June 27, 2025 • 34 mins
When the phrase “Sasquatch magnet” was coined, tonight’s guest, Dale Reise, was the kind of person they had in mind. You see, Dale had his first Sasquatch sighting in 1968 and since then, he’s had numerous other sightings. We hope you’ll tune into tonight’s show and listen to him share some of his experiences with you.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for
another episode of my big Foot sighting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right, then let's do this.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Seeing a bunch of run down, no horse towns with the.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
pasting melodies, cove in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
With the bomb man rose with the rous run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the songs
of the South of su Then.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
When I hear the promp porch picking down home rhythm
bringing out I Don't Run from Benjum music. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
My Bigfoot sightings began in nineteen sixty eight. My name
is Dale Edward Reese. I was approximately ten years old
when the first time I had my experience. It started
out with me walking down the road down on Dalton
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Road which merged to Galarno, which was all bush area
off this corner. My first time that I even knew
that it was there was the older that it produced,
which I found was very hard to breathe in. And
I noticed when I stepped forward or stepped back in
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a certain area that the smell remained in just one area.
So that made me curious, But I kind of continued
on a couple of days after that, I was walking
down the same road and it started throwing stuff out
of the bush in front of me, just basically stopped
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me from going in first there at the time that
it was throwing stuff out of the bush in front
of me, it chucked a fairly large chunk of wood
which landed on the road in front of a car,
which the guy slammed on his brakes and asked me
what was going on. I told him that it was.
It came from in the bush, and he grabbed the
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chunk of wood and went rushing into the bush. I
guess thinking it was a kid throwing this stuff. When
he came back out about two or three minutes later,
he was white as a ghost. He didn't have the
wood with him anymore. He never said a word. He
just jumped in the car and left and that was it.
I never seen the guy again. I was curious as
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to why they it was throwing stuff to stop me
from going any further, but again I continued on my way.
A couple days later, I'm walking down the road, same road,
Dalton Roade and heading in to go and see my buddies.
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I had an apple in my hand I was munching
on an apple, and I noticed a hand sticking out
of the bush. Not at the time, I didn't understand
what it was all about. And I turned around and
I walked up to the hand and I put the
apple in there, but it dumped the hand the apple
out and still had its hand open and cupped, so
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like a kid. I was poking my finger in there,
and it pulled its hand back in, and I went, okay,
and I cut my hand and I pulled its hand
out again and touched my palm with its finger. I thought, well,
isn't that cool. That's rather neat. Now. At the time,
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I didn't realize that we were submitting to each other.
So I would go down this road every day go
and see my friends. And at one end, where the
two roads junction, the bush opened up and you could
see into the back well. From there on, I started
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seeing the sasquatch, which was approximately seven foot tall. It
was a female, had black hair. Was I could tell
it was a female because you could see the breasts,
the face. It was almost totally hair covered except for
around the eyes and around the nose and the mouth.
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She was huge, and every day I would see it
as I walked by and I would wave to it, Hello, Hello,
And of course everybody in the neighborhood knew it was
there because it would go into their gardens. It would
raid the gardens, their trees, but nobody seemed to care
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because it did no harm to nothing or nobody. So
the whole neighborhood in that area knew that it was there.
I knew it was there, People all around knew it
was there. We seemed to understand that it being there
was no threat to anybody, because it just seemed to
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be wanting to eat and sleep in that one area.
So one day I'm walking along the road and this dog,
it was a German shepherd, I guess, come running at
me and I'm going by this open spot in the bush. Now,
little did I know that the female had been watching
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me every day coming by, and she'd been watching that
day too. And the dog came running at me and
it went into an attack mode. It was growling starlin
and it started backing me towards the bush. While when
the dog did this, I could hear something crunching in
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behind me, but I had my eyes focused on the dog,
and the sasquatch came up right in behind me. I
mean she was no more than a foot away in
behind me, and while the dog was still snarling and
snapping at me, she let out a huge bellerine scream.
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I mean, this thing went through you. I had to
squat down to avoid feeling all that scream coming through
while that dog tucktailed and ran and I mean he
went down. He was I learned that that dog lived
about a block and a half down the road. So
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when the dog took off and I turned around and
I looked at the sasquatch, and she just kind of
looked at me. I wrapped my arms around her thick
thigh and gave her a hug, saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for saving my skin. She just kind of
shrugged her shoulders and walked back into the bush. Will
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the owner of the dog, turned around and came out,
oh about an hour after that, because I was still
hanging around that area, and he asked me what happened
because his dog was so frightened. He heard his dog
yelping all the way from the area that I was
in because his dog had turned around and went racing
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into the house and went hiding underneath his bed. And
it was very, very frightened of the sasquatch that had
screamed at it. I guess everybody in the neighborhood heard
the scream, so most people were pretty curious about that. Well.
