Sasquatch Chronicles - SC EP:1099 The Hood Canal Creature

Episode Date: October 19, 2024

Sid writes "I've been wanting to tell you about an encounter I had when I was in 5th grade (1977). I grew up on Hood canal and one night while walking home from my friend's house, I noticed what I thought was a bush on the side of the road in front of a vacant lot that was filled with small alder trees. I stopped and thought to myself there was never a huck bush there before why is there one there now. I had stopped in the middle of road about 30 to 40 feet away from the "bush".  I was about to take a step towards the "bush" when it stood up and turned and just blasted through the alders on the vacant lot. I instantly started running as fast as my 5th grade legs could carry me toward my house. As I was running away, I could hear this thing crashing through the huck brush etc. going over the hill. The next day I got up and went back up the road to the vacant lot and there was a path through the alders some were bent over and some were broke off. I looked around on the ground and there were some deep impression in the ground but no discernable foot prints. I impressions were about 6 to 7 feet apart. the path of bend and broken trees went from the vacant lot and down over the hill into the heavy huck brush which was all bent over and some was broken off too. My friend's dad who was a Captain in the Navy told me about 25 years later that he had seen a Bigfoot twice once he saw it standing behind his boat at the back of his garage one morning and the second time he said he was driving to go down the hill and saw one by the logging road that went back into the Simpson property where I use to go pick berries with my grandma and play. His encounters were in the early 2000's. I remember when I was really young my grandparents lived at the other end of the road from and my grandma(She was from the Ozarks) would take me out huckleberry and blackberry picking which was just outside of our subdivision on Simpson Lumber land. My grandma would tell me to stick close because she didn't want a booger to get me. She would always have her head on a swivel while we were picking berries, at one point one day she grabbed my hand and we just hustled out of the woods. She never told me why we left so quick especially after we had just started picking berries. When I was older I would go out into the woods and play. I would take my BB gun or my recurve bow and just shoot a random stuff you know stumps fir cones etc. One time I felt like someone was watching me so I stopped and looked around, as you know the huck brush can get really tall. I'm not sure but I swear I saw a head above the huck brush. It didn't register with me until I swept my view back and the head looking silhouette was gone. I live in Kentucky now and two of my neighbors have seen Bigfoot tracks and had rocks thrown at their barn when they would be in the barn working on farm equipment. He actually had a picture of the Bigfoot looking at him from the tree line above the barn. Since I have lived here I have had acorns thrown at me while hunting and the closest oak tree is at least 100 to 150 yds away." https://sasquatchchronicles.com/

On a late November night in 2012, while driving in the foothills of Washington, two brothers were surrounded by mysterious creatures. Still haunted and forever changed, these men took to the internet, creating a forum for others. If you've had an encounter and no one else can help, maybe you can contact Sasquatch Chronicles. It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind, and it either heard me or smelled me, and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up,

and that shocked me. They don't make people that big. The way it moved, almost as if it was gliding across the beach. I've never seen anything move like that in my life. They were screaming at each other in gibberish. It sounded like a language and they were chuntering away back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards. I know what a bear looks like and there is no way on this planet that what I saw were bears.

What is Christ, you're putting in? Jesus Christ, you better. Care? See him. Get somebody out here. What's going on now, sir? That son of a bitch is about six foot nine, I don't know. Do you see him now, sir?

Yes, I'm looking right in any. Uh-uh. This is Nick from Vader, Washington, and you're listening to the best Bigfoot podcast out there, Sasquatch Chronicles. Welcome to the show, everyone. Thanks for being here tonight. Got a great show planned for you. We'll be chatting with Sid. And Sid's originally from Washington, and back in 1977, he had an encounter in the Hood Canal area of Washington. And that whole area up there is pretty notorious for sightings, or at least it used to be. I think that it may have been built up over the years. But Sid's going to come on and share that,

and I'll kind of let him go into it, along with some of the history of his family. If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot me an email. My email address is Wes at Sasquatch Chronicles.com. And if you get a chance to check out Sasquatch Chronicles.com, you can become a member and get additional shows. And I'll be back tomorrow night for the...

