1 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:14,839 My family likes to hunt public ground and stone calls, Virginia. I was 2 00:00:14,919 --> 00:00:19,679 seventeen years old when this happened. It was turkey season, and since my 3 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,199 dad couldn't make it out that day, I made plans to go with a 4 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:27,760 buddy instead. We're like brothers. He has a shotgun of his own, 5 00:00:27,839 --> 00:00:31,719 but I taught him how to use calls. I had my twelve gage a 6 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,679 long time, and he stayed overnight so we could get up and get out 7 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:39,960 the door at four the next morning. Stone coal has a lot of turkey 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,840 and a variety of different animals. It was way too quiet that day, 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,119 but we just thought there might have been some bears around, and for that 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,439 reason I keep buckshot in my pocket. We made our way three miles back 11 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,479 to a clearing, and by now it was five thirty am. I thought 12 00:00:56,479 --> 00:00:59,679 i'd dropped my buddy off, and I put him against a tree where he 13 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:03,319 had an amazing view, and I placed a few decoys out for him. 14 00:01:03,439 --> 00:01:07,879 I continued two miles down the ridge and I set myself up. It was 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,040 still dark, but daybreak was coming fast, and I placed my decoys. 16 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,719 But when I made my location call, I didn't get a call back. 17 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:21,040 Thirty minutes later, I gave a second crow call, and this time it 18 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:25,920 got returned, but it didn't sound anything like a crow or a turkey. 19 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:29,319 I thought it might have come from another hunter in the area, even though 20 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:34,840 I was five miles back in the woods and hadn't spotted anyone else. I 21 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,200 followed up with a third crow call, and the return sounds were getting closer. 22 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:44,239 Twenty minutes later, I saw what I thought was another hunter peeking around 23 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,040 a tree fifty yards away. Kind of shook me up. He appeared to 24 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,799 be dressed in a black suit, but the guy had to be nearly seven 25 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:57,040 feet tall and he was made of pure muscle. I pulled up my binoculars 26 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,359 and then I could see his face. It had a jutting brow like a 27 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,359 monkey, and its skin was brown and leathery, with human like eyes, 28 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,039 and it had the mouth of an eight. This scared me to death. 29 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,360 I needed to get out of there, so I picked up my gun and 30 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:19,639 my buckshot in case it decided to get much closer or chase me. I 31 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,000 struggled to get my backpack on, and I wound up leaving my decoys behind 32 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:29,560 because they were within forty yards of where eyeballed this thing. As I escaped 33 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:31,639 down the hill, I heard the worst scream you could ever imagine. It's 34 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:37,840 like a bobcat from Hell. I sped up and I could tell the beasts 35 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,960 was following me, maybe fifty yards behind, and it was just pacing me 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,240 though my lungs were exploding. By the time I emerged into the clearing three 37 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:51,360 hundred yards from my buddy, his face was as white as a ghost. 38 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,120 We packed up his gear and on our way back to my truck, he 39 00:02:54,199 --> 00:03:00,759 claimed an hour earlier that three hairy monsters between six and seven feet tall were 40 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:06,400 stalking the outskirts of the clearing. He had heard the scream come from the 41 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,400 woods. Well, once we got a safe distance away, our surroundings seemed 42 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,680 to change. We even saw a nice eight point buck in velvet. There 43 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:21,120 was a life force and compared to this feeling of creepy oppression, where these 44 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:27,240 things seemed to hold rule over every animal deep in the backwoods. My best 45 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,120 guests, we were in their hunting grounds, but because they knew we had 46 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:34,800 guns, they didn't want any trouble. If they meant to scare us away, 47 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,400 it worked. I've only told this story once to you, and once 48 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:43,280 to my buddy. We tend not to talk about it since it just brings 49 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,960 back to how scared I was of these things, even with a twelve gauge 50 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,280 and buckshot gives me goose bumps. To this day. There are hunters that 51 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,400 allegedly have gone missing in that part of the woods, and it makes me 52 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:00,840 wonder what would have happened if I would have taken and a shot at one 53 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:04,680 of these things and missed or not killed it. I'm in college now and 54 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:08,800 I'm studying to be a wildlife officer, and I want to thank you for 55 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,599 reading this. I'm not a good storyteller, and I wish for you not 56 