SC EP:1240 Special Guest Bentley St. John

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 big.

“The way it moved, almost as if it was gliding across the beach.”

I've never seen anything moves like that in my life.

They were screaming at each other in gibberish, it sounded like a language and they were shunturing the way back and forth, back and forth always. I know what a bear looks like and there is no way on this planet, the water is all vast. That's what we're going to do.

My name is Atlas and you're listening to the best podcast ever, Sasquatch Kronkost. Woo! Welcome to the show.

“Tonight is a little bit of a different show than what you're used to hearing and I'll”

return tomorrow night with more Sasquatch encounters but I hope you stick around for the

full show tonight. It's a very important show to me. I got this email from Alex and he writes, "Hey Wes, I'm writing to you because my 12-year-old son and I are big fans of the show. He was hit by a car last week and still is in pain.

He had three breaks in his left leg. He would absolutely love it if he heard you give him some well wishes. If you don't have time or if I'm like one out of a thousand that asks for something like this, don't worry.

“We still love you and everything you do for people.”

We're an absolutely amazing person, take care Wes.

And Alex actually set me the CTV News where it actually shows Bentley getting hit. It's very very difficult to watch but here's the news coverage. Hello and thank you for joining us. We begin tonight with some incredibly disturbing video. The family of a young boy struck in a hit and run while he was in a crosswalk earlier this

week. The driver to do the right thing and turn himself in. It was all caught by our surveillance camera and other drivers didn't stop to help either. Tyson Fedor is in Terrodale tonight and Tyson the family is outwraged by this entire event. Well, Terrodale, this stretch of road behind me very busy and for 12-year-old Bentley

is St. John Tuesday morning changed his life as he was walking across that March crosswalk behind me. He did everything right. He looked both ways for oncoming traffic. It's only was struck by a vehicle in that crosswalk and a warning was caught on video and

we're about to show you some of that video and it could be disturbing to some viewers. It's just after 7 a.m. Tuesday morning Bentley St. John is crossing in a marked crosswalk on Terrodale drive northeast before a white four-door sedan with tinted windows hit him, knocking him to the ground. The vehicle quickly breaks and then takes off.

I'm like, "Pay, mad about it." St. John was taken to hospital with a broken leg. When I got into the middle I got my leg up round over and I broke three bones. But after he was hit three vehicles go around him in the crosswalk. He almost has to crawl and roll out of there before anybody even acknowledges the fact that he was hit by a vehicle.

St. John has heard screaming and roll in the way from traffic to get out of the road before

So we got hit and then he pulled over, got me a warm blanket so I can say warm.

St. John's sister Jaden says she was horrified to learn that her best friend was left stranded and in pain. I ended up breaking down and tears my brothers, my best friend.

“I think the part that hurt me the most was you see him physically rolling himself away”

in the video and just trying to get off the road and people are going around him. Calgary police released images of the vehicle on Thursday. Investigators are asking the public to track down the driver by looking for this white four-door sedan. A make-and-model is not known as for St. John he is recovering at home on the couch with his

blue leg cast. I hope this doesn't make happen again. As for his family, they have a stern message for the driver. I guarantee you know you hit somebody. Stop your car.

You know we're looking for you. You know the whole city's looking for you. Just show up and take accountability. Tyson Footore, CTV News. Calgary Investigators are asking anyone with information or dash cam footage from the area to call

police or crime stoppers.

“Again, this is an important show for me and I hope you stick”

around and I'll return tomorrow night. But for tonight, if you would indulge me for a moment. Hello. Hey Alex, it's Wes with Sasquatch Chronicles. How are you holding up, man?

Wait, who is this? You're on speaker, by the way. Hey, Bentley, just the guy I wanted to talk to you. This is Wes with Sasquatch Chronicles. How are you doing, young man?

Yeah. You know, your dad had sent me an email saying you guys are fans of the show and asked me if I would give you kind of a shout out on the show. And I was sent there thinking, shout out, I want to meet Bentley. I watched the video Bentley from CTV News and as a father myself, it was hard to watch.

I can't believe the person in the white card didn't stop. That coward knew he hit you because you kind of see him stop and pause for a second before driving off. And I agree with your sister, Bentley. Watching these scumbags drive around you as you lay in the crosswalk really was disgusting.

But it was really amazing to watch you have the presence of mind and the sheer willpower to roll

yourself out of that crosswalk. You're trying to get out there as quickly as possible so people don't run you over. And I thought, I bet this kid's an outburden. Yeah, I am. Yeah, I knew it.

