Spider Crawl Bigfoot in the Backyard!

You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron.

In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people

who say they've seen something impossible, from backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers

to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with

more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

So settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way

you see the woods forever, so stay with us.

All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Mike today.

Mike is an individual I got connected to over through Instagram, I believe.

And Mike's got some interesting things to share, some experiences. We'll be going over

into Oregon for a bit with some interesting things that happen to Mike out in the woods,

and he's going to share more about that in a bit. But you know, welcome to the show, Mike.

How are you doing today, sir?

Good, man. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

Absolutely. We were just chatting a bit before we hit record.

And this is going to be kind of a wild one to be an interesting one.

The way we're going to do tonight is we'll probably chat as we go along,

which might be a little different than some listeners are used to, but

hey, that's what we're going to do with this one. So it's all good.

You feel free to lead us where you want this to start out in and we'll kind of chat as we go along.

Okay, yeah, sure.

So I grew up in Southern Oregon and just 20 minutes from my hometown, there's a

trivial big-foot life trap that is a big tourist hot spot.

People go and check it out, grew up with all that, big-foot stickers everywhere,

kind of before the big boom across the country. You see them on everybody's back in their cars now,

and why not? It's always kind of been that way there.

Northern California, Southern Oregon, it's very well known for Sasquatch.

Never really paid any mind to it. I was going to do the ROTC route during the army after

high school. That didn't pay an out for me. I'm thankful for that now, but I ended up getting

in wild in firefighting. My first season out, I was on a, this was my third fire with a company

based out Southern Oregon. Grayback is the name of that company, and we were on what was the

nation's biggest fire at the time. The intensity of fire was so much so that trees were exploding

from the heat and causing fires to start up to a mile and a half away from these exploding chunks of

tree. We were doing a process called greeting the green, so we wanted to make sure that

wasn't fired and started behind us so we couldn't get burnt over. We're trapping through thick,

thick stuff that there's, I think, the closest man-made structure where we were at on that fire

was 75 miles away, and it was a lightning lookout tower. So not even a town close by or anything

like that. We're in the thick of it, eating them already, you know, stinking, sweating, working

hard. Well, we had been greeting the green for about two and a half hours, and I was greenhorn

back then, but I had been hunting for a number of years. At that point, learned how to hunt for

limited people, and so my tracking skills are probably better than your average bear.

Not that I'm... yeah, you can master anything like that, but I had to relieve myself,

and so I thought I'd haul her down the line because we all walk in a line about 20 feet apart,

and we just look for, you know, Amber's smoke coming up because it goes up, it goes a quick,

you don't want to get caught in between it. So I yelled this big country bumping guy named Jesse,

about six foot five, 280, massive man. Hey, Jesse, I'm going to take a dump, dude. I'm going to

go on this big redwood tree. It says, okay, okay, and he says, so I'm doing my thing. And if you're

not aware of redwoods, they have duff, right? And so duff is leaf litter that accumulates underneath

the tree, and what's unique about redwood trees is they can get like three feet of duff, and so it's

almost like a foam sponginess under these trees in some circumstances, especially when they're like

an older tree, right? And so I'm burying my stuff back up and putting my backpack on, and then I

look on the ground, and I notice, oh my goodness, are those flight tracks? And I'm going up, and I

wear a size 11 and a half boot, and I go to the first one, and I was like, wow, it's like toes. Look

at it, and it's in this duff, mind you. So it's not super, it's not super like pronounced toes,

right? Per se. On the first one of those, and then I see a line, oh man, there's more

than I'm following, and then I noticed there's big tracks and little tracks, and like I said,

we're out in the middle of nowhere, and it was about on track number seven that I saw a perfect,

I mean, perfect footprint, and I'm just jaw drop looking at this thing, and I'm like, oh man,

and I got my boot next to it, 11 and a half boot measures out to about two-foot wall. It was

right about that foot mark, but it was wider than my boot, and you could specifically see each toe,

and I'm like, whoa, you know, so that was my first different counter, I saw nine tracks,

mom and babe, babe tracks, and it's just how the middle of nowhere. It was, the fire was too crazy,

there's people's houses and stuff on the edge of the fire farther away where we were getting burnt

and stuff, nobody's putting on fake Sasquat shoes and stomping around in the woods, right,

and that circumstance, so that was what got me. That is really wild, Mike, so this is

you said within like 30 miles of applique organ, yeah, yeah, that's where the the trap is, yeah,

yeah, yeah, okay, and so the tracks that you saw how far apart were the tracks from each other,

so it looked to me, it looked like something that if I was doing a big lunch as far as the bigger

tracks, I could accomplish, but then again, you got to think if it was a mother and a baby,

she's not going to be a full pace, right, she's got to keep up with her younger mother, if the

baby's walking with her, if it's too big for her carrier, whatever, it was walking side by side

with her, right, there was only two of the smaller tracks that I could that were noticeably like,

yeah, this is definitely a footprint, and it was a little bit bigger than half of the females,

what I'm assuming to be the females track, and so the opposite gate was probably

three, yeah, maybe, and it was pretty good, pretty good gate. Gotcha,

the way, could you tell the way it seemed to be walking where the tracks lined up one in front

of the other or side by side, or you know, I was in such awe, right, kind of disbelief at the moment,

