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The person who sent me this email, I don't know their name. Well,

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I do know their name, but
they didn't give me permission to say

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it. So blah blah blah.
You know the story, But this event

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takes place in Central America. I
think you're going to find this interesting.

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I was born to a large family
in Costa Rica in nineteen seventy one.

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Back then, it was still a
very rural and remote place to live,

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and there were no main roads and
farmers were still breaking into the jungle using

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hand tools and farm animals. And
my playmates were all of my brothers and

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sisters, mainly sisters and many cousins. We were a large group of kids

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running through my grandparents' farm barefoot,
looking for our next big adventure. In

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the newly made pastures where my grandpa
and uncles kept the horses and cattle they

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bred, we all had specific chores
laid out by my grandmother, Marie Louisa.

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She was a rugged carrying woman who
was always on edge. Her word

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was law, and sometimes we were
introduced to that law by the rugged edge

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of her flip flops. The kids, from ages seven to ten were in

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charge of feeding the chickens and gathering
eggs, carrying milk buckets back from the

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corral, gathering vegetables from the greenhouse
and wood for the fire. The older

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kids got to ride the horses to
herd cattle each morning and then milk the

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cows. They were usually up before
daybreak to do their chores later in the

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day. They were also the ones
who delivered lunches to my grandfather, Fernando,

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my uncles and adult cousins who were
out working to clear more land for

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more pastures and more crops. The
farm ran like a well little machine.

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We all pulled our weight in order
to survive, and we all looked out

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for each other. It had to
be that way, and back then the

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jungles and prairies were still full of
all kinds of animals that could seriously hurt

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us or even kill us, from
fire ants and spiders to venomous snakes and

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jaguars. We had to be careful
of everything. More often than not,

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when my uncles ventured into the jungle, they were going to have a close

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call with a large predator, but
there was only one rifle available on the

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farm. Being careful and watching out
for each other was the only way to

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survive. My farmhouse sat like an
oasis on the hill in the middle of

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that thick, dark rainforest. From
there, we never went out alone.

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We were always in pairs or groups. The kids carried machetes for protection,

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and the rifle was reserved from my
grandfather or one of my uncles. One

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morning, my cousin Raoul, fell
off his horse while gathering the cattle from

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milking, and when it came time
to deliver lunch to the men, he

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was in no shape to go.
I was ten, then, almost old

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enough to join my older cousins in
their chores, and already a brave horseman.

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It was my time to shine.
I went and got my horse.

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That was a gift from my father, and it was an old, slow

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animal who had seen its best days
as a workhorse long before I received it.

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But it was a safe choice for
a kid. I would come to

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regret that later. My aunt Anna
loaded me up with my share of the

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lunch we were bringing to the men, and I was off with three of

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my cousins to make the delivery.
It all went well until we hit the

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tree line to enter the jungle.
I was thinking, how am I supposed

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to get in there with this big
horse. But by you, my horse

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knew better. He was last in
the line. With my older cousins leading

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the way and breaking through the undergrowth
when necessary. We made our way through

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the jungle, with my cousin Jose
guiding us toward the sounds of axes and

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chopping wood. I was in my
own world. Never had I seen so

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many different shapes and colors. There
were all kinds of new sounds from birds

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and animals that I didn't know.
But suddenly I recognized the sound of a

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yellow pic Tucan ahead of me.
Carlos asked, hey, Jose, I

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thought they were working near the river, same as yesterday. Well, I

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thought so too, Jose answered,
But it seems they changed their plans.

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Who knows. The peace and tranquility
of the ride was suddenly interrupted by a

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horrible, strange odor that smelled like
a bunch of pigs that farted in my

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face. Okay, at first I
thought it was one. At first I

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thought it was one of the horses. Oh, I'm sorry, y'all.

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At first I thought it was one
of the horses. My cousin started pointing

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fingers and blaming each other. Even
the horses seemed offended by it. They

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started snorting and nanging and jumping about. We continued on until Jose suddenly jolted

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back on his horse's harness and started
looking around as if he was searching for

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something. Pepe looked back at me
and put his finger to his mouth to

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signal silence. His eyes were wide
with fear, and I began to panic.

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And then he burst into laughter,
and I knew I was being pranked.

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I rolled my eyes and looked around
to see what Jose was searching for.

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There they are, he cried as
he jumped from his horse and tied

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it to a bush, and then
he ran over and grabbed a set of

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vines. Apparently it was time to
play for a few minutes. So I

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jumped down from my horse and pulled
off the rubber boots I was wearing to

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protect my feet from the thick bushes
and long thorns, and I joined the

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others. We climbed up the vines
and took turns, swinging back and forth.

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Watch out, Jose, caution,
don't let go. It's a long

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drop off if you do. On
my third turn, I noticed it.

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It had gotten unusually quiet. The
birds had ceased to chirp, and a

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cold chill filled the air. As
I swung back toward the tree. I

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expected Jose's arm to grab me and
pull me in, but to my surprise,

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he was looking the other way.
Keeping me from falling was the last

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thing on his mind. I missed
my catch, and I was hanging on

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for dear life. Just as I
was about to let go, Carlos grabbed

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me by the waist. His eyes
were wide open and his face was pale,

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and he wanted to say something to
me, but no words would come.

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I was trying to make a place
for myself on the crowded branch when

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Jose's hand came hard over my mouth
to prevent me from saying anything. And

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when I saw it, my heart
fell into my stomach and I felt a

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certain urge to pee. One hundred
meters from us, sitting hunched over on

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a tree base, was something big
and hairy. At first, I thought

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I was looking at some kind of
big ant eater. There are no bears

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in the tropics of Costa Rica,
so that thought never crossed my mind.

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The creature, whatever it was,
stood up in full view of us,

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and it looked like a man,
but it was massive. Below us,

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Carlos's horse started to get a bit
jumpy. He was whinnying and pulling at

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his harness, and I knew the
ship was about to hit the fan,

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and Pepe was looking for a way
to get off the branch. Jose's horse

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was making its way around the trunk, and we were all getting ready to

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jump. But all I could think
was, oh, great, by you

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is an old horse. I'll be
the last one out of here. The

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Holy Trinity, Here comes that thing. Pepe gasp in Spanish. My priorities

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changed from keeping my balance on the
tree branch to jumping down as quickly as

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possible and running as fast as my
legs would carry me. In the next

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instant, I found myself lying face
down on the jungle floor with a mouth

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full of leaves, and as I
got up to dig in and run,

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I felt a strong tug on my
shorts. Then I was face up and

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the jungle was spinning around me,
and I found myself on the back of

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Jose's horse. We were cantering out
of there at breakneck speed, with my

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cousin doing the best he could to
hold on to me well. I did

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not dare to look back to see
if it was chasing us, and it

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sounded like a derailing freight train.
The lunches, my boots and so pads

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and everything else were not important anymore. We raced through the dense jungle,

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with the bushes hitting me everywhere.
A deafening roar reverberated through the rainforest as

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we pushed our horses onward. I
saw one of my cousins pass us in

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a split second, and at one
point I golloped Jose so deeply with my

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nails that he wore the imprint for
several days. I guess I was in

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survival mode. We burst through the
tree line and we were in the open

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pasture again, and we pulled up
to Pepe and Carlos, who had made

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it out safely, and they were
waiting for us. We were all terrified.

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Jose kicked his horse back into full
gallop and the others followed, but

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we didn't stop until we reached a
nearby creek, where we stopped for a

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drink of water. My horse I
was crying. What should I do?

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I couldn't stop crying at the thought
of by you being eaten by that thing.

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We took the stock of one another, making sure we were all in

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one piece, and then we continued
our ride back to the farmhouse. No

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one spoke except for me. I
kept asking what we were going to say

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to Granny and Luisa when she learned
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Finally, Jose slapped me in the
head and he said, you say

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what happened and that is all.
Now shut up. The rest of the

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ride home took an eternity, and
I couldn't wait to get there, even

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if it meant being reprimanded by Granny
Louisa. After all, we had not

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only not delivered lunch to the men, we had managed to lose all of

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our stuff and my horse by you, and he was probably being eaten by

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a monster in the jungle. At
the moment as we neared the house,

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I saw there was a gathering on
the porch, and Granny Luisa stood there

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with her hands on her hips in
an angry expression on her face. Beside

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her were aunties and cousins with a
mix of anger, anxiety, and curiosity

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on their faces. We dismounted and
hung our heads in shame. What happened?

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Grannie Louisa asked Jose, being the
oldest, did all the talking for

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us, and he told her exactly
what had happened, without leaving out a

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single detail. He even included how
we drifted off for the joy ride and

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the tree vines Eldugnol del Monte.
I heard one of my aunties mumble.

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Grannie Louisa had a troubled look on
her face. The rest of the family

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was still in the jungle. I
went to sit in an old chair on

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the porch, but she turned to
me and told me to go take care

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of by. You get some water
and check him out. She said,

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see if he's hurt, my horse. Didn't she see that I was riding

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with Jose Yes, she said,
you're a horse. He came back about

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ten minutes ago, all sweaty and
troubled by You was the oldest and slowest

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horse, but he was the first
one to make it back, and I

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was astonished. Maybe it was because
he had no writer. I went to

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see about him. He had four
big scratches on his rear that looked like

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nail marks, but he was otherwise
okay. By midafternoon, the work crew

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had come back to the house as
well. They knew something was wrong when

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they didn't get their lunches. Jose
was elected again to tell my grandpa Fernando

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what had happened, and he repeated
the same story without missing a detail.

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For the next few days, the
men didn't return to the jungle. Instead,

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they worked around the farm doing other
stuff. And not long after that,

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my parents separated and my mother took
me and two of my cousins to

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live in Kidad Kisaida or Kisaida City, if you will. It was some

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years later when Mom told us the
truth. Carlos and Jose were not my

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cousins, they were my brothers.
I will never see my grandparents again,

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and nor did I ever see my
beloved by you. After that, it

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would be thirty years before I saw
anyone on that side of the family again.

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But that's a different story for another
time. In the nineteen eighties,

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environmentalists and politicians began working on laws
to protect the deforestation of the rainforest in

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Costa Rica. Today, twenty five
percent of Costa Rica is protected land.

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So I guess whatever chased us that
day, whatever scratched by you, is

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still out there. The Bigfoot community
folks are an interesting lot. They can

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be just as interesting to study as
the creature itself. Bigfoot expeditions are more

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entertaining as a people watching event than
for what they reveal about Bigfoot. Here

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are my thoughts on the diversity of
the community. First, there are the

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knowers. These are people who claim
to have seen a bigfoot or had some

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sort of encounter they claim proves the
creature's existence. These can be people who

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say they actually saw a bigfoot,
though they may or may not have misidentified

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it, all the way down to
people who saw two sticks pointing in the

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same direction or a tree structure.
There is absolutely no reasoning with these people.

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Once they get the bug, then
everything is evidence. Many people are

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like this. If they see a
hairball in their shower, they believe a

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sasquatch has been there. Next,
there are the people who have never had

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an encounter but are fascinated with the
subject. They're open to the idea but

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remain fundamentally agnostic to it. These
people have not lost their minds yet,

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but they're getting close. They walk
a tight rope between rabbit hole fiction and

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true skepticism. The third group are
the so called skeptics. They hide behind

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the moniker skeptic with a religious zeal
because they mistakenly think the term connotes a

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scientific mindset when applied to them.
In other words, it is an ego

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thing with them. In reality,
their mindset is far removed from the meaning

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of skeptic in the context of academia. These are people who use the term

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blobsquatch. They are grammar and pronunciation
Nazis and repeatedly degrade and make fun of

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others. In short, they are
emotionally defective and they remind me a lot

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of our ruling class political leaders.
Fourth, there are the hoaxers. Now,

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these are the assholes who drink cheap
beer. They dress up like monkeys,

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and they run across the highway in
front of oncoming traffic. They trespass

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onto hunting leases at night, dressed
in a guerrilla to get their photo taken

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on trail cams. Not not too
hard on these folks, because they're just

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trying to have a good time and
sometimes they create quite humorous moments. Fifth

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are the charlatans. Now, these
jackasses report false sightings in an attempt to

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profit from the phenomenon and the popular
interests they'rein. They take advantage of people's

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curiosity and ignorance. If you follow
the topic, you know who the hoaxers

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are some of them have podcasts and
television shows. And last there are the

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Bigfoot hunters. These people actively search
for the monster. On one level,

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this group is divided into two groups, those who want to kill one to

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obtain a body for science, money, or because they believe Bigfoot is a

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malignant part of nature that ought to
be removed, and two the pussies.

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The latter of the two grieve over
the mere thought of killing one of these

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gross, inbred animals. They are
pantheistic or believe that Bigfoot is so genetically

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close to humankind that to kill one
would be murder. I personally believe that

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no kill crowd are communists. This
writer is in the pro kill camp.

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Now, obviously I'm going to monetize
the hell out of it. I've always

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been very open about this. But
I am also of the opinion that even

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if these things are genetically close to
humanity, they are so malignant to our

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world that they deserve to be wiped
out. There is not an adequate breeding

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population. This is clear. Therefore, inbreeding is rampant, and it probably

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has been this way for several generations. They are a genetic clusterfuck which explains

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why they get violent and act like
total assholes. Bigfoot do not even take

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care of themselves stink. Plus,
they always have shit in their hair,

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caked with leaves and dirt. Have
you ever heard a reported sighting of one

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where the witness does not say the
hair looked matted and that they smelled good.

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The only animals that do not clean
themselves are the sick and feeble,

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But in the reported sightings they are
not sick and feeble. They are said

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to move about swiftly through the thick
cover and over rugged terrain. So why

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can't they clean themselves? It's because
they're screwed up in the head. It's

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all the years of inbreeding. Essentially, they are a bunch of homeless,

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hairy devians. So, as far
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open year round twenty four to seven. Even if the fringe theories are true

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the Nephilum aliens, etc. Then
they are not of our natural world and

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therefore they need to be eradicated.
In other words, they are an invasive

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species. Only sick, godless communist
wants to preserve such things. Finally,

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I should note that all the groups
mentioned above in the community hate each other.

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Further, all the subsets in each
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I've never understood this. There's absolutely
nothing less scientific than being so closed minded

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that you refuse to acknowledge other points
of view. But to be sure,

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there have been many, many instances
in history where great scientists have had rivalries

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with their contemporaries. This rival hatred
thing seems to be particularly acute in the

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Bigfoot community. In my opinion,
this is one of the aspects of the

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people in the community that make them
such an interesting lot. Okay, here's

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a good Bigfoot story. The writer
let's keep his name anonymous. Every year

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on Memorial Day, my extended family
would have a get together at a park

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near Parkersburg, West Virginia. That's
my hometown. These were organized by my

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mother and usually drew about fifty people. The park itself is huge, amounting

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to about three thousand acres. We
would secure the biggest spot on the grounds

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and my mother would prepare the grill
while guests brought in tupperware items like salads

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and gas roles. We got there
early in the morning for all the preparation,

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ahead of the people arriving at lunchtime. It was nineteen ninety seven.

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I was eleven. My friends and
I like to explore the nearby woods.

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The area was so vast that sometimes
we would get lost, but always managed

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to find our way back. I
don't think it would have occurred to any

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of the adults to call for a
search party unless we were still gone by

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the time it grew dark. Man, have times changed. I remember we

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were deep in the woods by a
pond with a circumference of fifty yards.

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My friend and I were fast walking. He rushed past me and put a

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little distance between us. We were
on an incline, so I aimed my

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eyes downward and started walking faster,
and I stumbled into him a few yards

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up the trail, not expecting him
to be standing stock still in the path.

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He directed my attention to something on
the other side of the pond.

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It looked like a person, but
it had a lot of hair, and

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it wasn't wearing any clothes. I
didn't even know what to think. I

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had never heard of a thing called
bigfoot or sasquatch up until this point.

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I'd seen the movie Planet of the
Apes on cable, and that's what I

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was thinking. As both of us
stood staring at this thing that was staring

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back at us. It wasn't much
taller than my friend, who, if

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I was to guess, was five
foot without shoes on. This thing had

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light brown hair all over, with
none on its face, which looked like

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something more like an eight but less
like a human. Its eyes were brown,

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and it just looked at me with
no expression. Then it let out

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a yell and bounded away from the
pond. We started running for the safety

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of my mother and our get together, scared out of our eleven year old

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minds. After some hardcore sprinting,
it occurred to us that we hadn't a

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clue which direction we were heading.
We were lost. Out of fear,

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we started arguing, it's this way, now, it's this way. At

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that point, I let out an
expletive and just started running. My friend

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reluctantly followed behind. We emerged from
the woods in a totally unfamiliar part of

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the park. Unfortunately, there were
some people picnicking there. Me being the

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more extroverted of the two of us, I walked over to them and told

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them that we were lost and asked
if they could help us. It took

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thirty minutes of driving around the park, but we pulled up to our picnic

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site. We'd been gone for hours, but we hadn't been missed. My

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friend liked to tell the story of
our encounter more than I did. No

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matter how serious or straight faced we
were, people laughed it off, while

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I responded to the ridicule by dropping
the matter altogether. My friend turned the

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whole thing into a comedy routine.
If you believed his version, the thing

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we saw became the little brother we
never had. I guess it's not an

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easy to believe story. I never
really heard of bigfoot sightings in West Virginia

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up until then. Maybe in the
two thousands that all changed. I guess

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some just keep what they know quiet
because no one takes it serious. In

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the late nineteen nineties, the Internet
wasn't a huge thing, especially for someone

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my age. No one had cell
phones, Pictures and videos just weren't happening.

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It makes me wonder how many people
saw things, but the technology didn't

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allow for them to record the evidence
and proved that they weren't out of their

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minds, or were just a couple
of eleven year olds too stupid to find

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their way out of the woods.
You know, regarding that's the end of

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the story, regarding the you know, the images. You know. Okay,

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let me back up. I know
we didn't have smartphones with video cameras.

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In the nineteen nineties. There were
video cameras. There were those big

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block VHS machines you put on your
shoulder, and I'm transferring a lot of

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those old VHS tapes to digital right
now. I bought a little little gadget

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and it's got some software with it, and I'm taking old family videos and

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putting them over there by the way. But that's not what I want to

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talk about. But even if people
had we had all this technology that we

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are lucky to have today, they
get the same pictures. We get blurry

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pictures and nothing. We get nothing. We need good, definitive images and

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video of this thing to prove it
exists. We actually need a body.

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We need a bigfoot body to prove
that this exists. It's just my opinion,

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but I thought this was a good
story. This is another story where

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people remember back when they were kids
and they had an experience, and all

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of a sudden it starts to come
together as they get older, and it

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just makes perfect sense. They probably
run into a bigfoot. All right,

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thanks for the story. All right, here's an odd story from a man

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who I think this occurs in the
United Kingdom. I don't think, he

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says. Maybe he does somewhere in
the story, and you'll hear it if

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he does. But the way he
writes, and the way he describes some

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of these places and the vernacular he
uses, I think this guy is from

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the UK. But let's read us. This is not a bigfoot story.

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But this is really good, he
writes. My first strange encounter happened in

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two thousand and seven. There were
no leaves on the trees. That is

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the only thing I can recall determining
the time of year. We lived four

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miles away from the local town and
the countryside on the bank of a large

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reservoir. From the high spot where
our house sat, we had a fantastic

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view of the rolling countryside. We
owned twenty two acres that included two large

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lakes that I had excavated and acres
of trees I planted. I was blessed

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to live in such a beautiful and
imposing home. The house itself is a

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converted L shaped barn. My wife
and I lived in the two story section,

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and her parents lived in the smaller
l that was only one story.

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It was like two separate properties,
but we could walk straight through each other's

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homes. On the night in question, I was sitting with my feet up

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on the SETTI watching TV. It
was dark outside, and I imagine it

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must have been getting close to bedtime. I prefer to go to bed early

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and get up early. The next
morning, my wife came walking into the

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lounge and told me that she was
going to let the dog out, but

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there was someone standing in the back
garden. I asked what they were doing,

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and she said nothing, they're just
standing there. Well, the hair

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stood up all over my body and
I was engulfed in fear. I'm certainly

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not the cowardly type, but I
had the sudden feeling that something really bad

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was about to happen. My wife
prompted me to get up and come with

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her to have a look, so
I followed her through the house to her

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parents' side. She took me to
her dad's bedroom because it was on the

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farthest side and closest to the back
garden. The light was off, so

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I looked out the window and allowed
my eyes to adjust to the garden,

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which obviously I knew well. The
part I was looking at was only thirty

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feet across to where our garden meets
the neighbor's pasture land. There was a

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three bar wooden fence with barbed wire
across the top, and we had planted

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some fruit trees there. After letting
my eyes adjust and looking around to identify

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the objects I knew were there,
I said, I can't see anybody.

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My wife said, now look through
this, and she handed me my night

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vision scope. By now her dad
was standing next to her and looking quite

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concerned, and I took the scope
from her and I returned to the window

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to look. I instantly saw the
likeness of a person standing in the neighbor's

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field, but right next to the
fence. My wife asked if it could

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be one of my friends messing about
to scare us, and I replied,

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who the hell would stand there?
On the off chance that you might look

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outside with a night vision scope,
I adjusted the focus on the scope and

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I looked again, and this time
seeing something that filled me with terror.

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It looked like an extremely tall man
with a heavily woven cloak pulled over and

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around him. The cloak or shroud. Whatever it was was coarsely woven twill.

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The strands were as thick as jumper
wool and tightly woven, and it

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looked heavy, so much so that
I guessed I would have had a difficult

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time lifting it if it were on
the floor. It was only thirty feet

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away, so with the scope zoomed
in, it was the equivalent of being

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right next to it. I could
see the waving in the shroud as it

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came below the waist and flared out. The arms to the side, and

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the hands weren't visible. In fact, I couldn't see anything of this being

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outside of the intimidating figure with its
head leaning forward and the cloak pulled over

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it. You've probably figured out by
now that what I'm describing is the grim

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Reaper, and it was terrifying.
It wasn't carrying a scythe as depicted in

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so many stories. Judging by the
fence it was standing next to, I

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determined it to be nine feet tall
and as much as three and a half

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feet wide. I opened the window
slowly and quietly looked again. I'm not

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sure if I did that to get
a better look, or if I needed

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confirmation that what I was seeing wasn't
a reflection in the glass. When I

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took the scope away, I couldn't
see it, But when I looked through

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the scope again, it was there. Through the scope, I could also

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see the grain in the wood on
the fence rails, the cobwebs on the

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fence, and the long strands of
grass in front of its cloak. There

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was truly some kind of being in
front of me, but there was totally

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no explanation for what it might be
in our world, our knowledge of what

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exists among us, be it in
other dimensions or whatever else. I don't

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think could ever explain this. I
later asked my wife what she had been

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doing standing in her dad's bedroom window
with my night scope. She said that

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the dog wanted to go outside,
but she had heard foxes barking at the

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back of the house. She thought
that she would have a look around the

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garden before letting the dog out,
to make sure there were no foxes.

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She had a little pug that she
treasured and didn't want the foxes to attack

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it. I know this is a
far fetched story, but it is what

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I and my wife and her dad
all witnessed. Her mother refused to look,

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she said it was a bad omen. Sadly, the truth of that

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statement came to pass when my wife
passed away in twenty and thirteen after a

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four year battle with ovarian cancer.
She was only forty six years old.

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We had been married for nineteen years
and five days. She left me with

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the most beautiful, blond, four
year old son any parent would be proud

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of. How could such a mythical
being have been in my back garden,

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as real as the apple trees,
the fence and the grass, and as

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true as the myths. I lost
my wife and my son lost his mother.

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I know neither you nor anyone else
can give me answers, but at

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least you can listen to my story, a nightmare really, and be sure

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that not all things are a myth. The second unexplained story that happened in

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twenty eighteen. I had moved from
my lovely home in the country to a

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home in a quiet village only ten
miles away from my original home and encounter.

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I had fallen asleep on the city
and awoke in the early morning hours.

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The TV had timed out and it
was turned off, and I just

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lay there, fully dressed and regaining
enough energy to get up and go upstairs

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to bed. There was a street
light at the end of the drive,

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and with all the curtains open in
the lounge, there was an ambient light

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coming through that allowed me to see
reasonably well. I had been lying there

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for a good ten minutes and was
awake enough now to go upstairs when I

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noticed something coming around the corner from
the other part of the l shaped lounge.

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I would not call it smoke or
a mist. The only way I

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can explain it would be to call
it a cloud. It was just like

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in The Predator her film. There
were loads of pixels, and with each

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pixel being an inch square in size. Although I could see straight through them,

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they distorted whatever they passed in front
of. This cloud was two feet

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deep, three feet wide and a
good six feet long. It was just

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floating under the ceiling, and it
passed above me and went through the wall

412
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:28,480
behind me. It must have been
another half hour before I picked up enough

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00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,039
courage to get up from the couch
and go to bed. I had never

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00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:37,920
heard of this before until I listened
to a Sasquatch story where someone had explained

415
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:44,800
this same strange phenomenon at a time
when they had seen a bigfoot. I

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00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:50,239
was excited that someone else had also
witnessed this. Thank you if you find

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00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,800
time to read my story. All
our best from far away in Staffordshire.

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Yep, see, I was right. I could tell that was from the

419
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,880
UK. And first let me say
my condolences to you. It's been a

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00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:07,719
while since your wife passed away,
but I'm so sorry that you lost your

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wife. And I have to say, in my humble opinion, this you're

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00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,960
losing your wife had nothing to do
with this grim reaper figure that you saw

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00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:22,079
by your garden. I'm so sure
of that. There may be entities floating

424
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:27,559
around and moving around, and I
don't know the explanation for them, strange

425
00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:32,519
entities, ghosts, apparitions. Maybe
they're demonic, maybe they're not. Maybe

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00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:37,800
it's something God created and it just
moves around in the spirit realm. I

427
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,840
don't know, but this was such
an interesting story. Thank you Ian is

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00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,039
the author. Thank you Ian for
sending this. We really enjoyed it.

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00:35:46,559 --> 00:35:52,800
And I hope your son's doing well
and your family has adjusted to missing your

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00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:58,239
wife and your son's mother, and
that life picks up and gains good meaning

431
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,199
for you and you can move on
I'm sure that's what your wife would want

432
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:06,119
you to do. I'm probably stepping
out of bounds talking about any of this,

433
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,480
but I just, you know,
it just breaks my heart when I

434
00:36:08,519 --> 00:36:13,320
hear stories like this. But at
any rate, it was a great story,

435
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:19,440
and thank you for singing it.
All right. Here's another short story

436
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,559
that I thought was great, and
it's titled Full Moon Society of Hikers.

437
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,880
I don't know exactly where this woman
is from. Oh, she's from New

438
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,760
York. I assume she's in New
York because the story is set in New

439
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,800
York. I live in the Catskill
Mountains of New York. I hadn't really

440
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,679
thought twice about Bigfoot, but my
boyfriend has believed and pondered Bigfoot's existence for

441
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,719
a long time. I've always believed
that there's a whole lot of more mystery

442
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:52,400
and enchantment in this world than we
realize, and that the true nature of

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00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,880
reality is not as firm as we
tend to believe. So when he played

444
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,480
me a few of the videos of
possible Bigfoot sightings and audio recordings, I

445
00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:05,559
watched and listened with an open mind, but I didn't think much beyond that.

446
00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:09,519
In twenty twenty, I had a
small group of female friends that I

447
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:15,320
would gather with on every full moon. We would do a little moon magic

448
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:20,119
and then head out into the woods
to hike under the moonlight. Hiking is

449
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,960
always a pleasure, but hiking at
night with just the moon to light your

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00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,880
way is extra special. As we
hiked, we would listen to the rambling

451
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,920
rivers and the wind in the trees, or we would just be chatting it

452
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,559
up as friends do. But on
this specific night, we chose to take

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00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:40,280
an old carriage trail. The Catskills
are beautiful terrain, and a lot of

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00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:46,360
local trails are narrow and rocky.
The carriage trail is wider and so easier

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00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,239
to walk in the dark. And
as we made our way, everything felt

456
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:57,280
normal and we fell into a little
peaceful silence. But then from fifteen to

457
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,519
twenty feet away, and from off
the trail and up in the woods,

458
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:06,079
came a seriously loud and thunderous whoop. It started low, and it got

459
00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:10,039
higher in frequency, and we all
immediately looked at each other in shock and

460
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:16,320
flipped on our headlamps. My two
companions immediately wrote it off as some sort

461
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:21,400
of bird call, and they didn't
want to consider it any further than that,

462
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,519
but I could feel that the creature
who made the call was close by,

463
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,960
and I recognized the call too.
It sounded just like some of the

464
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:35,440
bigfoot recordings I had heard before.
My instinct was to speak to the creature

465
00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:38,920
telepathically, and then I thought,
clearly, we mean you no harm at

466
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:45,480
all. We're just passing through and
thank you. The whoop had sounded like

467
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:49,639
a hey, you're in my territory
kind of warning, and I don't think

468
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,840
it was meant to be especially threatening. As I thought my message of coming

469
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:59,400
in peace over and over again,
I felt that the creature heard me and

470
00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:06,000
under good and this was a special
full moon night. Yes it was.

471
00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:09,639
And what a great little email this
person sent me. I really enjoyed reading

472
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,400
this, and I appreciate the writer
for sending it. Thank you very much.

473
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,239
Here's an email from Ted I actually
got recently, and he writes,

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00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,840
I've been listening to your Bigfoot stories
and enjoying them immensely. Thank you,

475
00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:29,480
thank you very much. I take
special interest in the stories here in Mississippi.

476
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,039
I was born and raised down here
on the coast near Pasca Goula,

477
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:37,519
and now I live on five acres
here in Moss Point, Mississippi, in

478
00:39:37,559 --> 00:39:42,800
an area known as Helena, which
is out in the country. I've been

479
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,519
an outdoorsman all my life. I'm
fifty seven years old and I've been in

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00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:50,840
the woods since i was a child. My grandfather had a camp up at

481
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,400
Creole by you, deep in the
Pasca Goula Swamp, just off the Pasca

482
00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:01,199
Goula River. It's only accessible by
boat retirement from the US Navy. We

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00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,559
would spend many nights at his camp, hunting and fishing and just enjoying life.

484
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,079
And there wasn't hardly a weekend that
went by that I wasn't with him.

485
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,559
I remember one Saturday morning getting up
and going out of the cabin and

486
00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:20,679
setting down by popall by the fire
that he already had going around five am,

487
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,519
and he was drinking coffee. He
was being unusually quiet. When I

488
00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:30,400
asked what our plans were for the
day, he replied, shh, listen

489
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:35,679
boy oft in the distance, I
could hear what sounded like people talking in

490
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,679
a foreign voice. It was pitch
black dark, and it was very still,

491
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:45,400
and a light fog hung close to
the ground. No other sounds or

492
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,719
the usual owls, bugs or frogs
could be heard at all. Only the

493
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,440
faint chatter is the only way I
know to explain it, of voices down

494
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:58,880
in the swamp behind his camp.
We sat and listened for I guess about

495
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,519
another five minutes when I whispered,
what is that, Papa. He whispered

496
00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:07,800
back to me, It's just them
old harpies arguing over breakfast. The hair

497
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,239
stood up on the back of my
neck, and I got instant chicken skin

498
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,840
when he said that I had often
heard him talk about the harpies that lived

499
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,920
behind his camp, but I thought
me, being only twelve years old at

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00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,480
the time, but I only thought
that he was joking with me, as

501
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,639
he always did. But this time, when he said that, he was

502
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,639
very serious and didn't crack a smile, I knew he was serious. I

503
00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:36,159
can still see his face in the
glow of that campfire, and hear those

504
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,480
voices in my head to this day. I wish, to this day I

505
00:41:39,519 --> 00:41:44,480
would have asked him more about the
things that lived behind the camp and if

506
00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:47,960
he had ever seen them. After
he passed away, my father sold the

507
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,079
camp, and since then many other
people have purchased property up there and built

508
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:55,920
more camps, so it's not nearly
as secluded as it used to be.