Outburdens are kind of like normal Canadians just more badass. They're the Canadians you don't want to mess with. You know what I'm saying, Bentley? Yeah. Seriously, though, I'm beyond impressed with you.

I would have just kind of laid there in the crosswalk, yelling, "Medic!" I would not have been as strong as you Bentley or even showed the courage you displayed. You know, that's not something you can teach someone. It's kind of like in your warrior DNA. And I know you're in pain.

I get it.

But always remember, you know, pain heals,

check stick scars, and courage lasts forever. Plus it's on video. Anytime anyone gives you any crap, you can replay the video or them and be like, you know, when you're in trouble, you call 911. When I'm in trouble, I am 911, I'll rescue myself.

“Are you filmed today, bud? I mean, how are you doing?”

Um, I bet it's watching. Watchy. You feel squatchy? Yeah. Where were you headed to when this whole thing happened? To school. It was in the morning.

Oh, wow. They look cold there too. What was the temperature when you were out there? Yeah, I might as 10. Yeah, that's cold. That would be about 14 degrees Fahrenheit. How long did the doctor say it would take to kind of heal? Uh, six weeks.

It's six to eight weeks, because his cast goes from his thigh to his toes. So it's six to eight weeks before he gets it cut down to below his knee. He's so we don't know how long he's going to have the cast on below that, but it's just six eight weeks for that portion to come off. And what are you going to do like put a bag over it to take a shower?

Um, yeah. Well, keep your head up. You know, I broke my ankle once.

But when I broke my ankle, it was pain on a different level.

It took like a year to heal and I milk the crap out of that, uh, I milk the crap out of that injury, especially around beautiful women. You know, I'm talking about, yeah. What are you doing with your, uh, downtime? So watching some shows. Oh, nice. What do you like watching?

Um, Sonic, and I'd like to listen to your Sasquatch boxes. Oh, thanks so much, Bandley. That means a lot to me. I really do appreciate it. I would question for you. Yeah.

Is there Sasquatches, um, like, in, like, Canada?

Yeah, Sasquatch kind of has a long history in Canada. I would say it even has a longer history than what we have in the states. I give many reports out of Canada, and even the name Sasquatch comes from Canada. So yeah, they're definitely there. And there's a long history of them. As you have been drawing, like, like, pre-cut Sasquatch pictures.

“Oh, you have to send me one Bentley. I'm, I'm somewhat of an artist myself.”

You know, when I was your age, I, I love to draw. And no one in my family is artistic really besides me. My, my family's made up of, uh, caveman, savages, and stormtroopers, and possibly pirates. But I had this natural ability to to draw. You know, and I, I really enjoyed it. I mean, I was drawing before I could recite the alphabet.

One of my earliest memories was watching Sesame Street. And after it was over, I sat down and kind of drew every character from memory. I remember I drew a big bird smoking a cigarette because I thought it was hilarious. Plus he kind of had that annoying voice. So I kind of took him as a smoker, and I remember I got in trouble for that.

You know, when it comes to Sasquatch, would you want to see one? Yeah. Well, tell me, Bentley, after listening. What kind of episodes kind of stand out to you? Just like that curious. Good one. There was one time you had, I think it was Bob Garrett.

“We're talking to him. And I think it's called Goldmine or Goldminer?”

Oh, yeah. I know which one you're talking about. Yeah. He was talking about the, uh, and picked up and yeah, the compassion part of it, how they have compassion and that was one of them. The curious George, the boy that was going camping and he got lost. He told his parents that curious George picked them up and brought him back to camp.

Yeah. So now they show up with compassion and it kind of throws you off. I know you guys have heard this show with Tommy from talking to Alex and, you know, him being abused and a Sasquatch saved him, you would think it wouldn't go that way with these things. You would think that you're in real danger. But, you know, most of the time, I don't think that they attack people as much as some people might think. And it's kind of crazy that, you know, the audience seems to know

the show better than I do. I wanted to tell you, Bentley, you know, when I was a kid, I visited Canada. My family went to Victoria Vancouver and it was absolutely stunning. And I'm not sure B.C. is quite the same place today. I remember as a kid. But we drove to a couple places in Alberta. We were at horses at some ranch and there was cowboys everywhere. We visited the oil fields for some reason. But I remember asking my dad, are we still in Canada? Do we drive to Texas? I mean,

I had no clue that Canada actually had cowboys. You know, I'm just a kid when I was there. But I loved it. I would say the one thing I remember the most about Canada. Not so much

“Alberta or B.C. or, you know, the landscape. I think what I remember the most was, you know, the people”

you guys, the Canadians, very warm kind people, uh, treat you like family. Let me ask you, Bentley, just because I'm curious, if you could travel the world or even someplace in Canada,

where would you go? That. I'll be back in a mountain because it's where we're closing and always

lunches here at Sashbrook. Yeah, like I was saying, you know, that whole area through there. Banned, I've had many, many people come on the show and share encounters from that area.