I had to bring you back in time, I had a razor too, the time I was going to take a picture of it,

and before I took a picture of it, the one perfect track, I called that Country Bunk and Digested

out, Jesse, get over here, where, what, comes running over and say, slow down, slow down,

when it's just running, and he ends up stepping on a stick, that's like nine feet away, and it ends

up blowing under the duct, it rises up and blows all the toes out of the one perfect track,

and I'm like, I'll lose in my mind, Adam, you see these are footprints, too, he's like,

oh, yes, you know, this guy eats crayons, he's not, he's not,

and I'm like, and I'm just losing my mind over it, I'm like, I can't believe you just blew out the

one, so yeah, I would say they seemed to be, I do recall that it was, there wasn't any

striation as far as the tracks were very linear, I do remember that they were close together,

and it wasn't like turning or anything, they knew exactly where they were going, and they were

heading that way, and it seemed, now that I probably was more in line than, side by side.

Okay, a few more questions, it's a few more about this one, so can you provide the approximate

year, and you told me the name of the fire, but can you say that again, and also,

are there any other location descriptors for the area that you were in?

Yeah, so this was the, this was 2011, summer of 2011, I'll say probably mid-June,

it's been a lot of time, but, and so what I remember is this was

like the third dead fire that we're on, we had to hike 16 miles in off the forestry road to get to

our, where we base camped out, and then we had a, we're hiking about 16 miles every day, not

including the work, just to get to the fire from our camp, where we could get food hella dropped in,

so I remember, gosh, man, I wasn't, I wasn't on a point where I was running,

I guess I wasn't in charge of really knowing where we were at, or anything, I was just figuring

out the ropes, you know, 18 years old. I do recall that there was this area right before,

right before we got there, there was this big area of large granite boulders, granite quartz boulders,

like seven, eight feet tall, and kind of like a quite a bit, without any exposed mountain side,

like we're in the mountains, and it's steep as hell, but it's like these big kind of rocks,

like almost seemed mythical, you know, it was like weird, wow, this is beautiful and weird,

it's just a middle of nowhere, and we went down a valley, cross a little creek, and it was all

these big old growths, and that's kind of where it happened. Okay. Hey, I don't really have any

specifics more than that, but yeah, in the heart of southern Oregon. Gotcha, what was the name of the

fire again? That was the, I think I was at the very rock at the very point, very, very point fire,

I believe. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. So, so then you have that experience where you see

these large tracks and that kind of, that affects you, definitely, and then after that, do you

start looking into things or how to, what kind of path does that made you want after that? Yeah,

definitely. That definitely got the cogs moving. I had had my first weird experience at 14 with

my family in the middle of the lake at a UFO experience, and that's kind of got me down that path,

and then so I was kind of already interjecting on that, but I did even think Bigfoot was real or

had, you know, just thought it was a kooky hippie thing. So yeah, after that, I definitely started

looking into it, but podcasts weren't really around back then, at least to the point where it's

on your phone and stuff. So I didn't really start hearing other encounters from other people or

doing a series, taking probably until, I would say probably after I had a couple other UFO experiences,

and I just started taking the whole topic as a whole, and just kind of caused correlations,

and then started giving it to Bigfoot, and then, you know, like an iPhone that I can pull up

a podcast on, and then I just kind of delved into it from there. So I'm not very tech savvy,

but as you know, so it's not something that I would jump on my desktop at home and go research

after school as I was shooting squirrels and cosmic ruckus, you know. Gotcha. Yeah. Cool, cool. So

what would you think the next thing that you had some sort of experience that that related to

Sasquatch was? For sure. So, and this is something that we were talking about earlier, that I

and I didn't find this correlation until later listening to podcasts where I'm not sure if you're

familiar with the, I couldn't tell you the researchers. Have you seen that the researchers who

claimed to have the thermal videotaped a portal with Sasquatches and all this stuff, and it's

won't take up on thermal, and the old two old dudes going there, both die of cancer like three

months later, you know, I'm talking about, I think Tony Merchard did something about that. Oh, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was that that documentary that I

clicked for me where they had talked about these supposed portals or whatever opened up or

