Ep. 108: Bigfoot the Forest Poltergeist

And I just turned around and I call ass out of there. I was done. I wasn't deal with them. The hypocrisy of the cult is one of the things that turned me away the quickest. When I turned my head lights on, it turned and looked at us. And one of the things I remember the most, where the eyes were glowing red. I see an orb of light. It is just circling these steps like it is waiting for me. And he begins to tell them that he saw UFO. They're basically like, what are you talking about. That's seven foot up on a tree, peeking around it, and that's where I saw the top of the muzzle, nose and the eyes. As soon as I made eye contact with this thing, I don't like death. Welcome back to Tenfoil Tells. I'm your host Brandon Wright. Tonight's episode, we're going to be joined by author W. T. Watson, but I refer to him as Travis. He is a author of several different aaronormal books, looking to dive into a lot of the stuff that he's been researching. 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I hope you guys enjoy the conversation. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. I'd like to take this nine and welcome my guest tonight, Travis. Thanks for coming on here talk to me. Thanks for having me tonight. Brandon's good to have a chance to talk to the audience for Tinfoil Tales. I appreciate that. Do you want to let the audience know a little bit about yourself? So my Well, okay, I'm a researcher, I'm an author. I do many things. I write fiction and nonfiction. Both my books are published under the name W. T. Watson, so some of you may have ventured across them before. I have kind of a long history in the paranormal. My dad was UFO experiencer and shared his story with me back when I was eight years old. I'm sixty three now, so I've been around for a while. His basic thing was back in the fifties, he was in the Air Force. He was stationed in southern California. He was coming home, coming back to base one night near San Bernardino, had a classic back you know, one of those classic nineteen fifties UFO encounters where the he saw a cigar shaped raft that hovered over the road in front of them, kind of forced them to stop. He was with a friend of his, her Bold portals and the whole thing. He doesn't recall there having been any missing time or any of that sort of thing, but he from that time on, you know, anytime anybody said anything negative about UFOs, he was all over it because he's like, I saw one of those things. I know exactly, you know, I know what it's like, they're there. He was very much a supporter of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Extraterrestrial hypothesis, but that was kind of my intro into the weird. So of course, you know, your father tells you a story like that, you know, you start to at least I did, start to get curious about things. I'd also, you know, I was eight, so I'd read a comic book about hauntings, and between the two things, I started reading everything I could find about UFOs and about hauntings. And I got interested in En Cryptid shortly after that, and by the time I was in sixth grade, I had read Ivan Sanderson's The Avolmitable Snowmen. So to say that I've been interested in the anomalous and the strange and the forty and for you know, literally decades is would be the truth. So fast forward, I got to be into my fifties, I moved to Canada. My spouse got a job teaching at the University of Waterloo. They're Native Canadian, so my wife was coming home and I was coming to a whole new adventure. But during the time period when I first immigrated here, of course, we're in the middle of the pandemic, and I had published a novel with Beyond the Fray Publishing, and they had asked me if I could do a book on the Phantom Black Dog Apparition, which was the main character in my novel was associated with the Phantom black I moved to Canada and I had, you know, to wait to get my papers to be able to work. So I had a period of time where I really could do pretty much whatever I wanted. So I spent that time writing books. So during that time period I wrote Phantom black Dogs or I published Phantom black Dogs Walkers the Limital Way, which is about the phantom black dog apparition that most people associate with Great Britain or the UK in Ireland, but is actually seen in Canada. There are black dog stories in the United States and also in South and Central America where there's a very vibrant history or lore of the phantom black dog. I followed that up with a book called Mysteries in the Mist, which is all about mist, fog and clouds and the paranormal. It's one of my my favorite of my books because it covers a little bit of everything. If you're interested in the paranormal at all, there's a story and mysteries and the myths that will interest you. It's everything from cryptids to UFOs to two time slips and other anomalous myst related occurrences where you know people would. There's stories in the book about people driving into myths and ending up in places that they didn't recognize finding out that they had traveled several hundred kilometers. So you know, there's there's all kinds of fun weirdness in that one. Since I was living in Canada, it also decided that I wanted to explore some of the strangeness in in uh, you know, in my new home, and I published Canadian Monsters and Mysteries UH, which again is a compendium of a lot of different strange things that are are known to happen here. Focuses a bit on the lake monsters that are so prevalent here in Canada. We have several different lakes that that purport to have have lake monsters in them. But I also talk about UFOs and uh you know, and other bits of strangeness in Canada. For instance, the giant beavers, which is one of my favorite stories in the book. There are stories and in part in more uninhabited parts of Canada about giant beavers, and there's actually a uh a known fossil record creature that these critters could be. There's like from the yeah, it's called Astaid's Ohio insis if I remember correctly. Don't quote me on that, but these guys were actually beaver's that were that existed, you know, ten thousand years or so ago, that existed that were the size of bears, which is exactly what people, particularly people in the native population here in Canada were are describing. It's just a