1 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,359 Here is an email from someone who wants to be anonymous. But this is 2 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,160 pretty good. This is a bit well, let's just read the story and 3 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:26,879 you'll know what I was about to say. Like many of your listeners, 4 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,879 I've spent the majority of my life in the woods. I began hunting when 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,000 I was six years old, and I've been trapping since I was ten. 6 00:00:35,039 --> 00:00:39,039 That amounts to forty eight years of experience, and I've seen most of the 7 00:00:39,119 --> 00:00:44,280 critters that will Cox County, Alabama has to offer an outdoorsman. But what 8 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:48,560 I saw and felt that day was unlike anything I had ever experienced in the 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,000 woods before, or anywhere else for that matter. I was near a creek 10 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:58,439 with a pine thicket on one side and hardwood bottoms on the other. The 11 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,320 tree that I had climbed it was a thirty five minute walk from my back 12 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:07,200 door. It was my habit to get there well before sunrise because the walk 13 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:11,120 down can be a bit noisy, not to mention climbing up the tree, 14 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:15,959 and I didn't want to scare anything away right before shooting time. If everything 15 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,079 went well, and it did that day, I would be up in the 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,640 tree for a good twenty minutes in complete darkness, letting the woods settle down 17 00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:29,760 before daylight. That particular morning, the woods were silent, the kind of 18 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,760 pin dropping at seventy five yards with a loud bang. Quiet. Because of 19 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,879 that, I had crept in as slowly and as quietly as I possibly could, 20 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:42,400 and I did my best to stay in the pine straw and out of 21 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,920 a leaf litter that would have sounded like potato chips being crunched under my boots. 22 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,640 As always, I was trying to control my breathing and trying to keep 23 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,719 from getting too hot and breaking into a sweat. It would have been easy 24 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,480 to do with all my gear on, but very bad on a cold day. 25 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,840 I tend to climb a little higher than most because I have learned that 26 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,280 it takes the scent factor out of the game. A white tailed buck's nose 27 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,639 can't reach forty foot up a tree, which gives me a big advantage. 28 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,759 I was sitting up there and relaxing and taking in Mother Nature and all her 29 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:21,240 therapeutic sights and sounds and smells, while waiting for the sun to wake up 30 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,719 and rouse the critters, and all around me were fifty to sixty foot tall 31 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,719 pine trees, and some of them had been knocked down by various tropical storms 32 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,439 or hurricanes that had come through. When the sun finally began to stick its 33 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,879 head up over the horizon, and though it was still pretty dark, I 34 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:43,080 noticed standing thirty five feet to my right, near a stump of a pine 35 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,879 that had been snapped off. Around seven feet up was a silhouette of a 36 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,680 creature that I didn't recognize, and it was looking right at me. I 37 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,599 won't repeat the exact sentence I was saying because it was loaded with explotives, 38 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,639 but the gist of it, will was what is that thing? Because it 39 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,520 was still dark in the woods, I couldn't see it well enough to try 40 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,800 to determine exactly what it was or what its intentions were. As we locked 41 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,960 eyes, every emotion erupted inside of me. I was frozen in place, 42 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:22,520 but anxiety and fear were running in circles inside my brain, and from somewhere 43 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,199 else, though somewhere much deeper in that conscious thought, I felt a calming 44 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:32,560 sensation that assured me that everything was going to be okay. The sun continued 45 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,439 to rise and I eventually began to see more details, and I realized that 46 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:43,360 I was looking at a juvenile sy squatch. It was about six feet tall, 47 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,039 with long, light, dark brown hair, and human looking facial features. 48 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:53,360 It had the whitest of white eyes and black pupils. We continued our 49 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:59,840 staring contests for a full twenty five minutes. It didn't move, and neither 50 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,560 did the entire time. It was communicating with me without saying a word. 51 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,639 It was reading my thoughts. It knew I was in the woods all the 52 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,199 time and that I wouldn't do it any harm. I sat there, I 53 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:18,759 still locked with it, and I got the overwhelming sensation that I should look 54 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:23,720 to my left. Well. I didn't want to. I wanted to keep 55 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:27,160 looking at the juvenile, but my mind was telling me that the mother or 56 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,160 father was standing to the left. I gave in and looked, but there 57 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:34,439 was nothing there. But when I look back to my right, the juvenile 58 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,839 was gone. There was not a peep or a sound. It was just 59 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:45,519 gone. I'm convinced that it became invisible or it evaporated. I stayed up 60 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:48,160 in my tree all day and I tried to process what had happened. When 61 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:51,279 I got down, I didn't walk over to where it had been standing. 