I'd heard it on I think a West Grimer podcast too, where someone said they saw a orb

and then a Sasquatch, and they're hearing these like now almost crunching metallic crazy sounds,

but very metallic sounding. I definitely heard that out there in the woods, probably five or six

times, flight and pirate. Thinking it was a piece of machinery, I mean, there's machinery inside

out there, but you usually hear the machine, it was just that standing alone and you're like,

well, that's weird, but there's just so much chaos and pandemonium,

making sure you're not getting put by fire. So it's not really on the forefront of your mind at

the time, but that is, that's really the only other Sasquatch encounters that I have,

can you, can you describe a little bit more about what the metallic sounds were like that you

were hearing those five or six times? Yeah, man, it was all very similar each time, and the

weird thing about it was it just, it was so loud, it was just so loud, and so almost sound like

a car crash where it's metal on metal, it almost sounded like, I think of a panel of the door,

just like clumbling it on itself, really fast and violent, like, you're like, whoa, like sharp,

definitely metallic sounding, but just unwirly, like very, just kind of in, I remember one

circumstance where we were all talking to our boss and was kind of giving us the plan for what's

next, and then we heard that sound pretty close, probably 300, 400 yards away, and three quarters

of the crew sat their neck and looked into the woods, and we're like, what is that? And they just

wrote it off, that was just went, you know, because a lot of, a lot of, man, if they don't know,

they just write things off, especially scare, scare, absolutely. Oh yeah, so we all tend to do that

sometimes. Right, yeah, logically are, I think our minds try to do that to save ourselves somehow,

kind of write it off. Is this also in Southwest Oregon and around the same time period?

Yeah, so I plot five, six years out there, all the big foot encounters, or metallic sounds,

and those footprints all took place in either Southern Oregon or the California,

but really in that animal triangle, in the thick gold woods, that's where it was happening at, so.

Yeah, sure. Yeah, okay. Did big foot ever come up in conversation between you and any other

firefighters on your crew? Yeah, yeah, so I, after the footprints, oh, man, because I was the

young buck out there too, and I just got hammered by everybody. And like I said, that first company

I was working for is great and grandiose as they are. They're not, to not very free thinkers,

very red necked, and set in their ways, you know, old dogs, you're not going to teach you

trick to it. So yeah, I just got berated, you know, they're crazy. No, I'm not talking to you guys

ever about this again. So yeah, that was that. But then the other five years, I ended up leaving

that company because I just didn't get along with those guys too well, and I went to another company,

and I had had talks with some of those guys, but never experienced anything really with that

company where we weren't in the thick of it as much as my first companies. Absolutely. So the

the new company was more understanding about what you'd gone through or they also like, oh,

yeah, we've had stuff happen out here. Oh, definitely, definitely. Yeah, plenty of other people

who had encounters that have met over the years, especially men who spend their time in the woods

that much. Gotcha. Were they were they talking about like, oh, yeah, we've seen something or more

we've heard something and we've seen tracks, stuff like that. So this is actually, I it tracks,

I've met probably from the firefighting community out there probably five or six guys who have seen

tracks at some point of time. Probably another handful of guys who have like, seemed like something

jumped from bush to bush, tree to tree, and they're like, what was that? That wasn't a bear.

Most of these guys are avid hunters know their way around the way and know what handables are out

there aren't, you know, most of them have killed a bear. They're not too worried about anything

out there, you know, and it scares you, you know, you're not especially when you don't know what it is.

So yeah, but yeah, they were much more understanding that company for sure.

I, this is a little off topic, but speaking of other people's encounters, I was living in Washington,

I was doing custom fireplaces and I had a listening to a Sasquatch Chronicles and I had a

customer asking me what I was listening to and I was like, kind of embarrassed as like a Sasquatch

Chronicles and they're like, oh, is that a podcast? I was like, yeah, yeah, it is. And then the wife's

like, you got to tell him, you got to tell him you're encounter and I was like, oh, what? And so

he told me there were, him and his father and a lot were going to hunting and juvenile Sasquatch

they're out in the middle of nowhere while they're setting up their fire just in the other one's

building a tent, a Sasquatch came a young Sasquatch came screaming, waiting to arms over to it,

ah, through the middle of their camp pushed the old man into the fire and it just ran straight

through screaming the whole way. They said they left their guns, they're dumped, jumped in the truck

and dipped. And I was like, did you ever get your stuff back? He's like, yeah, we came back three days

later with a bunch of guns and a bunch of people and stuff and I was like, oh my goodness. Yeah.

So pushed them right in the fire. Can you share the, I'm sure you can't share the exact location,

but the region is this like Olympic peninsula? Or, oh, yeah, it was around that area. I forgot

about, I did have another encounter out there. National forest with my daughter and my wife,

yeah, we're gonna be my dogs. We forgot about that one too. That one, we can get to that one too.

I guess while we're on the west coast next. Yeah.

This was actually probably about six months after I had heard that story.

