WEBVTT 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.