1 00:00:15,279 --> 00:00:20,199 The story is from Dennis. Own excuse me. This story is from Dennis, 2 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:24,440 and here's what he writes. My first encounter was something that couldn't be 3 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:28,920 explained. Happened to me back in nineteen eighty seven. I was a sixteen 4 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,640 year old boy, and I wasn't afraid of anything, at least while my 5 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:37,240 dad and uncles were nearby. It was a family tradition at the time for 6 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,399 all of us to wake up at three am and travel the hour and a 7 00:00:40,439 --> 00:00:45,280 half to our favorite hunting spot, the oak Okay here we go with a 8 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:55,520 pronunci pronunciation mangle oak muggly oak muggly ok m u lge wildlife area in Tuscaloosa, 9 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,840 Alabama. Once we arrived to the general area, it was a mile 10 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,879 hike back to where we would set up camp. On this particular morning, 11 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,680 we were running late, and as we arrived just before sun up, the 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,959 cooties were already sounding off in the distance. They made me feel a little 13 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,560 unsettled since I was walking into the deep dark forest with just a flashlight. 14 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:23,000 But my dad and my uncles were there to reassure me or at least poke 15 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,359 fun of me, making me forget any of my fears. About the woods. 16 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,280 We had been hunting together for years, and like family, we knew 17 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,359 each other pretty well. For whatever reason, the rest of them decided to 18 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,439 venture off into the woods, leaving me and my rifle to occupy an old 19 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:46,319 deer stand. To me, it looked like an old outhouse with a small 20 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,760 window on either side, and after sweeping the cobwebs out of it with my 21 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,519 hands, I closed the door behind me. I looked out the windows, 22 00:01:55,519 --> 00:02:00,599 and I scanned the woods for coyotes, and around seven am noticed a young 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,760 dough off to my right. She was probably seventy yards away. According to 24 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:09,319 the laws at the time, you could only take a dough on selected days, 25 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,000 and I raised my rifle. The dough was laboring to breathe, and 26 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,479 it staggered toward the stand, and then it collapsed. Dear run from humans, 27 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:24,719 Yet the dough was just lying there, motionless. I couldn't pull the 28 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:30,120 trigger on her. And then I heard something rustle in the bushes behind the 29 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:32,960 stand, and I pointed my rifle in the same direction, and I waited 30 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,680 a few seconds, but nothing emerged. The dough struggled to her feet and 31 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:44,240 disappeared over the ridge ahead of me, and the bushes rustled again, but 32 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:49,919 the noise was coming from a different direction. No sooner than I had refocused 33 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,759 my attention, the sound would drift to my right and then to my left. 34 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:57,879 I was spinning in circles, trying to figure out which window to aim 35 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,280 my rifle out. I was sure a herd of deer were going to fly 36 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:07,280 out of the brush from all directions at any time. And then something slammed 37 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:10,080 into the side of the shooting house with enough force to knock me off my 38 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:15,719 feet, and it was followed by a blood curdling the screen. My back 39 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,639 was against the wall, and I slid into a crouched position, and I 40 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:23,520 clutched my rifle, and I panicked, and I burst through the door, 41 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:29,560 determined to outrun whatever had crashed into the stand. When I got to our 42 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:32,439 truck, my uncle was sitting inside the cab. He was having a smoke, 43 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,520 and I was out of breath, and I asked why he wasn't out 44 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,319 in the woods hunting, And something's out there, was all he said. 45 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,199 My dad and my other uncle stumbled in a few minutes later, and they 46 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,280 threw their gear into the back of the truck and they climbed inside the cab, 47 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:53,080 and a few minutes later we were on the highway headed home. For 48 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:57,879 all of our big talk about hunting, we left empty handed that day. 49 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,479 Apparently each of them had heard the same thing that I had heard, an 50 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:09,120 inhuman scream that echoed through the trees. Each accused the other of pulling a 51 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:14,639 prank. I realized whatever had hit