Blurry Creatures - EP: 91 Bigfoot Vs. The Whiffle Ball Bat with The Bean Wizard

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

Tik Tok star 'The Bean Wizard' joins Blurry Creatures for an encounter story unlike any we have heard. A bizarre childhood run-in with a creature in the woods that was so frightening it still haunts him today. What was a giant, jet-black creature doing in the woods behind his friend's house? How did it just disappear? Bigfoot returns to Blurry Creatures as only the big guy can.  Guest: https://www.tiktok.com/@beanwizardofficial contact: [e-mail] blurrycreatures.com Socials instagram.com/blurrycreatures facebook.com/blurrycreatures twitter.com/blurrycreatures Music Kyle Monroe: tinytaperoom.com Aaron Green: https://www.instagram.com/aaronkgreen/ Mastering: ironwingstudios.com Outro Song: TimeCop1983: timecop1983.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's RUFF Greens.com discount code blurry. Rough Greens makes any dog food better. Because my heart's raised, you know, and I see that's when I see the back of the thing. his head just like wandering through that vegetation. And then when I turn and look, that's when he hands me into the old football bat. And then he's like, okay, we got to do this. You know, like I have a cross from my stick. The Lord will protect us.

And then he just takes off down the hill. And I was like, all right. And then that's when I turn and I don't see him, you know. And it's just gone. Like, just gone. Just gone. All right. Welcome back to blur your creatures.

just had some wild shows lately. True. We have. We're on text threads with Tim Alberino. We're going to be doing an event in Nashville. And we talked to Micah about seeing angels. Talk to Doug Hamp about Nephilim and Hentimes. It just gets blurrier.

All that stuff's coming down the pipe. I want to say this, Luke, that we had multiple members encounters. We had a member talk about a rake and the member talked about the little people. And a member was friends with Micah. So the cool thing about the member space, if you want to join the members, is if you get access to, you know, us in the community and you can make recommendations. And all I have to say is members really influence the shows of lately. Yeah.

You know, you get to talk to the legendary, the incomparable Dr. Jed Burton, who frequents the members only Facebook and even guys like our friend Ryan Barrett who helped us track down an essay about a temple in Tennessee. You've got a great community of people that are, you know, very open-minded, very interested in asking the weird questions and the hard questions. We're here, Nate, we just ask questions. A couple dummies asking questions. I think we say this every episode.

Yeah, yeah. Just trying to find out where the truth is and talk about some of the things people don't want to talk about or make some uncomfortable. And that's where we are. This isn't a... Yeah, this isn't a theology podcast. Yeah, we get ourselves into trouble a little bit

because it's like, I mean, obviously you develop a relationship with whoever's podcasting and you get to know them from a distance in your own way. I've listened to podcasts and you develop. kind of a para, what is it called a para-something relationship? Paranormal? Yeah. The history of our earth is so different from what we can imagine. The Smithsonian that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere was to go get it.

I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right to bust the paradigm, it all goes back to the fallen chair. And the problem with the modern day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural. This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Herman event. And this guy defects from the kingdom. That's a big deal. Did you eat some beans and get ready for this one? Not only did I eat beans.

I brought my hat. I designed the Bean Wizard. Yes. Welcome to blurry creatures, Justin. Straight out of TikTok as the Bean Wizard. That's right. Yeah. Wow.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for having you. Tell us about it because some of us, including me, don't have TikTok, but I do have Google, so I looked you up.

You have your shirt off in a lot of videos, so I don't think this is all weird that you have your shirt off at this point. So I'm feeling like Nate needs to take his off as well. It's a little cold in my house. I'm going to say that. I might. I might.

This is great. Well, tell us about the Bean Wizard. Yeah, so my wife and I, we started dating. She was really good at TikTok. She's really funny. So we were married, and it was in the spring of last year, and we opened up our dumpster, and there were raccoons, like three of them just chilling in there.

And, you know, they look at me with these rabid eyes, and I'm like, oh, so I run away, and it was like raining, and I find the stick, and I'm hiking up the hill, and I'm, like, walking. I'm like, get his eye, the bean, whiz. don't be wearing the raccoons, you'll be fine. You know, something to that effect. And it just took off.

Well, even before that, we had a video where I'm literally in my underwear, and I asked my wife if she wants some beans. And that hit like 27 million views on TikTok. And yeah, no, not even kidding. You know, you know the drummer of Motley Crew, Tommy Lee? Yeah, I've heard of him. Yeah, yeah. His wife, his wife,

commented on a video like it's it's crazy like all these people just jumped on they're like oh my word he looks so funny and it just took off you have to do a voice came in now you have you have to say welcome to blurry creatures and so you can go in the intro and your bean voice welcome to blurry creatures is I the bean wizard this is great this is this is already tracking to be one of my favorite episodes we've done last episode we did with judd burton sang the lonely mountain from Tolkien. Oh my words. Yeah, Dr. Judd sang for us.

