#SLPNEWS - Evaluation of alleged Sasquatch footprints

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Once upon a time there was a academic professor that held the Bigfoot community's hopes and dreams in his hands. As of recent events many people are not sure just what can be trusted coming from the camp of Dr. Don Jeffrey Meldrum of Idaho State University. One day he is the savoir and the next he is broadcasting with known hoaxers asking us all to believe in the newest magic of Todd Standing but we the people did not bite.

Today with the release of this newest study of alleged Sasquatch footprint release from the good professor has many interesting statements in it and I for one WANT to trust what he says. In fact with this being his area of expertise one would think it should be solid information while others say he's been fooled before by fake prints if he can't identify those what is the point?

I wonder out loud a lot in hopes that these professionals will wake up and see what is going on around them and not just point the finger elsewhere but that is likely never to happen. With all of that said I took a peak at his latest offers from the ISU website and still think there is a long way to go...

"Conclusions
Human walking is characterized by an extended stiff-legged striding gait with distinct heel-strike and toe-off phases. Bending stresses in the digits are held low by selection for relatively short toes that participate in propulsion at the sacrifice of prehension. Efficiency and economy of muscle action during distance walking and running are maximized by reduced mobility in the tarsal joints, a fixed longitudinal arch, elastic storage in the well developed calcaneal tendon, plantar aponeurosis and deep plantar ligaments of the foot.
In contrast, the Sasquatch appear to have adapted to bipedal locomotion by employing a compliant gait on a flat flexible foot. A degree of prehensile capability has been retained in the digits by maintaining the uncoupling of the propulsive function of the hindoot from the forefoot via the midtarsal break. Digits are spared the peak forces of toe-off due to the compliant gait with its extended period of double support. This would be a efficient strategy for negotiating the steep, broken terrain of the dense montane forests of the Pacific and Intermountain West, especially for a bipedal hominoid of considerable body mass, The dynamic signatures of this adaptive pattern of gait are generally evident in the footprints examined in this study."

Read the full article Here

#SLPNEWS - Washington woman claims she has sex with Bigfoot

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Now this isn't the first time we have heard such things in fact there is a whole genre of adult content of Bigfoot porn but I don't think that is what we are seeing here. A Washington woman claims while tending her pot field she encountered a Sasquatch eating her buds. Not only that but Biggie was packing some heat. Really? Is this just the ramblings of a sick mind or is there something deeper going on?

“Bigfoot was standing there eating all the buds off my plants,” Hoggert said. “At first I wanted to run cause he’s very scary, but I thought he might eat all of my marijuana plants and that’s how I used to make a living. I pointed my shotgun at him and he put up his hands, scared.”

“That’s when I looked down and noticed he had a huge erection between his legs. I hadn’t gotten any in a while and well, from there, it somehow turned into an adult movie. I don’t know if he started it or I did. He did me from behind, which felt great.”

Hoggert said the relationship blossomed from just “sex partners’ into a deep love.

“He is so sweet and caring,” Hoggert said. “He brings me flowers and mushrooms. Holds me while we stargaze. The only downside is that he don’t speak English. I have taught him how to say my name, but it’s kind of garbled and he mispronounces it…’Nunnnsay’”

Hoggert said they’re trying for a baby, with no luck thus far, but she is confident it will happen even though she is 52.
“Once I’m pregnant, Bigfoot, or John as I call him, and I are going to settle down and live a quiet domesticated life in my house. He loves living in the forest, but I’m sick of the long-distance relationship. I have to commute for three hours to be with my man. It’s getting old and gas is expensive.”

Just what is the attraction of telling tales of this sort? is it attention or possible a defective mind? Nope it is a business venture according to Hoggart

"will she reveal Bigfoot to the public? Will humanity finally have living proof the mythological creature is real?

“Nah,” Hoggert said regarding presenting Bigfoot to the world. “Government scientists will just take and dissect him or try to turn him into a solider to fight ISIS or something. You know how the government is.”

She did say she will sell pictures and samples of Bigfoot’s fur through a website she plans to set up."

