WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.960 I don't know the writer's name of this story. He doesn't give it, 2 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:22.359 but this is fantastic. So hang on to you old weaves and glue your 3 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.879 denters in, because this is a good one. In nineteen seventy nine, 4 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.079 I went to a family reunion with my aunt and uncle in Middle Tennessee. 5 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.320 On the way there, we talked a little about a strange thing that happened 6 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.840 to us while we were out hunting frogs one night. We heard chatter and 7 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.200 huffing, and then it paced us out of the woods whatever it was. 8 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.320 With that on our minds, we joined the rest of the men sitting around 9 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:50.840 the front yard at my great uncle's house where the reunion was taking place. 10 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:56.200 My uncle turned to my great uncle and he said, tell us about what 11 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.439 you saw that night you were out raccoon hunting. Right away, my great 12 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.599 uncle got a look on his face that I'd never seen before. It was 13 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.000 a mix of bewilderment and fear, and he turned away like he didn't hear 14 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.359 what my uncle asked him. And then his son said, go ahead, 15 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.519 dad, tell him what we saw. You tell him. My great uncle 16 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.040 said, under his breath, all right, I'll tell the story. His 17 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:25.159 son said, and he began. At that time, my dad was sixty 18 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.120 seven years old. He'd spent his whole life out in the woods, hunting 19 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:33.799 mostly quail and raccoons. That night, they were headed out to the land 20 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.319 behind their house, and the property had recently been sold and the new owner 21 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.200 had bulldozed the old fence line and put in a new wire fence. They 22 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.879 had three dogs, two walkers, and a red bone. The fence was 23 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.879 on an incline that the dogs couldn't get over, so they had to put 24 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.560 them over. The son handed the twenty two rifle to his dad and he 25 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.640 crossed the fence, and then my great uncle handed the rifle over he crossed. 26 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.200 Two up the hill, twenty five yards from the old fence was a 27 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.240 brush pile. They walked in that direction and then let the dogs off the 28 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.879 leads, and they began sniffing around the pile. They had only just begun 29 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:19.000 to smell the awful stench coming from it when something stood up in the middle 30 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.560 of that pile and let out a scream so loud that it knocked him over. 31 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.159 It was reddish brown. It stood eight or nine feet tall, and 32 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.560 it was four feet wide, and the dogs ran right back past them, 33 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:36.439 and this time they didn't have any trouble clearing that fence. My uncle and 34 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.560 his son stood there face to face with it for two or three seconds until 35 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:44.280 it quit screaming, and then it jumped up on top of the woodpile and 36 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.439 it leaped off and it ran up the hill. They turned and ran in 37 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:52.719 the opposite direction back down the hill. They didn't have much trouble getting over 38 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:57.080 the fence either. It was three hundred yards from that fence back to the 39 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.960 house, and neither one stopped running until they got there, and my uncle 40 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.360 said he felt like his heart was going to explode from the effort. When 41 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.520 they got back to the house, my uncle asked his son where the rifle 42 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:12.240 was. Well, he didn't know. He thought maybe he'd dropped it. 43 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.400 The next morning, they took a shotgun and a thirty all six and went 44 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.800 back out to where they'd crossed the fence, and they found the twenty two 45 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.039 and they got the hell out of there. Shortly after that, my uncle 46 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:29.199 sold his hounds and he never went hunting again. Now. I talked to 47 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.800 his son several times after that reunion. I'd always ask him if they'd ever 48 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:37.879 seen that thing since that night, and he said, no, they'd never 49 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:42.759 seen anything, but they did hear that exact same scream on two different occasions. 50 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:47.360 After my great uncle passed away in nineteen eighty eight, and except to 51 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.360 go back to get the rifle the next morning, he never stepped foot on 52 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:57.159 that property again. And after his death, his wife sold their place, 53 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.719 and his son said he never went back there again either. My great uncle 54 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:04.360 never liked to talk about it. He didn't like for people to know about 55 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.319 it. He was always afraid that they would think he was crazy or that 56 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:14.520 he was a liar. If we hadn't had our encounter while out hunting frogs, 57 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.959 and my uncle hadn't shared the story with his cousin, my uncle's son, 58 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:23.279 who then told them about their incident, he might have got his wish 59 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:27.879 and taken the story to his grave. Well, I'm sure glad he told 60 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.680 y'all that story, and I'm sure happy that circumstances came together where you could 61 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.120 learn about it. Man, that was cool. I can almost see all 62 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.160 that happening in my mind. That was a fantastic story. Again. I 63 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.199 have the writer's email addressed, but I don't have his name, or i'd 64 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.480 thank him by name, but hopefully he'll hear this and know how much I 65 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:51.519 appreciate it. Appreciate you, buddy. Hey, y'all, welcome to the 66 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.839 podcast. I hope you enjoyed that first story. I've got three more in 67 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.759 this podcast that I think you're going to really enjoy. Yeah, I've been 68 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:06.920 gone for ten or twelve days. Was how do I say it? I 69 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.560 got a few comments and emails from people that are real upset. Listen. 