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Bigfoot in California · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, My name is Preston Dennett, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. I've got
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Speaker 1: something different for you today. Today, i'd like to talk
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Speaker 1: about crypto zoology, more specifically Bigfoot. Bigfoot goes by many
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Speaker 1: different names, bigfoot, sasquatch, wild man, yetti, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: name it. There's different names for every culture across our planet. Today,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about specifically Bigfoot in California, and
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Speaker 1: that's the title of today's episode, Bigfoot in California. I've
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Speaker 1: collected well over a few hundred cases, but I'm going
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Speaker 1: to pick out just the best ones that i think
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Speaker 1: are the most credible, the ones that have something interesting
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Speaker 1: to say about the nature of Bigfoot, the ones that
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Speaker 1: are unusual in some way. And I can tell you
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Speaker 1: that the evidence for Bigfoot is outstanding. It's not just
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Speaker 1: eyewitness testimonies, though there are a lot of that. There
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Speaker 1: is physical evidence. There are many, many cases involving Bigfoot tracks, footprints,
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Speaker 1: many cases involving hair samples, many cases involving dunk samples
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Speaker 1: and urine samples and blood samples, many cases involving animal reactions,
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Speaker 1: cases in which Bigfoot has been recorded in terms of
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Speaker 1: sound recordings, also of course films and photographs, So the
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Speaker 1: evidence is really quite conclusive. I think there are many
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Speaker 1: theories as to what this is, and we'll get into
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Speaker 1: that in a bit. I am absolutely convinced it's real
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Speaker 1: because I did have my own encounter, which I would
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Speaker 1: like to talk about at some point during this episode.
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Speaker 1: But these cases stretch back hundreds of years. Bigfoot has
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Speaker 1: appeared all over California, from the Redwoods and the Sequoias
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Speaker 1: in the northern part of the state down to the
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Speaker 1: Central Valley, all the way to the deserts of Palmdale
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Speaker 1: and Acton in Lancaster, in Mojave, down to as far
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Speaker 1: south as San Diego. So California is actually one of
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Speaker 1: the leading producers of bigfoot. In fact, according to researchers,
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Speaker 1: California probably does have the highest population of bigfoot of
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Speaker 1: all the other states. And in fact, Lauren Coleman writes,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, it has been estimated that the population
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Speaker 1: of bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest is between two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four thousand individuals, with the greatest concentration around Bluff Creek, California.
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Speaker 1: But again, these cases come from all across the state.
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Speaker 1: I've got about one hundred that i'd like to share
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Speaker 1: with you today, one hundred of what I think are
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Speaker 1: the best cases. So let's just get started. As it
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Speaker 1: turns out, some of the earliest records of Bigfoot's existence
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Speaker 1: come from California. Native Americans in the state have long
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Speaker 1: reported the creature and have given it many names. They
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Speaker 1: have a long oral tradition talking about Bigfoot, but starting
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen fifties, gold prospectors and miners reported sightings
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Speaker 1: in such areas as Antioch, Round Valley and San Joaquin.
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Speaker 1: One early report was made by a gold prospector in
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Speaker 1: the Mount Shasta area who claimed that a bigfoot smashed
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Speaker 1: his sluice way against a tree. And was around this
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Speaker 1: time that a series of alleged murderers outside the southern
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Speaker 1: California city of San Marcus were actually blamed on Bigfoot.
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Speaker 1: The actual location was a remote valley called Deadman's Hole,
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Speaker 1: and in eighteen fifty eight an unidentified man was found
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Speaker 1: beaten to death in this area, and in eighteen seventy
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Speaker 1: a Frenchman said that he was attacked in his cabin
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Speaker 1: by a tall, hairy creature. In eighteen eighty eight, two
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Speaker 1: more badly crushed bodies were discovered in this area, and
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Speaker 1: on that same year, two hunters came upon a cave
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Speaker 1: filled with human bones, and they said that as they
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Speaker 1: were examining these bones, they were attacked by a tall,
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Speaker 1: hairy manlike ape creature with a human looking face. They
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Speaker 1: shouted the creature and then ran away in a panic.
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Speaker 1: And there were two additional unexplained deaths which occurred as
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Speaker 1: late as nineteen twenty two, and later more hunters again
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Speaker 1: claimed that they confronted a hostile bigfoot, which ran away
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Speaker 1: when they opened fire on it. Now, these cases are
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Speaker 1: quite controversial. As far as I can tell, there are
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Speaker 1: no other cases like this, so I am not sure
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Speaker 1: how much credits to put towards them. Since then, no
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Speaker 1: further deaths have been reported, and I'm just not sure
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Speaker 1: that we should be worried about bigfoot, you know, doing
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Speaker 1: this kind of behavior. So those cases remain unique in
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Speaker 1: the literature, but I'd mentioned them for what they're worth.
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Speaker 1: But meanwhile, the early sightings in the mid to late
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties began to grow quickly in number. In the
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Speaker 1: autumn of eighteen sixty nine, a hunter was hunting along
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Speaker 1: Oristimba Creek when he saw a bigfoot approach his campfire,
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Speaker 1: grab some of the burning sticks and start swinging them around.
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Speaker 1: And it was the next year, eighteen seventy, when numerous
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Speaker 1: residents of the Mount Diablo area reported a quote wild
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Speaker 1: man in the area, which left thirteen inch tracks. One
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Speaker 1: really dramatic encounter occurred in eighteen eighty two in the
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Speaker 1: Owens Valley. This is more central California. Several people had
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Speaker 1: reported seeing a large, hairy bipedal creature in the area,
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Speaker 1: and several men decided to go hunting for it, and incredibly,
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Speaker 1: they found the creature lying down asleep in a field
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Speaker 1: and attempted to capture it. One of the gentlemen his
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Speaker 1: name was John Clark, and he reports that he tried
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Speaker 1: to lasso the creature, but it woke up and ran away, screaming.
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Speaker 1: His associate, Paul Mertngreen, fainted unconscious when the creature turned
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Speaker 1: and charged him. Hunter John Ferrell followed the creature and
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Speaker 1: a few days later came upon it while it was feeding.
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Speaker 1: He says he fired five bullets into this creature, but
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Speaker 1: the shots seemed to have no effect. At this point,
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Speaker 1: it charged him, causing his horse to panic and gallop.
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Speaker 1: The horse ended up breaking both its front legs. Ferrell
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Speaker 1: himself was badly bruised, and not surprisingly, the bigfoot got away.
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Speaker 1: So there were scattered accounts occurring throughout the northern California
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Speaker 1: area at this time, but few people seemed to really
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Speaker 1: believe or pay attention to these accounts. The local Native Americans, however,
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Speaker 1: were well aware of Bigfoot and began to reveal some
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Speaker 1: of their encounters too. For example, in the summer of
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Speaker 1: eighteen ninety seven, a Native American who lived in Tully
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Speaker 1: Lake reported that he was approached by a Bigfoot while
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Speaker 1: he was fishing. He offered Bigfoot one of the fish,
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Speaker 1: which it accepted, and in fact, the Native Americans do
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Speaker 1: report other friendly Bigfoot encounters. In their early nineteen hundreds,
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Speaker 1: a native of Mount Shasta reports that he was hiking
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Speaker 1: in the wilderness when he was bitten by a poisonous
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Speaker 1: steak snake, and to his surprise, he was approached by
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Speaker 1: a bigfoot, which actually lifted him up and carried him
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Speaker 1: back to his camp. So in the nineteen hundreds, these
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Speaker 1: accounts really began to grow in number. In nineteen thirty eight,
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Speaker 1: a gentleman from Los Angeles went camping outside of Anza
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Speaker 1: Burrego in southern California. This is a desert area, and
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Speaker 1: he says he was approached by several hostile, white haired
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Speaker 1: bigfoot with reddish eyes. He says he was able to
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Speaker 1: keep the creatures at a distance by building up his
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Speaker 1: campfire and holding up the burning brands. So while bigfoot
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Speaker 1: encounters can be scary, they rarely harmed humans. There were
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Speaker 1: not a lot of cases of that people do get scared,
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Speaker 1: but that generally do not hurt people. Some cases, however,
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Speaker 1: definitely pushed the limits of this. During World War two,
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Speaker 1: two friends O. R. Edwards and Bill Cole say that
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Speaker 1: they were hunting in the Cysskiyu Mountains when they had
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Speaker 1: an unforgettable encounter with the bigfoot. Now today there are
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Speaker 1: several accounts of people being actually kidnapped by bigfoot, and
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Speaker 1: this one is one of the earliest on record. The
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Speaker 1: two hunters had walked around some bushes when they suddenly
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Speaker 1: saw the head of an ape like creature dart out
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Speaker 1: of the woods and look at them. It darted back
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Speaker 1: in and in a matter of seconds they heard this
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Speaker 1: big foot running towards them, and Cole says he was attacked.
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Speaker 1: As Edward says, I heard the pad pad pad of
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Speaker 1: running feet and the wump and grunt as their bodies
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Speaker 1: came together. Dashing back to the end of the bush,
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Speaker 1: I saw a large manlike creature covered with brown hair.
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Speaker 1: It was about seven feet tall, and it was carrying
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Speaker 1: in its arms what seemed like a man. I could
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Speaker 1: only see legs and shoes. Edwards looked to his side
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Speaker 1: and saw that his friend Coal was gone, and that's
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Speaker 1: when he realized this bigfoot had just kidnapped his friend.
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Speaker 1: And Cole himself reports that he had no warning whatsoever,
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Speaker 1: but suddenly found himself being carried through the forest by
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Speaker 1: the creature, which held him tightly for a short time
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Speaker 1: and then dropped him and sent him rolling down the hill.
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Speaker 1: He jumped up and grabbed his rifle, and, as he says,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, I stood there sometime and looked and listened.
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Speaker 1: I had a feeling I was being watched and hunted.
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Speaker 1: So these two gentlemen kept this encounter secret for many
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Speaker 1: years because, as Edwards says, I would not believe what
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Speaker 1: I had seen, and as Cole says, it was funny.
