SO EP:662 Bigfoot On The Bayou

In this episode Brian welcomes John from Louisiana, who shares captivating stories about his various encounters with Bigfoot. John recounts his initial interest sparked by strange occurrences during a walk in West Virginia and subsequent experiences in both Louisiana and West Virginia. He describes numerous incidents involving unexplained sounds, rock-throwing, strange tree structures, and even sightings of the elusive creature.

Their discussion also touches on theories regarding tree knocks, tree breaks, and interactions potentially linked to Bigfoot. These encounters underscore the mysterious and often frightening nature of Bigfoot, providing listeners with an intriguing glimpse into the world of these cryptic creatures.

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00:00 Welcome to the Show 00:07 First Encounter with Bigfoot 03:17 Research and Further Experiences 05:09 Camping Adventures and Strange Incidents 08:56 Exploring Local Sightings and Evidence 17:33 Conversations and Community Stories 18:43 Mysterious Encounter on the Boat 19:27 Joining the St. Louis Hunting Club 19:50 Strange Noises and Smells in the Woods 22:35 Chase Landry's Encounter 25:35 Camping Horror Stories 29:52 Tree Knocks and Breaks: Communication or Intimidation? 34:15 Aggressive Encounters with Bigfoot 38:01 Reflecting on Past Experiences 39:32 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, I want to tell you about a journey that
I've been on for most of my life. Ever since
I was a kid, I've heard tales of Bigfoot and
wild men while spending time with my friends and family.
As I grew older and read more about the paranormal,
my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened.
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going
on here. Something just kid with my dog. Something killed
your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over the tree.
I don't know how it did it? Okay, damn, I'm
really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
the fence, and they would dead once you hit the ground.
I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my

(01:26):
dog coming over the fence. Made What are you reporting?
We got some wonder or something crawling around out here?

(01:57):
Did you see what it was? It was enough out
here looking. I'm near the window now and I don't
need anything. I don't want to go out tight. It's fight.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
You're hello?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Hit somebody out here? I went on out there. I
thought of a bit of about text forty nine. I
don't know easy ann out there. Yeah, I'm walking right heady.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I put someone welcome my guest to the show. It
is John from Louisiana. Welcome to the show, sir, Thank
you glad to be here. Let's talk about this bigfoot thing.
What in the world got you interested in the subject
to begin with?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I used to bowl hunt in West Virginia. It was
about twenty years I stopped hunting more that's went up
there to see my parents. One year we went up
there to visit the company I worked for with Shell,
and they had these little devices on your wrist they
count your steps. So I said, I'm gonna go for
a walk. I went up to an area above my

(02:51):
mom and dad's house. It was like a holiday It
went up in the mountains. They called it five right,
So I went up to five right, walked around on it.
I don't remember how many steps, so it was a
good little walk, and I went behind what used to
be the tipple, where a low coal out. So I
was coming back, the rope went up and crossed up. Well,

(03:13):
it coming back almost following the same direction you would
call it from. While I was coming back, started going
back to my parents. I was actually below where I
had passed, so I was walking. I heard the four knocks,
but it wasn't like a real stick knocker, was like
a staff hit the stump to me. Did it four times,

(03:33):
So I stopped in my tracks and I looked up
in the haller, which this is late in the eating.
I'm on the dark side of the ridge. And I
can't really see anything. It's dark in the olive. I
could see silhouettes on the top of the ridge, but
I looked up in there. I looked in the holler
and I could see nothing. So I started walking again.
It comes four more the same sounded like somebody taking

(03:54):
a staff and jammling it into a stump. Go what sada,
I'm into the real rule. I passed up all the houses,
so I knew it would nobody from the house, and
they wouldn't climb way up three or four hour foot
up the side of that mountain to play a joke
on me. So I looked, strained my eyes, and the
hollered trying to see something I still couldn't see. So

(04:16):
I turned and looked down to make my first step,
make sure I wouldn't step on anything. And then all
of a sudden, something was thrown at me, but it
went over the top of the trees. It was so fast.
By the time I heard it hitting the trees and
I turned and looked, it had already passed. It was fast.
I could still see the top the little dems, it

(04:38):
all still moving. I'm won a lot, and I said,
I'm gonna have to go So I was packing a
pistol with me and I grabbed that under zipped my
goat where I could get to it, and I went
off home. So I told my parents about it, and
they said, I can't think of the guy's nae right now.
Charlie Schwartz, my wife, he minded, it's got a better

(04:59):
memory with Charlie Schwartz. She said. Charlie Schwartz was up there,
which is they got a place called the Goldfish Pond.
He was sleeping in the van. He had somebody camping
on the ridge, a little bit of high spoted buck,
you know, and supposedly he said that a bigfoot dragged
his finger across his van all the way to the front.

