Scary Reddit Stories vol. 6: Bigfoot Encounters

For our 30th episode we're bringing you true (?) Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters pulled straight from Reddit. Creepy? absolutely. Believable? TBD. Hope you're not planning on camping soon, because these stories even spooked the Sasquatch skeptics in our group. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, welcome back to the podcast and eerily beloved, we are gathered here today with Garrett Ratman and Liam. Hole Gang's here today. And this week we are coming at you with Reddit stories. This time I'm going to be reading Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_03 0:18

Yeah, I am Reddit stories. I finally get Reddit stories.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

I said, hey, it's not you didn't say Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_05 0:30

Oh, it's the extended Bigfoot family?

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Yeah. Sasquatch is a species.

SPEAKER_05 0:34

The Sasquatchans. Wait, what?

SPEAKER_02 0:37

Garrett has beef with Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_05 0:40

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Garrett has one-sided beef with Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_05 0:43

You weren't there for the 30-minute rabbit hole down stupid lane.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Shoot, that was on my list of things to read today.

SPEAKER_05 0:51

Oh, I hope not.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

I could add it to it though.

SPEAKER_05 0:56

Here's my 10-step update how I dressed up as Sasquatch and ruined my family's vacation. It was real bad. Oh yeah, my bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:06

What this guy, this guy sent his girlfriend. No, I'll just give him the abridge version. This guy sent his girlfriend on a camping trip with her family, and he said, Oh, have such a great time. And then he packed a bag and went, but then he hid in the woods and dressed up like Sasquatch. And they thought like they and he started shaking the trees and shaking their tents. And they like had young kids ruined their whole vacation.

SPEAKER_03 1:31

Uh-huh. And then instead of apologizing after she broke up with him.

SPEAKER_05 1:35

He went on a rampage at the family barbecue.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

He dressed up in it again. And tried to get her back.

SPEAKER_05 1:41

Doing it a second, that was kind of funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

No, no. No, if you would have had the story.

SPEAKER_05 1:47

He went like apologized to the whole family and then did it again.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

I'll s I'll send you the story afterwards. Actually, Madeline, they recorded it in a podcast and we had her cut it because it was It was so outrageous. 45 minutes of my life wasted.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Yeah, Garrett's still mad about it. He's still mad about it. He still holds a couple of my kills months ago. That wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

But I did. I thought it was bad too. Like when I I thought it was funny.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

It's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

No, Garrett. Garrett's funny. That wasn't funny.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Garrett was just so over it. Anyway, so no, I will not be reading that story. If you want to read it, maybe I'll try to link it or something.

SPEAKER_05 2:25

But we'll do an archive episode. We'll just post all the trash that is making it.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Subscribe to our Patreon to get the Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_05 2:32

We're really selling the Patreon, huh?

SPEAKER_02 2:36

But not reading that one. We'll be reading others. Obviously, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Sasquatch. They'll be getting their own episode eventually, but until then. Yeah, we gotta do that.

SPEAKER_05 2:48

We're doing another Sasquatch episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

We're gonna do like a lore. Where did Sasquatch come from?

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Indigenous people. We don't know. I want to hear some good Reddit stories. Okay, I'll try to do my best with what I found.

SPEAKER_04 3:01

Bigfoot and Sasquatch are different.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Bigfoot is uh it's like a subspecies, I think.

SPEAKER_05 3:10

What?

SPEAKER_02 3:11

A classification of the Sasquatch fan.

SPEAKER_05 3:15

Bigfoot's like his name. His species is Sasquatch. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

No, yeah, Bigfoot is one guy. Yeah. But like there's a whole there's more than one at Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_05 3:28

Whole family of them. Whole family tree. Bigfoot, you know. Kind of Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Yeah, Bigfoot family. What?

SPEAKER_05 3:37

Yeah, Bigfoot, you got Bigfoot's and like teleport, you got like astral Bigfoots.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Because that's how people think they can get around is through portals.

unknown 3:46

What?

SPEAKER_05 3:46

Which is why I'm sure we can make that story too.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Which is which is why we don't see them walking around in the forest. If we could describe Liam's face right now.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Liam's flabbergasted. He's never lost. He's never heard of such a thing.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

They probably didn't make the cut for a good reason.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

Okay, this first one. I wanted to share the story, though it doesn't involve the siding, it involves all the other evidence that is difficult to ignore. We bought land in Washington recently. It'll be about a year before we start building there, but we visit periodically and I just recently came back from a two-day camping trip on the land. A few months back we pulled into a dirt road leading onto our property and noticed a perfect pyramid of trees that had been interlocked into a tapestry. This simply couldn't have happened by human hands. One reason is that the pyramid, the pyramid interlocking, interlocked, which was clearly done with skill, was at least six feet off the ground. We joked that maybe some teenagers could have done it, but I personally really doubted some kids could climb up the trees six feet high and successfully bend tree trunks into an interlocking grid that high up. It would have taken too much force and power. I don't even think grown men could get such trees to bend in this fashion. The trends had to have been at least eight to nine inches in diameter, so we're talking strong trees, not bendable baby limbs. Fast forward to the previous weekend, we pulled onto our property late at night after after sundown, arriving late on Friday night. Within five minutes of arriving, I heard a loud, haunting, ape-like howl that didn't sound anything like a wolf, bear, or normal animal sounds. I've spent enough time in the woods in my life to know when I'm hearing something that isn't elk, beer, owl, or dog. These howls were human-like, and it was clear that something enormous was sending a message out there. It did it four to five times, then stopped. We slept the very first night without issue. Except for one thing. The very next morning a tree had been bent like a perfect rainbow directly over the trail ten feet away from our truck, perfectly perfectly going over the trail in an upside down U shape over the road. The second night was a night that was remarkable. Within 15 minutes of hitting the sack in our teardrop trailer, windows were open and I was enjoying the forest breeze. I immediately heard footsteps, distinct human bipedal footsteps walking around the trailer. It moved at a pace that was distinctly two-footed, and it was clearly large, much like a metronome beating. Leaves were all over the ground, which made it easier to hear the pacing of the footsteps. This went on for at least an hour, then it stopped. I placed my hand in a cup-like position behind my ears to help increase my hearing abilities. Then I fell asleep for a few hours and awoke to some human-like crunching footsteps right outside the trailer. I then heard actual talking from what I believe was a Bigfoot. One might say it was gibberish, but to be honest, it was clear that they had an actual language. Somehow I felt that it was female. The obvious soft vocalization sounded like some sort of affirmation sounding noises. It sounded like words, only the voice was clear clearly deep slash resonant, and not the sort of voice a regular human being could emulate due to the depth of the voice. I am sure it wasn't humans pranking us. It spoke softly to one another by using some sort of enunciation, and so this is no longer just howling, but literally some type of talking. Obviously, though, it wasn't English. But it was most certainly a human-like vocal tone communicating. Next, I heard the trees begin to bend. If you can imagine a bending noise, sort of like a screeching, pushing every five seconds. This went on for an hour. Screech, push, pause. Screech, push, pause. This pattern of pushing and pausing went on for a long time, and it was directly happening right outside the trailer.

