1 00:00:07,719 --> 00:00:10,439 Some people don't like my accent, and that's fine, So I thought I 2 00:00:10,439 --> 00:00:15,080 would do this story in a different accent, and I hope they appreciate it. 3 00:00:15,119 --> 00:00:19,760 So here we go. Hello. My name is like I Gazick, 4 00:00:19,879 --> 00:00:24,359 and I like live in Raymond County, Georgia, which is the very top 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,800 corner of the state, nestled in like the Appalachian Mountains. Like I came 6 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:34,039 across your channel a while back, and hearing all of these amazing stories has 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,119 given me like the confidence like to share my own, which has a lot 8 00:00:39,119 --> 00:00:43,960 of similarities to many I've already heard on your channel. But I can't even 9 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,240 stand to hear myself do that accent. Okay, back to the originally scheduled 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:53,159 program. My story is a series of multiple events in the year of twenty 11 00:00:53,439 --> 00:00:57,439 fifteen, when I was twelve years old. Now, I've been an avid 12 00:00:57,479 --> 00:01:02,280 hunter and fisherman my entire life, and I've spent countless hours in these hills 13 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,359 around every creature we have in the woods, or so I thought. My 14 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,079 family and I were living in a large property that was entirely surrounded by National 15 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,760 forest, with the closest neighbor about a half a mile away. The small 16 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:19,480 house was nestled in a bowl with a large mountain on each side of it 17 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:25,000 and a small pond and pasture near the house. The cabin we were living 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,920 in was built sometime around the Civil War, and we were the first family 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,840 to inhabit the home during the winter for at least seventy years, as it 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:40,959 had no heating or ac My first encounter happened around late summer of twenty fifteen, 21 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,840 and I remember it as if it happened last night. I shared my 22 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,400 room with my parents. My older siblings had the other room in the small 23 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,959 cabin, and we were sleeping with all the windows open due to the lack 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,920 of ac. Well. Suddenly I woke up immediately out of a deep sleep, 25 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:00,200 and I looked over to notice my parents it's had woken up at the 26 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:06,480 same time. We knew we heard something, but our inside dogs that barked 27 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,840 at everything hadn't made a sound. Well. We began to listen in as 28 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,080 we heard a yell coming from the woods on the side of the house our 29 00:02:14,159 --> 00:02:19,199 room was on. There was also a small waterfall around fifty yards behind the 30 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,280 house in the same direction. My half asleep twelve year old self had no 31 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:28,960 idea what to make of it and figured that there was some drunk hillbilly in 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,960 the woods having some fun. Whatever was making this sound began to travel down 33 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:38,400 the mountain and closer to the waterfall, and then we were able to realize 34 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:44,120 how strong this thing's vocal capacity was. It wasn't quite to the waterfall yet, 35 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:47,319 because its scream shook me in my parents' chest and the walls of our 36 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:53,240 cabin. It resonated like no other sound I've ever heard, and it sent 37 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,240 chills down all of our spines. We all agreed that piste off was an 38 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:01,800 understatement for the tone in which this thing was yelling. The closest thing I 39 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,840 can describe to the vocalization was it was like an extremely pissed off Tarzan, 40 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:14,280 and in recent years I've heard many supposed bigfoot vocalizations that sound identical to what 41 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:19,560 we heard. It somehow was able to navigate up to the other side of 42 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:23,159 the valley within a span of what felt like five to ten minutes, which 43 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:29,479 means this thing was really moving. Once it crossed on to the other side 44 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,520 of our property, we noticed a group of dog hunters at our gate and 45 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:38,319 realized their hunting dogs were on the trail of whatever this was. We those 46 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,919 hunters left in a hurry, and I heard no gunshots. If only I 47 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,479 could get their account of what they saw that night. Now, my second 48 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:53,439 occurrence happened in late fall of the same year, again twenty fifteen, and 49 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,560 it was deer season. My dad and I decided to set up a small 50 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:00,319 coalm and tent at the edge of a pasture in order to hunt the next 51 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:03,680 morning and walk up the old logging road that ran to the top of the 52 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:10,599 small ridge. This was the same small logging road where the hunters ended up 53 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:15,160 going the night of the previous occurrence. We froze our butts off all night, 54 00:04:15,399 --> 00:04:19,040 and in our half sleepy state, had something large come by the tent. 55 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,120 I'm not saying that it was a sasquatch, but we sure had that 56 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,199 classic being watched feeling. Before SunUp, we started walking up the logging road, 57 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,600 checking the ground the entire half mile up in search of scating tracks. 58 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,079 And we sat on the top of the trail for around five minutes and for 59 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:43,639 some reason decided to make our descent down the mountain. On the way down, 60 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,759 we stopped dead in our tracks. Our jaws were on the ground when 61 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:51,360 we noticed the largest pile of scat I've ever seen in my life. It 62 00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:57,959 wasn't bear scat, because I've seen that countless times running these hills. It 63 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,560 was a dark green and was very so of human feces, just about five 64 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:06,040 times larger than anything a person could do. But it wasn't larger than what 65 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:10,560 my grandson can do. I hope he doesn't hear this, but man, 66 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,000 that kid can. That kid can push out the biggest turds I've ever seen 67 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,759 in my life. Anyway, on with the story. It also had deer 68 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,040 hair throughout the sample, and it was still steaming. It definitely was not 69 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:26,120 there on the way up the mountain. My dad still kicks himself for not 70 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,879 taking a sample of whatever we found. We had left our tent up in 71 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:33,360 order to go back and hunt a few days later. But when we woke 72 00:05:33,439 --> 00:05:39,160 up a couple of days later and noticed the tent was flattened, we figured 73 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,360 a limb had come down on it or the wind took it out. We 74 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,879 disassembled the tent and investigated, and we saw that the tent poles that snapped 75 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,480 together to make the frame were snapped in half, every single one of them. 76 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:57,959 My dad and I tried together to snap one, and we couldn't snap 77 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,720 it. It was odd, but I've heard similar accounts as they seemed to 78 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:09,120 be extremely territorial. My third and last occurrence happened in December of twenty fifteen 79 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:14,639 or January of twenty sixteen. We were moving out of the old cabin and 80 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,720 into a newer house on the other end of the county. My father and 81 00:06:17,759 --> 00:06:21,439 I were taking the last load of stuff with the U haul trailer behind our 82 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,800 jeep, and it was two am. I had a brief fault before we 83 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,920 left, what if we see this thing on our last night here. We 84 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,759 started down the long, winding dirt road and the thought had left my mind. 85 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:39,759 We took a right turn at the first blacktop road that we reached. 