WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.960 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here, something 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.919 just cause my dog. Something killed your dog, my dog. We're flying 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160 through the or over the tree. I don't know how it did it, 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.960 Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw is my dog coming 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.199 over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like, 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.879 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over 7 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:41.320 the fence. Sat what are you putting? We got some wonder or something 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.240 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was or was it was? 9 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.079 Standing enough. I'm out here looking through the window now and I don't 10 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:02.159 see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus chraict you by hello. 11 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:06.480 Get the body out here, quin On out there. I thought of 12 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:10.480 a bitch about tick forty nine. I don't know easy announce there. Yeah, 13 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.599 I'm walking right head either And thanks so much for joining me for the 14 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.200 show. I wanted to do a special bonus show to share with you guys 15 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:26.239 our new channel, Backwoods Horror Stories. I think I mentioned it a couple 16 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.959 of shows ago. It's a new channel that's devoted to nothing but encounter stories 17 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.680 submitted by you the audience. These are stories that you're not going to hear 18 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.319 anywhere else. We have a brand new YouTube channel. It's called Backwoods Horror 19 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.120 Stories. 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So 27 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.960 if you're into these kind of stories and you want to hear more of them, 28 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.719 we've got about twenty five episodes out on both sides right now, on 29 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:22.879 the YouTube channel as well as the audio podcast. But these three stories that 30 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.560 you're about to hear are a good mix of what you're going to hear on 31 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.800 that channel. So before my voice completely gives out, I'll say this, 32 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:40.520 sit back, relax and enjoy these Backwoods or Stories. Hey, Brian, 33 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.680 I'm a big fan of your show. I'm also digging the new show, 34 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:47.879 that Bigfoot podcast. I'm grateful to have a place to share what happened to 35 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:53.240 me, judgment free and from someone that doesn't constantly talk shit about the Bigfoot 36 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.039 community. It baffles me how so many people can throw their money at a 37 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.360 certain person out west that constantly belittles the very people that's made him a huge 38 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.400 success and quite wealthy. I myself would rather give my story to someone I 39 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.479 can actually believe and trust enough about that, though I'll jump into my encounter 40 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.560 before I do, I just want to say I have somewhat of a public 41 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.599 job, and unfortunately the world isn't quite accepting of this phenomenon yet, although 42 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.199 it does appear to be getting better. That being said, I've decided to 43 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.479 email you my story instead of coming on the show or leaving a voicemail. 44 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.400 I have somewhat of a distinctive voice, so this is a much better option 45 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.759 for me. My name is Steve. Okay, it's not really, but 46 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.360 we'll go with that for now. I live in South Carolina and I'm an 47 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.719 avid hunter, not shocking for this part of the country. As I'm sure 48 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.759 you know, I have family property that I hunt. It's my dad's and 49 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.680 his brother my uncle's land, but's right up to it. Altogether, it's 50 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.120 just over one hundred and fifty acres of almost all wooded land. There's only 51 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.960 four of us that have permission to hunt on it, and that's how we 52 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.639 want to keep it. Before this happened, the only monsters I knew about 53 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.400 was this fourteen point buck that we'd seen several times on the trail cams. 54 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.639 Man. Did I want this guy? That's what I was always after, 55 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.080 but I didn't have high hopes, considering even laying eyes on them seemed to 56 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.879 be pretty much impossible. It was a bone chilling morning in late December of 57 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.079 last year, twenty twenty two. I was out and headed to my tripod 58 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:25.839 early that morning. It was still a good hour before first light. I 59 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.399 finally make it, climb up and get settled. I love being in the 60 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.720 woods that early in the morning and watching the forest as it wakes up and 61 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.120 comes alive. It's my heaven. This morning felt different, though. Something 62 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:42.560 was off A couple of hours in and the sun was out, but that's 63 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.920 the only thing that was out. It was oddly quiet, spooky. Really. 