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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back, George Norriiy back with you. Let me

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Speaker 2: tell you a little bit about our guest. Jim Myers

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Speaker 2: grew up in Kenya from the age of eleven until

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Speaker 2: he graduated from high school, and after graduating from college,

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Speaker 2: Jim spent another twenty years as an adult living in

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Speaker 2: West Africa and France. Now he returned to the United

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Speaker 2: States back in two thousand and nine and was able

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Speaker 2: to begin pursuing his interest in Sasquatch. For the past

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Speaker 2: eleven years, he's been an avid Sasquatch researcher and public

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Speaker 2: speaker of all things related to the Sasquatch Force people.

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Speaker 2: He and his wife Daphne built the Sasquatch Post with

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Speaker 2: the goal of becoming Sasquatch Central for the Western US,

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Speaker 2: and they did. The Outpost is the home of the

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Speaker 2: Sasquatch Encounter Discovery Museum, and Jim is also the host

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Speaker 2: of a weekly podcast called The Sasquatch Outpost Podcast, where

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Speaker 2: he and his co host Sibylla Irwin for the mysteries

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Speaker 2: of the Sasquatch phenomenon. Jim, Welcome back have you been.

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Speaker 3: I've been well, George, thank.

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Speaker 2: You looking forward to this. What got you into Kenya?

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Speaker 3: My parents were missionaries. Actually I just tagged along.

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Speaker 2: And what made you this quest to go hunting for Bigfoot?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I've been interested ever since I was

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Speaker 3: a child, and two things taught my interest. One was

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Speaker 3: when the Patterson Gimlin footage first came out in sixty seven.

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Speaker 3: I was very young, but I still remember seeing that

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Speaker 3: on television. And then in seventy two, the film The

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Speaker 3: Legend of Boggy Creek came out and it was rated gee,

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Speaker 3: but it scared me to death when I went to

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Speaker 3: see it. But that film sparked my interest even more

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Speaker 3: in the mysteries of what could exist in the forest.

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Speaker 3: They never called the creature Bigfoot or sasquatch. They called

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Speaker 3: it the fouc Monster because it was in Foulk, Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: But I credit that movie with my earliest interest in

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Speaker 3: this topic.

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Speaker 2: Do you call this creature sasquatch or Bigfoot?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the terms are interchangeable, but my preferred

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Speaker 3: term is sasquatch. I think Bigfoot is a term that

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Speaker 3: was given to the creature by a journalist in nineteen

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Speaker 3: fifty eight. Sasquatch is one of many Native American names,

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Speaker 3: and they've been around dealing with sasquatch for a lot

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Speaker 3: longer than we have.

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's an entity of physical or is

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Speaker 2: it something more dimensional?

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Speaker 3: I think it's both. George and I think it's physical

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Speaker 3: when it once needs to be physical, and I think

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Speaker 3: it can be interdimensional or invisible when it wants or needs.

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Speaker 1: To be that.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that a lot tonight. James tell us

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Speaker 2: about the story behind the Sasquatch outpulls well.

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Speaker 3: When we've moved to Colorado in two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 3: I worked had a company called Storm Guides. I was

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Speaker 3: doing a lot of crisis management at the time, but

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Speaker 3: we found this little grocery store in the town of

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Speaker 3: grocery store retail. So in twenty twelve we began rebuilding

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Speaker 3: the store. It had been closed up. The building that

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Speaker 3: we now own had been closed up I think for

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Speaker 3: four or five years, and that's a lot of hard

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Speaker 3: It took us about nine months to get it open.

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Speaker 3: But during those nine months, two interesting things happened. The

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Speaker 3: first was I met my first eyewitness, who was a

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Speaker 3: woman who managed a local lodge, so she was a businesswoman,

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Speaker 3: very credible, and she and her best friend had seen

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Speaker 3: lying to me. And then maybe a month later, the

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Speaker 3: Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot came to Bailey to do

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Speaker 3: about one hundred people were at this meeting. And who

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Speaker 3: ever saw any advertising for this meeting. Because I was

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Speaker 3: from Bailey, I knew about it, but people came from

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Speaker 3: we build that into our store, which we did, and

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Speaker 2: The paranormal activity over the outposts, over the years. Did

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Speaker 3: Early on, it did a little bit because we didn't

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Speaker 3: that something was knocking merchandise on the floor. But we

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Speaker 3: realized fairly quickly that whatever this was, it wasn't malevolent,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't attempting to hurt us in any way, and

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Speaker 3: we began to see kind of the fun in it.

