November 23, 2023 • 44 mins
Tonight’s guest, Mike Colontonio, has had several Sasquatch sightings, over the years, in many places. On tonight’s show, Mike’s going to share the details of several sightings he’s had. He’s going to talk about a sighting he had in the Adirondacks, a sighting he had in Korea, and the time he was less than 20 feet from one, on Long Island, that was 10-foot-tall and 1,000 pounds. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to him do that.
Mike has his own Bigfoot-specific YouTube Channel, called “Long Island Bigfoot.” If you haven’t listened to any of his shows, you really should check his channel out. Here’s a link to it…
https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSasquatch
If you’ve had a Bigfoot sighting and would like to be a guest, on the show, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and let us know. We’d love to hear from you. Premium memberships are now available!
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Show's theme song, "Banjo Music," courtesy Nathan Brumley
I produce 3 other podcasts that are available for listening on your favorite podcast app. If you haven’t checked them out, already, here are links to them…
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio https://www.spreaker.com/show/bigfoot-eyewitness-radio_1 Dogman Encounters https://www.spreaker.com/show/dogman-encounters-radio_2
My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience
Thanks for listening!
Mike has his own Bigfoot-specific YouTube Channel, called “Long Island Bigfoot.” If you haven’t listened to any of his shows, you really should check his channel out. Here’s a link to it…
https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSasquatch
If you’ve had a Bigfoot sighting and would like to be a guest, on the show, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and let us know. We’d love to hear from you. Premium memberships are now available!
If you’d like to be able to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com to find out how to become a premium member.
If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own My Bigfoot Sighting t-shirt, sweatshirt, or tank top, please visit the My Bigfoot Sighting Show Store Page, by going to...
https://dogman-encounters.myshopify.com/collections/mens-my-bigfoot-sighting-collection
Show's theme song, "Banjo Music," courtesy Nathan Brumley
I produce 3 other podcasts that are available for listening on your favorite podcast app. If you haven’t checked them out, already, here are links to them…
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio https://www.spreaker.com/show/bigfoot-eyewitness-radio_1 Dogman Encounters https://www.spreaker.com/show/dogman-encounters-radio_2
My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience
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Hey, you there, thanks fortuning in. You're ready for another episode
of My big Foot Sighting. Allright, then let's do this. Seen
a bunch of run down, nohorse towns where the church at the backbonels
and the bow and the fasting melodies, cove in with the bone man rose
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with the roosse, run deep beyondthe nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the South of So thenwhen I hear the prompt porch picking down
home rhythm bringing out I Don't Runfrom Banjum music. Yeah. If you'd
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to bonus content, that's an option. To find out how, please go
to my Bigfoot Sighting dot com.My Bigfoot Sighting started in twenty eighteen.
I was getting myself together. Ihad been in the military for a few
years, and I had just gottenback from Afghanistan and I got back to
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Long Island, New York, andI was putting myself through different therapies for
different things, between addiction and PTSD, and I found myself not really comfortable
with, you know, mainstream society, and I was looking for an alternative
to being indoors every day, andthere was these beautiful, beautiful woods nearby,
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and you know, interlocking trails andstreams and different things like that in
the immediate area. And I justsaid, you know, let me just
go and embrace this. And Idid that about every single day for five
years, five or six years,and nothing was really out of the order,
at least nothing that I was soakingin. Now. One particular day,
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I had been planning for a tripto the Pack West, and I
was starting to get an interest inSasquatch, and I didn't really know what
to expect from them. I didn'tknow anything about a Sasquatch or a bigfoot.
I just knew that they intrigued mea little bit. And I had
always had this mindset of, evensince a child, there's got to be
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something else to this world. Therehas to be, like, it can't
just be nine to five, Soit can't just be traffic, can't just
be politics, and so on andso forth. And I would walk these
woods and I would similar to achild, because I didn't necessarily believe that
I was going to see a sasquatchin New York, especially on Long Island,
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but I did, and on thisparticular day, I had been like
a child pretending, you know,pretending almost like every day, almost like
preparing myself as a military guy.We know muscle memory, right, So
you go and you do things overand over and over and over and over
until it becomes kind of part ofyour part of you, if you will,
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and it becomes almost natural to thepoint where there's no faults. And
so that's what I was doing.I was kind of practicing and creating a
muscle memory for what I was goingto do when I got out there,
and it was just my little wayto escape and get out of the every
day norm, if you will.Now, I bumped into a sasquatch this
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particular day, and I don't knowreally how else to put it, because
that's exactly how it happened. Iwas walking and just talking and all of
a sudden, this was the mostunexpected thing I have ever ever experienced in
my life, and I did notknow. Looking back, I don't think
there was any thought process involved.And I'll just tell you exactly how it
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went down. It was just likeany other I have been walking those trails
for five almost six years, everysingle day, every day for at least
an hour or two and nothing,and then for a ten foot thousand pound
humanoid covered in hair to be withintwenty feet of you is mind blowing.
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Now. I know a lot ofpeople might not be familiar with what a
sasquatch was, but this is somethingthat makes you I wasn't either, and
this is something that really makes yousearch for answers. I believe at this
point this is when people say I'mgoing to move to the city or I
need more answers, and I'm goingto you know, continue to go out
there and find more. It tookme about two days of being a vegetable
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to say I need more answers.Now, backpedaling to the experience itself,
I had been looking down and justkind of walking around and looking at my
feed and looking at the floor,you know, handing around, looking at
nature, so on and so forth. And as I panned back up from
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the ground, there was this giantjust standing there. It was black,
covered in hair, dark dark hair, massive, muscular, has like this
gray kind of leathery type face foryou know, skin is showing. It
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was beautiful, Honestly, it wasbeautiful. His hair was flowing very fluidly.
It's the best way I can describeit. It wasn't messy. Almost
looked like if you could go tothe best hairstylist ever ever and get a
hair your hair done' that's how goodI look. It wasn't long, it
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was short hair, but still veryfluid. It all it all meshed into
the other hair. And mind you, this is you know, we're not
talking about just hair on top ofyour head. This is hair covering the
entire body. I don't remember seeinganything around its feet area. I kind
of started at where you would normallylook. Eye level for a human is
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not eye level for them. Andit was about double my size and height,
and then weight wise, it's justI don't know, I say a
thousand pounds, but that's just aguestimate, right. It's hard to put
an exact height and an exact weighton them. You have to look at
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different things, like what they're standingon, befo, we're talking completely physical.
What are they standing on? Whereare they standing is at the same
level as you because you're not standingin a cafeteria or you know, something
like that. You're in the woodson different terrain, but you know,
give her a take within a footit was about ten foot and i'd ranged
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at about a thousand pounds. Hiseyes were pretty black for the most part.
I don't remember any real detail aboutthe eyes, and mind you,
I'll tell you how I reacted asI panned up and saw it. I
didn't take in too much detail becauseof the shock I went into. I
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looked up and as I panned up, and I guess I started to process
what was going on. You know, it was all within a one to
two second period. My body reactedin the fight or flight, but I
didn't run. It reacted in flightmode, but I didn't run. I
chose flight straight to the ground.This was just my reaction. There was
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no thought process involved. I droppedto the ground. I curled in the
field position. I started crying uncontrollably. I think I started yelling no,
no, and pointing that way.I really want to be clear about the
fact that there was nothing threatening.Just the sheer size was enough to send
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my whole world crashing. And Ihad been preparing, or so I thought
I thought I was. I wasa soldier, and I was preparing for
what I was going to do ifand when I possibly saw a sasquatch.
