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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for asking about that. All right, we
Speaker 2: are talking about the Silverton Bigfoot. Lots of controversy happening there,
Speaker 2: and tonight's the night where you can ask the people
Speaker 2: that were there taking the pictures and there when the
Speaker 2: video was happening, and that you heard their voices as
Speaker 2: well as talking to the VP Jeff Johnson of the
Speaker 2: Durango and the Silverton Narrow Gage Railroad. That was what
Speaker 2: That's what they were on when they were writing it, looking,
Speaker 2: you know, celebrating their anniversary and looking at the lead changes.
Speaker 2: The aspen are absolutely beautiful this time of year, and
Speaker 2: this happened October eight. So welcome back Jeff, Welcome back Stetson,
Speaker 2: and welcome back Shannon. Thanks so much for being here
Speaker 2: and sharing your old stories. Before we do go to
Speaker 2: some phone calls, is there anything else you guys want
Speaker 2: to add to what we've said?
Speaker 3: So I don't actually give an interviewed a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, and it was brought to my attention, you know,
Speaker 3: in a question form of why have we never found
Speaker 3: a body? And I thought it was an interesting concept.
Speaker 3: I kind of wanted to bring it up. Excuse me.
Speaker 3: It's from a group based on North Dakota called the
Speaker 3: sheet Squatters. It's been allah.
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Give them a big shout out.
Speaker 2: They're they're cool. They're cool people, that's right.
Speaker 3: But they brought up an interesting point in concept that,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe the reason we've never found a body
Speaker 3: or a bigfoot in the wild is because maybe they
Speaker 3: bury their dead. If anybody listening or anybody that has
Speaker 3: the insight that's on the show now once a chime
Speaker 3: in on that, I would, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 3: hear from those thoughts.
Speaker 2: Okay, anything else you want to add about your sighting?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: What? What do you How far away do you think
Speaker 2: as well? Your wife said like three hundred yards?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to add to that
Speaker 2: to maybe to where you even think it was eight
Speaker 2: foot or six foot or ten foot or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I would say we were roughly, you know, three to
Speaker 3: four hundred yards away. As far as side comparison, you know,
Speaker 3: goes up the how tall big Foot was It's hard
Speaker 3: to say. Definitely, I believe well over six foot, but
Speaker 3: you know, the width of its body mass, the length
Speaker 3: of its arms, the way that it was just lumbering
Speaker 3: on the hillside and not doing a U flashy hey
Speaker 3: look at mean motion just kind of in my opinion,
Speaker 3: it kind of leads to the validity of you know,
Speaker 3: the possibility is big Foot. So but as far as
Speaker 3: the side of comparison, it's hard to say at that distance.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I think Jeff, you had something to say,
Speaker 2: you were going to chime in there.
Speaker 3: I was saying I don't.
Speaker 5: I think we've covered it pretty well actually, and I
Speaker 5: appreciate that Stanton and Shannon's kind of corroborated by thoughts
Speaker 5: about what the distance was there over the over the river,
Speaker 5: and I did know it. It was interesting that they said
Speaker 5: they talked to one of our trainmen who had mentioned
Speaker 5: something about experiencing something hiking at one point. I thought
Speaker 5: that was very interesting.
Speaker 3: I had the The reaction.
Speaker 5: Among employees has been pretty mixed, as it would be
Speaker 5: probably across any cross section, mostly skepticism, with some other
Speaker 5: folks who who do probably you know, feel strongly about
Speaker 5: it and believe so it's really interesting.
Speaker 2: Let's go east of the Rockies. Let's talk to Mark
Speaker 2: out of Kentucky. Hey, go big Blue, how are you? Mark?
Speaker 2: Welcome to thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: I would like to ask your guests if they noticed,
Speaker 4: as Bigfoot was walking, if the arms were hanging below
Speaker 4: the knees and they could actually see his arms smoothing
Speaker 4: back and forth, because that would demonstrate that it was
Speaker 4: an actual Bigfoot rather than someone dressed in a costume.
Speaker 2: And Mark before he answers that, before he answered that, Mark,
Speaker 2: what did you think do you think real or no, Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm a believer.
Speaker 4: I'm definitely a believer.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Stetson or Shannon.
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, seeing seeing him move and
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, walk, The arms were definitely longer
Speaker 3: than anything I had ever seen before on any creature
Speaker 3: of any size, you know, standing straight up at full length,
Speaker 3: you know, the fingertips pretty much came down right around
Speaker 3: to the knees itself. So yeah, I would say the
Speaker 3: arms were pretty well extended, longer than anything I had
Speaker 3: ever seen any creature, any system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that always makes a difference for sure when people
Speaker 2: are looking at that. Let's go wild Card line number three.
