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Yes. And today we are speaking with Scots. Is it Violet? Violet? How do you say the last name? Violet.

Scott V. Let of Blue Mountain Bigfoot Research. So to kick things off, can you just explain to us what your organization does exactly?

Actually, we are a scientific organization that is out to classify and register the American primate that's walking in the woods today.

So American primate meaning I guess what most people would refer to as Bigfoot Sasquatch? Yes.

Cool. So how long have you been doing this? And I guess what made you essentially dedicate your life to tracking this?

Well, I actually what got me into this was I have a degree in anthropology and my expertise is in Native American culture.

And what got me into it was I've worked with Native American tribes from all over the United States. But particularly I spent a few years with the Miwok tribe in Central California.

And they're in the assembly valley area. And I started looking at pictographs and petroglyphs that they had in their area.

And there was one that I didn't recognize because I learned how to read them in college. But I was looking at this one and go, what is this?

And they said, well, that's a Yaya Lee in their language. And I said, what's that in our language? And they go, well, it's Bigfoot, Harry man.

And I'm like, oh, okay. So that's real. And they said, yes, absolutely. That's real. And the pictograph I was looking at was like 500 years old.

And we started finding another ones that were like 1500 years old that were pictographs of Bigfoot. And I started researching with other tribes. And I walked over 175 different Native tribes that have Bigfoot legends. And I said, well, they got to be something to this.

So I started looking into the Bigfoot thing about 25 years ago and started finding stories from other people. And when I, when I launched my website and I got a Facebook page and I got logos all over my truck and people started sharing stories with me.

I started correlating the Native American stories with the modern day stories and they were matching up. So I thought, well, there's got to be something to this. This legend's got to be real. So two years ago, I actually saw one in the woods for the first time.

Yes. So you saw Bigfoot.

Yeah, yeah, after 25 years of looking, so they're pretty elusive. But yeah, I saw one two years ago.

Where were you and like, what did it look like? Because I know, like, I mean, I am not that familiar with Bigfoot, but I know that, you know, the legend is that it's tall, like, seven, eight feet tall or something like that and walks like a human, but looks like a primate. So what was it?

Can you just like describe this entire encounter and where it was?

Okay. Yeah. We were in, we were in the Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon and the Walawe Whitman National Forest.

What led me to it was I received several, like, 15 reports from people all within the two week period. And I'm like, oh, okay. So that's probably where they're at right now.

So we, we trucked up the woods and spent every day there for three or four days. And then I was hiking along a trail and we smoked this really bad smell, which I have heard described to me by I've never smoked it before.

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