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Nov 3

SC EP:18 Sasquatch Stories with Jim Grant AKA Bear

On Sunday we welcome researcher Bobby Woods and Jim Grant aka Bear to the show. Most in the Bigfoot community know me as Bear, but my real name is Jim Grant.
I was raised as a country boy in Montgomery County, Mississippi. Now, I find myself spread out all over the South.
I have personally known of BF since 1966 when a “booger” was outside me and my brother’s bedroom window, making strange cooing and clucking sounds.This caused an interest till this stage in my life. I guess you could say this was before the “Patterson” film came out in 1968.
After a few more run-ins with our hairy friend, in 1975, I decided to attempt to study and learn the habits of our elusive friend. I have been doing this off and on for almost 35 years, with the last 10 being of the more serious nature.The aspect I find most interesting is the diversity of this creature between ecosystems from all across the South, including Oklahoma and Texas. This has pointed out to me that there are various differences, as the ecology makes this hominid seem different from region to region, but it is basically the same animal.

 


 

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38 Responses to “SC EP:18 Sasquatch Stories with Jim Grant AKA Bear”

  3. Travis E

    I have my own view of the shape shifter. I got to see who I call the big guy move from a standing position to all 4’s. When he was standing on 2 feet he was so human like. He walks around me to my left side and as he moved he lowered down to walk off and as if in the same step he naturally went to all 4’s and blasted trough about 100 foot of thick brush and trees. The hair on the front side looked so much better than his back side. The back was matted up a bit like maybe a yak or loma . Now his back and shoulders had thined out and cleaner than his backside. Now when he was on all 4’s he moved off like perhaps what one of them prehistoric giant sloths may have looked like. It was what first came to mind as he moved off. It was just crazy. He got his face so close to mine as he dipped off, like as to look at me at my own level before he showed me his powerful exit, heading in the same direction that our ranch hand took off running before I almost bumped into the big guy.

  7. James L

    Dear Wes… after hearing about Bear’s first account as a young man, I feel motivated to reach out once again. I have multiple recorded examples of both cooing (form of clucking) or, what I refer to, as melodic percussive tones. Anyway, I have a lot of footage I wish to share, not only with Bear, but with any other witness to the clicking thing the Sasquatch do, as reported time and again in your witness accounts. I understand your hesitation to work with “researchers” from the YouTube community, but I really do have a lot to share, including insight from the many firms of communication To which I’m privy. I am not a researcher. I have too much respect for researchers to claim so much. I do investigate,however, from the mind and intellectual curiosity of an artist and outdoors enthusiast. Please check out the 0:44 point in this video: .https://youtu.be/mNGMTH9jqVM
    If you are not impressed in any way, please tell me to get lost! Peace be with you ~ James Lady

  10. Billy Ray F

    Cannot download this episode (#18) for later listening… have downloaded the first 17 episodes, but this one does not like me, because it states, “Firefox Can’t Open This Page — To protect your security, art19.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.”
    I’ve opened new windows, I’ve tried Internet Explorer & Edge and get the same results… the same error…

    Can you help me with this problem?

    Billy Ray!!

  12. Dawn K

    Bear, I was born and raised in northeast Mississippi ~ 1968 in a town called Booneville and lived not far away in a very small town called Marietta. The closest big city is Tupelo. Like you, our father left us kids and our mother when we were all very young. Me and my twin sister were only two years old. During the summer months (and actually all year round), throughout the 70’s all five of us kids, plus cousins would run through the vast woods all day long with our dogs. Back then kids were seen and not heard. We had one tv and our uncle watched his westerns on it. Us kids had Saturday morning cartoons. Granny had a huge vegetable garden ~ 75 rows! We had a big lake not far behind the wood line where we fished for catfish. There was a bottom beyond the lake and a channel that stretched for miles beyond that. (First time I saw an alligator gar was in that channel. Scared me to death!) lol???? We did not have central a/c and kept the windows open with fans in them. Not all the windows had fans however. During the night I would hear creepy screaming and howling coming from what sounded like out beyond the bottom. I always thought they were wolves until I learned that Mississippi hasn’t had a wolf population in decades. Living in the desert southwest currently I know what coyotes sound like. Listening to them now as a matter of fact! I call them coyote parties! Also, our granny would tell us to watch out for the Woolley Booger. I had no idea what that was and thought she was just trying to keep us in line and not stray too far. It wasn’t until I started listening to Sasquatch Chronicles a few months back, that I learned Bigfoots were in Mississippi and many more states throughout our Union. When I was little I thought there was only one Bigfoot and that was Patty in the Pacific Northwest! Lol ???? Sometimes during the night when I would sleep with granny on a pallet in the living room floor, something would wake me up. I would stare out our picture window and see large dark figures walking on the gravel road. I always thought they were ghost because the Natchez Trace was only a few miles away and there were many Indian burial mounds there. During part of the Trace’s construction, archaeologists were called out to excavate remains that were discovered. They were super cool and let us kids use a brush to dust away some of what they were working on. I’m sure it was nothing significant otherwise they probably would’ve shooed us away! Looking back, I believe that some of what I saw and heard could have been Sasquatches. Our nearest neighbors were miles away and it was very dark there at night unless the moon was out. We had one big light in the backyard on top of a telephone pole. I just wanted to reach out to you and share my memories from one Mississippian to another. I always say; I’m American by birth and Southern by the Grace of God. I enjoyed listening to your encounter stories! God bless

  16. John D

    so when they talked about an incident in KY where the hunter was found folded up under his dash and gun wrapped around a tree limb, is there an episode on here that specifically talks about it?

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