Ep. #843: Remembering Scot Violette

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We'll keep squatching, then go out and find Bigfoot.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Who knew that video dated September twentieth would be the
final on the Squatch America YouTube channel. You heard Scott
and Hanna Violette, who have not just been guests on
this program, but have become part of my family. This

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is going to be an incredibly hard show tonight. I
cannot guarantee that I won't break down and cry at
some point. In fact, I think it's all but about guaranteed,
as you can tell a somber mood on the program.

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We learn last week that a very very good friend,
a Bigfoot researcher, an anthropologist, a friend is so many,
and the list goes on. Preacher, school teacher, stage magician, author,

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father and husband and veteran. Scott Violette has left us
and it still shocks me to this day as I
sit here, I must say this one really really hurts. Friends.

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With over eight hundred episodes, we've talked to thousands of
people on this program, but none of them have opened
their heart to me personally as much as Scott violet
and his wife Hannah. And for those who were tuning
into the program tonight, who are the close friends and family,

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the extended family, those who knew and loved Scott so well.
We hope you can find some comfort in the program
tonight as we reflect and as we hear in Scott's
own words, why he was who he was, why he

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lived the life he did. You know, we talk about
Bigfoot on this program, but it goes beyond that. There's
so many people in this field who do not get
along with each other and will throw paranormal in UFOs
and everything else in there. There's infighting, there's bickering. Everybody's

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can competing with each other. They're worried about the rights.
Who's going to break this who's gonna get the exclusive
and what we forget in the process is that we're
all family, or we're supposed to be. And from everybody
that I've talked to and from all of the interactions

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that I've seen, Scone, violet treated everybody like family. He
certainly made me feel a part of the family when
he invited me to the first ever Bigfoot Fest that
he was producing on his own, and somebody by the
name of doctor Jeff Meldrum was going to be there

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and to be invited to be a participant, to beat
their writing shotgun, moderating a town hall, hosting the radio show,
interacting with a fellow big me and I know Scott
felt the same way that he would be put in

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the company of someone as such high caliber as now
the doctor Jeff Meldrum. I can't even believe that we
lose doctor Jeff Meldrum and Scott Violette within a matter
of two weeks. And here Scott was on just a
couple of weeks ago talking about doctor Meldrum's life, and

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now we're paying tribute to Scott. It began, well, it
began far beyond what you're about to hear. But the
news was shared with the world on the Squatch America channel.
We'd known that Scott was going through some health issues,
but then it got real.

Speaker 10 (05:50):
Right, Hello Squatch American. Scott here from Squatch America.

Speaker 11 (05:55):
And Hannah Domestic God is cheap cooking Doggie Mama. I
had the Patty Wagon today and we are bringing you
some personal news.

Speaker 10 (06:06):
Yeah, we have notes so we don't miss stuff. But
you know heard me mention in the past few videos
about health problems that I've been having in thea and
all that stuff. And we want to get down to

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the brass tacks and give you the fine define details because.

Speaker 11 (06:33):
And and these are things that we actually just learned yesterday.

Speaker 10 (06:38):
Yeah, this is well, it's something that happened probably four
days ago, but we spent the day at the VA
hospital yesterday and the verdict is in put it that way.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
I still felt for Scott to hear what we were
about to hear. It just it just devastated me.

Speaker 10 (07:01):
All the blood in my system pools in my legs
and when I stand up, it doesn't go anywhere, go anywhere.
So standing up for me is like switching off my brain.
The oxygen goes away, the blood goes away. And I

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pass out. I can stand up. I can walk for
two or three steps, but my heart rate to compensate
for this goes through the roof. So walking three steps
for me is like running a marathon. And I can
stay on my feet for roughly ten fifteen twenty seconds.

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If I'm not moving, I can stand up for about
five minutes until I pass out. So where that's left
me now is basically in a wheelchair, and I'm going
to be there for the rest of my life.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Can you just imagine someone like Scott's, vibrant, in love
with the outdoors and love with Bigfoot as he was,
the thought that he would be confined to a wheelchair
for the rest of his life. I know that didn't

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sit well with him, but he vowed to fight and
to keep searching for what he believed to be real.

Speaker 11 (08:42):
So how does that affect us as Squatch America.

Speaker 10 (08:45):
Oh, it's going to affect our lives, and it's going
to affect how we run Squatch America. But it doesn't
change who I am, and it doesn't change what we do.
We'll still here, We'll still investigate the unexplained and tried

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to not explain the uninvestigated. But we're gonna do it
a little bit differently.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Now, we're gonna find Bigfoot, and we're gonna find it
for Scott. Scott would want that he was working on
some technology that just may help in that regard. So
tonight because we need to heal together through this moment

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in time, friends, both in the Bigfoot community and in
the personal life of Scott Violette and his wife Hannah.
As I get all choked up, we'll join us tonight
as we pay tribute tonight into the pair of worm.

Speaker 12 (10:06):
Into the pair of normal, pair of.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
We're going to hear from a Scott's friends and family
tonight on the program those who feel comfortable in doing so.
Many are still grieving through this process. We've sent an
invitation to as many as we possibly can. One thing
that I didn't mention well, I alluded to the fact
that through Scott violet is how I meant to doctor
Jeff Meldrum. But then it continued because after the COVID pandemic,

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we resumed the Bigfoot Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival in twenty
twenty three and then in twenty twenty four, and I
was so honored to come across Michael Freeman and Todd
Nice and Robert Lightman, Tom and Peggy Seawood and other
fellow passionate bigfooters from all around the world. Enjoyed meeting

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Tom Bennett, the One man band, who's also a Bigfoot researcher.
So Scott actually connected people and we're trying to hold
it together for him. And speaking of one of those
names that I mentioned, I think we have one of
them on the line.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Hi.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Who is this?

Speaker 13 (11:24):
Hey, this is the Robert Lighterman put the Bluff Creek Project.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Hi, Roberts it is. It is good to hear your voice.
I have still next to me the jar of.

Speaker 14 (11:36):
Sand.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
I guess we would call it silt. I don't know
from the original Patterson Gimlin film site.

Speaker 13 (11:44):
Yeah, right here, that's the second. Yeah, that's the second one.
I remember the persone got dropped.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yes, I oh, you're gonna embarrass me here.

Speaker 13 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Robert was so generous to give me one of these,
and you know, I was traveling, I didn't have it secured,
and it shattered on the stage that we were doing
the broadcast, and Robert casually goes back to his bag
and just grabs another one. So thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Robert.

Speaker 13 (12:10):
Hey, No, probably is like I walked up there and
he goes, we hate to have to ask you, and
I'm looking down there's like little pieces of glass and
a little bits of sand. Because I kind of dropped,
I go, I got one more. I'll go get it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
If I write a book one day, I'll send you
a free copy. How about that?

Speaker 13 (12:30):
Oh that's perfect love it.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
So how about Scott Violet? How did you two come together?

Speaker 13 (12:37):
No, it's interesting because I haven't known Scott for that long,
but I really enjoyed our meeting. The first time I
met him, I was invited to the Beachwood. I think
it was twenty three, Yeah, twenty twenty three. I write
to Beachwood.

Speaker 15 (12:53):
I was a guest spic creator.

Speaker 13 (12:54):
It's just like I talked about it. I thought about
going there, but I never go around to it. But
Kit Morrale goes, hey, Robert, what are you doing on
this date? How would you like to come up in
one of our speakers? I sure did, so I got
talked into it. So I went up there to be
the speaker.

Speaker 15 (13:11):
And Scott was also one of the speakers, and.

Speaker 13 (13:14):
I didn't know who he was yet, but I got
a chance to meet him, and I really enjoyed it, Hannah,
and it's got very open, very warm, and into archaeology.

Speaker 15 (13:24):
And we got a nice conversation.

Speaker 13 (13:25):
Going because in between all all the work episodes of
showing up and talking to people and things, we got
to talking and I found out that, well, we're kind
of Cajun brothers, not really directly brothers, but he comes
from Cajun ancestry. It's a Kadian ancestry on his dad's side,
and I come up with a Kadian Cajun ancestry on

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my mom's side. So it was kind of funny we
had that in common.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
And so you were involved in the Bluff Creek project,
which I mean before you ever met Scott. Scott had
talked to me about the Patterson Gimlin film, and in fact,
we'll hear a clip later in the show about him
talking about the Patterson Gimlin film, which is one of

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the things that got him involved in Bigfoot research. You
being involved in the Bluff Creek project also have a
fascination with the Patterson Gimblin film and this site, so
you guys shared that connection as well.

Speaker 13 (14:23):
Yeah, it was kind of neat because I got a
chance to Here's archaeology is his favorite thing. One of
the things he spends a lot of time with that
and searching for Bigfoot. And I think you got a
thesis or something in archaeology and one of the one
of one of the things he's working at on his doctorate.

Speaker 15 (14:38):
But it was great listen to his stories and all
he had.

Speaker 13 (14:41):
And I appreciate his sense of humor because he's I'm
not that funny of a guy. If that's what my
wife tells you.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
No, you're you're you're hilarious. That's the thing, Robert is.
You don't you don't realize it, but but you are.
You're hilarious. I mean, I've talked to you in person
and even off the air, and it's kind of it's
very very subtle, but uh no, you you may have
a future career as a comedian one day.

