A BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA | THE SKUNK APE ROAMS THE WILDERNESS

<v Speaker 1>Hey everyone, and welcome to another Sasquatch Theory podcast. On
<v Speaker 1>this episode, we have Mike from Hawaii and he had
<v Speaker 1>a few encounters from the state of Florida. Florida is
<v Speaker 1>an awesome place for bigfoot activity, and I really hope
<v Speaker 1>I can get out there in the near future to
<v Speaker 1>look for these creatures. Hopefully me and the researchers here
<v Speaker 1>in Missouri can coordinate with some researchers from Florida and
<v Speaker 1>hopefully put that together because I really want to get
<v Speaker 1>out there. It's one of the states on my hit list,
<v Speaker 1>and it just seems like an awesome place to run
<v Speaker 1>thermal especially a thermal drone. Here in the summertime, it's
<v Speaker 1>really thick and it's hard to see, but I feel
<v Speaker 1>like in Florida there is a lot of woods, but
<v Speaker 1>at the same time, there is a lot of grassland,
<v Speaker 1>so I feel like that would be an excellent place
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<v Speaker 1>with all that being said, let's dive straight into Mike's
<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot encounters from the state of Florida. All right, Mike,
<v Speaker 1>welcome to Sasquatch Theory. How are you doing today.
<v Speaker 2>I'm great, Miguel. Great to talk to you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's an absolute pleasure to have you on the
<v Speaker 1>show today.
<v Speaker 2>Mike.
<v Speaker 1>If you would tell me a little bit about yourself,
<v Speaker 1>where you're from, and your bigfoot encounters and experiences from
<v Speaker 1>the very beginning, please.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm from Northeast Florida, and I'm a fifty nine
<v Speaker 3>year old grandfather, and I grew up in Northeast Florida,
<v Speaker 3>like I said, and I used to love being in
<v Speaker 3>the woods. And uh, while Miguel, I'm already getting nervous
<v Speaker 3>talking about this all of a sudden.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, don't get nervous. Just kind of put yourself back
<v Speaker 1>in that moment and tell me about your.
<v Speaker 3>First That's that's what it's doing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Uh, but I used to love being in the woods
<v Speaker 3>and I'd carry a a pellet gun with me, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, i'd target shoot and shoot squirrels and all
<v Speaker 3>kind of stuff like that. Where I lived, you know,
<v Speaker 3>behind the neighborhood, you know, there was just miles and
<v Speaker 3>miles and miles of palmetto bushes, and there was an
<v Speaker 3>old mining operation.
<v Speaker 2>Out there as well, and just.
<v Speaker 3>You know, for a boy, you just go out there,
<v Speaker 3>and there was hunters too, had to hear gunshots. Obviously,
<v Speaker 3>people were hunting. And I try to stay away from
<v Speaker 3>dangerous areas that I knew where people were, where I
<v Speaker 3>saw shotgun shells or stuff like that. But I used
<v Speaker 3>to love going out there, and I just you know,
<v Speaker 3>you're out there in your own little world, you know.
<v Speaker 3>It's a little boy like that. And so a couple
<v Speaker 3>of the things that I saw, you know, prior to
<v Speaker 3>seeing anything was you know, I never saw footprints, but
<v Speaker 3>just the layout of the land doesn't.
<v Speaker 2>Lend itself well to that.
<v Speaker 3>It's you know, if you stepped on everything, you know
<v Speaker 3>that it was a little bit harder to pick up
<v Speaker 3>a footprint.
<v Speaker 2>And I wasn't looking for him.
<v Speaker 3>And when I was a kid, you know, my friends
<v Speaker 3>would say watch out for the hippies, and I didn't
<v Speaker 3>know what they were talking about assets, So what are
<v Speaker 3>you talking about? And they describe these, you know, smelly, hairy,
<v Speaker 3>you know, long hair, what is this?
<v Speaker 2>You know?
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was just a pedophile or something out
<v Speaker 3>in the woods and just stay away from him.
<v Speaker 2>So I tried to do that. But anyway, I would
<v Speaker 2>smell smells.
<v Speaker 3>What people talk about, like a sasquatch smell, which smelled
<v Speaker 3>like a.
<v Speaker 2>Road kill, like an old road kill.
<v Speaker 3>And urine, and I'd look for the kill and I
<v Speaker 3>couldn't find it, and then it would disappear. So I
<v Speaker 3>think that I'd come close to something or got down
<v Speaker 3>limb from something or whatever it was. And I don't
<v Speaker 3>know what that was. But one time when I was
<v Speaker 3>out in the woods, I uh, I came up on this.