the members. Let's jump into it. I want to welcome Sid to the show. Sid, thanks for coming on. Hey, you're welcome. More than happy. Yeah, and this encounter happened to you back in 1977 here in Washington, and it was in the Hood Canal area. If you would, Sid, just kind of start from the very beginning. Tell me how this whole thing started and what happened. What did you end up seeing? So I lived in a subdivision on Hood Canal, and it was the subdivision was on two hills, and it was on the South Shore area. And the closest kid to me was like two miles away by dirt bike. Well, a family moved in on our hill, and they had a young man, a boy, and we became really close friends. And I would go down there, and he would come back down to my house.

like half a tenth of a mile from each other. It was so nice to have somebody there. So I went down there one night and we were hanging out and doing what boys do, teasing his little sister and irritating his older sister. And finally it got dark and I was like, well, I better go home. So I started walking down the road. It's making me shudder a little bit. So I started walking down the road towards my mom and dad's house because they lived

the end of the road and I walked this road I don't know how many millions of times and I'm walking past one of our neighbors houses and next to it was this vacant lot and you know if you have a vacant lot anywhere in Western Washington and don't take care of it alderwood trees start growing up well this thing was full of like inch and a half three inch alderwood trees I could snake through it as a kid, but you know, you couldn't just walk through it. And I'm walking along and all of a sudden I see, I see a bush. It looks like a bush because it's dark and there's no streetlights really. It's just, you know, dark. And I'm like, wait, there's never been a bush there.

Why is there a bush there all of a sudden? And I was, you know, so I started to take a step toward it. And all of a sudden this bush stood up. And I was just like, holy crap. And it turned around and it went blazing through those alder trees. And at the same time, it was blazing through those alder trees. I was like, my feet were on fire and I was racing the 300 yards down the road to my house. And I could hear it crashing through the trees going down over the hill towards the creek. and I got in the house and my mom and dad looked at me and they were like, what's matter?

Oh, I'm nothing because my dad didn't believe in Bigfoot. He grew up in Port Angeles. And he said, there's nothing out in these woods that's going to hurt you. There's no such thing as Bigfoot. So I never, ever, ever, ever said anything about it to him. And then a few years ago, my wife and I were back home. visiting my parents. And we were walking back from my friend's mom and dad's house because we'd go down and visit

them. And I stopped and I told her, I said, I'm going to tell you something. I've never told anybody. And I told her the whole story. And she just stood there and looked at me. And she was like, are you serious? And I'm like, yes. So getting back to 77, I went back to the next morning.

morning and went to that bacon lot. And it looked like a bulldozer had went through those alder trees. Some of them were bent over. Some of them were snapped off. And it went down over the hill and then into the huck brush. And you could see where he went through and he went through a big pot, I mean, a big group of huck brush. And it was just like it had been ran over by it by a car. And I kept that to myself for years and years and years. And then I got to thinking about it when I wrote you about this, it popped in my head. My grandparents lived at the other end of the road opposite us.

And when I was little, my grandma and I used to go out and pick blackberries and huckleberries. And she was from low gap, Arkansas, which is dead center in the Ozark Mountains. And she would always tell me before we started walking up on this logging road, she would say, now you stay close to grandma because I don't want a bugger to get you. You know, a little four or five year old kid to bugger, whatever. Okay. We were back there one day picking, picking berries.

And we hadn't even been doing it for like 10, 15 minutes. And she grabbed my hand and walked me out of there real quick. like, you know, when your mom's pissed and she grabs hold of you by the wrist and drags you out of someplace because you were being a stupid kid, she did the same thing. And we got out on the road and got back in the house. And I never did figure out what it was or why that happened. Then later on, this is after the sighting. I used to go back there and monkey around because it's all on Simpson property.

So you go back there on the old logging roads and be a kid, build forts and do stuff. I used to take my BB gun and my little recurve bow and I'd shoot at cans or, you know, stumps or whatever or pine cones. And I remember one day I was doing it and I stopped because it just felt like somebody was looking. I mean, the hackles on the back of my neck stood up. And I felt like somebody was watching me. And the logging road in this area that I would go back and play went off the main road. And then it did like a square in the middle and then went back into Simpson, Simpson, more Simpson property. And the huck brush, you know how tall huck brush gets when it's just not taking care of or not it just grows wild?

