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What if it's True Podcast — Archive 250 Bigfoot. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
When I was in my 20s we would drag on McHenry and J Street in Modesto, California. That's the town that American graffiti is based on. I know where were you in 1962, right? I was 10 years old so that story wasn't about me. But even in my teens and early adulthood my friends and I dragged McHenry and J Street tonight street and then we turned around and go back up J Street to make Henry Boulevard and then to bring more road and then back down. We'd race our friends and show off our cars and then we'd sit somewhere on the boulevard and we'd drink and shoot the breeze. One night my boyfriend Dan and I and his twin brother Donnie, along with Donnie's girlfriend and my brother Jerry and his girlfriend, we were all crammed in Dan's 55 Chevy. Well we were bored so we decided to go for a ride and we ended up going above Sonora
into the heavily forested mountains. We stopped in Sonora to grab a burger and then we got back on the road. We were talking and drinking and having a good time and we weren't paying much attention to how far we were getting into the mountains. The men in the vehicle were drinking more than the women were except the driver, Dan had a drink but he wasn't drunk. It wasn't long before we had to stop again so they could pay rent on their beer. We found a dirt road to pull on too so they could get out and run in the woods and do their thing and we weren't far off the highway but we were far enough to allow some privacy. All three guys, they were over six feet tall and they weighed between 180 and 200 pounds each. They liked to brag that they weren't afraid of anything. They hadn't been in the woods for long when we heard the scariest scream I have ever heard in my life. We could hear it plain as day inside the car with the windows rolled up. All three of those brave men came running out of the forest like a bunch of fright and
mice. They jumped into the cars everyone was asking what was that? They told us that they felt that scream to their very core. They didn't see what made it but we wasted no time getting back on the highway and back to the safety of Modesto. I think it was a big foot and it was mad at those men for marking its territory. Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. The hear screams scares them to death. All right, got one more and these are two short emails but I'm going to explain what's going on here in a minute so y'all bear with me but I hope you enjoy this story. This person, he gives his name but he doesn't say whether to use it or not but he claims the story is absolutely true. My parents and my two brothers and sister and I lived on a small farm in North Alabama. We were surrounded by wooded areas and green pastures and ponds and creeks. We spent a lot of time camping and roaming outdoors as kids and we would stay gone until
dark. It was a typical summer day when we threw a blanket on one of our ponies and we had decided to go back to a wooded area where we liked to hang out. There was a creek that wound its way through the trees and we cooled ourselves there when the southern heat waves blew through the countryside like Satan's storm. Our ponies were very gentle and fun to ride and we usually headed through the first gap in the fence around our property and onward into a big pasture where we would stop it upon and give our ponies a drink and then we continued on for a while until we got near the entrance of the woods that led to the creek. The place was so familiar to our animals that they always walk down to the edge of the water without much prodding from us. We were fifty yards from entering the woods and the ponies stopped. We shook his throttle and we tapped to sides but he was rooted in place. When he snorted and piled up the ground and began backing up, I thought maybe he
sensed a snake but the grass was too short to camouflage any such slithering reptiles. On the other side of the creek there were some scattered trees with low lying brush. In the south we have a vine called a trumpet. It has big red flowers and it envelops trees and buildings. They're all around our house and woods. I don't know if it was experiencing an optical illusion but the pair of red flowers before me resembled eyes and they seemed to be moving quickly through the foliage. The pony was getting seriously agitated. I was worried my sister might get thrown off so we turned them we headed home. I had my arm over the back of the pony running along beside him and something I saw on TV shows about how Indians rode horses. We didn't look back until we had the house in view. I had never heard of Bigfoot or anything like that at the time but you know how you can
glimp something odd once and never unsee it. Each time I set foot onto my parents' farm in the summer and look out toward those trees covered with trumpet vines, I feel like I'm surrounded by dozens and dozens of red piercing eyes. I was watching a video on YouTube from a channel that people would typically call a conspiracy theory channel but I find that they really speak the truth most of the time. They did an interview with a man who has regular contact with Bigfoot, UFOs, spirits or beings from other planets. This man lives in Washington and he has videos of various beings and ships and lights or or orbs in the sky. He talks about how he saw a Bigfoot that looked like it was upset. So he asked if he could help and it said no and it teleported away in front of him. It was there and then that it dematerialized right in front of him.