509
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:01,119
I still occasionally will ride by they're
in my boat, and the property has

510
00:42:01,159 --> 00:42:06,800
all grown over and the camp has
fallen in. Apparently nobody ever used the

511
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:12,000
camp or has rebuilt on the property. I have recently listened to recordings of

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00:42:12,039 --> 00:42:16,639
what seems to be sisquatch conversations,
and the recordings I have listened to sound

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00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:22,039
very similar to what we were hearing
that morning at my grandfather's camp years ago.

514
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:27,960
At present, I go camping once
every month rain or shines, lead

515
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:31,239
or snow deep in the DeSoto National
Forest, but I have yet to hear

516
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:37,480
anything like that ever. Again,
do you have any reports of sightings or

517
00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:43,119
sounds from DeSoto Forest? I camp
all over the National forest from south end

518
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,639
up to the north end for the
last two years, and I found no

519
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:52,679
sounds of a bigfoot anywhere, although
I have just recently started actually looking for

520
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:58,480
signs since I started listening to your
posts on YouTube. Please email me back

521
00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:02,360
with any information you may have,
for I've grown quite interested in this topic.

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00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,920
You have my full permission to use
this email and its contents as you

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00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,280
see fit. Thank you for what
you're doing, and keep up the good

524
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:15,920
work. Signed Ted Ted, thank
you. I've never heard Bigfoot called a

525
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,840
harpy. Matter of fact, I've
never heard that term, and I think

526
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,400
it seems like I should have,
but I just haven't. That's a new

527
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:27,320
term to me. But I'm guessing
that's what your granddaddy was cut your papa

528
00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:31,280
was calling the Bigfoot the harpies.
That's fascinating. And you know those old

529
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:37,440
guys. I know how a young
boy looks up to his big, strong

530
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:42,639
grandfather and his father. I know
exactly what that feels like. And I

531
00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:45,920
can see his grandfather sitting there in
the glow of that fire and being real

532
00:43:46,039 --> 00:43:52,079
serious about him, keeping quiet and
listening to that chatter off in the distance,

533
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:54,920
and I bet that wouldn't spook a
little kid anyway. It's wonderful story,

534
00:43:54,960 --> 00:44:00,480
Ted, Thanks for sending it in. I really appreciate you, buddy.

535
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:07,239
What follows her several experiences recently shared
with me by a coworker. This

536
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,119
fourteen year old Anna snuck out of
the house and made her way to her

537
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:15,280
favorite place. It was a tree
swing that sat atop a hill, and

538
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,320
it was motionless and waiting. It
overlooked the valley in stream below, which

539
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,800
was a good quarter of a mile
from her home, and this is where

540
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:28,400
she came to escape from her four
brothers and to enjoy the fresh air and

541
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,320
to daydream in peace. As the
wind blew through her hair, she saw

542
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,679
something shimmering and sparkling. It was
sixty to eighty feet away. Rubbing her

543
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:40,840
eyes to make sure of what she
was looking at, she could make out

544
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:46,559
a silver triangle hovering twelve feet above
the stream. She immediately slowed the swing

545
00:44:46,679 --> 00:44:50,639
enough so that she could jump off, and she ran down the hill to

546
00:44:50,679 --> 00:44:52,559
see what it was. But when
she got there, it was gone.

547
00:44:53,199 --> 00:44:58,000
Where did it go, she wondered, as it only took a few seconds

548
00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:02,159
to get there. Sharing this childhood's
story with me, she remembers that it

549
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:07,840
didn't make any sounds and it had
a light at each corner. She also

550
00:45:07,119 --> 00:45:12,639
estimated it to be around ten to
fifteen feet long and it was a silver

551
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,199
metal material. She also doesn't remember
seeing any people around it, and when

552
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:22,960
she asked about being abducted in missing
time, she said she doesn't remember a

553
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:29,400
sense of missing time or any strange
dreams or memories. She continued that when

554
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,159
she was fifteen years old and living
in Stephenville, Texas, her and her

555
00:45:34,199 --> 00:45:37,360
brother were out for a drive around
town one night. That's when they saw

556
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,360
the sign for Rising Star, Texas, and they decided to make the drive.

557
00:45:43,519 --> 00:45:46,039
After driving for nearly an hour,
she asked her brother, shouldn't we

558
00:45:46,039 --> 00:45:50,840
have been there by now? Well? He agreed and offered to turn around

559
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,960
and go back. Let's just go
back, she said. As soon as

560
00:45:53,960 --> 00:46:00,519
she turned the car around, they
were immediately back in Stephenville. One of

561
00:46:00,559 --> 00:46:02,880
her dreams, you know, the
ones that seemed super vivid and real,

562
00:46:04,559 --> 00:46:09,000
she saw her brother floating motionless up
at the ceiling while she slept. She

563
00:46:09,159 --> 00:46:14,000
was standing in the middle of the
bedroom and was in a conversation with a

564
00:46:14,039 --> 00:46:19,159
gray alien. When she looked back
at her brother, two other grays went

565
00:46:19,199 --> 00:46:22,119
to get him down, and they
lowered him somehow so they could move him

566
00:46:22,159 --> 00:46:25,960
around, and one gray was at
his feet, the other was holding his

567
00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:31,159
shoulders. Just then, a door
or hatch opened in the floor and the

568
00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:38,000
two grays escorted her sleeping brother down
into it. When she was thirty four

569
00:46:38,119 --> 00:46:43,199
years old, she remembers having too
much to drink one evening and admits that

570
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,320
she drove home drunk. She recalled
seeing a beautiful sunset in front of her,

571
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:53,039
so she stopped to take a photo
and then continued toward home. While

572
00:46:53,039 --> 00:46:57,920
she was making her way along the
curvy country road, she noticed an object

573
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,639
in the sky pacing along the side
of her. It followed closely all the

574
00:47:01,679 --> 00:47:06,480
way home and at the same speed
she was driving, and then once she

575
00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:09,239
got out of the car, she
watched as it flew away. I believe

576
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,719
they were following me home to make
sure I made it safely, she told

577
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,440
me many days later. While looking
at the photo on my phone, there

578
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,800
was something else in it, and
when you zoom in, it looks like

579
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,440
a glowing saucer craft. That was
the object that followed me home, she

580
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:29,960
told me. I didn't see it
when I took the photo on the way

581
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,079
home. She also has many memories
or dreams of her flying, and when

582
00:47:35,199 --> 00:47:38,480
asked if she remembers having or seeing
a silver cord attached to her like people

583
00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:45,039
having out of body experiences report,
she said there wasn't one. I asked

584
00:47:45,079 --> 00:47:51,480
if she was in a craft or
flying like Superman. I was flying outside

585
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,400
of the craft, she said.
And that's the end of her story.

586
00:47:54,440 --> 00:48:01,480
And what's all These abduction type stories
are fascinating to me, She didn't see

587
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:07,000
it when she took the picture,
but when the when the digital components of

588
00:48:07,079 --> 00:48:12,119
her phone developed the picture, that
object is there. That's really interesting to

589
00:48:12,199 --> 00:48:15,639
me. So thanks Todd for sending
an a story. Here's another one from

590
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:22,599
Todd. This one is called The
Boy Scientist. We were in the process

591
00:48:22,639 --> 00:48:27,079
of moving into a new store location, and while taking down and dismantling the

592
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:30,880
sign out front, a stranger approached
me. He wanted to share a few

593
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:35,000
stories with me, so I stopped
what I was doing and I listened.

594
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,480
This story begins when I was around
four or five years of age, he

595
00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:44,880
began. I remember my parents taking
me to a location with small hills surrounding

596
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:49,679
the area. We went there often. One day, while en route to

597
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,320
the location, I could see up
ahead a metallic disc shaped craft sitting on

598
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:58,480
the ground, and people appeared to
be working on it. I remember thinking

599
00:48:58,519 --> 00:49:01,960
that it was being built by these
people. Once we parked and got out,

600
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:07,039
the workers asked me to come over
and inspect the craft. I also

601
00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:10,280
recall walking around it and somehow knowing
where to place my hand to open a

602
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:15,679
door into the craft, And when
the door opened, I was just about

603
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:20,519
to go inside when someone stopped me
to ask my advice on some other matter.

604
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,519
That's really all I can remember,
he told me. I don't even

605
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:30,000
remember if I eventually got to go
inside the craft. Over the years as

606
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:35,320
an adult, I've been plagued with
those similar memories, and I even set

607
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,679
out multiple times to find that place, but I never succeeded. I remember

608
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:45,039
the tiny location with the hills well, but I cannot remember anything beyond the

609
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:50,119
surrounding hills or how we got there, he added. He told me that

610
00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:53,679
he's also asked his parents repeatedly about
it and where they lived when he was

611
00:49:53,719 --> 00:50:00,159
four or five years old, but
they've continued to withhold that information, and

612
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,840
he concluded, either way they've been
told to keep it a secret, or

613
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:09,719
they really don't know what I'm talking
about. It's really rather strange. His

614
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:15,199
next story developed while he was on
vacation. He was out near two popular

615
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:21,119
hiking trails when he saw some strange
lights in the sky, and from his

616
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,440
experience, he told me he felt
that they were not conventional aircraft, so

617
00:50:24,559 --> 00:50:29,280
he wanted to start up a conversation
with some people who were part nearby.

618
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,960
Something was strange about them, he
said, but I couldn't be sure what

619
00:50:34,039 --> 00:50:37,559
it was, and when I turned
around to look at them again, they

620
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:42,239
were gone, and so was their
vehicle. He told me that he recalled

621
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,719
going home and later that evening asking
for a sign that those were in fact

622
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:52,079
UFOs he'd seen over the canyons.
My request was specific to the daytime and

623
00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:59,159
location where I wanted to receive the
confirmation, he clarified. When the time

624
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,840
near. Drove up to the lookout
near the airport, and there were other

625
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:07,320
people up there, so I wasn't
alone. Two of the people standing near

626
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,800
me seemed a little odd too,
so I turned to the man and asked

627
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:15,800
what had drawn them to the lookout
that day. The stranger replied that he

628
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,800
had heard there was going to be
a large sighting in the sky at sunset,

629
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,639
and he pointed to an area of
the sky in the distance. Because

630
00:51:23,639 --> 00:51:29,599
of the odd coincidence of what the
stranger said and where he pointed, he

631
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:34,719
decided to turn and walk away.
He pointed to the same location that I

632
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,280
saw the lights, he added,
and that freaked me out, And as

633
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,920
I walked away, I thought to
myself, that's enough of a sign for

634
00:51:42,039 --> 00:51:45,119
me, And suddenly I heard the
woman who was with him say, well,

635
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:51,559
I guess there won't be a sighting
after all. The following story was

636
00:51:51,599 --> 00:51:58,119
the final experience he shared with me. After possibly feeling separation, anxiety,

637
00:51:58,599 --> 00:52:01,840
or to reassure himself off that he
wasn't crazy and that his memories of seeing

638
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:07,320
craft and interacting with other beings was
real, he again asked for contact and

639
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:14,239
selected the time in the location.
This time he began. I arrived at

640
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,639
my preferred location a bit early and
parked the car, and I waited,

641
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:22,599
and as the minutes passed, I
grew restless, and then right at the

642
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:25,480
prescribed time, an old, beat
up truck pulled up beside my car.

643
00:52:27,039 --> 00:52:30,760
It was driven by a woman.
I couldn't believe it, he said,

644
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:34,679
there were so many other places to
park, Why did she have to park

645
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,559
right next to me. I looked
back at my watch, and it was

646
00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:43,119
now past the requested meeting time,
and I became frustrated, and I huffed

647
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:46,400
as I reached for the keys and
started up my car. As I backed

648
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,559
out and shifted into drive, I
looked back at the mother and child one

649
00:52:51,639 --> 00:52:55,400
last time. It was at that
moment the newborn set up and waved goodbye

650
00:52:55,440 --> 00:53:00,039
to me. It wasn't until miles
down the road, about halfway home,

651
00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:05,920
that I realized what had just happened. I replayed in my mind all the

652
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,239
details from that brief period in the
park, leaving me no choice but to

653
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:14,400
conclude that they were there to meet
me, and I blew it. He

654
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:17,519
continued, They were setting up a
sort of picnic, but it wasn't warm

655
00:53:17,559 --> 00:53:22,719
out, and what mother would bring
a newborn child out into the cold elements

656
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:27,559
for a picnic? And the child
was not dressed warmly either, And what

657
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,199
newborn baby can sit up on its
own and lift its arm and then wave

658
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:37,599
goodbye while looking right at me.
He asked me this while shaking his head.

659
00:53:38,199 --> 00:53:43,320
That's a good story. That is
a good story. These people have

660
00:53:43,639 --> 00:53:46,559
recurring events over and over and over, and I see in the comments,

661
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:52,159
and I see in emails that people
send me, And this is so interesting

662
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:57,880
to me that once you have one
of these experiences, they continue to happen

663
00:53:58,039 --> 00:54:00,000
through your life, and sometimes you
have to really think think about what's going

664
00:54:00,039 --> 00:54:04,440
on, and then for the rest
of your life, if you tell other

665
00:54:04,519 --> 00:54:08,079
people, you're branded as a nut. And I'm glad that this man shared

666
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:13,119
this story with Todd. No names
are given. Nobody here can call him

667
00:54:13,119 --> 00:54:20,199
a nut, but it is fascinating
stuff. Let's do a Bigfoot story right

668
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,960
now, and then I'll do the
last one from Todd. This is a

669
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:29,360
Bigfoot story from Barry and Idaho.
Back in the late nineteen eighties, when

670
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,119
I was ten, we lived in
the Waha Mountains of northern Idaho, where

671
00:54:32,119 --> 00:54:37,320
I spent most of my time outdoors, hunting and fishing. I would often

672
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,360
run off in the woods by myself, where sometimes I'd notice things would get

673
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,280
real quiet, and I'd get the
feeling that something was watching me. One

674
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:49,880
day, while we were out driving, my mother suddenly yelled at my dad

675
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,239
to stopped the car. Dad argued, but Mom won, so we stopped

676
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:59,360
and we got out. Behind us
on the road were bear tracks, Some

677
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,400
were big and some were small.
We followed them to a meadow that rested

678
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:07,320
on top of a small hill.
I was fascinated by what I was seeing,

679
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:12,000
so I continued to follow the largest
tracks into a stand of trees.

680
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:16,559
The mom and dad were close behind, and there we found one impression.

681
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:22,400
It was the footprint of some giant
creature, and it appeared to have mowed

682
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:27,119
down several trees in the middle of
those trees. We found a spot where

683
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:30,599
it looked like the creature had fallen, and we could see the evidence in

684
00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:35,119
the snow where it had pushed itself
up. I'm guessing by the size that

685
00:55:35,199 --> 00:55:38,880
it must have been the Alpha.
My father and I both measured our arms

686
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:43,639
against the marks left by the creature's
arms, and my dad was a big

687
00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:49,360
man, but even his long arms
couldn't match the imprints. We tried stomping

688
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,880
in the frozen snow to make prints
as deep as the creatures, but we

689
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:57,719
couldn't. Its print went all the
way into the mud, and ours went

690
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,599
no more than an inch deep.
Well, I couldn't believe it. It

691
00:56:00,679 --> 00:56:05,079
was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, and it was all right in front

692
00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:08,599
of me. I saw all the
little imperfections in the foot. There were

693
00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:14,199
veins and wrinkles and signs of past
injuries, and impressions of hair around the

694
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:19,079
foot. It looked like it had
broken a little toe that curved outward.

695
00:56:20,679 --> 00:56:23,000
There was a small track that showed
up for just a few feet, as

696
00:56:23,039 --> 00:56:27,519
if it was an infant that had
been allowed to walk for a few minutes

697
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,719
and was then lifted back up into
the mother's arms. I followed the largest

698
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:37,320
track over to what was clearly a
vantage point overlooking the meadow, and I

699
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:42,079
imagined it had stopped there for quite
a while before turning and heading into the

700
00:56:42,159 --> 00:56:46,159
trees. My father went into town
and got something to make a cast,

701
00:56:46,519 --> 00:56:52,239
and he contacted Grover Krantz, the
famous professor at the University of Washington,

702
00:56:52,679 --> 00:57:00,199
who told him he believed that Bigfoot
was an ancestor of Gigantopithecus. Oh,

703
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,320
my father to kill one and bring
in the lower jaw, and then we

704
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:08,599
can prove that Bigfoot exists, doctor
Krantz said. I was listening in on

705
00:57:08,639 --> 00:57:13,960
the call, and I clearly remember
my father uttering a few unkind words and

706
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:19,559
response. Sometime later, my mother
and I were out driving the back roads

707
00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:23,000
up in the mountains again when we
came across another set of tracks. We

708
00:57:23,119 --> 00:57:28,719
decided it must have been a juvenile
that made them. I think we thought

709
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,840
that we were some kind of pros
out in the forest, but we were

710
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:36,159
about to find out that we were
intermediate at best. We were about to

711
00:57:36,199 --> 00:57:40,760
get school. We started following the
track, careful to walk next to them,

712
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,679
not in them, and it wasn't
long before I started to realize that

713
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:51,079
we were making a big circle.
It was doubling back. As soon as

714
00:57:51,119 --> 00:57:52,880
I saw a car ahead of us, I got the feeling that we were

715
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,800
being watched, and the hair on
the back of my neck stood up,

716
00:57:57,079 --> 00:58:01,679
and I felt fear, unlike I'd
ever felt it before. I instinctively started

717
00:58:01,719 --> 00:58:06,440
trying to be quieter, and I
was fighting to remain calm, and I

718
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,639
felt like it was in the trees
above us. I'm right here, I

719
00:58:09,719 --> 00:58:15,599
whispered, I know, Mom answered
quietly, I think it's above us.

720
00:58:15,639 --> 00:58:19,719
I told her, Then, don't
look up, she replied. We need

721
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,360
to get out of here, I
said, fighting to hide the fear in

722
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:27,119
my voice. We made it out, but I couldn't stop thinking about how

723
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:30,360
it had doubled back on us,
and somewhere along the way it had turned

724
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:36,079
and walked right back into its own
tracks. I realized that we were out

725
00:58:36,119 --> 00:58:39,519
there tracking something that could have hurt
us, and we were unarmed. I

726
00:58:39,559 --> 00:58:44,880
wanted to share these two encounters for
a while now. It isn't easy.

727
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,880
I grew up in a time when
people told stories like these and they were

728
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:53,880
considered weirdos. I'm glad things have
changed, Barry. I don't know if

729
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:58,360
things have changed or not, but
it is a great story. And the

730
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,920
doubling back man that is an event
I have never heard of. So you're

731
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:07,880
out tracking a bigfoot and he's just
walking in circles. He's staying on the

732
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,559
opposite side of the circle, putting
his feet right back in the tracks,

733
00:59:10,559 --> 00:59:15,280
and he's running you in circles.
That sounds like something Native Americans would do

734
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:20,480
at some point. Maybe I don't
have any proof of that, but it

735
00:59:20,559 --> 00:59:23,320
sounds like something they would do because
they were very crafty and clever out in

736
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:27,559
the wilderness. So Barry, thanks
for the story. It was really good.

737
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,360
All right, let me open Todd's
last story. All right, this

738
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:37,079
is a story Todd in titles.
My name is Todd. I don't know

739
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:39,119
if he's talking about himself or not. I'm reading this cold. I haven't

740
00:59:39,119 --> 00:59:44,440
read this, so I'm just first
time i've read it. From the first

741
00:59:44,519 --> 00:59:47,519
night they lived in the house,
bumps or thuds and the sound of feet

742
00:59:47,599 --> 00:59:52,800
running in the attic, beings walking
past windows, and the sounds of doors

743
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:59,559
shuttings all began at eleven pm every
night after a long tour. I'd oftentimes

744
00:59:59,559 --> 01:00:02,719
get back to their house well after
midnight, even as late as three am,

745
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,599
I would drop off their truck and
then drive my car home, which

746
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:12,159
was a good thirty five minutes away. I was already tired, and it

747
01:00:12,239 --> 01:00:15,679
was common for me to spend the
night on their couch rather than driving all

748
01:00:15,719 --> 01:00:20,679
the way home. My boss's daughter
always had friends staying over, even on

749
01:00:20,719 --> 01:00:24,719
the weekend nights. They were always
up all night playing and talking in their

750
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:30,320
bedroom. One night, while sleeping
on the couch, I awoke to find

751
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:34,119
three of them curled up together on
the floor next to the couch. They

752
01:00:34,119 --> 01:00:37,360
hadn't slept yet and the sun was
on the rise. I asked, what's

753
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:42,079
going on? How come you're not
in your bedroom. One of them said,

754
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:45,599
well, we can't sleep in there. What do you mean you can't

755
01:00:45,639 --> 01:00:50,239
sleep in there? I said,
We hear noises and see things outside the

756
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,239
window, said the daughter. What
sort of noises? I asked, Well,

757
01:00:54,239 --> 01:00:58,800
it's like people running on the roof. She replied, it's always happens

758
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,480
at eleven pm. Okay, I
said, as I rolled back over and

759
01:01:02,519 --> 01:01:07,960
went back to sleep. Over the
next several weeks, this same thing played

760
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:13,519
out again and again, and finally
her mother changed bedrooms with her, but

761
01:01:13,599 --> 01:01:17,440
that didn't help. Then their daughter's
birthday arrived and they took her to Las

762
01:01:17,559 --> 01:01:22,000
Vegas, and they asked me to
house sit and keep an eye on the

763
01:01:22,079 --> 01:01:25,599
dog. It was business as usual
at the shop, and i'd crash at

764
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:30,880
their place afterward. The dog and
I got along great, and when it

765
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:36,119
was time for bed, she slept
close by. The first night I heard

766
01:01:36,199 --> 01:01:40,800
them become active. The house was
previously quiet and then sounded as if a

767
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:46,159
family returned home from vacation or something. Doors were slamming and kids were running

768
01:01:46,199 --> 01:01:50,760
around, et cetera. And when
I turned to see what time it was,

769
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:55,280
the clock said eleven pm, just
like clockwork. I thought to myself,

770
01:01:57,159 --> 01:02:00,079
she was right. There's a lot
of noise in it. Sounded like

771
01:02:00,119 --> 01:02:02,960
a bunch of people on the roof
are in the attic. While I lay

772
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:07,079
there awake, I listened to them
and mentally followed their activities around the house,

773
01:02:07,119 --> 01:02:12,039
and I made notes of where I
heard them. The following night,

774
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,719
I went to bed before eleven o'clock
so I could send them a bit of

775
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:20,000
an invite, And as I lay
under the blanket, I sent them a

776
01:02:20,159 --> 01:02:22,800
thought that if they were okay with
it, I would like to see them.

777
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:27,599
My name is Todd, and I'm
watching the house and the dog.

778
01:02:27,679 --> 01:02:30,440
I said to them, and my
thoughts, if you would rather not show

779
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:35,559
yourselves to me now, maybe you
could appear to me during my dreams,

780
01:02:35,719 --> 01:02:40,519
I added. Sometime in the early
hours, I heard someone near me whisper

781
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,000
his name is Todd. With this, I woke to see two women in

782
01:02:46,119 --> 01:02:52,400
period dresses, maybe from the eighteen
hundreds, standing about four feet from me,

783
01:02:52,079 --> 01:02:54,760
and one of them was facing me, while the other, who I

784
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,119
believe was the one talking, was
slightly turned to the side with her back

785
01:03:00,159 --> 01:03:04,119
to me, as if looking at
the other woman while she talked. The

786
01:03:04,119 --> 01:03:07,440
more I tried to focus on them, the more I awoke, and the

787
01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:12,519
less I saw them. Within five
seconds, I couldn't see them at all.

788
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:16,760
After this encounter, I never again
heard them in the attic, and

789
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:25,480
that was the only time I ever
saw them. This email is from Christopher,

790
01:03:25,519 --> 01:03:31,440
and it's paranormal in nature. It's
really good. My family on my

791
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:37,800
mother's side have unique abilities. My
grandfather, as told to me by my

792
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:42,719
grandmother, was for lack of a
better term, a witch doctor. People

793
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,280
would come to him because he could
cure different types of illnesses. He said,

794
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:50,719
my mother would be next in line, but he died before he was

795
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,480
able to teach her. She was
still able to predict bursts and feel the

796
01:03:54,480 --> 01:04:00,519
moods of people around her. My
abilities are the opposite For me. It's

797
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:06,239
death and ghosts. I've had many
strange things happened to me, and there

798
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:13,079
was one incident that bothers me to
this day. It changed my life.

799
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,280
There's a church near the Southern Park
Mall in Boardman, Ohio, where my

800
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:21,159
brother's friend was a caretaker. It's
a church and school combined, so it's

801
01:04:21,199 --> 01:04:27,519
a large building with two large chapels, a classroom, offices, and community

802
01:04:27,599 --> 01:04:31,360
rooms. A good sized group of
us were meeting there to play some game

803
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:35,840
or another. One night. We
showed up early, so my brother's friend

804
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:40,079
asked me to walk around with him
to shut off the lights and lock the

805
01:04:40,119 --> 01:04:44,679
doors and generally just check the building. It was I that he asked me

806
01:04:44,719 --> 01:04:48,039
to do this, because I was
always seen as George's little brother, not

807
01:04:48,159 --> 01:04:54,000
their friend Christopher. These were all
my brother's friends, and I was happy

808
01:04:54,039 --> 01:04:57,840
to do it though, because I
saw it as me being accepted into their

809
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:02,679
group. It all was okay until
we reached the room where the priest gets

810
01:05:02,719 --> 01:05:09,400
ready the worst feeling hit me.
The pressure seemed to increase and there was

811
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:14,440
a disgusting feeling coming from the room. I stopped and I said I can't

812
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,760
go in there. My brother's friend
said, don't worry about it. You

813
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:23,480
won't be breaking any religious rules by
going in. Well, that wasn't quite

814
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:27,039
what I meant, but I couldn't
explain why I felt that way, so

815
01:05:27,159 --> 01:05:31,480
I went in. It was even
worse inside. We walked through and went

816
01:05:31,519 --> 01:05:38,840
out the other side. Instantly everything
felt normal again. We locked some doors

817
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:42,559
and turned off a couple of lights
before coming back to the room. The

818
01:05:42,599 --> 01:05:46,039
second we approached it, I got
an awful feeling again and I beg not

819
01:05:46,199 --> 01:05:49,960
to go in there. I even
asked to go outside and wait by another

820
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:56,159
door, but he said no.
It was late February, with the temperatures

821
01:05:56,199 --> 01:06:00,559
and the teens and half a foot
of snow on the ground feet. I

822
01:06:00,639 --> 01:06:03,559
only weighed one hundred and twenty five
pounds, so no thermal on me,

823
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:08,920
and I was only wearing a T
shirt. But I didn't want to go

824
01:06:09,039 --> 01:06:13,880
in that room so much that I
would have willingly stood outside to avoid it.

825
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,960
I had no choice. Though my
brother's friend was a former lineman for

826
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:24,599
the football team. He wasn't small, and we went in and the room

827
01:06:24,679 --> 01:06:29,320
felt even worse this time, Just
like the first time. As soon as

828
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:33,199
we left the room, the feeling
went away. Next we went to the

829
01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:38,960
basement where there were some more classrooms, the cafeteria and kitchen, and some

830
01:06:39,039 --> 01:06:43,800
storage areas. Then we went back
upstairs and entered the old chapel from the

831
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,920
rear side. We had to go
across the back to set a couple of

832
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,719
doors just inside the chapel. I
stopped, I can't go in there.

833
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:56,480
I told him there's a ghost and
it doesn't like me, and then I

834
01:06:56,519 --> 01:07:00,760
pointed it out to him. He
could see the black shadow near the front

835
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:06,159
by the organ. He uttered an
expletive and we headed for the doors across

836
01:07:06,199 --> 01:07:12,039
from us, and it started following
us. The faster we moved, the

837
01:07:12,119 --> 01:07:16,400
faster it moved. There was just
the one shadow, not too so it

838
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:20,920
wasn't our own shadows we were seeing. We made it through the doors,

839
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:26,440
moving at a pretty fast paced.
It was fifty feet to the corner where

840
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:30,199
the stairs to this third floor apartment
were and I started feeling hot as we

841
01:07:30,239 --> 01:07:34,159
walked to it. It was like
something hit me, but it wasn't physical.

842
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:41,159
For a few seconds, I was
completely disoriented and I lost all thoughts

843
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:45,400
where I was or even who I
was. Now. I was just coming

844
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,639
back to myself when the second one
hit. This was worse than the first

845
01:07:48,639 --> 01:07:54,400
one, and I had to grab
the wall to keep from collapsing. Well,

846
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:58,079
it passed, and my head was
beginning to clear when a third one

847
01:07:58,159 --> 01:08:02,320
hit, and this one put me
on the ground. My brother's friend pulled

848
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:06,280
me to my feet and away from
that spot. Now I got my head

849
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:10,000
on straight, and I told him
to go stand in the spot where I

850
01:08:10,079 --> 01:08:13,679
was attacked. Well, he was
a big boy, like I said,

851
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,319
alignment on the football team. He
bounced off the wall like he was nothing.

852
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:23,359
That stirred him into motion, and
he grabbed me and we ran up

853
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:28,199
the stairs, and I don't remember
touching a single step in two flights.

854
01:08:29,239 --> 01:08:31,319
When we got to where my brother
was, he asked me how I knew

855
01:08:31,319 --> 01:08:35,439
about the ghost. So I told
him about my ability. About a week

856
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:40,520
ago, he said, I was
getting in bed with my wife. I

857
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,439
just lifted my leg to climb in
when a face appeared in front of me

858
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,319
that scared the crap out of me. He paused him in it, and

859
01:08:47,359 --> 01:08:50,920
then he added it was just a
face. There was no head, no

860
01:08:51,039 --> 01:08:56,319
body, just a face. The
next day, he and his wife moved

861
01:08:56,359 --> 01:09:00,640
out of the church and in with
her parents. This happened back in nineteen

862
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:04,399
ninety five, a couple of years
ago. I went back there to talk

863
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:09,159
to someone about it, and no
one there was able to tell me anything.

864
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:13,560
I wrote down my name and number, along with a note stating that

865
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,359
I'd like to talk to someone about
what happened to me there, but no

866
01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:19,800
one ever called me. It was
still there. I felt it that day

867
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:25,199
that I went back. I want
to go there again. There are more

868
01:09:25,239 --> 01:09:29,640
details about the church I'd like to
clarify, but there are more stories of

869
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,159
things that had happened to people there. But whatever is there, it's very

870
01:09:33,159 --> 01:09:39,960
strong. Okay, that's a ghost
living inside a church. I don't know

871
01:09:40,079 --> 01:09:45,760
something about These paranormal events are just
captivating. They're very believable. Some of

872
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:51,439
these are very believable, and I
really enjoyed reading this person's account. Chris,

873
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:58,760
Thanks for the story. I really
appreciate it. All Right, here's

874
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,560
an email from someone who doesn't have
a name. I don't know. Maybe

875
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,600
they have a name, but they
didn't give it to me, which is

876
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:08,680
not a problem. But this is
a Bigfoot story, and he says this

877
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:14,399
is absolutely true. In November of
nineteen seventy nine, I was fourteen,

878
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:18,039
not old enough to hunt legally in
New York. My dad was an avid

879
01:10:18,119 --> 01:10:23,920
hunter who usually hunted in Naples.
They call it part of the southern tier

880
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:28,079
of the state. My dad worked
with a man who owned some prime hunting

881
01:10:28,119 --> 01:10:31,840
property there. My uncle was supposed
to go with him that year, but

882
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,960
something came up, so my dad
asked me if I'd like to go in

883
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:41,359
his place and push the deer.
Of course, I said yes. I

884
01:10:41,399 --> 01:10:45,640
was so excited I barely got any
sleep the night before we left. We

885
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,600
drove off at four am and headed
to the dark and frozen woods in our

886
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:55,439
Ford pinto wagon. Dad explained as
we went what my function would be.