Living outside Seattle for like three years and just trying to get away from the city. We went out

to Olympia and uh, did some camping, no cell service and I thought it'd be a good idea with my

daughter to walk around the campsite. There's only us and one other family. It was kind of in the

middle of summer, but it was, uh, I guess it was, it was before Fourth of July. So it wasn't very

busy and there was us and the camp hosts and then I, another young family, we had two boys and

I had my daughter who was like six at the time and um, the kids are kind of playing whatever and then

we settled down, he didn't ask, okay, you want to go for a walk before dinner or before bedtime,

she was like, yeah, sure. Walk and I said, you want to do some, you want to do some sask watch

hoots? She's like, yeah, sure. So we're doing like big old barred out hoots and um, I, I haven't,

I haven't been drinking for a couple of number of years now. Um, but back then I still was drinking and I,

I probably had good five beers or so. I was feeling pretty good. I was sleeping on dirt. No,

I was going to sleep good, you know what I mean? So, so I pass out and I wake up at like two thirty

three in the morning, um, to what sounds like a eight hundred pound owl on top of my head.

So loud, like I shot up out of bed. I grabbed my 44 magna and I cracked that thing back and I'm

looking and I'm like my heart's just like sweating cold sweats and I'm like, what's going on?

I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. My tent's not shaking. It's not moving, but it just sounds like it's

right on top of me. Um, and then the next morning after breakfast, I go out and I ask the

I was like, hey, do you hear anything last night? To my native, to the guy who's closest to us,

he's eight hundred yards away or whatever with his two boys. He's like, yeah, I think I had

an owl on top of my trailer. I was like, it's actually coming from over that way. I heard

exactly where he's coming from because I'm in a tent. He's like, no, it's too loud. It had to

be on top of my camper. I was like, dude, I'm telling you, I think it was a sass watch. And then he

didn't let his kids play with my kid anymore for the next two days, and I was like, oh, dude,

I ruined that one. But it scared him. You like put his kids inside the trailer right

after that. He's like, wouldn't you go, like, I mean, rightfully so we're out in the middle,

nowhere, no cellar service. Yeah, right. It's kind of freaky.

What? Sorry, before did you say what forest that was, or was it a certain state forest?

Or, oh, with the, yeah, that was the Olympia National Park. I should ask my wife.

It was in Olympia National Park. I bet she knows the campsite, dude. She's good at

the lambs. I can't. No, no problem. There's names, dude. I guess I'm here scratching away.

Somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula, it sounds like. Yeah, yeah, it was, it wasn't right on the

coast. It was, it was more in line. It was a, like a pay for campground that's maintained

and stuff. But it's just wilderness about there. There's no showers, poor potty. They didn't have

portal up. And they didn't have poor potty. They had two portal bodies. But just nothing.

Okay. Woods, beautiful woods. So. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That was interesting. So.

Now, yeah, would you say those are the main encounters then that you had where you experienced

something and you're like out in the woods and something happened? No. Okay. No, that's like,

that's like a little stuff happened out west. Surprisingly. I don't know what's going on with

this jinky charger. Oh, I might have to go. I'm, I know. It was working. I just don't want to,

oh, no, I don't know what's going on with this thing. It's not okay. It's charging right now.

I just don't want it to die. I'm going to try it. Okay.

I think I like the nervous sweats going through all this right now. Stinking and stuff, dude.

I'm not just, okay. So next, I guess is out east. So we moved to from Seattle. We moved out

to Maine. We got our first house. We live in southern Maine. I was telling you before you started

up the recording. I had a lady tell me. She was like, oh, do you know this creek out out in this

area? And I was like, yeah, it's right in my backyard. She grabbed me by the collar and she says,

it's haunted. What are you doing there? Like, I got a house right there. I'm not moving.

This is after a couple of encounters and experiences. And anyway, yeah, she got to talk to me

because my wife and I own a fruit trailer as well. And I have a Sasquatch stick around there.

And most people just, you know, whatever. But anybody who has seen something or whatever, they usually

are like, they want to tell you because people think you're crazy. But yeah, my first encounter

out here was I had gone to go get some lobster bowls, which are big out here. Totally.

Um, with my girls and ice cream. And my sister, she moved out east without two from the west coast.

She had gotten the boars. And she just wanted a fresh start. At this point, it had been

six, seven months since we've been here. Maine, she had herself a boyfriend. And they kind of had

just first started dating at this point of time. They were here. We have a bonfire in our backyard

above fire pit and they're having a bonfire back there. And it's eight springtime. So I got to

preface this. Uh, the encounters, all the encounters that I've had in my behind my house that

have been spring or fall. So that's just when it's happened over the span of two years. Oh,

I've been here three, but over the span of two years, it's been

four serious encounters. Some other ones where I'm like, is that something jumping from that tree

to that tree? Kind of think not jumping from tree to tree, but like dashing from build, you know,

basswood to oak tree or there's a couple old growths back there that they have enough cover for,

you know, you can see me if I was hiding behind it. Definitely not something big if it was sideways,

right? So, uh, anyway, uh, and go ahead and feel free to cut me up because I've done a chatted

cafe sometimes. So, uh, good stuff. Uh, we get home and, um, they're out there and they're having

some drinks and, uh, hanging out and I go down and I say, hey, sis, what's going on? She's kind of

wide eyed and she's looking at me kind of crazy and I'm thinking, is this guy being weird to you?

