This is the transcript for the above video. The timing is off as it is taken originally from a bigger video. The interview is of Richard Mason of Colchester, Illinois in 2021. It was conducted by Dr. Michael Lorenzen, University Archivist at Western Illinois University with the assistance of Bruce Ackers.
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couple years later, my son and I was up there hunting. The first morning he wasn’t there, was opening morning, and I went up on top the bluff and got in the stand, and it was still pitch black. And probably 500 or 600 yards off to the west, I heard a single wood knock. ……… I thought, “Well, that’s a wood knock.
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Well, I’ll be darned.” So I don’t know, 2 minutes later, there was another wood knock just about 50 yards off to me to the south. And shortly after that, I never heard anythingThe sun come up and we did our hunting. Well, the next day I went down into the bottom, and my son, he went up to that stand up on top, and we were probably three and a half, 400 yards apart.
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But he’s, you know, he’s way up there on this bluff, so we can’t hear each other. But, uh, it was still dark, and he texts me and he says, “Are you up here walking around?” I said, “No, I’m down here in the bottom of my stand.” He goes, “Well, somebody’s up here walking around.” I said, “It’s just me and you. There ain’t nobody else out here.
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Everybody else is on the other timber on the other side of the road.” He goes, “Well, these are heavy steps.” ……… He said, “They’re starting to circle around behind me.” ……… And then he heard, uh, gibberish, like we’ve heard, you know, on the audio recordings on the podcast and stuff. Like, I, you call them the Sierra. What would you call them? The Sierra call. The gibberish. Yeah. That’s what he heard.
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And, and then the sun come up and we did our hunting. And I text him later, I said, “You scared?” He goes, “Why would I be scared?” He said, “I’m sitting up in here in a tree with 12 gauge slugs.” He says, “I ain’t nothing to be afraid of.” ……… But we hadn’t heard anything other than that, just that one year, and I believe that was 2018. ……… And I was wondering too, I thought what would be interesting to add is if sometime you could do the, if you do an imitation of the whooping.
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The whoops, what we call them. If you, if you could, I guess maybe do something. We might do that when we go out to the lake. Okay. And then maybe what, what a wood dock- Wood knock sound- Yeah sounds like. At least till maybe if we could imitate what you had heard. Yeah, we could do that.
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And then I don’t know if there’s any gibberish too that we could add. I couldn’t do any gibberish. Yeah. Or- He probably doesn’t speak fluent Bigfoot. Okay. I used to be able to do a howl, but I can’t do it anymore. I’m getting too old. ……… But Mike and his wife did hear some howls out at Spring Lake, which he’s the same, the same couple that seen the big one go up the hill at Argyle. They were late night fishing at Spring Lake at the ramp, and they heard some off down towards the creek bottom.
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……… That’s the first I’ve heard of Spring Lake being mentioned outside of, you know, your story. Are you aware of any others from Spring Lake, or is that pretty much it? Not that I can think of. Okay. But 2, I mean, as we get out in the woods and get to talking, and that’s when things come back to me.
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And then the story from Hank are from Brooklyn, which is Schuyler County. I was laying in bed one night about 10:30.
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We’ve seen them several times in our yard. We were sitting at the bonfire, and we seen one looking in the bathroom window, which is 15 yards away.” ……… And at the time, Red was there. He was — they were sitting around a bonfire, and when Red stood up — We measured that window. It’s seven and a half feet tall, and it, it was looking in that window.
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And when Red stood up, it ra- it lowered to all fours and run like a dog right around the edge of the corner, and they were getting glimpses of them. They say they were eating their raccoons, ’cause they can hear raccoons screaming at night, and there’s a little creek going down through there.
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