There's a high bar. There's a very high bar, Justin. So we have Dr. Judd singing Tolkien songs, and now we have the Bean Wizard on. I mean, it's just, you have 600,000 followers now? Yeah, we're pretty close to it. We have 590,000 followers.

Dang. That's what we need to do, Luke. It's all suitable for work content. This isn't like you doing. Yeah, this is no. I mean, there's one. where I'm literally in our bedroom and I'm fighting with the sword and it's like two in the morning and I'm in my underwear. But, you know, it's all covered up.

There's nothing. It's good. It's a family show. So I'm glad to hear that. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's a few ones where I do swear. I'm not like bad. You guys, you and your wife look like you have a lot of fun.

I thought this would be a fun episode to do. Yeah. You guys just, you put out that vibe. And I think that's a big part of life. It's just playing. Having fun. It's amazing because she, she's she's incredible uh she's not only is she beautiful she is so so funny and just really like

caring and kind and she just really takes care of us as a family and i'm just really blessed to have her as a wife and i love her deeply and the biggest thing is that these are all her ideas like i'm just a conduit of her so like you know i i think i should get off and she should come on and talk you know like that's literally it is. It's just what she does. And she just is like the brains behind it all. Like I'll be like, hey, we should do this in a video. And it'll bomb.

And then she's like, why don't we do this? And it like goes viral. I'm like, that's incredible. Like, how do you know these things? You know? Yeah. It's a wonderful thing. And so we really feed off of each other too.

You know, it's, it's really good. I'm happy. I'm very happy. Well, dude, we love it, man. Yeah, you just get a vibe, and we get a lot of people who have experiences. And yours sounded like straight out of like the goonies, you and your buddy. Oh, yeah. Were kids riding your BMXs or something?

Yeah. No. Yeah, so I'll just, I'll go into it. Yeah. Wait, way, way, way, wait, wait. Before we get into your story, that sounds like rad from the 80s. Nate, can we just improperly do this with, well, yeah. Well, yeah, his story is about Bigfoot.

Justin, I'm saying, so let's ask for what he... Justin. Yes. The being, in your bean wizard voice, what do you, what do your thoughts on Bigfoot?

Give it to us. My thoughts on Bigfoot, I believe that he is an inherently interdimensional creature that can be used by other beings. Um, some may be used for good, other for mouse intentions,

but don't be wary. I, I do believe that if they are seen, they are very, very, very, very terrifying. Dude, I like the be, I like the bean and beans there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a, there's a, there's a blurry line. Yeah, right? Sometimes our show gets real serious, Justin, so it's fun to like, yeah, the content is great.

The content is serious, but it's sometimes it's good to laugh. It is. I'm going to be honest with you guys. So even before I go on my story, I, I just want to thank you to, first of all, because, you guys are amazing and you've really actually like pushed me in my faith to like look a little deeper and be like okay like what is this really about you know i've had all these questions and you know of course when i get to the story it i'll you know it'll make more sense but i've had a lot of questions as to why i didn't really think that others thought like i did who were believers and

you know i find the show and i'm just like blown away i listened to like the first like 50 episodes like within like, you know, two weeks because I was doing roadside crew work. I was like flipping signs from slow to stop. And so I was just out there just like pumping out episodes. And there are times where I was like, oh my gosh, like I would get chills. I'd cry, I'd laugh. They're like, what's wrong with this guy's here? Okay. Like, you know, and I was just like, the blurry creatures, man, the blurry creatures, you know.

That's awesome. It is. Surprised you could still tolerate our voices here in real time. I love your voices in real time. smooth and silky it's right baby that's right those dulcet tones Nathan I know we gotta I can do a Yoda that's the only voice I can do you know

I like to just your normal voice Nate for being honest all right and sometimes you're excited voice and you get up an octave and you're just really you're really juicing heart that's uh it does I like that one as well the juice is what keeps from going man you know dude dude he lives for the juice Justin this is the truth yeah

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I mean a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar. Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar. Have a break. Have a Kit Kat. It's a crazy thing that happens here. I mean, I know Nate and I've said it 100, maybe now a thousand times, but like, I don't think we ever really set out. to do whatever it is we're doing now. I was telling somebody this yesterday, Nate,

and I was having coffee with my buddy Caleb, and we were talking, he was asking about the podcast because he wasn't familiar. I was telling him that, like, really what happened is that, for my end, Nate, I had this, it on my list last year that I wanted to do a podcast again. And then for whatever reason,

the Twitter stars aligned, and we talked about Bigfoot. And then here we are now more than a year, about a year later I don't know how much time has it been more than the year? We're going to two years. Maybe I'm not,

that wasn't last year before because everything seems the same the last, like last two years it seemed like 10 because this world's upside down. But like it's, it's wild because it was just, you know,

