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Ep. 262 - Pennsylvania Squatchamania with Eric Altman!

May 13, 20241 hr 4 min
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Cliff Barackman and James "Bobo" Fay speak with long-time Pennsylvania-based researcher Eric Altman! Eric is a field investigator with over 20 years of experience, and recently cast some of the most compelling tracks ever documented in the Keystone State!

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Big Food and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo. These guys are your favorites, so like, share, subscribe and rade it Lip Story and me us on Question Today and listening watching always keep its watching. And now your hosts Cliff Barrickman and James Bubo Fay. Hello, beautiful Bobo. How you doing man? Excellent? How are you not bad? Not bad? It's a good day because of our guests. But before we get to our guests, what's been up with you? Man? Oh? Well, I remember I told

you what my buddy was selling his part of his company. He was buying that ranch that was in like one hundred thousand acres closed acres behind three lockdates. Yeah, I remember something about that. Yeah, well he's put it under a contract. I went up there a couple of days ago and check it out when I with the owner and saw the whole property, and I went up and scouted it for him and just saidude, you want it. It's so it's such a bitch in place to the house and everything. It's

it's beautiful, it's it's remote. So yeah, so I got the escrow. It's a forty five day escrow. And so then yeah, about six weeks. I'll have run of the place, access to a private bigfooting oasis. Huh yeah. Yeah. The only problem is is that where his place is, it's it's like dead in the middle, and it's a few miles either way to to the squatchy spots, and like there's no reason they would be coming to this guy's place. But he's bringing in a bunch of animals.

He's gonna put in a big h you know, he's gonna buy like as mature of a you know, fruit uese as you can, butch like you know, he's not waiting for years and years for production, you know, to get start getting fruit. And then there's already big organic gardens in there, and uh yeah, so he's gonna get you know, he's gonna

have his daughter's horses. I think there's gon be three horses. He's building a corral and a not a riding right now, but just allance and barn and stables, then chicken coops and probably some goats and then a big garden, fruit trees and all that. So hopefully it starts bringing some squashes around there. And I can I can do it, he said, I got free right on it. They can bring my friends or do expeditions there or

whatever. But I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. Then when I was there a couple of days ago, I was like, yeah, it's And I was talking to the owners and the neighbors said they've that, well, the neighbors are a couple miles away, so that they've they've had suspicions of them. They haven't seen any, but they've you know, this all the activity they've had. They said, it's rare. Though. I thought, like, we hear these starts, like, oh they're they're here,

you know, we hear stuff all the time. But that wasn't the case. And I was shocked because you know, all around it it's good, but there's really good drainages a couple miles in their direction that are much more like you know, I'm sure they're in there all the time. You know. Well, hopefully, you know, i'd love to see the property. I'll probably be down there this fall, maybe late summer falls, so

hit you up of course, and see what's going on with it. Then hopefully that works out and you have your private little you know, big foot shager a lot back in there that you can have access to. Me nice have a secure piece of land no one else really has access to where you can kind of keep your thumb on top of the action. Yeah, and he's gonna let me. There's a couple of actually little cabins on the Property's giving me one to use it like whenever. You know, it's just mine

to use whenever. I'll have one of the only keys to get in there. And then everybuddy's Sam from a Type four sever one podcast and I was didn't work on the movies with Yeah. Yeah, he lives closer there, so he's gonna be like the fill in. Well if if he needs a caretaker, I'll if I can work it, I'll go over there and do it. And if not, like it was just for like a day because it's a long drive for me. Sam will be the fill in guy. So then he'll be he'll be there because you know, take care of the

animals and stuff. So Sam will be out there fairly off so he's all about it. He'll be all over it, you know, paying attention to the guy who's buying it. My buddy's buying it. He's a big time hunter and you know he's he's alert to what's going on. So he's he's all about, you know, trying to film him and stuff. So he's gonna get some uh you know, recording equipment, some thermal you know, pan in tilts around the property and stuff like that, and you know he

wants to try to get him on film. Well good good, it's nice out. The cooperation of owners so perfect. Yeah. Yeah, I stopped a bluff on the way back. I just took it. I went up bluff and checked out a couple of spots, and then I went up to see where the snow line was, because we do. We'd have the biggest storm of the winter in the first week of May, dumped a bunch of more snow and you get it. Was to say, you know, it's

that typical spot when you get up there. I thought it was gonna be further down the snow line, but it was up like a I guess it's like the fourteen thirteen or fourteen mile mark and about forty that spot between like forty three hundred and forty four hundred feet where it always kind of stays till late in the year. Yeah, there's usually patches up there even when I

get up there, like if I get up it early enough. So yeah, because that Usually when that clears, it's still, you know, weeks until the shaded spots clear on the on the north side on twelve and thirteen. Yeah, it's a pretty dicey area. Man. It's wild out there and anything goes. So it's gonna be interesting to see what's left after the fires. I know the PG site itself was spared, but I think Laired Meadows gone. I could be wrong, but I'd like to I'd like to

see it for myself. The fire guys made the line one hundred yards. It came within a hundred within one hundred yards on one side, one hundred fifty yards on the other of the site, and they they put the liner and they saved the PG film site. Like they specifically they said they they got they got word. I don't know if it was Kip Moral or what, but they got a thing saying that's the game of the exact GPS cordus. They said, that's where the PG film site is. Save it.

And then they put a crew down in there and they saved it. Oh gosh, that's that's awesome. Yeah. Well shoot, yeah, so it sounds like you've been busy, got some stuff going on. I was at the Ohio conference. But I think we just save that for the UH for the members episode today because as our guest we'll introduce in just a moment was also at the Ohio conference, so I think we can have a good discussion

about some of the stuff that happened there. But before we jump into our guests here, I'm excited to introduce him in a moment, I want to point out, as far as members go, if you are not a member, you might want to be because our members get certain bonuses. They get a member episode, a free episode every single week, and extra hour of Cliff and Bobo and Matt here. But also you get the regular episode,

this very episode that you're listening to right now. You can get one of these episodes with zero commercials just by being a member of Bigfoot and Beyond. So go to Bigfoot and Beyond podcast dot com and hit the membership button or go to that link that mister Matt Prude is going to put in the show notes, and you can be a member five bucks a month, all the Cliff and Bobo you can handle. So, without much further to do, I want to reiterate that it is indeed a good day today because any day

with Eric Altman and it is a good good day. And we have Eric on the line with us, a long time friend of ours, great big for researchers, been in the game for quite a while. So Eric, thank you so much for coming on Bigfoot and Beyond. We really appreciate it. How you doing today, man, I'm good and it's about time.