monstrous, really really big beaver, right. So that was one of my favorite things because everybody thinks, you know, when you think of Canada, people think of beavers, They think of moose and those kinds of things, and so giant beavers seemed to fit right into the whole Canadian vibe. I followed that book up with Sasquatch Canada, which is my straight up research into class A sightings of sasquatch, that is, visual sightings of a sasquatch here in Canada. Iocused on since everybody talks about BC, I focused on on the provinces outside of BC, and I found sasquatch sidings and in all of those problems and all of the provinces of Canada, uh, the only one that I didn't find was none of it, which is which is way up north may have something to do with the landscape there, or it may have something to do with the majority of the people that live and none of it are are into it, and they may just not be willing to share their stories. We we don't know. They're not in available databases anyway, but there are tons of sasquatch sightings here in Canada. And you know, one of the things that I I tell people all the time when I do podcasts or you know, I'm talking to people about my books, we have hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of wilderness in Canada. It's the second largest country in the world, has I believe, the longest seacoast in the world, and there's all kinds of places you could hide a large crypted animal. For instance, we actually have a Lazarus species here in Canada. It's called the wood bison that was pronounced extinct at the beginning of the at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds and then was rediscovered in the nineteen fifties by a park service employee was flying over a park in Manitoba and found a whole herd of them. Now, the wood bison is actually the largest land animal in North America, not the tallest, but the largest by weight. So if you can lose that for several decades, who knows what else you can lose in the Canadian So, you know, I make a point of, you know, when I I talk about my books of saying that I don't discount the idea that there could actually be a physical creature involved in sasquatch sightings. I think there's a whole lot more to it, But I don't discount the idea that there could be a physical creature because there's plenty of room up here for there to be something like that. And in you know, of course the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia and all of those places too, there's some very convincing sightings here in Canada. You also have some pretty weird sightings here in Canada where you start to get into that area where the creature that's being described obviously is not a physical animal. We have disappearing sasquatch, We have sasquatch that mentally communicate with people. We have the sasquatch with the you know, self illuminating eyes and all of this sorts of things for people to take into consideration as they're as they're looking at sasquatch law, the factor finally, I'm sorry they call it the WU factor. Yeah, yeah, you know, and I know that there are people in sasquatch research who are just very much opposed to anything to do with the WU. But unfortunately, there are enough witness accounts out there that include these really strange things that happen, you know, sasquatch vanishing in front of somebody's eyes, those kinds of things that you know, we have to we have to take those things into consideration. People are seeing something and whatever sasquatch is may not always be you know, you know, gigantopithecus or you know, a giant bipedal primate. It may be something else, which brings us to my final book. The book that I have out right now is called Forest Poltergeist. And one of the things that you notice when you start to do research into the sasquatch phenomena is that there are a lot of what they call Class A sightings. In other words, somebody visually saw a sasquatch, they saw something walking through the woods or wherever it was that they happened to be. There are also a ton of what are called class B encounters, and these things fascinated me because what happens in a class be encounter is that the person doesn't actually see a sasquatch, but they have incidences of rock throwing, they have incidences of wooden knocks, there are vocalizations, there are maybe footprints, There's all of these these quote unquote signs of sasquatch presence in the area, but nobody actually sees this critter. I was talking with another podcaster a while back and he pointed out that if you took all of these things that people associate with sasquatch out in the wilderness and you put it in a house, you'd have a poltergeist case. And I said to him, Okay, that's an interesting thought. Are you going to write a book about that by an ents? And he he said no, he had too many other irons in the fire to try and write a book about that particular thing. And I asked him, said, do you mind if I write a book about it? And he was gracious enough to let me borrow his idea and I took off with it. One of the things that I really very quickly in doing the research for this book was you have a ton of class B saasquatch encounters. I mean, if you look at the BFROL website, for instance, you just find dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of these things. And when you go to research the lore of poltergeist, you have psychical research that goes back to you know, the eighteen hundreds, and there are probably thousands of poltergeist cases that you can get into. So it's a very deep rabbit hole to go into, but either side either sasquatch law or poltergeist law. So I had to be very choosy thought the poultergeist cases that I talked about, and I had to kind of pick and choose the class beingcount honors that I talked about in this book, so that you know, I didn't end up writing a three volume set. My books are all very digestible length. I intend them to be an introduction to an idea and then I give people bibliographical references so that if they want to go deeper they can do that. That's kind of how I approach things. So the basic thrust of the Forrest Poldergeist is that we need to, you know, as researchers, stop siloing. If you talk to people in the paranormal field. Excuse me, if you talk to people in the paranormal field, you very quickly realize