Yes indeed sell your boyfriends hair and DNA on the interwebs that is the future for this woman. Watch out for the Kickstarter coming soon!

Read the full article HERE

#PSEUDOSCIENCE - Crows are the Masters of Nonhuman Problem-solving

On a recent episode of [The Squatcher's Lounge Podcast], where we discussed tools and what they are, we referenced the crow that fashioned a hook out of a straight piece of wire:

This feat, while simple, shows the crow to have imagined the straight wire as something other than is was. Some say that this is no different than a chimpanzee selecting a stick to fashion into a spear or a Homo erectus finding the appropriate rocks to create stone cutting tools.

Crows, ravens and other songbirds are also able to string together complex tasks. In this next video, a crow called '007' completes a series of tasks to reach his food goal... and then [I'm assuming] makes love to a beautiful counter-agent-lady-crow.

I, for one, welcome our avian overlords!

#PSEUDOSCIENCE - Nonhuman Gifting; Maybe Not What You're Thinking

[via - BBC]

I found this great article that deals with nonhuman 'gifting', entitled The Girl Who Gets Gifts From Birds.
This girls patience, routine, supply of food and respect for the limitations of the crow's willingness to interact lead her to a special relationship, where the crows will bring her gifts. Wether jewelry, marbles, buttons or seemingly useless garbage, the addition of these items to the feeding area shows some form of reciprocation.

In the field of 'bigfootery', the concept of a 'gift' is often confused with the stimulus of the supplied food and the reciprocation is not typically witnessed, as is the case with the birds, so is an easy target for scrutiny.
I am of the frame of mind that 'food gifts' are a lure and/or bait to coax an interaction and that a gift, in nonhuman terms, would be in reciprocation of the supplied nutrition.
This story of a girl and her crows is, nonetheless, extraordinary and you should check out the article, [HERE].

Proving They Are Human Relatives, Chimps Hunt Species Toward Extinction

(via -BBC)

"They have been so effective as predators that they really have knocked down the local population," says David Watts of Yale University, who has spent years studying one population of chimpanzees.
This group seems to be moving onto other prey and unable to stop themselves from overhunting. A drive for food that echoes some of our most sinister aspects, as humans.
Between 1975 and 2007, the local numbers of red colobus monkeys has fallen by 89%. At one point in the 90's, the chimps were killing off half the colobus population each year.
The most grim anthropomorphic view of the chimpanzee, to date.
Read the full article [HERE] 

Bigfoot caught on video running across a field - SLP3-31

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Come join us tonight as Rev. Jeff and Dr. David Batdorf (DPS) as they take a deep dark look at the Memorial Day Bigfoot encounter and break it down with all the tools at our disposal. Along with all of the news of the week it is sure to be a show not to be missed. 8pm PST, 10pm CST, 11pm EST, 4am UK and 1pm AUE on www.youtube.com/sloungepodcast/live at showtime.

Link to the show!

Here is a share of the footage itself.

and a link to the Sasquatch Legend Meets Science where they break down the video

The real planet of the Apes

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As you have heard us discuss on the Squatchers Lounge Podcast many times before, just what do you do with retired lab Chimps? Here is a great documentary on the Real Planet of the Apes.

"Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover 'Monkey Island,' an area inhabited solely by former lab tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars. We go to the island, interview the locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago. This documentary is a Motherboard production, made possible by 20th Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."

Personally I worry for our cousins that are being retired from testing labs after decades of caged life. It is finally the time these beings are left to live on their own as well as protect the lands on which their wild brothers and sisters still live. Humans of the past have done horrible things in the name of science and these creatures are directly responsible for cures leading to longer human life and deserve a dignified way of life.

Possible Bigfoot encounter while fishing

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One of our podcast fans sent us the encounter that his dad tells from time to time. It seems to be an event he retells and sticks in his mind for some reason. He gave us permission to share is story so we hope you enjoy it.