86 00:06:40,959 --> 00:06:46,399 As our lights turned with the vehicle, we noticed a large bipedal figure seventy 87 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,879 yards in front of us, standing broadside on the road, facing down a 88 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,639 large thirty foot deep bank that led to a large marsh or swamp below. 89 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:01,000 This thing was around seven feet tall and had passed dark hair covering its body. 90 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:06,480 It had large muscles, but it wasn't necessarily broad shouldered. Its face 91 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,279 had the least hair in the skin looked grayish, and its eyes glowed of 92 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:15,879 vivid orange, and we're around seven or eight inches apart. This thing looked 93 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:19,160 at us and it did a double take, and we were able to notice 94 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:25,560 its human like expression. I've always described it as an old crap look that 95 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,839 it gave us, and you could tell we were absolutely not supposed to see 96 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:35,000 this thing. Another interesting bit of information is that deer would always congregate in 97 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:39,720 this exact stretch of road around the same time that we saw the creature. 98 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:45,959 Maybe that explains the deer hair and the scat. My father and I were 99 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:48,879 white as a sheath the entire way home and didn't speak a word to each 100 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:54,079 other until the next day. I've had a few more instances since then, 101 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,240 but that is my most memorable set of occurrences. Now everyone is entitled to 102 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,800 their own, but me and Dad know exactly what we saw. Thank you 103 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,680 for all the amazing work you do. Okay, he's gonna talk about the 104 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:11,199 channel. He likes the Channel, but this was Let's see. This guy's 105 00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:15,720 name is Isaac. This is a very good story. I hope I didn't 106 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,639 ruin the first the beginning of your story by using an accent that I've learned 107 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,199 from the younger generation seeing them on YouTube and around town and listening to them 108 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:28,319 talk, and so I thought I'd try another accent out. This was a 109 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:35,159 great story. I really appreciate you, Isaac. Hi. Everyone, Welcome 110 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:39,759 to the Dixie Cryptid podcast, also known as the what If It's True Podcast 111 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,639 out on the podcast Network. That means if you have a podcast app like 112 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:50,639 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcast which is going away soon, 113 00:08:52,039 --> 00:08:56,320 Amazon Music, Audible, you can listen to this podcast any podcast app. 114 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,799 Just do a search for what If It's True. It'll be right there at 115 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,200 the top. It's actually that podcast is doing really good, and it's the 116 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,720 same stuff I upload here. I just put it out on a non video 117 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,039 format. There are several new people following along. I know this because I 118 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,600 see it in the comment section and I get emails from people saying they enjoy 119 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,919 the channel. I appreciate those emails so much, and I feel like it 120 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,879 is that time of year where I need to make some disclaimers on this channel. 121 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,679 The goal of this channel is not to get you to believe in Bigfoot 122 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:35,639 or dog Man or any of these cryptis that people write in about. The 123 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:41,600 goal is also not to present any evidence videos blurry pictures, which they are 124 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:46,039 all blurry pictures. This is not an evidence. But this is an entertainment 125 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:50,600 channel. All we do is tell stories. It just so happens that the 126 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:56,120 stories are about monsters, and those are always exciting. So that's all I 127 00:09:56,159 --> 00:09:58,919 do. I just tell fun stories that people send me. Some er frightening 128 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,840 to Some people who send these stories claim they have seen some kind of creature, 129 00:10:03,919 --> 00:10:09,360 some mythical creature, and they are traumatized by it. I understand that 130 00:10:09,519 --> 00:10:13,600 fully. But the goal of the channel is to entertain you. So with 131 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,320 that being said, let's finish up this podcast. I've got several more stories, 132 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,320 so hold on to old weaves. All right, here we go. 133 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,200 All right, this is an email I got recently. It's from a seventy 134 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:41,200 year old man, and this is crazy. You may not believe it. 135 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:43,600 He even says at the end, you're probably not going to believe this, 136 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,960 but he swears it's true, and he writes really well, and let's jump 137 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:54,679 into his story. I'm seventy four years old. Up until four years ago, 138 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,399 I lived in South Mississippi near the land that has been in our family 139 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,240 for over two hundred year. Our farm consists of several hundred acres, and 140 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:09,000 most of it is heavily forested. The rest of it is operated as a 141 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,639 cattle ranch. Virtually all the land within a few miles of us is owned 142 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,480 by relatives. I don't want to be tedious about the layout of land, 143 00:11:16,519 --> 00:11:22,919 but it is critical to the events I'm about to describe. I've recently retired 144 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,440 from my practice, and I'm more comfortable telling these stories now. There are 145 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:33,039 people that would be hesitant to entrust their care to a bigfoot nut. Furthermore, 146 00:11:33,159 --> 00:11:37,559 for the benefit of non Southerners, we all aren't toothless and bread morons. 147 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,919 Me and four of my parents' grandchildren have doctorate degrees. I'm not bragging. 148 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,679 I'm just letting you know we aren't psychotic nuts. Some of us are, 149 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:52,399 and some of us are not. Some of us are pretty smart. 