887
01:10:56,399 --> 01:10:59,720
I would head into the woods alone
and push the deer to where he would

888
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,279
be up and ready for them.
We got to the gravel road that took

889
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:08,800
us into his coworker's property and Dad
told me to walk about two hundred yards

890
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:13,239
in the woods and hunker down for
forty five minutes or so, and then

891
01:11:13,359 --> 01:11:16,920
start walking east. I actually knew
a lot about the woods even then.

892
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:23,520
I spent pretty much every spare moment
of my time in the woods around our

893
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:28,399
home. Anyway, Dad handed me
his O twelve gage shotgun. It was

894
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,720
empty, but I had a couple
of slugs in my coat pocket just in

895
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:36,399
case. I stood there watching the
tailgates of the pinto disappear over the crest

896
01:11:36,399 --> 01:11:41,279
of the hill, and then turned
and let my vision adjust to the darkness

897
01:11:41,319 --> 01:11:45,960
for a minute before I started walking. I wasn't afraid of the woods back

898
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,600
then. I walked quite aways,
and I had to scale an old fence

899
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:55,359
line At one point. I remember
the patches of snow and how cold I

900
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,680
was, despite being dressed in three
layers of clothes and a good pair of

901
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:04,239
winter boots, the kind with liners
that can be removed. It began to

902
01:12:04,279 --> 01:12:10,199
get light outside, but the sky
was overcast in dark shades of angry gray.

903
01:12:11,079 --> 01:12:14,439
I went into a deep gully with
ten to fifteen foot banks, and

904
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:17,319
I followed it until it turned east, the direction I had to go to

905
01:12:17,319 --> 01:12:21,960
get to my father. Then I
climbed the tall bank and found a good

906
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:27,439
sized tree that had fallen, and
where I squatted and rested my back against

907
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,920
it, and by then I was
tired. Without a good night's sleep,

908
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:35,680
I'd been running on pure adrenaline all
morning. I guess I've knotted off.

909
01:12:38,319 --> 01:12:42,479
I woke up to the sound of
a tree branch snapping, and I panned

910
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,119
the area across the gully to the
opposite ridge, thinking it might have been

911
01:12:45,159 --> 01:12:49,279
a big buck. And I searched
across the area and I saw what looked

912
01:12:49,319 --> 01:12:54,880
like a large man standing next to
a tree. Well, I focused in

913
01:12:55,039 --> 01:13:00,720
and I froze. It wasn't a
man. My father was six feet tall,

914
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,239
and this thing was nearly twice that. It was covered hair, but

915
01:13:03,319 --> 01:13:09,199
it wasn't a bear either. I
couldn't see its face, its long,

916
01:13:09,239 --> 01:13:13,239
matted hair covered it, but I
could see clouds of breath pouring through the

917
01:13:13,319 --> 01:13:16,760
hair on the cold morning air.
Its hair was all brown, but a

918
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:21,399
lighter shade on its chest in the
front of its thighs. Based on its

919
01:13:21,399 --> 01:13:27,319
body position, it had to be
looking straight at me. Well, I

920
01:13:27,399 --> 01:13:30,560
figured it was standing like this for
five minutes or so, which felt like

921
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:35,000
a lifetime to me. My heart
was pounding out of my skin the whole

922
01:13:35,039 --> 01:13:40,760
time. But I was frozen in
place, and I couldn't move, and

923
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:45,159
then it took one step in my
direction, and that unfrozeed me. I

924
01:13:45,279 --> 01:13:49,159
turned and started running as fast as
I could in the direction that I'd come.

925
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:53,520
I had the twelve gage, but
I didn't think about it at the

926
01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:59,479
time. I approached the fence line
and I chucked the shotgun over it and

927
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,239
dove a the fence behind it,
and then I grabbed the gun and briefly

928
01:14:02,239 --> 01:14:05,960
looked back to see if anything was
behind me. And I kept running until

929
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:12,520
I got to the gravel road.
During that Olympic run, I managed to

930
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:16,000
lose a boot. I was only
wearing the lining, but I didn't care.

931
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,800
I got my bearings and headed up
the road in the direction my dad

932
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:25,359
had gone, and I found the
Pinto parked on the side of the road,

933
01:14:25,359 --> 01:14:29,840
but to my horror, it was
locked there. I was surrounded by

934
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:33,880
heavy woods in the middle of nowhere, and now painfully aware that monsters do

935
01:14:34,119 --> 01:14:40,479
exist. I loaded the gun and
knelt down with my back against the car

936
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:45,279
and waited and listened to every single
noise. When my dad finally came out

937
01:14:45,319 --> 01:14:47,920
of the woods, he was asking, what the hell happened to you,

938
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:53,960
boy? I told him exactly what
happened. It was probably a bear,

939
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:59,039
if anything at all, he reasoned. I told my best friend back then,

940
01:14:59,159 --> 01:15:02,600
and he seemed believe me. I'm
now fifty six and I live in

941
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:08,840
Florida. Dad has been gone since
nineteen eighty seven, but I can relive

942
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:14,479
that morning like flipping a switch.
I did some small game hunting after that

943
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,920
happened, but only in the woods
where I grew up in Neverden. When

944
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:23,399
I was in my thirties, I
ran across the BFRO and reported the incident

945
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:27,520
to them. A man contacted me
about it, and we spoke for quite

946
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:32,319
a while. The research I've done
since then shows that these things migrate from

947
01:15:32,359 --> 01:15:39,199
the Adirondack Mountains down through the Herkimer
Valley and into the Southern Tier, as

948
01:15:39,279 --> 01:15:45,479
well as northern Pennsylvania and the Ohio
Valley regions. Whoa, whoa, you

949
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:48,920
know I did a story not too
long. Well, no, it was

950
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:54,239
about three years ago about a kid
who was squirrel hunting and he ran up

951
01:15:54,279 --> 01:15:59,520
on the same thing, And it
seems like his grandfather walked up behind him

952
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,439
while he was facing this bigfoot and
just said, you need to just back

953
01:16:02,479 --> 01:16:05,840
away. Come on with me,
and we're gonna walk out. Everything's gonna

954
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:11,920
be fine. This story reminds me
of that. It's I think people go

955
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,039
in the woods hunters. I fallen
asleep under trees before squirrel hunting, and

956
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,880
up in the Duff's falling asleep in
a deer stand before. You just get

957
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:23,319
comfortable, especially if you're in a
shooting house. It's got a heater in

958
01:16:23,399 --> 01:16:27,600
it. Oh man, get ready
to take a nap, take some food

959
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:30,920
and be a glutton and then go
back to sleep. But a minute you

960
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,960
wake up, you look out that
one to Sometimes there'll be a deer standing

961
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:39,840
there, and I can see that
happening with Bigfoot. You fall asleep,

962
01:16:40,279 --> 01:16:44,399
you wake up straight in front of
you, there's this giant monster just staring

963
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,680
at you, wondering what the hell
you're doing there. Anyway, I love

964
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:51,039
this story. I thought this was
a great story as well written, and

965
01:16:51,359 --> 01:16:56,319
it had so much good stuff in
it. So thank you to the writer.

966
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,479
Here's a pretty good story from South
Mississippi. I think you guys will

967
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:10,239
appreciate this one. The writer doesn't
say whether to reveal his name or not,

968
01:17:10,319 --> 01:17:13,520
so I'm just not going to do
that. But here's what he writes.

969
01:17:14,319 --> 01:17:17,000
My story begins when I was eight
years old. I'm forty now,

970
01:17:17,359 --> 01:17:21,359
and I grew up in deep southern
Mississippi, and that's all I'm really willing

971
01:17:21,399 --> 01:17:26,880
to say about the location. My
mom, dad, and two sisters,

972
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:31,000
and I lived on my grandparents' property, where my grandfather had cattle. We

973
01:17:31,079 --> 01:17:35,039
lived towards the front of the property
and my grandparents lived way in the back.

974
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:40,359
The road dead ended at their brick
house, where my grandmother had at

975
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:45,920
least one hundred azalea bushes out front. I don't recall the exact year,

976
01:17:45,199 --> 01:17:50,000
but I do recall it with spring
because the azaleas were in full bloom.

977
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:54,800
It was a beautiful sight to come
around the bend in the road to see

978
01:17:54,840 --> 01:18:00,920
my grandmother's azaleas and all their glory. My grandparents had several businesses, so

979
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:04,560
they were always gone. Living in
the country and thirty miles from the nearest

980
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:09,319
store, my mother would often find
it easier to send me down to their

981
01:18:09,359 --> 01:18:13,479
house to raid the cupboards for a
missing items she might need than to drive

982
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:17,439
into town. It was a walk
I made a thousand times, and one

983
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:23,600
I loved, especially in the spring. Sadly, that day my opinion would

984
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:29,319
change forever. I don't remember the
item my mother had sent me to retrieve,

985
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:31,560
but I was eager to get out
of the house. I couldn't wait

986
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,960
to see all those azalea bushes,
so I took off down the road,

987
01:18:35,039 --> 01:18:42,159
completely unaware of what was in store. When I got to the first straight

988
01:18:42,199 --> 01:18:45,760
away, I caught movement to my
right, just inside the woods. I

989
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,199
was no stranger to those woods.
I knew them like the back of my

990
01:18:49,319 --> 01:18:55,640
hand. I got to know the
woods through one hundred imaginary deer hunts and

991
01:18:55,680 --> 01:19:00,520
squirrel hunts. Armed with my Daisy
pellet rifle. The movements stopped me dead

992
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,800
in my tracks. I wasn't afraid. I thought it was one of my

993
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:10,039
grandfather's cows that had gone out of
its pasture. It had its back to

994
01:19:10,079 --> 01:19:14,039
me, so all I really saw
was something big and red, reddish brown

995
01:19:14,079 --> 01:19:17,720
in color. Just as I began
to resign myself to the thought of having

996
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:24,479
to wrangle the wayward cow, it
stood up on two legs. It stepped

997
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:29,840
over a five strand barbed wire fence
like it was nothing. My mind was

998
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:33,359
screaming that it was a bear.
Even the thought of being a bear was

999
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:38,119
enough to scare me to death,
and I just stood there in shock or

1000
01:19:38,279 --> 01:19:42,880
amazement or fear. I can't say
now. I just know I stood there

1001
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:47,079
for what felt like minutes but I'm
certain was only seconds. At some point

1002
01:19:47,119 --> 01:19:50,359
I snapped out of it and turned
to run as fast as I could back

1003
01:19:50,399 --> 01:19:55,560
to my house. There was no
way I was coming back through these woods

1004
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:59,319
with that big thing out there.
Even as I turned to run, my

1005
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:02,359
curiosity he got the best of me, and I couldn't resist looking back.

1006
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:09,159
The monstrous thing was staring at me, and it was huge. It was

1007
01:20:09,199 --> 01:20:13,560
a huge figure with its hands resting
on the top strand of the barbed wire.

1008
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:16,720
I didn't want to see its face, so I made tracks for home.

1009
01:20:18,359 --> 01:20:21,359
I got back to the house,
where I'm sure Mom was expecting me

1010
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:27,199
to have whatever items she needed from
Grandma's kitchen. I didn't give her time

1011
01:20:27,279 --> 01:20:30,720
to ask. Out of breath and
hands on my knees and gasping for air,

1012
01:20:31,239 --> 01:20:35,600
all I could say was there's a
bear down there, mom. Mom

1013
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:41,000
said that I must have been imagining
things. She insisted that I get back

1014
01:20:41,039 --> 01:20:45,359
down there and get what she needed. We do not have bears in these

1015
01:20:45,399 --> 01:20:49,399
woods, she said. I couldn't
bring myself to tell her or anyone else

1016
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:54,039
that what I saw really wasn't a
bear, and I didn't want to be

1017
01:20:54,119 --> 01:20:58,680
laughed at. Now I was pretty
darn sure my mom was right. There

1018
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:03,159
weren't any bears in those woods.
I refused to walk back to Grandma's house,

1019
01:21:03,159 --> 01:21:08,119
so Mom finally agreed to drive me. I showed her where I saw

1020
01:21:08,159 --> 01:21:12,159
it, but of course it was
gone. I never told anyone except my

1021
01:21:12,279 --> 01:21:15,880
mom because I was certain i'd be
laughed at. As time went on,

1022
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:19,560
though, I think Mom began to
believe that I saw something that day.

1023
01:21:20,399 --> 01:21:26,680
Before that day, I was never
one to stay inside. Suddenly I was

1024
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:30,119
perfectly fine with being indoors, and
she would ask me to describe it to

1025
01:21:30,159 --> 01:21:34,600
her, so I did. Back
then, I didn't know anything about bigfoot.

1026
01:21:35,279 --> 01:21:39,720
The old timers would talk about buggers, but I never really put all

1027
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:45,960
that together until recently. Years passed
and I got into my thirties, and

1028
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,720
by then I had decided that one
incident wasn't going to keep me out of

1029
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:54,800
the woods. I had gained permission
to hunt a prime track of woods that

1030
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:59,680
were perfect for getting a good buck. I took my younger brother and stepbrother

1031
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,199
along with me, and I sent
them to a good box stand where they

1032
01:22:02,199 --> 01:22:06,640
could hunt together. While I took
off with my climber for the deep woods.

1033
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:12,720
There was a spot where I knew
the big ones would be. I

1034
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,039
was walking to this perfect spot and
the deeper end of the woods. I

1035
01:22:15,079 --> 01:22:19,640
got the more of a creepy feeling
I got about the place. It was

1036
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:25,119
like I was being watched. I
started hearing noises in the bush when I

1037
01:22:25,199 --> 01:22:29,439
walked, but it stopped when I
stopped. Now, I told myself it

1038
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:32,840
was just me being rattled by being
so deep in the woods, until I

1039
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:38,279
started climbing up the perfect pine tree
and my old man climber and started getting

1040
01:22:38,399 --> 01:22:43,479
rocks thrown at me. I yelled
out that whoever was throwing the rocks was

1041
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:48,479
on private property, but dead silence
was my only answer at first, and

1042
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:54,079
then the god offless scream I've ever
heard in my life came belting out of

1043
01:22:54,079 --> 01:22:57,920
the woods. It felt like it
vibrated the tree, and it shook me

1044
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:00,960
to my core. I'm really not
going to why about it. I climbed

1045
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:04,079
down out of that tree and got
back to my truck as fast as I

1046
01:23:04,119 --> 01:23:10,000
could, leaving my old man climber
right where I'm sure it still hangs today.

1047
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,800
I threw open the truck door,
jumped inside and cranked her up,

1048
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:16,960
and I was about to tear out
of there when I remembered my brother and

1049
01:23:17,079 --> 01:23:21,119
step brother. Oh well, I
thought it'll be dark soon enough and they'll

1050
01:23:21,119 --> 01:23:26,800
come out. And it wasn't long
before I heard footsteps coming up to the

1051
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:30,960
side of the truck. I was
looking at my phone and I assumed it

1052
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,159
was my two brothers, and I
never bothered looking up. One of them

1053
01:23:34,239 --> 01:23:36,680
jumped into the back of the truck, and I thought, yep, that's

1054
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:42,279
got to be my step brother.
He's six foot four tall and easily weighs

1055
01:23:42,279 --> 01:23:46,000
three hundred pounds. I couldn't imagine
anything else that could rock the truck like

1056
01:23:46,039 --> 01:23:50,640
that. After a bit, when
there was no noise, no truck shaking,

1057
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:55,479
and only pure silence, I opened
the door to see what was going

1058
01:23:55,520 --> 01:24:00,119
on. And that's when I saw
their flashlight coming up the road. What

1059
01:24:00,119 --> 01:24:02,479
did you guys forget? I called, Well. They looked at me with

1060
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:08,039
a puzzled expression and said, huh. I told them that they'd come to

1061
01:24:08,119 --> 01:24:11,239
the truck and put something in the
back, and now they were walking up

1062
01:24:11,239 --> 01:24:14,479
the road, so I figured they
must have forgotten something and gone back to

1063
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,000
get it. They said no,
that they were just now coming out of

1064
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:21,000
the woods. For the first time, I could tell that they were telling

1065
01:24:21,039 --> 01:24:26,039
the truth, and I kept hoping
they'd burst out laughing at any moment,

1066
01:24:26,159 --> 01:24:30,279
but they never did. They got
in the truck and we left. I

1067
01:24:30,319 --> 01:24:33,520
have not been back to those woods, and I've spent a lot of time

1068
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:38,399
mulling over these events. What did
I see in the woods that day on

1069
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,520
my way to my grandmother's And what
in this world could have screamed at me

1070
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:46,600
in the woods or made my truck
rock like that. I'm content to believe

1071
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:50,840
that whatever it was did not want
me there for whatever reason, and I'm

1072
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:57,680
happy to oblige. Oh dude,
that's a good story. South Mississippi gets

1073
01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:02,319
a lot of these stories. The
whole state does, and I don't Mississippi

1074
01:25:02,359 --> 01:25:08,039
Alabama. Here's the point. These
things apparently are everywhere. There's some form

1075
01:25:08,119 --> 01:25:13,119
of these creatures all over the United
States. The only place I haven't heard

1076
01:25:13,399 --> 01:25:16,359
of encounters like this, and I'm
just thinking off the top of my head

1077
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:21,159
is the Great Plains States. You
know, the middle of the United States

1078
01:25:21,199 --> 01:25:26,560
where the uh, the Great Grass
Plains are think a little big horn,

1079
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:30,239
that type of area because there's no
cover, there's no place for them to

1080
01:25:30,279 --> 01:25:32,800
go. And those you know,
those are just just grasslands, is what

1081
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:36,840
they are. So I don't recall
having a story from there, but in

1082
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:43,079
any place that's wooded, especially in
the southeast or the east, or the

1083
01:25:43,079 --> 01:25:46,960
Pacific Northwest, not necessarily the desert, although Arizona has a few with the

1084
01:25:47,119 --> 01:25:51,520
mogion thing. Anyway, I'm just
I'm just talking out loud. I don't

1085
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:56,279
know what I'm talking about, but
all these thoughts come to my head and

1086
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:59,560
just I don't know, they just
come out of my mouth. But I'm

1087
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:02,800
just thinking and about when was the
last time that I got a story from

1088
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:08,960
those great plains or like the deserts
of southern California, for example. But

1089
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,840
anyway, this is a great story, and I really appreciate the man riding

1090
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,560
in. I've had it for a
long time and I've been anxious to get

1091
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:20,399
it out. So there you go. The guy claims it's true, but

1092
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:26,079
it's just the wonderful story. The
writer says, I'm from the beautiful small

1093
01:26:26,119 --> 01:26:30,239
town of Princeton, Indiana. It's
grown a bit in recent years, but

1094
01:26:30,319 --> 01:26:33,920
back when I was seventeen the time
when this encounter happened, it was still

1095
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:40,239
a typical small town America kind of
place. I grew up in a hunting

1096
01:26:40,279 --> 01:26:44,520
and fishing family. We were taught
how to live off the land and respect

1097
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:49,039
life at an early age. My
dad took each of us kids squirrel hunting

1098
01:26:49,079 --> 01:26:54,960
at the young age of ten.
He taught us proper gun handling and safety

1099
01:26:55,359 --> 01:27:00,600
and the best techniques for hunting.
I did pretty well on my first but

1100
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:04,760
my brother Gary not so much.
Dad said he had never been aimed at

1101
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:10,079
so much in his life. Every
time he turned around, he was staring

1102
01:27:10,159 --> 01:27:15,600
down the barrel of Gary's gun.
That probably wouldn't have bothered him nearly so

1103
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:20,680
much if it hadn't been for my
brother's evil grin. For me, hunting

1104
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:26,000
was a man's ride of passage.
I had my dad and older brother as

1105
01:27:26,039 --> 01:27:30,239
examples of everything a hunter should be, and I was bound and determined to

1106
01:27:30,279 --> 01:27:35,000
meet their standards, and it was
not easy. The first squirrel that I

1107
01:27:35,079 --> 01:27:39,720
ever killed was on a hunt with
my dad, and it was the biggest

1108
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:45,079
thrill of my life until I had
to feel dress it. Mom's awesome fried

1109
01:27:45,159 --> 01:27:51,119
squirrel biscuits and gravy didn't quite taste
the same that night, as I stared

1110
01:27:51,199 --> 01:27:55,640
down at my plate of food,
all I could see was that little squirrel

1111
01:27:55,720 --> 01:28:00,560
staring back up at me while I
was pulling its guts out. Finally,

1112
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:03,439
Dad leaned over and he said,
God provided our food, and it's wrong

1113
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:09,479
to kill anything you're not going to
eat. Those were Dad's standard. So

1114
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:14,000
I tried to ignore the tiny little
Alvin in the chipmunk's voice whispering from my

1115
01:28:14,199 --> 01:28:17,600
plate, telling me all about his
wife and kids, and I finished off

1116
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:23,560
every bite. Over the years,
I toughened up a bed and it became

1117
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:28,560
a little less bothersome, until eventually
I couldn't hear Alvin talking at all.

1118
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:33,800
Every year, I'd get more and
more excited waiting for August, when squirrel

1119
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:39,199
season would begin. On the first
day of the season. The year I

1120
01:28:39,319 --> 01:28:43,960
was seventeen, I called my best
buddy to go with me. He was

1121
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,840
busy, so I asked my dad
and my older brother. They were both

1122
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:51,960
working. I wasn't about to risk
being shot at by my other brother,

1123
01:28:53,079 --> 01:28:57,600
so I decided to man up and
go alone. This is something I never

1124
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:01,119
did, but I saw this as
my path to manhood laid out before me.

1125
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:06,079
The night before, I told Mom
and Dad where i'd be hunting.

1126
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,199
It was a great spot down by
the river and known to be the home

1127
01:29:11,279 --> 01:29:15,520
of lots of squirrels. Then I
cleaned my rifle, a birthday present from

1128
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,439
my dad that I was especially proud
of, and I gathered my gear and

1129
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:25,279
did my best fall asleep. It
seemed like my head had just hit the

1130
01:29:25,319 --> 01:29:30,560
pillow when the alarm sounded. Feeling
a little groggy but anxious to get out

1131
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:33,199
there and hunt me some squirrels,
I jumped out of bed and threw on

1132
01:29:33,279 --> 01:29:38,159
my clothes and grabbed my gear and
I headed out, wolfing down a peanut

1133
01:29:38,159 --> 01:29:42,119
butter and jelly sandwich as I drove. I needed to be in the woods

1134
01:29:42,159 --> 01:29:46,880
and settle down before sunrise or the
squirrels might see me. I went down

1135
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:51,079
the old winding road across the creeky
bridge, and I parked by an oil

1136
01:29:51,079 --> 01:29:56,319
well in the field. The sky
was beginning to pale and I could see

1137
01:29:56,319 --> 01:30:00,039
a light fog rising off the river. I walked the short distance across the

1138
01:30:00,079 --> 01:30:03,680
field and into the woods along the
river with my gun in hand, and

1139
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:09,600
I was covered in skeeter dope.
It was a beautiful morning, despite the

1140
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:15,439
fact that the fog gave everything a
slightly creepy feeling. The waist high grass

1141
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:17,920
was covered in dew. As I
quietly made my way down to my hunting

1142
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:23,359
spot, making sure to be very
very quiet so as not to spook the

1143
01:30:23,399 --> 01:30:29,279
squirrels. My dad my brother were
like squirrel hunting ninjas in the woods,

1144
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:33,720
capable of walking right up behind a
person without breaking a twig. I moved

1145
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:39,560
more like a squirrel hunting bull,
breaking twigs and crunching leaves with every step.

1146
01:30:41,319 --> 01:30:45,840
I came to a fallen tree about
four feet in diameter that had fallen

1147
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:49,800
away from the river and into the
field. As I approached it, trying

1148
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:54,479
to figure out how I was going
to get over it or around it,

1149
01:30:54,760 --> 01:31:00,720
I stepped on a small branch that
snapped like a rifle shot. Cursed under

1150
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:05,319
my breath as the sound echoed through
the fog, A nearby beaver slapped his

1151
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:10,039
tail on the water in protest,
and I jumped a little at the loud

1152
01:31:10,079 --> 01:31:14,720
splash it made. But I was
mentally prepared for run ends with almost any

1153
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:21,199
animal that morning. I just wasn't
prepared for what happened next. I watched

1154
01:31:21,319 --> 01:31:27,039
as the angry beaver swam off and
was about to resume my journey. When

1155
01:31:27,079 --> 01:31:30,760
I caught movement out of the corner
of my eye. I froze as I

1156
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:35,880
watched what looked to be a grall
hooded cobra rising up from behind a tree

1157
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:41,760
not more than six feet in front
of me. As my eyes focused in

1158
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:46,199
the low light, reality set in. This was a no snake, and

1159
01:31:46,239 --> 01:31:50,760
it continued to rise until it was
at eye level with me. Its neck

1160
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:56,560
was long, with two large golf
ball sized shiny black eyes perched on top.

1161
01:31:57,520 --> 01:32:02,199
It did not make a sound or
blink stared at me. My mouth

1162
01:32:02,239 --> 01:32:06,960
went dry as the adrenaline pumped through
my veins. Now I tried to rationalize

1163
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:11,159
what I was seeing, but all
I could think of was a story my

1164
01:32:11,239 --> 01:32:15,680
brother in law had once told me. He and some friends were out in

1165
01:32:15,720 --> 01:32:18,920
the country one night having a party
when he had to answer nature's call.

1166
01:32:20,079 --> 01:32:25,239
At the edge of a cornfield,
he came face to face with a classic,

1167
01:32:25,359 --> 01:32:30,600
big headed, large black eyed,
gray alien wearing a silver jumpsuit.

1168
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:35,159
My brother in law jumped and the
alien jumped, and each ran back in

1169
01:32:35,199 --> 01:32:41,640
the direction from which they came.
My brother in law told his friends about

1170
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:45,279
it, but they all accused him
of just being drunk in anger, he

1171
01:32:45,399 --> 01:32:49,479
insisted they come and see. When
they finally went out there, they found

1172
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:55,239
seven to eight inch long, three
toed tracks like a chicken would mate.

1173
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:59,399
They tried following the tracks toward the
neighbor's field, but it started raining,

1174
01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:03,039
so they gave up. The next
morning, the sheriff showed up, accusing

1175
01:33:03,119 --> 01:33:09,840
them of making a big circle in
the neighbor's cornfield. With that story running

1176
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:13,920
through my head, I couldn't help
but compare the alien my brother in law

1177
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:17,359
described with the alien that was currently
staring at me from the other side of

1178
01:33:17,399 --> 01:33:23,960
the fallen tree. This wasn't a
classic gray though. It was more like

1179
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:28,760
the alien in Close Encounters of the
Third kind. I wondered, should I

1180
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:33,600
whistle that tune to protect myself?
I slowly took the safety off my gun.

1181
01:33:34,079 --> 01:33:38,760
I didn't point it at the creature
for fear of making things worse,

1182
01:33:39,239 --> 01:33:43,680
but at least I would be ready
if I needed it. In response,

1183
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,399
it began to rock from side to
side as it moved a little closer to

1184
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:51,000
me. Fear was setting in,
and I felt beads of sweat trickle down

1185
01:33:51,039 --> 01:33:57,159
my face. Why doesn't it speak, I wondered, Maybe it's telepathic.

1186
01:33:58,399 --> 01:34:02,159
After what felt like a millennium,
it turned its head. I didn't expect

1187
01:34:02,159 --> 01:34:08,159
this, and I caught my breath
anticipating the worst. It was staring at

1188
01:34:08,199 --> 01:34:13,800
me from its left eye. Now. My knees grew weak and my stomach

1189
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,720
churned a little as I saw the
protrusion on its face. It looked just

1190
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,920
like a bill. In fact,
it looked just like the bill of a

1191
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:27,920
sand crane. I exhaled in relief
as I saw the alien before me for

1192
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,439
what it really was. It was
a sand crane. Just as I was

1193
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:35,720
beginning to laugh at myself, the
beaver slapped the water again, getting one

1194
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:41,279
more startled jump out of my already
jangled nerves. That was enough for me.

1195
01:34:43,039 --> 01:34:46,359
I had manned up and had gone
hunting alone, but I didn't enjoy

1196
01:34:46,399 --> 01:34:51,520
it. I put the gun on
safety and turned and left the alien sand

1197
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:57,840
crane still standing behind the tree.
I walked back to my car, ignoring

1198
01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:01,000
the squirrel that was barking at me. I was too shaky to even shoot.

1199
01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:05,600
He probably knew that, and I'm
sure if I could still hear Old

1200
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:11,239
Alvin's voice, he was probably making
fun of me. I didn't care.

1201
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:15,760
I was kind of laughing at me
too. The next weekend I went hunting

1202
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:20,079
with my brother and had a great
time. The story is all true,

1203
01:35:20,079 --> 01:35:24,880
as best as I can remember it. Thank you for hearing it. The

1204
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:29,159
challenges we face as young people can
be tough, but they make us who

1205
01:35:29,199 --> 01:35:36,000
we are today. I had read
through half of this, and I had

1206
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:41,439
not got to the point where he
realizes that the crane looking straight at him,

1207
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,439
and when it turned its head he
could figure out what it was.

1208
01:35:44,880 --> 01:35:46,159
And I can see that. I
can see that. But I thought it

1209
01:35:46,199 --> 01:35:49,880
was a great story, a great, fun, good hearted story from a

1210
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:53,640
good writer, and I wanted to
share it with you guys. Let me

1211
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:59,439
go see if I can find another
one. All right, the writer wants

1212
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:01,560
to be a none. It's about
bigfoot, and they're all true. They

1213
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:05,319
all claim they're true, and I
don't tell them a bit. My father

1214
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:10,880
passed away in two thousand and four. He was a Vietnam veteran who wasn't

1215
01:36:10,920 --> 01:36:15,760
scared of anything, but in the
early nineteen seventies something happened that terrified him.

1216
01:36:17,159 --> 01:36:20,880
It was a fall afternoon in the
small town of Bird's Eye, Indiana.

1217
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:27,319
My father was squirrel hunting on my
mother's family property. He used the

1218
01:36:27,359 --> 01:36:31,039
opportunity to scout the land for signs
of deer for the upcoming season. There

1219
01:36:31,079 --> 01:36:34,479
was a nice autumn day and Dad
wasn't in a hurry to get anywhere.

1220
01:36:35,399 --> 01:36:41,680
He was enjoying being in the woods
and surrounded by nature. As he made

1221
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:45,720
his way through the forest, he
came across what he believed were some animal

1222
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:48,239
bones. He took a minute to
look at them, but he wasn't all

1223
01:36:48,239 --> 01:36:53,880
that interested, so he moved on. He hadn't gone much farther when he

1224
01:36:53,920 --> 01:36:57,880
came across some more bones, and
he moved on and he found more,

1225
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:01,000
and the deeper he moved into the
woods, the more bones he came across.

1226
01:37:03,119 --> 01:37:06,399
That was when he noticed a trail
of bones leading up the hill.

1227
01:37:08,279 --> 01:37:13,239
All these remains lying around was odd, and Dad was the curious type.

1228
01:37:13,399 --> 01:37:15,720
He decided to follow the trail of
bones, and as he made his way

1229
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:18,640
up the hill, he noticed that
the bones seemed to be getting bigger.

1230
01:37:19,159 --> 01:37:24,520
Some of them almost looked human a
Dad was a medic in the Marines.

1231
01:37:25,039 --> 01:37:29,560
He was familiar with human bones,
and about halfway up the hill he started

1232
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:32,520
smelling something pungent. If he was
a Medican, the Marines he was a

1233
01:37:32,640 --> 01:37:36,520
navy corman, by the way,
just the heads up. My son was

1234
01:37:36,520 --> 01:37:40,720
in the Marine corpns. I learned
all this stuff back to the story.

1235
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:45,359
At the top of the hill he
found a cave, and all around it

1236
01:37:45,439 --> 01:37:48,920
were more bones of all shapes and
sizes. And when he approached the mouth

1237
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:55,359
of the cave, the odor got
so strong it nearly overpowered him. The

1238
01:37:55,399 --> 01:37:59,000
smell burned his eyes and he fought
back the knee to vomit as he looked

1239
01:37:59,039 --> 01:38:03,199
into the black open and a pair
of red eyes stared back at him.