(05:19):
I dan Tanda and woke him up, and they were
eyeball to eyeball. I said, hut, I said, what throws
rocks and sticks? That's where I got my introduction the bigfoot.
I didn't see him, but the information was pointing in
that direction that our witness. I told my wife about
it that she started getting a little curious, and we
started doing a lot of research on YouTube, and they

(05:42):
had a guy named Patrick Bond. I don't know if
you're familiar with him. He hasn't been on YouTube in
a while, but he was a really doorsy person around
Gustache area of around Alexandria, Louisianne. He was like a
primitive deer hunter. He always used old smoke bowl. He
carried a big old long knife he made. That's what

(06:04):
he carried when he was looking for a big fuddy.
He says, don't ever do more than one tree knock
because he thinks the rest of them will more address
that you do more. Before that, me and my nephew
had went up there and did three or four tree knocks.
We never got any replies, never, so I didn't think
no more about it. But then when I heard Patrick

(06:25):
Bond talking about that, then me and my wife and
nephew and grandson went up there. So we went to
the Goldfish Bond. This time we did one tree knock,
but my grandson he wanted to get out of the car.
He was crying. He wanted to get out of the car.
So we let him out, which was probably a mistake.
Told my nephew get the stick out and hit the tree.

(06:47):
As soon as we hit the tree, it was like
somebody was standing there watching us. And as soon as
we hit the tree, it replied immediately, so I'm going back,
I say, He hit it again and see if we
get that. Go.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
He hit it again.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
We didn't get no, replied I said, that's not no
way it come. I said, let's go. So we took off,
started down the mountain and we got through a switch back.
My nephew got braved. He said stop and let me
do another one. I said, okay, I'll stop. He said,
get the stick out of the back. So he went
to the back of the day she'd read. He pulled
out the stick and they threw it back in and

(07:20):
he slammed the door. Said wait a minute, I thought
you were going to do another tree dog. He said,
whatever is right above us? Said, it's running around. I said,
let's go. So that's some of the things that happened
to us up in West Virginia. In the meantime, back
to Louisiana. It was during colvid What was that twenty nineteen.
I think it was in March. Maybe. We decided to

(07:41):
go to Kustashi and go camping. She wanted to go camping.
I had bought a tent from somebody, second hand tent,
nice tent, and went over there to kastache it. And
when we got there, we had a campground. It's called
Red Bloods. We were the only ones there. There was
nobody there. I said, man, that's strange. They had a
few camper along the road a little bit in the

(08:02):
woods that weren't on campgrounds, but that was probably a
half a mile to maybe three quarters of a mile
away from that campground. I had some real bad trouble
with my knees. We tried some hyping. The first night
we didn't have anything really going on except I think
we might have heard maybe a distance tree nod. But
the second night we had a distance tree nod. Went

(08:25):
to bed and then it was about four o'clock in
the morning. I hear a bunch of canones. It sounded
like coyotes. I'm not sure what it was. They runned
like they chasing a deer or something. Wow, so what
is that? Then I hear this huge tree crash. The

(08:46):
dogs or the canine just they shut up and didn't
make another beat. I'm going that's strange. So I'm laying there.
I reached over to get my pistol and I put
it on my chest and I'm listening like here the
bear proof trash can lid drop. Now there's no lights,

(09:06):
no campers, no cars drove up, no nothing. We're the
only ones there. So I thought if that would have
been a bear, I would have heard some fumbling try
to get that lid up and then drop it. But
this was quiet and it just dropped. That don't sell right.
So I'm sitting there looking up at the sky and say,
oh Lord, I said, get me some light. I was

(09:28):
getting real nervous. She was snowing. She didn't wake up,
and I didn't want to wake her up because I
didn't want her to scream or anything cause it a panic.
And I'm laying there going that what's going on? Something
drags a stick or a fanker right above our heads
across the tent. So I'm hoping for daylight to come on.

(09:49):
So that was the first Louisiana incident that happened to us.
I told her what happened. I think she maybe hesitated
and believe in me, so she wanted to camping again.
I tuned at the Hills, so we went to Tunica
Hills I think it was the next weekend or a
weekend after, and were camping over there once again. It

(10:10):
sink out a lot of helped people camping over there
because of the COVID. We set up a tent. She
put us way in the back, you know, by ourselves.
We cooked, went this bed and I was laying there
and itself. I think it was around midnight. It was raccoon.
He was screaming and all and like somebody had him
by the scruff of the neck. And then I've seen
it fly across the campground. What is that? You know,

(10:33):
our coon's getting aggravated and cut up. So about that
time she wakes up and she says, I got to
use the baths, and I said, okay. So we go
out of the tent and that coon had ran up
a tree and got up in the fork and just
looking at us. She used the bathroom. We went back
to bed, and while I was falling off asleep, it
sounded like a tree knock. I just thought I was dreaming.