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,399 to say my name if you ever decided to tell this on the podcast or 57 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:19,160 YouTube, No problem, Buddy Goods story. I didn't mention your name, 58 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:24,600 and I respect that this is a terrifying story. I mean, it's a 59 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:29,680 I'd like to know. Do you normally walk two or five miles back in 60 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,279 the woods to go turkey? Hunty, West Virginia. I'm guessing you're in 61 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:38,040 the mountains man that has a long way. That is a long way to 62 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,639 walk to get a turkey. Just thought i'd ask that question. Anybody else 63 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,319 walked that far to through the mountains and book bush whack up into the hills 64 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:49,360 to kill a turkey. I wouldn't do that. I love turkey hunt, 65 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:55,600 but I ain't doing that. All right, all right, welcome to another 66 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:59,319 podcast. My name is Cam Buckner. This is the Dixie Cryptid podcast. 67 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,079 You can I also find it out on the podcast Network on whatever podcast app 68 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:09,879 you use, Apple, Google, Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify. iHeart any 69 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,879 of those podcasts. If you'll do a search for what If It's True or 70 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:17,800 even Dixie Cryptid, the podcast should be right at the top. I'd appreciate 71 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,759 you listening on any platform. All right, we got three stories. The 72 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:27,600 last one I'm going to give a world at a subtle Australian accent. I 73 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,720 know it sucks when I do it, but it's not too bad. It's 74 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:32,639 not too bad. My Australian friends will go, oh, you blew it, 75 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:35,680 but you gotta give me a big ad for trying. And I ain't 76 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:41,439 scared of I ain't scared of trying an Australian accent. All Right, you 77 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:44,439 guys, I hope you enjoy this podcast. Let's get rolling with it, 78 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:50,879 all right, Here we go. My name is Kim, and I don't 79 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,759 mind if you use my name. I don't have a Bigfoot story, but 80 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,920 I do have one that is just as strange. I live in a small 81 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:05,199 rural town in Tennessee. I haven't experience that I've been hesitant to share since 82 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:10,839 it happened in nineteen ninety four, when I was eighteen years old. Today 83 00:06:10,879 --> 00:06:15,759 I'm forty seven, and since this happened, I've only told maybe three people 84 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,600 since the incident. I'm not sure if the three people I told even believe 85 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:25,079 me, because I still have trouble believing it myself. It was after I 86 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,040 had graduated high school. I had a boyfriend who lived on a well traveled 87 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,199 highway between our small town in Perry County and the bigger town we all commuted 88 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:40,600 to in Lewis County for shopping and eating. He used to always claim in 89 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,000 high school that he had seen aliens and UFOs on a daily basis. Well, 90 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,720 I thought he was crazy and had been smoking too much weed. On 91 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,439 a summer evening in nineteen ninety four, I made a visit to his house 92 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,399 to watch his new satellite dish that his parents had just installed. Well, 93 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:03,079 this was when the satellites were as big as a swimming pool. I was 94 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,759 sitting on the couch enjoying the thousands of channels from all over the world when 95 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,360 my boyfriend came in and calmly said, Kim, come here, I want 96 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,600 to show you something. We walked out onto the porch into the front yard 97 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,480 and I looked at him and I said, what is it. He pointed 98 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,519 up to the top of one of the trees in his backyard and he said, 99 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,519 just look at that. Five hundred feet away. I saw a large, 100 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,040 dark, circular disk. Right at the top of the trees. There 101 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:39,600 were yellowish looking lights that blinked in a sequence, starting from the left of 102 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,879 the object, to the right, and then around again. I never heard 103 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:48,560 any noise, no motor, no hum. It was absolutely silent. It 104 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:54,079 was the size of a basketball court, and it sat in a perfectly still 105 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,920 position, with just the movement of the sequencing lights that seemed to chase each 106 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,120 other from left to well. I was stunned into silence. I knew, 107 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:09,399 deep down, whatever was controlling that object was observing us. I never thought 108 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,839 I would react that way if I ever got lucky enough to see one of 109 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:18,199 these things. I always pictured myself before it happened that if I had ever 110 