1240
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:09,880
He jumped backwards and shock at the
glowing eyes that were easily seven feet off

1241
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:14,520
the ground. An instinct kicked in
and he emptied both barrels of a shotgun

1242
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:17,319
into the mouth of the cave.
But even as the shells were spent,

1243
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:21,880
he was turning and heading back down
the hill at break next speed. He

1244
01:38:21,920 --> 01:38:26,359
didn't wait to see if he'd hit
anything or if he just made it angry.

1245
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:30,960
He got out of there. My
father was never an animated man.

1246
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:35,119
He believed in getting right to the
point. He kept a poker face at

1247
01:38:35,159 --> 01:38:40,199
all times. But when he told
this story, I could see the fear

1248
01:38:40,199 --> 01:38:44,840
in his eyes, and I could
hear it in his voice. Years later,

1249
01:38:45,079 --> 01:38:47,920
when I was thirteen, Dad and
I were squirrel hunting on my uncle's

1250
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:53,720
place in Taswell, Indiana. Like
always, while we were there, we

1251
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:58,439
were scouting for deer trails and scrapes
and rubs. It was a hot day

1252
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:01,239
in the middle of a dry spell. Dad decided we'd follow a creek bed

1253
01:39:01,279 --> 01:39:05,439
that wasn't more than a few water
puddles here and there. And when we

1254
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:10,039
came around to ben in the creek, Dad stopped so quickly that I nearly

1255
01:39:10,119 --> 01:39:15,319
ran into his back. I'll never
forget the expression on his face when he

1256
01:39:15,399 --> 01:39:17,880
turned around and looked at me.
It was out of place for him.

1257
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:23,000
I really only remember having seen it
when he spoke of that day at the

1258
01:39:23,039 --> 01:39:28,359
cave. I was looking at my
dad and he was scared. I don't

1259
01:39:28,359 --> 01:39:30,079
know what the hell made this track, he said, but we're not going

1260
01:39:30,119 --> 01:39:36,119
to stick around to find out.
I was born with my father's curious nature.

1261
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:41,199
I had to see what he was
talking about. I thought maybe he

1262
01:39:41,239 --> 01:39:44,920
was joking with me, and I
looked around him, and at first I

1263
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:47,439
thought I was looking at some kind
of deer track where the deer might have

1264
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:51,279
slipped or something, and then I
realized next to the half dried up puddle

1265
01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:57,520
was a track that must have been
eighteen inches long and nine inches wide.

1266
01:39:57,720 --> 01:40:00,920
I could clearly see the tow prints
in the hud well. Dad was right,

1267
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:04,279
we didn't need to stick around to
see what had made that track.

1268
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:10,399
When we got back to my uncle's
house, my dad told him what we'd

1269
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:13,960
found, and I guess I half
expected my uncle to laugh at us.

1270
01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:16,439
Instead, he looked at my dad
straight in the eye and he said,

1271
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:21,840
well, this doesn't surprise me.
My uncle had been hearing weird howls and

1272
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:27,039
noises for the past few weeks.
He told us that he saw a hairy

1273
01:40:27,079 --> 01:40:30,840
man who was over seven feet tall
take two of his pigs. Now,

1274
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:33,960
I guess we didn't have to wait
around to find out what made the track.

1275
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:39,920
My uncle already knew. Oh man, the way you wrote this was

1276
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:45,399
perfect, absolutely fantastic. And your
dad was a Vietnam veteran, and he

1277
01:40:45,479 --> 01:40:47,920
wasn't scared of anything. Those guys
had been through, you know a lot

1278
01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:53,800
of stuff, and so everything else
that they would run into after that was

1279
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:58,840
just you know, it was small
peas compared to the horrors they had seen

1280
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:02,039
in war. And the same thing
for the Afghanistan and Iraqi vets and all

1281
01:41:02,039 --> 01:41:06,920
the other vets who've actually seen combat. But they run into a bigfoot or

1282
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:11,840
something like a bigfoot and it scares
them to death. And I totally get

1283
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,119
that. I mean I get it. Following all those bones up up that

1284
01:41:15,279 --> 01:41:19,960
mountain and then looking in a cave
and two red eyes looking back at you.

1285
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:24,520
I don't think there's any doubt why
those bones are there when you see

1286
01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:28,359
that. And I would have shot
into that cave too. But this was

1287
01:41:28,399 --> 01:41:31,319
a great story and I appreciate it, and it's a good little legacy to

1288
01:41:31,399 --> 01:41:34,399
leave your dad. You know.
It's an interesting story that he shared with

1289
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:38,680
you, and it'll be in a
podcast for a long time, all right,

1290
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:45,479
brother, thanks for the story.
Here's another odd email that I received.

1291
01:41:46,199 --> 01:41:53,039
The title the writer gives it as
strangeness in the South forty Our farm

1292
01:41:53,079 --> 01:41:59,760
operation was several years behind the times. Our neighbors planted straight rose using GPS,

1293
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:03,920
and I enjoyed the comfortable, controlled
environment of a modern tractor. We

1294
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:11,199
didn't always have the luxury of a
cab guided by dead reckoning. The tractors

1295
01:42:11,239 --> 01:42:15,239
that did have cabs were nothing more
than a noisy box to shelter from wind

1296
01:42:15,279 --> 01:42:18,800
and rain. I had learned to
layer of clothing to utilize my own body

1297
01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:25,880
heat. I actually preferred to drive
an open station unit anyway. There was

1298
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:30,960
something about the feel and smell of
that evening. The chill fall air was

1299
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:34,439
pleasant against my face, and I
could smell the rich earth as the dirt

1300
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:41,159
glided and rolled through the three bottom
plow I was pulling. I was operating

1301
01:42:41,279 --> 01:42:45,319
one of my favorite tractors. It
was built several years before I was even

1302
01:42:45,399 --> 01:42:47,840
born, but it stood up proudly
to the duties to ask of it.

1303
01:42:49,239 --> 01:42:54,800
The old farm all imperred, like
the well tuned machine it was, and

1304
01:42:54,880 --> 01:43:00,279
I admired the shine of the red
hood before me. Hence of warmth came

1305
01:43:00,319 --> 01:43:03,640
from the exhaust stack that lightly glowed
from the work strain, and it was

1306
01:43:03,680 --> 01:43:10,720
a wonderful evening to be farming.
Dusk was starting to darken the pale clear

1307
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:15,359
sky. Now the colorful pastel canvas
displayed shades of blue, green, and

1308
01:43:15,520 --> 01:43:20,520
hints of red. It wasn't quite
dark enough to really need lights, but

1309
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:27,520
shadows were starting to creep from the
timbered field edge. Darkness was beginning to

1310
01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:32,199
claim the landscape. This particular area
of the farm could give a particular sense

1311
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:40,920
of foreboding. Tonight revealed to be
one of those nights of eeriness. I

1312
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:45,680
turned around, was coming up the
evening row was shaded by the timber edge.

1313
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:48,920
Now I noticed corn stalks were jamming
up in the middle plowshar, which

1314
01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:54,840
would need kicking out before it plugged
Tightly, I rolled to a stop and

1315
01:43:54,960 --> 01:44:00,399
idle detractor down. Sighing dejectedly,
I stood up and stepped backwards down to

1316
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,239
the U shape of the drawbar,
and I stepped further down until I was

1317
01:44:03,279 --> 01:44:09,239
on the ground. I took out
an earplug and let my hearing adjust to

1318
01:44:09,279 --> 01:44:14,640
the surroundings. And it was silent, just way too quiet. The only

1319
01:44:14,720 --> 01:44:19,439
sound was the tractor engine idly.
This was very peculiar. My eyes gazed

1320
01:44:19,439 --> 01:44:27,560
slowly and carefully around, but I
didn't realize anything extraordinary. I should be

1321
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:33,319
hearing crickets, maybe some woodland cadences, but I heard nothing. My footsteps

1322
01:44:33,359 --> 01:44:40,319
loudly crunched as I maneuvered myself to
clear the plow sheer. My body felt

1323
01:44:40,359 --> 01:44:44,640
like electric adrenaline was quickly flowing,
and this caused me to go on high

1324
01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:48,920
alert. I couldn't shake the feeling
as if I was being watched. I

1325
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:54,239
quickly bent to my task. The
sooner I could get back on the operator's

1326
01:44:54,239 --> 01:44:59,439
seat, the sooner I could move
on tink. I rocked. The size

1327
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:02,920
of my ft hit the shear to
my right. I jumped, barely missing,

1328
01:45:03,039 --> 01:45:08,319
bumping my head against the plow frame. As I turned to scan the

1329
01:45:08,359 --> 01:45:13,640
tree line and other large rock zipped
inches past my head. There had been

1330
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:17,239
power propelling this object, and I
heard a whiz sound as it passed,

1331
01:45:17,279 --> 01:45:21,680
impacting the ground with a hard thump
behind me. What the hell? I

1332
01:45:21,760 --> 01:45:28,800
exclaimed, not finishing my thought,
A very large, dark, indescribable shadow

1333
01:45:29,039 --> 01:45:32,479
moved directly in front of me.
Out of the darkness, a man shaped

1334
01:45:32,520 --> 01:45:39,880
form materialized. This was nobody I
recognized now. I judged the figure to

1335
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:45,039
stand at least eight feet tall.
A very primitive looking being with menacing dark

1336
01:45:45,079 --> 01:45:50,119
eyes stood just beyond my tractor.
Dark hair covered a majority of the neked

1337
01:45:50,159 --> 01:45:56,760
body. This was very decidedly a
male, and I'm not going into detail

1338
01:45:56,800 --> 01:46:01,000
on that. Just trust me.
He was well muscled and presented an athletic

1339
01:46:01,079 --> 01:46:06,760
body a wrestler or a football player
would desire. We stood within a few

1340
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:11,199
short yards of each other, and
now I was trembling with fear, but

1341
01:46:11,279 --> 01:46:15,640
I stood my ground, trying to
hide my terror. I could feel a

1342
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:20,239
penetrating gaze, as if I was
being measured and evaluated. Finally, the

1343
01:46:20,359 --> 01:46:26,880
mighty beast nonchalantly turned and walked away, as if I were being dismissed.

1344
01:46:28,159 --> 01:46:30,079
I heard a loud crunch behind me, and I quickly turned to see a

1345
01:46:30,119 --> 01:46:35,680
large fleeting shadow disappear into the woods
on my right. There had been more

1346
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:43,840
than one shaking. I collected myself
and I climbed back in the operator's chair

1347
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:47,600
on wobbly legs, and I was
done plowing for the evening. In fact,

1348
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:53,600
I picked up a higher gear to
get back to the farmstead. I

1349
01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:58,399
didn't tell anybody about my encounter when
I got to the barn lot who would

1350
01:46:58,399 --> 01:47:03,359
believe me anyway, I had been
there and was still processing the event had

1351
01:47:03,359 --> 01:47:09,840
it been nothing but my imagination.
The rock throne that hit my plow sheer

1352
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:15,159
had left a chalk like mark,
though I didn't get harassed about coming in.

1353
01:47:15,199 --> 01:47:19,079
With darkness falling and the old reliable
em didn't have the best lighting,

1354
01:47:19,119 --> 01:47:24,199
which made it hard to see at
night, the bitter chill was overtaking any

1355
01:47:24,279 --> 01:47:28,720
warmth found. As the sunlight had
retreated, it was time to call it

1356
01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:33,199
a day. Anyway. I did
overhear a mumbled comment about pushing the old

1357
01:47:33,239 --> 01:47:40,079
tractor too fast. My racing,
bumping, and creating a clatter was unusual.

1358
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:46,000
Vintage and antique equipment were treated with
great respect on this farm. I

1359
01:47:46,039 --> 01:47:51,279
had great trepidation realizing I had to
go back and finish plowing the south forty.

1360
01:47:53,239 --> 01:47:59,560
The duties still needed completion, regardless
of my attitude. The next morning,

1361
01:47:59,760 --> 01:48:02,199
I swallowed as much of my fear
as I could and I headed back

1362
01:48:02,239 --> 01:48:09,119
to the field. The morning went
with no incident. It was slightly warmer

1363
01:48:09,159 --> 01:48:14,319
as the sun rose higher in the
pale sky. My eyes were constantly scanning

1364
01:48:14,359 --> 01:48:18,720
all the scenery and my head was
constantly swiveling in every direction possible. I

1365
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:25,279
was seeking any abnormalities hiding in the
darker forest. It was difficult to stay

1366
01:48:25,319 --> 01:48:29,920
focused on the task at hand,
and the electric adrenaline feeling had returned,

1367
01:48:30,399 --> 01:48:35,079
and I sensed I was being watched
again. My nose soon alerted me to

1368
01:48:35,159 --> 01:48:41,720
an offensive smell. It was stronger
when I neared the tree line. The

1369
01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:46,640
pungent odor of wet, rank dirty
talk, combined with the smell of a

1370
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:54,119
dead animal attacked my sinuses. No
skunk would have smelled more pleasant. I

1371
01:48:54,159 --> 01:48:57,720
had planned the plowing so that I
had worked my way to the edge of

1372
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:02,079
the middle, and each pass drew
me closer to the trees. I dreaded

1373
01:49:02,079 --> 01:49:08,239
my actions after last night's bizarre occurrence. The tree line felt as if nothing

1374
01:49:08,319 --> 01:49:12,239
was closing in, making it easier
for the spectators to reach out and grab

1375
01:49:12,359 --> 01:49:18,680
me off the operator's seat. My
imagination had gone into overdrive. Fortunately,

1376
01:49:18,920 --> 01:49:24,760
the cornstalks weren't hampering the plow,
and I wasn't real comfortable with the idea

1377
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:30,239
of stopping to clean that plug away
anyway. I felt vulnerable enough slowly moving

1378
01:49:30,239 --> 01:49:33,640
in the open, and this was
one of the very few times I would

1379
01:49:33,640 --> 01:49:39,520
have rather dealt with the noisy confinement
of a cab. There probably wouldn't have

1380
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:44,039
been any more safety in an enclosed
area. That was nothing more than an

1381
01:49:44,079 --> 01:49:49,000
idea, a false sense of security. Another rock zip passed my ear with

1382
01:49:49,119 --> 01:49:55,239
fierce intensity. The projectile had been
close enough that I felt it brush the

1383
01:49:55,279 --> 01:49:59,680
side of my face. One inch
closer and I would have been struck in

1384
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:03,560
the eye. My immediate reaction was
to mash the clutch pedal, bringing the

1385
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:10,319
unit to an abrupt halt. Angry
and I looked all around but observed nothing

1386
01:50:10,439 --> 01:50:15,479
out of the ordinary. Now it
wasn't the reaction of fear. I was

1387
01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:21,840
mad. After calming myself, I
assessed the situation with more reason. The

1388
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:27,000
only place of concealment the rock could
have come was still a good distance.

1389
01:50:28,279 --> 01:50:32,840
Whoever or whatever made that pitch had
more power and accuracy than a major league

1390
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:41,800
pitcher. Intelligence to no vulnerable points
was also demonstrated. This knowledge was rather

1391
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:46,760
disturbing. I heard the sound of
another tractor in the distance. The volume

1392
01:50:46,880 --> 01:50:53,319
was increasing, and I observed another
plow unit head to the field. I

1393
01:50:53,359 --> 01:50:57,319
sat back down and eased out the
clutch, and the old m started forward

1394
01:50:57,359 --> 01:51:00,960
with a slight strain, and I
had my doubt, but maybe I'd be

1395
01:51:00,079 --> 01:51:06,960
safer with the increase in numbers.
The plowing force soon increased again, and

1396
01:51:08,119 --> 01:51:14,199
shortly there were three tractors and plows
working in unison. A three bottom plow

1397
01:51:14,359 --> 01:51:17,439
pulled by another M and an old
John Deere fell into the work, and

1398
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:24,319
the old A's distinctive chugging sound overtook
most of the created human noise pollution.

1399
01:51:25,840 --> 01:51:30,760
The electric feeling of adrenaline faded in
short time, and I started to get

1400
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:35,479
more comfortable now that there was companionship. It never occurred to me the unpleasant

1401
01:51:35,520 --> 01:51:40,760
odor still lingered until I observed one
of the other operators sniffing the air.

1402
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:45,479
He gave me a puzzled look and
pinched his nose and shrugged, indicating he

1403
01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:51,800
had found the smell strange and offensive. He asked me later when we stopped,

1404
01:51:51,840 --> 01:52:00,239
if I had hit a skum.
The title of the story is The

1405
01:52:00,279 --> 01:52:06,119
Ghost Demons of Prescott. The story
begins in a place called Prescott, Arizona,

1406
01:52:06,399 --> 01:52:12,840
a rather unique city commissioned by President
Abraham Lincoln. In eighteen sixty four.

1407
01:52:14,119 --> 01:52:18,760
President Lincoln sent a delegation to the
Arizona Territory to establish a capital.

1408
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:26,039
A site adjacent to Fort Whipple was
selected and given the name Prescott, in

1409
01:52:26,159 --> 01:52:30,279
honor of William H. Prescott,
author of the history of the Conquest of

1410
01:52:30,399 --> 01:52:39,399
Mexico. When Arizona won statehood in
nineteen fourteen, Prescott became the first Arizona

1411
01:52:39,560 --> 01:52:45,399
state capital. In nineteen sixty eight, my family moved to Prescott. I

1412
01:52:45,479 --> 01:52:49,159
was going to be a junior in
high school, and Prescott seemed to me

1413
01:52:49,359 --> 01:52:55,600
to be really small and with not
a lot of entertainment options for teenagers.

1414
01:52:56,359 --> 01:53:00,199
When such is the situation, teenagers
can get really created. At least they

1415
01:53:00,199 --> 01:53:05,399
could in the nineteen sixties, one
summer night after church, a family with

1416
01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:12,760
teenage daughters invited us to their place
for refreshments and fellowship. While the parents

1417
01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:16,279
visited out front, the two girls
invited the teenagers to the back room for

1418
01:53:16,319 --> 01:53:23,119
a little Wigi board action. I'd
seen this wigi board thing before. It

1419
01:53:23,239 --> 01:53:27,520
was something that for me never actually
worked, and this time was no exception.

1420
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:31,960
The sisters opened up the board.
They lit a candle and turned out

1421
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:36,640
the lights, and laid their fingertips
on the stylus and began calling on the

1422
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:43,960
great Wigi to answer a few simple
questions. With a handful of onlookers gathered

1423
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:47,680
in the darkness around the table,
Wigi did nothing. I mean nothing.

1424
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:54,520
This is exactly what I experienced every
time some kid would drag out a wigi

1425
01:53:54,560 --> 01:54:00,359
board. The two sisters that summer
night insisted their wigi board work work for

1426
01:54:00,399 --> 01:54:04,840
them without fail. Why parents would
allow the girls to dabble in such demonic

1427
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:10,239
tools as beyond me. It should
not have been there in that home.

1428
01:54:11,520 --> 01:54:15,439
It is important to point out that
these little Wigi boards are nothing to mess

1429
01:54:15,479 --> 01:54:20,079
with. They can provide a foothold
for a portal for evil entities to come

1430
01:54:20,079 --> 01:54:26,159
into a home. As I got
older, I thought about this incident and

1431
01:54:26,239 --> 01:54:30,800
I realized why the board probably didn't
work that night. Many of the teenagers

1432
01:54:30,800 --> 01:54:36,720
who were there were actually real Christians. I believe old Wigi was powerless to

1433
01:54:36,800 --> 01:54:43,279
show up due to the presence of
God's angels surrounding and protecting us from evil.

1434
01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:46,920
High schools started in the fall,
and I met a great buddy,

1435
01:54:47,079 --> 01:54:51,119
a guy named Louie. He's one
of those people who brings a smile to

1436
01:54:51,199 --> 01:54:58,479
your face with every remembrance. Having
lived in Prescott his whole life, Louis

1437
01:54:58,560 --> 01:55:02,119
had a laundry list of create things
to do on Friday and Saturday nights.

1438
01:55:03,319 --> 01:55:08,640
One of his favorite pastimes was trying
to scare the girls who happened to be

1439
01:55:08,760 --> 01:55:14,239
with us, and variably he would
suggest we venture to what we considered to

1440
01:55:14,319 --> 01:55:19,119
be the haunted areas of Prescott.
This included a famous spot east of town

1441
01:55:19,279 --> 01:55:25,840
called the Baby Grave. It was
reputed that one could hear the sound of

1442
01:55:25,880 --> 01:55:30,119
a baby's mother crying on a moonlit
night. That never happened. When we

1443
01:55:30,239 --> 01:55:33,439
visited. We didn't hear a mother
crying, and we didn't even hear a

1444
01:55:33,479 --> 01:55:38,079
baby either. But it was fun
to get the girls out there and creep

1445
01:55:38,079 --> 01:55:41,279
around in the dark. It was
kind of spooky, and it gave us

1446
01:55:41,319 --> 01:55:46,920
the willies. One night, Louie
decided we needed to get serious about escalating

1447
01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:53,319
our spooky adventures. There were four
of us. It was me, Louie,

1448
01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:59,439
Louie's sister Dolores, and her girlfriend
Susie. The four of us piled

1449
01:55:59,479 --> 01:56:02,199
in the front seat of Louis's step
side pickup truck and we drove to an

1450
01:56:02,199 --> 01:56:08,960
old cemetery. Although it was well
past dark, the cemetery gate was standing

1451
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:15,560
wide open. No one tended this
deserted place. Louis cranked the wheel and

1452
01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:19,920
pulled off Sheldon Street and smack into
the center of what could be labeled Spookville,

1453
01:56:20,079 --> 01:56:26,880
USA. The truck tires crackled on
the gravel driveway as we slowly made

1454
01:56:26,920 --> 01:56:32,439
our way deep into the center of
ancient gravestones. Tall weeds and overgrown trees

1455
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:40,359
and bushes had taken over this place
was definitely creepy and immediately invoked the willies.

1456
01:56:42,039 --> 01:56:45,640
Louis drove us to the back of
the graveyard and turned the truck around,

1457
01:56:45,800 --> 01:56:50,520
being careful not to drive over any
actual grave plots. Once the truck

1458
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:55,600
was facing the gate, Louis stopped
and announced that we were now getting out

1459
01:56:55,640 --> 01:57:00,039
to look at some old gravestones.
Seriously, I was all ready. He

1460
01:57:00,239 --> 01:57:04,279
freaked out. Louie's sister, Dolores
flatly refused to get out of the truck.

1461
01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:09,479
There was no way she was getting
out, No way not happening.

1462
01:57:10,520 --> 01:57:14,600
Louis, Susie and I got out
and we stepped into the darkness, and

1463
01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:18,199
we left Dolores behind by herself in
the truck. She was a little bit

1464
01:57:18,279 --> 01:57:25,720
spooked. The three of us began
cautiously prowling about like some adventurers from the

1465
01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:30,319
Raiders of the Lost Arc. There
was no light except for the moon,

1466
01:57:30,359 --> 01:57:35,520
and it was difficult trying to read
what was etched into the gravestones. When

1467
01:57:35,560 --> 01:57:41,000
we reached the west side of the
graveyard and bent around the front of a

1468
01:57:41,039 --> 01:57:45,960
gravestone to see what was written there, we got the ultimate scare of our

1469
01:57:45,039 --> 01:57:50,640
lives. As we bent forward to
look at the gravestone. Suddenly, an

1470
01:57:50,720 --> 01:57:59,159
opaque, iridescent, lime green,
absolutely hideous man's face came straight out of

1471
01:57:59,159 --> 01:58:05,279
the gravestone in our direction. It
scared us so badly that Susy screeched abruptly

1472
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:11,840
and Louis cried out in horror.
The three of us turned on our heels

1473
01:58:11,840 --> 01:58:16,399
and bolted like lightning back to the
truck. With the truck doors flying open,

1474
01:58:16,560 --> 01:58:20,079
we dove into the cab, hit
the ignition, and ripped out of

1475
01:58:20,119 --> 01:58:25,159
the graveyard, throwing gravel from the
back tiers all the way to the front

1476
01:58:25,239 --> 01:58:30,399
gate. When we got about a
quarter mile down Shelton Street, Louis finally

1477
01:58:30,399 --> 01:58:34,479
caught his breath and he gasped,
what was that? My answer was quick

1478
01:58:34,479 --> 01:58:39,800
and final. I don't know,
but I'm never going back to another graveyard

1479
01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:45,239
ever again, especially at night,
and especially with you. What we saw

1480
01:58:45,319 --> 01:58:50,920
that night in a Prescott graveyard was
definitely a demon. If there was ever

1481
01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:56,840
a doubt in my mind that demons
existed anywhere beyond the pages of the Bible,

1482
01:58:57,239 --> 01:59:01,960
I had just experienced a startling revelation. Demons do exist, and I

1483
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:08,119
had just seen one. The sight
of that evil thing is still etched in

1484
01:59:08,199 --> 01:59:13,199
my mind to this day. Throughout
my life, that single event has kept

1485
01:59:13,239 --> 01:59:17,680
me vigilant to never allow a foothold
or portal for any of these beings in

1486
01:59:17,760 --> 01:59:24,119
my life or the lives of my
family. I took it especially seriously when

1487
01:59:24,119 --> 01:59:28,399
my kids were growing up. If
there was anything questionable that showed up in

1488
01:59:28,439 --> 01:59:32,000
the house, it was thrown out
immediately. I wanted to keep the kids

1489
01:59:32,039 --> 01:59:38,760
safe, just in case there were
any hitchhiking evil entities attached to those questionable

1490
01:59:38,840 --> 01:59:44,760
things. Ten years ago, while
living in a rental property, I became

1491
01:59:44,920 --> 01:59:48,960
aware of the presence of a ghost
in my home. It was probably left

1492
01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:55,760
behind by the previous resident. At
night, whatever this thing was, it

1493
01:59:55,800 --> 02:00:00,119
would come into my bedroom and cause
the hair on my arms to stand up

1494
02:00:00,119 --> 02:00:04,239
with goose bumps, and just generally
give me the creeps. I would hide

1495
02:00:04,319 --> 02:00:09,640
under the covers and hope that it
would go away. Imagine that a grown

1496
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:14,439
man hiding under the covers. I
thought maybe it would get tired of hanging

1497
02:00:14,479 --> 02:00:18,479
around and eventually move on. I
had no luck at that. It just

1498
02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:24,319
kept hanging around, and it freaked
me out fairly frequently, mostly after dark

1499
02:00:24,359 --> 02:00:29,479
when I was in bed trying to
get some sleep. But while living there,

1500
02:00:29,520 --> 02:00:32,199
I got a request from a friend
who needed a place to land for

1501
02:00:32,239 --> 02:00:35,439
a short time, so I let
her stay in the guest a bedroom.

1502
02:00:38,119 --> 02:00:42,520
A few weeks after she was gone, the weirdest thing happened while home alone.

1503
02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:45,800
I walked into the hallway in the
middle of the day and I smelled

1504
02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:49,680
that Gal's perfume in the air.
What Why am I smelling her perfume?

1505
02:00:50,159 --> 02:00:56,920
She's been gone for weeks. That
was the last straw I was sure it

1506
02:00:57,039 --> 02:01:01,640
was another manifestation of a demon.
I called a Christian buddy and asked him

1507
02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:04,920
to come over and help him,
praying that the Lord would get rid of

1508
02:01:04,960 --> 02:01:10,479
this evil thing. My buddy came
over, we prayed, and the ghost

1509
02:01:10,640 --> 02:01:15,199
was gone. From that day forward, I never had another creepy visit from

1510
02:01:15,279 --> 02:01:21,079
the rental ghost. Another ghost issue
came up about six years ago. I

1511
02:01:21,199 --> 02:01:27,159
was working at a private golf club. Hanging out there in the men's locker

1512
02:01:27,239 --> 02:01:32,680
room was a particularly pesky and annoying
demon. It would make itself known anytime

1513
02:01:32,720 --> 02:01:36,760
I had to go into the men's
locker room by myself, especially at night,

1514
02:01:38,640 --> 02:01:42,079
I would feel its presence and the
hair on my arms would stand up

1515
02:01:42,119 --> 02:01:47,159
with goosebumps like crazy. It really
annoyed me. My coworker, the cleaning

1516
02:01:47,239 --> 02:01:54,079
lady from the maintenance department, also
complained about this thing. She was bilingual

1517
02:01:54,159 --> 02:02:00,159
and referred to it as li fantasma, the Spanish word for ghost. I

1518
02:02:00,159 --> 02:02:04,079
believe this evil entity came in with
some Kachina dolls that were on display in

1519
02:02:04,119 --> 02:02:10,119
the locker room. Kachinas are one
of those items that I personally would not

1520
02:02:10,239 --> 02:02:15,279
have around. I think they provide
a portal or foothold for demons, at

1521
02:02:15,359 --> 02:02:21,239
least that's what I believe. Manifestations
of the golf club ghost got so bad

1522
02:02:21,319 --> 02:02:27,760
that even the manager in the lounge
complained. The ghostly thing opened a sliding

1523
02:02:27,840 --> 02:02:32,000
patio door one night after she had
closed and locked it. She was there

1524
02:02:32,039 --> 02:02:38,960
by herself late at night closing up. Everyone was gone except her. Her

1525
02:02:39,079 --> 02:02:42,720
routine was to go around checking all
the doors to make sure they were all

1526
02:02:42,880 --> 02:02:46,640
locked. When she came back into
the lounge, the sliding door leading out

1527
02:02:46,680 --> 02:02:51,119
to the patio that she had just
closed and locked was now standing open.

1528
02:02:51,720 --> 02:02:58,680
It was very freaky. Workers from
the pro shop also reported problems with this

1529
02:02:58,800 --> 02:03:04,119
evil thing was overseed time. Overseed
is when a golf course shuts down for

1530
02:03:04,159 --> 02:03:09,840
a couple of weeks to make the
transition between summer grass and winter grass.

1531
02:03:11,079 --> 02:03:15,319
With the golfer's gone, the pro
shop gets new displays and any change is

1532
02:03:15,439 --> 02:03:20,479
needed in anticipation of the golfer's return
once the grass is ready. The pro

1533
02:03:20,560 --> 02:03:25,680
shop guys had set up a new
clothing display. One day, closed and

1534
02:03:25,760 --> 02:03:30,359
locked the pro shop doors, and
they went to lunch. When they came

1535
02:03:30,439 --> 02:03:34,479
back, they found the new clothing
display knocked over. It was very annoying,

1536
02:03:34,720 --> 02:03:39,640
especially when no one else was around
and the pro Shop was locked until

1537
02:03:39,680 --> 02:03:44,880
they returned. They set up the
display again and went outside the pro Shop

1538
02:03:44,920 --> 02:03:48,560
to their storage area. When they
returned a few minutes later, the display

1539
02:03:48,680 --> 02:03:56,600
was overturned again. A real nuisance
this demon was. Knowing the demon was

1540
02:03:56,640 --> 02:04:00,199
always hanging around the men's locker room, I decided to torture at a bit.

1541
02:04:01,319 --> 02:04:05,199
When I walked into that area by
myself and I felt the goose pumps

1542
02:04:05,239 --> 02:04:10,680
coming up on my arm. I
would start singing some good old Christian hit

1543
02:04:10,840 --> 02:04:15,840
songs like Amazing Grace and when we
all get to Heaven. I was just

1544
02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:18,600
messing with the ghost. You know, I'm guessing it didn't appreciate my song

1545
02:04:18,720 --> 02:04:26,720
selections or my singing. Either one
was probably pure torture. This whole golf

1546
02:04:26,760 --> 02:04:30,399
club ghost situation finally came to a
head one morning when my coworker and I

1547
02:04:30,479 --> 02:04:35,960
were folding table claws. We were
at the linen closet just inside the men's

1548
02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:42,000
locker room, quietly working away with
our folding. What we knew to be

1549
02:04:42,039 --> 02:04:45,640
an empty locker room except for us, suddenly had somebody else in it.