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Speaker 1: Neither of us had the guts to say what happened
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Speaker 1: to us. It's not the only case of a bigfoot kidnapping,
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Speaker 1: but it's one of few that occurred in California. But
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Speaker 1: as time went on, accounts of bigfoot really began to
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Speaker 1: increase in number. In nineteen forty seven, mister and missus
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Speaker 1: Russ Tribble Say said that they observed two bigfoot outside
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Speaker 1: the city of Round Mountain. They said that the bigfoot
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Speaker 1: actually crossed the road in front of him and one
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Speaker 1: of them stopped and looked in the car window. And
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Speaker 1: after these creatures left, they explored the area and discovered
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Speaker 1: large footprints. In nineteen fifty two, just a short time later,
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Speaker 1: an anonymous gentleman was driving along a dirt road through
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Speaker 1: the forest outside of Orleans. This is near Bear Valley, California,
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Speaker 1: and he saw a bigfoot walking alongside the road. Although
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Speaker 1: it was rainy and dark. He got out of his
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Speaker 1: car to observe closer, and this bigfoot turned towards him
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Speaker 1: and what he perceived to be a threatening way, but
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Speaker 1: the creature then walked back into the forest. He thought
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Speaker 1: the encounter was over at this point, but it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: He got back in his car and started to drive
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Speaker 1: when the bigfootl out of the forest and attacked his car.
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Speaker 1: He accelerated away, but he says that the bigfoot held
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Speaker 1: onto his car for about two hundred yards before finally
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Speaker 1: letting go. So yeah, they can be quite aggressive at times.
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Speaker 1: One of the most common types of bigfoot encounters occurs
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Speaker 1: when witnesses are driving late at night, and in nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty six, missus palm Ray was driving along Interstate five
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Speaker 1: near Mount Shasta when she saw bigfoot run across the
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Speaker 1: road and disappear into the forest. Mount Shasta has a
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Speaker 1: lot of bigfoot accounts, but the first encounter to really
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Speaker 1: gain any widespread media attention and really bring Bigfoot permanently
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Speaker 1: into the public awareness occurred in August of nineteen fifty
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Speaker 1: eight in the town of Bluff Creek. This is in
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Speaker 1: northern California, and what happened was a large construction crew
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Speaker 1: was building the Bluff Creek Road when strange things began
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Speaker 1: to occur on the job site. On August third, nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty eight, the foreman, Wilbur Wallace, was puzzled to find
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Speaker 1: that a seven hundred pound tire had been thrown away
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Speaker 1: from the work site. He couldn't explain it, but didn't
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Speaker 1: think much of it until a few weeks later on
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Speaker 1: August twenty second, when one of the crew workers, Jerry Crew,
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Speaker 1: was leaving the work site when he discovered dozens of
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Speaker 1: giant manlike footprints around his tractor. He told Wilbur Wallace,
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Speaker 1: and the news of the footprints spread like wildfire. The
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Speaker 1: news was soon leaked to the press by the wife
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Speaker 1: of one of the workers, and then on October first
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Speaker 1: and second, Jerry Crew discovered more tracks, and this time
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Speaker 1: he made plaster casts, and this was enough to make
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Speaker 1: this story an instant media sensation, and the attention of
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Speaker 1: the world was focused on the then little known town
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Speaker 1: of Bluff Creek, and the encounters were still in progress.
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Speaker 1: On October twelve, two workers, Ray Kerr and Bob Brazil
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Speaker 1: were driving at night near Bluff Creek when they saw
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Speaker 1: an eight foot tall figure run across the road in
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Speaker 1: full view of their headlights. This figure, they said, was
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Speaker 1: very hairy, and actually traversed the entire road in only
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Speaker 1: two strides. Just a few days or weeks later, on
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Speaker 1: November one, nineteen fifty eight, more footprints were discovered. Later,
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Speaker 1: there would be allegations that Wilber Wallace had either hoaxed
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Speaker 1: the footprints or tried to take financial advantage of the situation,
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Speaker 1: though this was never proven in any way. In either case,
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Speaker 1: Bluff Creek became firmly established as the Bigfoot capital of
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Speaker 1: the world, and as a result, hundreds of people began
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Speaker 1: to to share their own accounts reporting bigfoot had finally
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Speaker 1: become somewhat respectable or credible at least, and bigfoot hunters
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Speaker 1: converged on Bluff Creek and began what turned out to
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Speaker 1: be a never ending search for the elusive creature, and
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Speaker 1: since then, bigfoot was reported pretty much every year. In
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, a woman and her daughter were outside
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Speaker 1: in the Hoopa Valley area, this is near Bluff Creek,
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Speaker 1: when they said they saw two bigfoot, one large and
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Speaker 1: one small as they were hiking along the hillside. And
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Speaker 1: at the same time, in nearby Weaverville, two doctors were
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Speaker 1: driving along Highway two ninety nine late at night when
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Speaker 1: they had the most common type of bigfoot encounter. They
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Speaker 1: observed the creature through the car headlights as it bounded
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Speaker 1: across the road in front of them. One year later,
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Speaker 1: June of nineteen fifty nine, this gentlemen became sleepy. After
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Speaker 1: driving for several hours, he decided to pull over late
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Speaker 1: at night outside of the town of Weed, California, and
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Speaker 1: while resting, he was alerted to the noise of somebody
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Speaker 1: walking through the forest in front of his car. He
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Speaker 1: turned on the headlights and observed a big foot, which
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Speaker 1: quickly disappeared into the forest. That same year, nineteen fifty nine,
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Speaker 1: a private pilot and his wife were flying over Bluff
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Speaker 1: Creek when they spotted a trail of huge footprints on
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Speaker 1: the ground. So they followed the tracks from above and
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Speaker 1: further ahead were amazed to see the bigfoot that was
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Speaker 1: making these tracks. So while all these sightings were occurring,
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Speaker 1: dozens of other witnesses were reporting bigfoot tracks all over
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Speaker 1: the area. And in some of these cases, I mean
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Speaker 1: they counted the tracks and they numbered well over a thousand.
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Speaker 1: So the Bluff Creek sightings would continue for decades, and
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Speaker 1: even today this area continues to produce the largest number
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Speaker 1: of reports in California. But meanwhile, sightings continued all across
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Speaker 1: the state. In nineteen sixty two, men in Quartz Hill,
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Speaker 1: this is located at the west end of the Antelope
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Speaker 1: Valley in southern California, they observed what appeared to be
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Speaker 1: a giant bipedal figure silhouetted against the sky on a
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Speaker 1: nearby hill. Mount Shasta, as I mentioned, is one of
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Speaker 1: the many lairs of bigfoot. A lot of cases come
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Speaker 1: from there. In nineteen sixty two, a unique encounter occurred
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Speaker 1: when a local woman by the name of Bonnie Feldman
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Speaker 1: claimed to have observed a pregnant female bigfoot give birth
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Speaker 1: to a baby bigfoot on the mountain side. She says
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Speaker 1: she watched the event from the porsche of her trailer
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Speaker 1: on the eastern slopes of the mountain. So I think
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Speaker 1: that case may be unique, but there are so many case.
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Speaker 1: In June of nineteen sixty two, Robert Hadfield was in
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Speaker 1: his home in a Fort Brag when his dogs began
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Speaker 1: barking outside. Looking outside, he saw the head and shoulders
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Speaker 1: of the bigfoot as it walked behind a six foot
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Speaker 1: tall fence, so this is well over six feet tall.
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Speaker 1: He ran inside to get his friend Bud Jensen. They
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Speaker 1: both returned outside, but by then the bigfoot appeared to
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Speaker 1: be gone. It wasn't. Jensen returned back inside, but Hatfield
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Speaker 1: kept looking. He then walked around the house and right
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Speaker 1: smack into the big foot. The creature actually knocked him
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Speaker 1: to the ground, and terrified, he scrambled back into the house. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Jensen looked out the window and observed the bigfoot approaching
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Speaker 1: the front door that Hatfield had left open. He ran
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Speaker 1: up to close it, but the bigfoot also ran forward
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Speaker 1: and actually held it open. The two men got ready
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Speaker 1: to shoot the creature if it entered, but at this
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Speaker 1: point it suddenly left. They found a hand print on
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Speaker 1: the door, which they said measured eleven and a half
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Speaker 1: inches long, and they also found several footprints outside, which
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Speaker 1: upon measuring they found were sixteen inches in length, so
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Speaker 1: far bigger than any human, and the sightings continued. It
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Speaker 1: was just two months later, August tenth, nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: when Joseph Wattenberger was hiking east of mc cleod this
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Speaker 1: is near Lava Bed's National Monument, when he observed a
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Speaker 1: big foot off in the distance. And while some accounts
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Speaker 1: of bigfoot do have a menacing aspect to them, some
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Speaker 1: are absolutely benevolent. Here's an interesting case which occurred one
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Speaker 1: year later in nineteen sixty three. A man says he
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Speaker 1: was deer hunting on the slopes of Mount Shasta when
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Speaker 1: he slipped and fell badly, injuring himself, and he says
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Speaker 1: that a nine foot tall, very smelly, white haired bigfoot appeared,
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Speaker 1: scooped him up in its massive arms, and carried him
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Speaker 1: about three miles back to the safety of his campsite.
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Speaker 1: Another weird and friendly account of a bigfoot occurred on
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Speaker 1: Mount Shasta when two men set a bigfoot approached their campsite,
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Speaker 1: came right up to them with no fear, and actually
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Speaker 1: handed them a quartz crystal, and then bounded off into
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Speaker 1: the forest. So there are weird accounts of sort of
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Speaker 1: trades going on between bigfoot and people. Many bigfoot encounters
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Speaker 1: do involve multiple witnesses of high credibility. On January twenty seventh,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, the police department in Sonora, California, received
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Speaker 1: a call from an anonymous gentleman who said that he
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Speaker 1: saw bigfoot while driving along the Sonora Highway. Sheriff and
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Speaker 1: a deputy went to investigate, and they became witnesses themselves.
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Speaker 1: They didn't actually see the bigfoot, but they could hear
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Speaker 1: its screaming in the woods. One month later, February twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, private pilots Leonard Strand and Alden Hoover
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Speaker 1: were flying through this same area when they came upon
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Speaker 1: what they believed to be a ten foot tall, brown
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Speaker 1: haired bigfoot wandering through a remote area of the wilderness.
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Speaker 1: They were able to actually take photos of this being
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Speaker 1: this bigfoot, but the photos didn't turn out very well.
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Speaker 1: They're too blurry to be conclusive, but the sightings continued.
