Spider Crawl Bigfoot in the Backyard!

I know that you want to listen to your podcast, so I'm going to keep it short. Because if you think it's important to make a duroze keuzes, can ASR maybe help? I think, how then? For example, when you're doing a lot of things that are you love to be able to do. Will you know more about the regulations where a duroze schaderairstel can be? Go to asr.nl slash duurzamekeuzes. This does ASR for you and a duroze. ASR does it. So, then you can now listen to your podcast. You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society, we've got the privilege of talking to Mike today. Mike is an individual I got connected to over through Instagram, I believe. And Mike's got some interesting things to share, some experiences. We'll be going over into Oregon for a bit with some interesting things that happened to Mike out in the woods. And he's going to share more about that in a bit. But welcome to the show, Mike. How are you doing today, sir? Doing good, man. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Absolutely. We were just chatting a bit before we hit record and this is going to be kind of a wild one, be an interesting one. The way we're going to do tonight is we'll probably chat as we go along, which might be a little different than some listeners are used to, but hey, that's what we're going to do with this one. So it's all good. Feel free to lead us where you want this to start out at and we'll kind of chat as we go along. okay yeah sure um so i grew up in southern oregon and um just 20 minutes from my hometown there's a trivial uh bigfoot life trap uh that is a big tourist hot spot people go and check it out grew up with all that bigfoot stickers everywhere kind of before the big boom across the country You see them on everybody's back of their cars now and whatnot. It's always kind of been that way there. Northern California, Southern Oregon is very well known for Sasquatch. Never really paid any mind to it. I was going to do the ROTC route, join the Army after high school. That didn't pan out for me. I'm thankful for that now. But I ended up getting into wildland firefighting. And my first season out, I was on a – this was my third fire with a company based out of southern Oregon. Grayback is the name of that company. And we were on what was the nation's biggest fire at the time. and the intensity of fire was so much so that trees were exploding from the heat and causing fires to start up to a mile and a half away from these exploding chunks of tree and so we were doing a process called gridding the green so we wanted to make sure there wasn't fire being started behind us so we couldn't get burnt over and so we're tromping through thick thick, thick stuff that, you know, there's, I think the closest man-made structure where we were at on that fire was 75 miles away. And it was a, uh, lightning lookout tower. So not even a town close by or anything like that. We're in the thick of it, eating MREs, you know, stinking, sweating, working hard. And, um, well, we had been green in the green for about two and a half hours and I was greenhorn back then, but I had, uh, been hunting, uh, for a number of years at that point, learned how to hunt from really good people. And so my tracking skills are probably better than your average bear. Um, not that I'm, you know, any math or anything like that, but I had to relieve myself. And so I told her, I hollered down the line cause we all walk in a line about 20 feet apart and we just look for you know any embers of smoke coming up because it when it goes up it goes up quick you don't want to get caught in between it so i yelled this big country bumpkin guy named jesse about six foot five 280 massive man say jesse i gotta i gotta take a dump dude i'm gonna go on this big redwood tree and he says okay okay and he says so i'm doing thing and and if you're not very aware of redwoods they have duff right and so duff is leaf litter that accumulates underneath the tree and what's unique about redwood trees is they can get like three feet of duff and so it's almost like a foam sponginess under these trees in some circumstances especially when they're like a older tree right and so i'm burying my stuff back up and putting my backpack on and then I look on the ground and I notice I said oh my goodness are those foot tracks and I'm going up and I wear a size 11 and a half boot and uh I go up to the first one and I was like wow that looks like toes and I'm looking at it and it's in this duff mind you so it's not super it's not super like pronounced toes right per se um on the first one I noticed and then I see a line oh man there's more and i'm following that and then i noticed there's big tracks and little tracks and like i said we're out in the middle of nowhere and it was about on track number seven that i saw a perfect i mean perfect footprint and i'm just jaw dropped looking at this thing and i'm like oh man i got my boot next to it 11 and a half boot measures out to about a foot wall It was right about that foot mark, but it was wider than my boot. And you could specifically see each toe. And I'm like, whoa. So that was my first ever encounter. I saw nine tracks, mom and babe, babe tracks. And it was just out in the middle of nowhere. The fire was too crazy. There's people's houses and stuff on the edge of the fire farther away where we were getting burnt down. and stuff nobody's putting on fake sasquatch shoes and stomping around in the woods right in that circumstance so that was what got me that is really wild mike so this is you said uh within like 30 miles of applegate oregon yeah yeah that's where the the trap is yeah yeah yeah okay um and uh so the tracks that you saw