1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,679 I'm writing my dad's story as he told it to me. My dad was 2 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:21,760 born in Newport, Tennessee, in nineteen sixty one. The encounter took place 3 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:27,280 in nineteen seventy five on a small dairy farm near Rankin, Tennessee. Dad 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,280 would have been fourteen. The farm he lived on had a lake that came 5 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:36,719 up to one hundred yards from the back of his house. He would fish 6 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:40,679 with trot lines and gilnets, and his farm had a lot of wildlife. 7 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,679 There were deer, squirrels, geese, and ducks. One afternoon, my 8 00:00:45,759 --> 00:00:50,280 dad went squirrel hunting with his cousin Randy. Now Randy and his friend had 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:55,880 a challenge as to who would get the most squirrels that season. Unfortunately, 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 on the day of the hunting trip, his friend couldn't go, so my 11 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:03,320 dad went in dead. They walked the farm, but they could not spot 12 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:07,120 any squirrels. For that manner, there wasn't any sign of any other wildlife. 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,680 They hunted for a couple of hours and saw nothing. When they came 14 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,920 up to the gate that entered the farm. In the farmhouse, my dad 15 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:21,959 said that it was probably an hour before dusk. They were standing there shooting 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,760 the bull before going their separate ways, and after talking for maybe twenty five 17 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:30,599 minutes, they heard footsteps, Limbs were breaking, and leaves were crunching, 18 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,920 as if something was walking toward them. His cousin Randy said, I bet 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,519 that's Wally. Now. Wally was Randy's friend who he made squirrel hunting a 20 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:46,719 challenge with. He's probably trying to scare us. My dad was on the 21 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,040 side of the gate which led to his house, and Randy said in a 22 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:53,120 low voice, come on over to this side. Randy said he was going 23 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,400 to shoot up in the trees over his head to scare Wally. Before he 24 00:01:57,519 --> 00:02:01,439 tried to scare them. The sound stopped at the fence that was grown up 25 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,319 with bushes, and my dad and Randy couldn't see through the bushes, and 26 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,360 Randy shot into the trees above his head at the fence line, and that 27 00:02:10,439 --> 00:02:17,520 shot was answered by a huge loud roar. They knew the sound that they 28 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:23,400 heard was not Wally, and Dad described the sound as a loudly rattling, 29 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:30,319 chesty roar. My dad had a Model fourteen and automatic Winchester twelve Gage shotgun, 30 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,520 and Randy had a twelve Gage and Dad's gun was fully loaded. With 31 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:38,520 the number five high power magnum. After whatever had screamed, it tried to 32 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,039 tear through the fence and shrubbery, and Randy said, that's not Wally. 33 00:02:44,199 --> 00:02:47,560 Shoot it, shoot it, shoot it. Dad emptied his twelve gage where 34 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:53,520 the racket was coming from. The small trees were shaking, and Randy's gun 35 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,280 was a single shot and he was shooting and reloading as fast as he could. 36 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:01,120 While my Dad was reloading and reloaded. The creature was still trying to 37 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:07,080 get to them. Randy continued reloading and shooting. My Dad emptied his gun 38 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,039 again in the racket, and then the roaring stopped and my Dad loaded his 39 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,879 gun once more. Randy said, I'm not going home by myself. I 40 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,560 don't know what that was. They loaded their guns and walked back to back 41 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,560 for a possible quarter of a mile. There were grown up trees and they 42 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:29,759 kept their eye out on both sides as they walked to Dad's house. And 43 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:32,360 then they got to my dad's house and Dad's parents were at work, and 44 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:38,719 they proceeded to tell Dad's older brothers what had just happened. The family members 45 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,639 didn't believe a word they said they told them. If they didn't believe them. 46 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,840 They would soon find out what it was because it had to be dead. 47 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,240 Dark was setting in and one of my uncles drove Randy home because he 48 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:54,120 wasn't about to walk home alone. And my dad and Randy and my uncle 49 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:59,879 reached the gate. My uncle, one of my father's brothers, said, 50 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,039 opened the gate, and my father said, no, you open it. 51 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,960 My uncle got out and he opened the gate. Randy and my dad began 52 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,800 pointing out where they shot at the creature, and my uncle took a flashlight. 53 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,680 It was dark then, and he went over and looked at where they 54 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:18,000 were pointing. My uncles told them that he didn't believe them, and he 55 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:21,240 was going to go take a look anyway. He went over to check and 56 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,800 he yelled, there ain't nothing here. Randy and my father said, well, 57 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,399 there has to be. We shot it over twelve times. They all 58 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:32,439 got out of the vehicles, guns in hand, and went over and they 59 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:38,879 saw nothing. The next day, my father and Randy went to investigate for 60 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:43,680 themselves. There was no blood. All they saw were broken limbs and bullet 61 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,000 holes and two large spots sunking in the vegetation. They could see leaves and 62 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,879 vegetation that had been damaged, but they were amazed that there was no blood. 