know, later on, I just started looking into a lot of the stuff
Starting point is 00:41:09 and researching it on my own and, you know, finding out this and that and determining there was a lot of other sightings and reports. And I guess that's probably the abbreviated story of what happened to me. And if you have any questions about anything, just fire away. That is, that's a fascinating account. Thank you for sharing Rick.
Starting point is 00:41:41 I did want to, so you were in the military and you heard about that account. Yes, the crash, the crash came out. It was in the Army Times. it was in the bulletins that came out. Anytime if you were an active APA or if there was a crash, the report would come out. You'd get the news and then there was, because they always wanted to talk about the findings
Starting point is 00:42:08 and what happened and try to educate you on how to avoid it. So anytime it happened, you would get briefed on it at some point. Now, of course, the details, the other details were left out of the briefing that we got on it. It's just that I
Starting point is 00:42:28 knew that it had happened and when I went to this, the museum up in North Georgia is called Expedition Bigfoot. And I've been up there a few times and told them about my sighting and he said, well, come back here and let me show you something. And the guy's
Starting point is 00:42:46 name's David Piccaro and he's just, he's built this place into a real tourist attraction. And I went back there in this little room and he says, I want you to watch this little video I put together. He's got slides and some a little bit of audio on it. And I said, I heard about that crash. And he even had names or the alleged names of who some of the enlisted people were that were on the site.
Starting point is 00:43:23 when that happened. And there were some, there have been articles that I looked into and said, yeah, so-and-so said it did happen. And later on, no, so-and-so said it didn't happen. I'm sure that they were told to keep their mouths shut. It's just like I got it. I did a little bit of time at Fort Stewart.
Starting point is 00:43:46 And, you know, they call them swamp apes or swamp boogers or stink apes down there. A guy who was in mechanized artillery, he didn't see it himself, but he said, he told me, he said, you know, he said, when he was down there on maneuvers, he said, people would talk about seeing things at Fort Stewart. And that was one of the things that they would report seeing. Another guy that was from Fort Benning talked about seeing what he referred to as a big dog. and I want to say he said it was he said a dog they said can you imagine a dog the size of a Shetland pony so it's not like I didn't hear but of course that like again that's back in the 80s because I was discharged in 85 medically
Starting point is 00:44:39 and then we're talking about you know the the 2000s before I really found a couple of places where I could you know, tell my story without being ridiculed. And then I discovered the museum up there and went and talked with them. And so, yeah, I had heard about this, the incident of the crash long, many years ago. But that's spinning on it about what happened with supposedly some potential big foot Sasquatch, whatever, maybe trying to get the bodies for a meal.
Starting point is 00:45:17 that was news and I just my jaw dropped when I saw that and I told I told David the owner about it and I said I knew about this I said but this part I didn't know and so so yeah I had I had heard about that you know it's really interesting that story is very similar to a story that was shared by a researcher named William Jevenig out in I believe this is near Fort Lewis in Washington. Very similar things would happen out there. And it really makes you wonder, you know, what's going on? I think, yeah, Fort Lewis is apparently Bougar Central. Yeah. From what I've heard. 100%.
Starting point is 00:46:07 100%. Absolutely. Thinking back to what you experienced when you were around, well around 1974 we'll say near the falls near that area from what you saw that night would you be able to categorize it you know sometimes some people describe bigfoot more as an ape or more as a human or more as something like who knows do you have any leanings towards either side from that I remember many times when people would laugh at me and I would just say, okay, listen to me, it wasn't a bear, it wasn't a man, because it did. And I only got, like I said, it was like one and a half, two second glimpse. It was over my shoulder.
Starting point is 00:47:06 It was roughly a 45, maybe 35, 45 degree angle. But as it stepped down, I would refer to. it is it didn't walk it kind of lumbered and I did see an arm swing and it was leaning forward when it stepped down on the road to go forward
Starting point is 00:47:27 it and I go back to the Patterson Gambling film and I've looked at that thing a thousand times I bet and looking at that you know I that is the closest thing
Starting point is 00:47:43 that I can tell you to you know and and i saw it it didn't turn and look but i did see it take that step like that and that's the closest thing i can i can tell you that there might be some resemblance that you can't deny but there's certainly some humanoid resemblance that you can't deny either it's very interesting i'd say it's one of the last great mysteries that we have in this world and I'd be really interesting when that mystery is finally 100% uncovered. Maybe in our lifetime. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:48:28 Well, one of the reasons I wanted to be uncovered in my lifetime is I want to be able to go to a lot of people that said I was crazy and say, okay, look here. It's been proved. I mean, I've got family members like my wife can't. talking about it. It just, you know, we've gotten arguments. She's embarrassed about it, you know. So it's just a poignant contention.