<v Speaker 3>It was about I feed off the ground broken off
<v Speaker 3>a pine tree that had it was very neatly woven
<v Speaker 3>like there was like bowels of other branches of pine
<v Speaker 3>trees woven into the sea. And as I faced it,
<v Speaker 3>it was broken off, like I said, about five feet
<v Speaker 3>off the round and then to my left and then
<v Speaker 3>there's like a hole in it right where the break
<v Speaker 3>was just to the left and I could see there
<v Speaker 3>was pine straw, you know, laid down in it. And
<v Speaker 3>there wasn't like pine straw around the area. It was
<v Speaker 3>just like dirt and other stuff. So it looked like
<v Speaker 3>something somebody did, but I couldn't figure out who would.
<v Speaker 2>Do that or why or whatever. And I got up
<v Speaker 2>close to it.
<v Speaker 3>I was probably I don't know, maybe five six feet
<v Speaker 3>away from the opening, and I saw what looked like
<v Speaker 3>little bones, like a fawn, a rabbit or something.
<v Speaker 2>The bones were right there at the beginning.
<v Speaker 3>And I smelled, you know, like a dog and a
<v Speaker 3>urine and a road killed kind of smell through there.
<v Speaker 3>And I just got all of a sudden, I got
<v Speaker 3>like kind of afraid, and something told me just don't
<v Speaker 3>go any further, don't go in there. So I turned around,
<v Speaker 3>kicked the dirt, got out of there, and I think
<v Speaker 3>the first time I saw anything I was they, uh,
<v Speaker 3>back in these woods. They were trying to you know,
<v Speaker 3>they'd had like roads where I don't know, security or
<v Speaker 3>going to people's property or whatever they were.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm a kid, so I don't know what
<v Speaker 2>these roads are for. But they had these.
<v Speaker 3>Dirt mounds pushed up pretty high. You ever seen those
<v Speaker 3>kind of things out where you are as a kid
<v Speaker 3>or anything.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I have.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so that these dirt mounds pushed up, you know,
<v Speaker 3>off the side of these dirt roads, and I just
<v Speaker 3>love like run up to the top of them and
<v Speaker 3>jumping off of them and.
<v Speaker 2>Stuff like this.
<v Speaker 3>Right, I felt like I was being watched and when
<v Speaker 3>you get that little weird feeling, and I had my
<v Speaker 3>pelgan but you know your kid, and you don't know
<v Speaker 3>what that's going to do to anybody.
<v Speaker 2>You think it's going to scare them off or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>But I turned around and I saw the thing like
<v Speaker 3>duck down real quick, you know, and like a cat.
<v Speaker 3>It was big, but it moved like a you know
<v Speaker 3>how a cat can move, like real fast and fluid,
<v Speaker 3>and it's almost like they're moving down faster than the
<v Speaker 3>than free fall speed and duck down and I'm telling
<v Speaker 3>you to go. I didn't stick around. I didn't I
<v Speaker 3>didn't know what I was seeing. I you know, got
<v Speaker 3>a two second look at it and took off running
<v Speaker 3>as fast as I could and didn't stop till I
<v Speaker 3>got home and I described what I saw. You know,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't tell anybody about this.
<v Speaker 2>I told my dad. I saw hippies in the woods, and.
<v Speaker 3>These things were I had a principle he was the
<v Speaker 3>tallest man I knew at the time.
<v Speaker 2>I had a principle.
<v Speaker 3>This thing looked like it was about a half a
<v Speaker 3>head taller, so I'm going to say about seven feet
<v Speaker 3>if I had to guess, but not.
<v Speaker 2>Like eight foot ten foot.
<v Speaker 3>And it looked more like a Neanderthal man than any
<v Speaker 3>kind of It was a monkey, and it had gray hair,
<v Speaker 3>and it was kind of like the color of it
<v Speaker 3>wasn't one just solid tone. It had like little tones
<v Speaker 3>in it of gray. Okay, wasn't black, it wasn't red,
<v Speaker 3>it wasn't rust, you know, brown, it was gray. And
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to send you to a couple of photos
<v Speaker 3>I've seen as something that looked real similar to it.
<v Speaker 3>In the face. It was these Aboriginal men but hairy,
<v Speaker 3>you know, and like if these things were standing next
<v Speaker 3>to a thick oak tree or you know, like that
<v Speaker 3>pile of dirt, and that's what color the dirt and
<v Speaker 3>the sand was back there when I was when I
<v Speaker 3>was a kid, not the sand dunes, but just those
<v Speaker 3>piled up road piles. You wouldn't see it. And I'm
<v Speaker 3>a little near sighted. So granted, you know, my details
<v Speaker 3>probably aren't super great, but I was close enough. I'd say,
<v Speaker 3>if you had to, you know, question me, I'd say
<v Speaker 3>forty fifty yards away. But that was plenty close for me.