Eric and Bobo. How you doing, brother? I was just thinking you're one of the few East Coast bigfooters I knew before the show started doing Fun and Bigfoot because you came out to the two thousand and seven fortieth anniversary for the PG film. Yeah, that's where I met you, both, Cliff and you James. Yeah. Absolutely, it was a great time. Hotly, I don't remember you being there. I don't remember much about the event anyway, but I holy smoked, I didn't know you were there. That's

awesome. Yeah, him and Dave McCollough came out from the East. We had two East Coasters there. Yeah. I actually came out with Tim Cassidy and we met Diane Stalking out there and we stayed in the same hotel out in Humboldt, and we came to the event and That's that's where I first met Bobo. I'll never forget it because those doors swung open and here comes Bobo with a pickup truck back to the front door and back doors, and he was unloading some I think kegs of beer, right yeah, Bluff Creek

Palel from six Hers Brewery. Yeah, he was late, but at least this time he had a good reason for it. It actually brought kegs to the event. So it's perfect. About Stevie Woo or Hawaii attendee, I remember that guy. Yeah, we took him out the bluff. Was it We got to Bluff right after that or did that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we camped out Bluff and it was like the coldest night ever for that date. It was like twenty six degrees and there was like a little

north wind, so it was even colder. Yeah, And you know, the Stevie was great because he had never been off the islands of Hawaii before. He had never left the islands, and so the first place he goes as Humboldt, it's cold, and there's trees and there's mountains like he'd never seen. I remember, he was tripping just hard on everything he observed out there. Eric Was that your first trip to the West coast. Yeah, it was actually because of the PG film the anniversary, I wanted to come

out and that's my first time visiting Willow Creek. And Tim and I made the truck up to Oregon to I think it was called Pacific City and we were supposed to meet Peter Burn up there, but unfortunately that didn't work out. And then we came down through Happy Camp Bluff Creek and then ended up back in Willow Creek. We went over to the big Foot Books Store, had dinner with Danny Perez. It was a great weekend. Man, it was like a bucket list weekend. You know, you're an old timer when

you referred to him as Danny Perez. You know I still call him that. Yeah, Well he doesn't like it, you know, he likes Daniel. Of course. Now I trying to call him Daniel. I mean, it's just when I'm talking. When I'm talking to him, I say Daniel as much as I can. But when I'm just talking, I'm like, oh, Danny Perez. You know, if I'm thinking about something, yeah, yeah, you can always tell who's been in it for a while. But who does that? You know, He's quick to correct you. It's

Daniel, Yes, Daniel. I just actually after the last couple of nights up there in Bluff. Oh nice, just got back to there. Very cool, very cool. Eric. Did you spend much time in the woods when you're right here? I mean that sounds like you're all over the place, But where you just mostly riving or did you get some camping in or what were you doing out here then? Besides the anniversary celebration. Yeah,

we hit a couple places. We got some places to go from Steve Stroyfert and I reached out to Bob Morgan because he'd spent a lot of time out there, and Robert Morgan gave us some places to go check out some campsites. We didn't camp while we were there, but we got to drive around. And if you remember, Bobo, while we were up there, I think we ran into you at night we came down off the mountain and I think Bruce was driving the SUV and had his high beams on and blinded you

guys. I don't remember, but that tries me. I get snappy if someone does that. I'm surprised you didn't end up with the windshield full of pennies or something like that. Bobo has been known to chuck stuff like that out the window and he's pissed. Yeah, we were just driving around some back roads, trying to explore a little bit, and Bobo had a group out and we come down the mountain and we turned a corner and they were standing on the road and Bruce had his high beams on him, like,

dude, you're blind in them. So Bruce turned them off and Bobo yelled us nothing like little Bobo, shame, Welcome to California. Well, it's like you don't you don't hire the people that you don't drive fast past a camp, kick up a dust cloud or a house or a cabin, you know, or people walking. You just you don't dust them and you don't hide. You like the two rules. Well there's more than two rules,

but you know the number one rules. Everybody has a good time. That's what I think I noticed about you a long time ago, Bobo, is that you're like the good time police. As long as everybody's cool and chill and there's no problem. But if one person it makes anybody else, you know, kind of frown, you're gonna get on them and somebody could get punched if they push it hard enough. Not unless it's funny, then it's

just some of the problems. It's fine, fair enough. Well, Eric, we've referred to you as an old timer, I suppose, with the other two old men on this podcast, and of course then young and snippy Matt Prut. But how long have you been doing this thing? Because our listeners, because you know, so many of our listeners are new. In fact, so many people in the bigfoot community are new. They only came into the subject with Finding Bigfoot or something, and that's less than ten years

ago. More than ten you've been I'm older all the time, but you've been doing this for a long time. So tell us about how your journey through this Who Squatch Them? Started? Well, growing up as a kid, I was a big fan of all the bee horror films, and in the late seventies, of course, there was In Search of with Leonard Nimoy.

I was a huge fan of that show, and I got really turned onto the whole Bigfoot scene with Legend of Boggy Creek and Creature from Black Lake, and I was just floored that there might be a possibility of an upright walking biped out there in the forest, so I wanted to learn more. I went to my library around the age of ten and was shocked to find out that there were newspaper articles about sightings in my hometown of Greensburg, Pennsylvania

in the nineteen seventies. And I started reading these articles, I learned that it was also a research in my hometown by the name of Stan Gordon. He would put on displays at the local mall during the summer months. He'd have a weekend where he had UFO pictures and UFO evidence and newspaper articles and

bigfoot cast bigfoot prints and photographs, reports and stuff like that. So, as a young kid like eleven, twelve, thirteen years old, I would go to the malls and I would just harass him all weekend long, asking him questions one after another. Tell me about this case, or tell me about this cast, or tell me about this print. And that point forward. He became my mentor, and from the age of thirteen, I started to educate myself, reading as many books as I could, studying the subject

matter. I went to college, kind of put her on the back burner for a couple of years so I could study and get a good education, graduated, started getting back into the Bigfoot stuff slowly, and I guess it was back in nineteen ninety six, ninety five, I moved to eastern Ohio with my wife if we were engaged to be married, and I went to the library there and as you guys know it, back in the mid nineteen nineties, the Internet was just started to come into light, and I started

finding these bigfoot websites. They were really amateurish and really not a lot of detail, but there was enough there to let me know that there were sightings going on in eastern Ohio. So I started driving around eastern Ohio, probably around the age of twenty five twenty six, just looking into it. Moved back to Pennsylvania in ninety seven and hooked up with Moneymaker through the BFRO.

