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This is a story from Butch,
and Butch has had several run ins with

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Bigfoot, and this is a series
of encounters he had in an area where

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he likes to hike. He doesn't
tell me where this is, and that's

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fine. It's the experience that we're
interested in, so let's hear what he

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says. My first encounter with the
creature known as Bigfoot was a lackluster and

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quite odd at first, but at
least I understood what was going on enough

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to leave quickly. I was hiking
a back trail some miles up in a

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national state park in New England,
and I was quite some distance away from

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anything or anyone. I approached a
pond after a long hike up a logging

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road that had a beaver hut in
the middle of it, and I decided

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to take a rest. I sat
on the side of the bank, watching

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the water and looking at the wind
in the trees. It was a sunny,

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beautiful day, and I was happy
to be up there hiking. Just

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as quickly as I got situated to
rest and take in the view, I

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heard some crackling in the brush behind
me in the forest across the road.

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I got up and walked out to
the middle of the road and tried to

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see what it was, but I
couldn't see anything. Just then I heard

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a loud grunt, as if a
human was clearing its throat, but it

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was very deep. So I looked
in that direction again, but I still

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saw nothing. Over and over,
the grunt came from a short distance in

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front of me, and I yelled
out, who's there and what do you

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want? The tree shook and I
was now feeling uneasy about what was taking

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place. I would love to tell
you I had the courage to go find

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out what was making the noise,
but something told me to leave quickly,

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and so I did. Two weeks
later, I got up the courage to

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go back to that place, so
I did, but by another route below

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the large down that had the roadway
to the dirt rail that led to the

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area. While I was hiking in
that direction, I felt as if I

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was being watched the entire time.
I was uneasy the whole time. I

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shrugged it off and continued to hike. As I got near the same ground

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as I was on at the first
encounter, I called out again and even

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decided to make a very loud call
in the woods as loud as I could

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to see if I got any kind
of response. This was a big mistake.

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Suddenly I heard a boulder come crashing
off that hill, started hitting other

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rocks and shaking trees as it violently
came down the hill. I heard trees

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being shaken and snapped. No human
could do this. A loud screech came

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from the woods west of me,
toward the lake. I realized my mistake,

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and I was now the focus of
the attention of this very large creature.

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I decided again to get out of
there, and I left at a

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quick pace. It was a three
mile hike back to the lower dam,

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and I was followed the entire way. I made it safely back to my

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vehicle and I left. Three weeks
later, I went back on my trek

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up the backside of the dam.
I heard yet again the cracking of branches

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off to the right side in the
woods a short distance away. I stopped

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dead in my tracks and looked in
that direction with a focus I had never

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had before. I didn't see anything, but the branches breaking continued. I

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started walking slowly down the road and
peering into the trees to find what was

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making the racket, and there it
was. A black, hairy creature stood

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up from a crouch in the middle
of a pine thicket and was staring right

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at me, and then it whistled
at me. I was so shocked that

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I was seeing it, I literally
had to go down to one knee to

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get my breath. I called out
to the creature, and it whistled back.

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I was also greeted by another call
from the woods to the rear and

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the left of this first creature.
I could only see the lower half of

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the second creature. Then a third
creature further back in the woods, out

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of my line of sight, began
what I can only describe as chest thumping.

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I realized I had stumbled onto a
family unit of bigfoot. I didn't

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understand what they were trying to get
across to me. I made the assumption

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they wanted me to leave in fear
of being attacked. I once again exited

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the woods quickly and quietly. I
was changed forever. I realized I was

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not at the top of the food
chain. Seeing one is a spectacular experience.

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Just the appearance of one of these
things creates great respect. It seemed

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to me they were being aggressive to
give me a warning, maybe to just

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warn me to stay away. I
got the message loud and clear, and

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I quickly left. This was eight
years ago, and I've been looking for

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them ever since. I have one
dull, blurry picture of one and have

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also had to run in with them
in another part of the park some twenty

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miles away to the north. I
believe they are human. I wanted to

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submit this story to show people that
their aggressive behavior is, for the most

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part, to get you to leave
the area. I now know that they

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are there, and I have a
sense of their strength and power. This

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creature has put me in all of
their very existence. I will continue to

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hike the forest and I hope to
see one again some day soon. Here's

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a cool story from Daniel, and
here's what he writes. It was a

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summer of nineteen eighty nine. My
name is Daniel, and you were welcome

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to use my name. I am
now disabled and I live in the state

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of Georgia. This occurred right on
the Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon, in

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the Three Sisters Wilderness area at the
foot of these three volcanoes. I'm a

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retired mechanical engineer. At the time, I lived in Hood River, Oregon.

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I've never had a psychological issue,
nor have I ever knew needed any

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related help. I was an avid
hunter and had hunted this area numerous times

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in the previous ten years. My
camp was approximately six hours on horseback.

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This is an awe inspiring mountain area
with a very large timber yet open meadows.

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On this trip, my son,
along with two ten age friends of

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his, and I decided to backpack
in. We started at the crack of

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dawn and arrived at the camp around
noon. This trip was just to explore

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for the upcoming hunting season, so
my only firearm was a forty four mag

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revolver that I would always carry into
the woods. We finally arrived, we

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cooked, we ate lunch, and
proceeded to scout the area. The day

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went without any unusual event, and
we were excited to see abundant game.

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After it got dark, we went
to sleep around ten PM, all four

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of us in a light nile one
tent with semi transparent material. I'm a

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very light sleeper because of my Vietnam
experience, and at about two or three

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AM was woken up by very heavy
bipedal steps approaching the tent. There was

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a full moon. The person stopped
and I could see a very large shadow,

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and I assumed it was just his
proximity to the tent blocking the moonlight.

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But along with that, there was
a very loud breathing, which I

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could only associate with a large animal. By that time, I became alarmed.

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I was sure that it was not
a bear, because I heard the

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steps from quite a ways off,
perhaps thirty yards, and they were definitely

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bipedal, and bears do not walk
like that for any extended distance. At

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this moment, I believe there were
humans trying to scare us or rob us,

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so I grabbed my revolver and out
loud, I said, don't come

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any closer. I've got a gun
and I will shoot the Breathe continued for

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perhaps thirty more seconds. He could
not have been any further than three feet

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from our tent. By this time, all four of us were very awake.

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But then all of a sudden we
could hear steps again, this time

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walking away. I immediately unzipped the
tent door and looked into the direction of

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the steps, and with the full
moon and no more than fifteen yards,

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we saw this incredibly large, hairy
animal at least eight feet tall, probably

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more in using my hunting experience,
I judged his weight at no less than

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eight hundred pounds. He heard us
moving around and turned around and we could

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see his human like face. The
moonlight illuminated him clearly. He let out

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a blood curling, hair raising scream
or growl combination that echoed throughout the mountains.

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We were all terrified. I knew
that my revolver could not stop a

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beast out size before it reached us
if he chose to charge. But he

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turned away and walked very fast and
occasionally looking back, and we never heard

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it again. I know there's a
lot of skepticism, but I have no

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doubt that these species exist. There
were four of us and we all saw

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it clearly. We talk about the
experience to this day, thirty years later,

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and when I asked the then teenagers
if they remember, and they all

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say as though it happened yesterday.
Yeah. These boys are now grown men

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which pursue the hunting sport, including
my son, and they all have had

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additional less dramatic signs and noises,
small rock throwing at the tent at night,

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etc. For many years we did
not talk with anyone other than amongst

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ourselves, but nowadays there are many
sightings. Please remember, we lived for

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more than a century with Mountain guerrillas, and it was only relatively recent that

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we discovered them. All right,
here's an email from Kathy. This is

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fantastic. I love reading this story
and I hope you guys like it as

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much as I did. Kathy Rides. My father was the second youngest of

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ten kids. He and his twin
sister were born in nineteen forty five at

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their family home in Clay, West
Virginia. He grew up being called Buckshot,

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and until I was nine or ten
years old, I thought that was

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his Christian name. Although he passed
away in two thousand and seventeen, he

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told a story many times before he
died. My brother was with him when

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it happened, and he has never
discredited a word of my dad's story,

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so I have no doubt that this
story is true. In nineteen seventy eight,

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when my brother Phil was eleven,
Dad said, come on, boy,

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it's time you're going to go on
your first raccoon hunt. Our father's

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love for raccoon hunting was infectious,
so Phil was tickled to death to be

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joining him for the first time.
They put on their coal miners light helmets

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and strapped the battery packs to their
waists, and they headed out. The

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only one more excited for the hunt
that night than my brother was was my

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dad's favorite dog. He was a
walker named pretty Boy. Whenever he saw

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Dad getting ready, he always started
panting and barking and dancing around his legs.

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He knew they were going hunting,
and he couldn't wait to see the

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tailgate drop on my dad's nineteen seventy
six Chevy Love truck so he could load

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up. That night, my dad
and brother drove twenty miles to his friend

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Rick's place. Rick had several dogs
of his own, along with two teenage

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sons who also hunted. They decided
where they'd be going, and they set

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out as it was getting dark.
They knew they'd have good luck that night

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because the farmer who lived there had
been complaining about the raccoons getting into his

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feed bins. With their good quality
hunting dogs and their own skills, they

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were sure to be able to relieve
the farmer of at least a few of

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those pests. Dad Rick and the
boys walked the dogs out on leashes located

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a scent trail and turned them loose. After that, it was only a

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matter of time before the dogs treed. Until then, all they had to

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do was settling in near their trucks
waiting listen. It didn't take long.

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Within fifteen minutes the dogs had treed. My dad said they were real close.

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They turned on their lights and started
up the mountains towards the sound of

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the dogs. They had to cross
a barbed wire fence, but they found

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the dogs at the base of a
large beech tree in West Virginia. These

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trees, with their pale, almost
white bark, can grow to massive proportions.

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It can take three men with their
arms stretched wide to reach around the

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circumference of one. Because of the
tree size and the fact that it still

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had branches of dead leaves here and
there, they thought they might have difficulty

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seeing the raccoon. But once the
dogs were leashed and pulled away from the

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tree, however, they discovered they'd
have no trouble spotting with the hounds had

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treed. But it wasn't a raccoon. Sitting up on the branches of the

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tree, covered in reddish brown hair, was a young sie squatch. It

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was six feet tall, and Dad
described it as looking like a tall,

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skinny orangutang with a face like a
man. It looked down on them with

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glowing red eyes and bared its big, square teeth and sharp canines at them.

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That's when it screamed, and it
hit them in the chest like a

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mic truck. Phil and the other
two boys fell to the ground and began

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to cry. Rick stood frozen in
place and he was unable to move.

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The dogs cowered in submission, but
Pretty Boy managed to crawl over to where

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Phil was and he laid across him. A second later, an answering scream

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came from somewhere in the distance,
followed by another one that sounded like it

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was a mile or so away.
That was what shook my dad back to

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reality. He pushed Pretty Boy off
of Phil and helped him to his feet,

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before punching Rick in the arm and
saying, let's get the hack out

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of here. Yeah, let's Rick
answered, as he helped the boys up

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off the ground. Let's go.
Their dogs led them down the mountain as

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they all high tailed it back to
the woods. They were only about halfway

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there when they heard something behind them
come crashing through the woods. It sounded

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like a bulldozer following them. At
that point, Dad picked up Phil like

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a football and broke into a dead
run. He cleared the three strand barbed

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wire fence and didn't stop until he
reached the truck. The dogs were there

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waiting for them. Whatever had chased
them down the mountain never called up with

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them, but stay just close enough
to keep them motivated. From the top

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of the mountain came another screaming sound, and Daddy thought it had to be

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a second one, but they weren't
going to hang around to find out.

