1 00:00:10,839 --> 00:00:15,519 The story I'm about to tell you happened in the summer of twenty and fifteen 2 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:20,839 in the western mountains of Maine. I'm a third generation logger. I've been 3 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:24,839 in the woods all my life. I love the outdoors up here and all 4 00:00:24,879 --> 00:00:28,640 that it has to offer. Now, I've never been afraid of the woods 5 00:00:28,719 --> 00:00:34,560 or what's in there till that summer that changed things a bit. We had 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,799 just started a logging job a few miles west of Bethel. It's a quaint 7 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:43,640 little tourist town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains. I was always the 8 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:47,560 first man on the crew into the woods, and since I ran the machine 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,840 that cut down the trees, I was usually the furthest inn as well. 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,679 On this day, I had parked my machine over a mile off the blacktop 11 00:00:56,799 --> 00:01:00,880 the night before, and I had intended on driving in the next morning. 12 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,920 A lazy dump truck driver who couldn't follow directions dumped his load in the middle 13 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,799 of our road, only one hundred yards off the pavement, and it made 14 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:15,400 it impassable. It was three point thirty am. I was supposed I could 15 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,359 have just gone home for the day and let someone else deal with it, 16 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,079 but that's not me. So I threw my lunch in my backpack, and 17 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,000 I grabbed my head lamp and I started hoofing it for my machine. It 18 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,840 was only a mile anyway. It was dark and cloudy, so the moon 19 00:01:30,879 --> 00:01:36,879 and stars were not visible. I probably couldn't have seen them anyway. The 20 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,799 canopy of the Eastern Pine had made a very thick ceiling over the forest floor. 21 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,719 I hadn't gone far and I came to another load of gravel that had 22 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:49,239 been dumped in the middle of the road, and then I came to another 23 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,280 I began cursing this truck driver, and I was thinking about giving him a 24 00:01:55,319 --> 00:01:59,319 piece of my mind a little later. But that's when things started to feel 25 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,760 strained. Everything got quiet. I got chills, and the hair on the 26 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,080 back of my neck was standing on in. I paused, and I looked 27 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:12,400 around. I didn't see anything in the small bubble of light that my headlamp 28 00:02:12,479 --> 00:02:16,240 was emitting. But never in my thirty eight years had I experienced a feeling 29 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:22,520 like that. My sweat had turned cold, and the chill became unbearable. 30 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:27,800 And again I scanned my bubble and I saw nothing. There was a voice 31 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,719 inside me that told me to get moving thoughts raced through my head as I 32 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,840 quickly continued my walk, almost at a jog. Now was it a ghost 33 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,560 or a bigfoot? Or was it a murderer or someone just messing with me? 34 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,800 Heck, I didn't know. The voices in my head were battling each 35 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,120 other. I didn't believe in ghosts or bigfoot, and I was sure a 36 00:02:51,199 --> 00:02:54,840 murderer wouldn't be in these woods. It had to be somebody messing with me, 37 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,439 and I was becoming angry when my machine popped into view. I fired 38 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:05,479 it up and I hopped into the safety of the cab. There will still 39 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,840 be a couple of hours before any of the crew arrived, but my cab 40 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,800 was safe, surrounded by metal and bulletproof glass. The feelings of unease quickly 41 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,680 subsided, and I went about my day. Two weeks later in a nice 42 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,240 gravel road and a busy logging job in full motion. Trucks were coming and 43 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:30,280 going in the crew pumping out load after load. It was a Friday afternoon 44 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:32,680 and I was scheduled to have some welding done on my piece of equipment a 45 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:37,319 little later in the evening, so I quit early to print for the job 46 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,360 with our company welder. Our welder was new to the area, having just 47 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,560 gone through a nasty divorce in Florida. He had relocated with his two children 48 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,520 for a fresh start. He was a hard working, trustworthy guy who knew 49 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,759 his stuff when it came to welding and heavy equipment, and in the short 50 00:03:55,759 --> 00:04:00,759 time that he had been here we had become pretty close, spending time hunting 51 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:04,800 and riding snowball mills in the winter and just doing outdoor stuff that we all 52 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:10,520 love. When he got there, we jumped right on the job with hopes 53 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,439 of finishing up at a decent hour so we could hit the local pub after 54 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,439 and with the sun still pretty high in the sky, he crawled under my 55 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,920 machine and started doing his thing. A short time later, the rest of 56 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:27,040 the crew had made their way to us, and with the usual Friday afternoon 57 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,040 banter taking place, along with some ribbing and poking fun at each other, 58 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:36,519 everything seemed pretty normal. A few minutes later, the ripping zip of the 59 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:42,720 welding ride comes to a stop. Jason, our welder. He came crawling 60 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,120 out from under the machine and quickly made his way to the group. He 61 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:51,079 was pale, white, turning green, and he was noticeably stressed. Well. 62 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:55,199 He looked at me and he asked, who's that woman? And what's 63 00:04:55,240 --> 00:05:00,000 she doing here? Puzzled? We all looked at him. No one said 64 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,000 a word. He was staring at me with a very concerned look on his 65 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:09,240 face, but the group was silent. Jason again asked, who is she 66 00:05:08,959 --> 00:05:12,879 is? She? Is she all right? Confused? I looked at him 67 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,439 and I said, what's he talking about? It's just us here, man, 68 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,480 just the five of us. He whipped his head around and looked beyond 69 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:25,360 my machine to a group of freshly cut stumps. I could see him getting 70 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:29,240 tense, and the sweat was pouring down the side of his face. And 71 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:32,120 when he turned back we made icontact, and I swear to god, this 72 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:38,160 guy started to cry. One of the other guys on our gang piped up 73 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:42,720 and asked, dude, are you on something. Jason got a little defensive, 74 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:46,680 and he quickly replied, she was right there, just standing there, 75 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,600 smoking a cigarette. She was watching me. She was wearing a short white 76 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:55,240 dress, and she was barefoot. This girl looked rough like she was crying 77 00:05:55,240 --> 00:06:00,519 and upset. He was serious. He was as serious as a horror attack. 