1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,279 Many years ago, we moved into what was technically called the last house on 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:14,160 the left, at the end of a long road. When we moved in, 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,920 previous tenants warned us that odd things would happen there. Well. We 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,679 didn't believe him at first, but our disbelief was short lived. It began 5 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,839 with my four year old daughter screaming at something she had seen in the living 6 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,359 room. She said it was a black cloud that had crossed the room and 7 00:00:33,439 --> 00:00:38,399 disappeared into a corner. At the time, we dismissed it, But a 8 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:42,560 few days later, when my wife's sister came for a visit, she watched 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:48,359 in horror as that same black cloud reappeared from the same corner and enveloped her 10 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:53,840 two little girls. Later that same day, my wife saw that same cloud 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:59,320 come from the corner and wrap itself around her. She described it as suffocating. 12 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:03,719 It was high and smelling of sulfur and burning meat. The clouds seemed 13 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:11,319 to manifest itself around only women and girls. Fortunately for my sons, that 14 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:15,959 did not mean that males were spared from the haunting. The house was built 15 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,159 into the side of a hill, with the front door on the west, 16 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:23,599 and it opened onto the second floor, where the living room and dining room, 17 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,120 and kitchen and bathroom were The door on the east side of the house 18 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,480 opened onto the first floor, where the bedrooms and laundry room were located. 19 00:01:34,519 --> 00:01:38,400 The front door always squeaked loudly, and no amount of w D forty graphight 20 00:01:38,519 --> 00:01:45,400 or silicone jail would make it quiet. One night, the boys aged eight 21 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,959 and six, heard the front door open, so they went to investigate, 22 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:53,519 and in the open front door they saw an odd green mist, and when 23 00:01:53,519 --> 00:01:57,920 they approached the door to see from where the glow was originating, it vanished. 24 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,840 My younger son was the one who discovered the specter's aversion to pleasant smells. 25 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,960 My wife would set out store bought air fresheners, but this was useless. 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,080 Once the room was vacated, the fresheners would be closed. My younger 27 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,840 son pointed this out, as well as the fact that the scented candles we 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,719 used would extinguish themselves when the room was empty. My older boy was beset 29 00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:31,240 with his own terror. Frequently he would awaken in his bottom bunk to find 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:38,319 a horrific contorted face shrieking at him. It was an aged and wrinkled face 31 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,479 of uncertain gender. He would also learn to put away his toys, and 32 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,439 one night he was roused from asleep by the sound of his toys moving around 33 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:53,000 on the floor. He opened his eyes to see a small black being moving 34 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,520 his trucks, warships, and cars against the door, as if to barricade 35 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,599 it from entry. As they realized he was watching them, they turned and 36 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:07,039 began climbing the covers, trying to get at him. He screamed, and 37 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,039 I came running to find him clinging to the bottom boards of his brother's approl 38 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:15,039 bunk. Until now I had seen nothing, so I was still somewhat skeptical 39 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:21,680 of all these stories. But that was about to change. We were asleep 40 00:03:21,719 --> 00:03:25,439 downstairs and I was dreaming. In my dream, I walked into our bedroom, 41 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:30,800 but there was no bedroom furniture there. It was furnished as the living 42 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:34,879 room, and on the sofa sat the most beautiful, redheaded woman I had 43 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:39,039 ever seen. My wife, beautiful in her own right, was a brunette. 44 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:44,840 But in this dream I knew the redhead was my wife. She was 45 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:49,039 crying. She turned and looked at me through black and tear filled, frightened 46 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,800 eyes, and I should have felt pity for this woman, but I felt 47 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,960 only rage. She cowered into an arm of the sofa, and I started 48 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,240 toward her to continue the beating I knew she deserved. I heard a voice 49 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,960 and realize that the dream had been silent up to that point. Somehow I 50 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:12,719 knew this was because my wife was deaf. The voice had come from my 51 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,879 six year old I turned and saw my real life son standing in the doorway, 52 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,079 wearing clothes I had never seen before. He was wearing black pants and 53 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:26,600 a long sleeved red pullover. He was soaking wet from head to toe, 54 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:30,319 and his skin was ashen and lifeless. And again I felt no love for 55 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:36,199 my family, only a burning rage. The boy looked up at me and 56 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,839 said, Dad. He too had a look of abject fear in his eyes, 57 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:45,920 but he continued, Dad, help me. I turned to him, 58 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,720 and with an uncontrolled fury, I raised my fist and struck the child square 59 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,519 in the face. I sat up in bed, suddenly awake, and my 60 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,680 wife was awake beside me, screaming what the hell was that. I realized 61 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,120 that the there was a fight going on in the living room above my head. 62 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:08,319 Two men were yelling at each other, throwing around furniture and breaking glass. 