Bridge to Bigfoot: A Oregon Sasquatch Conversation

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of talking to Alisha. Alicia is an individual that I had the privilege of meeting at my booth in Sasquatch Summerfest out there in beautiful Elkridge organ just a few months ago, and she has agreed to come on. She's got some really interesting things that have happened to her over the years. But Alish, it's a privilege to talk to you again, and thank you for coming on the show.

have you on here. I'm going to go ahead and put things right over to you. But before we start, I am going to say this is going to be one of those interviews where it'll be kind of a more conversational back and forth, just because we want things to flow a certain way, and I always check with the individual to see if they'd prefer them just taking the reins and going or if we want to have more of a conversation. So we're going to go ahead and do that. So it might be a little bit

different than you're used to, but it'll be great. And Alicia, I'm going to have you go ahead and start off where you'd like to start.

Highway thirty. And we moved out there. And the first summer I was out there, I had a sleepover with a four eight friend and she came over and spent the night, and we stayed up later because it was a summer night, and we probably went to bed around like twelve or twelve thirty and I could not sleep because it was just really hot and we didn't have ac and she fell asleep within like the first five

minutes and was snoring. So between the heat and the snoring and probably like a leftover caffeine rush, I could just not sleep for the life of me. And it wasn't very uncommon for me to just lay in bed and kind of be in my head thinking about things, and so I know I did that for about like an hour and a half or so, and at one point I got so fed up with the heat that I just grabbed my pillow and decided to lay down on the carpet below the only window in my room.

And I'm laying there, and I guess maybe I should kind of describe the property a little bit in the area, but so it's kind of like in the shape of a squoi and it's a corner lot, so the road wrapped around like the left and top side of it. We had kind of some neighbors on our right side and kind of back behind us, but we had a

lot of elk and deer and coyotes around. We were really familiar with the elk and the deer coming into our yard and for some reason, they really like to enter in this one specific corner, which was like the top right corner, and it would lead from the road and they'd have to jump over a drainage ditch into our field. Our property was pretty open, like not a ton of trees, but if on our road because it kind of came to a te so it didn't matter if you took a left towards our property or right.

Either way it would end up at like a gravel road with just tons of forest and there'd be you know, logging trucks coming in and out during the week, and so just a lot of forests land back there. But our property itself was pretty open, so going back to the story. So I'm laying there and it's probably between like one thirty two thirty in the morning, and I hear this really loud thump and I immediately woke up because I was like almost drifting off to sleep, and

then the thud sound like woke me up. My eyes I opened wide open, and immediately after the thud, I started to hear running, and it sounded by pedal to me. And with the deer and the elk that would always come into our yard, I was familiar with the sound of them kind of entering our property because you'd hear kind of like a first thud and a second thud, like the front hoofs followed by the back hooves. And this was just like a single thud, So the thud

and then running towards the direction of the house. I kind of heard it approach it, and it probably got like halfway through the field, and I started to hear really heavy breathing, and at this point I was kind of more like paralyzed in fear a little bit because I was realizing that it was heading in the direction of the house, and like my open window, and even though my blinds were closed, I was just like I guess nervous that this thing would somehow know whatever it

was that I was on the other side of the window or something, and little paranoid thoughts. But so it booked it past my window, and it was so loud, like the footfall was really heavy. The breathing, of course, became a lot louder, and it just kind of went

right past my window. It took a single step on our gravel driveway and then it hit the pavement, and as soon as it hit the pavement, I heard the sound of bare feet slapping on pavement, and that really kind of tripped me out because I was like a party. Me was thinking, there's a person running through our yard in the middle of the night, which is strange on its own, But why would they not be wearing shoes?

Was my other thought. And then it continued running, and then there was like a short pause followed by another thud,

and then I continued hearing the running again. So it actually I realized it ran just far enough to pass, Like we had a bordering treeline behind our house separating our property in the neighbor's property, and there was like old barbed wire in there too, So this thing whatever it was, just ran long enough to pass that tree wine and then jumped over the ditch and continued running in our neighbor's field, which was like three foot tall dry grass, and I could hear it like kind of

pushing down the tall grass as it was running. And the other thing about it was just how fast it covered ground. Like I mean, I can't even really guess how long it took, but I just remember in the moment thinking like, wow, this thing is really fast, really heavy, and just had no idea. I had a hard time believing it was a person, and I didn't tell my friend or my family. I was just kind of like freaked out and wanted to forget it sort of a thing.

