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The Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival A Time For Community

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Group photo of the presenters and celebrities of the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival

My participation in the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival began rather surreptitiously one day last April. It was then that I received an inquiry of sorts from Marblemount Bigfoot Festival Organizer, Syvella Khalil.

Syvella was inquiring as to whether or not I had plans to attend the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival.

Metaline Falls? Where is Metaline Falls?

I had never heard of Metaline Falls. I had heard of Bigfoot however, as Bigfoot is the second element in my aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman podcast.

So, naturally, I said yes.

It was my agreement to attend the festival that opened up a world heretofore unknown to me. I am talking about the world of Eastern Washington Bigfoot.

Before the festival was over I would be exposed to a list of characters and events I would not soon forget.

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Festival Coordinator William Bisson Takes A Breather

There were people like festival organizer Bill Bisson, a community leader of the town of Metaline.

I would learn there is a Metaline and a Metaline Falls and that he was running for mayor of the latter.

That however, is another story.

Documentary For 2

When I left for Metaline Falls, it was my intention to film two documentaries.

But I would end up with more, a lot more than just outstanding footage and subjects.

I would find partners for a tour business I have always wanted to start.

Then, I would meet a Russian Bigfoot researcher and watch him turn a ten minute interview into an hour long discussion about everything but Bigfoot.

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Encounters USA before the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival, literally.

After that, I would interview all the Bigfoot personalities from Bob Gimlin and Ken Gerhard to Igor Burtsev and Tom Sewid.

All week, I would meet wonderful new friends.

For three days and nights I would camp in one of the most beautiful areas with a swimming/fish pond.

I would learn about betrayal and what it means to “follow the chopper.”

During the festival, a heat wave hit the state. Every day the temperature climbed into the one hundreds.

In spite of it all, the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival was a huge success.

Bigfoot fans and lovers listened to their favorite speakers and researchers.

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Featured Vendors Sasquatch The Legend’s Ken & Lori Hamilton

Vendors and the local community made record profits.

The actual turnout of the festival exceeded expectations by almost two thousand.

A Time For Community

In the end, I would see what it was for a small community to come together for the sake of keeping their community alive.

It was this spirit that I captured and am turning into a real live squatchumentary in 4K called The Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival A Squatchumentary.

Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

Extreme Expeditions On Vimeo Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest
Extreme Expeditions On Vimeo Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

The newly released Vimeo documentary, Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest by Extreme Expeditions LLC out of Spokane Washington is breath of fresh air when it comes to Bigfoot documentaries.

Encounters USA has had the opportunity over the past two weeks to take a closer look at the material Stephen T. Major of Extreme Expeditions LLC has been producing and they seem to look pretty good.

Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest
Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

Let me first confess ignorance to what Stephen was doing with his Extreme Expeditions Northwest LLC, a company which is dedicated to producing irrefutable proof of the Sasquatch species.

Second, let me also confess that I have no financial interest in what Stephen T. Major is doing with Extreme Expeditions and I am not profiting in any way from this post.

With the exception that you are reading this blog and review and hopefully learning something new, of course.

Lastly, let me confess that were I to be asked to accompany Stephen T. Major on any of his Extreme Expeditions, I would have my things packed before I hung up the phone. I think Stephen and his band of merry men and women have it going on.

If a little a– kissing can get me on an Extreme Expeditions project, I’ve got a whole thing of chapstick.

So this is not just a review of Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest.

It’s a review of a group of researchers and their approach to hunting Bigfoot. It’s an approach that I happen to agree with, for the most part.

Burning Bigfoot Bridges

Let’s get some things out of the way first. I don’t agree with everything Stephen does and this one area I think he could work to improve.

The fact is, you cannot watch much of Stephen T. Major’s Bigfoot Hunting material online without hearing a summary of why Extreme Expeditions is different than your usual Bigfoot media productions.

In fact, in the words of Stephen T. Major, his objective in finding conclusive evidence of Bigfoot is to put the Bigfoot TV shows out of business.

“They’re always close to finding Bigfoot but they never find Bigfoot…”

Of course, there are few loftier or nobler goals than putting the Bigfoot TV productions on the public dole.

However, I would almost argue the people who are keeping the public spotlight on the hunt for Bigfoot are doing a great service.

Unlike Stephen Major, I think the Bigfoot shows are doing an even bigger service by not trying to find Bigfoot, rather they are searching out that corporate sponsorship worth millions.