1550
02:04:46,319 --> 02:04:49,960
We could hear noise on the other
side of the golf lockers to my right.

1551
02:04:50,680 --> 02:04:55,800
Those lockers stood about seven feet tall, so there was no singing over

1552
02:04:55,840 --> 02:05:00,880
them, but we could hear somebody
on the other side. Knowing well that

1553
02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:03,439
we had a demon in that locker
room, we both looked at each other

1554
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:09,000
with our eyes as wide open as
they would go. We either had a

1555
02:05:09,000 --> 02:05:13,279
golfer over there that we didn't know
about, or it was the demon.

1556
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:19,000
My coworker whispered life on tasma.
Not sure what to do, we both

1557
02:05:19,079 --> 02:05:24,600
continued to work in complete silence,
wondering whether it was a golfer that we

1558
02:05:24,640 --> 02:05:29,880
didn't know about, or was it
the demon. It didn't take long until

1559
02:05:29,920 --> 02:05:33,000
there was more rustling on the other
side of the lockers. This time,

1560
02:05:33,079 --> 02:05:39,760
it sounded like someone was fiddling with
something inside of the locker. That was

1561
02:05:39,840 --> 02:05:44,880
it. I had to go around
the corner and check. I walked around

1562
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:48,600
and there was no one there.
No one. The ghost was at it

1563
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:54,439
again. It had gotten to be
such a nuisance that I determined to go

1564
02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:59,600
to the general manager and report the
problem. I recommended that we remove the

1565
02:05:59,640 --> 02:06:03,880
koachdales and see if that would make
a difference. Over the weekend, I

1566
02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:10,199
had dinner with a Christian gal who
worked for Southwest Airlines. I told her

1567
02:06:10,239 --> 02:06:13,800
about what was going on in the
men's locker room at the golf club.

1568
02:06:14,800 --> 02:06:18,199
When I expressed my concern in what
I was planning to do after that weekend,

1569
02:06:18,680 --> 02:06:23,479
my friends suggested, why don't we
just pray and ask the Lord to

1570
02:06:23,520 --> 02:06:28,640
sweep that thing out of here.
Then, without hesitation, she began praying

1571
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:32,800
and asked Jesus to get that evil
thing out of there. When I went

1572
02:06:32,880 --> 02:06:38,680
back on Monday, the demon was
gone. Later, there was a remodel

1573
02:06:38,760 --> 02:06:44,479
in the men's locker room and the
kachinas were disposed of. I worked there

1574
02:06:44,479 --> 02:06:48,239
for two more years in the evil
entity. The golf club ghost never came

1575
02:06:48,319 --> 02:06:54,039
back once again. It was amazing
to me the power of prayer, even

1576
02:06:54,079 --> 02:06:59,319
from a long distance away. These
evil entities are no match for the Lord.

1577
02:07:00,439 --> 02:07:04,760
One last incident, while visiting with
a lady friend from the west side

1578
02:07:04,760 --> 02:07:10,840
of town, she was complaining about
ghosts in her family's cabin at South Lake

1579
02:07:10,920 --> 02:07:15,880
Tahoe. Several of the family members
had seen these things over the years,

1580
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:19,359
and she had also seen them as
recently as the previous summer. There were

1581
02:07:19,399 --> 02:07:24,880
two of them, she said.
They looked like dark shadows as they moved

1582
02:07:24,880 --> 02:07:29,199
across the main room of the cabin. She was there alone, and the

1583
02:07:29,239 --> 02:07:33,640
appearance of these two evil entities was
unnerving, to say the least. She

1584
02:07:33,760 --> 02:07:38,600
hollered at them, telling them to
give her a break and please move on.

1585
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:42,840
Now. It was getting close to
her vacation and she was headed for

1586
02:07:42,960 --> 02:07:49,079
Tahoe again and not looking forward to
encountering the cabin ghosts. Without my friend

1587
02:07:49,159 --> 02:07:53,960
from the west side knowing, I
later called the guy who had helped me

1588
02:07:54,039 --> 02:07:58,039
pray the demon out of the rental
property, the same guy, but a

1589
02:07:58,079 --> 02:08:03,960
different ghost. He and I prayed
together over the phone that these two creepy

1590
02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:09,600
cabin ghosts would be removed from my
lady friend's family cabin in South Lake Tahoe.

1591
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:13,159
When she came back from her summer
vacation, I asked her if she

1592
02:08:13,239 --> 02:08:18,199
had seen any of the cabin ghosts
this year. She said no, I

1593
02:08:18,199 --> 02:08:22,279
didn't see them at all this year. She had no idea that two guys

1594
02:08:22,319 --> 02:08:26,640
had prayed asking Jesus to sweep those
demons out. It's amazing to me that

1595
02:08:26,760 --> 02:08:33,000
the Lord hears and answers our prayers
even in these really creepy situations. In

1596
02:08:33,159 --> 02:08:39,439
closing, if you're having issues with
ghosts, demons, or evil entities in

1597
02:08:39,479 --> 02:08:43,880
your home or business, go through
the place with a critical eye and see

1598
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:48,399
what might possibly be providing a portal
or a foothold. If you find anything

1599
02:08:48,479 --> 02:08:54,279
that looks like it might be remotely
responsible, throw it out. Then have

1600
02:08:54,359 --> 02:08:58,279
a Christian friend pray with you,
asking the Lord to sweep out whatever evil

1601
02:08:58,439 --> 02:09:03,920
entity might be hanging around. Things
will change, and if you haven't done

1602
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:09,399
so, invite Jesus into your life. Your life will be better. John

1603
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:18,119
three sixteen. This emails from Jacob. I have a couple of pretty tame

1604
02:09:18,279 --> 02:09:24,239
encounters I'd like to share. In
twenty fifteen, I moved to Montana,

1605
02:09:24,880 --> 02:09:28,199
I'd always love the idea of living
in the mountains and exploring in nature.

1606
02:09:28,920 --> 02:09:33,239
By twenty and sixteen, i'd finally
become a resident and was chomping at the

1607
02:09:33,239 --> 02:09:37,359
bit to go on my first deer
hunt. Up in Little Bear Canyons south

1608
02:09:37,399 --> 02:09:43,079
of Bozeman. I'd driven up the
ten mile access road using my spotting scope.

1609
02:09:43,079 --> 02:09:48,800
Along the way, i'd spotted a
really nice buck mule deer, along

1610
02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:52,000
with a few dos up on the
side of Wheeler Mountain. I parked at

1611
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:56,479
the base, partially blocking an ATV
trail to let people know the area was

1612
02:09:56,560 --> 02:10:03,079
occupied for about a mile, and
then tested the wind. I figured if

1613
02:10:03,119 --> 02:10:05,600
I went straight for them, they'd
catch my scent and my hunt would be

1614
02:10:05,680 --> 02:10:11,279
over for the day. I decided
to make my way around the mountain above

1615
02:10:11,319 --> 02:10:15,560
them and come down from the top. After about three hours of stalking,

1616
02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:20,239
carefully making sure not to spook anything
else that would alert the deer to my

1617
02:10:20,399 --> 02:10:24,920
presence, I finally made it to
the top. It was very thickly forced

1618
02:10:24,960 --> 02:10:28,640
it to one side, so I
decided to stick close to that tree line

1619
02:10:28,640 --> 02:10:33,600
for cover while I worked my way
down to the deer. When I got

1620
02:10:33,600 --> 02:10:37,560
to thirty yards from the trees.
I began hearing some kind of grunting.

1621
02:10:39,399 --> 02:10:43,399
I stopped, thinking maybe it was
a bear or some other large creature.

1622
02:10:43,840 --> 02:10:48,199
I couldn't make out the sound very
well, but whatever it was definitely knew

1623
02:10:48,399 --> 02:10:52,439
I was there and was walking towards
it. I took a knee and I

1624
02:10:52,560 --> 02:10:56,159
listened. It had runned off and
on for about five minutes when I heard

1625
02:10:56,199 --> 02:11:01,439
what sounded like a large branch breaking. Now I was thinking it might be

1626
02:11:01,479 --> 02:11:07,239
a moose. Everything went dead silent. I checked the place where I'd last

1627
02:11:07,279 --> 02:11:09,479
seen the deer to see if they
were still there, and they were,

1628
02:11:11,119 --> 02:11:16,039
but now they were looking in my
direction. I remained down on one knee,

1629
02:11:16,079 --> 02:11:18,800
not moving an inch, and began
slowing my breath to try to keep

1630
02:11:18,880 --> 02:11:24,439
calm. I thought whatever it was
would looted's interest in me and move off.

1631
02:11:24,640 --> 02:11:28,239
I looked back over the tree line, squinting to try and locate the

1632
02:11:28,279 --> 02:11:33,600
source of all the noise. The
sun was up all the way by now,

1633
02:11:33,760 --> 02:11:39,319
warming my cheeks against the frosty air. It was seven am. Shadows

1634
02:11:39,359 --> 02:11:45,560
were casting everywhere in the forest.
Another five minutes passed since I'd heard the

1635
02:11:45,560 --> 02:11:50,000
limb snap, and I hadn't seen
anything else. So I turned my attention

1636
02:11:50,159 --> 02:11:54,079
back to the deer. I didn't
want to walk into the forest after all

1637
02:11:54,119 --> 02:11:56,079
that noise, so I looked for
a different route to get down to them.

1638
02:11:58,479 --> 02:12:01,479
I saw one game trail that that
was my best bet, and,

1639
02:12:01,560 --> 02:12:05,119
due to the fresh layer of snow
that had fallen that morning, my least

1640
02:12:05,159 --> 02:12:09,600
slippery option. Unfortunately, it took
me closer to the thick forest. With

1641
02:12:09,760 --> 02:12:15,119
my hand resting on the grip of
my side arm, I started walking towards

1642
02:12:15,239 --> 02:12:20,640
the trail. I was only ten
yards from the trees when a perfectly healthy,

1643
02:12:20,920 --> 02:12:26,039
maybe eight inch in diameter lodge pole
pine fell across the trail that I

1644
02:12:26,159 --> 02:12:30,960
was planning to take. At this
point, I was feeling nervous, so

1645
02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:35,000
I decided maybe something or someone was
just saying this isn't your day. And

1646
02:12:35,079 --> 02:12:39,319
since sound of the crashing tree had
sent the deer bounding over the next ridge,

1647
02:12:39,680 --> 02:12:43,840
I made the decision to not test
whatever it was stopping me. I

1648
02:12:43,880 --> 02:12:48,520
turned around and went back to my
truck, following the same way that I

1649
02:12:48,560 --> 02:12:52,359
had come in. I have a
great respect for nature and conservation. I've

1650
02:12:52,439 --> 02:12:56,720
hunted deer since I've been old enough
to hunt on my own, and I

1651
02:12:56,800 --> 02:13:01,039
listened very closely to what nature tells
me. In twenty fifteen, and I

1652
02:13:01,119 --> 02:13:07,239
only moved to Montana, also got
my CDL. Needless to say, I've

1653
02:13:07,279 --> 02:13:11,680
spent a lot of time trucking in
Montana, and here's my second encounter.

1654
02:13:13,239 --> 02:13:16,680
At the beginning of twenty nineteen,
In early February, I was asked to

1655
02:13:16,720 --> 02:13:22,279
haul a load of hay down to
Utah Idaho state line. The weather was

1656
02:13:22,359 --> 02:13:26,199
bad the night before, so I
decided to leave a couple hours later than

1657
02:13:26,319 --> 02:13:31,239
usual to allow the road crews time
to stand the roads. It was nine

1658
02:13:31,319 --> 02:13:35,640
eighteen am, and I will never
forget it. I was almost thirty miles

1659
02:13:35,680 --> 02:13:41,880
south of Enis, Montana, going
about forty five miles an hour. The

1660
02:13:41,960 --> 02:13:45,640
roads were still a little slick,
and I was taking my time and being

1661
02:13:45,720 --> 02:13:50,319
careful. I was almost to the
point where the road parallels to Madison River.

1662
02:13:50,279 --> 02:13:54,720
As I rounded the bend, I
looked down into the clearing across the

1663
02:13:54,840 --> 02:13:58,319
river, and there it was.
It was about one hundred and fifty yards

1664
02:13:58,359 --> 02:14:03,159
from the road, covered in black
from head to toe. It was walking

1665
02:14:03,239 --> 02:14:07,000
back towards the forest, but it
stopped and turned to look back at me.

1666
02:14:07,760 --> 02:14:11,520
Its shoulders were extremely broad, and
it was incredibly tall. Its hair

1667
02:14:11,640 --> 02:14:16,720
was blowing in the wind that was
coming off the canyon. I had a

1668
02:14:16,720 --> 02:14:20,560
perfect view of it. There was
no question about what I was seeing.

1669
02:14:20,640 --> 02:14:24,960
There was a small mound up ahead
that was going to block my view for

1670
02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:28,960
a split second, so I slowed
down. When I came to the mound,

1671
02:14:28,039 --> 02:14:31,680
I decided if I saw it again
on the other side, I was

1672
02:14:31,720 --> 02:14:35,319
going to stop and try to take
a picture. And it was still there,

1673
02:14:35,720 --> 02:14:39,520
but running towards the forest. Now, by the count of three,

1674
02:14:39,600 --> 02:14:43,399
it had covered the roughly two hundred
yards from the river to the forest,

1675
02:14:43,640 --> 02:14:48,239
and it was gone. I called
a friend of mine who lives in Indiana.

1676
02:14:48,279 --> 02:14:50,920
First. He's a strong believer in
bigfoot, and I told him what

1677
02:14:52,000 --> 02:14:56,279
I saw. He said, finally, I'm not alone. I've always loved

1678
02:14:56,319 --> 02:15:01,760
movies and stories about bigfoot. Wife
and I often talked about the possibilities of

1679
02:15:01,840 --> 02:15:07,279
seeing one. She's somewhat of a
believer, so I called her next.

1680
02:15:07,800 --> 02:15:11,359
I had debated about telling her for
a good reason, and our conversation went

1681
02:15:11,479 --> 02:15:16,319
something like this, good morning,
darling, You'll never believe what I just

1682
02:15:16,439 --> 02:15:22,279
saw. Really, what did you
see? I finally saw a bigfoot?

1683
02:15:22,640 --> 02:15:26,920
She started to laugh at me.
Yeah right, No, seriously, Look,

1684
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:31,399
I want to believe you. Any
other time I would have if you

1685
02:15:31,479 --> 02:15:37,840
hadn't been watching bigfoot documentaries all weekend. Crickets started chirping. We love to

1686
02:15:37,840 --> 02:15:41,560
go back to this conversation. We
like to tease each other about it,

1687
02:15:41,960 --> 02:15:46,000
but I don't think she will ever
believe me until she sees one for herself.

1688
02:15:46,079 --> 02:15:50,800
Unfortunately, we may never go back
to where I saw it. We

1689
02:15:50,880 --> 02:15:54,279
recently moved to Texas from my work. Hopefully, one day on one of

1690
02:15:54,279 --> 02:16:00,319
our mountain excursions, we will get
another glimpse at one of these amazing creatures.

1691
02:16:00,840 --> 02:16:07,960
And he signs off. Jacob.
Look, you're Jacob. Your encounter

1692
02:16:07,159 --> 02:16:13,640
in Montana is exciting. But the
most funny, interesting, entertaining part of

1693
02:16:13,680 --> 02:16:16,680
your story is how your wife reacted
to you seeing a big foot. That's

1694
02:16:16,760 --> 02:16:22,079
hysterical. Man. What a great
story and a couple of good experiences.

1695
02:16:22,359 --> 02:16:24,039
What a great way to relay a
story. And I'm glad you and your

1696
02:16:24,039 --> 02:16:28,159
wife have a sense of humor with
each other. My wife and I tease

1697
02:16:28,199 --> 02:16:31,360
each other all the time, and
it's a lot of fun. It's really

1698
02:16:31,399 --> 02:16:35,840
cool to have a spouse you can
do that with especially for a guy,

1699
02:16:35,520 --> 02:16:41,600
because we're used to teasing each other
all the time, and so, hey,

1700
02:16:41,719 --> 02:16:46,239
this is a great story, and
I really appreciate Jacob sending you this

1701
02:16:46,280 --> 02:16:50,760
is really interesting, really interesting.
The writer doesn't say whether to use her

1702
02:16:50,840 --> 02:16:54,920
name, so I won't. She
writes, I live on a short one

1703
02:16:56,040 --> 02:17:01,680
mile long road in the Dairy Township
of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. My house

1704
02:17:01,719 --> 02:17:05,159
sits at the halfway point of the
road, with a few other neighbors dotted

1705
02:17:05,200 --> 02:17:09,959
here and there along the way.
My backyard butts up to a large pond

1706
02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:15,559
in an open field, and to
my chagrin, I have recently discovered that

1707
02:17:15,639 --> 02:17:20,600
this part of Pennsylvania is pretty much
sisquat Central. I might never have bothered

1708
02:17:20,600 --> 02:17:24,479
to learn the small bit of trivia
if not for what had happened to me

1709
02:17:24,760 --> 02:17:31,479
on Sunday, May the ninth,
twenty twenty two. At one pm that

1710
02:17:31,639 --> 02:17:35,600
day, I took my dogs for
a walk. I opted to walk down

1711
02:17:35,639 --> 02:17:41,159
the end of the road where a
retired federal government employee lives. That he

1712
02:17:41,280 --> 02:17:46,159
values his privacy is evident, and
the no trespassing signs posted, and the

1713
02:17:46,200 --> 02:17:50,639
fact that his property is gated,
I usually stop at the gate and turned

1714
02:17:50,680 --> 02:17:54,959
around. When I choose to walk
the dogs in that direction, I had

1715
02:17:54,000 --> 02:17:58,840
walked past another home on the opposite
side of the road when I saw what

1716
02:17:58,920 --> 02:18:03,399
I thought was my neighbor walked from
the corner of his yard and on to

1717
02:18:03,479 --> 02:18:07,200
the driveway. At the same time, both of my dogs began to react

1718
02:18:07,239 --> 02:18:13,120
strangely. They dropped their tails and
began to whine and whimper as they backed

1719
02:18:13,159 --> 02:18:18,319
away. I stared in amazement as
what I had first taken for a human

1720
02:18:18,360 --> 02:18:24,920
being crossing the driveway in two strides. Realization began to set in. This

1721
02:18:24,159 --> 02:18:28,520
was not my neighbor. This was
not a human being. This was something

1722
02:18:28,639 --> 02:18:33,399
seven and a half to eight feet
tall, and it was covered in long,

1723
02:18:33,520 --> 02:18:37,520
matted, dark brown and black hair, and it was only fifteen feet

1724
02:18:37,559 --> 02:18:41,760
away from me. It never looked
at me or in my direction. There

1725
02:18:41,840 --> 02:18:46,879
was no accurate smell that so many
have talked about, nor did it make

1726
02:18:46,920 --> 02:18:52,000
any sounds. It simply crossed the
driveway, which was about two feet wider

1727
02:18:52,040 --> 02:18:56,600
than a car, and then it
went up a slight embankment and disappeared into

1728
02:18:56,600 --> 02:19:01,399
the woods. At this point I
still didn't realize, or perhaps I hadn't

1729
02:19:01,440 --> 02:19:07,159
accepted the reality that I had seen
a bigfoot. I was surprised and rattled

1730
02:19:07,319 --> 02:19:11,440
and in denial. But I couldn't
tell you what I was thinking at that

1731
02:19:11,600 --> 02:19:15,479
moment, and I wish I could. I was still holding on to the

1732
02:19:15,520 --> 02:19:18,319
thought that it was my neighbor as
I began walking back toward my house.

1733
02:19:20,799 --> 02:19:24,120
When I reached the spot where it
had stepped into the woods, I realized

1734
02:19:24,159 --> 02:19:28,159
there was no earthly reason why anyone
would venture into that heavy thicket. It

1735
02:19:28,200 --> 02:19:33,360
would be dangerous to do so.
A healthy man would struggle with it,

1736
02:19:33,840 --> 02:19:37,399
and someone like my neighbor, who
smokes heavily and enjoys his drinks, would

1737
02:19:37,399 --> 02:19:41,959
never be able to make it through
there. Well. This is when I

1738
02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:46,399
began to get nervous. The dogs
had stopped whimpering and whining, but they

1739
02:19:46,479 --> 02:19:50,040
were in as much of a hurry
to get home as I was. I

1740
02:19:50,159 --> 02:19:54,120
kept checking back over my shoulder,
but I didn't see the creature, nor

1741
02:19:54,159 --> 02:19:56,840
did I hear anything. And when
I realized I didn't hear anything, it

1742
02:19:56,879 --> 02:20:03,319
occurred to me that even the birds
had on silent. There were no normal

1743
02:20:03,440 --> 02:20:07,840
woodland noises at all. A few
days later, I was able to have

1744
02:20:07,879 --> 02:20:11,239
a conversation with the man who owns
the property, and I began by saying,

1745
02:20:11,559 --> 02:20:15,319
so, I saw something while I
was on a walk the other day.

1746
02:20:15,920 --> 02:20:20,360
There was a nervous pause while I
collected my thoughts. You're probably gonna

1747
02:20:20,360 --> 02:20:24,559
think I lost my mind. I
began again, Did you see bigfoot?

1748
02:20:24,719 --> 02:20:30,399
He cut in. His question caught
me off guard, and I wasn't expecting

1749
02:20:30,440 --> 02:20:33,840
that answer, But I can't say
I wasn't hoping for it either, I

1750
02:20:33,879 --> 02:20:39,360
believe, so I managed to get
out, have you seen Bigfoot? No?

1751
02:20:39,680 --> 02:20:43,840
He answered again, not what I
was hoping for, but not entirely

1752
02:20:43,959 --> 02:20:50,440
unexpected. There isn't much to tell
beyond that it isn't the most exciting story.

1753
02:20:50,479 --> 02:20:54,600
It certainly isn't how I imagine things
would play out if I ever saw

1754
02:20:54,719 --> 02:21:01,879
Bigfoot. But it is what it
is, and I know what I saw.

1755
02:21:03,840 --> 02:21:07,000
I don't know the writer's name.
I've got his email address, but

1756
02:21:07,239 --> 02:21:09,600
that doesn't matter. Because this is
a good story. Let's jump into it.

1757
02:21:11,520 --> 02:21:15,280
In nineteen seventy nine, my best
friend and I flew to Texas to

1758
02:21:15,319 --> 02:21:20,239
see the Royals play the Rangers in
a three game series. We were juniors

1759
02:21:20,280 --> 02:21:24,600
in high school at the time and
big fans of the Royals. Typical of

1760
02:21:24,680 --> 02:21:28,799
teenagers. We didn't get our reservations
in time to fly down with the team,

1761
02:21:28,319 --> 02:21:33,079
so we had to make separate accommodations. We still managed to get there

1762
02:21:33,079 --> 02:21:37,680
without any trouble. It was a
great weekend. We spent our days at

1763
02:21:37,719 --> 02:21:43,520
six Flags over Texas Amusement Park,
riding rides and enjoying our freedom the way

1764
02:21:43,600 --> 02:21:46,760
kids on the verge of adulthood can. And in the evenings we went to

1765
02:21:46,799 --> 02:21:52,280
the ballgames. That was a great
experience too. We watched the Royals take

1766
02:21:52,360 --> 02:21:58,040
two out of three games. Everything
was fine right up until we were ready

1767
02:21:58,040 --> 02:22:03,360
to leave that Sunday evening twenty second. From that point forward, things went

1768
02:22:03,399 --> 02:22:07,120
downhill. We were in a hurry
to get to the airport, and I

1769
02:22:07,120 --> 02:22:11,879
guess I must have left my return
ticket on top of the cab. I

1770
02:22:11,879 --> 02:22:16,000
didn't realize it until we got to
the airport. I was lugging around three

1771
02:22:16,040 --> 02:22:20,360
suitcases in a gym bag. I
may have overpacked just a bit, and

1772
02:22:20,440 --> 02:22:24,520
I had no place to go.
My friend went ahead and got on our

1773
02:22:24,600 --> 02:22:28,680
flight while I tried to reach my
parents to tell them what happened. And

1774
02:22:28,799 --> 02:22:33,120
right away my parents contacted the airport
to try to make arrangements to get me

1775
02:22:33,239 --> 02:22:39,079
home. By now, it was
pretty late and Branefayr had no more flights

1776
02:22:39,159 --> 02:22:43,879
leaving for Kansas City that night,
nor could they find any other flights to

1777
02:22:43,920 --> 02:22:48,680
put me on, so I had
no choice but to wait until early the

1778
02:22:48,719 --> 02:22:54,719
next morning to fly out. I
got the typical lecturer from Dad. Don't

1779
02:22:54,719 --> 02:22:58,680
talk to strangers and do whatever the
airport people say, he said. And

1780
02:22:58,719 --> 02:23:03,520
then it was my mom's turn.
Now don't worry, she said, I

1781
02:23:03,559 --> 02:23:07,680
know a Christian science woman there who
has direct communications with God, and I'll

1782
02:23:07,719 --> 02:23:13,079
ask her for help. Okay,
sure, Mom, I answered back,

1783
02:23:13,200 --> 02:23:16,680
trying not to sound too sarcastic.
Then I didn't give it another thought.

1784
02:23:18,920 --> 02:23:22,520
By the time I hung up the
phone and found a spot to sit with

1785
02:23:22,639 --> 02:23:24,680
my bags all around me, where
I could watch out a big window at

1786
02:23:24,719 --> 02:23:31,319
the planes taking off and landing.
It was ten forty five pm. I

1787
02:23:31,440 --> 02:23:35,879
was watching a Boeing seven twenty seven
taxi down the runway when it all started

1788
02:23:37,280 --> 02:23:41,840
over my right shoulder. The room
became very bright with an amber light,

1789
02:23:43,440 --> 02:23:46,120
and I looked over to see a
nine foot tall image of a very broad

1790
02:23:46,239 --> 02:23:52,120
shouldered being. At first I thought
it was a man, and then he

1791
02:23:52,200 --> 02:23:56,000
began to speak to me telepathically,
Get up and follow me. It was

1792
02:23:56,040 --> 02:24:01,479
saying, I will get you home. The crazy thing was I wasn't in

1793
02:24:01,559 --> 02:24:05,239
the least bit afraid. I picked
up my bags and I followed him.

1794
02:24:07,239 --> 02:24:09,799
No one else was around except for
an old man cleaning the floors a few

1795
02:24:09,799 --> 02:24:13,680
feet away. The being led me
to a gate and he pointed at the

1796
02:24:13,760 --> 02:24:18,799
door. Gone, Now this is
your way home, he said, still

1797
02:24:18,840 --> 02:24:24,840
speaking telepathically. I entered the tunnel
that led to an open door of an

1798
02:24:24,879 --> 02:24:28,719
air liner and inside the plane,
and to my left was the pilot in

1799
02:24:28,760 --> 02:24:33,680
his associate doing their pre flight checks. To my right were two stewardesses helping

1800
02:24:33,719 --> 02:24:37,200
others. And I went to the
open seat in the first row and I

1801
02:24:37,239 --> 02:24:41,479
sat down with all my stuff in
front of me on the floor. The

1802
02:24:41,520 --> 02:24:46,040
stewardess came back and closed the door. Neither one ever looked at me or

1803
02:24:46,120 --> 02:24:50,200
offered me anything. After we took
off. It was like I wasn't even

1804
02:24:50,239 --> 02:24:56,040
there. Eventually, the pilot came
over the intercom to announce that we would

1805
02:24:56,040 --> 02:25:01,760
be landing in ninety minutes, and
that was it. The plane landed without

1806
02:25:01,799 --> 02:25:07,440
any issues. I got up to
exit the plane, and the pilot came

1807
02:25:07,479 --> 02:25:09,399
out of the cockpit, looked right
at me and said, well, I

1808
02:25:09,440 --> 02:25:13,840
hope you enjoyed your flight. Don't
worry, you have friends with you,

1809
02:25:13,760 --> 02:25:18,280
and smiled. Well. I called
my parents and let them know I had

1810
02:25:18,399 --> 02:25:22,799
arrived and to have them come pick
me up. Well, they were both

1811
02:25:22,840 --> 02:25:28,120
surprised I was already home, but
Dad more so than Mom. By the

1812
02:25:28,159 --> 02:25:33,159
time Dad got to the airport Dallas
Fort Worth was calling the house frantic that

1813
02:25:33,239 --> 02:25:37,120
they couldn't find me, and I
tried to explain what I had experienced,

1814
02:25:37,120 --> 02:25:41,600
but neither one of my parents believed
me. They accused me of stowing away

1815
02:25:41,600 --> 02:25:48,840
on another plane until they remembered there
were no flights out that night. Oh,

1816
02:25:48,879 --> 02:25:54,399
another great story that. Oh man, these I don't even know what

1817
02:25:54,479 --> 02:25:56,639
to say about that. What a
cool, strange experience. And I've never

1818
02:25:56,680 --> 02:26:03,120
heard a story like this. I'm
just speechless. I don't know what to

1819
02:26:03,159 --> 02:26:05,239
say. And I'm not just saying
that, I really don't know what to

1820
02:26:05,280 --> 02:26:09,319
say. Why would none of it
makes any sense? But it is so

1821
02:26:11,000 --> 02:26:16,479
mesmerizing that this happened to this guy, and who would make a story like

1822
02:26:16,520 --> 02:26:22,040
this up. It's so it's so
non eventful, and very you know,

1823
02:26:22,079 --> 02:26:26,680
there's no action to it. There's
just a strange occurrence in this guy's life.

1824
02:26:26,719 --> 02:26:31,360
Now, Could it be all natural
and people just didn't talk to him

1825
02:26:31,399 --> 02:26:33,799
and they let him carry his luggage, just carry on and pack it all

1826
02:26:33,840 --> 02:26:39,479
around him. That could be the
truth, But it sounds more like this

1827
02:26:39,639 --> 02:26:43,319
being he saw was really there and
guided him on the plane and just got

1828
02:26:43,360 --> 02:26:46,799
him home. I don't know.
It's weird, but it's a great story.

1829
02:26:48,079 --> 02:26:54,719
Thanks to the writer for sending it. This is an email about Bigfoot,

1830
02:26:56,959 --> 02:27:01,799
and the writer says, my siblings
call me Buckshot. I guess you

1831
02:27:01,840 --> 02:27:05,239
can tell by that name that I've
spent most of my life in the woods

1832
02:27:05,440 --> 02:27:09,680
hunting everything from white tailed deer to
turkey to coyotes and hogs. Because of

1833
02:27:09,719 --> 02:27:13,600
that, I've also spent many an
early morning and night listening to the sounds

1834
02:27:13,600 --> 02:27:20,239
of mother nature. Where I'm from, coyotes are pretty common and black bears

1835
02:27:20,319 --> 02:27:24,760
aren't unheard of. We also have
black panthers or black cougars here, but

1836
02:27:24,799 --> 02:27:30,559
don't tell the authorities. They ain't
figured it out yet. I know I

1837
02:27:30,600 --> 02:27:35,000
haven't seen or heard everything, but
I've always been pretty comfortable with my knowledge

1838
02:27:35,000 --> 02:27:39,440
of Mother nature. That's why I
was so shook up by what I heard

1839
02:27:39,479 --> 02:27:43,600
One night a few weeks back.
I was sitting in my barn taking a

1840
02:27:43,719 --> 02:27:48,200
rest before heading to the house,
when out of the blue, I heard

1841
02:27:48,200 --> 02:27:52,600
an extremely loud roar or I guess
you might say it was a yell.