78 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:05,120 And this was bothering him. Our group was speechless and there was nobody 79 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:09,879 there. Why would I half dressed woman be way out here in the woods 80 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,279 barefoot. At that moment, a ten shot through my body, and my 81 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,079 experience from two weeks prior came flooding back to me. We were standing in 82 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:24,439 the same spot along our road where I had felt that crazy fear. We 83 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,000 never made the pub that night, and for the remainder of that job, 84 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,920 I waited for daylight before I started going into the woods. I can no 85 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:38,399 longer say I don't believe in ghosts. Jason was shaken pretty good, and 86 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,000 it was more than a week before he acted normal. Then he had another 87 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,439 incident I'd love to share on another time. I'm a believer now. There 88 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:51,759 is no question in my mind that these kinds of things exist. Although I 89 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,600 hope to never have an experience like this again, I am a little bit 90 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,480 more aware now. I just wanted you to know found your podcast about a 91 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:04,279 month ago and I'm hooked. Oh man, that's awesome. I haven't spoken 92 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:08,240 too much about this story, but I wanted to share it and I would 93 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,879 love to hear you read my words. Thank you very much. Any signs 94 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:15,759 off you know these ghost stories. I love them. I love these ghost 95 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:21,120 stories, but the ghost stories in the woods, especially in the woods of 96 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:28,040 like Maine. Maine has some creepy looking woods. I've watched some of these 97 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,839 Appalachian Trail videos of people going up through Maine. They're almost to the end 98 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:35,360 of their track if they're going north, if they're a through hiker, I 99 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:41,199 think they get into a place called one hundred mile Wilderness, and for I 100 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,680 think it's one hundred miles. There is nothing but trail. There's no bushwhacking. 101 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:48,480 There's a well worn trail there, and if you stay on the trail 102 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,279 and follow the trail, you're good. You just keep heading north. But 103 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,360 I think they have to camp along the way. I don't know if there's 104 00:07:56,439 --> 00:08:01,959 any of those hostels or what do they call them, camping shelters or whatever 105 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,519 on the way. Probably there are. I don't think they just step off 106 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,959 the trail and pitch a tent. But anyway, the point is is that 107 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:13,720 looking at the videos of those woods is uh man, they're so creepy. 108 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,279 They're a lot creepier than these woods in the southeastern part of the United States. 109 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:20,839 I think our woods are beautiful, and people in Maine probably think their 110 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:24,240 woods are beautiful. I think they're beautiful too, but they're kind of creepy 111 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:30,120 too. So and there's also moose up there. I understand people on the 112 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,120 Appalachian Trail walking through that section of the trail they run into big male bull 113 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:39,240 moose every once in a while that those things will kill you. I mean 114 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:45,559 they'll they'll absolutely trample you to death. They're not friendly animals. And anyway, 115 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,840 Maine is a wild place that but this was such a great story, 116 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:52,639 and the way he wrote it, I could just see that woman standing on 117 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,799 a stump's got she's got some white clothes on, she's smoking a cigarette, 118 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:01,960 she's barefooted. It's probably kind of chilly out there, and I would I 119 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:07,240 don't know. Do most people when they encounter go so they get a sense 120 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,759 about it? Do they get sweaty to the hairs on the back of their 121 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,559 neck stand up? I don't know, But I just thought this was a 122 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,519 great story and I appreciate the man sending it. Thank you. This is 123 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:24,679 a short story about a creature that is a creature, but it may or 124 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,360 may not. It's probably not a bigfoot. Let's read and let's read on 125 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,159 and see the following story is not mine, says the writer. It's my 126 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:39,480 paternal grandfather's story. He and my grandmother were married in nineteen thirteen. This 127 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,320 happened before that. He told me this story many times over the years before 128 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,759 he died in nineteen seventy nine, and no matter how many times he told 129 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:54,840 it, it never changed. Back when he was courting my grandmother, he 130 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,240 had to walk to her house in Hendrix, Alabama, over Berry Mountain. 