I explained to the guy what had happened and about
his dog being running loose and coming at me. I
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explained everything to him. He went back in a huff,
and later on I learned that it took about a
week for that dog to even poke its head outside,
to even go to the bathroom. It was so fraid
And at the time that all this happened, I didn't
know that there was a little old lady across the street,
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an old Polish woman, had seen the whole thing. So
right after the incident had happened, she had stepped outside,
and I crossed the road and went over to her,
and I kind of looked at her and I said,
did you see what happened? She said yes, So I'm not.
I can't so nobody can say I was lying about it.
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She said no, I watched the whole thing. So that
was the very first time that I came along and
met with a sasquatch. Now, later on in years I
seen another one, but this one was old, I guess
about thirteen or fourteen years old. He was skinny, gangly,
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about six foot, maybe a little bit shorter. This was
near an elementary school in a totally different area. Now,
A bunch of kids had seen him before that. He
had been coming out of this bush area where a
creek was going through, and we all gathered around there
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to see it came out of the bush. I figure
it was a young, really young one, because it was
attracted to all the kids that were in the area.
So it was kind of neat seeing this thing almost
every day until somebody said something to an adult who
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came out and went home, got his rifle, came right
back down into that area and went after the sasquash.
We don't think he got it. I think it got
away because he came out and said, well, it won't
be coming back now because we heard the gun fire.
And of course he got in trouble for the law
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for shooting the gun off near the elementary school. No
matter what it was, that was the second time I've
seen one. Then later on, as I started going on
in my youth and we started driving up and down
up the hill to the lakes, we started seeing them
all in open slash areas crossing over. We went up
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to this one lake where we would camp. We had
one coming around the camp all the time. And again
the smell was the big thing. You could smell it,
but you couldn't see it because it was always hiding
in the bush. Now, the only reason I knew it
was around there was when I went and looked to investigate.
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I watched it run out of the bush, cross the highway,
crawl up small rock face, and disappear into the forest
on the other side, which surprised me. We kept hearing
allers in the different mountains as Sasquatch. We're trying to
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communicate to each other all the time in that area.
Then later on, again years past, I started spacing in
this one area in the Nimkish Valley. Now we kind
of knew that they were in this particular patch that
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I had the space, which is for every tree that's around,
there's twelve foot ring of trees that are cut down
around one tree that's left, and that's what they wanted
for spacing. So for every twelve feet you left a tree, well,
I'm spacing in this area. I spotted a big X
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of two trees that were not rooted in the ground.
They were totally broke off and left in a big X.
Of course I'd take that down. I started seeing them
the further in I cut.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I was in a oh, I would say, about a
good half mile into the bush when I started seeing them,
and they would walk the same length.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I was walking up to where i'd last cut, and
they would follow me and then disappear into the woods. Well,
at one point I found that the way I was
dropping my trees into little squares, so they were approximately
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two and a half three feet tall with trees on
top of trees in squares. There were acres of them.
They started using them for leaving their young in there.
I noticed because I would spot the odd one here
and there in the square, and I knew it wasn't
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a bear. I knew it wasn't a deer, and I
know what forest animals would do this. So I started
walking along because I always cut a path along where
I was cutting, so we got easy access in and
out pace of emergencies. And I'm walking along this one
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path going in and I started in about seven o'clock
in the morning heading in, so it was about eight
thirty in the morning, I spotted this really young, young, young,
young sasquatch laying in this one square right along my trail,
and I looked down at it, and when it turned
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around and looked at me, you could see the brown
eyes and just looking at you, like, oh, who are
you kind of thing. And I noticed out of the
corner of my eye that I spotted a cougar coming along,
and I stopped and I was watching the cougar. I
had one foot in the square where the little baby was,
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so everything was fine with that. I didn't step on it,
and I watched this cougar as it started coming. I
guess it caught the scent of the young and it
started coming closer and closer and closer. So I went
into a defensive crouch. And as for weaponry, all I
had were files on me for my saw, so I
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had one of those in my hand, and I started
yelling and screaming at the cougar till it stopped moving. Now,
this cougar was approximately twenty feet away from me, so
I know it was probably going after the young that
was down at my feet, but I stayed there and
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I started throwing stuff at it, and I kept screaming
and yelling at it for a good ten minutes before
the mother come running out of the bush and she
just threw a huge chunk of wood and it whizzed
on by my head, aimed straight at the cougar, hit
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the cougar, the cougar scream She bellard at the same
time the cougar turned round took right off. Now when
she stopped, she was approximately three feet behind me so,
and she was a good seven footer, had light brown hair.