70 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:17.360 I don't make my living doing this podcast. YouTube does pay me. Twitter 71 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.839 is about to start allowing podcasts on their platform, and when they do, 72 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.800 I'm going to start uploading to my dixiecrypted Twitter account because I love Twitter Now. 73 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.319 A matter of fact, I've never even looked at Twitter because it was 74 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.319 so weird. I didn't really understand it. I still don't understand it much, 75 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:39.800 but I've been kind of thumbing through it and reading stuff with a lot 76 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:45.160 of a huge variety of people and what they're tweeting, and it's real interesting 77 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.279 stuff. If you don't have a Twitter account, you might want to start 78 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.959 one. But I heard an interview from the Babylon be with Elon Musk. 79 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:57.839 I think it was released today or yesterday and Musks said that he's gonna open 80 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:03.160 it up for podcasts and a video sharing content creators, and he even compared 81 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.199 it to YouTube. I don't know what that's going to look like, and 82 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.240 I don't, but I've grown to really enjoy, at least reading. I 83 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:14.959 don't use Twitter that much. I don't use it to post things. I 84 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.240 just use it to kind of follow current events and what people are talking about, 85 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.680 and it is interesting. So why am I talking about that? I 86 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:27.040 can't remember. Anyway, I got loaded up with work and I had a 87 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.519 job that was really pressurized. I had to meet a deadline. I did 88 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.879 a job in ten days. I worked from the day I got the job 89 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.800 until the day I submitted it. I worked ten or twelve hours a day. 90 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.279 I worked all through the Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 91 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.240 I never took a day off and I had to get that job done. 92 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.319 I just sold another one. It's not quite as pressurized, so I 93 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:53.519 should be able to continue to get a couple of podcasts up a week. 94 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.720 But well, I'm in the intim between those jobs. I put a video 95 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:02.240 up yesterday, a podcast out yesterday. Today is Thursday. This will probably 96 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.879 hit Friday night, and then I'm gonna this weekend I'm gonna work on the 97 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:13.759 sequel to the video called Hunted. I will put it on the end screen 98 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.920 of this video. If you guys haven't heard that story, it's really good. 99 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.319 It's a story written by Neoma Finn. A matter of fact, this 100 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:26.319 weekend, I may premier it. I don't YouTube's after me to start using 101 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.399 the premiere button. I probably shouldn't talk about all this in a podcast because 102 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.839 people like to hear the stories. But I don't know. It's kind of 103 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.959 on my mind, you know me. I don't If it's on my mind, 104 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.879 it blurts out of my mouth. So I'm talking about it. But 105 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.759 so if I can get it done by Saturday or Sunday, I'm gonna premier 106 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:51.759 it at probably seven o'clock that night, and we can all get in the 107 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:56.279 chat room during the premiere and talk to each other and listen to the story. 108 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.920 I'm trying to do some of the things that YouTube asked me to do. 109 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.360 There's one other thing I've done that I didn't want to do, but 110 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.800 I didn't think it was a big deal. I'll explain that some other time, 111 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.639 but it has to do with the super Thanks. You'll see a super 112 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.600 Thanks button on my shorts, and I think on my videos, I'm not 113 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:18.160 sure. And that's where people beg for money. I don't want you to 114 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.519 give. I don't want you to give me a penny. But YouTube asked 115 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.040 me to do it. I think they're trying to generate revenue because they get 116 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.759 a huge chunk of that if you give. And I don't blame them. 117 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.959 I don't blame them for doing that. And I said I would do it 118 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:37.639 and able to feature, and it's there, but I'm not asking you for 119 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.279 money. I don't think you should pay a penny to somebody who just because 120 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.840 they do YouTube. I've always thought it was silly. The girl that was 121 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.840 kind of advising me on this from YouTube was