1 00:00:13,199 --> 00:00:17,760 I was reading through the comments the other day and some woman commented that she 2 00:00:17,879 --> 00:00:23,239 didn't like my Oki accent. I wasn't sure what to think about that. 3 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:28,280 That's a I don't what is an Oakie? Is that someone from Oklahoma? 4 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,840 That's not me? And if you listen to accents, you would know that 5 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,880 I'm not a hillbilly. I'm not an Oakie. I'm a Mississippi Delta River 6 00:00:38,039 --> 00:00:42,119 rat redneck. I'm just a redneck. That's this is the way we talk. 7 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:45,840 I can't change it this late in my life, and I'm not really 8 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,640 embarrassed of it. But we all sound normal around here when we talk to 9 00:00:49,679 --> 00:00:54,600 each other. So I just thought I would say I'm not an Okie. 10 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,679 Whatever an Okie is. Anyway, I've got a great story. It's a 11 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:03,840 long story from miss Michigan. The writer calls it a ninety four close up 12 00:01:04,359 --> 00:01:11,000 November thirteen, nineteen ninety three. I'm assuming. I'm not sure what the 13 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,480 ninety four close up means because the date is nineteen ninety three. Anyway, 14 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,719 this is a great story. I think you're going to enjoy it all Right. 15 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:23,079 Here we go. I was at the deer Hunting and Fishing cabin that 16 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,920 my grandfather and my great uncle Mick built after they came home from World War 17 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,480 Two. The cabin was in Glennie, Michigan, on the Ausable River all 18 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:38,120 Sable River. I know I pronounced that wrong, but hang with me. 19 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,760 I had gone up to the cabin the week before rifle season started so I 20 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,400 could get in a week of bow hunting and cut some firewood and do some 21 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,879 late season fishing and relaxed before Grandpa and Uncle Mick and Uncle Jim showed up 22 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:56,680 for opening day of rifle season. I was born and raised in Arizona, 23 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,719 and I had been an officer with one of the city department it's for five 24 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:04,879 years. At the time of the incident. I took three weeks off every 25 00:02:04,879 --> 00:02:08,360 November to go to Michigan for deer season. I had been going to the 26 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:13,599 cabin for years when I would visit. When I was a kid, there 27 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:17,319 were black bears around, but I had only ever actually seen one, but 28 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:23,000 had seen tracks in scat a handful of times. I believe the most dangerous 29 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:28,080 critters up there were the mosquitoes. For the most part, there was nothing 30 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:30,639 up there that would ever give me the heavy gebis, and I'm not prone 31 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,879 to getting the creeps. I worked in a decent sized city, so I 32 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,400 was pretty well honed in on what real danger was, and I was pretty 33 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,719 well stressed and oculated by this time in my life. I was on my 34 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,080 third day by myself. I hadn't been able to get into the woods to 35 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,400 hunt because there was almost no firewood, and I spent the first two days 36 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:58,960 cutting a dead fall pine and stacking it. I kept getting the feeling that 37 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:02,960 I was being white while I worked. I couldn't put my finger on it, 38 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:07,719 but it felt or seemed like every time I turned my back to the 39 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,039 encroaching woods fifty feet from the cabin, the hairs on the back of my 40 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,120 neck would stand up. It wasn't a feeling I was unaccustomed to, but 41 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:21,639 in the context of being at the cabin, where I was always totally relaxed, 42 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,919 it was out of the norm. But still there was nothing identifiable out 43 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,680 of the ordinary, no strange sounds or smells, nothing that I could put 44 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,560 my finger on. But I made sure I had my pistol on my belt 45 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,280 when I was out and about, and this is something I just never did 46 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,360 at the cabin, even if there was a bear track or a pile of 47 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:46,039 scat. I never felt the need to be armed. I got the wood 48 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,919 cut and stacked by late morning on the third day, and I went out 49 00:03:50,919 --> 00:03:53,000 to the front of the cabin, which was on the water front, and 50 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:59,120 I put up a paper target on haybells we used for verifying zero on our 51 00:03:59,199 --> 00:04:03,360 rifles, and bowt o. The bales were to the left or the southeast 52 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:10,520 and nearly to the woodline. I fired five rounds from my thirty thirty rifle 53 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:15,599 at fifty yards, which was actually a long shot for this area. The 54 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:19,000 woods were so thick a twenty five yard shot on a deer was normal and 55 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:25,600 often less because you flat couldn't see any further than five to ten yards most 56 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,399 places, except along the power lines that serviced the area. After I verified 57 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:34,920 zero on my rifle, I heard fifteen rounds at the same target with a 58 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:41,680 ten millimeter block pistol I was actually planning on hunting with that year. My 59 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:45,879 pistol was good to go too. I reloaded the pistol and the rifle. 