that people tend to get into a particular field of research and stay there. You know, the sasquatch researchers are researching sasquatches, and the UFO researchers or researching UFOs, and the ghost hunters are hunting ghosts, and yeah, and they don't look at the similarities or the commonalities that you can find throughout all of this paranormal stuff, all of this different stuff. I mean a lot of people would argue that sasquatch isn't paranormal. I would argue right back with them. But all of these things that people are looking at, if they would stop and look at what's going on in some of these other fields, they might find some interesting areas of research to follow. And that's kind of that. That's the impetus behind the forest poultergeist is the idea that I'm taking what everybody is assuming is uh a, you know, presence of a giant bipedal primate in the wilderness and saying, look, it doesn't necessarily have to be that. Every single thing that you tell me about that that you were pointing at as a evidence that sasquatches out there. I can point to a Poultergeist case and say, yeah, but this this phenomenon is doing that as well. And that's that was the thing that I wanted to do, is to get people to think outside that box, because it's it's so much the case that we do. Uh yeah, we like our we like our rituals, and we like our our our uh you know, protocols and our standard ways of thinking because it means we don't have to spend too much time, you know, burning brain cells on it. But sometimes when you have you know, when you were faced with the unknown, you have to step outside those boxes and look at you know, different disciplines. And that's that's basically the thrust of the book. You mentioned some stuff from your other books that uh take my entry. You mentioned like monsters, and I've said it many times, I wish I could get someone that had an eyewitness account of the like monsters. I would like to have that interview. It's oh yeah, those have always been like the long ass monster, like and champ Up and Lake Champlain and like all those other like those are all stuff that I was hugely into when I was a kid. I'm a huge Godzilla fan, so oh yeah, it comes out of the water. Oh oh me too. Yeah, I have I have a model of the big Guy that sits on my desk that my my my step son brought me back from the Shinjoku in in Tokyo. So I just he's one of my he's one of my my mascots on my desk where I work. But yeah, I mean there are, yeah, there are several lakes in Canada that have, you know, have these monster sidings, probably the most notable being Lake Okanagan, which is the critter they call Oga Pogo, and those those sightings go back into the seventeen hundreds, back in well probably before that. The native people in that area knew about whatever it was that lived in the lake, and you know, basically warned the settlers about it, and some of those settlers found out, to their detriment that the Indians weren't, you know, weren't blowing smoke that you know, it actually was the case that there there was something in that lake. And those sightings have continued up to as far as I'm aware, up to the present day. So yeah, I mean I I was fascinated by Lockanes too when I was a kid. That was another one of my one of my areas. My mother was actually born in Scotland, so when I heard about Lochaness, it was kind of like, oh, it's my you know, it's like my national cryptid right, So yeah, late monster cases are Yeah. On the one hand, you know, there there's something peculiar going on because it seems like these cases has happened in the sort of a narrow band of of you know, latitudes. They happen in these very deep, very cold lakes and places like Canada and in Scotland and and even Russia. I can't recall a Russian lake monster right off the top of my head, but I know that there are instances there as well. Now, what is it about these still deep, cold, dark lakes that you know, it seems to attract this phenomena. It seems like it would be very difficult for an actual physical creature two to survive in a limited space like that. I know there have been tons of ours about Oh well there are many trout in Lockness and blah blah. We're talking about what seems to be a fairly sizable critter. And you know, if you're going to have any kind of breeding cop population, there has to be more than one. So how is it that these animals are surviving? And how is it that they are avoiding uh detection? Even though again, you know, there are instances of anomaloust sonar readings in lockness and I the lake name has slipped my mind. It might be Simcoe here in Canada that has its own little lake monster that there are claims that there's sonar of this critter too. And again, this is not a lake that is really large enough to support a large number of or even a small number of you know, fairly hefty lake monsters, whatever those happened to be, whatever that is. Yeah, I mean I was all into the plesiosaur theory when I was a kid, but you know, I mean I've discovered since then that you know, there are people who believe that some of these lake monsters are a known species of pinniped, which is you know, a likely scenario as well. I mean, lots of theorizing, but not a lot of answers when it comes to why it is that lake monsters seem to appear in you know, very specific types of lakes. Is there something about the you know, the the energy of the land or or the energy of the water that's attracting whatever it is that's that's manifesting these fun I'm gonna it's just it's super mysterious and kind of creepy, and yeah, Lockness is one of those places that's on my bucket list of places to go when I retire. I would love to go there. I'd really love to see it, you know, up close. And yeah, if I can do a conjuration on the lake shores and have the monster appear or something. Yeah, you kind of were going down the path that I was just kind of thinking about as we mentioned the WU factor for a sasquatch encounters and stuff. But maybe something like that's what these lake monsters manifest from too. Well, yeah, I mean there is I'm going to back up into another another cryptid and and one that I haven't spent a lot of time covering, but because the late great Linda Godfrey did such a terrific job of it. But you know, when when Linda Godfrey was doing her uh research into the