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Her skin was all gray except for her cheeks, which
were hair on her cheeks, on her upper lip, on
her chin, had hair, hair on her head. All around
her face there was like from the forehead, around the cheeks,
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down around the nose to the lips, basically was bare skin,
gray skin. At that point, I kind of looked there
straight in the eye, and she looked at me, and
I kind of lifted the little baby saspotch up and
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I had it. When I said I was protecting it
from the cougar, she kind of understood. So when I
handed her the baby, she took the baby, and then
she turned around and put her hand on my chest
very gently, and she held it there for a good
ten to fifteen minutes. Now, I'm not sure what she
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was doing. I guess thanking me in some way for
doing what I did for her young and protecting them,
which was a union experience for me. It made me
feel quite proud that I had gotten this kind of
attention from her, and it surprised me. Now, I was
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about thirty about thirty five years old when this happened,
So I'd been seeing sasquatch throughout my youth, since I
was a kid. Into my adulthood, I've seen them in
logging camps where we were on the mainland at Phillip's
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Arm Now I was approximately thirty six thirty seven years old.
We were working in this one valley that was ten
miles long, and we were still using chokers and old
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wood spars, and we were pulling these things up the
logs out by wooden spark. Well. We heard the thing
screaming the first time we heard it, and that had
to have been, oh God, miles away, miles away the
thing that because his boys would reverberate through the valley,
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and it kept getting louder and louder as it kept
walking towards us. Now, as it got louder and louder.
It got louder than the machine machines that were working,
so everybody shut the machines down and we could hear it.
Now up on the far bank from where we were working,
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there was a huge twenty foot bank and there was
a six foot ditch in there. Now that was because
they cleared all the trees, and that was for the
runoff for the rain. It gave the rain someplace to go,
so it didn't take take the hillside down while as
it come out of the forest, it walked into the
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into the ditch. Now, from that ditch being six foot,
you could still see four feet of this thing above
the ditch, and it was tosseding logs that would take
six men to even try and lift to get it
out of the ditch. It was tossing them like they
were just sticks. And it walked along still hollering stop
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every once in a while, looked down at us, turned
kept on going, and it walked almost the full length
of this ditch before it went up and now onto
the other side. One of the machine operators and myself
we went scrambling up up the slope as it was
walking through the ditch and we hopped into the ditch
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ourselves and we watched it come toward us, look at us,
and then walk up out of the ditch and down
in the into the other side of the of the valley.
That ran on the other side of the ditch and disappeared.
Now we were totally in shock when we've seen this,
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but we admitted we've seen it. Everybody around there that
worked on that crew, and there was thirteen of us
working on that crew, we all seen it, but no
everybody was. We were told to kind of close of
miles about it because the forestry didn't want us get
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wored out that this is what's been happening in that area. Now,
this is the same area that the autman incident happened.
This is the exact same area, so we weren't surprised
to hear it. And in camp we had heard the
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hollerings of it way up in the mountains, so that
was another incident. Later on, Now I turned around and
we kept seeing them here in town. There were sightings
in town, lots by lots of people in town. Here.
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It got to be fairly normal to actually know that
they were around here, being as where we are on
Vancouver island in Canada British Columbia. Most scientists know this
island as Ape Islands, so and that's because of the Sasquatch.
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It's We've had sightings up and down this island from Victoria,
huge city, the surrounding towns, to all the way up
to the northern tip of the island. There have been
sasquatch sightings now on this island that we live. It's
only the eastern side that actually has really got any
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kind of populace. The rest of the island is wild,
which would give credence to a fairly good sized population now.
Up in some of the areas I've gone to, which
is northwest of the island, in a town called Gold River,
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there have been numerous sightings up there, and I've had
numerous incidences up there. I go to a lot of
the secluded lakes up there, and I find that the
sasquatch seem to come around whenever I'm out there. I
once they realize that I'm there, they come around. They
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stop being afraid of me and come out to the
open all the time when I'm out there. The last
time that I seen any kind of a sight, which
would have been two years ago with my girlfriend. We
were up in the Gold River area, up along the
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Hebrew River, and we were walking along this road and
we took a little side road which wound up along
the power lines, and there were rock bluffs and all
kinds of stuff, heavy forest on the other side of
where the road ended. Well from there I stood looking
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in the I noticed standing there, I noticed heads moving
in the in the forest in this one area where
there was a rock ledge, and you could see the
heads clearly as they were walking through. Now, all I
could see at that point was the tops of their heads,
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the concled heads. So as they were walking through, I
don't know why they stopped, but one of them turned
around and crawled up on the rock face onto this
ledge and stood there. Now this thing was massive, I
would guess it to be around ten feet tall, dark haired,
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very muscular, had long hair all over it except for
around the eyes, the nose, around the mouth, which was
had gray skin. I've had more numerous sightings since, but
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these are just many, many, many sightings that I've always had.
And like I said, they never seem to hide for me.
They always come out to the open. I guess they've
gotten to the point where I called a sasquatch magnet.
I've seen them so many times and when I've had
people with me and they've seen them as well, so
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people tend to call me a magnet towards them, which
make me chuckle. But I've always approached them with a
very calmness in me. I've never been afraid of them.
