1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:20,160 All by you, by the the Delta, the Desert Riverland. I am 2 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:23,960 an avid out doors woman. I grew up in the woods and men and 3 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,280 mine go hunting and fishing and horseback riding. I grew up in the nineteen 4 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,880 eighties, and being a tomboy, I usually carried more than one weapon on 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,399 me, just in case I wanted to bring home some kind of game to 6 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:40,479 eat later. It was rare that I did, because my brothers and their 7 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,679 friends always disturbed the woods in my area. I can remember one time when 8 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:50,039 I was walking alone in the woods behind my daddy's house in the Angelina River 9 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:54,280 Bottom. I was probably a mile or two in and on the way back 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,759 home, and I heard something walking with me. Then the worst smell you 11 00:00:58,799 --> 00:01:02,719 could ever imagine came over me. When the wind changed. Well, I 12 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,319 chambered around in my pump four ten, thinking it was something stalking me, 13 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:11,239 but mainly hoping it was one of my brothers or their friends just messing with 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,439 me. Well, the noise got louder and closer, and I took off 15 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,480 running and I didn't stop until I got to our porch. And once I 16 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:22,799 got inside the house, I saw all the boys sitting at the table with 17 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,920 my father, Baby doll, what's got you spook? My daddy asked, 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,879 seeing the look on my face. Nothing, I told him, and then 19 00:01:30,879 --> 00:01:34,799 I headed to the bathroom to check my pants. A few days later, 20 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:40,519 Dad and I were fishing farther down river from the house then we usually went. 21 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:44,280 It was the same spot I had been a few days before, and 22 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,879 I told him that I couldn't go there because of what happened, and that 23 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:51,400 he would just think I was crazy, And of course he laughed at me. 24 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:53,840 Well, let's hear the story, then, he said, trying to 25 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:59,319 coax it out of me. I cried a little bit and shed some tears, 26 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,599 and I finally broke down and I told him, and his response surprised 27 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,240 me. I wondered how long it would take one of you kids to come 28 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,759 across it, he said, And to realize that you aren't alone in the 29 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,719 woods like you think you are. He wanted on to tell me that if 30 00:02:15,759 --> 00:02:19,560 I didn't go too far up or down the river from the house, and 31 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:22,759 if I didn't cost too much noise while I was in the woods, that 32 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,400 I would be all right. It would watch me, but it wouldn't bother 33 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:30,560 me. I was only a girl and a bunch of boys that totaled about 34 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:35,039 five or six, depending on who was hunting. With my two brothers, 35 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:39,599 I would usually go by myself in an opposite direction from them. My older 36 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:44,599 brother had this habit of jumping out at me from behind trees and bushes and 37 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:49,240 other things to scare me, especially at night. Well, one day he 38 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,120 followed me and I didn't know he was there, and I did my usual 39 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:57,800 walking around the woods, looking at the plants and minding my business. I 40 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:01,520 knew I wasn't alone because I could feel it, and an hour before dark, 41 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:05,439 I woke up from a nap and headed home the same way that I 42 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,479 had gone in, and on my way, this stupid brother of mine jumped 43 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:13,120 out from behind a tree at me, and he scared me half to death. 44 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,520 But this time, instead of hastling me like he usually would, he 45 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:23,879 turned white as a sheet. I could tell that something was behind me, 46 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,439 but I couldn't tell how close. I took advantage of the situation, though, 47 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:31,039 and I talked a mild wide load of crap to my brother. And 48 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,400 the whole time I was yelling at him, he was looking behind me and 49 00:03:35,439 --> 00:03:38,840 slowly backing up, And I got the feeling that my visitor took on a 50 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:45,080 protective liking to me. It growled so loudly that it was like someone put 51 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,000 a speaker up against my chest and turned the base and the volume up as 52 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,120 high as it would go, and it made my hairs stand on end. 53 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:59,240 My brother backed into a tree, turned and ran toward the house, and 54 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,680 watching him go, I was giggling. I couldn't help myself. He was 55 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:06,879 either that or start crying. I bet that idiot