I kind of just wanted this creative outlet and, you know, I had known Nate in our circles from, you know, from 15 years ago, probably right? Oh, wow. All the, all the, all the, all the Sherwood and,

yeah, and blurry lines crossed. And, and here we are and it's been it's funny you say that because it's been really i think we talk about this a lot but it's been encouraging for like my faith too to kind of dive into these things like oh for sure you know because i think a lot of people are curious there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense and and you know we're just a couple dummies asking questions and asking for stories and that's yeah and here we are and you've got a you've got a

story man and we're just we're happy to have you man it's great to have you on the show i'm so happy to be here. Yeah, Justin, did you get to tell us your proper thoughts on Bigfoot? Oh, no. So, like, for me, like, I definitely believe that it's real. For me, like, what I, what I think, I think it can be like a both. I remember in some of your podcast, you've had people say, like, they think it's either one thing or the other thing or both. And I saw on the lines of it's both. I think it's a creature that is something that we haven't discovered yet. And I also think it is an interdimensional being that can be, you know, years that comes in and out, you know, um, because, I've listened to a lot of other stuff too where they talk about seeing Bigfoot and then just

it's gone you know and that's like okay you know what the heck like what that's wild like and that's kind of how my story is a little bit and it just it it makes sense because I have no that explanation for it you know yeah I think it's real it has to be you know there's so much out there that we don't know about and it's just why not you know and like there are there creatures that we've never seen before. But, you know, like, what is it? In the rainforest, they find, like, I think it's like, you know, hundreds of new species every day, you know,

because the things are just getting on Earth. So why isn't it, you know, far-fetched for Bigfoot, you know? Yeah, I like what you're saying, though. Yes, yes, and is an interesting answer. And, like, not, and I think it's a good answer in some ways, too, because we have all the physical evidence that would, that would take it away from being, like, something, maybe fully supernatural.

We haven't talked about this in a hot minute, but we walked through the first 15 episodes or so. We're all about Bigfoot. Yeah. And you know, you get guys like Dr. Meldrum, who collects all of this physical evidence. So there's this interaction with the physical world,

but there's also all the weird stuff, like, you know, disappearing and people shooting it with a shotgun and then not being there. And then you get all that weird, which I think with the Bigfoot community, calls like the woo right is that right mate yeah yeah it's like that one guy who had the sierra sounds you guys had on here and he was he was he was he was super spiritual and he and he said like i do think it is this you know and i'd never really thought of that before and i was like yeah

and the more i listen the more i'm like it can be both you know yeah yeah if you listen to enough bigfoot stories over time yeah you can't help but expand your paradigm of what you think it is. Exactly. And I think if you hop in, yeah, there's a lot of Bigfoot purists. It's really weird. It is. A lot of purists in any niche, in any niche belief or market, there are those groups of purists who want it to be, you know, is just a very simple explanation. This is what it is. Yeah. They want it to be black or white, you know, no gray. And I think that they're in a world today, that there, there can be gray in some areas. You know, and I definitely think the Crypto Zoology world is a very gray area and I think it's okay.

And so I think for those who are like, yeah, it's both. I think that's a good place to be, you know, as long as you're not discrediting it, because I just think there's so much, like, there's so many accounts and there's so much there that you can't say it's not real. You know, it's funny. My dad was a singer and he, like, recorded a CD when I was like seven and he's saying a song on there about Bigfoot not being real and aliens, you know, and I just think about that now. And I asked, I was like, what do you think about it? He's like, I don't know, maybe,

you know, and so it's like, as years gone on, even him, he's like, come to the fact that, hey, it might be, you know, so. Yeah. Well, well, we'll give us a little rundown of your story. You're a kid and you, not only do you have thoughts on Bigfoot, you basically seen the thing. Yeah. So where I was living at the time, I lived in a town called Jaffrey. And Jeffrey is famous for two things. Their wonderful Kimball's ice cream, shout out to Kimball's, because their Kimball's ice cream has, the fat content is the same amount of fat content that is found in a pound of bacon. And they're like second smallest scoops of ice cream.

So just like the most rich, creamy ice cream you've ever had. And then also Mount Manatanoch is located in Jeffrey as well. And it is the second most climb mountain. and that mountain is the first mountain is a mountain in Fuji I think like a Japan one for like a pilgrimage but they're always like combating for first because they're so climbed and so living in that you know deep woods like area that was just super dense you know you got granite everywhere or the granite state you know you grow up around woods and so I had a best friend who had just moved up the road and you know

