The Most Convincing Sasquatch Story

At South by Southwest back in March, a film premiered called Capturing Bigfoot. And if you're a huge Bigfoot fan, uh, you are not going to like this. Yeah, it pretty much debunks completely the most famous Bigfoot footage of all time, the Patterson Gimlin film. I'm sure you've seen this before. It was taken by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California in 1967, and it's been the subject of wild debate ever since then. It's been analyzed from every conceivable angle, pronounced real, declared a hoax. It might be one of the most scrutinized pieces of film ever shot. Well, in this documentary, they um found the rehearsal footage. The story is that they were horseback riding along a river called Bluff Creek and came upon a log jam where they saw some hairy bipeedal creature looking back at them. One of them got bugged off his horse. The other one grabbed his 8 millimeter camera out of his saddle bag and was just able to catch it as it was walking away. You know, like a chance encounter. That's the story anyway. But the filmmaker, a guy named Mark Evans, he was given this footage that an acquaintance of his had apparently was literally in a safe for decades. And it was footage of Patterson and Gimlin rehearsing this scene uh with a guy in a Bigfoot outfit. He also got interviews with Roger Patterson's son who claims that the whole thing was a hoax. And apparently there's even an interview with a guy who claims to be the guy in the suit. Apparently, it's not trying to like prove or disprove Bigfoot. It's really just more about the people that were involved in this hoax and what it kind of did to their relationships and their lives. Hardcore believers are already uh claiming that this film is AI. I uh I guess we'll see what happens when it gets released. I don't care and it's likely just hype anyway. Makes no difference at all. One, I had two encounters, so that settles things for me. two, they had no technology back then to have a skintight suit that would show muscle tendon ripples and flexing. This is something that always gets attributed to the Patterson Gimlin film is that you can actually see like muscles and stuff underneath the skin. Not worried at all. Footprint cast and eyewitness testimony have always been the leading piece of lessen. The only person that was there when it happened this person knows that the PGF is real because I possess two working eyes and a brain. In the meantime, here's a Bigfoot story that might be even more convincing.

I'm a sucker for a good Bigfoot story, and there's a lot of them out there. Like, a lot. Like a lot. In fact, it's kind of the number of stories that makes the whole thing so compelling to me because there's just so many people who claim to have seen Bigfoot and so little evidence. There's just this weird dichotomy like how is that possible, you know? Anyway, the point is I wanted to do a video about Bigfoot and I wanted to tell a good Bigfoot story. So, I turned to a friend of mine with a bit of expertise in this subject, journalist Laura CR. Laura's story is actually pretty interesting because like she had nothing to do with Bigfoot at all. She wasn't that interested in it. And then one day she ran across this photo of a display in a museum and it's actually at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. This is a skeleton of an anthropologist named Grover CR with his dog Clyde. Grover loved his dog Clyde and he wanted to spend eternity, you know, recreating a happy moment with him. So, he donated his body to science and asked for them to do this. And so, yeah, this was put up in a museum. So, Laura Cray finds this photo of Grover Crayance and starts to wonder, could I possibly be related to this person? Well, it turns out, yeah, she was. They were like distant cousins. So, she does a little bit of research on him, finds out that he was a legit anthropologist, a professor at Washington State University. Um, but he was most known for being really into Bigfoot. He was actually really huge in the Bigfoot community. He'd written several books. Um, all of this got Laura interested in the subject. So, she started looking into his old contacts and sort of picked up where he left off. And she put all this together into a podcast that she called Wild Thing, which is excellent. I'll put a link to it down below. But yeah, I turned to Laura to find a good story that we could talk about here on this video. And here's what she had to say. Easily for me it was a story that I heard from a guy named John Mayzinski. He was working for the US Forest Service and this was back in the 70s and he was out in like nowhere Wyoming. He had been told to go out and do a survey of big horn sheep and the only tent that was there which is which was one that had been returned very recently and apparently it had a big bacon grease stain on it that nobody had cleaned yet. So, he was quite aware of the fact that he was going out into bear territory with a tent covered in bacon grease. So, — probably not a great