When I did this trip to thePacific Northwest in the near future, and
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then it happened right there where itwasn't supposed to do. And I didn't
know anything about them. I hadno idea. I only thought that they
existed in the Pack West and BC, Canada, things like that. I
just had no idea. I hadno clue about suburban Sasquatch. I had
no idea, mind you, LongIsland, of all places. It's not
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part of our culture here. There'snothing to prepare you for this. Down
the line a little bit, Idid realize that there were a lot of
people that have had experiences, andthey were pretty public about it, but
not too public, you know,there's just not enough that makes you want
to just come out and talk aboutit. But I had to. It
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was my way of it was myway of dealing with it, I guess,
and getting involved with other people.So this is my first bigfoot sighting.
So I thought backpedaling a little waysI had thought about it. Later
on, as I went more andmore and more in depth into all this
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stuff. I had thought about thesedifferent times in my life where things didn't
add up. There was two thatreally really struck me. One was in
South Korea, and one was rightoutside Fort Benning and Georgia, both times
I was in the military. Theone at Fort Benning was in the middle
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of the night. I was witha buddy of mine. It was my
roommate. We lived together in Alabama, but we were on the Georgia side
going in the front gate of FortBenning. Now, if the front gate
of Fort Benning looks like a tollbooth in the middle of the night in
a big, big place, andyou pull up to it, but there's
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a bunch of guys with rifles andthings to that effect, right handguns,
military police, So you don't reallygo up to that gate and mess around.
You pull up, you have yourhands at ten and two, you
give them an ID card, andyou hope you don't get messed with enough,
and you go through the gate andyou move on. So at this
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particular evening, I stopped dead aboutone hundred yards off from the gate because
I've seen something out of my driver'sside window, and it was massive,
I mean massive. It was onall fours and it was shaking the bushes
and trees, and it was comingin and out of the tree line,
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and I could totally totally tell thatit was so out of place. And
I'm stepping out of the truck nowand I'm pointing and the guy he's from
Queens, New York, and hetells me, he confirms that he sees
it too, but he's a littleinebriated, so I'm like, I'm not
really getting much out of him.So I'm really trying to presss what's going
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on. But I'm also panting backand forth to the front gate because now
I see them screaming and waving meon to come up, and so they
start coming out to me, themilitary police, and I'm still pointing,
like you don't understand what I'm lookingat. You need to see this.
You don't understand. They're like,come on, come on, come on.
I'm like, no, no,no, no, no, you
don't understand what I'm looking at.And it's at this point, doing this
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figure eight movement. It's this likeit's the thing that people referred to as
a spider crawl, and it's veryit's very accurate. It's it moves.
It's hard to see something that's somassive move in these in these figure eight
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spider like movements. I don't knowhow to explain it. But it was
so fast and so fluid that itjust was mind blowing to the point where
I refused to move. I justhad to keep pointing, and they came
to me eventually and said, no, it's just a bore. They get
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really big. You know, it'sGeorgia. You don't know what you're talking
about. Just getting your truck pulledthrough, very military like, like getting
your trucks older, like blah blah, getting your pov go go go.
You know, and you do.You do what you're told for the most
part, and this was just somethingthat looking back, I do believe I
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saw a satiswatch. I don't thinkthat was a bore. I processed it
for a long time, and Ireally don't think I was looking at it
Hogzilla at all. The other timein Korea was very very quick. I
was going to a we were travelingaways a group of people I was with.
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We were traveling aways off and Iwas on a bus and we were
traveling to a place called Everland.It's like this theme park up in the
mountains somewhere, and I don't reallyto this day know where it was or
you know, how we got there. I can't really remember there was there
were so many things that we didand traveled to and went all over and
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just kind of tried to experience differentstuff. And I remember being on the
bus and just having you know,I was over overcrowded, and I just
kind of had like I was tryingto use my escape method and avoid the
uncomfortable crowding of the bus and Ijust kind of had my face up against
the glass and was staring out theside window. The way Korea is set
up is at least rural. Theydon't waste a inch of the land.
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It comes right up to the road. The rice patties come right up to
the road. Everything everything comes rightup to the street. It was not
like well manicured areas is not gardens. Every inch is used and or every
inch is not disturbed. And onthis particular occasion, I saw something right
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out the window. And I don'tknow if it crossed the road prior to
that in front of us, orit came out of the bush and went
back in, but what I sawwas going really really quickly into the brush,
and it was again it was onall fours, but it was so
massive, and I remember as wedrove by seeing this thing kind of going
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in and out real quick and thengoing eventually in and disappearing. And for
this massive, massive thing, whateverit was, hindsight, I don't really
know if it was sasquatch or dogman or maybe something I don't really know
about necessarily yet, but for itto disappear into that bush just it was
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like watching a giant just run intothe brush, the low, low rice
paddy brush and then just disappear again. There's not really much else to this
story. I just drove by it, and I kind of remember just pointing
and saying something and everyone just brushingme off, and you know, you
just kind of forget about it.You're not going to make a big scene.
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You're on the bus with a bunchof people that don't speak the same
language as you, and you knowthe few people you're with will kind of
make fun of you if you bringit up. So I just remember kind
of brushing it under the rug andforgetting about it. But as I learned
more and more about was really outthere, old memories like that started to
pop up, and finally I addressedthem and would say, hey, I
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don't think I saw something normal thatday. Backpedaling a little ways back to
this original encounter I was talking about, there was really nothing scary. I
don't know if I touched on thisyet, but there was nothing scary that
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happened. It did not show itsteeth, it didn't roar at me,
it didn't bluff charge me. Itwas just simply there. And the sheer
size of it is what really reallyscared me. But it wasn't enough for
me to say that these things werethreatening, you know. It was just
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my fear that kept me from reallyprocessing what was in front of me.
And what was in front of mewas beautiful. It was an anomaly,
it was an eighth World wonder,and the way I treated it was not
acceptable for me, so I continuedto search. I've had a lot of
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experiences along the way. I've hada lot of bigfoot sightings along the way.
I guess it depends what you categorizethem as. I've learned that they're
not strictly flesh and blood. Now, that's not necessarily to say that there
there's not more answers out there thanwhat I've found. I'm not that ignorant
to say that I'm a small portionof what's got to be out there right.
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But this other particular occasion I wantto talk about is pretty amazing.
It was a beautiful, beautiful dayand I was just hiking in one of
these regular places that I that Ifrequent I called the bamboo forest. There's
just these two huge bamboo areas thatdon't belong in this area. I don't
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know how they got there, butI'm not complaining. And there's beautiful,
beautiful trails that you can hike,and they're just regular woods, but on
the edge of each side there's thishuge bamboo far It is probably about a
dozen acres maybe, I mean,I give or take. I'm not exactly
sure. I'm just guessing, buton each side. I had hike these
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trails multiple multiple times before and justenjoyed it. In general, it would
normally come in up to this point, and I'd come across this huge field
and then into the woods, andas I would come through the trail,
it would it would wind in andthen it comes to a fork. If
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you go left, you hit thefirst bamboo farest section, and then if
you go right, it winds throughand then you hit the other bamboo far
a section which was more appealing tome for the most part because it was
more wide open. It was justnice. It was like you could go
in there and you could breathe becausethere's a little trail that goes through the
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middle. It was just really enjoyable, not like the one on the other
side. You have to go andgo off trail and you have to kind
of bushwhack to get there, andyou get cut up by thorns, and
then when you get inside it,there's really no way to get through.