saying, oh, it's a 122 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.039 great feature and we really want you to turn it on. You can add 123 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:54.320 revenue, and I think two people have given to it. And to those 124 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.840 two people, thank you very much, but please don't give to that. 125 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.120 I'm just I've got it enabled. I don't want you to give to it 126 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.080 because it's I've got some other things coming up, and if you want to 127 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.799 spend your money on these audio projects, probably in the next three months, 128 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.480 I'm going to announce something kind of new and you'll be able to contribute to 129 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.080 that if you want. I'm you know, it's just one of those things 130 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.240 that I want to give it a whirl and see if it'll work. This 131 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:31.399 podcast stays the same. Nothing changes with this podcast. Everything is free to 132 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.799 you. You don't have to pay a time to hear these stories. And 133 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.039 that's that. So I've gone on long enough for that. But the point 134 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.279 is there going to be times in the life of this podcast that I may 135 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.080 be gone for a week or two and it's just it's nothing. I'm not 136 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.840 working. I'm just not working on the podcasts. I'm working for my customers 137 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:52.360 and trying to give them the best I have and I owe them that. 138 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.679 So that's where I've been, all right. You can listen to this podcast 139 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:03.440 also on any podcast app if you search for what if It's True podcast. 140 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.360 I should have called it Dixiecrypted, but you can even put in Dixiecrypted in 141 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.240 the search bar and one of my podcasts will pop up. You can hit 142 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.679 that podcast and then follow on Apple podcast, Google Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, 143 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:24.039 all the podcast apps I think I'm one pretty much all of them and 144 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.600 just search for what if it's true or dixiecrypted and you can listen that way. 145 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:33.919 It's a lot less data and a lot less battery use. So I 146 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.840 thought I would put that out there. That's an option for you to listen 147 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.600 to these stories. All right, let's jump into the next three stories. 148 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:46.240 I think you're gonna love this. All right, here we go. This 149 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:52.440 is an email from Sabrina and I said her name because she said she would 150 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.720 be proud for me to have used her name in this podcast and to read 151 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.320 her letter to me. And this is really good, really good. She 152 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.320 writes. I was born in nineteen sixty nine, and I grew up in 153 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:11.840 rural southeast Alabama. The terrain here is hilly, with old growth forest and 154 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.679 vast acres of land, also too low and swampy to be pastures or fields. 155 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.440 We owned four acres of woodland along a tributary of the Blackwood Creek that 156 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:28.840 feeds into the west fork of the chok Choctawatchee River. The small creek that 157 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:33.639 ran through our property was always changing, either because of heavy rainfall or beaver 158 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.440 activity down stream, and this meant that sometimes there were deep pools where fish 159 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:45.480 would hang out. One of my favorite pastimes was catching what we call brim, 160 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:50.879 but what is more commonly known as bluegill or perch now sabrina. They're 161 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.559 brim, You and I know what they are. They're brim. I think 162 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.919 I was eight or nine years old when I decided to take my cane pole 163 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.600 down through the trees to the creek a warm summer afternoon. There was a 164 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.440 wooden bridge that my father belt that spanned the creek by fifteen feet. Standing 165 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.600 in the creek bed, the top of it came up to about my chin. 166 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.519 There was a sandbar under the east edge, but I avoided that area. 167 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.759 It was close to the underside of the bridge, and I knew snakes 168 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:24.279 and large spiders hung out there. I like to stand in the creek while 169 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.200 I fished to keep my feet cool. That day, I caught two good 170 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.120 sized brim in quick succession, and I put them on a stringer that I 171 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.159 had tied to my belt loop, and I kept fishing. When you grow 172 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.120 up barefoot as a country kid, you gain us six cents when it comes 173 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.759 to snakes. And I saw a movement upstream that I knew spelled trouble. 