the side of my shooting house, it 52 00:04:14,759 --> 00:04:17,720 did so with such force that it certainly couldn't have come from any of my 53 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:25,480 uncles or my dad. The oak, the Oak Muggy Wildlife Management Area is 54 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,240 an old Indian burial ground. It's rich in Indian traditions. Just look up 55 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:35,560 Moundville sometime. And that's the end of his story. And all four of 56 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:40,079 them, all three or four of them had an experience. That's pretty cool. 57 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:43,639 I wonder if Dennis, if you guys ever talked about it again or 58 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,240 speculated on what it could be. I'd be curious to hear about that. 59 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:50,240 But it's a good story. I really appreciate it. It's an exciting story 60 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,480 and a hard time to go through for a sixteen year old boy, but 61 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:02,199 it's very cool. Thanks for sending it all, right, Welcome to the 62 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,199 podcast. My name is Cam Buckner. This is the Dixiecrypted podcast, also 63 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:12,759 known as the what If It's True Podcast. On any podcast app, just 64 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:16,639 search for what If It's True. The podcast will come up on Spotify, 65 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:21,319 Apple, Google, Stitcher, any of the podcast app that you use, 66 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:27,199 so give it a trial over there. The only thing I could say before 67 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,879 we get into the last three stories of this podcast is to remind you of 68 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:38,000 the Alabama Bigfoot Conference on June the tenth in Anniston, Alabama. There will 69 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,720 be a link in the description. I know some of the people putting it 70 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:45,319 on It looks very interesting. I do know this. It doesn't cost anything 71 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,639 to get in there, and probably everything in Anniston, Alabama is a lot 72 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,759 cheaper than gatlin Burg. So if you ever want to go to a smaller 73 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:56,360 Bigfoot conference, this would be the one to go to. I'm going to 74 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:59,439 try to make it over there on June tenth, so I hope to see 75 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,199 you there. I'm gonna have a booth. I'm just going to kind of 76 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:05,680 be wandering around and seeing some friends, and hopefully I'll get to meet some 77 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,839 of the people who listen to the podcast. That would be great. All 78 00:06:09,959 --> 00:06:12,519 right, nothing of that. Let's get on with the rest of the podcast. 79 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Let's do this all right, here we go. Okay, I have 80 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:28,519 a story here. I'm not I know who the email address name. I 81 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,040 know what the name is on the email address, but the story kind of 82 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,959 confused me because he signed off as a mail. But it's the story sounds 83 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,519 like a woman wrote it. But I'm going to read the story anyway because 84 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,680 it's really good. So let's do it. Let's do this. In nineteen 85 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,800 seventy two, I was sitting outside my mother in law's house in the country 86 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:54,480 on a hot August night, trying to catch a cool breeze. Not everyone 87 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,839 had air conditioning back then. Several of my husband's family members were sitting out 88 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,879 there with me, also trying to escape the heat of the summer, when 89 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,600 something appeared in the sky above us that made us all look up. It 90 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,800 was a circular disk covering above the tree tops at the top of the hill, 91 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:15,199 and although we could only see the bottom of it, there was a 92 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:19,519 row of different colored blinking lights all around that part that we could see. 93 00:07:20,199 --> 00:07:24,240 I felt drawn to go up to the top of the hill to get a 94 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,680 better look, and I walked up and still carrying my son, and I 95 00:07:28,759 --> 00:07:32,560 stood there directly under it. For several minutes, I couldn't take my eyes 96 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,519 off of it, and at the bottom of the hill, my mother in 97 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,279 law was calling for me in terror to get back down there to them. 98 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:45,160 Realizing that I might be putting my son in danger, I backed away, 99 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,680 and as soon as I did, it shot straight up and disappeared with incredible 100 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:54,759 speed. At that point, we all went inside to see if there was 101 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,519 anything on TV about it, and the newsman was announcing that anyone who saw 102 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,319 something strains in the sky shouldn't be worried. It was just a weather balloon 103 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:09,319 gone astray, he said, a weather balloon with lights all around it, 104 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:15,240 and that can move at unbelievably high rates of speed. Yeah right. I 105 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,360 carried that memory with me all the way up until two thousand and fifteen. 