There's all this interlocking, interweaving,vent and broken and all these different bamboo
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all over the place. There's actuallya teepee in there, which is kind
of odd made of bamboo, whichis to this day, I still don't
know what did that or why itwould be done, but it's interesting.
So on this particular day, Iwent that way and as I came through,
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I passed by, I went inthere. I went in the bamboo
section, and there was some weirdstuff that I hadn't seen before, Like
it looked like there was an alicein Wonderland. They were not been there,
and just some things that were justreally really off. Nothing out of
the norm that would really throw meoff though, or take me off my
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game. So Eventually I backpedaled tothe trail and I came up the hill
and it's really nice. There's afew houses with huge property. I think
one is a farm. So I'mnot really thinking too much about it.
You know, I'm still pretty nearsuburbia at this point, or rural area,
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if you will. And I comeback round and I come down the
hill, and I have my cameraout because i'm videoing, and just like
another normal day, I'm just kindof talking to the camera and processing what
I'm seeing. And I come downthis hill and about halfway down the hill,
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I pinned to my right and thereis this It doesn't belong. It's
this massive, massive white head,and it's just staring at me, if
it's even staring at me, butit's looking at my direction. And when
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I lock eyes with it, itseyes were these giant, giant black sockets.
The inside of those eyes were dancing. Lights were flickering and dancing different
colors. It was going between bluesand purples and reds, almost as if
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it was like blue and red,but it would also do a mix of
the two. I don't know howto explain that. To this day.
I don't know if I ever will, But I do believe I was looking
at a white sasquatch. So I'mlooking at this white sasquatch, and I
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don't really know how this occurred.There's so many different possibilities and ways you
can address this. I'll leave itup to your beliefs and your understandings when
it comes to the Bigfoot. ButI turned away, and mind you,
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this was the most massive thing you'veever seen. And I turned away for
a brief second, and when Iturned back to look, it had disappeared
completely, without a sound, withouta trace. This is just like the
first experience I had where I droppedto the ground and the fetal position.
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I was screaming and crying, andmind you, all that happened in seconds,
and when I looked back up withouta trace, that sasquatch had disappeared
as well. I don't want topretend like I have all the answers,
because I don't. There's some understandingthat I've gained over the years, but
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I don't have all the answers,and I'm not going to force anything that
I've learned on anybody else. Butthat is one thing that I have learned,
is that at least for a fact. They can just disappear on you
without making a sound. Another experienceI had was I had been pretty much
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working long on the Eastern End forquite a while now, and I wanted
to try to challenge myself and expand. So I started to go up to
the mountains in the Catskills of NewYork and even at Arondacks at times too
different areas, and I really wantedto start deepening my understanding and seeing what
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they looked like in different areas.So I started to work my way up
to the mountains and do different things. And one of the things I started
to do was I started the campand I started to go camping solo,
and I learned to I started doingit in the pine barrens of the Line.
I started out there working my wayinto what I needed to make it
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through the night, and this andthat, and just kind of practicing,
if you will. And people laughat me when I say that, but
the last thing you want to dois end up in the middle of nowhere
with not enough of what you need. So what I would do is just
kind of go to a campgrounds andyou know, get a again, it's
muscle memory, right, You getan understanding of everything you need so that
when you get out there in thesehigh pressure situations or situations where you don't
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have that ability to just go andgrab something, you're prepared. And you
don't want to be underprepared for thiskind of stuff because you leave too many
variables. And if the way Ilook at it is if I'm worried about
how much fire would I have,or if I'm going to freeze tonight,
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or if I'm this or that's goingto happen one way or another, I'm
going to start to get outside ofthe proper mindset I want to have to
set myself up for an experience.So what I did was I started going
out into the mountains and on thisparticular occasion, I said, now let
me grab one of my team andsee if they want to go out.
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And it ended up being one guyout of the twelve up there and he
came with me and he was like, Oh, I've never been here.
This place is great. It wasthis beautiful, beautiful place. It was
called Overlook Mountain. It's near Woodstock, New York. It's at the very
very top of this I mean gorgeousgorge and you get to the top and
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there's this huge monk retreat and monasteryI believe it's called. And at the
edge of that is this beautiful,beautiful trails, and you can park at
the top and go up this veryvery hefty incline to get to the overall,
or you can work the trails atthat particular parking lot. But what
a lot of people don't know isif you ignore that original, Oh my
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god, look at this place,and you go back round down the hill,
there's this lower lot and down therethere's a place called Magic Meadow,
and it's gorgeous, and locals andpeople like myself that know about it will
go down there and go camping init. So kind of when everybody's gone
for the day and you know,you put up your stuff and you go
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out there. So on this particulartime, I said, all right,
I'll go out there ahead of timeand i'll set everything up. I walked
around, and I was getting agood feeling about the place, like I
always do, and I said,you know, I think tonight's the night
I'm going to put up the tents. We'll get you know, maybe we'll
get something good. And I wasn'treally sure what to make of it.
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I had never been out there overnight, but I was optimistic and I started
setting up and next thing you know, he arrived and he was very enthralled
with the place. And it's gorgeous. You walk across this bridge and it's
this beautiful flowing creek, and thenyou come up through these woods and you
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know, just up the hill isthis. It opens up into this meadow
and it's gorgeous and there's this beautiful, beautiful view of the mountains. And
long story short, we were expectingsome rain, so I said, you
know what, I'm going to putit under the canopy just at the edge
of the of the meadow. SoI did that. We set up camp
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lights and fires, get everything going. And at this particular time, I
had got this like feeling like thatwe weren't alone. And he says to
me too, the same thing.He says, yeah, I could feel
it. I could feel it.I said, okay, all right,
So I said, I got agood feeling about tonight. It's going to
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be pretty active. And this particularoccasion, we waited for dark. We
had a good time. We werejust chopping it up and hanging out,
and dark came pretty fast and bythe time we were done setting up,
dark came pretty fast and it wasn'ta lot going on, not too much.
I had left some things around forthem, and I said, you
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know what, let me see ifI can entice something. So at this
point, it's pitch black. Imean it is pitch black. You can't
see anything, there's nothing, there'sno sound. You're just you could see
as far as the fire goes.I have this little plan where I I
make like three fires so that there'llbe one at the edge of camp,
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and then there's one that just smokesa lot because that's good for the bugs,
and then I have one that's justthe main fire for the main lighting
area. So I had taken anapple. I said, let's see what
we can entice them, and thesasquatch I'm talking about in particular, and
I said, I'm just going tothrow this out there and see what happens.
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And I took the apple and Ijust threw it out into the darkness,
and you heard it hit a treeout in the darkness. You heard
it, you know, it brokelike a you know, an apple would
against a tree. And before wecould even kind of giggle about the sound,
it made. We started to youknow, and right next to both
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our feet a rock landed right infront of us. Right then and there,
we knew we weren't alone for sure. You know, for sure,
at this point, my attention isreally peaked and my interest is really peaked.
I said, Okay, I'm notgoing to throw nothing back out there.
