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Ep. 33 | Paranormal Press: Bigfoot, Sea Monsters, and a Very Strange Fourth of July | Sasquatch & Sourdough · Sasquatch & Sourdough

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome back to Sasquatch and Sourdough.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Christina, and today is World UFO Day, apparently.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: It is July 2nd, and yeah, it's World UFO Day.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm assuming that uh that just harkens back to everything that happened in the 40s in New Mexico on that fateful July day.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: And now we are commemorating it.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: This is the first year that I've heard of it.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, um, I just wanted to hop on here and do a quick 4th of July episode.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you guys, but I can't believe that we're already here, that it's already like midsummer almost.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: It just seems to have flown by.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: So when I was doing some digging, I found some really, really interesting accounts.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of like doing these little quick pull-together accounts for you guys.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of you have said things in the comments that you enjoy it too.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna try to do these sprinkled throughout the year in between guests and Crystal joining me.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think it just kind of keeps it fresh and light.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: So before we jump into all that, I wanted to just thank you guys for tuning in and sticking with us.
• 1:33
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• 1:34
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• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's some really great guests lined up.
• 1:45
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• 1:49
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• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: It really, really helps.
• 1:58
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• 2:02
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• 2:05
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• 2:08
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• 2:13
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• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: That would be awesome.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so my thought behind this obviously is it's the 4th of July.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's really nice to just have kind of a light episode of like hodgepodge kind of encounters.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And the crazy thing is, when I was looking into this, I found this amazing detailed newspaper account of so many crazy things.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Not only that, but like just going back and looking at some of these newspapers and the culture at the time is fantastic.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, looking through this and just kind of going, um, you know, looking at at each one of their little, like, not even articles, it's almost as if they were scrolling back in those days.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is from the 1800s.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'm gonna introduce this newspaper to you, but seriously, like it's these little tiny um, I'm trying to think of how the author put it.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, various short things.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, like they basically have short form content, obviously, in the newspaper.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: And when I was reading through it last night, I was like, oh my gosh, I feel like I just doomsrolled.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's incredible.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, so as much as we kind of want to think, like, I don't know, a lot of the content out there is always like we're we're going into crazy directions, like the end of the world, AI, all that stuff, dude.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: We've been kind of doing the same thing with the technology that we have since at least the 1800s.
• 3:43
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• 3:52
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• 3:58
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• 4:27
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• 4:31
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• 4:50
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• 4:51
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• 4:58
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• 5:04
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• 5:06
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• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's dive in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So basically, what I did here was I just went through and looked up in the like told you guys like a year ago basically.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: The Library of Congress is a fantastic resource for old newspaper archives.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they have an incredible digital library where you can just search either keyword phrases or dates, and it will just show up so much content that you can kind of it takes a while to comb through, but it's just awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is from the Daily Independent.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I wanted to keep things kind of summertime-ish, but this popped up.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is from uh Elko, Nevada, Monday, May 20th, 1889.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: And this title is Mysterious Monsters.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: So a can have a summertime July 4th episode without having some sort of sea monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what sea serpents are like, according to the most authentic accounts?