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Speaker 1: It was just one month later, March nineteen sixty three,
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Speaker 1: mister and Miss Campbell were honeymooning at a ski lodge
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Speaker 1: in Strawberry, California. Unknown to them, the owners of the
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Speaker 1: ski lodge had recently had several run ins with Bigfoot,
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Speaker 1: and as the Campbells were hiking along the many remote
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Speaker 1: trails in this area, they were amazed to see a tall,
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Speaker 1: hairy figure, which they estimate was about nine feet tall,
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Speaker 1: in the nearby fields. After reporting it, they later learned
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Speaker 1: that they were not the only witness to what appears
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Speaker 1: to be the same Bigfoot. So, despite its enormous size,
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Speaker 1: Bigfoot is incredibly agile. On August third, nineteen sixty three,
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Speaker 1: a father and his son from Hoopa, California, observed a
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Speaker 1: bigfoot running through the field and it easily leapt over
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Speaker 1: a five foot high fence and ran off into the forest.
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Speaker 1: One year later, September thirteenth, nineteen sixty four, Benjamin Wilder
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Speaker 1: was driving near Blue Lake. This is in northern California,
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Speaker 1: and he became sleepy and pulled over his car to rest,
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Speaker 1: and he woke up to find a bigfoot shaking his car.
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Speaker 1: Shortly later, the bigfoot ran off and he immediately drove away.
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Speaker 1: But one month later, in the southern California city of Fillmore,
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Speaker 1: several youngsters were playing in an abandoned dairy when they
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Speaker 1: said that they observed a quote hairy animal man. So
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Speaker 1: bigfoot does seem to approach people purposefully on sometimes they
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Speaker 1: seemed to be attracted to people's campsites. A typical encounter
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Speaker 1: like this occurred in the summer of nineteen sixty five
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Speaker 1: when Jim and Jan Gorel were barbecuing at the Bowen's
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Speaker 1: Ranch campgrounds on San Gorgonio Mountain when they were approached
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Speaker 1: by a ten foot tall bigfoot, which calmly observed them
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Speaker 1: from a distance. Became very nervous, too nervous to remain there,
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Speaker 1: and quickly packed up everything and left. And while reports
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Speaker 1: of people being harmed by bigfoot are exceedingly rare. There's
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Speaker 1: something about the appearance of this creature that often makes
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Speaker 1: people react with fear. It was two a m. In
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Speaker 1: January of nineteen sixty six when Bob Kelly and Archie Bradshaw,
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Speaker 1: who were good friends, were in their cabin in Wildwood.
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Speaker 1: They had no warning when a bigfoot suddenly appeared and
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Speaker 1: stared at them through the window. Kelly grabbed his shotgun
24:39
Speaker 1: and fired at the creature, and although he was sure
24:42
Speaker 1: he hid it, it ran away. They went outside and
24:45
Speaker 1: measured its tracks at eighteen inches in length. In July
24:52
Speaker 1: and August of nineteen sixty six, several bigfoot reports came
24:56
Speaker 1: from the southern California city of Fontana was a huge
25:00
Speaker 1: wave of sightings. One family reported that a tall, red
25:04
Speaker 1: haired bigfoot actually ransacked their car while they were picnicking.
25:09
Speaker 1: Around that time, two teenage boys were hiking outside Fountana
25:13
Speaker 1: when they said a bigfoot actually attacked them. The bigfoot
25:17
Speaker 1: grabbed one of the boys, who suffered scratches and torn
25:20
Speaker 1: clothing as a result. Another rare bigfoot attack occurred in
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Speaker 1: the same area. This was on August twenty seven. The
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Speaker 1: witness was Jerry Mendehaal and a friend. They said they
25:35
Speaker 1: saw a bigfoot from their car. To their shock, the
25:38
Speaker 1: bigfoot quickly approached, reached through the car window, and grabbed
25:43
Speaker 1: the arm of one of the witnesses, causing painful scratches.
25:47
Speaker 1: Both the witnesses report that the bigfoot was covered with
25:50
Speaker 1: slimy mud and emitted a foul, putrid odor, corroborating all
25:56
Speaker 1: these above encounters. Around the same time to two young
26:00
Speaker 1: men were hiking in nearby Quartz Hill when they observed
26:04
Speaker 1: a bigfoot standing still on a distant hilltop. So by
26:09
Speaker 1: this time it was becoming clear to researchers that not
26:13
Speaker 1: only was Northern California a bigfoot hotspot, southern California was
26:17
Speaker 1: also producing a large number of cases. Still, the vast
26:22
Speaker 1: forests in northern California, with the towering sequoias and redwood trees,
26:28
Speaker 1: seems to be the preferred bigfoot habitat. In nineteen sixty six,
26:34
Speaker 1: Richard Sides was hiking near Bluff Creek when he saw
26:39
Speaker 1: a bigfoot squatting down drinking water with its cupped hands.
26:44
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty six, same year, Larry Browning was camping
26:49
Speaker 1: in the Trinity Alps outside of Weaverville when he said
26:53
Speaker 1: he saw a bigfoot walk by his campsite. The Trinity
26:57
Speaker 1: Alps do produce a large number of cases, but Larry
27:01
Speaker 1: Browning was so amazed that he returned to his campsite
27:04
Speaker 1: several times in the hopes of having another sighting, and
27:08
Speaker 1: his patience was finally rewarded. However, he learned the hard
27:12
Speaker 1: way that it's not always a good idea to get
27:15
Speaker 1: too close to bigfoot, because it was two years later
27:18
Speaker 1: on April sixth, nineteen sixty eight, he observed a bigfoot
27:23
Speaker 1: waiting across the Salmon River. He returned the next day
27:27
Speaker 1: and saw a female bigfoot, but on this occasion the
27:31
Speaker 1: bigfoot also saw him and began to chase him, and
27:35
Speaker 1: he says that this bigfoot actually followed him for a
27:39
Speaker 1: half hour and at one point charged him menacingly before
27:43
Speaker 1: finally going away. There are quite a few reports like
27:47
Speaker 1: that in the Bigfoot literature of these creatures charging people
27:52
Speaker 1: and trying to basically chase them out of the area.
27:57
Speaker 1: In early nineteen sixty seven, Russell Somerville was again an
28:02
Speaker 1: Highway two ninety nine. This is just west of Willow
28:06
Speaker 1: Creek when he observed a nine foot tall bigfoot walking
28:10
Speaker 1: right along the highway. He says this creature stayed parallel
28:15
Speaker 1: to the highway for about fifty feet before dashing back
28:19
Speaker 1: into the undergrowth, and he says afterwards there was a
28:22
Speaker 1: terrible odor which lingered for several minutes. What's interesting about
28:27
Speaker 1: bigfoot is, yes, there's often this foul odor associated with them,
28:32
Speaker 1: but it's not always there, and some bigfoot researchers think
28:35
Speaker 1: that they might have a gland in which they can
28:38
Speaker 1: release this odor, much in the manner of a skunk.
28:41
Speaker 1: Whether that's true or not is unknown, but it's certainly
28:45
Speaker 1: a lot of speculation about this. Of course, many bigfoot
28:50
Speaker 1: hunters have mounted various expeditions in search of bigfoot, and
28:54
Speaker 1: many of these are concentrated around the Bluff Creek area,
28:59
Speaker 1: and one of these included a man by the name
29:02
Speaker 1: of Roger Patterson. He had heard about new big footprints
29:06
Speaker 1: in the area of Bluff Creek, and in October of
29:11
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven he went to Bluff Creek to make
29:14
Speaker 1: a film documentary about bigfoot, and this began. One of
29:20
Speaker 1: the most influential and controversial events in big foot history
29:25
Speaker 1: was October eighteen nineteen sixty seven, Roger Patterson and his
29:30
Speaker 1: associate Robert Gimlin were riding through the area where footprints
29:35
Speaker 1: had been reported, occasionally taking film footage of the surroundings
29:39
Speaker 1: to use his background material for their film. And it
29:43
Speaker 1: was early in the afternoon when they came around a
29:45
Speaker 1: corner on the trail and saw a tall, hairy figure
29:49
Speaker 1: just a few hundred yards away. Roger Patterson quickly retrieved
29:54
Speaker 1: his movie camera and filmed nine hundred and fifty two
29:59
Speaker 1: frames of moving film of this creature as it walked
30:03
Speaker 1: away into the forest, and this film became a media
30:08
Speaker 1: sensation and still is today. Controversy surrounds the film. There
30:14
Speaker 1: have been claims of hoaxes. However, the primary witnesses never
30:18
Speaker 1: recanted their stories. Most experts, I think, believe that the
30:23
Speaker 1: film is authentic. Not all. Some believe this is a
30:27
Speaker 1: man in a basically a guerrilla suit if you will. Nevertheless,
30:34
Speaker 1: it is only one of many cases. The story of
30:36
Speaker 1: Bigfoot does not rest on the Patterson film, and Bluff
30:41
Speaker 1: Creek still continues to produce a constant parade of solid reports.
30:46
Speaker 1: For example, in June of nineteen sixty eight, Steve Marlin
30:51
Speaker 1: and Bruce Cornwall were hiking in the Bluff Creek area
30:55
Speaker 1: when they saw and smelled a bigfoot in a clearing
30:59
Speaker 1: in the forest. One month later, July eleven, nineteen sixty eight,
31:05
Speaker 1: a family was camping along the Trinity River when they
31:09
Speaker 1: said they saw a bigfoot walk right by their campsite
31:12
Speaker 1: and back into the forest. That same month, in July
31:18
Speaker 1: of sixty eight, Harold Lancaster was hiking through the southern
31:22
Speaker 1: California desert outside of Brego Springs. Was late at night
31:27
Speaker 1: when he says he saw a quote giant ape man
31:31
Speaker 1: walking towards him. It then bounded away and disappeared. Although rare,
31:38
Speaker 1: there are a few accounts on record where people have
31:40
Speaker 1: seen Bigfoot from the air while flying. In January of
31:44
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, for example, private pilots Robert James Junior
31:49
Speaker 1: and Larry Larwick were flying a small plane over just
31:54
Speaker 1: over the north area of Yosemite Park when they saw
31:59
Speaker 1: a long line of what looked like bigfoot tracks, and
32:03
Speaker 1: they were intrigued, so they followed the tracks on their plane.