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He loaded my brother and his dog
into the front of his truck while Rick

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loaded the boys and dogs into theirs, and they all sped off. Dad

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headed straight for home and didn't stop
till he got there. For him and

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my brother, it was the end
of a harrowing experience, and for Rick

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and his family, however, it
was just the beginning. Dad and Phil

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had a twenty mile drive to make, and Rick and his boys lived a

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short seven miles away. As soon
as he got home, he told his

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wife all about what happened that night. They'd been home about thirty minutes and

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Rick was still trying to gain control
of his heart rate. When the same

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screams they'd heard up on the mountains
started coming from the woods behind their barn,

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about one hundred yards from the house. Rick's wife was furious, you

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brought those things here. I've got
babies in this house, and you brought

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those things here, and she yelled
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Rick sent her and the kids upstairs
with the warning not to come down,

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no matter what she might hear.
He then walked around their farmhouse and secured

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all the doors and windows. As
the screams got closer, rocks the size

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of baseballs began landing on the tin
roof. Soon, something was walking around

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the house with heavy staunts that shook
their antique hutch and rattled the china plates

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that were a gift from his wife's
granny. He'd brought the dogs inside with

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him when they got home, but
they were hiding under the bed and were

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of no use. Every ten minutes
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the house or tapped on the window. Rick's nerves had just about reached their

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limit when he heard his wife screaming
from upstairs. He ran up to find

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her pointing at the window and near
hysterics. I saw a face in that

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window, she claimed, But that
was impossible. That window was twelve feet

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off the ground. Call the law, she pleaded. Do you think they're

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gonna believe me when I tell them
we have a twelve foot peeping tom outside

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our window? Rick reasoned with her, they'll lock us up. After his

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wife's screamed, there were no more
sounds from outside. They were all able

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to get the kids settled down and
into bed, but Rick and his wife

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stayed up the rest of the night. Once the sun came up, he

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went outside and walked around the house. Then he went back inside and he

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called buckshot. My dad got there
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his Winchester two seventy his three fifty
seven pistol, and Rick grabbed his twelve

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gage Remington, and together they went
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the perimeter fence. They found rocks
on the low side of the roof and

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footprints all around the house. The
largest of the tracks measured twenty four inches

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long and ten inches across, with
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the upstairs window, they sank three
inches into the ground. That must have

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been our peeping time you reckon said
Rick. Another set of Prince measured sixteen

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inches long and eight inches across,
but they only had four toes. The

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third set was smaller, still at
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two. Rick and Dad estimated the
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dogs had treed, while the middle
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the largest set belonged to the daddy
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Rick and his wife moved to North
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but he and my dad remained friends
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the place they were hunting that night, it's called booger Holler. How

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about another story from the UK.
This email is from Jim. Here's what

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Jim right. So my name is
Jim and I live in Devon in the

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UK. The story is one hundred
percent true. I feel like I have

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to say that because if I wasn't
there and been the one to experience this

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encounter, I would not have believed
it myself. When I first moved to

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Devon about five years ago, I
had a seriously strange encounter. For the

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record, I'm a no bullcraps but
on the floor kind of guy. I'm

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from London, where we say it
as we see it. I've never told

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anyone about this. You think you
guys over the water get ripped for seeing

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stuff. Try being over here where
most will just call you a loony tune.

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We are a nation that prides itself
on our rationality, the old stiff

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upper lip and all that. My
larky. It may sound stereotypical, but

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that's just us across the pond.
This is the odd thing. I know.

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We have our fair share of weirdness
in the United Kingdom, but this

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really took the biscuit, so to
speak. I was camping out on Dartmoor

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National Park. We have a couple
of cryptids are down here, like alien

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big cats, hellhounds, sea monsters
and some really spooky ghostly stuff, as

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well as a guy who's loved this
stuff from a year dot. I want

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to say I'm not one of those
GungHo types, but I thought I'm going

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to see if what they say is
true. It was a quite pleasant end

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of a September day when I went
out over there. I'm a curious little

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fellow who was also in ex Special
Forces, so I kind of know what

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I'm doing. So if I can, why not. Dartmoor is a funny

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place to go hiking in. You
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the summer. The terrain changes rapidly, and so does the temperature. That

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is to say, if you go
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summer, you'll be wearing winter clothing. But I digress. I wound up

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in Whitman's Forest. This is one
weird place. The trees grow at angles

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and rocks have moss on them.
It's a real Lord of the Rings kind

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of place. Some of the locals
claims it was a druid holy sight.

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I thought, if I wanted to
see an ABC, that would be the

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place to tuck myself out of sight. So I found a lovely spot where

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all this stuff's about. I built
my camp, and then I went and

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put some trail cams about. After
that came the long wait. I sat

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there by a roaring fire and watched
a really beautiful sunset. If only it

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had stayed that mellow the rest of
the night. By midnight I was ready

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to go hunting. As it were, I was hoping at least to get

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a cast of a footprint. But
as you know, in our game,

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it can be a long wait even
for that much. I ventured further to

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Dartmoor. It's quite a big forest
for England, but it opens up to

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more lands. I was over there
for about an hour. Suddenly I couldn't

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shake this feeling that I was being
watched. The hackles on my back of

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my next started to prick up,
and now every instinct I had learned or

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have naturally well suffice it to say
that my spider senses were tingling. Straight

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Away, I went to the relative
safety of my accoump, knowing there were

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other indigenous animals in that place already
set up my alerts. I sat down

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and was having a couple of beers, trying to chill out. But I

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couldn't shake that feeling of being watched, tracked, or stalk It had to

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be one of those, because I
was at least two miles from my account

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when the feeling started, and I
still had it back at I was at

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least two miles from my camp when
that feeling started, and when I got

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back to camp the feeling was still
there. I was getting pretty freaked out

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by now. My mind was going
twenty directions at once. Was it kids

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on wind up? Now? Why? Would they be here a ranger again,

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No, they don't go there full
stop. Then I thought it's a

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serial killer. They could dump your
body over there and you'd never be found.

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Or it could be Satanists maybe or
Pagans. At some point in its

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history, Dartmoor Forest was a sacred
grove. That's when I heard the first

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twig snap. I immediately picked up
my bill hook. A bill hook is

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a machete with a curve at the
top. I also had my pocket knife

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in my other hand, and then
I saw a set of glittering eyes in

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the light of the night. I
announced my presence and I said, I

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can see you there, Come out
where I can see you. All I

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got in reply was a low kind
of whistle. I gathered that whatever was

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looking at me, it was definitely
not a human. The eyes alone told

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me that I've lived with a few
different indigenous peoples around the world, and

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I felt this relative to my experience. In a stern voice, I said,

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I'm not here to do anyone or
anything any harm merely passing through.

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You're welcome to come share my fire
if you come in peace. And this

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is something I learned in the Congo
in Africa. In other words, if

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you want what I've got, come
to me and get it. I still

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had my blades drawn. I sat
down by my fire, my blades on

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my lap, and that's when it
stood to its full height. I uttered

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a pretty nasty expletive as I thought, you're a big one, ain't you.

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My trainee kicked in and I was
working out his size and how long

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he could go, And then this
thing strode across my campsite. I saw

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it with my own eyes. He
or she was seven feet tall and built

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like a brick, blank blank,
Well you get the idea, mate.

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It was covered in long, shaggy
hair like an orangutang, except it didn't

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walk on its knuckles like most apes
do, and that was an intense smell

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to it as well. I sat
there with my blades on my lap,

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king no movement at all. In
fact, I pretended not to be paying

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attention to it. I really couldn't
tell what sex it was, and in

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less than a minute he or she
walked through my camp. With that,

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I felt the animosity from earlier disappear. The rest of the night was perfect.

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I actually think it had come to
work out what my intentions were in

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the forest. I never believed in
the wood was that's what we call them

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in medieval times. But when I
hear stuff like you're wickedly awesome channel,

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I have to wonder. Besides,
I know what I saw. It seemed

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in action indeed, not so aggressive
or isolated as bigfoot are over in the

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States, or as elusive as the
Australia and Yaowie, although I think they

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sent taggon area like most primates do
other than us. I only say this

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because the smell lingered. It was
still reeking when I left. That's my

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tale. Pleased, if you could
be so bold as to give your opinion

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on this, I'm a bit stump. Mate, cheers Jim, Well,

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Jim, I don't have an opinion, dude, that was your story.

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I'm sorry I called you dude,
mate. I have to learn to call

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people in other countries what they're accustomed
to being called to. Mate. Anyway,

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I don't have an opinion, but
it's an unbelievable story. I think

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you're asking my opinion because maybe you
have the idea that I know a lot

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about these things that I don't.
I don't you know. Somebody asked me

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the other day, said what all
do you know about Bigfoot? And I

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said, I don't know much about
them, never seen one, never seen

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a track. I don't know anything
at all about them, and I'm not

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going to pretend like I do,
like some people do, and to be

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honest, I'm a little curious,
but I'm not really eat up with knowing

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a lot about Bigfoot. To answer
your question, I don't think I have

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an opinion, although I will say, based on the stories that I have

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narrated up until now and read so
far, I think it's quite unusual for

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one of these things to walk right
through your camp. I don't think I've

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narrated a story like that, but
I have heard two stories like that from

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people who are, let's just say, big storytellers in the bigfoot world.

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Actually, they told me the stories
face to face. I was with them.

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They were telling me in a whole
bunch of people around the camp fire,

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and they're great stories, and I
don't really doubt them. I don't

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doubt them because other people saw it
too, so it does happen. I

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think it's quite rare for one of
these creatures to just walk right through your

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camp. But what an experience.
I mean, my takeaway from that would

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be I got to see something that
very, very very few people see in

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this world. That's what I think
when I'm standing in waste high water in

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the middle of the winter in a
swamp, hunting over a spread of decoys,

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and I get to see ducks a
lot of times. When the ducks

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come in, I won't even shoot
because I'm seeing something that so few people

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in the world ever get to see. Here's an email from Christopher and I

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got this about a year ago,
and here's what Christopher writes. This is

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gonna this is gonna blow your doors
off. This is pretty crazy. I've

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been considering telling this story to someone
for over twenty five years. The main

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reason to talk after all these years
is because I hear other accounts that don't

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jibe with what I saw. I
love your channel, and I picked you

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because of two things. I live
in Georgia and it sounds good to hear

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someone that could be my neighbor or
uncle. You're also fair and the stories

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are exciting, and I like your
commentary on them. Now onto my encounter.

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Back in the early nineties, when
I was a twenty something young buck,

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two buddies and I ran a huge
plant nursery, and after work we

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did some landscape with the plants that
we sold. All day I had a

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brand new truck, an apartment,
and life was good. The nursery was

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owned by an old man named case
Casey's brother was a distinguished attorney and had

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been elected mayor. Casey, on
the other hand, was a foul Mouth

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school bus driver who happened to own
his own nursery. These two brothers were

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polar opposites that small town Georgia for
you. Casey raked in the cash and

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we ran the place from top to
bottom. The nursery was located behind his

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house on a steep grade heading down
to the woods. We grew and sold

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every plant that would grow in Georgia. We actually built the whole growing area

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for him. We cut steps in
the side of that hill, and we

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built growing beds with old railroad ties. And for all our hard work,

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Casey paid us well, and he
gave us full run of the place.

