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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. All right, then
let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seen a bunch of rundown no horse towns where the
church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
fasting melodies coove in with the bomb man rose with
the roofs run deep beyond the nose of the busy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Streets with the songs of the South of su Then.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
When I hear the promp porch picking down home rhythm
bringing out I Don't run from Banjung music.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah. If you've had a bigfoot sighting and I would
like to be a guest, please go to my Bigfoot
sighting dot com and let me know. My bigfoot sightings
all happened in southern Ohio. My name is Wes Ruth
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and I am an investigator with the BFRO. And I
am also a member of the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research
Group and that group is headed up by Tom Jay
out of Kentucky. I began my big footing journey actually
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in Kentucky. I growing up, I was an adamant disbeliever
in bigfoot or almost any cryptid. I had seen some
shows on TV that I was really kind of curious
about one of them being the Jersey Devil the Pugwagie.
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I thought they were really interesting, but I didn't really
believe even Bigfoot at all. I didn't see how it
would be possible for a creature to be that large
and exist in our modern world, you know, with all
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the cameras that we have, with all the people that
traverse the woods, that squatters that live in the forest.
There was just no way that a cryptid that large
could exist on Earth in this day and age. I
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didn't discount the fact that there could have been at
Bigfoot at one point in time, but I thought the
whole idea was ludicrous. I wasn't even skeptical. It was
just hardcore adamant this thing cannot possibly exist. You couldn't
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have shown me any evidence and me have accepted it.
And I believe that's part of where we are today
with the scientific community. It seems like there is an
unwillingness to accept an abundance of evidence. And it may
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be just the same lines of thinking that I was
going through. I really don't know. But my father, who's
Dusty Ruth, he leads the expeditions for the bf R
in Ohio. He had called me and asked me if
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I would go on an expedition with him in Kentucky
with the kb R that group has headed up by
Charlie Raymond, and I reluctantly agreed to go. I assumed, well,
nothing's going to happen. I'm just going to go camping
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and then that's going to be pretty much it. Maybe
someone might hoax, I don't know, try to give people
a story to tell. I wasn't really sure what to expect.
But leading up to the expedition, an attendee that's a regular,
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or I assume he still is, but he was a
regular at those expeditions. His name is John Gregory. He
had sent me a friend request and he was very
welcoming when I got there, greeted me with a smile.
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Everyone down there just seemed very, very very friendly, very
passionate about what they were doing. They really were adamant
about their beliefs, and I got along with the people
really well. I tried not to judge anyone based on
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their beliefs. I was honest about not believing, but I
kind of took things in stride, and as the weekend progressed,
I just began hearing and talks and lectures and hearing
people talk. Some people even discussed topics like the forestry,
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how the government has began doing conservation efforts, and what
those efforts included. And I thought that it was a
really nice presentation because it wasn't just big foot facts.
I was hearing more scientific arguments and about things that
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weren't crypted, and it really resonated with me, and I
thought that was a really nice relief. But there was
a night that we went on night ops and we
went to a location not all that far from base camp.
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And on this drive, the ground is it's a very
hilly area, but this road that we're on, the area
around the road begins to get narrower and narrower until
the road begins to enter in an area that is
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on a knoll, and surrounding the knoll is a very
deep valley, and outside of that valley is a large hill.
So at the area, we've sometimes referred to it as
being like a fish bowl. Once we exited the vehicles,
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within two minutes, there was a knock to the north
that was easily within one hundred yards, maybe even within
fifty yards of our location, and it wasn't two or
three seconds after that knock to the north that there
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was the sound. The best way I could describe it
was a decent sized tree being pushed over. And when
I heard the knock and I had seen the people
at the expedition, I saw what teams they were going with,
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I was I don't even think I've ever admitted this
to anyone, but I was studying the other people, trying
to memorize who was going with what group, what people
were staying at base camp, so I could take stock
of exactly where everyone was in this area. Because again
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I didn't know if someone was gonna hoax and bring
about an experience for people or what was going on.
But I heard this knock and the sound of this knock.
It's an issue that we sometimes bring up today, but
it doesn't come up a lot. Is the home run knock.