In or earlier we were talking about like shows that stood out to you. Do you have a favor, one?

I would say one way or like, this guy, he was, he was in a park in a, and he was like, and something hit the car. I got the back when he got in. He was hiking in the mountains and and there were people going past like saying like, does not have three things in the mountains?

“Yeah, I'm trying to remember that one, Bentley. Do you remember which episode that was?”

No, but he said like that, like there was this tree, what looked like it like it was moving. He said like, he like dragged off when he saw it. Usually I'm pretty good with remembering

which episodes he's talking about, but that wouldn't drive a blank.

Yeah, if you find that episode, would you let me know, Bentley? I mean just because I don't remember it means very little. Like I said earlier, the listeners know the show better than I do. You know, we were kind of talking about the rich history of Sasquatch in Alberta. What do you think Sasquatch is? I would say it's like, it's, I think it's all the matter. Just how it walks and like

how it burns and how to eat and hunt.

Yeah, that's a good observation, Bentley. You know, a lot of there, even their behavior

reminds me more of a man most of the time than an animal, don't get me wrong though, I act like an animal, but there's a lot of times where I'm like, man, that sounds like something a human would do. You know, there's a lot of mysteries in this world, and the UFO topic has been pretty big lately, and I'm sure you've seen it on YouTube, and do you think aliens are real? No. What is it that you think people are seeing?

I just think it's like, you know, playing some stuff. Yeah, could be misidentification, but I'm not so sure about that. Is Bigfoot kind of your favorite cryptid? Yeah. What about dogmaum? Yeah. He's okay, too, in your book. Yeah. Yeah, I hear you. You know, I know that the whole incident with the car was about a week ago. Did you at least get some time off school? No. Yeah, you haven't been back to school yet.

Yeah, you would think you were at least get some time off a school. Did they give you kind of a

“time frame on when you can go back or when you have to go back? When I get wheelchair.”

Yeah, well, don't worry. I mean, you'll be healed up in no time and be back in action and just kind of a blip on the radar at the moment. You know what I mean? I wanted to ask you, Bentley, throughout your life, what's kind of the best gift you've ever received or given? I think talking to you right now. Oh, you got to get, you got to have a better gift than talking to me. You're actually all the best gift. Oh, thanks, ma'am. I mean, a lot to me, Bentley. Thank you

for that. You know, I kind of got to get wallpaper for you. I'll probably get it sent out Monday, but it's a bunch of gear and merch and I'm going to send it to you in your dad. It's all the stuff I personally like from the store and it's just kind of a get wallpaper package. You know, it gift from me to let you know I'm thinking about you and praying for you and God saved you for some special young man. You're going to do great things with your life. I know it in my heart.

“No, why so get well, Packie. You have to find open. It's a surprise. Oh.”

Yeah, it's just kind of a gift package. Kind of a gift from me to you, Bentley. You won't be disappointed. Did you get any street cred from your boys when they found out what happened to you? Yeah, they were mad about it. Yeah, well, I don't blame them. It made me mad too. In the same breath, you're kind of Iron Man. You know, outside of an invincibility which you seem to have mastered by the age of 12, if you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Young. Oh, wow. That's really a thoughtful answer, Bentley. I had more of a selfish answer like flying.

I do not know. Well, your dad has my cell phone number and you're welcome to call me anytime.

“You know, this incident that happened to you, Bentley. I think it'll make you stronger”

throughout your life, and I think it'll look back at this moment. It'll definitely change you, but I think it'll be more for the positive. Yeah. If you don't mind, I wanted to ask you how did it kind of affect you? Um, I think like you just saw it from all the badness in the world. Yeah, that's kind of what I thought too, Bentley. I mean, my first thought was like, how could you hit a human being and keep going? And then to see the people like

drive around you as you lay in the crosswalk, it shocked me. I can't imagine doing something like that. The only positive thing about the video really is you, Bentley, and the courage that you showed. And I admire you. You know, I know you're kind of waiting for your wheelchair so you can go back to school. Do you have a favorite subject? I do not know. What's a subject that is kind of your least favorite? I would say, math. Yeah, you and I are actually a lot of like, Bentley.