how far apart were the tracks from each other so it looked to me it looked like a like something that if i was doing a big lunge as far as the bigger tracks i could i could accomplish but then again you got to think if it was a mother and a baby she's not going to be at full pace right she's got to keep up with her young for mother if if the baby's walking with her if it's too big for her to carry or whatever it was walking side by side with her right there was only two of the smaller tracks that i could that were noticeably like yeah this is definitely a footprint and it was a little bit bigger than half of her the females what i'm assuming to be the females track um and so the i would say the gate was probably three and a half maybe feet and it was pretty good pretty good gate Gotcha. The way, could you tell the way it seemed to be walking? Were the tracks lined up one in front of the other or side by side? I was in such awe and kind of disbelief at the moment. I had a, to bring you back in time, I had a Razor 2 at the time, and I was going to take a picture of it. and before I took a picture of it, of the one perfect track, I called that country bunk and died, Jesse, Jesse, get over here. He said, what? And he comes running over and I said, slow down, slow down. And he's running and he ends up stepping on a stick that's like nine feet away and ends up blowing under the duff. It rises up and blows all the toes out of the one perfect track. and I'm like losing my mind at him. I was like, do you see these? These are footprints too. And he's like, I guess. You know, I mean, this guy eats crayons. He's not, he's not. And I'm like, and I'm just losing my mind over it. I'm like, I can't believe you just blew out the one. So yeah, I, I, I would say they seemed to be, I do recall that it was, there wasn't any striation as far as the tracks were very linear. I do remember that they were close together and it wasn't like turning or anything. They knew exactly where they were going in their head in that way. And it seemed, no, it probably was more in line than side by side. Okay. A few more questions. Just a few more about this one. So can you provide the approximate year? and you told me the name of the fire, but can you say that again? And also, are there any other location descriptors for the area that you were in? Yeah, so this was 2011, summer of 2011. I'd say probably mid-June. It's been a lot of time. but uh and uh so what i remember is this was it's like the third day of fire that we're on we had a hike 16 miles in off the forestry road to get to our where we base camped out of and then we had a we're hiking about 16 miles every day not including to work just to get to the fire from our camp where we could get food hella dropped in So I remember, gosh, man, I wasn't at a point where I was running. I guess I wasn't in charge of really knowing where we were at or anything. I was just figuring out the ropes, you know, 18 years old. I do recall that there was this area right before we got there. there was this big area of large granite boulders, granite quartz boulders, like seven, eight feet tall and kind of like a quite a bit without any exposed mountainside. Like we're in the mountains and it's steep as hell, but it's like these big kind of rocks, like almost seemed mythical. You know, it was like weird. Whoa, this is beautiful and weird. And it's just in the middle of nowhere. and we went down a valley across little creek and it was all these big old growths and that's kind of where it happened um okay i i don't really have any specifics more than that um but yeah in the in the heart of southern oregon gotcha and what was the name of the fire again uh that was the what was it the berry rock or the berry point very point fire, I believe. Gotcha. Okay, thank you. So then you have that experience where you see these large tracks and that kind of, that affects you definitely. And then after that, do you start looking into things or what kind of path does that lead you on after that? Yeah, definitely. That definitely got the cogs moving. And I had had my first weird experience at 14 with my family in the middle of the lake. I had a UFO experience, and that's kind of got me down that path. And then so I was kind of already in trajectory on that. But I didn't even think Bigfoot was real or had, you know, I just thought it was a kooky hippie thing. So, yeah, after that, I definitely started looking into it. but podcasts weren't really around back then, at least to the point where it's on your phone and stuff. So I didn't really start hearing other encounters from other people or doing serious digging probably until, I would say probably after I had a couple other UFO experiences and I just started digging into the whole topic as a whole and just kind of found some correlations and then started getting into bigfoot and then you know i got an iphone that i can pull up a podcast song and then i just kind of delved into it from there so i'm not very tech savvy as you know um so it's uh it's not something that i've would jump on my desktop at home and go research after school i was I was shooting squirrels and caused a ruckus, you know? Gotcha. Yeah. Cool, cool. So what would you think the next thing that you had some sort of experience that related to Sasquatch was? For sure. So, and this is something that we were talking about earlier, that I, and I didn't find this correlation until later listening to podcasts where I'm not sure if you're familiar with the researchers. Have you seen the researchers who they claim to have via thermal videotaped a portal with Sasquatches and all this stuff? And it's only picking up on thermal and then the old two old dudes go in there, both die of cancer like three months later. I'm talking about I think Tony Merkel did something about that. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yep. So it was that documentary that clicked for me where they had talked about these supposed portals or whatever opened up. Or I'd heard it on, I think, a Wes Grimmer podcast, too, where someone said they saw an orb and then a Sasquatch. And they're hearing these loud, almost crunching, metallic, crazy sounds, but very metallic sounding. I definitely heard that out there in the woods probably five or six times fighting fire thinking it was a piece of machinery I mean there machinery and stuff out there but you usually hear the machinery It was just that alone standing alone I know that you want to listen to your podcast so I keep it short Because if you think it's important to make a lot of choices, can ASR maybe help? Now I think, how then? Well, for example, when you're paying a lot of things you love, you're not going to be a lot of money. Want more information about the insurance where a cost-effective cost-effective is? Go to asr.nl slash duurzamekeuzes. This does ASR for you and a cost-effective community. ASR does it. So, we can now listen to your podcast. encounters um that i have uh can you that i can tie anything to can you describe a little bit more about what the metallic sounds were like that you were hearing those five or six times yeah man it was all very similar each time and the weird thing about it was uh it just uh it it was so it was so loud it was just so loud and so it almost sounded like a car crash where it's metal on metal it almost sounded like like think of a panel of a door just like crumpling in on itself really fast and violent like like whoa like sharp definitely metallic sounding but just unworldly like very just kind of in in i remember one circumstance where uh we were all talking to our boss and was kind of giving us the plan for what's next and then And we heard that sound pretty close, probably 300, 400 yards away. And three-quarters of the crew snapped their neck and looked into the woods and were like, what is that? And they just wrote it off. Oh, it's just whatever, you know, because a lot of men, if they don't know, they just write things off. Yeah. It's scary. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Yeah. We all tend to do that sometimes. Right. Yeah, logically, I think our minds try to do that to save ourselves somehow, kind of write it off. Is this also in southwest Oregon and around the same time period? Yeah, so I fought fire for six years out there. All the Bigfoot encounters or metallic sounds and those footprints all took place in either southern Oregon or northern California. um but really in that emerald triangle in the thick gold woods that's where it was happening at so gotcha yeah okay um did any did bigfoot ever come up in conversation between you and any other fire uh firefighters on your crew yeah yeah so i i after the footprints uh oh man because i was the young buck out there too and oh i just got hammered by everybody and like i said that first company i was working for is great and grandioso as they are they're not they're not very free thinkers very redneck and set in their ways you know old dogs you're not going to teach a new trick too so uh yeah i just got berated you know they're going crazy you know I'm not talking to you guys ever about this again. So, um, yeah, that was that. But then, uh, the other five years I ended up leaving that company cause I just didn't get along with those guys too well. And I went to another company and I had had talks with some of those guys. Um, but never experienced anything really with that company where we weren't in the thick of it as much as my first company. Absolutely. So the new company was more understanding about what you'd gone through, or were they also like, oh, yeah, we've had stuff happen out here? Oh, definitely. Definitely, yeah. Plenty of other people who have had encounters that I've met over the years, especially men who spent their time in the woods that much, for sure. Gotcha. Were they talking about like, oh, yeah, we've seen something, or more we've heard something, and we've seen tracks, stuff like that? So, this is actually, tracks I've met probably from the firefighting community out there, probably five or six guys who have seen tracks at some point in time. Probably another handful of guys who have seen something jump from bush to bush, tree to tree, and they're like, what was that? That wasn't a bear. Most of these guys are avid hunters, know their way around the land, know what animals are out there. aren't, you know, most of them have killed a bear. They're not, they're not too worried about anything out there, you know, and it scares you, you know, you're not, especially when you don't know what it is. So yeah. Um, but yeah, they were much more understanding, uh, that company for sure. Um, but yeah, I, uh, I, the, this is a little, little off topic, but the speaking of other people's encounters i was i was living in washington um i was doing custom fireplaces and i had a i was listening to a sasquatch chronicles and i had a customer asking me what i was listening to and i was like kind of embarrassed i was like uh sasquatch chronicles and they're like oh is that a podcast and i was like yeah yeah it is and then the wife's like you gotta tell him you gotta tell him your encounter and i was like oh what and so he told me there were him and his father-in-law were going hunting and juvenile sasquatch they're out in the middle of nowhere while they're setting up their fire just and other and the other ones building a tent a sasquatch came a young sasquatch