It's like nine feet, eight feet. It's huge. And it's thick as a wall, right? And I remember looking over in the center of the square, and this is probably like five acres of property. And I remember scanning through looking at the bushes. And I didn't realize it when I went past it did my first scan. But something stuck out of my head and stuck out of my mind like a silhouette of a head standing above the huckbrush. And then when it clicked on my head, I scanned back to where I saw it and it was gone.

Well, I beat feet back out and went back to my house that day. So several years later, this is about, it was a couple of years before I told my wife about this. We went home on leave again and I was down there talking to my friend's dad. And he was a naval doctor. He was a captain, so he's an 06. respect the guy. He would talk to me because I was a former military, and we would tell stories back and forth.

And he confided in me one day. He goes, you believe in Bigfoot or Sasquatch? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, Captain, I do. And he goes, well, I saw one. One morning when I went off my porch, so the front of his porch looked out, over a hood canal and at the Olympics. And he was out there drinking a cup of coffee one morning.

And he said he felt like something was watching him. And he turned around and looked over at his garage and had his boat parked back there behind the back of the garage. He said there was one standing right there looking at him. And then it turned around and went down over the hill towards the canal. that would have been, I want to say west. It was looking westward. And then he was driving into town one day, so he was going down to the, going down past where my grandparents used to live.

And that logging road goes back up there. He said he saw one standing on that logging road watching him as he drove by. And I, you know, he's gone. He's passed away. but I never even told him that I'd saw that one that one night because I just I didn't want to share it with anybody. I've kept it in my, under my hat for so long. So I got in the Air Force and I started bouncing around. I was in Germany.

I was in Saudi Arabia for Southern Watt or Operation Desert Storm, then back for Southern Watt and stuff. I got stationed in Georgia. I've been all over the world, Korea, Japan, and then Alaska, and then I moved back here to the lower 48. Currently, we live in Kentucky, and we're, like I said, we're in a real small county in Kentucky on the Ohio River. And you've said this several times when you go into a place like this where it's a country, southern people, until they accept you, they're not going to really talk to you. Well, the people here where we live took us under their wing, like, right away. And we've got really salty there's people that live up here.

And the guy who lived behind me, his property is right against the back of my property. He was talking to me one day, and he goes, in his southern concerns, tucky accent. He goes, you, what do you, have you heard of that Bigfoot thing? You ever talked, you know, do you believe in that? And I'm like, well, yeah, I'm from Washington State. I believe in it. And he was talking to me about how he would go into his barn down here to the northeast of us. And he would, rocks would start hitting the roof of the barn when he would be in there working on his tractor or whatever. And then he came out and he saw a bigfoot standing up the hill on the other side of the pond from his barn. And he took a picture of it. I've seen it. And you can, he had like a,

this bigfoot had like a white patch right just below his collarbone, right, in the center of his chest. And then he showed me a picture of a tree. track line that went from the pond up over the hill behind my house, the back part of the property behind my house, in the snow. And the steps, the strides were like five to six feet between from heel to heel. And another one of the families here that took us under their wing, this gentleman, he was from Boston. He transplanted here. Mary, to a Kentucky lady. He went out bow hunting for the first time, and his wife bought him a bow, because he wanted

to go out bow hunting. And he was over here on his family property, and he stepped through a fence. And when he was stepping through the fence, you push down on one piece of bar bar and then slide through, and you're facing down. He said he got straddled that fence, and he looked down, and there was a big foot track right there. and he looked at it, looked at it, and he stepped back through the fence, looked at his bow, and he never went bow hunting again.

And there was, I started after hearing these stories and seeing the pictures, I did some research, and there was, at one point, I want to say in the, I want to say in the 50s, there was a bigfoot that was raiding farmers, cattle and chickens and pigs. around here and the sheriff formed the posse and they went after it and they never did find it but they chased it all around the county and i've thought oh okay well i'm done i'm not going to see one ever again i'm good so i just go out here on my property and do my thing so one year i was out hunting and i was sitting in a gilly suit leaning up against a tree and i had a crossbow I was sitting out there and I had like three or four doves walking around me.