(10:56):
So the next morning I got up, I told my
boy man, I had a weird dreaming. I thought I
heard a tree knock. She says, you heard it, said,
I guess this wasn't a dream. So we got up
in the daylight and we seen some tree breaks I said, yeah,
they're around here too, So that was like a second
little incident. We started paying attention more to things that

(11:17):
were going on, and I started asking people if i'd
see somebody, I'd ask them, you believe in Bigfoot? And
I was shot plenty times right round here in Pierre Part.
To give you kind of the lay of the land,
we're like a little ridge that runs she was swamp. Basically,
it's about maybe a coulter mile wide, maybe wider in

(11:37):
some places and narrow and others. That goes all the
way to the Chapel Lit spillway and the spillway demps
out into the Gulf. I guess we're probably about had
a crow fries about twenty miles from the Gulf. Her
family would first come here and live and work. I
guess maybe the sixteen hundred Snipcajun's French speaking. So her
father's family had a big piece of land not from

(12:00):
my house. It's about forty acres. That's where we started
going over there and looking around. One day I was
over there, I'm starting to see tree breaks, and said,
you know that things might be here. I was curious,
so I started putting out oranges. I have a naval
tree that got hit in the last two snows we got,
which was very unusual. It made big, huge naval oranges.

(12:24):
So I take him and put him on a tree
and come back, and all the feeling would still be there,
like something cut out one side and pulled all the
meat out of saying, that don't sound like a raccoon.
Don't work possible, it's not trued on. So I kept
doing it, and then one day I went out there.
I was hunting in the same spot where I put

(12:45):
the oranges out. I climbed up. Somebody had a ladders
here out and the stands, so I climbed up in
there and I was just sitting down. It was getting late,
starting to get dark, so I just glanced down and
I'm seeing a face. It's laying on his belly with
his turned it aside and looking right at me. There
was a lot of briers and stuff around it. So

(13:06):
I'm going, this must be paradoia what they talking about.
So I kept hunting. Maybe fifteen twenty minutes later, it
and still getting dark. So I get down. I said,
let me go over there and see. So I get
down and I walk over there. The grass is all
matted down, and so I'm sitting there looking around, and
then I hear sipedal footsteps. So I look out to

(13:27):
the left and I see which is unusual. I never
seen like eight foot tall black stumps before. So I said,
let me raise my rifle up. I'm looking at it,
raised my rifle up, scope looking. I don't see it.
I put my rifle down. I don't see it disappear.
I hear of steps and then I see big tall

(13:47):
black something. That face must have been real. It was
so subtle. It was almost like if you didn't want
to believe it, or are you questioning yourself to the extreme.
After a while, I started thinking, I heard the water
should where it walked in the swamp. That was my experience,
a seaing one in that area. We've had all kinds

(14:07):
of free breaks. I had a coua tree with me
and my own nephew went out there in the middle
of the night. It was broke off twelve foot up
in the air. It was like three to four inches
round and diamond or twelve foot off the air where
it broke off, and I knew it was fresh because
the leaves hadn't even started Wilton yet we hadn't had
storms around, and I don't think a storm's called blow
the top of the car tree out because it wasn't right.

(14:30):
But there was things like this. And then one day
me and my wife are going back there and she
finds asterisk. Never seen it, but she's seen it when
we passed all ted. It was weird. She set it
off to somebody in Connecticut. He sends her forward just
like it from Ohio. I said, that ain't by accident.
But there was another structure I had never seen before.

(14:51):
I called it a structure, but it was a tree
with the root system. But the dirt ball was gone
and it was weaved. Hit it out trees about that big.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's strange, and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
We'll be right back after these messages.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
So I picked it up. I put the one in
it on the ground. I went a week after it
was still on the ground. I went the next week.
It was up. What was strange during that His eye
was going one time and I seen, and this is
a good distant scene. There's a dark spot on the
right which I don't recognize. I'm not gonna say why

(15:36):
it was because I don't recognize when I make a
certain turn in the road. When I started walking to
go check on that tree, there's a box turtle in
the middle of the road. Okay, maybe it's nothing. I
went back there and picked it back up. I put
it back down, and so that the next time I
went to check, nothing was going on. But me and
my wife went another time and it was back up.