But that was the first experience I had at that house. And then a couple of years later, I was probably like thirteen or fourteen, and this is one that I experienced with my mom, And by this time we had two dogs, and we had like a small Schnauzer mix and then kind of a medium sized pit bull rescue, and the two of them were like they would just and go running after anything on our property, like didn't matter if it was you know, big elk or the

deer or people. They would just take off running. We actually had to be careful about letting them outside if we had elk in our yard and stuff like that. But my mom and I went shopping for the day and we had probably been gone about like five hours, i'd say, and no one else was home. So when we got home, first thing, we were like, oh, got to take the dogs out because they probably need to go.

And so we let them out the back porch and we start walking out there with them, and we noticed that they wouldn't go down off the porch, so we kind of decided to walk down off the few steps and onto this little tile paver area and it's dark. I don't remember there being any source of light outside of like our porch light reaching as far as it did. So we can see stars and you know, no moonlight or anything, because it was pitch black beyond like the

porch light. So and as we're walking down the stairs off the porch, we're kind of talking. I think we were just resuming a conversation we were having in the car, and we think the dogs came off the porch and are doing their thing, but we're just talking and not paying attention and then all of a sudden, in front of us, we start to hear something like trudging through the BlackBerry bushes, walking through them like it's no problem at all, and they'd probably be like, you know, kind

of waist height BlackBerry bushes. And it's again like heavy footsteps, and it was kind of like a boom boom boom sound, and my mom's and I both stopped talking, and she's like, do you hear that? And you know what is that? And she thought maybe it was an elk and I was like, no, I don't hear like the hoofs, and and she's like, could it be a cougar? And I thought no, I think it would be trying to sneak

up on us if it was a cougar. And it just keeps like a really steady pace of approaching us, and then it gets as it's getting closer, I start to hear deep, heavy breathing and I instantly think back and remember that night at the sleepover when that thing ran through our yard, and it reminded me so much of that sound, just like the heaviness of it and the breathing, and it wasn't slowing down, and it also wasn't speeding up, but it was just like beelining straight

for us, and we should have been able to see it, but again, it was so dark and the porch light only illuminated so far. And then my mom is just like, wait, were the dogs, and because we hadn't heard a peep out of them, and we look up and they're still on the porch. They're actually standing at the back door with their tails tucked and their hackles up, and they look terrified, which is very abnormal for them. They always freak out when something's on our property. And we were like,

this is weird. So my mom just goes get in the house and we ran in and she locked the door, and immediately she ran over and like closed the blinds to a window that, if it were daylight, would have been facing where that thing was walking towards us, Like we would have been able to see it had there been light, but we couldn't. Yeah, of course it was pitch black. So it weirded me out that she closed the blinds. I mean, I think that was just kind

of like a mom instinct, like protective thing. But I remember thinking, you know, if it was an animal, why would you close the blinds, but and that freaked us out. We didn't really talk about it too much after that, but she'll still talk about it with me and agree that that was weird, and we both kind of question, you know, what it could have been, but I kind of I lean more towards the bigfoot stuff and she's open to that. But yeah, both of those things are

I guess still up in the air. Just didn't sound like any animal I could think of. I guess.

like see the house anymore as you drive by. But yeah, so I didn't notice any interesting structures or things like that. But to be honest, I don't think I would have an eye for it. It wasn't until I learned about that stuff that I like will see at anytime I'm

out in the woods. But we did have a kind of a separate living room on the end of the house, or one end of the house that was kind of like a TV family room, and the porch kind of hugged around that side of the house but had a ramp leading up to it, And there was a lot of summer nights that I would fall asleep with the TV on like no volume, but leaving the TV on

for kind of like light. And when I would be asleep, kind of in the middle of the night, I would be woken up to the sound of someone stepping on the creaky boards of that ramp, and I would wake up and listen, and I wouldn't hear any addition, any additional like footsteps leading off or continuing onto the porch. It would just be like the creaks of specific boards that I knew myself from just walking on it, and then there would be no other sound. So that always

I always wondered about. But aside from that, I don't really remember much else. My brother saw a cougar at night, kind of backlit by the moonlight one night while he was out smoking on the porch, But yeah, I don't I asked him, and he didn't seem to remember any like strange non wildlife type experiences.

kind of your typical small talk with them. And yeah, they had a couple of horses and a couple of dogs, but we didn't really Yeah, it was just kind of a simple, you know, high neighbor sort of a thing. Weather's nice kind of talk.