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I don't know if that upset youor what, but let's just be
more respectful and more courteous and letyou guys come to us. You're obviously
out there. We started to bepatient and just kind of sit and talk
and do a little singing and thingslike that, and express our gratitude towards
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them and letting us stay in theirhome, etc. When you're in that
place where you're in the middle ofthe woods or the forest or wherever you
are, where we were was wasn'tsuper super remote as far as they're not
being a road nearby. Our carwas probably a quarter or a half mile
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off, so it wasn't too tooscary, but it was enough where you're
in the middle of the dark andyou're not near anything, and you just
feel like the fish bowl, youknow, when if you have a fish
tank in your house and you haveall your lights off, but your fish
tank light is on. That's whatit feels like. It's the best way
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I can describe it is you're insomebody else's home and you have yourself self
illuminated like you're in a fish tank, and once in a while the big
food come by and tap the glasslike hey, And that's just what it
feels like. And on this night, we chose to be the fish,
right. It's the best experiment Icould think of at least, and to
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be humble and respectful and just kindof show up and just say, hey,
whatever you want to show me,you could show me. We started
to hear voices. At this point, my friend Ian decided to give.
He felt like there was young onesaround, so he decided to give some
snacks like twizzlers and things like that, and right where he had gifted them,
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we could hear these voices. Thebest way I could describe it was
fraggle rock. And I said thisto him, I said, it sounds
like fraggle rock, and I rememberhe kind of laughed about it. Whatever.
I didn't know at the time thathe didn't know what freckle rock was,
and I didn't really even know whatit was like. I remember it
from a child, but I didn'treally I didn't really watch it or anything,
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so I kind of I kind ofjust subconsciously, I guess, went
to somewhere to find an analogy.But he did. He says, you
know, when I went out thenext day and looked up Fraggle Rock,
he said, you're absolutely right,that's exactly what it sounded like. Where
I want to go with this isthere was two of us there, and
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we were having similar experiences. Upto this point. I started to get
this inkling that they were going tosomehow put me into like a sleep state,
like a really really good sleep state, and they were going to interact
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with Ian. I couldn't really understandwhy. I didn't really know what to
make of it. But I don'tsleep well when i'm camping, especially in
a new place like that. WhenI'm out remotely like that, I don't
sleep well at all at all.I'm up and down if I'm even asleep
at all, because my ears arealways open. You hear something in the
night and it really makes you kindof was that what was that? Right?
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You're not a home in your bedwith your walls around you it's not
warm or it's not cool, whetherit's summer or winter, is a very
very uncomfortable type of sleep. ButI remember saying to myself, well,
what's this all about? So Iwandered off. He was in his tent,
and I wandered off, and Isaid, let me just go and
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kind of tune in with the forestand see what this is about and make
sure because I have somebody with meand I can't afford to be off my
game. I need to be onpoint. I felt very very responsible.
Whenever I bring somebody in the woods, I feel very very responsible for them,
and it's almost like it's not aboutdisappointing them with the experience, it's
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about keeping them safe. So Iwalked off. I walked out into the
dark, where it was uncomfortable forme, but I knew I would be
able to really tune in and seewhat was going on. And I heard
these what sounded like owl calls,but they were very off brand. You
might say, how do you knowan owls? An owl? Right?
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Like? How do you know ifyou can't see anything? And how do
you know if for sure? AndI don't have a necessarily good answer for
that as far as then normal waysof thinking. I very much just tune
in on a deeper level than thefive senses that were given, you know,
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at birth. So I was listening, I heard these owl calls,
and I said to them, Hey, can you please be kind to us
tonight. He's new to this.Can you go easy on him if you're
going to put me under or putme in some kind of sleep state.
And I was very uncomfortable with this, you know, I was very worried
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that he was just going to gothrough things and I wouldn't be there for
him. And that was really whatwas bothering me. Not like you know,
getting extra sleep, right, thatdoesn't bother anybody, But it was
just very It was something very verynew to me that I had never never
experienced. And at this point iswhen I had another bigfoot sighting. I
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don't think I've ever spoken about thisbefore. At the edge of my light,
I could see these faces emerge.They were different sizes. There was
two, possibly three, I don'twant to say small, because they were
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larger than I was. There wasone that was bigger than the other two
and possibly three and they were justat the edge of my light and they
were big The smaller ones that werelarger than me were probably around six to
seven seven foot and the other onewas about a footer a foot and a
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half larger than they were. Thelarger one looked wrinkly, if you will,
Like I've like the leathery face Iwas talking about earlier, was like
very tight, like it was justlike a smooth leather jacket. This particular
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face of this particular sasquatch had wrinklesto it, almost like a baseball glove
has like knit over it, right, And all as I could think of
that was that this was an old, old bigfoot. It was an old
old Sasquatch, and I couldn't geta great look at it. But I
got the inkling that it was afemale, maybe a very old female,
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and that maybe these were her grandkids. Now, mind you, this is
a speculation, but I'm just goingoff what the vibe felt like, and
that will double back to sight.I never got a good look at the
kids, or the younger ones,I should say, the smaller ones.
I didn't ever see their face indetail. I don't know if that's something
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cultural or something that I'm you know, it wasn't supposed to be privy to
or it was just because they wereat the edge of darkness. That's that's
up to you to decide. Icould just kind of tell you what happened,
and it was like I got thissense of just by looking at her
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that I have this sense of,Hey, everything's gonna be okay. You're
just going to sleep good tonight andeverything will be fine. We'll take care
of it. You might ask yourself, how do you trust that? Well,
I don't know, I really atthis point. It's really just a
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trust based respect and an understanding.In my opinion, I go in those
woods every single day, different places, all the time. If something wanted
to hurt me, it would haveand could have done it already. It
could have toyed with me any whichway it chose to. But they don't.
They choose to show me respect andlove, and that's what I give
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him return. So I'm going todouble back and say that I went to
the camp and I talked to Ianabout it, and while he was very
nervous about what I was telling him, I said, look, I don't
I don't know what to tell you, but I got a feeling I'm going
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to be knocked out tonight and youknow it's going to be a little a
little crazy for you, but youmight have some experiences. And he said,
okay, okay, and we bothwent to bed pretty soon after that.
And again, I'll tell you this, I don't sleep well at all.
And I remember him waking me upsometime around summarize or something to that
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effect, and he was waking meup in the middle of the night asking
me, do you see that?Do you hear that? You know?
And he was having a lot ofexperiences of his own that I won't touch
on because I don't know if Ishould speak for him. But there was
a lot of stuff going on throughoutthe night, and I slept, I
did. I ended up sleeping throughit all. There was a lot going
on out there. And when wewoke up, I remember him just saying
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like, man, like, Idon't know how you slept through all that,
and I said, I don't knoweither, But again, I just
I just enjoy it. I reallyenjoy it. And there's so many different
things to embrace out there, andyou never really know what you're gonna get,
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right. You don't know what you'regonna get or what you're gonna see
or what you're gonna experience. Butwhen it comes to this kind of stuff,
you could just almost bet that it'sgoing to be something you're not ready
for, maybe something uncomfortable, maybesomething scary. But at the end of
the day, you just kind ofgot to process it. And I love
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what I do, and I lovedall these big foot sightings that I've had.
Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a big Foot
siding and would like to be aguest, please go to my Bigfoot Siding
dot com and let us know.Thanks for listening. Have a great night
seeing a bunch of run down newhost towns where the church at the backble
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loves and the bow in the fastingmelodies coove in that the bomb man rose
with a roos, run deep beyondthe nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the South of su.Then I when I hear the prompboat picking
down home rhythm, bring a nut, I don't run from banjong music.