You know, in school, I loved history, but I absolutely hated math. I was terrible at it. And I'll tell you a quick funny story. We were not allowed to use calculators. You know,

in school, my teacher would always say something to the effect of like, what do you think

“in the future? People are going to walk around with calculators in their pockets. You need to learn”

how to do this in your head. And my much older brother, who I talked about in a member show, the same guy who taught me how to swim. It's kind of a tragic and hilarious story. But I'll save that for another time. He had somehow acquired a box of calculator watches. Have you ever seen those before? Yeah. Yeah. These were expensive watches back in my day. And I was told not to ask any questions about how they were acquired. He gave me one.

I think to kind of heat my mouth shut. And I wore it to school. And I got busted with it on in math class. And the teacher took it away for me. I'll tell you what, the next time I saw that

watch, it was a few days later. The principal was actually wearing it. Yeah. I never got my watch back.

But you know, that principal seemed to really enjoy wearing my watch. It's like some corruption in the public school system. But anyway, that's my story. Only you get back to resting in. It's been a real pleasure to meet you, Bentley. And thank you so much for taking my call. Thank you. And Alex, thanks so much for setting this up today. You kind of made my day. I really enjoyed chatting with both of you guys. Yeah. I'm so I appreciate and I'm grateful for

you calling. And I just wanted to see the smile on his face because I knew that that would make him smile. And you just went so many steps further. I'm really grateful for that. Yeah, well, it was the least I could do. How are you holding up, man? You got a strong, strong kid. Yeah, he is strong. You know, I keep on thinking, you know, like sometimes you go and you wish you can take something back or if you see somebody like, oh, I don't care if they cash

“the guy as long as, you know, it's like a redo if, you know, I think that's exactly what it was.”

Like he got away with a broken leg, well, in three spots. But other people aren't as lucky. And it's it's a tragedy. It's it's hard to even think about. And I think that we're lucky that it's only a broken leg. And if they cash a guy great, if not, I'm not too worried. It's I'm just grateful for what we have now. Yeah, you know, I've watched that video over and over and over again. And it bothers me. And I would imagine being your his father. It, you know, take my

feeling and times that by like a million. I don't really understand, you know, like here in town,

there's areas where it's really, really dark. And it's not well lit. And then you have someone

They were there. I think I never hit anyone. But I don't really get that driver. You know,

it's not like they're doing 50 miles an hour through there. It's well lit. Bentley, he looks left. He looks right. And he takes the time going through the crosswalk.

“I mean, I can't figure out if they're on their phone or what?”

Yeah, I've got some ideas, but I wasn't there. So I really don't know. A lot of days in the morning, here in Calgary or there in Calgary, you get frost on your window. So if you're, if you're lazy, you don't scrape it. But I think maybe he had like an area where

he can see out of, but not very clearly, right? So it's, you know, he could have missed Bentley that

way. I don't know what kind of car it was. It looked like a really nice car. And that's one of the things that's hard about this is you're looking at it. You're trying to identify it. You're almost obsessed with, you know, trying to find out what car it is just from the blurry picture. But anyways, it could have been like a blind spot, you know, where the corner, where the windshield meets the side of the car, you know, that part that goes down from the roof to the, where the hood is,

that I thought maybe Bentley was he walked, he stayed in that sort of blind zone so that he couldn't see and eventually, you know, like, it was at that point where he got hit. I really don't know what the

“situation was and it's, it's tough, it's, it is tough, man. Yeah, and I think that is a reasonable”

explanation. The part that bothers me when you watch the video, that guy knew he hit something

because he stopped and kind of like paused for a second and you could hear Bentley crying

and then he takes off and that just might be, you know, one major scumbag out there, but what really shocked me about that video was watching all of these cars just driver and Bentley when he's laying in the crosswalk. Like, what the hell is going on in Canada, man? Ah, good question. I really don't know. It's yeah, and I don't, I don't why you do think I was bashing Canada. That probably came out all wrong.