So but when I was, yeah, that age range of twenty one twenty two, I was working in the service industry and befriended this gal and her boyfriend who I worked together with, and we decided to go camping together. And if you head down one on one from Astoria, you can go past Seaside and wind up at that junction where it splits off to either stay on one on one or take Highway twenty six. That'll go over a pass and it kind of spits you out towards

Beaverton area. And on that pass is a campground called Spruce Run. So we decided to go camp that way, and they brought their dog with them, but otherwise it was just the three of us and we When you first pull off of Highway twenty six towards the you know the sign for the campground, it kind of the road splits and you can go left and up towards the lake, which is called Lost Lake, or you can go to the right and go down into the campground.

We wanted to go out and check out the lake, but we decided to go grab our spot first and kind of set up a little bit. So we went down and we found our camp spot, and when we were driving down in, I noticed off to the left that there was a trailhead that kind of hugged and paralleled the road of the lake kind of drive up or whatever, and so I made a comment of that, and I was like, oh, I wonder if that, you know, that trail leads to the lake, maybe we should try

to hike to it. And it's probably not that long. So we decided to do that. After we set up, we walked over to the trailhead and there was no like signs at that time, so it didn't like, I don't even know if the trail had like a name or anything. And then there was just kind of like a blink sign area. But we decided to take the truck anyways, and their dog was really excited, you know, kind of had the zoomies. You'd run up ahead of

us and then come back. But then I was leading in front, and you know, besides the dog, and every like twenty feet probably I was running into cobwebs. And then the trail was pretty overgrown. You could tell it

wasn't really maintained. And so I remember making a comment about partway, you know, about five minutes in or something that like, I don't think anyone's taking this trail recently, because I'm literally walking into gobwebs, you know, every fifteen or twenty feet, And pretty soon it turns into just switchbacks, and so the dogs like running up ahead of me kind of partially up the next switchback, and then he turns around and comes running back and he'll check in

with his owners. And we get like twenty minutes into the hike, and all of a sudden, something like throws a decent sized rock up and over our heads, like this perfect arch, and it just like wax trees all the way down, and I stop and we all look at each other and we're just kind of like, what was that? And I'm trying to kind of look up because there's a bit of like a ridge up above us, and I don't, you know, I don't see anything, and

the dogs like all perked up and curious. But I think I made a joke of you know, I think at that point I had heard about bigfoots throwing rocks, and so I think I cracked a joke like, oh, maybe it's a bigfoot. But we were we were kind of puzzled, but I was curious and also wanted to continue hiking, and so I think we just decided to keep going a little farther. I think I kind of encouraged it a bit.

living up there. But I was like, oh, it's probably you know, it's probably nothing, or maybe it wasn't a rock. I remember us kind of trying to talk through it of like maybe it's not a big of a deal. But I in my head, I was like curious and kind of hoping that it was a rock thrown by bigfoot. So I was encouraging them to keep going, and we went probably i think like one and a half more switchbacks,

and a second one was thrown. So I immediately looked up the ridge or hill side again and I could see where I think it came from, because this bush was kind of shaking pretty like rapidly, and I pointed it out and they're like, oh yeah, and I could see on their faces they were weirded out, And I mean I was a little weighted out, but I was

kind of more excited and curious than afraid. But at this point, the dog actually turned around and started descending the trail without us, like he wasn't having any of it.

And I think at this point in the trail we were also wanting to know like how much farther it was, and it started to seem like it was taking longer than it should because the road leading up to it is very short, like it shouldn't take that long to kind of get to but this, yeah, the second time that the rock was thrown, it did the same exact thing, like the same exact perfect arch. It was way up over our heads and then hit multiple trees as it

came down. But when I looked up where I think that it kind of came from, there were you could see that that wasn't a part of the trail, like the switchbacks were about to stop, and like maybe it continues farther off to the right or something, because you couldn't see. It was just all overgrown, and it didn't make sense to me that a person would be hiding

up there and just like throwing rocks at people. And I think at this point too, I was still running into cobwebs, maybe a little less, but there was still quite a few as we continued up there, and so we just kind of decided, Okay, like something is either maybe not wanting us up there or is messing with us.