60 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,399 When I was cleaning up the brass, I heard a strange guttural umph sound 61 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:56,319 from inside the tree line behind me. The cabin was closed in by the 62 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,759 woods on three sides, and there was only a half an acre cleared, 63 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,160 so unless something was outside the tree line, you weren't going to see it. 64 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:08,040 I thought it could have been a bear, and that didn't bother me. 65 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,720 I'd been making plenty of noise so it wouldn't be startled or surprised that 66 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,560 I was there. I finished up and went in to get some food. 67 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,720 Halfway back to the door, I heard the oomph again, only this time 68 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:25,560 it was louder and it seemed to be closer. Well, now I was 69 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,639 getting a creepy feeling about the whole thing, more than I had over the 70 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,920 last couple of days. This was palpable, and then it hit me. 71 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,439 I never heard a bear, a deer, a beaver, or any other 72 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:43,040 critter make a sound with a definite f sound at the end. My cop 73 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,959 brain went to someone has to be messing with me, so I yelled out, 74 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,560 okay, I hear you. This isn't a great place to be effing 75 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:56,759 around. You better show yourself or get well. I heard the oomph again, 76 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,720 and then definite heavy footfalls going away from where I was toward the back 77 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,680 of the property to a swampy area behind the cabin. It wasn't really a 78 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:10,079 swamp, but it was always wet and muddy, and if you tried to 79 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:13,160 get in there, you were likely to lose a boot. And the knee 80 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,519 deep mud and that sticky, black, silty soil, the footfalls were definitely 81 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:25,000 heavy and bipedal. Again, my brain that looks for logical answers thought person 82 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:30,600 in heavy hunting boots. But I also thought that whoever was messing with me 83 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,360 was in for a nasty surprise if they went into that wet area. I 84 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:39,040 figured it was a bow hunter or a young airman from the air base, 85 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,959 and a Skota screwing around with me, which wasn't unusual in our area. 86 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:46,759 I figured it was over, and I finally went inside the cabin through the 87 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,920 screened in porch at the front door, and put my things away. I 88 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:58,399 fixed lunch and I half dozed in a chair by the big fireplace. I 89 00:06:58,439 --> 00:07:01,399 had not been dozing long when a big boom startled me right out of my 90 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,519 chair. I had no idea what the noise was, but I was on 91 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,279 my feet. I thought it had to be one or two of the little 92 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:14,319 A seven jets from the air base going low and fast over the river. 93 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,560 They did that once in a while, and it could really shake the windows 94 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:24,000 in our cabin because we were right on the water. I reoriented myself and 95 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:28,240 realized I had to use the restroom. There was a bathroom in the cabin, 96 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:30,759 but it had an old style chemical toilet, and that was mainly for 97 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:35,399 women when they came up. The men didn't use it because you had to 98 00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:40,759 empty it after every u so we all used the outhouse out back for things 99 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:44,800 that required a seat, and a handy tree for business that could be done 100 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:48,319 standing up. The only rule was that you had to step off the back 101 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:53,560 porch. I decided I needed a seat, and I walked the thirty feet 102 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:57,560 or so to the big outhouse which faced out into the swamp, and I 103 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,879 sat down to take care of business. And I heard the damn umph again. 104 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:07,399 Someone was definitely screwing around with me now, and I was getting pissed. 105 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,959 I started back to the back porch, cussing a blue streak. I 106 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,759 went back inside and sat at the kitchen table, and I lit a cigarette 107 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,199 and I started a pot of coffee. I sat at the table drinking my 108 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:22,959 coffee, and I cleaned my rifle in my pistol. I made a fire 109 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,160 in the fireplace, and I put in a movie, and I had some 110 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,480 dinner, and then I went to bed. The inside of the cabin, 111 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,279 or the main part before the addition, was twenty four feet by twenty four 112 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:41,080 feet. It was built from ten to twelve foot logs, and the kitchen 113 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,720 bumped out off the back, and there were two bedrooms in the bathroom bumped 114 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,720 out on the sides, and those were two by six framing. Nothing fancy, 115 00:08:50,799 --> 00:08:54,639 but it was comfortable. My bed was in the corner of the big 116 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,440 room, right by one of the windows, and one wall was a big 117 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,039 stone fireplace, and there was several comfortable chairs and four old freeby couches in 118 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,679 different spots. Now I usually sleep like a baby, but I tossed and 119 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,279 turned. I think I was bent out of shape for being messed with, 120 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:18,480 and just generally irritated. When I finally couldn't sleep, I went back to 121 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:24,159 the chair and I started another movie. And then came another boom, except 122 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,879 it was more of a huge slap on the side of the cabin than made 123 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:31,120 the whole wall shape. I grabbed my flashlight, my pistol, andine I 124 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,399 headed out the front door. I heard fast footsteps going away from me, 125 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,559 and I put the beam of light down that side of the cabin, but 126 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,000 I couldn't see anything. I could hear it, but it was full dark, 127 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:46,200 and unless you have been there at night, you don't know what dark 128 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:52,519 is. Now. I was seriously pissed. I mean, I was heated. 