His name is James Gillian and he owns ECETI and Lighting Contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. He has rooms that you can rent to experience this or you can rent a campground and camp in tents if you want to be outside. So I learned of this place in the summer of 2020 and I wanted to go there. So a year later when they started giving people the stimulus money, I used mine and I planned a week long trip from the middle of California to Washington and I stayed there for three nights. My best friend was with me on this trip and since we had seen so many of these videos and heard all the things that Bigfoot can do, we already knew that they can hear your thoughts. So for months before my trip I would ask them telepathically if I could please get a picture with a Bigfoot and I told them that I was coming all the way there specifically for them
and I wanted a picture. I also said that no one would believe it even if I got a picture so could I please get a picture. We arrived on a Friday afternoon in June. I had been driving all day and I was glad to get there. We rented a tent that comes with a queen size blow up mattress big enough for two people and we lugged all our stuff into the tent and began getting things situated. And then it started to rain. Since the mattress wasn't airing up and they weren't at full capacity, they upgraded us to a room and we moved everything in. It rained a little and it was cloudy as it got dark and there were chairs outside in a field that you can sit in and watch Mount Adams in the sky at night for lights of UFOs. So we all went out there and we watched. Amazingly lights appeared above the tree line and they blinked and were way up too high for any person to have made them.
The distance from us would mean that it would be a very bright light if you were close up to it and it would have been huge. It was probably 13 or 14 miles away. We continued to watch until the lights were covered with clouds and it started to rain. I went back to our room and I laid on the bed while my friend mingled with some other guests. Lying it up following a sleep while my friend was visiting with the girls next door. In the next morning they told me what happened while I slept. They even had pictures. There was a footprint near the fire pit area. They also saw a spaceship in the sky and they took a picture of that. And when they zoomed in on the lights on the ship you could see a light illuminating two windows and four being standing in front of the windows on the ship. The two beings on the left looked like maybe there were some sort of an insect type being maybe like a praying manace because of the shape of their heads and the other two looked
human. Now no one can prove this but I think they took the two girls up on the spaceship so they could take a picture of themselves on the spaceship and then they brought them back with no memory of it. On Saturdays you can come just to watch the sky and then leave. Not more people came to sky watch and participate in a ceremony to call any beings that want to come through and show themselves. After the ceremony was done James mentioned a lion being coming through. He said a lion being had never come through before. I'm convinced it came just for me because it's in my picture and I love cats. The James can communicate with Bigfoot and E.T.s telepathically and he can hear what they're saying and then we all went outside to sky watch. No one could really see much because it was still cloudy and raining. Disappointedly we went to bed that nothing had happened because it was a cloudy and rainy
night. For no reason at all I woke up at 3 a.m. and I think that's weird because I didn't have to go to the bathroom. I lay there half asleep and I could hear a really loud bird making an noise while I was trying to sleep. Now I'm not from Washington and I'm not a bird expert so it didn't click yet that what I was hearing was wrong and much too loud for any bird to make especially since the window was closed and the sound was far away from me. And then I thought, oh maybe I should go stand in the field and see if anything is happening and that's why I woke up. So I said in my head, okay let me get up and I'll go to the bathroom. The bathrooms were a short walk outside of my room in a different building. Now if I go to the bathroom I walk through the field and I just stood there and I thought, okay here I am. I looked at the sky for a few minutes and nothing was happening and meanwhile the bird was still squawking and I was standing there not paying much attention.