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:24,800 seen one, I would be ecstatic and excited, but I wasn't. I 111 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:28,920 looked at him one more time, not believing my eyes, and I asked 112 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,559 him, like a dummy, what is that? Even though I already knew 113 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,440 what it was, thinking there might be a logical explanation. All he said 114 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:43,000 was to UFO, I knew whatever it was, it was not supposed to 115 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,600 be there. And then, for some odd reason, I felt the strong 116 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,440 urge to calmly go back in the house, sit down, and continue to 117 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:58,480 watch TV. And that's exactly what I did, I guess. Fifteen minutes 118 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,679 went by and my boy friend came back in and he went to his room 119 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,200 and he shut the door. Well, I got up from the couch and 120 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,720 I walked outside to leave. I looked for the object while I walked back 121 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,600 to my car, and it was gone. After that, we never spoke 122 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:20,519 about it again, and to this day, I cannot figure out why why 123 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,320 would we not mention it to each other. I know what I saw was 124 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:28,320 real, I was awake, and I was not on drugs or alcohol. 125 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,519 But for some reason, I've always questioned myself as to why I reacted the 126 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,240 way I did, and why he reacted the way he did. It was 127 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:43,120 just a rare experience and I don't know if there was a higher power involved 128 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:48,159 pushing me to react the way I did. Well. We eventually broke up 129 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,080 and he moved to Utah. I heard recently of another sighting on that road 130 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:58,279 about five years ago, while a girl I know was driving on that highway. 131 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,000 I know this was a work story, but I thought I would share 132 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:05,399 it. I thought maybe someone out there listening may appreciate it and may have 133 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:11,320 been through something similar. I enjoy listening to your podcast every morning while I 134 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:13,480 get up and get ready for work. Keep doing what you do. You're 135 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,759 doing a great job. And she says, thank you, Kim, Thank 136 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:22,279 you Kim for the story. You did a great job writing this. That's 137 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,000 the biggest compliment, not that I'm doing a good job, but you guys 138 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,879 do a great job writing these. This was an interesting story. I love 139 00:10:30,919 --> 00:10:37,759 these UFO stories. This is a story that was emailed to me from John 140 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:43,960 O. He is from Australia and this is a great story. My father 141 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:48,519 drove a truck for a roadbuilder. One Saturday in nineteen sixty six, he 142 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,919 took me to work with him. I was ten years old at the time. 143 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,480 Dad's boss was building a home at a place called lang Lang in the 144 00:10:56,519 --> 00:11:01,639 state of Victoria, Australia. We drove down there and Dad went to work 145 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:07,000 dragging a huge timber up and down a dirt road so that it would look 146 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:11,720 worn. It was the central beam of the house. There was a dam 147 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:15,080 a couple of hundred meters down from the building site, and I got the 148 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,240 idea to build a raft. I found four ten gallon drums and some nails 149 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,679 and timber, and I borrowed a hammer and I rolled and carried everything down 150 00:11:24,759 --> 00:11:26,759 to the dam. It was hard work for a ten year old, but 151 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:31,600 I got it done. I'd been at it for about an hour when I 152 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:37,240 had this overwhelming feeling that I was being watched. I brushed it off and 153 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:41,200 I kept on working. But then that feeling of danger came over me again. 154 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,759 My young sixth cents kept telling me to pay attention, and I stood 155 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,519 up and perused the tree line at the edge of the clearing around the dam. 156 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:56,519 I finally noticed a dark circular shape and the meter high light brown grass 157 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,840 of the clearing, and it disappeared and then reappeared again, and changing from 158 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,759 a circular shape to a more oval shape. I picked up a piece of 159 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:09,159 timber about twice my height, and it was too big to grip comfortably. 160 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,279 And I ignored my inner voice that was screaming, it's a bore, it's 161 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:18,360 a wild dog, it's a wombaite. And I proceeded toward the anomaly. 