That could have happened down here in the States. I guess I was just shocked. I, it's not the

“Canada I remember, you know, it's, it shocked me. You know, I think it's, uh, it's culture. It's”

driver's culture. I see people speeding down that, and I'm not talking about four or five monitors over or even ten, but I see people driving just insane speeds on my way, right? So it's just driver culture. I want to say if the police were giving more tickets for, you know, excessive stuff like that. Maybe we wouldn't have that, but then that doesn't explain why people don't stop. It's just, it's hard, uh, maybe it's a wake-up fall too. Maybe

that's almost bad to say, but it may be that had to happen for people to come to their senses and say, hey, what the hell did I just do? I went around this kid, you know, and maybe next time they'll stop. Hopefully there's not next time, but maybe next, the next incident where they, they have to think about stopping or or keep driving, maybe they, they will stop, you know, it needs to change. That's all I know. It, it does need to change. Yeah, it does. I grew through, you know, I called to cheer you

up, Alex. I felt like I'm bumming you out. No, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm cheered up. I am. I'm very happy that you called it, but it put a smile on my face as well, and even my girlfriend here, she, he's, he was videotaping and she had to take off, but he was videotaping for the longest time, and, uh, I, I, I bet, shy, as big of a smile on my face that Ben had, so I'm, I'm very cheered up. Don't worry about that. I appreciate you saying that. The thing I wanted to ask you about is,

I have a hard time believing that was the only camera that captured that car. I mean, there has to be more cameras that got a license plate that got that car. Do you know, are the cops kind

right, because, uh, well, uh, me and his mom aren't together. We haven't been together for a while,

“but we, we get along really well, so the day it happened, I was driving the work from”

another town outside of Calgary, and he's in in Calgary, so she fell me right away, and, uh, but she had, he headed down there to, you know, it's like a couple of blocks away from the house, and, uh, you know, to be with him. And so she knew he was shown the camera footage, and, and she was able to go to the, uh, to the house and last it, you know, being sent to her and everything. But, uh, the police, they, when they, uh, released photos of the car, it was like there was one

photo taken out of the passenger side of the car, so obviously they've gone to different houses,

looking for footage, you know, those doorbell cameras, they're good in a way, but then, you know,

“like any distance, it's hard to make out license plate numbers, so stuff, uh, almost like you”

have to sort of backtrack where he came from, uh, to get a really good picture, uh, not everybody has doorbell cameras here, I wish they did, but it's, it is what it is. Yeah, you know, I would imagine the laws are kind of the same between the states in Canada and the situation like this, but I, I don't know. So I'm kind of speaking out of turn,

but you know, if you strike someone and drive off and cause bodily harm and being that Bentley is,

you know, a child, these a minor, I'm sure you're looking at several, several fell nature. You're going to prison for a while. Do you think this is a situation where the RCMP would get

“involved? Um, no, the city of Calgary has their own police force, and they work with the RCMP.”

It's not like that your rivals are anything that, but, uh, it would fall under the jurisdiction of, of the Calgary police service, so I don't think they would look into it unless it was something that was more of a federal issue. Yeah, like I said, you would think this would be more of federal charges as opposed to like, provincial charges. I mean, I could think of like four felonies that were committed. I'm sure if I brought a cop on, you could probably pack on another

four or five or more. You would think because it's more like a federal charge, the RCMP would get involved, but again, you know, I don't know. Yeah, no, though, the Calgary police service would uphold the, you know, the federal law and everything like that. It's just, you know, where it took place, uh, I mean, I, you know, just funny you can mention that I have no idea what the difference would be if it, if the RCMP were to investigate it, I don't know if it would turn out differently,

but I doubt that it would. Yeah, I'm going to put that video and screen shots of that car on my blog, and hopefully someone can kind of recognize it. I have kind of a large listener base in Alberta, uh, bus Alberta, by the way. But I really hope someone kind of recognizes that car because, you know, it's not like it's a Honda CRV that everyone in their kid brother has within 30 miles, that car kind of stands out. Maybe not Alberta, but I could tell you in Washington,

that car would stand out big time, and I hope they find whoever did this and punish them. Yeah, um, in this, I know for the city, at least the city. I'm not sure about the entire province, but we're not supposed to have the front, you know, like the passenger and the driver door, we're not supposed to have those windows tinted, or if, if you do it, I don't know if it's zero tint or up to a certain percentage or whatever they base it off of, but uh, yeah, those

windows were fully tinted, you couldn't see in. So that might help in identifying it because if it's a legal, then uh, not a lot of people would have that, it would just be more of a, it would narrow it down a little a lot more, I guess. I would think it's tough. You do like, I do feel like I want, I want justice, but at what cost should I be emotionally bound to making sure that he gets justice?

it's not worse and, and at least here with me and, and just go from there because it's, it's,

“it's so hard to choose between the two. You don't want people to get away with it, especially, you know,”

as a member of the community, you don't want other children or adults, anybody really to go have to go through the same thing. You want them to feel that they can cross the street without worry. And if people do that and they don't stop and they just take off, it's like a slap in the face. Yeah, I would stay positive and obviously be there for a Bentley, like you have been, you know, like a good dad and I understand what you're saying, you know, you can easily be consumed by

rage and revenge and I get it. I get where you're coming from. I would stay positive, especially can, and I'm telling you, man, I haven't watched that video as many times as you have, and I don't know if you believe in God or not, but watch him as he enters that crosswalk. I mean, somebody was watching over him. Yeah, if you watch, I've watched that video so many times. You know, it's just, it's really weird. You see Bentley look, he looks both ways and then,

because there's a car turning just ahead of the car that hits him. Well, the car is turning and he's still, he's looking to make sure it's safe even after that car. And I don't know if it's he sort of paused a little bit, you know, or slowed down, slowed his, his walking speed.