63 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,079 I jumped from my bed and ran upstairs, and as my foot fell 64 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,279 on the carpeted hallway of the second story, it went silent. No one 65 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:23,920 was there. The windows were intact, the furniture was upright, nothing was 66 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:28,560 out of place, but the door stood open, shrouded in an iridescent green 67 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,439 glow. I walked over and looked out onto the darkened street. There was 68 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:40,959 nothing. Everything was quiet, fallen autumn leaves swirled in the cool night's breeze. 69 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,800 And I returned to my wife and climbed into bed and waited with her 70 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,279 in silence for the dawn. And dawn did come, and as it happened, 71 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,959 it was October the thirty first. I stood on my front porch, 72 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,800 drinking my coffee and trying to rationalize my dream. And then I heard it. 73 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,839 A chill locked my spine as I heard my six year old son say, 74 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:10,079 Dad, afraid. I turned and looked down the hill to where my 75 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:15,759 son was crouched down doing something. Dad help me, he said. I 76 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:18,600 approached to see that he was using a stick to try to dig something out 77 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:25,040 of the ground. It was a strip of black corduroy. I've been down 78 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,519 to help him, but pulled him away when I saw a flash of yellow 79 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,399 bone and I grabbed him and ran into the house. The police came and 80 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:39,399 dug up the remains of a little boy. He was six when he died, 81 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,839 and he was wearing black corduroy pants and a long sleeved red pullover shirt. 82 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,079 My brother is now detective with the local police department, and although they 83 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,879 have a lengthy file on the boy's father, they remain unable to locate him 84 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:05,439 or his beautiful, deaf, red headed wife. My bigfoot encounter happened on 85 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:11,759 Saturday night, July twenty fourth, twenty sixteen, on the edge of Yosemite 86 00:07:11,839 --> 00:07:17,759 National Park Wilderness camping Area. Be careful when camping in California. Bigfoots are 87 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:23,040 there, even though California rangers say no, it must have been a bear. 88 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,759 Trust me, it was no bear, and that's fact. My name 89 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,519 is Steve and I'm fifty nine years old now. I've lived in the Golden 90 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:35,240 State of California my whole life. I have always hunted since I was young, 91 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:40,040 and I lived in the city at the same time. My family had 92 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:45,279 connections to the Central Valley of California, and Dad like hunting ducks and pheasants 93 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:48,480 mostly So that's how a city boy in California it turned out to be an 94 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:55,040 outdoor guy who ends up owning an outfitting business in Afton, Wyoming while living 95 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,800 in Silicon Valley in the early days, and I'm still here. Unfortunately, 96 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,399 six years ago, while working on my home, I had a bad head 97 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:09,600 trauma accident and I ended up in the ICU for six weeks. Before the 98 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:13,800 accident, I had an active life with little time to do much but what 99 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,600 was at hand. So now I find myself house ridden for two years with 100 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:24,439 nothing to do but lay on my bed for hours having nightmares about scary thoughts. 101 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:30,120 Due to the accident, I have bad PTSD. I get up every 102 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:33,480 night between one thirty and three thirty, needing something to keep my mind busy 103 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:39,480 from negative thoughts or other things that I can't remember or pronounce. Each night, 104 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,399 I get on my iPad searching for Bigfoot, and my mind would be 105 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:48,600 safe for hours. During the long hours of reading and watching every video I 106 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:52,720 could find, I started to learn and realize these folks had no idea what 107 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:58,600 they were doing chasing these creatures. So I took my knowledge of hunting in 108 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,000 years of outfitting, and I started studying how to get one. The recovery 109 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:07,519 from my operations was taking longer than I thought, so I was getting frustrated 110 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,480 and I decided to get out of the house and go hunting for bigfoot. 