won't do that again, 56 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,680 I said aloud, and I heard a loud grunt behind me, and then 57 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:16,480 in silence. I never once looked back, and I headed home. Later 58 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,519 I went and got in my stand, and it consisted of a long chair, 59 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:26,079 my pillow in a thick blanket. Yes, I took frequent naps instead 60 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:30,600 of really hunting. I found three river rocks on my chair. I ended 61 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,759 up leaving it there, and later on my daddy asked how the hunting was, 62 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,480 and I told him it was horrible because my brother had scared the buck 63 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:44,079 off when he ran past me, screaming like a girl. I didn't get 64 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,439 to go back after that, and to this day, no one has spoken 65 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,680 about it. I doubt they ever will and since then, Daddy told me 66 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,399 that they let some small bears out in the river bottoms and that he had 67 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:59,199 seen them. Yeah right, I said, no, really they did, 68 00:04:59,319 --> 00:05:02,639 he said, bowing me some pictures on his game cam. I leaned into 69 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:05,519 the camera to get a better look, and then I scoffed and I shook 70 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,639 my head. I didn't look like a bear to me, I told him, 71 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,680 and he winked, and then he deleted the picture. When I was 72 00:05:14,759 --> 00:05:17,879 little, my mama used to scare me and my cousins by telling us that 73 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:23,319 we needed to stay in the house or a woman would get us. What 74 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,360 we would ask her a woman, she would insist, and finally my Paupaul 75 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:31,600 told us it was a boogeyman that she was talking about. We didn't believe 76 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,279 her though, that there ain't no such a thing. But all these years 77 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,000 later, I think she was onto something. Maybe she was too afraid to 78 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:46,279 completely tell us the truth. On Easter Weekend in two thousand and eight, 79 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,879 my daughter, my two sons, and I were headed from Murphisboro, Arkansas, 80 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:55,040 back to Huntsville, Texas, that's where we lived, and I decided 81 00:05:55,079 --> 00:05:59,319 that we would go to the Red River Museum in Idabelle, Oklahoma, but 82 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:02,240 I needed a way there. Instead of going back into Texas and then north 83 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:08,639 Oklahoma, I headed west toward a little blink if you missed it, town 84 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:15,879 called Cara Gordo ce r r o g o r d. I don't know 85 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:19,160 how to pronounce that, right on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas and the 86 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:26,040 Watchtaw National Forest. I should have known something was wrong when we stopped at 87 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:30,439 the store on the border. The girl behind the counter asked where we were 88 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,600 headed, so I told her and if I asked if we could go that 89 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,959 way to Idabell, well yeah, she said, warning me with her tone, 90 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:42,439 but don't go fast on that road. Well I had no problem with 91 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,839 that, since the suv I had at the time was kind of top heavy 92 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,480 and I didn't like to speed. So we took off again and headed down 93 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:55,319 the road. It turned from a farm to market road into a white rock 94 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:00,079 road, and I realized then while she told me not to go fast for 95 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,560 a while, it turned back into a farm to market road where you could 96 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,839 barely see the stripe in the middle, and after a couple of sharp terms, 97 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,240 we came up onto a set of bridges. At the first bridge, 98 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,519 I slammed on the brakes and came to a complete stop, and my teenage 99 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,120 daughter started fussing because her chip spilled all over her. But all I could 100 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,360 do was point out the window ahead of us. At the other end of 101 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,319 the bridge was a tall, hairy, reddish it. It was huge, 102 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:34,120 and it walked across the road and down the embankment. It never bothered to 103 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,759 look at us, but it had to know we were there. I know 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,399 what a gorilla looks like, and that was not a gorilla. I also 105 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:46,560 know what a gilly suit looks like, too, and I had seen my 106 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,800 dad wearing one before, and this was not a man in a gilly suit. 107 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,800 We finally made it to Ida Belle and sat down somewhere to eat, 108 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,720 and after a few minutes my daughter asked if what we had seen was a 109 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,920 bigfoot. I don't know, I said, I've never seen one. What 110 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,079 do you think it is? Well? She