idea. — Yeah, I would not recommend this as an activity for you or your family. So, he goes out, he sets up camp in this location and he, you know, he's hiked into the back country. I think he said he'd gone in like, you know, seven or eight miles. He's camping. He's turned in for the night and then he wakes up to hear these sort of really unsettling sounds outside his tent. He said he could hear it breathing before he heard anything else. And then the moon was full and whatever it was casting a shadow on the tent and he could see that it was there was hair. You could see it was fine enough detail that you could see that it was hair and he assumed well bacon grease bear like obviously. So his he said his first thought was to hit the thing and like make it go away. So he like yelled and he hit it with the back of his hand and he hit something soft, you know, kind of like flesh basically. And then it ran off, but he said he could still hear it breathing. And then whatever it was came back and this time he said it was casting a shadow from higher up and the silhouette was over the top of the tent, he said, and it looked like it was walking on two legs or was up on two legs. And so he just was like, "Okay, you know, I'm gonna hit it again and it'll walk off. " And he said this time he felt like whatever he hit was really hard. Uh like maybe a kneecap or bone of some sort. And he said this time he saw like a silhouette of a hand coming over the top of the tent. And he said it was huge and it had an opposable thumb. And he's like that bears don't have that kind of paw. It was bigger than a bear's paw. It didn't have claws. It had what looked like fingers with an opposed thumb. — Remember, bears don't usually walk on two legs. But there are exceptions. Like here in this video of one scene strolling around a New Jersey neighborhood after an injury to its forpaw. So yeah, a large North American animal walking upright. That's a thing that can happen. But one with a thumb. According to John, the handy heaw was twice the size of his own. And he didn't see it long because the hand smashed the tent. Then it lost its balance and fell on John's legs and sprang up and ran into the trees. — He gets out of the tent and he goes, by the time he gets out, whatever this thing is is, it's gone. So, he gets out and he goes to sit by the fire inside his sleeping bag and he's like awake, awake, as one would be if something like that was happening while you were camping and you were by yourself in the middle of nowhere. And then he falls asleep. It's like 2:00 a. m. He's been awake all day. He's done all this hiking. It's finally quiet. This thing is like far enough away that he's not worried about it. He passes out for a little bit and when he wakes up when he hears something falling out of a tree and he didn't know what it was and then he hears it again and he sees a pine cone fall out of a tree and he's like, "Oh, okay. Pine cones coming out of the tree. " But then whatever it is, it's throwing pine cones at him and they just keep landing around him. He said about 20 pine cones came in my direction in about 10 minutes or so and they landed all around the fire and I'm sitting there. He's like, I'm sitting there with a sleeping bag like pulled over my head just being like, what the hell is going on? — John got the message that the thing didn't want him around, but he wasn't about to just go run out into the dark. So, he sat there in front of the fire with a sleeping bag over his head for the rest of the night. John searched the surrounding ground in the morning, but the pine duff, the stuff that, you know, falls under the pine trees that covered up any tracks that there might have been. So, still puzzled, he walked back to the ranger station where his boss was located. And he told him, you know, what happened? And he was surprised that the boss not only didn't, you know, call him crazy, uh the boss actually asked him, "Do you believe in Sasquatch? " Because it seems that several other groups had come across a large hairy primate hanging around in the woods that summer. His boss thought it was worth checking out. Um, I don't know if he was a believer or not, but he justified it by saying that, you know, if it was a hoax, if it was somebody out there hoaxing people, then that hoaxer might get shot. So, you know, he sent John back out there to investigate. And that basically started John's career as a Bigfoot investigator. Over the decades that followed, he worked with several famous Bigfoot researchers, including Grover Crants, also Jeff Meldrum and Jeff Freeman. And he's still out there now, actively looking for a unknown North American primate that likes to chuck pine cones. I want to believe. I do. I'm with Fox