174 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.559 Sure enough, here came a water moccasin. People will tell you that they 175 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.039 won't chase you, but that's a bunch of hocum. I've seen my own 176 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.840 mama get chased by one, and this was one that was making a bee 177 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.960 line for me. Let me stop here and say, Sabrina knows what she's 178 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:07.639 talking about. I don't know why. But there's snake experts that say a 179 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.960 cotton mouth or water moccasin, we call them old cold jaw, that they 180 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.360 won't chase you, but they do. People all over the South will tell 181 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.720 you that they've been chased by a cotton mouth. I actually got kicked out 182 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:26.399 of a Facebook group about reptiles. The subject came up about cotton mouse and 183 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.120 you can't call them poisonous. That's not sophisticated enough. If you have to 184 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.840 call them venomous. If you call them poisonous, they kick you out. 185 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:39.000 If you say a cotton mouth will chase a person, they'll kick you out. 186 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:45.919 So I got kicked out. But there's some kind of orthodoxy or purest 187 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:52.879 vision in the elite reptile community that they don't want us dumbass is making comments 188 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.200 on real life issues when it comes to snakes. I don't know that the 189 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.720 snake when it's chasing you, has any intention of biting you. I think 190 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.919 they may have a nest close by, they may have a food source close 191 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.360 by, and they're trying to run you out. And I think they know 192 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:15.440 deep down inside that when they come at whatever is close by, they naturally 193 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.879 know that it's a dangerous animal and they move away. So it's kind of 194 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.720 like the Bigfoot community. There are really super orthodox people. I got the 195 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.240 ugliest, most savage email I have ever read. This guy was calling me 196 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.399 names and then he copied it or pasted it or maybe put it in a 197 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:39.399 comment. Those kind of comments get kicked off into a review folder. For 198 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.799 me, it was the worst email I've ever seen or comment I've ever seen. 199 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.799 He called me everything that you can imagine under the sun, and he 200 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:54.240 says, I'm making up stories and I'm ruining the Bigfoot topic and nobody's ever 201 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.320 going to believe if I keep telling these stories. And this guy is a 202 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.480 lunatic, a total lunatic tick. And the hell of it is is I 203 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:07.080 meant to banning, but I actually clicked by mistake to approve this comment, 204 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.919 So then I went to find it and I couldn't even find it where well 205 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.039 under the video where I knew it was. So I think the comment was 206 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.600 so bad that YouTube wouldn't even let me improve it. So there are some 207 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.519 vicious people out there. And all that to say, All that to say 208 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:31.279 is that Sabrina knows what she's talking about. She's fished in these little flooded 209 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.799 areas for brown before, and that's where you'll alway in the South. You'll 210 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.799 always have a good chance of running into a cotton mouth in in those areas. 211 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:45.320 Okay, I'm sorry to get diverted. And my rooster was growing and 212 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.080 distracting me, so I kind of went off on a tangent. But let's 213 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.480 get back to the story. Squirrel. I dropped my pole and I vaulted 214 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.960 for the west side of the bridge, which was closest to me. But 215 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.080 now I was across the creek from home. I got all about the two 216 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.639 fish on the stringer tied to my belt loop, and I was high tailing 217 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:08.039 it across the bridge. The stringer got caught between the boards and that snatched 218 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.639 me back. Now I was a strong kid, and I was scared silly, 219 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:17.440 and I made another run at it, and my belt loop broke and 220 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.840 As soon as I was free, I hauled a tail out of there. 221 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.840 I didn't go too far back up the path through the woods. That watermoccason 222 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:29.639 wasn't going to leave the creek bed. After a good twenty minute waite, 223 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.399 I slowly carefully made my way back to the bridge, and I kept my 224 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.600 eyes open as I stepped onto the boards and I leaned over to pick up 225 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.120 my stringer. To my surprise, the stringer was lying on the boards, 226 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:45.240 but there were no fish on it, and I looked over the sides of 227 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.440 the bridge, thinking maybe the brim had somehow worked their way off and might 228 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.840 still be visible. I didn't see any fish, but I did see one 229 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:59.360 very clear, extremely large, bare footprint right in the middle of the sand 230 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.000 dune on the east side of the bridge. It was at least three times 231 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.599 as long as my foot and I'll never forget the feeling that washed over me 232 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.519 again. I let out of there, and this time all the way back 233 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:17.119 up to the house. I mean, I flew my feet barely touched the 234 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:22.119 ground all the way. My grandmother was sitting on the backdack shelling peas when 235 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.440 I came running up, and she asked me what was chasing me, and 236 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.640 I had to catch my breath before I could tell her what I saw. 237 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:30.920 Well, she smiled and said, well, that's just a wooly bugger. 238 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:36.599 It won't hurt you. Regardless of what my grandmother said, it was a 239 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.680 long time before I could go back to the creek alone again. Even as 240 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.640 an adult, I still get goosebumps when I think about my close encounter. 