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forward slash podcast. My

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name is Paul Truslow. I live

1:08

in Montgomery, Alabama for the last

1:11

about 20 years. I

1:13

grew up in Virginia, hunting

1:15

and fishing out in the woods with my dad

1:18

up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Went

1:20

in the army after high school and

1:23

got out of the army, went to college in Virginia

1:27

and got a job in a IT

1:29

company right out of school. And

1:32

they moved me across the country. So I

1:34

wound up, initially went to New

1:36

Jersey and then went to Dallas, Texas.

1:39

And then they reload

1:41

me out to Sacramento, California. And

1:44

I spent about 15 years living in Sacramento

1:47

and got

1:50

married out there, had a house, had

1:53

our two kids. But

1:55

before the two kids showed up, this

1:57

was late 90s, 90s. I

2:01

think I saw a Bigfoot. That's my

2:04

story. To this day, I can't explain

2:06

what I saw. So I kind

2:09

of got interested in your podcast. I saw

2:11

it. I've been listening to it and thought, yeah,

2:13

I want to come on and tell my story. I

2:16

think I saw one. I don't know what else

2:18

it could have been, but thanks for the opportunity

2:20

to share this story. Like

2:23

I said, it was about 1997. I

2:26

don't know if it was fall time.

2:28

It's hard to remember. I'll be 60

2:31

this Friday. I was probably 32,

2:34

33 back then. So

2:37

late 90s, my

2:40

wife and I, we didn't have kids at this

2:42

point. Just got married.

2:44

We were living outside

2:46

of Sacramento. We lived in a suburb

2:49

northeast of Sacramento, a

2:51

little community called Rockland, California.

2:54

At a house, if anybody wants to Google, Google

2:57

Earth it or whatever and see 5543 Cabrillo

3:01

Way is the house we lived in. And

3:04

it was in a nice little subdivision kind of

3:06

down in a bowl.

3:08

There were probably 500,000

3:09

homes

3:11

out there at that point, but it was new

3:14

subdivision, new construction moved into

3:16

that house. Two story

3:18

stucco house had the red slate

3:21

roof on the top. You

3:24

know, the yard wasn't big. The front yard

3:26

was teeny. It took me five minutes

3:28

to mow. The backyard was maybe twice as big,

3:30

but still small. Some

3:32

of the important details about it. It

3:35

was two story. The

3:37

master bedroom was up on the second story

3:39

and it was on the street side.

3:41

But we were on a row of houses

3:44

that were probably 20 homes.

3:47

We were like on the far left.

3:49

If you're looking at the front of my house, you

3:52

know, from the driveway, the street

3:54

we lived on, there were probably 20 homes

3:57

to the right of me. So we're all side

3:59

by side.

4:01

down this Carrillo Way, Carrillo

4:03

Court Street. And

4:05

all these homes backed up to wetlands

4:08

and that was one of the appealing reasons why

4:10

we bought the house because they told us

4:12

they would never build behind

4:15

the house. It would remain wetland and it

4:17

was you know like a nice preserve back

4:19

there this wildlife and stuff. Mainly

4:22

pheasants but a lot of birds and stuff.

4:25

And we had two dogs, Buddy and Haley.

4:27

Buddy was a golden retriever and

4:30

Haley was a black lab. Buddy was older,

4:33

Haley was young but the two

4:35

dogs lived in the backyard.

4:38

So in the backyard everybody

4:41

along on this street we had wooden

4:43

you know solid wooden fences on

4:45

each side of the yard. So

4:48

if I'm in my backyard my neighbors and his

4:50

we can't see each other. We've got a solid

4:52

wooden fence between us. But they built

4:54

wrought iron fences to

4:56

go across the back of all these homes. So you

4:59

could look out into those wetlands and

5:02

enjoy the field. You're

5:04

not surrounded by neighbors like you are on

5:06

both sides. So you

5:09

had some field back there. So anyway

5:12

this this all started. I don't

5:15

it's been so long. I don't remember the day

5:17

this actually happened but I

5:20

do know it was a Saturday morning.

5:23

You know I

5:24

planned to sleep in on Saturday mornings. I

5:26

work hard Monday through Friday but

5:28

on the weekends you know have some downtime. It

5:31

was Saturday morning about 5.30.