Moulder on this one. I think the ubiquity of these stories is what gets me the most. Sightings have been reported in every US state except Hawaii — because Bigfoot can't swim. — Well, there you go. — Obviously. — Okay, good point. — That's a really far swim, Joe. — That is a long swim. Yeah. — This is why you can find a refrigerator magnet of Sasquatch from pretty much every state. One of which is on my refrigerator downstairs. But it's not just an American thing. Lots of places around the world claim legends of a large unidentified primate. The best known are the Yeti of the Himalayas and the Yahwei of Australia. And in Europe, there are stories of the wild man or the man of the woods. By the way, you know how cavemen are often depicted carrying giant clubs? Um, have you ever wondered where that comes from? Well, there's a theory that actually comes from these European wild man stories because apparently in a lot of these stories they hit people with giant sticks. I guess that's what they do instead of chucking pine cones. So, a lot of these legends go way back to a time when the world was a lot more mysterious, you know, like what was in or beyond the woods was just like the dark place and uh Darby dragons and all that. These days, we know a lot more about what's out there and there are cameras everywhere. So, it's it's a lot harder to believe that a giant animal could evade all that, you know. So, assuming Bigfoot isn't just some animal that we know of that's being misidentified, you again, you'd think we'd have better pictures than we do. I'm not just talking about cell phones. There are drones, trail cams, uh, like the one that filmed this chupacabra. Plenty of trail cameras are hidden or camouflaged. So, it's not like Bigfoot can avoid them all by just being shy around people. And we have case studies that show that trail cams are actually pretty good at snapping pics of evasive animals. These videos were taken by some of the 140 trail cams in Yellowstone National Park that are specifically set up to catch cougars. There are at most 46 cougars spread across Yellowstone's 2. 2 million acres, and we got photos of them on trail cams. So, I mean, anybody who's owned a cat knows that they're super good at hiding. And cats are ambush predators, so hiding is kind of their thing. Well, some bigfooters think that he's an ambush predator, too. Hence the hiding. So, well, it's just that, you know, he's an ambush predator that's like 8t tall. So

what's happening here? What are we doing? What's going on? Probably the most popular theory and probably the most plausible is that Bigfoot's a relic homminid. As many of you clever viewers of this channel already know, there were many homminid species back in the day before humans made the scene. And it's wild to think that early on in our species, there were several other species of human running around. You know, the Neanderthalss, the Denisovvens, your mom. It's not impossible to think that, you know, maybe one of these earlier species hypers specialized for some tucked away little pockets of the world and just kept on going. For Bigfoot, many look at Gigantopycus. It was basically a giant orangutang around 10 feet tall that used to roam the jungles of Southeast Asia. It was thought to be bipedal. Uh it was covered with hair and it was around the same time we were. It was supposedly first identified as a possible yeti ancestor by a zoologologist named Vladimir Cherninski uh who examined some famous footprint pictures. Grover CR later on he was a fan of the theory as well. He guessed the giganty migrated into North America over the Bearing Landbridge and spread out from there just like we did. Maybe they came across before humans, or maybe they were kind of pushed by human migration, trying to escape us. They really are the hide-and-seek champions of the world. For real, though, maybe their big survival adaptation was that they specialize for concealment. It's not the craziest theory. It's not perfect, though. Um there's still a bit of an issue around like the minimum viable population. If this isn't real species, then it's not just, you know, one or two of them out there. It's not even dozens of them. It's probably in the thousands. Yeah. Yeah, when a species is under decline, they eventually reach a point where they just no longer have enough genetic diversity to survive. Genetic defects start piling up. They start losing the ability to defend against diseases and yeah, you get species collapse. To prevent that, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, FAQ, informed estimates of the Bigfoot population range from about 2,000 to 6,000. Now, is it possible that there are up to 6,000 8ft tall hairy monsters roaming the ever shrinking wilds of the world and never getting found? Not a single body or DNA evidence. I mean, that's the debate. Some people think there's enough wilderness out there. Others don't. Chime in with your thoughts below. Now, a lot of Bigfoot sightings are just misidentified animals. Even Bigfooters acknowledge that some of the sightings do fall into that category. Misidentifications are more likely to happen when something is off or unusual going on with the animals, like our bear friend from earlier with the hurt paw. Sometimes it's a bear with mange. Um, animals often look different without their fur and bears are no