"forgive me if i leave out the details of specifics of locations and such, its hard to remember all the details and he only tells it once in a few years.

every once in a great while my father would recount this story to me, and every time, even though its years apart, the details never changed.


my dad use to be a genuine okie from back east, his family always traveling around getting jobs picking crops for farmers. one time in his early teenage years he was in California picking peaches. and every weekend or so he and some older friends he had made in that particular county that he was staying in use take him fishing at this large creek that they knew about. well one Friday late afternoon after picking peaches they all got into one of his older friends car and they all drove down to this spot in the creek where it made a large pool that they loved to fish at.
they spent a few hours there, fishing, my fathers two or three friends all sitting on the bank fishing, while he himself found a nice flat rock some ways into the water where he could reach out into the deeper water for bigger fish.

well about as the sun was starting to dip below the mountain line, and the light was fading, all of a sudden they all heard this strange sound from way up the creek. it wasn't very loud, almost unnoticeable. it sounded strangely like a huge river stone being slammed into the creek bed, but with no splashing sound, no sound of water with it. well after a while it sounded again but a little bit louder,  and then again and a little bit louder. they didn't take much notice of it till it started to so loud that the crickets and birds all around them would shut up right after this WOMP sound was getting so loud that it was starting to make echos down the creek towards them. again the same strange sound like a large stone was being slammed hard into other river stones under the water, but with no splash. well about that time he turned to look at his older friends to see what they were thinking about it, and he saw them already packing up their fishing boxes and giving him worried looks. "time to go. its getting dark." one said. and he quickly reeled in his line and packed up and met with them back at the game. all the time this strange WOMP sound being very loud now, and sounding very close, only maybe a few hundred feet up the creek past the bends where it was still out of sight. they didn't take their time rushing up the bank and back to the car, packing all their gear in the trunk and piling into the car. by this time the WOMPs were obviously in the pool area of the creek where they were just at. and it must of took one last big WOMP that made the driver freak out enough to start the car in a rush and speed off down the road. while they were speeding down the road, one of my fathers friends asked out loud, "wow, that was one huge cougar out there, huh?" it wasn't later till my dad found out that this friend had turned to look back down the path to the pool just in time to see something huge, black, leap from out of sight onto the bank they were fishing at, and start running full tilt up towards the car with frightening speed. he never mentioned if it ran on two legs, or four. only that it was huge, black, and fast as hell.

well even after this event, my stubborn father still wont believe in bigfoot, says its all hooey.
go figure, that's my dad, and i love him anyways." -ghostmooner

Whenever I hear a story like this one I never know really what to think. There are only so many animals capable of the events that unfolded in this mans encounter with an unknown animal and I say that not to be sensationalizing things but he never identified it himself. I hope more people will share their stories with us if you would like us to feature your Bigfoot encounter email us sloungepodcast@gamil.com

Drones discover endangered Chimpanzee nests

©Liverpool John Moores University

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"For the last few years, drones have taken to the front lines of conservation efforts around the world. They're being used to monitor animal species and keep an eye out for poachers, venturing into areas that are either dangerous for humans or just plain hard to get to.

The small aerial vehicles are now being used to aid in the protection of another species -- the chimpanzee. In Africa, the primates make nests high in thick tree canopies. These nests are difficult for researchers to locate, often taking hours on the ground to find just one nest."

Read the full article here

©Liverpool John Moores University

With emerging technology at our finger tips it just goes to show that even pesky noisy drones have a place in endangered species research. This isn't far from the idea that we use the drones for possible Bigfoot sightings or to locate interesting land features that cannot be seen from the ground. In any situation a drone is a tool some Squatchers are clambering to get their hands on while the Government looks to limit their use or ban them all together.

I'm hoping that more stable and quieter units are on the way but for now enjoy the article.

Bigfoot The Movie 1970

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With the rebranding of our newest show to Bigfoot Entertainment Weekly, Rev. Jeff and your old pal Wes Losner are giving you guys a chance to watch the movies before the review. In that spirit next weeks show is Bigfoot 1970 Staring John Caradine yes the father of the beloved David of Kung Fu and Kill Bill, but no John is not that guy...