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  SPEAKER_00: A young sea serpent was killed with a pitchfork on Good Harbor Beach, Massachusetts, in 1817 and was exhibited for days in the house of Captain John Beach.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was formally examined by uh Linnean Society of Boston and declared to be a young, some be the young of some gigantic unknown creature resembling the sea serpent.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: Captain McHugh of HMS Dautilus described the sea serpent he and his crew saw on August 6, 1848, as more than 60 feet long, of a dark brown color, with no fins, but something like a mane on the back of the neck, which was about 16 inches through.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: No less a personage than Daniel Webster, as recorded in the New England magazine, saw a sea serpent on August 14, 1817.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: And that particular sea serpent was described as nearly 100 feet long, as large around as a man's body of a dark brown color with the head like a turtle's and a vertical motion in the waves.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: A bishop whose account being based on hearsay is very little credited, said to or said the Norway sea serpent was gray with a black mouth, long mane, and the head not unlike that of a horse.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so both of them, there's two accounts of them being like a horse.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this one's actually really, really cool.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um this is from this is probably the earliest account of a sea serpent that I have seen on record.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: This is from July 6th, 1774.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: Reverend Paul Edge, a missionary to Greenland, says in his story of his voyage to the to that country that he saw on July 6, 1774, a sea serpent with a long, sharp snout that spouted like a whale.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: It had broad flappers and scales and looked like a snake.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's crazy.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so this kind of there's a couple, there's two more in this little uh in this little write-up.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: So the round out aquatic snake was said to have a molted back, a long dorsal fin, and to be 55 feet long.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: The sea serpent seen by Mr.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Parsons and Captain Hitchcock in the Hudson was described as having flat sides and a big slate-colored head.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Gloucester, Massachusetts sea serpent seemed to be about 80 feet in length and had a smooth dark head, corresponding in other respects with the general drift of testimony.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so those are just a couple accounts from this um awesome newspaper.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: So see, even in the 1800s, we're just fascinated with sea monsters.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing new under the sun.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I was going to go in chronological order, but I think I'm gonna skip around a little bit.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: So jumping from the 1700s to this is an account from my favorite, one of my favorite books, uh Skating with Bigfoot, uh by Rene De Care.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is uh 1904 Harry Man collects grass for his dinner.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: A bewildering story out of a Washington state paper in 1904 begins with the details of a man's encounter with a Bigfoot and ends with a testament from the author as to the man's trustworthy character.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: It seems the writer is vouching for the truthfulness of the witness because he knows that what is written is so outlandish that readers may not believe it.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Reported in July 8th, 1904, edition of The Evening Statesman, a man named Mike King, described as an outdoorsman, reports seeing a Bigfoot near the Campbell River in British Columbia, Canada, as if to preemptively quiet doubters of the time.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: The author of the article writes, Mr.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: King does not often tell the story of his adventure, since the majority are apt to ventilate sarcastic observations that grow tiresome.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is in earnest, however, and any timberman on the North Pacific coast will attest to his reliability.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nor is a man who has spent three quarters of his life in the primeval solitudes, never tastes liquor and has few superior and has few superiors as a woodsman, apt to see things in the woods.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: So King's encounter begins when he treks through the forest as part of his job after having been presumably presumably alone for days by himself, not having seen a human the entire time, he hears what is described a cry of mingled surprise and fear, very human in its quality, and not recognizable as a typical forest sound.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and so this is a quote from King.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um about 100 yards from where he stood, or even less, or no, this looks like this is a quote from the article.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 100 yards from where he stood, or even less, an uncouth human faced him, all uncertain whether to stand or fly.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: The form was that of an unungular man, completely covered with hair, with long arms hanging loosely and hands reaching down to below the knees.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: The eyes were quick and penetrating, shining strangely through a tangle of unkempt hair.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: King reported he thought he was a type of human, but one that no quote nation, tribe, or country knows, end quote.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: After staring at King for an undesignated amount of time, the Sasquatch fled into the wilderness.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: King described him running easily up a hillside, swinging his long arms and crying out sounds that he described as expressing fear and alarm.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: It sees King and then runs off, making plenty of sound as it goes.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Quote, once it paused on the hillside and stood again gazing at the astonished white man, the article states, then plunged into the wilderness and was lost to sight.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: Although the crackling of branches for some time afterward betrayed its hurried progress through the woods, end quote.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: King found it a short time later at a watering hole, washing edible grass roots, but no further details are provided in the story.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: Did the Sasquatch see him?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: If it did, how did it react the second time?