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It was a big plot land,
and not all of it was used for

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the nursery. We were also allowed
to hunt on his property. A half

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mile into the woods. I built
a camo treehouse to hunt from. It

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was located on a great spot where
two trails converged, and I had a

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large killing field when the deer showed
up. The stand was four feet by

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eight feet with a roof on it. It was a comfortable place to spend

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a day hunting. I was in
the stand before daylight on a cold Sunday

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morning. A twelve point buck had
come through a time or two, but

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I never had a good shot at
him. Shortly after daylight, I heard

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movement in the distance of an animal
of some weight. It was my buck,

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or that is what I thought it
was, coming towards me, so

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I settled in to stay completely still. It was strange, though, because

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the woods had gone completely silent,
other than this animal coming towards me with

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each step. That should have been
a clue to me, but I was

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young and dumb. I knew a
big foot, but to me it was

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something in the Pacific Northwest, if
it existed at all. Two hundred yards

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away, I began to see the
trees parting. They were getting knocked down

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pretty good and the racket. I
thought this had to be one of three

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things. It was either a man, a big hog, or a bear.

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We had bears here, but no
one ever seized them. However,

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one bear made front page news in
the local paper after it was found digging

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in a dumpster behind a Captain D's. But that was a while back.

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00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,200
I kept waiting and wondering what in
the world could make so much racket and

411
00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:42,240
push trees around like that. My
treehouse stand was well camouflaged. It was

412
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:48,359
enclosed, and it was spray painted
camo. Camo net was all over it,

413
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,440
and plenty of limbs and piled up
brush stuck to it. It had

414
00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,599
shooting slats on all four sides.
By this time I figured that whatever was

415
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,039
heading my way was not a deer. If it was a man, he

416
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,000
was about to catch an earfull from
me. On three sides. It was

417
00:32:05,039 --> 00:32:08,519
a pretty steep hill that opens up
into a pretty good sized bare area.

418
00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:13,839
It was a perfect kill zone with
two game trails that ran right through it.

419
00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:17,000
The thing or the guy I kept
coming, and by this time the

420
00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:22,480
sun was out good and I could
see better. It was finally at the

421
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,319
bottom of the hill where I sat, and from my vantage point I could

422
00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:30,599
see the top of its head.
I thought he was wearing a brown sock

423
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,480
cap. His dark face was now
visible, and I figured it was one

424
00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:37,920
of the neighbors who lived close by. I looked closer, and with the

425
00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:42,880
light now different on his face,
I realized it was not one of our

426
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,920
black neighbors. He wasn't black at
all. It was the tan color of

427
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:52,599
an old baseball glove. None of
this made sense, and I began to

428
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,920
get worried. I should have raised
my rifle to look through the scope,

429
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,400
but I never thought about that.
I would have been able to see what

430
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,519
this thing was a few minutes earlier, But now I could see it clearly,

431
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,359
and it was close. It was
covered with long, shaggy hair except

432
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:14,039
on its knees. In its face. There were areas on its hide where

433
00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:16,960
the hair was missing. It made
me think it had a disease like a

434
00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:22,440
dog gets mange. It was maybe
seven feet tall and three feet wide at

435
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:28,799
the shoulders. This was a monster. I have never seen anything move with

436
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,400
so little effort through the woods and
brush. It was like he was gliding,

437
00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:37,640
and he was making good time.
Now he was only twenty yards in

438
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,359
front of me, and I could
see everything now, and I was terrified.

439
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:45,319
He was almost beneath me. I
thought he would hear my heart pounding.

440
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:50,799
But in the middle of all this, somehow my fear turned to amazement

441
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,480
and curiosity, and I thought that
I might be experiencing the best sighting anyone

442
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:59,920
has ever had of a big foot, and I was getting away with it.

443
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:05,000
I was recording all of the things
about his appearance in my mind,

444
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,039
and I would soon take notes when
I got back to my truck. But

445
00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:14,960
then things changed. He stopped right
under me. He tilted his head back,

446
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000
and he began sniffing the air.
He moved around a bit below me,

447
00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:22,760
and I heard something hit the bottom
of the tree stand. I think

448
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,719
he knocked his head on it,
and it annoyed him. I actually almost

449
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,360
laughed, but I knew better I
was still well hidden in ten feet above

450
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,679
him. He started getting froggy on
me, and he came out from under

451
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,119
the stand. He went down on
all fours and he scanned the area slowly

452
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:45,199
and methodically. It was like he
was taking in every branch and shrub.

453
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:50,679
He was swaying back and forth,
kicking dirt and leaves, and seemingly getting

454
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,719
more angry by the minute. I
was praying that he wasn't looking for me,

455
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,639
and I was praying that it wasn't
me that was making him angry.

456
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,360
I backed away from the shooting hole
and I could only hear him now.

457
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,239
The tree stand has a rope ladder
that I had already pulled up long ago.

458
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,320
He wasn't going to climb up,
but I still didn't feel secure.

459
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,800
The roar of this thing let out
was something I can't begin to describe.

460
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,679
Is shoot. The entire hill trees
seemed to sway and vibrate. It sounded

461
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,679
like his lungs were the size of
a volkswagon, and it paralyzed me.

462
00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:30,360
I felt like both ear drums were
going to blow out. And I'm embarrassed

463
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,440
to say it, but I peeed
in my pants. Make fun of me

464
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,119
if you want, But I dare
you to hear this from fifteen feet away.

465
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,400
You might do the same thing.
And I could hear him moving around

466
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,440
below. One minute he was in
front, and then he was behind me.

467
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:50,159
I think he was looking for me. I know he was. I

468
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,480
raised up to the shooting slot and
I could see him circling the stand.

469
00:35:54,159 --> 00:35:58,199
Half the time he was on two
legs, and then he would drop down

470
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,599
to all fours. It was just
oh strange. Finally his head snapped around

471
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:07,719
and he looked right at me.
He had found what he was looking for.

472
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,599
He was at the base of the
tree. Now what I thought was

473
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:15,960
a unique vantage point to observe an
unknown creature was now a wife or death

474
00:36:15,079 --> 00:36:21,000
situation. I eased back away from
the slat and I flipped the safety off

475
00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:25,800
my thirty six, and then the
thing started to climb. I quickly moved

476
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,360
back to the slat and I looked
out and I saw its hand gripping one

477
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,400
of the trees my stand was framed
to. It was only a foot or

478
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,320
so below me, and I was
panicking. I'll be honest, but in

479
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,840
the middle of the terror, I
remembered the forty five ACP I carried on

480
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,960
my hip. I pulled it from
the hoster and was about to start shooting

481
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,320
through the floor to stop this thing. I really had no choice. It

482
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,239
was going to jerk me out of
that stand and it was going to kill

483
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,559
me. Both hands on the forty
five. I started to pull the trigger,

484
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,199
and I hesitated because I felt like
it had stopped climbing. I could

485
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,920
still hear the noises on the other
side of that ply wood, but the

486
00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:12,119
thing had stopped. I released the
pressure on the trigger and I waited,

487
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:16,840
clicking noises came from the woods out
in front of me. The noises were

488
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:22,480
loud. Nothing in the woods sounds
like that. Then a loud whistle,

489
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:27,480
and then more clicking. There was
another one close by, and my fear

490
00:37:27,639 --> 00:37:30,719
doubled. There was no way out
of this, but the creature hanging under

491
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,440
me let go, and he dropped
to the ground. I heard it.

492
00:37:35,039 --> 00:37:37,280
I raised my head to look out, and I could see it running towards

493
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:43,239
the clicking sounds, and then it
was gone. I never saw the other

494
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,400
one, and after that I never
saw my guy again, and then the

495
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:52,880
woods went quiet. I often wonder
what happened that day. Did the second

496
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:57,360
one have pity on me? Was
its mate or parents scolding the big mail

497
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,199
that had me located? Entially stopped
guessing, and I went on with my

498
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:06,000
life, and I was thankful that
it worked in my favor. I didn't

499
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,119
tell a soul for ten years,
and finally confiding in my wife and my

500
00:38:09,199 --> 00:38:15,119
best friend when the bigfoot shows became
popular on TV. I don't know if

501
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:19,760
they believe me. Still, these
bigfoot are real, and some of these

502
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,239
bigfoot hunters are in for a big
surprise if they ever find one. They

503
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:29,159
aren't cuddly koala bears. These things
are intelligent. They're fast enough to catch

504
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,880
you, and they're strong enough to
kill you in a split second. We're

505
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,920
dealing with some form of human,
whether it's a relic, a hybrid,

506
00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:43,320
or something never discovered, it's a
part of the human family tree. I

507
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,400
think one day DNA will prove this. These creatures are not apes. I

508
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:52,119
believe hundreds of years ago they were
probably more of them. Here is a

509
00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:58,400
description of the bigfoot that I saw. It was at least ten feet tall.

510
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,440
It hit its head on the bottom
of my shooting platform. From the

511
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:07,960
ground to the floor is nine foot
eight inches. The skin on its face

512
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:13,039
was a tan color and it was
leathery. Its hair was mainly deep red

513
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:16,360
and brown, with patches of hair
missing. There were, however, dark

514
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:22,000
patches here and there, and it
gave it an almost brindle color. The

515
00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:27,679
hair on its head seemed long and
appeared similar to dreadlocks. The hands looked

516
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,840
human, and they were tipped with
black nails, but three times the size

517
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:36,760
of my hands. Its eyes were
a hazel color with a tint of green.

518
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,360
The nose seemed flatter to its face
than a human nose, but it

519
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:45,840
also had a Roman shape that ended
with a pronounced tip. It was handsome

520
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,760
in a strange way. The lower
jaw protruded a bit, and above its

521
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,840
eyes was a heavy protruding brow.
There was virtually no neck, and the

522
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,480
ears looked human except for the color. And last, there was a feature

523
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:07,480
overall about this creature that looked as
if his face vaguely resembled a human with

524
00:40:07,679 --> 00:40:12,760
down syndrome. I cannot explain it, but I came away with that sense.

525
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:16,639
Thank you for reading my counter.
It is all one hundred percent true,

526
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:22,760
Signed Christopher. Here's an email from
JW. Here's what he writes.

527
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:27,800
There was a road we used to
drive into the brackish swamp in eastern Harris

528
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,000
County, east of Houston, Texas. And in the daylight it wasn't the

529
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:37,599
least bit scary. In fact,
it was beautiful. Oak trees draped in

530
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:43,119
Spanish moss and tall grass and flowers
were everywhere we looked. But at night

531
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:47,639
it was a different story. Those
big oak trees closed in and turned the

532
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:52,559
world to pitch. As the saying
goes, you couldn't see your hand in

533
00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:55,920
front of your face. We like
to find people who had never been on

534
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:00,960
that road and then take them down
it at night. There was a steep

535
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:04,199
drop, and just before we'd get
to the bottom, we'd turn off the

536
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,960
headlights and scare the hell out of
him. We did it many times,

537
00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:12,840
never failing to scare the living crap
out of teenage girls, and never once

538
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,920
having a problem. One night,
my friend Charles decided to take our friend

539
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,079
Jesse down there and scare him.
And Charles was a few years older than

540
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:24,840
me. He'd gone to school with
my brother, but when they graduated and

541
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:30,920
my brother joined the Navy. Back
then, volunteering for the military meant you

542
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,960
had a choice. If you waited
to be drafted, you were usually sent

543
00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:39,519
straight to Vietnam. That night,
we were in Charles's truck and heading down

544
00:41:39,559 --> 00:41:45,639
the road. It was a two
lane blacktop called Wallaceville Road that no one

545
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:51,079
lived on. Charles was driving his
F one hundred at fifty five miles an

546
00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:53,400
hour, and Jesse was already a
little freaked out by the speed we were

547
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:58,400
going on that road. And right
at the drop, Charles cut the lights

548
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,440
and Jesse started screaming for him to
turn them back on. I was laughing

549
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,159
inside and doing my best not to
do so. Out loud, and then

550
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,840
Charles turned the lights back on and
boom, we hit something. It happened

551
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,639
so fast that we never saw what
it was. It was just a blur.