man Wolf of dog Man phenomena, she had the opportunity to talk to some Native folks and actually discussed with a Hope Chunk elder what he thought in this case. She was asking him about sasquatch, and he told her straight up, Oh, well, these are beings that live in the other world and they can come into our world. They assume a physical form when they're here, and then when they're ready to go back, they go back, which, you know, I mean makes a lot of sense to me. It would explain a lot of things, because, yeah, I mean, you have have sasquatch encounters and places where a large bipedal primate shouldn't exist, you know. I mean, it's one thing to talk about sasquatch in the wilds of Canada, you know, and the possibility that that might be a an actual thing, an actual, real animal, physical animal. It's another thing though, when you start having people reporting sasquatches on, you know, in the deserts of Arizona. Where is a creature like that going to hide in Arizona? Now, northern Arizona, Yes, you know, you have Ponderosa pine forests and stuff up there. But some of the areas that that that are reporting sasquatches, sasquatch sightings are you know, very open and very little cover. I mean, there might be some caves or whatever, but a sasquatch would have to live a pretty lonely existence. I think, can only come out at night if it were going to try to live in a place like that, you know, And we have again these class be encounters where people are encountering rock throwing and wood knocking and you know, rock clacking and mumbling voices and bipedal footsteps and all this kind of thing, which again, you know, can all be attributed you know, are being attributed to sasquatch, but can just as easily be a part of the Poultergeist phenomena, whatever that turns out to be. And you know, again you get that kind of wolf factor, you get there's something more going on here. Maybe there's something inter dimensional going on here. You know, I like to just call it the other world. You know, I'm very animistic thinker, and so I believe that there are you know, that we live in a in a vast ecosystem that is composed of not just physical corporeal forms, but also spiritual forms. And you know, some of those spiritual forms may be may be capable of making themselves manifest in our plane for certain periods of time, you know, I mean, and you have I mean, if you remember the the psychical research on physical mediums and some of the strange things that happened in association with with those guys you know what was his name? Home, you know, flying out one window and flying into another window. There's all kinds of stuff out there, all kinds of weird things out there that argue that there is a wo dimension you know, however you want to call that. And you know, I mean, I know that a lot of people are like, oh, well, you know, we start to believe that that then you know, UFOs aren't nuts and bolts craft and you know, sasquatch aren't aren't. Uh you know, these physical bipedal primates and and and that sort of thing, you know, and and all of our our belief systems are going to kind of get blown up. And honestly, I think maybe some of those belief systems need to get blown up because they're they're limiting. They're they're very limiting. I am what I call a Bovan thinker, you know, instead of an either or thinker, it's either this thing or that thing. I like to think that there are a whole bunch of different, uh things that could account for some of the strange, uh strangeness that we see in our world. When I talk about what a poultergeist is or you know, what what the forest poltergeist is, and in my my most recent book now I talk about things like, uh, the fact that some of these things may be human manifestations of human powers. You know, the poltergeist is associated with something called r sp K random are random spontaneous psychokinesis. Yeah, r sp K, which was the theory of William Rowles and some other parapsychologists that most most Poldergeist cases have a focus. Uh. The the phenomena tends to occur around one particular person in the house more than than anybody else, and that their their theory is that oftentimes these are our children or adolescents or people who are in some other way repress and so essentially poltergeist are a psychic temper tantrum. Uh. These kids or people apparently have some kind of a psychokinetic gift, and so when they are put into situations where they can't express themselves outwardly, then that impulse translates into psychokinetic activity, and you know, and I don't discount that idea. I mean, we know that that BK MICROPK at least has been pretty well proven in in you know, double blind laboratory studies where they're using random random number generation and that kind of thing. The case for macro PK is more anecdotal, you know, stories of people who've been able to do these things, but you know, it's just one of many human hours that could be responsible for some of the weird stuff that happens around us. Another thing is the idea of you know, some people like to call them tulpa's. I think that's kind of appropriative of Tibetan culture, So I call them thought forms. This idea that given a very clear visual image, given a lot of desire, and given the idea to sort of novelize an image, we can actually create things that have a more or less solid form from just our our minds. Basically, I think it was it might have been John Keel, but don't quote me on that, who tells the story of the home of the fellow who used to write the Shadow, the radio character his home being haunted by a figure that looked like the Shadow. So you had a guy who spent a period of time the very clear image in his mind who was bringing this character to life, and who had a strong, you know, force or desire to bring this character to life, and apparently it's it's been. So there are stories in magical communities about, you know, groups of practitioners getting together and creating thought forms that, for instance, protect certain areas. I read of one group of witches that did a working to try and develop a guardian for an island where baby seals were being killed. And subsequently this figure that they had created because they'd gone They've made a painting of it, and they spent lot of time and energy creating this thought form and