exception. And I think that kind of once the human brain is trained to see bears in a certain way, uh, you know, seeing one with bald patches would, you know, that kind of trips your brain up. It's super weird. I mean, sometimes Sasquatch is portrayed as having like a bald dome head or a very high forehead. You know, maybe that missing hair might be the mange. This is the so-called Jacob's creature. It was caught on a Pennsylvania trail cam and it clearly shows something. Is that the Moth Man? Man's butt? This image is disturbing on a lot of levels. It just looks wrong. You know, no wonder some people look at this and say, "Yeah, Sasquatch. " So, bears make sense for Bigfoot, but even some dogs have been mistaken for Bigfoot. In 2015, a Bigfoot alert in Grand Rapids, Michigan, turned out to be caused by a chocolate Newfoundland named Shaggy. The poor guy had been abandoned and he'd spent months on his own in the wilderness before finally being rescued. But while he was out there in the woods, yeah, a handful of people saw him and thought he was Sasquatch. I mean, you take a look at this picture of the dog in question, and I got to say, if you cover up his back legs, I don't know that I would immediately go to Bigfoot, but I can see it. Of course, Sasquatch legends have been around in North America and, you know, indigenous cultures for thousands of years. It's where the word Sasquatch comes from. A recent documentary called Guardian of the Land featured indigenous community leaders sharing their Bigfoot stories that have been handed down through the centuries. Bigfoot in their mind is often characterized as like a gatherer who comes down from the mountains to eat berries and season otherwise just kind of keeps to himself. — They'll never find him because Bigfoot is spirit. — Bigfoot is a nature entity in these legends and this is a very popular belief. Um there's an entire segment of Bigfooty that thinks that you know this explains everything. Like, of course, there's no physical evidence cuz it's a spiritual creature. Well, they must be interdimensional beings. — Uh-huh. Yeah. I couldn't I ran into that when I was doing the reporting for this. And first, I made I'd made the decision before I even got started that I was going to do this approach this the same way that Grover Crayance had, which is like as a scientist, requiring that it behave like an animal that is on Earth. So that takes away interdimensional beings and able to avoid visible light and you know all of the other things like that. But yeah, I heard a lot aliens brought Bigfoot here. Interdimensional being. Um I mean I guess you could say that Bigfoot's like the standin for like the one electron that's supposed to be in the world. — Oh yeah, the one electron theory. — Yeah. — Oh, that's a good one. I talked about that one a long time ago. But still, there's so many sightings from so many people. I mean, could it just be like a mass delusion? I mean, that can't be possible, can it? As I said before, early on in our human development, we shared the planet with other human species, human beings like us that weren't quite like us. Like, some have suggested that maybe that's why we react to the uncanny valley effect so strongly. like we developed an instinctual fear or avoidance for faces that are just a little bit not like ours. It also makes me think a little bit about just sort of like the — I don't know what the right word for it is. I'll just call it like nature horror, — you know, kind of like Blair Witch Project kind of horror about just getting lost in the woods. There's just like a certain level of — I always go back to, you know, we like to go hiking when we travel. We were up in Vermont. Mhm. — Um, we wound up in this tiny little national forest where it was in the fall and the trails were covered up by the leaves and we wound up a little bit lost and it got dark — and it got really scary, you know, like the temperature was dropping. It was getting dark. My phone's battery was dying. We didn't have a flashlight. We weren't ready for that. — There was nobody anywhere all of a sudden, you know, and it was just like this sort of like — primal horror of being lost in the woods. Like there's just something about being out in nature — that weird stuff happens and there and it can be really terrifying and affecting and I'm just kind of there's a part of me that wonders if like the whole Bigfoot phenomena is just sort of like wrapped up in that burrito a little bit — there. I think it totally is. I think you know we have always had stories of something outside the fire light. Like think about Epic of Gilgamesh. Think about Beaowolf. Think about like this big creature that is just outside the reaches of civilization and we don't understand what it is. We assume that it has violent tendencies that it's coming after us. But, you know, that's been with us for thousands and thousands of years, those kinds of stories and those kinds of sentiments. And — in some ways, I feel like that is evolutionarily ingrained into us at this point. Like