131 00:10:00,159 --> 00:10:03,879 Since his visits were always at the end of his workday, he often found 132 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,360 himself walking home in the dark. Well, he didn't care. Men in 133 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,960 love rarely do. He'd walked to my grandmother's house and he'd visit for a 134 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,320 while, and then he'd head home, happy to have spent time with her. 135 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,480 On one of those nights, when he stayed late and had to walk 136 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:24,200 home in the dark, he noticed the log lying across the road or the 137 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:30,519 trail up ahead. My grandfather didn't have a flashlight or any other form of 138 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,200 illumination, but the moon was full enough to light his way. He approached 139 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,559 the log and a creature stood up on its hind legs and it growled at 140 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:45,440 him. My grandfather's friends, the dee Hart Brothers, were known to be 141 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,240 pranksters, so at first he thought this must be one of them having some 142 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,759 fun with him. Well back then, my grandfather owned a single shot twelve 143 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:56,240 gage shygun that he called the Hero, and he carried it with him at 144 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:01,039 all times. He didn't want to accidentally shit thank you to human beings, 145 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:05,120 so he raised it and he called out speaker, I'll shoot. Naturally, 146 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,519 he expected to hear one of the Deehart brothers break into peals of laughter, 147 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:13,080 a couple of them would jump out of the woods and they'd all have a 148 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,000 good laugh together. But that didn't happen. Instead, that creature dropped down 149 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:24,480 on all fours and it charged him. Well, instinct took over and he 150 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,919 quickly fired around of number six shot into this thing's face before turning and running 151 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,679 as fast as he could. Rather than fall down dead, it began to 152 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:39,000 chase him, and it was gaining ground fast. Clearly he wasn't going to 153 00:11:39,039 --> 00:11:43,840 be able to outrun it, but my grandfather managed to load another shell, 154 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:48,159 and he turned and he fired one more round. At this point, it 155 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:52,279 didn't matter. If this round didn't take the animal down, he would sure 156 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,840 to be a dead man. Thankfully, that first shot had finally done his 157 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,879 job, and when he turned, the creature fell dead at his feet. 158 00:12:00,639 --> 00:12:05,440 He was that close to being overtaken by the beast. The next morning, 159 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,799 he and a couple of his friends went back out to the place where he'd 160 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,000 shot that thing. Its body was still lying there right where it fell, 161 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:18,759 but none of them was sure exactly what they were looking at. After some 162 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,360 discussion, they finally agreed that it must have been a black wolf. But 163 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:28,080 a wolf that stands on its hind legs. That's the part they couldn't explain. 164 00:12:30,159 --> 00:12:35,919 Okay, so this is a dog man's story prior to nineteen thirteen. 165 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,840 Oh man, this is a scary story. I just read this cold. 166 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:43,600 I had not read it before. I just read it to you, guys. 167 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,320 I mean, imagine no flashlight, walking down a dark road or a 168 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:52,399 trail. You see something dark laying across the road. You think it's probably 169 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,440 a blown down or rotten piece of wood that's fallen, and then it gets 170 00:12:56,519 --> 00:13:01,360 up and it starts growling at you, and then it starts chasing you. 171 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,600 Thank goodness, this guy had a shotgun in his hand. I wonder what 172 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:09,200 they did with the body. That's what I'd like to know, I wonder 173 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,759 if this man's grandfather ever told him. I said, man, yeah, 174 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:16,679 it's a man who wrote me the letter. I wonder if this man's grandfather 175 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,919 ever told him what they did with the carcass, that would be interesting. 176 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:26,799 But prior to nineteen thirteen, you know, that's one hundred years ago. 177 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,720 More than one hundred years ago, we may never know. This was a 178 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:35,360 great story, and I appreciate the man sending it to me. Thank you. 179 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:39,600 All right, this is a shown up Bigfoot story. I think you 180 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,240 guys are gonna like this one. My story begins in the winter of two 181 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,840 thousand and two when I was seventeen. I was in West Virginia at the 182 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:54,799 time with my childhood friend Joel. Every year we would head over to his 183 00:13:54,879 --> 00:13:58,360 grandfather's house that was nestled deep in a thick patch of woods to do some 184 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,840 honting. Now, Joel's grandfather was an experience hunter with thirty two years under 185 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:09,279 his belt. He taught us the basics and then gradually, as we got 186 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,159 better, helped us improve our skills to an expert level. His favorite thing 187 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:16,679 to hunt was deer in Turkey, so naturally that's what we hunted too. 188 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,799 We'd spend a little time with Joel's grandfather, and then we'd head out into 189 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,000 the woods. We both carried hunting rifles and a nine millimeter handgun for secondary 190 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:33,000 defense in case we came up against something we weren't expecting, like a crackhead. 191 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,960 Yeah, I digress, excuse me. We'd hike in anywhere from two 192 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:41,360 to four miles and set up camp. That year, we had also bought 193 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:46,360 a twelve gay shotgun in three flashlights, and by six am we made it 194 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:50,480 three miles in and that's where we decided to camp. Once we'd put up 195 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:56,080 our tent, we followed a small stream two hundred and fifty yards. We'd 196 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:01,399 been there for forty five minutes checking the area out with our scopes binoculars when 197 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,440 Joel pointed over to a spot for me to check out. It was a 198 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,120 deer, all right, but it was a dead deer. It wasn't entirely 199 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:16,039 uncommon to find dead animals in the wild. We'd been hunting Joel's grandfather's property 200 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,519 for seven years by then, so we had seen this before. Predators will 201 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,480 kill prey and then come back for it later, and bears will do that 202 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:28,559 often. But it was pretty late in the year for a bear to still 203 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,440 be out hunting. The deer didn't look like it had been killed by a 204 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,000 bear, though its left hind leg looked like it had been twisted off. 205 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:43,919 Macawdies wouldn't tear off a leg and then leave their pack hunters, even if 206 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:48,000 something scared them off before they could finish their meal. Tearing a leg off 207 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:52,039 like that wouldn't have been a normal thing for them to do. We couldn't 208 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,519 imagine what could have done this. We walked over to get a closer look, 209 