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Where, when, and how did it leave the water area?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Those questions remain unanswered.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: The article goes on to mention that King told many indigenous peoples about his story, but it does not detail which Native American tribes he contacted.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: According to the article, the Native American people he spoke with about the encounter in turn told him their particular view of how the Sasquatch originated.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: They recounted a tale of a baboon or ape that escaped from a Spanish ship at a West Coast port after terrorizing local residents for an unspecified amount of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Left to make its home in the forest.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: There it is said to have kidnapped a Native American girl.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: The wild, this is quote, quote, the my the wild man seen by Mr.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: King is believed by the Indians to have been the offspring, end quote, of the ape and girl, the paper declares.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, wow, that's a doozy.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I don't know.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's so tough sometimes with these old um with these old accounts, like you kind of have to really read a lot of the actual paper itself to get an idea of kind of like, you know, who's writing the voice, the tone, and all that sort of stuff.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I've never heard that um explanation uh before.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of a lot of Indian legend kind of goes into the legend of it.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: Not really like a more I don't want to say practical, but it I haven't heard an account of it like coming from like a loose ape on a ship type deal.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: What do you guys think?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: See, sometimes I don't know, it feels a little sus.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: So that's from um, like I said, skating with Bigfoot.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's such a good book.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: You guys should definitely pick it up.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Skating with Bigfoot, Renee Decare, true newspaper accounts in the West over 150 years.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like every time I go in there and I look for not just an archival material, but something that's like for a holiday, she always she's always got my back.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is just um, I just kind of saved this because uh so this is Maysville, Kentucky, Monday, July 6, 1908.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so it uh it's really it's just amazing.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: When you part of me just wants to like read you guys these newspapers because it's just so funny.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um at Oakland, California, July 4th, a Southern Pacific local train ran head-on into an inbound overland passenger train, and nine persons were killed and 30 or more seriously injured.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's terrible.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then, like, right after that, it's like Oakland City, July 4th.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: A monster celebration was held here today to commemorate the addition to the flag of the 46th star, which represents Oklahoma and the galaxy of stars.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, oh my gosh, okay.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: See, we're scrolling.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: We went from like a terrible train wreck, like that's just like scrolling on Facebook, right?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Terrible train wreck.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Then you're like, oh no.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's like, oh, we're celebrating the new star for Oklahoma.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: So there was uh, so this one, I oh my gosh, this is one that I had way too much fun with.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: This is from let's see here, the Kimball graphic.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so this is Kimball, it's South Dakota.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: It just says Dakota, but it's South Dakota, June 27th, 1884.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: So this is like the week before Independence Day, July 4th, and they're getting jazzed up in the newspaper.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: I had so much fun with this newspaper.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's like it's insane.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is from page five, and it says, the glorious fourth at Kimball.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: So everything in this newspaper is like it's like all about Kimball, um, the town of Kimball.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so this reads uh, this is like their program of their 4th of July.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is what's gonna happen.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: National salute at sunrise, gathering of the clans from 8 to 10 a.m.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: 10:30 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Public exercises at the park.
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  SPEAKER_00: The following order will be observed: music by the Cornet Band, invocation by chaplain Reverend L.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: C.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: Birch, address of welcome by A.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: H.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Stewart, President of the Day, music by the Glee Club, reading of the Declaration of Independence by Judge J.B.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Long, uh, an address by the Honorable W.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: H.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Curtis of Kimball, music by the Coronet Band, oration by Reverend Loomis of Wisconsin, and then more music by the Glee Club.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I just I'm sorry, guys, I love this.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then, like, listen, this is just like so much fun.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is like America in the 1800s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amusements, 1220.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Tramp's lunch at the grandstand.
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  SPEAKER_00: First prize,$3.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Second prize,$2.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what a tramp's lunch is, but it sounds like fun.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: This okay, guys, seriously?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is amazing.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: 1 p.m.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Procession of the ancient, honorable, horrible, and dependent hoodlums under command of his high and mightiness, Count Hans van Dundergratner.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, guys, that's a freak show.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I just want you to know that.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's what basically that's telling us.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's incredible.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, 4th of July, amusements, we have a freak show.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: 1 30.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: After the freak show, we've got a sack race.