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I know, if you find it a stick in the woods,
you're going to be pretty hard pressed to slam it
against a tree and make a sound like that. And
it's really like maple baseball by at hitting a ball
in a professional setting, and it's existing somewhere around fifty
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one hundred yards away from me, So it was really
close and I didn't see how a person could make
that sound, and I knew no one else was in
that area. I had studied a topographic map, so I
knew the terrain behind that area before we went, and
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it just wasn't logical that a person was back there.
So we heard the knock and then the sound of
what I would describe as a medium to large tree
coming down, and then not too long after that, there
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is a single deer that comes into our vicinity stays
near us, which is atypical. I'm not saying that deer
do not approach human beings, but it's pretty rare that
they do that, especially if you're not offering food, you're
not offering shelter. The tips of a deer's ears being
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bent down might be a sign of malnourishment, in great distress.
None of those things happened. We didn't have food. You
know that, the tips of the deer's ears weren't pointed down.
But the deer as it came close to us, and
it just stood there. It kept turning its head looking
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to the hill that surrounded the knoll, and would check
different spots periodically, and it was acting frantic about being
what I would describe as being paranoid. And I didn't
see a big foot in Kentucky at this point in time.
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Actually I don't. I haven't seen a big foot in Kentucky.
But it was just a very, very bizarre incidence, and
from a perspective of the non believer, I could no
longer just look at this and say, well, it can't
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be a big foot. There's no such thing. There was
actually substance to it, and despite not seeing it, it
opened my eyes to the possibility of there being a bigfoot,
or being multiple bigfoot in the woods. It was just
a really interesting experience, and it was honestly kind of fantastic,
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even though I wasn't at this point, I wasn't a
hardcore non believer. I was airing the realm of being skeptical.
I just needed more proof. The next morning we woke
up and I believe there were two people who had
heard a bigfoot near camp. When I sleep, I am
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dead to the world. Absolutely. You might have to shake
me to wake me up. But one of those people
I believe was Ron Ron Leatherman. He had pointed to
an area in the woods. It was about thirty yards
away from where his tent was set up, and they
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had heard sounds, they heard something come into camp, and
I didn't really know what to think about it, because
again I didn't hear anything that night, I didn't see anything.
So they announced Tom Shay was at the expedition, and
they announced that he was going to lead a small
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team out into the woods to try to find some tracks.
And it didn't seem a lot of people were going
to participate. I didn't know if they had something else
that they wanted to do, or if they were wanting
to take a nap, or what the circumstance was. But
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my dad wanted to go. He thought this would would
be an incredible experience. So there was myself, my dad, Dusty, Ruth,
Ben and Rich Taylor. Steve was going, Jim Wilcox was going.
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So Tom Shay let us out in the forest in
a formation of a v. Tom Shay was a tracker,
he was in the Army, and he led us out
looking for tracks, and I ended up being the first
person to find an impression in the ground that Tom
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Shay after evaluating it and said, yeah, this looks like
a bigfoot. The one side detailed of this was that
it wasn't a full impression of a foot.
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It was.
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Only about I would say, a quarter of the foot
at most. And my father had casting powder and asked
me if I wanted to cast it, and I said
no today. I look back at it and realized if
I had found it today, I would have cast it,
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but at the time I just said, no, that's okay,
I don't really want to cast it. But from that
individual track, Tom was able to get a bearing and
track where this bigfoot had walked, and I ended up
seeing the very next impression in the ground. I believe
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he found that one the next one and it was
actually the full foot, and I thought, wow, this is incredible,
and they found it. I believe maybe four more. I
could be wrong about that, but after seeing all these
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tracks and seeing how they were individually different, it wasn't
something you could have taken a mold and made, and
so the whole experience really started opening my eyes to
there quite possibly is a such thing as a bigfoot.
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It would have been one thing if the tracks had
been all the exact same size and the exact same shape,
the toes in the same position, but every single impression
in the ground was unique, and if someone would have
been out in the woods making these tracks, I would
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have known it was. It was just an incredible weekend.
Charlie Raymond was a really good host, and it was
it was so awesome to meet all these people. That's
quite a few of them became really close friends of mine,
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and my father is still close friends with probably most
of them that attended. It was just a really cool experienced,
really cool people in a really cool place. We ended
up coming back to his expeditions a few more times
over the years, and I don't know how many outings
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my father had been on up to this point, but
this was I believe late April of twenty nineteen. The
next outing that I went to was two months later
in June of twenty nineteen. And up until this point,
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my father had never seen a bigfoot, and he had
been out quite a few times looking for bigfoot. He
was a firm believer in bigfoot. He watched all the shows.