if you keep telling that story over and over again, you know, if the trauma of previous generations can be passed down genetically, why can't that kind of story and that kind of sentiment feeling also be passed down? Especially if it's sort of a universal, very human experience. — Yeah. And I think we're primed for it. And — Yeah. And I wonder if like there like you just said like sort of a cultural memory throughout the ages just kind of like gets shared and passed on. Like I wonder if — there is like an inherent human fear of some kind about like others that are like us but not quite like us. — Valley meaner. Yeah. Oh yeah. Totally. — So I've been saying throughout this whole video that one of the things that trips me up is that we all have 4K phones in our pockets and there's no, you know, footage of Bigfoot out

there. But is that true? Actually, there's stuff of various quality all over social media, and I had my writer Ryan find me some good ones to react to. So, maybe I can explain some of these, maybe I can't. Uh, but let's check them out together, shall we? All right. So, this first one is from R/Bfoot, our old friends at r/bigfoot. Kind of wonder if I'm going to wind up on r/ Bigfoot after this video. Says, "Is it far away? " Yes. Is it slightly blurry? Yes. But it's clearly traversing terrain that a human would find incredibly hard. Oh yeah. Well, of course it's blurry. We're just basically looking at pixels. It does definitely look like something that's moving on two feet. And it's moving really fast. Although perspective is weird. It could just be a person. That is weird looking. Blurry. Make it blurriier. I got to be honest, like that could be fake. That could just be like a quick animation. — He's straight in there right where I'm at right now going across that cliff over there. — This creature displays the smoothness so many eyewitnesses mention like it was riding a bike. I guess that's something people say about Sasquatch. It moves like it's riding a bike. Instead of taking trails, you just sidehill all through this. I feel like this guy's being very calm considering what he's looking at here. — Just sidehill. — Hate to say it. I think that could be fake. That could be a fake one. Possible Sasquatch sighting outside Squamish, BC. We're on top of Triuni Peak and pretty sure there's a Sasquatch down there. — Oh my god. — I can't really see it very well. There's this little black dot walking in the middle of the snow. — nowhere. — That is a black dot in the middle of the snow. — Sure, that's him. Look at how he's walking. — People are very casual about seeing a Sasquatch. Just to give you an idea of where we are right now. Middle of nowhere. — Beautiful. If — that was a human, why would you walk up that bridge? — He's not hiding very well. — That snow line. Why would he not just go straight down? — This is not behavior I would expect from the hide-and-seek champion. How do you know this isn't all just viral like Jack Lynx commercials? Well, once again, it's super far away. It's very blurry. You can't make out any details. It looks interesting. Going to need more than that, people. Bring your zoom lenses. All right, this one old family vid where they see a Bigfoot nest in the trees and see a large figure walking across the ridge. We notice that there's a pile of a brush here. — And as we look inside, we find out that something — getting eaten alive. — Brad, let me climb up and let me get a look into this thing. Oh, — I'm going to let me walk around a little bit. First of all, some kind of creature has taken. — Okay, so Bigfoot nests um Laura and I talked about that a little bit. has an interesting story uh that we can get to. But um yeah, they they don't have like tools to chop things down very well, but they can kind of like take trees and just sort of like form them into, you know, little support structures — and pile tons and tons of leaves and branches to either camouflage. It could be a hunter thing — or make a place to hide. — Whatever it is has been all smoothed out. — Wonder what it smells like. — Let's replay. — Oh my word. — Big foot's walking down right now. — Uh-huh. — See, he's standing taller. — Yeah, I have seen that. — Uhoh. I get back to camp. — We see something moving on the hill above. Kind of goes running toward a little bit. Where is it? Is it like right on the side of it? — No. — It's kind of looking at us. — I don't see it. — Oh, that could not be — to the right. — That's just a dude. — He's walking. — See King's Castle? — Yeah. — He's shake. He's shaking his fist at us. — He's right in between the two trees right now. — He's screaming at us something. Get out of my camp. — He's probably Hey, there's 15 big I'm looking at its arms and how long its arms might be in places here. They look pretty long. — Screaming at us something. — Yeah. So, you can kind of make out how long its arms are. If that's its knee right there, that's not longer than a human's. I think it's just a person. And in fact, I think this whole thing could have been fake. It's a great