“And I think that's because, you know, if he didn't do that, he would have been in the more in the”

path of that car and you know, what could have happened, how it could have turned out. So it's yeah, when you mention God, a lot of people don't believe, but sometimes there's things that you can't explain, and the fact that he slowed his walking pace and looked like he got brushed by the side of the car. You know, I could have been a lot worse, and how do you explain that? Why would he slow down like that? And let's still get hit, you know, like it. It doesn't make any sense,

except for the fact that someone was watching out for him. Yeah, and I picked up on that too. It's almost like Bentley becomes like very, very self-aware, and he does kind of slow down out of the idiot that just kind of ran into the crosswalk and would have been hit by that car. And just the way he reacts, it's like someone's watching over that kid, and then you know, I was telling Bentley about when I broke my ankle, I don't think I could have ruled out of that

crosswalk. You know, he can't stand up. He can't really crawl, and he like rolls himself out of that crosswalk to avoid cars. I can't think of too many adults that would even do that or even it's like a miracle man watching that video. Yeah, because not only did the driver drive away, you know, he had, there were so many people that just drove right on by, and it's not like it's like a plastic bag or something or like a, you can see it moving. You know, it's somebody that got hit,

and they just went right around them, you know, just drove right on by. I just hope that that's

that's a wakeup call, you know, the first first driver that went by, they made decision,

the decision to do that, and then the next drivers, but you know, okay, well, that guy drove by, maybe I should do. I don't know, I just want there to be more compassion. It's almost, it's almost the, uh, you know, like we were talking before, you know, that's what you have for the best in the people do. Well, I'd like to follow up with you guys a few weeks to see how you guys are doing, and absolutely Wes, kind of a side topic. What got you into

big foot, man? Uh, that's, you know, I was wondering if I'd ever answer one of your questions like this, it started, uh, probably around when Bentley was born, everybody was listening to podcast,

“and they're like, oh, you should listen to a podcast or something, but I'm like, well, what the”

hell do I listen about? And the first one, I settled on the topic of, of Sasquatra big foot,

had them on your, on your show. I can't remember when, but it's almost like his, uh, I know you you guys added stuff, but it's just with him. It was, it was more like it was obvious that he,

everything it always ended with, uh, like the same way they said goodbye or something like that.

Anyways, and it's not that he was a bad host or anything, and it was, it was just, I thought for me, I guess, uh, but then I, I found your show, and, uh, I watched it ever since or listened to it ever since. I like, uh, Bob Garrett, Bob Gimlin, Bill Sheahan, and then Bobo, I remember you having Bobo, and, uh, oh, the other guy, Cliff, and, uh, you know, just a lot of, uh, different people that you've had on and, uh, you know, clear from the UK, anything with the doc, oh my god, what, uh, he, he almost seems

like he's, uh, like he's a grandpa for me, you know, like he, he's got that, uh, I don't know, maybe it's the way he talks, he's got that voice that's just so comforting, and you learn a lot from him.

“Yeah, you know, when, um, John died, I mean, I was absolutely rushed, and I think the”

reason why I get so emotional talking about John Bernoguel is, um, you know, my dad was kind of an older guy, and he was much closer to John's age, so I didn't really get the grandfather thing. My father was completely opposite of John, and John, you know, uh, it has nothing to do with Bigfoot. In fact, our relationship really didn't have anything to do with Bigfoot. We rarely ever talked about Bigfoot, and if we did, there were 45 minutes of him wanting to know how you're doing,

how are you, how, you know, tell me what's going on in your life. Tell me, he just cared.