1842
02:27:52,159 --> 02:27:56,280
Well, whichever it was, it
was something I've never heard before. I've

1843
02:27:56,280 --> 02:28:01,479
heard everything that might have come close
to it, but this wasn't any of

1844
02:28:01,520 --> 02:28:05,079
them. I'm sure of that.
There's something else I'm sure of. Whatever

1845
02:28:05,120 --> 02:28:11,360
made that noise was huge. The
sound repeated itself three more times. With

1846
02:28:11,440 --> 02:28:16,920
each successive yell, my heart beat
a little faster until it felt like it

1847
02:28:16,959 --> 02:28:20,559
was beating out of my chest.
I retreated to the house as quickly as

1848
02:28:20,639 --> 02:28:26,760
I could. Since then I carry
whenever I step outside, especially late at

1849
02:28:26,840 --> 02:28:31,239
night. So naturally I told my
dad and sister and nephew about it,

1850
02:28:31,840 --> 02:28:35,520
and just as naturally, they laughed
and picked fun at me for it.

1851
02:28:37,079 --> 02:28:41,440
After a week of being mocked by
them, we were all sitting out in

1852
02:28:41,479 --> 02:28:45,639
the yard one night, enjoying the
evening air. It was getting to be

1853
02:28:45,719 --> 02:28:50,079
around eleven forty PM, and I
was half listing for another yell and half

1854
02:28:50,120 --> 02:28:54,760
hoping I didn't hear one. Just
as my dad opened his mouth to say

1855
02:28:54,799 --> 02:28:58,479
something, that loud, bellowing howl
came from the woodline along the backfield of

1856
02:28:58,520 --> 02:29:03,639
my proper. In the daylight,
we could have seen where it came from,

1857
02:29:05,000 --> 02:29:09,120
but at night it was too dark. As that sound echoed across the

1858
02:29:09,159 --> 02:29:15,840
barnyard, everyone went still. My
dad frozen midward and his eyes bulged from

1859
02:29:15,840 --> 02:29:20,959
his face. We all sat looking
at each other as that same sound came

1860
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:24,760
from the bowels of the woods a
few more times over the next several minutes,

1861
02:29:24,399 --> 02:29:28,239
and no one spoke a word,
probably because no one needed to.

1862
02:29:30,280 --> 02:29:35,559
That effectively ended our night. The
next night, we regrouped in the barnyard,

1863
02:29:35,639 --> 02:29:41,479
with everyone anxious to talk about what
happened the night before. As my

1864
02:29:41,600 --> 02:29:46,799
dad and siblings discussed the loudness and
the possible source of the sounds, my

1865
02:29:46,920 --> 02:29:52,479
nephew and I searched the Internet on
our smartphones looking for animal sounds that might

1866
02:29:52,559 --> 02:29:56,440
explain what we'd heard. We searched
for several hours, but we came up

1867
02:29:56,479 --> 02:30:03,319
empty. Nothing came close to what
we he heard. Then we stumbled across

1868
02:30:03,360 --> 02:30:07,639
the site that had bigfoot sounds.
They were remarkably close to what we'd heard.

1869
02:30:09,760 --> 02:30:13,200
After hearing those recordings, we all
looked at each other and came to

1870
02:30:13,239 --> 02:30:18,920
the same collective conclusion that thing roaring
in my woods had to be a bigfoot.

1871
02:30:20,200 --> 02:30:22,079
A few days after that, my
nephew and I were walking in a

1872
02:30:22,159 --> 02:30:26,760
field on my property when he came
across an unusual track in the soil.

1873
02:30:28,879 --> 02:30:31,280
He called me over to look at
it. What I saw led me to

1874
02:30:31,360 --> 02:30:37,239
conclude that it was definitely a bigfoot. The print was very human in appearance,

1875
02:30:37,719 --> 02:30:41,479
except that it was six or seven
inches wide at the top and four

1876
02:30:41,520 --> 02:30:46,680
to five inches wide at the heel. I could see the toes and the

1877
02:30:46,719 --> 02:30:50,120
curve of the arch and the foot. My heart was racing as fast as

1878
02:30:50,120 --> 02:30:56,200
it was that first night. I've
always believed in the possibility of their existence,

1879
02:30:56,319 --> 02:31:01,239
but I never thought I would actually
see a print or hear one yell.

1880
02:31:01,799 --> 02:31:05,280
A few nights passed and I was
standing out on my front porch to

1881
02:31:05,319 --> 02:31:09,000
catch a bit of fresh air before
turning in for the night, and from

1882
02:31:09,000 --> 02:31:13,040
the woods across the road from my
house, I heard that roar again.

1883
02:31:15,520 --> 02:31:20,399
Having heard it several times now,
I wasn't so quick to retreat. It

1884
02:31:20,479 --> 02:31:24,200
was a little different, this time, more like a squeal of pain with

1885
02:31:24,280 --> 02:31:26,840
a hint of a roar in it. Fear gripped me, but I was

1886
02:31:26,879 --> 02:31:31,440
determined to stand my ground. My
wife heard it and came outside to see

1887
02:31:31,479 --> 02:31:35,319
what it was. This was the
first time she'd heard it, and I

1888
02:31:35,319 --> 02:31:39,479
could see fear and worry in her
eyes as she stood there and shot.

1889
02:31:41,799 --> 02:31:46,079
Two nights later, my son and
I were out checking my grapes at eight

1890
02:31:46,120 --> 02:31:50,440
pm, and I was studying how
many grapes were producing when I heard that

1891
02:31:50,479 --> 02:31:54,440
familiar sound in the distance. I
marveled at the power it had, even

1892
02:31:54,479 --> 02:32:00,200
from so far away. With white
eyes. My son looked at me and

1893
02:32:00,239 --> 02:32:03,399
he said, is that what you've
been hearing? And I nodded my answer

1894
02:32:03,399 --> 02:32:07,280
as he turned to run for the
house. Come inside, he called over

1895
02:32:07,319 --> 02:32:11,559
his shoulder, and I followed on
his heels. A couple of more days

1896
02:32:11,600 --> 02:32:18,239
went by with no unusual sounds from
the woods. I had just gotten comfortable

1897
02:32:18,280 --> 02:32:22,680
with the idea that we wouldn't hear
any more of those yells when as my

1898
02:32:22,799 --> 02:32:26,680
wife and I were lying in bed
that night, somewhere between awake and dreamland,

1899
02:32:28,159 --> 02:32:31,719
and a loud bellow came through our
bedroom window and rattled our walls.

1900
02:32:33,600 --> 02:32:37,879
We both immediately sat up right in
bed and looked around, neither one knowing

1901
02:32:37,920 --> 02:32:41,319
what to say. All we could
do was stare at each other when another

1902
02:32:41,440 --> 02:32:46,639
loud roar shook the window glass.
After that, all was silent for the

1903
02:32:46,680 --> 02:32:50,399
rest of the night. It was
just enough to keep either one of us

1904
02:32:50,440 --> 02:32:54,959
from getting a good night's sleep,
and we spent the rest of the night

1905
02:32:54,079 --> 02:33:01,000
sitting up, waiting and listening.
By now I was contemplating looking for more

1906
02:33:01,120 --> 02:33:07,680
evidence, despite my internal struggle between
fear and curiosity, I decided to take

1907
02:33:07,719 --> 02:33:11,280
a walk along my property line at
the edge of the woods. This time

1908
02:33:11,360 --> 02:33:16,600
I found two different sets of prints. One was fifteen inches long and the

1909
02:33:16,639 --> 02:33:22,239
other was ten inches. Both were
very wide, and I realized then that

1910
02:33:22,319 --> 02:33:26,239
I was going to have to accept
that whatever this was, it had chosen

1911
02:33:26,319 --> 02:33:31,920
to make my property its home.
Judging by the size of the Prince and

1912
02:33:31,959 --> 02:33:35,280
the strength of its roer, there
wasn't going to be much I could do

1913
02:33:35,360 --> 02:33:39,719
about it. I told my siblings
about the Prince the first chance I got.

1914
02:33:41,239 --> 02:33:43,600
They all ran over to look at
them, but I could tell that

1915
02:33:43,680 --> 02:33:48,000
they were struggling with the same internal
battle between curiosity and fear that had me

1916
02:33:48,159 --> 02:33:54,399
tiden knots. I've lived on this
property for the last six years. Before

1917
02:33:54,440 --> 02:33:58,159
that, I left five miles from
here. Now i've lived in this general

1918
02:33:58,200 --> 02:34:05,639
area thirty one years. Never have
I heard anything like this. I'm sure

1919
02:34:05,680 --> 02:34:09,799
my siblings could all say the same. That night, after I showed my

1920
02:34:09,920 --> 02:34:13,799
siblings the Prince, we all decided
to wait up to see if we might

1921
02:34:13,840 --> 02:34:18,680
hear it again. The neighbor who
was living three houses down was having a

1922
02:34:18,719 --> 02:34:22,719
shin dick that night, and around
nine pm, the creature in the woods

1923
02:34:22,840 --> 02:34:26,639
let loose with a long, bellowing
yell, and the neighbor heard it.

1924
02:34:28,559 --> 02:34:33,079
How do I know that he heard
it? Not two seconds later all of

1925
02:34:33,120 --> 02:34:39,280
his friends started leaving in a hasty
manner. The fire went from lighting up

1926
02:34:39,319 --> 02:34:43,079
his yard to darkness, and I
laughed a bit, but I understood their

1927
02:34:43,120 --> 02:34:48,680
fear. So far, it's the
last time I've heard that yell. I

1928
02:34:48,719 --> 02:34:52,319
can't remember when I got this.
I'm kind of reaching back and pulling some

1929
02:34:52,399 --> 02:34:56,040
of these up that I haven't gotten
to yet. So I wish I had

1930
02:34:56,040 --> 02:34:58,440
the date on this, but I
don't. But I'd be curious to know

1931
02:34:58,479 --> 02:35:03,239
if he's heard it anymore. Man, This is interesting, and thank you

1932
02:35:03,280 --> 02:35:09,479
to the writer for sending it.
I appreciate you. Here is ay an

1933
02:35:09,520 --> 02:35:13,239
email and the person doesn't give his
name, so I don't know who they

1934
02:35:13,239 --> 02:35:16,000
are, but here's what they write. I grew up in a suburban neighborhood

1935
02:35:16,000 --> 02:35:20,680
in New Jersey. I had no
experience with the real outdoors. Growing up,

1936
02:35:22,440 --> 02:35:26,879
all my activities took place inside the
city limit. I never considered the

1937
02:35:28,000 --> 02:35:33,799
unseen world as anything more than fantasy. I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories.

1938
02:35:33,440 --> 02:35:39,239
I think most things can be explained
by science or sound reasoning. Sometimes

1939
02:35:39,360 --> 02:35:46,120
two plus two really does equal four. After graduating from high school, I

1940
02:35:46,200 --> 02:35:50,959
became a little less sheltered, maybe
even a bit more open minded. Now

1941
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:54,159
I met my wife, who had
a love for these topics I either dismissed

1942
02:35:54,280 --> 02:36:00,239
or had a little interest in.
She shared a few stories with me that

1943
02:36:00,520 --> 02:36:03,600
happened while she was growing up,
like the abandoned garage where the neighbor's kids

1944
02:36:03,600 --> 02:36:07,159
claimed a pair of bright red,
glowing eyes would stare at them from the

1945
02:36:07,200 --> 02:36:11,959
window. The old two story house
where she lived with her family had a

1946
02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:16,799
basement that had been dug out after
the place had been constructed around the year

1947
02:36:16,920 --> 02:36:22,360
nineteen hundred. It had a dirt
floor and the foundation was starting to sag.

1948
02:36:22,760 --> 02:36:28,079
There was a section that had an
inlet crawl space. When she aimed

1949
02:36:28,079 --> 02:36:33,120
a flashlighting into it, she could
see nothing but cobwebs. One day,

1950
02:36:33,159 --> 02:36:37,079
her mother sent her to the basement
to retrieve some canned goods sitting on a

1951
02:36:37,120 --> 02:36:43,120
metal shelf. Her arms were loaded
down with baked beans. When she looked

1952
02:36:43,200 --> 02:36:46,120
up and saw a pair of red
glowing eyes looking at her from within the

1953
02:36:46,159 --> 02:36:50,959
crawl space, she let out a
scream, dropped the canned goods, and

1954
02:36:52,000 --> 02:36:56,920
fled to the safety of the first
floor. Her father's response was to hang

1955
02:36:56,959 --> 02:37:01,200
a few more lights from the basement
rafters. My wife and I were visiting

1956
02:37:01,200 --> 02:37:05,280
her mother one evening, shortly after
we were married. The two of them

1957
02:37:05,440 --> 02:37:09,239
left to visit a relative on the
other side of town, leaving me alone

1958
02:37:09,319 --> 02:37:13,319
to watch the television. Well,
maybe it was a mix of hearing my

1959
02:37:13,399 --> 02:37:18,879
wife's scary stories and the power of
suggestion, but I thought I heard something

1960
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:22,719
rumbling around in the basement. There
was a loud crash, and I immediately

1961
02:37:22,760 --> 02:37:28,559
thought about the metal shelf of canned
goods, so I opened the door leading

1962
02:37:28,600 --> 02:37:33,200
to the basement and reached for the
light switch. The lone bulb hanging over

1963
02:37:33,239 --> 02:37:37,719
the steps flickered and went out,
and I peered down the stairwell into the

1964
02:37:37,799 --> 02:37:43,719
darkness, and I saw two red
glowing eyes staring back at me. And

1965
02:37:43,799 --> 02:37:46,440
I slammed the door and ran to
my car, and I fled to a

1966
02:37:46,479 --> 02:37:52,200
nearby fast food joint. My in
laws were not bothered in the least by

1967
02:37:52,239 --> 02:37:56,920
my story. They righted the toppled
shelving unit, restacked the cans, and

1968
02:37:58,000 --> 02:38:03,239
changed the bulb over the stairs.
Critters was all they said. Since then,

1969
02:38:03,520 --> 02:38:09,440
I've had what you call a heighten
awareness of my surroundings. I readily

1970
02:38:09,479 --> 02:38:13,760
admit that there are things in life
that can't be explained, though I always

1971
02:38:13,799 --> 02:38:18,000
believe that two plus two equals four. Well, sir, that's very good

1972
02:38:18,040 --> 02:38:22,680
reasoning, because two plus two does
equal four, and sometimes there is a

1973
02:38:22,799 --> 02:38:28,639
rational explanation for this. Could that
have been like a raccoon or something?

1974
02:38:28,239 --> 02:38:31,479
I don't know. I'm trying to
and I've said this before, but I

1975
02:38:31,520 --> 02:38:37,479
can't remember what animals eyes glowed red
when you shine light on them. However,

1976
02:38:39,079 --> 02:38:43,399
he wasn't shining a light down in
this basement. I'm assuming his wife

1977
02:38:43,479 --> 02:38:46,520
wasn't either when she saw this,
and the kids in the neighborhood who have

1978
02:38:46,639 --> 02:38:50,000
seen it. But I know when
he went in, the light bulb went

1979
02:38:50,040 --> 02:38:56,000
out, so there's no light to
reflect off the animals that back mirror part

1980
02:38:56,120 --> 02:39:00,159
of their eye. I can't remember
what it's called, but it reflects.

1981
02:39:00,319 --> 02:39:03,680
It's how they gather, like to
see at night. Or any of those.

1982
02:39:03,719 --> 02:39:07,120
Do any of those reflect back red? I can't remember. I think

1983
02:39:07,280 --> 02:39:11,239
raccoons maybe I don't know. I
don't maybe some birds, birds of prey

1984
02:39:11,360 --> 02:39:15,399
I can't Maybe an owl, maybe
that's what that was. And maybe it

1985
02:39:15,479 --> 02:39:18,520
was some kind of creature that lives
in the cross space in the duckwork in

1986
02:39:18,639 --> 02:39:22,680
her in her parents' house. Either
way, it was a scary story and

1987
02:39:22,760 --> 02:39:26,639
it was very well written, and
I loved it. I love these stories,

1988
02:39:26,639 --> 02:39:33,040
so I appreciate the writer. Thank
you. This is an email I

1989
02:39:33,079 --> 02:39:35,200
got actually recently. I thought it
was so good i'd pull it up and

1990
02:39:35,280 --> 02:39:39,799
do it. The woman does not
want to want me to use her name,

1991
02:39:41,600 --> 02:39:45,879
and there's the first paragraph of the
email gives me quite a bit of

1992
02:39:45,920 --> 02:39:50,479
it from quite a bit of information
about where she lives and stuff that I

1993
02:39:50,520 --> 02:39:54,879
think I'm not gonna talk about,
but I'll say this. She's a US

1994
02:39:54,959 --> 02:40:01,559
citizen. Apparently she married a man
from Ireland and live in Ireland now and

1995
02:40:01,639 --> 02:40:05,799
she lives on the coast. But
she was born and raised in the United

1996
02:40:05,879 --> 02:40:11,360
States. And she's remembering an event
from her childhood, and that's where her

1997
02:40:11,399 --> 02:40:15,559
story picks up. So she writes, so, here's my story, which

1998
02:40:15,600 --> 02:40:20,799
happened when I was sixteen years old. Our neighborhood backed onto a large forest

1999
02:40:20,840 --> 02:40:24,479
which led right up to the I'm
not even going to try to pronounce this

2000
02:40:24,879 --> 02:40:33,000
Zeka zeka swamp z e kiah,
which we used to explore up to the

2001
02:40:33,040 --> 02:40:37,959
point back along the woodlands. I
had three brothers, all of whom lived

2002
02:40:37,000 --> 02:40:41,760
in the woods, and being the
only girl, I tagged along like a

2003
02:40:41,799 --> 02:40:46,719
tomboy as best I could. My
oldest brother and three of his friends decided

2004
02:40:46,719 --> 02:40:52,120
to put their carpentry skills into practice
and spent several weeks building a treehouse deep

2005
02:40:52,120 --> 02:40:58,600
in the forest, two miles back
from our neighborhood. All the materials were

2006
02:40:58,600 --> 02:41:03,239
hauled in by hand or loaded on
motorcycles. I was impressed with a construction

2007
02:41:03,440 --> 02:41:07,079
project, but I was disappointed that
it was so high off the ground,

2008
02:41:07,600 --> 02:41:13,079
I was afraid of heights. They
hammered horizontal steps going up the tree,

2009
02:41:13,600 --> 02:41:18,920
and the floor hatch door was a
bit awkward to access, which made entering

2010
02:41:18,040 --> 02:41:24,319
and exiting the treehouse a challenge.
This was no treehouse for sissies. It

2011
02:41:24,399 --> 02:41:30,879
was built solid and even had a
small locking sliding window to block out critters

2012
02:41:30,879 --> 02:41:35,040
from getting in. Back in those
days, this was the nineteen eighties,

2013
02:41:35,399 --> 02:41:41,440
all the young people seemed to roam
wild with little or no supervision. I

2014
02:41:41,479 --> 02:41:45,399
have no idea how we kept this
treehouse a secret from our parents for so

2015
02:41:45,600 --> 02:41:48,680
long, but it was where we
all went to smoke cigarettes and drink Boone's

2016
02:41:48,799 --> 02:41:54,840
farm or beer. Don't forget the
Mad Dog twenty twenty, MD twenty Mogan

2017
02:41:54,959 --> 02:41:58,799
David twenty twenty. We called it
mad Dog. Lot of people my age

2018
02:41:58,840 --> 02:42:03,520
will remember that anyway. One of
my friends, her name was Debbie.

2019
02:42:03,879 --> 02:42:07,879
She got the idea that it might
be fun to spend the night in the

2020
02:42:07,959 --> 02:42:13,120
treehouse. Besides being afraid of heights, I wasn't overly king on pitch black

2021
02:42:13,159 --> 02:42:16,719
woods either, but hey, you're
only a teen once, so I agreed

2022
02:42:16,760 --> 02:42:22,120
it might be fun. We lied
to our parents, and we told them

2023
02:42:22,120 --> 02:42:26,559
we were spending the night at the
other person's house, and we packed what

2024
02:42:26,600 --> 02:42:30,440
we needed for the night to stay
in the treehouse, including sleeping bags,

2025
02:42:30,520 --> 02:42:35,719
candles, magazines, and food.
We hiked into the woods and settled into

2026
02:42:35,760 --> 02:42:39,879
the treehouse before dark. We were
grubbing on junk food and talking about school

2027
02:42:39,879 --> 02:42:45,600
and things that girls talk about at
sixteen, and we didn't tell anyone we

2028
02:42:45,600 --> 02:42:48,840
were going to sleep in the treehouse
for fear that someone would try to spoil

2029
02:42:48,840 --> 02:42:54,639
the fun for us. We settled
in for the night. It was quiet

2030
02:42:54,680 --> 02:42:58,680
in the woods, unusually quiet up
until something struck the side of the treehouse.

2031
02:43:00,840 --> 02:43:05,719
We both stopped talking. We noticed
the smell. It was like rotting

2032
02:43:05,920 --> 02:43:13,159
trash. Oh, you guys,
I just have the best imaginations for a

2033
02:43:13,280 --> 02:43:16,520
riting trash. Isn't that funny?
But I think when I come up on

2034
02:43:16,600 --> 02:43:20,639
smells, I always just naturally laughed
anyway, She writes, I looked at

2035
02:43:20,639 --> 02:43:26,159
Debbie and I wondered what she ate
earlier that day, and then she pinched

2036
02:43:26,159 --> 02:43:30,959
her nose and I knew the smell
was coming from outside. And then bang,

2037
02:43:31,680 --> 02:43:35,079
something hit the treehouse again, but
it was much bigger. We were

2038
02:43:35,120 --> 02:43:41,239
both very frightened, and we heard
grunting sounds and scraping at the bottom of

2039
02:43:41,280 --> 02:43:45,680
the treehouse. We locked the hatch, which was made of wood and was

2040
02:43:45,719 --> 02:43:48,680
almost invisible to the eye from outside, as the boys had made it look

2041
02:43:48,799 --> 02:43:54,639
like a part of the flooring from
underneath. But the thing wasted no time

2042
02:43:54,719 --> 02:43:58,479
in finding it, and it tried
to slide it open, or so it

2043
02:43:58,559 --> 02:44:03,440
seemed to us. I said directly
on top of the hatch, and Debbie

2044
02:44:03,520 --> 02:44:07,200
was in a panic. I was
too scared to be in a panic,

2045
02:44:07,280 --> 02:44:11,639
and I sat frozen like a statue, and I prayed with all my heart

2046
02:44:11,680 --> 02:44:16,079
for this thing to go away.
I kept thinking that we were going to

2047
02:44:16,200 --> 02:44:20,959
die. This thing was way too
determined to figure out how to get inside.

2048
02:44:22,520 --> 02:44:26,559
The trees that supported the treehouse were
very substantial, and you could never

2049
02:44:26,639 --> 02:44:31,600
imagine someone could actually shake them,
and I could barely get my arms around

2050
02:44:31,639 --> 02:44:37,200
them. But the treehouse shook slightly, and then we heard funny sounds.

2051
02:44:37,799 --> 02:44:41,399
I don't remember exactly what they were, but they sounded like gibberish. Maybe

2052
02:44:41,440 --> 02:44:46,360
there was more than one, we
couldn't tell. We heard the loud footsteps

2053
02:44:46,399 --> 02:44:52,079
and undergrowth of the leaves and sticks
snapping and I decided to blow out the

2054
02:44:52,120 --> 02:44:56,239
candle, and then I walked over
to one of the small windows which had

2055
02:44:56,239 --> 02:44:58,479
a sliding covers, and I tried
to peek out, but it was so

2056
02:44:58,680 --> 02:45:03,440
dark that I couldn't see. Now, I shut the window back and I

2057
02:45:03,520 --> 02:45:09,319
locked it, and then it or
they started scraping the bottom of the treehouse

2058
02:45:09,360 --> 02:45:13,959
again, and this went on for
a long time. After a while,

2059
02:45:15,040 --> 02:45:18,879
we were both exhausted from fear.
Things started landing on the roof of the

2060
02:45:18,920 --> 02:45:24,319
treehouse too. Debbie had big blue
eyes and she kept staring at me with

2061
02:45:24,399 --> 02:45:28,959
them wide open. We spoke with
our eyes, occasionally closing them tight.

2062
02:45:31,399 --> 02:45:33,639
We were afraid to speak, and
I wanted them to think that we were

2063
02:45:33,680 --> 02:45:37,760
asleep. I didn't know what to
do or think. I just wanted to

2064
02:45:37,799 --> 02:45:45,280
be in my own bed back home. After several hours of banging things hitting

2065
02:45:45,319 --> 02:45:50,280
the treehouse and shaking and scraping,
things started to quiet down just before sunrise,

2066
02:45:52,440 --> 02:45:56,639
and then we heard a loud,
roaring growl sound, but unlike anything

2067
02:45:56,639 --> 02:46:00,639
else we had heard before, and
it felt like it could easily have pulled

2068
02:46:00,680 --> 02:46:05,079
the treehouse down and gotten inside.
After hearing that, and I knew it

2069
02:46:05,200 --> 02:46:11,319
was really big whatever this thing was, and then it went totally quiet and

2070
02:46:11,360 --> 02:46:16,840
everything stop. We waited for a
couple of hours after they left, never

2071
02:46:16,920 --> 02:46:22,040
speaking a word, until finally I
said that we should take a look outside.

2072
02:46:22,159 --> 02:46:26,840
By this time it was seven a
m. And I whispered that we

2073
02:46:26,879 --> 02:46:30,799
should leave very quietly and leave all
of our stuff there and run like hell.

2074
02:46:31,079 --> 02:46:35,200
Once we got down to the ground, she nodded and was softly crying,

2075
02:46:37,000 --> 02:46:39,159
and I slid the hatch open and
popped my head through to look as

2076
02:46:39,159 --> 02:46:43,479
best as I could, and I
didn't see anything, and we went for

2077
02:46:43,559 --> 02:46:48,319
it and we ran like hell.
And as soon as we got home,

2078
02:46:48,639 --> 02:46:52,959
we woke the boys and told them
all about our experience. They called their

2079
02:46:54,000 --> 02:46:56,600
friends and went back to retrieve our
stuff for us and have a look around.

2080
02:46:58,079 --> 02:47:01,120
Two of the boys took rifles.
My older brother said that we were

2081
02:47:01,159 --> 02:47:05,079
pretty stupid for going back there for
the night, and we agreed. He

2082
02:47:05,200 --> 02:47:09,959
was not going to get any argument
from us. They said it was probably

2083
02:47:11,000 --> 02:47:16,079
a bear or the goat man,
and they teased us for months following this

2084
02:47:16,159 --> 02:47:20,079
event, but I knew they believed
us. Needless to say, Debbie and

2085
02:47:20,120 --> 02:47:26,760
I never went back there again at
night. I moved up north after high

2086
02:47:26,760 --> 02:47:31,000
school, and I lost touch with
Debbie. I found her on Facebook a

2087
02:47:31,040 --> 02:47:35,159
few years later and we chatted online
a bit, and then one night I

2088
02:47:35,239 --> 02:47:41,079
messaged her and asked her if she
remembered that night in the treehouse, and

2089
02:47:41,159 --> 02:47:43,479
I asked her if she would share
what she remembered so I could fill in

2090
02:47:43,520 --> 02:47:50,399
some of the blanks. She never
replied. I messaged her three times and

2091
02:47:50,440 --> 02:47:54,719
I tried to rephrase my question being
careful and considerate, but I got nothing

2092
02:47:54,760 --> 02:48:03,200
from her. She never replied back
at all. Eight. Fine. The

2093
02:48:03,239 --> 02:48:07,280
writer's name is Jeremy. It's a
short story, and here's what he writes.

2094
02:48:07,399 --> 02:48:11,399
I have a sosquatch or monkey man's
story to share that was told to

2095
02:48:11,440 --> 02:48:16,520
me by my grandmother. We live
in a very rural part of southwest Pennsylvania.

2096
02:48:16,159 --> 02:48:22,280
This area is still more forest than
civilization. Back in the late nineteen

2097
02:48:22,360 --> 02:48:26,879
thirties and early forties when this happened, it was even more so. My

2098
02:48:26,959 --> 02:48:31,000
grandmother was fairly young at the time, about twelve to fourteen years old.

2099
02:48:31,639 --> 02:48:37,239
Her parents, my great grandparents,
were farmers. They lived mainly off of

2100
02:48:37,280 --> 02:48:41,040
what they produced on the farm and
hunted off the land. Things haven't changed

2101
02:48:41,159 --> 02:48:46,239
much we're still geared towards living off
the land and our family. At the

2102
02:48:46,280 --> 02:48:50,319
time of the encounter, my great
grandparents had a few head of general purpose

2103
02:48:50,440 --> 02:48:54,040
cattle. They were used for dairy
and then once they got too old to

2104
02:48:54,120 --> 02:48:58,840
produce milk, they were used for
beef. It all started when these cattle

2105
02:49:00,040 --> 02:49:05,280
began acting strange. At first,
they just seemed nervous and jittery. They

2106
02:49:05,319 --> 02:49:09,319
began bellowing a lot, and their
tails were often tucked between their legs and

2107
02:49:09,360 --> 02:49:13,600
they were scared. Then they started
kicking and butting. These were all clear

2108
02:49:13,719 --> 02:49:18,280
signs that something was going on,
they just didn't know what. Well.

2109
02:49:18,319 --> 02:49:22,000
After a few days of this behavior, some of them all but quit producing

2110
02:49:22,079 --> 02:49:26,000
milk. There was no doubt now
that the cattle were spooked by something.

2111
02:49:28,000 --> 02:49:33,239
Everyone thought a bear or a cougar
was probably to blame. Finally, one

2112
02:49:33,360 --> 02:49:37,600
night, the cattle wouldn't come to
the barn for feeding or milking. This

2113
02:49:37,840 --> 02:49:43,120
was very strange. Cattle don't just
decide not to feed. Plus, going

2114
02:49:43,159 --> 02:49:48,479
without being milked can be downright painful
for a cow. My grandmother and her

2115
02:49:48,600 --> 02:49:54,639
siblings were sent out to the partially
wooded pasture to round up arrant livestock and

2116
02:49:54,719 --> 02:49:58,639
drive them back to the barn.
And as they walked, they all knew

2117
02:49:58,719 --> 02:50:01,719
to keep their eyes open for the
predator they thought was scaring their cattle.

2118
02:50:03,559 --> 02:50:07,120
If they spotted it and were able
to drive it off, life could return

2119
02:50:07,200 --> 02:50:11,799
to normal on the farm. The
pasture they were headed to was a fair

2120
02:50:11,879 --> 02:50:16,719
piece back in an old mountain haller
with boulders laying all around. As they

2121
02:50:16,760 --> 02:50:20,040
made their way out there, they
were able to make out in the evening

2122
02:50:20,159 --> 02:50:26,280
light a bear sitting on top of
one of those boulders. As soon as

2123
02:50:26,280 --> 02:50:30,840
they recognized it, they all shifted
into scare off mode. They clapped their

2124
02:50:30,879 --> 02:50:35,319
hands and whooped and hollered and made
all kinds of noise as they walked towards

2125
02:50:35,360 --> 02:50:39,520
the bear. They had only gone
a few yards in that direction, though,

2126
02:50:39,559 --> 02:50:43,719
When the bear stood up now they
all got a good look at it,

2127
02:50:43,879 --> 02:50:48,440
and they knew it wasn't a bear
at all. My grandmother described it

2128
02:50:48,479 --> 02:50:52,000
as a giant monkey that was larger
than anyone who was there, or for

2129
02:50:52,120 --> 02:50:56,840
that matter, anyone she had ever
seen before in her life. Flight or

2130
02:50:56,959 --> 02:51:01,200
fight kicked in, and none of
them to fight. They ran back to

2131
02:51:01,239 --> 02:51:05,680
the barn as fast as they could
where my great grandfather was working. They

2132
02:51:05,680 --> 02:51:11,479
were all crying and scared half to
death. Fear and adrenaline made it difficult

2133
02:51:11,479 --> 02:51:16,440
to tell what they just witnessed,
but evidently they got it out. My

2134
02:51:16,520 --> 02:51:20,719
great grandfather didn't believe them, but
he figured he'd better go see what was

2135
02:51:20,760 --> 02:51:24,479
really out there. He took his
gun with him, just in case he

2136
02:51:24,520 --> 02:51:28,159
could make a free meal out of
a bear. By the time he got

2137
02:51:28,200 --> 02:51:31,600
all the way out to that back
pasture, the only thing left there was

2138
02:51:31,639 --> 02:51:37,040
the terrified her. He drove them
back to the barn, more convinced than

2139
02:51:37,079 --> 02:51:41,079
ever that the kids did not see
a giant monkey. However, once he

2140
02:51:41,159 --> 02:51:43,799
got them into the barn, the
cattle wouldn't go back outside for a week.