came screaming waving its arms over to it ah through the middle of their camp pushed the old man into the fire and they just ran straight through screaming the whole way they said they left their guns their tent they jumped in the truck and dipped and I was like did you ever get your stuff back he's like yeah we came back three days later with a bunch of guns and a bunch of people and got our stuff I was like oh my goodness yeah so pushed them right in the fire can you share the I'm sure you can't share the exact location but the region is this like Olympic Peninsula or uh oh yeah uh uh yeah it it was around that area I forgot about I did have another encounter out in the National Forest with my daughter and my wife. Yeah, I forgot about my dogs. I forgot about that one too. That one, we can get to that one too. I guess while we're on the West Coast next. Yeah. This was actually probably about six months after I had heard that story. Living outside of Seattle for like three years and just trying to get away from the city. We went out to Olympia and uh, did some camping, no cell service. And I thought it'd be a good idea with my daughter to walk around the campsite. There was only us and one other family. It was kind of in the middle of summer, but it was, uh, I guess it was, it was before 4th of July. So it wasn't very busy. And, um, there was us and the camp hosts and then another young family who had two boys. And I had my daughter who was, I think six at the time. And, um, the kids are kind of playing whatever and then we settled down eat dinner i was like hey you want to go for a walk before dinner or before bedtime she was like yeah sure walk and i said you want to do some you want to do some sasquatch hoots she's like yeah sure so we're doing like big old barred hoots and um i i haven't i haven't been drinking for a couple number of years now um but back then I still was drinking and I probably had good five beers or so. I was feeling pretty good. I was sleeping on dirt and I was going to sleep good. You know what I mean? So, so I pass out and I wake up at like two 33 in the morning, um, to what sounds like an 800 pound owl on top of my head. So loud. Like I shot up out of bed. I grabbed my 44 Magnum and I cracked that thing back and I'm looking and I'm like, my heart's just like, Oh my, I'm sweating, cold sweats. And I'm like, what's going on? I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. My tent's not shaking. It's not moving, but it's just sounds like it's right on top of me. Um, and then the next morning after breakfast, I go out and I asked the, I was like, Hey, do you hear anything last night to my neighbor, to the guy who's closest to us? He's 800 yards away or whatever with his two boys. he's like yeah i think i had an owl on top of my trailer i was like it's actually coming from over that way i heard exactly where it's coming from because i'm in the tent he's like no it's too loud it had to be on top of my camper i was like dude i'm telling you i think it was a sasquatch and then he didn't let his kids play with my kid anymore for the next two days and i was like oh dude i ruined that one that's terrible but i was but it scared him he like put his kids inside the trailer right after that he's like we need to go like well i mean rightfully so we're out in the middle of nowhere no cell service and got little kids kind of freaky um what did sorry before did you say what forest that was or was it a certain state forest or oh with the with the yeah that was the olympia uh olympia national park i should ask my wife i'm uh it was in olympia national park i bet she knows the campsite dude uh she's good at the i'm psyched no no problem birthdays and names dude i'm just over here just scratching away to survive somewhere on the olympic peninsula it sounds like yeah yeah yeah it was it was it wasn't right on the coast it was it was more in line it It was a pay-for campground that's maintained and stuff, but it's just wilderness out there. There's no showers, portal potties. They did have portal potties. They had two portal potties, but just nothing. Okay. Woods, beautiful woods. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. That was interesting. so now yeah would you say those are the main encounters then that you had where you experienced something and you're like out in the woods and something happened no okay no that's like that's like the little stuff happened out west surprisingly um i don't know what's going on with this janky charger though i might have to go i'm i know it was working um i just don't want it oh no I don't know what's going on with this thing. It's not. Okay. It's charging right now. I just don't want it to die. I'm going to try to. Okay. I got like the nervous sweats going through all this right now. Stinking and stuff, dude. I'm not just. Okay. So next, I guess, is out east. So we moved to from Seattle. We moved out to Maine. We got our first house. We live in southern Maine. um i was telling you before you started up the recording uh i had a lady tell me she was like oh do you know this creek out out out in this area and i was like yeah it's right in my backyard and she grabbed me by the collar and she says it's haunted what are you doing there it's like i got a house right there and i'm not moving this is after a couple of encounters and experiences and uh anyway yeah she got to talking to me because i'm my wife and i own a food trailer as well and i have a sasquatch stick around there and most people just you know whatever but anybody who has seen something or whatever they usually are like they want to tell you because people think you're crazy so uh but yeah my first encounter out here was i uh had