And when I say all the shows, I truly mean
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all the shows. And I used to laugh about it.
I thought it was just the most ridiculous thing. I mean,
I'm so opposite. I don't even watch TV. That's how
opposite I am. I don't believe in Bigfoot. I'm not
going to watch this show. Are you seriously watching this dad? Well,
we went on the expedition in Ohio that was hosted
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by the BFRORO. So this is two months later and
the very first night, my father is leading a team
and on this team there are some other people that
are BFRO. One of them is Lorie John Gregory came
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amazing guy. I got to hang out with him again,
and we had a few more people on the team
and we ended up going to a place that was
a trailhead. This is in southern Ohio and all of
my sidings are are in southern Ohio. It's it's a
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it's not that northern Ohio. You can't see a big
Foot up there, because you can absolutely there have been
some reports of sidings recently in northern Ohio. I live
in southern Ohio and it's it's just a fantastic place
to have an experience, really homely area. I love the hills,
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I love the forest down here. It's just home. So
we're on a trailhead set up, but it's it's pretty
deep in the forest and if I remember correctly, you
don't even have cell phone service this area. I mean,
we are in the sticks. So as soon as we
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pull into this area, we set up our chairs in
a circle, all facing each other so we can look
over each other's backs and shoulders to make sure we
can see what's going on around us. And I believe
there are seven of us in this group. And we
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begin hearing very gentle footfalls in the forest. And one
of the incredible things and frustrating is that some of
the loudest sounds you'll hear in the forest that come
from an animal are going to be the smallest. The squirrels.
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They're going to tear things up and chip monks and
really cause a racket. But it's just so amazing that
something so large could be so quiet. Actually, when a
bigfoot was walking, the footfall just the foot actually managed
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to land on a small stick and you'd hear a
little snap, and it could have been a large stick
as well, because of the possible foot padding, all that
fat mass on the bottom of the foot dampening the
sound of you know, six hundred to one thousand pounds
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being could really dampen that sound. So it kind of
got our attention and at first, the footfalls were happening
very slowly and sporadically, seemed to come from one very
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general area, definitely within fifty yards of us, but we
really didn't see anything. There was a lot of vegetation,
quite a few trees in the area on one side
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of the trailhead where all the sounds were coming from
the other side of the trail starts to go down
and gets a little bit more steep and more steep
as it goes down the hill, and on the other
side of us. As soon as you clear the trailhead
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the train it's fairly flat, but you have to go
up a hill maybe five ten feet, but then it
gets gently rolling. But all these sounds were coming from
down the hill, and then a few minutes later, out
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of nowhere, things begin getting thrown. At first we begin
to think that maybe there's debris falling out of the trees.
It happens, but being June isn't really the month that
we expect a lot of debris falling. And the fall definitely,
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I've heard so many walnuts and acorns coming down the fall.
It gets loud very quick, but being in June, we
didn't really expect it. What we thought it was natural
because there were so few coming down at first, but
then when we begin to figure out that they're actually
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being thrown, that kind of was a game changer for us.
Well more, an more acorns get thrown, and one of
these acorns managed to hit a kid that was on
our team. His name is Wyatt. He was fourteen. He
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absolutely pelted and I don't mean to laugh about it,
but it was just the shock and surprise of him
getting pelted. Me. He hollered something out I don't even remember,
but it was kind of funny. But he didn't get
seriously injured, but it was just the shock and surprise
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and how he handled it was just kind of kind
of funny. He didn't get freaked out, which is a
really good thing. But after that, a Wyatt brought his
thermal with him. He had a fleer, maybe a TK model,
and he was scanning the area and my father had
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his fleaer with him, and they were sort of sitting
on opposite sides of the circle, so Whyatt was looking
over my dad's back and my dad was looking over
Whyatt's back. A little while later, the footfalls begin to
get louder, and to me it sounded like they weren't
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just occurring in one general area anymore. They were still
happening where we first heard them, in the direction that
the acorns were coming from, but they were also happening
within maybe seventy five yards of us, in a different direction.