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Starting point is 00:50:23 Yeah, and unfortunately that's a story. I've heard repeated more than a few times as well. You know, you talk about this and it does really affect relationships in your life. But would you say it is worth sharing what happened to you in a public setting, though? Yeah, I went to a couple of the... meetings up there at the museum. I was, I didn't, I didn't quote, have a great deal of time to talk,
Starting point is 00:51:09 but I did just like a couple of minutes, I introduced myself. There was a, they had a program. And I said, you know, I'm from near here in 1974. I gave like a two-minute version of it. So that's the closest I've come to, you know, being in a public place and sharing it, you know, with live people there. And the answer is yes.
Starting point is 00:51:36 I mean, I don't mind talking about it at all. Do you have any thoughts about why this area of Georgia is such a good location for Bigfoot? And there's just so many encounters that happen in the North Georgia area? Farms, deer, and water. in desolate areas. A lot of mountainous wooded. I mean, there are hollows that we had a missing person one time. And I remember we were searching.
Starting point is 00:52:14 We had one of the search team members get lost. And I was in those hollows up there. And this is in the mountains to the west of that area. area and it got dark. And me and one other person, because I was afraid the rest of the team, would get lost. And we had topographical maps and I had experience reading them. I mean, I was no great what you call a pathfinder as the Army has people that can really read those maps. But it got dark.
Starting point is 00:52:52 And I said, me and the other guys said, all right, we had volunteers. that we both get lost. I said, y'all get out of here. You know, take the, take this stream bed. It leads right back to the dirt road, go left, you go back to the highway. We got back in there, and when you get in those hollows, and the sun was still up, but behind the trees, it was dark.
Starting point is 00:53:14 And finally, we found the guy, and then we, I couldn't see the map. Even in the flashlight, it was hard to tell what was what. and so I called on the radio and I asked one of the patrol cars I said hit your siren and take your seal beam headlight and just circle it around
Starting point is 00:53:36 like making a lassie up in the air and he had to do it we would have to walk back toward the I'd have to use the compass and I'd walk back in the direction we came from and finally I got up on top of a big hill and I could hear the siren but I couldn't see the light
Starting point is 00:53:54 and then finally it got closer. Then I could see the light. We came out of there probably 10 o'clock that night. It was like six or seven hours. By the time we left the main group and I set them home to the top, we found that guy. And I'll be honest, you know, I don't know how it went. If we hadn't had somebody up on the main road that could have sort of been a beacon for us,
Starting point is 00:54:19 like a lighthouse. It's desolate. I think desolate is definitely a great. way to put it based on what I've heard from other people. I mean, there's just, you need to be prepared if you go out in this, this like Chattahoochee National Forest area that, hey, it might not just be a half an hour, like have the right survival stuff with you just in case, you know. I know people that's lived in that area, it's one person who's who's lost dogs. They've had dogs go out and not come back and then they've told of other people's dogs that go missing.
Starting point is 00:54:58 And I think that's interesting. And if you don't know, I'm asking, what do you think they are? So, so you're asking me right now and keep in mind, this could totally change. But right now, I think that we are dealing with a physical creature that can leave, footprints and things like that, but, but, but it can do a lot of weird stuff
Starting point is 00:55:29 that science has no idea about how to explain unless you're on the fringe side of science. And, I mean, you look at the animal kingdom. There are animals that can do some really weird stuff.
Starting point is 00:55:45 I mean, look at the platypus, look at the octopus that can camouflage within a second, the echinness, I believe has electrical sensors in its face, snout area. I mean, there's a lot of really weird stuff that's out there in the animal kingdom.
