WEBVTT 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