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So if one was happening, the majority of it was
happening to the south. I began hearing footfalls happening off
to the west. And then Whyatt exclaims while looking out
of his thermal, I see bigfoot and my father doesn't.
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I don't know what he was thinking when he heard it,
but you never know, because some people have mistaken claims
where they believe they see or hear something, but they're
just mistaken about what it is. So my father just says, oh, really, well,
where is it? And my father is passing his thermal
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back and forth between him and I so I can
get a chance to look and kind of get a
feel for the for the monocular, and at this point
in time, I have his monocular. So when my father
asks why where the bigfoot is, WHYAT whispers to him,
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it's right behind you. And it really shocked my dad.
That was kind of funny. Also, so at this point,
why it's the only one that's seen it. We don't
know if that's exactly what he's seeing or not. But
I decide to take a look and see if I
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can try to identify why it is looking at and
we are both, I believe, using white hot settings. So
I start scanning the area behind my father, and unfortunately,
when you look through night vision and a thermal monocular
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or any type of thermal camera, if you have a
a heat source or a large image in front of
what you're trying to view, the background can get blurred
out or get water out because of the heat or
the radiating light coming off of an object, you know,
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if you're using a night vision. But I end up
looking around my father and I see a little bit
of something on beside a tree, but I don't know
what it is. It's sort of is the same color
of the tree in my mind, so I don't know
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what to think. The next thing I know is this
white hot setting. If something is abnormally hot compared to
its surroundings, it will be maybe like a pinkish or
almost red. I see these dots that look like there's
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space about three inches apart in the area, and the
seat signature was to the left of the tree. To
the left of the tree in that area, I see
these two blazing hot little circles that are about three
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maybe four inches apart, I can't tell. And then it's
all of a sudden it dawned on me, Wait a minute,
you're if you view eyeballs through a fermal monocular, they're
going to glow just like this is. I don't know
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if I stood up, but I know I was thinking
about it because it just floored me. Because I'm thinking,
down this hill, there can't be a person down this hill.
Something is standing there on two feet, peeking out behind
a tree, and I know it's not human, and so
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I am just absolutely blown away, and I just stay
to the group. I see it. I see what he's
talking about. That's a bigfoot. And I had asked my
father if so. They asked me questions and about how
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far away it is, how big it is. Of course,
I have no idea. I've never seen this place in
the light. I don't know the size of these trees,
so I can't really answer many other questions except the
general area of where it is. So I asked my
father if he wanted to look at it and he
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did well. He tried to turn and couldn't see it.
So I said, well, why don't you slowly stand up,
come over to one where I am, turn around, and
I'll guide you to the area. So he did that
and couldn't see it. Well. Then I had to move
his hand while he's holding the thermal to the area
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and then he saw it. And Whyatt at the time
was recording with his with this flear so we were
able to obtain the footage from that the next morning
when we got back. Well, more sounds were heard that night,
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and Whyatt was able to keep an eye on on
the big foot. But while when my father was done,
he handed the thermal back to me and I went
back to where I was sitting. But Bori had kept
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reminding people it checked the trees, checked the area surrounding us,
because you don't always know what's going on on other
sides of you, so you need to be aware of
all of your surroundings, not just where you see a bigfoot.
So I began scanning in other areas and up the
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trail about seventy five to one hundred yards away, I
saw a different bigfoot crossing the trail. And again I
saw the eyes glowing and I could see that it
was walking on two feet, and I was florida. How
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it moved. It was so bizarre because the feet were moving,
its head was pointed at me the whole time. It
was looking at me, but it was like it's chest
wasn't going up and down. If we were taking steps
as humans, you might expect the shoulders to go up
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and down when we went, but this thing wasn't doing that.
And I could see the legs moving, but I couldn't
see shoulders going up and down, So it was it
really confused me, and I could hear more footfalls coming
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in from behind me. So the trail where I saw
the big foot crossing was to the west, where I
could hear footfalls happening to the north behind me and
to the east, And in my mind, I'm thinking, well,
there's several of them around us, and I can't see them.
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So I can't say that for certain, but to this day,
I feel like it was possible that we saw two
and there were possibly two or three more that we
didn't see around us. And that next day we were
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interviewed by Mark der Worth on what we saw and
what occurred, and we went back to investigate the scene,
and I believe that there were either four or five,
maybe even six tracks that were cast at this occurrence.