552
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,480
Charles slammed on the brakes and whatever
it was went up into the hood

553
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,440
and over the top of the truck. And we sat there for a minute,

554
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,440
staring at the road, and we
were all pretty shaken up. What

555
00:42:30,559 --> 00:42:35,840
did we hit? Jesse asked,
his voice was trembling. We were all

556
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,039
looking at each other, but no
one answered. Finally, Charles opened his

557
00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:44,880
door and he got out. I
exited the passenger side, but Jesse stayed

558
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,440
in the truck, and we walked
to the front to survey the damage.

559
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,840
There was a big dent in the
bumper, and there was blood and hair

560
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,599
and scratch marks traced the path across
the hood, along with more air and

561
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:02,280
blood. I could feel the silence
closing in on us. At first,

562
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:07,000
I didn't know if it was my
own shock or if everything had actually gone

563
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:12,280
quiet. I focused on the only
sound I could hear. That was the

564
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:17,199
truck's engine running. Charles pulled a
flashlight out from behind a seat and walked

565
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:20,840
to the back of the truck,
and then further up the road a few

566
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,119
yards. He didn't see anything,
so we got back in and we backed

567
00:43:24,159 --> 00:43:30,480
up to where we thought we'd hit
whatever this was. Charles positioned the truck

568
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,599
to angle the headlights into the woods. We still didn't see anything, so

569
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:37,960
we got out, but not Jesse. Though he wouldn't get out, he

570
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:44,639
begged us not to either. We
could still hear Jesse as we walked down

571
00:43:44,679 --> 00:43:50,119
what looked like a narrow path.
We'd made it fifteen yards past the reach

572
00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:54,480
of the headlight when the horns started
honking repeatedly. With a click glance at

573
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,159
each other, we took off at
a dead run, back up to the

574
00:43:58,199 --> 00:44:02,280
truck. Jesse was inside and he
was covered and sweat and shaking uncontrollably.

575
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:07,760
With all the windows rolled up,
I grabbed the door handle, but it

576
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,280
was locked. Charles found the door
was locked too. We pounded on the

577
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,880
windows and we demanded that Jesse let
us in, but he wouldn't or he

578
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:21,679
couldn't respond. It was several minutes
before he regained control of his senses and

579
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,559
unlocked the doors. We tried to
get him to tell us what happened,

580
00:44:24,559 --> 00:44:30,519
but he just sat there, shaking
and sweating. We decided it was better

581
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:32,320
to get out of there, so
we left as fast as we could.

582
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,840
We drove back toward the highway in
lights, but Jesse never uttered a word.

583
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,719
We dropped him at his house on
north Shore, but again he never

584
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,400
spoke. He climbed out of the
truck and he walked slowly to the front

585
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,840
door with his arms down at his
side, like some sort of a funeral

586
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,239
march, and we watched him go
inside before heading to my house, where

587
00:44:55,360 --> 00:45:00,719
Charles dropped me off. I didn't
go in away. I sat outside and

588
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,960
thought over what had happened, and
a million questions were going through my mind.

589
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:09,599
What had we hit? And what
did Jesse see that shook him up

590
00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:15,880
so badly? And why wouldn't he
talk to us? The next morning,

591
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,960
I called Jesse, but he still
wasn't talking. I had to walk through

592
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,559
two miles to Charles's apartment because he
didn't have a phone. His truck was

593
00:45:23,599 --> 00:45:28,719
sitting out front and I stopped to
look it over and there were three deep

594
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,960
scratches about one inch apart and five
inches long on the hood. Why.

595
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,039
I knocked on the door and Charles
came out to look at the damage with

596
00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,199
me. We decided to go over
to Jesse's and talk to him. But

597
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:45,519
his mother met us at the door, and she was furious. What did

598
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:49,719
you do to Jesse last night?
She demanded. He wouldn't tell her,

599
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,400
He wouldn't tell anybody. He wouldn't
even come out of his room. I

600
00:45:54,559 --> 00:45:59,880
was thirteen when that happened. Jesse
was sixteen, and Charles was eighteen.

601
00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:05,400
It was almost two years before Jesse
spoke to me again, And when he

602
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,159
finally did, all ever got out
of him was that something came out of

603
00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:13,519
the woods. After Charles and I
went down the path. It started shaking

604
00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:15,840
the truck, he said, and
he closed his eyes and he couldn't bring

605
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:21,400
himself to open them again. He
blindly groped for the horn. When he

606
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,039
found it, he just kept hanking
it, and then the shaking stopped when

607
00:46:25,079 --> 00:46:30,239
we came back. That was the
first time something weird ever happened to me.

608
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,960
There was a second incident that happened
four years later while I was fishing

609
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,400
near the San Jacinto River in East
Harris County, Texas, but I won't

610
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:45,239
tell you that story now. I
lost touch with those boys over the years,

611
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,639
and I wonder if either of them
is still around. I'm sixty two

612
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,320
years old now, and this is
the first time I've spoken about this.

613
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:59,159
Maybe I blocked it out somehow.
And that's the end of his email that

614
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,679
you know, I don't know.
Some of that story kind of makes me

615
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:07,199
laugh, and some of that story
makes me just terribly feel sorry for Jesse.

616
00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:12,320
These guys were just riding around playing
tricks on each other. You know.

617
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,760
That happened to me one time,
And actually my dad did that to

618
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,159
me. We were going down a
dark road on the way to his cabin

619
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,119
and he just reached up and turned
the lights out. And I was like,

620
00:47:22,199 --> 00:47:27,119
holy crap, I thought I had
blacked out or something, it was

621
00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:30,679
so dark. But I know that's
a funny thing to do to people.

622
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,960
Just you know, you can't hardly
do it now with these new trucks and

623
00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:38,840
new cars. The lights are like
automatic. But something came back after this

624
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,480
truck. Apparently it was whatever they
hit, and it was shaking the truck.

625
00:47:44,039 --> 00:47:46,519
Who knows what it was, but
can you imagine how scared you would

626
00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:51,360
be if you were in that truck
and something was standing beside it, shaking

627
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,679
it as if it was trying to
get in. That would scare me to

628
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:59,679
death. JW. I really appreciate
you sending this story. It was great.

629
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,840
It was different, it was a
different type of encounter story, and

630
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:07,920
I think it was fantastic. So
thank you, sir for sending this.

631
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:14,760
Here's an email from Danny and Danny
Rights. I've been a bigfoot enthusiast since

632
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:20,320
I was a teenager and i saw
the Patterson Gimmlin film. I'm almost sixty

633
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,000
nine years old now and still just
as enthusiastic. I want to share a

634
00:48:24,079 --> 00:48:28,480
few things with you that don't necessarily
have to be put in your show.

635
00:48:29,079 --> 00:48:31,960
I just wanted to share some things
that have happened in West Virginia. Well,

636
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:36,679
Danny, these stories are so good
I'm putting them in a video.

637
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,480
I hope you don't mind. I
live in the westernmost county of West Virginia.

638
00:48:40,559 --> 00:48:45,840
I left here in nineteen seventy for
a career in the Navy in Norfolk,

639
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:50,159
Virginia. I spent nineteen and a
half years there, and as I

640
00:48:50,199 --> 00:48:53,239
always say, God wanted me back
here, so he stationed me back home

641
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:59,679
for my last four years before retirement. The first encounter is from my dad.

642
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,199
I never thought he would admit to
seeing a bigfoot because He's always said

643
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,960
that there's a reasonable explanation for things
that you think you see. One day,

644
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:14,320
when the subject of bigfoot came up, I expected to hear him say

645
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,239
that he didn't believe in them.
Then he shared a story of something that

646
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:22,320
happened to him either before he left
for World War Two or after he came

647
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:28,519
home. He was at home on
my grandfather's farm. The large field out

648
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:31,360
in front of the house had been
plowed and worked up and ready to plant

649
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:37,960
corn. The field and a pasture
field was separated by a creek that ran

650
00:49:37,039 --> 00:49:43,880
between them. Part of the pasture
was also woodland and hills. The day

651
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,400
this happened, he was on his
way to the pasture, and as he

652
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:52,400
crossed the yard, he heard a
loud roar and a scream, as if

653
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,079
something had attacked a woman. He
wondered what it was and began to walk

654
00:49:57,119 --> 00:50:00,599
the path to the creek in order
to get a better look at the area

655
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,559
of the field where the sound was
coming from. When he got to the

656
00:50:04,599 --> 00:50:08,320
place where he could see the entire
field, he saw this big black thing

657
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:14,119
that looked like a man crossing the
field. It walked to the fence line

658
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:19,039
at the edge of the field and
creek and stepped over the fence like stepping

659
00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:22,719
over a doorway. It then had
to step over the bank to the creek,

660
00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:27,800
cross over it, and up the
bank on the other side. He

661
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,400
said he watched it cross the pasture
and walk into the woods. I was

662
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:37,320
surprised that he admitted to all this, and he never revised his story.

663
00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:42,519
My first encounter was as a teenager. I grew up on a small forty

664
00:50:42,559 --> 00:50:46,400
acre farm that basically sat between two
hills, as we call it here in

665
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,400
a holler. My home was at
the lower part of the farm and in

666
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,679
a narrow part between the hills.
Dad had built a one acre pond for

667
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:59,639
fishing, as a pay lake,
and as a source of water to water

668
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:04,320
our gardens. In the summer.
I spent my youth roaming those hills,

669
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:08,440
hunting, camping, and just wandering
around like farm boys do. One evening,

670
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,800
I was fishing, and just as
it began to get dark, my

671
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:17,599
six cents kicked in and I realized
that something wasn't right. There were no

672
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:22,079
frogs, singing, birds, or
bugs or anything. Everything was silent,

673
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:28,199
just dead calm. As I realized
that something was going on, I heard

674
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,760
up in the woods on the hill
opposite from where I was something walking through

675
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:37,400
the leaves just inside the woodline.
I knew it wasn't a deer because at

676
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,320
that time we didn't have deer in
our area. And I also knew it

677
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,679
wasn't a bear because we didn't have
them either. There was a long pause

678
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:50,039
between each step, and I could
tell it was stepping flat footed on the

679
00:51:50,159 --> 00:51:53,480
leaves. That sixth sense told me
that it was time to leave. I

680
00:51:53,599 --> 00:51:59,199
just picked up my gear and started
walking home. The sound followed me until

681
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,119
I got to them of the lake
and started walking down the road to the

682
00:52:02,159 --> 00:52:07,320
house, and it just stopped.
Another event happened back in two thousand and

683
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:12,559
five while I was working the evening
shift at our main post office here in

684
00:52:12,679 --> 00:52:16,320
Huntington, West Virginia. I usually
got off at eleven or twelve, unless

685
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:21,519
I had to work over. I
live in a small community again between two

686
00:52:21,599 --> 00:52:27,239
hills. Almost everything here is between
hills in some way. There's also a

687
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:32,000
large creek that separates the community and
another hill, and along this hill there's

688
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:37,639
a train track and further up some
individual homes located along a hilltop road.