(15:58):
So we walked in. Can we walk towards, going towards
where I've seen it on the deer stand we're walking in,
they got a big overgrown crawfish pard on the left.
So we went up on the levee and we sitting
there standing looking around, and I hear a real faint
woolf and I asked her, I said, did you hear that?
She says what, I didn't hear nothing. I said it

(16:20):
was a whool She said I didn't hear it. So
we kept walking to the back and we crossed a pipeline.
And this is all in her daddy's property. So we
crossed the pipeline. But on the way to that pipeline,
I seen some tree breaks, so I went to get
a closer look at him. With tree breaks, they don't
twist like that, and this one was twisted. The first

(16:42):
one I seemed twisted. But when I walked up there
to look at it, I hear a tree knot. So
I asked her, I said, did you hear that tree note?
She says, yeah, I heard it. I said, okay, let's go.
So we went over there where I had the oranges out,
and I think I was putting out some more oranges.
She'd stayed back a little bit, and by that time
she was nervous about being separated, putting any distance between us.

(17:05):
We went to where I took a clorox ball and
I panted the green so people wouldn't mess with it.
In a tree. A d cap screwed the Origines into
the screw raised it up about hay to ten foot.
I think I might have been fooling with that. I
hear like a log was thrown. I'm talking about the
big log was thrown into that called the twenty one

(17:26):
inch pikewive. It's actually it's deep into O's water. People
travel with boats until they get to where they can't
go attle more. So I heard that, and I asked her,
did you hear that? She says, yeah, I heard that
then all of a sudden, there's a big, humongous scream,
a loud, hot pitch scream. And I said, you heard that.
She said yeah, and then she heard it again, which

(17:46):
I didn't hear that, but she said like it was
going away. I said, we need to go, so we
started back. When we got to the place where we
heard the whoop that she didn't hear, I said, I'm
d a whoop, So I did a faint whoop, and
all of a sudden, they didn't happen the right way.
I did it once, and I waited a while, and

(18:07):
then maybe two or three minutes, and then I did
it again and nothing. But when I did it the
third time we heard we heard it breaking ranches and
hidding trees. It kept hitting trees and breaking stuff. It
looked like it kept getting further and further away from
So that was her the first experience. She was scared.

(18:29):
She said, we need to go. I said, if they
wanted to kill us, I think we'd be dead already.
So she wasn't so scared for him. We left out
of there. When we were walking out, remember the area,
I said, I found one box turtle. There was two.
There was two of us. It was like they were
gifts in us, and I think they might have been
gifted us. I went there one time by myself. They

(18:51):
had one went there together, and they had two not
far from there, me and my grandson. They have a
guy who lives up by the highway on front of
the property. It's like the side property of her daddy's property.
I don't remember if he told me or he told somebody.
He said he had a young boy and slept in
the back of his house with a young child that

(19:13):
wouldn't sleep in there no more because the red eyed monster,
so he had to move him to the front of
the house. When I'd walk back there, i'd look around
to see if I can see any signs or so
I way over there and I found I don't know
if it was a top of the tree broken off
or what, but it was like a pull. It was
driven into the ground. I took a picture of it.

(19:35):
You know, all the trees or root system it doesn't
go like this usually papers down. That all straight down,
and all the other trees were tapered. So I looked
a ball to see if it could have fell out
of somewhat, but I couldn't see anything. That thing is
probably about six inches and dim, but it was been
there for a while because I pushed it and just

(19:55):
rided off. Tell that's a lot of the stuff that
I had happened around here. Now. I talked to different
people around the area. I talked to a guy. He
was at the park. I'm on the committee at the
part recreation commit The guy was over there installing a
gazebo this type of thing out of the blue. Said

(20:15):
you believe in Bigfoot? And I wouldn't expecting this. Oh yeah,
said what what makes you believe in Bigfoot? We were
at the Godell and we were picking up deer dogs
late in evening. It was dark. There was something big
and airy running on two legs across the bay from him.
He was running through on the spall back. I wasn't
expecting that. So one evening me and my wife decided

(20:39):
to go over in that area and listen. We went
over there late evening, I shouldn't say nice like late
and eatings. It's getting dark pretty fast. So I falled
into the area. I think they call it the Godell.
It's like an island and it's splits comes back around
together through little bayous and stuff. So we pulled in
there and we just okay. We shut the motor off

(21:01):
and me sitting there quiet, and I grabbed a battle
and the stick I had in my boat, and I
hear hard one time she starts saying what I said.
What she said, something's walking towards the boat. She said,
it sounds like it's bubbling. I said, bobble. So I
started listening. I can hear it, but it would sounded
like it was water dripping off of it. Now, during