And all of a sudden, they just alerted. They just walked off. And the next thing I know, I get hit in the head with an acorn. And I'm like, I look up at the tree I'm leaning or I'm sitting under. And it's not a, it's not even a oak tree. It's like a sassafras tree. So it doesn't even have cones or anything. I'm like, I wonder where that came from.

And I thought maybe a squirrel went across because a squirrel would run across the tree line in the back from tree to tree. He might have dropped it. So I thought that's what it was. Well, then I get hit with another one. And then I get hit with another one. And I get hit with another one. And I'm like, okay, I think I'm done hunting for the night. So I walked back in from the back pasture here, back.

to the house and I would walk and stop and turn around and look and walk and stop and turn around and look. But I can't, the only thing I can think of that would have done that would have been another person and there was nobody else up here besides me hunting because it's boces and that all these people around here hunt with rifles. So there was nobody else out there but me. So obviously it must have been my neighbor's friend that was throwing. rocks at his barn is what I figured. Yeah, I hear this often from hunters. When they're out there, you'll often hear them say, you know, I'm sitting in my tree

stand and I'm getting hit with pebbles, but I can't see where the pebbles are coming from or I'm getting hit with acorns, but I can't see where the acorns are coming from. There's no acorns around here. What's weird is with these creatures, they seem to have like amazing aim. which is often reported by eyewitnesses. If it was a human, it's a really bad idea to throw anything at an armed man. You know what I mean? Where I was sitting, the closest bushes to me or cover to me was probably 30, 40 feet away.

And then unless it was laying in the grass, because since that guy had left, they hadn't cut their haze or grass is pretty high. So he could have been squashed down in, or squatched, you could have been squatted down in the, in the grass and tossing them at me. Because there are oak trees. I mean, this, this place is, it's almost like, it's not like hunting in eastern Washington where you're walking around in the ponderosa's and you're walking on pine straw or, and it's not like hunting around in western Washington on the peninsula where you're walking around on moss. It's quiet. You can't still hunt like we do back home, back home in Washington.

You have to sit in a tree stand because this is all deciduous forest. I mean, we have a few cedar trees here and maybe a couple pines once in a while. But for the most part, if you're walking through the woods, you're making more noise than a car, you know, my son. son-in-law driving down the driveway in his diesel truck. And people out west can't figure this. Why do you sit in a tree stand all day? Because I can't walk around in the woods like I used to in Washington. You can't just walk around. I mean, a squirrel sounds like out here in the woods hunting season sounds like two or three deer walking through the woods when he's bouncing through the leaps. And the deer, you can hear the deer coming too until they get out in the field.

and then you can't hear them. But you can hear them walking and around in the woods because they're scuffing their hooves and they're stepping on dry leaves and stuff. But this, I never thought I would find a place other than Washington State that's got undergrowth like this does. And there's stuff out here

that makes devil's club look like nothing. I'm kind of surprised by your father's reaction. You know, he's living at a time. time, you guys were living at a time in the late 70s. This whole area, we're talking Belfare, Port Orchard. It was pretty notorious for sightings. I think even the 911 call comes from that general area that you hear in the intro of my show. And many reports have come out of that area.

It doesn't surprise me at all that you had a run in up there. There have been sightings there. I remember when I was in junior high that somebody had seen one run from there used to be an old sheriff's depot there. And they said that it ran across the road there, went down past the thriftway or the old, yeah, the old thriftway, and down out into the flats. And people tracked it out into the flats of the canal. and then it got in the water and it was gone. Yeah, in that area as well, there's famous cast you can actually buy online. And they're probably some of the nicest casts I've ever seen.

They look very human, but they were actually cast by a sheriff. He went out to this property. There's a little story I won't bore you with it. But he got these casts, and you can actually buy a replica online of these casts or a copy of them. And they're amazing cast. I think they're better than the patty prints. Going back to 77, I realize it's dark and all of this is happening very quickly. But what were some details that stood out to you when this thing stood up in front of you? Well, of course, I couldn't tell if he was dark or if he was black or, you know, that orangutan, reddish color or what,

because at night your vision goes to black and white. So he was really dark. There was no lighting. There was no streetlights. The only street light was at my mom and dad's house, my dad had a mercury vapor light on it at the end of our driveway. So I'm walking down and he stands up. And I mean, at that time I was in fifth grade,

So I was probably four foot five, five foot maybe. And he towered or it towered over me. I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl because it was so dark. I couldn't see that. But I could see, I could kind of see the skin. It kind of, it was like somebody put on black cover over their face. You know, like when you're out doing a night op in the military, they cover their faces in black or camouflage.

