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All right, all right, welcome
back to the Dixie Cryptid YouTube channel and

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the what If It's True? Podcast. I know it's been a few weeks

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since I put up a video.
At the end, I'll explain to you

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what's been going on. But I
appreciate all the people checking on me through

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emails and Facebook messages. Haven't been
able to answer them all. But anyway,

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I'll explain it here in a little
bit. But I've got an email

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here. I've actually got two emails, and I'm gonna share with you.

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I think they're really good to hope
you enjoy them. The first one,

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well, the woman doesn't say whether
to use her name. You know the

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story on that, but here's what
she writes. When I was in my

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twenties, we would drag on mckenry
and Jay Street in Modesto, California.

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That's the town that American graffiti is
based on. I know, where were

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you in nineteen sixty two, right
while I was ten years old, So

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that story wasn't about me. But
even in my teens and early adulthood,

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my friends and I dragged mcchinry and
Jay Street to Ninth Street, and then

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we turned around and go back up
Jay Street to make Henry Boulevard, and

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then to bring more road and then
back down. We'd race our friends and

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show off our cars, and then
we'd sit somewhere on the boulevard and we'd

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drink and shoot the breeze. One
night, my boyfriend Dan and I and

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his twin brother Donnie, along with
Donnie's girlfriend and my brother Jerry and his

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girlfriend. We were all crammed in
Dan's fifty five Chevy Well. We were

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bored, so we decided to go
for a ride and we ended up going

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above Sonora into the heavily forested mountains, and we stopped in Sonora to grab

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a burger, and then we got
back on the road. We were talking

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and drinking and having a good time, and we weren't paying much attention to

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how far we were getting into the
mountain. And the men in the vehicle

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were drinking more than the women were, except the driver, Dan had a

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drink, but he wasn't drunk.
It wasn't long before we had to stop

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again so they could pay rent on
their beer. We found a dirt road

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to pull on two so they could
get out and run in the woods and

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do their thing, and we weren't
far off the highway, but we were

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far enough to allow some privacy.
All three guys, they were over six

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feet tall, and they weighed between
one hundred and eighty and two hundred pounds

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each, and they liked to brag
that they weren't afraid of anything. They

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hadn't been in the woods for long
when we heard the scariest scream I have

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ever heard in my life. We
could hear it plainest day inside the car

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with the windows rolled up. All
three of those brave men came running out

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of the forest like a bunch of
frightened mice, and they jumped into the

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cars. Everyone was asking what was
that. They told us that they felt

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that scream to their very core.
They didn't see what made it, but

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we wasted no time getting back on
my highway and back to the safety of

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Modesto. I think it was a
big foot and it was mad at those

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men for marking its territory. Oh
that's awesome, that's awesome to hear scream

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scares them to death. All right, we got one more, and these

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are two short emails, but I'm
going to explain what's going on here in

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a minute. So hey all,
bear with me, But I hope you

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enjoy this story. This person he
gives his name, but he doesn't say

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whether to use it or not,
but he claims the story is absolutely true.

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My parents and my two brothers and
sister and I lived on a small

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farm in north Alabama. We were
surrounded by wooded areas and green pastures and

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ponds and creeks. We spent a
lot of time camping and roaming outdoors as

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kids, and we would stay gone
until dark. It was a typical summer

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day when we threw a blanket on
one of our ponies and we decided to

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go back to a wooded area where
we like to hang out, and there

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was a creek that wound its way
through the trees, and we cooled ourselves

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there when the southern heat waves blew
through the countryside like Satan's storm. Our

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ponies were very gentle and fun to
riding, and we usually headed through the

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first gap in the fence around our
property and onward into a big pasture where

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we would stop it upon and give
our ponies a drink, and then we

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continued on for a while until we
got near the entrance of the woods that

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led to the creek. The place
was so familiar to our animals that they

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always walked down to the edge of
the water without much prodding from us.

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We were fifty yards from entering the
woods and the pony stopped. We shook

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his bridle and we'd tapped the sights, but he was rooted in place.