And because I could tell they were a little uncomfortable and the dog was like ready to leave, we decided to go back down to the campground and drive up to the lake instead, And so we went and we did that, came back, had some food and things, and I remember when the boyfriend was taking the cooler out of the car, he was making a comment that the cooler was really heavy, and my friend his girlfriend was kind of laughing, like, you know, why did you pack

so much? And we were only going to be there for one night, but he's a cook and so he got really into bringing lots of good food. And then my friend and I worked at a beer growler station, so we had like heavy thirty ounce you know, jars of craft beer in there, and then like the ice and all that. So it was probably like a thirty five pound or so cooler when he was taking it out.

And anyway, so I'm making that note because when we went to bed that night, I was woken up at some point, you know, middle of the night to hearing that cooler being dragged across the gravel on the ground. And it wasn't like I didn't hear any other sound of like something trying to open the cooler or scratch at it. I didn't hear any footsteps or something like scamping, like scampering around the camp. It was literally just the

like it happened three times. You would hear it drag across the cooler, it would pause, and then it did it again, and then there was kind of a longer pause, and then it happened one more time, and I stayed awake listening because I was like, if it's you know, a small animal, I think you'd hear more or any animal to hear more noises. If it was like a bear or something, you probably you're like sniffing or you know, something like that. And there was no other noise. It

was literally just something. And it almost reminded me of like a paranormal type experience where an inanimate object is like being moved, but you don't like hear any other noises to kind of logically explain it. It reminded me of that in a way. So, you know, little things that were just weird enough to make you question or yeah, wonder, I guess.

I would get woken up so often. I like noises, and not just not just your typical like floorboard creaking or the house settling, you know, like wood expansion or whatever it was. It would sound more like tapping or knocking, or or it would be something that I didn't hear. It would just be an overwhelming sense of like a presence of something in the room. Might even be kind of hyper focused on, like a certain corner, but not stuff that you know, could probably be chopped up to

you know, kids fear and wild imaginations. But I woke up in my grandma's house before they sold their house

and we moved out to Spencent. They had a pink house up on the hill in Astoria, and one morning everyone was downstairs eating breakfast and I was sleeping in I must have been like five or six, probably, But I woke up to the door just like slowly being pushed open, which wasn't something that a breeze could do because it was a really tall, like shaggy carpet and it would require some effort to kind of push it open,

and that freaked me out. I booked it and ran downstairs, and then I used to see like shadows in the corner of my eyes that I would just kind of brush off or ignore because I don't know. I think I avoided for most of my childhood trying to understand or explain things that would happen. But that's because it was like too scary for me to really try to

understand or think about. I was pretty easily spooked as a kid, Like I had to be careful of what I watched and things like that because it would just kind of linger for me, or it would feel so real. Even if it was just like a you know, a made up movie or something, it would feel very real.

And I've also always just had a very open mind when it came to the possibility of things existing like Bigfoot or you know, aliens, ghosts, you know, forest creatures, things like that, and I kind of feel like because I've had an open mind to it, that I've naturally been like approached or like exposed to experiencing more because I don't know, and that's just like my theory on it is because I'm if other people tell me stories or things that they believe, and I just kind of like,

I listen to them and you know, take them by their word if they if they seem authentic and without judgment, and like, wow, you know, I personally don't know if I believe in that specific thing, but I'm willing to hear it and hear them out and not discredit them for it. So I think a lot has to do with my just open mindedness to the possibilities has made

me experience a lot more. And that stuff really vamped up more in like my teenage years and my early to mid twenties, and I still get little things here and there, usually when I'm by myself, but yeah, it's something I'm more used to now and I've kind of overcome the fear and became more curious about things. And yeah, so if that kind of explains it, I.

and all that stuff. But I would always be alone, and typically in like my Grandma's house would be the setting. But I'd be in the living room like watching TV alone with nobody else home, and then suddenly I'd get the feeling that I was being watched, and I would look up, and sure enough it would be that square window with just the shoulders and the head of a bigfoot.