That keeps you watching and buying and them advertising while making mucho dinero.

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You won’t see Encounters USA blatantly merchandising and commercializing the hunt for the Paranormal

Cascade Bigfoot

Before we jump off into our review, a little about Bigfoot in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, Canada and Idaho.

This region is some of the most inaccessible wilderness in the world.

Rugged majestic mountains, triple canopy vegetation and forests that extend hundreds of miles. Like much of Washington State, it’s a jungle with big mountains.

Since starting Encounters USA, I have made dozens investigations in a number of areas from the Snoqualmie Valley to Baker Lake, just south of the dormant Mt. Baker volcano.

I’m still working on more sightings and Encounters, west of the Cascades. Colville is east of the Cascade chain that separates Eastern and Western Washington.

The Bigfoot Highway

Just imagine the northern third of Washington State as an inaccessible No Man’s Land split in half by massive mountain peaks.

In my experiences, the road called Washington Highway 20 is really the Bigfoot Highway. That Highway extends all the way to Colville in Stevens County in the eastern Cascades. What’s so important about Colville?

Bue Who Is On The Expedition Team?

You know who. It’s Amy Bue. I have seen two Extreme Expeditions. I saw In Search of the Port Chatham Hairy man and this one. In each documentary, Stephen Major had an accompanying biologist.

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Amy Bue is one of our favorites on Encounters USA

Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest featured Amy Bue, an investigator from Ohio. Amy is a teacher who works with a number of zoology and animal awareness groups.

She’s also a member of the Olympic Project. The Olympic Mountains in Washington State where I grew up have their own unique Sasquatch stories.

Amy brought an open mind and was not there to serve as the on site skeptic. She gave honest appraisals of what she saw.

Bigfoot in Alaska: The Abandoned Port Chatham Hairy Man Accounts
Bigfoot in Alaska: The Abandoned Port Chatham Hairy Man Accounts

Beans Baxter

Beans Baxter, who some will recall from the Port Chatham Hairy Man movie. Others from my interview about his book Abandoned: The Horror and History of Port Chatham, Alaska is also featured prominently in the documentary.

Will Ulmer’s Research

The basis for the location was local resident Will Ulmer. Ulmer related a number of experiences he has had in the area and they are somewhat disturbing. A creature approached his tent one night and tried to smash it down from the top.

A good portion of the movie centers around Will Ulmer’s ability to track and identify potential Sasquatch trails. They produced at least one plaster of a narrow 13″ footprint.

During the investigation a number of bear tracks were seen, which contrasted with what Will Ulmer seemed to be identifying as Sasquatch.

Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest
Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

Refutable Evidence

As much as the investigation started with all the confidence of finding the evidence they were looking for, what they did find was dubious at best. Anyone could have argued about the footprints or torn bark on a tree.

There are other explanations for so-called structures made out of dead trees with or without roots.

All of this evidence is easily refutable as something other than what the Extreme Expeditions team accepted it as.

What cannot be refuted is that they were all there, in the same location, along with something else.

Irrefutable Evidence

Anyone viewing the documentary is going to see something amazing. Everyone who watches Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest is going to come away with their own ideas about what happened on the Expedition and what evidence was discovered.

I believe in Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest, we found evidence Bigfoot likes a good prank or two, too.

After watching the movie, I came away with an appreciation for the Sasquatch community outside of Colville, Washington.

Here’s why:

  • Imagine that an individual Sasquatch has the intelligence of a primate, homo sapiens, or above.
  • The Sasquatch clan knew Extreme Expeditions was there.
  • It would have taken little time to determine they were not hunters.
  • The Sasquatch would have known they were hunting for something.
  • It wouldn’t take a lot of intelligence for the Sasquatch to realize Extreme Expeditions were hunting for them.
  • For the Sasquatch clan, it was game on.

By the end of the movie it is obvious who won that round.

Extreme Expeditions On Vimeo Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest
Extreme Expeditions On Vimeo Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

Score: Bigfoot 21 Extreme Expeditions 3

To conclude this review of Extreme Expedition’s 2019 Colville and Stevens County extravaganza, I would like to quote someone somewhere in the movie. I believe Stephen said something like, “We added more evidence to our understanding of Bigfoot.”

I believe in Bigfoot Encounters in the Pacific Northwest, we found evidence Bigfoot likes a good prank or two, too.

In Heinessight

Nevertheless, with the benefit of Heinessight, I think I saw a few areas in the documentary that need further investigation. I hope the next time Stephen T. Major fires up the Extreme Expeditions mobile, the Encounters USA ‘Yoda is right behind.