64 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.759 I almost always hear something at least hear A few squirrels are always a 65 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.879 bird or two. This morning though nothing. Have you ever noticed that when 66 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.800 it's so quiet, there's this kind of ringing your ear. There's just not 67 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.319 another sound, just a slight ringing. That's how this morning was, and 68 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:10.600 it didn't make any sense. A little more time goes by and something catches 69 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.399 my eye. Across from me, up on a ridge I'd say about two 70 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.879 hundred yards, there was a small clearing. I could see something black moving 71 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:23.319 around from there. It looked like a black bear. I'd never seen any 72 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.759 kind of bear out in that area before, but I'm certainly no expert. 73 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.360 That's what it had to be. From that distance, I wouldn't have noticed 74 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.120 anything unless it had some size to it. I threw up my rifle to 75 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:36.720 my shoulder to look through my scope to get a better view. I wanted 76 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:42.639 to see a bear. What I saw was no damn bear, though it 77 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.800 honestly looked like a hair covered man. I remember gasping like I literally heard 78 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.560 myself gasp for air. My stomach then began to go into knots. This 79 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.319 thing was on two legs, walking like you and I do. What the 80 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.480 hell was it? Doing, though I swear it looked like it was walking 81 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.040 back and forth in circles, waving its extremely long arms around, and it 82 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:08.040 looked like it was screaming at someone. I heard nothing, though. The 83 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.879 best way I can describe it is is, have you ever seen someone on 84 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.279 a bad trip, somebody messed up on drugs. I'll call them crackheads. 85 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.199 I know that's not the best way to put it, and I'm sorry if 86 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.160 I seem insensitive, but that's the only way I can describe what I was 87 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:25.600 seeing. Every once in a while, it would kind of stomp its feet, 88 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.360 like a child throwing a fit. There was something else going on, 89 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:33.120 though it really did look like it was arguing with someone. I guess I 90 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.120 finally snapped out of my stupor, and I really don't know how long it 91 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.120 took, but I'd say I watched this thing for at least five minutes. 92 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.160 I only stopped when it walked out of my sight and into the woods, 93 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.680 and the direction it was walking was directly towards me. I was definitely not 94 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.720 about to stay around there and see if it got any closer. I jumped 95 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.240 down and made record time back to my truck. As I got closer to 96 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.959 the truck, I noticed the four started coming back alive. I don't think 97 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.399 I was ever in any real danger, but the fear I felt was like 98 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:08.800 nothing I'd ever experienced. This has awakened something in me, a desire I'd 99 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:13.279 never had before. I'm now on a mission for answers. I'll be honest, 100 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.839 though. It took me a couple of months to get back out into 101 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:18.319 the woods, so that was the end of my hunting season for twenty twenty 102 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:23.959 two. I know this wasn't the longest or most exciting encounter you've ever gotten, 103 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.600 but it's interesting, to say the least. What was that behavior? 104 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.079 Have you or any of your listeners ever heard anything like this? When I 105 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.720 got home that morning, I told my dad what I'd just seen. He 106 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.079 shocked me when he didn't laugh, and he shocked me even more when he 107 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.920 said that he believed me. He told me that he too had seen one 108 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.519 some years ago and not too terribly far from where I did. He said 109 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.959 it was a roadside crossing when he was a teenager. He said that he 110 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.279 was with Grandpa in his old Ford pickup truck. They both watched this giant 111 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.639 thing cross across the road. Right in front of them. He said it 112 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.040 was like this thing had waited till the last second, then crossed over and 113 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.639 was gone through the woods. He said it blew him away, but Grandpa 114 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.839 just said, Yep, they're around here. I really wished i'd known that 115 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.160 while my grandpa was still here. I'd love to hear what he had to 116 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.040 say. The way my dad said that he acted like it was just another 117 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.240 day leads me to believe that he might have had more encounters. Anyway. 