And I would immediately book it to the next room over and find a hiding spot where I felt like I was out of view and for a moment feel safe and like I wasn't seen. And then the feeling would come back around and I'd feel it again, and I'd look up and where on a wall there wasn't a window before that same square window like manifested in the dream, and that same exact Bigfoot would be right there,

and it was always during the daytime. I wish I could like think of or remember more details about like the face, but I in my dream, I would always kind of book it as soon as I saw, like the silhouette, and so I don't have much like memory of the specifics of what it looked like or anything. But yeah, and that one. I probably had that dream like six or eight times, and it would just always play out the same way, like maybe the house was a little different, but the same exact thing would happen

every time. And I told my mom about it the other day, asking her, you know, when she might think I was exposed to, like the idea of Bigfoot existing, because I don't remember, you know, I never saw Harry and the Henderson's until I was like twenty three, so and of course Bigfoot's marketed and used all over the place now, But back then, I mean that would have been like the mid to late nineties, it wasn't as common to see that, you know, silhouette or be exposed

to the idea of Bigfoot. And you know, like I said, she was careful about what I would watch or see as a kid, so she she couldn't think of a time when maybe I would have learned about the possibility of them. So I kind of tripped out at the thought of, like, whoa, what if I was having these dreams before I even knew they existed. But I can't like confirm or deny that.

do or how I'm feeling. But it's not like a you know, it's like an everyday thing, or I don't take it super seriously. I just kind of have a openness to the possibilities of all of it. I guess.

I think I can pick up on, you know, whether I think someone's being honest or authentic with me, But I definitely don't pick up on you know, I don't claim to have any specific like gifts, I guess if that makes sense, But based off of you know, reading about the different types like Claire buoyance or whatever, things like that. A lot of my experiences have been audible, and I tend to hear things that people other people don't and so if anything, kind of leans more towards

like the Claire audience side of things. But I don't like claim any of those as a label.

you know, be put myself. I don't. I don't go out too much and I've got a pretty small circle and just kind of do my thing. So getting out in the public or bigger events sometimes can like I can talk myself out of going, but I made myself go and it ended up being amazing.

we decided to go hike at Smith Rock. And we instead of going up and over you know the big rock stuff, like the kind of the main trail, I forget what the actual trail name is called, but there's also you can kind of go down to the left and just follow down along the flat canyon area. So we decided to do that one and I was telling them the story about the rock throwing the Spruce Run campground and we're in like a single file line. My brother's leading my friends in the middle, and then I'm

in the back. And at the time, no one was like around us. I think we were on a part of the trail that maybe other people weren't either at yet or just wasn't like a high traffic time. It was just mostly felt like it was us. We didn't

pass that many people. So anyways, I'm like kind of telling this story as we're walking along, and my friend in the middle just asked me, like, you know, I can't remember how she worded it, but she was essentially asking me if I thought that there was something more to them, like intelligence or you know, stranger about them, something like more complex, and you know, I immediately answered with, like, yeah, definitely, like that was kind of where I was leaning towards.

And right after I said yes, absolutely, I we heard this PLoP right behind us and we turn around and this like flat, larger rock was thrown from somewhere and was just dropped perfectly centered in the path behind us, like we had just walked through there. We knew that that rock wasn't there before, and we all heard like the PLoP of it landing behind us, and I turned around and saw it, and we all looked at each other and they're like, that was weird, and we look around.

I think there was to our right more of like a big.

was around us at that time. But also even if somebody did throw, like a human throw a rock from the other side, that water was pretty loud, and I couldn't imagine that from there that they could really hear us that well. And like the story I was telling and just the timing of it was really interesting. So that felt almost like a confirmation to when I answered

that question to her, I was like, oh, that was funny. Yeah, So that was just a little kind of spin off of that story, just the timing and everything.

was pushed over. That's a wild way. Yeah, it's a very interesting thing that you just mentioned, because it's something that I'm starting to hear from other people that are also very open to certain things like you are saying. So I don't know if there's a connection there, but yeah.

blood idea of them. So that was kind of already on my mind, and it seemed like once I would learn something new, and I was like exposed to a new idea or like maybe thing that people assumed that they did, like rock throwing or the tree knocky and all that stuff. It was like as soon as I had read or listened to something that talked about it, I would experience it or yeah, like encounter that. So and I kind of I always lead back to the idea that you know, we kind of we tend to

perceive things based off of what we know. You know, It's like if you don't know that something is a possibility or exists, it's like your brain might not pick up on that or even see it, like you'd walk right past it, or you chalk it up to a bird making a noise or whatever. So yeah, just trying to like learn and listen to more people's encounters makes me want to get out and kind of try to experience more things.

also had some some things happen after that. Correct.