I didn't really have that grown-up, but John would always ask how you're doing, and

he just taught me to be a better man. It has nothing to do with Bigfoot. He just taught me to be a better man, and I loved him. And you know, even when John was dying, I never heard him complain once about anything, and we all knew he was dying. I never once heard him pour me. I never once heard anything negative, come out of his mouth. He was always about you. He always wanted to know how

“you were doing. He always wanted to know how he could help you. And I remember one of the things”

he told me, and it really applies today more than ever. He would say, you know what, when dealing

with the subject, and when dealing with people, always do with class. There's no class left in the

Bigfoot world. Be different. Make more of a positive impact. And well, you know, I would like to say, I tried to live up to that standard, but there's no way I could live up to John's standard. I mean, he was something special. He really was a good man. And you know, maybe one day when I'm gone, people will say, you know what? That guy was a pretty nice guy. That's all I really want to be known for. I don't want to be known for Bigfoot, and I'll never live up to it, but I try.

But yeah, he was, um, he was a good man. I miss him. I'm going to have to interrupt you their

“last. I think, you know, John before your show, I think, you know, he obviously he knew his stuff”

and everything, but I think as soon as he came on your show, you were the conduit. You were the one that, I mean, before your show, I'd never heard of the guy. You know, when you say, uh, the, you know, about class, correct me if I'm wrong. I remember you saying that you had no, no experience, you know, hosting shows like this before. So I know that you are one of the most classiest posts that I can

more of their West. And just for, you know, as, as me being one person, uh, that, you know,

listen to your show and, and learn about John, there's countless others that haven't, you know, that you haven't talked to and, and that you have talked to. I'm pretty sure the most, it's not all of your, uh, I'm going to say subscribers, but, you know, the members, you know, they know about John because of you and, and I bet you, everybody that's ever heard any of one of John's episodes on your show, they've heard him because of you. So you might not have been the, the one that, you know, brought

all the science to it, but you're definitely a big part of bringing him, you know, his, his voice

and his, uh, you know, all of his education towards it, uh, towards that watch, bringing it out to people. So, uh, I'm going to have to let you resume, but, uh, please say that you've got the class. You're, you're one of the classiest guys I know, uh, especially, you know, that that wrote, uh, host shows like this. So, yeah, I'll let you continue. Yeah, I appreciate saying that. It means a lot to me,

“and thank you for that. I think, you know, I just knew John too well, and I know it's not true.”

John was, um, John was a man, and John was a huge giant in this field before he ever came on my show, uh, make no mistake. Uh, you know, I'm still a nobody, but even back then, I was more of a nobody, and John really was a giant in this subject, but, you know, thank you for that. You know, I was telling Bentley about, um, we were talking about Alberta and, you know, BC and Canada, and how many accounts actually come out of there, and you're only a couple hours away from

the band. What do you think Sasquatch is? What's your take? Okay, so I think, like, I'm not too familiar on the Nestlomer or anything like that. Uh, I do believe in God, but I haven't read the Bible or studied the Bible to the point where, you know, I've heard about the Nestlomer and that kind of thing. So, I'm just going to leave that part out of it, uh, not to educate it on that, but, uh, you know,

“I think about where, uh, you know, the first nations, you know, or Native Americans or however you”

want to describe them, where they came from. They came from the land bridge between, uh, you know, Alaska and, and, and Russia. So, but they, I believe that, you know, they came here and, and I think that Sasquatch was already here. So, maybe they came the same way, because, you know, they got, uh, in Asia, it's all over the world, right? Uh, well, so how did they get here? I think they got here

from the land bridge. I think it's maybe, you know, before the Native Americans or First Nations,

maybe, you know, centuries before or I don't know, maybe at the same time I have no idea, but I think that, uh, it's kind of the same. Now, what they are, I want to say that, you know, it's, you know,

“from, from the tree, from the family tree, you know, humans are, are one branch. And I think that,”

you know, before, you know, today, there was another branch that came off of that same branching. Maybe that's where Sasquatch is. I think they're, maybe not, you know, like somewhere in between of Gorilla and the human, like it's, uh, you know, I think Gorilla is they, they're, they're very, decorative and they don't want anything to do with humans. And I think Sasquatch is the same thing. I believe they're pretty much nocturnal, so that that, uh, reduces even more the chances of

citing them. I believe they dare, bury their dead, so, you know, you don't really see bodies, unless you go dig up the forest or, but, uh, I, I really don't know. I, I believe that they're, just a branch off somewhere in, in the tree. Uh, actually, I do have one question for you. How many people have, have posted a podcast for that long? I guess I'm, I'm wondering. I,

and, uh, have you, I know that you've, you know, had, uh, some bad things happen, and I think you said

“you, you were so close to quitting, but, but you have to be one of the longest, uh, longest running”

podcasts out there. How do you, and, and, where do you stand in that? Yeah, I know we talked a little bit about this off the air. I've been hosting this podcast for just over 13 years. I interviewed this, um, he's not really a kid. He's in college. He's like, yeah, I've been listening to you ever since, um, I was a little kid. I was like, Jesus, I mean, you know, I'm like, Jesus, have I been doing that that long?