IMDB - Storyline: Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.

And with that here is a link to a youtube copy of the movie. Enjoy!

#BEW #BigfootEntertainmentWeekly

Bigfoot Entertainment Weekly - New Podcast - Updated

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You won't want to miss tonight's show as Rev. Jeff and your old pal Wes Losner let lose in a uncensored look at all the Bigfoot entertainment on the market. From Movies to TV Docs we'll cover them all each week in a manner that only your old pas Wes can deliver. 8pm PST on www.youtube.com/sloungepodcast/live

Tonight's feature: The Creature from Black Lake

Storyline: Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature, two researchers come to a small town to study and hopefully discover what the beast is. Their research from some farmers help the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous missing link. Written by Wallace Entertainment - via IMDB

Check back later for a live link to the show!

For now here is another chance to watch the Movie before the show.

#Bigfootentertainmeentweekly #BEW

here is tonight's live link!

Bigfoot Movie Magic

#bigfootisreal MAKING MOVIE MAGIC WITH EFFECTS & COSTUMING

"Effects artist Doug Hudson explains what it’s like working in the Pacific Northwest, including creating the ultimate regional icon, Bigfoot, for the new horror film Valley of the Sasquatch.

Article and photos courtesy of Doug Hudson

I have always been fascinated by movie magic, even at a young age. I spent countless hours watching sci-fi and horror movies, followed by scrounging and digging up any information on how special effects were created. The internet didn’t exist, so it wasn’t that easy. But there were a few books and magazines that I read religiously, and I made home movies with my friends and produced haunted houses for the neighborhood, which helped me hone my craft at a very young age. Thinking back, my parents must have thought I was really weird! I always knew that I wanted to be a special effects makeup artist, I just wasn’t sure on how to go about it. Growing up in Ohio, that world was foreign to me—Hollywood was so far away and seemed unreal."

Fantastic look into the life of a special effects creator our friends Doug gives is the low down.

Read the full article here

Could this be Bigfoot Vocals

#bigfootisreal "as a man was waiting for his wife to come home from a night out at around 1.30 am on July 11th 2015 when he heard the strange noises coming from his backyard. So he decided to grab his camera and a flashlight to investigate what the noise was and this is what he was able to record! I have never heard these kinds of howls or screams? Is it coyotes, wolves, fox, wild dogs, owl? What do you think it is?"

After catching this video on Youtube I was starting to get baffled by what it could be. I lived in PA for a long time and learned to hunt the areas and identify the animals of those areas. I have returned many times since then and I for one am still a bit confounded by just what this could be.

The man is definitely not afraid but is alert to the situation as he scans the area in the dark for what could be making these sounds. A few things to consider is first this is the mans back yard if it was a common animal sound I doubt he would have sought out the camera to go investigate what it was. Second if he knew what the sounds were would he not have called out for "Brutus" the hound dog to shut up?

People quickly move to find any other explanation for strange sounds in the night. Is that because they need to feel safe and explain away the giant primate in the woods to be able to sleep at night? I'm not signing off saying these are actual Bigfoot calls but just what if they were. The audio is very clear as that it doesn't sound like a human making noise in the night. This may be one we never know the answer to but leave a comment if you think you know what animal is making these sounds in Pennsylvania.

#PSEUDOSCIENCE - Podcast Followup [SLP3-30]

[via - Nature]

In this 2009 essay, Russel Ciochon, Chair of Anthropology at the University of Iowa makes some interesting postulations about possible 'mystery apes' and their possible misidentification by himself and his peers.

This idea was the root of the candid chat about Gigantopithecus and Homo erectus on our latest [Squatcher's Lounge Podcast]. This is also what intrigues me so much about claims of an 'ape man'/'wild man' in the East Asian area.

While the North American Sasquatch is described in a much more anthropomorphic way than its Chinese counterpart, is it likely that there is a more logical culprit in the Central Chinese forests?

Also referenced, here is a graphic showing the current distribution of 'known' apes.