111 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,159 I knew that these creatures were living supposedly in my state. It's just there's 112 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,960 a lot of woods in California, so I needed some locations to start. 113 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,759 During my early morning studies, I read about a nationally known bigfoot organization and 114 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,120 that is where I started. I contacted them and got set up to go 115 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:37,440 on a trip in northern California. The lead on the trip contacted us and 116 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:41,840 wanted to talk about what would take place. There was no guarantee of seeing 117 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:48,639 anything due to the creatures being very secretive and elusive. I told him I 118 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,919 did not leave my home much due to the above issues, so I wasn't 119 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,039 going to be able to go alone, and I was looking to go with 120 00:09:54,080 --> 00:10:01,080 another person. My wife is my caregiver and was not interested in chasing these 121 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,679 so called bigfoot animals around at night with strangers. Well, I had time 122 00:10:05,759 --> 00:10:09,159 on my side, so I started asking all my family members. None were 123 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:15,759 interested in my crazy adventure idea. They thought my mind might be slipping further, 124 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,600 but it wasn't. No one believed in these animals and they were not 125 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:24,080 going to waste valuable time searching it out with me. And then I went 126 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,679 outside the family and finally convinced a young man named Conrad, who my wife 127 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,039 and I had mentored for years, and we'd love and trust him. Conrad 128 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,559 hadn't camped ever before in his life and was looking forward to camping, but 129 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:43,279 did not really think much of Bigfoot. So I was excited that I had 130 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,080 a trip for these elusive animals and now I would get them figured out in 131 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:52,600 no time. Yeah, right, I would get them figured out. Conrad 132 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,120 and I received the email where all of us folks were to meet up for 133 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,759 our Bigfoot research trip. We all got to the state park camping area that 134 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,840 we were going to call home for the next four days. While setting up 135 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:07,879 our gear, we started talking with others from the group. Conrad and I 136 00:11:07,919 --> 00:11:13,600 couldn't believe how many of these strangers were just normal folks, seeming to be 137 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:18,399 helpful to everyone. I figured that we might be in for some real crackpots 138 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,559 chasing these creatures, and I was prepared for anything. So everything was good 139 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,960 to this point and we were starting to relax and mingle, and during the 140 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,320 first night sitting around the campfire, we discovered that we liked the same TV 141 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:39,120 shows, same Bucks magazines, and so the days went by fast. On 142 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,000 the last night, we had driven up to a dry, dusty fire road 143 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,120 to park trucks and then climbed to the top of a mountain. This saw 144 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,159 took place in the pitch dark. When we were at the top, we 145 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,480 were just sit and listen. We made calls and we made tree knocks to 146 00:11:56,519 --> 00:12:01,519 try to drum up something to respond, but everything was quiet. We spent 147 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,600 most of the time looking at the stars and sitting on warmed rocks from the 148 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:11,240 day's sun and relaxing. We spent all that time listening for any responses to 149 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:15,720 our calls or knocks. Well. After a few hours, the lead person 150 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,120 informed the group that we should head back to the trucks because we were going 151 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:22,759 to meet up with another group, and we talked with them about what we 152 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:26,759 should do next. It was two thirty am, and most were tired from 153 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:33,080 the past four nights of hiking and with limited sleep. We all came up 154 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,519 with a plan and we started to go our different ways back to camp. 155 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:41,279 I decided to go back the same way that I came up. I knew 156 00:12:41,279 --> 00:12:43,440 I had some good looks at some meadows when the light of the truck would 157 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,480 brighten them up and I could see everything in those fields. The lead person 158 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,360 asked us to drive slowly to keep dust down for a better viewing from the 159 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,759 truck. I ask if any of the folks wanted to come with us, 160 00:12:56,759 --> 00:13:01,360 since I had room for three and we're going going straight back to camp. 161 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,919 Conrad and I were leaving when three ladies decided to join us for the trip 162 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:13,240 