SPEAKER_05 7:41

Dude. Did she hear two Bigfoot's mating? What do we got going on here?

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Okay, but where's going on? Here was this. Where's the cell phone? Where's the recording? I don't know. No picture.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

For some reason, I didn't feel scared. I've always been psychic a little when it comes to feeling intentions of humans or animals around me.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

She's an empath.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Something deep inside of me found that these beings were lovingslash kind, some sort of like protectors of the forest. I listened to them as long as I could until I was too tired to continue listening to their activities outside the church.

SPEAKER_05 8:14

Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, this is sounded more and more like made it now. Hold on now.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

They're loving, they were loving and kind, and I couldn't listen to their activities. The following morning there were three more trees perfectly folded, curved, like rainbow slash arches, right over the trail next to our truck. One was directly at the nose of the truck. I've taken photographs and we'll upload them soon. Maybe. Oh my gosh, she has photographs uploaded. Somehow I feel like they were saying welcome. I think they know we purchased the land. Look, if they had wanted to hurt us, they could have. They never touched our stuff, our trailer, or did they attempt to scare us? If anything, it was like they were attempting to not scare us and wanted to be as quiet as possible.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

Um I think they were asserting dominance and just mating right in front of you.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

I felt that the female was guiding the whole event that night.

SPEAKER_05 9:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Well died. Hold on. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 9:12

They were not bending trees in the air.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

My heart tells me that they did this to say hello in a loving, kind way. Um it hasn't scared us and we still plan on building there. I had an idea that if we go camping there again in the fall, I'm going to tie flowers around the trunks that they bent to let them know we accept you and we honor you. Do you? I refuse to have bad feelings between the Bigfoot and us. I want us to cohabitate in the land peaceably. Peacefully. My first impressions of these beings is that they are not out to hurt anyone, and that they might even be able to communicate with humans if humans could treat them with respect and try not to hunt them down. Clearly they're going to be more intelligent than the regular large apes are on the world. They're bipedal and obviously have above average intelligent intelligence, judging by the fact I heard an actual language coming out of one. Okay, and where's the cell phone? And then it says edit to add photographs.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

I want to see him.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

Oh, they're not quite bent as germ- oh. So here's one over the truck.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Oh, I mean. What am I even looking at?

SPEAKER_02 10:22

The the the branch. There's like a caption on the picture.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

But again, where's the cell phone video? Well, okay, but if it was dark, you wouldn't have been able to you could take a video for the sound.

SPEAKER_05 10:35

I've got another theory.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

Let's cut my let's cup our ear.

SPEAKER_05 10:38

I've got another theory. This wasn't Sasquatch. They ran into polyphemus.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Here's like a Tuman like whales. There's a teepee formation. It's not as dramatic as I was expecting it to be.

SPEAKER_05 10:53

Polyphemus' bipedal.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

No, I mean large. What was dramatic was the storytelling in that cupping my ears and listening as long as I could. I mean, get out your cell phone. Well, and then you fall asleep. Record. There's something big out there moving trees.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Get in your car and leave.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

Yeah, I think it's polyphemus.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Someone said, I will not take photos or try to report them to any official agencies. My only concern about showing this on Reddit is the government possibly monitoring these forums. Dude, I'm not sure. I couldn't put them doing anything to these beings or search searching for them in our land.

SPEAKER_05 11:27

Dude. Okay, so they want to leave like rose petals in the shape of a heart on their breeding tree.

unknown 11:32

Breeding tree is crazy.

SPEAKER_05 11:36

Tie flowers around the trunks. Dude, I sound paranoid.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

It could have been anything because we don't have video of it and it's not bent like a U-shaped rainbow. And what's what I mean.

SPEAKER_05 11:52

Could have been polyphemous. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Okay, so like that's the end of that story. And so they bought property, they went there, they saw the trees in a triangle six feet up. I see the picture. It looks like they've fallen back.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

You said it could have been bears. Like when bears play fight, they make like chittering noises and they like play fight, huh? Okay. Or if they're mating, bro. I don't know. What do you want me to say?

SPEAKER_03 12:23

Well, okay, if it's a bear, you don't want to be in your trailer.

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Also, a bear's not bipedal.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

Well, it could be upright.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

This isn't Smoky the Bear walking around.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

We need Smokey the Bear.

SPEAKER_05 12:34

It's not sitting upright walking around the trailer for an hour.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

No. No, it's that story was very dramatic.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

I think it was Polygenus. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

What do you think, Liam? So good. Next time they need to set up their camera.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Well, this was posted three years ago.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Well, so plenty of plenty of cell phones.

SPEAKER_05 12:54

Let me get out my camcorder. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Liam, what do you think?

SPEAKER_06 12:59

This reminds me of the ever since I was young, I've been able to sense the paranormal. And I have so many other stories, but I'll save that for another time. Oh, she's an empath, alright.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

I could tell one was female by their energy.

SPEAKER_05 13:13

Dude. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Okay, so are we rating each one of these?

SPEAKER_05 13:18

I've always been good at sensing the emotional state of animals.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Okay, well, I hope the stories get better. Um, considering you're the one that asked for Sasquatch. No, she didn't ask for it. I told her I didn't.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Considering the subject, you have to understand that these are all gonna be a little bit fantastical to some degree.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

Fantastical. Well, that's a very nice way of putting it. Okay, let's do creepy factor. For me, I'm not creeped out. I think this is completely BS and I don't even believe it. You're not creeped out? No. You are?

SPEAKER_05 13:53

I'm at a 10 out of 10. If I'm camping in the woods and something bipedals walking around my trailer for an hour?

SPEAKER_03 13:59

Well, but I don't believe it. So I have to it has to I have to believe it for it to be creepy for me.

SPEAKER_05 14:03

Imagine being in the woods in a trailer and you're cupping your ears to listen to the sounds of some guys going at it in the woods for an hour. Okay, okay. And you fall asleep like it's rain sounds. Okay. I'd be kind of creeped out.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

I'm so I wonder if the husband heard anything. This clearly has triggered Garrett. So for me, I'd be creeped out. He's been triggered since the beginning. I know. Okay, I'm just not creepy, I just I don't I don't believe it at all. So my I don't believe it at all either. My my creepy is zero because my believability is zero.

SPEAKER_05 14:34

But imagine if it was a dude walking around your trailer for an hour.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

A person? That would be. Yeah, it'd be creepy.

SPEAKER_05 14:40

A person would be creepier.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

Yeah, it would be real creepy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:43

It could be that. That she said it was bipedal.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Okay, okay. So you're right. We've seen a lot of documentaries lately about the uh I would like to uh edit my creepy. Okay. Nothing sentenced down. Seven.

unknown 14:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

Because you're right. Oh, yeah, you're gonna pull it. Now Garrett's pulling the Friday bears.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

It's a little early for the Friday bears.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Um I'm doing it. Believability, though, for me, is zero. Like, I just I'm I mean This isn't advanced. It's something, but this is no, this is I'm not that I'm not gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

You should decide how much do you believe the Bigfoot exists?