(21:22):
that time, there's a lot of high water and a
lot of poald metas are in there, so anything that
was inside was wet, you know, walking it walked to
the back like we're facing out, facing up river, and
she's in the back. It's walking like towards the back
of the boat, towards her, and you can hear it.
And then it turns in parallels is and you can

(21:42):
hear it dripping off of it and just walking past this,
and she got scared and we took off headed to
the house. That's our event. My hunting leaves in Louisiana.
Now I can't get away from them. So I joined
the Saint Louis Hunting Club and in flack. I think
the first year they all made fun of me. I

(22:04):
share a big foot with everybody. I don't care they
make fun, Go have your time. They'd go out there
in the back of the camp scream like big foot
and stuff, and I joined in with them and they laugh.
So we have it fun. So the first year hunted,
there was pretty much nothing going on. But the second year,

(22:24):
I'm sitting they call it the Rickeys Road. I'm hunting
that area, and I put me a stand in the woods.
I was in there and I seen some deer, so
I went over there and put me a lock on
a tree stand. I was up there, it was late,
it was dark, and I heard some knocks, but you
gotta be careful over it because they got big plametas,
they got big leaves, and a hate corn could fall

(22:46):
out of the tree, and you got to be able
to differentiate. But it wasn't alloud knocks. So I went out,
got them up full wheeler, and I started driving out
where they have the place they called the Elbow, which
is a ninety druey turn on the road. They all
call it Elbow. So I'm going over there and I
see a rather and I just stop. I smell something.

(23:06):
It smells like really bad human body over it when
it's going in my direction. So that was the first occurrence.
The second one was maybe a year later. I was
hunting in my tree, standing well. I can hear like
a buck off in the distance is running. I'm mimic

(23:27):
him with my mouth. So I started replying to he
started reply whatever. His starts coming in towards me on
my left and I'm sitting looking this way. I'm going
at this thing's coming out. So I got my rightle
on my lap and I'm getting ready. I got to
the edge and I was there to shut down, would
not do nothing. Maybe he seeing me or whatever. Maybe

(23:49):
it wasn't a gear. So I'm sitting there wait for this.
I hear to my right in his thicket. I hear
something trying to mimic me, but doing the same call,
but with a greater power than what I could ever
do with my mouth. And I'm going what. Then it
does it again, but it's got a high pitch squeal

(24:11):
in between the clicks. I'm going, that ain't no deer. Yeah.
Right after that, I start hearing the branches break and
I'm not talking about little shrugs. I'm talking about big
branches breaking. I said, that ain't normal. I said, maybe
they got a deer camp. Maybe I'm hearing them cleaning
their lot. So I'll leave out there and I get

(24:33):
back to the camp and i'll get that guy sworn over.
I called him yesterd y'all, I've been clear of that
lot over there, and it's probably maybe three or four
hundred yards from it. Oh no, I said, so I
heard y'all talking, but you always sound like you are
breaking branches and stuff. He said, no, we were just
cleaning the deer. He said, we weren't even cleaning up
around the camp. I thought they might be cleaning up

(24:53):
around and I asked him. They said, no, we weren't
cleaning up round the cats. So I think they were
right there. I'm going to tell you another story. Chase
Landry Troy Landry son from Swamp People. When I tell
you go around talking to people and asking him questions.
I asked Troy Landry one time. He says, Chase, seeing something,
you ought to talk to him. And I think that's

(25:15):
how I got invited to be on the show. He
gave me the stone number. I talked to him. For
a good bet you an hour and a half, possibly
two hours about what he's seen, like the cruise slides
from where we hunt, maybe five miles at the most
through the swamps, probably closer. But I talked to him
on the phone and he told me everything that happened.

(25:35):
So he also did an interview a year or so later.
Everything matched, so I knew he wouldn't tell the no fields.
Everything matched perfect like when I did I look discussion
with it. He did an interviewer on the show. It
was too for tat. So what happened with him? He
was at the place called Horseshoe Buy You. I had

(25:57):
a go now where in an earlier story about the
guy that's seen Harry creature running while he's picking up
his deer dogs within probably half a mile. He was
over there frogging one night. I think he was coming back.
He's seen two red eyes about three or four foot
off the ground. So he went home. He told his
dad he said, I seen two red eyes about three

(26:18):
or four foot off the ground. He said there's probably
a path because of the benlow on the ground, that
we ought to put a camera out there. He goes
back another night during his first incident. The guy's real sharp.
He notices and takes things in and he says, when
you shine on, you know, a light on the alligator,
they usually like turn and they look at it. Watch
you see their eyes. He said, this one never turned

(26:41):
and he was looking in the direction of those eyes
on that pith. He went back. Another time he was frogging,
and he said he was coming back. He said, I
do something different. It's nothing normal way of frogging, but
some people do and I do it because he look
back after I passed, And a lot of times I'll