It seemed like it was kind of shiny. I knew where the eyes were because they were darker than the rest of the face. All I could see was it looked like, I mean, you could tell there was hair. It was just big and bulky, but details, there was really any details because it was so dark when I started walking back to my house. And I wish I would have, I could see, like I said, I could see the shine off of his face from the skin. That's about it. You had mentioned when he stood up, he towered over you. And obviously you're a kid at this point.

But, you know, compared to like your father, how much, I mean, how much bigger was this thing? He was an easy, he was easily eight and a half. half to nine feet tall because he was at least four feet taller than me and he was standing when he stood up it was there wasn't a real ditch there or anything it was just like a depression from the road down and then it went up on a lot and so he was probably at least nine feet tall because when you stand in that depression at the time it was probably about eight to ten inches down from the from the road plane. So, yeah, he had to have been at least nine feet tall.

I'm just like, I've never ran that fast in my life ever. Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't blame you one bit. I would have ran too. I would have ran as an adult, let alone a kid. You know, it's amazing with their behavior is you hear this a lot from eyewitnesses. And you would think for something as big and as strong as they are, they wouldn't run off like they do.

But yet they do it all the time. I mean, this is something here from my witnesses. And you being a kid at this point, you're obviously no threat. What do you make of that behavior and what do you think it was actually doing? He obviously was just wandering around because there was a lot of where we lived. There was a lot of summer houses. A lot of people had vacate weekend, weekend cabins and stuff like that. Like I said, I was like our family and there was two other families on our hill or three other families on our hill that were full-time residents on the hill.

And on our side of the subdivision, on the other side of the subdivision, there was tons of people. But you could wander around and look at, you know, go wander around on somebody else's house, sit on their deck or something because there was never anybody there. and he was probably wandering around looking for stuff and then of course people you know I used to have to drag the trash all the way out from the house to 100 yards to the end of the road and he might have been looking through that because I remember one time dad came back in or I came back from school because I had to walk up and down that hill to catch the bus the bus wouldn't even come up to hell. So I remember coming home and my dad was all pissed off because something got into the trash.

At that time, we hadn't seen or heard any bears or, you know, anything like that. So it might have been out looking for, I can't remember if it was a trash night or not, but it might have been up there looking for food from somebody's trash. Because if somebody came up on the weekend and they put their trash out by the road, it would sit there until trash day. And I can't remember what trash day was like Tuesday or Wednesday or something. So, you know, he might have been wandering around looking for some free grub. And of course, when he went down over the hill towards the creek, because there was a creek that ran between the two hills. And I remember as a kid, we used to go up, up that creek bed.

I mean, we would try and go to the very end of the creek and find where it started. And you would get back thereaways and you'd start getting into this like medieval-looking forest area. And you just started getting, it'd be like creepy. And we're like, you know, as kids would be like, well, okay, I'm ready. Let's go home. I'm going to go home. I'm hungry. I'm going to go eat.

And, you know, everybody would be, yeah, let's go home. It was just, it was such a cool area to grow up in as a kid because I had total freedom. Once I had a motorcycle, I could go to Shelton on the logging roads and never hit pavement, going down the power lines and stuff like that. I ran into a bear one day when I was out riding my bike or riding my motorcycle around my friend's house. on the other subdivision. Because I got busted once by the cops by riding my dirt bike down the road and they pulled me over. And anyway, we had a lot of different wildlife.