I was one of the first members of the BFRO, which was kind of short lived at that time, unfortunately, But I found there were some other researchers in Pennsylvania doing their own thing, and I began investigating cases, talking to eyewitnesses, going out in the field, probably ninety six ninety seven, and I've been doing it ever since. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo, we'll be right back after these messages. And in

all that time, have you put your eyes on one yet. I have seen some things in the forest that I don't know what they were, but I can't definitively say it was a squatch. I've seen eyeshine about nine and a half feet up in the air, and some high brush. I've seen On one occasion in Ohio at Salt Fork, I saw something hit the handicapped picnic area in two thousand and eight in my high beams. I saw, for maybe three four seconds just kind of stand up for me behind a bush,

and I was shocked. I was like, what the heck was that? I was out there with Mike Feltner. It was in October of two thousand and eight and I had gone out to meet Don Keating. He was having his Tri State Bigfoot study group, and Mike Feldner and I decided to go out into the park after the meeting was over, and we hit Hozak's Cave, we hit the handicap picnic area, and we just went to a

couple different places cave. About three in the morning, we heard some real high pitched howls, real long howls come off the hillside in the direction of the handicap picnic area, and we were kind of blown away because we weren't expecting anything. So we decided to go back to the handicap picnic area and

check it out. And when we arrived, I pulled my vehicle in behind the big pavilion there with the headlights hitting out into the open area, and we walked maybe fifty to seventy five feet into the picnic area behind the pavilion and we had a rock thrown at us and Mike saw it. He saw it hit the ground and bounce. I heard it, and it freaked Mike out. He wasn't expecting it, so he took off back to the car

and he's yelling at me to get back to the car. He wanted to leave, and I'm like, this is what we're here for, but he wanted to go, So I went back to the car. I got in the car and proceeded to back the car up, and as I did, my high beams went a cross this brush on the right side of that open field area there where the picnic tables are, and I saw something stand up just behind that brush and it didn't kind of lean forward and stand up.

It went straight up and I got a bluish white eyeshine reflect for just a second or two, and I was shocked. I was like, what was that? And I jumped out of my car with a spotlight and whatever was there was gone. The next day, I come up in the morning real early. I checked the area out. The whole area behind that brush was all trampled down, like something was walking around. There were woodknocks coming from

down the hill in the wooded area. I went to check it out, but I could never find the source, So I don't know what it was. It happened so quick it could have been something, but I didn't get a really good looking at it to say exactly what it was. It just something stood up with an eye shine return and it was gone. Sounds like a definite maybe to me, that's awesome. You know, a whole lot of definitely babies up to probably. Yeah, that's a math's for you,

yeah, rad Rad. Now, so looking back in your bigfooting career has been quite a while now, I mean, holy smoke's like thirty years or something. I'd give or take what sets people like. Frankly, like all of everybody on the line right now, all of us, all four of us listening, Bobo and I and you and pro It and stuff. What sets us kind of aside is our longevity. And to be in this particular

game for so long. It's kind of hard because so little happens. I mean literally, like a year can go by and you don't even hear of vocalization and you're going out and stuff. It's kind of hard to keep going. So what cases back in the beginning of your big footing career really kept you going, Like Kenna kind of teased you enough to really stick it out? Or are you just a stubborn kind of guy or both? I think kind of both. When I first got into this, like I said,

there was a long history before I started researching in my area. And what I would do is drive around to these historical spots where there were sightings and try to put myself in the witnesses shoes, or I'd try to hunt down the witness if their name was available. And in one particular case, there was a gentleman by the name of Sam Sherry, and he lived in the Chestnut Ridge, a little town called Wilpin, Pennsylvania, and he had a

small two room house he and his wife. Elderly gentleman, probably in his seventies when I met him, But in the mid nineteen eighties he had a really close encounter if the spill wave a place called Sleepy Hollow just outside of Ligandiar, Pennsylvania, and the night he went out and had his experience, it was in nineteen eighty eight. He went out that night to do some night fishing. He parked his vehicle at the Poland area right along the spillway,

and it's the Loyal Hannah Creek that runs through that area. And while he's out there fishing, he was just getting set up to start, he heard some noise off on his left on the embankment of the Loyal Hannah Creek, and he looked over and he couldn't see anything at first, but he heard something moving around and he got a flashlight and shined his flashlight over there in the direction of the noise, and he saw this figure that was standing

there, and at first he thought it was a person, but it slowly started moving towards him and he could see it was an upright, long armed, well below the knees creature. If you want to call it that, and it was coming towards him, and by this time he was a little freaked out. He turned around, went back to his vehicle and he said, this thing was right up against his vehicle. He had his window down because it was in the summer, and this thing stuck its head inside the

vehicle and was face to face with him. Ooh, And he said the breath was so horrible. It smelled like rotten fish. And as this thing was breathing, it was spitting and slobbering all over his face. It had his hands down on his windowsill push the car down as he was trying to back up, and he finally yelled at it. It stood a kind of shocked, stepped back. He was able to back the vehicle off and drive off, and he had passed information onto a couple of local researchers who investigated,

took his report, went to the site. And when I read this case, I had to meet Sam and I met him and probably about ten years after he had his sighting in nineteen ninety eight, and became good friends with him and his wife, and he would take me to the location. He showed me exactly where everything happened. He recounted his story so many times I could tell it in my sleep. He seemed very credible, just really no reason to make it up. And his sighting was probably one of the

first that really got me inspired to start really looking into this seriously. And from that point forward I started going out in the Chestnut Ridge with him and other researchers, and there was so many cases over the years that always had an air of truth to it. The witnesses seemed credible, there was some circumstantial evidence recovered, whether it be footprints or audio recordings, or something that happened to them that they were able to recount. That really kept me motivated

to continue to look. Because you're absolutely right, Cliff, there are sometimes we'll go through a dry spell where nothing happens, there's no audio sounds, there's no footprints found, there's a shortage of cases going on a drought, if you will, and then boom, you get a case that really just captures you, draws you, sucks you in and you've got to get back