Speaker 13 (15:06):
Yet stand up or I'll stand out. That's laugh a lot,
he would laugh a lot. Kind of makes you feel
good when you talk to somebody and you say something
that's kind of funny and if they laugh. And I
really enjoyed that. In the conversation, said also, i'd betruped
I I'm also with the Bluff Creek projects. So we're
looking for podcasts too, And the thing I was doing

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was thing called in the Field, so we'd interview people
in the field. So on the last day and the
last day before everybody's packing up, so we walked across
the big open grassy area and that down and I
interviewed him and that was pretty cool. It was about
hours worth of talking and we're but she talks and
got dogs barked in and know things moving around. But
I really enjoyed learning more about him and what what

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what what motivated him and his projects.

Speaker 15 (15:54):
And it's like when you meet people you know, you spend.

Speaker 13 (15:57):
Some time with him, you kind of get to know them.
I'm kind of a pepy person, so I like to
ask questions and talk about, you know, different things. And
you never think that once you meet somebody that you
hit it off really well. But for past across again,
sometimes in the big full world it happens a lot,
but being from geographic different areas, it happens less. So

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as you meet people, you enjoy them and you exchange
numbers in a handshake, and it's like, well will you
ever see these people again? And when will you see
them again? And I didn't think much of it. I
just thought it was kind of cool. I love Hannah.
You know, she's out the door to yoga. You know,
it's like, I don't see that many people in Bigfoot
out He's sitting out there on their blanket doing yoga.

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So that was kind of cool. Yeah, and they work
together as a team, and it's not just Scott, it's
Hannah and Scott and they they have their their their
I guess i'll call it a podcast. They actually invited
me on the podcast a few months after Beachfoot was
all done, so I got to go on the podcast.
I can't always remember the name of it, so I

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have to like write it down to remember it.

Speaker 15 (17:04):
Yeah, and I wrote it down in my little notes here.

Speaker 13 (17:07):
It was an evening in the Pattio Wagon unveiling Bigfoot mysteries.
And I guess that was your show. They did a lot.
Go look at that interview.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Give that some more views, because I think hopefully they
have that thing monetized and we can send all that
money to Hannah. So go watch that episode because not
only does it have a Scott and Hannah, but it's
got Robertleiderman on there.

Speaker 13 (17:30):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. And then it
kind of caught me off guard because this is well
before the Baker City event, the Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival.
So I got an invitation. Yeah, so that event was
twenty twenty four. That's is beach Foot in June of
twenty twenty three. And then I get on their podcast.
I think it was a January of twenty twenty four,

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and next thing you know, they how would you like
to be a speaker at this event? We kind of
got involved with the Blue Mounta and Big Flip Festival. Yeah.
I go, well, where where where's it gonna be?

Speaker 15 (18:04):
They go, It's going to be like in a an
organ in northeast Orgon And I go.

Speaker 13 (18:08):
Oh, well, we'll see. So I thought about it. I
took my son with me so you know, he could
keep me awake while I'm driving down there. But it
was just like, let's do it. So that was fun
because I got to I got I got to know
him more. As a matter of fact, that's where I
got the met you. And if you remember when the
night time dinner, so we're sitting there at the table

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and I spilled your wife's water not only on the.

Speaker 15 (18:34):
Table but I think I spilled it on her too.

Speaker 13 (18:36):
I kind of bumped the glass or whatever and were,
what a great introduction.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, you want to get a polize. My wife does that,
she she has that. No, I'm just kidding, Robert. It
is it is all good. It was such a pleasure
for us to sit there at the table with you
and with Scott's and and I don't think Tom was
yet with us that night, but I will always remember that,

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and we will always remember Scott, so any final words
I do.

Speaker 13 (19:09):
It's like the last few days, it's like I remember
Scott and it was having some trouble and he got
on the internet Facebook and he was having trouble and
Hannah was explaining things and that I think I was
about a week before he before he passed, and I
was I was pretty much looking through the Facebook, and

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then the think pops up and said he had passed away,
and I just I just felt the whole inside is
kind of, you know, get tight.

Speaker 15 (19:40):
It's just like, is this a joke? Is this serious?

Speaker 13 (19:44):
But I'm definitely gonna miss him a lot.

Speaker 15 (19:47):
And it was kind of weird sometimes.

Speaker 13 (19:50):
I know we talked before about telling a weird story
or not, but it's it's almost like I had this
weird feeling on on on the evidence. They end up
being the night he passed away. Something just didn't sit right.
And then on the next day I heard he passed away,
and then on the following day.

Speaker 15 (20:07):
She mentioned that he had passed away on the night
when I.

Speaker 13 (20:10):
Wasn't feeling too good.

Speaker 15 (20:11):
So I don't know if sachar insty or whatever.

Speaker 13 (20:13):
I left out a bunch of.

Speaker 15 (20:14):
Other stuff, but that that was kind of weird.

Speaker 13 (20:17):
And it's like we didn't talk a lot, but I
really enjoyed.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Being with him.

Speaker 13 (20:21):
And the funny thing is, I'll leave it with this is.
A few days go by and people start putting pictures up,
and one of the pictures that that Hannah put up
was the one where he's he's he's kind of squinching
down because I'm not very tall, and he's he's he's
pretty good touch hi, So he's pinching down. He's writing
his name on the wall at the North American vis Museum, Boring, Oregon,

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and I'm looking at that.

Speaker 15 (20:46):
I go, wait a minute, so I blew it up
the picture.

Speaker 13 (20:50):
He's signing the wall right under my singer shirt, and
I thought that was that was crazy and right above,
right above my thing, this year's buck Kett Goo nice.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'll find under Bobcat great company, is what he's saying. Robert,
thanks so much for helping us pay tribute to us
Scott violet tonight.

Speaker 13 (21:09):
Thank thank you for the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Appreciate absolutely more to come somewhere between the paranormal and
the abnormal. Dang it, we ran out of time when
we were live on the air, and sometimes the best
conversations happened when we're off the air. And I was
just telling Robert, you know how much Scott personally meant
to me, and about the conversations we've had over the years,

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and then I'm glad I got an opportunity to, you know,
talk with him a final time as we honored doctor
Jeff Meldrum. Sometimes we don't always get that opportunity, do we, Robert,
We don't.

Speaker 15 (21:45):
It's one thing.

Speaker 13 (21:46):
It's like you don't you think about it, but you
don't think about it. Don't wait to tell people how
you feel about him, don't wait. Don't push off projects
you want to get done because time is so short
and that clock is ticking, and if you have something
to say to somebody, say it, because you might not
get another chance to say it, and they definitely need

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to hear it.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Amen to that. Well, if you have anything else to
uh share with the audience, feel free to to do
that here.

Speaker 13 (22:15):
Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 15 (22:18):
He actually took me and I'm flashing.

Speaker 13 (22:20):
Back to after after the the the the Blue Mountain
Big for the festival, because after the festivals all over
he Hannah John I was supposed to be Jonathan easily
up there. But I did get the chance to do.

Speaker 16 (22:36):
That, but Peggy Thomas, so we kind of carpooled Thomas
Seaward and Peggy and UH and Scott and Uh Hannah
and then I had my.

Speaker 13 (22:46):
Son with the So we car pulled all the way
over to UH the site in the in the Blue Mountains,
the Paul Freeman site. And that was so cool because
they stopped at a place that that Scott had been
going to for years, and he showed me some cast
on the walls, says, these some of the original casts
and and it was and and we from there we

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went all the way over to the UH to the site,
and we drove up this road and we got out
of the car and and there's a bathroom. We could
go to the bathroom. He goes, this is the place.
This is the pond where the photo was taken, where
the tracks were the Uh, the movie footage is just
over here. So we walked past around he's talking about it.
We walked h with then two minutes we were at
we were at the Freeman site and I remember that

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spending that time with him cool because I had never
been there, was my first time and and I'm getting
a rundown. Scott's telling me everything he knows. And then
when he was done, I had Jonathan tell me everything
what was going on there, and it was really cool.
And again that that brings back another memory of Uh,
my window hill was so small, but it was these
things that we did together and and opportunities and it

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just kind of it deals this relationship and I'm not
I wasn't ready for it to be over so soon.
And there's so much more I want to know about him,
so much more. I want to stay to him and
in order for a couple of years. And I thought
about conn I'm gonna call it a few times, but
that not too much. It's like like I liked him,
I liked the relationship we had. I felt comfortable. He

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had stories. Uh, he had a lot of knowledge, and
he made you feel comfortable.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
I mean, I believe in in life. On the other side,
I believe in the afterlife. I believe Scott's watching over us.
I believe he probably has had an influence on some
of our lives already from above. So, since I believe
Scott is listening to this program tonight, what would you

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like him to hear?

Speaker 13 (24:42):
I want Scott to know that he made the difference
in how I look at things.

Speaker 17 (24:47):
He made me open up a bit more.

