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For centuries, eyewitnesses 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 Kundi.

Hi everyone, thanks for listening.

Before we get started with tonight's show, if you've had a Bigfoot encounter of your own and would like to be a guest on the show,

please go to Bigfoot eyewitness.com and submit a report. I'd love to hear from you.

Tonight's guest is Mark Blankenship. Mark, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having him. I'm glad to talk to you.

Thanks so much for being here.

I really do appreciate it.

Mark growing up, you had a fascination with Sasquatch.

Please tell us about that.

Well, I grew up in the Southern California in Orange County, kind of in a upscale neighborhood and kind of lived as a beach bomb and an athlete and I went into the Navy and I'm

retired Navy now I normally would have probably gone back to California, but Washington was my last duty station.

I lived in Mary'sville, Washington, and so moving around a lot, my wife and kids wanted to settle down so when I retired we stayed here and

You know growing up in Southern California. I never really was able to spend much you know time out in the woods with a lot of deep sea fishing and stuff.

So coming to Washington was kind of, you know, we like to do camping and stuff like that. but you know, as a kid I saw, you know, the

letter Nemo in search of and saw the Patterson film and then, you know, ten years ago you know the monster quest

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