out there and here you go again. How traumatized does that dude? From that event he became obsessed, not necessarily traumatized, where he was shaken up. No, when I met him, he was so obsessed. He started a little group that was just him and a couple other guys. They called it the Chestnut Ridge Bigfoot out Post or Bigfoot Center. And he was determined

to capture one of these things. He had huge snares made up, and he would put the snares out in the forest and bait trout and buckets and hang the buckets up on the tree and put the snare down at the base of the tree. He was so determined to capture one of these things to prove it to everybody else, And he became more obsessed than he was traumatized. But he became also in the same sense. He would tell anybody who would listen to him. He became a pretty well known celebrity in his little

village or little town that he lived in. Now, all this happened on Chestnut Ridge, and boy, I'll tell you what a story that is. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like that. Fantastic report. So of course you'd probably want to keep chasing that. Is that something that you wanted to have happen to you though, or is that just like, like I want that to happen. That'd be horrifying if something stuck its head in

like that. But Chestnut Ridge, Man, that's kind of on everybody's radar in Pennsylvania now, probably largely because of the small Town Monster of documentary that was made around it. But you were out there for quite a while before. Was it you who pointed Seth and the guys and gals out that direction or did they come through it, come to that location through maybe Stan Gordon

or something like that. Yeah, Seth started following Stan's work, and that's how we learned about my work, because Stan and I worked very closely together. And Seth came out and in twenty seventeen he filmed the documentary Invasion on Chestnut Ridge, where he documented all the Sasquatch activity along with other weird anomalies going on, the UFO sightings and other strange phenomenon. And yeah, it's really captured attention from a lot of people, not just in Pennsylvania but outside

the state as well. People are really starting to look into the area because it's got a long history hundreds of years going back of I have newspaper articles going back hundreds of years where it documents people's experiences with sasquatch or other strange anomalies like I said, UFOs or other cryptid creatures. So it's got a long history and people just have really seemed to capture everybody's attention. Now everybody wants to go up to the Chestnut Ridge. Is it blown out now because

of that or is their still activity? It was blown out when we went there. I remember we were out That's the one spot where at night where we ran into multiple groups of other big foot hunters. I was camping on that trip, I do. It's pretty pretty remote nonetheless, though, yeah, we run in it. We run in two different groups knocking and howling that were like they worked together and we didn't, and they didn't know we were gonna be out there. It was it was that's the one time that

happened. Yeah, there are several groups now that do research in the area. The group that I go out with, I go out with a small three or four group people group out in the woods and we don't tell anybody where we're going. We don't announce where our research areas are. We keep them to ourselves because we don't want to spoil them. But there's a lot

of areas that have gotten out publicly, that are just blown out. So you have to be real careful if you go out to those areas to not be fooled by the other researchers out there who are knocking and howling and making noise. And how do you deal with that? How do you grapple with that possibility that there might other people, might be other people out there? Because that comes up a lot with us. A lot of our patrons ask us that question on our q and as and whatever. How can you be

sure that it's not another group of bigfooters? And we go through our rigmarow about. You know, I drive all the roads in my area to make sure no one's camping nearby, and you know all the precautions that we take. What do you do out there in Pennsylvania? And I think it's an important answer here because out in the west where we're doing our stuff, there's a lot of private land, and Pennsylvania does also have a lot of private

land. But I don't know if there's are there national forests down there Chestnut

Ridge, how would you deal with that down there? Yeah, there's the Forbes State Forest in the It covers most of the Chestnut Ridge, the Laurel Valley, the Laurel Highlands, if you want to call them that, where there's the Laurel Ridge and the Chestnut Ridge, and we try to stick to places that are off the beaten path to try to avoid other researchers because, as I said, work gets out where there's been a sighting or there's been

activity, and everybody flocks to it. So we know that you know they're probably going to beat people there. And the nights that we've gone out, we've done what you've done. We've drive driven roads, we've driven around, we've hiked in the woods before dark to see if anybody's out there camping.

We watch for headlights coming into the area we're in. We watch for flashlights, stuff like that, and even if we hear sounds, we're suspicious of them because we don't know for sure if it's another group out there, another researcher, or if it's the real thing. So we try to be as cautious as we can, but unfortunately you can't cover all the bases even though you tried. Somebody might sneak up in the woods and you don't know they're

there. But we do the best that we can to try to prevent oversaturation and running into other groups out there who were doing the same thing we are. Yeah, there's only so much you can do at the end of the day. So so in the introduction before we brought you on, I was commenting to Bobo about how I just got back from the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, and you have a long history with the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, dating back to

before it was even called the Ohio Bigfoot Conference. So I know that for me, at least when I started bigfooting, I did most of it alone. I'm a quiet introvert. I'm kind of a loner in a lot of ways. I spent the first you know, six eight ten years of me doing bigfoot stuff on my own, and when I started reaching out to other

people and networking, it had helped a lot. What was the Ohio Conference in its natal form, I guess some of the earlier attempts at you're networking back in the day, or were you brought there by other people, and maybe talk about some of those early events with Don keating and whatnot. Sure, Like I mentioned when I first got back into it after college, I was living in eastern Ohio and I found at the Newton Falls Library in Ohio.

I found there were some websites out there, and one of the websites was Don Keating's website, and he had an advertisement for what was called the Annual Bigfoot Conference taking place in Newcomerstown, Ohio, and I started following it. I thought that'd be kind of cool. I don't know anybody really in Bigfoot, and I had been in contact with a couple people online, just

through emails and correspondents, but I didn't really know anybody in Ohio. I thought, maybe this is a great way to meet some people and talk with people. So I traveled over to Newcomers Town and Dawn had his event at a middle school, the Newcomers Town Middle School, and it was in the gymnasium I remember correctly. The first event I went to. I think ray Crow was there, Smoky Crabtree, Laurene Coleman, some of the big names

in the field were there. And I had met Don for the first time, and I told Don at that time, I said, you know, I'm fascinated by this. I want to get involved, but I don't know what to do. And Don told me right out, he said, there's really only a couple guys in Pennsylvania that are doing research. Why don't you just try to put network with people over there and just start doing it, Just start going out and looking. And that's what I ended up doing.