I was kind of just like your weird kid I didn't really have a lot of friends and he was like my my first real friend and so we were just hang out all the time and I go up to his house and we're outside playing and you know we would pretend this is when like Lord of the Rings

was kind of big so we're pretending that like the trees are orcs and we're just like hacking and slashing that trees and next thing you know we just hear like and he looks and he looks and he just like takes off running you know and for for a 11 I think I was either 11 or 10 I was a pretty big kid so I couldn't haul like he could but I saw him take off and I just ran and we're

climbing up this hill and it's like you know it's like one of those scenes in the movies where he keeps slipping and you're just like terrified of whatever and so we look back and I just see this thing on two legs just walking through the vegetation and it's it's wild and I'm like, what is that? What, what is that? And like, next thing I know, he hands me like this plastic whistle ball bat and he has like a stick with the cross on it and he's like, the Lord will protect us. And like full foot, he runs down the hill and I fall right after him. We never found the thing, you know? And so like all I can remember it as clear as day, it was just spreading the leaves apart. And it was like something in my mind made me look away because it was like, that's unnatural,

you know and it was like a subconscious thing too because i i had no idea and i'd never seen it and i for the longest time i was like was that a bear and i was like there's no way that i know bears can walk on two legs but like not for that long you know and the more i thought about it it was like the the vegetation was walking through was probably like six feet high we were up on a ledge that was probably like 18 feet that would go down into like little ravine and it was just super at ease just walking like you know a slow lumbered walk and so then the more that i listened to it uh but stories about people that seen i was like i think i yeah i definitely think that i saw something you know and then as i got older come to find out there are sightings of a white

a white saskatch in the area like right where i lived my other neighbor he would go out and he would run every morning and he said he saw something was like tracking him through the woods you know so much so that the local guys in the high school they named their band S-Squatch and they played the talent show, you know, so like living in this area of town, you have like these stories, you know, all within like, it was, so, you know, the lead band member, he lived like, I want to say probably like, you know, not even half a mile away for me. My neighbor lived half a mile.

So we had this little triangle of like a possibility of a Sasquatchual community living there. But it was just crazy, you know. And so it was. It was a profound moment that I have no explanation for other than that, you know, something that was the size of a man, just walking like it was not a man, but it was walking. It was black, coarse, dark hair, and it was daylight, you know, and it wasn't running away. You know, it wasn't like darting off like a bearwood. It was just walking towards you?

No, walking away from us. like, you know, and I, because my friend saw it and he took off and he told me when we got to these like, I saw something. I was like what? And we both look and then that's when we saw it, you know, and so those big eyes that that child like fear, you know, you're just like, oh, man. But then also that bravery that, you know, young boys have to go after it. Yeah, you got onward Christian soldiers, right?

Yeah, yeah. We've got the stick of the Lord, you know. I spent a lot of time with whiffleball bats as a kid, so I know those things are... Yeah. Things will save your life, Lou. They also will hurt real good if you get hit with one. I've been on the receiving end to be a football bat a few times.

Yeah. It's so funny. It's a stinger. Oh, yeah. Well, that's crazy because, you know, I think a lot of times, you know, as a kid, you don't have any context for what you're seeing. And then later, when you get older, the same thing happened to me. I saw a creature as a kid.

And when I got older, I was like, oh, I didn't make that up. And I didn't, that happened because I heard other people who described the same thing, very similar to what you just said. Yeah. And you're just too young to have any awareness of what's happening to you. So yeah, of course you're going to tell yourself it's a bear because that's really all you know. And then later on, you're like, no. That wasn't that. But then right after that, I got launched into like mysteries, like what is out there, you know?

And I would just like go. I remember it being like younger and just walking to my library and picking up books that were just talking about like Bigfoot. I would flip through and find them, you know, the National and Geographic kids, like Bigfoot special ones or the mysterious creatures one. And I would just look through it and it had the, that infamous Peggy one, you know. And then I would go home and my dad would be flipping through the channels and that would pop on. I'm like, well, wait, just let's see this for a second, you know, and we would watch it. you know and that's when i saw the footage of peggy just walking and you know slowly turning over a shoulder and then going off and that like shook me because i was like oh you know now that i

think about it it was probably because that's what i saw you know my mind was like recognizing it and being like whoa like you've seen that before but you don't know what it was until now but you don't know how to like process it you know and it's and it's jet and it's jet black when you see it it's is it in the shadows or is it like is there any sunlight hitting it it is broad daylight the it literally looked like a scene so how it was set up is so he lived on a cul-de-sac and so i would literally bike up these two massive hills i'd walk up them if we're being real um and then i would go down the last hill on my bike and i would just go right up to his house and pop in you know i was like they're like they had four kids i was like their fain i was like they're

fifth one, you know, we were super involved. Like, we're still best friends. We've been best friends for 19, 20 years almost. I would just go over it all the time. And so he lived on this incline that would go down into these woods that were just like magical. I don't even know how to describe it, but to like somebody who is like a newfound best friend not really goes outside, you know, because that was kind of a nerdy kid, you know, I was like one of those who, you know, would cry a lot at certain things because they weren't going my way. You know, I was sensitive, emotional, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Nothing at all.

That's how Nate was. It was. There is no, yeah. Nate's always been an emo kid. That's so funny. I delved in the early 2000s, but mostly, Nate's, you don't change your stripes. Once in an emo band, always in an emo band.

