Leo D.M.J. Aurini - June 30, 2026


Talking to Whistlers in the Canadian Rockies #BigFoot


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12 minutes

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1,795

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81

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8

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4

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00:00:00.720 Let me introduce everything.
00:00:02.660 You introduce your things.
00:00:04.440 Good day, everybody.
00:00:07.080 I'm here with Bass Jew, and, uh, I'll start again, I'll start again.
00:00:15.240 I mean, you have a name.
00:00:17.700 I'm finally Bass Teb.
00:00:21.640 I'm here with my good friend Andy, a.k.a. Bass Jew, and, uh, well, this is our Bigfoot story.
00:00:30.000 We're going to, yeah, I'll introduce it. Anything that you remember differently, please, um, please interrupt me if there's anything you get different.
00:00:41.480 Uh, yeah, basically you and I went out, uh, last year, what, September or so?
00:00:46.180 We've been out on a lot of arduous, sometimes even dangerous hikes.
00:00:51.140 we've done some dangerous uh things you and i um like hiking through the badlands and rattlesnake
00:01:00.040 country that's yeah if we get bit by a snake yeah we're we're gonna lose that one it's the reason i
00:01:09.100 like my my high boots yeah yeah so we've done some dangerous shit we've climbed some dangerous 0.73
00:01:15.180 terrain we've been in some we've gone through the rockies we've gone into ghost towns we've 0.95
00:01:20.140 seen abandoned things or evidently there's been some nefarious shit going on out there that we 0.88
00:01:26.100 found. We've done some shit. We do some interesting stuff. We do some interesting shit, absolutely. 0.99
00:01:32.420 So we were headed out to Kananaskis looking for Bigfoot. And now the first thing that anytime 0.95
00:01:37.160 I'm looking for Bigfoot is I don't have a particular destination in mind. I have a general
00:01:42.660 area and then I drive around until I feel like, you know what, this is where we do the
00:01:47.260 hike. And, uh, well, it got to that point, I'm like, you know what, this is the spot
00:01:51.840 right here. And, uh, I should have given you more of a heads up that we'd be bushwhacking
00:01:57.320 because your shorts weren't, like, the first thing we do is we traipse about 200 meters
00:02:02.680 through hard brush off trail. And your shorts weren't doing you any favors. I felt pretty
00:02:08.980 bad about that. That's right. You survived without too much blood loss. And then we found
00:02:16.440 a trail. And so we're going along the trail now. It's kind of a clear-cut area. It's a fire break
00:02:25.400 in the mountain. Yeah, actually, you know what, you're right. I was going to say it was forested,
00:02:28.760 it was a fire break, wasn't it? It was a fire break in the mountain, yeah. And it was a trail.
00:02:33.720 And the one side, it kind of gently slopes away and you can see the, do you remember what that
00:02:38.920 lake is called pretty famous location this lake yeah you can see that in the distance probably
00:02:46.440 10 20 kilometers away and on our left is a big slope the biggest carpet um a good uh i'd say
00:02:55.800 like 50 degree 45 degree slope that lake had some type of native aboriginal name that i couldn't
00:03:02.120 begin to pronounce it i'm not gonna remember yeah it's a fairly major one big parking area
00:03:09.960 lots of people go there yeah but that was in the distance just see it on the down sky right
00:03:16.600 and sharp escarpment on our left with a uh a watershed in the middle so it's kind of like
00:03:24.040 where the river this tiny little stream came down it washed away the raw the escarpment so it was
00:03:30.360 kind of like pinched so we made our way three quarters of the way up the mountain and encountered
00:03:37.640 the fire bridge and everything went quiet it was quiet we hadn't i usually save this part for the
00:03:49.160 end of the story because we didn't notice how quiet the woods were there was no insects no birds
00:03:57.000 Granted, it was the middle of the afternoon, it was kind of hot, it was kind of sleepy weather, but there was no sound.
00:04:03.000 Not even the wind, no. It got spooky quiet.
00:04:07.000 And that's one of the things that I noticed right away, like there's no critter activity.
00:04:13.000 Something was definitely very close.
00:04:16.000 And so, we're going along, we get to the area with the firebreak.
00:04:20.000 At first it starts off, it's a fairly narrow trail, then it turns into a wide firebreak.
00:04:24.000 I walk a little bit faster than Andy, and so I stopped to wait for him, and while I stood there, I opened up all my chakras, and then I said with my mind, are you here?
00:04:40.400 And that's when we heard the first whistle.
00:04:43.840 Yeah.
00:04:44.920 Shiver ran over my skin.
00:04:47.400 Yeah, something was communicating with us.
00:04:49.760 there's this up on the that escarpment at the top of it more or less was a really
00:04:57.140 like a dry whistle
00:05:00.500 and andy says did you hear that like so i come i walk back to andy
00:05:10.700 now this is the part i'm kind of embarrassed about because we both took our phones out to record
00:05:19.760 And I think there was a second whistle on the other side of the wash.
00:05:25.380 So there was like two of them coming from the two prominences.
00:05:28.380 He was aware that we were trying to get it on cell phone.
00:05:32.800 And it went silent.
00:05:33.940 It went silent. It wouldn't communicate with us anymore.
00:05:36.820 And I felt really embarrassed.
00:05:39.180 So I'm going to back up a bit.