63 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:59,439 My father never heard of bigfoot or dog man at that time. He 64 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:02,879 told me everything he could remember, but one thing he made sure of telling 65 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:10,360 me is whatever that thing was, it wasn't human. That is a story 66 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,319 I got that uh Neoma's kind of busy right now, and she's not. 67 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,040 She doesn't have time to do much editing for me, So this one wasn't 68 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:23,040 edited. So you can kind of see how some of these don't quite gell, 69 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:25,879 but this one did. This one did. Really, this one came 70 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,560 together pretty good. This man from Ranking, Tennessee back in nineteen seventy five. 71 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,800 They're squirrel hunting. They're out in the woods. They hear something in 72 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:39,759 the woods. They think it's their buddy. They take a shot overhead, 73 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,120 over its head to scare this guy and it wounds up being what they think 74 00:05:44,199 --> 00:05:47,839 is a bigfoot. And then they just laid into it and there's nobody. 75 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:53,639 And that's just a why don't get many stories like this? I thought this 76 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:59,079 was pretty interesting. On top of that, I love these stories where people 77 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:04,600 re tell their father or their grandfathers or their grandmothers or someone pre the Bigfoot 78 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:10,560 Craze would tell a story about some of these creatures that back then would have 79 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,199 made them crazy. Now it's there's so many people who kind of follow this 80 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,160 topic that you don't seem crazy. But back then they wouldn't tell anybody they 81 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:24,399 because they would just be laughed at in the in the circles that they ran 82 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,079 in. But now that there's so much information about people have come to the 83 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,680 conclusion that maybe there's something going on out there. I think if the whole 84 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,759 thing ties in, I can connect it all in my mind and it makes 85 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:43,000 sense to me. But probably what I'm saying doesn't make any sense to you 86 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:46,720 because I'm just rambling, But it makes sense to me, and so I 87 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:49,439 like these stories. Okay, I appreciate the man who sent it is very 88 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:56,120 interesting. I love the story. Thank you. All right, this person 89 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,600 doesn't say whether I should use their name, so I won't. I'm sorry 90 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,959 I say that. Well, I'm not sorry. I say that before every 91 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:05,800 story, but I'm just kind of letting you guys know that these were emails 92 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,120 I've got, as opposed to the I don't know the one out of ten 93 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,959 where I just tell a story that somebody wrote. You know that they sent 94 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:18,319 me if I'm just letting you know. It's an email, that's all it 95 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:21,680 is. And these are all these people claim these stories to be true. 96 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:27,000 So anyway, they don't give their name, so or they don't say whether 97 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,639 I can. Man, I'm confused. I think I'm up too early this 98 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,240 morning. They don't say whether I can use their name, so I won't. 99 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:38,600 Anyway. Anyway, here's the story. It is a woman. I'll 100 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:43,480 tell you that. After high school, I moved to Jackson, where I 101 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:47,120 met Clarence. Clarence was thirty years older than me, but he was such 102 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,560 a kind and generous man, and I fell in love with him. We 103 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,959 had a son together, who was the same age as Clarence's grandson. Clarence 104 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,079 loved the outdoors. They wanted to passed that love along to his children and 105 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:07,000 his grandchildren, so when his father decided to sell us seventeen acres of land 106 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,480 in Martville, Louisiana, we jumped on the opportunity. Besides, the land 107 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,199 had been in his family for generations, and it was a place where Clarence 108 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:22,000 could bring his family to experience the outdoors and hunt away from the outside world. 