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H broadcast seeds, broadcasting seeds, playing truth in the minds
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of the people.
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All right, we are live, We'll not live recording life. Nick,
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tell us who you are, what you do, and where
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we can find you.
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Yeah. Sure, my name is Nick Willard. Uh. I live
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here in Vermont, southern Vermont, a small little podcast called
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Almost Cannon. Uh. And that's really it. I mean, I
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I worked for the postal service. I spend most of
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my time delivering mail. When I'm not doing that looking
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stuff up.
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I'm sure you take plenty of weird stuff as a
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postal worker, though.
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Yeah, oh yeah, nothing, nothing really cool yet, just like people.
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But yeah, what, so what first pulled you into the
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world of like, you know, your podcast Almost Canon, you know, paranormal,
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high strangeness, all the you know, supernatural whatever, because you
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kind of touch on all of it. What got you
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into this?
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Yeah? So, as far as I can remember, like, I've
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always heard ghost or I guess it probably started all
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with my aunts. She worked at a hospital, should always
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tell spooky stories and talk about ghosts, like she had
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an interest in ghosts. So that's where it started from that,
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and then it moved on to like cryptids and Bigfoot
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after I watched a documentary in like nineteen ninety eight.
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It's it's old school Discovery Discovery Channel doc on Bigfoot
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way before like paranormal you know stuff, and was on
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TV every now and then they'd throw in something on
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like the Lockedness Monster or Bigfoot Ghosts and things like that,
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and it really kicked off from there. I can remember
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when the Internet was like first became accessible. I was
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just like looking up Bigfoot encounters and printing them off
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and I'd have folders, and I totally wanted to be
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a cryptozoologist when I was a kid, and my interests
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really never stopped there. But other than that, I have
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plenty of ghosts encounters and I've had one what I
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I didn't see anything, but I heard it and I
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know it had to have been a sasquatch encounter.
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Right. Where was that?
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Yeah? That was on my my grandparents. My family there
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own a bunch of land on this mountain called Mount Equinu,
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Mount Ephram Sorry, and I'm gonna be talking about Mount
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Equinox later on, but this mountains called Mount Ephraim kind
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of like by my house a little bit. My grandparents,
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my family owned a bunch of land. I've always I've
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always hunted up there for as long as I can remember,
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you know, ever since I was a little kid, ten,
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ten years old or whatever, and this it's always been
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kind of weird, Like I don't know, it's always it's quiet,
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it's super quiet.
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Uh.
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She got this weird feeling that you're being watched, something
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I've always felt. And I would go up there as
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a kid and just hang out in the woods, explore
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and things like that. But my encounter happened in twenty
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and seventeen on opening day of rifle season, and I was,
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you know, I'm like, I'm not too big in the hunting.
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I'll go out every year, but I'm not picking a
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spot and sitting there for hours. I'm walking around. You know,
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this is hunting my grandparents' land, only I don't really
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go anywhere else. I'm not worried about getting shot by
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someone else. And there's only one other dude who hunts
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this this land, and I just so happened to meet
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him this hill. There's this long hill halfway up the mountain.
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There's this big, long hill. There's an old road that
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goes he kind of bisects the property, goes all the
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way to the top of the mountain, and I was
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I'm starting shaking him. I was walking up that road
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and as I'm going up the road, he's coming down
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the road. Could tell like he was freaked out something
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that just happened, and you could, I could just tell
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his face was white.
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He was like yeah, wow.
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And I was like, I was like, how's the hunting,
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And he's like, oh, man, I don't I'm leaving. I
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just had this bobcat jump over the top of me.
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I was sitting behind this rock. I was like, oh,
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that that was weird. And he's like, yeah, went running
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off in the woods. I'm getting out of here. I
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was like, oh, that's super weird. I didn't think anything
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of it at the time, and I was like, all right, well,
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see you later. When I kept walking up the hill
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and when I get to the top of this hill,
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so this guy would have just came through this area.
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At the top of this hill, maybe five minutes later,
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maybe I start hearing what sounds like a turkey call.
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You know, it's definitely something trying to sound like a turkey,
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but I knew it wasn't a turkey. Like I could
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just tell, yeah, it was almost like it was like
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a person, another hunter, trying to sound like a turkey. Uh.
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I was like, that's that's super weird. You know, there's
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there's no other hunters. The only guy that ever that
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I've ever seen throughout years of being up here was
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this guy. He just left. So I don't you know,
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this sounds like a person, but I don't think it's
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another person. Now, there are some people from New York
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who owned some property up there, but I've never seen them.
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I was like, maybe maybe this is them, you know,
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dicking around or messing around or something. And as I
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kept so, I kept walking up the road, this trail,
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and you know, as I was the further the closer
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I got to the sound, the more it started sounding
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like a growl. So it it went from like turkey
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kind of turkey, sort of turkey, you know, kind of
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a growl, sort of a growl, full on growling. At
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that point, I was like, what is going on? I
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had my uh my wife's got a brother who's who's
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way younger than she is, and he was with me.