106 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,279 At that time, I was working at a store and had punched out at 107 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:28,360 ten fifteen pm. My grandson Josh was with me and we were driving home 108 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:35,440 when a bright blue craft floated out above the trees. It was close enough 109 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,519 that we could even see windows on it. I wish we'd thought to pull 110 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,480 over and get some pictures of it, but in hindsight, as they say, 111 00:08:43,639 --> 00:08:48,519 it's twenty twenty. Over the next two years, we witnessed two more 112 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:54,600 separate events. In two and sixteen, a spherical object appeared and ascended near 113 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:58,600 our local airport, and at that time my husband saw a similar object on 114 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:05,159 his to work. And then in two and seventeen, we were walking down 115 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:09,440 the road from my house and we looked up to see three cigar shaped crafts 116 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,480 all in a row above us, and one by one, they each ascended 117 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:18,080 with lightning speed, just like that, they were gone. Now, these 118 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:24,240 things were not balloons. They had capabilities that weather balloons don't have, and 119 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,919 weather balloons don't have flashing lights on them. I'm sure of it. When 120 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,279 they started appearing to our Air Force during World War Two, they call them 121 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,960 the food fighters. I'm sure that some things have reasonable explanations, but not 122 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,799 the craft that was directly over my head. That I can describe, but 123 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:48,879 I cannot explain it. Oh. I love these UFO stories, you know, 124 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,919 you know, I hate to pop some of the Bigfoot people's bubble. 125 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:58,559 But there's a lot more evidence. There's a lot more video evidence and witness 126 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:05,000 evidence, image evidence of UFOs then there ever will be of Bigfoot. That's 127 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,360 why I love these so much. There's something it. It could be something 128 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,279 from this earth, it could be from outer space. I don't know, 129 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,919 but people get images of this stuff all the time, all the time. 130 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:22,039 And now the federal government is starting to come out and some of our military 131 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:24,320 are starting to say they don't know what these things are. I don't know 132 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:30,879 that it's everything's been fully disclosed, but it's really really interesting stuff. From 133 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:35,879 a bystander like me who has no skin in that game, it is really 134 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,720 really interesting to read about. So thank you very much for the story, 135 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:46,120 ma'am. Here is a story from Kim, and here's what she writes. 136 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,679 My husband Tim got me into cryptozoology and had done a lot of research on 137 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,519 the topic before I came into his life. That crypto bug got ahold of 138 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,600 me as well. It's true seekers. We love to find out the real 139 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:05,360 meaning behind various subjects, from natural health to politics, pretty much all the 140 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:11,559 things that don't make sense the way the mainstream gives it to us. Tim 141 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,879 and I lived in the United Kingdom. We met in two thousand and twelve 142 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,720 at a property and business weekend where we immediately fell a deep bond in connection. 143 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:24,159 He still was with his former relation at the time, and we both 144 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:30,480 had some life lessons to go through. We connected daily through Messenger and WhatsApp 145 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:35,639 in February of two sixteen, and finally we met up again in a flash 146 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,919 in mid July, which felt like the most exciting thing ever. And when 147 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:45,320 we stood face to face, I got psychic flashbacks of our previous lives. 