689
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:43,960
It was during the summer, so
the nights were warm the night this happened,

690
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,519
I was getting home around two in
the morning. When I pulled into

691
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:51,360
the driveway and got out of the
car, I noticed that every dog for

692
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,480
a mile was barking and creating a
ruckus. I wondered what had them so

693
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,840
riled up. About that time.
On the hill above there, I heard

694
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:06,360
a huge roar that lasted for several
seconds. It echoed off the hills like

695
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,360
nothing I had ever heard. The
instant it stopped, every dog in the

696
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:15,880
area shut up. All I could
do was smile and say, there's a

697
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:21,400
bigfoot for sure. Have an email
here from Eli. I got this email

698
00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:23,960
several months ago, and here's what
Eli writes. Hey, Cam, I

699
00:53:24,079 --> 00:53:29,199
love your channel and I appreciate what
you do here, giving folks a platform

700
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,079
without taking a stance either way,
and just presenting the stories. Well,

701
00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:36,599
that's what we do. That's what
we're doing. I have one for you

702
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:39,639
that happened to me in the backwoods
of Arkansas back in the early nineties.

703
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,719
I don't mind if you use my
first name, but let's keep my last

704
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,480
name between you and I. My
name is Eli, and this is my

705
00:53:46,559 --> 00:53:52,400
story. In nineteen ninety four,
I was thirteen years old. I used

706
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,480
to stay at my grandparents' house,
a lot out in the very rural area

707
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:01,760
in southeastern Arkansas. It was a
serious of networked dirt roads to get to

708
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:06,679
their house. The closest neighbor lived
a mile and a half away, and

709
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,039
the closest town was ten miles down
the road. It's in the middle of

710
00:54:10,119 --> 00:54:15,880
farmland and it's mostly woods. They
had lived in this house since my mother

711
00:54:15,039 --> 00:54:20,800
was a child. A general store
served the people in the area. It

712
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,119
was a two mile walk from my
grandmother's place. An old lady ran the

713
00:54:24,199 --> 00:54:29,000
store. Her and her husband had
added the store on the front of their

714
00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:32,480
house. They lived in the back. My grandmother asked me if I wanted

715
00:54:32,519 --> 00:54:37,159
to walk to the general store and
get her a few things. She gave

716
00:54:37,199 --> 00:54:40,039
me some money and I headed that
way. It was early in the day

717
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:44,480
and I had plenty of time to
get back before dark, which I always

718
00:54:44,559 --> 00:54:49,079
made sure to do when I was
out roaming about. Things can get creepy

719
00:54:49,079 --> 00:54:53,519
out in the backwoods of Arkansas.
After nightfall. It's a darkness unlike most

720
00:54:53,559 --> 00:55:00,119
people who have lived primarily in the
cities or towns have ever experienced. I

721
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:02,920
was easily distracted at that age and
I stopped at a creek on the way,

722
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:07,079
and I stayed too long, catching
crawdads and throwing rocks in the water,

723
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:12,039
and then I piddled all the way
to the store. It was getting

724
00:55:12,159 --> 00:55:15,440
late and I picked up my pace. By the time I left the store,

725
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:20,480
it was getting dark. I didn't
want to be walking those lonely secluded

726
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:23,519
roads through the woods alone in the
dark, so I heard as fast as

727
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:28,280
I could. I would jog a
while, and then I would sprint.

728
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,559
I was doing anything in my power
to get back as quickly as possible,

729
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:37,599
but it wasn't enough. By the
time I made it back to the bottom

730
00:55:37,599 --> 00:55:40,239
of the hill, near the bridge
where I had wasted all that time earlier,

731
00:55:40,559 --> 00:55:45,199
it was dark. I could see
the road in the woods all around

732
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,679
me because of a glowing moon that
was coming over the horizon. It shined

733
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:53,320
an eerie glow across the land,
and one way I was glad that I

734
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:59,400
could see, but in another the
moonlight made it all very creepy. At

735
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,280
the top of the hill, the
road was perfectly straight and flat, with

736
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:07,440
woods on the left side and a
large field on the right. Another half

737
00:56:07,559 --> 00:56:12,719
mile and I would be home.
I could see the porch lights away off

738
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,239
in the distance, and I felt
relieved. My eyes were fully adjusted to

739
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,519
the dark at this point, and
the light from the moon allowed me to

740
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:24,039
see all the way across the field
on my right. I was getting closer

741
00:56:24,159 --> 00:56:29,159
and had actually slowed down a bit. I was tired from the run.

742
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:34,239
I heard something in the woods on
my left. Leaves were crunching. Something

743
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,840
was walking in there. Keeping my
eyes on the woods, I kept moving.

744
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:43,360
There was no way for me to
see anything clearly inside the woods,

745
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,519
even though the moonlight was shining.
But in the ditch closest to the trees,

746
00:56:46,559 --> 00:56:51,760
I could make out a dark figure. I stopped and focused on that

747
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,440
spot for a few seconds, and
it was something, And now it was

748
00:56:55,519 --> 00:57:00,639
moving towards me. I thought it
was a dog, but then I realized

749
00:57:00,679 --> 00:57:04,719
it was much too large to be
a dog. And then I realized it

750
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:09,440
wasn't really actually walking on four legs. It was crawling or creeping like a

751
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:15,239
person would. I couldn't take my
eyes off this thing. A jolt of

752
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:19,119
fear shot through me when I realized
this thing was trying to sneak up on

753
00:57:19,239 --> 00:57:23,199
me, it was stalking me.
I started walking again and I kept my

754
00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:28,800
eyes on it only a few yards
behind me. Now, a few steps

755
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,800
into my walk, the thing stood
upright. It was big. I'm guessing

756
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:37,920
it was seven feet tall, and
it looked like it was covered in dark

757
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,039
hair. But it wasn't a bear. Bears aren't that tall. I had

758
00:57:42,119 --> 00:57:45,800
never seen anything like this. I
dropped the bag of stuff that I had

759
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,360
been carrying, and I ran as
fast as my legs could take me towards

760
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,639
my grandparents house. I heard a
heavy breathing and a growling sound behind me.

761
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,639
It was up on the road with
me now, and I could hear

762
00:57:58,639 --> 00:58:02,280
its feet crunching the ravel. I
never turned around. It was going to

763
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:07,599
catch me at any second. I
couldn't make my legs go fast enough.

764
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,559
It was so close to me that
I closed my eyes in anticipation of it

765
00:58:12,639 --> 00:58:15,960
grabbing me. But at that moment
I heard it crash off into the woods

766
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:21,960
to my left. For whatever reason, it had let me go. It

767
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,840
was right on me, and it
could have taken me down if it wanted

768
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:28,519
to, but it let me go. When it was a short distance away

769
00:58:28,559 --> 00:58:31,440
into the woods, I heard a
scream. I don't think I could replicate

770
00:58:31,519 --> 00:58:36,480
that scream now, but I'm telling
you I'm never going to forget that scream.

771
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,840
By the time I reached the house, my heart felt like it would

772
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:45,440
explode from the run and the adrenaline
pumping through my body. I flew into

773
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:52,039
the house and in an incoherent mess
of hyperactive gibberish, trying to explain to

774
00:58:52,119 --> 00:58:57,360
my grandparents what had just happened.
My grandmother didn't really seem to believe me,

775
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,760
but she knew something had scared me. She acted weird about the whole

776
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:05,199
thing the rest of that night.
She said it must have been a dog,

777
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,079
but that wasn't a dog I saw
on the road. The next morning,

778
00:59:09,079 --> 00:59:14,760
I woke up and I found my
grandpa sitting outside whittling wood underneath the

779
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:19,000
shade tree in the front yard,
as he often liked to do. I

780
00:59:19,079 --> 00:59:22,960
went and sat down beside him in
one of the old metal lawn chairs.

781
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:27,360
He was a rational man, down
to earth, and had grown up and

782
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:31,639
hunted that area his entire life.
He knew every square inch of that place.

783
00:59:31,719 --> 00:59:37,199
It was mapped into his mind.
He knew every type of crittering creature

784
00:59:37,239 --> 00:59:40,320
that lived in those woods, what
noises they made, were to find them

785
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,280
and how to catch them, etc. I had only been hunting with him

786
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,679
for a couple of years, but
I'd been going out into those woods with

787
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:52,400
him since a pretty young age.
On the walks, he had passed a

788
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:57,039
lot of his knowledge down to me
during those adventures. I spoke to him

789
00:59:57,039 --> 01:00:00,239
about what had happened to me the
night before, and I told him that

790
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:06,440
I knew what I saw. It
wasn't my overactive imagination. I wasn't making

791
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,239
it up, and it definitely was
not a dog. He knew that I

792
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:15,159
wasn't just some dumb thirteen year old
kid, and he knew that I knew

793
01:00:15,199 --> 01:00:19,599
the things he'd taught me. He
stopped whittling, looked at me right in

794
01:00:19,679 --> 01:00:22,199
the eye, and he said,
I know what you saw. I've seen

795
01:00:22,239 --> 01:00:27,960
it before too. There's things in
the woods that people don't understand, and

796
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,719
they ought not be fooled with.
Ever. I'll remember those words clearly to

797
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:37,199
this day because it gave me affirmation, But at the time it made me

798
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:42,480
realize that whatever I had seen was
real and it was beyond my understanding.

799
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,199
My grandpa then went on to tell
me that far back in the woods there

800
01:00:46,199 --> 01:00:50,559
are some cliffs, and at the
bottom of those cliffs as a cave.

801
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:54,199
He told me that the cave is
where the creature lived. He had once

802
01:00:54,239 --> 01:00:59,760
stumbled upon it a long time ago
when he was hunting. He was standing

803
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,400
on the top of the cliff looking
at it when the creature fitting the same

804
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:09,079
description emerged and began screaming wildly at
him and throwing rocks. He took a

805
01:01:09,119 --> 01:01:14,000
shot at it, he missed,
and then this thing gave chase. But

806
01:01:14,119 --> 01:01:16,440
my Grandpa was on the top,
so in order to get to him,

807
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:21,360
this thing had to go a long
distance and then climb up, which he

808
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,559
said it quickly began to do,
so he high tailed it out of there

809
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:29,800
in a hurry. The whole way
back home, he felt as if he

810
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:34,000
were being watched, and he kept
hearing twigs snap behind him, and he

811
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:37,960
was certain that it was following him, stalking him. He made it home,

812
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,960
and as he reached his front porch, he turned and looked back at

813
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,760
the woods from where he'd come from, and he saw it peeking out at

814
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:50,079
him from behind a tree. Later
that night, he said that he and

815
01:01:50,119 --> 01:01:54,280
my grandmother awoke in the early morning
hours to large rocks being thrown at the

816
01:01:54,320 --> 01:02:00,159
house and howling noises from outside.
It walked around sound on the front porch,

817
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:05,559
rattling the doorknobs, banging on windows, and it sounded like it was

818
01:02:05,679 --> 01:02:09,239
muttering to itself in a low,
garbled voice, but it didn't sound like

819
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:14,840
a language, just a bunch of
gibberish. After a while, the thing

820
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:19,039
went back to throwing some more rocks
and howling. So my grandpa grabbed a

821
01:02:19,079 --> 01:02:22,119
shotgun and fired it out the front
door a few times into the darkness.