But the Ohio or the Annual Bigfoot Conference that I should call it, really kind of helped me start networking with other people that were interested in it, and I got to meet, like I said, some of the legends in the field at that time. I got to know Don pretty well. I continue to attend the Annual Bigfoot Conference gosh, from to nineteen ninety six, ninety seven, all the way up to twenty fourteen. Then I took a

break off from conferences for a year. But now I'm back to going out to the Ohio big Foot Conferences that it's called now when Mark Dworth took it over. But yeah, I've I've been a long time attendee of that. I've networked with hundreds of other researchers from all across the country and from other countries as well. You know Thomas Steinberg, I had a great opportunity to meet him at the Annual Bigfoot Conference, Gosh, so many big names.

I had a chance to actually sit down and talk to at the Denny's diner, you know, and just have an hour conversation with them and pick their brain and ask them questions, you know. And they were so helpful and influential and helping me to move forward with my research, because, like I said, at that time, there really was only a couple of guys in

Pennsylvania, and I had no idea what I was doing. But this was a great networking opportunity and a great chance to sit down with some of the the guys who had been in this far far longer than that I was, and just ask them what do you do in this situation, or how do you handle this, or what do you do when you come across tracks? How do you make casts? And that sort of thing, And they were able to provide some great insight and some great advice. Stay tuned for more

Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo. We'll be right back after these messages. Well, yeah, of course, speaking of casts, that's you got some amazing, amazing evidence recently in the form of footprint casts, and we'll get to that in just a moment. You can tell us how that transpired. But it was actually when I saw the photographs of these things. I was thinking, Man, that's great. You know, maybe we should have Eric back on the podcast again. And I mentioned the pru It and he

goes, I don't think we've had them on, dude. I was thinking about our original guest list we had, like we put down like twenty five names, what it was thirty names, and he's one of the like him and Derek Raveles, and there's a couple guys we had although we still haven't had on you the first season. I thought then. I was looking at the list, I was like, God, we still haven't had Eric all. But we've said it like one hundred times. We got to call Eric.

Yeah, yeah. I put that in a text to Eric actually a little while ago. I'm gonna pull it up real fast. I thought it was. His response was pretty funny. Oh yeah, I said, Hey, want to come on the podcast and talk about tracks along with all the other cool stuff you've done for decades. I can't believe we haven't had you on yet. And Eric's response was I'd be honored. I can't believe you haven't on me on. Haven't had me on either. It was an oversight,

Please forgive us. No I know, I thought you'd already been on. You know. It's all good man, and in my feeble defense. So there are people that we've had on that I can't remember speaking to. Like you told me, you said you tend to forget a lot of stuff, so I only have so much ram you know. So yeah. But so these footprint casts, I got to see them in person. You brought them to the Ohio conference and pop them on my table there. I'm very

impressed with them. They're very good. They are clearly either real Sasquatch footprints or very very good fakes. But the things that are about them that made that even can make me considered that there's a slight possibility of them being fakes. Can be explained very readily by supersaturated soil. Because it was a very very wet mud puddle. You sent me pictures of the thing where it walked through, and I think I think they're real. I'm not gonna be as

anybody. I do think they're real, but I try to leave a little margin of error in there. But I do think they're real. There is some rather straight lines and vertical walls, but again that's what happens when you cast things in supersaturated soil, and of course I mean supersaturated. Imagine like putting a sponge into water, that's a supersaturated sponge, and soil can be the same way you know, standing water in a puddle and that sort of

thing. The footprints are fantastic. There's they strongly resemble many, many, many other footprints in the data set, but not so much that I would think that they're a cook cutter copy. And also, being a great bigfooter like you are, you cast three footprints out of what five I think are at the location, and therefore, because we have three of them, we have multiple footprints of I believe the right if I remember right, the right foot, and when you lay the right foot over each other and line up

the toes, the toes do not line up with each other. There is a variability and horizontal tostplay, which is one of the most important things you can look for in a footprint cast to see if these things are real. One cast will not do it. There was somebody arguing that the London casts are real recently, and they put one photograph of one print up and say look at the tosplay. Well, to'splay is movement right. So if you put one footprint photograph up, you don't know if it's playing or not.

You just don't know. But here we have two casts of the same foot and overlaying them or overlying them or putting them over each other, anyway, you can clearly see differentiation in toe position. They are just fantastic. And congratulations, hats off to you. If I had fireworks, I would light him off in Eric Altman's honor. Man, they are great, So tell us how did this happen? Like, how did they come to you? What was happening, what were the witnesses doing, and what were the struggles

with casting these things? Sure, on April twenty sixth, I went on a lunch break and I checked my email for the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society, and there was an email submission from a guy named Jeff from a little a small town in south central Pennsylvania, southwestern central Pennsylvania, if you want to call it, that called Roaring Springs, and it's just to the north of Bedford,

Pennsylvania. And he said that he and some colleagues they are all hunters, were out that early that morning and they were looking for a good area to turkey hunt. They was scouting for turkey, and they had literally hiked about two hundred and fifty yards into the woods on an ATV trail from their parked truck. And this is a very heavily forested area. They've hunted there before, so they're familiar with the area, so they wanted to scout and

see if there were any signs of turkey. And as they're walking back through the ATV trail, they came across a muddy spillway area, probably about ten feet twelve feet in length, that was just a big mud puddle in the middle of the ATV trail, and they were looking for turkey tracks, and they found coyote tracks and deer tracks, and the four gentlemen, one of the taxidermists, one was a dentist. The gentleman Jeff, who contacted me. He works in retail, and he said they were looking down at the

ground and one guy said, look at this print. This doesn't look like a deer print. This looks like a big human, barefoot track. And the other guy, who was standing on the opposite side of the mud puddle was looking down he said, yeah, there's one over here too, And they were kind of looking at each other puzzled, like, what are these

prints? They'd never seen them, So they started looking a little bit further around the mud puddle, and they found a total of four tracks, two left feet and two right feet, and three of the tracks went right through the center of the mud puddle and had sunk pretty deep into the mud puddle itself. And he was just amazed. And the gentleman who was a taxidermist, and all four of them were lifelong hunters over fifty years, none of them had ever seen tracks like this, so they were kind of surprise.