fake. It's a fun video, but I'm it's I'm not convinced. Sorry. Next. All right. So, this one is talking about the skunk ape, which is sort of a southern version of Bigfoot that like lives in the swamps and whatnot. Um, I know I didn't get into it much in this video, but they uh they talk about how Bigfoot has this horrible smell that's like really strong. Like you walk into their smell and it's like you're being punched in the face. So, hence skunk ape is how it kind of got its name. I don't see anything. What the hell? Once again, it's just like this black like form in a shadow somewhere. Oh, now it stands up. It's like tearing up a tree. This is fun. I'm just not convinced by it. Hands up. So, so far you have people who are like way too nonchalant about seeing a Bigfoot and then there's people who the second the Bigfoot moves its pinky toe, they flip out and run away and you don't get to see anything. Yeah. Again, this is cool. It's just not quite convincing me. All right, now we're in the Tik Tok world. These are going to be a lot more legit, right? — This video out, y'all. This Sasquatch was recorded in East Texas on a trail cam. — East Texas. — Seems to be a male. A massive male. — The arms look human length. It might have a longer torso. This is like sad Bigfoot. This is Bigfoot pondering existence. This is Bigfoot. It just got dumped. This is Bigfoot with irritable bowel syndrome. This is me when they canled parks and wreck. Um I mean, yeah, I think that was a dude in a suit. Sorry. Ryan suggested that it was probably somebody's like repurposed short film. Now, this one, this one is super weird. It says, "Closeup on squatch face stolen from Todd Standings: Discovering Bigfoot. " So, this is from a movie. I think this has been busted, but it is creepy. First thing I thought when I saw this was that's a fantastic makeup job. So, this comment says, "I believe Todd Stain got the real deal here. Some people will never believe, even if they were looking at a dead one right there, right in their face. It's too much for some people to believe. " Well, that's the only comment. No, Wendy, please don't let him fool you. Bigfoots are real, but look nothing like this. An expert compared Todd's face with the so-called Bigfoots, breaking it all down, and determined that it's Todd's face. Oh, Tik Tok comments never fail to amaze me. Well, whoever did this, um, first of all, I cannot imagine that like every Bigfoot footage is just like this blurry, blotchy, you know, thing. And then there's this one shot perfectly clear of a Bigfoot's face where you can see its pupils and everything. Uh, and it's just sitting there staring at the camera. And I guess I need to watch this documentary because I haven't. So, y'all chime in the comments and tell me what you think of this one. And last but not least, um Ryan shared something from um Paul Freeman. This is an old one from 94, so this is like pre internet days. Can't see much up here. I hear the brush popping and stuff. Oh, there he goes. That's a good one. Jesus. — Breathe heavier. Paul, — get up here. I haven't seen you before. Get better. — Yeah, I don't need to hear Darth Vader in the background there. I like the fact that you can actually see it. It's not just a a, you know, a shadow moving around in the background. It's not just a dark mass. Um, you can actually see some detail. The way the light like bounces off of its fur and whatnot, just like the Patterson Gimlin film, he kind of looks back at the camera and just kind of casually keeps walking. That's another thing from Bigfoot stories that I hear a lot is they don't like run. They don't get aggressive or

anything. They just seem completely I don't know just don't care. They just kind of see you and just kind of keep walking. Um that's the way it's always described. Again, um we're not seeing the proportions well enough to be able to tell that's not just a person in a suit or anything. Um that's a good one though. I like that. So maybe there is more video evidence surfacing after all. And by the way, there are some uh cases of physical evidence that are interesting. — I've seen the nests. — Okay. — Yeah. Um — what's your opinion of them? — They were weird. It definitely looked like somebody had constructed a big bird's nest. Everyone came out, bear biologists, whole nine yards. Everyone sort of scratched their heads and they're like, "This is really weird. Bears don't build nests. Gorillas do. " Right. — And when they looked around, they found like 15 to 20 nests, all different sizes. — So, I mean, it was weird. I saw them. — Yeah. And by the time I saw them, they were pretty degraded, but I'd seen some photos of the original ones. Um, and they did look like big bird's nest. They didn't look like just sticks that had like washed into a pile. Like, it looked deliberate. And they did take chunks of the nest and did Edna analysis on them. Do you want me to ruin the story for you, — please? — Yeah. Uh, the DNA evidence, there was no evidence of anything other than humans or like regular forest animals.