822
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,400
He heard it run back into the
woods. That was the last he'd seen

823
01:02:27,519 --> 01:02:30,159
or heard of it, but over
the years he heard of other farmers cows

824
01:02:30,239 --> 01:02:36,400
being mutilated, or someone's hunting dog
going missing, or someone would have a

825
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:40,360
story about some strange creature they had
seen in the woods. He also said

826
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:45,599
it scared my grandmother beyond words,
and she absolutely has refused to ever talk

827
01:02:45,639 --> 01:02:51,760
about it or even acknowledge that it
happened, which explains her acting weird about

828
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,159
it when I told her about what
happened. To me, I know the

829
01:02:55,320 --> 01:03:00,159
story is pretty far fetched, and
you can believe it or not. It

830
01:03:00,199 --> 01:03:04,119
makes no difference to me. I
know what I saw, and my grandpa

831
01:03:04,199 --> 01:03:07,800
knew what he saw, and neither
of us had ever felt the need to

832
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:13,000
convince anyone else. I've never spoken
of it to anyone other than a few

833
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,280
close to me and my grandfather,
and he passed away over ten years ago,

834
01:03:16,719 --> 01:03:21,519
and now I'm sharing it with you. These things are just as real

835
01:03:21,599 --> 01:03:24,039
as you and I, and just
like people, they come in all manner

836
01:03:24,119 --> 01:03:30,960
of personality and temperament. These aren't
just stories. These are people's memories of

837
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:37,960
a creature that lives in our woods. Signed to Eli, here's a story

838
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:43,119
from the United Kingdom. I thought
this was really good. The writer's name

839
01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:46,760
is Jay, and there's a couple
of locations in here that have names I'm

840
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:51,599
going to have trouble pronouncing, so
let's see how I do. He gave

841
01:03:51,599 --> 01:03:54,519
me the fanatic spelling so that maybe
I can get it right. Let's give

842
01:03:54,519 --> 01:04:00,760
it a whirl. I live in
Cluyd County in North Wales, United Ingdom.

843
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,199
I'm lucky to live in such a
beautiful place, surrounded by hills and

844
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:09,480
woodland and an abundance of farms.
We also have a lot of paved roads

845
01:04:09,519 --> 01:04:13,639
that lead to the more secluded areas. There was a spot on one of

846
01:04:13,639 --> 01:04:16,840
these narrow roads to nowhere that I
and my friends Scott liked to go where

847
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:23,119
we could chill out and enjoy some
good banter and good chap. The spot

848
01:04:23,159 --> 01:04:27,079
we frequented was a lay by by
a third of the way up a damaged

849
01:04:27,199 --> 01:04:31,599
road with a steep incline and many
hairpin turns as it snaked in an s

850
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:36,480
up the side of a small mountain. The road was edged with forty to

851
01:04:36,559 --> 01:04:42,760
fifty foot conifers, some ash,
and a few large oaks. Just off

852
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,760
the road was a large piece of
woodland. I say large because on our

853
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:51,920
tiny island, three hundred acres is
large. On this stretch of road,

854
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,840
where there are no street lights,
homes were few and far between, and

855
01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:01,119
we're inset back, so any lights
from the didn't reach the road. It

856
01:05:01,199 --> 01:05:05,360
was dark as dark can be out
there at night. One fall evening,

857
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:11,800
Scott and I visited our usual spot
with another friend we called Jack. We

858
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:15,360
had been there maybe an hour,
paying no mind to any of the surrounding

859
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:20,039
area outside of the white ninety two
Nissan Murker we had bundled into. We

860
01:05:20,039 --> 01:05:25,280
were laughing and having a good time, just enjoying each other's company. We

861
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:30,280
hadn't even noticed how quiet the woods
were. Suddenly the inside of the car

862
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,559
went silent as well. Everyone stopped
talking, and Scott reached past the steering

863
01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:40,679
wheel to silence the radio. We
were all sure we had heard something really

864
01:05:40,719 --> 01:05:45,679
close. A thud made me wind
down the window on the passenger side to

865
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:49,920
listen. That was when I realized
I couldn't hear anything in the woods.

866
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:55,559
We have an abundance of wildlife in
this area, another reason I feel so

867
01:05:55,679 --> 01:06:00,239
lucky to live here. There are
rabbits and squirrels, red fox, badger,

868
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:04,119
deer owls, and other birds of
prey like kite and buzzards. At

869
01:06:04,159 --> 01:06:09,000
that moment, none of them were
making a sound. Not even the insects

870
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:13,920
could be heard. The only noise
that broke the silence was the light rustling

871
01:06:14,079 --> 01:06:17,360
that was coming from a field that
was situated up a steep embankment just to

872
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:23,599
our left. It was coming from
the other side of the field. We

873
01:06:23,679 --> 01:06:27,920
thought nothing of it until we heard
another thud right next to my open window.

874
01:06:28,559 --> 01:06:31,599
A rock the size of a small
melon had been thrown with great power

875
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:36,639
and even more impressive accuracy towards us
and landed a couple of feet short of

876
01:06:36,679 --> 01:06:42,480
the vehicle. It hit the ground
so violently that I was sprayed with muddy

877
01:06:42,599 --> 01:06:46,159
rain water right into my face.
That was it. My window came up.

878
01:06:47,039 --> 01:06:50,519
Not that a window would have stood
a chance against a rock that size,

879
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:55,639
but it made me feel better knowing
there was something between us and whatever

880
01:06:55,760 --> 01:07:00,039
had just hurled a thirty pound rock. We were considered during our options,

881
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:04,639
which in all honesty shouldn't have taken
as long as it did. It was

882
01:07:04,679 --> 01:07:09,079
obvious that we should have just gotten
the heck out of Dodge at that very

883
01:07:09,199 --> 01:07:14,559
moment, but for some reason we
stalled on making our getaway. I looked

884
01:07:14,639 --> 01:07:16,719
up and out of the front window, and then quickly hushed the others,

885
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:21,079
telling them to look dead ahead.
Our car was pointed as though we would

886
01:07:21,159 --> 01:07:27,599
drive straight up the hill to the
next hairpin that was perhaps fifty feet away.

887
01:07:27,719 --> 01:07:30,599
The incline put the gravel level at
about ten to twelve feet higher than

888
01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:34,880
we were. We all saw it, rather, we saw its eyes,

889
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:41,440
two big, round, amber colored
eyes, hovered about six inches apart and

890
01:07:41,559 --> 01:07:45,760
what I estimated to be some eleven
feet off the ground. This thing must

891
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:51,519
have been immense and height in stature. I have always been a bit big

892
01:07:51,559 --> 01:07:57,159
for my boots, with a chip
on my shoulder. A naturally brave person,

893
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,199
it helps being five ft ten and
two one hundred and thirty pounds of

894
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:05,559
muscle from manual farm work and many
hours in the gym. Jack isn't a

895
01:08:05,599 --> 01:08:11,079
small guy either, standing six feet
tall and weighing around two hundred and fifteen

896
01:08:11,159 --> 01:08:15,640
pounds, but Scott was a mere
five ten and one hundred and seventy pounds.

897
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:18,399
Being the brave boy I am,
I got out of the car to

898
01:08:18,399 --> 01:08:23,680
get a better look. Scott and
Jack were both yelling, what the hell

899
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,439
are you doing? Jay, come
back, get back in here. We

900
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:30,479
need to leave. I gave them
a soft hush and started to slowly make

901
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:35,359
my way up towards the eyeshine.
Maybe I was hoping it was an owl

902
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:41,359
perched on a low branch. As
I got nearer, I realized this wasn't

903
01:08:41,399 --> 01:08:45,279
the case. I started to make
out the creatures outline, and as I

904
01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:50,399
did, I stopped dead in my
tracks. This thing was enormous. I

905
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:54,680
was now maybe thirty feet away from
it, and I could see that it

906
01:08:54,800 --> 01:09:00,840
had short but very thick legs,
a long body, and thick long arm.

907
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,760
If it had a neck, it
was half an inch long. Either

908
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:09,760
that or at shoulder muscles were the
size of a grown pig. It was

909
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:14,600
easily ten or eleven feet tall and
forty five feet wide at the shoulders.

910
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:19,319
I just stared as it made a
low huff with every breath. That was

911
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:24,279
when I turned from a big,
brave boy to a scared little girl and

912
01:09:24,359 --> 01:09:29,760
started walking backwards towards the car.
I got back in and quietly said drive.

913
01:09:30,239 --> 01:09:34,239
There was a pause before he reacted, but before Scott could turn the

914
01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:39,920
key in the ignition, we heard
another thud. There was another rock,

915
01:09:40,079 --> 01:09:44,279
slightly smaller than the last, and
it had been thrown and fell just shy

916
01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:47,399
of the vehicle. This time,
I screamed at Scott, just drive,

917
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:54,880
Scott, and he did. Never
before has a one thousand cc hatchback been

918
01:09:54,960 --> 01:10:00,319
driven so quickly. Fair play to
Scott for the previous unseen skill. Thinking

919
01:10:00,359 --> 01:10:04,039
about it now, I don't think
whatever this creature was wanted to hurt us.

920
01:10:04,079 --> 01:10:09,039
It just wanted us to go.
Mission accomplished and we got out,

921
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:15,119
Nor did we return to this spot. For several weeks. I had another

922
01:10:15,239 --> 01:10:18,560
encounter with this thing, and it
happened some months later in a different area

923
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:23,399
of our surrounding woodlands, but only
two miles or so from the spot I

924
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:28,960
visited. Was Scott and Jack.
I was hiking alone in the springtime near

925
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:34,199
a derelict castle called gerich Gerrick Castle. I'm sure I got that wrong.

926
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:39,279
It has been long abandoned, though
many attempts have been made to restore the

927
01:10:39,319 --> 01:10:43,399
castle. It was in the middle
of the afternoon, with many hours of

928
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:47,159
daylight left. I'd heard stories of
dogs going missing here, but I figured

929
01:10:47,199 --> 01:10:50,880
they just ran off and never found
their owners, as it is a large

930
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:58,199
area. However, I found evidence
to suggest otherwise. I came across a

931
01:10:58,319 --> 01:11:02,560
small black fir. At first I
thought it was a local's farm sheep that

932
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:08,600
had strayed and perhaps caught its wool
on the brush. As I got closer,

933
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:13,439
I realized it was fur and not
wool. A little further up the

934
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:17,439
trail I found some more, a
lot more, a full labrador's coat of

935
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:23,880
black fur. There were a few
bones licked clean, some had been splintered,

936
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:28,760
as if bitten with great force.
I started to get the feeling that

937
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,119
I was being watched. That's when
I heard a loud wood on wood knock.

938
01:11:33,199 --> 01:11:38,359
I shot to an upright stance and
stared intently in the direction from which

939
01:11:38,359 --> 01:11:43,560
it came. But I saw nothing. After my previous encounter several months earlier.

940
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,560
I wanted nothing to do with this. I turned back into the frightened

941
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:50,720
little girl again. I spun around
and high tailed it back down the trail

942
01:11:51,159 --> 01:11:56,520
and broke from the tree line faster
than I knew I could. Lily,

943
01:11:57,159 --> 01:12:05,119
hush Lily with barking Lily. Oh
my gosh, this dog, it's my

944
01:12:05,199 --> 01:12:10,319
little pug. She won't shut up. She barks at everything. I'm sorry

945
01:12:10,359 --> 01:12:15,000
to interrupt this story. I spun
around and high tailed it back down the

946
01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:18,760
trail and broke from the tree line
faster than I knew I could. I've

947
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:24,560
told no one about these two encounters
until now. Neither Scott nor Jack have

948
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,079
spoken of it either. I didn't
even tell them about the second encounter,

949
01:12:29,399 --> 01:12:33,880
nor have I had another encounter or
seen any signs of it since in my

950
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:38,800
mind, there's nothing that is going
to tell me otherwise. Although I thought

951
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:43,920
bigfoot sasquatching, yet he lived in
North America and Russia, I know now

952
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:48,560
that they are on UK soil as
well. Bigfoot lives in my town discreetly

953
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:54,880
and quietly, without being seen or
heard by the majority of people. I

954
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,600
hope to God that it stays that
way, and he signs off. Jay.