Starting point is 00:56:04 And that's not even, you know, the fish that are at the bottom of the ocean. There's some weird stuff down there too. So I don't think it's out of the ordinary. Now, are there things that, you know, is hard for me to explain? Absolutely. I mean, I find it very, I can't explain how. you know there's a sighting of a big foot in backbone state park in Iowa that was controlling an orb with its hand like I don't know how to explain that so I think well you know my my current definition it may very well change as I go further down this trail but for right now that's what my my thoughts are regarding that so well I was fairly well acquainted with the late great Scott Carpenter and I have two of his books
Starting point is 00:56:56 and that I'm proud to say he autographed for me and I met him up at that museum and I stayed in touch with him and we had a few conversations and I cannot help believe as I'm sort of what you call an amateur Bible ancient history scholar I sort of think everything goes back to Mount Hermon
Starting point is 00:57:22 with the falling angels and the nephalum and hybrids, and I'm not saying these things are nephalum, but if the nephalum existed and they weren't completely eradicated and they interbred with humans, and they, you know, originally the giants were supposed to be, you know,
Starting point is 00:57:46 36 feet tall, tallest trees. And then by the time David slew Goliath, the life with roughly nine feet tall. So with not being able to maintain pure bloodlines and possibly interbreeding with humans and other animals, who's to say that these are not preachers who have characteristics that are so supernatural as you were talking about
Starting point is 00:58:15 the crazy things that science can't describe that they might be able to do. Who's to say that those are not supernatural spiritual qualities from some sort of bloodline that still exists, even though it's many centuries diluted? Oh, absolutely. I can't believe that the phone is still going right now. Usually when we go down this road is when the phone disconnects. It's happened probably about five to seven times so far. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:58:52 No kidding. Every once in a while, there'll be things that'll come up about events and current day that I'm really not going to get into just because, unfortunately, that's the stuff that can get you taken off platforms. But if you are able to look and listen, you could potentially find things that are connected from today, back to that time of history in Mount Hermann and it just it gets very very interesting but listeners want to hear more about that you probably check out a friend of the podcast Tony Merkel with the confessionals he goes crazy to that stuff I love that show I love listen yeah I'll tell you I'll tell you what happened to me about seven or eight years ago I I started having, I will go short of saying there were visions or dreams,
Starting point is 00:59:56 but these ideas that started popping into my head. And I almost feel like it was therapy for me to release because I went down that rabbit hole like a lot of people did. And so I wrote quite a few cryptic stories and a guy on the line narrow, I'm going to try to put him into a book for him, but I did have a guy online. I don't think he's narrating anymore, but all his stories are still up. I probably wrote about two dozen stories
Starting point is 01:00:28 about different kinds of cryptids. And I remember after I wrote the last one, I remember feeling almost kind of like this bird and he'd lifted off of me. And that felt interesting. And I'll tell you something else that happened to me. And I haven't told many people this. Told my brother and a couple of other people.
Starting point is 01:00:58 But not long before I got out law enforcement, I was still working part-time on the weekends and I had taken another job. And I stepped down as an investigator. I was up in the mountains. And I was driving along the main road. And there's this young man. He is walking along.
Starting point is 01:01:23 He's waiting at hitchhiking. He's walking on the side of the road. He's got short, it's January. It's about 28 degrees. The wind's blowing. He's got this little member's only jacket that he's got thrown over his shoulder. And I thought, what the heck? So I called it on the radio description.
Starting point is 01:01:44 I said, hey, buddy, what's going on? You stranded? Oh, no, I'm hitchhiking. I said, where? So he was going to the next city up above, which was about by car, about 15 minutes, but walking, especially since it was up a pill all the way, would take it in my long time. I said, well, hey, let me take you up here to the county line, and I'll call the next county sheriff and see if they could get somebody down here to give you a ride. I said, you don't need that here like this at night.
Starting point is 01:02:16 said, get him here. And I saw, I put him in the back seat. And so I call and I get the next county on the line. And I said, do you have a unit down here? I've got a guy that's out here and he's freezing. And now, this guy didn't even have a bag. It didn't hit me. He didn't have even a little piece of luggage.
Starting point is 01:02:37 And I hope people don't really think I'm strange or stuff follows me around. but I get up to the little roadside park that's right on the county line and I called and I said I got the unit on the line on the card of card frequency and I said hey are you on the way? He said yeah he said I'll be there in 10 minutes or less and so all right I said I'm sitting here waiting on you with this guy
Starting point is 01:03:07 and this guy tells me okay he's got really dark skin he's got dark wavy hair but he's got blue eyes and he's sitting in the back and I said so tell me where you're from he said well I'm from the Caribbean and I think it was Bahamas or something like that
Starting point is 01:03:28 and he said I'm trying to get to this church resort for young people this going on up at such and such church which I'd ever heard of don't even remember the name of it and I said really I said, and you've hitchhiked all the way.
Starting point is 01:03:48 And it still is not in my mind. It was so strange that he didn't have. He had like a little fatty pack thing on. It was a bigger than normal one, if I remember. But no bag he's carrying over his shoulder for spare clothes or anything. So suddenly I look at it. the backseat and I'm asking the work having this spiritual conversation
Starting point is 01:04:16 and all of a sudden his face starts to get a change and his eyes seem to get brighter and he starts saying these strange things like you know I have these strange these strange visions that come into my mind
Starting point is 01:04:33 and these in these you know in these ideas and these feelings and these thoughts and an inner feeling told me, get him out of the car or an inner voice, says, get him out of this car. Now, we're at a roadside park, which, and there's two lanes going south to go to north on this interstate.