I'm waiting for you to press the eyeliner out for one of these interviews. I haven't started a Sasquatch band yet, though. I mean, Jaffsquatch broke up, so if you want to take it, you should have came in. No, I love it, though. This sounds like, I mean, if you just put this back a few decades, this is like, you know, this is like the 80s golden moment you got, you know, you're hanging out with your best friend. He's got a backyard in the woods. And you think his Sasquatch is probably coming up and watching him and his family and.

Okay. So like I was saying, so the incline. you would go down and it was like this like swamp and we'd do this thing where we had just island hop so we'd find these dry islands in the swamp and we'd hop to them and we'd find our staffs and that was like the best thing because we'd find these sticks and we'd just run through the woods with them and that was like our domain and so we were just down there and literally the war the vegetation was it was all like you know pine needles and leaves and then this one super open heavy vegetation spot and then that's where we saw it walking you know and it was walking away from us how long do you

think that whole encounter was it was probably i want to say it was probably like 20 seconds honestly like from because i i i think he saw more than i did but i've never talked to him about it which is funny and ironic because it you know i didn't really know what to think about it you know and he didn't he wasn't really into that stuff and excuse me yeah you know it was just we were just playing and i think he saw something and he took off running that's why he ran so so fast and then i took up after him you know and it probably lasted 20 seconds you know a good a good 15 of that is me trying to climb that hill as fast as i can then the next five is me looking over my shoulder you know and seeing that last glimpse of that jet blackness and

then him just handing me those sticks and that's going back down you know it's like it was so fast, but it was, it just imprints on you. You know, it, it's something that just carries you for a lifetime. Like I, like I said, I'm 31. This was like almost 20 years ago. Yeah. You know, and I, I remember, I can close my eyes and I can picture it vividly, you know. How tall do you think the thing was? I want to say, so, so, have you guys been watching the new book of Boba? No, okay. Okay. Great show. Um, but. So there's this character in there, and he's a wookie, and it's like this dark black wookie. And that's what it looked like.

You know, it was just jet black hair. I would probably say it was anywhere between six, seven to seven feet. You know, the vegetation, we had to literally just like, you know, when we used our swords, our staffs, we just cut it down. It was towering over us, it felt like, you know. It was probably a good, like, I want to say anywhere between four to five feet. And when we got up to that hill and the overlook of it, it was just like just, you know, walking through it like, you know, you wade through water. So you could see it inside the marsh. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, it was. So the swamp was there. And then that vegetation because it was so, there was so much water there would grow. And the sunlight hit it perfectly. So when you had asked if it was dark or shadow, no, it was just bright as day. You know, it was a crisp like spring day. The weekend, you know, it was like in the afternoon, probably around like right after lunchtime.

And it was, there was no, there's no way that it could be a shadow or anything else, you know, and it was just walking through the vegetation. Like, it was nothing. And then, you see its face? No, I just saw the back of its head. Did you just smell anything? Sometimes people say they smell stuff. So I didn't, I didn't smell anything at all.

I just, from what I saw in my friend's eyes, I knew that it was unnatural. Like now that I looked back at it and I remember his face, his mouth, he's seeing stuff, you know, like his mouth dropped though. You know, and it was like one of those where, you know, you just take off for fear of your life. And then you chased after it, though. That doesn't happen in the story very much. No. And I don't know why we did.

He did. I kind of like, you know, I kind of slipped down the hill on my butt. Yeah. Well, we, so we had also done this thing where we, we became blood brothers that summer, too. And so we didn't do the whole cutting of hands. We like, picked the scab and then exchange blood on that. You know, and so we have this like bond. And like, I was like, okay, like, I, you know, I grew up in a family. I only have two sisters, you know, and I always wanted a brother. And he, he was that to me. And so he goes down, I'm like, let's do this. You know, plus he's my only best friend. So if anything happens to him, you know, I'm out, I'm out of best friend. I was like, well, where he goes to I go, I guess. And we just follow him. And then, you know, that's where that whole interdimensional thing comes from because it was gone. You know, he grew up in a family of hunters and trackers and you tried tracking the thing and nothing. Just to get the, just to get the full story.

So you, you like run up the hill initially and you said you were slipping him as you're going up the hill. And then he looks at you, you hands you the wiffle ball bat and then you go back at it. Can you see it at the moment you turn back around and then you go back down the hill? Yeah. So when I go, when I turn and look over my shoulder, because I'm, so I'm facing him and he's looking behind me and my back's to the creature, right? And that's when he takes off because I can't see anything at this point. I run up the hill, fall down, you know, trying to get up, whatever.

And then I look over when I get to the top because my heart's racing. And I see, that's when I see the back of the thing's head just like wandering through that vegetation. And then when I turn and look, that's when he hands me in the little football bat. And then he's like, okay, we got to do this. You know, like,

I have a cross from my stick. The Lord will protect us. And then he just takes off down the hill. And I was like, all right. And then that's when I turned and I don't see him, you know, and it's just gone.