118 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.279 Thanks for all you do, Brian, I hope you can use this God 119 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:31.000 bless Now let's get into the amazing story of a man shooting a sasquatch to 120 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.279 protect his family. I'm writing into sharing my encounter. I know that nobody's 121 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:39.480 going to believe me, but I really don't give a damn. This happened. 122 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.360 I was there, end of story. I don't care about fame or 123 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.919 fortune. I just want myself, my home, and my family left alone. 124 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.879 There's nothing I wouldn't do to protect my own as you'll soon find out. 125 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.840 Let this be a warning to anybody that might get the stupid idea to 126 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.679 come looking for these big, stinky ass things of my property. My name 127 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.600 is Rich and I live on almost four forty acres in northwest Tennessee. I've 128 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.279 hunted since I was big enough to hold a gun. My father left me 129 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.480 when I was little, and I never met him. My uncle's the one 130 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.759 that taught me all I know about hunting in the woods, about life. 131 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.320 Really. He also taught me the value of family and to protect it along 132 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.440 with your property, at any cost. I've been married for about twelve years 133 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.679 now. My wife and I have two little girls. Every time I look 134 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.240 at them, I wonder how in the hell my dad did what he did, 135 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.759 Because you couldn't keep me from my little girls. I honestly would die 136 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.759 for all three of the wife included. Unfortunately, neither one of my girls 137 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.720 was very time boyish. They were their mama through and through. That's all 138 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:41.559 right by me, But honestly, I was looking forward to teaching one of 139 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.600 my kids to hunt. Maybe one of them will show some interests one day. 140 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.720 It just hasn't happened yet. I say all that to say I'm the 141 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.759 only one in my family that's capable of protecting us. We live so far 142 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.399 out that if we ever needed to call the police, there's no telling how 143 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.600 long it would take them to get here. We've never needed before, and 144 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.559 hopefully never will. The police aren't really who you need to call for help 145 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.759 with these kind of things. Anyway, I feel like I'm rambling, so 146 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.519 I'll get to the damn point. I grew up with my uncle telling me 147 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.840 stories about the wild men in the woods. Nowadays people call him Bigfoot or 148 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.840 sasquatch. My uncle claimed that he had one take a deer from him one 149 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.679 time. He said he shot the deer tracked it, only to see one 150 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.240 of these things pick it up like a loaf of bread and walk off with 151 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.720 it. He said he just stood there like a dummy and couldn't even move. 152 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.440 He talked about hearing them several times as well. He told me about 153 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.919 this awful smell that would sometimes just come out of nowhere and then just go 154 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.840 away. Sometimes it would be just for a few seconds, and other times 155 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.080 it would stay around for hours. I'll be honest, I've smelled that foul 156 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.879 smell of a time or two, and I've heard what sounded like somebody taking 157 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.879 a wooden bat and smacking it against a tree. I knew that these were 158 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.519 signs of these things, but my thinking was always, if you leave them 159 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:01.519 alone, they'll leave you alone. It seemed like a arrangement until they went 160 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.200 and screwed it all up. I told you about my little girls. One 161 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.399 is nine and the youngest just turned six, So this happened about a year 162 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.840 ago, so they were eight and five at the time. I'm not going 163 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.960 to share their names, but for this email, we can call them S 164 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.480 and Jay, with Jay being the youngest. One morning, at breakfast, 165 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.799 Jay asked me who the funny looking man was that looks through her window at 166 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:28.080 night. This caught me off guard. I knew that kids can have wild 167 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.919 imaginations, but she's never said anything like that before, and it just wasn't 168 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.559 like her to make up stories. I asked her what the man looks like. 169 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.000 She said, it's hard to tell because it's dark, but he has 170 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.799 red hair all over him, even on his shoulders. That's all she could 171 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.679 see. It's important to tell you. The bottom of her window is just 172 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:50.279 under seven