241 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:51.039 Since the Patterson Gemlin film came out in nineteen sixty seven, I'm sure the 242 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:56.519 possibility of Bigfoot was on my preteen radar. I've done some research on the 243 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.720 subject. In the southeast Alabama area and ster Sting Lee. There are a 244 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:06.519 couple of sightings not far from Blackwood where I had my incident. In Skipperville 245 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:11.920 in nineteen seventy eight, some men were out quail hunting in a clear cut 246 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.160 area and saw what they thought was a large, burned up stump until it 247 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:21.640 started moving, and they estimated the darkhaired, bipedal creature was eight feet tall. 248 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.960 Their bird dogs refused to go near it. Also in the late nineteen 249 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.720 seventies, landowners near Highway one O five reported a large, dark, hairy 250 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:36.039 humanoid that came out of the woods to chase their cows on more than one 251 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:42.000 occasion less than thirty years prior to all these sightings. In nineteen fifty three, 252 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:48.039 in an area called a Screamer near Abbeville, a woman described seeing what 253 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.759 appeared to be too juvenile bigfoot along the edge of the road. I can't 254 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.559 help but wonder where Screamer got his name. Blackwood, Alabama, where I 255 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:03.079 spent my childhood, hasn't changed at all in fifty years. It's still rural. 256 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.920 The roads are narrow and the woods are dark, and I wouldn't be 257 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.480 at all surprised if something large and hairy still inhabits the creek beds, blending 258 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:18.279 in with the old trees and fishing for brim. What a great I love 259 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:23.759 the story. The Bigfoot didn't get it after her. The snake got after 260 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.400 her, and they will get after you. I'm telling you they will, 261 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:33.039 snake purists, especially cotton mouths. So the Bigfoot didn't come after her, 262 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.359 but she saw evidence of it. And then she backs it up with several 263 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:42.839 incidents that have happened before her incident and since her incident, and it made 264 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.599 this story very interesting, and the way she wrote it was superb, And 265 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:51.920 I really appreciate Sabrina for sending this. I don't know when I got this 266 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.200 email. I copy them and paste them to my word file, and I 267 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:57.759 probably should put a date on them, but I didn't have a date. 268 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:02.119 But I'm so glad she sent this, and I appreciate you very much, 269 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:08.279 Sabrina. I need to tell you a couple of things about the story that 270 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:14.759 you're about to hear. First, I miss oh. I hate saying this. 271 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:19.480 I missed gender the person who wrote the story. There was no name 272 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:26.480 with the story, but the email address has a woman's name attached to it, 273 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.200 so when I began reading it, I assumed it was a woman who 274 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.759 sent it. But in the story they will tell you they're a man, 275 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.319 so this is a story written by a man. Second, this story is 276 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:44.920 very cryptic. It doesn't make much sense. It's hard to follow. There 277 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.240 is no point to the story. And I had actually kicked it off. 278 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.880 I had not deleted it. It was going to be one of the very 279 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:57.480 very few that I just kick out and delete because it's just so it's so 280 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.319 confusing that I can't make headser tails of it. But Neoma Finn, who 281 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.960 does a lot of the editing for these stories. Probably eighty or ninety percent 282 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.480 of the editing for these stories found it, and she was able to make 283 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:15.400 headser tails out of it, and she kind of worked our magic on it 284 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:21.680 and made it somewhat legible. And so I read it. I'm narrating it 285 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:26.599 here. As you listen to this. Don't look at this as a kind 286 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.759 of a story that you can relax and just listen to, which you can 287 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:36.680 do that, but it is kind of the wanderings of a mind of a 288 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:42.519 person who can't seem to stay on track. Now you have to ask yourself 289 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:48.279 why, why is that? It could be that they're just that way. 290 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.920 I'm that way. I could never stay on track. Even sometimes I can't 291 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.000 stay I can't speak two sentences and I'll go off on another subject. I 292 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:03.039 don't know what that glitches in my mind, or if there's some brain damage 293 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.920 in my past, probably the lighter or you can look at it as this 294 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.279 person has so traumatized by the events that they're about to tell you about that 295 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:18.200 they're mind wanderers like that. Just listen, come away with your own conclusions, 296 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.160 and just take this story that way. I know it's a long intro 297 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.119 for a story, but I wanted to set it up for you. Okay, 298 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.079 here we go. This is a story from a woman who asked me 299 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.119 not to use her name, and I won't. I've had hundreds of instances 300 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:40.759 of