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And during all of this, you know, I am consciously
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aware that I am somewhere else, and I am internally
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freaking out because I don't know if I'm going to.
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Get back, as you would, yes.
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I don't know if I'm going to get back. I
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don't know what the ramifications are of this, and you're
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just thoughts are just flying through your mind and it's terrifying,
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to say the least.
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Broadcast Seeds.
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Broadcasting Seeds planting troop in the minds.
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Of the.
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All right, make sure everything's good. All right, everybody, Welcome
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back to another episode of Broadcasting Seeds. I am your host, Benattantan,
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and today you're sitting down with Jamie Kelly. Now I'm
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gonna let Jamie tell us who she is, what she does,
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and what's the best place to find her. Thanks for
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coming on.
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Jes thank you so much for having me. Like you said,
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I am Jamie Kelly, I am a wife, a mom,
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a work full time, and I am brand new to
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field research and all things high strangeness. But they have
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been in my life for quite a while. I just
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didn't know really how to navigate it. So who I am?
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Yeah, So give us a little background. What what is
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your gateway to this world of high strange? And that's
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a lot of times I used to say gateway drug,
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I mean, because it's like a drug frankly. But yeah,
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so what what was your first intro to this world?
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So my origin story, I grew up in a house
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that had a mimic and I would see apparitions from
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time to time in the house. I would hear my
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mother call my name, but my mother wouldn't be home,
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so that was that was odd, and I just kind
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of grew up with it in the back of my mind, like, Okay,
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you know that's there. Just go on about your business.
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And it never really affected me in any sort of way.
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And in twenty fourteen, I was baptized and I started
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seeing into tease in the doorway of my bedroom and
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in between, you know, growing up in twenty fourteen, I
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hadn't really had any additional experiences, so it was all
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kind of flooding back to me of okay, this, you know,
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this is back, so let's see two. And also in
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twenty fourteen, I was living in a part by myself.
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I just got my first big girl job and I
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went to lunch with a coworker and this waitress comes
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up to us, and the first thing I noticed is
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that her mouth is moving very odd, like something is
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trying to speak for her. And the coworker notices that
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I notice, and she's like, just hang on a second,
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and she looks at the waitress and she says, I
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know who you are. The lights go out in the restaurant.
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There's this huge surge of energy that's like I'll never
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be happy again, just complete darkness, and the restaurant goes silent,
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like I don't it's a packed restaurant. I don't know
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if anybody else is there in that moment. I don't
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know if we shifted somewhere else, but it was super odd.
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And the waitress walks off, and I just sit there
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with this realization that this world is so much more
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crazier than I ever thought possible.
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So twenty twenty four, I started praying for God to
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use me in spiritual warfare. I didn't know what that
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looked like. I didn't know if He would utilize me
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in any way, but that's what was laid on my heart.
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So that's what I prayed for. And also in that timeframe,
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I started having reoccurring demonic dreams. I would be in
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a location I wasn't familiar with and this person would
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walk up to me and we'd just start having a conversation,
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and then all of a sudden, the energy would shift,
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and I knew that this was about to go you know,
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south in a dark place. So I start trying to
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say the name Jesus, and the entity in front of
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me would either you know, prevent me from saying it
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or physically put their hand over my mouth where I
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couldn't say Jesus. And I didn't take that. I didn't
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take that as it was and it really affected me.
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But I'm like, well, you're praying for spiritual warfare, so
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this is probably Yeah, this is probably a type of learning,
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you know event so you need to take away from
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it how you feel, how to react, what to do,
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Like you're being taught something, so soak it up.
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So, and I also have two older sisters and they
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are into high strangers as well. So my oldest sister Amy,
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she was like, I want to go to this big
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Foot conference. We want to see one of our favorite podcasters.
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And we're like, okay, cool, let's go. And I really
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began to dig into Bigfoot in twenty twenty four.
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My sisters, it's always the freaking game that is the
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gateway drug.
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Bigfoot is the gateway drug. But my sisters have had
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Bigfoot encounters, and after hearing their encounters, I was like, Okay,
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I'll dig into it. So we go to this conference.
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We see our favorite podcaster and who is it, Jessica
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Jones the Crypto hundred Yeah, yeah, I know, yes, and
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she's so sweet. My sister Amy, before we went, she
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was like, man, what if they what if they let
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us go out in the field. And we're kind of like,
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I don't know, they don't usually let people go out,
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you know that are new and it's just a liability.
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They probably won't, but I kind of had this gut
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feeling that they would, and I said that to my sisters.
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I'm like, they might let us go. I don't know.
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So we get to the conference and we're hanging out
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and my sister goes up to Jessica and she's like,
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can we go out in the field with you? Jessica said, yeah,
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come on, let's go. So we go back, we go
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back home, we get an app. We're on like cloud nine.
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We are so excited and my sister Amy kind of
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starts getting apprehensive. She's like, they're not going to let
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us go. We haven't heard from anybody. It's been hours,
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and I'm like, they're gonna let us go. I feel
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it they're gonna let us go. So finally we get
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that text message and Jessica's like, meet us here, let's go.