109 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,480 Each year, on the opening weekend of dear season, Clarence would take 110 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:31,439 our son and grandson and son in law camping on the back part of the 111 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,679 land. They weren't just hunting trips. They were a family time, a 112 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:39,480 time to bond. The time was special in private, and each day I 113 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,480 would ride out on the four wheeler to cook lunch and supper for the hunters, 114 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:48,879 a task that I enjoyed as much as they loved their hunting. It 115 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:54,559 was a Sunday before Thanksgiving and I had planned to surprise the boys with a 116 00:08:54,639 --> 00:08:58,679 meal of fried quail and gravy. There was something about food cooked in a 117 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,399 Dutch over an open fire that makes it taste so much better. Well, 118 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,840 I got there around nine am and I put some coffee on to cook. 119 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,559 It felt good to be outside on a relatively warm day with the bright sun 120 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,799 overhead and very few clouds in the sky. Once I got everything started, 121 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:20,399 I poured myself a cup of coffee and I sat down by the fire and 122 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,159 I watched over everything. It was such a beautiful day that I found myself 123 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,960 looking around at the woods surrounding me as so much as I was watching the 124 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,799 food. There was an old deer stand nearby that caught my eye. It 125 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,240 was in bad shape, as if no one had used it for years. 126 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:41,240 But as I looked at it, I realized there was a hunter in it. 127 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:46,960 The main reason Clarence had bought the land was so that the boys could 128 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:50,080 hunt there, and they were saved from other hunters. An opening day of 129 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,519 deer season could wipe out a person's good judgment faster than in an eraser on 130 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:01,440 a chalkboard, so I was surprised to see a stranger in that. I 131 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,679 stared across at that hunter in anger built inside me, and I thought, 132 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:11,360 how could Clarence let someone else hunt on our land? He stared back at 133 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:16,320 me through the eyes that were an unnatural red. His face was old and 134 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,840 weathered looking, but his hair and beer were still red. He was wearing 135 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:26,720 a plaid shirt and old overalls, and there was something unbelievably creepy about this 136 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:33,000 guy, which only served to increase my anger. I felt so uncomfortable by 137 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:37,080 the man's presence that I was about to abandon my quail and gravy and go 138 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:41,320 back to the house. When I heard Clarence and the boys returning to camp, 139 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:45,600 I stood up and I waited for them to approach while keeping my eye 140 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:50,399 on the man in the stand, and then I immediately asked Clarence how he 141 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,919 could let a stranger hunt on our land. What are you talking about, 142 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,600 he asked, completely dumbfounded by my question. I pointed to the stand where 143 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:03,799 the man had been seconds earlier, but no one was there. There was 144 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,279 a man there, I tried to explain, he was right there, he 145 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,679 was up in that stand. Well, I was beginning to feel a bit 146 00:11:11,799 --> 00:11:16,799 foolish that stan Clarence asked, he had doubt in his face. Yes, 147 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:20,840 there was a man right there. I said, I knew what I saw, 148 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:24,440 but Clarence assured me that no one could have been up in that stand. 149 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,799 He walked over to it, and he showed me why it was impossible. 150 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,960 The entire floor had rotted away long ago. Describe him to me, 151 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,080 Clarence said, I told him what the man looked like, and he offered 152 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,679 a kind and odd, distant smile. I'll explain it later, was his 153 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:50,120 only response. When Clarence got back to the house, he got out an 154 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:54,720 old photo album and he showed me a picture. Was this the man you 155 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,480 saw in that deer stand? He asked. I stared down at the photograph 156 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,840 of a man with a beard and a plaid shirt and overalls. It was 157 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:07,600 a black and white photo, but he easily could have had red hair. 158 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,720 That's him, I exclaimed, who is he? Well, that's my great 159 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:16,799 grandfather. He told me he died in nineteen twenty nine. Clarence died not 160 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,639 long after that, and I moved back to Fulton, where I married again. 161 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,039 I suppose out of loneliness. He was an abusive man, so that 162 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:31,039 new marriage didn't last. And then I reconnected with my high school sweetheart and 163 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:35,840 soulmate, and we have a wonderful life together. But for as long as 164 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:39,679 I live, I will never forget the time that I met my first husband's 165 00:12:41,039 --> 00:12:46,039 long dead great grandfather. That is such a sweet story. That's a great 166 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:52,000 story. And Clarence seems to be a patient, peaceful, kind gentleman like 167 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:58,000 she explained him, and she saw his long deceased nineteen twenty nine, died 168 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:03,879 in nineteen twenty nine grandfather. And that's a cool ghost story. There's nothing 169 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:07,320 else I can add to this story. It was just wonderful. Thank you, 170 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,360 ma'am for sending it. I just loved reading this story. Thank you. 171 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,480 Like many kids of my generation, I was twelve years old at the 172 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,799 time. My friends and I spent our summers playing in the woods around our 173 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,840 houses. Between our family and our neighbor's family, we had over sixty acres 174 00:13:26,879 --> 00:13:35,360 to roam and play in. Rural Western rural Western Washington. Rural is such 175 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,840 a hard work for me to say, anyway, sorry to ruin that story. 