what others might call paranormal or fantasies. They've also called them lies, 301 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.200 mental problems, etc. Since high school. I realized I was alone in 302 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:49.720 my beliefs. I can't classify them under one umbrella, as they encompass so 303 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:56.319 many different experiences. I find it all normal. I let others dwell in 304 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.519 the mundane, in the ordinary. To me, that is the definite of 305 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.960 the word bazaar. So how can people possibly not see all the stuff that's 306 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:11.880 going on around them? Perhaps ignorance is bliss. I've never told anyone my 307 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.799 full story. I don't want to make people afraid of things that they'll never 308 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:19.000 encounter. I once had a friend who was an old army nurse, and 309 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:25.599 combat hardened my tales reduced her to hysterics, and she refrained from ever listening 310 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:30.079 to any of them ever again. Back in the nineteen sixties, I was 311 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:36.799 once in the coastal mountain range along the Pacific Ocean south of Mendocino, California. 312 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.319 I was hiking a trail when I saw a pair of intense red eyes 313 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:44.960 from a bush thirty feet ahead. Was it a bigfoot or a dog man? 314 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.559 It radiated pure evil. I slowly backed down the trail, never averting 315 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:55.519 my gaze from the creature. My father was a naval officer in the nineteen 316 00:23:55.599 --> 00:24:00.240 forties. He believed President Eisenhower was in collusion with a group of ets called 317 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:06.319 the Tall Grays. He claimed Ike was willing to trade American lives for the 318 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.559 secrets of space technology. We made it to the moon, but at what 319 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:15.480 cost. The knowledge tore my father up so bad mentally that he became an 320 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:21.559 alcoholic. My birst seemed to bring him little joy. He tried to kill 321 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:26.799 me twice as a toddler because he feared me good grief. I exhibited signs 322 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.920 of telepathy when I was a child. My parents would leave me behind with 323 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.279 a babysitter to attend a movie, and when they returned to their amazement, 324 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:38.680 I could recite back to them the whole swaths of the film's plot and dialogue. 325 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:45.480 My father called me a devil. Holy smokes, I've moved around a 326 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.720 lot, staying one step ahead of our government. There have been badly stage 327 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.559 kidnapping plots against me by those who would love to pin me up like a 328 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:57.640 butterfly and study me. How can you sneak up on someone who can read 329 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:03.920 your mind? They've yet to succeed. I'm a free man and insist on 330 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:07.960 remaining that way, whatever my perceived abilities mean to those in the shadows who 331 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:14.240 rule our world for their own nefarious reasons. My father told me there were 332 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:18.359 forces out there beyond the capacity for men to fathom or understand. He had 333 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:22.880 a theory that when the planet became too crowded or resources were at a premium, 334 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:29.839 the earth revolted with pestilence, wars, and natural disasters. He spoke 335 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:34.599 of beings known as Draconians who saw flesh as a commodity. They had been 336 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:38.880 around for hundreds of thousands of years, and their numbers correspond to the casualty 337 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:45.319 counts reported by the Who I think of all that disappeared, once beloved by 338 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:51.559 spouses and family, whose lives now exist only within the confines of a cold 339 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:56.160 case file. It is likely that one day these people will be found and 340 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.920 reunited with their loved ones, Or are they nothing more than bones buried in 341 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:06.519 an unmarked grave. My own father vanished a number of years ago. Get 342 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.920 too close to the truth and you'll end up a statistic dig deeper into the 343 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.519 government and you'll be shoveling your own grave. I would like to write more, 344 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:19.319 but there are men in black ops gear coming up the drive I'll contact 345 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:23.880 you when I can. Whoa man. That was a cryptic last sentence. 346 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:27.680 I think I've had this story a while. I wasn't really sure what to 347 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:30.839 do with it. I sent it to Niomah. She didn't know what to 348 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:36.240 do with it, but she finally got to it and she pulled the high 349 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:41.240 points out of it. And it is extremely confusing, but it's very interesting. 350 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:47.039 And again, man men in black coming up the driveway as she writes 351 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.880 this, How weird is that? Thank you, sir for sending the story. 352 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.119 Okay, here's a story from Okay. She doesn't say whether or to 353 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.920 use her name, so I won't, but I know it's a woman, 354 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:04.000 and let's just read the story and see what she has to say. This 355 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:10.799 takes place in Texas. I was four going on five years old in nineteen 356 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:15.599 seventy eight when my parents moved us out of the city to Spring, Texas. 