gone to go get some lobster rolls which are big out here totally um with my girls and ice cream and um my sister she moved out east with us too from the west coast she had gotten divorced and she just wanted a fresh start at this point it had been six seven months since we'd been here in maine she had herself a boyfriend and they kind of had just first started dating at this point in time. We have a bonfire in our backyard, a fire pit, and they're having a bonfire back there and it's springtime. So I got to preface this. The encounters, all the encounters that I've had behind my house have been spring or fall. So that's just when it's happened. over the span of two years oh i've been here three but over the span of two years it's been four serious encounters some other ones where i'm like is that something jumping from that tree to that tree kind of thing not jumping from tree to tree but like dashing from build you know uh basswood to oak tree or there's a couple old growths back there that have enough cover for you know you couldn't see me if i was hiding behind it definitely not something big if it was sideways right so uh anyway uh and go ahead and feel free to cut me up because i i'm a chatty kathy sometimes so uh good so far um we get home and um they're out there and they're having some drinks and uh hanging out and i go down i said hey sis what's going on? She's kind of wide-eyed and she's looking at me kind of crazy. And I'm thinking, is this guy being weird to you? Like I'd only met him once or twice. And I'm like, you know, like, are you okay? And she's like, I don't know. And I like, look at him. I'm like angry. She's like, it's not him. And I'm like, what's going on? And he's, and then I look at him and he's like down at the fire and he looks up and he's all wide-eyed too. And I was like, what's going on guys? I'm like grabbing my, Hey, I always have my gun. I was like, what's going on guys it's like what's going on he's like there's something in the woods i was like someone's in the woods he's like no i think there's something in the woods i was like is it a bear like what is it i i don't know maybe it's a bear okay and he's from the area so you know we have we do have a fisher cat in our backyard that that goes across i don know if you familiar with that but it just a big mean weasel but they make crazy screaming sounds they don they don make they not humanoid on two feet you know what i mean um but uh yeah so this is uh the only time i have experienced the spider crawl i said i said so what's going on what's going on he's like i don't know things have been whistling at us and throwing things at us i said what And not that this is kind of weird to throw in there, but I do think it has a correlation. This is for you and a more expensive community. ASR does it. So, now you can listen to your podcast. is what I can speculate them as. But there was definitely one, as I'm looking in my backyard, across the creek, there's one off to the left, and then there's one off to the right on our side of the creek. But you can actually see them. Well, you can see silhouettes. Okay, okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like in the light of the outside of the light of the fire. But the one that was on our side of the creek, the spider crawl, I, I thought this is when I went inside. I was like, no, that's just not for me. Cause it was like from bush to bush. And I was like, what is that? You know, I'm going inside and I had seen the one in oddly enough, this big basswood tree that's similar to Oak. Seems to be, it's the biggest tree in the area. And that is where I've seen every time either where I've seen it numerous times peek out of right I'm like just because it's the biggest vegetation there that's what I've noticed but so before we go inside and I'll call quits I'm like okay this is weird and before we called it quits we're up on now on my back deck which is about 30 feet away from my fire fire's still ripping and we're having and then I hear a whistle I think it's a human i grab my maglite which is like 1200 lumens it's waterproof it's super nice and i like a cop pistol maglite i'm like boom like what is is do i got someone in my backyard being weird you know um because we have some property and um uh oh now this charter's being walk again oh my goodness um anyway uh i should probably just go get my stinking charger uh and yeah so i maglided it and that's when i saw the spider thing uh and i was like oh and then from the left i had like like a mlb pitcher fastball an acorn about an inch from my head and blew up on the siding of my house it was thrown so hard an acorn i was like oh and then And I was like, I mean, we were saying a lot of other words. And then my little sister started crying. She was like, and she just went inside. And Dan's like, can I stay here tonight? And I was like, yeah, dude, that's fine. So because they were hanging out. He had had a couple beers, and he didn't want to drive. But everybody was pretty shook up. So that was the first experience here in Maine. Oh, wow. Okay, so when you saw it spider crawl, how quickly was it moving? Oh, it was creeping, dude. Oh, it was creeping. It was so creepy. It was trying to be quiet. The only reason I picked up on it was because I heard a teeny little stick break. And I, like, panned over. And that's when I had the mag light. And it was just like a flash, like a furry flash into this thick, it's like a bunch of fern and what's that other plant? A brushy plant and very thick. Can't see through it with the flashlight. But yeah, it was just maybe a three foot gap in between those where it was like, oh, what was that? So I didn't even get like really color definition on it. But