176 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,080 On Friday nights, we would often take our weekly chore money and ride 177 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,080 our bikes the four miles into town and we'd buy a pound of ground beef 178 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:50,759 and whichever sugary cereal we could afford, and then we'd ride back to my 179 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:56,000 house and grab a couple of plastic bowls and spoons and milk and make our 180 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:58,879 way back up to the lean to that we had built in the woods to 181 00:14:00,159 --> 00:14:03,240 us man that was living. We built the fire and cooked up some burgers 182 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,039 on Mom's oveingrat, and then we'd sit back and enjoy the night. We'd 183 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,360 listened to the night birds and take turns identifying the various animals scurrying about nearby, 184 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,840 and we'd watch the stars overhead. We knew that land as well as 185 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,080 we had known our own bedrooms. It was a regular paradise for a couple 186 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:28,480 of young boys, except for that one night. We had eaten our food 187 00:14:28,559 --> 00:14:33,639 and we had identified all the animals that we heard, and then we crawled 188 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,600 into the lean to for a good night's sleep. I was on one side 189 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,279 and my neighbor was on the other, and our two dogs were sleeping between 190 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:45,159 us. They were the best two dogs a couple of kids our age could 191 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:48,120 ask for, and they loved those nights out under the stars as much as 192 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:52,279 we did. It was a kind of night where sleep comes easy and deep. 193 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:56,279 And if the dogs hadn't started growling, I doubt I would have woken 194 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,000 up at all. It was a low, Oh, something ain't quite right, 195 00:15:01,039 --> 00:15:05,600 and you'd better wake up and pay attention, and kind of growl that 196 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,039 a twelve year old kid hears, as the devil is about to step into 197 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,720 your camp and we're all gonna die. I was too afraid to move, 198 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,759 so I laid there motionless, and I listened. Thirty feet or so away 199 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:22,480 from us, I could hear the sound of footsteps and moving methodically through the 200 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:26,720 leaves. They were walking at a slow pace, as if someone was out 201 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:31,559 there trying to be sneaky. Clearly it was someone on two feet, and 202 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:35,240 so I figured it couldn't be a wild animal. Well, that scared me 203 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,519 more than anything. And I laid there for a few minutes and listened to 204 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:45,559 the crunching in the forest debris before finally whispering my friend's name. Yeah, 205 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:50,480 he whispered back, Do you hear that? Yeah? He answered. We 206 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,879 decided to get out of our flashlights and check it out. The flashlight might 207 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:58,320 be an overstatement for what we had. There were those crappy, old plastic 208 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:03,960 ever ready flashlights that required sea batteries, and anyone old enough to remember those 209 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,399 things will also remember that they were better at letting others if they're close enough 210 00:16:08,639 --> 00:16:14,000 know that you were there. Then they were showing the person using them what 211 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,000 is out there. Our plan was to sit up on the count of three, 212 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,519 turn them on, and point them in the direction that the dogs were 213 00:16:22,519 --> 00:16:26,600 looking, but by now they were snarling pretty fiercely, which only added to 214 00:16:26,679 --> 00:16:32,960 our anxiety. Together, we focused on that spot and we listened to the 215 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:37,559 continued crunching in the leaves, and then I said one, two, three, 216 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,440 and we flipped on the lights and we couldn't see anything. The footsteps 217 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:47,559 stopped immediately, but we couldn't see anything out there. We flashed the lights 218 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,679 all around the woods that surrounded our little camp, but there wasn't anything moving 219 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:56,200 around or even standing still that could have been making the sound. It was 220 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:02,080 several minutes before we gave up looking. The dog slowly began to settle down, 221 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,599 and the night fell silent. That was the strangest part, and the 222 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,839 dogs acted like whatever was out there had left, but we never heard it 223 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,759 or them walk away. That forest floor was covered in leaves and twigs and 224 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:21,279 undergrowth. Nothing could have moved through that without making some kind of noise. 225 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:26,720 But all we heard was nothing. I have remained friends with that kid over 226 00:17:26,759 --> 00:17:30,799 the years, but we only spoke about it once. I think we needed 227 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:34,920 to confirm with each other that it really happened. I doubt we'll ever know 228 00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:38,559 what was out there, but whatever it was, it had our dogs scared. 