thought about it and then mention 111 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,680 the old man sitting in the booth next to us looking at us. Funny, 112 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,160 I don't think we need to talk about it anymore, she said. 113 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,519 My daughter and her friends go into Sam Houston National Forests by Lake Conroe, 114 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:24,120 and on the Lone Star Hiking Trail, which runs over one hundred miles from 115 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,519 one end to the other. In one area of Lake Conroe, there's a 116 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:35,240 road sign that says watch out for wood apes. Even the BFRO has reported 117 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:39,159 sightings in the area, and I think my daughter is hoping to see another 118 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,320 one or some sign that they're there, like she's been told. We ride 119 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:48,120 horses in the area's National forests all the time. My first time at the 120 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:56,559 Ebenezer Equestrian Park on sam Rayburn Lake, it was a February weekend and had 121 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:01,200 a campful of drunken women and horses. We had a great time. The 122 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:07,440 weather was cool but not too cold, which was unusual for February. I 123 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,799 had gotten my camp set up like I wanted, and I was cozy in 124 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,240 my tent. But after I had been asleep for some time, I woke 125 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,679 up and I decided it was because it was too quiet. Well, I 126 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,120 got out of the tent and went and did my business in the horse trailer 127 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:24,519 because the bathroom was too far to walk in the dark from my camp, 128 00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:30,240 And that's when I realized my horse was watching something across the road from the 129 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,519 catch pin. I looked too, and I saw some kind of big animal 130 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,039 hunched over. I thought it was a hog from the size of it, 131 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:43,000 except it didn't really move like a hog. My horse started snorting at this 132 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,440 thing, and I started petting him to try to calm us both down, 133 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,559 but it didn't help much because at that moment the wind changed and I could 134 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,840 smell it, and it was awful. It was rank, like a skunk, 135 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,480 like a dead animal, like hog mud haul in one. I felt 136 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,320 the urge to vomit, but I held back because I didn't want to draw 137 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,039 attention to us. Fat chance of that. With my horse snorting and walking 138 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:13,240 anxiously around the pin like you was, the thing turned away from us and 139 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,879 then went down the road on all fours and went around the corner. It 140 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,440 was a full moon that night, and I could see somewhat but not well 141 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,759 enough, into the shadows, and ten minutes later I was standing in the 142 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:28,639 catchpin with my horse, trying to calm both of our nerves, when I 143 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:33,600 heard this god awful scream coming from the woods where I had seen the creature 144 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,559 walk away before. Needless to say, the next morning, I was still 145 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,519 in the catchpin with my horse. My friend found me there asleep hanging on 146 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,320 to him, and she thought I had passed out there drunk from the night 147 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,960 before. I just agreed with her and went on about my day, and 148 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,240 I got to thinking maybe all of us women laughing and cutting up brought one 149 00:10:56,279 --> 00:11:00,679 out of the woods to see what was going on. I've been there other 150 00:11:00,759 --> 00:11:05,320 times, both alone and with others to ride. Each time it felt like 151 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,240 someone was watching us. On one occasion last year, I was the only 152 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,879 one in camp, and this time with a different horse that I raised and 153 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:18,720 trained myself. He's a level headed four h horse, and he and my 154 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:24,240 other two horses are certified for mounted search and rescue. They're considered very quiet 155 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:28,480 and calm animals in the woods. When I got to the catch pin, 156 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:33,159 my level headed horse was trying to jump out of the pin. He's not 157 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:37,080 one to be buddy bound or act like a fool when he's alone, but 158 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:41,200 this day had me worried because the woods had gotten quiet, and still he 159 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:46,279 had me so spooked that I packed up everything in half the time it took 160 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,360 to set it up. I think he knew something was out there because he 161 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,679 beat me to the horse trailer and he was shaking like a leaf. I 162 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,320 know my horse is just like I know my kids and my dogs, and 163 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,720 he hasn't acted like that anymore, and we've been there numerous times since. 