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Zero. Okay, wait, get Liam's gotta do his creepy and believability. Well, Garrett hasn't done it either, so Garrett said 52,000 on creepy. Nah, my creepy's like a seven. Okay, so we agree. What about your believability?

SPEAKER_05 15:28

Zero negative 52,000?

SPEAKER_03 15:30

Okay, okay. Okay. Liam.

SPEAKER_06 15:33

I mean, my creepy's probably like an eight, but believability like zero or one. Like, if there's something that's making noise outside of my truck for an hour and I'm supposed to be by myself in the woods, like on your property?

SPEAKER_03 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

Oh, oh wait, you wouldn't just cup your ears and listen through like it's raintime and go to sleep. Oh, the ocean's so so like loud tonight.

SPEAKER_06 15:56

Yeah, let me just cut my ears to to to enhance my hearing for forever.

SPEAKER_05 16:01

Oh wow, what are they what are they feeling? Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Yeah, so they should have gotten uh their cell phone out and recorded to hear the sounds.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Or or something.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

So that it was believable.

SPEAKER_05 16:13

And also in the flash on just some random guy taking a duke. The trees were not bent.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

They were bent, but they weren't any.

SPEAKER_05 16:20

We're not making a U shape. Like it definitely Oh, that wasn't the Rambo to you?

SPEAKER_02 16:24

It definitely could have been bear bears climb trees. It could have been a bear that it could have been a million things.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Yeah. Bears climb trees? A cougar.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Like black bears.

SPEAKER_05 16:36

First I've heard of that. I got Sasquatch right there then.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Okay, next story. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

So this is coming from this is a comment that someone left after someone said they were looking for stories and sightings from anyone in Washington. And this says, I live in southwest Washington state, but my experience happened in Oregon and was not a visual, but what I heard and felt.

SPEAKER_05 17:02

Again? Is this the same lady?

SPEAKER_02 17:05

But I have a good visual story. I went to share my great-grandfather's experience, which was in Northeast Washington outside of Spokane.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Well, so this person has multiple I guess, but they're sharing their grandfather's Sasquatch in encounters.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Yep. My great-grandgrandfather was not much of a storyteller, and he was a quiet and humble man with a lot of credibility in his community and in our family. When he was dying in his 80s, he insists that this happened to him when he was 11 years old. This would have been in about 1911, well before all the Bigfoot mania or any other famous stories that are often told over and over. He was riding his horse on a path in the forest leading home, and suddenly his horse became incredibly agitated. He smelled a foul smile and looked over and saw a giant creature covered in red hair. He said it was hair, not fur, and this creature ran alongside them. They all stopped and stared at each other within a few yards of each other. He said it felt like forever. My great grandfather was frozen in fear, but finally his horse couldn't take it and started to try and escape. So the thing turned around and my great grandpa saw it literally walked over this tall barbed wire fence with absolutely no effort. It crossed the meadow and headed into the opposite tree line. My great grandpa insisted that we not call it a creature. He said it was a man. His eyes, his understanding, made it clear it was a giant hairy man. His mom said that he should never speak of it to anyone outside the family, but she believed him. He eventually shared it with the kids and they shared it with us. And this happened uh in the Spokane Valley at a farm that they had.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

I mean that raises a question. There's all these wildfires going on right now. I mean that obviously impacts animals. And Bigfoot. And yeah, would impact uh Sasquatch if there are any. So what's I mean they're just teleporting around.

SPEAKER_05 18:54

Yeah, that's why they can teleport. Teleport to California. Okay, okay. You can't open portals.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

So so creepy factor for me in this story. A smelly, dirty that is pretty man with a lot of hair. I mean, I think that's more real to me than the bipedal bending trees. But to like but never talk about it, never report it, and never see it again, you know, and it just went to the next tree line, like when I mean that would that that would have a serious impact on you. So I mean, it's an old story, I get it, but it's still like the the thing is there can't just be one. Well, I guess if I unless I believe in the teleportation, because I mean they're somehow still around.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Also, I looked it up, we did get it wrong. Bigfoot and Sasquatch are interchangeable, interchangeable. That it is a species, it's not just one thing.

unknown 19:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

Sasquatch is like the native term. Okay. Bigfoot is the more modern sorry.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

Okay, so to that, I just feel like creepy-wise, I would I would be creep creeped out about that, but I mean, like, and he never thought like, oh, I should go look at that again, or like I should make sure and write it down, or I don't know. No need.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

One thing that stands out to me about that story is that in any everything that I've heard about Bigfoot stories and whatever and such, it always smells. You can smell him before you can see him. Yeah, I think it might be like a dirty animal. The fact that that was noted in this story kind of adds a level of credibility to it.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

If it was really a story from that long ago. Yeah. Smell you later.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Dude. Well, think about it. Like it's a and he said hair, not fur. The fact that it was red. It's got ginger string. Maybe like a dark red. If it was like orange, it wouldn't blend in with a forest.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Ginger sasquatch. Hadn't heard that before. Irish. Are they Irish already? Maybe. Okay, so creepy for me. I mean, I think it's it's it's kinda I mean, if I saw, of course I'd be completely creeped out. Um, again, if I were to believe it. So I'd say that sounds creepier than the trailer. I mean, I wouldn't be in my trailer in the woods in a you know, plot of land, blah, blah, blah. So that sounds creepier to me to encounter something like that. So I'll give it a seven. Believability. Uh you know, I I don't know the storytelling from you know, generation to generation. I don't know that I really kind of can get on board with, but I'll give it a five.

SPEAKER_05 21:35

I'll give it a solid three. Okay. I'd be more creeped out in my cabin or my my trailer if there was like someone walking around. I wouldn't be in the woods to see anybody, so wouldn't happen to me. The trailer though, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

Unbelievability.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

Hmm. Maybe a two third hand account isn't exactly my favorite type of source.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

I agree.

SPEAKER_06 22:00

I mean creepy is probably like two maybe believability maybe also two Liam's like a rock.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

He's like doesn't get creeped out by anything.

SPEAKER_06 22:15

What? I mean that was just like this person's grandpa saw a big dude in the forest and his horse got scared. Like that there wasn't much that happened.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

Interesting. Come on, give us a powerhouse one. I want to not I wanna knock you know to the fences. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 22:32

I was driving down the highway and I looked to my left through a clearing and I saw two men in black with Sasquatch tied to a tree.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Oh wait, I think I've heard the story. Does that one ever post it though? No. Uh uh. I could read it.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Sure, I hope not. That was in the pre-episode one testing. Yeah. That's ended up being the testing episode. That's what got Garrett all upset over Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Yeah, that's probably where the beef originated. Because it did your men in black a little dirty.