Like, I don't even met him once or twice and I'm like, you know, like, are you okay? She's like,

I don't know. And I like, look at him. I'm like, angry. She's like, it's not him and I'm like,

what's going on? And he's, and then I look at him and he's like down at the fire and he looks up and

he's a wide eyed too. And I was like, what's going on guys? I'm like, grab my, hey, I always have

like done. I was like, what's going on guys? I was like, what's going on? He's like, there's

something in the woods and I was like, someone's in the woods. He's like, you know, I think there's

something in the woods. I was like, is it a bear? Like, well, what is it? It's like, I don't know,

maybe it's a bear. Okay. And he's from the area. So, you know, we have, we do have a Fisher cat

in her backyard that goes across. I don't know if you're familiar with that but it's just a

bigening weasel. But they make crazy screaming sounds. They don't, they don't make

they're not humanoid on two feet, you know what I mean? But yeah, so this is the only time I

have experienced the spider crawl. I said, I said, what's going on? He's like, I don't know.

Things have been whistling at us and throwing things at us. I said, what? And not that this is

kind of weird to throw in there, but I do think it has a correlation. My younger sister was,

it was her time a month at that point of time. And there was a lot there was like,

there was a lot of activity that spring, especially. And that first encounter, it seemed like there

was two different, maybe juvenile males is what I can speculate the mass. But there was definitely one

as I'm looking in my backyard across the creek. There's one off to the left. And then there's

one off to the right on our side of the creek. But you can actually see them. Well,

you see silhouettes. Yeah, yeah, it's not like in the light of their outside of the light of the

fire. But the one that was on our side of the creek, the spider crawl, I thought, and this is when

I went inside. I was like, no, that's just enough for me because it was like from bush to bush

and I was like, what is that? You know, I'm going inside. And I had seen the one in hardly enough,

this big basket tree similar to oak. It seems to be it's the biggest tree in the area. And that is

where I've seen every time either where I've seen it numerous times peak out of, right? I'm like

just because it's the biggest vegetation there. That's what I managed to put. So before we go

inside and we'll call it quits. I'm like, okay, this is weird. And before we called it quits,

we're up on my back deck, which is about 30 feet away from my fire. Fire's still ripping.

And we're having, and then I hear whistle. I think it's human. I grab my maglight, which is like

1200 lumens to waterproof. It's super nice. And I eat like a cop pistol and maglight. I'm like,

boom, like, what is, do I got someone in my backyard being weird? You know, because we have some

property. And, um, uh, this charter is being walk again. Oh, my goodness. Anyway, uh, I should probably

just go get my stink in charger. Uh, and yeah, so I maglighted it and that's when I saw the spider

thing. Uh, and I was like, Oh, and then from the left, I had like a MLB picture fastball and acorn

about an inch from my head and blew up on the siding in my house. It was thrown so hard.

Acorn, I was like, Oh, and then I was like, I mean, we were saying a lot of other words. And then

my little sister started crying. She's like, and she just went inside and Dan's like, I, I,

can I stay here tonight? And I was like, yeah, dude, that's fine. Like, so because, you know,

they were hanging out. He had had a couple beers and he didn't want to drive, but he,

everybody was pretty shook up. So that was the first experience here in Maine. Um,

Oh, wow. Okay. So, yeah, when you saw spider crawl, how quickly was it moving?

Oh, it's creepy. It did. Oh, it was so creepy. It was trying to be quiet. The only reason I picked

up on it since I heard a team of them stick break. And I like scanned over. And that's when I had

the bag like, and it was just like a flash, like a furry flash into this thick, uh,

it's like a bunch of fern and what's that other plant? The brushy plant and very thick. I can't

see through it with the flashlight, but yeah, it was just maybe a three-foot gap in between those

where it was like, Oh, what was that? So I didn't even get like, really color definition. But

like for whatever reason, like a actually gray stands out to me, but I, you know, I don't know

it was all within a millisecond. So it just was weird. So that was, that was the first encounter.

I'm sure you have heard, uh, the theory that just like any large predator, they use waterways

as highways. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So that's not anything new on my book, as far as being

hunter and stuff like that. But so it makes sense. Springtime, fault time. Use it as highway.