for whatever reason, like Ashley Gray stands out to me. But I don't know. It was all within a millisecond. So it just was weird. So that was the first encounter. I'm sure you have heard the theory that just like any large predator they use waterways as highways so that's not anything new on my book as far as being a hunter and stuff like that so it makes sense springtime, falltime use it as a highway I'm covered in nervous sweats right now dude oh i don't blame you i mean that man if i lived through something like that that would be with me for probably forever um so you were having multiple experiences at this one property yeah yeah so it kind of ramped up a little bit uh not as far as like there that's the only time where i was definitely sure there was more than one um but i almost had the feeling like one of those adolescents had a, um, like had an interest in my little sister. She's, she's a beautiful young woman, you know, but she, I remember coming home a couple of times where she's like, and you know, my wife was out doing something with my daughter or whatever. And it was later, whatever. And it was just her. And she's like, I don't want to take the dogs out. It's weird out there. And here's the other thing, how people talk about just being dead quiet, like unnaturally quiet during these events. I've experienced that every single time. Something weird has been back here. Like no cicadas, no grasshoppers. We had millions of frogs in the springtime that come out of that creek. No frogs, no nothing going on. Um, so that's definitely noteworthy as well. Um, but yeah, the, um, I guess the second encounter after that. So yeah, she, she said numerous times, two, three times where she was like, can you take the dogs out? It's, it's weird out there. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Dogs, whatever. um no mind you know uh except for uh i guess i guess that'd probably be the next time um so this next experience uh same place same house i'm at now um i uh went out to take my dogs out it's probably about 10 o'clock at night on a tuesday um i have a pit bull and a red-nosed pit named waffles and she's a swede and she's real dumb and she barks at the mailman. She doesn't know what's going on. My other dog, though, she doesn't bark at anybody. She's very smart. She's Shepherd and Pit and Lab. I don't know. She's a very good dog. She's very smart, too, and tough. I was being impatient. Didn't even really notice until it was kind of too late. She had her tail tucked, touching her stomach, which this is the only time I've ever seen that dog do that. I've seen her stare down a mastiff and win. you know, who was trying to bite me. And he was like, Oh, nevermind. Ran the other way. Um, she's, she's tough. Um, and so I'm like having to drag her off the deck. I was like, come on, Willow go, go pee in the back. And she's like, not wanting to even step on the grass. She's on my driveway. She doesn't want to go in the backyard. And I'm like, what's going on? Um, and, uh, yeah, I literally was dragging waffles downstairs. I was like, what's going on with these dogs? Waffles peed in the driveway. Like I said, she's not very smart. So I was like, whatever, dumb dog, go inside. And then Willow wasn't going on the door. And I was like, okay. That's kind of what I was like. And then I noticed the tail. And I was like, okay, what's going on? And so me and my neighbors have big, I don't know, it's probably 30 feet deep of untouched woods that divides our properties. Uh, and it was in between that finger that separates our property. And it was about halfway up into my like maintained part of my backyard. So, um, we have three quarters of an acre back there and then it ties into, uh, then it's the power companies for like half acre. And then it's a 40 acre horse farm and then it's wilderness. So it's, there's not any houses or anything in that area. Um, I just figured I put that in there, but, um, yeah, in between this finger, I look up and I see a pair of glowing red eyes, not eye shine. I've heard the glowing thing and I always thought it was BS because I've heard about it before this experience on other podcasts. And I was just kind of like, maybe suckers. And they were like in the moment, they seem like they were the size of golf balls. I mean, huge, like really, really big and really, really far apart. like not Andre the giant. I don't know if we do it justice, like really far apart. Um, and it was a overwhelming sense of fear. Um, I've, I've had all sorts of animals, um, from hunting or firefighting. I've, I've, I've been 10 feet from a charging moose. I've had, you know, I've, I've killed five bear. I've, you know, been able to smack an elk on the butt, you know, like these, I've been up on stuff, dogs, rattlesnakes. I couldn't tell you how many times this wasn't anything like that. This made me feel like a child, very scared to my core. And, um, I was kind of sick afterwards too. I wasn't throwing up, but I was like shaky and sweaty and like just kind of very distraught for a couple hours. I didn't really sleep that night. So I wonder if infrasound was a thing or if that's even a thing. I don't know. I didn't have any sort of major long-term or anything like that, but I definitely was shook up. So I look up at these eyes and, yeah, man, I yelled at this thing and I don't I don't think the words I chose were my own I feel like I had some help from the big man upstairs or something because when I yelled at this thing I didn't even think about it I literally looked at it and shaking like a leaf I yelled at this thing Jesus Christ is king like that and I ran inside right before and I was like this And then I was kind of like this and it and then I heard it