62 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,199 I knew the leaf litter was too thick for it if left any prince. 63 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:00,560 I've only shared this story with two other people. It's hard to imagine anyone 64 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:03,800 believing me, but I felt the need to share it with you. So 65 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:08,000 there it is. Thank you for reading it. Well, you're welcome, 66 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,399 sir. Thank you for sending it's I appreciate that more than anything. I 67 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:15,279 thought this was a good story. I've read a few stories where people seem 68 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,720 to be able to communicate with these creatures through telepathy. I guess it is 69 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:25,480 I don't know, reading each other's minds, or they seem to put thoughts 70 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,279 in your heads. I think he's right. It's hard for people to believe, 71 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:31,279 but boy, it sure makes for a good story, and I thought 72 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,079 this one was fantastic. So thank you, sir for sending it in. 73 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,360 Hey, y'all, welcome to the channel. Appreciate you clicking on the video. 74 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,920 My name's Cam Buckner and this is the Dixie Crypti podcast, also known 75 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:49,680 as to what If It's True Podcast out on the podcast Network. On any 76 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,759 app you can look up what If It's True Podcast. It'll be right at 77 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,480 the top. You can listen to it that way. A lot less data, 78 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,360 a lot less battery use on your device a try. I just wanted 79 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,439 to say hi. I've been putting up some shorts, kind of funny shorts 80 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:10,319 with some of these blurry pictures, and some people are having fits about it, 81 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,720 and I'm just having fun. I just thought it was funny. It's 82 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:15,639 not a big deal, and I might put more up. There're just some 83 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,839 pictures I found roaming around the internet. But those blurry pictures with the little 84 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:25,000 red circles around them where you can't see anything. Everybody knows you can't see 85 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,079 anything. Even the people who use these pictures, they know you can't see 86 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,160 anything. I have no idea why anybody puts those out, but I'm not 87 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,879 making fun of anybody. They're just funny in general, and I'm just having 88 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,279 fun. I'm not making fun of anyone. Good grief. Oh, speaking 89 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,720 of pictures, I want to let y'all know we got a new dog. 90 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,920 Let me throw a picture of him up here. He's moving pretty fast through 91 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:54,000 the woods, so he's kind of blurry, so I outlined him. But 92 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,920 any pretty it's a big old black lab. We're gonna have fun together. 93 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,560 I'll just leave this up until I'm done talking. It doesn't matter if I 94 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:05,639 change anything. In this channel slightly. If I try to do something funny, 95 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:10,399 if I try to do something fun if I try to do something serious, 96 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,879 if I do a piece of fiction, if I do a book, 97 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,680 if I do shorts, somebody is gonna complain. I don't there's no way 98 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,160 to please everybody. Didn't mean to make anybody mad. I pull up those 99 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,839 shorts and I try to look at them and see what is so offensive about 100 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,000 them, and I can't see anything offensive. Matter of fact, when I 101 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,600 watch them, I just crack up laughing. They're just funny. So if 102 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,120 you want to see those shorts, go to my page. Look at the 103 00:07:34,199 --> 00:07:38,680 shorts, and it's the last four or five shorts I've done. I probably 104 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,240 won't do too many of those, but I learned how to do this. 105 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,879 I think it's called cap cut. My son had put some videos up on 106 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,319 TikTok and he had used it, and I'm like, how did you do 107 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,439 that? And he showed me the software, and so it just takes a 108 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,839 minute to do them, and they're fun and funny, and that's all it 109 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,639 is. So everybody lighting up, all the big orthodox people, those are 110 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,720 the ones that are getting all bent out of shape. Those are the ones 111 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,680 who always get bent out of shape. I have no dog in this hunt 112 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,720 with Bigfoot. I could care less if Bigfoot exists. It makes no difference 113 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:18,519 in my life whether it exists or doesn't. If there is ever solid proof 114 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:24,720 and the scientific community agrees that Bigfoot exists, great. If they never do, 115 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,279 great, I could care less. This is not a Bigfoot channel. 