32:06
Speaker 1: To their amazement, these tracks appeared to be fresh and
32:10
Speaker 1: led them directly to the bigfoot himself, and they buzzed
32:15
Speaker 1: the creature with their plane getting as close they said
32:18
Speaker 1: it's fifty feet to it. They also tried to take
32:22
Speaker 1: photographs and managed to capture blurry photographs of this creature,
32:27
Speaker 1: and they estimated it was about twelve feet tall, and
32:30
Speaker 1: that these footprints were about twenty inches long. So many
32:37
Speaker 1: witnesses have made very close up observations of bigfoot and
32:41
Speaker 1: have provided really detailed descriptions of their appearance. And a
32:46
Speaker 1: perfect example of this occurred on April sixteenth, nineteen sixty nine,
32:51
Speaker 1: in the town of Paradise, California, which was very much forested.
32:57
Speaker 1: This occurred on two and missus Robert Beam, and they
33:03
Speaker 1: encountered a big foot crossing the road in front of them.
33:07
Speaker 1: And according to mister Robert Beam, he says, and I quote,
33:13
Speaker 1: as we started a long curve, our headlights lit what
33:16
Speaker 1: seemed to be a man in fur crossing the road.
33:20
Speaker 1: Our impression was that it was more than six feet high,
33:24
Speaker 1: completely covered with short black hairs which seemed to be
33:28
Speaker 1: marked either of white spots or mud. Its face was white,
33:34
Speaker 1: The head was small and finished at a peak at
33:37
Speaker 1: the top, was heavily built with particularly heavy legs. So
33:42
Speaker 1: that's a typical description. But It was around the same
33:46
Speaker 1: time and in the nearby city of Oroville, that ed
33:50
Speaker 1: Seville and Elden Butler were rabbit hunting, and to their shock,
33:55
Speaker 1: their rabbit calls actually attracted an eight foot tall, green
34:00
Speaker 1: eyed at bigfoot, which apparently came to investigate the noise
34:04
Speaker 1: they were making. So that's one way to do a
34:08
Speaker 1: CE five with a bigfoot. In June of nineteen sixty nine,
34:13
Speaker 1: Ben Foster, Bob Kelly, and his family and several others
34:18
Speaker 1: were at the Wildwood Inn in Wildwood, and they were
34:22
Speaker 1: drawn outside by the sound of barking dogs. This large
34:27
Speaker 1: group of witnesses observed a six foot tall, dark brown
34:32
Speaker 1: bigfoot which was fighting with the dogs that had surrounded it.
34:36
Speaker 1: Bigfoot and dogs generally do not get along, but when
34:40
Speaker 1: these people arrived, the creature ran off into the surrounding forest.
34:46
Speaker 1: But there was a cluster of sightings in this area
34:49
Speaker 1: at that time. It was one month later, on July fourth,
34:52
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Eldon Brackett was hiking north of Wildwood
34:57
Speaker 1: when he observed a seven foot tall bigfoot, and after
35:01
Speaker 1: it left, he examined the tracks, which measured sixteen and
35:05
Speaker 1: a half inches and they had a four foot stride,
35:10
Speaker 1: so clearly not human. It was just two weeks later,
35:15
Speaker 1: July seventeen, two brothers, Charles and Kevin Jackson, were burning
35:21
Speaker 1: rabbit and trails in their backyard in a rural Oroville
35:25
Speaker 1: when they observed an eight foot tall female bigfoot walk
35:30
Speaker 1: by the nearby outhouse. That same month, Don Ballard and
35:37
Speaker 1: a friend of his were horseback riding through the Trinity
35:41
Speaker 1: Alps when they had a rare daylight sighting of the creature.
35:45
Speaker 1: Most of the sightings are at night. It does appear
35:47
Speaker 1: to be nocturnal, but that's not always the case. But
35:51
Speaker 1: Don Ballard reports that this creature appeared to have no
35:54
Speaker 1: real neck, but it did leave several sixteen inch tracks.
36:00
Speaker 1: Most of the witnesses say that bigfoot has no real
36:04
Speaker 1: neck to speak of, very wide shoulders, extremely muscular. The
36:09
Speaker 1: reports about Bigfoot, particularly in California, are very similar and consistent,
36:17
Speaker 1: and was around this same time July of nineteen sixty nine,
36:20
Speaker 1: in the same general area that Homer Stickley observed a
36:25
Speaker 1: bigfoot walked through his backyard. He lived on the outskirts
36:29
Speaker 1: of Oroville, and in the months that followed he investigated
36:33
Speaker 1: and he found several tracks measuring about eleven inches. So
36:38
Speaker 1: July of nineteen sixty nine was a major bigfoot wave
36:44
Speaker 1: in the city of Twain. Three teenagers were driving home
36:48
Speaker 1: from a movie when they observed a bigfoot crouching in
36:52
Speaker 1: the middle of the road in front of them. They
36:55
Speaker 1: actually had to swerve to avoid it. They came to
36:58
Speaker 1: a screeching stop, and when they turned around to examine,
37:01
Speaker 1: the creature was gone. There are people who have interacted
37:05
Speaker 1: with bigfoot. One such case occurred to an anonymous female
37:09
Speaker 1: prospector who was working outside of Orleans, California, and she
37:15
Speaker 1: reported that during the summer of nineteen sixty nine, she
37:19
Speaker 1: observed a male and female bigfoot on several occasions, and
37:24
Speaker 1: after seeing them a number of times, she left out
37:28
Speaker 1: apples and grapes for the creatures, which they apparently took.
37:33
Speaker 1: In the fall of nineteen sixty nine, again the same year,
37:37
Speaker 1: Oroville again showed itself to be a bigfoot hotspot. Ron
37:41
Speaker 1: Sanders was hiking along the French Creek in Oroville when
37:46
Speaker 1: he saw two bigfoot crossing the reservoir. The bigfoot were
37:50
Speaker 1: actually turning over large rocks and appeared to be eating
37:53
Speaker 1: something and was around that same time, when Charles Maudlin
37:59
Speaker 1: was hiking along the nearby Feather River when he saw
38:03
Speaker 1: a bigfoot running along an abandoned dirt road. I mean,
38:07
Speaker 1: there's so many cases. October thirty first, West Strong was
38:13
Speaker 1: in his home in Oraville when he saw a bigfoot
38:16
Speaker 1: squatting in his yard. He says the bigfoot stared right
38:20
Speaker 1: back at him and was obviously aware that it was
38:23
Speaker 1: being observed. Many people have tried to shoot bigfoot. Mike
38:30
Speaker 1: Scott and a friend were in Calaveras in the Big
38:34
Speaker 1: Trees National Monument when they saw a bigfoot about thirty
38:38
Speaker 1: yards away. Mike Scott fired. He says three rounds of
38:43
Speaker 1: ammunition at the creature did not appear to affect it.
38:48
Speaker 1: It quickly escaped, apparently unharmed. So sightings continued throughout the
38:54
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. In April of nineteen seventy, Buzz McLaughlin and
38:58
Speaker 1: several others of Hyampam, California, observed a nine foot tall
39:05
Speaker 1: bigfoot outside the Manzanita Ranch School, and they said the
39:09
Speaker 1: creature looked very much like a giant gorilla. On May fourteenth,
39:15
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, Archie Buckley was hiking at Stewart Gap south
39:22
Speaker 1: of Wildwood, when he observed a seven foot tall bigfoot.
39:28
Speaker 1: After it left, he measured its tracks at fifteen inches,
39:32
Speaker 1: and he was so awestruck by his experience that he
39:35
Speaker 1: did begin researching accounts and conducting his own bigfoot stakeouts.
39:40
Speaker 1: And one month after this encounter, on June eighteenth, he
39:45
Speaker 1: returned hoping to have another encounter, and he was successful.
39:49
Speaker 1: He was actually able to attract a bigfoot to his
39:52
Speaker 1: camp by laying out freshly caught fish as an offering.
39:57
Speaker 1: This is one of a number of cases in which
39:59
Speaker 1: people have been able to to initiate a bigfoot encounter.
40:04
Speaker 1: Also in nineteen seventy two, hunters were in Cooper Canyon
40:08
Speaker 1: near Quartz Hill. Again, this is in southern California. There
40:12
Speaker 1: are other cases at Quartz Hill. They were out hunting
40:15
Speaker 1: in the forest when they encountered what they thought at
40:18
Speaker 1: first was a very large unidentified animal. However, when it
40:22
Speaker 1: stood up, they could see it through their guns scopes
40:26
Speaker 1: and it looked like a large human looking figure. They
40:30
Speaker 1: weren't sure if this might be a person or an animal,
40:33
Speaker 1: so they didn't shoot, and shortly later this figure ran
40:36
Speaker 1: off into the forest on two legs, so it was
40:39
Speaker 1: definitely by pedal. On September one, nineteen seventy one, an
40:45
Speaker 1: anonymous lieutenant sheriff was driving southeast of Nammoth Mountain, this
40:51
Speaker 1: is a very popular ski resort, when he observed in
40:54
Speaker 1: eight foot tall, hairy bigfoot standing alongside the roadside with
41:00
Speaker 1: his arms outstretched. Was around that same time, but much
41:05
Speaker 1: farther south in Palmdale that an anonymous young man says
41:10
Speaker 1: that he encountered Bigfoot, and like other witnesses, he says
41:13
Speaker 1: he shot at it. He fired four shots at it
41:17
Speaker 1: with a thirty thirty rifle, and as in virtually all
41:20
Speaker 1: the cases where people shoot at this creature, the bigfoot
41:23
Speaker 1: was apparently unharmed and fled the area. In late nineteen
41:28
Speaker 1: seventy one and early nineteen seventy two, many reports came
41:32
Speaker 1: in from the High Sierras. For example, campers Warren Johnson,
41:38
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson, and Bill McDowell and others reported several incidents
41:43
Speaker 1: where Bigfoot would prowl around their campsite, often howling in
41:47
Speaker 1: the distance, and they were actually able to capture some
41:50
Speaker 1: of the vocalizations on audio tape. So there is little
41:55
Speaker 1: doubt that Bigfoot is real and that California is a hotspot.