5:35

My dog started barking

5:37

and that wasn't highly unusual.

5:40

That field like I said there were a lot of pheasants.

5:43

That field was I mean

5:45

it was a big field. It was quarter mile

5:48

long, quarter mile wide, had

5:50

a creek running down the middle of it. I

5:53

don't recall back then any trees.

5:55

There was no obstruction

5:57

of you. It was just a big flat field.

6:00

went on for you know hundreds of yards.

6:04

So it's just a flat field back there it has some scrub

6:07

brush and grass and whatnot but the pheasants

6:10

would build nests back

6:12

there and you'd hear them all the time

6:14

you see them flying. But anyway

6:17

5.30 in the morning Saturday

6:20

morning my dog started barking it woke me up

6:23

and my

6:24

wife and I are in bed there in the master

6:26

bedroom and I thought well a couple

6:28

minutes go by they'll stop. Well

6:31

they kept barking they kept barking

6:33

and they bark for about 15 minutes

6:36

and finally

6:38

I don't know if I said something to my wife or what I just

6:40

I thought I gotta go see what they're barking

6:43

at. What the heck is it? So I

6:45

walked across you know this was only upper

6:47

story of the two-story

6:49

house I walk across to the back bedroom

6:52

and I pulled the blinds

6:54

up and

6:56

I looked down in the backyard I see my

6:58

two dogs down there and they're right

7:00

at that back wrought iron fence they

7:03

got their heads shoved through the wrought

7:05

iron fence and they're barking at something

7:08

and they're looking straight behind

7:10

my house. So my eyes

7:12

just kind of followed the direction they're looking I

7:14

start looking up and boom

7:17

I mean I saw

7:19

this big round

7:22

black spot that's about 40

7:25

yards behind my house

7:28

wasn't that far

7:30

and immediately I thought you know like

7:32

I said I grew up in Virginia hunting I've seen

7:34

bears in the woods and deer and turkey

7:37

I saw that big black spot

7:39

I thought was the black bear back there mystery

7:42

saw now I know what my dogs

7:44

are barking at

7:46

and I just

7:47

sat there in the windowsill

7:49

looking at this thing and

7:51

maybe looked at it it

7:53

looked to me like the head was it

7:56

looked like it was laying on its stomach if

8:00

it's tail closer to me in the head,

8:02

further away. And it was

8:04

just laying there. And I remember

8:07

thinking, is he

8:09

eating something? Is he like eating pheasant

8:12

eggs? I don't even know if bears eat

8:15

pheasant eggs. But

8:17

I remember thinking that maybe it's eating

8:20

the perfect eggs. I don't know what it's doing.

8:22

It seemed kind of odd, but

8:24

it was laying on its stomach. But

8:27

I thought it's a black bear. So that

8:30

explains why my dogs are going crazy and

8:32

barking at this thing. And after

8:35

maybe 10 seconds of just looking

8:37

at it, this thing stood up.

8:41

And now it's on two legs. It didn't

8:43

stand up on four legs, it stood up

8:45

on two legs. And that's the part, this

8:47

is where it got crazy. You know, in

8:49

my mind, I'm like, what in the world

8:52

is that? It stood up on two

8:54

legs. Now it had its

8:56

back to me. It just looked in the other direction.

9:00

And it turned to the right. 90 degrees

9:04

would be a quarter turn to the right. It

9:06

probably turned 120 degrees. And

9:10

I could see the side of it. And

9:13

it's black, it's hairy. I'm

9:16

looking at kind of a silhouette of this thing.

9:19

And it

9:21

started walking. And not

9:23

walking like it was in a big hurry, not walking

9:26

like it was flushed and needed

9:28

to suddenly get out of there. Just like

9:30

taking his time. Like I

9:33

walked to the mailbox at night. It

9:35

was just walking and the arms were swinging

9:37

and I could see that. And it was walking,

9:41

not straight to the right. It was

9:43

kind of coming

9:44

toward,

9:45

like if it continued on the same path,

9:48

it would have run into the back fence

9:50

of my neighbor,

9:52

three doors down to the right of me.