say it back. And I don't know if that was in my head, but it was slow and it was a weird, almost robotic cadence to the to the speech. And that's all it was. And then I went inside. It was, you know, a mess. It was a mess inside. And I was like, OK. And since that point, I've only had one other encounter. And it was two weeks after the point. We got a food trailer and I was doing inventory at the end of the night. It's like 11 o'clock or something on a Saturday. And so I was doing inventory and I walked out and this thing was like five feet behind me. And I didn't see it. but as soon as I went to step down out of my trailer, onto my stepstool to get to the, then my driveway, it shifted its weight intentionally and I could hear it. And it may in the air while I'm stepping to the ground, which is only six, seven inches or maybe a foot. Right. It scared me so bad in that split second in the air. I rolled my ankle so hard. I'm fit. I'm agile, dude. I butchered my like crack. And I was like, cause it was like, I just heard it and the weight of it just shifting its foot just sounded so massive. And it just scared me, dude. I literally ran inside that time. So that's what I got, man. Those are my Sasquatch, Bigfoot, whatever you want to call them. We call them Frogman back here because we've got all these frogs. And for the first year and a half, we had all these frogs. And then after what I believe to be the two encounter, we haven't had any frogs since. So I'm like, maybe just eat all the frogs. What was the approximate time of year that you had your last event happen? Late fall of last year. Okay, fall of 25. Yeah, fall of 25. So there's two encounters, fall of 25. There was the first, so we moved in the summer of 24 was our first year here. So it was the spring of 25 and then the fall of 25 were those two other encounters. Okay. Yeah. um have you have you talked to your neighbor at all any of your neighbors to see if they're having things happen or is it you're just dealing with it yourself uh yeah i i don't think a lot of people here in southern Maine have the mental capacity to be able to even entertain that not that they're not intelligent i just think a lot of people can't even think about that with just everything going on in the world. And it's kind of one of those things, unfortunately, unfortunately, I feel like your eyes have been open to something because you've experienced something. You kind of pick up on those things a little bit quicker than your average Joe. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that I missed fighting fire through the years that probably now would have been like, Oh my goodness, what is that You know but when it right in your face it hard to deny right so uh yeah i i did ask one of my neighbors about it um he a good good old marine double dog but he he like what like never mind and then um i'm not gonna ask my other neighbor because she's got a bunch of young teenage girls i don't want them getting freaked out so yeah and then yeah yeah so it's it's just it's just uh it's interesting but yeah i think the thing that helped me the most through this whole thing was having the my little sister and dan in that one experience because finally it's like okay everybody's seeing this everybody's experiencing this we're having acorns throwing at us from deep in the woods like 90 miles an hour blowing up on my siding. They could hit us, but they're coming this close. You're like, where's this coming from? Flashlighting? Nothing. If it was a human messing around, they would know better around these parts. If they're not going to get shot by me being weirdo in my backyard, Mr. Wood happily oblige. Oh, yeah. Out there in New England, you're not messing around on people's property. That's not a smart idea. You're going to get taken out. Um, yeah, yeah. So you'd kind of mentioned this before we start recording. Are you having stuff going on then inside the house as well? No, no, no, no, no. Thank God. Yeah. That's good. Um, yeah, yeah, Yeah. No, no weird spiritual activity, man. I, uh, uh, nothing like that. Uh, although I, I saw some dark stuff in the streets of Seattle, but that's neither here nor there or big, but, uh, yeah, no, no, uh, what do they call that? The hitchhiker effect. None of that, none of that going on. Um, yeah, just, just very, uh, very jarring, man. Cause I don't know how you would, I don't know how you would deal with something like that. And as far as like physically, if you needed to, I got some big guns, but I don't know if I'm quick enough or have enough bullets to put one of those things down. You know what I mean? If, if not, that's my end all goal. I would rather them just leave me alone, but it did come to a point where I was worried about it because it seemed like one was very interested in my little sister because every time she would go out and take her dog out at night, she would say, I'm getting whistled at in the woods or whatever. And I thought there a couple of times I literally threw on boots and rushed out, slamming across the creek with gun in hand, light in hand and being like, I'm going to find some weirdo back here. I did that two, three times. Have you heard the whistle yourself? Oh, yeah. Are you able to replicate that? Whistling over the phone is probably not that good. But it wasn't any sort of – it was just one pitch. Now, the time where there was two, the whistle is what made me for sure there was two because we heard a whistle off the left, heard a whistle off the right within 20 seconds of each other. So whether they're telling, hey, this or that, I don't know. I've heard they rock click in some places, they tree slap in some places, they whistle in some places. and then the