People use the word habituation. I think I learned that from listening to your podcast, but basically something like that, where I'd go and I try to bring gifts and see if I could, you know, maybe stir things up. And the other thing too was the method of people going out and just talking out loud in the woods. And it felt very strange to me to like try to do that, and you know, I kind of laughed at myself or felt silly for doing it, but that was kind of my intention, was to go out and

find a spot and try those things. And at the time I was living in Venitas before I moved out to Cottage grove. I was twenty nine, so this was spring of twenty twenty three, and I decided to head west towards like the sayus Law National Forest. And I was driving around for quite a while and nothing was really you know popping out or there wasn't like the perfect turnoff the area, and I wasn't really sure exactly what I was looking for. I just kind of you know,

winging it. And then I noticed this gate that's blocking off this cement bridge and I noticed it was going over the bridge was you know, over the saius Law River. So I decided to just pull out. And I was like, oh, I just want to see the water and maybe experienced in like nice nature spot for a second. So I just got out and took a break and parked my car in front of the gate, and I walk around the gate and onto the bridge, and there's a bunch of like old leaf debris, pine needles, you know, like

little twigs and stuff that had fallen. And so I could tell that it wasn't like they hadn't used. I assumed it was kind of like leading towards like a logging operation road or something, but didn't seem like anyone had driven across it for a while, and then on the opposite side was kind of some overgrown grass that maybe had old tire mark tread lines. But yeah, So I start walking on the bridge and I get about like five or six feet in and I hear this

knock from underneath the bridge. But it sounded metallic, like something knocked on. Like the first thing that popped in my head was like the metal support of beam underneath or something like that. And because it definitely came from below me, and it was definitely like a tin kind of knocking sound, and I stopped and listened for a second and was like, hm, maybe that was just kind of something settling and making a noise. I don't know,

So I kept walking. I stopped in the middle for a second, and then I continued towards the other end of the bridge, and just before I reached the end of the bridge on the opposite side, I heard it again, except funny enough, it didn't sound like a perfect little knock. It sounded like something tried to slap the metal beam or whatever it was with like its finger, and like didn't hit it just right, so it was like it didn't come out. It was like quieter, and it almost

sounded like a misfire knock. If that makes sense, I don't know, because I don't know, And maybe that was intentional the way it sounded, but it sounded to me like I could hear the like fingers smacking it, but not as you know, loud as they intended to kind of thing. And then I so at that point I was like, Okay, that's weird those noises, and I started to walk very quietly, like as quiet as I could, across the debris back to my car in case, you know, I had the idea of like, oh, maybe there's a

person under there. I should maybe be conscious of that. And you know, I'm a girl out in the woods out here all by myself without any cell phone service. So I slowly start to walk back towards my car, and when I hit almost the end of the bridge again it happens and it's another more of a knock sound, but it was even quiet, so I couldn't And at this point I think I was recording on my phone and I tried to pick it up, but I it

didn't pick up the knocking noises. And then I'm standing at my car and thinking, you know, if it was a person that I was trying to like scare me out of here, there'd probably be more noises than just the knocking, and you know, like maybe if they were trying to really get me out of this area. And then I had the idea of like, oh, maybe those were you know, like knocks to tell me that I found a spot. You know, like maybe that's what that

just was. I don't know, so, and I didn't feel in danger or anything, like, it's really peaceful out there. So I decided to just go back on the bridge and grab my phone and to lean over the edge of the bridge in the middle and to try to record with my camera like both sides underneath to see

if somebody or something was down there. So I like really carefully grabbed my phone, just like really hoping I wasn't about to, you know, drop it in the water, and I pan it from one side to the other and pull it back up, open my camera roll and look, and there's nothing down there, Like there's nobody, and the water's fairly high. There's like a little bit of a ledge where somebody could stand, but it's kind of steep, so I couldn't imagine someone hiding under there without you know,

struggling with balance. And you know, it's kind of like that clay type soil too, so it'd be kind of slick, and I just I couldn't imagine how someone would be down there hanging out. But and then there was a lot of overgrown brush on both sides. I'm sure you could kind of move your way down there underneath the bridge, but there was no obvious, like even game trail leading down there, and you'd make quite a bit of noise walking around in it. There's just like a lot of

crunchy leaves and little twigs on the ground. So aside from the knox, I didn't hear anything else, so I kind of just said, Okay, maybe that was confirmation that I found my spot. So I went back to my car and I grabbed some gifts quote unquote, I just kind of brought like I had some old stones or crystals that I didn't really need anymore, and I think I grabbed a couple of seashells, and then I had apples and ausie bites, which are really good. They're kind