Gotcha. I'm covered in nervous sweats right now, dude. Oh, I don't blame me. I mean, that man,

if I was through something like that, that would be with me for probably forever. So you were having

multiple experiences at this one property. Yeah. Yeah. So it kind of ramped up a little bit.

Not as far as like, that's the only time where I was definitely sure there was more than one.

But I almost had the feeling like one of those adolescents had a,

um, look, I had an interest in my little sister. She's, she's a beautiful young woman, you know,

but she, I remember coming home a couple of times where she's like, and you know, my wife was

out doing something with my daughter or whatever, and it was later or whatever. And it was just her

and she's like, I don't want to take the dogs out. It's weird out there. And, and here's the other

thing. The, the, how people talk about it just being dead quiet, like a naturally quiet during

these events, I've experienced that every single time. Something weird, it's been back here. Like,

no cicadas, no grasshoppers. We had millions of frogs, like in the springtime that come out of that

creek, no frogs, no nothing going on. Um, so that's definitely known for these well.

But yeah, the, um, I guess the second encounter after that. So yeah, she said,

numerous times, two or three times where she was like, can you take the dogs out? It's weird out

there. And like, yeah, sure. Dogs, whatever. Um, no mind, you know, uh, except for,

I guess I'd probably be the next time. Um, so this next experience, uh, same place, same house on

that now. Um, I, uh, went out to take my dogs out. It's probably about 10 o'clock at night on

the Tuesday. Um, I have a pit bull and a red nose pit named Waffles and she's a sweet and she's

real dumb and she's barks at the mailman. She doesn't know what's going on. My other dog though,

she doesn't bark at anybody and she's very smart. She's shepherd and pit and lap. I don't know.

She's a very good dog. She's very smart too. Good and tough. And, uh, I was being a patient.

Didn't even really notice until it was kind of too late. She had her tail tucked,

touching her stomach, which this is the only time I've ever seen that dog do that. I've seen her

stare down a massive wind, you know, who was trying to bite me. And he was like, oh, never mind.

And ran the other way. Um, she's, she's tough. Um, and so I'm like having to drag her off the

deck. I was like, oh, well, go, go pee in the back. And she's like not wanting to even step on

the grass. She's on my driveway. She doesn't want to go in backyard. And I'm like, what's going on?

And, uh, yeah, I literally was dragging waffles downstairs. What's going on with these dogs?

Uh, waffles peed at the driveway. Like I said, she's not very smart. So I was like, whatever dumb

dog go inside and then Willow wasn't going on the dirt. And I was like, okay, that's kind of

when I was like, and then I noticed the tail wasn't, okay, what's going on? And, uh, so me and my

neighbors have, uh, big, that, I don't know, it's probably 30 feet deep of untouched woods that

divides our properties. Um, and it was in between that finger that separates our property.

And it was about halfway up into my, like, maintain order my backyard. So, um, we have three

quarters of an acre back there. And then it ties into, uh, then it's the power companies for like

half acre. And then it's a 40 acre horse farm. And then it's wilderness. So it's, there's not any

houses or anything in that area. Um, I'm just gonna put that in there. But, um, yeah, in between this

finger, I look up and, uh, I see a pair of glowing red eyes. Not eye shine. I've heard the glowing

thing. And I always thought it was BS because I've heard about it before this experience on

the other podcast. And I was just kind of like, hmm, maybe

suckers were going and they were like, in the moment, they seemed like they were the size of golf

balls. I mean, huge, like really, really big and really, really far apart. Like, not,

Andre the giant, I don't know, would do with justice. Like, really far apart.

Um, and it was a overwhelming sense of fear. Um, I've, I've had all sorts of animals.

From hunting, firefighting, I've, I've been 10 feet from a charging moose. I've had, you know,

I've, I've killed five there. I've, you know, been able to smack an elk on the butt. You know,

like, there's been up on stuff. Dogs, rattles, nicks, I couldn't tell you how many times this

wasn't anything like that. This made me feel like a child. Very scared to my core. And, um,

I was kind of sick afterwards too. I wasn't throwing up, but I was like shaky and sweaty,

and like, just kind of very distraught for a couple of hours. I didn't really sleep that night.

Um, and so I wonder if, in for sound, was a thing, or if that's even a thing, I don't know. I,

I didn't have any sort of major long term, anything like that, but I definitely will shook up.

Uh, so I look up at these eyes and, uh, yeah, man, I, I yelled at this thing.

And, um, I don't, I don't, I don't think the words I chose were my own. I feel like I had some

help from the big man upstairs or something, because I, when I yelled at this thing,

I didn't think about it. I literally looked at it and shaking like a leaf. I yelled at this thing.

Jesus Christ is king like that. And I, like ran inside. Right before I know it's like this,

and then I, and I was kind of like this in it. And then I heard it say it back. And I don't know

if that was in my head, but it was slow and it was a weird, almost robotic cadence to the,

to the speech. And that's all it was. And then I went inside and I was, you know,

I was a mess inside. And I was like, okay. And since that point, I only had one other encounter.