148 00:11:45,879 --> 00:11:50,120 I believe we had been Native Americans and had raised two children together. Sadly, 149 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,840 early death had also claimed him during his former life, and the feeling 150 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:01,159 I always had of deep intense grief carried over to the present. At twenty 151 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:07,399 and seventeen, Tim was diagnosed with a recurrent stage four breast cancer. After 152 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,799 the surgery, we decided to treat it naturally, as our research showed the 153 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:16,720 major bad implications of the available common methods. The doctors gave Tim perhaps a 154 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:22,200 year to live maybe two with the newest chemo, and the potential side effects 155 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,279 were horrible. Tim went against the doctors and decided that he wanted a quality 156 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:35,000 of life instead. We learned about RSO, the THHC concentrate championed by cannabis 157 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:41,000 advocate Rick Simpson. Because cannabis was and still is stupidly illegal in the UK. 158 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:46,320 We contacted some people in California who create medicine from the plants they grow 159 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:54,679 themselves. They became our dear friends. Tim went to California in September and 160 00:12:54,799 --> 00:13:00,000 I followed suit in November once I retained my passport. He and our friends 161 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,240 ends traveled from Clear Lake Oaks to Mount Shasta, where they stayed at the 162 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:09,320 Bunny Flat Campground. In my absence, Tim's first big foot encounter took place. 163 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,200 He was on a video chat with me and our friend Patty wanted to 164 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:20,200 meditate at her favorite spot. They went their separate ways for what was meant 165 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,480 to be only one hour. It was a gorgeous sunny day on the mountains, 166 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,960 so Tim and I walked in converse for the last forty minutes until his 167 00:13:28,039 --> 00:13:33,480 batteries began getting low and we lost connection. That was when Tim realized he 168 00:13:33,639 --> 00:13:39,679 was lost. He still had his iPad and he started to film, and 169 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:41,320 in the back of his mind he thought, if he didn't make it out 170 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,120 of the wilderness, there was a video on his iPad for others to find. 171 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,519 He was walking in circles. The sun was beginning to set, and 172 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:56,360 he followed the game trail where he saw huge human footprints and what appeared to 173 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,799 be bear tracks. Both were fresh, so he look into his pace. 174 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,639 He was an Englishman in a foreign land, stumbling around the vastness. He 175 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:11,399 wasn't familiar with where he could be the meal of some indigenous predator. He 176 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:16,440 crossed a small stream, where oddly he saw a neatly stacked pile of pine 177 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,919 cones on a nearby rock. He thought he heard rustling in the bushes as 178 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,279 he found more human tracks. It had been five hours since he had left 179 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:28,919 the campsite, and he felt a huge sense of relief when he saw headlights. 180 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:33,000 He flagged down a man who gave him a lift back to where Patty 181 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:39,039 was in tears waiting for him. She had naturally feared the worst. When 182 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:43,679 I finally arrived in the States, Tim and I analyzed the iPad video. 183 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:50,399 It was a bit like identifying figures in the infamous Kennedy assassination footage shot by 184 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,879 Abraham's The Pruder cryptids seemed to appear everywhere. They were behind trees and bushes, 185 00:14:56,879 --> 00:15:01,799 and they stalked him from every angle. He had been blissfully unaware. 186 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,279 We went on trips with another couple met through mutual friends, and we found 187 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:13,519 a footprint of a creature that matched an Egyptian type of dog man. The 188 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,159 pal merged the shape of a dog at the front with a human heel in 189 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:22,399 the back, with three toes each sporting long claws. I made loads of 190 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:28,559 pictures with Tim that featured shapes and figures through very dark and mostly hidden through 191 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,519 the trees in England, though the encounters are not as exciting as in the 192 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:37,480 United States. One night outside our farm, I got out of my car 193 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:41,039 and I was approaching the gate, and I swore I saw a dark human 194 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,399 ord figure standing near a pine cone tree before it seemed to vanish into the 195 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:50,919 shadows. A pine cone tree would just be a pine tree, Kim, 196 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:56,639 I'm just letting you know. Anyway, Tim and I wanted to go to 197 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:02,000 the United States and fully expected to celebrate a victory over his cancer. But 198 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:06,600 during the period of time we had returned to the United Kingdom, the cancer 199 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:10,639 had six months to come back with a vengeance, and it had spread to 200 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:15,960 his lungs, bones, and hips. The RSO had helped him to live 201 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:19,519 much longer than the doctors predicted. He had not missed those treatments, and 202 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:25,240 I firmly believe he would have been cured. To this day, I miss 203 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,919 him, the sound of his voice and his reassurances that despite the craziness of 204 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,960 the world, everything was going to be okay. And shortly after his death, 205 00:16:34,039 --> 00:16:38,600 I took a random picture of the wooded area outside our farm. I 206 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:44,559 liked the cover, so I had it blown up and custom framed. Visitors 207 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,080 who view it comment on the way the shadows fall gracefully across the trees. 