WEBVTT 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.