I think he realized that I wasn't getting it so he switched from a bird noise to a horse noise. I heard what sounded like a horse when they make that sound with their lips flapping together but it was so much louder than a horse could make and then I heard a weird bird sound. It was a bird call but it didn't even sound like a real bird. The sound was much too loud for a real bird to make and during that time there were no other animal sounds. No birds, no crickets. No nothing except the bigfoot making horse and bird sounds. I stood there for 30 minutes listening to the sounds and I wanted to get closer to the sounds to see if I could see what was making them but it was so dark that I was worried I might fall in a hole and bring my ankle. I walked very slowly toward the sounds but ended up stopping 150 feet from the area where the sound was coming from and then I thought, can you just come out and walk across the field?
I can't see very well and I don't want to break my ankle. I heard more horse sounds but the bigfoot never came out where I could see him. 30 minutes went by and I was cold and I was getting wet so I went back to my room and I tried to go back to sleep. After everyone got up in the morning I was walking around the field and I saw the owner watering his garden so I asked him if there were horses next door. He said no and that there weren't any horses anywhere near there and they not told him what happened and he said, oh yeah bigfoot do that all the time. They mimic different animals and he continued gardening as if nothing amazing had happened. After hearing that I walked over to the spot where I heard the sounds coming from and I looked in the field next door and there was no way possible a horse could have been there making those sounds. There were growing crops in the field next door so a horse wouldn't be in that field anyway.
They even had one of those giant industrial sprinkler systems operating in the field. So once I reeled out the possibility that it was a horse, I knew it had to be bigfoot. I knew it was when he woke me up to come outside but I just had to make sure. Later that day I went to the spot I heard the sounds and I left some organic apples. And since I had seen videos about that I knew these bigfoot like organic food and peanut butter and banana sandwiches. So people would bring jars of peanut butter or crystals and leave them for bigfoot and an area just for them. There were other spots to leave gifts for other beings. Bigfoot needs salt and iron because they live in cold weather. Salt is like antifreeze which is why they put it on the roads. So if you live in a cold climate put out blocks of salt, mineral blocks unless you want them to kill your animals and suck out their blood. Blood is very salty and contains iron which is what bigfoot need to survive in cold weather.
Anyway, the next morning was our last and we had to leave by 11 a.m. So I went and I checked to see if my apples were gone and they were. But I don't know if it was a deer who ate them or a bigfoot. I suspected deer ate them but I at least thought of them and brought them food. We ate and we packed up and we left and headed out of Washington and into Oregon with the whole day to be in Oregon so we decided to stop at Watson Falls. Since it was cloudy and raining for most of the time we were in Washington we didn't get any good pictures and none of them were at night that you could be able to see the orbs so we ended up taking a lot of pictures of Watson Falls. We parked and we hiked up to the top of the falls. It was so beautiful and peaceful with the water running down the stream. We got to a really good spot where there was a large rock in front of the stream so I had my friend take pictures of me on the rock. She took several pictures of me with my camera.
All along the path to the falls we stopped at pretty spots and took pictures. We started heading back because I wanted to get back on the road before sunset. The stream from the falls ran all the way down to close to where we parked so I went in the woods and had a drink of water. It was the best tasting water I'd ever had. We left and we went home and I didn't look at the pictures in detail until my friend came over two weeks later. We both showed each other our pictures and that's when I discovered the amazing things. There are a couple of pictures that are amazing. The sense of Trump didn't go as we expected because of the clouds and rain. I didn't get my picture of Bigfoot when we were in Washington. Instead I got the most amazing spiritual picture of Bigfoot and the lion being. They did the best they could under the circumstances and they gave me an even better picture than I could have imagined. While I was looking at this picture I asked what the Bigfoot's name was and I heard
him say George but I didn't think he looked like a George. I think that's what James calls him. I made a video about it and I posted a short version of the story on my YouTube channel with the picture. Just search the word vacation and you'll find it. Best vacation ever. Fuzzy Tiger Cat is my YouTube name. You can call me son or fuzzy tiger cat. You guys really should go to ECETI if you can. But make sure you go for three days to maximize having a good experience. I'm going back next year. I've always had a recurring dream where I was being pursued. By what? I don't know. Always managed to outrun it and wake up before whatever it was had me cornered. It was really unsettling. I couldn't remember if any of my friends were in the dream. Maybe they were the ones who got caught while I was escaping.