I've always been dead calm. So they seem to understand
that I would do nothing to harm them. And the
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ones we have on this island are basically what you
would call the Patty sasquatch seen in California and all
along there. They're huge, they're actually more They're not very
aggressive unless you do something to make them aggressive. Most
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times they're very gentle. They're very gentle creatures. I've never
had one try and hurt me at all. I've had
them protect me more numerous times than I care to
think about. I've had many encounters with them where we've
I've been able to get within a foot and a
half of them, able to touch them, they were able
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to touch me. These are things that have happened throughout
my life. Now I'm sixty six, I plan on doing
more bush runs, just into areas I know where there's
clans of them. Over the years, I've been able to
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turn around and befriend at least three other clans in
different areas, and it's quite an experience. But I've always
approached them with a dead calm. I found that way
they they tend to be a little less afraid of you,
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more willing to come out into the open if you're calm,
who headed, and don't show any kind of aggression. I've
never carried a gun out in the bush. I've never
needed to. If I see or hear or smell one
that's even close by, I know I'm under a good protection.
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I don't have to worry about the wildlife. And we
have cougars, bears, wolves, grizzly I know when i'm out
there and they're out there, I'm under their basic protection
and that's a good thing. But I've learned a lot
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about them over the years. I learned some of why
they do what they do, and some things that still
makes me curious, like some of the bending of wood
that they leave, which are indications of food or places
where they've set up structures. Usually it's the point towards
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a food source. As for snapping trees. I have no
idea why they do that. I don't know if it's
a sign of aggression or they're trying to point towards
some larger thing. I have no idea. I've yet to
learn everything about them. I never learn anything everything about them.
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I've had them try and communicate to me. I've tried
to communicate to them. I've used hand signals, everything I
can to try and communicate with them. They seem to
understand some of what I'm saying, and I sort of
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kind of understand some little bit of what they're trying
to say to me. When they talk and they're semi
and talk. It's awfully hard, but you can kind of
figure out what they're trying to say if you look
at what they're trying to do. Lots of times they'll
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they'll try and bring food to you. They'll try and
indicate where they want you to sleep. I found many, many,
many nests of where they've slept, where they are, where
they have been sleeping, many of them out here in
the forest. And it's an experience that I'll never forget
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ever since I was a kid. It's just something once
you've had the experiences of being around them, you never forget.
It's kind of like too in the Jane Goodall thing
is learning as much as you can about them while
you're around them, and even she believes that they they're
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real at which they are. And I've had every time
I go out in the forest, I have an encounter
every time, doesn't matter where I go. I find that
once they get a hint that I'm in the area,
they show up around my camp all the time, and
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usually not just by themselves, generally in family groups. So
I kind of figure that I'm getting pretty well known
through the Sasquatch groups that I'm one to come around
and not be afraid to come around or to show themselves.
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And I'll continue to have these experiences for very very
long time. As long as I'm able to get out
into the forest, I always have an experience, because like
I said before, I've always encountered them every time I've
gone out in the forest, and there's something that I
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will continue to do the other day I can't go
out there anymore. And that's about all I have to
say at this point. Thank you very much for listening
to my experiences here on the island.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Well that's it. For tonight show. If you've had a
big Foot siding and would like to be a guest,
please go to my bigfoot Siding dot com and let
us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Seen a bunch of run down now host towns where
the Church of the Backbone loves and the bow and
the fasting melodies coven.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
That the bombman rose with the roofs run deep beyond
the nose of the busy streets, the songs of the
South of su Then.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I mean I hear the Promp porch picking down home
rhythm bringing Nat had on Run from Banjung Music. Yeah,
the sound of a memory brings me back to the
bluegrass playing the Madadi Jack. It's become any bin through it.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Getting through the day on scrubs and skags, bucking name
bales to this Tennessee jams.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
There's no the way that I do it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And I hear them Romp Porch picking down home rhythm
bringing Nat pad over run from ben Jong Music.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yeah, someone going backward backward and double tip.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Freaking to the sword and the strumming look and tup stuff.
There's nothing in the strumming out country boy, living a
warm man and I hear a bum boats picking down rhythm,
bringing us that on from roum.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Men the city laugh, trust me wild on the dune,
us the cars rushing by with the beasts on the
storos to man.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
I hear the brow boat picking down home them bringing nas.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
How don't run from magal music? Yeah, something going backwards
backwards and double tim picking in the sword and the strumming.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Look and tucky stars because of the dance strumming us.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Can't you both live in warm man?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
And hear a bum boats picking down room rhythm bringing
us on from them something goo back wars backwards and
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double townking and the soul and the drumming looking took
his time because on the end those trumming now because.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You're wont live in.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
And I get a pom potch picking.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Down the bad chicken potch me man, it's very sweet
tea kind
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Of sounds that old music.
