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the jurgen experience for people don't know the the docu-series is called sasquatch and you look at it on hulu you go oh man it's a bigfoot documentary nope not really no it's a lot scarier how did this come about like how did this project fall into your lap well the genesis of the project really goes back to the fall of 1993 i was visiting a a buddy of mine who was working on a dope farm and he kind of it was harvest season which is like particularly dangerous time of the year up there but he kind of got me a hall pass with the guy that owned the farm and vouched for me for me to parachute in for about a week and um something that didn't make it in the show is that uh i went up there to do like a heroic mushroom trip with this guy so the the the day before uh the day that the the [ __ ] went down okay um we took about an eighth month mushrooms each and went tripping around the redwoods now that didn't make it in the show okay but that night as we were coming down we were um in the in the cabin the a-frame cabin that belonged to the guy that owned the farm and these two dudes showed up late at night covered in mud like splattered with mud soaked claiming that they'd just been to a nearby dope farm where they'd seen three bodies that were torn up like mutilated and these guys were freaking out okay they were they seemed legitimately traumatized to me they seemed they were exuding this like energy of like terror and having just seen you know mutilated bodies to the point where i was just trying to shrink into the couch where i was i was like really not happy to be in that room at that point how old were you at the time i was 23 years old yeah okay i was just getting going in journalism you know and um they you know they the owner of the farm kind of pulled them off to the to the side and they were having a conversation in the kitchen
and when they were trying to keep their voices hushed but these guys they were so rattled also like i didn't know the signs at the time but now looking back i'm like they were on crystal they were they were tweaking right yeah and so they were like their voices were going up and down in volume but they were but they were clearly saying that they just like seen these three bodies and they'd seen like sasquatch footprints at the murder scene and they knew it wasn't a rip-off they were saying because you know it was all the weed had been harvested but it was still there like some plants have been torn up and thrown around right but the bud was still there like hundreds of thousand dollars with the weed if it was a typical patch and you know it was like at one point the guy was like are you sure they're dead everything i have with [ __ ] you [ __ ] not listening to us they were torn to pieces man they're [ __ ] dead you know and a bigfoot killed these guys so and he kind of like got him out of the farm and like sat down was like well that was really [ __ ] weird and we like had a laugh you know but obviously that story stuck with me for the next quarter century and it was one that i kind of i told it around like a ghost story around the campfire kind of thing a few times but then a friend of mine and a guy i collaborate with joshua faye who's the director of the series sasquatch he uh we were just finishing up another project together and he texted me out of the blue and he'd become he'd become a fan of this uh podcast sasquatch chronicles right and he texted me he's like dude if we could find some sort of true crime story wrapped up with a sasquatch angle like we'd really have something this is a sasquatch chronicles it's a i don't even listen to it i've never listened to it but it's a podcast that's like it's basically like people's reporting their sasquatch encounters okay and so he sent me this text out of the
blue and i hit him right back i was like i might have one so he's like dude like can you can you look into that so the next step was to get a hold of get a hold of buddy that i was working on you know that was working on the farm up there get a hold of anybody i could find that worked in the dope game up in northern mendocino county was near a town called branscomb that worked in that area at that time in the dope game be like did you ever hear a story like this because but our thinking was you know it we can't like do a series it was just me hearing that story in that cabinet one night but it's the kind of story where you think like that probably spread beyond that one cabin right those guys didn't seem like the type that they were going to keep that to themselves okay so you know after drawing a lot of blanks we finally like hit this one sort of information ecosystem sub-circle up there if you will where people had heard that story and they were like yes three guys did get killed but there's uh you know there's there's more to it right they were like there's there's a story behind that and it doesn't really involve a sasquatch actually killing these guys but i don't i mean i don't want to spoil the show for anybody who hasn't seen it it's well worth the three uh they're like 50 minutes or so yeah yeah something like like like our tv show length yeah um it's it's very intense catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app
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