129 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:54,799 But there wasn't anything I could do at that point, so I went 130 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,840 back in and put in another movie, and at some point I fell asleep. 131 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:05,279 The next morning, everything was dead quiet. When I got up and 132 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,600 made coffee. I went outside of your Nate and there were no birds chirping 133 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,200 or chittering. It was so quiet that it was eerie. But I finished 134 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,120 and I went inside to have my coffee and get dressed. It was feeling 135 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:20,759 like snow in the air, and I wanted to bring in a bunch of 136 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:26,279 firewood. And I dressed and put my pistol into its holster and went out 137 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,120 back to the woodpile. I had made three or four trips, and when 138 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:35,240 I came back out the last time and stepped off the porch, I caught 139 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:39,480 fast movement behind the outhouse. It was fast enough that I thought it had 140 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:43,960 to be a crow or something. I got a few steps further, and 141 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,159 it stepped out from behind the outhouse, and I stopped dead still looking right 142 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:56,039 at a big foot. I am six foot four inches tall, and this 143 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,759 big bastard had at least a foot on me. It was so thick and 144 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:05,360 muscular it looked like a brownish red body builder. It was just so massive. 145 00:11:05,639 --> 00:11:09,759 There was no other way to describe it. If I had to make 146 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:13,320 a guess, there was no way it could have weighed less than seven hundred 147 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,159 and fifty pounds. Three times would I weighed it too fifty? Hell, 148 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,960 it was probably more because of its sheer massive width. It had no whites 149 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:28,519 to its eyes, and the nose was really wide and flat. The face 150 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:31,519 looked like a flatter version of a gorilla, but with a human like nose 151 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:37,000 and really thick, large cheekbones and a heavy brow above its deep set black 152 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:43,519 eyes. It didn't have the pronounced muzzle of a gorilla, but rather more 153 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,080 like a human, but with a massive and thick lower jaw. In the 154 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:52,600 same way, the nose was more human like than gorilla, similar but still 155 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,440 distinct. I can see it just as clearly now as in the moment I 156 00:11:56,519 --> 00:12:01,919 was looking at it. It had a head or at least a big tuft 157 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,799 of hair on top of its head that made it a pear conical, but 158 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,600 there was no length to its neck. The head sat so low it gave 159 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:16,120 the impression that it sat directly on its shoulders. I think I said, 160 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,159 oh shit, or I dropped the F bomb. Well, then it sniffed 161 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,840 the air and it looked at me and it went mph again, not threatening 162 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:31,720 per se, just almost like questioning me. I really don't know. The 163 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,080 impression on me was like when a dog wolfs it you. It's not barking, 164 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:39,399 like it's scared or threatening, but like, I'm here and I'm not 165 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:45,279 sure how I feel about you. Yet I was only ten yards from it. 166 00:12:45,279 --> 00:12:48,240 It could just reach out and grab me with one step forward from where 167 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,799 it stood rocking on its thick legs. It moved just a little more to 168 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:58,639 its left side, like it was deciding which way to run. But then 169 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,159 it looked at me again with a change in expression, like it was deciding 170 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:07,840 what to do to me. Now instead of running, we both stood there 171 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,080 staring at one another. Now I've had subjects look at me that way pursue 172 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,440 it to an arrest. The change in its expression was a pre assault of 173 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:20,639 queue, and I recognized it for what it was. I put my right 174 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,080 hand under my fleece vest and I grabbed my pistol, thinking that if that 175 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,120 big bastard moved toward be an inch, I was going to put sixteen rounds 176 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:33,440 into its chest as fast as I could and then reload while I was making 177 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,960 a run for the cabin. When I put my hand on my gun, 178 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,120 it let out a different noise that went through my chest like a loud bass 179 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:46,799 beat. It was a muh that cracked at the end. It looked like 180 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:50,879 it grew six inches taller, and we stared at one another for a few 181 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,639 seconds, and then it looked off to its left and it ran into the 182 00:13:54,679 --> 00:14:00,759 woods, crashing