116 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,600 This is a story channel. I've said it a million times. This channel's 117 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:39,120 five years old, and I have to repeat that over and over and over 118 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:45,200 because these real serious Bigfoot people it's like it's like they have no sense of 119 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,240 humor. I don't know what it is. It's not all of the Bigfoot 120 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,679 pee, it's just the ones that are. They complain about everything. All 121 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:58,000 that said, I've got a couple of shorts up, no offense intended. 122 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,080 I'm not taking them down. They're just funny little twenty Some of them are 123 00:09:03,159 --> 00:09:07,600 six seconds, some of them are nine seconds. They're just funny little shorts. 124 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,759 It's not a big deal. Calm down, all right, let's get 125 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:13,840 on with this podcast. I got a couple more stories. Hope you enjoy 126 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:22,879 it. All right, here we go. This email is from Trevor. 127 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,840 This is a good little story I'm a farm kid from southwest Iowa. Like 128 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,159 most farm kids, I grew up hunting and fishing and spending a lot of 129 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,639 time in the woods around our farm. My grandfather taught me all that I 130 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,840 knew about those woods. And it was my grandfather who encouraged my love of 131 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,960 hunting and who taught me the best ways to hunt. And he also told 132 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,120 me all kinds of stories about the natives that live in Iowa and where they 133 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,039 camped. When I was eleven, we were out raccoon hunting one night on 134 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,799 a piece of thick timberland with deep ditches. It was a real jungle in 135 00:09:56,879 --> 00:10:01,200 there, like it was before the European and settled this area. I was 136 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,519 nervous about being out in the dark, but my grandpa was with me, 137 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:09,159 and I knew I was safe with him. His hunting dog, Copper, 138 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:13,759 was hot on the trail of a raccoon and we could hear her barking and 139 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:16,399 howling all through the woods. She hadn't treated it yet, but we were 140 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,480 waiting for that telltale change and her call that would tell us that she had 141 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:24,039 it cornered. And it was our turn to step in and do our job. 142 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,440 And then something happened that I couldn't understand. After one of her house 143 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,759 something answered back. It was obviously a lot larger, and it sounded almost 144 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,919 menacing. I turned to my grandfather, and I am asking what that sound 145 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:43,600 was, and I was shocked to see that the sound had stopped him in 146 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:48,279 his tracks. My grandfather wasn't the kind of man to scare easily, but 147 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:52,919 this definitely had him spoot. His face was whiter than I'd ever seen it, 148 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,240 as if all the blood had drained out of his body. What was 149 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,879 that? I asked, suddenly more afraid than I ever thought I could be. 150 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:03,519 He never answered me. He just ushered me out of the woods as 151 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,559 fast as we could go, and we left behind the raccoons we'd harvested that 152 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,519 night. Once we got back to the house, I asked him again, 153 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,120 what was that, Grandpa? We don't have any big predators in southern Iowa, 154 00:11:18,279 --> 00:11:22,919 and I knew it was no cow out there. Grandpa sat me down 155 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:26,240 and told me about all the things out there in the woods. He said 156 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:31,440 that the natives had run ins with these creatures all the time. There was 157 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,919 even a native burial site out there somewhere in those woods dedicated to the warriors 158 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:41,960 who had lost their lives battling these creatures. He said he had heard that 159 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:46,399 those things were called corn stalkers because they would walk through the cornfields and rippirs 160 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:52,440 of corns from the stalks as they went. The timber where we heard that 161 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,720 howl was no more than three miles from my grandparents' house. Grandpa used to 162 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,360 have a nail driven into a telephone pole in front of his yard, on 163 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:03,639 which he would put out a whole ear of corn for the squirrels to eat. 164 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,120 And one day he walked out and find the nail bent over on itself. 