9:54

So it was kind of walking at an

9:56

angle.

9:57

And I

9:59

watched this. thing walk for

10:01

maybe another 10 seconds.

10:03

And like I said, it

10:05

wasn't in a big hurry. But then it kind

10:08

of, it got out of

10:10

view of me because of those wooden

10:13

fences, you know, between our yards.

10:16

It got to where I couldn't see it anymore, even

10:18

from my second story

10:21

perch up there in the window. And

10:24

I thought, I have no idea what

10:26

I just saw. And I

10:28

need to get another look at that. And

10:31

I knew it's like a quarter mile

10:34

to the right. It's just the same

10:36

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10:37

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10:38

So I thought, I'm going to run downstairs,

10:41

go out the back door and stand

10:43

with my dogs. Surely I'll see this thing.

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about this, I thought, why did I do that? But my

12:27

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12:29

wasn't intimidated, I wasn't

12:31

afraid, I didn't feel fear

12:33

or anything. The thing never looked at

12:36

me and it didn't come

12:38

at my dogs, it just started

12:40

walking off. And so I

12:42

ran downstairs, went through the living

12:44

room, whipped open the sliding

12:46

glass door. Now I'm in my backyard

12:49

at the wrought iron fence, standing

12:51

over top of my two dogs and

12:54

I got my head shoved through the wrought

12:56

iron fence at this point. I'm looking right, I'm trying,

12:59

I'm thinking surely I'm going to see this thing again because

13:03

it's just a big massive field

13:06

out there, right? And it was

13:08

gone, there was nothing.

13:11

And

13:12

you know to this day I'm thinking,

13:15

I don't think it hopped over my neighbor's fence

13:17

and got in somebody's backyard, I don't think

13:19

that happened. But somehow

13:21

this thing just disappeared and that's quite

13:24

a bit of ground for that

13:26

thing to cover like a quarter mile. And

13:29

I'm thinking it only took me about eight seconds

13:32

to get downstairs and out the backyard. I don't

13:34

know how it could have gone

13:36

that far that quick. So

13:39

I was kind of disappointed, I thought, man,

13:41

I don't know what that was, it

13:43

wasn't a bear, sure of that. But

13:46

I really don't know what that was. And

13:49

I thought I'd get another glimpse

13:51

and it disappeared. So you know

13:53

I went back in the house, I

13:56

had a Sony Handicam at the time,

13:58

late 90s. And

14:01

I had a Motorola flip phone too. So

14:04

anybody, you know, I've heard people say, why

14:06

didn't you take a picture of it? If I

14:08

had had an iPhone back then

14:10

that took great pictures,

14:14

I still don't think I would have had a photo of it because

14:16

that was the last thing on my mind. I was trying

14:19

to, I thought I saw a bear, then

14:21

I was totally confused with what I saw.

14:24

The last thing I would have thought about was get

14:27

the camera out and take a photo. But

14:29

anyway, I didn't have that capability at the

14:31

time anyway but I did have a Sony

14:34

Handicam and I got

14:36

that out and

14:39

I plugged it in, put it on

14:41

the nightstand in that back bedroom

14:43

and left it there for two weeks. I'm thinking tomorrow

14:46

morning, when this thing comes back,

14:48

I'm gonna get a video of it.

14:50

And

14:51

you know, I'll have proof that I saw

14:53

something that I just can't

14:55

explain what it was. So, but

14:57

it never came back. I never

15:00

saw it again. And like

15:02

I said, that was almost 30

15:04

years ago. So I've always

15:07

wondered what the heck that was and I've been fascinated

15:09

with sightings that other people

15:12

have seen and there's some commonalities

15:14

in what I saw and what I've heard

15:16

other people. I didn't see this thing

15:18

be aggressive, it didn't growl. I

15:21

never heard it make a sound. And

15:23

maybe that's why I wasn't like

15:27

worried about my son

15:28

or myself or my dogs or anything. They're just

15:31

more curious than anything else.

15:34

So that's my story.