In fact, one night my dad woke me up and you heard this sound like a woman screaming. And he was like, that's a cougar. And I'm like, what? It sounds like a woman screaming, dad. And he's like, no, that's a cougar. She was walking down the street. She was in heat. She was walking down the street looking for a cougar.

walking down the street looking for a partner and screaming. And we have the fishing game guys here in Kentucky. Oh, there's no cougars here. Well, tell that to my neighbors and me because we found tracks of the cougar coming up here in between our properties. One thing about my neighbor, he had a nice garden. And I've tried to duplicate it, but I could never do it. he would take like tomatoes and put him on his front porch on the railing.

And he would come out in the morning and all the tomatoes would be gone. They wouldn't be ate up or, you know, laying on the ground destroyed because raccoons or possums, they would take them and they'd just lay them, sit on the ground and eat them and leave what they left. He would go out there and all the tomatoes would be gone. none would be on the ground there'd be nothing there um he would go out to go like pick watermelons and the watermelons would be gone this place around here in northern central kentucky it is some really thick stuff and it is it's like parts of western washington

you know nobody's ever touched it with their hands or stepped on it i mean coming up our hill to our house, there's what we call an Indian tree marker where the Indians, the Shawnee, I think used to run around in this area. They tie two limbs together, last two limbs together and make like a doorway. And that was the trail. That's how they would follow trails from one place to another, mark their trails. And this was the neighbor in Kentucky, the one that got a picture of one with the white patch. Yeah, so my neighbor down here, down here, well, he used to live back here. He's gone now. But yeah, his property butts up against the back of my property. And yeah, he would always have a garden and he would have,

my wife reminded me to tell you that, is that he would have tomatoes or some, you know, squash or something sitting on the front porch along on the railing of his porch and come out and they'd all be gone. And like I said, there wouldn't be any, like a raccoon will come up and just ravage everything. They'll go out and take a bite out of every ear of corn on a stock or on your corn. But they won't eat at all. They'll just take a bite out of it and move on to the next one. Or they'll dig around in your garden and root up all your stuff or they'll eat your melons or, but they'll just, and even a turkey, a wild turkey, you'll get in your garden and he'll peck holes in your in your watermelons and just get some, get what he wants out of it and then

move on. but there was never, never any evidence of anything eating it there. Makes me wonder why he would leave it up on the railing, you know, on his front porch, because he had seen the creature before. You'll often hear of people in the country do this, and they're doing it so that the, the creatures leave their garden alone. They'll actually pull, either they'll set up another garden that's separate from theirs, or they'll pull food aside and kind of put it in an area where,

these things will take it. It's just kind of suspicious behavior. Why do you think he was doing that? Well, the reason he told me he would put him up there is he would pick some and they wouldn't be quite ripe. So he'd put them on the railing, let him sit in the sun and ripen up a little more. That's what he would do. I think he would leave some of them in his garden so that they would get to it and eat that.

But they would like, oh, look, free tomatoes. See you later. Thanks. walk off with all his tomatoes something would um i came home one day one of my garbage cans was open and the garbage bags were gone and i'm like what the hell and i walked um i walked to the south side of the property because you could see where something would walk through the grass the hay and i walked down in the woods and i found the garbage bags down in the woods and they had you know, like somebody tore them open and was taking stuff out and just throwing it on the ground and digging for stuff.

That was something that happened here to us. And like the cows, I have protein stock feed for them. And it's got molasses and corn and oats and stuff like that. I went out to the shed one day. The lid to one of the bins was taken off. And it's a latch lid. It's a garbage can. with a latch lid, so you have to unlatch it to get into it. I went out there, and the lid was sitting on top of the lawnmower, the zero-turned lawnmower, and you could see where somebody, something had scooped out a bunch of the feed, and then just walked out. You could see the trail of feed, and it was going back down in the woods over here to the south of the house. You know, I was interviewing this guy yesterday, and his property actually butts up to the Olympic National Forest. And in the last 10 years, I mean, this guy really does live in the middle of nowhere.

But in the last 10 years, he's seen these creatures. He's seen different ones probably three times. But he goes, you'll hear them all the time. And one night he was actually in bed and his dog was kind of going nuts. And on his property, instead of a garbage can, he actually has like a dumpster you would see at an apartment building. He'd put a couch in there. He'd put a bunch of other things in there that he was going to take to the dump. And it was pretty much full.