2141
02:51:45,719 --> 02:51:50,319
My great grandfather had to conceive that
something out there had terrified the cows,

2142
02:51:50,000 --> 02:51:54,920
something that could scare them beyond the
average bear. No one ever saw

2143
02:51:54,959 --> 02:51:58,440
the monkey man again, but just
to be safe, no one ever went

2144
02:51:58,479 --> 02:52:03,520
out to that back pasture alone again
either. There have been more Si squatch

2145
02:52:03,680 --> 02:52:07,760
sightings in this area than I can
begin to tell you. A great many

2146
02:52:07,799 --> 02:52:13,159
of them were recorded in the nineteen
seventies by our local paranormal experts, Stan

2147
02:52:13,399 --> 02:52:20,399
Gordon. Between the number of sightings
he recorded my grandmother's stories and the countless

2148
02:52:20,440 --> 02:52:24,319
times I felt unwelcome in the forest
around here, I am inclined to believe

2149
02:52:24,360 --> 02:52:31,120
that something does live in these woods. There are still more than enough forests

2150
02:52:31,120 --> 02:52:35,000
in deep dark hollars for whatever is
out there to have a place to live

2151
02:52:35,079 --> 02:52:41,600
and hunt and survive for many years
to come. Here's a story from Georgia,

2152
02:52:43,120 --> 02:52:46,520
just a little bit east of Atlanta. The man said I could use

2153
02:52:46,559 --> 02:52:50,479
his name, but I don't know
what his name is. He didn't sign

2154
02:52:50,520 --> 02:52:54,879
the email, so or maybe I
missed it. But this is really good.

2155
02:52:54,239 --> 02:52:58,479
This is really good. Back in
nineteen seventy four, when my cousin

2156
02:52:58,520 --> 02:53:03,840
Bobby and when I was seventeen,
we were both hunting white tailed deer on

2157
02:53:03,879 --> 02:53:09,079
our dear least east of Atlanta,
Georgia. We had originally decided to sleep

2158
02:53:09,079 --> 02:53:13,000
in Bobby's car that night, but
there was an old, abandoned house on

2159
02:53:13,079 --> 02:53:16,200
the property, so we went inside
and put our sleeping bags on the floor

2160
02:53:16,520 --> 02:53:22,159
and we went right to sleep.
At three am, I was awakened when

2161
02:53:22,200 --> 02:53:26,319
one of the brightest lights I've ever
seen fill the room. It was coming

2162
02:53:26,319 --> 02:53:31,319
through the windows from outside. My
first thought was that the sheriff's deputy was

2163
02:53:31,360 --> 02:53:35,920
shining his spotlight on us. Well. I looked over at Bobby's sleeping bag

2164
02:53:35,000 --> 02:53:39,719
to see if he was awake too, but he wasn't there. It wasn't

2165
02:53:39,760 --> 02:53:43,639
anywhere inside the room we'd fallen asleep
in. Had he gone outside. I

2166
02:53:43,680 --> 02:53:48,399
thought I was scared to death.
We were about to be carted off to

2167
02:53:48,479 --> 02:53:52,680
jail. So I got up and
I went to the window, and out

2168
02:53:52,680 --> 02:53:56,959
in the yard was a small round
craft like nothing I'd ever seen before.

2169
02:53:56,920 --> 02:54:01,479
I stood there staring out at it
and shock and as I watched, a

2170
02:54:01,600 --> 02:54:07,319
door open and three little gray creatures
came out and started walking toward the house.

2171
02:54:07,559 --> 02:54:11,319
A fourth one came out and stood
on the ramp. The light from

2172
02:54:11,360 --> 02:54:16,360
the little craft turned nighttime into daylight, so I could clearly see everything that

2173
02:54:16,479 --> 02:54:22,600
was happening. All four of the
creatures looked a lot like the aliens that

2174
02:54:22,719 --> 02:54:26,680
other people describe. They were small, they had gray skin and large eyes

2175
02:54:26,719 --> 02:54:31,399
and oversized, edge shaped heads.
And then one of the ones on the

2176
02:54:31,399 --> 02:54:37,159
ground spoke to me. I don't
know if it spoke telepathically or if it

2177
02:54:37,280 --> 02:54:41,399
used actual words, but I do
remember what it said, we are looking

2178
02:54:41,479 --> 02:54:48,639
for male men. What are you
talking about? I answered again. I

2179
02:54:48,680 --> 02:54:52,520
don't know if they were reading my
thoughts or if I was verbally speaking back

2180
02:54:52,559 --> 02:54:58,200
to them. We're looking for males, another one repeated. The next thing

2181
02:54:58,239 --> 02:55:01,079
I knew, I was lying in
the middle of the flot my underwear,

2182
02:55:01,959 --> 02:55:05,600
and somewhere nearby Bobby was screaming,
where am I? Where am I?

2183
02:55:07,120 --> 02:55:11,760
The bright light was gone. We
were in total darkness now. I was

2184
02:55:11,799 --> 02:55:16,920
struggling to adjust my eyes to it
as I scrambled to find the candles that

2185
02:55:16,920 --> 02:55:20,319
we'd brought with us into the house. I found a candle next to my

2186
02:55:20,399 --> 02:55:24,200
sleeping bag, but Bobby had the
matches last before we went to bed,

2187
02:55:26,000 --> 02:55:28,280
and I couldn't find him anywhere near
the candle, so I knew he must

2188
02:55:28,360 --> 02:55:33,120
still have them. Bobby, I
yelled, light a match. He kept

2189
02:55:33,120 --> 02:55:39,399
repeating, where am I. I
don't have any matches to light the candle.

2190
02:55:39,600 --> 02:55:43,600
I yelled, light a match so
I can find you. He went

2191
02:55:43,680 --> 02:55:46,719
quiet for a minute, and then
I heard the distinct sound of a match

2192
02:55:46,799 --> 02:55:52,520
being struck. It went out before
I could locate him, so he had

2193
02:55:52,520 --> 02:55:56,799
to light another one, and he
lit several before I finally found him.

2194
02:55:58,000 --> 02:56:03,479
He was practically hanging feet first up
the chimney. I managed to help him

2195
02:56:03,520 --> 02:56:07,159
get out. We'd both fallen asleep
in our jeans, and he was still

2196
02:56:07,200 --> 02:56:11,559
wearing his, but somehow I ended
up in my underwear. I found my

2197
02:56:11,680 --> 02:56:16,239
clothes piled in a corner, and
I got into them as quickly as I

2198
02:56:16,280 --> 02:56:20,479
could. We both ran out of
that house like bullets fired from a gun.

2199
02:56:20,920 --> 02:56:24,559
Seconds later, we were in his
car and headed toward Interstate twenty to

2200
02:56:24,639 --> 02:56:30,159
Atlanta. We didn't care that we'd
left all our hunting and camping equipment in

2201
02:56:30,200 --> 02:56:33,959
the house. We just needed to
get away from there. We pulled into

2202
02:56:35,000 --> 02:56:37,639
a rest area and tried to sleep, but I couldn't let myself close my

2203
02:56:37,799 --> 02:56:43,520
eyes. I was still shaking in
fear, and just before daylight we drove

2204
02:56:43,559 --> 02:56:48,840
to a waffle house and we had
breakfast. Bobby told me that a demon

2205
02:56:48,920 --> 02:56:52,680
had dragged him out of his sleeping
bag and was trying to drag him up

2206
02:56:52,719 --> 02:56:56,719
the chimney. I described to him
what I saw, and he said it

2207
02:56:56,760 --> 02:57:01,000
could have been demons. This was
nineteen seventy four. There were zero et

2208
02:57:01,280 --> 02:57:05,799
movies out at that time. No
one that I knew ever talked about aliens

2209
02:57:05,879 --> 02:57:11,000
or being abducted. Heck, we
had no idea what had just happened to

2210
02:57:11,079 --> 02:57:13,799
us. We just knew we weren't
going back in that house in the dark.

2211
02:57:15,799 --> 02:57:18,440
It was well after daylight when we
went back to the house to retrieve

2212
02:57:18,479 --> 02:57:24,360
our stuff. Bobby kept watching the
door while I ran inside and threw everything

2213
02:57:24,399 --> 02:57:28,079
into one sleeping bag and I ran
back out. I tossed it all into

2214
02:57:28,159 --> 02:57:33,559
the car and we hauled but out
of there. The next afternoon, we

2215
02:57:33,600 --> 02:57:37,239
went to the opposite side of the
property and we hunted, but we were

2216
02:57:37,239 --> 02:57:41,639
out of the woods and on our
way back home before dark. I was

2217
02:57:41,680 --> 02:57:45,760
at Bobby's house last week for a
few days. He had never talked about

2218
02:57:45,760 --> 02:57:50,920
this with his girls. Two of
them were there. They were completely shocked

2219
02:57:50,000 --> 02:57:54,559
when we started telling the story.
I don't really talk about it to anyone.

2220
02:57:56,239 --> 02:58:00,159
A few people that I've told said
we must have been stoned. Well,

2221
02:58:00,200 --> 02:58:03,399
I've never had anything to do with
drugs in my life. These days,

2222
02:58:03,399 --> 02:58:07,879
I don't really care what people think
of me. I'm old now and

2223
02:58:07,920 --> 02:58:11,200
my family believes me, and they're
the ones who really matter in the end.

2224
02:58:15,959 --> 02:58:18,920
I was heavy into racing in the
mid seventies, I'd been asked to

2225
02:58:18,959 --> 02:58:24,000
tune a flat bottom circle boat in
the SK class. They were headed to

2226
02:58:24,040 --> 02:58:30,959
the World Championships to defend their number
one title of the previous year. I

2227
02:58:31,000 --> 02:58:33,239
was asked to come along by my
friend Dan, the guy who built the

2228
02:58:33,319 --> 02:58:39,280
engine, to work on the tuning
and the fuel. As usual with racing

2229
02:58:39,399 --> 02:58:43,479
parts, people and shops, nothing
ever lines up to get you on your

2230
02:58:43,520 --> 02:58:48,440
way to the races on time.
To make matters worse, we had a

2231
02:58:48,520 --> 02:58:54,719
seven am Saturday morning tech time to
meet that was almost six hours away.

2232
02:58:54,559 --> 02:58:58,680
On Friday night, we found ourselves
starting the new motor for the first time

2233
02:58:58,719 --> 02:59:05,399
at a eleven PM. We set
the timing, jumped in Dan's Silverado crew

2234
02:59:05,520 --> 02:59:09,959
cab, and let out for Phoenix
from Santa Ana, California, with six

2235
02:59:09,040 --> 02:59:15,079
hours to get there and sleep a
bit before tech inspection while towing a flat

2236
02:59:15,120 --> 02:59:20,920
bottom raceboat with a monstrous motor in
it. Since I was the only coffee

2237
02:59:20,959 --> 02:59:24,520
drinker in the bunch, I had
guzzled a gallon in the course of prepping

2238
02:59:24,559 --> 02:59:28,000
the motor that night, it was
decided that I would drive the first leg

2239
02:59:28,040 --> 02:59:33,719
to Phoenix. Everybody else would sleep
until it was their time to get behind

2240
02:59:33,719 --> 02:59:37,440
the wheel. I asked Dan how
fast he wanted me to tow with his

2241
02:59:37,600 --> 02:59:43,239
truck. He and the boat owner
debated and then told me that ninety miles

2242
02:59:43,280 --> 02:59:48,319
per hour would be fine. The
truck had a five hundred cubic inch big

2243
02:59:48,360 --> 02:59:54,120
block in it. Apparently gas knowledge
wasn't a concern. When I cleared the

2244
02:59:54,159 --> 02:59:58,200
inner city freeways, I took it
to ninety and I set the cruise control.

2245
02:59:58,440 --> 03:00:05,280
We made it to Palm Springs by
twelve fifteen am. That was fast,

2246
03:00:05,399 --> 03:00:09,680
considering we were towing a heavy load
through a mountain pass. At the

2247
03:00:09,760 --> 03:00:16,479
other end of Palm Springs is Shirako
Summit, a nineteen mile long six percent

2248
03:00:16,639 --> 03:00:22,360
grade, usually strewn with big rigs
and the right lane plugging along at forty

2249
03:00:22,399 --> 03:00:26,719
miles an hour. This night,
there weren't many, and I was able

2250
03:00:26,719 --> 03:00:31,159
to slallom mile way around them at
seventy to eighty miles per hour. There

2251
03:00:31,200 --> 03:00:35,840
was no worry of anyone in the
truck complaining, as they had all fallen

2252
03:00:35,879 --> 03:00:41,840
asleep within ten minutes of leaving home
base, including my shotgun Keep me awake

2253
03:00:41,959 --> 03:00:46,079
guy Bobby. He was in full
drool mode, slumped against the door.

2254
03:00:48,559 --> 03:00:52,399
I was still lamped up on caffeine, so I decided to roll on past

2255
03:00:52,479 --> 03:00:58,600
the first leg until someone became coherent
and took the wheel from me. As

2256
03:00:58,639 --> 03:01:01,879
we passed the top of the it
was a downhill run for twenty miles to

2257
03:01:03,000 --> 03:01:09,440
Desert Center, which has only a
cafe in some vacant buildings. Highway ten

2258
03:01:09,760 --> 03:01:13,959
is one desolate stretch of road.
The occasional semi rig we passed was the

2259
03:01:15,000 --> 03:01:20,079
only sign of life. In my
usual watch the sky mode, I noticed

2260
03:01:20,120 --> 03:01:26,399
a bright green star out past the
mountaintops on my right, about seven miles

2261
03:01:26,440 --> 03:01:30,440
away. I didn't think much of
it, and I didn't watch it for

2262
03:01:30,559 --> 03:01:35,399
very long. But ten minutes later
I looked back and I saw that it

2263
03:01:35,479 --> 03:01:39,479
was still directly out the passenger window, not moving behind where I had first

2264
03:01:39,520 --> 03:01:45,000
seen it. That was strange,
and I kept my eye on the green

2265
03:01:45,159 --> 03:01:50,479
light. There were no aircraft,
running lights or strobes, and it kept

2266
03:01:50,559 --> 03:01:54,559
pace with the truck. As I
traveled, I realized it was no longer

2267
03:01:54,600 --> 03:01:58,760
on the other side of the mountaintops. It was on my side, and

2268
03:01:58,840 --> 03:02:05,479
the mountains were behind it. It
was now clearly pacing the truck a quarter

2269
03:02:05,680 --> 03:02:11,559
mile away. I slowed down to
sixty and it slowed down, and when

2270
03:02:11,600 --> 03:02:15,799
I sped up, it sped up. All I could make out was this

2271
03:02:15,920 --> 03:02:22,200
bright green, glowing object. There
was no discernible shape. I shoved Bobby

2272
03:02:22,280 --> 03:02:26,319
to wake him up. Where are
we, he asked. I pointed out

2273
03:02:26,319 --> 03:02:30,319
the window, and I said,
never mind that, look at that thing.

2274
03:02:31,959 --> 03:02:35,040
Just as he began to turn his
head, this thing made a left

2275
03:02:35,079 --> 03:02:39,799
turn and it came blazing straight at
the truck. What the hell, Bobby

2276
03:02:39,879 --> 03:02:43,239
yelled. It was coming right at
the truck, and I braced myself for

2277
03:02:43,399 --> 03:02:50,000
impact. I slowed and I held
the wheel tight, and then it was

2278
03:02:50,079 --> 03:02:54,879
by so fast that I pulled my
foot off the accelerator and hadn't been able

2279
03:02:54,920 --> 03:02:58,959
to put on the brake before it
had disappeared to our left. This happened

2280
03:03:00,159 --> 03:03:07,079
in less than a second, almost
instantaneously. I fully expected a Vortec's turbulence

2281
03:03:07,159 --> 03:03:13,079
to blast the truck at any moment, but none ever came. How it

2282
03:03:13,200 --> 03:03:18,319
missed the truck. We had no
idea this thing was going at least one

2283
03:03:18,319 --> 03:03:22,440
thousand miles per hour. If it
was going one, It literally looked like

2284
03:03:22,479 --> 03:03:28,000
a seventy five foot diameter green blur
as it passed the front of the truck

2285
03:03:28,520 --> 03:03:33,600
and the back seat boys never even
woke up. Bobby and I rode in

2286
03:03:33,719 --> 03:03:37,120
silence for a mile or two,
and he finally said, are we going

2287
03:03:37,200 --> 03:03:39,959
to tell the other guys about this
Hell to the Noah? I said,

2288
03:03:41,159 --> 03:03:45,239
they're going to think we're crazier full
of it. He agreed, and in

2289
03:03:45,319 --> 03:03:50,040
ten minutes he was sound asleep again. Me, on the other hand,

2290
03:03:50,479 --> 03:03:54,799
I was adrenaline amp to the Bejesus
belt. Between my gallon of coffee and

2291
03:03:54,840 --> 03:04:01,040
the adrenaline rush, I could have
run to Phoenix at that point. Not

2292
03:04:01,159 --> 03:04:03,079
wanting to stare at the ceiling in
the truck. The rest of the way,

2293
03:04:03,200 --> 03:04:07,680
I kept pushing that five hundred cubic
inch that was under the hood of

2294
03:04:07,680 --> 03:04:13,200
the Chevrolet. With the hum of
the engine and the highway lanes snapping past,

2295
03:04:13,319 --> 03:04:16,879
I think I went into autopolot mode. I was shocked out of my

2296
03:04:18,040 --> 03:04:22,879
trance when a CBE radio barked at
me. I almost jumped out of my

2297
03:04:22,959 --> 03:04:26,559
skin. Hey, Seafer, where's
the fire? It crackled in a Southern

2298
03:04:26,639 --> 03:04:33,799
accent. Seafer is what truckers call
the guys pulling boats in California. Registration

2299
03:04:35,000 --> 03:04:41,200
numbers for Cali boats started with the
letters CF. Dazed, I grabbed the

2300
03:04:41,239 --> 03:04:43,520
mic and I said, ah,
we're late for the races in Phoenix.

2301
03:04:45,280 --> 03:04:48,680
His reply was, well, I
ain't seen a smoky for a while coming

2302
03:04:48,719 --> 03:04:52,040
your way, but you better watch
your speed. Besides, you're almost there

2303
03:04:52,079 --> 03:04:56,879
anyway. I looked over at the
speedometer and I was rolling at one hundred

2304
03:04:56,879 --> 03:05:01,680
miles per hour. How had I
gotten to this speed? And he was

2305
03:05:01,799 --> 03:05:05,319
right, I was coming up on
the Lake exit in two miles. I

2306
03:05:05,360 --> 03:05:11,719
looked at my watch and it read
two forty five am. When the craft

2307
03:05:11,920 --> 03:05:18,040
passed in front of us at Desert
Center, it was one thirty am.

2308
03:05:18,719 --> 03:05:24,360
From there, we were an easy
three hours from our destination. We rolled

2309
03:05:24,399 --> 03:05:28,639
into the hotel at three am.
I woke everyone up. They were all

2310
03:05:28,680 --> 03:05:33,680
trying to figure out how we got
to the hotel in four hours, especially

2311
03:05:33,760 --> 03:05:39,559
towing that big ass boat. The
trip was three hundred and eighty two miles

2312
03:05:39,559 --> 03:05:45,879
on the odometer. I would have
had to average ninety to ninety five miles

2313
03:05:45,920 --> 03:05:50,200
per hour to make it in that
time frame. From Desert Center to Phoenix

2314
03:05:50,319 --> 03:05:54,239
is one hundred and ninety seven miles, and I had made it in an

2315
03:05:54,280 --> 03:06:00,600
hour and a half. That section
alone would have required me to be flying

2316
03:06:00,760 --> 03:06:05,440
at around one hundred and thirty five
miles per hour. Even creepier was the

2317
03:06:05,479 --> 03:06:11,520
fuel consumption. We should have run
out of gas long before Phoenix. With

2318
03:06:11,680 --> 03:06:18,120
only fifty gallons on board and the
trucks usual six miles per gallon towing at

2319
03:06:18,159 --> 03:06:22,600
sixty five, we would have been
seventy miles short. As fast as I

2320
03:06:22,760 --> 03:06:28,000
was driving towing that big boat,
four miles per gallon should have been great.

2321
03:06:28,879 --> 03:06:33,959
If I thought the weirdness had passed, I was wrong as wrong could

2322
03:06:33,000 --> 03:06:39,360
be. I finally fell asleep around
three point thirty am, or I passed

2323
03:06:39,399 --> 03:06:45,000
out from the letdown off of adrenaline
and in caffeine. At six I was

2324
03:06:45,040 --> 03:06:48,440
shaken awake by Dan and he was
asking me what the hell happened to my

2325
03:06:48,639 --> 03:06:52,920
truck. I looked at him and
I said, I don't know. I

2326
03:06:52,079 --> 03:06:56,159
never stopped, so nothing that I
know of. He insisted that I get

2327
03:06:56,200 --> 03:07:00,959
out of the truck and come look
at the front end. I dragged my

2328
03:07:01,079 --> 03:07:03,280
warn ass out to the front of
the truck to see that the chrome and

2329
03:07:03,319 --> 03:07:09,159
the paint on the front end was
all bubbled up. Bobby walked over and

2330
03:07:09,200 --> 03:07:11,799
took a peat, and then he
grabbed his head and he said, oh

2331
03:07:13,040 --> 03:07:18,760
damn man, I thought I had
dreamed that The other guys were confused,

2332
03:07:18,799 --> 03:07:24,120
so we related the story to them. They were incredulous, as we expected,

2333
03:07:24,799 --> 03:07:28,040
but we had to get to the
tech inspection and there was no time

2334
03:07:28,159 --> 03:07:31,559
for a debate. On the way
to the lake, I started running some

2335
03:07:31,639 --> 03:07:35,200
math through my mind. Hey,
Dan, how much gas is left in

2336
03:07:35,239 --> 03:07:39,159
the tank? He looked down at
the gage and he said there was a

2337
03:07:39,239 --> 03:07:41,120
quarter of a tank, and asked
where I had stopped to fill up.

2338
03:07:41,879 --> 03:07:46,239
I told him I had never stopped
for gas. How could I have with

2339
03:07:46,319 --> 03:07:50,760
the time that I made. We
finished our day and the boat ran fine,

2340
03:07:52,040 --> 03:07:56,600
and not much was said until dinner
on Sunday night in Buckeye, Arizona.

2341
03:07:56,719 --> 03:08:01,559
Dan, being an engine builder,
was no slouch at math and had

2342
03:08:01,600 --> 03:08:07,000
been doing his own calculations. It
was at dinner that night that we decided

2343
03:08:07,040 --> 03:08:11,719
that we would never speak of the
trip's details again. When we had to

2344
03:08:11,719 --> 03:08:15,520
stop for fuel on the way back, despite having filled up in Phoenix,

2345
03:08:15,879 --> 03:08:20,719
we all looked at each other and
we shook our heads. None of us

2346
03:08:20,799 --> 03:08:26,079
have any idea where the time or
the miles went. I only know when

2347
03:08:26,120 --> 03:08:31,520
the trucker coming the other way woke
me from my trance. I wasn't aware

2348
03:08:31,639 --> 03:08:39,479
of where we were or how we
had gotten there. All right, the

2349
03:08:39,479 --> 03:08:41,920
writer wants to be anonymous. It's
about Bigfoot, and they're all true.

2350
03:08:43,040 --> 03:08:46,559
They all claim they're true, and
I don't tell them a bit. My

2351
03:08:46,639 --> 03:08:50,079
father passed away in two thousand and
four. He was a Vietnam veteran who

2352
03:08:50,200 --> 03:08:56,040
wasn't scared of anything, but in
the early nineteen seventies something happened that terrified

2353
03:08:56,120 --> 03:09:01,799
him. It was a fall afternoon
in the small town of Bird's Eye,

2354
03:09:01,920 --> 03:09:07,840
Indiana. My father was squirrel hunting
on my mother's family property. He used

2355
03:09:07,840 --> 03:09:11,840
the opportunity to scout the land for
signs of deer for the upcoming season.

2356
03:09:11,479 --> 03:09:15,520
There was a nice autumn day,
and Dad wasn't in a hurry to get

2357
03:09:15,559 --> 03:09:20,920
anywhere. He was enjoying being in
the woods and surrounded by nature. As

2358
03:09:20,959 --> 03:09:24,559
he made his way through the forest, he came across what he believed were

2359
03:09:24,600 --> 03:09:28,239
some animal bones. He took a
minute to look at them, but he

2360
03:09:28,360 --> 03:09:33,040
wasn't all that interested, so he
moved on. He hadn't gone much farther

2361
03:09:33,200 --> 03:09:37,479
when he came across some more bones
and he moved on and he found more,

2362
03:09:39,079 --> 03:09:41,040
and the deeper he moved into the
woods, the more bones he came

2363
03:09:41,079 --> 03:09:48,000
across. That was when he noticed
a trail of bones leading up the hill.

2364
03:09:48,879 --> 03:09:52,840
All these remains lying around was odd, and Dad was the curious type.

2365
03:09:54,000 --> 03:09:56,120
He decided to follow the trail of
bones, and as he made his

2366
03:09:56,159 --> 03:10:00,200
way up the hill, he noticed
that the bones seemed to be getting bigger.

2367
03:10:00,760 --> 03:10:05,079
Some of them almost looked human a
Dad was a medic in the Marines.

2368
03:10:05,639 --> 03:10:09,719
He was familiar with human bones,
and about halfway up the hill he

2369
03:10:09,799 --> 03:10:13,799
started smelling something pungent. If he
was a medic in the Marines, he

2370
03:10:13,920 --> 03:10:16,760
was a Navy corman. By the
way, just a heads up, my

2371
03:10:16,760 --> 03:10:20,879
son was in the Marine corpns.
I learned all this stuff back to the

2372
03:10:20,920 --> 03:10:24,399
story. At the top of the
hill he found a cave, and all

2373
03:10:24,440 --> 03:10:30,159
around it were more bones of all
shapes and sizes. And when he approached

2374
03:10:30,159 --> 03:10:33,559
the mouth of the cave, the
odor got so strong it nearly overpowered him.

2375
03:10:35,879 --> 03:10:37,959
The smell burned his eyes and he
fought back the knee to vomit.

2376
03:10:39,040 --> 03:10:43,440
As he looked into the black opening, and a pair of red eyes stared

2377
03:10:43,479 --> 03:10:48,079
back at him. He jumped backwards
and shock at the glowing eyes that were

2378
03:10:48,120 --> 03:10:52,920
easily seven feet off the ground.
An instinct kicked in and he emptied both

2379
03:10:52,959 --> 03:10:58,000
barrels of a shotgun into the mouth
of the cave. But even as the

2380
03:10:58,000 --> 03:11:01,920
shells were spent, he was turning
and heading back down the hill at break

2381
03:11:01,040 --> 03:11:05,719
next speed. He didn't wait to
see if he'd hit anything or if he

2382
03:11:05,959 --> 03:11:11,079
just made it angry. He got
out of there. My father was never

2383
03:11:11,200 --> 03:11:15,760
an animated man. He believed in
getting right to the point. He kept

2384
03:11:15,760 --> 03:11:20,000
a poker face at all times,
but when he told this story, I

2385
03:11:20,000 --> 03:11:22,520
could see the fear in his eyes, and I could hear it in his

2386
03:11:22,680 --> 03:11:28,399
voice. Years later, when I
was thirteen, Dad and I were squirrel

2387
03:11:28,440 --> 03:11:33,639
hunting on my uncle's place in Taswell, Indiana. Like always, while we

2388
03:11:33,639 --> 03:11:37,280
were there, we were scouting for
deer trails and scrapes and rubs. It

2389
03:11:37,399 --> 03:11:41,479
was a hot day in the middle
of a dry spell, and Dad decided

2390
03:11:41,559 --> 03:11:45,479
we'd follow a creek bed that wasn't
more than a few water puddles here and

2391
03:11:45,520 --> 03:11:48,239
there. And when we came around
to ben in the creek, Dad stopped

2392
03:11:48,239 --> 03:11:54,799
so quickly that I nearly ran into
his back. I'll never forget the expression

2393
03:11:54,879 --> 03:11:58,600
on his face when he turned around
and looked at me. It was out

2394
03:11:58,600 --> 03:12:01,840
of place for him. I really
only remember having seen it when he spoke

2395
03:12:01,879 --> 03:12:05,840
of that day at the cave.
I was looking at my dad and he

2396
03:12:07,000 --> 03:12:09,959
was scared. I don't know what
the hell made this track, he said,

2397
03:12:09,959 --> 03:12:15,360
but we're not going to stick around
to find out. I was born

2398
03:12:15,639 --> 03:12:20,280
with my father's curious nature. I
had to see what he was talking about.

2399
03:12:20,040 --> 03:12:24,479
I thought maybe he was joking with
me, and I looked around him,

2400
03:12:24,479 --> 03:12:26,639
and at first I thought I was
looking at some kind of deer track

2401
03:12:28,120 --> 03:12:31,559
where the deer might have slipped or
something. And then I realized next to

2402
03:12:31,600 --> 03:12:35,799
the half dried up puddle was a
track that must have been eighteen inches long

2403
03:12:35,840 --> 03:12:39,879
and nine inches wide. I could
clearly see the toe prints in the mud.

2404
03:12:41,559 --> 03:12:43,719
Well, Dad was right, we
didn't need to stick around to see

2405
03:12:43,719 --> 03:12:48,280
what had made that track. When
we got back to my uncle's house,

2406
03:12:48,360 --> 03:12:52,360
my dad told him what we'd found, and I guess I half expected my

2407
03:12:52,479 --> 03:12:56,200
uncle to laugh at us. Instead, he looked at my dad straight in

2408
03:12:56,239 --> 03:13:01,600
the iine and he said, well, this doesn't surprise me. My uncle

2409
03:13:01,600 --> 03:13:05,399
had been hearing weird howls and noises
for the past few weeks. He told

2410
03:13:05,479 --> 03:13:09,719
us that he saw a hairy man
who was over seven feet tall take two

2411
03:13:09,799 --> 03:13:13,079
of his pigs. Now, I
guess we didn't have to wait around to

2412
03:13:13,120 --> 03:13:18,959
find out what made the track.
My uncle already knew. Oh Man,

2413
03:13:18,239 --> 03:13:24,639
the way you wrote this was perfect, absolutely fantastic, And your dad was

2414
03:13:24,680 --> 03:13:28,239
a Vietnam veteran, and he wasn't
scared of anything. Those guys had been

2415
03:13:28,280 --> 03:13:31,520
through, you know a lot of
stuff, and so everything else that they

2416
03:13:31,639 --> 03:13:37,920
would run into after that was just
you know, it was small peas compared

2417
03:13:37,959 --> 03:13:41,000
to the horrors they had seen in
war, and the same thing for the

2418
03:13:41,239 --> 03:13:46,639
Afghanistan and Iraqi vets and all the
other vets who've actually seen combat. But

2419
03:13:46,680 --> 03:13:50,840
they run into a bigfoot or something
like a bigfoot, and it scares them

2420
03:13:50,840 --> 03:13:52,719
to death. And I totally get
that. I mean I get it.

2421
03:13:54,159 --> 03:13:58,760
Following all those bones up up that
mountain and then looking in a cave and

2422
03:14:00,159 --> 03:14:03,799
red eyes looking back at you.
I don't think there's any doubt why those

2423
03:14:03,840 --> 03:14:07,399
bones are there when you see that, And I would have shot into that

2424
03:14:07,479 --> 03:14:09,920
cave too. But this was a
great story, and I appreciate it,

2425
03:14:09,959 --> 03:14:13,879
and it's a it's a good little
legacy to leave your dad. You know.