15:36

I know it happened pretty quick. The whole thing

15:38

happened probably from

15:41

the time I saw this black spot

15:44

until it disappeared from sight was

15:47

probably 30 seconds. So I

15:50

watched it walk and I

15:52

watched it walk on two legs and

15:55

it was black. I couldn't really see facial

15:58

features of it. I mean it looked

16:00

like, you know, I've

16:03

seen the Bigfoot stories

16:05

and went to the movies at a young age

16:08

and saw

16:10

the, what is it, the Patterson films.

16:13

It looked like what I saw in the Patterson

16:15

films. I mean it was just a big

16:18

black, looked kind

16:20

of like a gorilla but this thing did not

16:22

walk hunched over like a gorilla. It

16:25

walked straight like a human with its

16:27

arms swinging. So I have

16:30

no idea what I saw and always

16:32

been curious about it. But

16:35

that's my story Vic, that's my sighting.

16:38

Being as close as it was and of course it wasn't

16:41

right on top of you but

16:42

you were close enough to make out some pretty good details

16:45

in my opinion. What more can you tell us about its

16:47

appearance?

16:49

Well you know just that

16:51

it was black, it wasn't

16:53

like black and brown. It

16:55

looked like a black bear to me. The

17:00

arm length, the

17:03

hand was probably mid-thigh.

17:08

You know I've thought about the height of this thing.

17:11

I've heard people share stories about

17:13

seeing Bigfoots 8, 10, 12 feet tall. This

17:17

one didn't strike me as super intimidating

17:21

and I'll tell you a little bit about that. Maybe

17:23

I'm wrong here but if somebody

17:25

had asked me that day how tall

17:28

was it, I probably would

17:30

have said about 6 feet tall.

17:32

It was stocky.

17:34

It was not

17:35

you know like

17:37

just huge

17:39

by any means but it was stocky. It was

17:42

bigger than I am and I'm 6 feet tall, I'm

17:44

5'11".

17:45

But I felt like it's about the same

17:47

height as me. I probably weighed I don't

17:51

know 250, 300 pounds. It was

17:53

stockier than me. Bigger

17:56

arms, bigger body and all that but

17:58

bigger legs.

18:00

But yeah,

18:02

it didn't seem like

18:06

it wasn't huge. But now I'll

18:08

tell you, you know, just kind of as

18:10

a fun thing I've done with my son since

18:12

we moved here to Alabama

18:15

a long time ago, maybe five years ago. We

18:17

got a pattern on Amazon, a Bigfoot

18:20

pattern. And I bought a sheet of plywood

18:23

and got a jigsaw and

18:26

we cut this Bigfoot

18:28

out of a sheet of plywood. So I've got

18:30

him standing in my yard now, just kind of

18:32

as

18:33

a gimmick type of thing. But

18:35

I've got

18:37

some red reflector eyes on

18:39

him. But I know this

18:42

Bigfoot in my yard is eight feet tall, right? It's

18:44

a sheet of plywood. And I've thought about

18:46

this. I walk out to my driveway.

18:49

I get my mail. I walk back. When

18:51

I'm 40 yards away from this, my

18:54

own Bigfoot in my yard here, I

18:56

could assume it's six feet tall too

18:59

because

18:59

it doesn't look like it's that tall. But

19:02

when you stand next to it, then it's

19:04

intimidating. It really is eight feet tall

19:06

and you see it. But from a distance

19:08

and me being on the second story, when

19:11

I think back, I would have said it was six

19:13

feet tall. It very well could have been eight

19:15

feet tall. I just don't know.

19:18

But yeah,

19:20

I really didn't see facial features.

19:23

You know, again, it was kind of from the

19:25

side and

19:28

it was just covered in black hair.

19:31

Well, it goes without saying, I'm sure that's a sight that's

19:33

been burned into your optic

19:35

nerves. That's a sight you're never going to forget.

19:38

No, sir. I won't.

19:41

It was short and brief, but yeah, you're right.

19:45

You can't forget that. I've told a lot of

19:47

my friends about this story. I'm not

19:49

embarrassed. I think people will

19:52

think I'm crazy. I'm a

19:53

pretty normal guy and

19:55

got no reason to make something

19:57

up like that. I went back to bed. I told my wife.