It's like the joke when you're in the water with a buddy in a shark attacks. You know you don't have to out swim the shark just the other guy. One week in a couple of my friends and I were hiking. It was autumn and the ground was heavy with fallen leaves. The kind that dropped quickly and crunch under your feet as you make your way down the trail. Sometimes you can't tell the sounds that they outdoors from the sounds of your friends as they laugh at dumb jokes and struggle to maintain a hard healthy walking pace through the woods. And we were oblivious to everything else. We hide for hours so we stop by a tree for a rest. I was getting dark and we didn't have the energy to make the long trek back to the car. So we decided to just stay there for the night. We towed more dumb jokes and we laughed until we each started to drop off to sleep. But that was when I heard something rustling around out in the dark. I grabbed my flashlight out of my backpack and I swept the light beam back and forth into
the darkness, but I didn't see anything. And the noise stopped which only put me on edge. I made one more sweep of the area with my flashlight and that's when I saw it. It looked like something half human on all fours with its hind end up in the air. I couldn't tell if it was wearing a black suit or if its entire body was covered with coarse hair. I flashed my light back at my friends just to see if any of them were awake and seeing what I was seeing. They were still snoozing and totally unaware. Suddenly I heard this horrible demonic roar like something out of that movie The Conjuring. I spun around with my flashlight. There it was. Some sort of animal. It was standing upright on two legs like a man. I ran my light up its body all the way to its head. It must have been eight feet tall. My friends were now wide awake and scrambling. Every man for himself as we ran back to the trail.
After ten minutes of total panic we finally ran out of breath and I sat down by a big rock. We realized we'd left our wallets behind with our hiking gear so we voted to wait until daybreak to go back. I kept aiming the flashlight into the night but it appeared that our monster friend hadn't followed us. Maybe he was as afraid of us as we were of him. We could only hope. When the sun came up we went back and recovered our things. Our backpacks smelled like sewage. When we got back to the car I threw everybody's gear in the truck and I left my backpack outside in the rain for weeks before I finally broke down and took everything to the laundromat. I didn't want to contaminate my own washer. It goes without saying that no one believed our story but at least I knew that unlike my dream in real life all of us got away. In the mid-2000s my friend Eli bought a new video camera.
He was around 12 years old and he was eager to put it to good use. His camera was not nearly the same quality as the ones on the market today and it was definitely not user friendly, especially when filming something without benefit of a second pair of hands. Eli lived way out in a rural area. There was a clearing nearest home that was overgrown with tall grass and weeds. He was typical of a country boy his age and he wanted to film himself on his four wheeler. Eli set up his camera on a tripod at a safe distance and jumped on his ATV and he began doing a series of reckless stunts, the more dangerous the better. He was a beginner as a budding film director and he didn't always capture himself perfectly in the frame. But when he was done he took the shot footage back to his house to pull it up on his computer and review his movie making skills. Watching the videos he took that day something unexpected appeared in several of the frames
and what he saw shocked him. The footage showed Eli on his ATV performing several stunts and suddenly in the background in the dead center a dark figure walking on two legs rose up from behind a tree and walked into the forest. It was hesitant in its movements as if waiting for Eli's attention to be drawn away so it could escape undetected. Eli posted it to YouTube and the video got ridiculed and labeled as a fake. The haters and non-believers suggested a number of scenarios on how Eli used everything from camera angles, a gorilla suit and even photoshopping the image. November 15th is a holiday in Michigan, it's the opening day of the state's firearm deer season. Schools close and families get together for the annual tradition of deer hunting. A friend of ours named Jimmy, he was a 16 year old man child who stood 6 foot 2 and weighed