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Speaker 3: And over the years, we've continually seen and heard things

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's the building or the topic the

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Speaker 3: Well, people have asked me this question made science. Do

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Speaker 3: you think Bigfoot knows about I'm pretty sure they do,

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Speaker 3: and whether they are involved. I mean, the the activity

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Speaker 3: was going on before we were heavily involved in squash research,

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Speaker 3: so that's a great question. I don't know the answer,

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Speaker 3: but I certainly think they know about what we're doing,

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Speaker 3: and one of these days maybe we'll start finding evidence

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Speaker 3: that they're around the store, which wouldn't surprise me in

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Speaker 2: Now, how close is Bailey to like Denver.

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Speaker 3: Old about forty five minutes drive.

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Speaker 2: That's not bad. No, do you actually get some people

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Speaker 2: from Denver visiting the museum.

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Speaker 3: We get many people from Denver, and we get many

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Speaker 3: tourists from around the country and around the world now, so,

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Speaker 3: but yes, we have a big customer base in Denver.

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Speaker 2: How did you go about building the museum.

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Speaker 3: Joe, Well, that's an interesting question because initially we were

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Speaker 3: just a retail store and we were having fun finding

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Speaker 3: every kind of bigfoot finding or making every kind of

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Speaker 3: bigfoot souvenir or swag that we could think of, and

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Speaker 3: people would come in and would talk to us about

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Speaker 3: their stories of their own encounters, and they would always

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Speaker 3: have questions. And after a couple of years, I thought,

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Speaker 3: you know, people ask generally the same questions, maybe fifteen

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Speaker 3: and I thought, why don't we build a space that

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Speaker 3: we built an initial part of the museum in a

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Speaker 3: two years later and extended it again three years later.

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Speaker 3: So we've run out of storage space. We've used all

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Speaker 3: the interest in the topic, we kept expanding and adding

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Speaker 2: What's the population of Bailey.

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Speaker 3: About ten or eleven thousand.

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Speaker 2: And I bet everyone knows about the museum, don't they?

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Speaker 3: You would think so. The reason many don't is that

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Speaker 3: Bailey is divided between what we call High Bay and

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Speaker 3: and then they would turn to go towards Denver rather

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Speaker 3: than turning to come towards Bailey downtown Bailey. So I'm

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Speaker 3: sure there's people who aren't where, But I don't think

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Speaker 3: I've spoken to anyone who lives in Bailey and quite

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Speaker 2: Now, you're a museum curator, but you've got your own

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Speaker 2: encounters too, haven't you.

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Speaker 3: I've had many encounters over the past twelve or thirteen years.

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Speaker 2: Now, any dangerous.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the questions I get asked a lot.

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Speaker 3: Are they dangerous? I think they certainly can be if

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Speaker 3: they were provoked, But no, I've never had any experience

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Speaker 3: few rocks thrown in my direction. One rock thrown is

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Speaker 3: very hard, but it hit a tree behind us. Had

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Speaker 3: But it didn't. And when people mentioned to me that,

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Speaker 3: or they were attacked by sasquatch that involved them throwing

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Speaker 3: something towards the people. The interesting part is they never

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Speaker 2: It's like they're just trying to get your attention.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and their aim is impeccable, so they hit whatever

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Speaker 3: be it because they can throw extremely hard, but their

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Speaker 3: aim is uncanny. I mean, I've seen them hit things

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Speaker 2: Are you totally convinced that there is some kind of

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Speaker 3: I could not be more convinced.