150 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,759 I think, you know, I think the South has in some people's minds 151 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:01,639 they have an image of. I don't know what they have an image of, 152 00:12:01,759 --> 00:12:05,480 but this is uh. I don't I know I'm off topic here, 153 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:09,279 but I know tons of really smart people, well educated people, professional people 154 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:16,000 like this writer, doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects, UH 155 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:20,440 and so I would say, you know the demographics as far as you know, 156 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:24,799 the level of ability and the level of the job that you do is 157 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:30,519 probably the same as anywhere else in the country. It's just we talk different, 158 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,679 so that makes But I can change my accent, I can. You 159 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,679 just heard it in the last story. I can change my accent. I 160 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,200 sound like someone totally different. That's right. Five years I've become the master 161 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,440 at audio narration. Not really, oh man, I'm just rambling. Let's 162 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,440 get back to the story. All of these incidents occurred in the east side 163 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:56,440 of the Pearl River in Lawrence County, Mississippi. It gets little notoriety, 164 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,399 but the Pearl River swamps and bottom lands are immense. Going from Jackson to 165 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,639 down south to the Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana, that is well over a 166 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:11,039 thousand square miles, and if you include the connecting rivers and swamps, the 167 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:16,399 area is overdoubleedy. Yes, there are areas in the US where an accomplished 168 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,600 being can disappear forever, and it does happen. Once you leave the swamps. 169 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:26,320 You were in heavily forested hills with only a scattering of fields and pastures 170 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:33,039 to disrupt the landscape now. My first story is brief about the nineteen sixty 171 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,039 three duck hunting season. My younger brother and a close friend who was part 172 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,639 of the only family who lived in the swamp, went duck hunting there. 173 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:45,559 We knew the swamp like other people there, knew their lawn. We didn't 174 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:48,440 use a p road to travel. We knew how to travel the connecting sand 175 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:54,519 burns left by the annual flooding of the Pearl River. The narrow sand hammocks 176 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,600 provided an easy way to travel, as long as you remembered which way to 177 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:03,879 fall them through the maze. The weather was bitter cold, and occasionally spitting 178 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:07,600 a little sleep in the evening. Darkness came early because the heavy clouds were 179 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:13,120 soaking up all the sunlight that there was. We decided to get out of 180 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,639 the swamp because we had not felt the need to bring a flashlight as a 181 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,200 crow flies. We were only about three quarters of a mile from the truck, 182 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,679 but we weren't crows. We were facing nearly two miles of walking in 183 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,279 the dry sand, and in case you don't know, walking in sand is 184 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,080 tough enough even if you didn't have all of your hunting equipment. We were 185 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:37,879 less than halfway back, when the black clouds covered the sky with only an 186 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:41,679 occasional break that allowed us to take our bearings. Only a few minutes after 187 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:48,679 that, we became aware that we were not alone. These sandy paths that 188 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:52,480 we were following were not straight, but twisted and turned around the water oaks 189 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:56,840 and cypresses. Due to the serpentine path, we could only see for a 190 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,879 few yards behind us, preventing us from having a clear view of what was 191 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:05,200 making the heavy thumping in the sand. Our guide, like us, was 192 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,759 only in his early teens, but he was initially unflustered by whatever was walking 193 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:15,279 behind us. He said he had heard it before and partially seen something. 194 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,759 He had talked to his father about it, and they deducted that it was 195 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:24,399 small black bears that had been relocated into the bottoms of South Mississippi. We 196 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,519 could occasionally see the hooking shadow of what was behind us. The trees prevented 197 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,320 us from seeing a complete silhouette in this animal. At this point we knew 198 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,360 it wasn't a person. We could tell enough that this was not a bear. 199 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:43,480 It was simply too big and tall. We could never see the legs 200 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:46,080 to see if it was on two legs, but we could distinctly hear the 201 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,879 very heavy steps of two feet with a long stride, and it was closing 202 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:56,720 in on us. Our relaxed walking changed to a light trot, and in 203 00:15:56,759 --> 00:16:00,039 the end we were running. We got to the truck and we turned on 204 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,639 the lights and then cranked it and we backed up until we could find a 205 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:08,240 place to turn around and get out of there. We tried telling others what 206 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:12,879 had happened, but after being ridiculed as scared kids afraid of the dark, 207 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,879 we never mentioned it again, even to each other. Now it may not 208 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,039 be related, but every few years, cattlemen in our area would have instances, 209 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:29,399 usually the same day, of livestock tearing through fences to get away from 210 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,200 something. And most of the cattle are gone now, so I don't know 211 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:37,159 if that thing is still coming around. The cattle were so scared that sometimes 212 00:16:37,159 --> 00:16:41,759 it would take two or three days for them to calm down. Now this 213 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:47,559 story will require little patience to get through, but I think the weight is 214 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:52,519 worth it. So listen on. Our farm lies about two miles from the 215 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:56,600 Pearl River, with a small tributary running through our land. One mile north 216 00:16:56,639 --> 00:17:03,120 of us is an unusual landformation for the state of Mississippi. There's a huge 217 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,680 land elevation that can only be called an escarpment in a few hundred yards that 218 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,400 most of the land rises two hundred to two hundred and fifty feet, and 219 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,160 in the eastern end of it, it makes a curve that is at its 220 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,640 highest and does so within fifty or sixty yards. It is at this highest 221 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,079 