208 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:53,679 It's always amazed me how none of them has ever noted my dear departed Tim, 209 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:59,039 clearly mugging for the camera. Thank you for that story, Kim. 210 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,639 I'm sorry about Tim. I'm sorry about really a lot of things I read 211 00:17:03,679 --> 00:17:07,279 in this story. But it's always hard to lose someone you love. I 212 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:08,880 thought i'd let you know that, but thank you for the story. It's 213 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,759 kind of it's a really good story. With all the images you guys came 214 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,000 up with on his iPad, it's very cool. I wonder if you've posted 215 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,319 that anywhere. You'd be smart not to, but if you did, I'm 216 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,720 sure you've got a lot of criticism for those images that you pointed out in 217 00:17:26,759 --> 00:17:34,440 your video. This is a story I got from Little Shepherd Farm. I've 218 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,079 had this for a long time. I just have not been able to get 219 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:44,240 to it. I think Little Shepherd Farm has a YouTube channel. You guys 220 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,799 can look it up. If this is the same Little Shepherd Farm. I 221 00:17:47,799 --> 00:17:52,000 think he does some homesteading stuff and probably interesting things to look at. But 222 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:56,000 here's what he writes. I'm a fifty seven year old man who lives in 223 00:17:56,079 --> 00:18:02,079 Ohio, and I'm thirty five miles east of Cleveland. As a youngster, 224 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:07,599 I developed an affinity for strange things like UFOs, the Lochness Monster, and 225 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:11,119 to a lesser extent, Bigfoot. Starting at the age of five, I 226 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:18,799 went hunting with my dad and older brothers in the woods of Tayannesta, Pennsylvania. 227 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:22,240 I think I got that right. I grew up to be a hunter 228 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:25,599 and a fisherman, and I even did a bit of trapping as a teenager. 229 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,640 If you've ever seen the movie Bigfoot The Mentor Marsh Story, then you'll 230 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,480 know where I used to trap and hunt. We lived in a trailer park 231 00:18:34,559 --> 00:18:38,079 with three hundred acres behind it, where my brother and I a long was 232 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:44,519 Several friends used to play on a daily basis. There were dirt bike trails 233 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:48,279 and beaver dams and streams all through the woods, and we ate fresh fruit 234 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,920 growing wild back there, so even though we were really poor, we were 235 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:59,880 never hungry. The acreage has since been bought up and revamped with newly built 236 00:19:00,039 --> 00:19:04,000 homes in a housing development where the woods used to be. My parents were 237 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:10,200 divorced when I was about five, and my mother eventually remarried when I was 238 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:14,400 ten, and we moved to a town called Painesville, Ohio. Thank you 239 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,559 God for somebody writing a story with the name of a town I can pronounce. 240 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,240 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I ran with a couple 241 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,559 of redneck boys in that city. Throughout my life, I have never seen 242 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:30,119 a sasquatch. I wanted to believe in them, but I was a skeptic 243 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,720 like everyone else, because I never saw any other proof other than the Patterson 244 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:40,440 Gimblin film and the six Dollars Man Show, where they were depicting a jokingly 245 00:19:40,799 --> 00:19:45,799 weird Bigfoot in a few episodes speaking of the six million Dollar Man. In 246 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:49,880 the summer of two ten, I had a really bad accident that left me 247 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,240 with a bad head injury, and I was one hundred percent disabled. I 248 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:57,759 had a big four wheeler that flipped while going up a hill and it landed 249 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:02,960 on top of me from height of twelve feet. It shattered both of my 250 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:10,079 cheekbones. And now I have I have wire mesh screws and titanium plates instead 251 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:14,039 of bones. And I should mention that I had had on a full faced 252 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:17,759 