(27:02):
pick up a frog that I couldn't see when I
was going. He did that, and when he did, he
was like fifteen feet from this thing. It was a
dog man. When he started describing it to me, I'm
going what it looks like. It looked like a linebacker,
he said, about seven feet tall. He said, was hugging
the tree like he was down streamed for his approach,

(27:25):
like it was hiding behind the tree. He said, he
had his arm down on one side. He was hugging
the tree. And it makes sense because when he flipped
his lighter around, this thing was just high from probably
didn't see that happened very often. Probably he would have
made an adjustment for it. But he said when I
slipped my light around, he was right there. I had

(27:46):
my life on it. He said he had a small waist.
He about seven foot tall. He had brought his shoulders
and he said it scared me. Like I said, the
story he told on his interview was pretty accurate. He
went in a lot more detail when I just went
through it, but it was a good story. Now I
hunted not far from there with my grandson the box,
and I still don't know what I've seen, but it

(28:08):
was like we were looking for deer. They had some
briar thickets and they had to opening between him and
something black and flashed across there so fast. That's I
should have heard footsteps. I hear nothing now. Could have
been a path possibly, but it didn't get me that
impression because the hair looked long, black and shiny. I

(28:28):
think I covered most of what I've seen in Louisiana
on the old man in his eighties named Russell. They
catching catfish with nets because of the mayflies sitting on
the water and a catfish coming up and feed, so
they drifting down. Fis should buy you catching catfish where
he looks with his light off to the left, and

(28:48):
he had some six foot willows, young willow trees, and
he sees this thing. I think he sees his head.
Then he stands up like another six foot in the
willows and jumps in to buy it, and swims underwater
and comes up like fifteen twenty feet from his boat,
and they look an eyeball to eyeball and they say

(29:10):
Doug goes back underwater, crosses the fisher by, hits the
back and it starts running through the woods. Then there
was three people in the boat, which brings me to
another story. In the same area, a friend of mine
was they were going duck hunt it around the same time.
It was in the same area. They were going to
camp out and duck hut. They were got to camp

(29:32):
on the levee and then I think they were till
hunt and go till hunting in the morning. So they
got all their gear together and they drove out there
in their boat and it's probably like a twenty minute
boat ride. They find the area they want to camp.
They had a camp there, but they had all cleaned
the boat. Said this is a good spot. Nobody's in
the camp, but the glasses weren't broke out of the

(29:52):
camp and the back door was pushed in it. So
they going, hey, just don't even fitch are tent. Let's
go sleep in the ca Nobody stay there, So they
go ahead and they stay there.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
And stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see we'll
be right back. After these messages.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
That night, they all got a really bad uncomfortable feeling,
all four of them. I think they were hearing some
noises like around camp where they didn't sleep at all
that night. I think they got it. The next morning
they made their aunt and they decided to go. They
didn't want to camp there, so he wanted to go
I think the next weekend and him had. He tried

(30:35):
to talk to the other three and two of them
said they're definitely not going back. But one of them
decided he'll go with them. So they go back. They
go to the camp and they decide I think they
pitched that tent in the out camp the first time.
They decided, all let's talk pieces of tent, will put
this vinyl flooring in that broken window and we'll stay

(30:58):
in that room. And then he went to the back door.
He said it took two of them to pick up
the back door. They took it, and they took the
back door and leaned it like it's falling out the
camp against the wall. So they went to bed that night,
he said. Then all of a sudden they were hearing
runts or heavy walking and stuff. They couldn't see out
what was going on. He said, something went by the door. Now,

(31:20):
they said the camp was like four foot off the ground,
so whatever hit the door like he did, probably was
about eight foot tall, what he would think, but it
hit the door and knocked the all way in the
hall way down on the other side. Two minute to
pick up, so he said, they waited around. They loaded
their shotguns and they hollered out it all, we don't
know where you are, but if you come in here,
we're going to kill you. They finally got a nerved

(31:42):
out of their lights and they went out of the
front porch. They walked close to the by or something,
and they felt, he said, the ground shook like somebody
took a big chunce of a concrete and slammed it
again against the ground. And he never could understand that
he was taking the place was haughty. I told her
what happened to me in West Virginia. Once they had
a footstop. I said it shooped the ground and what

(32:03):
it was he said, but they heard grunting and walking
like byd pitle walk. And then he told me about
the guy that old camp one in the group do
to the guy, they found him dead in there with
a heart attack. Now whatever gave him the art attack
knocked the door into real Gwenda's nobody knows, but that's
where they found a guy dead with a heart attack.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
I want to go back and talk a little bit
about some of the experiences you had early on. This
is completely subjective, obviously, but what is your opinion on
two things that have stuck out to me doing this
for so long and even my own experiences. The wood
knocks and the tree structures are tree breaks? Do you