point that my event happened. There's a small creek that cuts a narrow gully 222 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,160 one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards across, and it goes down one 223 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,079 hundred and fifty feet where it cuts a gully through a layer of soapstone, 224 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:41,000 making another gully with near vertical walls forty to fifty feet high and about twenty 225 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,200 feet apart. Now these distances are an important part of what happened to us. 226 00:17:47,559 --> 00:17:52,480 The gully is a solid canopy of old growth hardwoods. They were never 227 00:17:52,559 --> 00:17:56,200 cut because it was just too blooming hard to get the trees out of there 228 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,960 after cutting, so they were just left of. This area is a bonanza 229 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:04,680 for wildlife. After coming down from the escarpment, the walls are much less 230 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,880 angled and they travel about one and a quarter miles to my aunt's land. 231 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:15,119 I loved hunting squirrels and rabbits and raccoons in and near there. I would 232 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,480 wait in calf deep water so I wouldn't give myself away. I would go 233 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:25,160 up to where the high walls of the escarpment towered off the stream, and 234 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,480 there I would stop. Now, the woods up there were teeming with wildlife, 235 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,039 but I couldn't make myself go up there. The only way I can 236 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:37,920 describe it is that it just didn't feel right. It didn't matter how bright 237 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,599 the sun was, but I was basically too scared to go. I was 238 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,279 over six foot three tall and nearly two hundred pounds, but that place scared 239 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:51,559 me to death. In the winter of nineteen sixty five sixty six, after 240 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:56,880 football season was over, close friends of ours were having a problem with raccoons. 241 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,440 They owned a few thousand acres, some of which was on the top 242 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,000 of the escarpment. One hundred acres had been cleared for pasture on the north 243 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:08,079 side of it, and going south to the brink of it. The raccoons 244 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:12,720 had discovered the feeders with the crushed corn covered with molasses, and they were 245 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:18,599 running a lot of feet. The owners two sons were two and three years 246 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:22,200 younger than me and knew that my brother and I enjoyed hunting raccoons. Well, 247 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,279 we set up a meeting place on an old dirt road that went through 248 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:30,799 their land and by this large pasture, and when we got there at dusk, 249 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:36,200 we part next to the family ancient cemetery. Walking through a cemetery, 250 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,319 we'll get your blood pumping on a nighttime forest hunt into the woods, and 251 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:45,640 that'll make Sleepy Hollow look like a sunny resort. The raccoons were holed up 252 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,319 down the steep gully, so that is where the dogs went, and we 253 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,359 had to hold on to trees to keep from falling into the gully. These 254 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,640 dogs had just returned from hunting mountain lions in Colorado. They were seasoned fighters 255 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:02,079 and there were great trailed dogs. They were ready to go, so we 256 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,759 turned them loose. Now there was a narrow but solid ledge where we could 257 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:08,640 walk, and we went about a half a mile. When the hunt, 258 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:15,240 so to speak, went really far south, the boorstreous hounds went suddenly silent. 259 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:21,119 They had intreated just silence, when all of a sudden all heck broke 260 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,839 loose. It took a few moments to realize all the screaming like a banshee 261 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:30,680 was coming from the dogs, and then the woods became quiet until we heard 262 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,559 the hounds tearing up the woodland undergrowth getting back to us. Now we were 263 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:40,440 hunting raccoons. Our only equipment was a flashlight, a kerosene lander, and 264 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,240 a single shot twenty two rifle, hardly what you would call heavy firepower. 265 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,960 The dogs were whimpering with their tails tucked between their legs, and no amount 266 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:55,240 of kicking could get them to leave us or the kerosene lights illumination, and 267 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:59,200 we were befuddled as to what to do. So as far as what to 268 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,960 do, decision was made for us. We heard something opposite in the gully. 269 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:07,480 It was making no effort to be quiet, and we thought it best 270 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,359 to end the hunt there. And then we started climbing out of the gully 271 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,400 with the dogs underfoot, and we had only gone a short distance when we 272 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:22,240 heard whatever it was land outside of the gully. Two things struck us. 273 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:26,279 One was how had it been able to jump clear across the lower gully? 274 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:32,640 And secondly, whatever it was made a huge impact when it landed. We 275 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,960 needed no further encouragement to try to pick up the pace, but the underbrush 276 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,559 only got thicker as we got closer to the top, and then we heard 277 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:47,640 the crunching of footsteps and the bushes just a few yards behind us. We 278 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,480 stopped a few times and shine the flashlight in the direction of the steps. 279 00:21:52,039 --> 00:21:56,640 They would only stop for a second and then continued circling us. When we 280 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,799 emerged from the woods into the pasture, the dogs abandoned us and ran off 281 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:03,799 to the distant trucks, and we had no choice but to walk out in 282 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,960 the pasture. But near the woods, we could still hear the footsteps just 283 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:12,599 inside the woods, but it never came out into the bright moonlight of the 284 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:18,000 pasture. At the trucks, we found the cowardly dogs huddled inside a box 285 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:22,599 on the back of the truck, and with the truck lights lighting the area, 286 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,000 we spoke lightly and we drove home. Now, that was nearly sixty 287 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:32,200 years ago, and none of us has hardly talked about it since. My 288 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:37,000 granddaughter wanted to hear the story, and I for once opened up about it 289 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,000 at eight years old. She isn't judgmental about it. She just accepts it, 290 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,640 and that's enough for me. I'm not expecting hardly anyone to believe this. 291 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,519 That is their problem, not mine. I just had to get it 292 00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:57,160 out. Thank you. Well, you've actually seen this thing at some point, 293 00:22:57,279 --> 00:23:00,960 and that I think. I think you had a visual in your first 294 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:06,000 story. You knew something was circling you as y'all were coming out of those 295 00:23:06,039 --> 00:23:08,880 bottoms. But this is a great story, and I think the moral to 296 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,640 this story is I can tell by the way he writes he's reluctant to tell 297 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,400 the story because he's probably told it to other people and he's been laughed out 298 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,640 a lot. You know, you get a little bit of a complex when 299 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,279 that happens. I can just feel it in the way he writes. And 300 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:29,799 it was really cool that his granddaughter listened to his story and didn't judge him. 301 00:23:29,839 --> 00:23:33,119 She was probably there with her eyes as big as golf balls, listening 302 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,400 to her grandfather tell the story about a monster down in South Mississippi. That's 303 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,079 kind of how I was when I was reading it. But it's a South 304 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:48,599 Mississippi man looking back on sixty years and I don't guess he's had any other 305 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:56,160 encounter since then. But it was really a good story. This story is 306 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,480 from a man who does not say if I can use his name, so 307 00:24:00,559 --> 00:24:03,359 I won't. This is kind of one of those stories I think will really 308 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:07,400 entertain you because it's a good story. It's written pretty well, it's been 309 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:14,759 edited. There's been some material that was not germane to the story taken out, 310 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,599 but we cut it down to actually what happened in his event, and 311 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,119 here we go. I have commuted on a bicycle for many years. At 312 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:29,079 night, I have so many flashing lights and reflectors that I resemble a Christmas 313 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,240 tree. It would be impossible to miss seeing me. More specifically, I 314 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:37,720 have a headlamp on both my helmet and handlebars. I used to ride calmly 315 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,359 both night and day through the city, but not anymore. This story reminds 316 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,079 me of a story that I actually wrote about a buddy of mine. The 317 00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:49,440 video is called Frank the Tank. If you guys hadn't heard it, do 318 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:55,400 a little search for it. Dixie Cryptid Frank the Tank. It's really a 319 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,200 funny story and it's a true story. It's one hundred percent true. So 320 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,680 if you want to get a a chuckle, just do that. I might 321 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,240 end screen it at the end of this video. Anyway, let's continue with 322 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:10,839 this man's story. Being both former military and police adds to both my observation 323 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,559 skills and my awareness of my surroundings. I am aware when I'm being watched. 324 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,839 Over the years, while riding close to the green belt, a creek, 325 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,920 a park, or a town lake, I've occasionally had that feeling come 326 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,119 over me. I figured it was a street people watching from their campsites. 327 00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:34,319 One night, while riding north on Shoal Creek Boulevards south to the intersection with 328 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:40,319 Allendale, I spotted something in the distance that appeared to be a large raccoon 329 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,799 that was hunting bugs under the street lamp ahead of me. Now, I'm 330 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,319 quite used to seeing raccoons and other nocturnal critters at night. These used the 331 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:56,319 storm drains for both their homes and as a subterranean highway system. They bolt 332 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,759 down a drain as soon as they spot me. And there's actually quite a 333 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,119 ver variety of wild animals that make the city their home, and a lot 334 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,039 of them are nocturnal. As I got closer, I noticed that it either 335 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,440 had no tail at all, or if it had one, it was very 336 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,160 short, and I presumed that it had lost it in a fight with a 337 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:21,640 dog. I got closer, and I realized it was an exceptionally large for 338 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,440 a raccoon and unusually rusty in color. And then it noticed me, but 339 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:32,279 it didn't run. Its eyes didn't reflect light and the same way a canine 340 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,480 or a feline's might. It didn't seem overly concerned by my approach, and 341 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:41,279 it kept an eye on me, but it continued to play in my fascination. 342 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,480 I slowed down considerably to look at it. It seemed to have no 343 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,319 fear of me, and only became nervous when I stopped within ten feet of 344 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,799 it. I think it was studying me as closely as I was studying it. 345 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:00,640 I was close enough now to see that it had unusually intelligent brown eyes 346 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:07,200 and a decidedly primate face that most closely resembled a baboon, complete with the 347 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,680 short snout and large canines. Its hands and feet also resembled a baboon, 348 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:17,960 with large, tough fingernails. It appeared to be quadrupedal, though its body 349 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:22,400 was proportioned more like a cross between a grizzly bear and a gorilla, with 350 00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:27,759 broader shoulders and disproportionately long hind legs. I guessed it to be a juvenile 351 00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:33,640 that weighed around thirty five pounds. As an adult, it would likely have 352 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,759 been as large as a mountain gorilla, and it should have weighed several hundred 353 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,920 pounds well. We stared at each other for a while, and then it 354 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,039 bounded off into the darkness for the green belt. Since the grass had not 355 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,400 been mowed lately, I lost sight of it only after a short distance. 356 00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:56,200 At this point, I was befuddled. I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of 357 00:27:56,319 --> 00:28:03,119 animals worldwide, from both books and firsthand experience, but I could not classify 358 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,079 this creature. I can identify a creature by seeing only a portion of it, 359 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,720 and I can provide a lot of information about it. But this thing, 360 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,279 I had no clue what I had seen. That made me uncomfortable. 361 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,480 I continued my commute through the area I felt myself being watched. After that 362 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,680 sighting, I made the conscious decision to try to spot what was watching me, 363 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:32,319 and one night I spotted my little friend playing under the same street light. 