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,759 and right away we noticed that its eyes were missing and its tongue had 210 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:04,480 been ripped out. It looked like its neck had been snapped too, and 211 00:16:04,559 --> 00:16:11,559 its furs showed definite signs of grip prints. The whole thing gave me and 212 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:17,320 Joel and uneasy sensation. I could feel my heart pounding a little harder, 213 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,720 even before I began to sense that we were being watched. Joel said he 214 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:26,000 felt it too. It was then that we began to smell the horrible odor 215 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,919 that was a lot stronger than the smell of the dead carcass in front of 216 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,320 us, and nervously we scanned the whole area. We didn't see anyone or 217 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,840 anything out there that could be spying on us. But we decided it was 218 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:44,039 a good time to head back to camp anyway, and that feeling of being 219 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,279 watched had never left us all the way back. We hung out at our 220 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,559 camp for most of the day. Neither of us was willing to admit why, 221 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,360 but we were there to hunt, so that afternoon we loaded our backpacks 222 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:02,039 with our flashlights and we headed out. We decided to take the twelve gage 223 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,680 with us too. I guess it never hurts to have a little extra protection. 224 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,799 First, we went back to where we had found the dead deer, 225 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:12,519 and it was gone. We checked the whole area, but we didn't see 226 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:17,640 any tracks where something could have dragged it off. There was no doubt that 227 00:17:17,759 --> 00:17:22,240 it was dead when we found it, and even if by some strange twist 228 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,200 of fate it had been alive, there were no deer tracks leading away from 229 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,440 the scene either. So with nothing more to see there, we went looking 230 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,960 for a good spot to hunt. By the time we found a spot down 231 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,480 stream, it was getting dark, but we set up and we began to 232 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:42,359 look around. We were still preparing our rifles and getting settled in when a 233 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:48,759 tree fell. I suppose it's possible that a tree gets old enough and rots 234 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,920 from the inside out. And besides, this is a good time is any 235 00:17:52,039 --> 00:17:55,799 to fall down? But they generally wait for a good wind, and there 236 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,880 wasn't any. Why would a tree fall when there's no wind, I asked 237 00:18:00,039 --> 00:18:03,960 Joel. Maybe it's a bear leaning up against it. He offered this late 238 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:10,359 in the year, I asked. A few minutes later, another tree fell. 239 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,720 This one was closer, and it was much louder. It was so 240 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:18,200 loud that I felt the sound of it vibrate through my gut. Now, 241 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,519 one tree might get old and fall over, but two and so close together. 242 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,680 Joel aimed his rifle in the direction of the fallen tree. We were 243 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:32,960 lying on the ground, too scared to do much else. After a minute 244 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:36,880 or two, we screwed up our courage and ho tailed it back to camp, 245 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:41,480 and we slept with a shotgun between us that night. I was the 246 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,039 first to wait the next morning, so I got our breakfast ready, and 247 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:48,119 then we grabbed our stuff and we headed out. By eight pm, we 248 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,680 were in position under a beautiful sky and hoping for the best. We were 249 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:59,200 rewarded half an hour later when Joel got a deer it didn't go down right 250 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,680 away, so we had to track at maybe twenty yards from where he shot 251 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,200 it. But as we were approaching that deer, that feeling of being watched 252 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:11,000 came over me again. I could tell that Joel was feeling it too. 253 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,519 We decided to wait until we got back to camp to feel dressed the deer. 254 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,759 All the way back, we were conscious of any blood trail that we 255 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:23,559 might be leaving behind us, but it couldn't be help. Once we got 256 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:26,960 back to camp, we started working on the deer, and we hadn't been 257 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,920 at it long when we began to hear branches being crushed under heavy feet. 258 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,799 And then a rock came flying by. And while we were busy looking around 259 00:19:36,839 --> 00:19:40,359 for where the first rock came, another one was thrown at us. And 260 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,200 while Joel was skinning the woods, I grabbed my nine millimeter and I fired 261 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,799 off around, hoping it would deter an he would be pranksters. Well, 262 00:19:48,799 --> 00:19:52,640 that was followed by thirty seconds of silence before a deep, menacing growl froze 263 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:59,279 our blood. It must have lasted for fifteen seconds. No deer, elk 264 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,119 or cod wolf could have made that sound, not that deep or that loud 265 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,799 or for that long, and no, it wasn't a bear. We quickly 266 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:11,880 finished our work and threw the scraps outside of camp as far as we could. 267 00:20:12,519 --> 00:20:18,079 We didn't want to draw anything in. Joel went down to the stream 268 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,519 to get some water while I scavened for some extra firewood, and we checked 269 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:25,440 the remnants of the deer, expecting to find it gone, but it was 270 00:20:25,559 --> 00:20:30,079 untouched. That gave us a little feeling of security, so we thought we 271 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,200 could relax some. But we were wrong. As soon as we began to 272 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,640 get comfortable, the tree knocks started. The first one sounded like someone had 273 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,480 taken a four by four and struck it against a large tree as hard as 274 00:20:42,519 --> 00:20:47,960 they could. The second one was the same, but this was closer. 275 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,680 The third one was even louder and closer, but it came from behind us. 276 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:59,319 It was amazing to me how quickly the knocks were coming from different locations. 277 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,519 I picked up a log from our pile of wood, and I hid 278 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:07,440 it against the tree, and then I waited. All the tree knocking stopped. 