200 pounds. And he was eager to get out well before daybreak and park his truck and begin a mile long trek to his deer blind which was really more of a shack with windows and a door. He had been regularly placing deer bait in front of it to bring the deer out. Jimmy was 60 yards from his blind when he heard something off to his right. What he saw would seriously change his attitude toward hunting in general. He panned his flashlight in the direction of the disturbance and he saw a huge figure moving quickly through the trees. He didn't glimpse any defining features beyond its enormous brown haired back. He later described it like a freight train barreling through the woods. But whatever it was it freaked him out. Too scared to run back to his truck, he instead headed to his blind and quickly locked the door behind him. He dropped to the floor and hid there until dawn. Once the first rays of sunlight began streaming through the cracks of the deer blind, Jimmy
wrenched open the door and he raced to his truck as fast as he could. He was there during once to stop and look behind him. No opening morning of deer hunting season was going to ever bring him anywhere near that place again, even if we agreed to travel back there with him. Like me, Eli and the rest of our friends, Jimmy grew up in the sticks and he swears that what he witnessed wasn't a bear or like anything he had ever seen before out in those woods. For me, I believe him. Before I tell you my story, I need to fill you in on my background. I grew up in a 6,000 acre farm in North Georgia. I'm a descendant of First Nation Grandparents. I was taught to hunt and fish at a young age and my brothers and I were making fish and turtle baskets before the age of three. At the time there were not any deer in North Georgia. In 1965 the Department of Natural Resources started stocking them by the truckload from Texas.
We also had large cats that we call black panthers roaming the wilderness. And when they would scream it sounded like a woman being murdered. I had never heard of a bigfoot until sometime in the late 1980s and I always thought it was an animal that lived in the northwestern United States. My story begins in the fall of 2019 when I started hearing rocks hitting my house. There were loud noises outside my window in the middle of the night. Now I was not a bigfoot expert by any means but something told me this was classic bigfoot behavior. Now I decided to educate myself. I scroll through the various cryptid websites and I did my due diligence as if studying for an exam and what I learned is that you don't find bigfoot, bigfoot finds you. One of the cryptid research sites recommended keeping a journal of events and this is what I have recorded. January 7, 315 am something hit the side of the house.
February 1, 358 am. Noises like a little sluggish macking a baseball. February 19, 328 am. Vocal whooping sounds outside. February 21, 330 am. Rapid tapping on the wall like the drumming of hands. After I recorded the last entry in my journal I went to bed. At sunrise I decided to take a look around the outside of my house. It had rained that night and above the window about eight feet up the wall I spotted muddy handprints. There was a 13 inch footprint on the ground directly below that. It was quiet for the next two weeks. I would notice a bad odor every day like rotting garbage. My dogs would growl but they never tried to leave the yard. This is unusual because they're half lab and half pit bull. They kill everything that sneaks into our place and they're very good with the chickens
and they protect my flock of yard birds like sheep dogs. I picked up my journal at the next sign of Bigfoot activity. March 17, 330 am. More sounds like wood striking wood. March 18, 4am. Same as the night before. March 26, 906 pm. Sitting at my computer and hearing a loud long scream. The codies are now howling. Get, get, shh. Sorry y'all chicken walked in my office. Oh where was the codies are now howling? April 6, 628 pm. A tree branch snapping this time within 200 feet of my house. April 7, 430 pm. Something bipedal kicking the ground outside my window. With all of this going on I wasn't sleeping like I should.
One night my lack of rest caught up with me and I passed out in my chair. I had the most vivid dream where I was visited by a being named Kea. Ke-ke-i-ke-ke-ke-ke, maybe that's how you say that name. It was like being approached by a stray dog but instead of it attacking out of fear, it offered submission. Ke-ke-i assured me that it meant no harm and could read not only my mind but my heart. It was the most pleasant dream I'd had in years and I woke up from it smiling. I'm sure it was a message though I've yet to come face to face with a big foot. A few rocks thrown at the house in a muddy handprint isn't really grounds to go to war against a creature that I think only wants to communicate on some basic level. I believe they're everywhere and not just in the wilderness. And that's the end of it and that, you know, her keeping a journal, that's a good idea. If people are having some kind of activity around their house, keep a record of it because
there may be a long period between activity and you won't remember what you heard so journaling this stuff is good.
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