42:00
Speaker 1: Here is a pretty well known case which occurred in
42:02
Speaker 1: January of nineteen seventy two to two to four teenage
42:07
Speaker 1: boys from Ball's Ferry. This is an extremely rare type
42:12
Speaker 1: of big foot ufone Connor because the boys were driving
42:16
Speaker 1: when they saw a u f O, a large glowing object,
42:20
Speaker 1: swoop down over their car. They continued driving and parked
42:25
Speaker 1: along Battle Creek, and it was there that they heard
42:28
Speaker 1: a blood curdling scream. They trained their flashlights on the
42:32
Speaker 1: sound and saw a seven foot tall creature covered with
42:36
Speaker 1: brown hair. They became overwhelmed with fear and immediately left
42:41
Speaker 1: the area, but returned shortly later with an adult, and
42:45
Speaker 1: again all of them heard the creature howling loudly, and
42:49
Speaker 1: again it scared them off the scene. As the adultliness G.
42:53
Speaker 1: Dean Rich says, it sounded like a real deep growl.
43:00
Speaker 1: It was a real weird type of sensation. It was
43:03
Speaker 1: nothing I've ever experienced before. So there are a number
43:08
Speaker 1: of cases where bigfoot in UFOs do appear. At the
43:12
Speaker 1: same time, there are actually quite a few cases like
43:16
Speaker 1: this across the United States and the world. I did
43:19
Speaker 1: cover those types of cases in a previous episode, but
43:23
Speaker 1: I think it's important to note that there does appear
43:26
Speaker 1: to be in some cases a connection between Bigfoot and UFOs,
43:32
Speaker 1: but most no. Another UFO, or rather another Bigfoot hotspot
43:39
Speaker 1: is the Angelus National Forest. This is just north of
43:43
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It has about six hundred and fifty thousand acres,
43:49
Speaker 1: so it's a vast, remote wilderness and a haven for
43:52
Speaker 1: all kinds of large wildlife, including bear, deer, cougar, and
43:58
Speaker 1: apparently bigfoot. So while Northern California bigfoot sightings are well known,
44:04
Speaker 1: many people are not aware that Southern California has hundreds
44:08
Speaker 1: upon hundreds of reports. And when you take into account
44:11
Speaker 1: that most people never report their encounters, it's likely these
44:15
Speaker 1: accounts are probably in the thousands. And if you just
44:20
Speaker 1: visit the vast mountains of the Angles Forest covered with
44:23
Speaker 1: thick pine trees, it's enough to convince you that Bigfoot
44:28
Speaker 1: could definitely live there. And in the mid nineteen seventies,
44:33
Speaker 1: the Southern California sightings increased and produced a huge flood
44:37
Speaker 1: of reports. For example, in February of nineteen seventy two,
44:42
Speaker 1: four teenagers were hiking the Lake Isabella area of southern
44:46
Speaker 1: California when they said they saw a bigfoot prawling around
44:50
Speaker 1: their campsite in the late moonlight. That same year, October eighth,
44:56
Speaker 1: Randy Norton and Steve Gillespie were in the city of
45:00
Speaker 1: Reading when they observed a bigfoot traverse Clear Creek at
45:06
Speaker 1: the Placer Street bridge, which you can see right here.
45:10
Speaker 1: The next day, they saw what appeared to be the
45:13
Speaker 1: same bigfoot in the same area running away. The year
45:18
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy three brought a huge flood of reports
45:21
Speaker 1: in the Lancaster Palmdale area. On March fourteen of that year,
45:28
Speaker 1: three US Marines observed what they described as a quote
45:32
Speaker 1: large bipedal, hairy creature. This was right on the outskirts
45:36
Speaker 1: of Lancaster, and according to the witnesses, they were driving
45:40
Speaker 1: along when this creature actually leaped in front of their car.
45:45
Speaker 1: And it was that same month another woman from Lancaster
45:48
Speaker 1: went outside to see why her dogs were whimpering, and
45:52
Speaker 1: she was shocked to see a tall, hairy, ape like
45:54
Speaker 1: figure stand up from the tall grass and run off.
46:00
Speaker 1: On April twenty second, nineteen seventy three, a multiple witness
46:05
Speaker 1: case occurred in the Sycamore Flats campground in a big
46:09
Speaker 1: rock canyon. This is near Lancaster again. The three witnesses
46:15
Speaker 1: were all from the San Fernando Valley. Their names are
46:19
Speaker 1: William Romerman, Brian goldolsjarb and Richard Engels. They were exploring
46:26
Speaker 1: the area together when each of them observed a hairy
46:30
Speaker 1: man like creature who was towering at least eleven feet tall,
46:35
Speaker 1: possibly twelve feet. They got a really good look at it,
46:39
Speaker 1: and according to the witnesses, this creature actually paced their
46:42
Speaker 1: pickup truck along the road for about twenty seconds. They
46:47
Speaker 1: know how tall it was because they saw its head
46:49
Speaker 1: actually sweep right under this overhanging branch, and they were
46:54
Speaker 1: later able to measure the height up to this branch
46:59
Speaker 1: and it was between eleven and twelve feet, So that's
47:03
Speaker 1: a really well verified case. One month later, Ron Bailey
47:09
Speaker 1: observed an eight foot tall bigfoot standing right next to
47:12
Speaker 1: a telephone pole alongside the road in Palmdale, and after
47:18
Speaker 1: it left, he approached the site and found large footprints.
47:23
Speaker 1: So this area Palmdale Lancaster Actin is quite active for bigfoot.
47:29
Speaker 1: It was one month later, in June of nineteen seventy three,
47:33
Speaker 1: siblings Brett and Stephanie Baylor were playing outside their home
47:37
Speaker 1: in Lancaster when they saw bigfoot observing them from behind
47:42
Speaker 1: a boulder. It was one month later in July, an
47:46
Speaker 1: anonymous naturalist was researching in the Castle Cragg Mountain area
47:51
Speaker 1: and he says he observed an eight foot tall bigfoot.
47:54
Speaker 1: It had a very human looking face, he said, and
47:58
Speaker 1: he watched it for a long time, forty five minutes.
48:02
Speaker 1: It's interesting because many people do report that although bigfoot
48:05
Speaker 1: is harry, the face itself looks remarkably human like. In
48:12
Speaker 1: August of nineteen seventy three, Margaret and Joyce Baylor of
48:17
Speaker 1: Lancaster again observed a bigfoot, which they estimate was twelve
48:22
Speaker 1: feet tall, again alongside the road. After left, they found
48:27
Speaker 1: its footprints. And it was around this same time that
48:31
Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of Mike Pence was driving
48:34
Speaker 1: his motorcycle through the desert area north of Lancaster when
48:38
Speaker 1: a bigfoot appeared, and he said through rocks at his motorcycle.
48:43
Speaker 1: If you studied the bigfoot accounts in the literature, you
48:46
Speaker 1: will see that rock throwing is definitely one of their behaviors.
48:51
Speaker 1: And interestingly, this is a well known type of primate
48:55
Speaker 1: primate behavior. Meanwhile, back in northern California, things were heaten up,
49:01
Speaker 1: specifically in the Shasta Trinity National Forest and as Lourene Coleman,
49:08
Speaker 1: who's a world famous cryptozoologist rites and I quote. In
49:13
Speaker 1: August nineteen seventy three, during a fishing trip and other visits,
49:19
Speaker 1: several Bay Area based bigfooters, including Sharon Gordon, Richard Foster,
49:26
Speaker 1: Ben E. Foster Junior, and Archie Buckley had multiple sightings there,
49:32
Speaker 1: including seeing a bigfoot thrower rock, one prowling around a campfire,
49:38
Speaker 1: another flipping a car aerial, some communicating by gesture, and
49:43
Speaker 1: another being attracted nearby. So they did find tracks, They
49:48
Speaker 1: found a dead fawn, feces, and it was a very
49:52
Speaker 1: active area. Meanwhile, the bigfoot wave in southern California continued.
49:58
Speaker 1: September nineteen seven seventy three, two people were in their
50:02
Speaker 1: driveway one evening in Quartz Hill. They turned on the
50:06
Speaker 1: headlights to their car and were amazed to see this
50:09
Speaker 1: bigfoot with long tangled hair standing at the end of
50:13
Speaker 1: their driveway, and after it left, they did find large footprints.
50:19
Speaker 1: In October of that same year, large twenty one inch
50:24
Speaker 1: footprints were discovered at the nearby South Fork Campground. Measurements
50:30
Speaker 1: taken of the distance between the footprints registered get this
50:34
Speaker 1: a twelve foot stride. So this bigfoot was apparently running,
50:39
Speaker 1: and certainly there's no human being on earth that can
50:44
Speaker 1: have a stride that wide. That same year, December twenty seventh,
50:50
Speaker 1: two siblings were hiking near their home in Palmdale when
50:54
Speaker 1: they saw bigfoot, which they estimate was about twelve feet tall.
50:58
Speaker 1: As they wash, it bounded away at very high speeds
51:01
Speaker 1: and disappeared into the desert. In nineteen seventy three, a
51:06
Speaker 1: team of researchers set up a bigfoot stakeout in the
51:09
Speaker 1: Mojave Desert area near a place called the Buttes. One
51:14
Speaker 1: of them was Kent Lacy, and the other researchers actually
51:17
Speaker 1: achieved their goal of having a bigfoot encounter when they
51:21
Speaker 1: all observed a large, hairy bigfoot standing off in the distance.