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Yeah, the sound of a memorybrings me back to the bluegrass playing the
Madadi jack. It's become many beenthrough it, getting through the day on
scrugs and skags. Booking name balesthrough this Tennessee jams. There's no the
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way that I do it. WhenI hear the plumpboat picking down home rhythm
bringing nat, I don't run frombanjong music. Yeah, something galling backwards
back woods and double time getting there, the sword and the strumbling look and
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took a start. There's nothing inthe strumming now country boy living mom and
I hear the proud boat picking downrhythm bringing us po from from mans the
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city last drows me. While onthe two music cars rushing by with the
paste on the sterios to man andI hear the brown boat picking down on
them bringing nuts. Run from bangof the music. Yeah, something galling
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backwards back woods and double tib gettingthere, the sword and the strumbling looking
TOOKI start the don the d strummingdown cuts your born living. I'm when
I hit a bum boards picking downread the brilliant das battle from the bil
bedroom summing DNA backwards backwards and doubledown looking in the soul and the trumming
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looking tuck start because of the ads. Trumming down cuts your boy living.
When I hit a bum boats pickingda bring the bad Chicken Batsman Mona's been
swinget tea kind of says from Biltbedroom music, Hell's that's p
Hey, you there, thanks fortuning in. You're ready for another episode
of My big Foot Sighting. Allright, then let's do this. Seen
a bunch of run down, nohorse towns where the church at the backbonels
and the bow and the fasting melodies, cove in with the bone man rose
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with the roosse, run deep beyondthe nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the South of So thenwhen I hear the prompt porch picking down
home rhythm bringing out I Don't Runfrom Banjum music. Yeah. If you'd
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like to be able to listen tothe show without ads and have full access
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to my Bigfoot Sighting dot com.My Bigfoot Sighting started in twenty eighteen.
I was getting myself together. Ihad been in the military for a few
years, and I had just gottenback from Afghanistan and I got back to
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Long Island, New York, andI was putting myself through different therapies for
different things, between addiction and PTSD, and I found myself not really comfortable
with, you know, mainstream society, and I was looking for an alternative
to being indoors every day, andthere was these beautiful, beautiful woods nearby,
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and you know, interlocking trails andstreams and different things like that in
the immediate area. And I justsaid, you know, let me just
go and embrace this. And Idid that about every single day for five
years, five or six years,and nothing was really out of the order,
at least nothing that I was soakingin. Now. One particular day,
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I had been planning for a tripto the Pack West, and I
was starting to get an interest inSasquatch, and I didn't really know what
to expect from them. I didn'tknow anything about a Sasquatch or a bigfoot.
I just knew that they intrigued mea little bit. And I had
always had this mindset of, evensince a child, there's got to be
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something else to this world. Therehas to be, like, it can't
just be nine to five, Soit can't just be traffic, can't just
be politics, and so on andso forth. And I would walk these
woods and I would similar to achild, because I didn't necessarily believe that
I was going to see a sasquatchin New York, especially on Long Island,
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but I did, and on thisparticular day, I had been like
a child pretending, you know,pretending almost like every day, almost like
preparing myself as a military guy.We know muscle memory, right, So
you go and you do things overand over and over and over and over
until it becomes kind of part ofyour part of you, if you will,
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and it becomes almost natural to thepoint where there's no faults. And
so that's what I was doing.I was kind of practicing and creating a
muscle memory for what I was goingto do when I got out there,
and it was just my little wayto escape and get out of the every
day norm, if you will.Now, I bumped into a sasquatch this
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particular day, and I don't knowreally how else to put it, because
that's exactly how it happened. Iwas walking and just talking and all of
a sudden, this was the mostunexpected thing I have ever ever experienced in
my life, and I did notknow. Looking back, I don't think
there was any thought process involved.And I'll just tell you exactly how it
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went down. It was just likeany other I have been walking those trails
for five almost six years, everysingle day, every day for at least
an hour or two and nothing,and then for a ten foot thousand pound
humanoid covered in hair to be withintwenty feet of you is mind blowing.
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Now. I know a lot ofpeople might not be familiar with what a
sasquatch was, but this is somethingthat makes you I wasn't either, and
this is something that really makes yousearch for answers. I believe at this
point this is when people say I'mgoing to move to the city or I
need more answers, and I'm goingto you know, continue to go out
there and find more. It tookme about two days of being a vegetable
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to say I need more answers.Now, backpedaling to the experience itself,
I had been looking down and justkind of walking around and looking at my
feed and looking at the floor,you know, handing around, looking at
nature, so on and so forth. And as I panned back up from
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the ground, there was this giantjust standing there. It was black,
covered in hair, dark dark hair, massive, muscular, has like this
gray kind of leathery type face foryou know, skin is showing. It
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was beautiful, Honestly, it wasbeautiful. His hair was flowing very fluidly.
It's the best way I can describeit. It wasn't messy. Almost
looked like if you could go tothe best hairstylist ever ever and get a
hair your hair done' that's how goodI look. It wasn't long, it
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was short hair, but still veryfluid. It all it all meshed into
the other hair. And mind you, this is you know, we're not
talking about just hair on top ofyour head. This is hair covering the
entire body. I don't remember seeinganything around its feet area. I kind
of started at where you would normallylook. Eye level for a human is
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not eye level for them. Andit was about double my size and height,
and then weight wise, it's justI don't know, I say a
thousand pounds, but that's just aguestimate, right. It's hard to put
an exact height and an exact weighton them. You have to look at
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different things, like what they're standingon, befo, we're talking completely physical.
What are they standing on? Whereare they standing is at the same
level as you because you're not standingin a cafeteria or you know, something
like that. You're in the woodson different terrain, but you know,
give her a take within a footit was about ten foot and i'd ranged
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at about a thousand pounds. Hiseyes were pretty black for the most part.
I don't remember any real detail aboutthe eyes, and mind you,
I'll tell you how I reacted asI panned up and saw it. I
didn't take in too much detail becauseof the shock I went into. I
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looked up and as I panned up, and I guess I started to process
what was going on. You know, it was all within a one to
two second period. My body reactedin the fight or flight, but I
didn't run. It reacted in flightmode, but I didn't run. I
chose flight straight to the ground.This was just my reaction. There was
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no thought process involved. I droppedto the ground. I curled in the
field position. I started crying uncontrollably. I think I started yelling no,
no, and pointing that way.I really want to be clear about the
fact that there was nothing threatening.Just the sheer size was enough to send
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my whole world crashing. And Ihad been preparing, or so I thought
I thought I was. I wasa soldier, and I was preparing for
what I was going to do ifand when I possibly saw a sasquatch.
When I did this trip to thePacific Northwest in the near future, and
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then it happened right there where itwasn't supposed to do. And I didn't
know anything about them. I hadno idea. I only thought that they
existed in the Pack West and BC, Canada, things like that. I
just had no idea. I hadno clue about suburban Sasquatch. I had
no idea, mind you, LongIsland, of all places. It's not
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part of our culture here. There'snothing to prepare you for this. Down
the line a little bit, Idid realize that there were a lot of
people that have had experiences, andthey were pretty public about it, but
not too public, you know,there's just not enough that makes you want
to just come out and talk aboutit. But I had to. It
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was my way of it was myway of dealing with it, I guess,
and getting involved with other people.So this is my first bigfoot sighting.