Like, just gone, you know? And so we run, we run through that. And then we go out to the open. And then so past that vegetation, there was like a trail that went. And,

then just open, like open woods, like perfect hunting grounds, basically, and nothing, nothing whatsoever. And, wow. This is wild. So wild. No footprints or anything? Nothing. You know, you'd think because of the vegetation and it was a little wet there and stuff,

I just think it was newly spring, you know, there would be mud and stuff, but it was just covered by the pine needles because it was just an old, like one of those old ancient forest type things. And there's just so much. and we didn't get any footprints. We saw the broken down parts of it and whatnot, but like that was about it. You know,

we followed that little trail, because there was only like a little part that he had gone through. No broken trees or upside down trees. We didn't even hear any of the, you know, when they bang the sticks together to let them know they're there, like, you know,

like nothing like that. No mat, no mat money maker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you, I mean,

it has have a lot of this, you were talking about granite. and mountains and forest and water. Yeah. This is like the missing 411 ingredients. It's a woodsy. Yeah, no, super wuzzy. Like, so.

Were there rocks around that they could walk on? No. So, so it was, it wasn't a lot of rocks there. There were some big rocks that we had found because we spent like the next summers of our lives just exploring that place. And that was super fun. That was like a super amazing part of my childhood is just going out and just doing that. Yeah, you guys had the, you guys had the Calvin and Hobbs like woods in your backyard.

Oh, for real. It was. It's awesome. It was amazing. I think that, you know, if any, if any kid should have an opportunity like that, they should take it because it's awesome. And it just, it helped, I think it helped us and helped me just really, like, become more of who I was, you know, especially because I love exploring. I love, like, mysteries and stuff like that. And, you know, if I had been, you know, just sitting in my, you know,

basement all summer long playing Legos, you know, and whatnot, you know, like, not that that's bad, I still play Legos, but, you know, what, what would that look like? I think I'd, that was the birth of, that was the birth of the wizard. Oh, yeah. For sure. For sure, it was. You just traded Legos for beans. I did.

I did. And a cow. Yes. Yes. So I guess, you know, that the question is like as a kid, you know, if you have that terrifying experience. You guys are, has your head on a swivel every time you go back out in the woods from that point on?

No, not at all. Really? Yeah. So the only time that I felt that in pending sense, what I had felt that day and was when it was, I think, like two, either one winter after that, we had gone sledding. And we got lost because we got, we went so deep into the woods. We got lost. And it was getting dark. you know and I was just like oh man like what are we going to do you know and I just remember like my

friend's face seeing that thing knowing that there might be bears and there you know like what I thought was a bear you know was around there and stuff you know that was like the only time but since then no I haven't you know I don't really feel that yeah you know oftentimes people see the bigfoot creature and they kind of have a bad they start have a bad experience and then it kind of ruins their space. Hunters will quit hunting and people will never go back into the woods again because they have this terrifying encounter. So of all the encounters, it sounds like a good one, to be honest.

Yeah. It's not something that left an emotional scar on you. No. I think the thing was is that what was it doing? You know, that's what I want to know. And was it just knowing that we weren't a threat or was it just like knowing that it wasn't it didn't want to be bothered with us like it's just so i just think about that you know because what was it doing there you know like well why in new hampshire of all the places and

to me it's just it's just crazy because you know you live in a small town you know you hear things here and there but like as you get older you realize like where where i live is just wild i actually live not not even like six minutes away from a lake called Dublin lake which is 100 feet deep and there's a, there's a creature that lives in there, that there's a legend of this diver back in, and I want to say the early 80s, he went diving and he got separated.

And this thing took him under this caverns, and he was missing for three days and he comes up out of the water. And these kids find him wandering the woods naked and just slurring his words crazy, lost his mind. And this is like, this is literally five minutes away from where I live. And it's this lake. the lake I could swim across it. It's not even that big, but it's a hundred feet deep. Like,

it's wild. It's so crazy because I'm surrounded by these things that I had no idea about. You know, and so like credit to blurry creatures for making me be like, okay, like, if people are like thinking like this, then what, what am I surrounded by? Yeah, it makes you, makes you wonder, like a lot of these places they have concentration of creatures and other things. Like there could be some sort of, I mean, we're some of the other ancient mound builders in the area. Who knows? You know, who knows what there could be something buried there? You never know.

You never know. Like, it makes you think, like, why and what? And what, what came? What came before all this? And what transpired in this land before civilization was there. Before the bean wizard? Yeah, before the bean wizard, you know, before the bean, era of time, you know.

B.E. Before being Woods or whatever. Or BW. You know, but it boggles my mind. Like my wife, she is from a town further near Vermont. There's a place called Bells Falls, Vermont,

and they have found and there's a river that runs through called the Connecticut River. And in that river, they found pictographs of ancient murals of drawings on these massive rocks. And you can literally go walk.