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  SPEAKER_00: First prize is$3, second prize,$2.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: 2 p.m.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: egg race.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: First prize,$2, second prize,$2.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: That makes no sense.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be a typo.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, guys, 2 30 p.m.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: a greased pig race.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what that is?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: If you know what that is, and if you've witnessed one, please comment or send me an email.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm just assuming it's a this has to be something that I've never experienced, obviously.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: But that you just grease up a pig and a couple pigs, and we just we race them around.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Winner to have pig valued at$10.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, four o'clock match game of baseball for a purse of$45.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's exciting.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I could just read this all day.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the main the main thing that I think the main note there was the mention of like literally the freak show that was gonna be on parade.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's terrible.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so then further down of amusements, they're gonna have the Sioux Indians, a band of Sioux Indians, including this celebrated chief White Ghost.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: He was actually um a really big Sioux Indian chief um in South Dakota at that time.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be in camp near the park during the day and will give exhibitions of a large variety of Indian amusements and customs.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's culture, isn't that fun?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got a freak show and then we've got some Indian culture.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: What is happening, America?
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so actually, so I I basically read this issue of this newspaper last night from like top to bottom, and they mention white ghost, chief white ghost, like throughout.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like this town was excited that this Indian chief was coming.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I kind of love that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's like it's just really cute.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is oh my gosh, this is titled Um A Result of Religious Frenzy, Wheeling, West Virginia special.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: A boy named Andy Adams attended a series of meetings held by the minister of a Baptist church on North Creek near here in the district schoolhouse.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: He became deeply impressed and went insane on the subject of religion.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: The family consisted of the boy, a sister of eight years old, and the mother who lived in a sparsely settled neighborhood.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: The non-appearance of the family last Monday caused apprehension.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And when the neighbors called, they found that the mother and daughter were both dead.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: The former had her head mashed and the latter's throat was cut from ear to ear.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: The boy was found crouched in a corner.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: In reply to questions, he said the Lord told him to offer his mother and sister as a sacrifice and would bring them back to life again.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: The mother was killed with an axe, and the sister's throat was cut with a butcher knife.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Boy is in custody.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: The religious meetings have been stopped.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, you know where I'm gonna take this.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly, this had nothing to do with the Lord.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord did not tell you that.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: My my poor boy.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was definitely probably either some sort of cultic behavior of the whatever was going on at that church, or definitely some sort of possession.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought that was just a crazy encounter.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm sure if we go back into these like newspaper archives, we'll find stuff like this, like scattered throughout.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's it it's definitely worth a deep dive with some of these because you can hear the tone kind of change in some of the writings.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, this is just kind of reported as is, but obviously, like, we know.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you don't know, I can tell you that's not God's character.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: He's not going to tell you to murder your mother and sister.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's just that that is that ain't in the Bible.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: A little shout out to my friend Nelly.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I have one more account from this page.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: I like it's like every time you turn around, there's something else.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, this is a column called Things in General.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is like obviously this is kind of like a hodgepodge of news from around the country and sometimes the world.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that me, obviously, the newspaper is where you got all of your news.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's just fascinating to me that like media pretty much hasn't really changed that much.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we want as much information crammed into one media source as possible.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, definitely when they're going through here, that's why I say it feels like I'm just scrolling, like I'm getting these hits of dopamine, like you know, with each little article.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: So, under the things in general column, California's youth are going to the bad with alarming rapidity.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: A boy of 17 said to have been reared under the best home influences, was one of a gang who lately robbed a stagecoast in Shasta County.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Lake Shasta?
