Timmy Jimmy Tumgate Shares Bigfoot Encounters and UFO Sighting

# Strange Tones and Bright Lights: A Bigfoot Investigation Takes an Unexpected Turn in the Simcoe Mountains So I just came across this wild interview over on Linda Eastburn's YouTube channel, and honestly, it's the kind of story that sticks with you long after the video ends. Linda sits down with a researcher named Timmy Jimmy Tumgate for a follow-up chat, and what unfolds is a tale that starts with classic Pacific Northwest Bigfoot encounters and then takes a sharp left turn into genuinely unexplained territory. Timmy's got quite the resume when it comes to sightings. He's had an encounter at Mount Baker where something circled his rig while he was tucked away in his rooftop tent, a daytime sighting off I-90 east of North Bend, and another encounter near Carson, Washington just this past January. He even took a road trip down to Monument Valley to meet up with fellow podcaster Don Yazzi (of "Don't Whistle at Night") for a Skinwalker investigation where they reportedly saw UFOs and heard plenty of stories from locals. But the meat of this conversation centers on his November 2024 trip to the Simcoe Mountains above Goldendale, Washington, and what happened there is something else entirely. He and a buddy named Virgil set up camp on private ranch land just south of the Yakima Indian Reservation. They were behind a locked gate, cowboy camping, and the whole purpose of the trip was Bigfoot. The ranch apparently has a storied history with sightings, including Virgil's own first encounter while turkey hunting there. Everything was normal that night. Timmy had his rooftop tent buttoned up tight against the cold, layered under a thick fleece blanket and a sherpa-lined electric blanket, with blackout material making the inside pitch dark. Then, around 4:30 in the morning, a light woke him up. Not just any light. This thing was so intense it penetrated the blackout lining of the tent and shone through two blankets. When he pulled the covers down to investigate, he saw a bright light transiting through the air, passing directly over the top of his rooftop tent, roughly 10 to 14 feet above him. He watched it roll across the tent and then, when it reached the left side, it simply blinked out. No sound. No engine. Nothing. Here's where it gets really interesting. Timmy runs Tascam DR-7X audio recorders on his investigations, and he had two deployed in the woods about a quarter mile east and west of camp, plus one sitting on his front driver side tire with the microphones facing out. When he got home and reviewed the audio from that night, he found something that genuinely freaked both him and Virgil out: a series of tones in repeating patterns, punctuated by static, that ran for hours. We're talking from around 11 PM all the way to 6 AM. To rule out equipment malfunction, Timmy set the same recorder up at his apartment parking lot in the exact same configuration with the same SD card. Nothing. He brought it inside and put it on the fireplace mantle. Nothing. Virgil did the same thing at his place with his identical recorder. Nothing. They've camped together about a dozen times since with similar setups, and the tones have never repeated. Timmy went back to the same spot about a month ago with a Trifield EMF meter to do baseline readings. The only signal he picked up was electrical, ranging from zero to five on a scale that goes up to 2,000, and it was random with no pattern whatsoever. Nothing that could explain what was captured on that recording. He even met with a senior MUFON investigator, handed over the audio, and they couldn't make heads or tails of it either. The physical aftermath is worth noting too. Both Timmy and Virgil had serious trouble sleeping for two weeks after the event. Timmy mentioned his shoulders were unusually sore and he had aches and pains in places he normally doesn't. He's careful not to make any bold claims, but he openly ponders whether something was parked over their camp for hours (which could explain the tones) or whether the light he saw was him being put back, or taken up. The conversation also touches on Timmy's recent trip to the Blue Mountains, where he visited the site where Paul Freeman captured his iconic 1994 footage and explored areas connected to Wes Summerlin, a legendary tracker and packmaster who had multiple encounters in those mountains. But the Simcoe Mountains story is the one that lingers. If you're into the intersection of Bigfoot research and high-strange phenomena, this one's a must-watch. Linda Eastburn's channel is a goldmine for this kind of content, and Timmy Jimmy Tumgate comes across as a thoughtful, methodical researcher who isn't prone to exaggeration. He lays out the facts, acknowledges what he doesn't know, and lets the mystery speak for itself. Check out the full interview when you get a chance. The audio samples alone are worth the listen.