2426
03:14:13,920 --> 03:14:16,479
It's an interesting story that he shared
with you, and it'll be in

2427
03:14:16,479 --> 03:14:20,200
a podcast for a long time.
All right, brother, thanks for the

2428
03:14:20,239 --> 03:14:28,639
story. This email is from Mike, and this is what Mike writes.

2429
03:14:28,840 --> 03:14:33,760
In September of nineteen seventy four,
my wife and I were living on a

2430
03:14:33,840 --> 03:14:39,000
farm west of the small town of
Leveland, Texas. Leveland is twenty five

2431
03:14:39,040 --> 03:14:43,959
miles west of Lobock. I guess
that part of Texas just about as flat

2432
03:14:45,000 --> 03:14:50,079
as land can be. It's five
and a half million acres of flat farmland

2433
03:14:50,159 --> 03:14:54,959
sitting on the largest sand sheet on
earth. There are no trees except in

2434
03:14:56,120 --> 03:15:01,440
towns and around farm homes. Otherwise
it's just a wide open space. The

2435
03:15:01,479 --> 03:15:05,239
local joke goes that you can stand
on your front porch and watch your dog

2436
03:15:05,319 --> 03:15:09,680
run away for three days. That's
a good one. You may laugh,

2437
03:15:11,360 --> 03:15:15,280
but that's pretty accurate. Oh,
that is so good. On the weekend

2438
03:15:15,319 --> 03:15:18,040
of the fifteenth, we had traveled
to my wife's parents' house, one hundred

2439
03:15:18,079 --> 03:15:22,520
and fifty miles northeast of us.
We'd gone for a visit and to get

2440
03:15:22,559 --> 03:15:28,000
her dog He was a half rat
terrier and half gaiter. He was a

2441
03:15:28,040 --> 03:15:33,920
great watchdog and an even better guard
dog. We left to make the three

2442
03:15:33,959 --> 03:15:37,879
hour drive home late on Sunday evening. The moon was bright that night and

2443
03:15:37,879 --> 03:15:43,079
there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We pulled into the driveway at eleven

2444
03:15:43,159 --> 03:15:48,120
PM and quickly unloaded the truck,
and we showered, and we went to

2445
03:15:48,159 --> 03:15:52,799
bed with gater Dog curled up on
my jeans. I was almost asleep when

2446
03:15:52,840 --> 03:15:58,239
my wife elbowed me and asked if
I quote heard that. Well, I

2447
03:15:58,280 --> 03:16:01,440
didn't hear anything. Oh, I
said, go to sleep. Two or

2448
03:16:01,479 --> 03:16:05,159
three minutes went by, just enough
time for me to drift back into that

2449
03:16:05,200 --> 03:16:11,200
place between being awake and sleeping soundly. When she elbowed me again. Something's

2450
03:16:11,239 --> 03:16:16,520
on the roof. She insisted,
you must be tired. I grumbled,

2451
03:16:16,559 --> 03:16:20,399
go to sleep. She sat bolt
upright and said, there's someone on the

2452
03:16:20,639 --> 03:16:24,200
roof. Why I didn't hear a
thing? But I knew I wasn't going

2453
03:16:24,239 --> 03:16:28,280
to get any sleep until I got
up and checked it out. I walked

2454
03:16:28,280 --> 03:16:33,760
out to the living room and mumbled
to myself, that's when I heard it.

2455
03:16:33,760 --> 03:16:39,239
Someone was walking across our roof.
It sounded like size twelve boots up

2456
03:16:39,280 --> 03:16:45,639
there stomping around and Chris crossing the
roof from front to back. I swallowed

2457
03:16:45,680 --> 03:16:48,799
my panic and turned around to go
back to the bedroom, and I found

2458
03:16:48,799 --> 03:16:52,920
my wife standing right behind me,
And after I took another big gulp of

2459
03:16:52,040 --> 03:16:56,719
panic, I knew I had to
do something, but what. I put

2460
03:16:56,719 --> 03:17:00,920
my boots on and grabbed my shotgun, and I took a long, hard

2461
03:17:00,959 --> 03:17:05,360
look at Gaiter dog, who was
sleeping soundly. The shotgun was all I

2462
03:17:05,440 --> 03:17:07,920
had, so it was going to
have to do. We went to the

2463
03:17:07,959 --> 03:17:13,719
back door and listened, and the
footsteps continued back and forth across the roof,

2464
03:17:13,000 --> 03:17:16,879
from one end of the house to
the other. Whatever it was,

2465
03:17:18,280 --> 03:17:22,479
it was huge, and it definitely
was not trying to hide its presence.

2466
03:17:22,559 --> 03:17:26,639
When the steps got just above the
door we were standing at, it turned

2467
03:17:26,680 --> 03:17:30,879
and walked back to the other side
of the house, and I used the

2468
03:17:30,920 --> 03:17:33,399
opportunity to sprint out of the door. With my gun in my hand.

2469
03:17:35,600 --> 03:17:39,200
I hugged the side of the house
and I listened intently until I heard it

2470
03:17:39,239 --> 03:17:43,920
directly overhead, and when it turned, my blood ran cold. I heard

2471
03:17:45,000 --> 03:17:50,799
the rough surface of the shingles rub
as it turned, it ground the asphalt

2472
03:17:50,920 --> 03:17:54,639
as if it was wearing leather soles
of a boot. I thought for a

2473
03:17:54,639 --> 03:17:58,440
minute I was going to pass out. As it walked back over to the

2474
03:17:58,479 --> 03:18:01,399
crown of the roof, I bolted
for the other side of my truck that

2475
03:18:01,520 --> 03:18:05,639
was part close by, and from
there I could see the entire roof,

2476
03:18:05,959 --> 03:18:09,440
and I could see the roof jiggle
as it stepped. We could both hear

2477
03:18:09,479 --> 03:18:15,559
it clearly. Gaiter Dog snored in
his sleep. When it walked back to

2478
03:18:15,600 --> 03:18:18,600
the side of the house. I
could see the roof shake and I heard

2479
03:18:18,639 --> 03:18:22,440
everything, but nothing was there.
I motioned for my wife to come out.

2480
03:18:24,079 --> 03:18:28,879
Timidly, she stepped outside and we
both looked and listened for fifteen minutes

2481
03:18:28,920 --> 03:18:33,280
as it continued, and not once
did we see anything. Gaiter Dog got

2482
03:18:33,280 --> 03:18:37,959
a good night's sleep. We finally
went back inside. My wife went to

2483
03:18:39,000 --> 03:18:41,399
bed, and I sat in my
chair with my gun in my hand until

2484
03:18:41,520 --> 03:18:48,639
dawn. The marching continued on until
daylight. I became a praying man that

2485
03:18:48,840 --> 03:18:52,360
night, and I still am to
this day. My wife went to work

2486
03:18:52,399 --> 03:18:56,680
and I went to get my farming
done. The elderly gentleman I was working

2487
03:18:56,719 --> 03:19:01,879
for came out and noticed I was
having a horn day. When I told

2488
03:19:01,959 --> 03:19:05,479
him about our night, he just
laughed. It's still going on, I

2489
03:19:05,559 --> 03:19:09,600
said, and he laughed again.
When I asked if he wanted to see

2490
03:19:09,600 --> 03:19:13,799
it for himself, he agreed,
and we walked through the pasture to the

2491
03:19:13,879 --> 03:19:18,479
house. It was nine am,
and that thing was still marching, as

2492
03:19:18,520 --> 03:19:24,040
invisible as ever, back and forth
across the house, shaking the roof and

2493
03:19:24,079 --> 03:19:28,920
making as much racket as it was
the night before. The old gentleman saw

2494
03:19:28,959 --> 03:19:31,920
it and heard it, and then
he turned and ran home like a little

2495
03:19:31,920 --> 03:19:37,920
girl. I stayed at the house
until noon, and it never did stop.

2496
03:19:37,680 --> 03:19:41,760
At one PM, I gave up
and I went back to work,

2497
03:19:41,479 --> 03:19:46,399
and when we got home at six
that night, the noise was gone.

2498
03:19:46,600 --> 03:19:52,200
I could never get my employer to
discuss it with me. My wife and

2499
03:19:52,239 --> 03:19:54,440
I talked about it briefly, but
we never figured out what it was.

2500
03:19:56,559 --> 03:20:00,239
I still work in the area,
and from time to time we drive by

2501
03:20:00,399 --> 03:20:05,120
just to see. Fifty years later, the house is still standing there,

2502
03:20:05,639 --> 03:20:11,760
just like we walked out of it
yesterday. The femails written by Travis.

2503
03:20:11,639 --> 03:20:16,840
I'm a US Army veteran who served
in Operation Iraqi Freedom from two thousand and

2504
03:20:16,920 --> 03:20:22,920
seven to twenty thirteen. In my
travels, I've seen a lot of crazy

2505
03:20:22,959 --> 03:20:28,879
things, from camel spiders to unexplainable
backwards flying birds in boshra Arak. I

2506
03:20:28,959 --> 03:20:33,639
now work a third shift as an
assistant manager in Wilkesboro, North Carolina,

2507
03:20:35,040 --> 03:20:39,399
a place well known for its bigfoot
activity. I live on Noel Hays Road

2508
03:20:39,959 --> 03:20:46,520
in State Road, North Carolina,
a forty five minute drive away. Until

2509
03:20:46,520 --> 03:20:50,360
recently, I have noticed on my
long drives home that the deer population in

2510
03:20:50,399 --> 03:20:56,639
our area has spiked because of our
close proximity to Stone Mountain National Forests.

2511
03:20:56,680 --> 03:21:03,760
There are hunting grounds nearby, but
the population seems to be dwindling. One

2512
03:21:03,799 --> 03:21:07,760
morning, when I came home,
I was overcome with an overwhelming dread,

2513
03:21:07,879 --> 03:21:11,520
like I was being watched. It's
hard to spook me, but for some

2514
03:21:11,600 --> 03:21:16,719
reason this made me feel uneasy.
And then I heard a distinct whistle sound

2515
03:21:16,760 --> 03:21:20,360
I've never heard before. I noticed
all the birds outside and thought this may

2516
03:21:20,399 --> 03:21:24,719
be a new species or something.
I thought to myself that I need to

2517
03:21:24,719 --> 03:21:28,920
get this on video. I left
my key in the door and went outside,

2518
03:21:30,120 --> 03:21:35,159
armed only with my camera and started
whistling back at it as I filmed,

2519
03:21:35,200 --> 03:21:39,959
the thing mimicked my whistle back to
me in a low tone. I

2520
03:21:41,040 --> 03:21:43,799
knew I needed to keep filming,
but I was unarmed and alone, and

2521
03:21:43,840 --> 03:21:48,079
for lack of a better word,
I was scared. My side arm was

2522
03:21:48,120 --> 03:21:52,680
in the house, but I wasn't
leaving without knowing what this thing was.

2523
03:21:52,280 --> 03:21:56,120
I stayed in the backyard but close
to the house, and I continued filming

2524
03:21:56,239 --> 03:22:03,120
and trading whistling noises with whatever out
there. When the whistles started coming from

2525
03:22:03,159 --> 03:22:07,319
two different directions, I stopped.
As soon as I did, a rock

2526
03:22:07,399 --> 03:22:13,600
smashed the ground where the yard meets
the woods. I started walking around towards

2527
03:22:13,600 --> 03:22:16,239
the house, but turned around again, hoping to catch something on camera,

2528
03:22:16,840 --> 03:22:20,600
and when I did, another rock
tapped a tree and ricocheted into the tin

2529
03:22:20,680 --> 03:22:26,000
roof of the building in front of
me. That was all the confirmation I

2530
03:22:26,079 --> 03:22:31,600
needed that this was no bird.
I continued to video without further incident,

2531
03:22:31,719 --> 03:22:35,639
so I decided to wait and try
again the next night. The next couple

2532
03:22:35,719 --> 03:22:39,280
of days were much like the first
with the whistling. I didn't interact this

2533
03:22:39,399 --> 03:22:43,799
time because I was beginning to feel
like I was going crazy. I showed

2534
03:22:43,799 --> 03:22:46,639
the videos to some guys at work, but they only laughed at me,

2535
03:22:46,799 --> 03:22:50,680
which was what I expected. It's
a bird, they said, just one

2536
03:22:50,719 --> 03:22:56,000
day, had never heard before.
At least they admitted the rock throwing was

2537
03:22:56,040 --> 03:23:01,120
abnormal. I tried to put it
behind me and move on. On my

2538
03:23:01,239 --> 03:23:05,760
day off, I decided to put
up my Christmas tree in clean house.

2539
03:23:05,200 --> 03:23:11,479
I was doing the dishes when I
heard a distinctive growl outside. My windows

2540
03:23:11,479 --> 03:23:15,639
are fairly new and well insulated,
so they're pretty good at muffling noises.

2541
03:23:16,479 --> 03:23:20,239
Even so, it caught my attention
and I looked out to the woods.

2542
03:23:20,920 --> 03:23:26,120
Everything looked normal except for a giant
shadow just behind the woodline. I grabbed

2543
03:23:26,159 --> 03:23:28,120
my phone and began to put it
in the camera mode, hoping that I

2544
03:23:28,159 --> 03:23:33,159
could get a shot and catch something. As soon as I did, the

2545
03:23:33,200 --> 03:23:37,200
giant shadow rose up and up until
it was a full ten feet tall.

2546
03:23:37,959 --> 03:23:41,959
I took a few photos and then
zoomed in and I got another shot.

2547
03:23:43,600 --> 03:23:46,200
I couldn't make out anything in the
regular shots, but when I looked at

2548
03:23:46,200 --> 03:23:50,760
the zoomed in shot, I was
mortified to see half of a face.

2549
03:23:54,040 --> 03:23:58,680
This ten foot tall creature was watching
me as I played house dad. It

2550
03:23:58,799 --> 03:24:03,399
was staring me down and it was
growling. I dropped my phone and went

2551
03:24:03,440 --> 03:24:07,479
to bed. I wanted it to
be my imagination, but when I looked

2552
03:24:07,520 --> 03:24:11,840
at it again closer, sure enough, there it was. I now have

2553
03:24:11,959 --> 03:24:16,120
this picture in my phone and it
haunts me. I grabbed what little of

2554
03:24:16,159 --> 03:24:22,159
my prior military training I had left
and went outside, and by then it

2555
03:24:22,280 --> 03:24:24,079
was gone. But the next day, as my wife and I and our

2556
03:24:24,159 --> 03:24:28,600
two children returned from dinner, I
noticed a fence post in the yard had

2557
03:24:28,680 --> 03:24:33,120
been knocked down. There was a
clump of matted, dirty, auburn and

2558
03:24:33,280 --> 03:24:39,440
gray hair on it that I put
into a plastic bag and sealed. Do

2559
03:24:39,520 --> 03:24:43,360
I think it's the creature's hair?
Well, I'm not sure, but too

2560
03:24:43,479 --> 03:24:46,639
much has happened that says it exists, and I didn't want to let this

2561
03:24:46,840 --> 03:24:52,479
possible hard evidence slip away. The
reason I'm sending you this story isn't because

2562
03:24:52,520 --> 03:24:56,120
of what happened in my backyard,
though, It's what I found on my

2563
03:24:56,200 --> 03:25:00,840
way home from work. Like clockwork, I was driving home from work,

2564
03:25:00,959 --> 03:25:05,280
heading down Noah Hayes Road. I
noticed several tree breaks and trees that had

2565
03:25:05,319 --> 03:25:11,200
been knocked down that hadn't been there
before. It was the tpe shaped structure

2566
03:25:11,319 --> 03:25:13,879
in the woods close to my house
that made me whip my car around and

2567
03:25:13,920 --> 03:25:20,479
get out my camera. It was
a circle of trees broken about eight feet

2568
03:25:20,559 --> 03:25:26,840
in placed vertically together with underbrush piled
on it. The surrounding trees were untouched.

2569
03:25:26,680 --> 03:25:31,879
The evidence is there. If anyone
had asked me three weeks ago if

2570
03:25:31,920 --> 03:25:35,680
I believed in bigfoot, I would
have said no. Now, I would

2571
03:25:35,719 --> 03:25:39,760
tell anyone who doesn't believe that they're
crazy not to thank you for your time.

2572
03:25:41,120 --> 03:25:48,239
And he signs his name Travis,
and that is three or four some

2573
03:25:48,319 --> 03:25:52,840
kind of encounters either. You know, he's getting audible feedback from these things.

2574
03:25:52,879 --> 03:25:56,959
He can see shadows, he got
a picture of a half a face.

2575
03:25:56,639 --> 03:26:03,440
He's found the tpee type strung ructures
pushed over trees. He's got rocks

2576
03:26:03,479 --> 03:26:07,559
thrown him at him, and he's
just got all kind of stuff going on.

2577
03:26:07,040 --> 03:26:13,120
I don't know someone edits these,
Naoma edits these for me now,

2578
03:26:13,159 --> 03:26:16,079
And I don't have the date in
front of me when this email came in.

2579
03:26:16,719 --> 03:26:20,040
It could have been as long as
a year or so ago. I'm

2580
03:26:20,079 --> 03:26:22,520
still that far behind. This is
a great story. I mean, this

2581
03:26:22,600 --> 03:26:26,000
guy's got a lot going on.
I'm wondering what he's doing with all the

2582
03:26:26,040 --> 03:26:30,680
pictures, and I would warn you
if you put them on the internet,

2583
03:26:31,040 --> 03:26:33,399
you're just going to catch a lot
of crap for it. So I would

2584
03:26:33,440 --> 03:26:39,840
say keep those to yourself. You're
probably not going to further the calls or

2585
03:26:39,879 --> 03:26:43,360
the evidence of Bigfoot any more than
this story. People are going to shoot

2586
03:26:43,360 --> 03:26:48,479
down your pictures and debunk everything.
But you know what you've got, you

2587
03:26:48,559 --> 03:26:50,360
know what you've got on your phone, and you say it still haunts you.

2588
03:26:50,440 --> 03:26:54,680
But this is great stuff, great
stuff, Travis, Thanks for sending

2589
03:26:54,680 --> 03:27:01,799
it, buddy. Here's an email
from Stacy. I got this email back

2590
03:27:01,799 --> 03:27:05,520
in November of twenty nineteen. You
can see how far I'm reaching back and

2591
03:27:05,559 --> 03:27:09,479
getting them. This is a great
story. I don't I've never read anything

2592
03:27:09,639 --> 03:27:13,159
like this, and I'm always so
glad to get these that aren't. You

2593
03:27:13,159 --> 03:27:16,840
know, They're just some of them
are different. This is one of those

2594
03:27:16,840 --> 03:27:20,079
different ones, and I think you'll
find it interesting. She writes. I'm

2595
03:27:20,079 --> 03:27:24,959
a Bigfoot believer and I've read countless
stories and have seen almost every photo or

2596
03:27:26,079 --> 03:27:31,200
video documented on the internet. In
two thousand and seven, i'd been studying

2597
03:27:31,520 --> 03:27:37,280
encounter stories for a year and I'd
heard of several in the Adirondack Mountains.

2598
03:27:39,600 --> 03:27:43,319
It wasn't that far from where I
live, so I convinced my best friend

2599
03:27:43,360 --> 03:27:46,799
to take a hiking trip with me
in search of Bigfoot. We were both

2600
03:27:46,840 --> 03:27:52,239
in our twenties at the time and
looking for adventure. Within a few weeks,

2601
03:27:52,239 --> 03:27:56,600
we made our plans, purchased our
supplies, and loaded our backpacks,

2602
03:27:56,840 --> 03:28:01,840
and we were on our way.
We'd picked a remote hiking trail and headed

2603
03:28:01,879 --> 03:28:07,760
out. An hour into our hike, the trail came to a fork and

2604
03:28:07,840 --> 03:28:13,520
one path was well worn. It
was clearly the path most people chose.

2605
03:28:13,200 --> 03:28:18,680
The other path was overgrown and grassy. Which way should we go, my

2606
03:28:18,760 --> 03:28:22,559
friend asked, and I pointed to
the overgrown path, and I said,

2607
03:28:22,639 --> 03:28:26,719
let's go that way. For sure, I knew if I wanted to have

2608
03:28:26,760 --> 03:28:31,440
an encounter of any kind, I
would have to choose the path less traveled.

2609
03:28:31,959 --> 03:28:35,600
We hiked a long way before we
reached a point where we could take

2610
03:28:35,600 --> 03:28:41,239
a rest. My friend immediately noticed
that there was no sound in the forest.

2611
03:28:41,959 --> 03:28:46,799
No insects were chirping, no birds
were singing, no other animals were

2612
03:28:46,920 --> 03:28:52,040
even moving around. It was unsettling, and I thought maybe we were about

2613
03:28:52,040 --> 03:28:56,799
to be attacked by a mountain lion
or something. I knew that silence in

2614
03:28:56,840 --> 03:29:01,559
the forest usually meant a predator was
in the air, so we decided to

2615
03:29:01,639 --> 03:29:07,000
keep moving. Not long after that, the forest grew dark. There wasn't

2616
03:29:07,079 --> 03:29:09,639
nightfall yet, but the sun was
shining on the other side of the mountain,

2617
03:29:11,040 --> 03:29:13,760
and it cast a long shadow that
made the whole area look like something

2618
03:29:13,840 --> 03:29:18,280
out of a creepy movie. The
dark forest ahead of us felt like it

2619
03:29:18,399 --> 03:29:22,120
was swallowing us up, and I
couldn't help being a little bit afraid.

2620
03:29:24,440 --> 03:29:28,200
My stomach sank and I took a
few big gulps of air, and I

2621
03:29:28,200 --> 03:29:33,200
could feel my heart pounding in my
chest. Somehow I knew we shouldn't be

2622
03:29:33,319 --> 03:29:35,920
there. I told my friend that
I didn't want to go in there.

2623
03:29:37,319 --> 03:29:39,959
She said, oh, come on, we can't stop. Now. Let's

2624
03:29:39,959 --> 03:29:46,120
go just a little bit further.
I was uneasy with every step. Finally

2625
03:29:46,159 --> 03:29:50,399
I convinced her it was time to
turn back. I couldn't wait to get

2626
03:29:50,399 --> 03:29:54,879
out of there. I had the
sense that something was watching us, and

2627
03:29:54,959 --> 03:29:58,959
I didn't know if it meant to
harm us or what its intentions were.

2628
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:01,719
After a while, we got out
of that area of the woods, and

2629
03:30:01,760 --> 03:30:07,280
I felt a bit relieved. It
was time to start heading straight back to

2630
03:30:07,360 --> 03:30:11,440
the car. The woods had fallen
darker, and I did not want to

2631
03:30:11,479 --> 03:30:15,799
be lost out there. After the
sun went down, we were still two

2632
03:30:15,840 --> 03:30:20,399
hours from the car. We picked
up the pace as we walked back.

2633
03:30:20,520 --> 03:30:24,840
I admit that I felt a bit
disappointed that we didn't have an encounter with

2634
03:30:24,959 --> 03:30:31,879
the creature, and that thought didn't
last for long. Five minutes later,

2635
03:30:31,280 --> 03:30:35,920
we heard a loud popping sound of
a boulder hitting another rock as it landed

2636
03:30:35,959 --> 03:30:41,399
on the ground, and then it
rolled twenty yards before coming to a stop.

2637
03:30:41,440 --> 03:30:46,399
It had come from our left and
behind us. There were no hills

2638
03:30:46,440 --> 03:30:50,079
in that direction that it could have
fallen from, and the landscape behind us

2639
03:30:50,200 --> 03:30:54,040
was flat. I looked toward the
sound to see what was going on,

2640
03:30:54,520 --> 03:30:58,200
but we didn't see anything. But
all of a sudden, I was excited,

2641
03:30:58,239 --> 03:31:01,799
and it gripped me as I realized
that something had to have thrown it.

2642
03:31:03,680 --> 03:31:07,079
Maybe we had contact. Finally,
this is what I had come for.

2643
03:31:09,280 --> 03:31:13,399
I wasn't scared at this point.
Suddenly I was thrilled. I picked

2644
03:31:13,479 --> 03:31:18,239
up a handful of small rocks and
I threw them back into the woods in

2645
03:31:18,239 --> 03:31:22,639
an effort to communicate with whatever had
thrown the boulder. We slowly moved down

2646
03:31:22,680 --> 03:31:26,559
the trail, looking into the woods, hoping to see this thing, and

2647
03:31:26,600 --> 03:31:31,799
a handful of small rocks soared through
the air and landed behind us. We

2648
03:31:31,840 --> 03:31:37,959
stopped and smiled. This was it. I picked up more rocks, and

2649
03:31:37,000 --> 03:31:41,200
I gently threw them in the forest, and we waited, and then more

2650
03:31:41,280 --> 03:31:46,559
rocks came flying back to us.
I couldn't believe this was happening. I

2651
03:31:46,639 --> 03:31:52,840
was growing more excited by the minute. For the next forty five minutes,

2652
03:31:52,879 --> 03:31:56,920
we walked the trail, tossing rocks
into the woods, and back and forth

2653
03:31:56,959 --> 03:32:01,000
it went. I never saw herd
or smelled anything other than the rocks,

2654
03:32:01,319 --> 03:32:09,079
But what animal was possibly capable of
playfully throwing rocks back and forth? When

2655
03:32:09,079 --> 03:32:13,000
we reached a point with a small
pond on one side and thick woods on

2656
03:32:13,040 --> 03:32:16,840
the other, I heard the sound
of a tree creaking back and forth at

2657
03:32:16,840 --> 03:32:20,399
a rapid pace. I'm not a
stranger to the woods. I grew up

2658
03:32:20,440 --> 03:32:24,920
in the country, and I spent
most of my days playing and walking out

2659
03:32:24,959 --> 03:32:28,879
there, and I know the sound
of the wind blowing through creaky trees.

2660
03:32:28,680 --> 03:32:35,520
This is not what that was.
It sounded like someone was shaking the tree.

2661
03:32:35,719 --> 03:32:39,120
My friend was now afraid, but
I became more curious, and I

2662
03:32:39,159 --> 03:32:45,559
begged her to let me inspect the
sound a little closer. Against her better

2663
03:32:45,680 --> 03:32:50,000
judgment, I stepped off the mark
path and into the woods. That was

2664
03:32:50,079 --> 03:32:54,280
my first mistake. My intuition was
telling me not to go any further.

2665
03:32:56,200 --> 03:33:01,200
The energy in the area was heavy
and thick, and it took everything I

2666
03:33:01,239 --> 03:33:05,559
had to move my legs forward.
I looked down at my arms and the

2667
03:33:05,639 --> 03:33:09,920
hair was standing straight up. I
should have turned back right then, but

2668
03:33:09,000 --> 03:33:13,959
I didn't. I picked up a
large rock and I threw it as far

2669
03:33:15,159 --> 03:33:18,000
into the woods as I could.
I had a good throwing arm, and

2670
03:33:18,040 --> 03:33:22,399
I sent it as deep into the
darkness as it would go, and the

2671
03:33:22,440 --> 03:33:28,399
tree continued to shake. One last
rock. I thought, I'll just throw

2672
03:33:28,520 --> 03:33:33,680
one last rock. Well, that
was my second mistake, and it almost

2673
03:33:33,719 --> 03:33:37,440
cost me my life. My friend
walked up behind me with a rock in

2674
03:33:37,479 --> 03:33:41,159
each hand. We must have looked
like a couple of idiots creeping through the

2675
03:33:41,200 --> 03:33:46,000
woods with those rocks. And I
cranked my arm back and I began to

2676
03:33:46,040 --> 03:33:50,280
throw and upon my release, a
rock the sides of a softball came buzzing

2677
03:33:50,360 --> 03:33:56,520
past my head at incredible speed,
and it missed me by half an inch.

2678
03:33:56,760 --> 03:34:01,559
I felt the wind off of it
as it hung by then it hit

2679
03:34:01,559 --> 03:34:05,479
a tree behind us, and it
landed on the trail. I turned to

2680
03:34:05,520 --> 03:34:09,079
my friend and shocked, and I
was hoping she was playing a joke on

2681
03:34:09,159 --> 03:34:11,520
me. And all I could see
was the fear in her eyes. As

2682
03:34:11,520 --> 03:34:15,920
she held up both of those rocks
in her hands. She said, I

2683
03:34:16,000 --> 03:34:20,000
brought one for you and me,
but we didn't throw them. Let's get

2684
03:34:20,040 --> 03:34:24,280
out of here, we both said
at the same time. Somehow, unintentionally,

2685
03:34:24,360 --> 03:34:28,959
we had made this creature angry,
and if that rock had hit me,

2686
03:34:28,200 --> 03:34:33,040
it would have killed me. If
it was a person who'd thrown it,

2687
03:34:33,239 --> 03:34:35,319
they would have had to be close
enough that I would have seen them.

2688
03:34:37,440 --> 03:34:41,520
We started beating feet out of the
woods while more rocks were thrown at

2689
03:34:41,600 --> 03:34:46,479
us. But this time it wasn't
playful, and they weren't small rocks.

2690
03:34:46,159 --> 03:34:50,280
They were being thrown directly at us, and for the next forty minutes,

2691
03:34:50,319 --> 03:34:54,680
as we headed out of the trail
as fast as we could, we had

2692
03:34:54,680 --> 03:34:58,559
to take cover several times from the
rocks being flung at us. We were

2693
03:34:58,600 --> 03:35:03,000
lucky. The rocks hit the leaves
as they flew through the air and gave

2694
03:35:03,079 --> 03:35:07,799
us a split second warning that they
were coming. Again and again we had

2695
03:35:07,799 --> 03:35:13,559
to duck to avoid being hit.
These rocks kept coming at us until we

2696
03:35:13,559 --> 03:35:16,520
were a half mile out of the
trail. They were making sure that we

2697
03:35:16,520 --> 03:35:22,479
were leaving. I should have never
thrown that row. It was a stupid

2698
03:35:22,520 --> 03:35:26,079
move on my part. You know
the old saying, it's all fun and

2699
03:35:26,200 --> 03:35:31,520
games until someone loses an eye.
Right. There is no doubt in my

2700
03:35:31,680 --> 03:35:35,799
mind that I was interacting with a
bigfoot that day. And this is one

2701
03:35:35,840 --> 03:35:39,920
of my favorite stories to tell those
friends who won't laugh at me, And

2702
03:35:39,959 --> 03:35:45,079
now I'm sharing it with you all. Thank you well, Stacy, thank

2703
03:35:45,159 --> 03:35:50,159
you. Good grief man. What
a story. I was reading this earlier

2704
03:35:50,200 --> 03:35:52,479
and then as I narrated it here, I was thinking, you know,

2705
03:35:52,639 --> 03:35:56,200
I would do the same thing.
I would throw rocks back at it,

2706
03:35:56,719 --> 03:36:01,760
not to try to hit it or
hurt it or anything, but if someone's

2707
03:36:01,799 --> 03:36:05,239
throwing rocks, you know, heck, throwing back kind of takes you back

2708
03:36:05,239 --> 03:36:09,399
to your childhood when you had dirt
clod fights. And rock fights and snowball

2709
03:36:09,479 --> 03:36:13,959
fights. There's no way to know
that you're going to hack this bigfoot off.

2710
03:36:13,440 --> 03:36:16,719
You really didn't know if it was
a bigfoot or not at first,

2711
03:36:16,840 --> 03:36:20,719
and here we go throwing rocks back
at each other. Anyway, I don't

2712
03:36:20,799 --> 03:36:26,479
know you did exactly what I would
have done, so I wouldn't beat yourself

2713
03:36:26,559 --> 03:36:28,840
up over that. But you did
say you love telling this story, and

2714
03:36:30,280 --> 03:36:33,360
you did come out of that whole
experience with a great story, and now

2715
03:36:33,399 --> 03:36:37,200
you've shared it with us, and
we're all so appreciative. So thanks Stacy,

2716
03:36:37,360 --> 03:36:39,639
and sorry it took so long to
get to this, but I'm getting

2717
03:36:39,680 --> 03:36:41,200
to them all