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Ep.2 | The Sykesville Monster | Sasquatch & Sourdough Podcast · Sasquatch & Sourdough

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sasquatch and Sourdough, the podcast where we embark on a journey into the depths of the unknown, weaving together threads of ancient scripture, tales of high strangeness, and the joys of nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether you're a seeker of truth, a lover of the great outdoors, or simply hungry for a good story, Sasquatch and Sourdough invites you to join us on a journey of discovery, wonder, and deliciousness.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: So grab your backpack, sharpen your senses, and prepare to explore the sacred mysteries of our highly strange world like never before.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Sasquatch and Sourdough.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: I am your host, Christina, and I am joined by my beautiful best friend, Crystal.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: Hi everybody.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: We were just talking during pre-roll about um, so I have a confession to make.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: Dump and pray.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: Dump and pray.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it kind it kind of works.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I feel like not so much a failure, but I wanted to be honest with our listeners that I'm not at all anywhere near professionally making sourdough.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: Like a sa a sourdough genius.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we definitely need help.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: But the only way that the only time that I was successful was making like pizza dough.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's just like flat.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: No, it doesn't rise.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_02: Sourdough flatbread.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: It tastes good.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: And you made focaccia once.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: I did.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was accidental.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: Accidental focaccia.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: The best focaccia.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: It was really good.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_02: It had like rosemary and tomatoes.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, that's exactly what's in it.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's all it is and a lot of oil.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I also learned that um what were you talking about?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, how I um I don't know where the pots and pans and the proofing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so yeah, I was talking about how I started watching the British baking show a couple years ago, and they put their bread and things that they're rising in the proving drawer, which is the drawer in the bottom of the oven.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I just store pots and pans for me.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unless I'm totally wrong, and I just I'm like literally, you told me that during pre-roll, and I was like, there's no way.
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  SPEAKER_01: It totally is.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what it's made for.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not a storage drawer.
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  SPEAKER_03: So then that might be the reason why our dough isn't rising correctly.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_03: Because it needs to go with the proving drawer.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's not gonna happen during the summer because the air conditioning's gonna be on, and yeah, and it's like 50 degrees in the house.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, and as much as I want to be that person that's like, you know, I can't remember what it's called, but it's like you're homesteading, but you're like in the suburbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like really quaint, and like you make all these beautiful like Instagram posts.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not that gal.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you wear aprons, and you have beautiful China, like prairie dresses, and it's like this is our simple life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I love you if you're out there and you can do that and you're living that way.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: God bless, God bless you.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm jealous.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: I want to live that way.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: I would love that, but I feel like after like five minutes, I would be like, This is I can't keep doing this anymore.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think if we had a big chunk of property with like a bunch of stuff growing, and you could just go outside in your little apron and like put all your berries in your little pocket, get all your little herbs.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just want to be like little house on the prairie, and you can hear like twinkling music in the background as you're walking barefoot.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds wonderful.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I that's my that's my vision of summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: And in mine too.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have a vision board.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: I have a vision board, and it's and we're like going to the farm and picking berries, and then like we put them all in a container and like smash them with our feet.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh yes, definitely.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, with our aprons.
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  SPEAKER_03: I definitely want to put things in an apron pocket.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: That sounds about right.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in reality, I'm gonna I'm just gonna have a nine-year-old like asking for V-bucks for Fortnite.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, mine's Roblox.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: Roblox, yeah.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_03: Robux.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: Robux for Roblox with gen alpha.
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever that stuff is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Hey mom, look what I can do.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: No, we're just gonna be dragging them to like all kinds of different places throughout Maryland and be like, we're on the road, look at this cool stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're gonna hate it.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_03: But then they're gonna love it.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_03: They're gonna hate it initially, but then when they actually do it, they're gonna be like, oh, this isn't so bad.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that how like all summer is?
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  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like your parents dragging you to like cool stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, we're gonna see the biggest rubber band ball.
• 4:47
  unknown: Yeah.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like, I hate this in the back of the station wagon.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to Wally World.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then, like, when you remember, you're like, oh, this is amazing.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Remember that time in the 80s?
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  SPEAKER_03: And then you laugh about how horrible it was.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: In the moment, you want to kill everybody, but then later on you're like, oh.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: And you look at everything fondly, like it was funny.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I was like the worst.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, we did attachment parroting for like an hour?
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  unknown: Yeah.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: When the kid when the little ones were littles.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they were little, little I did too.
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  SPEAKER_03: The little thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're taking the littles.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love you.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_03: You're not friends if you say that word.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, if no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone's welcome in the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone's welcome here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't mean to be just if that's you and you say littles, right?