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Speaker 2: No doubts, no doubts zero. And again we go back

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Speaker 3: Well, they they're clearly physical, because that's how they're seen,

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Speaker 3: and that's how they're smelled, that's how we find tracks

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Speaker 2: We physically hear them, something.

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Speaker 3: Stolizations and things. So there's there's abundant evidence that they're

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Speaker 3: a physical creature, but there's also abundant evidence if you're

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Speaker 3: looking for it for something else. And I have seen

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Speaker 3: them disappear. My only real daytime sighting, I was fishing

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Speaker 3: And at that critical moment, a fish grabbed my fly

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Speaker 3: simply vanished. But I have quite a few friends who

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Speaker 3: actually watched them disappear in front of their eyes. And

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Speaker 3: so these people have no reason to lie. And if

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Speaker 3: you're going to lie, why make up something that's more

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Speaker 3: believable than a sasquatch disappearing. And so I know that

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Speaker 3: that is a reality. And where they go I couldn't

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Speaker 3: tell you whether they simply disappear but they're still there

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Speaker 3: and they're cloaked in some way, or they actually go

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Speaker 3: somewhere else. I can't answer that question.

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Speaker 2: Around the US, Jim, where are they primarily located?

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Speaker 3: Well, they've been seen in every state in the US,

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Speaker 3: There's just as many sightings on the eastern seaboard. In

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Speaker 2: When some people have thought that the Sasquatch was a

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Speaker 2: gigainst as piscic as a monkey.

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Speaker 3: True and many still think that. But to me, to

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Speaker 3: believe that Sasquatch is an ape or some type of

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Speaker 3: descendant of a of a extinct grade ape is ridiculous

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Speaker 3: because of these other abilities. They have, these other paranormal abilities,

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Speaker 3: and because they demonstrate in their behavior, in their appearance,

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Speaker 3: they demonstrate that they are more people like us, more

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Speaker 3: I think there's some DNA evidence that supports that.

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Speaker 2: Not that i'd want one to capture or hurt, but

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Speaker 2: we don't have them. I'll come, well, we.

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Speaker 3: Don't have them that we know about. I think there's

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of things that the general public don't know,

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Speaker 3: and this could be one of them. I'm confident that

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Speaker 3: certainly aware of sasquatch. There's plenty of evidence that they

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Speaker 3: frequent various military bases in this country, and so there's

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Speaker 3: no doubt that we've studied them at length and perhaps

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Speaker 3: probably have captured one or more or found bodies, but

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Speaker 3: that's not public knowledge. And I think I've often spoken

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Speaker 3: to others who are this and we've set together, well,

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Speaker 3: if we ever find a body, let's give each other

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Speaker 3: it becomes public knowledge that we have this body. But

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Speaker 3: I honestly don't think that's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: You look back at the Star Wars movie, Chewbacca looked

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Speaker 2: like a big Foot. Could they be extraterrestrial?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question too. I think they certainly

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Speaker 3: could be. The interesting thing, George, is that there's no

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Speaker 3: fossil record of sasquatch. Now, if you exclude jike Antipithecus,

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Speaker 3: which I think we need to, there's no fossil record

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Speaker 3: I think they've been here a long time, but not

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Speaker 3: record like we have for humanity. So they must have

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Speaker 3: come from somewhere, and it must be in the relatively

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Speaker 3: recent past. And maybe they were the top of genetic

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Speaker 2: Do you ever have people Jim come to your museum

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Speaker 3: All the time, all the time.

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Speaker 2: Why do they come? Why do they show up?

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Speaker 3: They usually come because they're coming with someone else in

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Speaker 3: their family. It seems like most families have at least

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Speaker 3: one person who believes that Bigfoot is real and wants

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Speaker 3: of tags it on because they have nothing better to do,

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Speaker 3: so they'll come in because of that one friend or

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Speaker 3: family member who's a believer. And I've learned over the years, George,

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Speaker 3: that if someone is very skeptical, there's not really any

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Speaker 3: point in getting into a lengthy conversation because their minds

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Speaker 3: because they can't exist exist. And so when people do

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Speaker 3: come in who are somewhat skeptical that are open, I

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