20:00

I think I just saw a bigfoot. She said,

20:02

oh knock it off, just get in bed. We'll

20:05

get up later. But, you know, she's

20:08

heard my story a bunch and she has

20:10

no idea what it was either. She didn't

20:12

see it.

20:14

It's too bad she responded that way. But

20:16

if you told that many friends about that

20:18

experience, how did they respond?

20:21

You know, surprisingly,

20:23

well, I've got a lot of good friends. I mean, I

20:26

think they all think, well, he saw

20:28

something,

20:29

you know, don't know what it was. They

20:32

may or may not believe in Bigfoot, but

20:35

it's not like they tell me I'm crazy

20:38

and, you know, put this guy in

20:40

the psych ward type

20:42

of reaction.

20:44

All these years, I've always

20:46

said,

20:47

I'm vindicated by my dolls. I

20:49

mean, I never would have gotten out of bed that

20:51

morning. Never would have known

20:53

there was anything behind my house, but my dogs

20:56

woke me up and they saw it.

20:58

Whatever it was, they saw it too. So

21:01

it wasn't just me

21:03

seeing some

21:05

apparition or whatever. There was

21:07

something behind that house and

21:09

I've just never seen anything like

21:11

that that

21:13

walked on two legs. There

21:15

was a fleeting thought at one point. I

21:17

had a neighbor, a couple houses down

21:19

to the right of me, that

21:23

he was kind of a prankster sometimes.

21:25

I thought, is that my neighbor

21:28

Derek in a gorilla suit?

21:30

I mean, I do remember thinking,

21:33

but it wasn't. There was no

21:35

way. So, I mean, I don't

21:40

know.

21:42

Like I said, I have no explanation

21:45

for what I saw and I've always wondered.

21:47

Maybe I'll see another one one day

21:49

and

21:50

I'll have a good iPhone with a

21:52

good camera on it and might

21:55

think about actually using it if I do.

21:58

Well, that's easier said than done. A

22:00

lot of people have watched a Sasquatch walk

22:02

right by with a camera in their hand.

22:05

Never took a photo. But you never know,

22:07

you might be one of those people who does

22:09

pull up the camera and take a snapshot. It's

22:12

just really hard to say it's one of those things that

22:14

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23:53

He said he was kind of a prankster and

23:55

I'm wondering on your end, what

23:57

makes you so sure considering the fact

23:59

look like it might have been around six

24:02

feet tall and it walked perfectly

24:04

upright. What makes you so sure that it

24:06

couldn't have been Derek in a costume?

24:09

Well I actually asked him two

24:12

days later and you know he thought

24:15

I was a bit crazy when I asked him

24:17

but I said man you

24:19

weren't out in that backseat. I mean for

24:22

one thing in

24:23

this neighborhood that

24:25

we were in these wrought iron fences we

24:27

had across the back.

24:28

Nobody had a gate

24:30

in their backyard. You couldn't get out that

24:32

wrought iron fence. You

24:35

know I thought about this. Why

24:38

didn't I go out there

24:40

and look

24:42

for footprints and you know all

24:45

that stuff. Well it would be

24:47

a long walk for me to get 40

24:49

yards by my house because I'd have to go all

24:51

the way to the front of the neighborhood and walk around.

24:55

There's no way to get back in your yard. So

24:58

yeah I mean he

24:59

told me no. He

25:02

wasn't up laying in the back field in a

25:04

gorilla suit at $530 that or anything. It

25:06

wasn't him.

25:08

So

25:09

yeah thanks for asking.

25:12

Well you're welcome. Yeah just trying

25:14

to be thorough. And he might have thought

25:16

that you were crazy but there are people

25:18

out there that are the true definition

25:20

of the word crazy who just might take

25:22

a potshot as someone who does something like

25:25

that. So there's no future

25:27

in trying to trick people that way.

25:29

You wouldn't get me doing it. Especially

25:32

here in Alabama. There's a lot

25:34

of deer hunters around down here.

25:36

I'm not walking around in a suit

25:39

that looks like an animal. So no.

25:42

Yeah that wouldn't be a wise move.

25:45

Now just to clarify you said that

25:47

as I walked away it was vertical. It wasn't

25:50

hunched over. Does that mean that it was totally

25:52

upright just like a person would walk or

25:54

was there maybe a little bit of a hunch?