165 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,240 He keeps it on his mantle as a family heirloom today. Oh man, 166 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:18,000 that was cool. At eleven years old hearing a story like that. 167 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,639 That would scare the crap out of me. Did y'all wait on the dog? 168 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,440 Did the dog ever come back? Or did y'all just leave the dog 169 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,840 out in the woods running the raccoons? I'm just curious. And but that 170 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,039 was a really good story. It was really intriguing. I like that kind 171 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:35,759 of it's kind of creepy. It wasn't like horrifying, but it was kind 172 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:39,600 of creepy. I loved it. I really appreciate the writer for sending it 173 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:46,159 in. Thank you, sir. Okay, here's a story. Let me 174 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:50,440 get my mic adjusted. Here. Here's a story I got a while back. 175 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,000 It's really good. It's the man doesn't give his name, but he 176 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:00,360 claims the story is one hundred percent true. It was finally here the day 177 00:13:00,399 --> 00:13:05,159 I had waited nearly four years for. It was my ets date from the 178 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,879 United States Army. I had a good run with active duty military, but 179 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:13,120 I was ready to go home, and for me, that was the small 180 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:18,200 town in Louisiana where I grew up. I packed everything into a moving van 181 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:22,000 and I hit the road along with my reluctant wife. She was from the 182 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:26,159 same area in Texas where I was stationed, and to say that she was 183 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,879 moping about moving to Louisiana was an understatement of maximum proportions. But to her 184 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,159 credit, though she came with me. We decided to stay with my aunt 185 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,720 and uncle until we found a place of our own, which didn't take long. 186 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:43,120 Almost immediately, a small, two bedroom, one bath house on Front 187 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,120 Street came available for only three point fifty a month, and that was a 188 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,080 godsend. I had known people who had lived in that house all my life. 189 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,679 After all, this was a small town. We moved our stuff in 190 00:13:56,759 --> 00:14:01,840 quickly and settled into our routine, and my uncle had given me a job 191 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,279 working in his body shop, and my wife went to work at a daycare 192 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,159 center in West Monroe. Things were looking pretty good for us, especially for 193 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,480 having only recently gotten out of the military. Now I can't quite put my 194 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:18,080 finger on where, when, or how all that began to change. At 195 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,919 first, it was little things. A bedroom door would be opened that we 196 00:14:22,039 --> 00:14:26,519 thought had been closed. A light would flicker or go out completely and then 197 00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:31,720 come back on a few minutes later. There were all kinds of things that 198 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:35,279 were easily attributed to the age of the house, a settling foundation, or 199 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:39,559 bad wiring. Considering the age of the house, I figured it was a 200 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:45,120 miracle that any of the doors closed completely and stayed that way without sticking. 201 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,399 I think the first thing that really threw me for a loop happened one night 202 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:54,320 while my wife and I were watching TV. She had a scented candle burning 203 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,320 in a heart shaped glass dish. Suddenly, the dish broke in half. 204 00:15:00,639 --> 00:15:03,440 I thought it was the heat from the candle, but it was weird that 205 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,360 it hadn't burned down low enough to create that much heat, and even if 206 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:09,960 it had, that dish was pretty thick. I couldn't see how it could 207 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:15,919 have burst. My wife was freaking out, and I went over to extinguish 208 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,559 the candle, but to my surprise, the flame would not go out. 209 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,480 I thought that was odd, but I wasn't about to let a candle spoop 210 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:26,240 me, so I went to the kitchen and got a glass of water, 211 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:30,360 and when I poured it over the flame, it shot up two feet and 212 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,480 almost burned my hand. I decided that it must have been something to do 213 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:37,679 with how I poured the water in the candle that caused it to flare up 214 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:43,240 like that, but since it ultimately put the flame out, we went back 215 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,279 to watching TV and we forgot about it. Things were quiet for a while 216 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,600 after that, aside from the normal doors opening on their own and lights flickering. 217 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,399 And then I decided to get my wife a puppy to help cheer her 218 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:02,000 up from the loneliness that she was feeling in her new hometown. It was 219 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:06,080 a rat terrier that I had found in the newspaper. I figured it would 220 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,639 be a great small dog to keep her company, especially when I had to 221 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:15,639 work late or on weekends. My dog's name was Roscoe. A couple of 222 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:18,000 weeks later, we had gone to bed, but weren't quite asleep yet, 223 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:22,919 and Roscoe had already taken to sleeping with us. He was curled up near 224 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,080 my head when suddenly he jumped up and ran down to the foot and he 225 00:16:27,159 --> 00:16:33,039 started barking and growling as if someone was standing there. I yelled at him 226 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,000 to knock it off, and no sooner had he turned around to come back 227 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,679 up to his favorite spot at the head of the bed, than the TV 228 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:47,120 turned itself on with white noise blasting. Now that television did not have a 229 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,399 remote, we had forgotten it back in Texas. So I jumped up and 230 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,639 I unplugged it, and it took us a minute, but we finally calmed 231 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:59,320 down and we went to sleep. Neither of us was ever comfortable staying at 232 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:04,359 the house alone. There was a constant feeling of being watched. One Saturday, 233 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,440 we were sleeping in when we heard a bottle break out in the kitchen 234 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,000 and I got up and found the cabinet door open and one of my hot 235 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,000 sauce bottles broken on the floor. Well, that was the point when I 236 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:19,599 didn't want to be there anymore. Me a veteran of the US Army and 237 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:25,200 a current member of the National Guard, I was afraid of a house. 