[via- anthro.palomar.edu]

The sightings in the Shennongjia region of Central China are likely not misidentified Gibbon sightings. So, what are they?  Gigantopithecus giganteus?

Read the full essay, [here].

#PSEUDOSCIENCE - Breaking Ground with Ancient DNA

"Ancient DNA researchers have succeeded beyond all expectation in retrieving entire genomes from-long dead organisms, and their work is transforming the study of the past", says Elizabeth Coulotta, contributor to Science Magazine.

From Mammoth to Neanderthal to our own ancestors, we are rewriting the known picture of our past with every figurative stone we overturn... and yes, the increasing complexity of our ancestry may show that there is still room for unknown cousins, like Sasquatch!

The more we know, the more questions we have.

Here is a little help to get over the 'Ketchum-burn' - Just take a look at the modern technology.

(via - Science Magazine)

Ancient DNA package:

• Podcast: New life for old bones
• Feature: New life for old bones
• Feature: Revolution in human evolution
• Feature: Breaking a tropical taboo
• Feature: Protein power
• Feature: Lost worlds found
• Sidebar: Prospecting for genetic gold
• In Depth: Mysterious link emerges between Native Americans and people half a globe away
• Research paper: "Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and Recent population history of Native Americans"
• Research paper: "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover"
• Feature from the archive: The thousand-year graveyard
• ScienceCareers: "Journeying back in time with ancient DNA"

Read the original article [here]

Bigfoot Chronicles the Movie

#bigfootisreal "Bigfoot Chronicles is an adventure story about successful documentary film maker, Rock Thomson who has recently lost his family in a car crash. Thomson is approached by Dalton West who represents several Indian nations who want to document Bigfoot sightings in Oregon to stop the scheduled clear cutting of their sacred forest. At first Thomson refuses, telling West he doesn't do fairy tales, but when West makes Thomson an offer he can’t refuse"

Personally I love this kind of movie. Suspense more than horror and usually proving the skeptic wrong. Maybe this one I won't be routing for the Bigfoot to kill off the pesky humans.

Check out this creepy trailer

Then when that has your skin crawling check out the latest trailer release.

The movie was release on July 7th available at some Walmart Stores
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Close Encounter with a Bigoot Named Tumack

#Bigfootisreal By popular demand the return of Tumack has finally arrived...

A return of a classic Real Bigfoot Encounter as begged for by the community. What happens when a man raised all of his life around Sasquatch finally has the time to sit down and talk with one things get king of strange. Enjoy

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Man Nearly Misses Bigfoot in Kansas

#bigfootisreal This report from Frank Goodman was post last night in the Squatchers Lounge Facebook Group

A man driving home from work nearly misses a crossing creature inches from his car. Here is the incredible sighting.

"On or about 01:00 Hours (1:00 AM), February 10, 2015, give or take 30 minutes, I was on my way home from work. I worked at the time for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services for a company called Ericsson in Overland Park, Kansas at the Sprint Campus. I live in Lansing, Kansas about 32 miles away from the Sprint Campus.
I have been working a special project and my hours are from 3 PM to Midnight. I was driving North on K-7 Highway just past Leavenworth Road near Falcon Estates Subdivision when a very large animal darted across the road in front of me running on two feet. In my head lights I was able to see the massive height and the somewhat pointed crown for the top of the head.
I did not slow down and was only able to see the back end of the animal. If my hand was a foot longer and my window open I could have touched its tail bone and grabbed some hair.
It was larger and faster than any deer that I have ever seen in the area. In Leavenworth County Kansas we do not have elk or bears that I am aware of. Bears would not be out in February. We do have horses and some fools even have bison. Bison do not walk on two feet. The size was larger than any horse, bison or elk I have seen. I am glad that I did not hit it because of its size it would have totaled my car or badly damaged it. I cannot be 100% sure but it could have been a Big Foot. But I am 100% sure it was not a bear, bison, elk, horse, or cattle of any kind that we have in Leavenworth County Kansas.
The one thing in my mind still remembers right now was the hair pattern that I saw. The hair looked a little longer than my hair which would make the hair about 2 to 3 inches and a little darker than color tan but a lighter color than the color brown, more of a dirty blond, it had waves in the hair, almost curly in areas. Since head lights distort color, I am just guessing that it was a dirty blond color.
The tail bone was about even to the middle of my driver’s side window. I drive a Ford Focus. I was just amazed by the hair color and hair texture.
K-7 / US 73 Highway runs north and south along the Leavenworth/Wyandotte county line in Kansas. Closest intersection is Donahoo Road, or a mile and a half north of the traffic light at Leavenworth Road. We are talking about the very western edge of Wyandotte County Kansas. We are also talking about the very western edge of Kansas City, Kansas. I know of other people who have claimed to have seen Big Foots in and around Lansing, Kansas near the Sherwood Subdivision, at Fort Leavenworth, and Weston, Missouri." - Frank Goodman