279 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:11,599 We decided that this would be our last day of honting. The sun 280 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,160 had gone down and it was dark. We figured it would be better to 281 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,039 stay close to the fire than try to hike out in the dark. An 282 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:25,279 awful smell permeated the air around us, and somewhere beyond the firelight, we 283 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:30,559 could hear something growling demonically, like some kind of monstrous predator on the prowl 284 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:34,720 that was periodically broken by the sound of deep hoffs, as if it were 285 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:41,920 sniffing out its prey, and we knew it was watching us. When it 286 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,279 sounded like it had moved over by where the deer remains were, I grabbed 287 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:51,160 my flashlight. I told Joel to grab the shotgun. We decided that I 288 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,160 would point the light in the direction of whatever was out there, and as 289 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,599 soon as I turned it on, Joel would fire at it. On three 290 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:03,160 I turned on the light, and standing not more than six yards from us 291 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,960 was a hulking, dark figure. And when it raised itself to its full 292 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:12,200 height, I guessed it to be every inch of ten feet tall. But 293 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:18,200 it was the eyes that terrified me the most. They were red. It 294 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,079 could have been the beam of the flashlight, but I felt like they were 295 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:26,359 glowing of their own accord. This thing stared at us, and we stared 296 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,680 back, so afraid that neither of us could move for several seconds, and 297 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:36,440 then we both screamed, and Joel finally pulled the trigger. The creature released 298 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:41,119 a deep, angry roar and retreated into the woods. Within three steps, 299 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,240 it was gone, swallowed up by the forest. The image of that thing 300 00:22:45,319 --> 00:22:49,400 standing in the beam of the flashlight was burned into my mind. It was 301 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,839 covered in six inch long dark brown or black hair except on its face, 302 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,960 and its arms hung down below its knees, and its eyes were large. 303 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,920 They were very huge and looking. Staying at camp that night suddenly didn't seem 304 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,559 like such a good idea. After all, it was time to go, 305 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:15,759 so we reached Joel's grandfather's house before sunrise because he wasn't expecting us back for 306 00:23:15,839 --> 00:23:21,559 another day. Grandpa immediately started asking questions. Well, we hesitated for a 307 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,480 minute, but exhaustion and fear took over, and we told him in detail 308 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:30,640 everything that happened to us. To our surprise, he didn't doubt us one 309 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,119 bit. Instead, he told us his own story of having seen them on 310 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:40,400 more than one occasion. He called it the devil of the forest. He 311 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:42,920 said that he was our age when he had his first encounter, but he 312 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,799 never told anyone because he doubted that they would not believe him. I don't 313 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:52,480 think I would have believed in myself if not for what had just happened to 314 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:56,960 us. I guess it's easy not to believe in something like Bigfoot until one 315 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,920 puts the fear of God in you. I've never felt that kind of fear 316 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:06,880 before in my life, and I've never been that afraid since. And I'm 317 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,720 just wondering, why would grandpa send these guys out there knowing there's monsters in 318 00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:15,400 the woods. I don't know. Maybe I'm stupid, but or maybe he 319 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:19,160 had only seen him once and didn't figure they were there. I'm not trying 320 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,759 to be snarky about it, but if this grandfather knew that that place was 321 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:27,720 covered up with bigfoots, why would he let his grandkids go out there and 322 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:33,200 hunt. I wouldn't let my grandsons go out there for nothing. But this 323 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,559 was a really great story. It's a scary story. This is obviously one 324 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,039 of those stories where the bigfoots like in your face. They actually shot it. 325 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,920 I guess it just ran off and nursed its wounds. I don't know. 326 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,519 This was a good story. It's terrifying. I really appreciate the man 327 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:56,079 for sending it, Thanks sir. Okay, Now, y'all know that I 328 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,839 get a lot of stories from people, and some of them are kind of 329 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,720 it's crazy. I mean they are, and I've never I've never not read 330 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:08,119 a story because it was too crazy. Sometimes I read a story when the 331 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:15,119 writing is so bad it's just beyond editing. But this one was written pretty 332 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,400 good. We did edit it. There was a lot of information in this 333 00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:22,880 story that really had nothing to do with the story that we took out. 334 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,480 We just want to tell the story of what happened. Neilma did a great 335 00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:32,359 job cleaning this story up. I don't think the writer Nathan and Tina, 336 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:34,680 they told me I could use their names. Those aren't their real names. 337 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,160 I think they'll be okay with us just telling the story of what happened, 338 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,960 because that's what people want to hear. So let's get into it. They 339 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,000 right. We are originally from Massachusetts, but my wife and I moved to 340 00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:52,839 Johnson City, Tennessee, in two thousand and seven. Besides getting away from 341 00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:56,960 the wicked New England winters, it put us closer to where her parents lived. 