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Not even, dude. It was ridiculous. It was the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Spring says, relatively new to Reddit, and I wanted to share a brief experience I had the summer of 2023. I wanted to start by saying I have no idea what it was I encountered, but I know what it wasn't. I lived and worked at a resort about 50 minutes west of Bend, Oregon. It was a short seasonal job, but at that point I was an Oregon resident of seven years. The environment I was in is mostly ponderosa pine forest without much brush. A good amount of Huckleberry, but no bramble and whatnot. At the time I lived in the employee dormitory building. The laundry room was in the building but had a separate entrance on the side of the structure. It was around 2 a.m. and I was spending time with my new roommates getting to know each other and all that good stuff. It dawned on me that I had laundry sitting in the dryer for who knows how long now. I grabbed my flashlight and went to go grab my laundry. I had one of those flashlights so you can pull the lens to make the beam more narrow. The dorm building was surrounded by guest cabins, so I kept the flashlight pointed at my feet so I wouldn't trip. I ran around the corner of the building and within a few steps of the laundry room door, I felt a large thump. The thump reverberated through the ground and I felt it in my knees. It couldn't have been more than fifteen feet away from me. Like I said before, the dorm was surrounded by guest cabins. My brain immediately assumed it was someone knocking over a slash breaking down their firewood at the fire pit near their cabin. My body's reaction was full-on freeze. If it was a cabin guest, I didn't want to blind them with the flashlight at 2 a.m. If it was something else, I definitely didn't want to spook it coming around the corner like that. So in my frozen state, I hear the same thump a second time, but slightly closer. It's so strong I feel it up my legs. As quickly as I register the sound, whatever it was takes off. I hear what I know to be bipedal footfall running into the woods. With each impact, I felt it reverberate in my legs, then only my feet, and then it was gone. I've spent a lot of time in the woods in my life. I grew up in the Ozarks exploring endlessly. I love backpacking and I've lived off the back of my truck in the National Forest Land for the past few years. Lived in the back of my truck. Mainly in the wilderness of the West Coast. I've been in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. I've heard in close proximity the sound of deer, elk, grizzly, and a black bear gallop and run. I know what I heard was the no-way of four-legged mammal, and I know I've never felt shockwaves like that from a footfall. I'd love to believe it was a Sasquatch, but I saw nothing because I was frozen in place, and it happened so quickly. I just wanted to share my experience here and get some feedback.

SPEAKER_05 25:40

Animal that shakes my feet, I'm good. You can feel it in your legs, no thanks.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Yeah, I mean it's actually the best story that we've heard.

SPEAKER_05 25:47

That means it's real close. Too close for comfort. Nah, Bigfoot was just trying to change his laundry. That means that's a big animal, too.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Wash his wash his or her clothes.

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Well, not if he smells like buns. Yeah, there's no smells in this one.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

But I felt like it's way more believable. I mean, the the place that they say they are is someplace like, right? It'd probably be just west of like Camp Sherman, so we know that area is two and a half football fields from the river.

unknown 26:16

No.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

No, but I mean it it is, you know, ha like it's described appropriately, like from a believability standpoint for me. Like there's not too much detail. There's nothing like that.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

I was gonna say, yeah, it's not so much detail, it's obviously a lie.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

But it's like consistent detail. So in these stories that we've heard prior, there's like too much detail on dumb stuff, and then not detail at all on stuff that's like, well, how could you skip that? So this is just like in an account.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

Well, it's more, yeah, it's more of what she felt instead of what happened.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Yeah. So I I feel like the account for me, and completely creepy because that that is pretty spooky, like place. Yeah. I mean good. So creepy, I'm like nine because first of all, she's by herself.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Um she, you see knows all of them. He, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

He, oh, it could be he, sure. He, he, she, sure. Uh, whoever it was, right? I mean, it was a like I said, it was a decent account. Not enough de not too much detail, not too little. For me, good in that regard, so creepy. But believability-wise, I feel like is high in this one only because it didn't assert you know, something uh Gibbons monkey or uh, you know, something well she's not even saying it was Sasquatch, she just said like well bipedal, so it's something on two legs, but um, but but there are you know all kinds of animal. I mean, it is a wilderness, so but I felt for me like uh yeah, I was creeped out, and I do think that this one is the most believable of all the stories so far.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

Could have been Wembin Yama. Yamago believe or creepy solid eight out of ten. Definitely would not want an animal so close to me that's so big that it shakes my legs. Yeah. I'm okay. Um believability, I'll give it a solid eight again. Like you said, not too much detail, just enough. More about how sh how they felt instead of what happened and like how kind of situationally, like where things were. Yeah, it was a good thing. I thought this was, yeah, this was a lot better.

SPEAKER_06 28:19

Yeah, creepy was probably like seven. And believability was probably I don't know, maybe like five or six. I just feel like if it was that close or like I feel like there should have been maybe some other details from that, like how it smelled or like what it sounded like, or I don't know, maybe something about its breathing, like anything.

SPEAKER_05 28:45

What gender was it?

SPEAKER_06 28:47

Well, I mean something just like besides the I could feel it was female. It like shrugged the ground. Cause like that there's other things you would have picked up on even if you couldn't see.

SPEAKER_05 28:57

Yeah, but if you're in shock, I mean like I'm I'm sure some of those memories are kind of just like fuzzy too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

I think what would have been good for me after that was an account of then and what did I do about it, right? I told someone I instead of I'm gonna wait and post Yeah, there was no like them getting their laundry and like going back to their friends and talking about it. Telling to everyone and going looking or something. Going looking for what? I think if you told if you told people about it and they were in a hunting party on? No, not I'm not saying hunting. I'm just saying like they would be invested in it to say, hey, I wonder what that was or something. Just uh not kind of next account. I think what all these myths is the and then what instead of I'm posting on Reddit.

SPEAKER_06 29:44

Well, and especially this person with where they were, I think. Like there's other people that are like I I figured you'd want to like tell someone about it to get someone to like investigate in case it was safety. Investigate, what is this, bro? A horror movie?

SPEAKER_05 30:00

No, in case you're trying to be the first to die, bro. Mind your business, go to bed.

SPEAKER_06 30:03

They're in a building there, like there could be security cameras or something.

SPEAKER_05 30:07

Dude, mind your business now. Like it didn't it didn't do anything to you, just let it go. It's doing its thing. Don't investigate, bro. I'm not going out there.

SPEAKER_06 30:16

I mean, it's for the safety of others, though. It's not it's not for you at that point.

SPEAKER_05 30:20

Yeah, Gary, it's about him. If it did hey, hey, if it didn't get me, it's not getting them. I'm not going and investigating. I know exactly where that leads. First to die right there. That's a horror movie. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 30:33

Yeah, Bigfoot's gonna teleport into your room.