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So we hop in the car. We're on the way,
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just so excited. So we get there and I finally
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get to meet members of Seekers and I meet Sean,
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who will come into play later. That was my first
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time meeting him. So we're hanging out, we're having a
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good time. There's not much going on, and Jessica and
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Matthew they're like, we're going to go down this service
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road and without asking, not that I have to ask
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my sisters, but without really processing this, I'm like, I'm
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going to go by myself, nobody, you know, I don't
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know these people. I'm going to go. So we head
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down the service road, no headlamps, and I start getting
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this feeling in the pit of my stomach and it's
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something I've never felt before, and it rolls up into
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my chest and then it rolls up into my throat,
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and I'm like, what is this, Like you're having a
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medical episode of like what is going on? Yeah, And
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I just kind of I sit on it because I'm like,
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I don't know what this is. And it grows, it
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gets more intense, and again I continue to sit on
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it because I'm new and I don't want to come
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across as you know, being afraid or all the things.
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But it finally got to a point where it was
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so overwhelming that I said to Jessica, I'm I'm feeling
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something and I don't really know what it is, but
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I'm just letting you know. And She's like, yeah, I
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kind of feel it too. Let's turn back. So we
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go back and as we're walking, I hear in my
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head look down and I'm like, okay, So I turned
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my headlamp on. I look down and there's a print.
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And I don't know. I'm not a skilled tracker.
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Now the voice, what did you hear? Do you remember
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like was it more like was it a like a
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something else or was it more like you know, because
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especially us folks that are kind of well turned in
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with the Holy Spirit, like there's like I can tell
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the difference.
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So I would say it was more like a thought,
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but it was so loud, it was so pronounced, like
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just okay, I had to stop and I had to
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look like I couldn't just not do it. So but yeah,
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I'm not a skilled tracker, don't know what to look for.
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But there's that. So we go back to the group
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and I'm just kind of processing all of that, and
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I'm like, you you sensed something, you you felt something,
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so maybe pay attention to that. Maybe that's going in
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line with, you know, the whole spiritual warfare that you
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prayed for. So twenty twenty five, I end up going
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to a big Foot conference by myself, way out of
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character for me. I don't go and do things, you know,
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by myself. But I end up meeting more members of Seekers.
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I meet Trey Hudson and grag Goggles, Angie and Melissa,
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and I'm just like, I really like I like these people.
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They're they're awesome, you know, they answer my questions very kind.
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Yeah. I've met Greg before and he's a good dude.
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I know he wouldn't remember me because I was one
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of but it was at the Great Smoky Oh my god,
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the Smoking Mountain big Foot conference. So h that's kind
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of how I found you guys. So, but I haven't
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reached out to Greg to be like, dude, let's do
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an episode. So we'll get there. We'll get there though
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now it's it's just a matter of I want to
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kind of put some things in order because he's kind
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of the you know, he's got relic and everything.
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So anyway, so I meet them and they're like, hey,
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we've we've got this outing coming up in July. Do
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you want to go without thinking things through, without processing.
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I was like, yeah, I'll be there. I'm going. So
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just a few things about me. I have never been camping.
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I have never been on an overnight excursion. So and
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my husband is he doesn't really care about bigfoot, so he's.
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Like, not this, not as Jammy. It's something my wife's Jami.
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That's usually how it is poll marry each other. So
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I had to do three.
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Talk about opposites, right.
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I had to do three big things. I had to
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secure the funds to buy gear, to buy all of
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the gear and make sure it arrived on time and
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I had everything that I needed. And then I had
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to ask my husband can I go not ask them,
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but you know, can I go.
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I know what you're saying. Can I go by myself too?
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With strangers, these weird people. Okay, that was the that
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was the monumental task. But I accomplished all of those
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things seamlessly, like they just worked out, and I'm like, okay, awesome.
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So July rolls around and I remember driving and.
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This is July of twenty twenty five.
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Yes, I remember driving to the site, and I'm like,
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this is either the worst idea you've ever had or
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absolutely the best, because I've only met these people one time,
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you know, but I'm putting a lot of faith, a
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lot of trust in them. But it feels right. It
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feels like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
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And when you're in reality and you're processing this, you're like, Okay,
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this is kind of insane, but it feels right, So
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I'm going to do it anyway. I get there, get
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to base camp, sit up on my gear, and you know,
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we're just talking, hanging out, and then the time comes
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for us to go out on the expedition and we
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get teamed up into teams of four and it is me, Sean, Kristen,
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and Tony and we're walking to our location and we
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get to an area they call ambush Alley, and I
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begin to get that feeling in the pit of my
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stomach that rolls up into my chest, that rolls open
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in my throat, and I'm like, okay, you're feeling this again,
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So you there's something here. Need to pay attention. So
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we get to the site and it's by a body
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of water and there's there's frogs just they're croaking so loud,
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and we get our gear out. We're getting set up
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and Tony and Sean begin to do whoop calls and
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immediately after that, the frogs start going nuts and they
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sound almost sick. I don't know, it's a weird sound.
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And it's like, this isn't natural. This something's going on.
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And about that time, Kristen captures on her thermal this
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by pedal creature peeking behind a tree. So Sean hands
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me his night vision. I look through it, I don't
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see anything. He hands me his thermal and I see it.
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This is my first time seeing possibly bigfoot, and I
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think I said something along the lines of I am
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not responsible enough to do this mm hm. But at
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that moment, my my world expanded, it exploded, my head exploded.
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I mean, I'm no longer alone in the universe, you know,
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and that was that was pretty significant. But nothing, nothing
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really happened besides that. So we go back to base camp,
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go to sleep, get up the next next day, and