Speaker 13 (24:49):
It's like realizing that you can have a great relationship
with somebody who don't know that well. It's like then
the doors open up. It's good to go. And his
big with archaeology, looking into a lot of the native
stories of stuff. He's got the advancestry. I got native ancestry.
It's kind of funny. Get we both had native ancestry,
and we both had Cajun ancestry, so we had a

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lot more in common than than the average person. We
would think right out of the shoot. And he signed
his name underneath mind given given mind a great honor,
and I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
There he is Robert Leiderman on our tribute to Scott
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Speaker 18 (26:46):
I welcome the small morning, got my camp and gear
pass well, my god, this small morning.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Open to find something track.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Then I drove into the mountains, only to when.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
The getting log s.

Speaker 18 (27:18):
Oh, I did a couple of wood knocks open to
hear something knocked bad. That made a couple of loud
yells open.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
Something would yell back. But I did nothing, not even.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Miles from the cold, dark depths of a secret dungeon
somewhere deep in the remote Pacific Northwest. You're traveling into
the Hay North with Jeremy Scott.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah, sometimes that's how it goes. You got those big footblues.
You know, you're just out there searching for squatcht you
ain't find nothing. I mean that was pretty much every time.
But the one or two times that Scott found bigfoot
or saw bigfoot, just be prepared. If you want to

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find one of these, you've got to spend a lot
of time out in the woods. Our tribute to scotfile
out of Squatch America continues tonight. Hi who do we
have here?

Speaker 15 (28:31):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Joreny Shane Courson with the Olympic Project.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Hi Shane, how are you? It's so good to hear
your voice sat under these circumstances. But I remember Scott
had actually invited you to the second Blue Mountain big
Foot Festival, which was delayed three years due to the pandemic.
But I was all excited because our paths had previously acrossed.
We had done a show actually, you were on broadcast

(28:55):
with Doctor Meldrum the entire Olympic project was and I
think I had come across you at the Oregon Bigfoot
Festival as well, maybe back in twenty eighteen or twenty
nineteen and then so I was really excited once twenty
twenty came along that we were going to have the
opportunity to appear together at the Blue Mountain big Foot Festival.
And it never came to be.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Sadly, yeah, unfortunately not you know, cod COVID came around
and ruined I was getting a chance to meet up again.
But yeah, sad times. As you said, I'm doing well,
but sad times. Scott. Scott was a good man and
we're going to miss him.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
And so I'm just interested in how you came to
know Scott.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah, I had I had some correspondence prior to twenty
nineteen with Scott, but I actually met Scott Bilett down
in Cave Junction, Oregon at another event. We were both
scheduled to be speaker there and I got to meet
his wife Hannah and hang out with them and share
the stage with him. I got to really get to

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know him his research as findings, and I mean overall,
we just we just really hit it off, just hit
it off really well.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
And did you ever go squatching together?

Speaker 5 (30:13):
You know what, No, we have. We have been around
in the same circles, close proximity, but we've actually never
never got a chance to hit the woods, just mainly
at conferences and speaking gigs and whatnot. You know, I
did you know he had a podcast that he periodically did,
so I joined him on that a few times, but no,

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I didn't have the pleasure of actually getting into the
woods with him.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
What was your final interaction with Scott?

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, that's it's actually it's actually really sad. So obviously,
as you know, Jeremy, that we recently lost the great
doctor Jeffrey Meldrum, who was also a great friend and
somebody I looked up to hugely. And so when jeff
had passed away, I decided to kind of put together
like a video memorial that I could play and to

(31:03):
keep death legacy going and share what the impact he
had on others. And so I knew Scott had quite
a lot of collaboration with doctor Meldrum and been around
him a lot. So I reached out to Scott See
on the eighteenth of September, and Scott sent me this really,
really good video it's about two minutes long or so,

(31:26):
of his thoughts and experiences with Jeff, and he sent
that to me on the twentieth. Well, a few days
later found out that Gott indeed himself had passed away.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
All right, so let's hear what Scott had to say.

Speaker 10 (31:41):
I first met Jeff in twenty thirteen at the Boise
City Comic Con. I was there performing as a stage magician.
He was there speaking and he had a booth. I
showed up like a fanboy. I brought his book for
him to sign, and I felt like I met a
hero that day. Years later, when I launched Blue Mountain

(32:04):
Bigfoot Research, I reorganized the first Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival
in twenty nineteen. Money was tight. I could only afford
one big name guest, and at the top of my
list was doctor Meldrum. To make it happen, I sold
my camp trailer. It was a sacrifice I never regretted.

(32:27):
Jeff not only came, but He welcomed me into the
Bigfoot research community as one of his own. He told
me I was his go to guy for the Blue
Mountains and that meant the world to me. As my
group grew and we became Squatch America, I had the
privilege of sharing the stage with Jeff at festivals all

(32:49):
over the country. We built a friendship. He often asked
me about my own discoveries, and he we would dive
into conversations about Native American pictographs and petroglyphs, an area
where he respected my work. I remember that Jeff, for

(33:13):
all his stature, never stopped learning and never stopped listening.
What truly set him apart wasn't just his academic brilliance,
it was his humanity. He respected people's stories, He spoke honestly,
with kindness and integrity.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
I will miss him deeply.

Speaker 10 (33:38):
He was taken too soon, but his wisdom and his
courage will continue to shape the Bigfoot research community for
generations to come.

Speaker 9 (33:49):
Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
I almost feel like we could echo those same words
about Scott.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
What do you say, Shane, Yeah, you nailed it there.
I mean, just the timing of at all is just
mental to me, and absolutely I can mirror that. And
you know, Scott, Scott brought so much to the table
when it came to Sasquat's research. You know, he was
very innovative, methodical, very sound of mind, did a lot

(34:15):
of a lot of compelling things, and he still had
a bright future of stuff that he could bring to
the table in his endeavors. But you know, more than that,
Scott was a patriot, a veteran, a deeply devout Christian,
and just a spectful soul that had a and it
has had an amazing wife and Hannah, just a beautiful
couple that when you were around them, it would just

(34:37):
make you smile. And I'll tell you got to know
Scott really well over the years, and I could call
him a friend and you know he'd be there. So
I'm really going to miss.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Him likewise, And Shane, I know it's going to mean
a lot to a Hannah and to a Scott who's
listening in tonight from above to hear the words that
you've said tonight. So we so appreciate you coming on
this tribute to Scott by Lefe.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Thank you so much for having me on. I really
appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Absolutely of the Olympic Project Chaine coursing with us tonight
somewhere between the paranormal and the abnormal.

Speaker 12 (35:17):
Into the paranormal paradormal.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
I will say I've become a master of the clock
over the years, doing more than eight hundred episodes of
this program. But I know it's so hard to get individuals,
especially when you're summing up someone's life, to talk in
such short bursts. So I'm just going to warn you
there will be extra parts of this show that will

(35:55):
not make air, So if you're listening on the radio
side or the streaming side, you'll want to get the podcast,
which of course is free, will be free on all
of the apps at our website so that you get
the full meal deal. Everybody has so much to say
about the man that we love so much and are

(36:17):
paying tribute to tonight, Scott Violette of Squatch America. So
we're going to continue along those lines and we'll have
this next person joining us introduce themselves. Hi, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 19 (36:30):
Hello, This is Toab Johnson.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Hello Jeremy tob Johnson, Al Moon Lab and Olympic Strange Days.

Speaker 19 (36:38):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 20 (36:39):
Yeah, hey, thanks for putting all this together here.

Speaker 19 (36:44):
You know, it's.

Speaker 20 (36:47):
It's you know, without question, my condolences and prayers to
the Violet family, Hannah, especially who was you know, caught
off guard with you know, an address health change with Scott,
and I just wanted to come on to say a
few words about what, you know, my experience knowing them

(37:10):
as friends and as colleagues out here looking into this
wooded mystery that is Bigfoot, and that was I guess
that's where we should start, is that I met Hannah
and Scott through their love of the retirement phase of
their life, traveling the United States looking into this mystery

(37:34):
of Bigfoot. And I think it was probably about twenty
and twenty one time frame when I met them, maybe
sometime around twenty nineteen twenty, and they were vendors at
the Yakamah Bigfoot round Up I believe it was called.
And they were right next to me at a vendor table,

(37:57):
and we just kind of hit it off, especially Hannah.
I got pretty chatty about the strange, stranger parts of Sasquatch.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
That's easy with Hannah.

Speaker 20 (38:09):
Yeah, And so Hannah and I took off running, and
then Scott and I started talking about some of the
questions that he had about the stranger aspects of this stuff.
And they're just really sweet, open minded, very dedicated couple,
and they took their research really seriously as a as

(38:32):
a husband and wife, and they're really.

Speaker 19 (38:34):
Disciplined about.

Speaker 20 (38:37):
Getting to locations and gathering evidence, and in particular their
YouTube show where they delved almost every week into something
that had to do with gathering.

Speaker 19 (38:52):
Evidence or location.

Speaker 20 (38:55):
And then they they approached me to come on their
show one some months and I thought that was really
you know, that that was really interesting offer because I
could tell that I was kind of going down, you know,
a stranger side of the phenomena compared to where Scott
was at especially and maybe it was at the prompting

(39:18):
of Hannah more so, I don't really know, but I
just said, you know, sure, I'll come on once a
month and I will be like the resident weirdo for
you guys to maybe poke at and to.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
Get more into more than what the wo wou side
of things.

Speaker 20 (39:34):
Oh yeah, absolutely, and there you know, it's all in
good fun with both of them.