One of the gentlemen who the tracks was scared. He wanted to leave the woods. He was like, let's get out here. There's something out here that shouldn't be let's go. But they were smart enough to take pictures. Unfortunately, they didn't have anything to set scale to the track except for one of the hunter's bootprints or boots, and he put it next to the print, and they sent an email to the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society. Well, I

monitor that email email box pretty frequently. I saw the email and I was like, Wow, this isn't far from my house, but I know there's two researchers that are closer than I am. Maybe they can do a quick follow up. So I sent it off to the two researchers and one of them made a phone call to him that same day and he sent me the pictures she actually sent to her, and then she sent them to me, and I got on the phone with him and like, these tracks are amazing.

These are not bare human footprints. They're much much wider, much longer. Are they still there? And he's like, yeah, they're still here. I said, well, how can I get up there to take a look at these? And the gentleman Jeff that I spoke to who sent the email, said, come on up, I'll show you exactly where they are. So the following day, that Saturday, was beginning of youth Turkey season hunting the season, and we didn't want to go into the woods to try

to cast tracks while there were people out there with rifle shooting. So we made arrangements to go up Sunday and we met him in town about twelve o'clock on Sunday and he drove us up to the location. And the location is up on a place called Lock Mountain, and it's about two and a half miles from the last house before you leave the paved road and hit dirt gravel to get up into the mountain. And this area borders right on a state

gamely and so we drove up, we parked the vehicles. You and I conversed about this cliff, and we talked about it, and I think I sent you the pictures of the original footprints, if I'm not mistaken, But you said, hey, if you need anything, let me know. I'm here, you know, if you need any help. And I was like,

I appreciate that. So we got on site and sure enough, three of the four tracks were still there, and I was kind of sweating that because it had rained Friday night into Saturday, and I was like, oh man, we're not going to get up there in time to find these tracks. But fortunately three of the four tracks, where they're one of the first tracks leading to this mud puddle, got washed out. So I was amazed. Measurements that measured fifteen inches long by across the ball of the foot,

by four across the heel of the foot. They were about an inch and yeah, an inch and a half maybe two inches deep in the mud. And there was a left right left track and I was like I got to cast these, but as we spoke on the phone, I had never cast tracks with that much water in them, and I didn't bring a turkey base or I didn't have any way of getting the water out of the tracks.

But using your advice, I used some dental stone and we just made the molding material a little thicker and we poured the casts, let them sit for about an hour and a half, pulled them out, waited a day or two for them to dry off, clean them up, and sure enough they turned out to be pretty pretty good cast. I think they're the best cast to ever have been taken in Pennsylvania. Well, I can say this for as long as I've been doing this, and I've seen several tracks in the

ground and I've tried to cast them. These are the best tracks that I've personally cast. It. They show, like you said, five toes, a large, one large toe, four smaller toes, and they were splayed. You could see clearly in the mud that they were splayed in different toe positions. Yeah, they're probably the best casts that I've had the opportunity to be able to make. Well, I can only think of a handful of other casts from Pennsylvania anyway. I guess not a lot of people are putting

plaster in the ground out there. You were kind enough to give me one that's in my collection. I've seen two or three others, but every time I've seen a cast from Pennsylvania that looks good in any way, there was only one of them, Only one single cast was retrieved. But you have three from the same trackway, which is astounding, and it's in its own right. It's a standalone feet to all those puns not intended. Actually,

it's a standalone feet to my knowledge, at least in Pennsylvania. Of course, you're probably much more familiar with the data in Pennsylvania than I am, but I'm not aware of any other trackway were multiple examples from that same track weight had been retrieved. So, like I said, congratulations to you, hats off fireworks a whole nine man, just you killed it. Those are great. I did some research, and I know there have been sightings in

the area, but there hadn't really been anything recent. I think the most recent sighting in that area was back in twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen, but it's probably about sixty miles from the Chestnutridge so it's not out of the realm of possibility that there's creatures moving around, there's just not being reported or seen. So there wasn't anything recent as far as sighting reports or encounters reported in

that area, at least to my knowledge. That might have as I mentioned, other Bigfoot researchers may have gotten some information from that area, but that's the first I'm aware of in the last couple of years. Yeah, it's fantastic, and you know, that's a sign of a good spot when you don't have anything in your database. But they're clearly there. Some of my best spots there have never been reports out of period, but yet they're there. I don't know how close you are to there, but that might be

a spot for you to start working. Yeah, we're planning on heading back up to that area in the immediate future. I'm making plans with some of the Pennsylvania big With Society members to kind of do some overnights and see what we can come up with. It's public land, so we can go up

there. It's not a private area fortunately, So Yeah, we're definitely I'm keeping my eyes on it and ears on it and staying in contact with the witness who found the tracks initially, so that if he hears anything, or anybody else in the area reports anything, I'll be sure to follow up on it immediately. Fantastic, fantastic, Get your ear to the ground out in

that area. So you said Chestnut Ridge, of course is sixty miles away, but there are other sasquatch reports, probably within twenty miles, wouldn't you think, Oh, yeah, there have been, yeah, just unfortunately nothing too recent. We've gotten some recent reports this year in northern Westmoreland County in Indiana County, which is only about a forty five minute drive maybe forty fifty miles away to the west. We've had recent reports from eyewitnesses that I've looked

into and investigated, but nothing in that particular area as of late. Like I mentioned, I think twenty fifteen or sixteen, there was a sighting in that area where the tracks were found, not in that particular same forest, but close by within a couple of miles. So there is there as sightings that are happening around the area, just not readily reporting. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and beyond with Cliff and Bogo. We'll be right back after these

messages so what are your plans for this area. You said you're gonna go do a couple of campouts, but are you going to be employing an these sort of interesting techniques you might be able to share with our listeners. Well, we're going to do a couple of night time outings where we're gonna do

some calls and woodknocks. I'm going to be putting out some game cameras, maybe fly a drone over the area to try to get a better look because it's such a vast area and full of really deep valleys and ridges and really steep mountains. It's part of the same Mountains train out there, but yeah, there's a lot of forest out there that be covered and we're going to try to do as much as we can. We only have a small team, probably about five or six members that we can take out and split up

into teams, but we're going to do what we can. Deploy some game cameras, got some thermal equipment we can use and try our luck with either doing some vocalizations or broadcasting some calls and some woodennocks and see what we can

draw in. And of course I'm assuming walking the roads and river bottoms stuff looking for footprints, because if you can find more footprints and identify this same creature as it moves around, or better yet a different creature, that would shed more lights on what's going on in that particular area, at least far as the social aspect of bigfoot, the sasquatches there be, or maybe even the population or you know, who knows, who knows, and you said,