Starting point is 01:04:59 And I said, well, listen, in about that time that I was going to open the door, trying to get him outside. I got a radio call, a burglar alarm. had gone off. So I had a real good excuse. I said, look, I can't take you this alarm with me. But I said, stay right here. And I said, I will come back, check on you. And the unit will be here a few minutes. And the guy's babbling on. And I said, hey, we'll go check on and we'll get you where you're going. And I take off to the burglar alarm. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP.
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Starting point is 01:06:54 Sponsored by GSK. So I went right back down the interstate. It took me about two minutes to get to a turnoff. There was not a car that came either way. And I get a call as I turn on the road. Disregard, it was the homeowners came home from vacation trip, the alarm. Everything's okay. So I said 10-4, whipped it around. I said, okay, I'll go back check on this guy. And hopefully the other unit will be there. Because I'm in my mind now. I'm going to get somebody else there.
Starting point is 01:07:38 I want to get another law enforcement officer. And I want to interview this guy and get information if he is and where he's really from, you know. And so no car. Because when I turned off down there, no car had come south, no car he'd go north. I turn around and I go back up there. And I called the Gilbert County unit and I said, hey, are you there yet? No, I'm about four or five minutes out. And so it took me like two minutes to get back up there.
Starting point is 01:08:16 I didn't meet a car. No car coming south. So I pull over. Yeah, it's not there. So I take my spotlight and I look over the edge down the, Down the hill, off the side of the little mountain there, over the guardrail. I go over on the other side of the road where the little, they have like a little pavilion. I look around there and there's no car sitting there.
Starting point is 01:08:41 There's nobody there. The guy's gone. And so when the Gilbert County Unit pulls up, he and I both search and look around. The guy is gone. And I started telling him about it. And, you know, of course, he's kind of looking at me like I've got two heads. And then, and I told him, I said, I had a strange feeling about him. And I kind of went to get him out of the car.
Starting point is 01:09:08 And I said, then I got the call for a burglar along. And that gave me a good excuse to leave him here. And I said, so I saw him. And I asked him, I said, did you beat a car, any kind of a vehicle going north on the way down? No, they're in the road. Because it's about 10 o'clock at night. or maybe even a little bit later, between 10 and 11. And we sat there and talked about it for a minute.
Starting point is 01:09:36 And we couldn't find him. And we just said, he said, all right. He said, I'll look for him on the way up. He said, I know where that church is at. He said, I'll pass it on. I never heard anything back from him about it. Apparently, he never showed up. But I thought, I thought, first thing I thought,
Starting point is 01:09:56 I remember from the Bible sometimes you've entertained angels unawares. Absolutely. Was that an angel or was that something else? Because I have. And so that's been another thing that, but that's been the last strange occurrence that's, that happened to be in my life. And like I said,
Starting point is 01:10:16 and then sometime a few years ago, I wrote, I wrote quite a few stuff about Bigfoot and dogmen and reptilians. And I did a bunch of research. I felt like it was therapy for me to, it was something that I had to do to get some closure on, you know, on what had happened to me,
Starting point is 01:10:39 maybe to validate and speak out somehow through the written word. But anyway, that's that's that. And if there's anything else you want to ask, you know, I'm here. Well, first off, that's, I mean, that last account you gave, of the gentleman in the car, absolutely fascinating. I mean, it really does make you wonder.
Starting point is 01:11:02 It sounds supernatural, and if it was, what side was it on? And those are, I used to be an Uber driver a while back. I had some really weird experiences. Nothing to that effect, but, man,
Starting point is 01:11:16 there's some weird stuff that happens when you're driving around people late at night. It kind of makes you wonder, but is there a place people can read the stories that you've written or Oh yeah, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 01:11:30 It's, there's a channel that was really hot there for a few years and the guy hasn't posted in new stories and close to a year. It's called DMT 666, Dead Man Talking. And I'm under Rico's stories. And I don't know, some of the stuff I've got,
Starting point is 01:11:53 it's been viewed like 30, 40, 50,000 times on there. So everybody says I should write a book, and I keep putting it off. I'm 67. I guess I better do it if I'm going to do it, you know? Yeah, I mean, I would encourage you to do so, and it sounds like you're probably closer to publishing a book than you might realize since you've had things written. But that's cool.