357 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:21.559 Back then, it was in the early stages of development and still considered 358 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.640 country. It's hard to believe that to look at it now. Our house 359 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.039 was one of only a few that had just been built. It backed up 360 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:34.319 to nothing but woods from our back door all the way to where Deerbrook Mall 361 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:38.799 would be built years later. I was a bit of a different kid. 362 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:44.599 I was definitely a tomboy, and as soon as I discovered the woods behind 363 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.240 our house, I became a nature lover. I would spend hours in the 364 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.160 woods, either with a few kids who lived on our block or by myself. 365 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.440 Now, parenting was different then. At five or six years old, 366 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.559 I was allowed a lot more freedom than the children and that young today. 367 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:04.920 So I lived in the woods from dawn to dusk. I chased bugs, 368 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:08.599 and I picked wild blackberries, and I caught crowdads and tadpoles, and I 369 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:14.000 ran barefoot through the mud. Sometimes, when I walked all the way to 370 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:17.920 the water treatment plant that was buried deep in the woods, I would hear 371 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.559 tree knocks and whistles and what sounded like an occasional falling tree. Now this 372 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:27.319 went on for years. Once I asked my dad if monkeys lived in those 373 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.279 woods. He laughed, and he said, well, now, not in 374 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.799 these woods. Well, what do you think it is making those noises? 375 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.880 I asked, I don't know. He said, maybe it was a whooping 376 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:44.440 crane. This was years before the Internet. The only Google we had back 377 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.319 then was Encyclopedia Britannica, and that was only if you were lucky enough to 378 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.160 have parents who could afford them. Well, I know now that my parents 379 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.640 were not all knowing or even well educated, but back then I was sure 380 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:02.319 that they knew everything. I never felt worried or afraid when I was out 381 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.680 there playing. As a matter of fact, it was the only place I 382 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:11.839 wasn't afraid if i'd all changed. On a hot Texas summer evening, it 383 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.680 was getting close to dinner time and my stomach was starting to feel it, 384 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.039 so I started for home. I was on the trail i'd walked nearly every 385 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:26.759 day when this event happened. It began with the sound of heavy footsteps behind 386 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.119 me in a little off to the side of the path. By the end, 387 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:32.960 I was ten years old and I was pretty tough for a girl. 388 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:37.079 At first, I kept walking while still paying close attention to the footsteps, 389 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:42.640 and when I stepped it stepped. Thinking it was one of the neighborhood boys 390 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.920 trying to scare me, I yelled out, now you stop, you really 391 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:51.200 are scaring me. It occurred to me that no one had ever tried to 392 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:55.960 scare me before, and it made me all the more leary. Then I 393 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.079 heard a grunt. It didn't sound like it came from a human. It 394 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:04.319 was definitely an animal grunt. A cold chill ran through me at that sound, 395 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.599 and the hair stood on the end all over my body as I thought, 396 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.799 Lord, please don't let this wild hog kill me. It had to 397 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.680 be a bore. I thought I'd seen plenty of them back there, but 398 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.680 I'd never had a run in with one. They were usually so far away 399 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:26.119 when I spotted them that there was no danger I was hoping. I startled 400 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.720 it and I yelled, please leave me alone, with all my breath. 401 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.079 But I can't honestly say if it came out loud and strong or just a 402 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:38.880 whisper. I was suddenly aware of being surrounded by nothing but silence. I 403 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:44.799 knew no noise in the woods meant bad news, and somewhere in the back 404 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.200 of my mind a little voice was telling me to run. All of a 405 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.240 sudden, I felt a tear on my cheek, and the feeling of my 406 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.279 own tear running down my face scared me so bad that I was jolted into 407 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.599 action, and I ran whatever this thing was. It followed me off to 408 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.880 my side, and I could not make myself look anywhere but straight ahead, 409 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.960 and I jumped over fallen branches and rutted out holes and skipped over rocks, 410 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.680 and I hugged tight to the inside corners of any twists and turns until I 411 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.240 broke through the tree line and I saw the fence that separated our yard from 412 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:25.599 the world. Running now on pure adrenaline, I stepped up the pace until 413 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:30.920 I realized that whatever was chasing me was slowing down. This wasn't a hog 414 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.119 or any other animal that I knew. It was running on two legs, 415 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.720 and then I heard a whoop and a whistle, and finally a sound I 416 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:45.640 recognized, and I allowed myself to slow down just a bit. As I 417 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.200 got closer, I could hear my brothers playing in the backyard with the neighbors. 