putting it out there, and apparently this thing was seen on this island. So, you know, there's another thing you have when we're talking about sasquatch. For instance, we have groups of people out there who have a strong, strong desire to see a sasquatch. We have people who have a very clear visual image of what a sasquatch looks like, you know. And then we also and we have these same people who have gone to great lengths to develop a story for the sasquatch. You know, this is how they behave. This is how they hunt, this is what they do, this is their migration. I mean, you know, you talk to some of these folks, they have very very intense stories about how Sasquatch is. Is it not possible that some of these groups, you know, are putting so much energy into this that they're actually creating their own sasquatch? Could be? Could be? So you see, we have all of these different things that could be going on if we take a more forty in approach to the paranormal. When you talk about the forest poultergeist, you can also be talking about the fair folk. You know, the fay have a strong reputation for creating poultergeisty type activity, especially when you know you've invaded their territory and they don't approve of whatever it is that you're doing. There are stories of people walking into various circles and trying to join the dance and literally being knocked out. So and there are stories of people building their homes on what was known as a fair path, supposedly a path that the fair folk used for traveling from one place to the other during different seasons. If you built your home on one of those paths, it was almost certain to cause you trouble. In one case that I read about, there were deaths in the family as a result. In another case, there was an outbreak of what looked like poltergeist activity until they actually shaped their house so that it wasn't encroaching on this path. So, I mean, my point is in all this is that any of these phenomena that we look at, whether it's lake monsters, whether it's sasquatch, whether we're talking about UFOs or ghosts or whatever, there are a lot of different things that could be happening, you know, ranging from human cause things to spirit caused things, and including physical phenomena as well. I mean, you know, in the sasquatch instance, as I said, I don't have a problem believing that there's a large bipedal primate out there somewhere, you know, some But if somebody brings one in tomorrow, that doesn't solve the mystery. That solves part of the mystery. But she still can't explain stories like the one in Stan Gordon's book where the woman is sitting in her living room and she's watching TV. She hears a noise on her porch. She's had a problem with feral dogs in the neighborhoods. So she neighborhood. So she scoops up her shotgun, goes out on the porch and confronts a seven foot tall sasquatch on her porch. Well, she's as you know, apparently the sasquatch is as surprised as she is to see the thing. It throws its hands up. She thinks she's being attacked. She shoots the thing and it disappears in a flash of light. That's an odd obviously not a physical creature, you know. You know, so even if uh all of these researchers managed to produce a physical specimen someday, that's only going to answer part of the story. Yeah, I think that you're still going to see, you know, a lot of these forest poltergeist type Class B encounters happening out in the woods. Because I don't think that it's just about sasquatch. You know, There's there's a lot more going on. I think there's a lot of different factors the week, like you've just touched on. But I feel like a lot of it is all still connected. When you go into your cryptids and you go into your paranormal in your UFOs. I feel like somehow, one way or the other, a lot of it is all interconnected one way. I don't know how to explain it, like of how it's possible, but I feel like that's somehow they're all got some sort of connection to each other. Yeah, I can't prove it, It's just my opinion. But no, well, you can't really prove anything in this field, right, I mean, you know, I mean, I know that the Sasquatch researchers, for one, or hoping that you know, they're gonna lay a body on the slab one of these days, or or have some other kind of irrefutable evidence that there's a physical creature, and you know, all the UFO hunters are looking for you know, the crash, flying saucers and stuff. But excuse me, when you start to look at these things. You know, the other thing that pops into my brain when you start talking about the connection between the things, is it's whole idea of the trickster. Yeah, because it seems like a lot of times in these cases, something is playing with us. You know, you have these scenarios a good example of this in UFO lore. And I'm kind of getting off the topic of a force bouldergeist. But that's fine in UFO lore. If you look at the history of it, it seems like the craft that are being seen are just a little bit beyond the capabilities of the people that are seeing. You know, when you talk about the late eighteen hundreds, you had airships and you had these guys that were flying and had what appeared to be people lying around in what looked like a dirigible, except there wasn't any such thing at that point in time, you know, and they were doing things like landing on people's farms and asking for water and doing all this sort of bizarre stuff, right and and so you know, the age of aviation came about, and the right Brothers and all that stuff. You move forward, you get into the you know, into the nineteen thirties, and you know, before World War Two you had the ghost rockets in the Nordic countries where people were reporting seeing these rockets that were flying around. Now, during World War Two, of course, we started to get the two rockets, and you got the age of you know, ulsion and all that sort of stuff going on. During World War Two itself, the UFOs morphed again and turned into food fighters. You know, these globes of light that were these anomalous lights that were being seen by both Allied and Axis pilots, and you know, the Allied pilots all thought it was a German secret weapon, and the Access pilots all thought it was, you know, an Allied secret weapon. Nobody actually knew what the heck it was. And then you drop into the fifties