955
01:13:00,159 --> 01:13:02,079
Okay, here's another email from a
woman, and she does not want

956
01:13:02,119 --> 01:13:06,079
her name disclosed. She wants to
be anonymous, and that is no problem

957
01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:10,520
at all, she writes. I
live in West Virginia. We have a

958
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:14,800
few bears that make themselves known every
now and again, but my dog is

959
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:18,159
my protector. For over a month, he was barking at the entrance to

960
01:13:18,239 --> 01:13:23,800
the forest every time I went outside. I just chalked it up to being

961
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:27,720
a bear. I have over two
acres of law that has to be my

962
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:31,920
responsibility to keep up since my husband
passed away. At the end of my

963
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:38,479
garden boxes, there's a stretch of
grass next to the hemlock spruce that surrounds

964
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:44,439
the yard and separates it from the
forest. I was going about my normal

965
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:49,760
mowing duty around the ends of the
garden boxes when a massive black hand reached

966
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:56,159
out and touched my face, as
if to just feel my face. This

967
01:13:56,239 --> 01:14:00,920
hand was extremely calloused and dark even
the palm. There was no way it

968
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,600
belonged to a man. I was
scared. I was so scared that I

969
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:10,479
pushed the handles on the zero turn
along more as hard as I could,

970
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:15,079
and I did not look back.
I jumped off the moor at the front

971
01:14:15,119 --> 01:14:18,840
porch and I ran inside the more
sat there for three days because I wasn't

972
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:25,199
coming out of that house for any
reason. Although I had never been one

973
01:14:25,279 --> 01:14:30,199
to believe in bigfoot, I did
a computer search. I'd always considered it

974
01:14:30,239 --> 01:14:33,479
a fable or a way for people
to get attention, But now I know.

975
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:40,840
I reasoned with myself that these things
have been there always, Apparently one

976
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:45,520
just finally got curious to know what
a human feels like. If I could

977
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,239
just convince myself that they're not going
to hurt me, I think I would

978
01:14:48,239 --> 01:14:55,279
feel better going back outside if I'm
still not so brave. I like for

979
01:14:55,399 --> 01:14:58,920
my house to look neat, and
I do a lot of work myself.

980
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,359
I was given my garage a fresh
coat of paint when I heard walking in

981
01:15:02,399 --> 01:15:09,760
the woods. They were heavy footsteps
with breaking twigs and rustling leaves. I

982
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:14,199
was fine until they stopped just to
my write in the tree line. I

983
01:15:14,279 --> 01:15:16,640
didn't know what to do, so
I did what any dummy would do.

984
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:21,960
I started singing. I sang several
songs and nothing happened. So I finished

985
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:27,840
the painting and I went back inside. There was another time I was washing

986
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,479
my car, and just as I
was finishing, I heard the sound of

987
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:36,079
breaking twigs. Once again, they
stopped within twenty feet of me somewhere in

988
01:15:36,119 --> 01:15:41,399
the tree line. This time I
heard a sound like a very big man

989
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:45,560
sitting down on something that was way
too short. Boom. It was very

990
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:49,880
loud. I could see inside the
tree line, but I was too afraid

991
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:55,600
to look closer. I stay inside
a lot. Now. I have a

992
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:59,520
new husband, and when I told
him, he laughed at me. I

993
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,560
think he thought I was joking.
Now I've never mentioned it again to anyone

994
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:08,079
until now. If they are still
there, I will leave them alone.

995
01:16:08,119 --> 01:16:11,560
As long as they leave me alone. I'll listen to your stories, and

996
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:15,920
it keeps me from thinking that I'm
completely insane. Okay, this last story

997
01:16:16,319 --> 01:16:21,119
is the man says you can call
me be And this may not be a

998
01:16:21,119 --> 01:16:26,640
Bigfoot story, but let's read on
and see. Back in nineteen eighty two,

999
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:30,600
I had an experience in Bullet County, Kentucky that has kept me out

1000
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:34,399
of the woods until this day.
I had just gotten my driver's license,

1001
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:39,560
so I barred my dad's seventy seven
custom van to go on a double date.

1002
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:43,640
I swung by and picked up my
friend Chuck and the two girls,

1003
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:47,319
and we headed out into the country
to go parking. Back then, the

1004
01:16:47,399 --> 01:16:51,600
thing to do was go parking,
indulge a little underage drinking, and explore

1005
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:57,840
the mysteries of the opposite sex.
So that was our plan. We drove

1006
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:01,359
down to the Salt River Bottoms along
a one lane gravel road. It was

1007
01:17:01,399 --> 01:17:05,840
a pretty desolate spot with the occasional
house or a farm every few miles,

1008
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:10,399
but there were a few spots where
we could pull off the road and be

1009
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:15,119
alone with our dates. The sun
had already set and we were looking for

1010
01:17:15,199 --> 01:17:18,239
one of those spots to pull over, so we were already traveling slow when

1011
01:17:18,319 --> 01:17:24,000
Chuck suddenly asked, what was that
one hundred feet in front of us?

1012
01:17:24,079 --> 01:17:28,479
Something large and black was lying on
the road. I slowed the van to

1013
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,199
a crawl. As we got closer, I started thinking it looked like a

1014
01:17:31,279 --> 01:17:35,880
cow laying there with its back to
us. Once we got to within ten

1015
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:39,840
feet of it, I decided to
get a better look, so I put

1016
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,640
the van in park and opened the
door to get out. As I did

1017
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:47,279
so, it made a loud metal
clanking sound. Those van doors are famous

1018
01:17:47,319 --> 01:17:51,119
for that thing on the road popped
its head up and looked right at us.

1019
01:17:53,199 --> 01:17:57,359
This thing was covered in black hair. It had the head of a

1020
01:17:57,399 --> 01:18:02,000
dog with a large snout and ears
stood upright. It felt like all the

1021
01:18:02,039 --> 01:18:05,600
blood rushed out of my body and
my hair stood on end as I sat

1022
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:11,359
there looking at it, and Chuck
kept asking what is that thing? But

1023
01:18:11,399 --> 01:18:15,840
I couldn't register a logical explanation or
give him a reasonable answer. This thing

1024
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:20,439
was huge. It must have weighed
seven hundred pounds or more. Dogs don't

1025
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:26,199
get that big. It locked eyes
on us for maybe ten seconds, and

1026
01:18:26,239 --> 01:18:30,479
all we could do was stare back
at it. Then the impossible happened.

1027
01:18:30,319 --> 01:18:35,720
This monster of an animal stood up
on two feet. It took a step

1028
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:39,920
towards us and put what looked like
a hand on the hood of the van

1029
01:18:40,199 --> 01:18:44,640
with enough pressure to rock it backward. My god, it had to be

1030
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:47,760
at least nine feet tall. It
had to bend down to look at us

1031
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:53,279
through the windshield, and it glared
down at us like a predator savoring its

1032
01:18:53,399 --> 01:18:59,119
next meal right before it strikes.
And that's when we saw its teeth had

1033
01:18:59,119 --> 01:19:03,560
a mouthful of sharp canines, like
a wolf or a werewolf. The girls

1034
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:08,239
were in the back screaming and crying, and I was frozen in place,

1035
01:19:09,079 --> 01:19:12,479
and Chuck finally shouted, get us
out of here, and that brought me

1036
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,560
back to reality. I grabbed the
shifter and dropped it into gear and pushed

1037
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:21,359
the accelerator to the floorboard. We
spun out, leaving a rooster tail of

1038
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:27,760
gravel and dusk in our wake.
The monster, that's how I think of

1039
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,479
it, rolled off to the passenger
side, and it was a good thing

1040
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:35,199
he went that way. The driver's
door was still open. At least he

1041
01:19:35,239 --> 01:19:39,680
could have torn the door off.
At worst, well, I don't want

1042
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:44,319
to think about the worst. I
didn't slow down until we were back on

1043
01:19:44,359 --> 01:19:48,760
the pavement and the girls were inconsolable, so we took them home. There's

1044
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:53,880
nothing like a werewolf to put a
damper on teenage hormones. And Chuck and

1045
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:01,680
oh man, that thing ruined your
date. Chuck and I downed a few

1046
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,159
beers before I dropped him off,
just to calm our nerves. Of course,

1047
01:20:05,279 --> 01:20:09,680
of course you did. We must
have been in shock or something.

1048
01:20:10,119 --> 01:20:14,079
I don't remember either one of us
speaking a word about what had just happened.

1049
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,039
Once I dropped him off, I
drove home and I went straight to

1050
01:20:17,119 --> 01:20:21,439
bed. The next morning, I
was abruptly awakened by my dad, who

1051
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:26,319
made me go out to the driveway
and look at the van. I expected

1052
01:20:26,399 --> 01:20:30,720
be yelled at for driving gravel roads
and covering his black van with dust,

1053
01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:33,720
but that wasn't what he wanted me
to see. Pointing at the hood,

1054
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:38,560
he demanded, what the hell did
you do to the van last night?

1055
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:43,039
Boy? I walked over to where
he was standing, and I saw five

1056
01:20:43,319 --> 01:20:47,000
large, deep claw marks running across
the hood. Well, what could I

1057
01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:51,119
say? Sorry about that? Dad
must have been that giant wherewolf that did

1058
01:20:51,159 --> 01:20:55,479
it. He would have thought I
was nuts, So I just said I

1059
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:59,800
don't know, and I had to
pay for a new paint job. Anyway.

1060
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:02,800
A few days later, Chuck finally
asked me what the hell we saw

1061
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:06,920
that night. I still didn't have
an answer. The girls were pretty much

1062
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:12,560
done with us. Bringing a werewolf
to a date has a way of doing

1063
01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:15,600
that. This was all back in
nineteen eighty two, so we didn't have

1064
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:19,359
the Internet to look these things up. Heck, we didn't even have cable

1065
01:21:19,479 --> 01:21:25,039
until the following year. Until this
day, the only thing that I have

1066
01:21:25,159 --> 01:21:29,880
seen that even closely resembles what we
saw that night is the werewolf in the

1067
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:34,640
movie Van Helsing. Watching that movie
made the hair stand up on the back

1068
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:39,359
of my neck. From what I've
seen on the internet, I of a

1069
01:21:39,399 --> 01:21:44,079
guessing it was a dog man that
we saw. And here's something more.