This witness was brave enough to come forward and share his sighting with us. Thanks Frank and keep a good eye out for more!

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Encyclopedia of Sasquatch

If you are familiar with Nick Redfern books he has a brand new one out on Amazon just today!

"So, as well as well known things like “B for Bigfoot,” “Y for Yeti” etc, there are a lot of obscure Bigfoot-type creatures listed from Africa, South America, Europe, the Far East, and much more. Plus, entries on Bigfoot in movies, TV shows, history, legend, and on what Bigfoot might really be, and 120 photos/drawings/paintings. Also entries on some of the more controversial aspects of Bigfoot, such as the “infra-sound” issue and Bigfoot/UFO theories."

Available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Publish date is September 15, 2015.
Click HERE to order yours

Burning Poop Paper Starts Forest Fire

Photo Credit KMOV

#bigfootisreal "A cyclist who stopped to poop was fined and cited for causing a 73-acre wildfire in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday.

According to a press release from the Bureau of Land Management, the bike rider thought he was doing the responsible thing by not littering. He burned the toilet paper  and quickly tried to bury it, but an ember had already set fire to dry grass nearby.  "

Really not a good idea  to try and burn your rump ribbon while summer time dry conditions exist. Pack it in pack it out or possibly bury it instead?  

Read the entire story  here

Rapid Mammoth Extinction Due to Warming Earth

via - LiveScience

"This study is a bit of a wake-up call," said Eline Lorenzen, an assistant professor of paleogenetics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. "Here we have empirical evidence — based on data from a lot of species — that rapid climate warming has profoundly impacted megafauna communities, negatively, during the past 50,000 years.

"It doesn't bode well for the future survival of the world's megafauna populations," she said.

Read the study, here.

As lamented in our last Squatcher's Lounge Podcast, there are grim implications to climate change - anthropogenic, or otherwise.

The good news, however, is that humans were likely not the only culprit of this extinction.

Read the full article, here.

Creature From Black Lake

The Creature from Black Lake

Here is your chance to watch the movie before the show!

This weeks featured movie on Bigfoot Docs Uncensored

Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature, two researchers come to a small town to study and hopefully discover what the beast is. Their research from some farmers help the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous missing link.

Cats on the mind

Are pet cats the problem or is it the Owners?

"Owners’ opinions on their kitties’ capacity for killing generally stood unswayed even when faced with hard numbers: as many as 10 kills per month by some cats (and that’s just observed kills)."

Recently in the Squatchers Lounge on facebook a heated debate began regarding the issue of domestic cat depredations of the local wild life including decimating song bird populations all over the world. The debate started from an article in regards to cat owners not owning up to the fact that their lack of management of their pets is leading to a disappearance in wild fauna in a remarkable fashion. When faced with the actual number the cat owners that were interviewed were simply unaffected by it claiming cats will be cats. What do you think of the situation? 

Read the full article here

Bigfoot Campfire Stories

This weeks Bigfoot Campfire Story from Rev. Jeff is going crazy with views on youtube.

Welcome to another episode of Bigfoot Campfire Stories . This prospector went panning for gold near Nome Alaska it wasn't just the Grizzly bears that he had to be on the watch for. Let's hear his story...

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