and you know, you have now, now we have jet fighters, and we have all this stuff, you know, this this more advanced technology, and suddenly UFOs become flying saucers. And it's been it keeps going like that, you know. I mean, we developed more advanced aerial technology and fighter jets and those kinds of things, and the UFOs change shape and become giant triangles that fly over people's houses or you know, now we've got these ticknac things flying around out in the yeah, on the Pacific Ocean. It's always seems like it's just a little bit ahead of what, you know, what we're capable of doing. It's like it's laying with us. So, you know, I always you know, I don't always, but I sometimes feel like there's an intelligence that's throwing this stuff at us and you know, I've I've raised the possibility in other other podcasts that you know, we have a situation now, particularly here in the West, where we don't really have any rights of passage. You know, back in you know, the tribal times, you know, people would go off and they'd go through ordeals and whatever and discover their place in the society, in the in the tribal society. We don't have that anymore. We don't have, you know, a right of passage from you know, childhood into adulthood unless you consider things like high school graduation or you know, college graduation or something along that line. But it doesn't have the deep spiritual significance that it had back then. And most importantly, one of the things that happened during these rights of passage in tribal cultures was that certain individuals were recognized as having a strong connection to the spirit world. You know, some people call them shaman uh, you know, there are a number of names for them, but they call them spirit workers. You know, these spirit workers had this strong connection to the spirit world and they were recognized for this. They trained under other people who had this this connection, and they became the healers and the seers and so forth of the tribe. We don't have that anymore. We don't have any way of recognizing these people. If if someone has these these talents, is these spirit worker type talents only gets recognized by accident sometime, or if it's just so apparent that they can't avoid it. I have to wonder though, if some of these anomalous experiences that people are having, whether it's UFO sightings, whether it's sasquatch encounters, lake monster encounters for that matter. One of the things that we see in experiencer reports is that a certain number of people are like, oh, well, I saw this interesting thing, and they go on and they live their lives. A certain number of people are are of the opinion that, oh I saw this interesting thing, and they avoid whatever it was that got them into this interesting thing. You know, Sasquatch witnesses may start to avoid the wilderness after seeing one of these critters. But a certain number of people have the experience of having their paradigm completely shift when they encounter the anomalous. They suddenly become aware that reality isn't exactly what they thought it was, and this puts them on a path that leads them into We see this a lot with near death experiences too, where people come back from these experiences and it changes their lives, It changes their paradigm completely because they understand in a very real way that this other world is real. So I wonder if some of these anomalous experiences, and some of the experiencers that we see out there are not having these anomalous experiences, are forming initiatic experiences moving people into contact with the other side or the other world or whatever you want to call it, the zero point field or whatever. So it's a you know, and that is is a connection that I think is worth pursuing too. But yeah, I do sometimes have a really strong feeling that there's there's an intelligence behind these things, and sometimes it's just fooling with us. The reason I do this podcast and the reason we're talking tonight is because in two thousand and seven, I had a very strange experience with an upright walking canine in the middle of the road fifteen feet from me. Wow. So when you mentioned that earlier and you just went when you just told stuff, you're just mentioning, Like I didn't believe in any of this stuff. Back in two thousand and seven, I was a skeptic, and I still try and say I'm a skeptic, but I'm very open minded because when you see something completely logical that should make any like it. That's not possible, but you're seeing it plain as day, you cannot. It literally changes how you view the world. So I agree to that it shakespeare worldview up? Does it Shakespeare world view up? In a big way? Now? As I said, I have always been open to the idea that you know that these anomalous things are real. So I don't come at it from a so much. I guess my brain is just wired that way. Most of my experiential stuff has been more visionary, so I don't really, you know, talk too much about it because you know, most people, you don't want to tell people hearing voices sometimes or seeing things that aren't there. It can get you. It can get you into serious trouble depending on who you're talking with. But you know, I mean, I lived in uh Western New York for a time before I moved to Canada, and lived in a little house not too far from the shore of Lake Erie and right across the street from a seven hundred acre State Park, and I had a couple of kind of bizarre experiences. One of the things that happened happened to me on a regular basis there. I'm not afraid of the dark, you know. I've spent nights out on my own, uh, you know, minimalist camping in you know, like the Superstition Mountains, Arizona, which is one of the creepier places on the planet at night. You know, I'm not afraid of the dark. But while I was living in this house every fall and every spring, for about one week, I could not bear to have the curtains open at night. Now any other time I was fine, Yeah, have curtains open wherever you want, whatever, you know, throw the windows open, whatever. During that one week, for whatever reason, I had to have the windows shut and the curtains drawn after sunset. And I have absolutely no idea why that would be. Yeah, it was. There was the strong feeling in my mind that there was something out there and I didn't