Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 13 segments
A terrifying Bigfoot and Dogman encounter may only be the beginning of a massive cryptid cover-up. Some witnesses claim that after reporting their experiences, mysterious government operatives…
Lance HightowerGuest
Tom FranklinHost
I mean, I always try to tell people, you know, there's people who are just non-believers.

Nothing wrong with being skeptical, but there's always a point at which you're trying to be responsible in speaking with people who have had these encounters.

a company right you just try to make them feel for a moment like look dude you're still human look lady you're still human and here is where i want them to know like you know i will listen to you and a lot of people find it to be very cathartic

yes Yes, it's it's that's kind of my my mission really is to I never judge I whatever they tell me.

And then I try to basically help them cope or what I say, navigate in what they saw.

possibly why they saw it, possibly what it was doing at the moment, what the eyewitness was doing.

And can they go back and think of things that led up to that maybe they had already seen this before in a manner that was certain sounds or certain things that happened and they just kind of brushed it off.

So I help them kind of navigate this and help them and instruct them really to journal everything because what we know of the psyche of how when someone sees something that they cannot reference, that they've never seen before, it has a different mode of action in the brain where it can create various levels of anxiety and stress, and in some cases, various levels of PTSD, right? And I think personally, after doing many of these interviews, I personally feel that if it's truly PTSD, and there's a very specific type of definition of certain actions that are exhibited by what happens to an eyewitness, sleepless nights, they have triggers, but I think that the creature or cryptid PTSD is much different than, say, someone going, say, through war.

Because in war, on a very subconscious and conscious level, you know another human being is firing something at you.

But with seeing one of these creatures, we're told as kids that monsters don't exist.

But when an adult or a child for the first time sees something that looks like a monster, it really creates this cognitive dissonance that they're just, they can't process it.

How am I seeing something that's not supposed to exist? How come no one's told me about this? How come the news hasn't reported this? How come no one has prepared me that this, I've heard other people have had encounters now that I've investigated my encounter.

What's going on here? So people go through this roller coaster of fear and then they get angry and then they investigate.

I mean, I always try to tell people, you know, there's people who are just non-believers.

Nothing wrong with being skeptical, but there's always a point at which you're trying to be responsible in speaking with people who have had these encounters.

a company right you just try to make them feel for a moment like look dude you're still human look lady you're still human and here is where i want them to know like you know i will listen to you and a lot of people find it to be very cathartic

yes Yes, it's it's that's kind of my my mission really is to I never judge I whatever they tell me.

And then I try to basically help them cope or what I say, navigate in what they saw.

possibly why they saw it, possibly what it was doing at the moment, what the eyewitness was doing.

And can they go back and think of things that led up to that maybe they had already seen this before in a manner that was certain sounds or certain things that happened and they just kind of brushed it off.

So I help them kind of navigate this and help them and instruct them really to journal everything because what we know of the psyche of how when someone sees something that they cannot reference, that they've never seen before, it has a different mode of action in the brain where it can create various levels of anxiety and stress, and in some cases, various levels of PTSD, right? And I think personally, after doing many of these interviews, I personally feel that if it's truly PTSD, and there's a very specific type of definition of certain actions that are exhibited by what happens to an eyewitness, sleepless nights, they have triggers, but I think that the creature or cryptid PTSD is much different than, say, someone going, say, through war.

Because in war, on a very subconscious and conscious level, you know another human being is firing something at you.

But with seeing one of these creatures, we're told as kids that monsters don't exist.

But when an adult or a child for the first time sees something that looks like a monster, it really creates this cognitive dissonance that they're just, they can't process it.

How am I seeing something that's not supposed to exist? How come no one's told me about this? How come the news hasn't reported this? How come no one has prepared me that this, I've heard other people have had encounters now that I've investigated my encounter.

What's going on here? So people go through this roller coaster of fear and then they get angry and then they investigate.
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