364 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:34,640 This time, I was going to try to interact with it to learn 365 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,680 more about it, and I parked the bike and approached on foot. I 366 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,519 squatted down and it plopped itself down on its butt. We watched each other 367 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:51,640 while I tried to figure out how to proceed. I sat down cross legged 368 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,759 in the street and we began to play. This thing caught a junebug and 369 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,759 handed it to me. I played like I was eating it, which made 370 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,640 it life. For lack of a better word, at my antics, I 371 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,920 thought it was hilarious. When the boat crawled out of my hand and onto 372 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,680 my nose, I named the creature baby, That's what I called it, 373 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:15,039 and it edged closer until it could reach out and put his hand in my 374 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:18,559 open palm. I heard an odd sound at that point, coming from the 375 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:23,519 green belt. It seemed to have the same meaning as a human going to 376 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:29,640 quietly get someone's attention. Baby and eyebow stood up and looked in that direction. 377 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,599 What caught in the headlamp of my helmet was unnerving. It appeared to 378 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:40,279 be the mother, a very large mother. She looked similar to the baby, 379 00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:44,440 but she stood tall and straight and appeared to be by peedle. There 380 00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:48,319 was something intelligent in her appearance, and she acted nervous at my proximity to 381 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,640 her offspring. She raised her hand to block the bright light of my headlamp 382 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:59,160 from her eyes, and then she said something a bit louder to the baby, 383 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,920 who immediately bolted toward her on all fours. He left up on her 384 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:07,079 and she scooped him up to ride on her shoulder, and then she duck 385 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:12,759 down and they both faded into the night. The small creature was a toddler, 386 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,160 and it appeared that I had greatly underestimated how big he would grow. 387 00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:22,079 The next day, I stopped at that spot and I checked for signs. 388 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:26,200 I was looking for footprints, hair, or anything of the creature. I 389 00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:30,400 remembered the sapling that the mama had been standing beside, so I checked it 390 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,960 out, and I realized that it was not a sapling at all. My 391 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:38,160 best estimate is that mama stid eight to nine feet tall and weighed close to 392 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:44,319 one thousand pounds. This was not something that anyone would want to piss off. 393 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,759 The only sign that she had been there was the remnant of her scent 394 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,599 on the vegetation, which rivaled that of a street person who had not bathed 395 00:30:52,640 --> 00:31:00,160 in months. But it was musker and more rank. I find myself wondering 396 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,119 if this is the source of the werewolf legend, and where it fits into 397 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,680 the pantheon of near human primates that exists throughout the world often look for my 398 00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:14,240 little friend and his mother when riding through the area. I'd like to get 399 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:18,960 to know them better, since they seemed less shy than bigfoot. My encounter 400 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:23,559 was peaceful, but the strong resemblance they had to baboons and the reputation baboons 401 00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:27,880 have for being dangerous, I think these things could be dangerous as well. 402 00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:33,519 After all, baboons do kill leopards. And that's the end of his story. 403 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:37,440 Okay, So Nioma edited this for me, and she did a great 404 00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:41,960 job doing it, and she cut right to the chase. And this was 405 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,240 a very good story and I appreciate the gentleman sending it in. The problem 406 00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:52,359 is I'm undecided on what exactly he saw. Nioma thinks that he probably had 407 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:55,720 to run in with a gugwey. Now, if you don't know what a 408 00:31:55,799 --> 00:32:00,319 gugwey is, you'd probably have to listen to some other podcasts because I'm not 409 00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:02,640 sure what a gugwe is, but I think it's some form of a bigfoot. 410 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:07,079 But it's like a meaner. It seems like I remember someone saying the 411 00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:15,400 word gugwe means face eater, who's that's a nasty name, eats faces. 412 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,880 But you can look it up gogwe if it's on the internet. If you 413 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,279 do a search, I'm sure YouTube videos will pop up. She also said 414 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:28,079 it could have been a dog man or the writer thinks that it could have 415 00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:31,599 been a were wolf or a dog man or this is the animal that propagates 416 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:37,720 the myth of a were wolf, so who knows. At any rate, 417 00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:39,599 this was a really good story and it was interesting. I don't think i've 418 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:44,160 read one like this where the guy finds the baby, you know, the 419 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,519 toddler. They interact, they almost play with each other, and then the 420 00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:52,039 mother, who was standing off in the woods, doesn't attack. She just 421 00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:54,519 calls the baby to her and they walk off in the wood. So it's 422 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:59,599 a good ending, great story, and thank you very much to the writer. 423 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,839 All Right, this is a short little story that I think is really 424 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,599 good. I actually sent it to Nioma to edit. She sent it back 425 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:13,960 and said it doesn't need any editing. So again, it's short. I'm 426 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,680 just going to read you what the person writes. She absolutely says do not 427 00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:22,519 give her name, so I won't. Here's how the story goes in the 428 00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:25,720 fall of two thousand and three. My youngest son and I were watching NCIS 429 00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,960 or some other crime show on television in the living room while my husband worked 430 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,640 on the computer in the back of the house. My son was sitting on 431 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,839 the part of our sectional sofa that was along the wall that separated the living 432 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:44,960 room from the kitchen. The show had just gone into a commercial break when 433 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,960 I heard a loud, guttural voice say get out. It sounded like it 434 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,599 came from the wall directly behind my son. I immediately got chills all over 435 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,680 my body, and when I looked over at my son, he was pale. 436 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,519 He looked terrified. Are you okay? I asked, Did you hear 437 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:08,000 something? He asked in reply, Well, yeah, I answered tentatively, 438 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:12,480 and then I asked, what did you hear? I