feet off the ground. She said she could see his face and 173 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.919 shoulders. I'm guessing that would make this dude around seven foot I'm not gonna 174 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.240 lie. This bothered me. I told her, the next time he comes 175 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.320 to the window, you come and wake me up. I don't don't care 176 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.799 what time it is. Well, a couple of nights go by and there's 177 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.840 nothing. But then on the fourth night, I'm woking up by this little 178 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.440 voice saying, Daddy, that man's back at the window. It took me 179 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.600 a second to understand, having just woke up from a deep sleep, but 180 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.679 I nudged my wife awake, and I grabbed Jay and put her back into 181 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.159 bed with her mama. I got up and got dressed real quick and grabbed 182 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.360 my twelve gage and I snuck out the front door as quietly as I could. 183 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.320 Her room is on the rear of the house, so I wanted to 184 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.240 go around the front so I could sneak around in surprise whoever or whatever was 185 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.879 at her window. But nothing was there, though I checked the entire area 186 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:39.480 under the window for any disturbances. We have flowers with mulch all around our 187 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.240 house. The area under both of my daughter's windows was all messed up, 188 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.960 like someone had been standing there, just moving back and forth. I knew 189 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.039 I had trouble on my hands. I put up trail cameras all around the 190 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.159 house and put up some floodlights that seemed to do the trick because all the 191 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.000 activity seemed to stop. I thought I'd solve the problem. I was wrong, 192 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.080 Man, was I ever wrong. A couple of months went by and 193 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.200 I had almost forgotten about the whole thing, until one day my wife said, 194 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.840 I hear S screaming bloody murder. It was around seven pm and the 195 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:16.159 sun was just starting to go down, but it was still bright enough outside 196 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.559 that you could see. The wife and I took off running out the door. 197 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.279 We see S running towards us, but we didn't see Jay right away. 198 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.759 We looked past S and saw Jay laying on the ground, not moving. 199 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:28.960 I took off to get her, scared to death of what I was 200 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 going to see when I got there, but she wasn't hurt at all, 201 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.799 just dirty. She looked to being shocked though her eyes were open wide, 202 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.360 but she wasn't talking. I scooped her up and took her back to the 203 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:43.919 house. My wife already had S on the porch and we all went in. 204 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:50.759 Jay still wasn't talking. S was crying hysterically. She said the red 205 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.240 gorilla tried to take Jay. As you can imagine, my wife and I 206 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.960 were like, what the fuck is she talking about? What red gorilla? 207 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.480 She just kept saying it was huge, huge, and Red Jay finally started 208 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.399 to come around and she said, he's the one that watches me sleep. 209 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.919 We finally got the story from the two of them, and we think that 210 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.639 this thing came to take Jay and when s started screaming, it scared this 211 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.679 thing away. It just ran off. I also knew that next time we 212 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.000 might not be so lucky. I know this is a long story, so 213 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.519 I'll try to speed it up a bit. I knew something had to be 214 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.039 done. That night, I read as much as I could about Bigfoot and 215 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.039 their believed tendencies. I'm a hunter, so I already had the hunting equipment 216 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.600 that I believe i'd need. So my wife and I came up with a 217 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.879 plan. I was going to go out in the woods in the direction that 218 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.360 this thing ran. I showered with my non scented hunting soap and shampoo, 219 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.600 and I put on my gilly suit. I was going to be out there 220 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.480 early the next morning. Then my wife was going to take the girls out 221 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.440 to play around dusk that evening, about the same time the incident took place. 222 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.759 By that time, I'll have been sitting in the same spot for about 223 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.000 ten hours or so, so hopefully I could surprise this thing when it came 224 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.679 through. I had a Remington eleven eighty seven magnum with a double OpEd buckshot. 