SPEAKER_05 30:35

Hey guys, let's go, let's go barge into this person's territory and go investigate. Yeah. Hey, what are you doing at your own house? I'm alright. Do your thing, big bro, big sis, whatever you are.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

Okay, this one's titled My Grandpa's My Grandparents saw Sas Watch near Crater Lake in 2010. Okay, so that's recent. Posting this on behalf of my grandparents, they're both in their 70s and now and live in southern Oregon. I've heard this story a few times growing up, but it wasn't until recently, when I brought it up to them again, that I realized how deeply it impacted them. My grandpa has sp since spent the last 15 years researching everything he can about Bigfoot. My grandma, on the other hand, won't talk about it at all anymore. The sighting happened in August of 2010 near Cray Lake National Park. They were camping a few miles outside the park boundary, not at a developed campground just off one of the forest roads near the rim drive area. My grandpa said they'd parked and walked down toward a little ravine where they heard water flowing. That's when it happened. They were coming back at the slight incline when my grandma stopped dead in her tracks and grabbed my grandpa's arm. About fifty yards up the slope, standing near the ridge above them, was what they both describe as a large, upright figure, dark brown or black in color, at least eight feet tall, standing completely still and watching them.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

Ah, that's womenama.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

It wasn't a bear. That's what my grandma grandpa keeps repeating. It wasn't a bear. He grew up hunting and said everything about its shape, posture, and stillness was wrong for any known animal. He also mentioned the arms were too long, the shoulders too broad, and the way it tilted its head slightly while observing them was, in quotes, too human but not. My grandma panicked. She apparently started crying and wouldn't look at it, just begged him to go back to the car. My grandpa says he felt frozen in place for a minute, like his brain was trying to process something he couldn't explain. Then it turned, not quickly but smoothly, and walked back behind the ridge and was gone. No sound, no crashing, just gone. Later, when he started researching more, he found out this is air he found that this area is uncomfortably close to one of the many known missing 411 locations, which has only made him more obsessed with what he saw. He's filled entire binders with maps, sightings, weather reports, even local legends. He swears there's more going on in the southern cascades than most people realize. My grandpa won't my grandma won't even look at the binders. They've never reported the sighting officially. My grandpa's told a few friends, but mostly he just writes and reads and watches for patterns. He's not someone who's prone to fantasy. He's a very grounded, practical guy. But whatever he saw out there changed something in him. He still goes back out there a couple times a year. Same area, still searching. If anyone's had an experience in your crater lake or the surrounding forest, I'd love to hear. My grandpa would be thrilled to know he's not the only one who's seen something out there.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

Okay, are there comments?

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Someone said that area is the number one hotspot for sightings. Someone said you should publish his research.

SPEAKER_05 33:34

Research.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

And what is the 411 missing whatever what what's that all about?

SPEAKER_05 33:41

Oh, were you not there? That's like the unexplained missing people's case.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 33:45

Did you not listen to that episode?

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Did you not listen to that episode?

SPEAKER_05 33:50

Oh, okay, well.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

It was like episode four or something like that. We talked about it. We talked about the theory and then the Olympic National Park cases. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

The one that you and Garrett did, yeah. But it's just the theory that I didn't know that was a known thing, like that was an actual like term.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

It just I mean it's it's just a theory. A theory that this guy came up with to help explain why people go missing for explainable reasons.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

So creepy. I mean, I'm just breaking all my rules today because to be creepy, I feel like it needs to be believable and I am not believing. But um if I'm walking near cra I mean it's a beautiful place, but it is I mean it's a vast forest, right? I mean beautiful lake, but but you really are in, you know, kind of uncharted area. So I I would be creepy just being there, you know, and if I saw something like a a tall f you know, I would think it was a bear or something. And if it wasn't a bear, I'd even be more creeped out, but I wouldn't be in that situation to begin with. But if I was, I would be creepy. Is it believable? I mean I mean they saw something, but um it was it Sasquatch? No, I don't believe that. So my believability is You don't believe it's Sasquatch? What do you think it was then? It was probably a bear.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

What if it was just a tall dude? That's what I'm saying, bro. Woman Yama.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Or tall.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

But it was like it was wide too. It wasn't just tall, it was wide.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

How wide? I mean, there's big people, like hikers, fi uh, forest service workers. I mean, I just yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not thinking it's Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_04 35:33

I I just uh Bigfoot didn't even do anything here. All he did was he observed me from the He observed me from afar and turned away and walked away slowly. Turned away real smoothly.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

Okay, someone someone did comment about an experience they had at Crater Lake. They said at Crater Lake in 2018, near one of the stops around the rim, close to the waterfall, my friends and I stopped to get photos and take a break from the driving and hiking. Five minutes passed and I get this feeling we're being watched. The whole area became quiet, save for the wind and a few birds. I start urging my friends we need to get moving. I couldn't shake the feeling off. They wouldn't listen, and two out of the four were making plans to go on a short trail nearby to see the lake from higher ground, and at this point we are several feet away already. I suddenly had goosebones all over my arms and my hair stood up because I heard a loud a loud snap. Mind you, we aren't in a very forested area compared to the rest of the park, so we could see grassland for miles and clusters of trees here and there, yet I couldn't see anything that would have made the noise, and it was so close and made me think that something was gonna pop out. After the sun came and went, everyone wanted to go back to the car and my two friends over at the trailhead made a beeline back to us, spooked. A few minutes after we get back into the car, we were all chattering up a storm about the feeling of being watched, and our two friends both claimed they powerwalked back because they saw a large, quote unquote, bear standing by a tree peeking around at them. They said it was playing peekaboo, literally checking if we saw it. Well, one thought it was a bear, and the other said it was a tall dude in a ghillie suit or something. Either option was unsettling, but the height, they said, nine to eleven feet tall, gave me and everyone else the creeps. I've grown up in this region, I've had my share of strange experiences of the woods, and I know the difference between a bear, cougar, fox, etc. So I wasn't wouldn't be surprised if we had an encounter. Your grandpa and grandma's experience is valid in my opinion. There's a lot of weird stuff at Crater Lake and in the surrounding areas.

SPEAKER_05 37:27

9 to 11 feet tall.

SPEAKER_03 37:29

Well, we're definitely not going to Crater Lake to do any hiking at dusk or anything like that.

SPEAKER_04 37:35

So quick family trip?

SPEAKER_03 37:38

No, that's no quick. That's far away. No, Garrett, what's your creepy and believability?

SPEAKER_05 37:43

My creepy's at a two.

SPEAKER_03 37:47

At a two?

SPEAKER_05 37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Well, okay, you can't say this is again one of those stories. Too much detail, not enough. You can't say that you can see for miles because you can't. It was their grandparents, like the No, I'm talking about the comments.

SPEAKER_05 38:02

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 38:04

Okay, let's just go to the grandparent story. Creepy factor is what?

SPEAKER_04 38:08

A two.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

Unbelievability. I mean, you know they saw something. Oh one. You don't even believe it.

SPEAKER_05 38:16

Nope. Again, a third hand account.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

I'd like to see the notebook. Or, you know, like a bit of you know. I'm a trust butt verify, so Lean, what about you?