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for
another episode of my big Foot sighting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right, then let's do this.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Seeing a bunch of run down, no horse towns with the.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
pasting melodies, cove in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
With the bomb man rose with the rous run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the songs
of the South of su Then.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
When I hear the promp porch picking down home rhythm
bringing out I Don't Run from Benjum music. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
My Bigfoot sightings began in nineteen sixty eight. My name
is Dale Edward Reese. I was approximately ten years old
when the first time I had my experience. It started
out with me walking down the road down on Dalton
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Road which merged to Galarno, which was all bush area
off this corner. My first time that I even knew
that it was there was the older that it produced,
which I found was very hard to breathe in. And
I noticed when I stepped forward or stepped back in
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a certain area that the smell remained in just one area.
So that made me curious, But I kind of continued
on a couple of days after that, I was walking
down the same road and it started throwing stuff out
of the bush in front of me, just basically stopped
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me from going in first there at the time that
it was throwing stuff out of the bush in front
of me, it chucked a fairly large chunk of wood
which landed on the road in front of a car,
which the guy slammed on his brakes and asked me
what was going on. I told him that it was.
It came from in the bush, and he grabbed the
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chunk of wood and went rushing into the bush. I
guess thinking it was a kid throwing this stuff. When
he came back out about two or three minutes later,
he was white as a ghost. He didn't have the
wood with him anymore. He never said a word. He
just jumped in the car and left and that was it.
I never seen the guy again. I was curious as
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to why they it was throwing stuff to stop me
from going any further, but again I continued on my way.
A couple days later, I'm walking down the road, same road,
Dalton Roade and heading in to go and see my buddies.
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I had an apple in my hand I was munching
on an apple, and I noticed a hand sticking out
of the bush. Not at the time, I didn't understand
what it was all about. And I turned around and
I walked up to the hand and I put the
apple in there, but it dumped the hand the apple
out and still had its hand open and cupped, so
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like a kid. I was poking my finger in there,
and it pulled its hand back in, and I went, okay,
and I cut my hand and I pulled its hand
out again and touched my palm with its finger. I thought, well,
isn't that cool. That's rather neat. Now. At the time,
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I didn't realize that we were submitting to each other.
So I would go down this road every day go
and see my friends. And at one end, where the
two roads junction, the bush opened up and you could
see into the back well. From there on, I started
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seeing the sasquatch, which was approximately seven foot tall. It
was a female, had black hair. Was I could tell
it was a female because you could see the breasts,
the face. It was almost totally hair covered except for
around the eyes and around the nose and the mouth.
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She was huge, and every day I would see it
as I walked by and I would wave to it, Hello, Hello,
And of course everybody in the neighborhood knew it was
there because it would go into their gardens. It would
raid the gardens, their trees, but nobody seemed to care
(04:57):
because it did no harm to nothing or nobody. So
the whole neighborhood in that area knew that it was there.
I knew it was there, People all around knew it
was there. We seemed to understand that it being there
was no threat to anybody, because it just seemed to
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be wanting to eat and sleep in that one area.
So one day I'm walking along the road and this dog,
it was a German shepherd, I guess, come running at
me and I'm going by this open spot in the bush. Now,
little did I know that the female had been watching
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me every day coming by, and she'd been watching that
day too. And the dog came running at me and
it went into an attack mode. It was growling starlin
and it started backing me towards the bush. While when
the dog did this, I could hear something crunching in
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behind me, but I had my eyes focused on the dog,
and the sasquatch came up right in behind me. I
mean she was no more than a foot away in
behind me, and while the dog was still snarling and
snapping at me, she let out a huge bellerine scream.
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I mean, this thing went through you. I had to
squat down to avoid feeling all that scream coming through
while that dog tucktailed and ran and I mean he
went down. He was I learned that that dog lived
about a block and a half down the road. So
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when the dog took off and I turned around and
I looked at the sasquatch, and she just kind of
looked at me. I wrapped my arms around her thick
thigh and gave her a hug, saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for saving my skin. She just kind of
shrugged her shoulders and walked back into the bush. Will
(07:10):
the owner of the dog, turned around and came out,
oh about an hour after that, because I was still
hanging around that area, and he asked me what happened
because his dog was so frightened. He heard his dog
yelping all the way from the area that I was
in because his dog had turned around and went racing
(07:34):
into the house and went hiding underneath his bed. And
it was very, very frightened of the sasquatch that had
screamed at it. I guess everybody in the neighborhood heard
the scream, so most people were pretty curious about that. Well.
I explained to the guy what had happened and about
his dog being running loose and coming at me. I
(07:56):
explained everything to him. He went back in a huff,
and later on I learned that it took about a
week for that dog to even poke its head outside,
to even go to the bathroom. It was so fraid
And at the time that all this happened, I didn't
know that there was a little old lady across the street,
(08:17):
an old Polish woman, had seen the whole thing. So
right after the incident had happened, she had stepped outside,
and I crossed the road and went over to her,
and I kind of looked at her and I said,
did you see what happened? She said yes, So I'm not.