229 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:42,799 To my knowledge, that was the only time either of those dogs was 230 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:49,440 ever afraid of anything. What a great story from his childhood twelve years old, 231 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:53,559 probably real close to my generation, and that would have been living. 232 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,119 We kind of did that stuff. I lived in the city and we would 233 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,119 do camp outs in our backyard. You know, we throw up a tent 234 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:04,119 or something and sleep out there at night. I can't imagine living out in 235 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,079 the country and going out in the woods and staying in a tent or a 236 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,839 lean to that we built, and then hearing something huge and outside and the 237 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,759 dogs growl, and that would scare me to death. That's what makes these 238 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:21,160 stories so good. So I appreciate it. It's quite relevant for this channel, 239 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:23,000 and I appreciate the man who sent it. Thank you, sir. 240 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,920 Here is a story from England. I'm just going to read every word the 241 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,319 man writes. This hasn't been edited. He's a pretty good writer. Uh, 242 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,480 he says. Hey, Cam, I'm a sixteen year old currently living 243 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,640 in the northwest of England, and I had an encounter with a creature that 244 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:49,240 was so strange that it resembled a dinosaur. The encounter happened back in December 245 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:53,319 of twenty nineteen when I was with a group of friends in the small village 246 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,920 of Bolton, Lesans. We all met one day in the hopes of building 247 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,119 a bushcraft show like the ones you see all over YouTube, and one of 248 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,160 my friends at the time, called James, said that he knew a spot 249 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,920 that was isolated and hidden and everything that we could have hoped for. We 250 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,400 all agreed to follow him to the unknown location, and after about twenty minutes 251 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,079 of walking through the farmer's fields and thin paths, we were met with a 252 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:26,799 barbed wire metal fence, and to the left of that, on a tree, 253 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:30,839 there was a sign that said private, but we ignored the sign and 254 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,200 we carefully climbed over the metal fence. After all the boys successfully got over, 255 00:19:36,319 --> 00:19:40,480 we looked around for a brief minute to observe the creepy yet somewhat beautiful 256 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:45,119 forest. It was so creepy that some of the trees even looked like tortured 257 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,519 souls with faces. Maybe we were all just being paranoid, but we all 258 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:56,000 got similar feelings that we were being watched. After about five minutes of walking 259 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,559 through the dense woodland, one of my friends said that he had seen movement 260 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:03,200 in the d distance. He pointed forward into all of our shock. There 261 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,559 in plain sight, we laid eyes on the strangest, most obscure creature we 262 00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:14,880 had ever seen. It looked like it belonged in a science fiction movie. 263 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,359 And the best way I could describe the beast is that it looked like the 264 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,720 raptors from the Jurassic Park movies. Every single. One of us stood in 265 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:29,000 panic as we watched it quickly run into a neighboring tree line. I counted 266 00:20:29,079 --> 00:20:33,519 down from five to one and we all ran backwards toward the fence and climbed 267 00:20:33,559 --> 00:20:38,279 over with sheer fear as the creature was chasing after us. We ran with 268 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,960 no stopping all the way back to my house, and then we sat down 269 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,119 in my living room and discussed what we had seen, and we agreed at 270 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:52,039 the time that the creature looked like some sort of dinosaur. None of my 271 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,319 friends believed or even take a recognition of the encounter, and all put it 272 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:02,079 down as being natural, possibly a deer or something. I just don't know 273 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,680 how they could even mistake that thing for a deer. To be honest, 274 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,920 I'm happy I saw what I saw that day because it leads me to finally 275 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,279 create the YouTube channel that I run today. Thanks for taking the time to 276 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:19,759 read my encounter cam. I appreciate your work and how you help bring these 277 00:21:19,799 --> 00:21:27,000 topics to light. And the name of his YouTube channel is I Talk Cryptids. 278 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:34,079 You can just type in I talk I Talk t A l K cryptids 279 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:40,880 c rypt I d S and it's I'm gonna look that up. I'm gonna 280 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,720 look it up and take a look at his channel. This was a very 281 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:48,000 good story. They saw what they think was like a veloci raptor in the 282 00:21:48,039 --> 00:21:52,720 northwest of England. Very good story. I appreciate the man sending it to 283 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,000 me and I'm glad. I hope people just flood to your YouTube channel. 