So I thought backpedaling a little waysI had thought about it. Later
on, as I went more andmore and more in depth into all this
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stuff. I had thought about thesedifferent times in my life where things didn't
add up. There was two thatreally really struck me. One was in
South Korea, and one was rightoutside Fort Benning and Georgia, both times
I was in the military. Theone at Fort Benning was in the middle
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of the night. I was witha buddy of mine. It was my
roommate. We lived together in Alabama, but we were on the Georgia side
going in the front gate of FortBenning. Now, if the front gate
of Fort Benning looks like a tollbooth in the middle of the night in
a big, big place, andyou pull up to it, but there's
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a bunch of guys with rifles andthings to that effect, right handguns,
military police, So you don't reallygo up to that gate and mess around.
You pull up, you have yourhands at ten and two, you
give them an ID card, andyou hope you don't get messed with enough,
and you go through the gate andyou move on. So at this
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particular evening, I stopped dead aboutone hundred yards off from the gate because
I've seen something out of my driver'sside window, and it was massive,
I mean massive. It was onall fours and it was shaking the bushes
and trees, and it was comingin and out of the tree line,
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and I could totally totally tell thatit was so out of place. And
I'm stepping out of the truck nowand I'm pointing and the guy he's from
Queens, New York, and hetells me, he confirms that he sees
it too, but he's a littleinebriated, so I'm like, I'm not
really getting much out of him.So I'm really trying to presss what's going
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on. But I'm also panting backand forth to the front gate because now
I see them screaming and waving meon to come up, and so they
start coming out to me, themilitary police, and I'm still pointing,
like you don't understand what I'm lookingat. You need to see this.
You don't understand. They're like,come on, come on, come on.
I'm like, no, no,no, no, no, you
don't understand what I'm looking at.And it's at this point, doing this
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figure eight movement. It's this likeit's the thing that people referred to as
a spider crawl, and it's veryit's very accurate. It's it moves.
It's hard to see something that's somassive move in these in these figure eight
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spider like movements. I don't knowhow to explain it. But it was
so fast and so fluid that itjust was mind blowing to the point where
I refused to move. I justhad to keep pointing, and they came
to me eventually and said, no, it's just a bore. They get
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really big. You know, it'sGeorgia. You don't know what you're talking
about. Just getting your truck pulledthrough, very military like, like getting
your trucks older, like blah blah, getting your pov go go go.
You know, and you do.You do what you're told for the most
part, and this was just somethingthat looking back, I do believe I
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saw a satiswatch. I don't thinkthat was a bore. I processed it
for a long time, and Ireally don't think I was looking at it
Hogzilla at all. The other timein Korea was very very quick. I
was going to a we were travelingaways a group of people I was with.
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We were traveling aways off and Iwas on a bus and we were
traveling to a place called Everland.It's like this theme park up in the
mountains somewhere, and I don't reallyto this day know where it was or
you know, how we got there. I can't really remember there was there
were so many things that we didand traveled to and went all over and
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just kind of tried to experience differentstuff. And I remember being on the
bus and just having you know,I was over overcrowded, and I just
kind of had like I was tryingto use my escape method and avoid the
uncomfortable crowding of the bus and Ijust kind of had my face up against
the glass and was staring out theside window. The way Korea is set
up is at least rural. Theydon't waste a inch of the land.
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It comes right up to the road. The rice patties come right up to
the road. Everything everything comes rightup to the street. It was not
like well manicured areas is not gardens. Every inch is used and or every
inch is not disturbed. And onthis particular occasion, I saw something right
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out the window. And I don'tknow if it crossed the road prior to
that in front of us, orit came out of the bush and went
back in, but what I sawwas going really really quickly into the brush,
and it was again it was onall fours, but it was so
massive, and I remember as wedrove by seeing this thing kind of going
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in and out real quick and thengoing eventually in and disappearing. And for
this massive, massive thing, whateverit was, hindsight, I don't really
know if it was sasquatch or dogman or maybe something I don't really know
about necessarily yet, but for itto disappear into that bush just it was
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like watching a giant just run intothe brush, the low, low rice
paddy brush and then just disappear again. There's not really much else to this
story. I just drove by it, and I kind of remember just pointing
and saying something and everyone just brushingme off, and you know, you
just kind of forget about it.You're not going to make a big scene.
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You're on the bus with a bunchof people that don't speak the same
language as you, and you knowthe few people you're with will kind of
make fun of you if you bringit up. So I just remember kind
of brushing it under the rug andforgetting about it. But as I learned
more and more about was really outthere, old memories like that started to
pop up, and finally I addressedthem and would say, hey, I
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don't think I saw something normal thatday. Backpedaling a little ways back to
this original encounter I was talking about, there was really nothing scary. I
don't know if I touched on thisyet, but there was nothing scary that
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happened. It did not show itsteeth, it didn't roar at me,
it didn't bluff charge me. Itwas just simply there. And the sheer
size of it is what really reallyscared me. But it wasn't enough for
me to say that these things werethreatening, you know. It was just
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my fear that kept me from reallyprocessing what was in front of me.
And what was in front of mewas beautiful. It was an anomaly,
it was an eighth World wonder,and the way I treated it was not
acceptable for me, so I continuedto search. I've had a lot of
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experiences along the way. I've hada lot of bigfoot sightings along the way.
I guess it depends what you categorizethem as. I've learned that they're
not strictly flesh and blood. Now, that's not necessarily to say that there
there's not more answers out there thanwhat I've found. I'm not that ignorant
to say that I'm a small portionof what's got to be out there right.
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But this other particular occasion I wantto talk about is pretty amazing.
It was a beautiful, beautiful dayand I was just hiking in one of
these regular places that I that Ifrequent I called the bamboo forest. There's
just these two huge bamboo areas thatdon't belong in this area. I don't
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know how they got there, butI'm not complaining. And there's beautiful,
beautiful trails that you can hike,and they're just regular woods, but on
the edge of each side there's thishuge bamboo far It is probably about a
dozen acres maybe, I mean,I give or take. I'm not exactly
sure. I'm just guessing, buton each side. I had hike these
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trails multiple multiple times before and justenjoyed it. In general, it would
normally come in up to this point, and I'd come across this huge field
and then into the woods, andas I would come through the trail,
it would it would wind in andthen it comes to a fork. If
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you go left, you hit thefirst bamboo farest section, and then if
you go right, it winds throughand then you hit the other bamboo far
a section which was more appealing tome for the most part because it was
more wide open. It was justnice. It was like you could go
in there and you could breathe becausethere's a little trail that goes through the
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middle. It was just really enjoyable, not like the one on the other
side. You have to go andgo off trail and you have to kind
of bushwhack to get there, andyou get cut up by thorns, and
then when you get inside it,there's really no way to get through.
There's all this interlocking, interweaving,vent and broken and all these different bamboo
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all over the place. There's actuallya teepee in there, which is kind
of odd made of bamboo, whichis to this day, I still don't
know what did that or why itwould be done, but it's interesting.
So on this particular day, Iwent that way and as I came through,
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I passed by, I went inthere. I went in the bamboo
section, and there was some weirdstuff that I hadn't seen before, Like
it looked like there was an alicein Wonderland. They were not been there,
and just some things that were justreally really off. Nothing out of
the norm that would really throw meoff though, or take me off my
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game. So Eventually I backpedaled tothe trail and I came up the hill
and it's really nice. There's afew houses with huge property. I think
one is a farm. So I'mnot really thinking too much about it.
