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For centuries, eyewitness have reported seeing giant creatures in the woods of North America and beyond.

These forest giants have been known by many names,

including Sasquatch, Omar, Yowie, Yeti,

Yettie, and their most commonly used name, Bigfoot.

Join us as eyewitnesses share the details of their encounters with these forest giants on the show.

And now your host, Vic Kundy.

Hi everyone, thanks for listening to another episode of Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio.

Tonight's guest wants to go by his first name only. Heath, welcome to the show.

Thanks. Thanks for being here.

Heath, both your mother and grandmother had encounters with Sasquatch.

Because of their encounters, do they avoid talking about Sasquatch when you were young or did they talk openly about them?

They talked about it amongst close friends, but not like if anybody outside the family came over it wasn't like a

center of discussion. If you brought the topic up they wouldn't flinch or do all they

could to avoid it. They'd get embarrassed and of course the people would want to know what the story was and then they'd tell it but it was one of those looks like I'm going to be in trouble for it later.

Yeah, I do remember that look that I used to get.

After having their encounters, did your mom and grandma believe Sasquatch were to be feared or nothing to worry about.

My mother had this feeling that if it wanted to hurt her it would have.

It walked right up on her.

My grandmother did not have that same feeling.

Did either of them research the topic after they had their encounters?

There wasn't a lot to research at the time the Patterson-Gimlin film was out, other than that there was you know we're Leonard

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