didn't want to add 439 00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:15,880 fuel to the fire scare him any more than he already was, so I 440 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,960 didn't want to come right out and say what I had heard. It said, 441 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,000 get out. He told me he had heard the same thing I did. 442 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,119 My first thought was that my husband must be playing some computer game and 443 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:34,039 the sound came from there. But when I called back and asked him, 444 00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:37,239 he said that he wasn't, and then he asked me why, and I 445 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,280 told him, Now, my husband is not one to believe in such things, 446 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,920 so he laughed it off. As for me, I was ready to 447 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:51,239 follow the advice of the disembodied voice and move out on the spot. That's 448 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,559 not funny, but it is kind of funny. Of course I didn't, 449 00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:59,239 but it took some convincing on my husband's part to keep me there. He 450 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,400 was always like that, though. One time he was in Virginia helping his 451 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,079 brother who was a very sick man. It was April and Arkansas gets a 452 00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:10,480 lot of bad storms in that time of year, at least that part where 453 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,719 we lived. It was round five point thirty PM and the sun hadn't set 454 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,239 yet, but because of the storm that was coming in, it was already 455 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,719 dark outside. My son and I were in the living room again watching the 456 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:28,599 weather alerts on TV when he said, Mom, are you flashing? What 457 00:35:28,639 --> 00:35:31,719 do you mean? I asked, look up the ceiling. He said he 458 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:36,639 thought I had a piece of jewelry that was reflecting on the ceiling. I 459 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:40,960 wasn't wearing any jewelry. There weren't any vehicles passing by, nor were there 460 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,800 any lights out there to reflect inside. Despite this, up on the ceiling 461 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,679 was a dancing ball or a white orb of light about the size of an 462 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,239 orange, moving around real fast. It lasted for fifteen seconds or longer while 463 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,960 we quietly sat in awe and stared at it, and then it was gone. 464 00:36:00,519 --> 00:36:04,440 I told my son that I thought it was one of his grandparents or 465 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:09,039 a guardian angel watching over us during the storm. Tornadoes were common in our 466 00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:14,239 area, and I thought the explanation might make him feel more comfortable, and 467 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,960 it made me feel better. Anyway, Seeing an orb in person isn't quite 468 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,840 the same is seeing it in a photo. I called my husband later to 469 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,480 tell him about it, but once again he laughed it off. These things 470 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:30,599 always happened to you, too, he said. I'd have been happy if 471 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:34,599 they happened to him once, and I could have been the one to laugh 472 00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:38,119 it off. I agree with her. My wife's the same way. She 473 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:44,119 sees things, hears things. She hears things on the internet. She gets 474 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:47,280 real concerned about it. I have a pretty good sniff meter. No, 475 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,519 I'm not saying I'm always right, but if something sounds so outrageous, I'm 476 00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:58,239 the biggest skeptic in the world. All the banks are collapsing I don't know 477 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,239 if that's true or not. I mean, you could just make up, 478 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,079 you could just think of all the things that get blasted out over the internet. 479 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,760 I think that has a lot to do with a lot of the censorship 480 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:14,880 that I don't think these social media platforms trust the people to use their own 481 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:20,920 discernment and critical thinking skills to sort stuff like that out. Again, I'm 482 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,199 not very smart, but I can sniff that stuff out pretty good. So 483 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,320 anyway, my wife is always like, well, always something like that would 484 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,119 happen to you one time, so I understand exactly what this woman is say 485 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:36,119 For the woman who wrote the story, this was really interesting. Especially the 486 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,400 voice in the first part of the in the first part of the story was 487 00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:45,239 really good. It's scary for y'all. I wonder if anything else has happened. 488 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,320 I wonder if they still live in the same place. This was back 489 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,000 in two thousand and three, but anyway, very interesting. Thank you, 490 00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:59,800 ma'am for the story. This is about Bigfoot. I thought this was really 491 00:38:00,159 --> 00:38:05,760 really good. It's an audible it's an audible experience she has with Bigfoot. 492 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,880 It's a woman and she doesn't say to use her name, but this is 493 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,679 kind of interesting. She writes my dog Zeke as a highly opinionated red healer. 494 00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:19,760 He and I live on a partially wooded twelve acre plot that sits on 495 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,360 the border of Brown County in Johnson County in Indiana. All around us are 496 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:30,159 plowed fields and thick wooded prairie that is teeming with wildlife. There's a creek 497 00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:34,320 that runs through the back part of our property, and across the road is 498 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,519 a cattle farm, part of which includes one hundred acres of forest that my 499 00:38:37,639 --> 00:38:44,039 dad refers to as the Big Woods. I work second shift as a medical 500 00:38:44,119 --> 00:38:47,519 technologist at our local hospital, so naturally I get home late at night. 501 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,480 Earlier this winter, I got home from my shift around midnight, like I 502 00:38:52,559 --> 00:38:58,519 always do, and I changed into some loungewear for bed. It had been 503 00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:02,519 a stressful night. I was looking forward to unwinding by listening to Da Roberts 504 00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:07,239 Wild Hunt Odin's Cough Oh. I recorded that that's cool. I'm so glad 505 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,280 you listened to that audio book. Aside from having a lot to say about 506 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,360 everything, Zeke has a blighter that you could set by a clock. I 507 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,760 knew he was going to want out at two thirty because he always wants out 508 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,960 at two thirty am. Even if I could have laid down and gone right 509 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,559 to sleep, it would have been pointless. Zeke is going to want outside 510 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,440 soon, I thought, And as expected, Zeke came to me at two 511 00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:37,480 thirty, jumped on the bed and said, in his own dogway, come 512 00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:40,159 on open the door, lady. I did as I was told, but 513 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:46,000 