Speaker 19 (39:39):
They love to have a good laugh on the show.

Speaker 20 (39:43):
And so that was that was that went on for
a period of like four or five months, I believe,
and then stuff just kind of happened as far as
our schedule was concerned. But you know, I my experience
with them, I wish all of my Bigfoot experiences were
like the ones I had with Scott and Hannah, especially

(40:06):
since they were such a they're a couple in love, right,
Like that's really rare to see a couple in love
still after all these years, and I think they'd been
married for a pretty good long while at the point
when I met them, and they still had that little
bit of spark together where they you know, they would
kind of let you join into the feisty nature of

(40:30):
their of their relationship, which was.

Speaker 19 (40:32):
All in good fun.

Speaker 20 (40:33):
Yes, and I certainly knew how to push his buttons
and vice versa, and that that to me is just like.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
But Scott was so respectful, you know, well in every
encounter that I ever witnessed him in.

Speaker 19 (40:45):
Absolutely, Yeah, he certainly was. And he always kind of
had you know, he's a military guy. He always kind
of had military bearings. And Scott or Hannah was, you.

Speaker 20 (40:56):
Know, a little bit more of a is a little
bit more of a wild card than that Scott was.
And that was you know, the perfect balance. And so
that's the way the the YouTube show went when we
did it. We had that kind of personality going across
you know, all ways.

Speaker 19 (41:13):
And they they will you know, Scott will be missed.

Speaker 20 (41:18):
I only say they will missed because I never saw
them alone, right like this is this is what's.

Speaker 19 (41:24):
So horrible about what happened is that they were so
close that.

Speaker 20 (41:27):
They kind of filled in the gap for one another.
And I can't believe we're here with this podcast even
discussing this right now, because they they're just so so
damn close.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
But speak of not only the loss of Scott Violette,
but compound that with the loss of doctor Jeff Meldram,
both of them together in less than two weeks. What
a blow to the Bigfoot community.

Speaker 19 (41:55):
Horrible blow, horrible blow.

Speaker 20 (41:58):
And you know, as I made a post, it really
is almost like God's calling all the good ones back early.

Speaker 19 (42:05):
And you know, Scott was one of the good ones.

Speaker 20 (42:10):
And you know those guys they know all the secrets now,
you know, like they their whole thing was looking into
this wooded mystery and now they know, and you know,
for them that maybe a little bit of sigh of
relief because they really both equally cherished this mystery, and

(42:33):
I would imagine Scott probably looked up to Jeff quite
a bit, and to have Jeff pass away less than
a week before or two weeks before Scott did, I
can't imagine how that made him feel, on top of
getting the medical diagnosis he got from the BA.

Speaker 19 (42:51):
Just crushing stuff. But you know, right before, I do
have to say this because it kind.

Speaker 20 (42:56):
Of involves the foot morphology that Jeff was so close
and looking into I do. I mean, there's a couple
of anecdotal stories I could tell about Jeff here as well,
if you want to hear those. But in short, Scott
and Hannah rescued a missing footprint from the al Moon Lab.
And the way they did that is that there was

(43:16):
a footprint that was on loan to a haunted hotel
called the Wolf Creek End down in southern Oregon, and
the manager, the owners, the business closed and so my
footprint was on loan to this hotel and it was

(43:39):
in the museum piece of you know, down in the
gift shop, and it basically just said, you know, local
bigfoot track from Cottage Grove, Oregon, size fifteen, whatever the
parameters were and you know, the idea was that people
come down and appreciate the fact that this is a
real phenomenon. It's kind of local, less than an hour

(43:59):
and a half up the road or an hour or something.

Speaker 19 (44:01):
Anyway, it was the business folded.

Speaker 20 (44:03):
I had no idea where the track went, and I
tried to find it, and I tried to find it.
It turns out that Hannah and Scott somehow had got
a hold of the original track, and so about a
month ago I found out that they actually had the
track and they were nice enough to mail it back
to Wow. And so that was the last move that

(44:26):
I got was from Scott rescuing you know, at Toby
Johnson track from Cottage Grove.

Speaker 19 (44:33):
And I'll be damned if these guys didn't find.

Speaker 20 (44:36):
More bigfoot tracks and Cottage Grove in there near the
area of a site called the London Trackway in the
Cottage Grove lakebed circa twenty twelve. It was Scott and
Hannah that responded to the Army Corps engineers about three
years ago that contacted them after they saw their booth

(44:58):
at an outdoor show I believe it the lank County
Fairgrounds and they grabbed their business card. Somehow some employee
maybe you know, on his break or had the day
off from the Army Corps engineers, which is you know,
the Cottage Grove Lake story in the London tracks they
are called Circle.

Speaker 19 (45:15):
Twenty twelve is kind of a.

Speaker 20 (45:17):
Big historical moment and a lot of people were wondering
whether or not this trackway was was.

Speaker 17 (45:24):
Real or not.

Speaker 20 (45:25):
However, when Scott and Hannah found these brand new set
of tracks that were reported with a pretty good provedance
and paper trail through the Army Corps Engineers, it was
Scott and Hannah, in particularly Scott who not only cast
these new London tracks, but found out that you know,
in his opinion that he thought they were most likely

(45:47):
authentic tracks.

Speaker 13 (45:49):
And so.

Speaker 20 (45:51):
It just added a new layer to something that I
was involved with way back in twenty twelve. And I
couldn't have done that without Scott and Hannah, uh, you know,
picking up the call and driving all the way down
to Oregon doing what you do, which is pretty much
drop everything and going to these areas sometimes very remote

(46:11):
and doing the hard work.

Speaker 19 (46:12):
So they were the real deal.

Speaker 20 (46:14):
And maybe that's part of the reason that I agreed
to do their show is that they not only are
really sweet couple, but they were the real thing.

Speaker 19 (46:26):
Like they they really did.

Speaker 20 (46:28):
Research and so that was that was an amazing story
that I wanted to share and.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
We appreciate you doing so. Till, thank you so much
for coming on and sharing some words about the Scott Violet.

Speaker 19 (46:41):
All right, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Sure, and you mentioned earlier. Till mentioned earlier about he's
pretty sure that doctor Meldrum had an impact on Scott's research.
You bet he did.

Speaker 9 (46:53):
It was monumental.

Speaker 10 (46:55):
Actually, yeah, he goes clear back to like when the
Freeman film was happening. Doctor Jeff was the first one
to actually just randomly walk up and knock on the
door of Paul Freeman and say I heard you found
some tracks, and Paul Freeman said, well, come with me

(47:17):
and I'll show them to you.

Speaker 9 (47:19):
That goes way back in the early nineties.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
So what were some of your interactions like with doctor
Mildrim through the years.

Speaker 9 (47:26):
Oh, they were actually pretty fantastic.

Speaker 14 (47:30):
Years ago.

Speaker 10 (47:32):
I used to be a steampunk stage magician and the
first time I met doctor Jeff Meldrim was I think
twenty thirteen a in Boise, Idaho at the Boise Comic Con,
and a lot of people didn't know he did more
than just bigfoot festivals. He had actually booked a booth

(47:54):
at the Comic Con that year, and I was performing there,
and then it was the first time I ever heard
him talk on stage and meet him face to face,
and I actually had my copy. I knew he was
going to be there, so I had my copy of
his book, and I was like the typical fanboy at

(48:16):
that point. It's like, oh my gosh, there is you know.
And I got to meet him and talk with him
for a while at his booth, and that was the
first time I actually met him in person. And then
he was gracious enough a few years later to come
to our first ever Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival. I contacted him,

(48:40):
and one of the neatest things that ever happened with
me and doctor Jeff was the fact that after meeting him,
and you know, I had messaged him back and forth
over the years, he's one of the first people in
the bigfoot world to actually kind of embraced me and

(49:01):
pulled me into the group. Basically, he was very inviting.
It really kind of shocked me that someone who was
kind of that big in the Bigfoot world would just
kind of take me under his wing and treat me
like one of his own, you know, one of the
Bigfoot people early on, and that really was a big

(49:24):
part of me starting Squatch America and going into this
big Foot research thing full time.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
So now we have to keep this going in honor
of doctor Jeff Mildram. Absolutely, and so here's to keep
on squatching in memory of both doctor Jeff Meldrum and
Scott violet We'll continue our tribute to Scott violet of
Squatch America somewhere between the paranormal and the abnormal. I'm

(49:52):
Jeremy Scott's.

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Speaker 4 (50:10):
Remembering Scott Violette tonight on the program with his friends,
those who knew him within the Bigfoot community and within
his life. And I think we have one of those
people on the line with us right now.

Speaker 21 (50:22):
Hi, who's this, Christy Sanders? How are you?

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Christy Sanders?

Speaker 14 (50:27):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
It's been since twenty nineteen since we've talked.

Speaker 21 (50:30):
I know, hasn't been that long? Holy cow?

Speaker 13 (50:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Six years?

Speaker 13 (50:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Them over Actually I'm a side story. Christy was out
there at the first Blue Mountain big Foot fest that
Scott invited me to, and we made an all night
trip back. Scott made sure we had meal money, very
nice of him. I think we pulled off and stopped
at Wendy's if I remember it right, and we made

(50:56):
the all night trip back to Portland. Yeah, that's what
I remember. After a long day out there at the
Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival. How have you been?

