This is the transcript for the above video about dogmen and Bigfoot in Illinois.. 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.
[23:50–24:12]
He was standing behind some trees over by the creek, and I had him dead to right in that camera. He w- I mean, this was the first night we investigated. ……… He was over there, but I didn’t realize I could take pictures with it, so I didn’t get him. So there’s 4 or 5 of us standing there, and we’re looking over there, and he never moved.
[24:13–24:34]
We finally turned a Q beam on it, and he stood there for a second, and he kinda disappeared in the brush. But I turned around, and I said, “Look over there.” So everybody turned around, and that juvenile’s standing out there in the field probably 50 yards away in the wide open. And Tammy says, “Why’d you turn around?” I said, “Because they’re never alone.
[24:34–25:05]
One of them draws your attention. The other one’s gonna sneak up on you.” From what I’ve gathered, these Dogmen are evil. ……… And I believe that Bigfoot keep them in check from killing people, because the people that are living down there went and bought high-powered rifles, big handguns, and they were gonna shoot them. They were that scared, ’cause they were afraid they were going to come in their trailer. ‘Cause they’d been beating on the doors and on the walls, and at night, they’d, they’d shake the, the trailer.
[25:05–25:36]
……… And I finally convinced them not to shoot them. I said, “Don’t.” I said, “‘Cause they’re just gonna come back for revenge and get you. You know, leave them alone.” ……… So I contacted Wes. ……… Wes Scott Conover, and he’s like, “Yeah, don’t shoot them.” I said, “Well, what do you reckon we men- recommend we do here to get them out of here?” ……… He said, “Well, the best thing I’d recommend is to get that mowed and set up some trail cameras.” So we did.
[25:37–26:07]
We set up 5 trail cameras, and they mowed back probably 40 yards, and that stopped them from coming up there. But they could still hear them at night whistling. They didn’t see them, but they could hear them. And they would still hear coons screaming at night like they were getting torn apart. So we decided to put a bag of apples out in the trees, and we put them up even where the deer couldn’t reach them. And I believe they ate The apples disappeared.
[26:08–26:29]
You’d have to check with Tammy and Russ on that. Is Russ Red? No. He, no. Different- Red’s another guy. Red, Red Tammy moved to Rushville. Her daughter lives there. Uh, Russ lives in the camper, and all the other ones are gone.
[26:30–26:55]
They’re all gone. They didn’t want no part of it. Th-these guys were scared to death. And Fred, at the time, was Tammy’s boyfriend. He was a big guy, and he’s a farmer, hunter just like me, you know, lives on the river. And he never, you, you know, he never really even heard of them. He was the one that bought the 30 rifle, ’cause he was gonna shoot them, ’cause he was scared to death.
[26:56–27:28]
They’d all see them, you know. So I set that one camera up. There’s a tree between Russ’s camper and the trailer, and it’s probably 20 yards apart. Well, here’s a tree, so I set that tree, that camera about 5 feet up off the ground, and that’s where I got the picture, I was calling it the shoulder, and I got that buttocks picture. I think you got them now. That’s, that’s where those 2 pictures come from.
[27:28–27:57]
The, the 2 dogmen pictures we got, the male and the female, where you can see their ears, was back towards the creek a little farther, but that would’ve been in the daytime. And then one day, it was about 1:30 in the afternoon, I went down there to check the cameras, uh, ’cause I was going down there every 2 or 3 days whenever they’d call. They, they were here again last night.
[27:57–28:17]
Get back down here. ……… So one day, all 5 cameras were shut off. They were actually turned off, and nobody, nobody took the blame for turning them off, ’cause I told them to leave them alone, and I would check them myself. And they all claim that nobody touched those cameras.
[28:17–28:33]
Well, it’s kind of hard, too, to shut them off without getting your picture taken. Well, from behind. Under, you can’t. You can, you can come from the side and flip it open. Okay. And when it flips open- Well, I guess you could. All right. Still be, maybe.
[28:33–28:53]
But this one day, it’s about 1:30 in the afternoon. Russ and Red were sitting in the lawn chairs at the campfire, and I went to pull the cards, and I was gonna take them home and check them. So I made my loop. I’m probably 40 yards away from them 2, over by the creek. I checked my last camera.
[28:53–29:25]
……… I come around, I got in the truck. I was like, “I’ll see you guys later. I’m gonna go home and check these.” So I got in the truck, and I drove down to the first T, which is probably a quarter of a mile, and he calls me. ……… Russ did, and he says, “You’re not gonna believe this.” He said, “Right after your truck pulled away, that big guy stood up over there behind the trees.” He said, “He stood there long enough where I got the picture, and you got that picture.” ……… And I didn’t go back.
[29:25–29:42]
He said he walked down along the creek, and he was gone. But I would’ve literally walked within 10 yards of that guy. He let me walk. I had no sensation he was there. I didn’t smell nothing. I didn’t feel nothing, you know. I was just doing my thing.
[29:42–30:03]
A lot of times they say you can sense them. Is it Why do they watch peop- Yeah. Why do they let themselves be seen? Yeah. I don’t know. There’s something to it, but I don’t know. I know once we started investigating, it did slow down quite a bit.
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The night that we got all the pictures was the very first night, and then I think they were onto us, and we didn’t get any more pictures after that, and we had the cameras there for months, When you were talking about the finger streaks on the outside of that, uh, mobile home, I guess.
[30:29–30:57]
Um, I know my hand, I guess you’re talking about the 4 fingers, right? Mm-hmm. And not the thumb, but the width and- Yeah, just like that. ‘Cause, you know, you look at this, an 8 by 10 sheet of paper, or 8 by 11, my finger stretch is only about maybe 6, 7 inches, and you’re saying it was a foot wide at least. Probably like that. That’s more like 18 inches.
[30:57–31:08]
Probably like that. Okay. Somewhere there’s pictures of them. Is it, are they in that album? I don’t remember seeing them.
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