not before putting him on a leash. Australian cattle dogs are headstrong animals and 514 00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:51,440 natural herders. If a deer or a rabbit or any other creature happened to 515 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,400 be running through our property, Zeke would have made it his business to escort 516 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:59,239 it off our land and on to our neighbor's land, and maybe even all 517 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,840 the way over to the the other side of the next county. But even 518 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,320 on a leash, he was likely to stand in the yard like a drill 519 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,599 sergeant, issue instructions to whatever animals happened to be out there. But at 520 00:40:10,679 --> 00:40:15,760 least I wouldn't have to spend a cold Indiana night chasing him around. The 521 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:21,199 leash was as essential to keeping me from taking long walks in the middle of 522 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:27,119 the night as it was to keep Zeke and check we stepped out onto the 523 00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:30,840 porch, and Zeke went on down into the yard to do his business, 524 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,079 while I stood there taking in the cool air. It was a quiet night. 525 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,880 There didn't seem to be any trespassers out there for him to complain about. 526 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,960 Well, he did his thing and then hop back up on the porch 527 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,559 so we could go back inside. We had turned our backs on the world 528 00:40:46,639 --> 00:40:52,400 and were stepping toward the door. With three loud, sharp wraps that sounded 529 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,679 like a wooden ball bat smacking a solid tree broke the silence. I jerked 530 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,400 around and stared over at the big woodos where it came from. Zeke spun 531 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:07,840 around and stared in the same direction. Instinctively, I tighted my grip on 532 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,960 the leash. Normally, a strange noise was Zeke's. Kew to test the 533 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,239 limits of it and to bark wild insults in the direction of the intruder. 534 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,920 But he didn't do that this time. He stood as still as I was 535 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000 and stared off in the same direction. We looked at each other, and 536 00:41:24,039 --> 00:41:28,320 then he turned his head back and lifted his nose to sniff the air, 537 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,239 and I watched him, expecting him to break out into the yard. With 538 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:36,639 a round of loud barking, but he didn't. He turned and looked back 539 00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:39,679 at me. What the hell is it, boy, I asked. His 540 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:45,719 expression was as lost as mine. Let's go inside, I told him. 541 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:50,480 I barely got the door opened where he scooted through it. I closed and 542 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,599 double locked the door just to be safe. I've never seen Zeke react like 543 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:59,559 that to anything. We didn't see what made those sounds, but I'm pretty 544 00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:02,440 sure I know what it was, or I think I do. These things 545 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:08,880 are real and anybody who goes looking for them is crazy. Oh what a 546 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,920 good last sentence. Yeah. Probably, I mean, I don't get many 547 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,639 stories where they're mean, but still, you know you don't want to intentionally 548 00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:20,840 go out and find a monster. But this was a great story. These 549 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,239 cattle dogs are so smart. More than the noise, the fact that Zeke 550 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,239 did not pursue whatever was out there making the noise when he normally would, 551 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:36,559 because they are aggressive in corraling and hurting. I've had a couple of heelers 552 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:42,079 before, and I couldn't let They were at a steel shop I worked at, 553 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,719 and they would constantly heard my shop hands that were working for me, 554 00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:51,880 and they just heard people in different directions. They nipperture heels, they scare 555 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,239 little kids. Some of them can I'm talking about healers. Some of them 556 00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:00,599 can be quite aggressive. They're just doing what they do. Which this leads 557 00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:05,679 me to another discussion about dogs. I've had a few emails where folks ask, 558 00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:08,880 how are your dogs so well behaved? The answer I have to that 559 00:43:09,159 --> 00:43:14,440 is, and I haven't always been this way, but probably the last twenty 560 00:43:14,519 --> 00:43:17,199 years, all the dogs I've had, I treat them like dogs. I 561 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:22,480 don't talk to them much, I don't baby them much. I pet them, 562 00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:25,840 I let them know that i'm their leader and that I'm a compassionate leader. 563 00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:30,280 But I treat them like a dog, and dogs appreciate that. If 564 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:36,000 you have dogs and you're being overly affectionate with them, you're feeding them too 565 00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:40,079 much. You're giving them too much rain. These dogs look for people to 566 00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:45,480 be their boss. They need a leader. Domestic dogs are not They're just 567 00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:50,280 not geared to make it on their own. They need human leaders. So 568 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,039 to me, unless you have a crazy dog, the best way to have 569 00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:57,400 a good dog is treat it like a dog. I don't. That just 570 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,559 popped in my head. I don't usually give it advice on this podcast, 571 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,480 but I thought I would let you know if you've got dogs, you won't 572 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,679 well behaved dogs. Give them a little freedom, but treat them like a 573 00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:10,639 dog. Don't talk to them. They don't understand English. They understand sounds, 574 00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:15,320 repetitive sounds, they understand you know. They put two and two together, 575 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,760 and it's all about instinct. And so if you remember that you treat 576 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,079 them like that, they'll love you for it. I'm telling you, the 577 00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:27,000 dogs will love you for it. So that's my advice on how to handle 578 00:44:27,079 --> 00:44:31,039 dogs. I'm not a professional trainer by any stretch, but I think any 579 00:44:31,119 --> 00:44:35,400 trainer will tell you treat a dog like a dog. They're a dog, 580 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,519 they're not a human. All right, Enough of that. Thank you to 581 00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:43,519 the woman who sent this story in about Zeke and his his reluctance to go 582 00:44:43,679 --> 00:44:46,840 chase after whatever was knocking on that tree. Thank you, ma'am. Now 583 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:51,920 I think that'll wind this podcast up. Thanks for listening, Thanks for listening 584 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000 to the end. Thanks for following along with the channel. I appreciate you 585 00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:59,320 all so much, and I look forward to the next podcast, which will 586 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,199 be it will be so thanks for listening. I will see you guys on 587 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,440 the Next One listen