Speaker 21 (51:05):
Oh good, I've been good, super busy, lots of festivals,
lots of work.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
So you are a fellow bigfoot. You share that passion
with Scott.

Speaker 21 (51:14):
Yeah, I sort of fell into it, which is how
I met Scott's. I was watching Monster Quest and saw
an episode and I was stunned that there was this
big creature in the Pacific Northwest. And since I'm a
hunter and I spent time in the woods, I actually
started looking and finding prints and hearing howls and seeing
the tree structures and anyway, I had a very momentous

(51:37):
event occur. And I, because I've seen this thing on TV,
I thought, well, there's got to be a reporting thing,
so I reach out and that's how I met Scott.
I was trying to report the tracks that I had
found and get them to an official, which actually turned
out to be Jeff Meldrum. And yeah, Scott and I
got to know each other, and he's like, you, with

(51:58):
all the time you spent in the little you should
help me with this watch America said absolutely, I totally will,
so I would take his reports and follow him up.
I'd done stuff with BFRO before, so I knew how
to be scientific about it. That I was such a
good guy. Holy crap, he was so scientific and funny

(52:19):
and friendly. I just I instantly clicked with him. He
was such a great.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Guy again, sharing a love over a search for something
that you know, science largely doesn't recognize. But I mean,
there's no doubt in your mind. There was no doubt
in his mind. And I really don't think there's a
doubt in Hannah's mind either. She is avowed to keep
this going on, which indicates that she must be a

(52:46):
believer as well.

Speaker 21 (52:48):
That's right. And I remember when he got his first picture,
like because he had his telephoto LUNs, he sent it
to me immediately when he got out of the force,
and I was like, Lord, And then when I got
the pictures that I out of them, I got a
picture of a family of them. We had like twenty
two pictures. I called him immediately because there was that
we had that connection. It wasn't a gee should show somebody.

(53:09):
It's like, oh my god, I gotta show Scott. This
guy was like, oh my god, I gotta show Christy.
And the cool thing about his picture and my pictures
he called it the faces of Sasquatch. I believe the
term use was the morphology of the skeleton. Anyway, the faces,
even though his was.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Okay, so I'm familiar with his, did the one you
see the picture you have have similar like facial features
if we want to call him.

Speaker 21 (53:34):
That, Yes, the whole family. I mean it just fit.
And he actually took the faces from my photos and
he took the faces from his photos and he lined
him out, and then he pulled some other random faces
from like Patterson Gimblin, and he pulled some faces from
another guy whose name escapes me, and he put them
all in a string and he's like, look at the similarities.
It's kind of like when you look at humans. I mean,
we're different, right, but we kind of have that we

(53:57):
look a certain way, and I was floored. I was like,
oh my, it would.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
Take somebody like as Scott to be able to recognize
that there was a pattern there.

Speaker 21 (54:07):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was so good and I couldn't wait.
And then I, you know, rushed and showed doctor Meldrum
and showed him all the footprints and stuff. Yeah, Scott
was great. Scott called me once I travel for work.
I worked for a business consulting firm, and I was
like in Maine or something, and he called and said,
when do you come home. I said, uh, forty eight
hours And he said, somebody just called me there hunting.

(54:29):
They're surrounded by bigfoots and they're screaming. I need you
to go out there now. And I tried to catch
the first plane out of there. I flew into Oregon.
I went where Scott sent me, and sure enough, this
hunting party had had several nights of incidents. He actually
put their phone call on the website. And while we
were there, we found the footprints. We were doing majorings

(54:52):
and we were checking things. Something there was a reddish
orange was walking away from us. I didn't totally know
what my notice it. My stepdad goes, is that a dear?
Is that a bear? I think that's a bear. That's
totally not a bear.

Speaker 13 (55:09):
What is that?

Speaker 21 (55:10):
And he went running over there and he watched it
walk away. Now again I didn't see it, but he
was floored because he absolutely doesn't believe, or didn't he
does now, he absolutely didn't believe in him. And so
here there's this thing walking away. And we found the
footprints and we measured the tree was like nine and
a half feet tall where the top of his head was.
But that was you know, Scott sent this out there,

(55:32):
and I think he put that one on his website
as well. Niki called it the nine to one one
bigfoots Here Call or something.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
And let me guess. He was always so welcoming every
time you reached out with information.

Speaker 21 (55:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes I just cango, you
want to go camping. I was reading Big Fort Highway,
Let's go here, and he's like, okay, let's go there.
Like hey, you know, yeah, he's just he was a good.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Guy, and those had to have been some good moments
in the outdoor.

Speaker 21 (56:00):
Oh yeah. There was nothing cooler than taking that Bigfoot
Highway book and going to some of the spots, because
there's also some that have drawings and they have GPS
locations and going to the spot and seeing in the
general area other bigfoot sign. There was one there's a
drawing of one standing behind a stomp where we found
the stump, and we're like, wow, this incident in this
book happened right here. So he used to call me

(56:23):
a big Foot highway Christie.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
What would you want to say to us? Scott and Hannah?

Speaker 19 (56:29):
Oh, I love you.

Speaker 21 (56:30):
Guys so much. I wish they could have spoke to
you before this happens. And Hannah, I'm there for you
if you need anything.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
So yeah, so could hear your voice once again after
all these years. I remember it well, driving home whatever
it was, five or six hours on ID four, coming
back late at night that June evening in twenty nineteen,
and sad to do it under these circumstances, but I'm
sure maybe somewhere along this Bigfoot Road as we call it,

(57:02):
our past may cross again, and who knows, you may
be the one that finds Bigfoot one of these days.
And then if that's the case, call me yelling and screaming,
and I'll drop everything and get you on the program.

Speaker 21 (57:13):
Okay, that sounds awesome. Thank you so much. Awesome talking
to you.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Christy Sanders with us here as we pay tribute to
Scott violet More to come right after this.

Speaker 8 (57:25):
There's a parallel universe, fail that separation. While we perceived
true reality.

Speaker 7 (57:38):
Over the case, the true hell, into the pan into
the parent, Go into the parandle.

Speaker 12 (58:03):
Hang on for the ride.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
You're headed into the fair abnormal.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
I'm Jeremy Scott. Tonight we are paying tribute to our
friend from Squatch America, Scott Violette. His wife Hannah will
be joining us before the end of the program. We've
heard from many of his friends and acquaintances, so those
who knew him came across him in bigfooting in the community,

(58:46):
both out searching actively for Bigfoot or maybe along the
trail somewhere literally along the side of the road. They've
stopped and talked to people as they've pulled into camp
sites and to truck stops and convenience stores. That's what
was so cool as they were and I say they

(59:07):
and were because we know that they were inseparable, Hannah
and Scott, and certainly Hannah is still with us, and
we'll keep the squatching going on, but Scott is sadly
departed us, and so we're remembering, you know how approachable
particularly Scott was always willing to accept a bigfoot story

(59:30):
and even to tell one of his own, accompanied of
course by a photographic whether we want to call it
evidence or not, certainly there was something there. And along
the way he would talk with pretty much anybody, and
I understand maybe a time or two he had been

(59:51):
on another podcast, Sasquatch Watch Radio. We have the founder,
Billy Willard and its host Gary Kendrick with us. Good evening, guys.

Speaker 17 (01:00:07):
How are you doing, Jeremy, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
How are you both doing?

Speaker 13 (01:00:11):
Wonderful?

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
So I'm both interested in sasquatch. I take it, Oh yeah,
been a while. Yes, you've both seen sasquatch or you've
just been interested enough to look for sasquatch.

Speaker 17 (01:00:28):
I'll let Gary handle that first.

Speaker 22 (01:00:31):
I've actually had a siding in two thousand and six.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Okay, and what about you, Billy?

Speaker 23 (01:00:38):
No, I have not ever had a siding or anything
I could claim to be a sighting. Yes, I've seen
some strange things, but nothing that I can readily put
my hands on called sasquatch.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
But you've heard from people throughout the years who believe
they have.

Speaker 23 (01:00:55):
Oh, yeah, absolutely, because we also are part of our
group that is ours is called Sasquatch Watch of Virginia
and uh we collect reports and that type of thing.
So again, we have had lots of eye witnesses come forward.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Particularly with reports around the Virginia area.

Speaker 23 (01:01:15):
Particularly in the Virginia area. Yes, that's what we collect.
But I've been all over I've been all over the nation, Club,
Washington State, Texas, everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
I think Scott and Hannah may have eventually made it
to Virginia if they if they didn't already somewhere along
their their Bigfoot journeys, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:01:34):
I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
I think their plan was to get to every single
one of them squatching. Yeah, that's what they wanted to do,
you know, till the day they died. And Scott did
that and then now Hannah can continue to do that
in Scott's honor. So when did you first learn of
a Scott Violet and when did you have him on
the program?

Speaker 22 (01:01:58):
I had him on the program roughly about three weeks ago.
I had Scott. I never really formally met Scott.

Speaker 13 (01:02:07):
I had watched some of the videos.