Speaker 2: Talk to John out of Florida. Hey there, John, welcome,
Speaker 2: You're on the air of Coast to Coast AM.
Speaker 6: Hey there Sabby and the Parkers and Gap. I just
Speaker 6: I hadn't experienced. I'm sixty two years old. Back it
Speaker 6: up in Washington State on waybe Aden when I was
Speaker 6: a kid, I was in a Scouts as we went
Speaker 6: camping up in Mount Baker and Mount Baker is notoriously
Speaker 6: known as a big foot fighting area, and we were
Speaker 6: camping up there overnight and uh, I remember, uh, in
Speaker 6: the middle of the night, we heard a rustling, and
Speaker 6: it woke us up, but we didn't there go outside
Speaker 6: of the tent. Thought it might have been a bear.
Speaker 6: But uh, in the morning, we smelled, I mean, the
Speaker 6: scout master best described the smell. It was an awful
Speaker 6: smell smell. He said, it smell like to like forty
Speaker 6: wet dogs. I mean it literally, it just it just
Speaker 6: took your breath out. It was so smelly whatever was there.
Speaker 6: And he said that that definitely wasn't a bear because
Speaker 6: of the mark. The print marks looked like humans print marks,
Speaker 6: and they were big, they were like, uh, you know,
Speaker 6: wider than humans and longer, but definitely wasn't was not
Speaker 6: a a bear. Now my question. I'm a believer in
Speaker 6: bigfoot since I was about that age. I remember that experience,
Speaker 6: and I do think that those creatures exist. My scouting experience.
Speaker 6: We have Navajo Indians who were part of our scouts.
Speaker 6: One one young man that they believe that Navajos believe
Speaker 6: that it's a shaman, that a bad shaman, that is
Speaker 6: what the bigfoots are. But the bigfoot you have in
Speaker 6: your picture, it's it's interesting because he's got some real
Speaker 6: dark uh either some dark coloration around his eyes. Or
Speaker 6: looks like you might have sold the backpacker's sunglasses or something.
Speaker 2: John Lennon was right, Lynn, Yeah, I saw that picture.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Wow, that's that's interesting. It looks like you've
Speaker 6: got some real dark shadows under his guys. There are
Speaker 6: something's going on there. I don't know what that is,
Speaker 6: but I'm definitely a believer in that after you know
Speaker 6: my experiences as a kid.
Speaker 2: So you believe that the video is real, authentic?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know, but it's definitely. I mean, somebody
Speaker 6: can't be that big if they're wearing a suit. I mean,
Speaker 6: a human cannot be. There's not very many humans eight
Speaker 6: feet tall ors, you know, over seven feet tall. So
Speaker 6: I just I just don't see it. I just don't
Speaker 6: see that that's possible.
Speaker 2: So do you believe it's eight foot tall because of
Speaker 2: your boy scouting experience?
Speaker 6: Just by looking at the body shape? That picture is
Speaker 6: kind of it's kind of hard to but but you know,
Speaker 6: if you're on a train and you're three hundred yards away,
Speaker 6: that thing is still you know, uh, it has a
Speaker 6: human shape of a head. Like my professor in college
Speaker 6: and say that it could be the Neanderthal. You know
Speaker 6: that just like, just like the creature that's in lake
Speaker 6: in the lake over in Scotland. You know that it
Speaker 6: might have never you know that that creature survived because
Speaker 6: it it was meant, you know, with the perfect conditions.
Speaker 6: Could it be that perfect conditions may have allowed these
Speaker 6: creatures to survive, Like it could be a Neanderthal, because
Speaker 6: Neanderthals are supposed to be over seven feet tall. So
Speaker 6: I'm thinking that if they're real, there's got to be
Speaker 6: an explanation to it. So like that it must be
Speaker 6: something like a like a something like like NeSSI you
Speaker 6: know that a freak, a freak thing that that survived
Speaker 6: that shouldn't have, that wasn't suppose to survive.
Speaker 2: I guess well, thank you John for your call. Does
Speaker 2: anybody have anything to say with the dark Eyes stet Center,
Speaker 2: Shannon or Jeff.