I've seen them with my own eyes. You know, when I was asking for my wife's hand in marriage, I took her father up magnet fishing and we went down there and I saw them. And I was just like, oh, why? Like, they're literally right there. Like, you can drive by them, you know? And they're these ancient drawings on these rocks.

Did you add a Justin Love's Hope up there? Just to... I should have. I should have done that. Ironically, actually, when, so my best friend's name is Rob, when he and I, we, we one day, we woke up Saturday at 7 a.m. And we took this trail that went all the way down through the woods. And we went so far into the woods. And we found this cathedral of trees that, like, bend it over.

It was magical. It was like something out of Lord of the Rings. And they were just like creating this canopy. And then we, we carved our names into one tree. And then we went back like five years later because he was moving to California for a little bit. And we found it and the tree was dead. And, you know, he said something really like, you know, emo-ish. And he was like, I guess that means our childhood is dead too, you know?

It was just like, you know. Dude, I love it. I love hearing your story because like I had one of those golden childhood. Yeah. We grew up with my buddy I grew up with across the street. We're still friends. He called me right before this episode started actually. that's amazing and we've been we've been friends since he was three and i know what that's like

and there's something about that nostalgia and you go out you have the woods in your backyard you see this monster creature i mean you really can't ask for anything better as a kid in a childhood experience i mean oh and then you get to go out for the rest of your days as a kid and and try to relive that yeah that magical experience of seeing that creature that's so interesting that you say that because like looking back at it now you know i think that was like uh a back thought in our minds like, hey, if we go out here, we might see this again. You know, we never spoke about it to each other, but I think that was what we were trying to do, you know, because it was just something that we just wanted an explanation for.

And did you hear, did you hear anybody else in the area have any, like, I know you said there was like the, you know, all those, the other legends in town and there was the band and no one else is no parents. I mean, you didn't know, no parents telling any stories. I mean, obviously this thing's close to your house. Yeah. No. No, nothing. I mean, nothing that I heard of other than those other three accounts, you know, and I mean, that could be because like Northerners and especially New Hampshire rights and whatnot, like, you know, we're pretty rough and gruff people for the most part, you know, I'm not into that category because I'm just a big softie and I have no issue with that at all because, you know, I think it's a good thing. But, you know, the average person that lives up here is kind of rough and gruff. And anything out of the

ordinary, that's not something that they're used to. They're not going to talk about it, you know. Any missing people or anything? Like people going missing in that area when you were a kid? Not that I know of. I'm trying to... Okay. There's no mean ones there.

No, there's no mean ones there. Because that was something like I definitely heard of. Yeah, that I heard on your show where you guys were talking to somebody. I think it was that Canadian guy who was living in the bush. And that's one of my favorite episodes. That's like top five for me because there's that that poem that he wrote in the beginning that he talks. I was like, oh my word. That was one of the moments I teared up actually that podcast.

I teared up because he just was so pure about it. It was amazing. But him talking about them being more northern and how they're nicer, you know. And then if you get south, they get they get rougher. And I think us being up here, you know, is definitely... They're just making syrup and climbing trees. Yeah, they're making syrup and, you know, trying to get... Eating mushrooms.

Yeah, and beans. Lots of beans. Lots of beans. Lots of beans. Well, Justin, dude. Thanks for... Yeah. Thanks for telling us your story, man.

Yeah. No problem. It sounds like a golden, a golden childhood moment, man. Oh, yeah. It was beautiful for sure. I loved it. And you ought to have a Dublin Lake and see if you can find the bottom and then call us back.

We'll see how to... Oh, I will. Yeah. They send people out there and they've, they dive. Like, we see dive teams when we're driving by like three or four days out of the week in the summer, you know. They're looking. They're looking for it.

They're looking for Nessie. Yeah. Makes you wonder, they have like underwater caverns or something. They can go down and hang out in. Nate, do you remember the stuff like from where we grew up? like about Lake Tahoe, how they're supposedly an underwater connection. Have you heard that that whole thing about how there's like a, they believe there's underwater connection to, I forget where to, but supposedly there's stuff on the thermo, the thermocline.

Well, I just think it's so, I think it's so fascinating that, you know, kids grow up in these areas. And now you get older and you, and now we have all this just explosion of information podcast, people can tell stories. Yeah. And you're like, dang, these things are real and they were in my backyard. I was just a kid out there. Nobody told me. Yeah. It's kind of messed up in a way that parents have no idea. Their kids are out playing in the woods. I mean, were there a lot of kids in the woods or was it just kind of you guys? No, I mean, if you're in New Hampshire, like, that's what you do, you know, especially in like the 90s, the millennial, you know, of us.

Like I had another friend who grew up in Harris, though, which is one of the oldest towns in New Hampshire. And we would literally run around the town at nighttime in the summer because I was. That's what we did, you know. And we'd go through the woods. We'd played, like, massive, like, you know, hide-and-seat games, you know, in the woods. Like, that's what you did. You know, we would pack our bags to go on excursions, you know. Like, it was, yeah, a lot of kids just spent time outdoors.