Speaker 22 (01:02:09):
And stuff that him and Hannah have put on, and
they was working on it was a location system. They
call it the Holler Point, and I was really really
enthusiastic about that. It's some pretty intense technology. I think
that might actually do a lot of good into Bigfoot community.
But one thing I kind of want to touch on was,

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you know, anybody that knew Scott knew that he wore
his Desert storm hat.

Speaker 13 (01:02:36):
All the time.

Speaker 22 (01:02:37):
Oh yeah, he was, you know, a veteran and he
was very proud of it. And I'm also a desert
storm veteran, and you know, speaking from the end of
the veterans, you know, I just want to say that
if anybody's out there and that you're listening to this
and you're a veteran, continue to fight get what you deserve.

Speaker 17 (01:03:00):
Don't don't quit.

Speaker 22 (01:03:02):
A lot of veterans get disappointed and you know, they stop,
and you know they don't really get what they deserve.
But that's the thing. You never stop fighting. UH try
to get what you deserve.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
And Scott fought all the way to the uh to
the very end.

Speaker 22 (01:03:27):
That's very admirable.

Speaker 17 (01:03:28):
Uh, you know, we have a lot of.

Speaker 22 (01:03:31):
Events that give up. We lose twenty two veterans a
day to suicide.

Speaker 13 (01:03:36):
But that's the big thing. I have been in the exact.

Speaker 22 (01:03:39):
Same shoes that Scott had.

Speaker 17 (01:03:41):
I'm sure me and hims chewed a.

Speaker 22 (01:03:42):
Whole lot of the same ground.

Speaker 17 (01:03:45):
Back in the day.

Speaker 22 (01:03:47):
You know, Scott was in the Army and I was
the United States Marine. But you know, it's it's all
in the service of the country, and you know, anyone
that serves deserves more than what they get.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
All Americans and that's why they had to you know,
there were squatch Americans. Can's not cannots. Billy your thoughts
about Scott.

Speaker 17 (01:04:10):
Well, I've known.

Speaker 23 (01:04:11):
I've known about Scott and Hannah for a while. I mean,
obviously they've had their Squatch America channel for quite some time.
Him and I had never met personally. I'd never run
into him in any kind of conferences or anything like that.
That's usually how I made my rounds, but never never
recalled running into him. But I do know one of

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the things I was really impressed with with Scott and
Hannah is how they stuck together and worked together. And
I thought that was that was very impressive that husband
and wife could work together in this reason. I say
that because my wife don't want nothing to do with Bigfoot,
So it was very impressive to me that him and

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her were both in this together.

Speaker 17 (01:04:59):
So I think that I think that's a very wonderful thing.

Speaker 22 (01:05:04):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
So how did it come to be you wrote a
song about Scott.

Speaker 17 (01:05:10):
Well, since Gary had just had him on the show.

Speaker 23 (01:05:13):
You know, we had we had read, we had originally
wrote him a much happier upbeat song for the show,
and uh and then when that you know, of course
that happened right after Meldrum. I had wrote a tribute
song for Meldrum and then a total shock finding out
that someone that Gary had just had on the show

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passed away. And I listened to the show every time
Gary does it. I do go back and listen, and
you know, he's just he's just was just such a
great gentleman. And you don't find that much. You find
a lot of people that just want attention, and uh,
so I felt I felt the urge to to really

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write a song based on his life. You know, his
upbringing is uh, you know, trying to put a little
bit of everything in there. About his life in the song,
and mainly I did it for Hannah because you know,
it's just, uh, it's just something that comes from the heart.

Speaker 17 (01:06:12):
It's just something that I like to do.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
Gary and Billy have graciously allowed us to play that
for you here tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:06:19):
He searched the shadow. You off the trip.

Speaker 24 (01:06:27):
With a hopeful heart and a gripping.

Speaker 25 (01:06:33):
He brought a kindness and a gentle grace to every
person in every place.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
A real friend of God again, the best you.

Speaker 26 (01:06:44):
Could have in the steak Greenland spiriticles through the mountain,
love world.

Speaker 7 (01:06:55):
I love to shoe.

Speaker 25 (01:06:59):
Hoss God in head and it's rason to us, A
standing tall answer, reading the cold, search for legend, passionately, share.

Speaker 7 (01:07:11):
Love for the while beyond all compare.

Speaker 25 (01:07:15):
You will be missed by friends and by his family
life well.

Speaker 7 (01:07:22):
For the world to see.

Speaker 25 (01:07:27):
From Sasquatch Watch Radio, we send off.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
To Henna and his family.

Speaker 26 (01:07:40):
I'm not saying our prayers, so gentle.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
Hand, we're here for you in this grieving land.

Speaker 24 (01:07:55):
Yeah, we're here for you in every way. We're here
for you, from the stay to the next.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
That's from a Sasquatch Watch Radio and we'll post the
link up For those who want to share that around,
it's up on the YouTube, so you can go ahead
and share that away. Just go to our website and
you'll find that link, or I'm sure you can find
it by going to their page as well. Guys really
appreciate you coming on the program and helping us patribute

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to Scott Violet tonight.

Speaker 17 (01:08:40):
All right, we appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (01:08:41):
Yeah, arecant you very.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Much remembering Scott Vile At tonight we'll be.

Speaker 12 (01:08:45):
Back into the pair of normal, pair of.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
I'm Jeremy Scott somewhere between the paranormal and the abnormal.
I'm looking at Scott's book right now, Squash of America
Investigating the Unexplained, a researcher's journey into the Bigfoot mystery,
and I see that the forward is written by Mark Marcelle,
who's author of Mountain Devil, the nineteen twenty four eight

(01:09:23):
Canyon Attack and its Aftermath. And we have Mark on
the program now. Hi, Mark, Hey, it's Jeremy.

Speaker 9 (01:09:30):
How are you doing.

Speaker 27 (01:09:31):
Thanks so much for having me on.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
It's my pleasure here now. This will be the first
time we've had a chance to speak. So you and
Scott have obviously your paths have crossed at some point
along this Bigfoot road. How long have you been investigating this.

Speaker 27 (01:09:48):
I've been involved, seriously involved, probably since the year twenty
eleven twenty ten, starting with re researching the nineteen twenty
four Kenyon attack on Mount Saint Helens. And one thing
that Scott and I shared and talked about a lot
is the huge amount of common friends in the whole

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Bigfoot research community and how much we are trying to help.

Speaker 9 (01:10:18):
Each other out.

Speaker 27 (01:10:20):
And because of that and the friends I've made, they've
given me lots of leads on a whole bunch of
other historical Bigfoot research projects that I'm probably going to
be keeping on doing till I'm dead.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
You believe that there's something out there?

Speaker 27 (01:10:36):
Oh no, absolutely, the phenomenon is absolutely real. For me personally,
I tend to fall into the flesh and flesh and
blood camp of a North American wood ape frankly a
wood ape from all around the world nearly. But that
being said, there are other people who fall into other camps,

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say interdimensional being or something like that. And I think
that one thing that we need to remember in the
Bigfoot world is that we all need to stick together.
We certainly don't need any more division of calling names
to other researchers or discounting their information, because even if

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you don't fall into say a flesh and blood camp,
there's some sort of scintilla of truths about what the
other person is saying. And to discount them as say
woo or whatever and throughout all their information, you're kind
of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think
that everybody's stories and everybody's research needs to be taken

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into account rankly.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Okay, So the nineteen twenty four a canyon attack is
probably one of the earliest reports from the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 27 (01:11:52):
Probably certainly the most famous. The reason being is because
directly after the I mean literally within two days after
the attack, it hit the local newspapers in Kelso Longview,
and at that time we had the associated press wire,
so the story spread like wildfire pretty much all over

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the United States, all over the Western United States, being
carried in other newspapers for a good two or three months.
So that's what made it one of the most famous. However,
there are plenty of other interesting older stories dating back,
of course into the eighteen eighties. As far as what

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it's documented and published, not to say the stories that
are continued to carry on front say old stories or
old time stories that have been told by our local
Native American nations for thousands of years.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Okay, so you have heard reports going back well before this.

Speaker 27 (01:12:57):
Oh actually, yeah, one research project that I'm working on
right now down in Curry County, Southwest Oregon started about
eighteen seventy six.

Speaker 4 (01:13:06):
Interesting, yep, So when was the first time that you
heard of Scott Violet, came across Scott Violet and met him,
that sort of thing.

Speaker 27 (01:13:15):
Well, with Scott Violet and of course Hannah, his wife,
they were always in There were always a team for
Squatch America. And I met them both at the same time.
And I don't think I ever I don't think that
I ever hung out with Scott without Hannah being there
as well. I believe the first time that we came

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across each other, I believe was probably at Squatch Fest
and in Kelso, Longview, Washington, and Hannah and Scott and
I became the best of friends, real real obvious camaraderie
between between us. We were folks who kind of thought

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along the same lines.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
Well, Mark, I really appreciate you coming on the program
and helping us honor the life of the late Scott
Violet really means a lot to us.

Speaker 13 (01:14:07):
Beck.

Speaker 27 (01:14:07):
Yeah, anytime, Jeremy, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
All right, my pleasure. One thing I learned from Scott,
because I'm generally impatient, is that it does take patience
if you want to have a big foot siding. In fact,
he talked to me about exactly that. To give you
an idea of how long it took before he had
his first bigfoot encounter.

Speaker 9 (01:14:28):
I actually got a picture last year.