51:26
Speaker 1: They not only saw it, they smelled it and described
51:29
Speaker 1: it as a powerful rank odor. In nineteen seventy four,
51:36
Speaker 1: a family from Quartz Hill was startled by the appearance
51:39
Speaker 1: of bigfoot in their backyard. So they will come right
51:43
Speaker 1: up to people's homes. Many cases of that, and of
51:46
Speaker 1: them looking in people's windows, and that same year in
51:51
Speaker 1: nearby Big Rock Canyon Campground, a number of reports came
51:56
Speaker 1: in most of the people who were encountering these this
52:00
Speaker 1: creature where campers or hikers or hunters. Was a very
52:04
Speaker 1: famous case in August of nineteen seventy four which occurred
52:08
Speaker 1: to Bruce Morgan. He was at the Big Rock area
52:11
Speaker 1: when he saw a shaggy, white haired bigfoot sitting down
52:15
Speaker 1: on the ground and in a sitting position. Its height
52:20
Speaker 1: was about six feet, so you can see how big
52:23
Speaker 1: these creatures really are. It was around that same time
52:28
Speaker 1: that a gentleman by the name of Terry Albright was
52:31
Speaker 1: driving through the Big Rock area along the mountain roads
52:35
Speaker 1: when he nearly hit a seven foot tall, black haired
52:39
Speaker 1: bigfoot with his car. He went public with his case,
52:43
Speaker 1: which became quite well known. In September of nineteen seventy four,
52:48
Speaker 1: Neil Fern and Rich Engles were hiking at night in
52:53
Speaker 1: Antelope Valley when they said they saw a seven foot tall,
52:58
Speaker 1: black haired bigfoot standard on a hilltop, and after it left,
53:02
Speaker 1: they searched the area and found fifteen inch footprints. What
53:08
Speaker 1: was really interesting about these footprints is they did not
53:11
Speaker 1: have five toes instead they had three toes, and that
53:15
Speaker 1: does turn up in a number of these cases. It
53:18
Speaker 1: was just a few months later when a group of
53:21
Speaker 1: children were walking near the Canyon High School in New Hall, Saugus,
53:26
Speaker 1: and this has forested area right around it, and they
53:30
Speaker 1: saw a nine foot tall, dark colored bigfoot raise its
53:34
Speaker 1: arms and then jump off into the wilderness. So this
53:38
Speaker 1: wave continued strong into nineteen seventy five. On August fourteen,
53:45
Speaker 1: Irene Rambo observed a ten foot tall bigfoot appear over
53:49
Speaker 1: her backyard fence in Corona, and it was three days
53:54
Speaker 1: later that four witnesses, including James Mihalko and ern Palmera,
54:02
Speaker 1: were near their home in Corona when they saw what
54:05
Speaker 1: appears to be the same ten foot tall bigfoot wandering
54:08
Speaker 1: through a citrus grove. Further north in Sequoia National Park,
54:15
Speaker 1: but around the same time, John Clark was camping when
54:19
Speaker 1: he saw nine foot tall bigfoot, which he said looked
54:23
Speaker 1: like it had blonde hair, or he says could have
54:26
Speaker 1: been covered in vegetation. He's not sure, but most bigfoot
54:32
Speaker 1: are described as being dark colored. Occasionally you do hear
54:35
Speaker 1: red hairs, blonde hairs, and rarely white on September third,
54:42
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, Mark Carr was driving outside the very
54:48
Speaker 1: Big Hot Spot for Bigfoot, Oraville, and in the early
54:53
Speaker 1: morning he saw a seven foot tall bigfoot right along
54:56
Speaker 1: the roadside. He was so amazed he actually lost control
55:01
Speaker 1: of his car and smashed into a tree, and when
55:04
Speaker 1: he looked up, the bigfoot was gone. In nineteen seventy five,
55:10
Speaker 1: an anonymous witness was driving outside of Saugus when he
55:15
Speaker 1: saw a bigfoot and he said that it was holding
55:18
Speaker 1: a small animal in his hands as it stood in
55:22
Speaker 1: the light of a flashing road sign. There are a
55:25
Speaker 1: number of cases of that of people seeing bigfoot holding rabbits, deer,
55:31
Speaker 1: and other animals. Meanwhile, back up in northern California, near
55:36
Speaker 1: the town of Pine Grove, two teenagers Rick Van Delli
55:41
Speaker 1: and Joe Coughlin saw a bigfoot twice over a period
55:45
Speaker 1: of just a few weeks. On March twenty third, nineteen
55:50
Speaker 1: seventy six, Ed Johnson and a police patrolman by the
55:55
Speaker 1: name of Dan Murphy observed a bigfoot leap over in
55:59
Speaker 1: eight foot tall wall. This was in rural Mill Valley,
56:05
Speaker 1: and they investigated the area and found the corpse of
56:09
Speaker 1: a freshly killed deer. So there's so many cases. I'm
56:17
Speaker 1: really just touching the tip of the iceberg here, But
56:20
Speaker 1: I want to continue up to pretty much the present day.
56:24
Speaker 1: In the summer of nineteen seventy six, two brothers were
56:28
Speaker 1: fishing late at night at Morris Dam when they observed
56:31
Speaker 1: a very tall, human like creature walking along a deer path.
56:36
Speaker 1: And it was just a few months later that a
56:39
Speaker 1: hunter reported his sighting of the creature along the West
56:42
Speaker 1: Fork River, and in his case, he also heard the
56:46
Speaker 1: bigfoot scream in a weird mixture of he said, howling
56:51
Speaker 1: and roaring. One year later, nineteen seventy seven, a man
56:57
Speaker 1: was camping in the woods outside of Mendocino. This is
57:01
Speaker 1: central to northern California, and he says he was woken
57:04
Speaker 1: up by this bipedal creature running through the woods right
57:09
Speaker 1: outside his tent. As he says, and I quote, I
57:13
Speaker 1: was more afraid than I could ever remember, praying that
57:18
Speaker 1: what I was listening to wouldn't start moving towards my tent.
57:23
Speaker 1: The noise sounded like a two legged monster crashing through
57:26
Speaker 1: the woods hastily, so he didn't see anything. However, he
57:32
Speaker 1: says that the reports that He says that in the
57:36
Speaker 1: area where he was camping, many disemboweled animals had recently
57:41
Speaker 1: been found, so bigfoot usually occurs at night, and again
57:47
Speaker 1: the most common type of encounter is a road crossing,
57:50
Speaker 1: as in this following case was late one evening in
57:53
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, a truck driver was driving near Lake
57:57
Speaker 1: Hughes when he observed a very tall, hairy manlike creature
58:02
Speaker 1: bound across the road in front of his headlights. Was
58:06
Speaker 1: throughout the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties that southern California
58:11
Speaker 1: researcher and Ruffel investigated numerous bigfoot cases throughout the Tahunga
58:17
Speaker 1: Canyon area, so this is also an area that's very
58:20
Speaker 1: active with UFOs. In fact, and Ruffel mostly investigated UFOs,
58:25
Speaker 1: but started investigating bigfoot because again, there appears to be
58:29
Speaker 1: a connection here. And I investigated a case personally involving
58:34
Speaker 1: a radiologist by the name of Robert Murphy. His home
58:39
Speaker 1: is located on the outskirts of Canyon Country. This is
58:43
Speaker 1: immediately north of the sprawling megalopolis of Los Angeles, but
58:47
Speaker 1: a very rural area, and one summer evening in nineteen
58:51
Speaker 1: seventy eight, Robert Murphy was startled to see an object
58:55
Speaker 1: flashing extremely bright red and white lights landing in his
58:59
Speaker 1: backyard cad He first thought it was a helicopter because
59:02
Speaker 1: there's no roads or structures behind his house, but he
59:06
Speaker 1: realized it was totally silent, and he jumped up to
59:09
Speaker 1: go outside, and these lights disappeared. He was very puzzled.
59:13
Speaker 1: But it was the next night that he got a
59:15
Speaker 1: real scare because, as he says, and I quote this
59:19
Speaker 1: is the one that gets me. I have three dogs
59:22
Speaker 1: and they were terrified out of their minds. They were
59:25
Speaker 1: huddling together on my patio, all three of them. They
59:28
Speaker 1: were huddled together, and they were obviously terrified out of
59:31
Speaker 1: their minds, and they were looking at the same spot
59:34
Speaker 1: where that thing with all the lights was the night before,
59:37
Speaker 1: right in the corner of my yard. They were barking
59:40
Speaker 1: at something up there, and they were barking furiously like
59:43
Speaker 1: they've never done before in their lives. They were all
59:46
Speaker 1: huddled together, and then I heard this thing, this creature,
59:52
Speaker 1: and this thing moaned, and it moaned in an unearthly
59:55
Speaker 1: fashion that's very hard to describe other than it had
59:59
Speaker 1: a very long toned, eerie moan that sounded like it
1:00:04
Speaker 1: was resonating in a very large creature, like a big
1:00:07
Speaker 1: barrel chested kind of creature. You could just hear the
1:00:11
Speaker 1: resonance of this thing. And it moaned really long, like
1:00:15
Speaker 1: ten seconds. And at this point Robert Murphy mentioned something
1:00:20
Speaker 1: that is familiar to bigfoot researchers, but I don't think
1:00:23
Speaker 1: most people know about, is that bigfoot is actually telepathic.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: As Robert says, it seemed like I was reading its
1:00:32
Speaker 1: mind and it was irritated with the dogs, That's what
1:00:35
Speaker 1: I thought. And it moaned again a second time, same
1:00:38
Speaker 1: thing as before, about the same duration. And then the
1:00:42
Speaker 1: third time it moaned again, but this time it was
1:00:45
Speaker 1: really really loud, and it moaned for a real long time,
1:00:49
Speaker 1: and I was so scared, I was afraid to go look.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: He retreated into his house and stayed there until the
1:00:56
Speaker 1: next morning, and he went out to investigate and did
1:00:59
Speaker 1: find what appeared to be footprints. So meanwhile, sightings continued.
1:01:05
Speaker 1: May thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine, Bill if Tigger was driving
1:01:09
Speaker 1: along US Highway three ninety five outside of Yosemite when
1:01:14
Speaker 1: he saw an eight foot tall bigfoot dash across the
1:01:16
Speaker 1: road in front of his car. In nineteen seventy nine June,
1:01:22
Speaker 1: Shirley de Wolfe and her family observed an eight foot
1:01:26
Speaker 1: tall bigfoot walking right down one fortieth Street East, not
1:01:31
Speaker 1: far from their home in Lancaster. So there are times
1:01:37
Speaker 1: bigfoot will approach suburban or even urban areas, though that's
1:01:42
Speaker 1: quite rare. And I will say again Lancaster. While it
1:01:47
Speaker 1: is a very populated area Lancaster, Quartz Hill, Antelope Valley, Acton,
1:01:53
Speaker 1: it's surrounded by large deserts and forests. So in nineteen
1:01:59
Speaker 1: seventy was a very active decade for bigfoot, but the
1:02:04
Speaker 1: next three decades brought more reports. The area around Mount
1:02:08
Speaker 1: Saint Helen's has long been a bigfoot hot spot. In
1:02:12
Speaker 1: the days following the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in
1:02:15
Speaker 1: May of nineteen eighty, Betty Ann Almo and her friend
1:02:20
Speaker 1: observed the bigfoot there on three separate occasions, and each
1:02:24
Speaker 1: time they said they saw this creature wandering through a
1:02:27
Speaker 1: walnut tree grove located along the Feather River. Bigfoot does
1:02:34
Speaker 1: appear to be omnivore, omnivorous, and we'll eat both animals
1:02:39
Speaker 1: and fruits and whatever it can find. Was a few
1:02:44
Speaker 1: months later, on June nine, nineteen eighty two, gentlemen from
1:02:48
Speaker 1: Scott's Valley, Dave Wilhelm and Ben Larsen, noticed a horrible
1:02:54
Speaker 1: garbage like smell near their campsite, and going to investigate.