Yeah. Well, Justin, tell our listeners where you can, in your Bean Wizard voice, give us a little plug your. Dude, you don't have to do it in the voice. You can do it. to do it. I will say this. I'm going to shout out to King Harold Carver. You are a faithful and loyal subject. Thank you. Yeah, that's just a friend. His name is Harold, and he watches you guys, and we talk about your podcast. So once he hears that, he's going to freak out. And, you know, I just had to put that in there for all means. but yeah no you can find this that

being wizard official on TikTok same as Instagram also on YouTube we're also going to be doing some merch here pretty soon so that's really cool and yeah that's pretty much it kind of just a little

low key plug you know nothing nothing too big nothing too crazy we'll have to put Luke in a squash suit and do an episode Do a vine. Yeah. TikTok, yeah. Let me know when you start selling

those Bean Wizard hats. I mean, I could make my own here. I got some foil, but I was thinking, man, if it's official, I need an official one. We literally have a, so what we did is we have these hats that we just roll out and we put them in picture frames and I write you a message.

You know, it's like, it's like, oh, adjubilation, thank you for, you know, like something like that. And we send them out to people. We've sold like 25 of them. It's amazing. Oh my gosh. It's incredible.

Let's go. Let's go indeed. We'll definitely do that for you guys. That'd be amazing. I'd love to see it. You got to get Bigfoot in an official video now. Oh, yeah. You're out there.

I have to. For sure. For sure. That's so amazing. But, wow. I love it. Thanks, Justin. Thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah. Thank you guys. I just, I want to encourage you guys too. Like, you guys are amazing. I just want to thank you. I know that it can get hard and, you know, it's definitely something that isn't easy, but I really appreciate both of your tenacity for the uncovering of the truth and matters such as these.

It means a lot. You know, I'm speaking mostly for myself, but also for others too who have that itch for adventure and for understanding more. and you guys do an amazing job. And I really appreciate you guys and you guys mean a lot to me. Oh, man. Thanks, brother. Appreciate that.

You're welcome. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, dude. Yeah, we're super thankful that whatever itch we're scratching is in the right spot. And people are been sending us a lot of love lately, a lot of messages lately. So thank you, man. It's awesome.

It's been a labor of love. And it's finally, I feel like after a couple years, it's finally closing in on 100 episodes. and people are really starting to respond. And we love it. We love doing it. That's so good. Who knew? Yeah, I know.

It's amazing. It's amazing. The big fella. Big fella. Yeah. And you saw him, man. Yeah. I did.

I did. And I think about them, you know. It's never leaves you. Yeah. That's good. You know, just don't lust after him. I don't. Yeah, I know.

You know, I mean. Unless you take your shirt off. He might come out to come at you. Maybe that's why he ran out, because I had a lot of unnatural body hair for an 11-year-old. So, you know, maybe he felt threatened, and that's why he ran. It could have been. That's the TikTok video. You're out there in your underwear looking for beans.

And you got all this body hair, and then you have a hair down with Bigfoot. He looks at you. You look at him. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, man. Maybe he just thought you were like a little person, like a Bigfoot little person, you know? Maybe. And, you know, Nate would have ran it.

Nate would have run into the fray. Yeah, he would have. But this guy was out of there. Yeah. He loves the little people for sure. He sure does. Oh, my word. He does.

He loves him. I love it. Well, everyone out there listening to this podcast, go follow the Bean Wizard official. It'll make you laugh. It'll make you day. Tell your wife, we said hello. Yes. And keep cranking out the hits, man.

Yeah, man, for sure. Well, so good. All right. Well, thanks for coming on, blurry creatures. Yeah, thank you for having me so much. Yeah. Thank you. And stay blurry, my friend.

That is fantastic. You're the first. So you were the first guest that we've allowed to take the honors of rolling us out of rolling us out of the episode. You know, I'm going to say this is when I heard, when I heard that, I love that. That's my favorite part. One of my favorite parts is that phrase. And I was like, I just want to say that one time. You know, and I got it.

Thank you so much. We're making dreams come true here. You are. It's like Disneyland. Yes. It's just a lot hairier. But blurry. I feel like you need to do like a Gandoff quote, too.

I feel like I want a Gandoff quote so bad right now. Well, you know what I say is when sometimes, so I have a wizard hat and I'll put it and I'll be like, a wizard is never like, but he's always on beans, you know, something. It's always on beats. Oh, I love it, dude. It's all you need to be famous. Luke, we're in the wrong business. We're trying to make serious content.

We just need to get a tinfoil hat and make some in a can of beans. There's so much cooler than Mr. Bean, and it's not even close. So, you know, in the bean realm. Yeah. You're number one in our hearts and minds. Oh, right. You guys are making me blush. Thanks, Justin.

Hey, no problem. Thank you guys. You have a wonderful night. I appreciate it. Yeah. You too, man. Bye.