Lastly, I could not do this review of the movie without acknowledging the amazing video work and drone footage of Martin Media. The excellent drone, video and camera shots of the forests, lakes and other scenery alone make the movie worth watching.

Nice work Extreme Expeditions. We all can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

If you’re out in the woods with Stephen T. Major

Always,

Watch Your Back!

Encounters USA Podcast Episodes 11 – 20

Welcome to the Encounters USA Podcast Episodes! Here you will find Episodes 11-20. If you are looking for earlier or later Encounters USA Podcast Episodes, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the correct links.

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Episode 11

Bigfoot Encounters on Harstine Island with Rich Germeau

Rich Germeau joins us on Encounters USA for another special edition podcast. In a special three part podcast series, Mr. Germeau leads us to the very spot where had a number of interactions with Bigfoot creatures on Harstine Island. In the opening part,

Matthew Heines conducts an interview with Rich Germeau about his background and about his first encounter in La Push in 2008. As we trek through the rough undergrowth, Rich explains how the interaction took place in a step-by-step recounting of the events and reports leading up to his encounters between 2008 – 2012.

In our opening segment, Rich Germeau will explain about his background in law enforcement and how it brought him to encounter one of the great mysteries of our time.

Podcast contains Rich Germeau Harstine Island interviews Parts 1 & 2

Episode 12

Bigfoot Encounters on Harstine Island with Rich Germeau Part 2

Welcome to the jungle. In this video the rubber meets the road, or the forest anyway, as Rich Germeau takes us to the site of his encounter with at least one, possibly two Bigfoot creatures in the forests of Harstine Island.

Rich will take us to the spot where he was placing his camera and then to the site where the Bigfoot he could see was making strange movements and it waited for him to make it’s next move. It’s a story that needs to be told and you don’t want to miss a minute.

Episode 13

Bigfoot Encounters at Lake Cushman with Rich Germeau

The Germeau Encounters Series continues. After a thorough explanation of the backstory behind the encounters at Lake Cushman in Washington State, Rich Germeau takes us to the exact site where he had a number of Class B encounters.

Focusing on a beautiful stream and run-off pool in the midst of huge granite boulders in the thick forest, Rich Germeau explains how his attempts to get video proof of Sasquatch was thwarted once again by the creatures. At one point, the creatures (or someone) literally drew a line in the sand, or stream.

The behavior Rich Germeau encountered demonstrates a number of intellectual and territorial aspects that go beyond the behaviors at Harstine Island and, if true, provide psychological insights into these creatures that cannot be ignored.

Episode 14

Bigfoot & Law Enforcement in Olympic National Park with Rich Germeau

In the last interview of former law enforcement official and Bigfoot researcher Rich Germeau, we are able to speak candidly with an insider from the law enforcement community, and the answers are astounding.

We look at the cases of David Paulides’ Missing 411 and how local communities, politicians and law enforcement react when the evidence might lead to creatures inhabiting the woods who are territorial and sometimes predatory.

We look at the political and practical considerations of Bigfoot. Is Bigfoot still a political pariah or is Bigfoot gaining in the popular vote? What effects will that have on the creature?

Episode 15

Scary Dogman Encounters to Keep You Awake at Night

Today on Encounters USA, we look at scary Dogman Encounters to keep you awake at night from across the USA. As an added bonus, these encounters will be read by Encounters USA Podcast host and author, Matthew Heines. Nothing could be better for camping, or just sitting around the homestead with the family.

Episode 16

Olympic National Park’s Mysterious Missing Hikers & Unexplained Encounters

The Olympic Mountain Bigfoot Connection – Since 1997 five people have gone missing without a trace in the Olympic National Park of Washington State. In most cases there are few suspects and in all the cases of the Olympic National Park missing people, no trace was ever found of the missing individuals.

On this podcast, we will look at the particular circumstances of Jacob Gray, Zack Krull, Gilbert Mark Gilman and John Devine, all of whom were reported missing and who were never seen again. We look at the circumstances similarities and possibilities of what happened to these people.

Episode 17

UFO Evidence at Maury Island a Mysterious Crash & Guy Bannister

On June 21, 1947 six UFO’s reportedly flew over Harold Dahl’s boat near Maury Island, a few miles from Tacoma, Washington. One of the craft, they noticed, was flying erratically.