(32:45):
think that these tree knocks are some sort of communication
that's going on between these things? Do you think it's
something that they do to maybe intimidate people like us
that are in their area. And what do you make
of the tree breaks? Do you think these things are
doing these as some sort of a warning maybe for
people entering their area, or do you think there's some
sort of a marker. What is your opinion on the

(33:07):
tree knocks and the tree breaks and what they're doing
or what they mean in context.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
With these creatures. I don't have a clue. I've had
seen exes down here, and I've seen x'es in West Virginia.
I've seen bows tree bez asteris the one my wife
found out on a property. We've seen some in the
canals and bayous along the edge of the bayous that
looked like they were beginnings of pasteris. We've seen x'es

(33:34):
all over here. In fact, on the Troy's Landers show
we used the X in the chill. It was a
huge one. I don't know. In Troy you could talk
about the show. What's that for? I don't know. Never
sat down at the day Well. I talked to one
and I've never seen him Bill want. I think it's
some type of communication. Whether it's for us or whether

(33:55):
it's for them, I don't know. But I know this,
whenever we went and video or that took pictures of them,
they'd come back down that one we did it on
the show, they'd throw her down. Before we did our
second shooting went out, there was down my friend took
pictures and was in West Virginia. They came down and
then they had been up there for a couple of
years and all of a sudden he would take pictures

(34:17):
and video and all that. They came down in the
one over here on Troy's show, they did the same bank.
We went out there to reshoot some things. It was gone.
They had to use an old video from the first shoot.
So is that coincidence? It communicates something. I don't know
what it is. Treat breaks. To me, a treat break
is like a demonstration of strength. Glad, dad, go break
you a few shill You're not going to do it.

(34:40):
Maybe they're they're showing us, look you mess with me
a snippy little pencil knack.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
It's definitely more difficult than people would imagine. Because I
went out. It was October of twenty twenty three. I
was up in Canada. I went out on an expedition
with Todd standing up in his area and radium there
and I tried to break probably two two and a
half inch sapling at a height of a little over
six feet. I was able to do it, but it

(35:07):
took a lot of pressure, way more pressure than I
thought it was going to take because I thought I
could just take this two inch sapling and just snap
it easily. I'm a fairly strong guy. I don't work
out every single day, but I've got a pretty good
upper body strength, and it took me some doing to
do that to break it at about six and a
half feet. I'm about six foot two, so I was

(35:28):
probably reaching up another six or eight inches to break
this thing, and it wasn't easy to do. And I've
never been able to really figure out outside of some
sort of a marker or communication for them, it wouldn't
make sense that they're doing it for us, because how
would we interpret that, how would we know what they meant?
I agree with you. I think it's more of a

(35:49):
communication with them. The rock clacking or the stick hitting
another tree, whatever they're doing with these tree knocks, it
seems to be some sort of communication with them. I
think it's very interesting that you mentioned the turtles in
the middle of the road. That's the first thing that
I experienced here on our property in North Carolina that

(36:10):
I think was related to these creatures was this weird
box TURTLESHLL that was stuck into the side of a
stump off to the right of a trail that we
walked the dogs on every day, and that was really
outside of the vocalizations that we heard. The first thing
that I felt was maybe an interaction with these things,
and I've heard that from other people. As soon as

(36:31):
that happened to me, I started doing research and I'm like,
is there a bigfoot activity that seems to be related
to turtles. So many people came out of the woodwork saying, yeah,
they've gifted us turtle shells on the stump that we
leave apples and oranges and other things for these creatures.
So that's a very interesting thing. One of the most

(36:52):
aggressive encounters that I've ever documented came out of Louisiana.
It was probably episode six or seven of the show,
so it was back in probably twenty twenty one when
I interviewed Tyler from Louisiana. They were out in an
area and they had coon dogs. I believe it was
that they were out hunting with and one of these

(37:14):
creatures killed one of their dogs, basically stomped it to death.
So that seems to be a theme that has ran
through at least in the Southern United States Southeastern United States,
where I've grown up and still live. Is these aggressive
encounters with dogs? It's funny you mentioned the Obviously, it
seems like Chase possibly had some sort of an encounter