I can't so nobody can say I was lying about it.
(08:39):
She said no, I watched the whole thing. So that
was the very first time that I came along and
met with a sasquatch. Now, later on in years I
seen another one, but this one was old, I guess
about thirteen or fourteen years old. He was skinny, gangly,
(09:00):
about six foot, maybe a little bit shorter. This was
near an elementary school in a totally different area. Now,
A bunch of kids had seen him before that. He
had been coming out of this bush area where a
creek was going through, and we all gathered around there
(09:21):
to see it came out of the bush. I figure
it was a young, really young one, because it was
attracted to all the kids that were in the area.
So it was kind of neat seeing this thing almost
every day until somebody said something to an adult who
(09:42):
came out and went home, got his rifle, came right
back down into that area and went after the sasquash.
We don't think he got it. I think it got
away because he came out and said, well, it won't
be coming back now because we heard the gun fire.
And of course he got in trouble for the law
(10:04):
for shooting the gun off near the elementary school. No
matter what it was, that was the second time I've
seen one. Then later on, as I started going on
in my youth and we started driving up and down
up the hill to the lakes, we started seeing them
all in open slash areas crossing over. We went up
(10:28):
to this one lake where we would camp. We had
one coming around the camp all the time. And again
the smell was the big thing. You could smell it,
but you couldn't see it because it was always hiding
in the bush. Now, the only reason I knew it
was around there was when I went and looked to investigate.
(10:53):
I watched it run out of the bush, cross the highway,
crawl up small rock face, and disappear into the forest
on the other side, which surprised me. We kept hearing
allers in the different mountains as Sasquatch. We're trying to
(11:17):
communicate to each other all the time in that area.
Then later on, again years past, I started spacing in
this one area in the Nimkish Valley. Now we kind
of knew that they were in this particular patch that
(11:39):
I had the space, which is for every tree that's around,
there's twelve foot ring of trees that are cut down
around one tree that's left, and that's what they wanted
for spacing. So for every twelve feet you left a tree, well,
I'm spacing in this area. I spotted a big X
(12:02):
of two trees that were not rooted in the ground.
They were totally broke off and left in a big X.
Of course I'd take that down. I started seeing them
the further in I cut.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I was in a oh, I would say, about a
good half mile into the bush when I started seeing them,
and they would walk the same length.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I was walking up to where i'd last cut, and
they would follow me and then disappear into the woods. Well,
at one point I found that the way I was
dropping my trees into little squares, so they were approximately
(12:53):
two and a half three feet tall with trees on
top of trees in squares. There were acres of them.
They started using them for leaving their young in there.
I noticed because I would spot the odd one here
and there in the square, and I knew it wasn't
(13:13):
a bear. I knew it wasn't a deer, and I
know what forest animals would do this. So I started
walking along because I always cut a path along where
I was cutting, so we got easy access in and
out pace of emergencies. And I'm walking along this one
(13:33):
path going in and I started in about seven o'clock
in the morning heading in, so it was about eight
thirty in the morning, I spotted this really young, young, young,
young sasquatch laying in this one square right along my trail,
and I looked down at it, and when it turned
(13:54):
around and looked at me, you could see the brown
eyes and just looking at you, like, oh, who are
you kind of thing. And I noticed out of the
corner of my eye that I spotted a cougar coming along,
and I stopped and I was watching the cougar. I
had one foot in the square where the little baby was,
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so everything was fine with that. I didn't step on it,
and I watched this cougar as it started coming. I
guess it caught the scent of the young and it
started coming closer and closer and closer. So I went
into a defensive crouch. And as for weaponry, all I
had were files on me for my saw, so I
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had one of those in my hand, and I started
yelling and screaming at the cougar till it stopped moving. Now,
this cougar was approximately twenty feet away from me, so
I know it was probably going after the young that
was down at my feet, but I stayed there and
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I started throwing stuff at it, and I kept screaming
and yelling at it for a good ten minutes before
the mother come running out of the bush and she
just threw a huge chunk of wood and it whizzed
on by my head, aimed straight at the cougar, hit
(15:22):
the cougar, the cougar scream She bellard at the same
time the cougar turned round took right off. Now when
she stopped, she was approximately three feet behind me so,
and she was a good seven footer, had light brown hair.
