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5 min readIn the summer of his 14th year, Bud was standing on a road outside Bradford, Pennsylvania, waiting for his father. It was a nice summer day, around noon. Then he heard it: a guttural, drawn-out roar that seemed to shake the ground. It echoed down the valley. He and his brother and friend stood there for 15 minutes, looking at each other. Bud had grown up in the Allegheny National Forest region and knew every sound in those woods. This was not a train, not a moose, not an elk. Whatever made that noise, he says, "had to have the lung capacity of just something that was enormous." He was 14 years old. He didn't think much more about it at the time. But that moment, and a series of strange experiences that followed across two states, eventually led him to a conclusion he can no longer avoid.
The Mountain Behind the House
Bud grew up in Bradford, Pennsylvania, a small town four hours north of Pittsburgh and two hours east of Erie, with the Allegheny National Forest as his backyard. As a teenager, he regularly walked over a mountain behind his house to visit a girlfriend who lived on the other side. The route took him through thick summer woods, past an old homestead with a fence and pasture that he used as a guide. He made the crossing many times, and on perhaps nine or ten occasions, he heard something unusual in the same half-mile stretch of forest.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (04:51) **First Encounter: The Guttural Scream in Bradford, PA** - Bud, age 14-15, hears an enormous, guttural scream while waiting with his brother and a friend near the Dorn Estate in Bradford, Pennsylvania. The sound echoes down the valley and feels like the ground is shaking.
- 2 (07:42) **Recurring Voices on the Mountain** - Bud describes repeatedly hiking over a mountain behind his house to visit a girlfriend, where he would hear strange, non-human "talking" and heavy footsteps in the same half-mile area, always in the summer.
- 3 (11:19) **The Turning Point: Footprints in Georgia** - After moving to Lincoln, Georgia, Bud finds massive, clear footprints with dermal ridges near Elijah Clark State Park, which he photographs.
- 4 (16:46) **Connecting the Dots: Research and Recognition** - After the ranger's reaction, Bud researches Sasquatch vocalizations online and immediately recognizes the sounds he heard in Pennsylvania.
- 5 (18:38) **Retrospective Clues: The Pine Cone Incident** - Bud recalls a childhood memory in Bradford where someone or something threw pine cones at him for 45 minutes, but his brothers were not there.
- 6 (20:36) **Georgia Encounters: Silence and Heavy Footsteps** - In Georgia, Bud experiences sudden, total silence in the woods at night, followed by heavy, non-normal footsteps that he initially dismisses as a "big deer."
- 7 (22:19) **The Case for Existence: Gauge Impressions and Eyewitnesses** - Bud argues that the physical evidence of gauge impressions (depth, stride, weight) in remote areas, combined with tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts, makes it impossible for Sasquatch not to exist.
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Show Notes
As an adult living near Elijah Clark State Park in Georgia, Bud discovered a series of massive footprints near a secluded cove. The tracks were unlike anything he had encountered before, and the reaction from a wildlife officer only deepened the mystery.
In this episode, Bud shares decades of experiences spanning Pennsylvania and Georgia, including unexplained screams, possible Sasquatch vocalizations, pine cone throwing incidents, large footprints, nighttime activity around his property, and unusual tree structures found in remote areas.
Locations discussed include Bradford, Pennsylvania, the Allegheny National Forest region, Kinzua Viaduct, Elijah Clark State Park, Clark Hill Lake, Lincolnton, Georgia, and North Georgia.
If you've ever wondered how a lifetime of seemingly unrelated events can point toward something hidden in the forests, this conversation is one you'll want to hear from beginning to end.
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