You know, I'm still pretty nearsuburbia at this point, or rural area,
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if you will. And I comeback round and I come down the
hill, and I have my cameraout because i'm videoing, and just like
another normal day, I'm just kindof talking to the camera and processing what
I'm seeing. And I come downthis hill and about halfway down the hill,
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I pinned to my right and thereis this It doesn't belong. It's
this massive, massive white head,and it's just staring at me, if
it's even staring at me, butit's looking at my direction. And when
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I lock eyes with it, itseyes were these giant, giant black sockets.
The inside of those eyes were dancing. Lights were flickering and dancing different
colors. It was going between bluesand purples and reds, almost as if
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it was like blue and red,but it would also do a mix of
the two. I don't know howto explain that. To this day.
I don't know if I ever will, But I do believe I was looking
at a white sasquatch. So I'mlooking at this white sasquatch, and I
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don't really know how this occurred.There's so many different possibilities and ways you
can address this. I'll leave itup to your beliefs and your understandings when
it comes to the Bigfoot. ButI turned away, and mind you,
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this was the most massive thing you'veever seen. And I turned away for
a brief second, and when Iturned back to look, it had disappeared
completely, without a sound, withouta trace. This is just like the
first experience I had where I droppedto the ground and the fetal position.
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I was screaming and crying, andmind you, all that happened in seconds,
and when I looked back up withouta trace, that sasquatch had disappeared
as well. I don't want topretend like I have all the answers,
because I don't. There's some understandingthat I've gained over the years, but
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I don't have all the answers,and I'm not going to force anything that
I've learned on anybody else. Butthat is one thing that I have learned,
is that at least for a fact. They can just disappear on you
without making a sound. Another experienceI had was I had been pretty much
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working long on the Eastern End forquite a while now, and I wanted
to try to challenge myself and expand. So I started to go up to
the mountains in the Catskills of NewYork and even at Arondacks at times too
different areas, and I really wantedto start deepening my understanding and seeing what
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they looked like in different areas.So I started to work my way up
to the mountains and do different things. And one of the things I started
to do was I started the campand I started to go camping solo,
and I learned to I started doingit in the pine barrens of the Line.
I started out there working my wayinto what I needed to make it
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through the night, and this andthat, and just kind of practicing,
if you will. And people laughat me when I say that, but
the last thing you want to dois end up in the middle of nowhere
with not enough of what you need. So what I would do is just
kind of go to a campgrounds andyou know, get a again, it's
muscle memory, right, You getan understanding of everything you need so that
when you get out there in thesehigh pressure situations or situations where you don't
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have that ability to just go andgrab something, you're prepared. And you
don't want to be underprepared for thiskind of stuff because you leave too many
variables. And if the way Ilook at it is if I'm worried about
how much fire would I have,or if I'm going to freeze tonight,
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or if I'm this or that's goingto happen one way or another, I'm
going to start to get outside ofthe proper mindset I want to have to
set myself up for an experience.So what I did was I started going
out into the mountains and on thisparticular occasion, I said, now let
me grab one of my team andsee if they want to go out.
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And it ended up being one guyout of the twelve up there and he
came with me and he was like, Oh, I've never been here.
This place is great. It wasthis beautiful, beautiful place. It was
called Overlook Mountain. It's near Woodstock, New York. It's at the very
very top of this I mean gorgeousgorge and you get to the top and
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there's this huge monk retreat and monasteryI believe it's called. And at the
edge of that is this beautiful,beautiful trails, and you can park at
the top and go up this veryvery hefty incline to get to the overall,
or you can work the trails atthat particular parking lot. But what
a lot of people don't know isif you ignore that original, Oh my
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god, look at this place,and you go back round down the hill,
there's this lower lot and down therethere's a place called Magic Meadow,
and it's gorgeous, and locals andpeople like myself that know about it will
go down there and go camping init. So kind of when everybody's gone
for the day and you know,you put up your stuff and you go
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out there. So on this particulartime, I said, all right,
I'll go out there ahead of timeand i'll set everything up. I walked
around, and I was getting agood feeling about the place, like I
always do, and I said,you know, I think tonight's the night
I'm going to put up the tents. We'll get you know, maybe we'll
get something good. And I wasn'treally sure what to make of it.
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I had never been out there overnight, but I was optimistic and I started
setting up and next thing you know, he arrived and he was very enthralled
with the place. And it's gorgeous. You walk across this bridge and it's
this beautiful flowing creek, and thenyou come up through these woods and you
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know, just up the hill isthis. It opens up into this meadow
and it's gorgeous and there's this beautiful, beautiful view of the mountains. And
long story short, we were expectingsome rain, so I said, you
know what, I'm going to putit under the canopy just at the edge
of the of the meadow. SoI did that. We set up camp
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lights and fires, get everything going. And at this particular time, I
had got this like feeling like thatwe weren't alone. And he says to
me too, the same thing.He says, yeah, I could feel
it. I could feel it.I said, okay, all right,
So I said, I got agood feeling about tonight. It's going to
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be pretty active. And this particularoccasion, we waited for dark. We
had a good time. We werejust chopping it up and hanging out,
and dark came pretty fast and bythe time we were done setting up,
dark came pretty fast and it wasn'ta lot going on, not too much.
I had left some things around forthem, and I said, you
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know what, let me see ifI can entice something. So at this
point, it's pitch black. Imean it is pitch black. You can't
see anything, there's nothing, there'sno sound. You're just you could see
as far as the fire goes.I have this little plan where I I
make like three fires so that there'llbe one at the edge of camp,
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and then there's one that just smokesa lot because that's good for the bugs,
and then I have one that's justthe main fire for the main lighting
area. So I had taken anapple. I said, let's see what
we can entice them, and thesasquatch I'm talking about in particular, and
I said, I'm just going tothrow this out there and see what happens.
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And I took the apple and Ijust threw it out into the darkness,
and you heard it hit a treeout in the darkness. You heard
it, you know, it brokelike a you know, an apple would
against a tree. And before wecould even kind of giggle about the sound,
it made. We started to youknow, and right next to both
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our feet a rock landed right infront of us. Right then and there,
we knew we weren't alone for sure. You know, for sure,
at this point, my attention isreally peaked and my interest is really peaked.
I said, Okay, I'm notgoing to throw nothing back out there.
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I don't know if that upset youor what, but let's just be
more respectful and more courteous and letyou guys come to us. You're obviously
out there. We started to bepatient and just kind of sit and talk
and do a little singing and thingslike that, and express our gratitude towards
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them and letting us stay in theirhome, etc. When you're in that
place where you're in the middle ofthe woods or the forest or wherever you
are, where we were was wasn'tsuper super remote as far as they're not
being a road nearby. Our carwas probably a quarter or a half mile
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off, so it wasn't too tooscary, but it was enough where you're
in the middle of the dark andyou're not near anything, and you just
feel like the fish bowl, youknow, when if you have a fish
tank in your house and you haveall your lights off, but your fish
tank light is on. That's whatit feels like. It's the best way
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I can describe it is you're insomebody else's home and you have yourself self
illuminated like you're in a fish tank, and once in a while the big
food come by and tap the glasslike hey, And that's just what it
feels like. And on this night, we chose to be the fish,
right. It's the best experiment Icould think of at least, and to
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be humble and respectful and just kindof show up and just say, hey,
whatever you want to show me,you could show me. We started
to hear voices. At this point, my friend Ian decided to give.
He felt like there was young onesaround, so he decided to give some
snacks like twizzlers and things like that, and right where he had gifted them,
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we could hear these voices. Thebest way I could describe it was
fraggle rock. And I said thisto him, I said, it sounds
like fraggle rock, and I rememberhe kind of laughed about it. Whatever.