through the brush. It moved faster than I thought something that 183 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:05,799 big could move. I don't know how long I stood there. Seemed like 184 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,440 hours, but it could only have been a few seconds. Now. I 185 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,840 drew my pistol to low ready and backside stepping and scanning around me all the 186 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,600 way to the cabin. My heart was pounding when I got back inside, 187 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:24,600 and I was adrenaline pumping so bad that I was shaking. I locked the 188 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:28,679 door, which in retrospect seemed silly because it was just a wooden door with 189 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,000 a large window in it and an old dead bolt that wouldn't stop anyone who 190 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:37,960 wanted to get in. I had no idea what I should do. I 191 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,399 only knew what I could do. I reverted to my training and made sure 192 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,080 the old Remington pump shotgun we kept in the cabin was loaded with slugs. 193 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:50,480 I pulled the thirty thirty out of the rack and levered around into the chamber, 194 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,159 and then I loaded another round into the magazine to top it off. 195 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,279 I made sure the shotgun was close at hand wherever I was for the rest 196 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,879 of that day, and made damn sure I was back inside by dark and 197 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:09,080 had the kitchen light and back porch and front porch lights on. I tried 198 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,440 to sleep, but I only dozed lightly because every sound brought me to full 199 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:18,679 wakeness. I even traded my bed by the window for one of the couches 200 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,039 that was backed up to the solid log wall, and I even remained dressed 201 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,440 with my boots on. I knew it could get in, but it would 202 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:30,120 have to make a hell of a lot of noise doing it, and that 203 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:33,879 would at least give me a reactionary gap to shoot it a bunch of times 204 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,840 before it really got pissed off and ate me or whatever it planned to do. 205 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:41,519 Either way, if it got me, I would be surrounded by empty 206 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:46,320 shotgun shells and ten millimeters brass. I know it sounds like I'm making light 207 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,200 of it, but those were the thoughts that went through my head. It 208 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:56,799 was the Cops Gallows humor at work. Grandpa showed up in the morning before 209 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:00,080 Uncle Mick and the rest. I helped him unload his blazer and we went 210 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,840 inside for coffee. He asked me why the shotgun was on the kitchen counter, 211 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:10,320 and the whole incident spilled out of me. He sat there with his 212 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,840 hands around his coffee cup, looking into it, and then looked up into 213 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:18,200 my eyes and said, I know, Grandpa, and I looked all around 214 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,720 the cabin area for tracks. The leaf and pine needle cover was so thick, 215 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,840 and other than a couple of large, poorly defined impressions where it stood 216 00:16:27,879 --> 00:16:33,000 facing me, there was nothing that had any detail. If I hadn't been 217 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:37,720 right there to see it, I wouldn't even know what the impressions in the 218 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,639 clutter were, or even pay them any mind at all. I think I 219 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:47,559 was really looking for any evidence that I hadn't totally lost my mind. I 220 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:51,759 wasn't prone to unreasonable fear at work, and I was used to dealing with 221 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:57,559 predatory humans and high stress and high threat situations and gangs and narcotics. I'd 222 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:03,080 been in critical incidents and I had handled them. I was rattled that I 223 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,720 was so rattled. Yes, it was a bigfoot, but it was also 224 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,200 just a flesh and blood animal. I was raised around animals, and I 225 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,640 worked around predators. It didn't make sense that this would affect me the way 226 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:19,599 it did. There was a big part of me that wanted to pack it 227 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,440 in and head back down to the Flint area and spend the next two weeks 228 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,880 with my grandma instead of staying at the cabin. It was also the part 229 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,279 of me that wouldn't let a big monkey chase me out of a place where 230 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:36,640 I had spent so much good time with my grandpa. You can call it 231 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,920 ego or self image. Wanted to be able to look at myself in the 232 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,440 mirror and not see a coward. And all those things made me stay and 233 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:48,799 made me go out in the woods and hunt like I always had. I 234 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,519 was definitely more alert to anything out of the ordinary, and most especially I 235 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:59,519 was alert to sudden, deafening silence. But nothing else happened. I even 236 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:02,880 forced myself to stay out until dust so I would have to make part of 237 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,519 the walk from my blind to the cabin in the dark. Now I am 238 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:11,799 not so arrogant as to say that I was scary to a bigfoot. But 239 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:17,920 thirty years of reflecting on the incident and going over it, and reading other 240 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,759 accounts by people whom I consider to be credible, I had become convinced that 241 00:18:22,839 --> 00:18:26,519 it was when it saw me open my vest and put my hand on my 242 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,640 pistol that it decided to run. Yes, it had to have seen and 243 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:37,359 heard me shoot earlier. It made noise and alerted me to the presence of 244 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,200 what I thought was someone messing with me. But it saw and it heard 245 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,720 the guns. I had my pistol under my vest, so it didn't see 246 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,559 a gun until I put my hand on it. And that's when its demeanor 247 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:55,920 changed again and it ran. I got a nice six point on the seventeenth. 