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: And if also if you say kiddos, you're welcome here.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: I love hubby.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: Hubby.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: But when the kiddos were little, oh man.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I tried.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: We tried attachment parenting where you're like, we probably did it wrong.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's not how we were we were not parented that way.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_03: But where it's we were learning on the fly.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: I see your own little feelings, and they're really important.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna try to validate.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: Let me validate every little thing, and then in five minutes, I was like, just pick up the shoe.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, because basically your child is a caveman and they don't even know what kind of feelings they're having.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're insane.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're not having valid feelings, really.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_03: No, they're just like losing their minds because they don't know anything.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like we're supposed to teach them how to be functioning humans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we're learning this together.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: No, we're not.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: Shut up and do your job.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: I already know what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's time for you to learn.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's time for you to learn that the best way is to do what I say.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Parenting parenting tips here.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Stop watching sourdough.
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  SPEAKER_01: You learned it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You heard it first.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, so speaking of road trips, uh, a couple weeks ago we went to Sykesville, Maryland, and we had the best time.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful drive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's a beautiful town.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beautiful town.
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  SPEAKER_03: Main Street.
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  SPEAKER_01: One like best small town in America, two years, I think, running.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, two years in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we went to a little flower store called Batanagal, check that place out.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a really great day trip.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can take the littles and you can just you know, there's like ice cream and a really cool park.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's a farmer's market on the weekends starting like this month, I think.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: And a wine festival, too.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think that was a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's one of those towns that like you can walk down the main street and they have like banners.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wine festival.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just it's like, oh, it's so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_03: And like lights strung up everywhere, like cafe lights, just a little magic place in the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So definitely uh check that out.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's worth it's worth the drive.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's only like 30 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not far from from Baltimore.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about 30 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the reason we went there was because we wanted to check out this like spell monster, this likesville monster, this like spell monster.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so Sasquatch in Maryland.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or was there?
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  SPEAKER_01: So basically, this account is from a really cool guy called uh his name's Lon Strickler, and this encounter that he had with this monster or this creature um really kicked off a career of just you know, not so much cryptozoology, but just getting into all the weird stuff, getting into all the blurry stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he's got a great YouTube channel um that you can check out, and he talks about this on a lot of other podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so it's a really cool, it's a really cool story, and um he actually I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it happened in the 80s, and basically what happened was he was fly fishing in the river, um the Patapsco River, and this whole area is part of the Patapsco State Park.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um so he was fly fishing on the south bank, and he said he noticed like a small, like mixed-breed dog sort of like sniffing around the weeds, and then it just starts like barking.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so he's like taking a look, he's trying to keep his mind on his fishing, but the dog keeps barking, and then after a few minutes or so, he hears the dog start like growling, and so he's like, All right, well, you probably saw a deer, you know, what else is there gonna be?
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um squirrel something, and so he says that like he noticed a dark hairy creature bobbing up and down in the thickets, and so we actually took a hike, like kind of close to where he would have been.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because he said he was about like a mile outside of town, yeah, about a mile outside of outside of town.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: So we tried to kind of estimate like where he would have been, and that was a great hike too.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: That was a great hike, yeah.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was right before, so like right now in May, there's just a lot of you know tree cover and stuff like that.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: So it was right when everything was blooming.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: And we probably did about like a good two-mile hike, I think.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we were kind of up further and saw just all kinds of cool um, you get to kind of turn around and like look at where he might have been standing, and we saw the road where he was.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that was kind of neat.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: So he says that after he's I mean, I guess I would probably do the same thing.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: I saw a dark hairy creature, he stopped fishing and moved closer uh to where he kind of heard all this rifling and to get a better look, and then the dog stopped sparking.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_03: And the dog like yelped, didn't it?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like it was hurt.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he says, um, I heard a loud yelp from the dog, and then a creature stood up.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: His best like estimation of he calls it the thing, uh, was that it was about seven to eight feet tall, had dark matted hair, and then he could only see the body from the chest up, uh, and then the rest of the body was obscured by weeds and like thickets.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then he goes on to say, I stood completely still and could hear a series of ticket sounds while observing this creature walk slowly through the thickets towards the woods.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: I started to follow it, which I don't think I probably would have done that.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: And he said it just smelled like musty.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, then he said it smelled like um pox yarn.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, he goes, so he goes on to say, like I had wait, I had waiters on, so I could only move so fast in an attempt to get a better look at this creature.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: I stopped moving, or no, it simply moved too fast for me.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: I decided to go back into my car, drive into Sykesville, and make an immediate report to the authorities.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then on the way back to his car, he sees the dog and he notices that the dog has like some blood on it.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, on its muzzle.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_03: But he said the dog was still able to like function and he wasn't really worried about the dog.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_03: He was more worried about reporting the Sasquatch.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or the creature.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: The creature, the thing, yeah.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so he drove to the nearest telephone.