of like a healthy snack or whatever. I just kind of grabbed things that I had at home, and I decided to set them on kind of the ledge on the side of the bridge there and them, and I was like, Okay, I guess now would be a good time for me to attempt to talk out loud if there's like anything out here. So I start talking out loud and I feel totally ridiculous, and I'm doing this

from so I yeah. I went back on the bridge and I'm standing in the middle of the bridge kind of talking in the direction of my car and the

road and that direction. And as I'm talking, I just kind of like introduced myself and I was like, I you know that I believe in them existing out here, and that you know that it's hard for me to be out in the woods by myself because I had an idea I had to like just be authentic, and so I was like, I'm a little bit fearful, So this is like a lot for me to come out in the woods alone. And you know, it just was kind of silly. I cut out that part of my

recording because I can't like listen back to it. It just sounds ridiculous. But as I was talking, I just got this really strong just I guess the best I can explain. It is like my whole body was just like zinging, just like I don't even know if I

would call it like vibration or something. It just felt like my whole almost like an adrenaline rush, and it felt like something was very close and like listening to me, and it was just all over, like my whole body just took over and this like feeling of like I don't I don't even know how to really describe it. I had never felt anything that strong before and it took me off guard and I had to kind of like take a deep breath and nothing. I wasn't hearing

anything around me. I just had that moment of feeling that, you know, physical sensation. And so it was also getting

dark at this point. The sun wasn't fully set yet, but there's a lot of tree canopy, so as it was starting to move that direction, it got darker and darker pretty quick, and I didn't think I was ready to be in the dark in the woods by myself, So I was like, I better wrap this up, and you know, I'm not hearing anything, And in the moment, I didn't really take very seriously the physical sensation that

I felt. I just tried to kind of move through it, and so but in my recording, I I after I was done talking, I was trying to wrap it up, and I kind of dorkishly said like, oh, like you live in a really beautiful place. And then I took this big like saw, like trying to calm myself down.

And right after I took that big exhale, something in the woods across the road in front of my car let out what sounded to me in the moment like a really deep sigh, and it was very loud, and it completely caught me off guard because it sounded, I mean, it sounded perfectly like a sigh, almost like it mimicked my sigh. And I even heard pitch changed, like it was like a who, like you heard three tones change beig.

like that was one of them. And I immediately just like my stomach dropped and I was just kind of in shock, and I was like, oh crap, like that came from closer to where my car is, and I have to walk that direction and it's getting really dark now, like I'm I'm scared, and so I just out loud said like okay, like thank you, I need to walk back to my car now, so if you could please

just give me some space. And so I just like my whole body is now shaking out of fear, and I'm like trembling, and I'm walking back to my car and I and I get in the car and I lock the door and I turn on my car and I immediately just start leaving because I couldn't handle it. It was such a weird physical reaction, like my hands were on the steering wheel and just like like shaking. I couldn't calm myself down. I was like okay, like

it's okay, We're in the car. It's safe, and you know, like realizing, you know, you kind of asked for this, this is what we came out here to experience. But I just I didn't expect such a physical reaction to it. And I really didn't think about that part of this experience until I started listening to like more things on your podcast or some other people and listening or hearing other people mention the physical reactions or yeah, responses that

they get from interactions. That was a piece that I never really thought about, I guess, but yeah, that I just kind of took away from it. You know. I had the recording and I shared it with like my mom and my sister, but of course it does not do it justice because it's so I was on the

bridge with my phone recording and this thing. I'm not good at judging distance as far as like, you know, how many feet away, but you know, I was in the middle of the bridge, and then there's the gate, my car a road, and then it was a little set back in the woods just on the other side of the car or on the other side of the road, and so it's a lot quieter, and I had to kind of try to enhance the recording. I called it

the si Use law. Who, because in the recording it sounds almost like a who instead of a sigh, but in person, I heard like it seemed so much more drawn out, like a longer sound, and I heard the pitch tone like three times, Like it doesn't do it justice.