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I know Kenny and Jack Brown found some tracks and
where everyone was going to the location where this the
majority of the people who saw the bigfoot, they owe
everybody doing the investigation went down there. Ri I told
Mary Ross to come with me and we went up
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the trail and I said there was a bigfoot that
was up here. Ended up finding it at track and
casting it and it was It was just incredible. So
that was on Thursday night. Friday night, nothing happens for
our group except there was a large handprint found on
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the back of one of my father's jeeps and we
got a lot of photos of it. And Saturday night
nothing happens at all. But it was a great experience.
But Saturday, the meal was catered and I was cooking
with John Gregory all weekend for the expedition, and I
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was loading up on some of that food and I
had brought a lot of pop tarts. Supper comes around,
we have a big catered meal and I am stuffed.
So I decided, well, I'm just going to take the
food and leave it behind the gift. So we get
ready to leave and we go back to the same spot,
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but my father's telling me, oh, don't take that food
with us. You know you could attract more than you
bargained for, which we actually did find out to be true.
We came back a couple weeks later and a tree
was torn up by a bear, and I took so
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many photos. I was impressed, so I'm glad I didn't
take that food. But he convinced me to take a
couple tens of sardines and some pham balls from a
presentation that my father gave about psychology, interviewing and witnesses
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of their credibility. It was a really good presentation, but
he handed out these phone balls. He had a lot extra,
so I took two of those with me and I
left the ten up there. I left the the phone balls.
Nothing happened, but we had a good time while we
were up there, and that's what it's all about. You
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may not see or hear anything, but you know, if
you can have a good time with the people you're out,
it's worth it. So I leave these items behind. We
go back to camp the next morning. Everyone is saying
they're goodbyes, and one of the attendees comes up and
he knew that our team was up there at the
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same spot, and he asks about the area and it
being all torn up, and I'm thinking, great, what did
we do? And he went up there to gift also,
but he had just done it before coming back to
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base camp. And when he told us the area was
torn up, we decided to go up there and check
it out. And we brought the evidence collecting pack with us,
and Bo Bruns was pulling in, so we tell Bo
to get in the car, let's go. So Bo comes
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with us, and Bo and I put on gloves and
we go up there and something had torn one of
the sardine tins open, something had bit through the other
sardine tin, and then the two phone balls those had
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big chunks of them bitten out, chewed up, and the
pieces spat back out. Both the balls were identical, so
we collected all that and then pieces of those ball
are pieces of one of the balls ended up being
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sent to a university for DNA testing, and then it
subsequently ended up being transferred to North Carolina State University
where Darby Orcutt is doing a study, but it was
just it was incredible because I had this experience in Kentucky.
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I heard a knock. I got to hear that the
very first expedition I was on. It sounded like a
tree came down. I didn't see anything, but I saw
some tracks. And then two months later I got to
actually see one. It was with a funmal, not with
my own two eyes daylight. It wasn't it wasn't that,
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but it was still incredible. It was absolutely amazing. I mean,
I went from this thing cannot exist to Wow, these
things are out there. Man. It was just awesome. So
after experiencing that, I got a little bit heavy into casting.
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I was learning more about it. I was learning more
how to do it, and it was it was something
that I could manage. My father had a lot of
casting powder, and you know, it was a cool way
to collect evidence. And you're not going to have a
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sighting left and right, but you can still go out,
keep your eyes peeled. You could find tracks, and it
was just something I could really get a part of that.
It didn't take a ton of money to do. There
was some learning about it, but it was it was
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very manageable. And then my next experience was being at
a private location in southern Ohio. Again, it must have
been only a few months later. We were out in
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a private area and while there on the ridgeline above us,
my father and I were out and we were being
paralleled and we were kind of talking, maybe a regular
volume conversation out in the forest. We're all alone out there,
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and there's a pause in the conversation and we stop moving,
and then we can hear up above us these steps,
these footfalls occurring, and then all of a sudden, they stopped,
and we both kind of noticed it, but we didn't
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say anything, so we continued on walking and talking, and
then we could hear between our words there were slight
sounds up on the ridge. We never got to see anything,
but it was just another really cool experience. And then
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when my father was a part of the Northern Kentucky
Bigfoot research group with Tom Shay, and then I was
invited to go and be a part of that group.