<v Speaker 3>Like I said, I would book it and run. And
<v Speaker 3>I saw you that I can remember four times because
<v Speaker 3>I was just out there, you know. And my mom, man,
<v Speaker 3>I'm telling you, Miguel, she would she would whip me
<v Speaker 3>when she found out I was out there, because I
<v Speaker 3>had to have my school clothes on most of the time.
<v Speaker 3>You know, when I was a kid, we only had
<v Speaker 3>two pairs of shoes, you know, your good shoes and
<v Speaker 3>your tennis shoes. And I had a pair of desert boots.
<v Speaker 3>You had this like a gummy sole on them, like
<v Speaker 3>a suede leather kind of thing, like two or three
<v Speaker 3>holes for the shoe stream to go through. And if
<v Speaker 3>I got those things wet or dirty, she knew I
<v Speaker 3>was back in the woods, she would just whip me good,
<v Speaker 3>because you know, she'd always tell me if something happened
<v Speaker 3>to you back there, you know, no that he can
<v Speaker 3>help you.
<v Speaker 2>And there was back in the woods there was.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, we have the Eastern diamondback rattler, who's one
<v Speaker 3>of the most dangerous vipers in the world. You got,
<v Speaker 3>you know, cotton mouths. So I'm getting telling the story.
<v Speaker 3>But it's a dangerous place out there, just to start
<v Speaker 3>with snapping turtles, poison. I mean, anybody that's been out
<v Speaker 3>in the woods like deep in Florida can tell you
<v Speaker 3>it is not you know, a place to you know,
<v Speaker 3>go out there and take a nap. It's it's you
<v Speaker 3>keep your eyes open. And especially back then where I
<v Speaker 3>was and everything. If you look on the map even
<v Speaker 3>today Google Earth that area of northeast Florida, you can
<v Speaker 3>just see this giant green, swampy area, you know, where
<v Speaker 3>there's nothing and it's been built up a bunch since
<v Speaker 3>the seventies. All these things always would happen about the
<v Speaker 3>same time of year.
<v Speaker 2>It'd be cold, you know, the end of fall, beginning
<v Speaker 2>of winter.
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know if that was a time of
<v Speaker 3>year that they were there or when I say they,
<v Speaker 3>I feel like it was one that I was seeing
<v Speaker 3>just because it was the same height and it just
<v Speaker 3>I just identified it as being the same one. I
<v Speaker 3>couldn't tell you, you know, if I was seeing the
<v Speaker 3>same one or what it was. But anyway, I had
<v Speaker 3>another encounter kind of like the same way where I
<v Speaker 3>was running and jumping and having a great time and
<v Speaker 3>everything like that, and again I just started feeling like
<v Speaker 3>I was watch and this time I may have heard,
<v Speaker 3>you know, like a crunch or a snap or something
<v Speaker 3>like that. I turned around I saw the same thing
<v Speaker 3>again and again I just tell you that, like I
<v Speaker 3>didn't know what I was looking at because you know,
<v Speaker 3>something that's you know, that size and an unknown you know,
<v Speaker 3>like I honestly thought I was looking at a man
<v Speaker 3>that had, you know, like a darker skin and uh
<v Speaker 3>odd colored dark skin like almost like African American, but
<v Speaker 3>like real dark with like an ashen dry, wrinkly look
<v Speaker 3>to it. Right, but again not h not a monkey,
<v Speaker 3>you know, and not like a person person. And you know,
<v Speaker 3>when I'm you know, seeing these things are just I'm stunned,
<v Speaker 3>but I'm scared, and I know instantly that I'm somewhere
<v Speaker 3>I don't need to be, and so I'm just running
<v Speaker 3>as fast as a fast kid.
<v Speaker 2>But I'd take off running. And I had this pellet
<v Speaker 2>gun with me all.
<v Speaker 3>The three times that I saw it on the one
<v Speaker 3>side of the property, and I just took off running
<v Speaker 3>as fast as I could go every single time.
<v Speaker 2>And it didn't stop till I got to the house.
<v Speaker 3>And that was you know, it take me twenty minutes
<v Speaker 3>or more thirty minutes to get back to the house.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not really sure, but.
<v Speaker 3>You know, scared, but I'm not thinking that I'm seeing
<v Speaker 3>you know, Bigfoot. And I can remember seeing Leonard Namoy
<v Speaker 3>in that show, but I just didn't think I was
<v Speaker 3>seeing Bigfoot because like I said, I'm not seeing a monkey.