225 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.200 I took the plug out so I could get as many rounds in as 226 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.799 this thing would hold. I'm definitely glad I did. When I heard my 227 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.320 girl's plan, I knew it was game time. I started wondering if I 228 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.960 was stupid for even trying this. But this thing messed with my family, 229 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.000 and where I'm from, family's off limits. This thing was going to die. 230 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.279 I was really surprised at how quickly I heard something off to my left 231 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.919 when I heard the girl's playing. It was almost like this guy knew that 232 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.320 they would be there. I got my first look at this thing not long 233 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.440 after I smelled it. Everything I had read and heard talked about was how 234 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.559 smart these things are and how it's impossible to track one. I guess those 235 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.080 people are either dumbasses. So this guy was so fixated on my girls that 236 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.600 he was taking risks that he normally wouldn't. I can confidently say it was 237 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.840 a male. That bastard had an erection that honestly pissed me off more than 238 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.039 anything. It took all I had to wait for this thing to get close 239 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.919 enough for me. But I swear to God, he would have stepped right 240 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.399 on me if I'd let him keep coming. He was headed straight for me. 241 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.799 I was propped up against a tree, sitting on my ass. He 242 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.320 got less than five feet from me, and he was moving incredibly slow. 243 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.039 I figured if I couldn't hit him from five feet, I deserved whatever he 244 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:22.519 did to me. I took a deep breath, raised my shotgun to my 245 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.480 shoulder, and pulled the trigger. I wish I could show you the look 246 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.159 on his face when I first made the move to raise my gun. It 247 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.799 was the perfect oh shit face. He just froze and I fired. I 248 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.240 hit him in the face, and if I had to guess, I'd say 249 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.600 around the nose and mouth area. I saw this red miss just explode from 250 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.440 behind his head. After I hit him, he just crumpled and on his 251 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.960 way down, I put one more in his chest. He hit the ground 252 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.279 and never moved again. I just sat there, dazed and I couldn't believe 253 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.960 what happened. I snapped out of it when I heard my girl screaming. 254 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.039 I thought, oh shit, not another one. I jumped up and ran 255 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.960 back to the house. Turns out it was just the shots that scared them. 256 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.119 I was awful close, after all. I made sure they were all 257 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.200 right, and then I had to figure how what to do next. I 258 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.839 mean, there's a damn dead bigfoot practically in my backyard. Before I knew 259 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.359 it, it was already dark. I decided that first night that I'd go 260 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.920 out there and bury it. Like I said, I don't want any attention 261 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.839 from this. The damnedest thing happened, though. I went out there with 262 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.279 a shovel and a pick axe the next morning, and I swear he wasn't 263 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.640 there. There was no blood on the ground, but there was a mess 264 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.480 made all over the area, but no dead bigfoot. I honestly think some 265 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.319 of the others came and took his body away. This freaked me out more 266 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:48.000 than anything. Then it hit me there's no way I could protect us from 267 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.240 all of these things. We've made the decision to sell the house. That 268 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.200 very day, we packed up some clothes and went to stay with my wife's 269 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.839 parents. I no longer felt safe there. I started to wish that we'd 270 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.480 done that from the very beginning, instead of me killing one. But honestly, 271 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.440 I feel like something was wrong with that one, that if he didn't 272 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:11.440 get my daughter, he would eventually get someone else's. I question everything about 273 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.359 that day. There's a lot more about this I could add, but I've 274 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.519 been typing for way too long as it is. That's the meat and potatoes 275 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.680 of it. As I said, I don't care one bit if you call 276 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.720 me a liar. We were there, we know what happened. My girls 277 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:29.240 are tough, and I feel like if they need to talk to somebody about 278 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.440 this in the future, we'll definitely do that for them. Hell, I 279 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.440 kind of feel like I need to talk to somebody because this whole thing really 280 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:38.319 messed me up. But who do you talk to? Though, Well, 281 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:41.880 there you have it. There's my story. Do with it what you will. 282 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.480 So my experience begins when the wife and I moved to our new home 283 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.519 in the North Georgia Mountains. We've been living in West Virginia since we married 284 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.400 twenty two years ago. Life was good and the only reason for the move 285 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.920 was my recent promotion to a newly open branch of the company that I work 286 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.960 for for over a decade now. We got a pretty good deal in an 287 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.920 old farmhouse that had been completely renovated with all modern fixtures and new appliances. 