25:58

I think

26:00

this thing was pretty straight up

26:02

right. I mean, it, you know, if you're

26:05

walking a little quicker, you might bend

26:07

over a little bit and lean into the walk. But

26:09

this thing was not in a big hurry. It's

26:12

like it wasn't

26:14

afraid of my dogs. Like it knew those

26:16

dogs can't get out of that fence or something. And

26:19

so no, it was just

26:21

like taking a stroll in the park. Its

26:23

back was straight

26:26

up.

26:27

Just so you know, there are people out there who

26:29

know quite a bit about Sasquatch who swear

26:31

up and down. If you see something

26:33

that's walking perfectly vertical like that,

26:36

it can't be a Sasquatch. They can't

26:38

stand up like that. What are your

26:40

thoughts on that?

26:42

You know, I

26:45

guess what I saw would dispute

26:47

that because this,

26:49

I don't think this thing was leaning forward. It

26:53

was just standing up straight and walking.

26:56

Well you were there. You're

26:58

the only person to witness this. So

27:00

who am I? Who would anyone else be to second

27:02

guess what you actually did experience? No,

27:05

I believe you. I do. I'm

27:08

wondering though, how did you find out that

27:10

it was a Sasquatch that you saw? Because at

27:12

the time that this was playing out, you said

27:14

you didn't know what you were looking at.

27:17

Yeah, well, I don't know that that's what

27:19

it was.

27:20

I guess that's why I'm sharing this and I've

27:22

shared it with others is I really

27:25

don't know. I have no other explanation

27:27

for what it might have been.

27:31

But yeah, I mean, I don't

27:33

have like

27:36

foolproof

27:38

way of knowing what the heck this thing

27:41

was. I know it wasn't a bear

27:44

and that's the closest thing that it

27:46

could have been when it was laying down. After it

27:48

stood up and walked, that's where it lost

27:50

me. I'm like,

27:52

I've never seen anything like this before.

27:54

Well, I'm sure you hadn't. I should have

27:57

framed that question up for you better. What

27:59

I was wondering. was how long did it take

28:01

you to start Sasquatch

28:05

that you saw because when

28:11

it was

28:13

before I ran downstairs. I

28:16

mean it was pretty immediate when

28:18

it stood up

28:20

on two legs and turned and

28:23

I saw its arm swinging as

28:25

it was walking. I think

28:27

that's when it first clicked to me.

28:30

I didn't say darn

28:32

that's a Sasquatch but

28:35

I think that thought went through my brain. It

28:39

was more of a question.

28:41

Am I looking at a Sasquatch?

28:43

That idea popped in my head when I saw

28:46

it stand up turn and start walking

28:48

on two legs. At that point

28:51

I said that is not a bear. That

28:53

really does near down the possibilities on

28:55

what it could have been when

28:58

you see it stand up and walk like that. I

29:01

think so. You

29:03

know I've thought about I mean

29:06

you see bears in the circus

29:09

that are trained to do that but

29:12

always picture them with their

29:14

front legs kind of up in

29:17

the air. They're not down by their sidewalk

29:20

and they only do it for a short walk.

29:24

This thing was going to walk all its

29:26

way back to the

29:27

Sierra foothills.

29:29

I believe

29:30

if you get on Google

29:33

Maps and you look down

29:35

at this house and the field and the creek

29:38

and the layout of it then there

29:40

were less homes you know back in

29:42

the late 90s. It's grown up since then

29:44

it's California. There's

29:47

a clear path all the way up

29:49

to Auburn, California

29:51

and the Sierra Mountains and the foothills.

29:54

That thing could walk

29:55

without ever crossing the road or going through

29:58

anybody's property. all

30:00

the way back to the mountains of that sort

30:02

of game.

30:04

That sounds like my kind of country. Nice,

30:08

I like the sound of that. Now

30:10

you told us that you had seen the Patterson Gimlin

30:13

film, but what were

30:15

your thoughts on the existence of Sasquatch

30:17

before you had that sighting?

30:20

You know, I'm glad you asked that.

