SC EP:1226 Hominid Hunter
2/1/20261 hr 33 min
I will be welcoming Pete Breidahl to the show. In 2008 Pete was a soldier serving as a "Peacekeeper" on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Island chain, when on a long-range patrol deep into its impenetrable jungles, Pete met a terrified young man that had never met a white man before.
But he wasn't scared by the soldiers, he feared the creature he had encountered that morning while hunting. He described a classic "Bigfoot" type creature, and after a quick google search back at base Pete soon realized that Bigfoot and "Giant" sightings on Guadalcanal were very common indeed...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Soundbite0:00
[suspenseful music] It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind, and it either heard me or smelled me, and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up, and that, that shocked me. They don't make people that, that big.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:26
The way it moved, uh, almost as if it was gliding across the beach. I've never seen anything move like that in my life. [bigfoot growling] They were screaming at each other in gibberish. [bigfoot growling] It sounded like a language, and they were chuntering away back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards. [bigfoot growling] I know what a bear looks like, and there is no way on this planet that what I saw were bears.
Wes Germer· Host1:01
[suspenseful music] [bigfoot growling] 911, what are you reporting?
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:12
Jesus Christ, you better... I see him.
Wes Germer· Host1:15
Hello?
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:16
Get somebody out here.
Wes Germer· Host1:18
What's going on now, sir?
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:19
That son of a bitch is about 6'9", I don't know.
Wes Germer· Host1:22
Do you see him now, sir?
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:23
Yes, I'm looking right at him.
Wes Germer· Host1:25
Uh-oh.
Unknown speaker1:25
[suspenseful music]