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking I'm looking at something that looks like it's
<v Speaker 3>a big old man, you know, and not huge like
<v Speaker 3>people describe normally. You know, you got these those real
<v Speaker 3>like thick, thick descriptions. This thing had like a real
<v Speaker 3>broad shoulders and square and level with like you know,
<v Speaker 3>i'd say, great deltoids and but slimmer, not skinny. Definitely
<v Speaker 3>muscles like you know, big strong guy, but not like
<v Speaker 3>like a refrigerator build or whatever, and more V shaped
<v Speaker 3>or so. I never saw feet. Everything I saw was
<v Speaker 3>like from you know, like the most of the whatever
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking at was mid thigh and up, longer arms
<v Speaker 3>and you know, hair and and and the hair was
<v Speaker 3>kind of like a like a hippie, you know, like
<v Speaker 3>a shoulder length hair and hair on the face and
<v Speaker 3>not like looking straight up at you, but kind of
<v Speaker 3>like with heads down, a little bit like chin down,
<v Speaker 3>looking up through his eyebrows sort of, I mean. And anyway,
<v Speaker 3>but it would it would scare me so bad, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, I'd run home.
<v Speaker 2>And I told my.
<v Speaker 3>Dad that I saw hippies in the woods, and you know,
<v Speaker 3>I could talk to him sometimes.
<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm you know, I'd.
<v Speaker 3>See these hippies out there, and my dad and I
<v Speaker 3>used to go out to the power lines, which is
<v Speaker 3>out where this property is. You know, we'd drive the
<v Speaker 3>car back there, and he had this semi automatic handgun.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember exactly. I think it was, you know,
<v Speaker 3>like a three eighty or some something along those lines.
<v Speaker 3>That wasn't huge, but I hated shooting it because we
<v Speaker 3>didn't have ear protection and my ears were ring so bad.
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't hear anything after we did it, and we'd
<v Speaker 3>just like shoot at cans or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>He was. We're just trying to have like a father
<v Speaker 2>son moment, I guess.
<v Speaker 3>But when I told him about the you know, the hippies,
<v Speaker 3>he got real interested. And I didn't know what his
<v Speaker 3>motivation was, whether he was just trying to protect me,
<v Speaker 3>you know, find out what it was, or I just
<v Speaker 3>had this feeling that he thought he was going to
<v Speaker 3>bust some like druggies or something out in the woods. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>because I was saying hippies or whatever. And so I
<v Speaker 3>tried to find that same place where the tree or
<v Speaker 3>the broken over tree was, and I couldn't find it again.
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know if I couldn't find the location
<v Speaker 3>or it or day or whatever had cleaned it up.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what.
<v Speaker 2>Happened, but I just I couldn't find that again.
<v Speaker 3>And we ended up going to some other places that
<v Speaker 3>you know, were non descript like man made stuff, because
<v Speaker 3>like I said, when I was a kid, I went
<v Speaker 3>all over the woods and this is just you know,
<v Speaker 3>miles of stuff. And we found some like wood forts
<v Speaker 3>that I guess other teenagers or you know, And I
<v Speaker 3>wasn't a teenager at the time. It's about between ten
<v Speaker 3>and twelve ten when I first started. Twelve was the
<v Speaker 3>last nineteen seventy eight I can remember. It was the
<v Speaker 3>last time I'm going to get to this one. So
<v Speaker 3>I'm getting along lianded on you here. But one day
<v Speaker 3>after school, this friend of mine called me up and said, hey,
<v Speaker 3>you want to go over here by this place called
<v Speaker 3>Lake Mineral. You want to go back there with me
<v Speaker 3>and Mark, another one of my childhood friends. And I
<v Speaker 3>said sure. So just you know, I lived pretty good
<v Speaker 3>distance away else on the other side of this development.
<v Speaker 3>I got on my bike and rode over and I
<v Speaker 3>got there and these two guys had rubber boots, and uh,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, where's mine? And they go, well, we
<v Speaker 3>didn't bring any So I go, okay, well let's go.
<v Speaker 3>And so we took off back through the woods. And
<v Speaker 3>this is a little different Like my side I was,
<v Speaker 3>it was a little drier. This side was a little wetter.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if they're like cypress trees or what
<v Speaker 3>they were, but you know, like they have a big
<v Speaker 3>root ball and you have like this little wet area
<v Speaker 3>in between. You know, the water could be like anywhere
<v Speaker 3>from you know, two inches to six inches or a
<v Speaker 3>foot deep or whatever. And so you got to kind
<v Speaker 3>of make your way, you know, through this.
<v Speaker 2>Jumping from things.
