What you'll learn

• 1 (01:33) **Introduction and Guest Welcome** - Host Jeremiah Byron introduces the show and guest Beth Jenkleson, a New England native who had an experience during an outdoor leadership program solo in the 1990s.
• 2 (03:52) **Setting the Scene: The OLP Solo** - Beth explains the context of her solo camping trip, the last requirement for her Outdoor Leadership Program (OLP) at Greenfield Community College in Goshen, Massachusetts.
• 3 (09:50) **The Encounter Begins: Lights and Footsteps** - On the last night, around 10:30 PM, Beth notices car headlights approaching her remote campsite, leading her to shut off her headlamp and go silent in the pitch black.
• 4 (12:21) **The Roar and the Paralysis** - The source of the light reaches her tent, shining a light along the seams and illuminating the inside green, and then lets out a roar that Beth describes as coming from a chest cavity the size of a Volkswagen bus.
• 5 (15:28) **The Sudden End and Aftermath** - Beth internally prays for help, and when she opens her eyes, the light and sound are gone, and she finds herself propped up on an elbow, no longer on her back.
• 6 (19:44) **Investigating the Scene & Jeremiah's Connection** - The next morning, Beth finds her tent untouched and no tracks or broken branches on the hard-packed surface, which was an old collapsed bridge abutment.
• 7 (22:34) **Reframing the Fear** - Beth reconsiders her fear, noting that when she prayed to God (despite not being a religious person), the threat vanished, and that Bigfoot encounters rarely involve actual attacks.

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