WEBVTT 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.