I didn't know at the time thathe didn't know what freckle rock was,
and I didn't really even know whatit was like. I remember it
from a child, but I didn'treally I didn't really watch it or anything,
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so I kind of I kind ofjust subconsciously, I guess, went
to somewhere to find an analogy.But he did. He says, you
know, when I went out thenext day and looked up Fraggle Rock,
he said, you're absolutely right,that's exactly what it sounded like. Where
I want to go with this isthere was two of us there, and
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we were having similar experiences. Upto this point. I started to get
this inkling that they were going tosomehow put me into like a sleep state,
like a really really good sleep state, and they were going to interact
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with Ian. I couldn't really understandwhy. I didn't really know what to
make of it. But I don'tsleep well when i'm camping, especially in
a new place like that. WhenI'm out remotely like that, I don't
sleep well at all at all.I'm up and down if I'm even asleep
at all, because my ears arealways open. You hear something in the
night and it really makes you kindof was that what was that? Right?
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You're not a home in your bedwith your walls around you it's not
warm or it's not cool, whetherit's summer or winter, is a very
very uncomfortable type of sleep. ButI remember saying to myself, well,
what's this all about? So Iwandered off. He was in his tent,
and I wandered off, and Isaid, let me just go and
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kind of tune in with the forestand see what this is about and make
sure because I have somebody with meand I can't afford to be off my
game. I need to be onpoint. I felt very very responsible.
Whenever I bring somebody in the woods, I feel very very responsible for them,
and it's almost like it's not aboutdisappointing them with the experience, it's
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about keeping them safe. So Iwalked off. I walked out into the
dark, where it was uncomfortable forme, but I knew I would be
able to really tune in and seewhat was going on. And I heard
these what sounded like owl calls,but they were very off brand. You
might say, how do you knowan owls? An owl? Right?
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Like? How do you know ifyou can't see anything? And how do
you know if for sure? AndI don't have a necessarily good answer for
that as far as then normal waysof thinking. I very much just tune
in on a deeper level than thefive senses that were given, you know,
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at birth. So I was listening, I heard these owl calls,
and I said to them, Hey, can you please be kind to us
tonight. He's new to this.Can you go easy on him if you're
going to put me under or putme in some kind of sleep state.
And I was very uncomfortable with this, you know, I was very worried
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that he was just going to gothrough things and I wouldn't be there for
him. And that was really whatwas bothering me. Not like you know,
getting extra sleep, right, thatdoesn't bother anybody, But it was
just very It was something very verynew to me that I had never never
experienced. And at this point iswhen I had another bigfoot sighting. I
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don't think I've ever spoken about thisbefore. At the edge of my light,
I could see these faces emerge.They were different sizes. There was
two, possibly three, I don'twant to say small, because they were
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larger than I was. There wasone that was bigger than the other two
and possibly three and they were justat the edge of my light and they
were big The smaller ones that werelarger than me were probably around six to
seven seven foot and the other onewas about a footer a foot and a
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half larger than they were. Thelarger one looked wrinkly, if you will,
Like I've like the leathery face Iwas talking about earlier, was like
very tight, like it was justlike a smooth leather jacket. This particular
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face of this particular sasquatch had wrinklesto it, almost like a baseball glove
has like knit over it, right, And all as I could think of
that was that this was an old, old bigfoot. It was an old
old Sasquatch, and I couldn't geta great look at it. But I
got the inkling that it was afemale, maybe a very old female,
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and that maybe these were her grandkids. Now, mind you, this is
a speculation, but I'm just goingoff what the vibe felt like, and
that will double back to sight.I never got a good look at the
kids, or the younger ones,I should say, the smaller ones.
I didn't ever see their face indetail. I don't know if that's something
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cultural or something that I'm you know, it wasn't supposed to be privy to
or it was just because they wereat the edge of darkness. That's that's
up to you to decide. Icould just kind of tell you what happened,
and it was like I got thissense of just by looking at her
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that I have this sense of,Hey, everything's gonna be okay. You're
just going to sleep good tonight andeverything will be fine. We'll take care
of it. You might ask yourself, how do you trust that? Well,
I don't know, I really atthis point. It's really just a
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trust based respect and an understanding.In my opinion, I go in those
woods every single day, different places, all the time. If something wanted
to hurt me, it would haveand could have done it already. It
could have toyed with me any whichway it chose to. But they don't.
They choose to show me respect andlove, and that's what I give
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him return. So I'm going todouble back and say that I went to
the camp and I talked to Ianabout it, and while he was very
nervous about what I was telling him, I said, look, I don't
I don't know what to tell you, but I got a feeling I'm going
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to be knocked out tonight and youknow it's going to be a little a
little crazy for you, but youmight have some experiences. And he said,
okay, okay, and we bothwent to bed pretty soon after that.
And again, I'll tell you this, I don't sleep well at all.
And I remember him waking me upsometime around summarize or something to that
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effect, and he was waking meup in the middle of the night asking
me, do you see that?Do you hear that? You know?
And he was having a lot ofexperiences of his own that I won't touch
on because I don't know if Ishould speak for him. But there was
a lot of stuff going on throughoutthe night, and I slept, I
did. I ended up sleeping throughit all. There was a lot going
on out there. And when wewoke up, I remember him just saying
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like, man, like, Idon't know how you slept through all that,
and I said, I don't knoweither, But again, I just
I just enjoy it. I reallyenjoy it. And there's so many different
things to embrace out there, andyou never really know what you're gonna get,
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right. You don't know what you'regonna get or what you're gonna see
or what you're gonna experience. Butwhen it comes to this kind of stuff,
you could just almost bet that it'sgoing to be something you're not ready
for, maybe something uncomfortable, maybesomething scary. But at the end of
the day, you just kind ofgot to process it. And I love
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what I do, and I lovedall these big foot sightings that I've had.
Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a big Foot
siding and would like to be aguest, please go to my Bigfoot Siding
dot com and let us know.Thanks for listening. Have a great night
seeing a bunch of run down newhost towns where the church at the backble
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loves and the bow in the fastingmelodies coove in that the bomb man rose
with a roos, run deep beyondthe nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the South of su.Then I when I hear the prompboat picking
down home rhythm, bring a nut, I don't run from banjong music.
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Yeah, the sound of a memorybrings me back to the bluegrass playing the
Madadi jack. It's become many beenthrough it, getting through the day on
scrugs and skags. Booking name balesthrough this Tennessee jams. There's no the
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way that I do it. WhenI hear the plumpboat picking down home rhythm
bringing nat, I don't run frombanjong music. Yeah, something galling backwards
back woods and double time getting there, the sword and the strumbling look and
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took a start. There's nothing inthe strumming now country boy living mom and
I hear the proud boat picking downrhythm bringing us po from from mans the
(42:30):
city last drows me. While onthe two music cars rushing by with the
paste on the sterios to man andI hear the brown boat picking down on
them bringing nuts. Run from bangof the music. Yeah, something galling
(42:53):
backwards back woods and double tib gettingthere, the sword and the strumbling looking
TOOKI start the don the d strummingdown cuts your born living. I'm when
I hit a bum boards picking downread the brilliant das battle from the bil
bedroom summing DNA backwards backwards and doubledown looking in the soul and the trumming
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looking tuck start because of the ads. Trumming down cuts your boy living.
When I hit a bum boats pickingda bring the bad Chicken Batsman Mona's been
swinget tea kind of says from Biltbedroom music, Hell's that's p
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