342 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,000 It was a good move for us. A year after we moved down 343 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:06,279 here, we decided to take a many vacation to Chattanooga. We headed to 344 00:26:06,319 --> 00:26:10,319 get away in Jacksonville, Florida, which was my first choice, had too 345 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:15,359 many mosquitoes and too much humidity for my wife's taste. We arrived in Chattanooga 346 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,440 on Friday night, checked into our room and checked out some of the local 347 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:23,960 sites, and then we went to bed A. Saturday was great, and 348 00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:29,319 we spent part of the day in the Bluff View Art district before venturing over 349 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,559 to Lookout Mountain. It was a stunning autumn view with trees covered in red, 350 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,039 gold and brown leaves. I was reminded of the times when I was 351 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:41,640 a kid and my parents used to take me and my siblings to New Hampshire 352 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:47,519 on camping trips. My pop was big on making sure we got outside as 353 00:26:47,599 --> 00:26:52,200 much as possible. Well, Tina was so impressed by the view that she 354 00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:55,920 said she wanted to go for a day hike. I said I was cool 355 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,160 with that, after all, the scenery really was beautiful. Besides, what 356 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:04,279 I wanted most was to make Tina happy, because a happy wife makes a 357 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:10,119 happy life. So that afternoon I asked around and got direction from the hotel 358 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:15,279 staff where to go for a day. Height The next morning we arrived at 359 00:27:15,319 --> 00:27:18,880 the base of the trail. There was only one other car in the parking 360 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,559 lot, so we figured we'd have it to ourselves. It was everything that 361 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,319 we thought it would be. The scenery was stunning, and the colors on 362 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,359 the trees were like something out of a Bob Ross painting, only bolder and 363 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,160 more vibrant. Tina was ooing and eyeing over everything as we walked along. 364 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,759 We continued onward, enjoying all the beauty around us, until we crested a 365 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:47,519 hill. It was slightly ahead of Tina, who was off to my right 366 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,880 side, and a half step behind me, but we both saw it and 367 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,079 rest assured. Everything I tell you from this point forward sounds crazy, but 368 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:02,440 this is what we saw. I swear to it. Fifty feet ahead of 369 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:06,839 us, lying motionless on the trail was what I can only describe as a 370 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:11,359 bigfoot. I know who hasn't heard of bigfoot. I heard about it as 371 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,359 a kid. I don't know if this one was dead or not, but 372 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,000 it was lying on its side, with its left arms stretched out and its 373 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,559 hairy, reddish brown buttocks facing us. And beyond it was another similar looking 374 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,880 bigfoot, that had to be at least ten feet tall. It wasn't facing 375 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:33,599 us because it was engaged in a life or death battle with what looked like 376 00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:37,680 a dinosaur man. I don't know what else to call. It looked like 377 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:42,359 a t rex with a short snout and very pointed teeth that reminded me of 378 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:48,160 an alligator's teeth, but its arms were long and looked more human except for 379 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,039 the curved of five inch long claws at the end of them. Its left 380 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,279 arm was dangling at its side, and it looked like it was badly broken 381 00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:00,839 from what I could make out on the chest and stomach area. It looked 382 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:06,319 like it was covered in black scales like a snake. It had a long 383 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:10,200 green tail, and it stood twelve to fourteen feet tall, and the bigfoot 384 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:15,200 it was fighting looked like a massive block of chiseled granite, but beside the 385 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:22,359 dinosaur creature, it looked relatively small. I nearly lost control of my bladder 386 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,920 watching these two bohemous dow battle. I glanced over at Tina, and she 387 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:33,359 looked absolutely horrified and mesmerized and in a state of disbelief at all the same 388 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,599 time. That pretty much covered my emotions as well. And all my years 389 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,920 growing up, spending time outdoors with my parents and siblings, I had never 390 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:47,920 seen anything like this. Once I saw a black bear, which was a 391 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,400 bit scary, but it was nothing compared to what I was looking at now. 392 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,240 I started slowly backing up, bumping Tina in the process. It snapped 393 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,720 her out of her days, and she began to do the same. I 394 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:04,880 don't think it mattered. Neither one of those things was paying us any attention. 395 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:10,279 This was an equation that my wife and I didn't figure into, and 396 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:15,519 for that we were wicked grateful. Tina turned and ran down the trail. 397 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,480 Then and my stupid self stood and watched the fight a little longer. They 398 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:25,200 were giving each other pure hell. It was obvious to me that the t 399 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,319 rex man thing had severely injured or killed the bigfoot on the ground, and 400 00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:33,000 the other was smashing it with its fists, trying to drive it back while 401 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:38,720 evading those sharp claws on its working arm. The bigfoot moved one hand under 402 00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:44,839 the throat and jaw the dinosaur thing and pushed upwards, presumably so it wouldn't 403 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,440 get bitten, and then it bawled its other hand into a fist and repeatedly 404 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:53,559 punched its opponent in the stomach and chest. The sound was a booming thwack, 405 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:59,440 whack, whack every time the bigfoot landed a blow. If the bigfoot 406 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,039 were hitting a human with those punches, the person would have already been dead. 407 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:07,559 I'm pretty sure of that. In the process of this happening, a 408 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,359 huge rock the size of a beach ball came flying in from somewhere in front 409 00:31:11,359 --> 00:31:15,440 of me and to my left. It struck the t rex man in the 410 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:21,279 head, causing it to reel from the impact. I traced the path of 411 00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:25,839 the rock backwards to where a smaller bigfoot that was around eight feet tall was 412 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:30,680 swaying side to side and making whooping sounds. I could see it wanted to 413 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,359 help the larger one, but it didn't want to get too close. As 414 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,039 big as it was, it was still smaller than the other bigfoot and much 415 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:44,200 smaller than the dinosaur thing. Two more bigfoot came running into the scene at 416 