284 00:21:56,039 --> 00:22:02,039 Brother. Thank you. Now, this is bigfoot story that I thought was 285 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,000 very intriguing. This person rides mine is a little different from the ones that 286 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:11,839 I've heard. I was watching a video on YouTube from a channel that people 287 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:17,720 would typically call a conspiracy theory channel, but I find that they really speak 288 00:22:17,759 --> 00:22:22,359 the truth most of the time. They did an interview with a man who 289 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,519 has regular contact with bigfoot, UFOs, spirits, or beings from other planets. 290 00:22:29,839 --> 00:22:33,440 This man lives in Washington and he has videos of various beings and ships 291 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:38,440 and lights or orbs in the sky. He talks about how he saw a 292 00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:44,200 bigfoot that looked like it was upset, so he asked if he could help, 293 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,359 and it said no, and it teleported a way in front of him. 294 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:52,160 It was there, and then that it dematerialized right in front of him. 295 00:22:52,640 --> 00:23:02,160 His name is James Gillion and he owns ECTI Enlightened com Intact with extraterrestrial 296 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,480 intelligence. He has rooms that you can rent to experience this, or you 297 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:11,680 can rent a campground and camp in tents if you want to be outside. 298 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:17,119 So I learned of this place in the summer of twenty twenty and I wanted 299 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,920 to go there. So a year later, when they started giving people the 300 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,799 stimulus money, I used mine and I planned a week long trip from the 301 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:30,160 middle of California to Washington, and I stayed there for three nights. My 302 00:23:30,279 --> 00:23:34,079 best friend was with me on this trip, and since we had seen so 303 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:38,160 many of these videos and heard all the things that bigfoot can do, we 304 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:45,359 already knew that they can hear your thoughts. So for months before my trip, 305 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:49,279 I would ask them telepathically if I could please get a picture with a 306 00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:53,720 bigfoot, and I told them that I was coming all the way there specifically 307 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:59,039 for them, and I wanted a picture. I also said that no one 308 00:23:59,079 --> 00:24:03,039 would believe it even if I got a picture, so could I please get 309 00:24:03,079 --> 00:24:08,160 a picture. We arrived on a Friday afternoon in June. I'd been driving 310 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,720 all day and I was glad to get there. We rented a tent that 311 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:17,079 comes with a queen's size blow up mattress big enough for two people, and 312 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,960 we lugged all our stuff into the tent and began getting things situated, and 313 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:26,720 then it started to rain. Since the mattress wasn't airing up and they weren't 314 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:30,319 at full capacity, they upgraded us to a room and we moved everything in. 315 00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:34,319 It rained a little, and it was cloudy as it got dark, 316 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,720 and there were chairs outside in a field that you can sit in and watch 317 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:44,839 Mount Adams in the sky at night for lights of UFOs. So we all 318 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,759 went out there and we watched. Amazingly, lights appeared above the tree line 319 00:24:51,279 --> 00:24:53,680 and they blinked and were way up, too high for any person to have 320 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:57,839 made them. The distance from us would mean that it would be a very 321 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,119 bright light if you were close up to it, and it would have been 322 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:07,640 huge. It was probably thirteen or fourteen miles away. We continued to watch 323 00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:12,279 until the lights were covered with clouds and it started to rain. I went 324 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,279 back to our room and I laid on the bed while my friend mingled with 325 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,480 some other guests. Light ended up falling asleep while my friend was visiting with 326 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,119 the girls next door, and the next morning they told me what happened while 327 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:32,400 I slept. They even had pictures. There was a footprint near the firepit 328 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:36,319 area. They also saw a spaceship in the sky and they took a picture 329 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,559 of that. And when they zoomed in on the lights on the ship, 330 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:45,640 you could see a light illuminating two windows and four beings standing in front of 331 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,240 the windows on the ship. The two beings on the left looked like maybe 332 00:25:49,319 --> 00:25:55,680 there were some sort of an insect type being, maybe like a praying manas 333 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:59,559 because of the shape of their heads, and the other two looked human. 334 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:03,519 Now no one can prove this, but I think they took the two girls 335 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,359 up on the spaceship so they could take a picture of themselves on the spaceship, 336 00:26:08,599 --> 00:26:14,160 and then they brought them back with no memory of it. On Saturdays, 337 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,559 you can come just to watch the sky and then leave. A lot 338 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,599 more people came to SkyWatch and participated in a ceremony to call any beings that 339 00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:29,759 want to come through and show themselves. After the ceremony was done, James 340 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,200 mentioned a lion being coming through. He said, a lying being had never 341 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:38,359 come through before. I'm convinced it came just for me because it's in my 342 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:44,640 picture, and I love cats. Well, James can communicate with Bigfoot and 343 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:48,680 ets telepathically and he can hear what they're saying. And then we all went 344 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:53,920 