And this particular night, his dog was going crazy. And he figured he's gotten to the point now in the last 10 years to where he knows they're on the property. But he didn't really hear anything. Well, the next morning he goes out and he goes, you know, everything in that dumpster was not only pulled out, but it was like neatly put in, like organized. And he goes, it was the weirdest thing. And there was actually tracks he sent me pictures of around that dumpster, but he was saying they pulled everything out. He thinks it was them anyway. And they neatly stacked it. I mean, in a way that was like someone who has obsessive compulsive disorder, you know, it was like that.

I mean, I pulled a couch out at the middle of the night. There are some big items in there that they pulled out. And, you know, with the track evidence, obviously I think it was them. Plus, too, this guy, like, lives in the middle of nowhere. I don't know who would be out there in the middle of the night on this guy's property to pull everything out of his dumpster and neatly stack it like a crackhead. It's weird. You know, I ask everyone on the show, what do you think Sasquatch is?

What's your take, Sid? Well, I don't buy into the dimensional creature, you know, going open up portals and going through portals. My wife, she does. She thinks that they might be able to do that. But I don't think that. I think they're a living creature just like my cows that are out in the pasture. You know, they're an animal that's been here for most. millennia, you know. And if you think about it, you and I grow up in Washington State, so you have all the

Schoomish and the Issaquah Indians and the Walla Walla Indians. And they've had them, they've known about them for years. Even the Sioux and the Nespers had dealt with them. And then the, I think it was payutes down in Lovelock, Lovelock Canyon and had to deal with the red-headed ones. I think they're just a regular animal or being that's just like any other animal or being on this planet. Because there's stuff, I just heard something the other day that we've only mapped like a tenth of the ocean floor. There's stuff out in the ocean we don't even know that's out there, just in the ocean. And there's places in Washington State that I know for a fact other than Native Americans, no Caucasian or white man has ever touched growing up out there.

Like my dad from Port Angeles, he used to go up to Hurricane Ridge all the time as a kid and camp with his friends and do stuff like that and that's where they hunted. And but he just, he, nah, that's just, you know, he got an old World War II vet. And he's like, ah, that's bullshit. You know, it's all bullshit. But that's just the way he was. My grandma grew up in the Ozarks. She was about five foot nothing.

And we go back to the go back there every once in a while for family reunions. And family will talk about the time that grandma, when she was 14 or 15, she'd a bear off the front porch with a broom. So she wasn't. afraid of anything. So to me, when she drugged me out of the woods, basically, spilling berries and stuff all the way, I didn't know what was going on. It was just like a five-year-old, four-year-old kid at that time. But I remember her saying, stick close to me because I don't want a booger to get you. And they talk about the family back in the Ozarks, they still talk about boogers.

They talk about booger this and booger that, you know. And it's, It's really weird. To me, at that age, I didn't understand what was going on, but as a five-year-old kid, you don't understand that stuff. And ever since I saw the Patty film as a kid growing up, I've always been intrigued by it. And I was like, wow, this is, that's something that's interesting. It's got to be, with all the history that we have from the natives, Native Americans, it's got to be a creature that's been here forever.

I mean, I'm not so sure about the Yowie, because everything in Australia is, there's a lot of different things in Australia, but I believe in the Almistee and the Yeti and the Alma and all those things over in Asia, because there's places there. Once again, no person has ever touched, but maybe native persons.

you know and it's not like you go there's places around here dude there's haulers i i even started talking like these people there's hollers around here that people don't even go into and like you've said a million times on different shows they got bugger hauler and you got devil's canyon and you've got they got these names for a reason and it's not because people just said oh let's you know let's name it devil this or burger that But I think it's just a natural animal or being that has been here forever. Just, you know, it came along with us. One of the things that you've talked about, too, in the past is Europe.