helmet at the time, and if I had been without it, I wouldn't 253 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:22,880 be here today to tell the story. We owned three German shepherds and these 254 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,880 dogs were excellent protection. A few years ago, when my neighbors homes got 255 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,839 broken into, they skipped my place, no doubt, because of the dogs 256 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:37,319 are aggressive towards strangers. I was cutting the grass with my little lawnmower out 257 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,559 bag beyond the kennel when I saw a worn spot in the dirt. It 258 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:45,319 was a huge circle. It's probably fifteen feet in diameter. Now, I 259 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:48,160 thought it was odd because even deer don't come on to our land because of 260 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,759 the dogs. During that time, they were going to the screen on the 261 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,839 back porch nightly and barking their heads off as soon as we went to bed. 262 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,759 And when you lived near woods, get a little edgy when your animals 263 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:07,000 start acting out. I thought we had some trespassers, human or otherwise. 264 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,799 Well, this kept us up for weeks on end, and I wasn't getting 265 00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:14,559 any sleep at all. I kept my rifle next to me in my bed. 266 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:18,480 It was two am when my dogs once more woke me from a deep 267 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:22,880 sleep. They had roused me so many times for nothing. I stopped getting 268 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,559 out of bed, But that night I decided to get up and use the 269 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:32,880 bathroom and then go take a look, and I grabbed my rifle. There 270 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,240 was something moving around out there. The limbs on the big pine trees were 271 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:41,920 waving back and forth. I took aim and turned on the red laser light 272 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,920 and put that bead right in the middle of whatever was looking at me. 273 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,880 It appeared to be enormous as it loomed over the top of the kennel fence 274 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,559 before it lumbered out of you. Perhaps I'd only gotten a glimpse of what 275 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:00,519 a lot of bigfoot researchers derisively call a blob squatch, where some one aims 276 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:04,119 a camera into the field of trees and they point to a particular dark spot 277 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:10,240 and insist that they photographed encryptod when it's really nothing more than a power of 278 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:15,640 suggestion. I still don't believe I've ever seen a sa squatch, and as 279 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,160 a skeptic, I don't know whether that counts as good luck or bad. 280 00:22:19,079 --> 00:22:22,640 Well, join the skeptic crew because I'm a skeptic. I'm not saying I 281 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:27,160 don't believe, but I'm not saying I do. I'm saying there's law awful 282 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,079 lot of stories about it, but that you know, without a body or 283 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:37,240 without a specimen or capturing one, it's never going to be proved, is 284 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:40,680 true. It's just not. It's there's no way it's going to happen. 285 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:47,200 But it could have been a size squatch that you It could have been a 286 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,880 size squatch that you saw out there a little shepherd farm. Who knows, 287 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:55,400 but this is an interesting story. And that fifteen foot round lay down where 288 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,359 the grass is all laid down, now that's interesting to me. If it 289 00:22:57,519 --> 00:23:02,279 was like a perfect circle, what that You gotta wonder what in the world 290 00:23:02,519 --> 00:23:04,400 is going on with these things like that. You know, you've got crop 291 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,000 circles, you've got places in the grass where things lay around. Usually you 292 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:12,279 can find it where deer or betting. It's pretty easy to detect and figure 293 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:17,680 out what's going on there. But like a perfect circle. Who that's really 294 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,039 interesting to me. Sorry till me so long to get to the story, 295 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,839 but it was a really good one, Little Shepherd Farm, and I appreciate 296 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,480 it. Thank you, sir, Thanks for listening. I really appreciate it. 297 00:23:29,559 --> 00:23:33,640 One last thing, I've been putting up some new and old Steve Lily 298 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,920 stories on the Steve Lily Journals podcast and YouTube channel. I'm going to have 299 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,640 a new one up this week. The new one will be number fourteen. 300 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,079 I hope you guys can join me over there. There'll be a link in 301 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,640 the description for that channel as well. Thanks for joining me on this podcast. 302 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,160 We'll see on the next one. Thanks