30:23

I always thought it was interesting. I

30:25

mean it

30:26

definitely caught my attention, but again

30:29

growing up in Virginia, hunting

30:30

with my dad a lot in the woods, you

30:34

know I've always kind of been outdoorsy,

30:37

played a lot of sports growing up. It

30:39

never really changed my lifestyle.

30:41

I mean I just, I wasn't terrified

30:44

to be out in the woods. Although there's

30:46

been times when my head's been on a swivel,

30:49

you know, you're out deer hunting and you hear

30:52

a stick crack or whatever. You

30:54

know, I've always thought, I

30:57

mean who am I to say somebody

30:59

didn't see what they think they saw?

31:02

That's why I like listening to the stories of

31:05

other people. I mean the people

31:08

on your show, I mean you listen to them. They're

31:10

not reading from a script, they're telling you

31:12

from experience what they saw which is just

31:14

what I did. I don't have anything written down

31:16

here. I've told this story

31:19

a bunch of times. Didn't

31:22

know how I was going to start

31:24

this today, you know, and tell you,

31:26

but I just spoke from experience. I

31:29

saw what I saw and it's

31:32

too bad that I

31:35

guess we haven't

31:37

proven

31:38

one, but I don't want somebody to

31:40

go out and shoot one to prove they exist,

31:43

but maybe get a good video

31:45

or something or a really good picture.

31:48

I don't know how you really prove it, but I

31:50

don't discount the possibility. Something's

31:52

out there we don't know about

31:54

and I

31:56

mean

31:58

I have my own personal experience.

31:59

I saw something I can't explain.

32:02

I can't explain the fact that it was walking upright,

32:04

but it sure sounds to me like you still

32:07

saw one, and that's all there is to it.

32:10

I'm wondering though, Paul, had anything gone missing

32:12

from your property before that day, or

32:15

did anything else happen on or around your

32:17

property that you think that Sasquatch

32:19

might have been responsible for?

32:22

No,

32:23

no, not really.

32:25

That wrought iron fence in our backyard was

32:27

probably eight feet tall.

32:30

No, nothing came up missing, and it

32:32

was a small yard. We didn't have much back there

32:34

anyway.

32:35

Maybe a picnic table and a couple of

32:37

lawn chairs or something. But

32:39

no, we weren't missing anything.

32:42

I think it was about

32:43

fall time. It was kind of maybe

32:45

a

32:46

little

32:49

cooler that morning. You know, food

32:51

supply might be running out. This thing took a

32:53

little longer walk than normal and made

32:55

its way all the way to the back

32:57

of my subdivision, left the foothills

32:59

a little bit to venture out for food

33:02

or something.

33:03

No, it wasn't taking stuff off

33:06

of our property.

33:07

You had your dogs back there too, so the

33:10

odds that he would have come into your backyard

33:13

to try and take something or mess with something

33:15

are slim to none. I mean,

33:17

he's more than intelligent enough to know

33:19

that if he tried to come anywhere near those

33:21

dogs would start barking and raising a lot of

33:23

attention. So, yeah, why do

33:26

that?

33:27

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33:28

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Now you told us how big that field was back

35:04

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35:07

How big was it?

35:09

You know, that's

35:11

a good question. And that's why

35:14

I gave the address. Anybody could look

35:16

at this on Google Earth.

35:19

5543 Cabrillo Way,

35:21

that was my house. And you

35:23

can see back behind

35:25

the house, that field, there's that creek

35:28

that runs down the middle of that field

35:30

or the wetlands. It

35:33

was probably, you

35:35

know, several hundred yards

35:37

across before you hit

35:39

more homes on the other side. But

35:42

then it went to the right

35:45

back toward the foothills, you

35:47

know, for miles.

35:49

And I could see it was flat. So

35:52

I could see for at

35:54

least a quarter mile, if not a half a mile.

35:57

It was just flat, flat land.

35:59

So

36:01

in terms of acres,

36:05

again, maybe there's

36:07

a way to measure that thing on Google

36:09

Earth. I've grown up

36:11

on farms in Virginia. Across

36:13

from my dad, there's a hundred acre farm.

36:17

This was at least a couple of those

36:19

hundred acre farms that I could see

36:21

out behind my house. So

36:24

a few hundred acres back there.