But anyways, I have the recording of it, and it was the most intense thing I think I've experienced the date, and I've been a little too afraid to go back by myself since then, but I want to muster up the courage to go back out there because that's what I was hoping for. It's just you just don't expect yourself,

you know. It's like until you experience something like more than you ever thought you would, it's like it just doesn't really set in that you know how that can affect you, and trying to like overcome the fearful side of it and stay and collected or to return even and try to experience more. So, Yeah, it's kind of wild.

mom and I told her what happened. And as I was telling her, I got like emotional, which was so weird, Like it just popped up out of nowhere, Like I just started getting emotional, like and it wasn't really the fear it just like I think I was in just complete shock, and it was like things I've heard, you know, through other people that put out content or whatever, and it was like I heard that in real life, and I think I was just in awe that that happened

to me. It seems like something that very few people get to hear, and yeah, I was just in shock.

the moment. I had some things happen out in Oakridge, and it's really hard to control how you respond in that moment. So yeah, I totally I totally get it.

I wasn't like upset, but I was just the same thing. And I was like, oh, other people are experiencing like physical reactions to this, and that's just the side of it that I didn't really think about before. So it's yeah, really.

was in danger or anything. I just knew it was my own fear bubbling up to the service. So a part of me also wanted to work on trying to I don't know how I could do that, but other than just getting out there, but trying to work on, you know, staying I guess grounded and not let my emotions, you know, take over and make me want to leave sort of a thing. But I know I would love to go out there and continue like gifting and maybe

trying to car camp overnight there. And I'm not opposed to like bringing a friend with me or like I've been back out there since then with my mom, and I brought my sister out there one time, and we've heard some interesting stuff. But like, I tend to not mention this one as much because of course it's easy to you know, our brains can sometimes see things or

mess with us a little bit. But then one of the nights I brought my mom back out there with me, and it was dark, but there was a little bit of moonlight kind of shining through you know, the forest a little bit, and We're standing out there and I'm looking in the direction of this, like I can see the outline of like this big trunked tree, and just to the right of it, I'm like squinting my eyes and looking because I noticed like a shape and I

just perfectly see like this head shoulders and then straight down and I'm looking and I'm like, there's no way, Like I think my mind's playing tricks on me, because if that is something, it is massive, like really big, and it's not very that was probably less than fifty feet from us. If I was guessing, I'm not the best of that. But and so I didn't say anything to my mom. I just said, hey, can we go sit in the car for a second, because in case

it was something, I instantly just got freaked out. And then we sat in the car and listened for a bit. I calmed down and I was like, Okay, I'm going to get back out, like I'm kind I've kind of recentered, and I go back to that same spot and I look for that tree. In that spot where I saw a head and shoulders. There was nothing there. It was like an open spot back lit by the moonlight, and there was so in that moment, I was like, Okay,

maybe I did see the silhouette of something there. But I can't be totally for sure if my eyes were just adjusting and playing tricks, but I was almost certain that I saw a silhouette there.

And I tried to tell her. I was like, it's okay, like those are barred owls. And she went and sat in the car for a minute. But she was able to like come back out and hang out for a bit, and she's she's fun to go and listen with. She'll just kind of be quiet and listen to all the sounds with me. And yeah, she's a fun one to go big flitting with.

It's just kind of like the bird sounds. But no, my plan is to maybe do an overnight car camp out there if I can make it, and I'll probably bring a friend with me, just so that I'm not like is easily freaked out and try to work on that. It feels a little safer when you're camping in your car versus a tent.

see or hear. But yeah, another time I've been there, I actually heard this sound. It was the daytime, just sitting on the bridge from like almost below us. It kind of sounded like it's a weird thing to hear, but like I literally pictured it in my head as

I listened to it. It was another metallic sound, but it sounded like somebody had put rocks inside of a like metal cage kind of thing, like a you know, kind of a woven mesh metal cage thing, and we're just like shaking it almost like a Morocca kind of thing where you just heard like the but like rocks falling into each other and stuff inside of it is what it sounded like to me. I heard it three times and I thought that was a peculiar kind of out of place sound. But yeah, I don't know what

that was. And there weren't other people around us. We were just pretty much just us and the birds out there, So.

down the line. But I just I'm limited because I drive like a Prius and so my car does not really handle some of the back roads that well. So I kind of either have to like hit your ride and line it up with one of them or with Jeff, or wait till I have kind of a four wheel drive option. But yeah, and I plan on making it

too tobes puting together that the Olympic Strange Days. I don't know if you've heard about that, but I'm planning to attend that as long as I can find either hitch a ride or find a rig that I could drive because those roads get pretty gnarly. But yeah, I'm planning to get out into the woods more and kind of just dive a little deeper into all of this because it's you know, when I have my free time. That's what I want to be doing.

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