these are about fifteen inches or fourteen inches, fifteen inches fifteen okay, so that's right on the verge of maybe being a male, you know, or a big old female. Most of the female are presumed female prints that I'm running across, and I say presumed because we are often finding juveniles nearby,

juvenile sasquatch footprints nearby in at least two different locations. They tend to be thirteen to fourteen inches, And I think that jibes pretty well with Henner's data as well on that paper that he published, the size Scaling Statistics whatever it's called, the sasquatch thing, And so I'm thinking these fifteen to sixteen inches might be male. So it'd be interesting to plumb those depths a little

bit and see what we're dealing with here in this particular area. Yeah, I'm hoping that when we get back up there and we're able to do some overnights to see if we can find anything. I know, we did a pretty thorough investigation of the surrounding area. We walked a good mile down the ATV trail and I went off in the direction the tracks were going a good

couple hundred yards, and I didn't see any tree breaks. I didn't of course, the grounds littered with leaves and fallen twigs and branches and stuff like that, but I saw no other sign really to indicate if maybe the creature turned it in a different way, or what its pathway was. We even went the direction they came from, hoping we could find something coming up the steep hollow, but we found no other signs. The ground was so dry when we were there, with the exception of that mud puddle, and it

even rained, as I mentioned, on Friday night into Saturday. So I was hoping we might be able to see something, but despite our efforts, we couldn't find any other evidence. No. Obviously there must be a lot of turkey in the area. The guys were scouting for turkey hunting, after all, did you see any other obvious food sources. We did find some berry brush that seemed to be just starting to grow with the leaves on them.

We did find deer tracks, and the gentleman Jeff, who went with us and showed it's where the tracks were found, his son and his son's best friend came along because they were interested in seeing the tracks too. While they were out walking around the woods looking for any other sign, they were doing turkey calls and we were getting turkey reply. So there was a lot of turkey in that area obviously, and it seems to be a really good food source of animals there. And as I mentioned, the last house we

had passed was two and a half miles away. There are some farms not far from this area, maybe within a three mile three and a half mile radius of where we found the tracks, so there's probably ample food there during the harvest season's corn and them planting and stuff like that. So I'm convinced there's a good, really good food source in that area of both animals and

plants. Fantastic, fantastic, really exciting stuff. And just a little tidbit for people who think that bigfoot stuff is fairly rare, and it kind of is it kind of is, but maybe not as where's you think? Because that you cast these things on a Sunday. I was out on Sunday doing my own footprint follow up and in different situation than I found five or six footprints or four or five foot prints down there. And at the same time over in Kentucky, Tom Shay was out and he was casting the Prince that

same day as well. So that was kind of a stellar day for bigfoot all around. But you are by far the winner man taking away three gorgeous gas like that. What a great accomplishment man, super stoked for you. Congratulations on that. Now I know you cast other prints before. I think you cast other Prince before. When and where were that did those things happen? I had cast a series of tracks in the summer of twenty twenty two.

I got a phone call very early in the morning from a fly fisherman who had gone down to a creek in Mount Pleasant Township on the Chestnut Ridge. He was fly fishing and he found a series of tracks. They were very small, probably ten eleven in long, maybe four and a half five inches wide, but they were along this creek bank and they went to the creek bank for I think there was maybe seven or eight of those tracks that were found, and they were of different They weren't all uniform or they want

all like very similar. They were slides, and there was some going into the creek and coming out of the creek, and you could see where there were tracks left. But there was probably of those eight prints that we found, maybe three or four of them looked really good that you could cast them. And I happened to do a Facebook live just showing the tracks, and Jeff Meldrum jumped on the Facebook live and was watching me, and I was kind of blown away. I was like, I don't know if these are

human prints or if there's something else. It doesn't really make sense why somebody would be walking. But Jeff jumped in and said, those are human prints, no pressure, right, yeah, having the expert watching you what you're doing. I'm like, I don't know, but we cast a few of those. I think we cast four of the tracks, and they're not with that they're within the range of human prints, so I can't rule that out. And Jeff watching the video said they've looked human to him. So I

cast those In twenty twenty two, I still have those casts. They don't look anything like the ones that I showed you in Ohio. Those were a little more ambiguous, more questionable, So I just kind of put them aside, you know, and if I have somebody able to look at them,

I show them make the determination of what they it might be. And in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, some gentlemen had an experience in a little town called Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where they were out target shooting and they had seen some deer run up the hill near where their targets were set up, and they were kind of surprised to see the deer run into the line of fire. But the deer ran up the hilt and store looked at them, looked

back down the hill, and then bolted. And they went over to where the deer came up, and they found a set of tracks coming in their direction. So they called me and I went out looked at them. Those tracks were about twelve thirteen inches long. They definitely had toes in them. I could see the toes. We followed that series of tracks for almost a mile mile and a half. But again these were ambiguous, They were very

questionable whether they might have been human or it might have been hoaxed. We just we couldn't really determine because they were older tracks, they weren't fresh. I tried casting some of those. Those didn't turn out real well because they weren't really castable, but I figured I'd give it a shot. So, as I mentioned, I've cast some tracks over the years, some have been kind of questionable whether or not they were human or or sasquatch tracks it.

You know, I really haven't had a chance to show them to meldormore to you, but these ones two weeks ago, I'm pretty confident what they are. I know, Jeff looked at them and he said he was about seventy five to eighty percent convinced that's what they are. So those are the best by far of all the casts I've tried to make in the last five ten years. I did have a conversation with Jeff about it after, you know, after that day of all the events there at Ohio, and his only

concerns were the same things that I saw. But I think the things that I saw, that the vertical line or yeah, the vertical walls and all that sort of stuff, are easily explainable by the substrate in which it was cast, and I think that's that's the most obvious answer there. I don't see a way that they could be fake because of the horizontal toast playing the

differentiation from those two different prints. I'm pretty convinced that. I'm also pretty convinced that they are real sasquatch of tracks and among a very rare kind, which of course is a sasquatch from Pennsylvania. You know, it's fantastic. In a few weeks here, I'm going to be going out to Pennsylvania for a job in what Marionville or where am I going? You know better than I do, because you know the area where am I going in Erica.