We went down to northern Kentucky to scout out a
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location and while we were there, my father and I
with Tom Shay. Tom wasn't going to be able to
make get to the next outing and he wanted to
show my father this spot so when the group was
able to go, they would know exactly where it was.
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I got bored was just standing around. If we're in
the woods, just standing around looking around while some conversations
are going on isn't really my thing. I'd rather be
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doing something. I'm constantly on the move. So they were
having some conversation that was meaningful to them, and I
just thought, well, if I'm in the forest, I might
as well look around and take some photographs see what
I can see. And about ten or fifteen minutes later,
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I was absolutely floored because it is almost November, and
to me, it looks like a little kid had been
walking through the forest barefoot and it had been pouring
down rain recently. And I couldn't fathom. I mean, I
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know we're you know, we're not in an urban area,
but I can't imagine who would let their kid run
around barefoot. So I took a photo and I went
back to where my father and Tom were standing talking,
and I think they could tell by the look on
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my face that I had seen something. And Tom looked
at me and said, what's going on? I said, you
wouldn't believe it. There has been a little kid out
here walking around in the woods barefoot, and Tom said,
what do you mean? So I showed him the photograph
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and he said, you're kidding and I said no. So
he said, well, that ain't a little kid, that's a
juvenile Bigfoot. I said I was. I was so shocked
that he said that. And he said, well, where was it?
So I walked over there, and I think they drove
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back to the spot and Tom got the looking at
and studying the track and he said, yeah, that is
a juvenile on Bigfoot. So then we had casting powder,
but we didn't have water. So my father drove down
the road to go get water. I don't know if
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he got it out of a creek or where he
got it, but he comes back with water. So I
start casting. And when I was casting, we're all just
in these launch airs waiting for the cast to set up,
and we're using the hydrostone, so the process really heats
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up when it cures. But it's fairly cold. Well it's not,
you know, thirties, but it's pretty cool, so it's going
to take some time. So while we're sitting waiting on
this this track is set up, Tom looks over and said, well,
there's another one. But this one was enormous. I had
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never seen a track this large. It was about I
want to say, twenty one inches if memory serves, and
the ground was obliterated. This thing is literally four or
five inches deep into the ground. I could not wrap
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my mind around what I was So we we start
casting that one, and I thought Tom was going to
cast it, and he basically said, well, you need experience.
He said, well you can if you want cast and
cast it. You know, you get your experience in. I
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don't mind. So I cast it, and then we're waiting
for that second one to set up and finish curing
so we can remove them out of the ground. Tom
looks over again, well there's another one. And to me,
I had seen these holes in the ground, but I
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just thought someone drove back there. They started to get
their tires stuck and band up, throwing a bunch of
a debris out of the grass and just tore the area.
I didn't know what I was looking for. I'd only
been big footing for I don't know, seven eight months,
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I'm not sure, but it's it's just unreal. And to
this day I occasionally dig those barge casts back out
just to just to examine them, just because at that
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point and and my big footing period of my life,
I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around
around it because there is one in Tom's area that
has been named Goliath, and it's just it still seems
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crazy to me that there is a being walking around
in the woods that is that massive. It's just awesome.
Is awesome. One of the things that my father and
I are into is ledrs long duration recorders, and this
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process involves taking parts and sometimes making your own. So
you're going to set up a unit that you can
put in the forest where it is going to record
audio for you. Your typical batteries are going to last you
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maybe maybe a week on full strength, and you don't
want to have to keep coming back out in the
woods every week grabbing your recorder and seeing what you
got in the past seven days. You want to be
able to set something out in the woods, come back
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a month later, maybe five six weeks later, pick up
your LDR. You can swap the batteries out, you can
swap the SD card out, put new ones in, and
then take your batteries with you. Plug in your SD
card when you get home and see what audio you've got,
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And you can use a free software called Audacity and
use a spectrogram where you can see what audio is
being created out in the woods. You don't just have
to listen to eight to ten hours a night. You
can actually scan through it with your eyes and spot
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check your audio, see what's going on. So and our
hobby as of twenty nineteen, I'd believe that my father
had one or two LDRs made for him, but once
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I got involved, he told me that I should start
making them. So I think that we have made close
to twenty one LDRs for us so far. We've had
up to eight of them out at a time in
the woods in various places public land, private land, collecting
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a lot of audio over the years, and one spot
in particular is where we have an incredible piece of
evidence from We went there to retrieve an LDR and
then take the batteries and SD card out of it,
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put new batteries in, a new SD card and the
LDR and hang it back up in the woods. And
that's fine. Well. At the time, we were using a
GoPro that was attached to a helmet that at this
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point in time I was wearing. Sometimes he would wear it.
