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5 min readJared’s first encounter happened more than thirty years ago, before social media made the subject widely known. He was camping in northern Idaho with his six-month-old son and his ex-wife. At two in the morning, he stepped out of the van to urinate and heard a noise fifteen or twenty feet away. A figure stepped from the treeline into the light. Jared is five-foot-six, and he says the creature was as tall or taller than he would be if he stood on his own shoulders—over eleven feet. It was a female. She made a chuffing sound that was not aggressive. Jared did not know what he was looking at, but he knew it was not a bear or anything else he had encountered in the woods. He jumped into the van and sped off, leaving his family rolling around in the back. His ex-wife woke up and laughed because he had urinated all over the steering wheel mid-flight.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:47) **First Sighting in Idaho** - Jared describes his initial encounter while camping in Northern Idaho over 30 years ago.
- 2 (11:50) **Learning the Location** - How a Forest Ranger friend secretly directed Jared to a valley in Northern California.
- 3 (13:01) **Mapping the Migration** - Jared explains his two-year research process to determine when the creatures came to the valley.
- 4 (15:54) **Building Rapport with the Locals** - Gaining trust with the human residents who showed him signs of the creatures.
- 5 (16:23) **The Family Group** - Jared describes the clan he bonded with: two adults and two adolescents.
- 6 (17:49) **The Gifting Tree** - Building a reciprocal relationship through exchange of objects and food.
- 7 (20:39) **The Language** - Describing the creatures' vocalizations and communication.
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Show Notes
Tonight, I'll be speaking with Jared, a guest from California whose first encounter with one of these creatures happened more than 30 years ago. Although the experience stayed with him for decades, he never expected it to become the beginning of something much bigger.
After serving in the military, Jared leased a remote cabin in the middle of nowhere. What started as a quiet place to live quickly turned into something very different, as he began having repeated interactions with these creatures. Tonight, he shares what happened during the four years he lived there and the experiences that ultimately convinced him he wasn't alone.
After the Paradise Fire destroyed his cabin, Jared became a truck driver. Then, in 2021, everything changed again when he struck and killed what he believes was a Sasquatch.
Jared describes what he saw, the damage the impact caused to his truck, and what happened in the aftermath.
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