164 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,240 It reminded me of my other horse, Tray, and how he acted just 165 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:11,320 the same when he was there in February a few years back. Now people 166 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,360 look at me like I'm crazy, But there are some things in the East 167 00:12:15,399 --> 00:12:18,519 Texas woods that need to stay hidden, whether the world needs to know about 168 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:24,039 them or not. Like Bigfoot. You can't tell me the government doesn't know 169 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:28,279 about them. They have to because they are everywhere, just like the government 170 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,600 knows about them. Folks from outer space, they know about them and know 171 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:39,600 that they are here among us. I know there are people like doctor Ketchum 172 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:45,120 that have done extensive testing and research to prove that bigfoots are part of the 173 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,960 Homo sapien species. You should read her paper if you get time. And 174 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:52,159 I think with the help of people like her and others in the field, 175 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:56,919 it can be proven that they exist and are a part of us. It 176 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,360 sure makes you wonder. Well. I thought that was a great story. 177 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:07,559 That's a whole series of experiences this woman has had that were actually kind of 178 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,559 fascinating to me. And I know I used that word a lot, but 179 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:15,879 I'm not very smart. I can't think of other words to use, interesting, 180 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,919 fascinating. Sometimes in the comment section, people say, well, you 181 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,279 said fascinating like twelve times in this video. Well, give me another word 182 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,360 to use, and I'll use it. These stories intrigued me and I love 183 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,279 to hear them. And this, I mean, just think about what you 184 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:35,480 just heard. This woman has had encounter after encounter after encounter, and she's 185 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:39,600 actually visually seeing these things. She even had one that kind of backed her 186 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:45,519 up when her brother was picking on her. So I don't know. Sometimes 187 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,720 I wonder if Bigfoot's really real, And then I listen to these stories and 188 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,399 I'm like, who would what kind of a mind would just sit down and 189 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,600 make this stuff up and spend time writing it. It doesn't make sense, 190 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,559 you know, it doesn't make sense, and they put their reputation at risk 191 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:05,120 by doing it, especially when they tell others, friends and family. But 192 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:09,120 I love the story. Hey, I want to catch you guys up. 193 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:13,399 You've been watching some video. I took my family to the zoo, my 194 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,919 grandkids, my son and his family, my wife, and I just had 195 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,519 I found I didn't take a go pro on purpose, but I had a 196 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:24,440 backpack and there was a GoPro in there with three fresh batteries, so I 197 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:28,879 just kind of walked around with that gopra all day thinking people might like seeing 198 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:33,960 the Memphis Zoo. It's a wonderful zoo. I think it's one of the 199 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:37,559 top ten zoos in the United States. If you're ever in the mid South. 200 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,759 It's one of the few places I would go in Memphis. It's pretty 201 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:48,519 heavily policed, the parking lot is they're real decent busy routes to get into 202 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:54,240 the zoo. It's in midtown Memphis and Overden Park, and it's a beautiful 203 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:58,000 place and they've done a wonderful job at the zoo, and these videos don't 204 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,519 really do it justice. I'm not bragging about Memphis because it's really it's a 205 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:07,559 very high crime area. I grew up there. I loved living there. 206 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:11,240 I loved growing up in that town. There was so much to do, 207 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,720 and like the zoo and the ball games and the Memphis in may Bell Street 208 00:15:16,759 --> 00:15:20,159 you used to go to at Bell Street. I wouldn't go to Bell Street 209 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,720 if you paid me a thousand dollars. There's no way I'm going down on 210 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,240 Bell Street or even close to the FedEx Forum. It's just right down the 211 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,240 road from Bell Street, and it's a I don't know. Those people in 212 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:37,679 Memphis are just maniacs. They're just killing each other left and right. But 213 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,159 the zoo is a pretty nice, safe place to go, and once you 214 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,600 get into the parking lot, you're in pretty and there was no silly stuff 215 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:52,279 going on at the zoo. Everyone was well behaved and people were just enjoying 216 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,840 begin to the zoo. So anyway, that's what that video is. Some 217 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:58,320 people have asked me some questions over the last couple of months about this channel. 