1:02:59
Speaker 1: They drove around the area slowly, and at one point
1:03:02
Speaker 1: they heard loud footsteps and heavy breathing, and suddenly a
1:03:06
Speaker 1: twelve foot tall bigfoot appeared in their headlights. The next
1:03:10
Speaker 1: day they returned and observed large footprints. So that seems
1:03:16
Speaker 1: to be the outer limit of how tall these big
1:03:18
Speaker 1: foot get. You don't hear really any reports of anything
1:03:23
Speaker 1: over twelve feet tall, but they are. It's an outlier
1:03:27
Speaker 1: for sure. On September third, nineteen eighty Clyde Williams was
1:03:32
Speaker 1: driving through the Lake Hughes area late at night when
1:03:35
Speaker 1: he said a big foot leapt right in front of
1:03:37
Speaker 1: his car and bounded quickly up a very steep mountain side.
1:03:43
Speaker 1: January sixth, nineteen eighty one, an anonymous witness says he
1:03:47
Speaker 1: was hiking through the Angelus Forest looking for bigfoot tracks
1:03:51
Speaker 1: when he had an incredible encounter. As he searched, he
1:03:55
Speaker 1: suddenly heard this loud, almost metallic noise. He said, at
1:03:59
Speaker 1: the same time, all the animal sounds stopped and looking around,
1:04:03
Speaker 1: he observed a large metallic saucer landed nearby, and looking
1:04:08
Speaker 1: to his left, he saw two tall Bigfoot type creatures
1:04:13
Speaker 1: in the distance. Both of these creatures were making long,
1:04:17
Speaker 1: loping strides directly towards him. He quickly snapped a photograph
1:04:22
Speaker 1: and ran away in a panic. Unfortunately, the photograph didn't
1:04:25
Speaker 1: really come out and it was inconclusive. But again another
1:04:31
Speaker 1: rare case of this weird Bigfoot UFO connection. In nineteen
1:04:36
Speaker 1: eighty two, Marcy Hanstead was in her home in Eureka
1:04:41
Speaker 1: and she looked out her window and saw the head
1:04:43
Speaker 1: and shoulders of a bigfoot. It quickly moved away. However,
1:04:47
Speaker 1: she was convinced forever that Bigfoot is real. And again,
1:04:52
Speaker 1: there are many accounts on record in which Bigfoot has
1:04:55
Speaker 1: approached densely populated urban areas. One such case occurred on
1:05:01
Speaker 1: the northwest end of the heavily populated San Fernando Valley
1:05:08
Speaker 1: the Santa Susanna Mountains. This is a little bit off
1:05:12
Speaker 1: from the homes in the valley, but I mean this
1:05:16
Speaker 1: is very populated. Well over a million people live in
1:05:18
Speaker 1: the San Fernando Valley and with one evening in January
1:05:22
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty four, when two men were driving along
1:05:26
Speaker 1: the Curby Mountain Road of Santa Susanna Pass when they
1:05:29
Speaker 1: said they encountered an eight foot tall hairy creature standing
1:05:34
Speaker 1: in the road. Like other witnesses, they had to swerve
1:05:37
Speaker 1: to avoid the creature and actually crashed their all terrain vehicle,
1:05:42
Speaker 1: at which point the creature quickly ran away. However, one
1:05:46
Speaker 1: month later, three hunters in the same general area so
1:05:50
Speaker 1: that they witnessed another, or perhaps the same, eight foot tall,
1:05:55
Speaker 1: hairy manlike creature just walk right by their campsite. There's
1:06:00
Speaker 1: so many cases. In nineteen eighty seven, a group of
1:06:03
Speaker 1: retired firefighters were enjoying a volleyball game in the O'Brien Campgrounds,
1:06:09
Speaker 1: this is near Mount Shasta Lake, when a bigfoot walked
1:06:13
Speaker 1: through the nearby field, apparently oblivious to the human activity
1:06:17
Speaker 1: going around it. Here's a very interesting case and it
1:06:24
Speaker 1: exhibits many of the details that are typical of bigfoot behavior,
1:06:28
Speaker 1: and it's a very extensive encounter. Actually, it occurred in
1:06:31
Speaker 1: June of nineteen eighty eight. The witness was Sean Fries,
1:06:35
Speaker 1: who was camping alone in an isolated area along the
1:06:41
Speaker 1: Feather River in northern California, and he says he had
1:06:45
Speaker 1: a pretty terrifying encounter. He was alone in his tent,
1:06:49
Speaker 1: his dogs were sleeping outside, and he woke up to
1:06:53
Speaker 1: find his dogs running into his tent trembling in fear. Meanwhile,
1:06:57
Speaker 1: all the animal sounds, the crickets and so forth, had stopped.
1:07:02
Speaker 1: He grabbed his rifle, and, overcoming his fear, he went
1:07:06
Speaker 1: outside of his tent to put more wood on the fire,
1:07:09
Speaker 1: and he said he had the sensation of being watched.
1:07:13
Speaker 1: And then, as Sean Fry says, and I quote, I
1:07:17
Speaker 1: heard some very heavy footsteps right behind me in the trees.
1:07:23
Speaker 1: There was also a very strange odor, almost like a
1:07:26
Speaker 1: cross between a skunk and something dead. So he spun around,
1:07:31
Speaker 1: but whatever it was stayed out of his view in
1:07:34
Speaker 1: the thick forest. However, the encounter was not over yet,
1:07:38
Speaker 1: as Sean Fry says, this thing circled my camp all
1:07:43
Speaker 1: night long, so he stayed awake until it became light.
1:07:47
Speaker 1: But by the time morning arrived he had had enough.
1:07:50
Speaker 1: He decided to leave immediately. But little did he know
1:07:54
Speaker 1: that he was about to be chased by this creature.
1:07:57
Speaker 1: As Sean says, at first, I packed up and started out,
1:08:03
Speaker 1: and this thing followed me almost the entire day. I
1:08:07
Speaker 1: could smell it and even sow it through the woods
1:08:10
Speaker 1: about seventy five yards from me, taking an almost parallel
1:08:14
Speaker 1: trail to me, as if to make sure I left
1:08:18
Speaker 1: its territory. So it does appear that bigfoot can be territorial.
1:08:24
Speaker 1: It was just a few months later in August of
1:08:26
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight when Todd Wilheim was driving through the
1:08:29
Speaker 1: Eastern Sierras and he says he saw two bigfoot cross
1:08:34
Speaker 1: the road in front of his vehicle. And nineteen ninety
1:08:39
Speaker 1: five there was a case which got quite a bit
1:08:44
Speaker 1: of press attention because this involved a filmmaker by the
1:08:49
Speaker 1: name of Craig Miller who was filming a movie scene
1:08:54
Speaker 1: in the scenic Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. This is
1:08:58
Speaker 1: outside of Crescent City in northern California, and he and
1:09:05
Speaker 1: his associate, Colin Goddard, were filming. Colin Goddard was the
1:09:10
Speaker 1: husband of a very well known model, a playboy model.
1:09:14
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when they all noticed a
1:09:18
Speaker 1: bigfoot and actually filmed it. Goddard was driving the crew
1:09:22
Speaker 1: in a large RV when he saw this eight foot
1:09:26
Speaker 1: tall hairy human like form walking across the road in
1:09:29
Speaker 1: front of their vehicle. He shouted to Miller to look,
1:09:34
Speaker 1: and was Miller who grabbed his video camera and managed
1:09:37
Speaker 1: to capture five seconds of video of the creature as
1:09:41
Speaker 1: it crossed the road and disappeared into the wilderness. This
1:09:45
Speaker 1: is not great footage, but with the eyewitness testimony that
1:09:49
Speaker 1: comes along with it, it's a pretty darn good case.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: So while most witnesses do catch only fleeting glimpses of
1:09:57
Speaker 1: Bigfoot at night, some do involve daylight sightings, and this
1:10:01
Speaker 1: following case may be unique in the bigfoot literature. It
1:10:05
Speaker 1: occurred in August nineteen ninety five. An anonymous couple from
1:10:09
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania had traveled to northern California for a vacation. They
1:10:13
Speaker 1: were inted a car drove to various locations and little
1:10:17
Speaker 1: did they know they were about to have a pretty
1:10:19
Speaker 1: dramatic bigfoot encounter. Was very early one morning. They were
1:10:24
Speaker 1: driving outside of Crescent City, which has many Bigfoot encounters
1:10:28
Speaker 1: as we have seen. They were driving along the coast
1:10:31
Speaker 1: when they spotted a beautiful beach. They stopped the car
1:10:35
Speaker 1: and were starting to get out and take a walk, when,
1:10:37
Speaker 1: with no warning, whatsoever. A bigfoot showed up, as one
1:10:42
Speaker 1: of the witnesses says, and I quote, I turned to
1:10:46
Speaker 1: see this big thing standing right in front of my car.
1:10:49
Speaker 1: At first I thought it was a bear until our
1:10:52
Speaker 1: eyes met. I couldn't move or speak. We just locked
1:10:57
Speaker 1: eyes for what seemed to be forever. It stood about
1:11:00
Speaker 1: six and a half to seven feet, dark brown, matted hair,
1:11:05
Speaker 1: and was holding what looked to be seaweed, which it
1:11:07
Speaker 1: used both its hands to carry. It didn't seem startled,
1:11:11
Speaker 1: In fact, I felt it was looking at me with
1:11:14
Speaker 1: anger in its eyes. It let go of snort and
1:11:18
Speaker 1: a glob of snot hit the windshield right in front
1:11:22
Speaker 1: of my face. It then took three or four steps
1:11:26
Speaker 1: and completely crossed the highway whilst still looking at me.