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, this is before cell phones in the 80s, and it's he said it was like located outside of a local bar.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: And the police told him to go back to the area and that they would meet him there.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: So when he gets back in his car, he says, I seriously thought about going into the bar for a minute first, but better judgment maybe changed my mind.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Which is kind of funny because like in the 80s, I don't know.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, people were still driving around drinking, like it was still legal, yeah, until like 82 or 3 or something.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: But like you could, I mean, I can I mean that just sounds like something my dad would do.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I saw this weird thing, and then I went to the bar to call and get a mudvisor.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't make a phone call.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Just gonna wait here, shall I?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um and he says, uh, you know, so he he didn't he didn't stay and he got back in his car and he drove back to the river.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, I I was amazed that a Maryland State police cruiser was already there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in the time it took him to make the phone call, get the directive from the authorities, go back, yeah, somebody had already been dispatched.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, which is kind of sus, right?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then he says the police, uh the state police officer told me to get back in my car and leave immediately because they didn't know how dangerous the situation was.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: I tried to explain to him that I was the one that made the initial report, but he refused to let me talk and again told me to leave.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then Lon goes on to say that he went back to the area like an hour later and the place was crawling with people and vehicles.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was like he said there were big dogs with and police with big guns, shoppers, feds, and they were just combing the whole area, like they were nearby enough to get there within an hour.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: That's just crazy to me.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: And there was like people from the zoo there too.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like testing for hair samples.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: He said, Lon says that one of the police told him that they did find some evidence.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, really?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: But they wouldn't tell him exactly what it was.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: And they instructed him to not repeat anything that he had heard or seen and keep quiet.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't want him telling this story.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that he did not, he didn't listen.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: He told everybody.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, you know what?
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm actually gonna do I'm gonna make a career.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go ahead and tell this story and other people's stories.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and he did all his own investigating, he couldn't leave he couldn't live it down.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: He had to get more evidence.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: So he did.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_03: He went out and he investigated a lot of people in the town and he collected a lot of stories.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: There were a lot of stories that so people again, that's what I kind of love is that like once you sort of get a story out, then other people feel comfortable enough to say, like, okay, well, I want to tell my story.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so I mean, we can you can go and like look him up.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: He talks about this a ton.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's really worth it for our listeners to just like word for word, yeah, like talk about like what he saw.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I wonder if we could just kind of talk about um well there's some other interesting things, some of the other incidents around the area.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Like um, I wanted to point out real quick that when I was listening to Lon, he said that in 1972, a hurricane Agnes tore through the town and ripped down the Sykesville Bridge, um, like straight from its moorings.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: And in 1972 was when the first sighting occurred.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was just kind of a weird thing.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: I was I was thinking they got stirred up by the hurricane and they got confused, and they're like, where am I?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, where's my home?
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: I just went right to trolls.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_03: Trolls.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: So Lod reported, um, I think he caught he, I'm sorry, he reported like eight more different sightings between 1972 and 1979.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, they're actually listed on the BFRO um website as class A reports.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's a great resource if you have not gone.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's so it's like the Bigfoot Field Research Researchers Organization.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, another great resource of people, you know, that just saw something weird and they're like, okay, well, who do I report it to?
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_03: So there was a there was a home invasion, there was a utility shed break-in, there were chicken pen break-ins.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: There was also sightings um within the Patapsco State Park of UFOs.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: So a lot of people like to correlate the UFO theory with Bigfoot with Bigfoot.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, the evidence is there.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so another thing was there was a retired police officer that Lon reached out to um to take to draw a picture of what he had seen in his best words.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: So the retired police officer drew it up for him, and when he sent it back to Lon, he was like, Are you sure this is exactly what you saw?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: Because it looks like a picture of early man.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's like an it looks, I mean, you know, regardless of whatever you your thinking is on that, like it looks like an ape man.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like pretty much like a Neanderthal.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like classic ape man.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's crazy.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_03: So then there was another person, um, a man named Phil, who was actually friends of Lon, who lived in Marriott'sville.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and he found a whole bunch of bones.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_04: Oh god.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um, he found a skull that was missing a jaw.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: He found some legs, some vertebrae with reddish-brown fur.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: And they were too big to be human.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: And he called the authorities, and while he was waiting for the authorities, he measured the humerus, which is like the upper arm bone, yeah, to be 22 inches, which would be similar to like a large ape or a gorilla.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: So the police, the state police, and the Baltimore County police both came to check out these bones, and they marked the area with crime scene tape.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: What?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: And more unmarked helicopters and vehicles came.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: And men in black came to look at these bones.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like the men in black came.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: Unmarked cars.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And helicopters.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: And people in suits.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Which is crazy because, like, again, we're trying to paint this picture of this like quaint little mountain town, and then all of a sudden, there's all these feds here.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: Lon sees the ape man, the sexual monster, and then the wine festival is canceled.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: The wine festival is not happening.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, do you remember?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, remember Transylvania 6500 made that movie?