162 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,279 My curiosity won the battle, and when I got within a couple of meters 163 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,440 from the high grass, I put the timber in front of me and I 164 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,240 approached the spot where I had seen the shape. I peered over the grass 165 00:12:31,639 --> 00:12:35,960 and I saw an animal that could have dragged me into the bushland and never 166 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:39,960 be seen again. It was a black panther with brown streaks through its shiny 167 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,360 black fur. I saw it from the left hand side. It was crouching 168 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:48,720 down and moving away from me. It was agitated, and it was snarling 169 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:52,919 and doing what I would describe as a fake charge. But in retreat, 170 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,799 it would turn its head back toward me, showing me one extremely large canine 171 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:03,000 about the size of an adult index finger. I didn't realize it at the 172 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:07,759 time, but I had gone in shocked and I stood there holding the piece 173 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:09,879 of timber in front of me, one foot in front of the other, 174 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,360 capable of moving only my eyes and head. As I watched it disappear out 175 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:18,600 of sight, my thoughts were to get out of there, but not to 176 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,879 run. How many more were there, I thought, with that one double 177 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,759 back and get me. How far was I from the safety of the house? 178 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:33,559 And why was my body not moving? When I finally regained some composure, 179 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,679 my legs worked like a rusty robot. I stepped back slowly, keeping 180 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,480 the timber piece in front of me. All the while I was scanning the 181 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:45,960 tall grass and up and down the paddocks in the bush line. I backed 182 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,240 all the way down the hill and up the other side, and when I 183 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:54,080 finally heard voices close by, I turned and ran straight for a man who 184 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,440 was up a ladder painting the outside of a house. He looked down at 185 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,200 me and he said, hey, son, you look like you've seen a 186 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,279 ghost. I couldn't find my voice to answer him. I was still in 187 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:09,399 shock. I went straight into the living area, where I sat on a 188 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:13,240 pile of timber, surrounded by workman, and I pondered what I had just 189 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,759 seen. I don't know how long I had been sitting there when I heard 190 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:20,840 my father say, come on, son, let's go. I was never 191 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:26,559 so relieved as I was to get into that truck and go home. After 192 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,960 a while, I finally found my voice and I said, Dad, I 193 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,679 saw a panther today. He responded with, don't be stupid. There's no 194 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:39,399 six thinking Australia. That was it. I never spoke of it again. 195 00:14:39,559 --> 00:14:43,279 In the early nineteen nineties, my wife and I took our twins to the 196 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:48,360 zoo and when we got to the big cat enclosures, we saw a black 197 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,679 panther or a leopard with slight brown markings sitting high up on a log. 198 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:58,720 I stopped in my tracks and gazed in awe. All of those old emotions 199 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:05,679 flooding back. This was definitely what I had seen, except to go through 200 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,759 it with my wife on several occasions. I have kept this experience locked away 201 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,639 since I was ten years old. She's a good listener, thank God. 202 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:18,200 And I realize now that the piece September I was holding had probably saved my 203 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:22,879 life. In nineteen sixty six, when I was ten, there was only 204 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,039 hearsay about these things. But the advent of the Internet and more advanced media 205 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:33,440 resources, more and more stories have come to light. I'm an ex serviceman. 206 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,200 I stand six feet tall and I weigh two hundred and twenty pounds. 207 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,840 Not much throws me, but I do have one Achilles heel. I don't 208 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:46,080 go into the bush alone, and if I go in a group, you'll 209 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,519 find me at the back carrying a big piece September, pretending I use it 210 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:56,639 for stability. I absolutely love these stories from my Australian friends. These are 211 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:02,519 great. Anybody listening in Australia, if you've had a strange experience, please 212 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:04,480 send it in to me. I know I have more, but I'm going 213 00:16:04,519 --> 00:16:08,159 to get to them all. So thank you to JOHNO for sending this. 214 00:16:08,159 --> 00:16:11,240 This was a great story. The way he wrote it was perfect. Thank 215 00:16:11,279 --> 00:16:17,360 you, sir. Thanks again for following along on this podcast and following my 216 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,279 channel. I really appreciate you. If you thought this was good enough, 217 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,919 give me a big thumbs up. Maybe consider subscribing. That's what we're all 218 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,759 after out here in the YouTube land. I would appreciate it. Thank you 219 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,919 so much again, and we'll see you guys on the next week.