outside to SkyWatch. No one could really see much because it was still cloudy 345 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,720 and raining. Disappointedly, we went to bed that nothing had happened because it 346 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:03,799 was a cloudy and rainy night for no reason at all. I woke up 347 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:07,680 at three am, and I think that's weird because I didn't have to go 348 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:12,000 to the bathroom. I lay there half asleep and I could hear a really 349 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:17,400 loud bird making a noise while I was trying to sleep. Now I'm not 350 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:22,119 from Washington and I'm not a bird expert, so it didn't click yet that 351 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:26,519 what I was hearing was wrong and much too loud for any bird to make, 352 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,079 especially since the window was closed and the sound was far away from me. 353 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,319 And then I thought, oh, maybe I should go stand in the 354 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,240 field and see if anything is happening. And that's why I woke up. 355 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,000 So I said in my head, Okay, let me get up and I'll 356 00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:48,119 go to the bathroom. The bathrooms were a short walk outside of my room 357 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,839 in a different building. No After going to the bathroom, I walked through 358 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,119 the field and I just stood there, and I thought, okay, here 359 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,160 I am. I looked at the sky for a few minutes and nothing was 360 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,599 happening, And meanwhile the bird was still squawking, and I was standing there 361 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,559 not paying much attention. I think he realized that I wasn't getting it, 362 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:12,240 so he switched from a bird noise to a horse noise. I heard what 363 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,480 sounded like a horse when they make that sound with their lips flapping together, 364 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:21,599 but it was so much louder than a horse could make. And then I 365 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,480 heard a weird bird sound. It was a bird call, but it didn't 366 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,599 even sound like a real bird. The sound was much too loud for a 367 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,079 real bird to make. And during that time there were no other animal sounds, 368 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,559 no birds, no crickets, no nothing except the bigfoot making horse and 369 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,559 bird sounds. I stood there for thirty minutes listening to the sounds, and 370 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,720 I wanted to get closer to the sounds to see if I could see what 371 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,279 was making them, but it was so dark that I was worried I might 372 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:55,599 fall in a hole and bring my ankle. I walked very slowly toward the 373 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,359 sounds, but ended up stopping one hundred and fifty feet from the area where 374 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,920 the sound was coming from, and then I thought, can you just come 375 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,640 out and walk across the field. I can't see very well and I don't 376 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,640 want to up break my ankle. I heard more horse sounds, but the 377 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,880 bigfoot never came out where I could see him. Thirty minutes went by, 378 00:29:17,079 --> 00:29:19,319 and I was cold and I was getting wet, so I went back to 379 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,039 my room and I tried to go back to sleep. After everyone got up 380 00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:27,799 in the morning, I was walking around the field and I saw the owner 381 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,920 watering his garden, so I asked him if there were horses next door. 382 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,799 He said no, and that there weren't any horses anywhere near there. And 383 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:40,559 then I told him what happened, and he said, oh, yeah, 384 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,359 bigfoot do that all the time. They mimic different animals, and he continued 385 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,680 gardening as if nothing amazing had happened. After hearing that, I walked over 386 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:53,640 to the spot where I heard the sounds coming from, and I looked in 387 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,519 the field next door, and there was no way, possible a way a 388 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,039 horse could have been there making those sounds. There were growing crops in the 389 00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:07,240 field next door, so a horse wouldn't be in that field anyway. They 390 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:12,160 even had one of those giant industrial sprinkler systems operating in the field. So 391 00:30:12,319 --> 00:30:17,200 once I ruled out the possibility that it was a horse, I knew it 392 00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:21,400 had to be Bigfoot. I knew it was when he woke me up to 393 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,559 come outside, but I just had to make sure. Later that day I 394 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,559 went to the spot, I heard the sounds, and I left some organic 395 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:33,920 apples since I had seen videos about that, I knew these Bigfoot like organic 396 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:37,880 food and peanut butter and banana sandwiches, so people would bring jars of peanut 397 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,839 butter or crystals and leave them for Bigfoot in an area just for them. 398 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:48,279 There were other spots to leave gifts for other beings. Bigfoot needs salt and 399 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,559 iron because they live in cold weather, and salt is like anti freeze, 400 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:56,960 which is why they put it on the roads. So if you live in 401 00:30:56,039 --> 00:31:00,839 a cold climate, put out blocks of salt mineral block unless you want