Speaker 10 (01:14:32):
In April up here in the Blue Mountains. I'm me
and another gentleman and I took out in the woods
with me that day. We saw one and I got
a picture of it. And of course it's one of
those blurry bigfoot pictures that you can't take his evidence,

(01:14:55):
and I don't present it as evidence, but I did
have my own experience. After twenty five plus years looking
in the woods for this, I finally ran across one.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Yeah, twenty five years. Well, he talked about that gentleman
he took out that day. We have that gentleman here, Hi,
who is this?

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
This is Don.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Indicott, Don Endicott from Oregon.

Speaker 13 (01:15:19):
Right, Yes, Baker City, Oregon.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Baker City, Oregon, out there near the Blue Mountains, which
is when you and Scott had your big foot sighting
about seven years ago.

Speaker 13 (01:15:28):
Right, Yes, that is correct.

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
Now when we say sighting, was there more than one? Yes,
there was two, two creatures one sighting? Yes, So tell
us how this came to be. Had you always wanted
to go out looking for a bigfoot or what?

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (01:15:49):
I had.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
I had always been interested in it. And my stepdaughter
a knew this, and it became right around Father's Day
and she thought that would be a great idea. That
she knew Scott's wife, Hannah, and she got together with
her and set it up as a Father's Day present

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to me and decided to have me go out with him.

Speaker 13 (01:16:16):
So it was great, and I got with Scott and
we went.

Speaker 28 (01:16:20):
He took me out, and lo and behold, it was
very close to town.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
I'd been up in this area, up here in the
Blue Mountains most of my life, and I had no
clue that they were up in that area.

Speaker 13 (01:16:35):
And we were walking down.

Speaker 29 (01:16:37):
The road and this old logging road, and all of
a sudden we both smelt this god awful smell and
we both stopped in foot tracks and just looked at
each other and started looking around, and we didn't see anything,
so we just started, you know, just.

Speaker 13 (01:16:57):
Continued looking around.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
And I looked down over the bank and.

Speaker 19 (01:17:02):
Down in that area.

Speaker 28 (01:17:03):
You know that I just saw something.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Funny down in there in these clump of trees and bushes,
and I sort of looked at him and I says,
you know, is that a.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Face down in there?

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
And you know, he kept taking pictures and everything, and you.

Speaker 13 (01:17:21):
Know, we didn't know. We kept looking and you know
all that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
And next day we got back to town and he
called me up and he sent me a text with pictures,
and sure enough, there was two bigfoots in that picture.
Or started out there was only one. But after a
while he met some people Jesus, I can't remember his

(01:17:46):
last name. He met him down in New Mexico, and
he got that picture blown up and there was actually
two of them in that picture. And we actually found
footprints when we were up there.

Speaker 15 (01:17:59):
To that day.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
That was a very exciting day for me. I just
could not believe my first time ever going out bigfoot,
I mean and lo and behold, we found him.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
Oh so, don you're a bigfoot believer, now, yes, I am.
It took that that what encounter. You were very lucky
to have that one encounter that Scott had been waiting
twenty five years for and he takes you out and
you have it. You're very lucky guy, Yes I am.

Speaker 13 (01:18:34):
And it was all thanks to Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
Yeah. So, any words that you'd like to share with
us about him?

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Yes, Scott was a very exceptional person. He believed in
what he was doing. I've never met anybody and like.

Speaker 28 (01:18:52):
Him before in my life, and I probably never will. Yeah,
he was one of a kind. I will definitely miss him.
He was a brother an Elk. He belonged to the
Elks lodge and he spread word about that anywhere he went.

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He is just an exceptional, very nice person and he
will be missed.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
Well, on, we really appreciate you coming on and sharing
some words with us about Scott. Violent.

Speaker 13 (01:19:24):
Yes, I'm glad you had me on.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
All right, that's a Don Endicott who had a bigfoot encounter,
Scott's only bigfoot encounter after twenty five years. All right, friends,
Hannah Violet will join us coming up next on the program,
wife of the late Scott Violet. Don't go Anywhere somewhere
between the Pair of normal and the abnormal. I'm Jeremy Scott.

(01:19:50):
Into the Pair of.

Speaker 14 (01:19:52):
Normal, Pairubnormal News. I'm George Henry.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
We have an update on the fireball that lit up
the skies across California last week. People in several cities
separated by hundreds of miles saw a long, fiery trail
of debris that split into pieces. The American Meteor Society
received more than two hundred reports from witnesses from around
Sacramento and the Bay Area and as far south as

(01:20:28):
Los Angeles. It has been confirmed to be space debris.
Amateur astronomers identified the object as a space X Starlink
satellite that launched in twenty twenty and re entered Earth's atmosphere.
There have not been any reports of damage or debris
recovered here. Pairubnormal News. Every hour on Into the Pairubnormaline.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
You're about to land somewhere into the fear of norm.

Speaker 9 (01:21:14):
So I guess we're gonna end with.

Speaker 7 (01:21:17):
You.

Speaker 10 (01:21:17):
Keep watching Squatching and go out and find Bigfoot.

Speaker 4 (01:21:26):
I'm Jeremy Scott. It's our tribute to Scott Violetta, a
Squatch America. Tonight. The words that have been spoken on
the air, have been a powerful tonight, and so wondered
now that we turn to Hannah Violette, the uh, the missus.
We always call you the the better half, and certainly

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how how us guys think about the females in our life,
whether we say it or not, you are our better half.
So let's welcome the better half of the Violets to
the program. Hi, Jeremy, Hannah, it is very, very moving

(01:22:10):
for me to hear what everybody has said about your
late husband on the air tonight. Did you have any
idea that he was this well loved.

Speaker 30 (01:22:24):
I knew, I knew he was far more respected and
and considered then than he thought he was.

Speaker 17 (01:22:35):
But I had no idea.

Speaker 30 (01:22:38):
Just and I'm probably gonna cry. I had no idea,
just so much, and how abroad.

Speaker 17 (01:22:48):
And how wide. I had no idea.

Speaker 30 (01:22:55):
I I'm not the kind of person that pays attention
to what people think of me.

Speaker 17 (01:23:01):
I really don't care.

Speaker 21 (01:23:04):
I don't keep my eyes on that.

Speaker 17 (01:23:06):
I don't.

Speaker 19 (01:23:07):
But no, I had no idea.

Speaker 30 (01:23:11):
It was like this, none at all.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
And you've you've heard it from people who have reached
out and spoken words to you. They they've written songs
to you, and they've opened up their hearts, they've opened
up their pocketbooks, and they've they've donated to help you
get back on your feet. It's it's really has been
a sign of humanity coming together for someone that we

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so loved and respected.

Speaker 30 (01:23:40):
Yes, yes it has been, and it may have renewed
my faith in something larger.

Speaker 17 (01:23:46):
Than we are.

Speaker 4 (01:23:51):
So what what happens here? I mean with Squatch America
and uh and with Scott in fact, or with his
legacy as he had he had told us in his
final video. It just because he was going to be
confined to a wheelchair, it doesn't define who he is,

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doesn't change who he is, It doesn't change what Squatch
America is about. You were just going to have to
regroup and and do things differently, and we didn't know
that that was going to come so so quickly. But
now that you've had a little bit of time to reflect,
what happens with Squatch America.

Speaker 30 (01:24:35):
Well, I'm still thinking about that. We will go forward somehow.
But when I have told our closest Squatch Americans.

Speaker 22 (01:24:51):
Is that when I get.

Speaker 30 (01:24:54):
Settled, you know, when the dust settles, when we get
back to Boise and I passed time to process.

Speaker 17 (01:25:01):
And kind of regroup.

Speaker 30 (01:25:05):
I'm going to call a meeting of the Squatch Americans
and we're going to figure this out together, because that's
what he would have wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
Well, Hannah, I don't know if you know this, but
I do get out to the Boise area a couple
of times a year, So you just let me know
and I'll be there.

Speaker 24 (01:25:24):
I will.

Speaker 30 (01:25:25):
I'll probably do something on zoom or something like that,
you know, so that people can chime in from all
over the country. But now that I'm kind of the
one at the driver's seat, my own my own personality
and my own values are probably going to start shining

(01:25:47):
through a little more. But I want this to be
more than just more than just proving that Bigfoot exists
or even you know, how they live, which is what
our focus was. I want this somehow to and I

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don't know if I have all the right words. I
want this somehow to honor his sacrifice, because I mean,
just it's in our name, Squatch America, and we were
such he was such a devoted.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
Patriot, lived and died for his country.

Speaker 30 (01:26:34):
And and somehow I want Squatch America to reflect the
values that he had for freedom and sovereignty and and
so uh so I'm still chewing on a lot of that,
but one way or the others, watch America goes forward.

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I don't have the video and the YouTube skills and
all that, so I don't know what it's going to
look like. But that is why we need everyone who
loved him and who wants to be part of whatever
movement this has been and is becoming. It's going to
be on all of us to figure that out together.

Speaker 17 (01:27:17):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
Yeah? Yeah, And it will only happen with time, yea.
And time certainly will help us heal through this. I
was so happy that he published his book earlier this year,
and I made sure that I got one of the
first copies. I have said so many times on this program,
how many times people who have had on this program

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and others involved in research of Bigfoot and other phenomenon,
never put what they know in writing. And you know
this this is now public, it's in print, it's public.
And that meant so much to Scott, I know, to

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get that out and to you as well, for him
to get that out.