But, you know, there's so many other, uh, mysteries or so many other topics that I've always wanted

to kind of delve into. And you know, if I go off the big foot topic, half the audience hates my guts, the other half kind of likes it, but there's so much more to go after. You know, as far as, like Jeffrey Epstein, I've been really kind of going through the Jeffrey Epstein files, and,

“you know, each toy think that guy was probably a misod. I don't think he was misod. I think it's”

much worse than what people think. And, you know, the term bail shirt comes up a lot in his emails, but, you know, those files are hard to read, especially if you're a good human being. It's really tough to get through some of it. But a lot of stuff you see in the past is going on today. And I'm kind of putting together a project for my very first show. And there's a lot of cool things that I want to do, like with AI, you know, you can create a really cool cinematic visual

to actually watch, but that you know, I would probably still do the voice and, uh, just kind of

present stuff in a very cool way that I couldn't do before. You know, I've always wanted to do

after dark. The problem I run into with after dark is the computer I had at the time. There's no way I could handle it. And I burnt through hard drives like there's no tomorrow with just audio editing. Now you get, you add video on top of that. And you're going to kill a computer pretty quick. I mean, I've killed a lot of, uh, hard drives. And I finally just got the computer that has the power to actually do what I want to do. But it's a lot of work. You know, I'm researching

things and I'm putting things together. And I really want to get this first episode out and actually start working on my next one while still viewing Sasquatch Chronicles. And I listen to a lot of podcast and it dry and I'm not being up any podcast for doing this. I'm saying this is my own personal feelings on my show. Uh, so I'm not faulting anyone for this. But, you know, somebody's podcast that I listen to and it's like they cut to commercial every minutes and they'll

do it right in the middle of the sentence. And the podcast shows are doing it. It's not some third

party doing it. They're the ones actually doing it. And you know, if I added commercials to my show, I would probably make at least 10 times as much as I'm making now. But the show just means too much to me to do that. My own personal feeling again, not a reflection on anyone else. I feel like it just kind of cheapens the show. I think I would fall out of love with my show.

“If I cut to commercial every 10, 15 minutes, I think it just kind of ruins the show. And that's how”

I feel about it. And so doing the afterdark and actually having the hardware, the power behind it, to actually do what I want to do, I hope people like it. It'll be separate from Sasquatch Chronicles, but I really want to create something cool that I would sit and watch. And I could go to the easy route very quickly. I could have commercials and all my shows tomorrow. I like it said it just means too much to me. But I'll keep doing the show as long as people want to listen. And as long

as encounters keep coming in, you know, there's so many, um, I rarely ever talk about this publicly. Right now, there's probably about 10 shows that are an exact carbon copy of my show. And a few of those guys I can call out because they were like, oh, Wes, it's just in it for the money when I was doing my membership. And, you know, here they are every minutes. They're dumping in three or four progressive commercials. Once in English, once in Spanish, it's just not worth it

or I'm just kind of ranting and raving. But I guess this short answer to your question is,

“I'll keep doing it as long as people want to send me their encounters and people want to listen.”

And the day that stops, I'll leave. But right now, you know, I just want to do additional projects.

I want to create more, and like I said, I've always been limited by hardware. You know, in the

last 10 years, I've been at Bern through three computers, and I couldn't tell you how many hard drives. You know, this sort of thing is really hard on your computer, but again, I got the computer,

“I need to break the stuff I want. So, the people who hate my guts are probably here for a while.”

I hope that answers your question. I appreciate the question.

Yeah, sorry, Bentley. I'm asking about breakfast here. Yeah, no, that's good to know. I don't know. I just, I would miss your show if it ever ended. And, uh, oh, Bentley just turned on Sonic.

Yeah, no, that's okay. Go feed Bentley and he's earned it, man.

And if there's anything I can ever do for you, yeah, myself. Don't hesitate to give me a call.

“Thank you so much, Wes, and I appreciate everything, and I think you're an amazing person,”

damn good host. I'll send Bentley on anybody that disagrees. Well, thanks again, Alex. I really enjoyed chatting with you and Bentley, and thanks so much for you guys this time. And that's it for tonight, everyone. Remember, if you've had an encounter, tune me an email. My email address is [email protected], and if you get a chance, check out saskwatchcrannacles.com. You can become a member and get additional shows. Until next time, everyone.

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