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


Talking to Whistlers in the Canadian Rockies #BigFoot

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini
Guests
Bass Jew
Mentioned
Bigfoot Andy Bass Tape Kananaskis Granted
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Length

12 minutes

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1,795

Sentence count

81

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Toxicity

8

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Summary

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Andy and I were hiking in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, when we stumbled across something we believe to be Bigfoot. It was dark, it was quiet, and there was no other way to describe it other than to say it was... something big.

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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