SPEAKER_06 38:31

Yeah, I mean Creepy Factor was probably like a one. They saw like a tall, I mean human-ish figure at the like top of the trail and didn't even like try to speak into her like saying hi, and it just like turned around and didn't do anything to him at all.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Wave. Hey.

SPEAKER_06 38:53

I mean Yeah. That just was not creepy to me. And then Believability. I mean again, they probably saw something, but I'm sure they just like forgot details about it over time. So maybe like four.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

Okay, I have one last story.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Oh dear.

SPEAKER_02 39:19

Just I keep finding ones that are slightly better than the other ones that I'd found. Person says I decided to repost my story to get it off my chest. So this is must be reposted from somewhere else.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

What's the title of this one?

SPEAKER_02 39:31

That was a title.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

That was that was the title.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

I decided to repost my story to get it off my chest. Okay. I just made an updated edit, start for not making any paragraphs. I also added a little bit more info here and there. I've never been the best at punctuation or grammar. Oh boy. That's what we're starting with.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Great.

SPEAKER_02 39:49

My name is Jay, and I've lived in Oregon my whole life. I'm four years old. I've never believed in Bugfoot. Not really. I figured it was one of those legends that kept old men and campfire stories alive. I also didn't want to believe in something like that. I thought maybe many people saw bears on two feet or other things from trees and shadows. Plus, you'd think they would have some decent trail cam footage by now.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Anyway, at the time, I never really did any research and had no clue about all the decent footage and evidence we have now. I was naive and ignorant, but in September 2015, deep in the Susquiao wilderness, I learned something that changed my life forever. I learned that we are not the apex predators in the woods. This story isn't for Famer Clout. I don't care if you believe me, I just need to get this off my chest and get to know your guys' experience and how it affected your life. I feel a lot safer talking about this with others to understand. I had been solo hunting for some time and enjoyed the solitude, especially after getting out of the Oregon Army National Guard in 2012. I deployed to Iraq in 2009 as 11B and went with the 41st Infantry Brigade, the largest deployment in Oregon since World War II. I mentioned this to you so you know my background a little. This trip was supposed to be a week-long black-tailed deer hunt, just me and my rifle, my 10 millimeter Glock for mountain line, and maybe bear protection. Okay, I guess people do use guns for bear protection. Just me, my gun, and my truck. Never really been worried about bears too much. They usually run away. It's people that I get paranoid about in the middle of nowhere, in the endless backcountry of Oregon. I packed light, camped miles from any trailhead, and was excited to fill my tag. The first day went smoothly. I saw plenty of signs, scattered a few promising ridges, and set up camp near a creek in a deep valley. The train was rough, thick underbrush, towering trees, and a silence that felt heavier than usual. But that night as I sat next to my lantern, I felt it, that awful gut twisting feeling of being watched. I scanned the tree line, rifle in hand, but saw nothing. No wind, no wrestling, just dead silence. The forest should be alive with noise, but it wasn't. I wanted to make a fire, but I couldn't due to restrictions, and I didn't really sleep, just periodically dozing. At dawn, I hike to a ridgeline overlooking a valley. The morning mist clung to the trees, and I glossed the slopes, nothing, not a single deer. That's when I heard it, a whistle. Not a bird, not the wind. This was deliberate, human-like, but wrong. It echoed from the tree line behind me. I turned rifle up, scanning, nothing. An hour later I heard it again, this time from below me. I told myself it had to be another hunter, but I never saw a soul out there. And why would someone be whistling? The unease in my gut grew. I'll admit I was scared AF. I had slept better the second night and justified everything with animals or paranoia. I woke up to a few huge footprints circling my camp. They didn't quite look like the typical Sasquatch print, but they were deep, definitely something heavy.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

Typical Sasquatch print.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

I follow them into the brush, but they disappeared into the undergrowth. I told myself it had to be a bear, even though they didn't look like bear tracks. That day the forest felt wrong. The birds were gone. Everything seemed eerily silent besides a little wind here and there through the trees, and an occasional snap of branches behind me. Then came the smell. A gut-wrenching, rotten stench that made me gag. It smelt like bad body odor and piss, like a mixture of unwashed sweat and old urine soaked in something living. It came in waves, like something moving through the trees. I gripped my rifle tighter. I debated on ending my trip, but it was late, and me being stubborn, I will justify about anything.

SPEAKER_05 43:27

What do you mean by a news trip?

SPEAKER_02 43:29

You mean turn around, trip O.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Go home.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

That night I kept my lantern burning low beside me and my pistol in my lap. Sleep was impossible. Something was circling my camp. Just go home. I'd hear slow, deliberate steps stopping when I moved. Then just before dawn, a deep, guttural growl rolled through the trees. Not a bear, not a cougar, something bigger. Something that wanted to be gone. At this point, I had wished I'd listened to my instincts earlier because I knew that this was something I'd never dealt with. That night was unbearable. I was shaking and thinking I'm going to be killed by whatever is out there. Can you say it again? He's probably on his way back, but like he's can't he's hiked so far. He can't just Sasquatch isn't following him. He keeps going back to the same camp. At first I packed up camp. I wasn't waiting to see what was out there. I had five days left on my trip, but I was done. As I hiked back, the forest felt alive, but not in a good way. Okay. He was saying that like he when he kept his lantern and his lantern on in the piston on his lap. He that's when he thought that was that same night. That wasn't a different night.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

That was that same night. Oh, okay. I was having them credit for an extra night.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

As I hiked back, the forest felt alive, but not in a good way. It felt like it was watching me. Then about five miles from my truck, I saw a shape just beyond the trees, tall, too tall, broad, covered in dark hair, blacker than the shadows around it. It swayed slightly, watching me. I raised my rifle and it stepped back into the trees. Then to my left, I heard another crack of a branch. Another one. I'd realized I was being flanked. After being in almost frozen denial, a pure panic set in. I ran. I'm not ashamed to say. I ran like hell. My pack slammed against my back, my boots tore through the underbrush. I could hear them moving, pacing me just out of sight. The whistle started again. Oh come on. One ahead, one behind. Communicating, hunting. I turned and fired my rifle into the trees, and everything went dead silent. Then from deep in the woods, I heard something scream. Not human, not animal, something else. I kept running.