And it was two weeks after the point. Um, we got a food trailer. And, uh, I was doing

inventory at the end of the night. It's like 11 o'clock or something on a Saturday. And so,

uh, I was, I was doing inventory and it walked out. And this thing was like five feet behind me.

And I didn't see it. But as soon as I went to step down out of my trailer,

onto my stepstool to get to the end of my driveway, it shifted its weight intentionally. And I could

hear it. And it made in the air while I'm stepping to the ground, which is only six, seven inches

for maybe a foot, right? It scared me so bad. And that split second in the air. I rolled my ankle

so hard. I'm fit. I'm agile, dude. I buttured my ankle like crack. And I was like, because it was

like, I just heard it in the weight of it, just shifting its foot. Just sounded so massive. And it

just scared me, dude. I literally ran inside that time. So that's, that's what I got, man. That's,

those are, those are my Sasquatch, uh, big foot, whatever you want to call them. We call them

frog man back here, because we got all these frogs. And for the first year and a half, we had all

these frogs. And then after the, and what I believe to be the two encounter, we haven't had any

frogs since I'm like, maybe just eat all the frogs. What was the approximate a year, time

a year that you had your last event happen? We fall of last year. Okay, fall 25. Yeah, fall 25. So

there's two encounters fall 25. There was the first, uh, so we moved in the summer of 24,

was our first year here. Um, so it was the spring of 25. And then the fall 25 would be where those

two other encounters. So, okay. Yeah. Um, have you, have you talked to your neighbor at all,

any of your neighbors to see if they're having things happen? And there's a, you're just dealing

with it yourself? Uh, yeah, I don't think a lot of people here, instead of the main

having mental capacity to be able to even entertain that. Not that they're not intelligent. I

just think a lot of people can't even think about that with just everything going on at the

world. And it's kind of one of those things. Unfortunately, unfortunately, that I feel like

when your eyes have been open to something because you've experienced something, you kind of pick

up on those things a little bit quicker than your average joke. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff

that I've missed fighting part through the years that probably now would have been like,

oh my goodness, what is that? You know, but when it's right in your face, it's hard to deny, right?

So, uh, yeah, I, I did ask one of my neighbors about it. Um, he's a good, good old marine

double dog, but he's, he's like, what? Like nevermind. And then, uh, I'm not going to ask my

other neighbor because she's got a bunch of young teenage girls. I don't want them getting freaked

out. So, yeah. And then, yeah, yeah. So it's just, it's just, uh, it's interesting. But yeah,

I think the thing that helped me the most through this whole thing was having my little sister

and Dan in that one experience because, finally, it's like, okay, everybody's seeing this,

everybody's experiencing this. We're having acorns throwing at us from deep in the woods, like

90 miles an hour blowing up on my side and, you know, they could hit us, but they're coming

this close. You're like, where's this coming from? Flash lighting, nothing, you know, and yeah,

if it was a human messing around, they would know better around these parts. So, uh, because if,

if they're not going to get shot by me being weird in my backyard, Mr. would happily oblige.

Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, out there in England, you're not messing around on people's property.

That's not it's an art idea. You're going to get taken out. Um, yeah, yeah.

So you would kind of mention this before we start recording. Are you having stuff going on

then inside the house as well? No, no, no, no, no, no, thank God. That's good. That's good.

Yeah, yeah, no, no weird spiritual activity, man. I, uh, nothing like that. Uh, although I

saw some dark stuff in the streets of Seattle, but that's neither here nor there or big, right? But,

uh, yeah, no, no, uh, what do they call that the hitchhiker effect? None of that, none of that going on.

Yeah, just, just very, uh, very jarring, man, because I don't know how you would,

I don't know how you would deal with something like that as far as, like, physically, if you

needed to. I got some big guns, but I don't know if I'm quick enough or have enough bullets to

put one of those things down. You know what I mean? If you don't have to, that's my end-all goal.

I would rather than just leave me alone, but it did come to a point where I was worried about it,

because it seemed like one was very interested in my little sister, because every time she would go

out and take her dog out at night, she would say, it's, I'm getting whistled out in the woods or

whatever. And I thought there a couple times, I literally threw on boots and rushed out,

slammed it across the creek with gun in hand, blight in hand, it'd be like, I'm going to find some

weirdo back here. I did that two, three times. Have you, uh, have you heard the whistle yourself?