back. We started down the steep, rocky slope. There was thick brush 163 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:16,799 and grass on either side, and it scratched the sides of the truck as 164 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:20,840 I rolled. We were all talking about how much we had enjoyed the trip 165 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:26,399 and were exchanging phone numbers so that we could keep in touch. And halfway 166 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,960 down the bumpy road, Conrad started screaming, there's a big foot. He 167 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,200 was pointing at a big, red eyed creature standing forty feet in front of 168 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:41,840 our truck, behind some shrubs off to the right side. Well, I 169 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:46,240 looked at this creature and it was standing there just staring at us. I 170 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,120 wasn't running or even walking. It just stared at us with big red eyes 171 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:58,080 the size of limes set inside sockets of a huge head. It moved to 172 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,039 the right and I could see shoulders in the side of its head, and 173 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,039 I stopped the truck, and at that moment, all three of the ladies 174 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:09,240 who were sitting in the back started screaming because they saw this thing and they 175 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:15,080 were ready to leave. I was seeing something I really was not sure existed, 176 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:18,039 and I wasn't ready to leave yet. So I slammed my hand down 177 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:22,639 on the dash and I said, we're here to see this thing. And 178 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,879 there it is, and I'm not leaving. It wasn't doing anything but standing 179 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,279 there. And then it moved a little to the right, and my eyes 180 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,000 were locked on it. I wanted to open the door and get a better 181 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,080 look, but I was trapped in the tiny road with bushes on either side 182 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,000 and no space to get out. I wanted to get a better view. 183 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,799 When it started to move out of the headlights, the head was enormous and 184 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,559 it was all covered in dark hair or fur of some sort. It moved 185 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,879 further right into the bushes and small trees, but it was too dark for 186 00:14:56,919 --> 00:15:00,039 a picture or a video, so I just wanted to see it if I 187 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,879 I could get my flear on it and then follow it into the forest. 188 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:07,279 Unfortunately, the fleer was in the back of the truck and I was in 189 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,840 a tight spot on the road, and at that moment I was not thinking 190 00:15:11,879 --> 00:15:16,600 of how or what to do. I just kept my eyes on it as 191 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,679 long as I could. All this time, I was completely scared beyond my 192 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:26,200 limits, and I was wondering if at any second I might start to have 193 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:31,919 a medical situation which would make my body shake uncontrollably and my mind began to 194 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,919 scramble. Maybe the situation was too much for me to continue functioning due to 195 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,519 my injuries. Well, that's why I brought Conrad so that he could get 196 00:15:41,559 --> 00:15:46,440 me back to camp in the event that this happened. I had no idea 197 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:50,960 how he would react if this situation were to take place. I figured out 198 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:54,039 quickly as I asked Conrad to lower his window to help me figure out where 199 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,519 this thing was. When he quickly responded by yelling, hell, no, 200 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:03,159 I'm not rolling my window down. Well, I remained calm so the others 201 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,240 would not be more scared than they already were. I wanted to get out 202 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,639 of the truck, but then I wondered if they would drive away in a 203 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:17,120 panic and leave me there. But I started to get out anyway. I 204 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,360 was halfway out of my truck, and I was jammed between the door and 205 00:16:19,399 --> 00:16:22,720 the bushes, and I couldn't keep my eyes on it. At the same 206 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:26,720 time, while moving to the back of the truck through the bushes where the 207 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:32,360 fleer was located, I slowly pushed through the bushes back to the truck tailgate 208 00:16:32,399 --> 00:16:36,840 and I reached in with one hand while watching and listening for movement, and 209 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:40,559 I could hear this thing moving around, but didn't know exactly where it was. 210 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,600 It seemed to be moving a little further away because the branch breaking seemed 211 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,559 to get more faint. The thought that maybe there were two or more creatures 212 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,360 concerned me, though maybe this one was distracting us while another moved in. 213 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,159 And in addition, I never caught wind of a foul smell. Your mind 214 00:17:00,279 --> 00:17:06,440 messes with you at times like this, and this situation was going by much 215 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:11,440 too fast and scary for my body to keep up. That's when I noticed 216 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,759 that this fear was different. From any other fear I had ever felt in 217 00:17:14,759 --> 00:17:18,000 