SPEAKER_06 45:38

This is like a Percy Jackson book.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

When I reached my truck, the forest felt like it was holding its breath.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

It was five miles away. He ran for five miles with the pack. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

I threw my gear inside, peeled out of there, and didn't stop driving until I hit Grant's Pass. I didn't sleep well for two days and I never went back. I told a few close friends, some believe me. Some laugh, but I know what I saw, what hunted me. I didn't go back into the woods for a couple of years. Luckily I got back my courage over time. Now I only hunt with a group, never alone, and never in the sisky wilderness, because at least I know they were out there. It's not something I ever want to experience again. It definitely created PTSD for me. I felt like it ruined my outdoor activities, but slowly I am getting back into the woods, but I go with the group. I'm curious to this day if I would have slept or let my guard down, I'd be m on missing 411. I'd like to believe that they just wanted me out of their area, but it sure felt more sinister than just scaring me out of there. But then again, I am certain if they wanted to kill me, they probably would have. One of my biggest questions is wondering what their intentions were. I also make sure my kids know and to take precautions when out in the woods. And I will advise anyone to go out with a friend or a group. I use a tent now instead of a small tarp. Okay, well, our I'm sorry, I Stay safe out there, people. Not all are as friendly as Harry. LL Who's Harry? Yeah, I feel like Again, please be safe out there. Also, thanks for the pillow poster. Oh, who helped me share this? Okay, I need to add to this description of the one that I saw. It's a guess, but this thing was tall. It's hard to be precise because it was about 70 to 80 yards away, but it was still probably around eight feet tall. Shoulders are massive and broad, four feet or more across. He seemed to be bending his knees a little bit. His knees seemed quite a bit lower than Human's proportionally. I have this image burned into my head of how long his arms were. I didn't see a neck, just a head, and kind of a cone shape. Or maybe his hair was deformed. I say he because I'm assuming I have no idea the gender. He couldn't sense the gender. His fists were huge, and he had something in both of his hands. The muscles were somewhat defined even behind its dark hair. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 47:48

Okay, so this is you're losing me. Now now you're losing me. We've got too much beef.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

But I did notice it seemed darker than the shadows around it here in Soda. Sunlight was beaming on the part of his chest. Okay. I think some of the hair was a light gray, mixing with black. Oh, grandpa's quatch. I couldn't get a good look at his face, only a part of his nose and up. I think. How could you see a nose at 78? His nose was big and flat. His eyes were definitely a little sunken with a distinct ridge of hair.

SPEAKER_03 48:20

Okay, where you've lost he's a hunter. This st story was actually but I feel I feel bad for this person that, like, I mean, obviously, clearly has PTSD.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

Clearly, they're traumatized.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

Yeah, they have PTSD for sure.

SPEAKER_02 48:33

And um, I think, right, is it wouldn't camping multiple on multiple parts in this posting, he had like gone back and added for clear details.

SPEAKER_03 48:42

Yeah. I mean, I just feel like it's like camping 101, like, right? Don't go alone, right? Make sure someone knows where you're at. Um, sleep in a tent, you know, take well he wasn't even sleeping in a tent.

SPEAKER_02 48:54

It sounds like he would put a tarp up and give me a breaker that just growth man in the world.

SPEAKER_03 48:59

I just, yeah, I just I sleep. Sleep with the grubs. Yeah, I um concerned a little bit for his mental health. Like he needs to talk to someone professionally probably about that. And and like instead of just posting to get off your chest, you know, like really there's there Okay, but mom, say this is real.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

Hypothetically, like we're not here to criticize. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 49:28

You're right. Thanks for saying that this is a f thanks for checking me. Okay. I mean, okay, let me fall down the path then. Creepy factor ten, believability was nine until sounds like velociraptor hunting. All the all the stuff towards the end. You know, the the whistle and then the trying to change like I just feel like that that's too much. You know, this the second day, uh this idea of feeling watched in the in the wilderness or in the forest. I mean, I I totally get that. You're that's real. Things are looking at you. No, but you don't know where you are, and you're you're in someone else's home, right? I mean, these are the animals' home, not not our home. So, okay. Um, creepy factor nine. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to see especially multiples, so now we've seen multiple, right? Because I think what the most of the stories are usually stories of seeing one. We're not seeing multiple, we're not seeing families of, which I would think would just be a normal thing because where there's one, there's there's got to be more, right? Just like rabbits and all the other types of creatures that we would encounter in a in a wilderness or in a setting or something. So believability though, I could have believed it, but adding in all those details and then the chest and the muscles under the hair, you can't see that from 70 yards away.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

I mean Bigfoot is ripped. Yeah, Bigfoot's tall, he's ripped, he has a full head of hair.

SPEAKER_03 51:02

So believability for me. So I'm I'm I think it's creepy.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

Maybe we should go camping in the whistle. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Is it believable? Um no, I say three.

SPEAKER_06 51:17

I don't know why we need two guns, but one's for protection, one's for deer hunting.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

We don't bring a tent, but we bring two guns.

SPEAKER_06 51:24

Yeah, what ones for once for hunting, once for people. Is that what he said?

SPEAKER_02 51:30

He said bears. He said bears. Oh. Or the off-chance people.

SPEAKER_06 51:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:34

Not to shoot at them just like a warning shot or something. Nothing crazy. No, I think it would be to kill him.

SPEAKER_03 51:40

I think it's wonderful that's a good thing. Look, you're not gonna hold yourself. You're not gonna hurt a bear. You're not gonna just like scare a bear. Like you, I mean, you scare a bear, you're going to piss the bear off. So you you better shoot the bear. I mean, I wouldn't shoot the bear, but I mean, I wouldn't be in a situation to shoot the bear, but someone else shoot the bear, please.

SPEAKER_01 51:58

No, is it a bear? I wouldn't do it. Or is it Sasquatch?

SPEAKER_06 52:01

Also, I I like the part where we found the tracks outside the and then we decided to follow them, and he's like, Oh, it's a bear.

SPEAKER_02 52:10

Well, he said circling his like camp. I'm assuming he means like his tent, his tarp setup. Yes, tarp. But would he not Wouldn't you wake up? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:20

Hey buddy. And and if he smelled so bad.

unknown 52:22

Right.

SPEAKER_03 52:25

Wouldn't you wake up in a lapse of stench?

SPEAKER_02 52:28

Maybe he got like a skunk. Maybe he got so used to it that it was Oh come on. But if it smelled like a piss.

SPEAKER_03 52:34

Think about a skunk now when the skunk like comes, you know, we smell that, we can smell it for because it burns my nostrils.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

But again, the smell thing came up. Yeah, I mean, that is consistent.

SPEAKER_06 52:45

But only for like part of it.

SPEAKER_03 52:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Again, I feel like that's like the most compelling evidence. Because yeah, you don't see them, but you can smell them. Because what else smells like that?

SPEAKER_05 52:58

I mean, this guy saw them too.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

I guess multiple. And they were hunting. He he saw one.

SPEAKER_05 53:04

His nipples are the size of a dime. From 300 yards away. Got the eyes of a hunter.

SPEAKER_03 53:15

Wait, what's the quote from Monsters Inc.

SPEAKER_05 53:19

You know, about picked me up with his evil mind powers and shirk me like a dog.

SPEAKER_03 53:22

Yeah, that one. Bro.

SPEAKER_05 53:27

I'm so sick of Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Nipples were the size of a dime. Did you give your creepy score and believe you believe?

SPEAKER_06 53:34

No. Um also they were hunting him for five miles and couldn't catch up to him or stop him or hurt him.

SPEAKER_03 53:43

He's running with the whole pack. He's running with two guns at tarp or a tent or something. And some kind of he's gotta have clothing or food or something something with him. He couldn't start a fire, but he's gotta eat. So, I mean, okay, military replacement meals or whatever, right? So the rations, um is that what he's got in his pack? But he's got for sure a pack. He says running in boots with the underbrush, even though he said he could see 70 yards, so but then he had to go for five miles, so he's running four miles in the forest.