288 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.640 It was gorgeous. It also set on nearly fifty acres of wooded land. 289 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.039 When I tell you we got this place for a steal, that doesn't quite 290 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.519 do it justice. It was like the previous owners just wanted to get rid 291 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.319 of it, and we didn't ask many questions about it. We were comfortable 292 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.839 with the reason that our agent gave us. He said the previous owners were 293 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.039 from New York City and they thought that they wanted the country life, but 294 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.160 quickly realized it wasn't for them. We understood that and we left it alone. 295 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.880 I now believe that we know the truth. After hearing what's going on 296 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.920 here, you might be surprised to hear that we have no intentions of doing 297 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.240 the same. We love it here and we love the new friends that we've 298 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.839 made. It was fall and we were getting settled in and we only had 299 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:53.160 a little bit of unpacking left. Unfortunately, the majority of that was left 300 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.559 to my wife. Since I was so busy with hiring new employees and everything 301 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.440 that goes into launching a brand new business and a brand area. I was 302 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:06.279 swamped. The first thing we noticed, well, my wife noticed was how 303 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:08.960 strange the dog seemed to act, and how a brand new forty pound bag 304 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.880 of dog food seemed to grow legs and just walk off. The wife and 305 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:17.480 I never had children. It was just something neither of us were interested in 306 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.000 doing. We did have plenty of nieces and nephews and love children. Just 307 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.720 always felt like we enjoyed kids in moderation. Playing with the kids and our 308 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.559 family and then sending them back home to their actual parents was always enough for 309 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.720 us. That being said, our dogs were our children and we loved them 310 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:38.640 dearly. We have quite the odd couple of pooches. We have a Rotweiler 311 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:44.240 and a little beagle. The beagle is scared of nothing. His nose gets 312 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.000 him in trouble, so we were happy with all the acreage for him to 313 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:51.680 roam. The rody was your typical big lazy boy. Not much got to 314 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.839 him, probably due to his age. He was getting up there anyway. 315 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:59.519 We were shocked to see right from the start our beagle would not go into 316 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:02.759 the woods. There were many nights we would try to let him out to 317 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:06.599 do his business and he wouldn't go. This was the opposite of what we 318 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.880 had expected. We thought. With all that land. We would let him 319 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:12.279 go out in the morning and probably wouldn't see him again until later that evening 320 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.960 when he came home with a rabbit or something. But this wasn't the case 321 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:21.359 though. It's like all of a sudden he hated being outside. We had 322 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:23.039 to put him on a leash and drag him out to do his business and 323 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.200 then back in again. The writing would always just go out do his business 324 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:32.160 and come right back in, so nothing really ever changed with him. The 325 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:36.720 beagle's behavior had a stump, to say the least. Before we realized that 326 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.480 a month had gone by and we were settling in for the most part. 327 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:42.279 It was a week night, which one I don't recall, but I was 328 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:45.920 at work like usual, and I got a call from my wife. She's 329 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:51.119 frantic and screams that there's something looking in the kitchen window. I'm not sure 330 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:52.720 if I'm hearing you're right, so I tell her to repeat what she said, 331 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:59.519 and she screamed, there's someone efting looking through the kitchen window. Now 332 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.200 I know this something wrong because my wife never uses the F word. It's 333 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.359 bad. I tell her to hang up and call nine one one. I'm 334 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.200 on my way home. I was on my way home and then it hits 335 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.200 me. Our kitchen window is a good seven or eight feet off the ground. 336 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.119 She's got to be mistaken, but it's better to be safe than sorry. 