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Mount Shasta?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: And since then, six boys, boy burglars, all sons of respectable parents, have been arrested in LA or Los Angeles.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: They have probably been feasting their imaginations on dime novels.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, there you go.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: See?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: Dime novels.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, there we go.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, what's what's next in our things in general column?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, guys.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how you let me know how you feel about this because I'm just having way too much fun.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: The other day, a gaunt, hungry old cat made her appearance on the platform at the top of Wash of the Washington Monument and went purring round among the workmen.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: She had climbed up to that dizzying height by the stairway.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: She looked about her for a few moments and then gave a leap into space.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: 434 feet is a good deal of a jump.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: But she landed on the ground alive, making the greatest leap on record.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, see, that surprised me.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even read that beforehand.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Holy moly.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: A cat jumping off of the Washington monument.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Where are my conspiracy theory grows here?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Let's put some of this stuff together.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this one I actually did.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: This is crazy.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna do this in the last one from page two.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then I wanna I want to move on to more of the 4th of July stuff.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, this is titled A Terrifying Lightning Episode.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Some 4,500 people who were in the Coliseum at Minneapolis Thursday afternoon had an experience to be remembered.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: The dress circle and balcony were well filled, and the stage presented a bright and cheerful appearance.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: The full chorus of nearly a thousand children were seated in the great sounding board, the girls dressed in white.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Throughout the entertainment, there was the occasional disturbance of rumbling, distant thunder with flashes of lightning that seemed to trace the bright wood finish.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: One or two sharp peals added to the apprehension when suddenly there was a loud, sharp report, apparently in the space between the ceiling and the roof, the crash of falling glass from the center skylight, and confusion worse confounded.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: People started to their feet, faces blanch, and their fear was written on many faces.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: A panic was threatened among the children and in the audience, and it was a moment of intense excitement and wonderment and questioning in every look.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: As the thunder shower passed over, it singled out for an electric shock the gilt ball on the top of the flagstaff in the center of the building, the highest point that presented itself.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: The electric current flashed down the pole, shattered the apex of the building, ran along the timber, attacked a bolt, followed along to an electric light wire, and thence made its way without further injury to the building and the electric lamp and passed outside the building and to the head of the steps from the railroad, which it shattered and then buried itself in the ground.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was not an easy task to meet the emergency entirely among the children, and the excitement of the little ones was added to be the intercession of anxious parents, one alarmed mother mounting the stage from the orchestra while it was playing to where her child was to be found.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, that is a scene.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: See, and you guys thought the 1800s was boring, not according to this newspaper.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we've got flying cats and like thunder striking probably like brand new electrical things in an orchestra.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Holy mackerel.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I have another one that's really, really weird from the same uh newspaper.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go to page three.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is really, really, really weird.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So it says a strange case which which puzzled the inhabitants of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was the finding of a large quantity of little eels in a street puddle made by a heavy shower the other day.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: There were nearly a hundred of them squirming lively and from an inch to three inches in length.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: The prevailing theory is that they came down with the rain.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: So essentially in 18, what was this?
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: 1884 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, it rained eels.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: So there we go.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I think that's it from this newspaper.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: What else did I have?
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, raining eels.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, page five, there's a drowning.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that's let me see here.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, miscellaneous gossip.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: There are 138,065 Freemason lodges throughout the world with a total membership of 14,1.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, 14,160,543.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, there you go.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Conspiracy theorists, have at it.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: And then in the same column, like, so this is miscellaneous gossip.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so in the same column, they have we're talking about the you know, the Freemasons and how many members, and then down further down, we have it is said that Mrs.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: John Jacob Astor gave each servant of her house a gold watch and$100 as a thank you offering for her recovery.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, how about that?