238 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:30,720 Weeks went by with us adjusting to the strange things happening and doing our best 239 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:36,759 to act like it was nothing but our imaginations or coincidence. And then we 240 00:17:36,839 --> 00:17:41,519 got an imitation to a cousin's wedding in Minnesota. I had to work, 241 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:45,599 but my wife decided to go with my aunt. They left after work on 242 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:51,720 Thursday, and that night was the scariest night of my life. I got 243 00:17:51,759 --> 00:17:55,240 home, I showered, and I went to bed around ten thirty that night. 244 00:17:56,079 --> 00:17:59,240 As I was lying there trying to get to sleep, something got into 245 00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:03,359 bed with me. I could feel the eyes burning into the back of my 246 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:07,480 head, and it felt like something pure evil was behind me. At that 247 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,039 point, as brave as I have been for my country, I covered my 248 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,920 head with my blanket like a five year old trying to hide from the boogeyman. 249 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,480 Eventually, out of pure exhaustion, I fell asleep. I was never 250 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:25,400 so happy as I was when I opened my eyes again and saw the sun 251 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,000 come up. The next morning. It was the last night that I would 252 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,480 spend in that house alone. After that, I couldn't stay at a friend's 253 00:18:33,519 --> 00:18:37,240 house. I would go camping. A couple of weeks later, I was 254 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:42,079 called up with the National Guard to go to Iraq in Oif three. My 255 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,359 wife had already made the same decision not to stay in the house alone. 256 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:49,119 So when I came home on mid tour leave, we found a nice place 257 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:55,359 on a five acre plat in a neighboring town, all in. Natural gas 258 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,279 hit big in our area not long after that, and I noticed that some 259 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:03,200 of the workers rented the old house, and then someone else did, and 260 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,880 then there was someone else. No one ever stays there for long, And 261 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,279 to this day I still marvel at how a little house like that could harbor 262 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:17,400 so much evil, And I find myself wondering exactly what kind of evil it 263 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:22,839 is. Oh man, that's scary. If something crawls in the bed with 264 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,000 me and I'm supposed to be alone, I'm coming out of that bed, 265 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:30,519 and if I can reach my gun, I'm gonna shoot my bed to nothing. 266 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,599 Maybe I shouldn't do that, Maybe it's my wife coming home and surprising 267 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,000 me or something, But at any rate, you get my point. I'm 268 00:19:38,039 --> 00:19:41,640 coming out of that bed and I'm gonna turn a light on or something that 269 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:45,720 is so creepy. That is so creepy. But this story was good. 270 00:19:45,799 --> 00:19:48,720 I appreciate the gentleman who sent it to me. Appreciate what you did, 271 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:52,599 and I writ I know that was some tough uh those were tough deployments, 272 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,319 and I'm sure you did a great job. I appreciate the story. Thank 273 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:02,599 you very much. Thank you all for listening to this podcast. I really 274 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,839 appreciate you. I am out of work officially. The gaps between me putting 275 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,359 up podcasts are over. I am going to be working on Blood Eagle, 276 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,640 working on Steve Lily, and I'm going to try to put up at least 277 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,119 five podcasts out a week. Only take a couple of days off to do 278 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,359 other things. But I'm back one hundred percent. I thank you for being 279 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,720 patient with me as I got through that. I started that job back in 280 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:34,799 June. So what's at June six? Almost eight months. I've just been 281 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,559 buried with work and it was a horrible job. I wish I'd have never 282 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,279 taken it, but I told him i'd do it. I got in the 283 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:45,599 middle of it, and you just can't quit. But I'm finally finished with 284 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,200 it, and I'm podcasting full time for at least a couple three months, 285 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,039 and I'm really looking forward to it and i want to get a lot of 286 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:56,240 stuff done and getting new Steve Lily out and it's just going to be a 287 00:20:56,279 --> 00:20:59,839 big fun time for me. So thank you all for being patient, thanks 288 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,519 for watching this podcast. I really appreciate you. And we'll see you guys 289 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:03,759 on the next one. Thank you.