<v Speaker 3>And they were just sloshing through, you know, just having
<v Speaker 3>a good time, and I was trying to keep up
<v Speaker 3>and we went back a fairly good distance. And again
<v Speaker 3>this is in the afternoon after school, you know, limited
<v Speaker 3>amount of light, you know, in the late fall. And
<v Speaker 3>we got back. I don't as farr as they want
<v Speaker 3>to go. They said, hey, let's turn around and go back, Like, okay,
<v Speaker 3>you know, we're having fun, but again, I'm trying to
<v Speaker 3>keep my desert boots from getting wet, you know, because
<v Speaker 3>I knew I was going to get lickings if I
<v Speaker 3>showed up and had any wetness on or whatever. And
<v Speaker 3>uh So, about five ten minutes of walk in and
<v Speaker 3>Mark says to Randy, goes, hey, let's leave him. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I'm tired of this because they were having to kind
<v Speaker 3>of wait on me a little bit with my jumping
<v Speaker 3>from the dry spot to dry spot getting back. And
<v Speaker 3>they did. And man, I'm telling you, I was so mad.
<v Speaker 3>I was spooked. But you know, I'd been in the
<v Speaker 3>woods a million times before and I didn't know, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I knew I was probably gonna get home because I
<v Speaker 3>knew if I followed the setting sun kind of like
<v Speaker 3>where the setting sun was to the eleven o'clock position.
<v Speaker 3>You know, you got to understand, this is uh, this
<v Speaker 3>is pre GPS. We didn't have any way to show
<v Speaker 3>us how to get home, and you know, I knew
<v Speaker 3>if I followed that direction, I'd get home, you know,
<v Speaker 3>just generally.
<v Speaker 2>I went back that way.
<v Speaker 3>I knew Randy's house was right about there, and anyway,
<v Speaker 3>about probably five or ten minutes after they left me,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I started getting this bad feeling, kind of
<v Speaker 3>like from you know, something's watching me, or something's going
<v Speaker 3>on or whatever. And just about as soon as I
<v Speaker 3>felt that feeling, a wave of critters just goes past me,
<v Speaker 3>you know, like skirring, like armadillos. I might even seem like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, like one rabbit and some rats or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>It was just weird, you know, like they were running
<v Speaker 2>from something.
<v Speaker 3>But it was just kind of a sudden thing, you know,
<v Speaker 3>through the prush and I'm picking it up, and I
<v Speaker 3>was going pretty quick as it was, but I'm picking
<v Speaker 3>it up, and.
<v Speaker 2>I jumping from thing to thing and.
<v Speaker 3>Heard a little in the background behind me, and I
<v Speaker 3>looked back and I saw, you know, like you know,
<v Speaker 3>in something, a person or whatever steps and they move,
<v Speaker 3>you know, they kind of sway from one side to
<v Speaker 3>the other as they make their stride.
<v Speaker 2>I saw that and I just saw what I'd seen.
<v Speaker 3>Before, and it was probably about sixty seventy yards behind me,
<v Speaker 3>and I was in a little bit of a clear
<v Speaker 3>spot there, but I just I was running as fast
<v Speaker 3>as I could. But again, I'm trying to keep my
<v Speaker 3>boots dry and the whole book. And I could hear,
<v Speaker 3>you know, being paced out from that point out, and
<v Speaker 3>like I'm saying, I'm going as fast as can, but
<v Speaker 3>I can't go really fast. I know, this is a
<v Speaker 3>terrible description of how this is, you know, going, But
<v Speaker 3>like I said, it's like from root ball to root ball,
<v Speaker 3>which is like a eight or ten foot in diameter
<v Speaker 3>dry spot, and then you had to find another place
<v Speaker 3>where you could leap over. And in the middle of
<v Speaker 3>all this, I'm trying not to step on a snake
<v Speaker 3>and all this kind of stuff.
<v Speaker 2>And that.
<v Speaker 3>Sighting definitely lit a fire under my behind. Get home,
<v Speaker 3>and I didn't feel good this time. I didn't have
<v Speaker 3>my pellet game with me this time, and I felt pursued.
<v Speaker 3>And it may have just been pacing me out, Miguel,
<v Speaker 3>but it didn't feel good, like it felt like it
<v Speaker 3>had more of a purpose than just a curiosity, you know.
<v Speaker 2>When I was.
