Squatch America - Bigfoot Eyewitness Episode 490

Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio

Vic Cundiff

Nature, Science, Education

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Tonight’s guest, Scot Violette, is the founder of Squatch America, which is a national Bigfoot research group. Squatch America has a self-named YouTube channel and a website where they collect sightings and reports. Scot and his wife live in an RV that they use to follow up on reports all over the U.S. Scot is also a Native American cultural anthropologist who has worked in that field for 25 years. On tonight’s show, Scot will be sharing the details from a sighting he had. He’s also going to talk about discoveries he’s made while on field investigations. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to him do that.

To visit Squatch America’s website, please go to…

https://squatchamerica.com

If you’d like to visit Squatch America’s YouTube Channel, which we hope you will, please visit…

https://www.youtube.com/@SquatchAmerica

If you’d like to purchase your own copy of Scot’s book, titled “Squatch America: Investigating the Unexplained: A Researcher's Journey Into the Bigfoot Mystery,” please go to…

https://www.amazon.com/Squatch-America-Investigating-Unexplained-Researchers/dp/B0F4X4SD3V/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FUO0RJEOBUL1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.arYybCwZVL2Y7aaENAwB3w.EClk1MsrUA0VDwupvpko_06oW_3jQMq0dVV-sNNcKOs&dib_tag=se&keywords=squatch+america&qid=1755196316&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sprefix=squatch+america%2Caps%2C111&sr=1-1

If you’d like to visit Squatch America’s Facebook page, please go to…

https://www.facebook.com/squatchamerica If you’ve had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on the show, please go to BigfootEyewitness.com and let me know. I’d love to hear from you.

If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Bigfoot Eyewitness t-shirt or sweatshirt, please visit the Bigfoot Eyewitness Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.com

I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...

My Bigfoot Sighting https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-bigfoot-sighting

Dogman Tales https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134

Dogman Encounters https://www.spreaker.com/show/dogman-encounters-radio_2

My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience

Thanks, as always, for listening!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Scott Vallette, and I am the founder of Squatch America.
0:06.8	We're a National Bigfoot Research Group.
0:09.7	I have a YouTube channel that's called Squatch America,
0:14.2	and we also have a website where we collect sightings and reports.
0:19.7	And what we do is my wife and I live full time in an RV and we travel all over the United
0:24.5	States following up on these reports.
0:27.6	As far as my Bigfoot sightings go, I'll have to back up a little bit and talk about some of my
0:37.1	sightings aren't new.
0:41.9	To put it bluntly, I am a Native American cultural anthropologist, and I've worked in that field for 25 years.
0:51.9	And I would have to say my first experiences with Bigfoot sightings would be
0:57.7	carved into rock. My first encounter with a Bigfoot was when I was working in central California
1:07.8	with a Native American tribe called the Miwok.
1:12.5	I was with an elder, and we were out looking at pictographs and petroglyphs.
1:20.3	And I saw a symbol that I couldn't recognize.
1:23.7	That was one of my things I was trained in.
1:25.7	That was my favorite part of the job was deciphering pictographs and petroglyphs.
1:31.3	And I saw a symbol I didn't recognize.
1:35.6	And I asked the elder, what is that?
1:37.5	And he said, Yah, Yali, in their language, which means Harryman.
1:42.7	And I asked him, Harryman, I meant, are you talking like Bigfoot?
1:49.7	And he said, yes.
1:51.0	And I said, I ask him, do they exist?
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