When it got over their boat, the wobbling craft ejected some kind of molten material that steamed when it hit the water.

The ejected material injured his son’s arm and killed the Dahl’s dog. The UFO was then bumped by one of its counterparts and then flew away. This is where the story really gets bizarre. We explain the myths and the mysteries, and we ask a lot more questions than anyone has asked, so far.

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Episode 18

Sasquatch Genome Project Dr Melba Ketchum DNA Results Bigfoot and Big Money Science

Esteemed DNA researcher Dr. Melba Ketchum chose her close friend Robin Haynes McCrae to speak to Enounters USA regarding the Sasquatch DNA Project results. What you are about to hear is how the Sasquatch Genome Project Dr Melba Ketchum DNA Results Bigfoot and Big Money Science kept the truth from the general public.

Episode 19

Sasquatch DNA Project Truth Denied Scott Carpenter Speaks Out

On this Encounters USA Podcast and YouTube video, we welcome Cryptid and Sasquatch Researcher and author Scott Carpenter to talk about the Sasquatch DNA Project and his book Truth Denied. Scott is not only a well-known and respected field researcher, he also contributed to the Bigfoot Genome Project with Dr. Melba Ketchum.

During the first hour of the interview, Scott will discuss his role in the projects as well as give us an overview of what went right and what went wrong. In the second part of the interview, we open up to broader questions of possible collusion between detractors, the establishment and even the Bigfoot research community.

Episode 20

Sasquatch DNA Project Truth Denied Scott Carpenter Speaks Out

Part 2 of the thrilling podcast interview. On this Encounters USA Podcast and YouTube video, we welcome Cryptid Researcher and author Scott Carpenter. Scott is not only a well-known and respected field researcher, he also contributed to the Bigfoot Genome Project with Dr. Melba Ketchum.

During the first hour of the interview, Scott will discuss his role in the projects as well as give us an overview of what went right and what went wrong.

In the second part of the interview, we open up to broader questions of possible collusion between detractors, the establishment and even the Bigfoot research community.

During the second hour of the podcast, Scott will talk about his own research area, his encounters with the Dogman entity and his own encounters with Bigfoot. Scott will give his own ideas about these entities. We will discuss social traits, habituations and encounters. It is going to be a thrilling two hours you don’t want to miss.

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Encounters USA Podcast Episodes 1 – 10

Welcome to the Encounters USA Podcast Episodes 1-10!

Here, at the Encounters USA Podcast Episodes, you can access episodes 1-10. In other words, the episodes when Encounters USA was in its infancy.

Although they might be our first episodes, these Encounters USA classics feature some interesting episodes and characters.

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Dogman Days of Summer

Our first podcasts really highlight the versatile nature of Encounters USA. Our first episode explores the Dogman phenomenon. We examine it in the present day, as well as in the past.

Episode 1

Dogman Not a Dog & Not a Man

On the first episode of Encounters USA, Barbara and Matt look at the question of the Dogman Not a Dog Not a Man. Is it a dog, or is it a man? We look at the historic and the hysterical when it comes to the Dogman in history.

We compare European and Native American folklore to the modern day appearances. In the end, we ask, Dogman. Is it a dog or is it a man? What do you think?

Episode 2

Bigfoot & the Deputy Rich Germeau’s Mysterious Encounters on Harstine Island

In 2010 a police officer Rich Germeau was checking his trailcams on Harstine Island. He found himself feeling under the weather and more depressed than an unemployed country songwriter. That is when the encounter with a bigfoot began. In 2019 Sasquatch Files Research Team and Encounters USA went in search of the facts. What we found was a psychic encounter even we did not expect, thanks to our talented host, Barbara. Don’t miss an exciting minute of this or any of our podcasts.

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Episode 3

The Skinwalker Ranch in Utah Bigfoot UFOs Dogman and Stuff That’s Really Weird

When it comes to hotspots, no spots are hotter than Encounters USA and the Skinwalker Ranch. Today, we are going to discuss the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah Bigfoot UFOs Dogman and stuff that’s really weird. We are also going to look for answers in Alysia Farmer’s Lyrian friends Ishtar and Beak, whom she channels from their base in Lyria.

Ishtar and Beak are going to give us some remarkable answers to our questions about the Skinwalker Ranch. Encounters USA is a hosted by Barbara and Matt.

We are seeking to establish evidence that UFOS, Bigfoot and Dogman are part of the same puzzle using data collection and the scientific inquiry.