(37:36):
with a dog man and you guys heard what sounded
like canines either chasing an animal or maybe trying to hunt.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Down a deer. Here's the question for you.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Have you heard of or seen other experiences from other
people in that area that seemed to be more aggressive
when it comes to dogs or even people that you've
been able to document in talking to people and some
of your research into this phenomenon in your area.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
No, I've been around deer hunters. Aren't with dogs a
lot in hall hunters. They never mentioned the incident like
that occurring. No, I can't say. I have now some
stuff that happened in West Virginia to demonstrate how I
think strong these things are. They had an old man
that lived in a hollow Grant hears in the house

(38:22):
up and that holler. But the only way you can
get in there is you have to go through a
gate that goes hundred trustle for train tracks, and he
had horses back there. He went back there one day
his horse was dead, so he loaded it up and
he hauled to the back of it. It's like a
little valley in that hallowed what they used to have
the homes. He hauled all the way back to the end.

(38:44):
An hour later it was gone. Now who's gonna carry
off the big horse? And who's gonna carry it up
them steep mountains they got up there. You can't only
crawl up them mountains. Something got that horse out of there.
And then there was another incident. My wife stopped, had
the bowfish on, and we ran into two locals. One

(39:05):
was on a side by side wall was on a
foot whether and I was just boking fun. They had
that side of their called big foot washir or something,
and I just made fun. I said, y'all be careful
that bigfoot up kidding. Oh, I don't believe in that.
I said, why is that? He said, we just we
have it. Sting one. I said, I've seen a dead
deer over there at Spice Creek that was pushed up

(39:26):
under the bushes. I couldn't find an aarow bullet hole
or nothing in it. And my friend hurt some power
down in there, and then I could see their wheels turned.
I said it. Oh, I said, what he said, be
in my part and we found a big bear dead.
He said, we skinned it because it was a fresh kill.
He said, it wasn't a bullet ole and mark or

(39:48):
nothing on that big bear, and said it was huge.
I said, well, y'all find that bear bottom of Spice Creek.
I said, would that beaver dams? Yeah, that's where I
found the dough What could kill a big bear? It's powerful.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, I definitely don't believe in any kind of coincidence.
That's one thing that I've said over the years when
it comes to the totality of the circumstance when it
comes to these creatures. If you're finding that in that area,
they're finding a big bear that's been killed by something
that doesn't seem natural. When you put all those things together,
I think it points in one direction. And I think

(40:23):
if you ignore that, you're doing yourself and everybody around
you a disservice. Because I think these things are in
more places than most people would think they are. It's
definitely an interesting thing. It definitely keeps me coming back
for more. And I think one of the things that
I've learned from talking to so many people over the
years is you look back in hindsight and you say

(40:45):
things that seemed normal at the time, or things that
you dismissed at the time. Do you find yourself looking
back and thinking, man, that one time I heard this
in the woods, could it have been.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Related to a bigfoot? Possibly?

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I've done that for myself. Do you find yourself doing
that looking back over the years of hunting and you
think about things that happened that maybe you heard or
smelled or even seen that you didn't consider that it
was possible sasquatch activity at the time. Do you look
back in retrospect and say, man, that might have been
bigfoot related.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Oh? Yeah, right there where I found a deer. My
friend huntered below me, and it had a big screen.
He was far enough away from me I didn't hear it,
but he mentioned it to me. They had a tree
stand that was tore out of the tree, you know,
bin up on the ground. I don't think bears do that.
They might jump up and down and knock it down.
He said it was all bent up. But we used
to talk. Just to what I used to hear. I'll

(41:41):
hear rock clacks, you know what. I would write that
off as squirrels cracking nuts and haycorns on the rocks,
just stuff like that. I would think somebody was down
at the bottom of that holler chopping wood. I know
they got down there in way you'd go away down
there to chop wood. I did that a couple of times.
Will you here's the logically, try to think about what

(42:03):
it is, make excuses, and not really question it.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, definitely, I think it happens to all of us, Man, John.
I can't thank you enough for coming on and sharing
your experiences and the things that you've experienced over the years.
I think it's been fantastic, man, and I love Southeastern
United States encounters. That's literally why I started the show
was to be able to talk to people like you
in the Southern United States, where I've been born and raised.

(42:28):
I think it's important to get those encounters out there
because there's so many people that don't believe these things
exist in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee. I think it's
important to document these encounters because I think they are
in places that people don't expect them to be. I
can't thank you enough for coming on and sharing your experiences.
I've had a blast talking to you.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yeah, Brian, I had a good time too.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't
stay and I don't want to feel a world open.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
Steps. Try this child, that child everything. Can you ride back?

(43:33):
Ride back, joy for.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Me, joy, staying right there, come it right away.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
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Speaker 7 (44:04):
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Speaker 6 (44:08):
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Speaker 7 (44:35):
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Speaker 5 (44:49):
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