want to see it. And I have again, I have no idea what that was about. The other weird thing that happened to me when I lived there, I commuted to work every morning, so I would I rode the bus. So I would get up early and I would walk down my street, which is a quarter of a mile down to the intersection there. And there was a bus that ran up up that street and picked me up and basically delivered me right to the front door of my office, which is very nice. Took me an hour or so to get to work, but it was nice because I could sit and read or whatever. Interesting thing about this though, was I was walking around walking down that road one morning and I heard something in there's very dense forests, like right across the street. As I said, there was a straight park there. There's something in the forest that huffed and it was so loud that, you know. The thing that jumped into my mind, and this is this is bizarre. The thing that jumped into my mind was you know, you watch movies, you see dragons, right, The thing that jumped into my mind was a dragon huffing making this loud sound. Again, I have no idea what that was. There's not an animal in that area. Yeah, I mean, we had plenty of deer, we had fox, we had coyotes, we had you know, raccoons and possums and all of those sorts of things, nothing, nothing that was large enough to make a sound like that. I have no idea what that sound was, and I never heard it again, so I didn't have a chance to track it down. One of the things that I tell people was, you know, if you hear an nomal of sounds out out in the wilderness, you need to keep going back because a lot of times you can figure out what it is. I had had this happen with a crow call when I when I moved to move to Canada, there were there was a I was out walking my dogs and I heard this sound that was just bizarre. This is kind of grating sound, and I, you know, not a not a sound that I was familiar with. But I kept hearing it as I'd go out to walk the dogs, and eventually I figured out that our that our local crows, our local murder of crows, had a very distinct call that was unlike you know, and I've lived around crows and ravens almost all of my life. It was unlike anything I'd heard with any crow raven that i'd met the States. But there was you know, and it was making the sitting up on top of a building, making this very bizarre sound, you know, So I mean a lot. I'm I guess I could be classified as a believer in the paranormal. But I also try to, you know, keep a keep in mind as to, you know, what kinds of physical things could be out there making those sounds. I mean, if you've ever heard a northern hawk owl making it sound, you'd think there was a raptor coming to get you, you know, right out of Jurassic Park. Very spooky noise, and it's moving around out in the trees and stuff. You're like, what the world is that. I've spent some time out outdoors, and uh, you know, I always kind of giggle when, you know, I watched some of these shows and you know, oh, oh, that must be a sasquatch. It's like, and it's very clearly coyote howling in the distance. But yeah, you have to to entertain people, I guess I say they got to make it entertaining. I feel like the majority of the shows are embellished enough just to keep people's interest. Yeah, unfortunately, So yeah, I mean, but you know, you have to understand that these shows are are entertainment, you know, and you know, while we would wish that they were a little more educational about some things. You know, they are entertaining, and they do attract a certain number of people into, you know, investigating more deeply whatever it is that they're watching about, whether it's ghost hunting or sasquatch or whatever. So yeah, I mean some good comes up it. I'm sure. I think it helps people into this, like more open to the possibility of the strangeness. I don't know if they fully believe, but I think it makes them a little bit more accept if towards it. I guess. Well, yeah, I mean, I think one of the things that that is advantageous about these shows is that it cracks the the ridicule factor a little bit. It used to be, you know, when I was a kid, uh, you know, even as a young adult and so forth. You know, if you said that you'd seen a sasquatch or ufo or you'd had a ghost encounter whateverever, people looked at you like, you know, you needed to go check yourself into the nearest psych word. And that's while that is the case with some people still, it is. Uh, It's true that I think these shows have made more people aware that people are having these experiences and while they may not personally believe in it or you know, have any interest in it, it makes maybe makes people a little bit more accepting of the experience. You know. It's like because you see It's like, you know, the argument that a lot of people make. You know, thousands of people at this point have seeing sasquatch right, you know, literally laid eyes on this creature. They got to be seeing something, you know. And while you know, the scientists might want you to believe that all of these are misidentified black bears or delusions, enough of it. The witnesses are credible hunters, law enforcement people, special forces of soul and so forth. Not of these people, you know, particularly the hunters, they know what the hell a bear looks like, and they're you know, the idea that they're misidentifying a bear is frankly ludicrous. I was going to say the whole bear thing pisses me off, because the whole bear things just I find it laughable. It's like, I'm sorry, I know what a bear looks like. I'm not going to mistake a bear, even a bear standing on its hind legs for you know, a massive, eight poot tall bipedal rimate I'm sorry, that's not going to happen. I know what a bear looks like in the same bears don't have the same fluidity that's described in sasquatch encounters, and they have snouts, and their shoulders aren't right for the sasquatch description. I mean, there's just a whole host of things. So you know, that's just one of those bs scientific materialist things that get thrown out there periodically to muddy the water. And I totally forgot where I was going with this, but yeah, it is. It's a situation where, you know, with these these TV shows that, yeah, I think people are becoming a little more accepting of the experience. I