You're going to the Forest County Bigfoot Festival in Marionville, Pennsylvania. And that's been going on now, I think for three four years, where the Forest County, the County Commissioners, and the Forestreet Department, all that people get behind it put this huge event on. And I haven't I haven't been to one yet. I've researched in Marionville. I can tell you there's sightings there in the Allegheny National Forest. You guys filmed an episode of Finding Bigfoot out

there in the Allegheny National Forest years ago. But the festival is a little bit further to the south of where you guys filmed, and it's a nice little event. I think it's taking place in June, if I'm not mistaken. I think it's June eighth or ninth, whatever that weekend is. And are you still planning on coming out in case anybody wants to come check out those footprint casts? Are you going to be there? Yeah, I'm planning to come up and see you, of course. And it's my first festival

up there that I've attended. I've spoken around it at other festivals in that area, but this is the first one I've actually I haven't been to. So I'm planning on coming up to see you and check out the festival. And y'all have the cast with me to let anybody that wants to take a look at them, They're welcome to take a gander. That'd be fantastic. And you also have a festival or a conference or festival. It's more of

a festival, right That was a camp out really that you do. And you have some other things you want to share with us about some stet that's coming up. What do you want to let our listeners know? Yeah, if you wouldn't mind, I have. This is our fourth annual Pennsylvania Bigfoot Camping Adventure coming up in September of this year. The dates are the sixth and the seventh, and it's a charity fundraiser event. But back in twenty fourteen, I decided, you know, there's a lot of conferences going on

that are indoor. There weren't many outdoor festivals, so I thought I'd try to put something together where it would not only be a festival, but people that were interested in doing sasquatch research or wanted to learn more about it could come out here. Guest speakers get their hands on doing workshops, learning how to cast, learning how to take measurements, what kind of equipment to use when researching, tools to use that sort of thing, and you to give

the people a chance to even go out on night hikes with us. We'd take them into the state forest state Gamelanes, not far from the campground, so they'd have a chance to experience what it would be like going out and doing bigfoot research. And very successful, and we moved from twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen. You were there as a guest, so you attended.

You saw the kind of festival it is, and people just have a chance to come out and meet other researchers, people that have been in this a long time. Here some of the cases that are going on in the area, the sightings, the reports, see some evidence, get hands on workshops, go on night hikes with us looking for the creature because there have been plenty of sightings around the area, and all the proceeds benefit local charities. We donate to a couple of local charities and give back to community.

Yeah, the nineteen event was a lot of fun. Actually, that was most remarkably. That was my first exposure to the Mountain Monster folks. Those guys are Yeah. I was gonna say, man, I'm gonna be in the booth next to these guys, these actors, you know, and I was all like, man, these actors doing damage to the subject, blah blah blah. And then I saw them and I go, oh my god. First of all, they're not acting. That's probably the probably the weirdest

thing about the whole thing is they're not acting at all. And then I saw how they treat each individual person and all the children coming up, and you know, they're saying a happy birthday to kids and all day long, and I say, oh, I just fell in love with those guys. Over the next day and it's like we've been very good friends ever since.

Every time I see those guys, they put a big old smile on my face, and I realized, Yeah, that's what they're for, that's their purpose, that's what that's what all this is about, putting a big old smile on your face and having some fun. And I don't think anybody exemplifies that more than the Mountain Monster folks, even if I think their show is ridiculous, don't get me wrong. You know, I don't think squatches are a thing or whatever they're chasing the sheep squatch or whatever it is, you

know, but man, they are just solid dudes. And if for no other reason, I'm so thankful I got to do that event just because I met them. Have you have you gone out in the woods of those guys, man, I've actually become really good friends with those guys. I keep in touch with Huckleberry and Jeff and Willie, and I've run into wild Bill at several events. Always he's a character. It seems like wild Bill's a kind of guy to run into you though. You know, yeah, he's

found me at several events, I should say. But those guys are great. They're solid of the earth. They're they're really down to earth people. They're a lot of fun and they give back to their fans. Like you said, they love the kids. They're very warm and welcoming, just like you are. You guys are I mean, you love your fans and you

embrace everybody that comes up to you. That's what this event is about, is you know, people get the chance to not only here Bigfoot researchers and do the hands on they get to meet people that have been on television or some other idols. We had Jeff Meldrum there the year you were with us and Ken Gerhard and they get a chance to meet you guys and see that you guys are just average guys like you know everybody else and very welcoming,

very hospitable. And you know, that's why we keep doing it, is because it's fun to do. People get a chance to meet people they've seen on TV or can learn from ask questions, you know, get to meet them, get to know them, and it's all about friendship. We all become good friends and we keep in touch here after year. That's fantastic. And you know, I know, the lovely and talented Matt pro will put

it in the show notes and all that jazz. But why don't you tell the people who are driving and you can't write anything down right now where they can find out more information or maybe even get ahold of you, learn a little bit bit more about what you're doing. Yeah. Absolutely. The website for the event is PA for Pennsylvania PA Bigfoot Campingadventure dot com. All the informations on their speakers, who's going to be their tickets, all that information

you can find there. They can get a hold of me by our website, Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society's website, which is just PA Bigfoot dot com. And I have my own website which I haven't updated forever, but it's Eric Altman dot net and you can get a hold of me through that. We're on social media. I'm available and there's there's a lot of ways to get in touch with me. Hey, your PBS. That was my favorite T shirt for for years and years. I had a couple of my warm out.

Well, if we get in touch after the show, Bobo, I'll get you a brand new logo T shirt that we've coved with so YouTube. Cliff, I know you're not a big T shirt guy. I prefer to go shirtless. Yeah. Hey, Eric, I don't know. You have time to come hang out with us and the member section and we can talk about the Ohio conference and some other cool stuff. Absolutely, oh fantastic. Yeah,

we'll stretch this down. Let's stretch this one out to a you know, a member episode two for our members and we'll get down to the nitty gritty, do some re capping of the Ohio conference with Matt Preud who is also there. And yeah, so yeah, why do we do that? And Eric, thank you so much for coming on Bigfoot and Beyond. I apologize for waiting so long to have you on. I thought you had already been on, but that's that's my scrambled brain. So fantastic to have you

on. Great conversation as always. Just love you to death, man, Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks Eric, thanks for having me on. Guys, it's always great to talk to you. And we got to keep in touch more than we do. Absolutely, all right, so you just hold hold tight there, Eric and Boba's going to take us out of here, all right, folks. Yeah, we're going to get to the conversation. So if you want to hear more, always join up our Patreon

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