418 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.799 And I hit the privacy fence and I planted my foot on the bottom 419 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.920 piece of the wood, and I grabbed the top and I flung myself over 420 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:00.079 like a raccoon caught in a floodlight. And when I hit the ground on 421 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.759 everyone stopped playing and they stared at me. Why didn't you just use the 422 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:08.079 gates, you big dummy, I heard one of my brothers say. I 423 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.559 was too out of breath to answer, and as I started to leave the 424 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.920 yard, one of the older boys, who was probably fifteen at the time, 425 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.680 came running over to me and asked me if I saw it. I 426 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.680 still couldn't find my worst so I shook my head. No, I didn't 427 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.519 see it. I smelled it, I heard it. I was terrified by 428 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:31.960 it, but I didn't see it. Whatever it was. He bent down 429 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.160 then and he grabbed me by my shoulders and he said, look at me. 430 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.920 That was when I finally burst into tears, and he led me around 431 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.119 to the other side of the house and he hugged me in till I stopped 432 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:47.279 shaking, and then he made me promise never to go that far into the 433 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:52.559 woods again. If you want to go to that pond, you come get 434 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.400 me and I'll take you, he said. I shook my head yes, 435 00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:00.119 but he reiterated, don't go to that pond alone. I promised me never 436 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.759 go there unless you come and get me first. No one else knows, 437 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:09.200 and it needs to stay that way. I kept my promise and he kept 438 00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:13.640 his, and when I wanted to go to the pond, I always went 439 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.720 and got him and he took me there. Over the years we became pretty 440 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.519 good friends. But to this day we've never spoken a word about that day 441 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.960 or what he saw chasing me, and I never went that far into the 442 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:30.880 woods again. Looking back, and having heard so many stories over the years, 443 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:36.480 I realized now that they always knew I was there. They watched me 444 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.960 grow up in those woods and probably enjoyed all the leftover food and snacks I 445 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:45.480 left. Of the animals. I think it was a juvenile who was playing 446 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.160 with me or chasing me that day, and when its parents found out what 447 00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.880 was going on, they let out a whoop and a whistle and a call 448 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:59.039 for their child to come back to them. I've never seen one. I 449 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.119 don't know if I ever want to, but if I do, I hope 450 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:07.359 it is as nice and kind as that family was to me. I hope 451 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:12.960 they let me enjoy my time in the woods forevermore. Oh, this is 452 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.480 a great story. The best part of this story is your brother coming to 453 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:22.119 your side, your older brother and taking care of his sister. I mean, 454 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.960 the bigfoot part was interesting. Obviously he knew it was out there, 455 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.400 but he knew how to take care of us, and he knows a lot 456 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:32.800 of brothers at age it wouldn't do that. And it just as I was 457 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:37.639 reading it, I was almost choking up, thinking, that's going to be 458 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:39.440 a real man right there. He's going to grow up and be a real 459 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.320 man. He knows who to look after and he knows how to calm people 460 00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.280 down, and he's probably still that way. So to the woman who wrote 461 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.280 this, thank you so much for sharing this. I loved it. I 462 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.719 loved the story. It was wonderful. I wish I could say your name. 463 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:59.960 You probably wouldn't care, but you know who you are if you're listening, 464 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.840 still listening to this podcast, and I appreciate the story. Thank you. 465 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.559 Thank you for joining me on this podcast. I can't tell you how 466 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.400 much I appreciate you. I'm so glad to be back recording these. I 467 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.159 just love doing this. I don't know why I wake up in the morning. 468 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.719 I go through a little ritual in the mornings just to get myself going. 469 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.360 Then I go on a bike ride with my dogs and loosen up a 470 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.920 little bit, and then all I think about is when can I get done 471 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:29.559 with my work and get back to recording these stories because I just love it. 472 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.360 I love doing it, and I don't know why. I have no 473 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:36.559 idea why, but I'm so glad. If you've listened this far, you 474 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:39.599 must enjoy it too. That makes it all worth it, and I love 475 00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:43.079 you for it. So you guys, have a good rest of your week. 476 00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:47.559 Hopefully I'll be back this weekend with the sequel to the story Hunted. 477 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.039 It's going to pop up here in a minute if it didn't already, the 478 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.119 video on the end screen. If you haven't heard that story, click on 479 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:57.639 that video and listen to it, because it's truly good. All Right, 480 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:02.639 we'll see you guys on the next one. Thanks.