248 00:18:56,559 --> 00:19:00,000 Grandpa and Uncle Mick and Uncle Jim all got a deer as well. 249 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,240 Oh, nothing else happened, and Grandpa and I didn't talk about it anymore 250 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,680 until a few years later, when he came to visit me in Arizona. 251 00:19:08,039 --> 00:19:11,519 He told me that he had also been alone at the cabin in the mid 252 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:17,400 seventies when he saw something big and dark brown cross the road as he was 253 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,200 driving out. It turns out that that was our last trip to the cabin. 254 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:27,279 It nearly burned down in a wildfire the following summer. Grandpa and Okmak 255 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:32,279 decided to sell the land and hunt with friends in another location after that. 256 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:36,079 As of June this year, I hadn't been back to the old property for 257 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,759 almost thirty years. I had to go to Michigan for a family reunion and 258 00:19:40,799 --> 00:19:44,319 I drove up with my wife and on a whim, I decided to go 259 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,119 back to the old property. It looked completely different going in. There were 260 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,039 a lot of newer, glamour cabins, and they had high dollar water and 261 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:59,599 trail toys and luxury SUVs parked around them. There wasn't anything left that I 262 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,680 reco nice on our old property. Everything including how I felt about the place, 263 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,039 had changed, but I was glad I had my forty five on my 264 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:12,440 belt just the same. And then the writer ads, sorry for the long 265 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,559 post, but there it is. And I thought this story was longer, 266 00:20:17,599 --> 00:20:21,960 but looks like I copied this thing twice and pasted it in my word file. 267 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,000 Anyway, that's the end of it. I got about halfway through the 268 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:27,039 final I thought, is that the end of it? That is the end 269 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:30,920 of it? He said, sorry for the long post, but there it 270 00:20:30,079 --> 00:20:36,839 is. First and foremost this man can write, there is I had. 271 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:41,839 I read the first paragraph when I pulled his email up, and I could 272 00:20:41,839 --> 00:20:45,720 tell right away that he had written this pretty good and I would probably be 273 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:48,240 able to read it cold. And that's what I did. I had never 274 00:20:48,279 --> 00:20:52,079 read this before. I just read it first time I've ever seen it. 275 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,759 I just read it straight off. But this is a really good, detailed 276 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,759 belief to me, to me a skip dick, this is a rational and 277 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:08,599 believable story. I mean, he's he's in a really secluded place in Michigan. 278 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:14,519 I think Michigan has a huge wildernesses and it's a beautiful place, especially 279 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:15,799 in the summertime. I wouldn't want to be up there in the winter, 280 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,319 but I'm a warm I'm a warm weather person. Anyway, Uh, he's 281 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,720 up there in the wilderness, and he's very secluded and he's hearing this stuff, 282 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,359 and just by chance, he walks out and boom, there's a bigfoot 283 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:34,319 just standing there. I mean, that's the perfect encounter. Would the bigfoot 284 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:38,640 have kept going, would it have moved off, had he not reached for 285 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,279 his handgun, or would it have stayed? Would it have just checked him 286 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:45,799 out? Would it have attacked him? There's no way to know. He 287 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,400 wasn't going to take a chance, and that makes sense to me. This 288 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,880 is one of the better stories that I've read in a long time, and 289 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,559 I really enjoyed reading it. So to the writer, you get an a 290 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:03,400 for writing a story that I was able to read. I never got hung 291 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,480 up on it at all. Sometimes I get hung up in these paragraphs because 292 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,839 some people they write like they think, and I don't think the same way. 293 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,599 That doesn't mean the way they wrote it is wrong. It's just that 294 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,960 the words that they use don't jive with the way I think, so I 295 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,920 get hung up on it. Not this one, man, I just blew 296 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,680 through this like nothing, So I'm sorry I'm just rambling, but I'm just 297 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,319 so happy to get this story. So thank you to the writer. That's 298 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,480 going to be it for this podcast. I hope you guys enjoyed it, 299 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,640 and we will see you soon on another podcast. We're going to be slowly 300 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:45,440 increasing the rate of uploads after my work after my work marathon, and I'm 301 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,240 so excited to be doing this, So thank you for listening, and we'll 302 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,680 see you guys on the next one. Thanks.