my life. It seemed to envelop my whole body, like if you were 218 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:22,640 to ski the whole day and get cold and then walk in a warm house 219 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,559 where the heat hits you in a rush. It was a very weird sense 220 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:30,880 of fear, almost like I was in a bubble. I finally got the 221 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,680 fleaer out of the truck and started looking down the small hill where the creature 222 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:38,440 was before I lost sight of it and I couldn't see it anymore, and 223 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:44,839 I wasn't hearing any movement. Meanwhile, the others in the truck were radioing 224 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,200 the group on what was happening and asked for them to come help us. 225 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:53,119 Once the other started to arrive, my fear went away as we talked about 226 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,799 what had just taken place. I couldn't really say what had happened. Maybe 227 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:03,599 I was in miles, but I'm glad I saw it with five other people 228 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,240 instead of seeing it by myself. Now that makes us all crazy, not 229 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,359 just me. We got back to the main camp and talked more on what 230 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,400 had taken place, cracking up on how no one else would even roll the 231 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,799 window down to assist me. We were on a Bigfoot research trip, and 232 00:18:21,839 --> 00:18:26,119 we actually saw one, and we lost all thoughts of what we should have 233 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,279 done, and it still makes me laugh. Conrad and I were so amped 234 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,799 up that we couldn't sleep, so we stayed up until the morning, sitting 235 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:38,000 near the fire. Both of us were still trying to understand what we had 236 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:42,799 seen. It took me two weeks to settle on the realization that we had 237 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:48,039 actually seen a sisquatch. Well. The next morning, we packed up camp 238 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,000 and we left her home, where I hoped I could get some sleep. 239 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,880 We both talked the whole way home about why our government has not been honest 240 00:18:56,039 --> 00:19:03,240 on this subject. No point did I ever think of shooting it. I 241 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,920 had carried an ACP pistol ready to use on my hip, but I never 242 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,400 reached for it. I suppose I would have had the fear not been so 243 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:17,039 overwhelming. In addition, it makes sense to me why there have been so 244 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,680 many sightings and virtually no good images taken. I believe it's the fear and 245 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:26,960 shock of actually seeing something like this. I mean, we were on a 246 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,119 bigfoot trip and had everything we needed in the truck, and everyone was too 247 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,720 scared to even think about taking a picture. If we did take a picture, 248 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:38,160 it would have been a big, black, blurry blob like many others. 249 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,119 You're caught so off guard when you get lucky enough to see one, 250 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:48,920 and the last thing you're thinking about is grabbing a camera. My only thought 251 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,160 throughout the whole ordeal, even though it may have seemed to Brave that I 252 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,680 got out of the truck, was is there enough distance between me and this 253 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:02,960 monster that I can get away if I need. I have been out many 254 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,640 times since this encounter, and I've been out of California, and I have 255 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:11,240 had many different types of interactions with these creatures, but I've never had another 256 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:17,680 visual. I've hunted Alaska, Canada and all over North America. I've harvested 257 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:23,000 many large game animals and many long distances. These bigfoot can be taken with 258 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:29,400 a properly placed shot. However, standing forty feet from this creature, I'm 259 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,720 not the one who could have ever gotten the shot off that would have needed 260 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:36,880 to take it down. The fear would not have allowed me to have been 261 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,519 steady enough to hit the target. I shoot fifty yards offhand with pistols all 262 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:45,480 the time at metal targets the size of a soda can and I'm a good 263 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:49,279 shot. I would not have had a chance at forty feet with a head 264 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:55,759 bigger than a home depot five gallon bucket. If someone can control the fear 265 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,400 and properly place a good shot to the head, it will go down quickly 266 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,440 in my opinion, But if you miss, you could be in for a 267 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:10,000 bad day. There's more to these creatures than we all know. Yet they 268 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:15,759 kind of incapacitate someone with fear from doing and thinking straight. Some say it's 269 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:21,200 infrasound. I think maybe we should just stay tuned until the creature allows us 270 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:30,240 more insight on what is going on with them.