Sometimes we'd mount it to our chest. But it got
to be a lot easier and better for the video
to have it on your head, because if you're doing
things with your hands, you could block the camera's view
if it's attached to your chest. So just put it
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on a helmet, and I'm wearing it. I have to
traverse this very steep hill to get down to the LDR,
and then traverse the hill, count the comeback up, change everything,
and then bring it back down, then come back up. Well.
On the trip down to place the l they are
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in the tree. I don't really know where my father is,
but there are times when something that's happening in the
forest and you need to get quiet or you need
to pay attention, and it can happen in a split second.
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Usually he my father might say hey, West, or might
snap his fingers. But I'm I'm more than sixty yards
away from at this point, and I am trying not
to fall while going down the hill, And the next
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thing I know is a rock whizzes past my head
and hits the ground in front of me, So it
comes from behind me, goes past my right ear, and
then hits not only the ground, but it hits the
ground that is within a foot of the tree that
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I hang the LDR in. So instantly my mind does
not go to Bigfoot. My mind goes to my father,
thinking I need to get quiet. I'm making too much noise,
or he wanted to get my attention, and I couldn't
hear him because I do have a little bit of
a hearing problem on my left ear. So I thought, well,
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he wanted my attention, So I look up, try to
find where he is, and I yell out, did you
just throw a rock at me? And of course he
is far enough a way that he can't hear a
word I'm saying. So I keep my eyes on where
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the rock came from, and then realized it came from downhill,
and somehow the rock was thrown it arcd and was
coming down when it whizz past my head. So it
came from down far below me, and I knew my
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father wasn't down the hill, he was up on top
of the hill. Soon I get up there, I tell
him about this experience, and I show him the video
of it, and you can hear that rock whizzing past
my head. But I fully believe they could hurt you
in a drop of a dime. It wouldn't even be
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an issue. They could just do it and then you know,
it would be a problem. But if they wanted to,
I think they could have hurt me. But it was
I'm not gonna lie. At the time, I was kind
of peeved. I thought he threw a rock, and I
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didn't know why he would throw a rock period. Plus
I don't know why he would, you know, get it
so close to my head. But I was a little frustrated,
and my line did not go to Bigfoot. It didn't
go to Bigfoot until I realized the rock didn't come
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from on top of the hill, but it came from
down the hill. So my next sighting was in September
of twenty twenty one. It was at another BFRO expedition.
It was also in Southern Ohio. Southern Ohio is a
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great place to see a Bigfoot. There are several states
that have a lot of activity going on. I believe
Pennsylvania is one of the big ones. Michigan's one of
the big ones. Going out to the Pacific northwest, you
can see him. But it's just easy for us because
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we're in southern Ohio. We know they're here, we know
where they are. It's just incredible. So this expedition, I
don't recall what night of the expedition it was, but
the team leader was Laurie. Laurie had scouted out around
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this area and found a spot where we could set
up for night ops. There were probably eight of us
at this location this night, and while we were there,
they had gotten dark. I had brought a small firestarter
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log and she I think brought another firestarter log. I
started one and it didn't do so well, and then
she started another, and then with a an hour of
us being there, maybe forty five minutes, small rocks begin
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being thrown. We are on top of a ridge and
it was similar to the location in Kentucky, except the
road in was a lot shorter. But everywhere around us well,
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I mean, we're on a large hill. Everywhere around this
decreases in elevation quickly. But rocks are being up thrown
up the hill from down below, and it seems like
they are coming from different directions. At some points, we
can hear rocks hitting, but we can't see the rocks
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hitting anything. We can't see where they bounce. But we
can hear them hitting the ground. We're hitting other rocks,
and then you are I want to say southeast. We
hear footfalls, but they don't sound like bigfoot. We hear
these footfalls, and then we ended up seeing a deer again.