<v Speaker 3>Seeing it before now looking back thinking about what I
<v Speaker 3>had this white blonde hair when I was a kid,
<v Speaker 3>and I probably smelled like a bag of cheetos. I
<v Speaker 3>was easy to find, and you know, maybe a curiosity
<v Speaker 3>to whatever this was. But this felt different. And at
<v Speaker 3>one point I heard something. I don't know if you've
<v Speaker 3>ever go around a construction site before, but you know,
<v Speaker 3>when you know, like somebody backs up and load her
<v Speaker 3>into two by four or something, or they're doing a
<v Speaker 3>demolition and a two by four snaps, It's got like
<v Speaker 3>that thicker, you know, sound of something breaking. So I
<v Speaker 3>don't know if it was pushing something over or breaking
<v Speaker 3>off limb or whatever, but I heard something like that
<v Speaker 3>as well, and I, like I said, I could hear
<v Speaker 3>it pacing behind me. And so I'm going, you know,
<v Speaker 3>this is going on for like ten fifteen minutes or so,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm just running, basically, but hopping, running and just
<v Speaker 3>looking for my house and keeping my eye on where
<v Speaker 3>the sun is so that I don't get lost, because
<v Speaker 3>you know, if I got a few degrees off, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it could take me another half hour and the sun's
<v Speaker 3>going down, so I'm I need to get where I'm
<v Speaker 3>going before the sun goes down, and you know, recalling
<v Speaker 3>it now, I'm feeling a lot more scared than I
<v Speaker 3>remember being, because I was equally just just pissed off
<v Speaker 3>of those guys for leaving me there, and I was
<v Speaker 3>using that to get home.
<v Speaker 2>Anywhere.
<v Speaker 3>I got to this drier area where I knew because
<v Speaker 3>I kind of like knew the.
<v Speaker 2>Way back to a degree. I've been.
<v Speaker 3>Not as far back, but I've been in that area
<v Speaker 3>before by myself and with them and you know other friends,
<v Speaker 3>you know, playing and whatever. And but I got to
<v Speaker 3>this dry area where I knew, I was about two
<v Speaker 3>hundred yards from Randy's house, and I just booked it
<v Speaker 3>as fast as I could go, and you know, across
<v Speaker 3>the road from the woods to randy Souths and you know,
<v Speaker 3>went in the garage.
<v Speaker 2>My bike was right there.
<v Speaker 3>I left it, and you know, nobody to greet me,
<v Speaker 3>you know, but I made it, and I didn't say goodbye.
<v Speaker 3>I was so pissed off, but I was scared, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, I didn't to them about it because you
<v Speaker 3>know they probably.
<v Speaker 2>Laugh or whatever. I mean, I don't know what kids
<v Speaker 2>were like.
<v Speaker 3>Whenever you were a kid, you know, we had fist
<v Speaker 3>fights every day and it was kind of a rougher time.
<v Speaker 3>I was probably ten times as soft as my dad's generation.
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, there wasn't a whole lot of sympathy. And
<v Speaker 3>I got on my bike and rode home.
<v Speaker 2>As fast as I could do. I didn't talk to
<v Speaker 2>anybody about it. Well that was it. That was the
<v Speaker 2>last time I saw anything.
<v Speaker 3>And I can remember as an adult now, I love
<v Speaker 3>Northern California. Like I told you, I lived on a
<v Speaker 3>mountain in Hawaii now, but I love Northern California and
<v Speaker 3>I have been places up there where I felt like,
<v Speaker 3>don't go in there, you know, like a very strong feeling.
<v Speaker 2>And it was something that told me that something was there.
<v Speaker 3>And I didn't know those places because this is more
<v Speaker 3>closer to San Francisco. I was in Big Sir one
<v Speaker 3>time with my wife and we were going to go
<v Speaker 3>into this area that was kind of like a camping area,
<v Speaker 3>and something told me don't go in there. And then
<v Speaker 3>I can remember also going up between Half Moon Bay
<v Speaker 3>and Pacifica and there's just a place called like Redwood
<v Speaker 3>Basin Park or something like that, and I kind of
<v Speaker 3>wanted to go in there, and I started into it
<v Speaker 3>with her and I got that same feeling, and it
<v Speaker 3>was it was spooky. It had like a spooky you
<v Speaker 3>know people say squatchy feeling. It had a feeling just
<v Speaker 3>like that. And so I didn't go in. And I
<v Speaker 3>I've heard people say stuff like, uh, what do you
<v Speaker 3>think it is?
<v Speaker 2>You know, I've listened.
<v Speaker 3>To other shows like we talked about before, and I
<v Speaker 3>don't know what anybody else has seen, you know, how
<v Speaker 3>to describe even like Patty, I don't know what to
<v Speaker 3>make a Patty or whatever. But the Bible talks about
<v Speaker 3>in the Old Testament, it talks about, you know, Jacob
<v Speaker 3>and Esau, sorry about the truck.
<v Speaker 2>Esau, and it said when Esau came out, he was
<v Speaker 2>Harry all over like a garment. And then when.
<v Speaker 3>Jacob was trying to deceive his dad, putting goat skins
<v Speaker 3>on his arms. And I just figure, you know, Esaul
<v Speaker 3>was Harry, fella real Harry. So if I have to,
<v Speaker 3>you know, try to figure out.
<v Speaker 2>What that is that I saw again, Sorry for Ambietnoians.
<v Speaker 3>That's what I put my you know, my my money
<v Speaker 3>on is that it's some kind of humanoid, you know, because.