Oh, yeah. Can you, are you able to replicate that? Uh, whistling over the phones probably,

not good. It wasn't, it wasn't any sort of, it was just one pitch. Now, the time where there was

two, this is the whistles, what made me for sure there was two, because we heard a whistle off the

left, heard a whistle off the right, within 20 seconds of each other. All right. So whether you're

telling, hey, you know, this or that, I don't know, you know, I've heard the rock click in some

places, the tree slap in some places, the whistle in some places, then the animals, you know,

I don't have answers for that. Was it like, uh, was it like, yeah, it was kind of like that. Yeah,

it was just a short, yeah, yeah, what, what, what, what, okay. Yeah. So I go out to this place in

Oregon near Oak Ridge. And the first year I went out there, yeah. We're like 30 miles out in the woods

in this one area. And, uh, when this, when there's this one, uh, young lady out there with us,

there's one time and other times, uh, something will start whistling at her from the woods. And

what I saw happen was that whistle came out from the woods. And then, but then she would do it

back to it. And like, for a minute, it was like back and forth, back and forth. But then it started

moving away like it was trying to get lower to follow it away. And it was the freakyest thing I've

ever seen in my life. It was so weird, dude. But it was, it was that same exact whistle. So, yeah,

it was, it almost sounded like a human whistle. Like a, yeah, come here. Hey, yeah, come here.

It wasn't, it wasn't something drawn out thing or like weird kid journey thing. It sounded very like

that's when I was like, okay, are there some crazy crackheads? There's not crackheads here.

And so, man, they'll freeze to death in the winter. You know, it's not the west coast. So,

yeah, don't laugh. I don't know. Oh, no, she's, yeah, she's out here now. I'm actually in the

rope right now. So, yeah, our guest room. So, yeah, it's, uh, but yeah, definitely, uh, felt that,

that tension there. Like it was interested under it. And she was, like I said, she was freaked out

the number of times where she's like, can you take her dog, Daisy? She's like, can you take Daisy

out tonight? I just don't want to go outside. I'm freaked out. I'm like, oh, okay. I was like,

you can grab the 12 gauge if you want. She's like, no, you can grab any of the other ones,

but she's like, no, okay. Wow. And, you know, and you've heard, you've heard the stories,

whether I don't know, maybe I'm sure you have, um, of them, the engine, uh, the like native

stories of people saying, you know, that take your women, they'll take your kids and stuff. Oh, yeah,

sure. And one thing that I find interesting is in these stories, the validity of them,

I don't know, but with, uh, there's a story I heard from a minor that says you got

swooped up by one in the early 1900s. And then there's another one from a native American

gal, who, which was a young girl, got swooped up to and they both said that they had pined

her, smeared over their eyes when they were taken into the woods. And that interesting. Yeah,

which is interesting. Um, and then, uh, in both of these accounts that I'm referring to, um,

I think I heard one up along with scrimmer. I can't recall where it was when I think it was, uh,

that this is like an old, old, like, prosper, like, um, a guy prospecting for gold.

Interesting. Yeah, and other one was, uh, native gal, and she, they both said pined her, but

and they both in both these accounts, the reason they stick out my brain is because they both said

they could see children with the assess watch. Um, yeah, and so the guy, he, uh, that's where it was,

it was the, it's the emulate guy from Alaska, um, who, do you know what I'm talking about? Uh,

I'm gonna have this one up. Crazy Sasquatch stories. This guy, I've told this story and, um,

and he does tours and stuff like that. Um, yeah, he's, uh, he lived in the woods. And this is,

he's been on West Grimer, I believe. He's kind of a crazy Indian guy, but he's got some

wild stories. Um, but, uh, yeah, anyway, both of these accounts, the people said they had kids

with Sasquatch, and they're both reported that they were half hairy, absolute, and I'm like, wow,

weird. And then on both of these cases, the validity, I don't know, but they're, these old accounts,

they, they both managed to escape. And, um, in turn, Sasquatch, uh, brutally killed their offspring

in front of them as they were escaping one guy on canoe and the other gal, while she was

crossing the river or something. Oh my god. Of that nature. Whoa, dude. And so I've heard of people

saying they've seen Sasquatch skinned deer with their thumbnails, like literally skin one.

Um, that's what the minor said that it did to their

he was, I don't know, dude. And it's just, it's, it's some weird stuff. Um,

do you, are you familiar with the account of, uh, in Eastern Europe, where they had, uh,

a young Sasquatch chained down 1640 or whatever it was, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,

so I don't know, man. Some weird stuff out there, man. Definitely. But, uh, I want to make sure,

Mike, that you were able to, to share, uh, everything that you were wanting to talk about on the show

today. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Take a shower. I'm covered in

stinky adrenaline sweat right now. Relive with that stuff. And all

thank you for taking the time to come on the show and to share what you experience out there

in Oregon and in Southern Maine. Uh, I do appreciate it. We don't hear a lot from New England.

So anything we can hear from there is, uh, is definitely important. But, uh, thank you so

much for coming on in. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge

Oregon? And you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it

for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can, if this is interesting to you, stay tuned,

because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch summary fest is coming up July 10th through the 11th,

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