mean, if you look at the difference in attitudes towards UFOs and UFO experiencers in the sixties and seventies versus UFOs and UFO experiencers now, I mean, there was a time when you know, if the news was reporting on UFO, you almost inevitably got the theme from the X Files playing in the background, and it was thoroughly tongued. Right now, you know, we've got national news playing the tic TAC videos and taking it completely seriously, and you know, basically saying, Okay, we don't know what this is, but there it is. Our navy jets are chasing these things around and we don't know what they are. Big difference in attitude, and so I think some of that that wall of materialism that you know, these things can't possibly exist because we say they can't exist as starting to break down. The stigma isn't as strong as it used to be when people come forward with stuff too. That's and you know, it's kind of like why I do the show. I've said it before is I never felt like I could talk about the thing that I saw, So I wanted to make a show and talk to people that saw the same type of things because I never felt like I could talk about it. So I wanted to give a place for people that could, like where they could come on and talk about it. Because in my mind, sure if I would have brought it up, everyone lack at you think you're crazy, because that's that's typical for what happens when you see strange things. Yeah, there's a very strong ridicule factor, and it's still I mean, I'm convinced that many, many, many more people have seen things they couldn't explain than have reported them. Because for every person who comes forward and makes the report, I'll bet you, I mean, and this is completely unscientific. I could can't prove this, but i'll bet you there's three or four more that never reported their experience. Yeah, because what will people think? Yeah, I mean, particularly when you have people who are in yeah, in professional fields and so forth. They're afraid they're going to lose their jobs if this stuff gets out. Yeah, if if it comes out that they saw a sasquatch or you know, they had a UFO experience or whatever. And in some cases that could that could still happen. I don't think it's quite as prevalent as it used to be, but I mean I can see certain workplaces where that kind of thing just wouldn't be tolerated. So, in your man wolf encounter, did you feel threatened by this creature or was it just a thing that was there? I can tell you the whole thing when we're off air. That way, I don't like taking up my episodes with like interviews or someone else with my own encounters, so I can tell you about when we're done with the episode. My curiosity is, you know, it seems that most people who encounter these these creatures seemed to view them as aggressive. But I've talked to one experiencer who has a very different attitude toward it. I don't know, I didn't. You know, we can we can talk about that off here. Yeah, I didn't. For the listeners right now, Like, I didn't take it as aggressive because I was so close to a standing face to face with it that it literally could have got me if it wanted to, because I'm fifteen feet from it. It just crouched down and went off on its way like it wanted to get away from me. So I didn't. And everyone's like, oh, were you afraid? I was like no, They're like, well that's why I left you lung. You weren't afraid of it, Like, I was just confused. So I was just trying to figure out what the hell this thing is, What's what was that? Why am I seeing it? Yeah? All that, I've told it on other podcasts and stuff before, and everyone always tells me like it's the most bizarre story they've actually heard from someone when it comes to like just a sequence of things and how it went all went all about because I wasn't the only one that saw it, so but yeah, we'll talk about that here in a few minutes because we've been talking for about an hour, so I didn't I want to go back and talk about your books real quick before we wrap this up. Okay, So you want to let the audience know where they can find your books at and everything else. Sure, I'm All of my paranormal stuff is published under Beyond the Freight Publishing. It's a little little outfit out of Las Vegas, and my books are all available on Amazon. They're available. You can get them as either paperbacks or the Kindle version, and if you happen to be a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can read them for free. So that's that's hard to beat as far as as contact with me goes. My two major social media outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Kind of giving up on Twitter. I just can't keep up. I just can't keep up. I I you know, everybody thinks, you know, oh well, authors make lots of money. It's like not really, I work a day job like everybody else, and you know I do this, you know, part time in my in my spare time. So you know, I I do a Facebook where you can find me W. T. Watson author page on on Instagram. I have an old handle that I use. It's a courneer. See you are you and I are six zero. So I'm always glad to hear from people. And you know, I sometimes get citing reports from people online, but you know, mostly I think people like to follow and see what I'm up to. Yeah, and I'm happy to hear from from folks that have read my books and such. You can shoot me all your links in an email. I will include all of that in the show notes for anyone listening, they just can go there and click on it and take it to where they need to go. Great, well, do well, Travis. I'll send you my author bio to Okay, I include that too, But I want to say again, I do appreciate you come on here and talk with me. And it's been a pleasure. Oh absolutely, it's been. It's been great. Thanks for having me not a problem. Thank you for coming on here, and for everyone out there listening, make sure to check out Travis's books and make sure to hit him up on social media's. But on that note, we're gonna roll out here, So thanks for listening, can I And that's the show everyone. I really hope you guys enjoyed the conversations. If you would like to be a guest on tenfoil Tels, remember to send an email to Tenfoil Tales Podcast at gmail dot com or go to the contact section of tenfoiltal dot com. Just get your message to me. 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