Speaker 7: I think that we have heard everyone making fun of
Speaker 7: us for that and saying, you know, good jug guys,
Speaker 7: you got a hunter with sunglasses on. Yeah. I think
Speaker 7: my pictures really don't do it justice. And I know
Speaker 7: that you know, the pictures are super grainy and all that,
Speaker 7: but it really did not look like sunglasses to us.
Speaker 7: I know that the picture kind of looks like that,
Speaker 7: but for me, it just looks like you may maybe
Speaker 7: like a dark shadow from like deep songk eye socket and.
Speaker 2: The brow yeah.
Speaker 7: Right, yeah, And so it's just like kind of a
Speaker 7: shadow there because even if you're like really looking at
Speaker 7: the photo, it's I mean, it's really grainy, so it's
Speaker 7: really hard to tell. But it doesn't appear like there's
Speaker 7: a line during across for sunglasses or you know, even
Speaker 7: ears to say where the sunglasses would be at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like monocles that can go in each eye, right,
Speaker 2: weren't they monocles back in the old days. They've put
Speaker 2: those in. Yeah, I think that's where I go back
Speaker 2: to the shadows. And the time of day, did you
Speaker 2: say was around three thirty?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean I will verify what Jeff was saying
Speaker 7: that is about exactly the time, because you know, we
Speaker 7: can look back at the time stamps on our photos
Speaker 7: and the video, so he's pretty accurate at the timing
Speaker 7: on that.
Speaker 2: Does anybody have an idea on the temperature? Sorry?
Speaker 7: Sorry, Oh, I will tell you it was warm in
Speaker 7: Silverton that day, so it was probably and I know
Speaker 7: warm is relative, but for us living in Wyoming, it
Speaker 7: was like seventy degrees in silver Atton that day, so
Speaker 7: it's not pretty warm, you know, in the Rockies with
Speaker 7: the sun out and all of that. So you know,
Speaker 7: if it was someone in a costume, they were burning up.
Speaker 2: They were because you know, it's true, I mean, even
Speaker 2: on cooler days, because you're in that much closer to
Speaker 2: the sun, and then the elevation and just the mountains
Speaker 2: in general, that sun bacon on you is hot. I mean,
Speaker 2: oh man, it just beams on you. That's why skiers
Speaker 2: have beautiful tans from Colorado and beyond right beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: I know, we've got some more phone calls. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we can take one. Maybe we can take
Speaker 2: an I don't know if we can hit one really
Speaker 2: quickly or not. Let's try it east of the Rockies,
Speaker 2: Glen Nashville, Tennessee, Glenn. If you can make it quick,
Speaker 2: we'll take your question.
Speaker 8: Okay, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: I wanted to ask if there was any evidence on
Speaker 8: this siding that this was a subterranean tap creature or
Speaker 8: whatever you'd like to call it. It's been reported by
Speaker 8: some people, you know, that that the big feet can
Speaker 8: just disappear into the ground and was there any evidence
Speaker 8: of that did it or did they see it? And
Speaker 8: why did they first recognize that?
Speaker 4: They're yeah, when you all first.
Speaker 2: Saw it was it? Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, stay
Speaker 2: so real quick.
Speaker 3: You know when I saw that it was, it was walking.
Speaker 3: And you know, again we were at a pretty far
Speaker 3: distance from and on a moving trade. Uh, so I
Speaker 3: did see it. It kind of squatted down after I
Speaker 3: called it out, pointed out, hey, look there's something moving.
Speaker 3: It looks quick, But it didn't seem like it was
Speaker 3: really trying to disappear into the earth as much as
Speaker 3: it was just kind of squatting down, blending with its environment,
Speaker 3: you know as subterranean crease.
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what. When it cut off, I
Speaker 2: was you know, that's when I was watching the head
Speaker 2: move like a fly and me like, wow, look at
Speaker 2: that head. What does it do? You know, it's looking
Speaker 2: around hidden behind the bush. It it cut off at
Speaker 2: that point, So I guess you all got out of
Speaker 2: range at that point. But man, I wish we could
Speaker 2: have got more. Man, it was so good, but you guys,
Speaker 2: great job. Thanks. I'm so glad that Brandon got it,
Speaker 2: uh and gave it and shared it, you know, and
Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you guys also got some still shots,
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy that you all have come to
Speaker 2: share that with us. I really do appreciate that, and
Speaker 2: Jeff the same with you. Thanks so much for staying awake,
Speaker 2: and all of you were first time Coast to Coast guests,
Speaker 2: and we just appreciate that you guys have come and
Speaker 2: shared your story and your knowledge and your education. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much, it.
Speaker 4: Was a pleasure.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you for having.
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