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,720 an almost supernatural speed. They were about the same size as the one in 417 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,599 the battle, except that they were covered in black fur rather than the reddish 418 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,480 brown of the others. The last thing I saw was if everything wasn't already 419 00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:02,279 weird enough was some kind of shimmering poor behind the reptile man. It swirled 420 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:07,519 a clockwise in a wavy motion that resembled heat rising off the asphalt on a 421 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:13,519 hot summer day. Looking back, I think that's what the reptile man came 422 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,680 through, and the bigfoot were trying to force him back through it. I 423 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,160 watched the whole scene for no more than half a minute, but it felt 424 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,319 like an eternity, and my mind was yelling for me to run. Stupid 425 00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:29,240 I had enough, so I listened to my mind, and I turned around 426 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,680 and I ran back up the trail. I caught up with Tina, and 427 00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:37,079 we both had to stop and catch our breath for a minute before heading to 428 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,440 our car and back at the parking lot. The other car was still there, 429 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,680 and I can't help but wonder if those people were out there on that 430 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:49,799 trail somewhere, and if they saw the same thing we did Stupidly. I 431 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,720 tried to tell my story to one person, but I got nothing but disbelief 432 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:58,160 and derision from them. My co witness, my wife, is the only 433 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,599 person I can talk to about this. We've never been back to the woods 434 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,559 since then, and we don't ever plan to go. I guess those mosquitoes 435 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:12,359 in Florida wouldn't have been such a bad thing after all. Okay, that 436 00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:16,200 was a crazy story. He even said in his story that this is going 437 00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:21,799 to sound crazy. Now. I've gotten a few stories through the years, 438 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,759 maybe two or three about these lizard dinosaur kind of creatures that people claim to 439 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:30,759 see. I don't know anything about them. But to me, if people 440 00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:37,480 say there's bigfoot, dog man, ghosts, aliens, why couldn't there be 441 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:40,400 like a t rex man. I don't know. I just wish I could 442 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,799 see it, that's all. I just want to see one of these things. 443 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:47,559 I don't care it could chase me. It could chase me, because 444 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,039 I mean I'm kind of old and fat, but I think I would be 445 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:54,400 so scared I could outrun a t rex man. Maybe not, but I 446 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,960 would still like to see one. I don't know what I'm talking about. 447 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:01,240 Maybe i'd like to see one fight in a bigfoot. Now, that would 448 00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:06,680 be better than the bare knuckle fights that everybody loved so much. But this 449 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,760 was a fantastic story, but it was crazy. It was a crazy story, 450 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,599 and I don't vet them. I've said this one hundred times. I 451 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,920 never determined what I'm going to read on this channel based on if I think 452 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,840 it's true or not. If somebody sends me a story, I'm gonna put 453 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,440 it on here because if it's a good story, it's a good story. 454 00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:28,960 So to the writers, Nathan and Tina, I really appreciate you sending this 455 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:36,719 because I loved reading it. Thank you. All right, all right, 456 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:42,119 this is a show enough bigfoot story, and the man who wrote it is 457 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,119 a good writer. He's a very good writer. Normally, I have to 458 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,239 have most of these stories edited. Niomah does a lot of my editing, 459 00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,519 but this one I sent it to her and she said, I only had 460 00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:59,280 to change a common a couple of little words in this. Otherwise it was 461 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,760 perfect. She goes, I hate charging you for it, and I'm like, 462 00:35:01,039 --> 00:35:05,360 just charging me for it, So I would say she did a great 463 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,920 job. But the writer did a great job. Okay, let me stop 464 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,840 talking. Let's get to the story. You guys are gonna like this. 465 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,440 This guy's a good writer, he writes. The night was pitch black as 466 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,119 a heavy, oppressive fog rolled in from the creek, blanketing the woods in 467 00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:24,960 a sinister embrace. Call Texas had always been a quiet small town of less 468 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,920 than three hundred people nestled in the heart of southeast Texas near the Sabine River, 469 00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:35,679 But on this particular evening, an eerie tension hung in the air, 470 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,280 as if the woods itself held its breath, waiting for something to happen. 471 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,199 Two of my high school friends and I decided to spend the weekend at our 472 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:50,559 family camp in Cow Creek in January of nineteen ninety. It was my senior 473 00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:54,039 year of high school. We planned to do a little bass fishing and squirrel 474 00:35:54,079 --> 00:36:00,599 and rabbit hunting. We arrived after dark at around seven on a fret night. 475 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,440 It was pitch dark and we needed to turn on the power to the 476 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:08,559 camp and the water pump. After twenty minutes of turning on the lights and 477 00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:13,960 priming the pump, we finally unloaded our things and settled in for what we 478 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:17,679 thought would be a fun filled weekend with just the boys. We got a 479 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:24,559 campfire started and gathered around to make s'mores and enjoy the evening together. Around 480 00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:30,760 the campfire, the flames cast an eerie shadow on the tall pine trees, 481 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:37,360 making the woods seem like a ghostly cathedral tails of Bigfoot were shared earlier on 482 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,280 the car ride to the camp and quickly dismissed as mere campfire stories. But 483 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,079 now, as the night wore on, those stories began to take on a 484 00:36:46,119 --> 00:36:52,679 life of their own. It was ten thirty PM when branches snapped in the 485 