Starting point is 01:12:19 I'll check that out and see if I can find it on that channel. Well, what I can tell you is the first, it's called the, it's called the Hawk 2-9er series, and it's fictitional characters are based on Army Rangers and Delta Special Forces and all that. Okay. And then later on, I have some stuff that veers off into the fantasy supernatural about
Starting point is 01:12:41 angels and vampires and stuff, but that's just kind of something I did later. But the first three stories in particular set the stage for the rest in the series. And the characters are loosely based on, you know, some of it's my background. Some of it's some of the people that I knew. And everybody says they're well-written stories and they enjoy them.
Starting point is 01:13:12 So if you like them, you know, great. As I said, it was therapy for me to write them. Absolutely. And, you know, hopefully through this. all of this people are able to, you know, kind of, it is kind of therapy, if you think about it, to help people work through things. But, Rick, there's one last thing that I want to ask you. This is just kind of a just in case thing. But it's an area that is further west of where you're at. But have you heard of anything happening in, there's like the Johns Mountain Wildlife Area, that whole green space?
Starting point is 01:13:55 space on the northwest corner. Okay. From from Blood Mountain over toward the Alabama line, there's there's
Starting point is 01:14:13 supposed to be some crazy stuff. You know, we had the Blood Mountain Monster when I was a teenager I went to a fair in High Wassey. and I met an artist who had drawn a picture based on what a farmer told them of what looked like a big foot with a pig under each arm, stepping over a fence. And I saw that, and of course, this was after I'd had my experience and I said, where did this come from?
Starting point is 01:14:46 And the artist was like, oh, a farmer told me about this. And this is not too far from that area where this museum's at. and the guy that owns the museum, he says probably about once every week, somebody will come in with a new story or siding for it. But now, I'm not familiar with John's Mountain proper, but there is a bunch of paper company property,
Starting point is 01:15:12 timber that's in the western side, from basically Rome up to the Tennessee and over to the Alabama state line. And if I'm not mistaken, that is the area where the story. I've got a bunch of family in Alabama. They live in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa area. But one of them told me about a hunter told them, it's one of those, somebody told somebody about a farm where supposedly they used to see a white big foot.
Starting point is 01:15:51 And they called it a white bear. and the another guy that I heard online on some site there's actually a group over there that go out and do little mini expeditions and you know you'll see
Starting point is 01:16:09 something on their channel every now and then I can't remember their name but one guy over there he's a hunter he said he said man I saw a werewolf from my dear stand and I ain't been back since and I ain't going back. So, yeah, I've heard things from over there,
Starting point is 01:16:31 and there's a guy over there that I'm Facebook friends with. I grew up working on a farm and claimed that we're around there. I'm sorry. What did you just say? The connection just went weird for a minute. Yeah, there's a, yeah, I'm a Facebook friends with a guy. who grew up on a farm over there in the northwest of Georgia. And he says as a teenager working on a farm,
Starting point is 01:17:04 he said there was a whole family or a whole clan of Bigfoot over there. And he saw a couple of them out when he was working on the farm. So, but yeah, that northwest area of Alabama is active of Georgia, that is. This has been just a really interesting conversation. And Rick, thank you for spending some time. Listeners, if you know anything about, yeah, I've never heard of the Blood Mountain Monster before, but I'm sure there's some listeners out there that have some accounts as well. Guys, share them in the comments or send me an email.
Starting point is 01:17:43 I'd love to hear more about that because that's something I've never heard of. So very, very interesting. Well, if anybody wants to, has something in my area and they want to talk. talk to me and only go through you to get to me. I have no problem, you know, discussing it with them. You know, I've talked to a few other people. I've been
Starting point is 01:18:04 interviewed before. It's been a few years ago. And I did have a couple people reach out to me and we shared stories, you know, in areas not too far from here. And, you know, I don't live up there. I live, I live well to the
Starting point is 01:18:20 south of, I live in, actually, I live in Canton, Georgia now. I'm only about an hour or so north of Atlanta, but I'm about an hour or so from where these incidents took place now. So, but yeah, I'm not sure how to talk to anybody. I actually kind of, like I said, it's therapy. I actually enjoy talking about it. And if I find out something new, hey, that's just something new.
Starting point is 01:18:48 Well, there you go. I will definitely keep that in mind. And Rick, it's been a pleasure chatting with you. Thank you for sharing all the things you've experienced around North Georgia, sir. And it was great talking to you. And best of luck, if I can ever, you know, provide anything for you in future, I'd love to do it. Awesome. Thank you, Rick.
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