<v Speaker 2>They I've heard them talking about they have a language.
<v Speaker 3>And I've heard some of the sounds and whatnot, and
<v Speaker 3>accounts of people talking about what they you know, see
<v Speaker 3>as a language and whatever they are. They're very athletic, stealthy,
<v Speaker 3>h nimble. They're better than us in the woods, way
<v Speaker 3>better than us. And honestly, I don't I don't really
<v Speaker 3>want to see one as an adult. And if I did,
<v Speaker 3>I would want to have fifty cow Grizzly bear s
<v Speaker 3>and W five hundred on my hip and or a
<v Speaker 3>VMG fifty rifle on me. That's another heavy caliber rifle
<v Speaker 3>fifteen grand and you can get them all set up.
<v Speaker 2>I just I wouldn't want to see one.
<v Speaker 3>And I i' you know, the people that I've talked
<v Speaker 3>to in this last year since I started talking about
<v Speaker 3>it at all.
<v Speaker 2>I talked to my wife.
<v Speaker 3>And she says that she said, you know, you probably
<v Speaker 3>saw a guy in a gilly suit or I said, well,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what one was doing there, and that
<v Speaker 3>was the tallest dude I ever saw, and how they
<v Speaker 3>as a custom for sure gilly suit. But I just,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I couldn't tell you, you know, because like
<v Speaker 3>I said, I don't have any frame or reference. I
<v Speaker 3>don't have, you know, I don't think anybody really does
<v Speaker 3>and sees this stuff and doesn't know what you know,
<v Speaker 3>especially as a child, you don't know what you're looking at.
<v Speaker 3>That is a very humbling, vulnerable moment. And you know,
<v Speaker 3>as a older man, you know who, I have trouble
<v Speaker 3>running like I did when I was a kid anymore
<v Speaker 3>for that length of the distance and stuff. But I
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't want to see one, gil honestly anymore. And you know,
<v Speaker 3>my hat's off to you and the others that want
<v Speaker 3>to do it for your bravery. But like I said,
<v Speaker 3>I don't have a wish, you know, to see one,
<v Speaker 3>especially the ones that you know you hear about that
<v Speaker 3>are in this eight ten twelve plus range.
<v Speaker 2>That's just not a good time. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, And why do you think these things were attracted
<v Speaker 1>to you? If it was bigfoot? And what do you
<v Speaker 1>think their intentions were?
<v Speaker 2>Miguel, I'd have.
<v Speaker 3>To tell you, man, I was just this you know,
<v Speaker 3>white haired, you know critter, you know, I don't you.
<v Speaker 2>Know, I left something out in this that.
<v Speaker 3>Is I think a good point to raise was And
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if this is normal behavior not I'm
<v Speaker 3>not a hunter, but the deer at night would come
<v Speaker 3>out of the woods and basically spend the night around
<v Speaker 3>homes and in clearings in the like the development that
<v Speaker 3>we lived in. And that's something that always I found peculiar.
<v Speaker 3>But as for what it saw in me, like I said,
<v Speaker 3>I think I was just a curiosity. You know, like
<v Speaker 3>I said, when I was a kid, I have this
<v Speaker 3>real white blond hair, you know, So like I said,
<v Speaker 3>you could probably see me a mile away in the woods,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, I was probably talking to myself and
<v Speaker 3>you know, pretending to be army man or whatever this is.
<v Speaker 3>You know, a few years after Vietnam, and some of
<v Speaker 3>the older you know, they were still children of families,
<v Speaker 3>but we're older, we're coming home from Vietnam, and so
<v Speaker 3>that was sort of a thing. And you know, like
<v Speaker 3>I said, I was just playing in the woods, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, and I don't explore just anything without regard
<v Speaker 3>for my safety. And I saw plenty of snakes and
<v Speaker 3>you know, rattlers and huge moccasins, just you know, stuff
<v Speaker 3>that's like just stuff that you'd be shocked if you
<v Speaker 3>saw it. How big some of the rattlers and moccasins
<v Speaker 3>that I saw in the woods as a kid. There's
<v Speaker 3>a there's a picture, so this is pretty close to
<v Speaker 3>this county. There's a picture that was on the internet
<v Speaker 3>of this deputy holding up a headless like twelve foot
<v Speaker 3>rattlesnake on the internet. I remember it was making the
<v Speaker 3>rounds ten years or so ago.
<v Speaker 2>But that's what was back there, you know.
<v Speaker 3>So it was like I said, it was a It
<v Speaker 3>was an adventurous place to go back into the woods.
<v Speaker 3>And I understand. Man, if I was my mom, I
<v Speaker 3>would have whipped me twice as hard as she whipped me.
