WEBVTT 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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