SPEAKER_06 54:17

Creepy. I mean, probably nine. Like again, dude, dude is PTSD. Um, he he's uh something. He he was there, he so I mean he's wore off solo camping after that.

SPEAKER_03 54:30

Uh as smart as he should have.

SPEAKER_06 54:33

Yeah, maybe he brings twice as many guns, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

And maybe a tent. Uh bring four guns, two friends, and a tent. We're good.

SPEAKER_06 54:48

Uh so yeah, creepy, yeah, probably like nine and believability two.

SPEAKER_01 54:56

Okay. Garrett, what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 54:59

I'm sick of Sasquatch, dude. Can I just get like a three and a and a six?

SPEAKER_02 55:03

That's all okay. So where does everybody land on Sasquatch after this? Granted, these aren't all Sasquatch stories in existence. These are just recent-ish ones from Oregon and Washington. Yeah, just asking.

SPEAKER_03 55:19

They're all over in general. Yeah, in general.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

Like we believe in Sasquatch compared to the beginning of the episode.

SPEAKER_05 55:25

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

What? Absolutely what?

SPEAKER_05 55:28

I believe, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

Oh, for real?

SPEAKER_05 55:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:30

After all that smack talking about Sasquatch, and you're like, yeah, yeah, he's real.

SPEAKER_05 55:34

Yeah, just in case you listen to this, yeah. I'd really I mean, I'm just picturing like Sasquatch with a gun to my head right now, mind the camera, yeah. Most definitely, dude. You're real for sure.

SPEAKER_02 55:46

Okay, mom, you didn't say what your thoughts on Sasquatch are before this, but what are they now? I mean Are you a skeptic?

SPEAKER_03 55:55

Yeah, I'm totally a skeptic. But you know, I think there are is there could there be something weird somewhere in the forest that could be, you know, some bear slash something or so yeah. Yeah, there there could be. Um, has there been good evidence? No, I don't think so. And definitely not as a populace, right? I mean, these sightings of only camp, you know, like but then they become like modernized over the years, which I find interesting.

SPEAKER_02 56:28

You know, it's but they don't, because even with like as advanced technology as we have and the iPhones that have great cameras. That's what I'm saying. There's great camera.

SPEAKER_03 56:36

Photographic evidence is just not any better. Ex exactly. And I and I just feel like not to say that these stories aren't real, but not not to say they're not real, but there's the proof in the pudding. There's not uh electromagnetic force that wouldn't allow a picture to be clear or you to get a recording or something.

SPEAKER_01 56:53

Maybe if they're traveling through portals, okay. And who knows what kind of forces are at work here?

SPEAKER_03 56:58

I mean, good gravy. If we're traveling through portals and we got all this stuff going on, then yes. That's yeah, then then okay. Then yes, there's there's a there's a realm of possibilities. But for what we know right now, yes, there are big footprints that people but can we can can we really understand? No.

SPEAKER_02 57:18

But has Bigfoot been proven to be a hoax thus far?

SPEAKER_03 57:21

It can be either proven or disproven. So I will uh keep an open mind.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

But no one's been like yeah, I accidentally took the the Loch Ness monster photo. That was a total fake. You know what I mean? Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 57:32

So I'm gonna like I said, I'll keep an open mind, but I'm a skeptic until you know I trust but verify, and I would need evidence. And that for from what I've heard, no evidence.

SPEAKER_01 57:42

Okay. Liam, where do you land? You know, believe.

SPEAKER_03 57:47

He's too scientific. That's fair.

SPEAKER_06 57:49

I don't even remember what I was gonna say. Like this is I just feel bad for I feel like there should at least be better stories. I don't like the this is just sad. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 58:05

Sad that these people decided to post on Reddit.

SPEAKER_06 58:07

There's better quality, like paranormal stories.

SPEAKER_02 58:09

Oh yeah, I'm sure. These are just the ones that I scrounged up. Yeah, I mean this for the sake of this. But like, yeah, there's hundreds of stories. Thousands of stories.

SPEAKER_03 58:18

And I'm sure there are some good compelling stories, right? That would have the that would know the kind of like right amount of facts to you know, like details, but given given where we are, I think this isn't making Bigfoot live up to the hype.

unknown 58:34

No.

SPEAKER_03 58:36

And what's the purpose? What are we doing? Just living on the land? Because like I said, my how I started this. Let's talk about the the wildfires. No, I mean Who's worried about Bigfoot during the wire fire wildfires?

SPEAKER_02 58:49

Who's who's taking care of Bigfoot during the wildfires? Well, I'm worried about it. I know, no, I know. Why are other people worried about it?

SPEAKER_03 58:56

So it's like, right, it's it's it's important when it's like one person doing one thing by themselves and whatever, but like we've got catastrophes happening right now, thousands of acres being burned all over, right? From Crater Lake to Washington, all the things that all the places that we're talking about. That's Bigfoot's home. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 59:17

Justice for Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_03 59:18

And they would be no, they'd be displaced, right? I mean, if they're uh popul they would be displaced, just like what happens to the animals. Like in Bambi. Portal transportation. I suppose that's uh if they're if that's a going theory. I didn't know I didn't know that was a going theory about Bigfoot, so I guess I need to learn more. I'm not up on the lore.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Well, when we do the episode, you'll learn all about it.

SPEAKER_03 59:43

And we'll do that episode, and we'll Garrett won't have to participate.

SPEAKER_02 59:49

No, he has to.

SPEAKER_03 59:50

At this point, he's like no, he's not invested.

SPEAKER_02 59:53

No, he totally he's totally invested. He's like professor of Bigfoot 101.

SPEAKER_05 59:57

You say that.

SPEAKER_03 59:58

Nipples the size of a dime.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:00

Yeah. I'm just teaching the class so I can disprove everything. You said I'm professor of Bigfoot 101. Yeah. I'm teaching the class so I can disprove the believers.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:08

Oh. You're like a reverse Indiana Jones.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:14

Yeah. But Bigfoot, if you're hearing this, Garrett does believe.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:17

Yeah, I'm sure. Bigfoot, I know you're listening. Hey, big Bigfoot, uh, I believe in you.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:21

Bigfoot, I know you're one of my 50 weekly listeners. Shout out.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:26

Gotta be.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:27

And Batsquatch. Batsquatch is another one of my 50 weekly listeners. Okay, well, thank you for listening and for entertaining our Bigfoot stories. If you have any Bigfoot encounters, Bigfoot experiences, regardless of where they happen, we want to hear them. We would love to hear them. Email me eerilybelovedpodcast at gmail.com or send me a DM on any of the eerie beloved social media accounts, Instagram, threads, TikTok, eerie beloved podcast, all the places. And we will see you next week with something that's not Bigfoot related. Yeah. At least Garrett sure hopes so. Okay, bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:13

Bye.