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like a hundred years ago.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's the best movie ever.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: And they were having a wine festival.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they were.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: And all the monsters were there.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, that's a good movie.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Go see it.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_03: So I wanted to bring up another sighting in 1973.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, a man named Anthony Dorsey saw glowing eyes that were about seven feet above the ground.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and the eyes were in the front of the face, so he knew it wasn't like a prey animal that you would usually see, like a deer or something like that.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: And he was actually a firefighter, so he was a very good source.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: Then another guy, a trucker, he's anonymous.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: He didn't want anyone to know that he saw this thing.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_03: And these are all from the BFRO.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't know what they all are.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: These are just stories that line kind of gathered you can find.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: He was um driving through the town on Route 32, and he saw a seven to eight foot creature stand up on the side of the road and walk into the woods.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: He said it either was a very tall man or it was a man on stilts caked with mud from the waist down.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Just classic.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_03: You know, man on stilts.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Taking a hike of the road.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: So that's not he was just probably telling himself that, like, you know what?
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't a creature.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: It was probably just, I know what happened.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: He was on stilts and he fell in some mud.
• 20:20
  unknown: Yeah.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I saw it.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: No, sir.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_03: And then in like 1973, when the trucker saw this man on stilts, there were police copters all over the area, again with spotlights, um, searching the forest.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: And some people said it was probably an escaped circus gorilla or a deformed bear.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: How many deformed bears and circ and escape girls?
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: And circus circus gorilla?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: What is this like a Mickey Mouse cartoon?
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that sounds like the plot of some cartoon.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's nuts.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I feel like a lot of the you know, with these stories, it's it's just the opposite of like Occam's razor.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like Occam's razor is like it's the most rational, like the most obvious answer is right in front of your face, and that's probably what it is.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like, why do we have to make these stories up, like these scenarios?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's like we do scare the strange and mysterious.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, it's actually probably just like some, like, it's probably just Sasquatch.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's probably just Sasquatch.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: So there were rumors that there were breeding pairs of Sasquatch in the Patapsco Valley State Park in those times, up until the 80s.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I believe the last sighting was in 1993.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: It was like an eight year old boy who saw the creature trying to like break into the chicken pens on their property.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_03: But nobody's gonna believe an eight year old little boy.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, but they should.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: I know.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: But it's uh that's a very creepy part, too.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: Like I was saying about the UFO sighting.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of people see things back there.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: They see UFOs, they see cryptids.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's just a huge piece of land.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of land and it's dense.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's dense forest.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: So even when we got in, it's very easy to get lost back there.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: We could have easily, you know, we were kind of not paying attention, chatting, recording, and then it was like, wait a second, here we kind of have to.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: We were only like two miles off the road, too.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: We weren't that far in.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: So you could see that you could get really turned around.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, uh so we just wanted to bring that little story, another little adventure.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great story.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's such a great story.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, his recount is really good and his research is really cool.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, do you know what else I wanted to say about that?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: They turned the um the TV show Monsters and Mysteries in America turned this sighting into an episode.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: I believe it's season two, episode 10.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: And um, when they released this episode, all the people in Sykesville decided to have a watch party at the bar.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_03: It's called EW Beck's right on Main Street.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_03: And this was in like the 2000s sometime.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I have it written down.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: I forget when it was released.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: I have it written down.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So the original bar was probably like, I think it's been renovated.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's the same because we would we tried to go in there, but it was closed.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: We tried to like figure it out.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: So it's not the same bar that he would have gone to to record it.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I have it.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, here it is.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_03: September 10.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm sorry.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Season two, episode 10, February 2014.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, nice.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's not that was when it was released.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: That wasn't that long ago.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_03: So they had a little watch party at EW Bex and they had a little signature cocktail.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, it's funny is when we went into that boutique with the plants, there was a young girl working there.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Super nice young girl, maybe in her early 20s.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: She had no idea what we were talking about.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: She had no idea what we're talking about.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_03: Said the Sykesville Monster.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: She said, What?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: And there was an older lady there too.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought, oh, maybe like maybe she'll sick.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe she'll bite.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, I'm just visiting.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh, come on.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_03: Somebody talk to us about it.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody talk to us.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing but.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so that's our story for today.
• 24:17
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• 24:22
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• 24:23
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• 24:25
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• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: What is that?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody does.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, it just collects dust.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but until next week, if you have a story or recipe to share, uh, just email us at sasquash and sourdough at gmail.com and we want to hear your stories.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: So until next time.
• 24:42
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• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Together, we'll continue to seek the truth, to unravel the mysteries that lie just beyond our grasp.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, as you bid farewell to this episode, remember, you are not alone.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: The wilderness is alive with secrets, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to venture forth.
• 25:05
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• 25:07
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• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, the truth is out there, God is with you, and everyone always ends up in the kitchen.