them 402 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,640 to kill your animals and suck out their blood. Blood is very salty and 403 00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:11,240 contains iron, which is what Bigfoot need to survive in cold weather. Anyway, 404 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:14,759 The next morning was our last and we had to leave by eleven am. 405 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,000 So I went and I checked to see if my apples were gone, 406 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:21,599 and they were. But I don't know if it was a deer who ate 407 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,160 them or a bigfoot. I suspected deer ate them, but I at least 408 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,359 thought of them and brought them food. We ate, and we packed up, 409 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,720 and we left and headed out of Washington and into Oregon. We had 410 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:38,200 the whole day to be in Oregon, so we decided to stop at Watson 411 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:44,079 Falls. Since it was cloudy and raining for most of the time we were 412 00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:47,640 in Washington, we didn't get any good pictures, and none of them were 413 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,359 at night that you could be able to see the orbs, so we ended 414 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,039 up taking a lot of pictures of Watson Falls. We parked and we hiked 415 00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:59,759 up to the top of the falls. It was so beautiful and peaceful with 416 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:04,079 the water running down the stream. We got to a really good spot where 417 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:07,000 there was a large rock in front of the stream, so I had my 418 00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:09,960 friend take pictures of me on the rock. She took several pictures of me 419 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:16,000 with my camera. All along the path to the falls, we stopped at 420 00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:21,599 pretty spots and took pictures. We started heading back because I wanted to get 421 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,519 back on the road before sunset. The stream from the falls ran all the 422 00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:30,440 way down to close to where we part, so I went in the woods 423 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,960 and had a drink of water. It was the best tasting water I'd ever 424 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,839 had. We left and we went home, and I didn't look at the 425 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,720 pictures in detail until my friend came over two weeks later. We both showed 426 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:47,400 each other our pictures, and that's when I discovered the amazing things. There 427 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,119 are a couple of pictures that are amazing, And since the tramp didn't go 428 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,400 as we expected because of the clouds and rain, I didn't get my picture 429 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:00,359 of Bigfoot when we were in Washington. Instead, I got the most amazing, 430 00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:06,960 spiritual picture of Bigfoot and the lion being. They did the best they 431 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:10,039 could under the circumstances, and they gave me an even better picture than I 432 00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:15,799 could have imagined. While I was looking at this picture, I asked what 433 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:21,079 the Bigfoot's name was, and I heard him say George, but I didn't 434 00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:24,000 think he looked like a George. I think that's what James calls him. 435 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,160 I made a video about it, and I posted a short version of this 436 00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:35,440 story on my YouTube channel with the picture. Just search the word vacation and 437 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:42,880 you'll find it best Vacation Ever. Fuzzy Tiger Cat is my YouTube name. 438 00:33:43,599 --> 00:33:47,200 You can call me son or Fuzzy Tiger Cat. You guys really should go 439 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:52,720 to E C E TI if you can, but make sure you go for 440 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:58,119 three days to maximize having a good experience. I'm going back next year. 441 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,759 That was a good story. It had not been edited, so it was 442 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:07,559 a little bit it kind of jumped around a little bit. I had trouble 443 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,159 kind of following along with what was happening, but it was a good story 444 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,599 all the same. And so here's what you need to do. If you 445 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:21,679 want to dig more into this person's story. Look up Fuzzy Tiger Cat. 446 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:30,480 That's all one word. If you ZZYTI g rcat on YouTube, then add 447 00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:36,079 to that best Vacation Ever, and that video should be somewhere in your list 448 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,880 in your search, and you can watch that. Tell her that I read 449 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,960 her story on YouTube and that I suggested you guys go check her out and 450 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,800 check out these pictures that she has. I haven't seen them. I might 451 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,000 look it up this afternoon when I'm finished recording. But this is very interesting. 452 00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:57,320 This person really wanted to have an experience with Bigfoot. She believes that 453 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,119 you can communicate with them to telepathically, and she was begging them all the 454 00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:05,960 way there to please let me get a picture of you. And they didn't 455 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,880 come through, but they did in Oregon. So it's a great story. 456 00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:14,199 Thank you very much for sending it, ma'am. All right, that's going 457 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,239 to wind this podcast up. Thank you guys for listening, and we'll see 458 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,400 you on the next one. Appreciate you.