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5 min readLinda grew up in northeastern Kansas, the oldest of six, with five brothers who were all bow hunters. She spent her childhood in the woods, tracking raccoon and rabbit prints in creek beds, and knew the normal sounds of the forest. Her first introduction to Bigfoot came when she walked into the living room and saw her father watching the Patterson-Gimlin film. He was a big skeptic on most things, but he was fixated. When she asked what he was doing, he just said, “I don’t know.” That moment of uncertainty from a man who didn’t entertain the weird made her think: if he was considering it, she needed to find out more.
A Childhood Memory in Montana
Years later, someone asked Linda if her father might have seen something himself. She initially said no, but then remembered a family picnic near Butte, Montana, when she was about ten. Her father and uncle smelled something they thought was a bear and walked down a meadow toward a tree line. The next thing she remembers is both men running back up the mountain with a gun held over their heads. The family fled to the car. Her mother had a broken ankle and was on crutches. In the car, her father was out of breath, sweating, and anxious. He told her mother that whatever they encountered was not a bear. He never told the kids what happened, and Linda never asked him about it as an adult. She only connected the memory years later when
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:51) **Introduction and Guest Background** - Host Jeremiah Byron welcomes Linda, a lifelong outdoorswoman from northeastern Kansas who grew up hunting, fishing, and tracking in the woods.
- 2 (04:18) **First Exposure: The Patterson-Gimlin Film** - Linda recalls walking in on her father watching the famous 1967 film, which sparked her initial curiosity about Bigfoot.
- 3 (05:38) **Childhood Incident in Butte, Montana** - Linda connects a family picnic memory to a possible early encounter: her father and uncle fled from something in the woods that was not a bear.
- 4 (09:11) **First Mind Speak: Oklahoma, 1977** - While on a solo hike in Beavers Bend State Park, Linda experiences an overwhelming sense of dread and a clear internal command to turn back.
- 5 (12:15) **Colorado: The Bailey Howl** - At 4 AM in Bailey, Colorado, Linda and her husband hear a loud, mournful male vocalization from the cliff below their bedroom window.
- 6 (15:51) **Colorado: The Mimicked Whistle** - While hiking above Bear Lake, Linda whistles to her husband and an unseen entity immediately whistles back, perfectly mimicking her.
- 7 (20:52) **Kansas: The Sinister Canine Entity** - At 4 AM on a February morning in 2021, Linda sees a black, wolf-like creature with slanted gold eyes and a "murderous" intelligent expression in a cornfield.
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Show Notes
Linda shares her 1977 experience near Broken Bow, Oklahoma, where an overwhelming warning forced her to leave an isolated trail. Years later in Bailey, Colorado, she and her husband were awakened at 4:00 AM by a powerful vocalization rising from below their mountainside home. Near Pine Junction, she describes a whistle that answered her own from the trees.
Back in Kansas, the activity continued—wood knocks near a camper, unexplained footprints in winter ground, a towering shadow passing a window, and a long, distant Ohio howl echoing across the Flint Hills followed by chilling responses. While camping near a quiet lake, she encountered massive tree breaks and an X-shaped stick structure placed directly in front of her vehicle.
Linda also opens up about deeply personal experiences that shaped her understanding of these beings, touching on moments that felt protective, purposeful, and transformative.
This conversation moves through multiple states, landscapes, and seasons, weaving together firsthand encounters and reflections that build into something far bigger than a single sighting. Join us as we explore Linda’s lifelong journey and the enduring mystery of Sasquatch in the American heartland and beyond.
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