(15:43):
Her skin was all gray except for her cheeks, which
were hair on her cheeks, on her upper lip, on
her chin, had hair, hair on her head. All around
her face there was like from the forehead, around the cheeks,
(16:08):
down around the nose to the lips, basically was bare skin,
gray skin. At that point, I kind of looked there
straight in the eye, and she looked at me, and
I kind of lifted the little baby saspotch up and
(16:28):
I had it. When I said I was protecting it
from the cougar, she kind of understood. So when I
handed her the baby, she took the baby, and then
she turned around and put her hand on my chest
very gently, and she held it there for a good
ten to fifteen minutes. Now, I'm not sure what she
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was doing. I guess thanking me in some way for
doing what I did for her young and protecting them,
which was a union experience for me. It made me
feel quite proud that I had gotten this kind of
attention from her, and it surprised me. Now, I was
(17:12):
about thirty about thirty five years old when this happened,
So I'd been seeing sasquatch throughout my youth, since I
was a kid. Into my adulthood, I've seen them in
logging camps where we were on the mainland at Phillip's
(17:34):
Arm Now I was approximately thirty six thirty seven years old.
We were working in this one valley that was ten
miles long, and we were still using chokers and old
(17:55):
wood spars, and we were pulling these things up the
logs out by wooden spark. Well. We heard the thing
screaming the first time we heard it, and that had
to have been, oh God, miles away, miles away the
thing that because his boys would reverberate through the valley,
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and it kept getting louder and louder as it kept
walking towards us. Now, as it got louder and louder.
It got louder than the machine machines that were working,
so everybody shut the machines down and we could hear it.
Now up on the far bank from where we were working,
(18:38):
there was a huge twenty foot bank and there was
a six foot ditch in there. Now that was because
they cleared all the trees, and that was for the
runoff for the rain. It gave the rain someplace to go,
so it didn't take take the hillside down while as
it come out of the forest, it walked into the
(19:00):
into the ditch. Now, from that ditch being six foot,
you could still see four feet of this thing above
the ditch, and it was tosseding logs that would take
six men to even try and lift to get it
out of the ditch. It was tossing them like they
were just sticks. And it walked along still hollering stop
(19:26):
every once in a while, looked down at us, turned
kept on going, and it walked almost the full length
of this ditch before it went up and now onto
the other side. One of the machine operators and myself
we went scrambling up up the slope as it was
walking through the ditch and we hopped into the ditch
(19:48):
ourselves and we watched it come toward us, look at us,
and then walk up out of the ditch and down
in the into the other side of the of the valley.
That ran on the other side of the ditch and disappeared.
Now we were totally in shock when we've seen this,
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but we admitted we've seen it. Everybody around there that
worked on that crew, and there was thirteen of us
working on that crew, we all seen it, but no
everybody was. We were told to kind of close of
miles about it because the forestry didn't want us get
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wored out that this is what's been happening in that area. Now,
this is the same area that the autman incident happened.
This is the exact same area, so we weren't surprised
to hear it. And in camp we had heard the
(20:57):
hollerings of it way up in the mountains, so that
was another incident. Later on, Now I turned around and
we kept seeing them here in town. There were sightings
in town, lots by lots of people in town. Here.
(21:18):
It got to be fairly normal to actually know that
they were around here, being as where we are on
Vancouver island in Canada British Columbia. Most scientists know this
island as Ape Islands, so and that's because of the Sasquatch.
(21:43):
It's We've had sightings up and down this island from Victoria,
huge city, the surrounding towns, to all the way up
to the northern tip of the island. There have been
sasquatch sightings now on this island that we live. It's
only the eastern side that actually has really got any
(22:07):
kind of populace. The rest of the island is wild,
which would give credence to a fairly good sized population now.
Up in some of the areas I've gone to, which
is northwest of the island, in a town called Gold River,
(22:28):
there have been numerous sightings up there, and I've had
numerous incidences up there. I go to a lot of
the secluded lakes up there, and I find that the
sasquatch seem to come around whenever I'm out there. I
once they realize that I'm there, they come around. They
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stop being afraid of me and come out to the
open all the time when I'm out there. The last
time that I seen any kind of a sight, which
would have been two years ago with my girlfriend. We
were up in the Gold River area, up along the
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Hebrew River, and we were walking along this road and
we took a little side road which wound up along
the power lines, and there were rock bluffs and all
kinds of stuff, heavy forest on the other side of
where the road ended. Well from there I stood looking
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in the I noticed standing there, I noticed heads moving
in the in the forest in this one area where
there was a rock ledge, and you could see the
heads clearly as they were walking through. Now, all I
could see at that point was the tops of their heads,
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the concled heads. So as they were walking through, I
don't know why they stopped, but one of them turned
around and crawled up on the rock face onto this
ledge and stood there. Now this thing was massive, I
would guess it to be around ten feet tall, dark haired,
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very muscular, had long hair all over it except for
around the eyes, the nose, around the mouth, which was
had gray skin. I've had more numerous sightings since, but
(24:47):
these are just many, many, many sightings that I've always had.
And like I said, they never seem to hide for me.
They always come out to the open. I guess they've
gotten to the point where I called a sasquatch magnet.
I've seen them so many times and when I've had
people with me and they've seen them as well, so
(25:09):
people tend to call me a magnet towards them, which
make me chuckle. But I've always approached them with a
very calmness in me. I've never been afraid of them.