animals you know like i don't have answers for that i was it like uh was it like yeah it was kind of like that yeah it was just a short yeah yeah okay yeah what's that so i go out to this place in oregon near oakridge and yeah the first year i went out there we're like 30 miles out in the woods in this one area and when there's this one young lady out there with us this one time and other times something will start whistling at her from the woods and what I saw happen was that whistle came out from the woods and then but then she would do it back to it and like for a minute it was like back and forth back and forth but then it started moving away like it was trying to get lure to follow it away and it was the freakiest thing i've ever seen in my life it was so weird dude but it was it was that same exact whistle so yeah it was it almost sounded like a human whistle like a hey come here hey yep come here it wasn't it wasn't some drawn out thing or like weird pitch or anything it sounded very like that's where i was like okay are there some crazy crackheads there's not crackheads here in southern man they'll freeze to death in the winter you know it's not the west coast so yeah don't i don't know i don't know man oh no she's yeah she's out of here now i'm actually in right now so our guest room so yeah it's uh but yeah definitely uh felt that that tension there like it was interested on her and she was like i said she was freaked out a number of times where she's like can you take her dog daisy she's like can you take daisy out tonight i just don't want to go outside i'm freaked out and i'm like oh okay like i was like you can grab the 12 gauge if you want she's like no look you can grab any of the other ones but she's like no okay i don't know and you know and you've heard you've heard the stories whether i don't know maybe i'm of them, the ancient, uh, like native stories of people saying, you know, take your women, they'll take your kids and stuff. And one thing that I find interesting is in these stories, the validity of them, I don't know, but with, uh, there's a story I heard from a minor that says he got swooped up by one in the early 1900s. And then there's another one from a native American gal who when she was a young girl got swooped up to and they both said that they had pine tar smeared over their eyes when they were taken into the woods and interesting yeah which is interesting um and then uh in both of these accounts that i'm referring to um i think i heard one of them along west grimmer i can't recall where i heard the other one i think it was the uh that this is like an old old like prosper like um a guy prospecting for gold interesting yeah another one was a native gal and she they both said pine tarp but and they both in both these accounts the reason they stick out my brain is because they both said they conceived children with these sasquatch and um yeah and so the guy he that's where it was it was the it's the inuit guy from Alaska um who do you know what I'm talking about uh I'm gonna have to look this one up crazy Sasquatch stories this guy I've told this story and um and he does tours and stuff like that and yeah he's uh he lived in the woods this is he's been on West Grimmer I believe he's he's kind of a crazy Indian guy, but he's got some wild stories. But, yeah, anyway, both of these accounts that people said they had kids with Sasquatch, and they both reported that they were half hairy and half smooth. And I was like, weird. And then on both of these cases, the validity, I don't know, but these old accounts, they both managed to escape. And in turn, the Sasquatch brutally killed their offspring in front of them as they were escaping. One guy on a canoe and the other gal while she was crossing a river or something of that nature. I was like, whoa, dude. I've heard of people saying they've seen Sasquatch skinned deer with their thumbnails. Literally skinned one. That's what the miner said that it did to their... I don't know, dude. It's some weird stuff. are you familiar with the account of in Eastern Europe where they had a young Sasquatch chained down 1640 or whatever it was, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't know, man. Some weird stuff out there, man. Definitely. I want to make sure, Mike, that you were able to share everything that you were wanting to talk about on the show today. Yeah, yeah. I just need to take a shower. I'm covered in weird, stinky adrenaline sweat right now. Reliving that stuff. Yeah, I appreciate your time. Well, thank you for taking the time to come on the show and to share what you experienced out there in Oregon and in Southern Maine. I do appreciate it. We don't hear a lot from New England, so anything we can hear from there is definitely important. But thank you so much for coming on, man. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself? Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. it's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one i'll be one of the speakers it's going to be wild i'll probably i'll say this there may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else because let's just say sometimes it's uh well you just got to be there we'll leave it that more about looking for bigfoot in the oakridge woods now check this out you may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series, Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year, you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a trek deep in the wild forest outside of Oak Ridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once-in-a-lifetime deal. It's just, trust me, it's going to be a wild, wild experience. 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