36:26

Yeah, you didn't have any lack of room to room, that's

36:28

for sure. Of course that preserve

36:30

is going to have a boundary to it, but

36:33

they don't recognize boundaries. He could have just kept

36:35

on going and going and going. So he had

36:37

a lot of room.

36:39

Yeah, I mean, he could walk for days back

36:41

there.

36:42

There were no fences or roads or houses

36:44

or anything like that. I've looked at that

36:46

and I could see how it could,

36:49

if it was living up in the mountains, it could make

36:51

its way down there uninhibited

36:53

by other things.

36:57

It sure sounds like it.

36:59

I'm still a little cloudy on this Paul. How long

37:01

did you live there at that residence after having

37:03

that sighting?

37:05

Let's see, a

37:06

couple more years. I mean, we weren't ready

37:09

to pack up and move because of that by

37:11

any means. I mean, we

37:14

think the economy changed a

37:16

little bit.

37:17

Let's see, in 2002,

37:20

that's when we moved and we didn't move far.

37:22

We moved to Roseville. We sold

37:24

that Rockland house in 2002.

37:28

I guess I was there another five years

37:30

after that.

37:31

Another five years and no sightings?

37:34

No sightings.

37:36

Yeah, that's no surprise. That's how it

37:38

normally goes. Now, you told

37:40

us that you told your wife about that

37:42

sighting and then you got the pretty predictable

37:45

response, but did you have any misgivings

37:47

about doing that before you actually did tell her?

37:51

No, I don't think so. I mean,

37:54

I think I was still a little bit in shock

37:57

when I made it back to the bedroom. I was scratching

37:59

my head. thinking

38:02

what in the world was that and I you

38:05

want to talk to somebody right you want to let somebody

38:07

know I so I'm

38:09

sure I said something there I said I think

38:11

I just saw a Bigfoot and

38:15

I joke around a lot of comedian

38:18

bone in me so that she probably took

38:20

it that way but I was dead serious I mean I

38:23

I saw something I can't explain I

38:25

probably called my brother pretty

38:28

close with him and he was living

38:30

in Florida at the time I'm pretty

38:33

sure I called him that day or the

38:35

next day and said you're not gonna believe

38:37

this and told him what I

38:39

saw but yeah I

38:41

didn't tell a lot of people right away

38:46

but over time you know as the years

38:48

go on I'm

38:50

it's a good topic of conversation

38:52

at a party these days hanging out with

38:55

friends going to a restaurant or whatever so a

38:57

lot of my friends have heard

39:00

my story and

39:02

yeah I don't think anybody thinks well

39:04

and he just made that up

39:06

why would I I mean

39:09

again I'd go back to my dogs I

39:12

never would have gotten out of bed if it hadn't

39:14

been for them they saw something and

39:17

I saw it too and I don't know what it was

39:20

well Paul it's one heck of a story to be able to tell

39:23

it's a story that a lot of people would love

39:25

to be able to tell on their own but

39:27

it just haven't had that experience so

39:30

I hope you wear it like a badge of honor

39:32

I do like I said I put

39:34

one up in my yard and my

39:37

brother bought me a Bigfoot crossing

39:39

sign about a year or two ago

39:41

it's at the end of my driveway we

39:44

had fun with it but

39:46

yeah

39:47

it would be cool to see another one one

39:49

day and who

39:50

knows maybe I will I look

39:52

out my back windows here in Montgomery all

39:54

the time

39:57

thinking wow am I ever

39:59

gonna see an one of those but so far

40:01

I haven't but

40:06

almost 60. Yeah

40:07

if you're almost 60

40:12

you've got a long way to go. That's right. And

40:17

keep looking Paul you just might see

40:19

another Sasquatch someday.

40:21

You never know. Keep my fingers crossed. Yep.

40:24

That's right. Well thanks again

40:26

so much for coming on and sharing this

40:28

experience with us. I really appreciate

40:31

it.

40:32

Thank you Vic. Thanks for the opportunity.

40:35

Well you're welcome. Thanks again

40:37

so much and have a great night.

40:45

That's it for another episode of Bigfoot

40:48

Eyewitness Radio with Vic Tundis.

40:51

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