337 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.960 By the time I made it home, I could see the blue lights 338 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:23.079 coming over the ridge, but I couldn't hear any sirens. So the police 339 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:26.000 and I made it at about the same time, with me slightly beating the 340 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.920 men. I put it in park and ran in. My wife met me 341 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.279 at the door and fell into my arms, crying. She whispered in my 342 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.359 ear. I don't think it was a man. This caught me off guard, 343 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.680 but we had an officer standing in our living room that we needed to 344 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.839 talk to, so I just tucked it away. We were able to get 345 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.880 her settled down enough to tell us exactly what happened, She said. She 346 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.200 started to cook supper when she noticed Benji the beagle growling and hiding between her 347 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:57.279 feet. He almost caused her to fall down. She noticed what direction he 348 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.119 was looking in, and when she noticed it, a face was looking in 349 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.160 at her. The officer said that he would take a look around, and 350 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.079 the other officer joined him. While they were outside looking around, she took 351 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:11.839 me into the kitchen to show me the window. I'll be damned if it 352 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.319 didn't look like there was some sort of moisture on the glass. Also, 353 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.759 up in the left corner there was what looked to be a couple of fingerprints, 354 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.359 but not normal sized prints. I'd say they looked to be at least 355 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.559 three times the size of my own fingers. Not thinking clearly, I took 356 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:30.440 my fingers and tried to wipe away the moisture, but nothing happened. The 357 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.400 marks were on the outside. She and I just stood there looking at each 358 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:37.920 other with our mouths wide open. A couple of minutes later, the two 359 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.200 officers came back inside. We had decided to show them what we had found, 360 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.240 even at the risk of them calling us crazy. I mean, how 361 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.279 would you effaked this? What did we have to lose? Right? The 362 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:51.960 officers looked at each other, and one of them got this grin on his 363 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:53.720 face, and the other one, to our shock, looked like he might 364 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.960 actually believe us. We got to talking to the two of them, and 365 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.480 it turns out that the officer that smiled had a recent transfer to the area, 366 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.920 while the other one that seemed to believe us said he had grown up 367 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:07.480 in that area. He talked about his granddad and how he used to tell 368 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.119 stories of the wood bookers, and that there were even cases of them peeking 369 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.519 into windows. He said that he had never heard of any cases or stories 370 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.839 of anybody getting hurt by these things, and it just appeared that for the 371 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.480 most part, they were just curious. We thanked them for the time and 372 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:27.160 for taking us seriously, even if only half of them did so. Before 373 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.960 they left. The one thing that we could agree on was that we needed 374 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.000 to put up some floodlights and maybe do some security cameras. Guess what my 375 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:38.079 job was. The very next day, I was able to get some lights 376 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.559 installed by one of the electrical contractors that the police officer recommended, and because 377 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.000 I told him it was an emergency, he was able to get him up 378 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.480 the very next day. The cameras we ordered from Amazon, and I was 379 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.160 able to get those up two days later. We were amazed at how this 380 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.319 seemed to do the trick. It even got to where Benji would play in 381 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.319 the yard, but he still wouldn't go anywhere near the woods. If it's 382 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.759 all right, I'll be sending along some of the other activities we've experienced here. 383 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.920 It's become quite amazing, to say the least. We don't feel threatened 384 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.119 in any way. We regularly receive gifts, and almost every day we leave 385 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:15.319 them something. Well, there you go. I wanted to send this to 386 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.240 you because that's how it all started. We live in a small town, 387 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:23.039 so it's important that we stay anonymous. We love Sasquatch Odyssey and backwards horror 388 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:27.039 stories. It's the only reason we're writing in. Maybe one day we'd be 389 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.160 interested in coming on for an interview, but for now, we're just going 390 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:33.680 to enjoy our new friends and we want them to be safe. For that 391 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.200 reason, we'll just keep things like they are for the time being. Thanks 392 00:25:37.200 --> 00:27:06.240 for all you do, and thanks for allowing us to share our experience. I cann