<v Speaker 3>And she was from the woods in Georgia. Man, she'd
<v Speaker 3>get you on the back of the legs. There was
<v Speaker 3>no spank in your bottom. It was on the back
<v Speaker 3>of your legs with a belt. And I thank her
<v Speaker 3>for doing it because it probably kept me out of
<v Speaker 3>a lot of trouble later on too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, Yeah, all right, Mike, Well, I appreciate you for
<v Speaker 1>sharing your experiences with me, and yeah, it really means
<v Speaker 1>a lot that you reached out. And yeah, if you
<v Speaker 1>ever encounter anything else in the future, certainly feel free
<v Speaker 1>to reach back out to me. And yeah, it was
<v Speaker 1>a pleasure speaking with you today.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Miguel.
<v Speaker 3>And like I said, brother, please be careful out there,
<v Speaker 3>you know. I just everybody's safety, you know, out there's
<v Speaker 3>a big thing. And like I said, I appreciate you
<v Speaker 3>know the fact that you know, you A big part
<v Speaker 3>of this is people's safety. And you know, if I
<v Speaker 3>had a message to convey to anybody you know, going
<v Speaker 3>out there in the woods that either wants to or
<v Speaker 3>I you know, a stroke of fortune or misfortune, however
<v Speaker 3>you view it, would be very careful.
<v Speaker 2>Well.
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate the message, and I'll definitely keep it in
<v Speaker 1>the back of my mind when I'm out there, and
<v Speaker 1>I don't think anything's going to stop me from enjoying nature, hunting, fishing, camping,
<v Speaker 1>and it's just something I gotta continue doing.
<v Speaker 2>Well, enjoy yourself. I'm just I want you to be okay.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I appreciate that, and you have yourself an excellent day.
<v Speaker 2>Michael, Thank you all right. Good talking to you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, good talking with you.
<v Speaker 2>Take care all right.
<v Speaker 1>Mike, thank you very much for sharing your bigfoot encounters
<v Speaker 1>from Florida. And it does sound like you had a
<v Speaker 1>hard time describing what you encountered, and I completely understand
<v Speaker 1>when you see something like this, it's just really hard
<v Speaker 1>to explain with words. What you experienced out in the forest.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, like I said before, Florida seems to be
<v Speaker 1>a really good place to encounter sasquatch. And I know
<v Speaker 1>a lot of its residents have never seen the skunk cape,
<v Speaker 1>but there are a lot of people out there who have.
<v Speaker 1>And it's just wild to think that there's people all
<v Speaker 1>the time going out looking for these creatures and rarely
<v Speaker 1>can they ever find them. They can barely experience the activity.
<v Speaker 1>But then there's folks that go out there hunting or exploring,
<v Speaker 1>not expecting to see anything. The skunk ape is not
<v Speaker 1>on their mind at all, and they run across the
<v Speaker 1>creature and that's how it works. Guys. It really makes
<v Speaker 1>you wonder where the heck do these things come from?
<v Speaker 1>And what are they doing out there in the woods.
<v Speaker 1>Why aren't we being told? And these are questions that
<v Speaker 1>pop up into people's minds all the time. So you
<v Speaker 1>have to imagine what it's like for the skeptic who
<v Speaker 1>has never had an encounter like this. It doesn't make
<v Speaker 1>sense logically, like, how can something exist out there in
<v Speaker 1>the woods with so many people, so many trail cameras.
<v Speaker 1>Why hasn't the government told us? Why don't people find bones,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, those are logical questions, but these sasquatch
<v Speaker 1>creatures existing out in the forest of North America and
<v Speaker 1>all over the world, it just doesn't make sense. But
<v Speaker 1>they are truly out there, and people are laying eyes
<v Speaker 1>on these creatures and it's really changing the game. I
<v Speaker 1>do wonder where all this is leading up to, and
<v Speaker 1>it's been a question that's been on my mind for
<v Speaker 1>quite a while. What's going to happen in the future
<v Speaker 1>with all these cryptid encounters and what is the purpose
<v Speaker 1>behind it? Is it something biblical or is it just
<v Speaker 1>something that science has no answer to right now? What
<v Speaker 1>do you guys think. Do you believe it's something biblical
<v Speaker 1>and it's supernatural and if it is, science won't be
<v Speaker 1>able to come up with an answer, so I think
<v Speaker 1>that's a possibility. Or do you guys think that it's
<v Speaker 1>just an unknown primate that has not been discovered. Let
<v Speaker 1>me know your thoughts down in the comments below, and
<v Speaker 1>I'd really like to hear what you guys have to say.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I appreciate everyone for listening today. You guys
<v Speaker 1>are amazing and until the next one, you guys be
<v Speaker 1>safe out in the forest.