1070
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:48,560
I have an uncle and three cousins
who were all police officers. A few

1071
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:53,760
months after this happened, I was
playing Nickel and dimee poker with the family

1072
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:58,359
when I overheard my cousin, a
Jefferson County canine officer, saying that a

1073
01:21:58,399 --> 01:22:02,199
woman's body was found up in a
tree and torn to shreds at tom Wallace

1074
01:22:02,399 --> 01:22:06,600
Park. I took him outside and
told him the story of what happened to

1075
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:12,920
my friends in me just a few
months earlier. Although he did listen intently

1076
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:16,720
at the time, albeit with a
look of bewilderment on his face, we

1077
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:21,960
never spoke of it again. Years
later he was shot and killed in the

1078
01:22:23,039 --> 01:22:27,680
line of duty. I don't know
exactly what I saw out there on that

1079
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:31,239
gravel road that night, but I
do know that it was bad, nasty,

1080
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:38,039
evil and deadly. God only knows
what would have happened if we'd already

1081
01:22:38,079 --> 01:22:42,520
been parked there and it crept up
on us. I'm not afraid of the

1082
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,920
woods, but I'm terrified of what
I know is out there lurking around in

1083
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,720
them. Just look at all the
people who go missing, never to be

1084
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:56,319
seen or heard from again. Here's
an email from Mike, and this is

1085
01:22:56,399 --> 01:23:00,279
real interesting. He says. I'm
sharing this with you because I recently came

1086
01:23:00,319 --> 01:23:05,680
across your channel on YouTube. I've
noticed several similarities to what you read about

1087
01:23:06,159 --> 01:23:11,439
and what happened to me eight years
ago. I want to start off by

1088
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:15,520
saying I don't know what I saw. I can't say it was or was

1089
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:19,600
not a big foot, nor will
I say I don't believe anymore. I

1090
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:24,439
grew up in Swiss, Missouri.
At the beginning of the email, he

1091
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:28,159
gives me a little bit of a
description of Swiss, Missouri, and it

1092
01:23:28,199 --> 01:23:32,439
sounds like a really great place in
the Ozarks in Missouri. It's really nice

1093
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:38,800
wine country. I think sounds very
appealing to me, he writes. While

1094
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:43,239
growing up a hunted and fished all
over the area, even swam in most

1095
01:23:43,239 --> 01:23:47,520
of the creeks. My family roots
date back to the turn of the century

1096
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:54,319
here in Swiss My great great grandfather's
farm was a whopping five miles east of

1097
01:23:54,359 --> 01:23:59,319
where I lived today. Through the
years growing up there, nothing ever happened

1098
01:23:59,359 --> 01:24:03,520
that I would consider odd or out
of place. As the years passed,

1099
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:08,520
I hit adulthood and moved away,
thinking there was something better out there.

1100
01:24:09,119 --> 01:24:12,640
Then in two and eleven, I
moved back, knowing where I wanted to

1101
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,920
plant my roots. I ended up
buying acreage connecting to our family farm,

1102
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:21,319
and I built a home and a
barn. I had approximately twenty chickens and

1103
01:24:21,399 --> 01:24:27,159
five guineas at this time. Unfortunately, ticks or rough out this way,

1104
01:24:27,159 --> 01:24:30,479
and both chickens and guineas enjoy eating
them, so I felt this was a

1105
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:36,000
decent investment. Plus the eggs were
good. It was in the early spring,

1106
01:24:36,319 --> 01:24:42,399
April fifth to be exact, a
cool evening, windows open, and

1107
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,960
my fiance and I were sitting on
the couch watching a show on TV when

1108
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:51,119
I heard a fuss outside. My
dogs started barking and raising cane, so

1109
01:24:51,159 --> 01:24:56,600
I muted the TV and got off
the couch. Walking into the dining room,

1110
01:24:56,600 --> 01:25:00,560
I heard what I believe were Cody's
trying to get at my chickens.

1111
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:03,199
I walked back into the living room
and into my bedroom to grab my gun.

1112
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:08,960
As I walked back into the dining
room, I heard my dog really

1113
01:25:09,079 --> 01:25:14,800
let loose because he was extremely protective
of his chickens. I flipped on the

1114
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:18,319
back porch lights. I walked out
onto the deck, which sits approximately six

1115
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:23,760
to seven feet off the ground,
and I could see something in the shadows,

1116
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:28,560
and my old dog had his hair
standing straight up and barking and growling

1117
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:33,159
like he'd gone mad. I fired
several rounds into the woods that backed into

1118
01:25:33,199 --> 01:25:39,479
the natural fed spring Creek. I
heard what sounded like a freight train crashing

1119
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:43,479
through the woods. After a few
minutes, I called my dog back up

1120
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:46,520
to the house and we went in. I told my fiance that what had

1121
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,319
happened, and she said maybe a
cow had gotten out or something. I

1122
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:54,199
thought for a minute and I said, yeah, I guess that's what it

1123
01:25:54,239 --> 01:25:59,439
could have been. Three days later, on Friday evening, my fiance and

1124
01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:03,279
I went into herman for dinner and
to visit some friends. We got home

1125
01:26:03,359 --> 01:26:08,439
late, sometime just before midnight.
We were pretty wore out, but I

1126
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:12,720
always checked the barn and the chickens
when I got home. As I walked

1127
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:15,000
to the chicken coop, I noticed
a feeder laying on the ground. I

1128
01:26:15,039 --> 01:26:18,159
picked it up, and, thinking
my dog had somewhehow I got a hold

1129
01:26:18,199 --> 01:26:23,079
of it and drug it out in
the yard. As I approached the chicken

1130
01:26:23,119 --> 01:26:27,439
coop, I noticed a hole in
the chicken wire approximately six feet up and

1131
01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:31,399
the hole was about eighteen to twenty
inches around. I opened the coop and

1132
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:36,479
I noticed blood and feathers were everywhere, but only a couple of chickens were

1133
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:42,359
gone. I figured somehow a coyote
or a fox had to get into the

1134
01:26:42,359 --> 01:26:45,399
coop, but I couldn't comprehend why
or who had made this hole that size

1135
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:49,079
and that high up off the ground. However, this is the price to

1136
01:26:49,199 --> 01:26:55,439
raising any small animals out in the
sticks. The chicken wire portion of my

1137
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,680
coop is only four feet wide and
six feet long. I normally let the

1138
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,520
chickens out and run freely to eat
ticks and peck the ground, so I

1139
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:06,640
didn't feel I needed a large run
area in the coop. However, that

1140
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:11,600
night I rounded them up and fed
them and kept them locked in the coop

1141
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:15,279
due to the coaties and foxes in
the area. This is my attempt at

1142
01:27:15,319 --> 01:27:19,439
making it as hard as possible for
them to be dinner and the predators will

1143
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:25,159
move on down the road. Later
that same night, after patching the hole

1144
01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:29,319
with some scrap chicken wire, I
showered and got into bed, wore out

1145
01:27:29,319 --> 01:27:32,840
and ready to sleep. I had
just hit that spot where you're asleep but

1146
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:40,439
still somewhat alert and extremely comfortable,
when my old dog started as crazy barking,

1147
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:44,840
and then I heard this how scream, growling noise I have never heard

1148
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:49,319
in my life coming from the backyard. I grew up almost eighteen years in

1149
01:27:49,399 --> 01:27:55,520
this area and just moved back after
being gone for only five years. I

1150
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:59,640
hunt and I trap everything you can
think of. I've heard a fox,

1151
01:28:00,319 --> 01:28:03,760
I've heard a bobcat scream, I've
heard mountain lions in black Bear. I've

1152
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:10,399
heard dear grunts and turkey's gobble,
But I have never ever heard this noise

1153
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:15,039
before. Now, due to our
closest neighbor being approximately a quarter mile away

1154
01:28:15,359 --> 01:28:19,319
and that was family, I knew
no one would be on my property this

1155
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:25,399
late. So as I sat up
trying to comprehend the noise and understand what

1156
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:30,399
I had heard, I grabbed for
my three hundred windmag fearing that this isn't

1157
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:35,319
an average everyday animal, and then
I heard what I thought to be fencing

1158
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:41,000
being torn. My dog was already
at the back door, begging to be

1159
01:28:41,159 --> 01:28:45,680
let out. He knew something wasn't
right. I opened the door, stepping

1160
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:48,399
onto the deck after turning on the
porch lights, and all I could see

1161
01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:54,119
was something near the coop. My
old dog took off full sprint towards it.

1162
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:59,239
Now he's fought off countless codies and
foxes, but tonight he wasn't ready

1163
01:28:59,319 --> 01:29:03,199
for this thing. He got close
and I heard the screaming growl that I

1164
01:29:03,279 --> 01:29:06,840
can't explain, and before I knew
it, my dog flew into the side

1165
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:11,960
of my deck. This was a
good twenty feet away from where this thing

1166
01:29:12,239 --> 01:29:15,399
was. Well. Now I was
furious, thinking that it had killed my

1167
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,720
dog, and I leveled my rifle
and I shot everything I had in it,

1168
01:29:20,039 --> 01:29:26,560
five rounds total, and again I
heard crashing like a freight train going

1169
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:30,239
down into the woods near the creek. I rushed down and grabbed my dog,

1170
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:34,159
scared to death that it was too
late. He was about seventy pounds

1171
01:29:34,159 --> 01:29:40,279
of pure muscle. I picked him
up and got him inside. I put

1172
01:29:40,359 --> 01:29:43,760
him on the table and I turned
on the dining room light, and I

1173
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:47,000
was horrified. That he was gashed
down his side like a razor blade had

1174
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:53,279
cut him. He was winding an
in tremendous pain, he was having trouble

1175
01:29:53,359 --> 01:29:57,680
breathing, and he had lost a
ton of blood. I know growing up

1176
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:00,239
on the farm that it's not right
to allow an animal to suffer. It's

1177
01:30:00,319 --> 01:30:03,359
not fair to the animal, in
my opinion, to let it lay there

1178
01:30:03,399 --> 01:30:08,399
and die. I knew what I
needed to do, even though it would

1179
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:12,560
kill me to do it. I
took him back outside in the front yard,

1180
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:15,199
and I told him that he was
a good boy, how much I

1181
01:30:15,319 --> 01:30:17,279
loved him, and that it was
time for me to put him out of

1182
01:30:17,279 --> 01:30:21,880
his misery. I lost my best
friend that night. I spent the next

1183
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:27,319
hour digging a hole with my fiance
holding a flashlight and a gun, just

1184
01:30:27,359 --> 01:30:30,600
to make sure that that thing didn't
come back. As I buried my dog,

1185
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:35,039
I felt anger at this animal for
killing my dog. I felt fear

1186
01:30:35,159 --> 01:30:39,920
because I wasn't sure what it was, and then I felt empty because there

1187
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:44,279
was nothing I could do. The
next morning, I went out to see

1188
01:30:44,279 --> 01:30:47,920
the damage. This thing completely destroyed
the chicken wire and the only thing that

1189
01:30:48,079 --> 01:30:54,000
saved the remaining eleven chickens and all
the guineas was the actual wood coop.

1190
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:58,880
However, it had damaged the roof
on the coop too. I believe what

1191
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:01,560
angered this thing when it let out
that god awful sound was the fact that

1192
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:06,079
it was unable to get in the
coop and grab more chickens. I spent

1193
01:31:06,159 --> 01:31:11,239
the next two days rebuilding the coup
and following the trail this thing had made

1194
01:31:11,279 --> 01:31:15,800
into the woods. I never saw
any footprints or tracks, nor did I

1195
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:19,359
find blood or hair. But I
will tell you that it's now two and

1196
01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:25,880
nineteen, almost exactly eight years later, and other than that curious fox or

1197
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:30,680
annoying coyote, I have had no
issues. I have never heard that noise

1198
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:33,199
again, and I still have in
that same home, now married to that

1199
01:31:33,359 --> 01:31:38,079
same woman, and we have a
new dog who will be eight in July.

1200
01:31:39,159 --> 01:31:42,600
I will never forget that day,
and I'll never forget that sound that

1201
01:31:42,600 --> 01:31:45,039
that thing made, and I'll never
forget the fear that that thing brought.

1202
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,359
I'm not going to say for sure
that this was a big foot, nor

1203
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:53,800
will I say that it wasn't.
I can tell you that I've been to

1204
01:31:53,880 --> 01:31:58,560
several states hunting bear, bore,
elk and deer. I've spent more hours

1205
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,439
in the woods than your average joke, and I've never felt that fear.

1206
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,960
I've never seen or heard anything that
can compare to that thing.