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,679 distance, and the wind whispered through the trees, carrying an unsettling moan. 486 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,000 Donald, one of my buddy, glanced nervously around. Did y'all hear that? 487 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,719 He asked, His voice was trembling. There's probably nothing, Sean replied, 488 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:14,199 trying to reassure him, But deep down he wasn't so sure. His 489 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:20,920 bravado was a thin shield against the growing sense of dread. The campfire crackled, 490 00:37:21,079 --> 00:37:24,079 casting an ever deepening ring of light. The shadows on the outskirts of 491 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:30,559 the campyard seemed to grow darker and more menacing, And then, from the 492 00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,400 other side of the creek, one hundred and fifty yards out, came a 493 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,760 sound that sent shivers down our spines. It was a guttural, otherworldly howl 494 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:45,920 that seemed to echo from some prehistoric era. Okay, that's definitely not an 495 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:51,079 animal, Sean whispered, his eyes wide with fear. We huddled together, 496 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,719 clutching our flashlights and pocket knife, scanning the woods for any sign of what 497 00:37:54,800 --> 00:38:00,639 could have made that spine tingling howl. And then we saw it. It 498 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,920 was a towering, ape like creature, hunched and cowered in matted, dark 499 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,239 fir, standing just beyond the reach of our campfire's glow on the edge of 500 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:14,119 the creek bank opposite of us. It was a bigfoot, or at least 501 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,360 that's what we all fought. I think it stood between seven and eight feet 502 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,800 tall. The creature's red eyes glinted with an intelligence that sent a shiver down 503 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:29,880 our spines. Its breath came out in heavy, misty puffs that stared at 504 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,039 us, and then, with a slow and deliberate movement, it raised one 505 00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:39,519 massive, gnarled hand and pointed a finger at us. Panic swept through us 506 00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:44,719 as we scrambled to our feet. We stumbled and tripped over each other in 507 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:49,400 a mad dash to escape the campfire area and head inside the camp house. 508 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,880 The creature's eerie roar filled the night. We could hear it crashing through the 509 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,519 water making its way to our side of the creek bank. In a panic. 510 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,159 I must have dropped my car keys because I couldn't find the camp key 511 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,719 to unlock the front door, so we decided to make a run for it 512 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,199 up the hill to a neighbor's camp about a half mile up the road. 513 00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:15,679 We ran through the dark woods, guided only by the weak beams of our 514 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:21,559 flashlights and branches tearing at our clothes, and the creature's heavy footfalls. Growing 515 00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:25,440 closer. We could fill the earth's shake with loud thuds of its approach. 516 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,519 But just as we thought we were doomed, we burst from the woods and 517 00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:37,039 into the moonlight, gasping for breath, our hearts pounding with fear, and 518 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:39,559 the creature stopped at the edge of the woods near the hillside we had just 519 00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:45,639 climbed, its menacing presence retreating into the shadows, and its eyes still filled 520 00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:52,320 with the haunting red glow. To this day, my high school buds, 521 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:57,159 Shone and Donald have never returned to cow Creek, and they have never spoken 522 00:39:57,199 --> 00:40:01,000 of that night again. Some of the local folks say Bigfoot still haunts the 523 00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:07,159 woods of cal Creek it's guarding its territory, while others dismiss it as a 524 00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:12,000 mere legend. But for those of us who were there that cold January night 525 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:16,159 in nineteen ninety. The memory of those red, glowing, devilish eyes and 526 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:22,519 that bone chilling howl remains etched in our minds, a reminder that some mysteries 527 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:30,159 are best left alone and left unsolved. And the writer signs off, and 528 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,440 I'm not going to make a single comment. Man, that was a great 529 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,559 story. Who I love that this dude can write. He needs to write 530 00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:40,119 a book. He needs to come up with some kind of cool story, 531 00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:45,159 some kind of fictional thing with Bigfoot based on his experience, and write a 532 00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:51,039 fifty thousand word novel with its writing skills. Hell, he's good. I 533 00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:54,239 wish I could write that good anyway. To the writer, I would say 534 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,960 these people's names, guys, I would say your names, but you don't 535 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,400 really say that I can use your name unless you specifically say I can use 536 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:07,480 your first name. I just don't give names out. But this man, 537 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:13,199 he didn't say it all, so I'm just well, he did introduce himself, 538 00:41:13,199 --> 00:41:17,000 but it's kind of like a note, personal note to me. He 539 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:22,159 does live in Texas, and he says he's got a Bigfoot story. He 540 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,559 says his family had been going to cal Creek since the nineteen fifties. His 541 00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:30,599 dad built the camp and it's been in their family. And he said he'd 542 00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:34,360 never shared the story before with anyone until now. He said, I would 543 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,440 appreciate you reading it on the Dixie Crypti podcast. You got it, baby, 544 00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:40,679 I just read it. I appreciate you sending it to me. It's 545 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,320 a good one. Thank you, sir. All right, thank you for 546 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,119 joining me on this podcast. That was a good little series of stories. 547 00:41:50,199 --> 00:41:52,280 I thought, hope you guys enjoyed it, and hey, if you like 548 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,280 the video, maybe you could give me a thumbs up, maybe even subscribe, 549 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,519 come back and listen to some more. We got all kinds of stories, 550 00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:04,920 five years worth of stories of a library that goes back. It's probably 551 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,840 four hundred videos, story after story after story that's just as wild and crazy 552 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,760 as the stories you just heard. Take a look. 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