I've always been dead calm. So they seem to understand
that I would do nothing to harm them. And the
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ones we have on this island are basically what you
would call the Patty sasquatch seen in California and all
along there. They're huge, they're actually more They're not very
aggressive unless you do something to make them aggressive. Most
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times they're very gentle. They're very gentle creatures. I've never
had one try and hurt me at all. I've had
them protect me more numerous times than I care to
think about. I've had many encounters with them where we've
I've been able to get within a foot and a
half of them, able to touch them, they were able
(26:18):
to touch me. These are things that have happened throughout
my life. Now I'm sixty six, I plan on doing
more bush runs, just into areas I know where there's
clans of them. Over the years, I've been able to
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turn around and befriend at least three other clans in
different areas, and it's quite an experience. But I've always
approached them with a dead calm. I found that way
they they tend to be a little less afraid of you,
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more willing to come out into the open if you're calm,
who headed, and don't show any kind of aggression. I've
never carried a gun out in the bush. I've never
needed to. If I see or hear or smell one
that's even close by, I know I'm under a good protection.
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I don't have to worry about the wildlife. And we
have cougars, bears, wolves, grizzly I know when i'm out
there and they're out there, I'm under their basic protection
and that's a good thing. But I've learned a lot
(27:46):
about them over the years. I learned some of why
they do what they do, and some things that still
makes me curious, like some of the bending of wood
that they leave, which are indications of food or places
where they've set up structures. Usually it's the point towards
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a food source. As for snapping trees. I have no
idea why they do that. I don't know if it's
a sign of aggression or they're trying to point towards
some larger thing. I have no idea. I've yet to
learn everything about them. I never learn anything everything about them.
(28:36):
I've had them try and communicate to me. I've tried
to communicate to them. I've used hand signals, everything I
can to try and communicate with them. They seem to
understand some of what I'm saying, and I sort of
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kind of understand some little bit of what they're trying
to say to me. When they talk and they're semi
and talk. It's awfully hard, but you can kind of
figure out what they're trying to say if you look
at what they're trying to do. Lots of times they'll
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they'll try and bring food to you. They'll try and
indicate where they want you to sleep. I found many, many,
many nests of where they've slept, where they are, where
they have been sleeping, many of them out here in
the forest. And it's an experience that I'll never forget
(29:43):
ever since I was a kid. It's just something once
you've had the experiences of being around them, you never forget.
It's kind of like too in the Jane Goodall thing
is learning as much as you can about them while
you're around them, and even she believes that they they're
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real at which they are. And I've had every time
I go out in the forest, I have an encounter
every time, doesn't matter where I go. I find that
once they get a hint that I'm in the area,
they show up around my camp all the time, and
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usually not just by themselves, generally in family groups. So
I kind of figure that I'm getting pretty well known
through the Sasquatch groups that I'm one to come around
and not be afraid to come around or to show themselves.
(30:50):
And I'll continue to have these experiences for very very
long time. As long as I'm able to get out
into the forest, I always have an experience, because like
I said before, I've always encountered them every time I've
gone out in the forest, and there's something that I
(31:12):
will continue to do the other day I can't go
out there anymore. And that's about all I have to
say at this point. Thank you very much for listening
to my experiences here on the island.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Well that's it. For tonight show. If you've had a
big Foot siding and would like to be a guest,
please go to my bigfoot Siding dot com and let
us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Seen a bunch of run down now host towns where
the Church of the Backbone loves and the bow and
the fasting melodies coven.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
That the bombman rose with the roofs run deep beyond
the nose of the busy streets, the songs of the
South of su Then.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I mean I hear the Promp porch picking down home
rhythm bringing Nat had on Run from Banjung Music. Yeah,
the sound of a memory brings me back to the
bluegrass playing the Madadi Jack. It's become any bin through it.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Getting through the day on scrubs and skags, bucking name
bales to this Tennessee jams.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
There's no the way that I do it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
And I hear them Romp Porch picking down home rhythm
bringing Nat pad over run from ben Jong Music.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yeah, someone going backward backward and double tip.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Freaking to the sword and the strumming look and tup stuff.
There's nothing in the strumming out country boy, living a
warm man and I hear a bum boats picking down rhythm,
bringing us that on from roum.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Men the city laugh, trust me wild on the dune,
us the cars rushing by with the beasts on the
storos to man.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
I hear the brow boat picking down home them bringing nas.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
How don't run from magal music? Yeah, something going backwards
backwards and double tim picking in the sword and the strumming.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Look and tucky stars because of the dance strumming us.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Can't you both live in warm man?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
And hear a bum boats picking down room rhythm bringing
us on from them something goo back wars backwards and
(34:23):
double townking and the soul and the drumming looking took
his time because on the end those trumming now because.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You're wont live in.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
And I get a pom potch picking.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Down the bad chicken potch me man, it's very sweet
tea kind
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Of sounds that old music.
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