Check out this Skinwalker Ranch Episode. Of course you can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below, or click the YouTube link above.

Episode 4

Egyptian Pyramids Atlantis & Lemuria on the Paranormal Hotspots Series

Today on Egyptian Pyramids Atlantis & Lemuria on the Paranormal Hotspots Series, Encounters USA continues to take a close look at Paranormal Hotspots, starting at the beginning of Paranormal Hotspots, mysticism and the story of Atlantis and the continent of Lemuria.

With our special guest Alysia Farmer, we explore the psychic, mythic and historic connections that aliens, Bigfoot, Dogman and paranormal activity have to ley lines and the places where they intersect, like the Giza Plateau. In this episode, Matt shows a UN document that was produced during the time he was in Egypt serving as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in the UN Peacekeeping force.

It is a rare UFO and military encounter that was actually published in an official publication.Don’t forget, you can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below, or click the YouTube link above.

Episode 5

Mt Shasta California on the Paranormal Hot Spots Series

Today on Encounters USA we examine Mt Shasta California on the Paranormal Hot Spots Series. We will venture in our discussions from Lemurians and Mu to Bigfoot sightings and remote viewing abduction cases.

We’ll focus on an amazing UFO sighting that happened just a month ago, the Bigfoot Files Research Organization data and the remote viewing skills of John Vivanco.

We examine each encounter and take a guided tour through Plato’s Cave.

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Remote Viewing on Encounters USA!

Episode 6

Extraterrestrials, Mormons & Freemasons Remote Viewed on the Deete Interview

Mormons and Freemasons with Remote Viewer Deete! Of course you can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below, or click the YouTube link above.

Episode 7

One Boy’s Amazing Bigfoot Encounter in Northern California

The Zaccaglini Encounters.

This is a podcast about one boy’s amazing bigfoot encounter in Northern California. In 2012, a young man named Tony Zaccaglini at age 13 encountered a Bigfoot just south of Mount Shasta.

Today, that same young man is on Encounters USA to talk about that encounter, as well as some of the other research he has done in the Mt Shasta area. We will talk about possible origins of Bigfoot, the Bigfoot extraterrestrial connection, possible Chinese Bigfoot Hybrids and much, much more.

Don’t miss a second of the podcast or the YouTube video.

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Episode 8

Hudson Valley New York on the Paranormal Hotspots Series

Encounters USA takes you to one of America’s true hotspots, the Hudson Valley New York on the Paranormal Hotspots Series. In this podcast, the first in the series, we will talk about encounters with Dogmen, Bigfoot and UFO’s.

Podcast hosts Matt and Tony take you through a number of encounters as we begin to discuss the truly amazing number of encounters and sightings that have occurred over the centuries.

Today we discuss Dogmen and Bigfoot encounters as we set the stage for the next podcast about vortexes and ley lines, with a real remote viewing.. Don’t forget, you can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below, or click the YouTube link above.

Episode 9

Bob Lazar Talks About His Experiences 30 Years Later

On Encounters USA we will review the latest movie where Bob Lazar talks about his experiences 30 years later. In 1989, Bob Lazar came out and told the world what many people had been waiting to hear since the end of World War II.

The United States has extraterrestrial craft in its possession and is actively engineering technology based upon the technology they have discovered. Instead a of a world changing revelation, Bob Lazar found out was the world is not what it would seem.

Rather, the people in it have become dependent upon a government and media that justifies itself and the control it exerts based upon lies, by perpetuating the lies and destroying anyone who reports anything contrary to thought dictatorship of the corporation/government state and its lapdog media.

What Bob Lazar found was that instead of a being a hero, he became less than zero. Thirty years later we find out what influenced his decision, that his harassment continues and that he regrets his decision to try to save the world. Is this a new story to anyone?

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Episode 10

Hudson Valley New York on the Paranormal Hotspots Series Part 2

Remote Viewer Deete! Of course you won’t want to miss this one.

Today, we are going to be discussion Hudson Valley New York on the Paranormal Hotspots Series Part 1. We’re always lucky to be joined by Deete to discuss remote viewing and the 1981-1987 UFO flap in the Hudson Valley.

We are going to be discussing stories from the present and from the time of the UFO encounters of the 1980’s. According to one of these stories some people, including UFO expert Linda Moulton Howe think they are coming back.

While we discuss encounters past and present, we are going to decide if there is truth and relevance to the encounter. Finally, we are going to ask the big questions: Why were they here? What did they want? Why did they leave? and finally, Who exactly were they?