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Then he snorted and pawed at the
ground and began backing up, and I

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thought maybe he sensed a snake,
but the grass was too short to camouflage

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any such slither slithering reptiles. On
the other side of the creek, there

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were some scattered trees with low lying
brush. In the south, we have

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a vine called a trumpet. It
has big red flowers and it envelopes trees

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and buildings. They're all around our
house and woods. I don't know if

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it was experiencing an optical illusion,
but the pair of red flowers before me

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resembled eyes, and they seemed to
be moving quickly through the foliage. The

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pony was getting seriously agitated, and
I was worried my sister might get thrown

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off, so we turned and we
headed home. I had my arm over

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the back of the pony, running
along beside him, and something I saw

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on TV shows about how Indians rode
horses. We didn't look back until we

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had the house in view. I
had never heard of bigfoot or anything like

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that at the time. But you
know how you can glimpse something odd once

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and never unsee it. Each time
I set foot onto my parents farm in

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the summer and look out toward those
trees covered with trumpet vines, I feel

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like I'm surrounded by dozens and dozens
of red piercing eyes. Oh, I

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can see that, I can.
That makes absolute sense to me. We

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have kudzu. I don't think kudzu
has red flowers. But a matter of

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fact, I've been fighting a kudzuo
takeover back around my neighbor's lakes. Y'all

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see me riding around his lakes on
my bicycle. I'm trying to keep them

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cut back. I'm using my lawnmower, not even using my tractor, just

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to keep a trail open. That's
all I'm trying to do. It's hard

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to get rid of that kudzu,
but it's but you can keep it cut

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back. It's real tough anyway.
I'm just rambling. So that's the last

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of the stories, and I know
this is a short podcast. But here's

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the deal. I am working on
two projects at the time with my regular

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job. They are very important,
both are very fast tracked. I probably

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shouldn't have taken two jobs on at
one time, but I did because the

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money was so good that I thought, well, I think I can work

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both of these in And to be
honest, at the beginning, I tried

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to keep up with the podcast and
keep up with my work. I've been

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doing that for five years. I
will have been doing this podcast for five

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years this coming September next month,
and I'm just worn out from doing it.

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And in all those five years,
I've neglected a lot of home projects

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that I need to get done.
So anytime I have off, instead of

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doing a podcast, I'm working on
home projects. I'm trying to get a

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camper fixed up so my wife and
I can do some camping. Just little

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things like that. But that won't
last forever. But from here on out,

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I'm gonna try to do some short
podcasts and really stay connected to you

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guys. But I just kind of
needed some time. I just needed to

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drop one of these activities and my
phone's going off. I needed to drop

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one of these activities. Just to
give my mind a break and do something

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different. So that's what's been going
on. I've got quite a few emails

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from people, and I appreciate you
guys checking on me. I'm doing fine.

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I'm healthy, my wife's healthy,
the dogs are healthy, the chickens

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are healthy. You know, we
lost about eighteen chickens the spring to some

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predator came in the yard and killed
about half our chickens. We've raised all

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those back up. I'm going to
show videos of those in the next week

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or two. And they're really pretty
birds or young birds, and they're happy

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and they're jumping around. And so
I've got some things planned and I've got

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some different ways of presenting these stories
that I have in mind that I'm going

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to give a try this fall.
That should be interesting. And anyway,

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I'll quit rambling. I just wanted
to kind of let you guys know what

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was going on. I'll try to
get a couple of short podcasts up each

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week. I think that's probably about
all I can do right now. But

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thanks for hanging with me. I
love you all. I'm doing fine.

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I'm just busy. I should be
through this slug of work maybe by the

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end of September, middle of October, and then I'll be back to doing

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you know, good long, regular
podcasts and just the way it is,

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I gotta make a living and I'm
trying not to work myself in the dirt.

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So thank you for listening. I
appreciate you guys so much, and

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we'll see on the next one.
Thanks