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: I guess you kind of have to like know exactly, like you have to follow what's going on here.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: This is just hilarious.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: One more little tidbit.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, I had to go to the BFRO for this one.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: So in the summer, specifically July 2013, this is reported from Nottingham, New Hampshire, New Hampshire.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: And this is really this is a really cute account.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so this person, it says, let's see here.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: Daytime sighting by young bike bicycl bicyclist near Nottingham.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: Nearest town, Nottingham, North New Hampshire.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: Nearest town Nottingham, New Hampshire, nearest road removed to protect witness.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is getting very serious.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, observed.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, my name is Lots of X's.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: I live in Nottingham.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Here is my story.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I was riding my bicycle in the woods when I heard a loud howl.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: When I heard that howl, it felt like lightning struck me.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: I looked to the right and to the and at the bottom of the hill in the woods, I saw a big brown figure hitting a tree.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: I pedaled as fast as I could and ran inside.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I would like to speak to a research researcher personally.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: I give permission to have my story put on the website.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so again, I think that's really cute.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then also, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I just think it's adorable.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, other witnesses, one witness, which was me.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: I was just biking in my woods.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Time and conditions.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was a hot summer day with no clouds.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Environment, pine woods with a neighborhood a few feet away from my house.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: So this is like pretty close to like, I guess, his neighborhood.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of scary.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I want to read the follow-up.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the investig investigation report by BFRO investigator Matt Hampson says, I was able to speak with the witness due to the fact the witness is a 14-year-old.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, there we go.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: I obtained permission from his parents.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Exact location have been removed from the report.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: The witness was able to fill in a few more details.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: Here is what he said.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: He was mount he has mountain bike trails behind his house, and he decided to go ride his bike on a nice summer day to get some exercise.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds lovely.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: He had been out riding the trails for a few minutes and was on his way down a hill when he heard some stomping noises.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: He stopped his bike, looked around, and said in a loud voice, anybody there?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: He did not hear any replies and could hear no other noises, so he continued his ride.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: The trail continued on and goes up a hill.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: He said he had just gotten to the top of this hill when he heard what he said was a roar.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: When asked to describe the roar, the witness said it sounded like a dog kinda, but much deeper and stronger.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: He said this shocked him, and he stopped immediately and looked to the right.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: The witness said that there standing about 20 feet away at the bottom of this hill to the right of the trail was a huge dark figure hitting a tree.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: Witness believes it was using its hand to hit the tree since he did not see a stick or a log.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: Height estimated to be at least nine feet with and very wide.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: I asked the witness to describe the width of the figure in comparison to the width of his dad.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: He said the figure was at least two and a half times the width of his dad.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: He said that the figure had reddish brown hair slash fur, looked kind of dirty, and smelled like a dumpster.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: In the hot sun for two weeks straight.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's such a 14-year-old.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: The figure and the witness locked eyes for a second and two a second or two, and then he said the figure took two or three steps into the woods and was gone.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: The witness pedaled as fast as he could to get to his house and ran inside.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: He said the figure had blue green greenish eyes.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: He said it looked like a figure kind of ground his teeth at him.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it looked like the figure kind of ground his teeth at him before it stepped into the woods.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: He also said that he could see his house from the top of the little hill that he also saw the figure from.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: I believe the witness was truthful in his report and truthful on the phone.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: You could hear the emotion in his voice as he told me his sighting.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: I used to work near this area and used to travel the road the sighting was on at least twice a day.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: I was always looking for signs.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: It is that kind of area.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: It is close to other sightings I have heard about through the grapevine.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: I believe he saw a Bigfoot while riding the trails behind his house.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, that I feel like a jerk now because I was laughing, but that is really just, I don't know.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like a 14-year-old telling a story that he saw, like recounting what he saw.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that's terrifying.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: He just wants to go on a nice summer bike ride, and then he runs into Bigfoot.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Bo.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: Little bro.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Poor little guy.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, that's gonna do it for this episode.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, geez, we have a lot of yeah, lightning and just really random weird stuff for this 4th of July episode.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys have a great um holiday weekend.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you get a three-day weekend.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you go somewhere cool.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, so just keep plugging along here in the summertime.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then if you remember, don't forget to try to leave comments, like, share, subscribe, all that jazz.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Just so we know that you're out there and you're listening.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: And we definitely just continue to thank you so much for tuning in.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: So until next time, remember the truth is out there, God is with you, and everyone always ends up in the kitchen.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: You have been listening to Sasquatch and Sourdough.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Christina, and thank you so much for tuning in.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Sasquatch and Sourdough is so much more than just a podcast.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: We are a community of kindred spirits, united by our curiosity and fascination with the extraordinary.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we want to bring you into the conversation.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: So whether you've had a brush with the unexplainable, seen something that you can't quite wrap your head around, this is your space.
• 35:40
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• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to share your story, you can email us at sasquatch and sourdough at gmail.com or send us a DM on Instagram.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, remember, the truth is out there.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: God is with you, and everyone always ends up in the kitchen.