Speaker 30 (01:28:08):
Yes, yes, and it is something that it is something
that that he had wanted to do for a long time.
And and as it was because we had taken the
year off from from racing from festival to festival, he

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finally had time to sit.

Speaker 13 (01:28:32):
And get it done.

Speaker 30 (01:28:33):
And and I.

Speaker 13 (01:28:37):
Don't think that was an accident.

Speaker 30 (01:28:39):
I think I don't think any of this has been
an accident, even his death, although it was tragic, and
you're talking to one pissed off widow. By the way,
I am pissed off and I will not be I
will not let this go into was it. I will
not let this go into.

Speaker 17 (01:29:00):
The dark Knight.

Speaker 30 (01:29:01):
Gently, people will be hearing from me because he was
not He served his country and his country did.

Speaker 12 (01:29:08):
Not serve him back.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
Sad story that we've heard at time and time again. Sadly,
hand of Violet is with us tonight as we pay
tribute to our late husband, Scott Violet bigfoot, researcher, anthropologist,
veteran preacher, school teacher, stage magician, author, father, husband, friend.

Speaker 13 (01:29:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:32):
I'm probably leaving a few out, but he was everything
to everyone.

Speaker 12 (01:29:35):
Who knew him.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
We'll wrap up our conversation tonight with Hannah in just
a moment.

Speaker 12 (01:29:48):
Into the pair of.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
Jeremy Scott somewhere between the paranormal and the abnormal, as
we remember Scott Violette of Squatch America. Scott joined me
for the very first time on this program prior to
the first Blue Mountain Bigfoot Festival. He actually invited me
to do the radio show and moderate the town hall.

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But it was during our first conversation in March of
that year, March of twenty nineteen, that we learned what
set Scott out on this journey.

Speaker 10 (01:30:40):
I'll tell you something about what kind of got me
into this was the Patterson Gimlin film. I was a
young man and I saw that in the theater as
a newsreel back in the days in the late sixties
when they used to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:30:56):
And I saw that and I thought, Wow, they are real.

Speaker 10 (01:31:00):
And so I spent most of my life out whenever
I'm in the woods looking for them. And then later on,
after studying anthropology, I have noticed things that are in
that film that couldn't possibly have been faked in nineteen
sixty seven. And there's the way it walks is not

(01:31:22):
a human gait by any means, And of course there's
been thousands of people who analyze that, and by looking
up some of their some of the things that have
been analyzed, like the size and stuff, because they've been
able to go back now and look at what lens

(01:31:43):
he was using and be able to measure everything. And
that thing was just a little over eight feet tall
and there's no way a guy in a suit.

Speaker 9 (01:31:53):
Could have filled that.

Speaker 10 (01:31:54):
And so that was one piece of evidence that I
found very credible. And then there's a couple footprint casts
that's been taken over the years that I have found
that couldn't have been faked either.

Speaker 9 (01:32:10):
One of them was the.

Speaker 10 (01:32:13):
What's called the Bosberg track Bosberg Cripple foot, and it
has bigfoot tracks that were one of them. One foot
was crippled, one foot was not, and if you were
to lay the bone structure out in the crippled foot,
it's an actual abnormality that humans have.

Speaker 16 (01:32:34):
It.

Speaker 10 (01:32:34):
And so this footprint was found and as it stepped
on different substrates and things it the foot would flex.
So none of the footprints were the same. So we
found one thy eighty nine of those footprints in a row, so.

Speaker 12 (01:32:52):
That zero.

Speaker 10 (01:32:54):
One zero eight nine, and so it was a flexible
foot and if it was faked, it was faked by
a foot doctor one thy eighty nine times.

Speaker 4 (01:33:05):
So and that's a lot of work to go to
if you're trying to pull one over on someone exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:33:12):
And then of course there's the Freeman film, which is
another one which was taken right here in the Blue
Mountains where I hang out, and there's a footprint cast
that goes along with that that was taken that actually
had dermal ridges, had the fingerprints in it, and that
had been analyzed by a police fingerprint expert and found

(01:33:37):
those fingerprints not to be human. But he also checked
primates and found that they weren't primates either. They were
somewhere in between. So those three pieces of evidence again
in film and those two footprint tracks as convinced me
that these creatures are out there.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
It's a scut Violette. He was held in very high
regard among his bigfoot colleagues. We're talking with his wife
Hannah here, and Hannah, you just posted a picture of
quite an honor. It was your husband at the North
American Bigfoot Center.

Speaker 30 (01:34:14):
Yes, that's, of course is Cliff Berrickman's Bigfoot Center. And
Cliff has an old wooden door that has autographs of
bigfooters of researchers that he holds some high esteem, and
he invited he invited Scott to sign it and just

(01:34:39):
over it, just overwhelmed Scott that the Cliff Berrickman would
invite him, Scott Violet from the Blue Mountains, who is
a nobody.

Speaker 17 (01:34:48):
Among nobodies, to sign his door.

Speaker 30 (01:34:50):
And I always kept trying to tell Scott that you're
not a nobody, but he could never You could never
perceive that.

Speaker 17 (01:34:58):
He always felt so.

Speaker 13 (01:35:01):
Unworthy.

Speaker 4 (01:35:03):
Scott was in the process of developing some products to
help in future generations of bigfoot research.

Speaker 30 (01:35:11):
Yes, he and our son have been hot on the
development of I'll probably get this wrong, but I'll do
my best. A digital acoustic network that will not only
record sounds in the woods, not only identify them, but

(01:35:32):
also triangulate the position from where the sound came from
and do it all digitally over radio frequency using AI.
And Scott was so passionate about getting this out there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
Yeah, actually very passionate.

Speaker 10 (01:35:53):
Hello, I'm Scott from Squatch America and you know our
tagline investigate the unexplained. We don't explain the uninvestigated. For
the past year we've been building something big, the Haller
Point Acoustic network. Imagine a grid of smart microphones that

(01:36:16):
can detect, log and triangulate mysterious sounds in the wilderness,
from wolves to bigfoot, and pinpoint them within feet. This
GoFundMe is to fund our first production run for beta testing.

(01:36:37):
With your help, we can get these units into the
hands of researchers, test them in the field, and prove
how powerful this system really is. Every donation, big or small,
helps us to bring this project to life. Thank you

(01:36:58):
for being a part a Squatch of America and helping
make Colorpoint a reality. Now go out and find Bigfoot, Hannah.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
Scott didn't just believe in bigfoot. He knew bigfoot exists
and he wants to find it with his development here. Yes,
and so as they say, stay tuned right right, Well, Hannah,
thank you for your courage to come forward and to

(01:37:31):
speak out about the wrongdoings and to get justice for Scott.
We respect you, we love you, and if you have
any final words for the audience, we'd love you to
share them now.

Speaker 30 (01:37:45):
Well, I would just invite the books to be part
of this movement. Squatch America and uh you can go
to Squatchamerica dot com and sign up for.

Speaker 19 (01:37:59):
The news that are.

Speaker 30 (01:38:00):
Like I said, I'm not quite sure how long it
will take to get going forward.

Speaker 17 (01:38:05):
But if my.

Speaker 30 (01:38:08):
Husband is listening looking down, I know he's overwhelmed by
the amount of love and support that everyone is giving
me through a second.

Speaker 13 (01:38:20):
Go fund me.

Speaker 30 (01:38:22):
But I think most important is that you know, Squatch
America was never designed to be Scott and Hannah. It
was designed to be everyone contributing their piece of the puzzle,
and that is now because of his departure, That's what
it's going to have to be. We've got to do

(01:38:44):
this together, not just for him and not just for us,
but for that's something that's.

Speaker 17 (01:38:50):
Bigger than ourselves.

Speaker 30 (01:38:53):
And I don't know quite what that means, but maybe
we can figure it out together.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
God bless you, Hannah, and condolences to you and in
your family, and we'll be seeing you soon.

Speaker 30 (01:39:03):
I'll see you in boys next time you go.

Speaker 4 (01:39:05):
That sounds good night, friends.

Speaker 31 (01:39:18):
News came soft on a heavy day that a good
man had to go away.

Speaker 32 (01:39:31):
Scott by a letter Squatch America. You see a life
cut short for you and me. He was a veteran,
strong and true.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
A desert storm souldier through.

Speaker 7 (01:39:48):
And through he found his calling in the world saltyp.

Speaker 32 (01:39:58):
A solemn prom he would always keep.

Speaker 25 (01:40:04):
All Scott and had, And it's for raising to us
saw standing tall, answering the call, a search for a.

Speaker 7 (01:40:14):
Legend, the passion they share, the love for the while
beyond all compared.

Speaker 25 (01:40:20):
He will be missed by friends and by his family,
life well.

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
For the world to see.

Speaker 9 (01:40:30):
So uh I guess we're gonna end with.

Speaker 29 (01:40:33):
You.

Speaker 10 (01:40:33):
Keep watching squatching and go out and find Bigfoot.

Speaker 4 (01:40:39):
Rest in peace, our dear friend, Scott Violent

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