00:05:40.580 We asked this thing, give one whistle for yes, two for no.
00:05:45.720 And we posed a series of questions to whatever it was.
00:05:49.420 it wasn't a person. But it was answering. We asked it. Whatever it was, was definitely
00:05:57.000 answering this. You asked it, is it, is it, is it three dimensional like us or is it
00:06:04.600 a, in and out of, I forget how you phrased it exactly. Are you three dimensional like
00:06:11.500 us or can you enter a different dimension or density? And it answered yes to that. It
00:06:18.680 answered yes that that it is trans dimensional or whatever you want to call
00:06:23.840 that yes what else do we ask it like it didn't have a lot to ask it you know it's
00:06:32.920 like well I remember asking like are you an intelligent thing that are you an
00:06:39.660 intelligent being that thing but are you an intelligent entity that can you can't
00:06:44.300 communicate with us that was the first thing i remember asking and it whistled yes and
00:06:54.140 i remember asking it are you hostile get bluetooth for no
00:07:03.100 i remember asking if it's older than humans yes
00:07:06.860 this is one of the most remarkable coincidences where we can
00:07:16.480 I don't think it was a person it didn't sound human I've never heard a human being able to
00:07:23.460 make that type of a it's almost it was really like it was probably 150 meters away from us
00:07:29.340 it was a very loud whistle but it was a a breathy dry whistle yeah it was just up it was just up
00:07:37.000 the mountain and again there were two of them on the two different slopes probably about
00:07:44.500 50 100 meters apart yeah um sort of the way like if you and i were operational
00:07:50.040 that's that well that's a lot further than we normally do 10 meters yeah but you know if there
00:07:55.840 the two of us i could see us keeping abreast 50 meters moving forward yeah um but with them i
00:08:03.760 really got the impression that it was a privacy thing like they kind of feel about being seen
00:08:12.720 the way we feel about somebody watching us go to the washroom that they
00:08:18.640 small family units and even in this family units they're they're happy being 50 meters apart
00:08:25.840 It was a real, like, clutch around the heart when that whistle happened, man.
00:08:30.760 It was like, I can't believe this is actually happening.
00:08:38.180 So we asked her questions, and I'd been picking up any garbage I found along the trail.
00:08:44.580 And I think we, you might have asked them, we got the impression that they appreciated that.
00:08:49.440 Sort of Forest Guardian energy, maybe.
00:08:51.400 and then when we ran out of things to say
00:08:54.800 they started
00:08:57.760 they started walking away from us
00:09:00.000 and it's like one would whistle
00:09:01.380 the other would whistle
00:09:02.760 the other would whistle
00:09:03.880 the other would whistle back and forth
00:09:05.580 and they kind of like faded into the distance
00:09:08.280 until we couldn't hear them anymore
00:09:09.640 I could feel their presence leave my mind
00:09:12.820 when that happened
00:09:13.500 do you sense that Andy?
00:09:16.840 it's like a
00:09:17.540 yeah it had definitely
00:09:19.900 definitely a weight. Yes, definitely. You could definitely feel an interesting, heavy presence
00:09:32.160 to it. Not an evil presence, but a weighty. Yeah, absolutely. And when they finally got
00:09:40.220 far enough away, it was like letting your breath out. And the moment, moments after
00:09:46.720 After that happened, all of a sudden we heard birds and insects.
00:09:52.760 And that's when I realized it had been completely silent the entire time.
00:09:58.720 Well I realized the silence right away.
00:10:03.720 It definitely had a presence to it, definitely.
00:10:11.720 Definitely I felt obsessed.
00:10:14.720 about time we got headed so yeah that's our uh that's our bigfoot story um i mean i don't know
00:10:25.440 if we didn't see anything we just heard these whistles as soon as i got home i looked up every
00:10:31.040 different type of bird that could have anything remotely close to that nothing nothing in that
00:10:37.280 that part of the rockies. Yeah, it didn't sound like it was something different. No, it was a very dry whistle. Something like that. One thing I will say is that it's almost as if
00:10:59.280 he can project it
00:11:04.840 did you get that sense too
00:11:07.720 I got the sense that it liked us
00:11:10.740 he didn't mind us
00:11:12.280 yeah he was curious about us and he was very pleased
00:11:14.460 that we were curious about it
00:11:15.580 he was really curious and he had questions
00:11:17.500 you know I commented to you after on the way back
00:11:20.640 isn't it funny
00:11:21.420 that a couple of men like you and me
00:11:24.640 carry so much peace in their hearts
00:11:25.980 a couple of trained killers like you and I
00:11:28.900 I actually do have a peaceful heart
00:11:33.600 which is, I think a lot of people would not
00:11:35.680 encounter this and wouldn't want to talk to them
00:11:37.260 which is why, that's why I felt so
00:11:41.620 embarrassed when we pulled out our cell phones to record it
00:11:43.560 like we're a couple of tourists
00:11:45.420 and like, what are we doing 0.98
00:11:47.780 yeah, a bunch of cunts we were 0.98
00:11:49.360 I was 0.99
00:11:51.640 very embarrassed by that
00:11:53.420 because it's not really about
00:11:57.640 proving it to anybody else um i just want to share this in case any of you want to experience that
00:12:05.820 want to find something you can look and you shall find
00:12:09.660 on that note i'm going to go to my meeting
00:12:13.900 yep time to get out of here carfrey futurum tenny traditum
00:12:17.740 reeney and tiki hola out 0.78