1:11:30
Speaker 1: So yeah, bigfoot boogers. I don't know if that material
1:11:35
Speaker 1: was ever collected and studied. There was no follow up
1:11:38
Speaker 1: on this case as far as I know, but I
1:11:40
Speaker 1: haven't heard of the case quite like it. At this point,
1:11:45
Speaker 1: another driver actually drove up and they all watched this
1:11:48
Speaker 1: creature quickly bound off into the forest, and the main
1:11:52
Speaker 1: witnesses have all insisted upon complete anonymity. So while there
1:11:58
Speaker 1: are many reports of late night drivers. Probably the majority
1:12:02
Speaker 1: comes from campers and hikers and other people who are
1:12:05
Speaker 1: exploring their local wilderness area, such as in this next case.
1:12:11
Speaker 1: This occurred on August fourth, nineteen ninety six, and this
1:12:14
Speaker 1: is a daylight sighting ten am, when several campers in
1:12:18
Speaker 1: the Inyo National Forest observed a bigfoot from a distance
1:12:23
Speaker 1: of about three hundred yards. They estimated it was about
1:12:27
Speaker 1: eight or nine feet tall, and it moved quickly along
1:12:30
Speaker 1: a nearby ridge. Often these creatures are seeing walking along ridgetops,
1:12:36
Speaker 1: or along rivers or along deer trails. In September of
1:12:42
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, several reports came in from the Lake
1:12:46
Speaker 1: Crowley area. The first setting was made by several campers
1:12:50
Speaker 1: who observed this creature while they were cooking their camp breakfast.
1:12:54
Speaker 1: But it was a few weeks later when several fishermen
1:12:57
Speaker 1: were fishing around dusk when they observed a bigot looking
1:13:00
Speaker 1: back at them from the banks of the lake. As
1:13:04
Speaker 1: we have seen, the Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort area has
1:13:08
Speaker 1: produced a number of reports. One occurred in July of
1:13:12
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight when several mountain bikers were biking along
1:13:15
Speaker 1: the base of Mammoth Mountain and observed a bigfoot walking
1:13:19
Speaker 1: near the ski tram at the base of the mountain
1:13:24
Speaker 1: on October seventeen. That same year, nineteen ninety eight, several
1:13:29
Speaker 1: campers in the Plumas National Forest Area were woken up
1:13:33
Speaker 1: by the sound of a large, bipeal creature walking around
1:13:36
Speaker 1: their campsite, and the next evening they heard a strange
1:13:40
Speaker 1: howling noise about two miles away, and all were convinced
1:13:44
Speaker 1: it was bigfoot. A more recent case occurred in the
1:13:49
Speaker 1: town of Actin. I was able to interview the witness personally.
1:13:53
Speaker 1: She does not want her name used, but she reports
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Speaker 1: that she had several encounters with a big foot like
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Speaker 1: creature outside her home in Acting. This was in the
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Speaker 1: summer of two thousand and one. She wasn't the only witness.
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Speaker 1: Several members of the home also observed the creature looking
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Speaker 1: in through the window. Her roommate saw it cheated, and
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Speaker 1: her young son saw it. One morning, she woke up
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Speaker 1: to find chewed up animal bones on her doorstep. She
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Speaker 1: thought that perhaps the bigfoot had left it as a gift.
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Speaker 1: They found freshly skinned animals, they found footprints, They've smelt
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Speaker 1: odors which they associate with the creature's presence. On one occasion,
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Speaker 1: they heard a loud noise on the roof, and the
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Speaker 1: next morning they went up to investigate and there was
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Speaker 1: an enormous boulder perched on the top of the roof.
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Speaker 1: Wendy had to get two full grown men to move
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Speaker 1: the boulder off of her house, and she says that
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Speaker 1: on occasion she felt that this creature was actually in
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Speaker 1: telepathic cont with her. She asked me if there were
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Speaker 1: any cases of bigfoot kidnapping people, and I told her no.
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Speaker 1: At the time, I was not really familiar with the
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Speaker 1: bigfoot literature. I did not know that there were that
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Speaker 1: many cases of people being grabbed by bigfoot. Turns out
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Speaker 1: there are, and she was worried about that. On another occasion,
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Speaker 1: Wendy's sun observed the bigfoot climbed the tree next to
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Speaker 1: their home. There was a loud cracking sound as it
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Speaker 1: broke several of the branches, and in fact I saw
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Speaker 1: this myself and Wendy confirmed that several thick branches in
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Speaker 1: the tree were snapped off, as did I, and there
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Speaker 1: were large footprints. I conducted a long interview with Wendy,
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Speaker 1: talked to her son as well and briefly with the
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Speaker 1: other witnesses, and she said this went on for almost
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Speaker 1: three years. She felt it was friendly, and she felt
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Speaker 1: that it was kind of excited because it had found
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Speaker 1: someone who could communicate it telepathically with it. But by
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Speaker 1: late two thousand and three she called to say that
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Speaker 1: this bigfoot was still around and did I want to
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Speaker 1: see it for myself, because she thought she knew pretty
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Speaker 1: much where it lived. My answer, of course, was yes.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea that this would be successful, but
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have been surprised because she had taken my
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Speaker 1: sister in law out bigfoot hunting a few months earlier,
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Speaker 1: and they both heard what they believed to be a
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Speaker 1: bipedal creature bounding through the darkened forest towards them, but
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Speaker 1: they became quite frightened and left. So at this time
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Speaker 1: I was still new to bigfoot and was a little
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Speaker 1: bit skeptical. At any rate, it was clear to me
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Speaker 1: after talking to Wendy that it was real, and in
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Speaker 1: October two thousand and three, Wendy and I hiked to
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Speaker 1: a wilderness area a few miles from home off the
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Speaker 1: Angelus Crest Highway. We had just pulled off this road
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Speaker 1: a little dirt road, and we're getting out cameras and
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Speaker 1: recording equipment, and Wendy pointed to this ravine and said
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Speaker 1: that this is where she believed the Bigfoot lived. And
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Speaker 1: suddenly there was a very loud, continuous growling noise off
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Speaker 1: in the distance, coming directly from this deep forested valley,
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Speaker 1: directly to our east. We all stood still and looked
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Speaker 1: at each other with wide eyes, and you know, saying,
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Speaker 1: did you hear that? What was that? I mean, this
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Speaker 1: was loud. I honestly thought it might be a jet
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Speaker 1: coming overhead, but it clearly wasn't. We all listened, and
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Speaker 1: it was just a few seconds later when we heard
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Speaker 1: it again, a long, continuous, loud, growling sound. It lasted
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Speaker 1: for a good five seconds. I mean, this was loud,
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Speaker 1: and by this time I could pretty much triangulate where
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Speaker 1: it was coming from. Sounded almost like a chainsaw, but
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Speaker 1: it was different. It wasn't a bear, it wasn't a lion.
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Speaker 1: Wendy screamed, She's like, we're leaving now. I want to
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Speaker 1: go away. Wendy is not a real name, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that's a pseudonym. But she was quite frightened and insisted
1:18:20
Speaker 1: upon leaving, I was running towards it, but yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: my bigfoot encounter. We definitely heard something. I'm absolutely convinced
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Speaker 1: it wasn't a mountain lion or a coyote or a
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Speaker 1: bear or anything like that. I mean, this thing resonated
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Speaker 1: in your chest. And I later found out that there
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Speaker 1: was in fact a long history of sightings in that area.
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Speaker 1: So this is a great place for any bigfoot hunters
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Speaker 1: to explore. There are more than eighty campgrounds located in
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Speaker 1: the Angelus Forest National Park, plenty of places to look
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Speaker 1: for bigfoot, and Lauren Coleman actually lists this area as
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Speaker 1: one of the top spots in the world to contact bigfoot,
1:19:06
Speaker 1: as he says, this area sees a lot of unusual
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Speaker 1: bigfoot activity, but it does not get much publicity, even
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Speaker 1: though it is so close to Los Angeles. So it
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Speaker 1: turns out that three of the bigfoot cases I've had
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Speaker 1: personally investigated, they all had a telepathic aspect to it.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons I do think bigfoot
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Speaker 1: is probably sentient and is psychically developed or advanced. So
1:19:41
Speaker 1: probably the best place to see a bigfoot if you're
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Speaker 1: really interested in hunting them, is the town of Willow
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Speaker 1: Creek in northern California. This is surrounded by huge redwood
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Speaker 1: forests and it's easy to see why it's a Bigfoot
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Speaker 1: hot spot. This is very much close to Bluff Creek,
1:20:01
Speaker 1: and each Labor Day they have a big annual Bigfoot celebration.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I could go on and on with further
1:20:08
Speaker 1: accounts all the way up to the present day, but
1:20:11
Speaker 1: I think it's getting a little bit repetitive, so I'm
1:20:13
Speaker 1: just going to wrap it up here. But as you
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Speaker 1: can see, Bigfoot is all across California. There you go.
1:20:24
Speaker 1: That's the history of Bigfoot in California. I did write
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Speaker 1: about this in my book Supernatural California. I also wrote
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Speaker 1: an entire book about Bigfoot. This was actually written for children.
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Speaker 1: It's called Bigfoot, Yetti and Other Eight Men, and that's
1:20:41
Speaker 1: a more general book covering the entire planet. But in
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Speaker 1: Supernatural California, I presented the California history of Bigfoot. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm absolutely convinced this is real, that there is a
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Speaker 1: Harry hamanin wandering through the forests of our state here
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Speaker 1: in California, about across the United States and the world.
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Speaker 1: It's my opinion that we're probably dealing with ancestors of
1:21:11
Speaker 1: the Neanderthals who have been with us all along but
1:21:15
Speaker 1: have remained largely undetected. I do believe they're intelligent. I
1:21:20
Speaker 1: think there are psychic aspects to these beings who have
1:21:24
Speaker 1: very developed psychic abilities. This is just my opinion based
1:21:28
Speaker 1: on some of the more paranormal type encounters that people
1:21:32
Speaker 1: have described to me personally. But you've seen the evidence
1:21:37
Speaker 1: for yourself, you can make up your own mind. I
1:21:40
Speaker 1: hope you've enjoyed this episode. I really want to thank
1:21:43
Speaker 1: you for watching. I truly appreciate it. Until next time,
1:21:47
Speaker 1: keep searching for answers, keep looking for the truth, and
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Speaker 1: most important of all, keep having fun.