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On the Hunt to Communicate with Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman

On the Hunt to Communicate with Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman
  
At Encounters USA Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman are what we do

The Joint Project – On the Hunt to Communicate with Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman

For the first time ever, three investigative teams who respectively, pursue Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman are coming together united in a single purpose –  to find conclusive evidence of Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman. Enter the UFO iTeam, the American Primate Conservancy and the North American Dogman Project. In layman’s terms, we’re going on the hunt to communicate with aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman.

The whole idea is the brain child of podcast Encounters USA creator, host and author of this blog, Matthew Heines. “I work with the three different groups. I interview them and I go to the field with them. It just makes sense to pool resources. With the hardware these guys are packing, it’s real hard to hide. In 2020 the hunt is on.” 

Can Three Historically Separate Groups Come Together to do Research?

Well, at least in theory. Can three disparate groups, some of whom are and have been at odds with one another unite for a few days for an operation out into the wild territories of Washington State?

On Friday, December 13, Encounters USA will be airing a podcast and YouTube video that is more a less the litmus test on whether such a project can go forward.

“We are going to use technology to meet and see if the three groups once properly introduced, can agree on a location, first of all. Then we will need to establish a time and a list of locations each group wishes to maintain. 

Technology, Location and Organization are the Keys to Success

With this many people and resources, we are going to be talking about covering entire valleys from ridge to river. We are going to have to establish communications, our own set of codes and above all, have plans in place for safety and support to all outposts.

The key is to keep everything as simple as possible. Make a plan and stick to it. Things will come up, that way we can be flexible if the need arises.

On the next Encounters USA NW Joint Project 2020 blog, we will look at the three teams joining forces to solve these age old mysteries. To stay up with quest, keep watching our YouTube channel, or podcast or this blog! Thank you for supporting us.

Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman – Encounters USA Is Now 6 Months Old

Six Months of Encounters USA

Over six months ago, I finished my last interview for Books in Heinessight. It was the first podcast I’d ever done. Unfortunately, I was not only disillusioned, my downloads and views were dropping every month. At the time I didn’t think I would ever say, “aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman – Encounters USA Is Now 6 Months Old!”

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Bigfoot Nest on Harstine Island? This is where Rich Germeau had one encounter.

Field Investigations

I couldn’t blame anyone but myself. My interest in the books and their authors I was interviewing was sometimes half-hearted at best. It was almost like I was trying to make an uninteresting podcast even more uninteresting. 

There was also another variable in the equation. Before long, I noticed I found the paranormal authors I was interviewing on Books in Heinessight somewhat more interesting than other types of authors. I soon saw that many other viewers and listeners had an interest in UFO’s, remote viewing, Bigfoot, and a new phenomenon, the Dogman or Wolfen as well.

I also wanted to get out of the studio 

Although I knew how to do a podcast, I didn’t have any idea how to do a paranormal podcast with three different topics. I never heard of anyone trying to incorporate more than one topic, such as UFO’s and Bigfoot. Nevertheless, I was attempting to combine all three seemingly unrelated topics.

As a result, once I began to seriously research them, I came to a rather refreshing conclusion. Maybe Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman share a common connection after all.

However, I was still left with how to format the show. I didn’t know if I should do field investigations, podcasts and on site interview with investigators. 

Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman - Encounters USA Is Now 6 Months Old
Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot is always a favorite on Encounters USA

I wanted to avoid doing dull, traditional podcasts if I could

Since I couldn’t make a decision, I decided to go forward and do all three. Assessing my assets, I had a mobile studio, a four wheel drive and all the camping equipment I needed.

After much thought and contemplation, I organize the show around some in-studio interviews, some in-the-field interviews and conduct my own research.

By incorporating aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman, Encounters USA was a truly revolutionary new kind of podcast. The only question was, would anyone agree?

No Witchcraft Please!

Then I made my first big mistake. I thought I could increase my chances of getting viewers by finding an attractive co-host.

I found a nice looking lady from somewhere in the Mid-West. She had a definite interest in doing the show.

Things went great for the first few episodes. We were having a great time. Then the unexpected happened.

Unfortunately, my co-host invited another woman who was intent on practicing some kind of witchcraft on the show.

It was time to re-think the show format.

Aliens, Bigfoot and Dogman – Encounters USA Is Now 6 Months Old

Watch Encounters USA and see what surprises, stories and interviews the next 6 months had in store!