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It was a deer came up to us, within twenty
feet of us and just stayed there. This deer would
not leave. Marcia Clarke had a at the time. She's
an attendee. I don't believe that she was bfro yet,
but she had her thermal and she was scanning. I
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believe I had a. I might have had night vision
with me. I don't recall, but several members of the
team had thermals. And eventually we stood up and we
began looking around the hill and down at the bottom
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of the hill, on the I think west side of
the hill. At the bottom, Marcia claimed that she saw
a bigfoot. It was standing amongst the trees, but it
was not behind a tree. It was standing out and
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broad View was not trying to hide. So others of
us in our group began scanning and saw what Marcia saw.
And Marcia saw this bigfoot and was recording with her thermal,
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and we all got a really good look at this bigfoot,
and I don't know what we did, but it is
my opinion that we either because of the deer or
something were else we were doing. But it is my
opinion that we upset this bigfoot. This bigfoot turns around,
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runs and storms off through the woods, and after that
we never encountered a bigfoot for the rest of the night.
This bigfoot runs back towards base camp and we don't
see it again. But this, oh, this was the last
night of the expedition. I went out the next morning
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to pick up our one of our LDRs at base camp,
and I had seen it the day before during the daylight.
But now when I went to collect the LDR to
take it home, it was gone, completely gone, and in
its place there was a marble on the ground. So
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I can't say that a bigfoot decided to trade with
us or what I know. Others at the expedition found
marbles on the ground in base camp, so I can't
say what exactly that was about. But the whole thing
was odd, and I do believe that we upset the
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big foot. In May of twenty twenty three, we had
been alerted well, my father had been alerted about a
trackway in southern Ohio and the next day we were
able to go down and investigate the area. And over
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the next couple of days I was able to go
down independently. It takes a while to get down there,
so I was traveling three hours and just to cast
several tracks and come back and then do it again.
And there has been a lot of outcry about the
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DNA studies and you know, whether or not they were valid,
what happened with those and what I can say through
my process of being an investigator with the Northern Kentucky
Bigfoot Research Group and being a part of the BFRO
that as investigators and researchers, we need to do our part.
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We need to follow the scientific method. We need to
collect evidence properly, store it properly, eliminate any potential part
of contamination that could happen. And you know, it's it's
a process. It's frustrating, but we just need to remember
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the joy and the hobby and it's trying to have
a good time with it. And if we have an experience,
it's great. You know, you can come join us anytime
at an expedition. You'll be lifelong friends. With the people
you meet, you'll learn a lot, You'll have a great time,
and it's been really amazing to be a part of,
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you know, the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research Group and the
BFRO and if nothing else, I can't imagine where my
life would be if I hadn't had the opportunity to
get out in the woods as often as I do now.
So I've had a few experiences and I've been able
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to share a couple with you, have had several more
and was able to investigate further. And you know, Southern Ohio.
I can't say enough about it. And there's some other
great places, and I appreciate you'd be willing to stick
with me. And here's some of my stories. So thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
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Bomb man rose with a roos run deep beyond the
nose of.
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The busy streets with the songs of the South O
su then I mean I hear the promp porch picking
down home rhythm, bringing out add on run from banjam music.
Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
Yeah, the sound of a memory brings me back to
the bluegrass playing the Madadi jack become and it been
through it, getting through the tea on scrugs and skaggs,
bucking name bears through this Tennessee jams.
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Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
And I hit a boum boat packing down on rhythm,
bringing out that over run from banjong music.
Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
Yeah, someone going backwards backwards and double tip faking and
the sword and the strumming look and tuck start.
Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
There's nothing in the strumming now country boy living mom.
Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
And I hit a bom boat picking down rhythm, bringing
us that all from from then using.
Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
The city laugh drowsed me wid on the dune gods.
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Rushing back with the bass on the stoos to man.
Speaker 6 (01:07:06):
And I had a brown bod picking down one r
the bringing nuts run from bunch of music. Yeah, summing gallop,
back words, backwoods and double tim picking in the sword
and the strumming lo Kentucky stars because athing and strumming down,
country boy living and get a bad, bad picking down rhythm,
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bringing us paddle from the bedroom, summing gallop, back words
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backwards and double town packing and the soul and the drumming,
hook and tucks time because of the head of Trumen.
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Now country Boy leaving.
Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
And I hear a bout ports picking down the Mad
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around music