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He was like ten years older something like that, eleven
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twelve years old. And I pulled out a handgun and
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I give it to him. I'm like, dude, hang on
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to this. I don't know what's going on. Like, I
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was full on panic mode and I had my rifle,
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like I had my rifle at a sidearm and yeah,
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and I was I was. I was panicking. I was like,
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this is not right. There's some something. You know, something's
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going on here. This has never happened to me up
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there before. And tell where it was coming from. It
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was this thicket of young growth. My uncle had had
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just logged the area, so there were little saplings growing up.
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I can't see through it, but I could. I could.
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I knew that's where the sound was coming from. And
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then from behind me, I hear a thud free knock,
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and I was like, that is super, super weird. You know.
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I'd always assumed that this was just you know, tree
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knocks are fake that you're gonna see on TV fighting
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big Foot or whatever like this, this doesn't really happen.
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But I swear to God, it happened, and it got
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my attention, and then whatever was in that thicket got
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out of there. At that point, the dread filled me
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and I was like, we got to go. And I
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just turned around and left when I had my my
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hunting rifle with me. I was fully loaded. I shouldn't
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have been panicking or afraid of an animal, I mean,
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but I was. Yeah, And I never saw anything that day,
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but it had to have been a sasquatch. If it
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was another hunter, then then he was playing a fast
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and loose because I could have easily just pointed and
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pulled the trigger. Absolutely that whatever was in there, man, that's.
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My that's your that's your solitary sasquatch story.
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Mm.
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That's a good one though.
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Yeah. I mean I never saw I didn't see it,
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but I've got like corroborating evidence that something's there and
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it's only there like fall to spring. So I've had
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My aunt has told me about hearing what she thought
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was a cow in the middle of the woods, and
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the guy that was walking down the hell obviously heard this.
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And I've never talked to about this, but he had
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obviously heard this, and I think this is why he
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was getting out of there, and that bobcat that jumped
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over him was probably spooked by whatever this was and
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was getting out of there too, right.
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Absolutely, Yeah, I was gonna ask you that if anyone
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else has had any encounters there as well.
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Hmm. I think there's a video on one of the
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few videos that are that's on there about a Sasquatch
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kill site, and that is where I had my encounter,
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and it I had walked up there a few months
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after this this had happened, was like January, and there
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was a deer that had been totally stripped of its hair.
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Whatever had done this had had propped the deer up
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against the fallen log, pulled all the hair off of it.
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There wasn't a lot of blood, I would have you know,
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I've seen coyotes and what they can do, and there's
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like blood and gore and just it's a mess. And
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this was a mess, but there was like very very
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little blood. There was no carcass anywhere, and nothing left
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of it. I would you know coyotes they leave bones
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and just like pieces behind. There was nothing. And I
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tried to follow this this, you know, the trail. I
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would see like a piece of hair here, a broken
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stick here, and it was all it was. It was
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like something had picked this up and walked off up
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the mountain and with it. I brought my dog up
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and she was freaked out and I set my camera up,
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my trail camera, but I never got anything. But I
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honestly think that that a sasquatch. I'd killed a deer
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right there and picked it up, brought it up the mountain.
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trail cams. Well, I use them now for deer obviously,
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I use them for what they're actually made for. We
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have some out on a property up north. I got
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to go get this weekend because it's hot in season
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here now. But I use them as bigfoot deterrent actually,
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because I think that they can see the infra red
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or whatever. Either way, they're very adverse to being photographed
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or videoed, right, So I'm like, well, what better way
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to keep your campsite safe? Then film everything right and
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then you won't have to worry about it. So I
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set cameras out whenever we do our research trips and stuff,
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and a night, once we get ready to go to bed,
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I turn everything on. And we've never had an incident
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since I started doing that. Otherwise we've had some incidents
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where things came into the camp. So oh well yeah, yeah,
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just annoying, and you know you won't to be able
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to sleep, So now I just turn those on. And
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we also have a driveway alarms, you know, like the
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the things that will go dang down, you know, you
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know what I'm talking about, Sue driveway alerts. We use
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those as well.
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So either I'm definitely not. I would say I want
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to go and investigate, but I don't. I haven't done
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anything like that. I went on a ghost on. I
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followed along on a ghost on last year for yeah,
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Halloween special I did, And that was as close as
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I got to any sort of investigation.
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Doing any in first and investigations. Yeah, well, how was that?
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Uh? It was? It was interesting. It was at a
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state park reportably haunted. They had invited me. I had
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done a video at like a TikTok video or something
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on it and they had seen it and they invited
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me to do this thing. And I put on this
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little show, and then afterwards I had a ghost hunting
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team that I've done work with in the past come
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and do an investigation. I followed along and there was
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a point there where I had I we had been
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getting some activity on this trail and happened to turn
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like this to my side, and this white figure rushed
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like bum rushed me. It's just like, oh, I was
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like whoa, and then I was the only one who
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saw it. But it was like it was it was white,
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like it was shining, it was it was super weird.
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Wow. Yeah, it's wild.
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Yeah. But uh.
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So where the title almost Cannon come by? It's clever, clever,
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very clever.
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Yeah. I actually don't really know if I used to
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have a co host way back in the day and
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it was something he had thought of. But it's like,
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you know, like Cannon the official story and this stuff
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is like almost it's.
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Almost a little off beat, right Yeah.
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So when you when did you start the show? You
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said you used to have a co host too.
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Oh yeah, I feel like it's been years at this point,
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like two years ago maybe something like that.