They had trolls and giants and stuff like that there, the old fairy tales. Most fairy tales or legends are built on some part of truth. Yeah, it's kind of hard to know what they are. I assure you the YOWI is alive and well in Australia. Their reports are way too consistent. And it actually started, I think the Yowie started with the Aboriginals, which date back much longer than our Native Americans. But, you know, I've never been there, but here I'm talking like I have a garage in Australia where I have one. But the reports themselves are very consistent. and I think that it is very much alive and well. And I'm kind of glad that you mentioned your grandmother was from the South because we don't

really use that term here in the Pacific Northwest or you rarely ever hear of boogers. But in the South, you'll definitely hear that term thrown around a lot. So kind of in your mindset, are you thinking it's like some sort of non-human primate we just haven't caught up with yet? I don't know, because Dr. Melgren, or who was it? Who is it, did the DNA? It wasn't Meldron, was it? Yeah, you're thinking of Dr. Ketchum.

Dr. Ketchum, did the DNA, and there's human and primate involved in it. There's some human DNA. And so it might be something that we branched off of in our adaptations as human beings to become what we are now. And they just stayed the way they were. And then like you've said too, we're pack animals, dude. We're we hunting packs. And there's nothing that nothing in the world that can stand up to a pack.

So that's why they stay away from us because they know we can destroy them. So I just, it's, that's the only thing I can think of. My wife will tell, will tell you, I think that they can, they can open up portals or, you know, and bounce around. So. Yeah, and I respect the way you feel. It's hard to really know what they are and no one really knows. You know, sometimes when people get into portals and I can see how they lose a lot of people when they talk that way. Some people kind of lack the ability to present something to the general public in more of a palatable way, you know.

And I wanted to tell you before we close out, thank you so. much for your service to our country. I have nothing about high respect for the military and people who volunteer. So I wanted to say, you know, thank you for serving our country, brother. That was my pleasure. I enjoyed my time in the military. I wouldn't have been able to do half the stuff I got to do and see the things I've gotten to see if I hadn't been in the military. So like I said at the beginning, I was or when we were talking offline is when I graduated high school, I had a choice either go work at Simpson or go work at the shipyard. And I didn't want to do either. Yeah, I don't blame me, man.

If those were my two options, I probably would have served as well. What was kind of your favorite memory from serving? I would have to say when I was over. sees in Korea, because that's a remote, remote duty, so you can't have your family with you. You became, after serving here in the States and over in Europe, and you go over to Korea as a remote, you become so close with your brothers and sisters over there, because that's basically what you are. And if you're in a squadron, you have your squadron, your squadron, espreda corps, and you're a squadron

pride and then when you break down the squadron into flights you have like the specialists and the and the uh and the crew chiefs and the weapons crews and the admin and you might have your inner squatterin rivalries and stuff but when you would go as a squadron to deploy somewhere you stuck together as a unit you were one unit didn't matter if you were weapons or avionics or or what that's you were you were that you were the 80th fighter squadron or you're you were you were the 80th fighter squadron or were the 70th fighter squad. And I remember one time we went to Germany, Ramstein. And it was right before the wall fell down, or wall came down.

We were at, they were having a beer fest on the base right before the exercise kicked off. And some of our guys were stacking up beers making a pyramid. And some guy from Ramstein threw a cup at it. And everybody in the squad and turned around and looked at that one guy. But I would have to say the camaraderie of being over in Coonson with your brothers and sisters. I mean, I have guys that I still keep in touch with from the 80th. They're like my brothers. I mean, they're all the guys and girls I serve with.

They're like brothers and sisters. I talk to them all the time. Yeah, that's what you often hear from people who served in the military, that, you know, it's not so much for God and country. you know, when they show bravery or heroism or it's for their brothers and sisters. They're going to go get them. And it's something very special. And again, thank you for your service.

And thank you so much for coming on, Sid. I really enjoyed chatting with you. I know we're going back over 40 years of you seeing this thing and all the other things going on and around that property. I just appreciate you sharing a moment and time of your life, man. Thanks for coming on. not a problem Wes I really appreciate it I've been fighting with this for a few years trying to figure out since I started listening to you maybe I should call him and let him know tell him about

my misadventures with Bigfoot so I really appreciate it thanks a lot and thanks for your show my wife and I listen to it every night while we're going to bed thanks again said and that's it for tonight everyone to remember if you've had an encounter shoot me an email my email address is Wes at Sasquatch Chronicles.com. And if you get a chance to check out Sasquatch Chronicles.com, you can become a member and get additional shows. I'll return tomorrow night for the members. Everyone out there, hope you have a great week. And until next time,