— So, is this the most convincing Bigfoot story of all time? I would like to see more physical evidence. The fact that it's just a story is a bummer. The reason it's interesting is the person who told the story, uh, John Maninsky, he's a highly respected, very experienced wilderness expert, he's not somebody that's going to, you know, freak out just because some big hairy thing came around. This is a guy who thought a bear was sniffing his bacon grease stained tent and just batted it away. All right, I mean, someone that comfortable in the woods had an experience that was so shocking and so profound that he spent the rest of his life trying to find the answer to it, even if it meant tarnishing his reputation. And sure, you might say that he did it for the money and the attention, but I mean, he doesn't look rich to me. I didn't know who he was before I put this video together. But also, again, to me, it's not just that it's this one story. It's the fact that he's one of dozens, maybe hundreds of stories just like this. highly experienced people having unexplained events that they just obsess over. — Yeah, I ran across that somewhere about how like a lot of people who become these like Bigfoot people have this experience and they just can't it's almost like a spiritual thing like they can't seem to like — just have it be like a thing that happened. It's a thing that like now it's a fundamental part of their — their self or whatever, you know? — Yeah. — Um — and I don't know Yeah. I don't know what it is that like cuz you I feel like people see strange things all the time and it doesn't necessarily derail your entire life. You don't pick up and move. — Um but yeah, what you're saying like akin to a spiritual experience, you know, it's like seeing Jesus in the toast and then you'll decide to, you know, move to the town where the toast is and — try to replicate Jesus toast. Now, John didn't do that. he continued to be a wildlife scientist and but you know you're out in the woods anyway he you just keep an eye out for Bigfoot. — So this story is kind of a microcosm of hundreds of other stories and that is still compelling to me. Now could every one of these people telling these stories be you know lying in some massive conspiracy? I guess but it's not likely. So what do you think? Did you believe in Bigfoot before this video? Did anything we checked out convince you? Drop your answers in the comments. And if you've had a Bigfoot encounter, definitely drop that down in there. I want to hear your stories. Maybe Bigfoot's just, you know, hiding away from the modern world. Can you blame him? These days, you can't buy a stick of gum without winding up on a

list somewhere and then getting spammed with gum ads and gum subscriptions and gum crypto. If you knew how much random information there is out there about you just floating around on the internet, you'd be shocked. Now imagine how angry you'd be if you found out that all that information was being sold because it is. There is an entire industry of data brokers who find people's information online, package them into demographic silos, and then sell them to marketers. And they find everything. They could probably find Bigfoot if they wanted. And this is why your world is a spamridden hellscape. But there is a solution, and that's today's sponsor, Incogn. So here's the deal. It is required by law that they take you off of their lists if you ask them to. The problem is that there's literally hundreds of these companies. There's no way you could contact them all. And all of these companies are just automated, like constantly pushing your information around. So, your info will eventually just wind up right back on their list at some point. So, not only do you have to contact hundreds of companies, you have to keep contacting hundreds of companies over and over again. Good luck with that. But with Incogn, what they do is they actually kind of use that same power of automation against the data brokers. They reach out on your behalf to hundreds of these top data broker sites and then they just keep doing it over and over again until you're off all the lists and you might feel a sense of calm for the first time in 20 years. They also have custom removal. So if you've ever been like online, you know, googling your own name and you see some info come up on some random database, you can send that to Incogn and they'll just take care of it for you. It feels like every other day there's a new data breach that we hear about. This really is one of the biggest problems of the world that we've found ourselves in today. So, if you want to get a handle on your online info, just click that link down below. You can get 60% off an annual plan. And obviously, you can learn a lot from their website than you could get from this ad read. So, if you've got questions, you can find answers there. And did I mention the 30-day money back guarantee? I didn't did I didn't say that. They do. They have a 30-day money back guarantee. So, for some reason you're not happy with it, you can get your money back. Now, I use Incogn myself and I can honestly say it has made a real difference in my being online. Anyway, be the Bigfoot of the internet and just disappear from all those data brokers. You can get 60% off. It's at the link down in the description. Go check it out. Anyway, hoped you like that. Um, we do have sort of a series called the most convincing time travel stories, most convincing parallel universe stories. I'll put the parallel universe story up here. Um, it's pretty popular one. But yeah, do please check that one out or go look in your sidebar if you're on your browser. Take a look at any of the other videos that I've put out there. Um, and if it's something that you enjoy and you're not subscribed, I invite you to subscribe because I come back with videos every Monday and I think you might like at least one of them eventually. But now take a look if you're on your browser, like if you get recommended any other videos from me, go check them out. If you're not familiar with them, uh, and if you enjoy them, I invite you to subscribe. I come back with videos every Monday and I think every once in a while I might make one you might want to see. Also, check out the newsletter. We'll put a little link down here. I have a newsletter that goes out once a month. kind of gets everybody caught up on anything that you might have missed. That's both on YouTube and off of YouTube. Um, it's the first place to find out about any merch stuff or anything going on. We may have some live events going on soon. So, uh, go join there. You'll be the first to see all kinds of stuff. But that's it for today. You guys go out there, have an eye opening rest of the week. Please stay safe and I'll see you next Monday. Love you, guys. Take care.