218 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,360 I hope you guys, I don't mind if I address them here. 219 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,000 You can click away and go to another video. And I don't have these 220 00:16:04,039 --> 00:16:08,120 written down, but I'm going to try to remember. I've gotten comments, 221 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:15,200 a few comments about my voice. I don't know if my voice is changing 222 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,519 with my age, don't. I have a little bit of a cold right 223 00:16:18,559 --> 00:16:22,600 now. I don't feel bad, but I have just a little bit of 224 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:29,480 a sniffle and I keep sneezing, but it doesn't feel like normal sinus drainage 225 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:33,720 or infections. That's the only thing I can say about my voice. It 226 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,519 sounds the same to me, maybe a little more high pitched. I don't 227 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:41,399 know. I really don't pay attention to it. And it could be my 228 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:45,679 age. When I started this channel, I was fifty seven and I'm sixty 229 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:51,039 two now, so five years, you know, you get into your sixties, 230 00:16:51,039 --> 00:16:53,879 maybe your voice changes a little bit. I don't really know, but 231 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:57,559 there's nothing going on with my voice. Maybe it's just changing with time. 232 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:03,440 Another comment I got that I just didn't enjoy doing this podcast anymore, that 233 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:07,400 I don't care anymore. That's not true. I love doing this podcast. 234 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:12,799 It's hard to explain why I love it so much, but I've had one 235 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:17,119 thing I love about it is I've had the opportunity to meet a couple of 236 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:22,240 people just in the last couple of weeks who are writers and editors and real 237 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:27,839 creative minds and being You may think, well, you've got a fairly popular 238 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:32,759 YouTube channel, so you know a lot of people. Don't I don't know 239 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,720 many people, and it's just me by myself in this little office doing these 240 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,480 videos and doing these podcasts, and so I don't talk to anybody. There's 241 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:49,079 only all the bigfoot people hate me, which is fine with me except one 242 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:55,160 group, Mark and Larry and the Woodwalker's Crew. They're just a great bunch 243 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,119 of people, and I suppose if they didn't know me, they may not 244 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:02,880 really like me that much. But they know what I do. They know 245 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:07,480 I'm not into the Bigfoot culture and the I don't know the evidence that they 246 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:10,079 are, but I go to their camp house just because I like to be 247 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,880 around them. So that would be the Woodwalker's channel, and the Beast of 248 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,960 the Woods Channel, which is Larry Porch's channel, and then the Sawdust Beast 249 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:26,680 Channel, which is Mark Nuble's channel. Let's see her. Yeah, those 250 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,319 are my friends in the community, and I could just actually get to see 251 00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:34,319 them about once a year at a camp out at LBL if they remember to 252 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:40,039 remind me that it's going on. So that's one of the things I love 253 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:42,279 about doing this. The other thing is is I just love turning the written 254 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:47,400 word into something audible. I try my best to do a good job with 255 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,119 it. I love doing audio books. I'm working on a Western now that 256 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:56,680 is a fantastic book, and I'm not sure where I'm going to put it. 257 00:18:56,759 --> 00:19:00,559 The author is going to get the files and he's going to sell the 258 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:03,599 book on Audible and Spotify or wherever they decide to put it. But in 259 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:10,279 exchange for me doing the audio, I'm not charging him anything. I'm just 260 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:15,079 getting permission from him to put it somewhere where people can listen to it, 261 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,480 and I get paid through the ad revenue. That way, you don't pay 262 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:23,839 anything. Nobody pays anything, at least to hear it from me or through 263 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:30,920 my podcast. I'm not sure whether the Westerns and stuff rate another channel, 264 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,559 but I love doing These Westerns are really good, and this book in particular, 265 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,400 it'll be eight or ten hours long. It's a really long one. 266 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:40,559 I hope y'all don't mind that I just ramble by. I'm just trying to 267 00:19:40,599 --> 00:19:42,440 catch you up on some stuff, all right, let me think of some 268 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:47,920 other questions. Oh, Steve Lily, I'm working on Steve Lilly now. 269 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,480 As soon as I get this podcast uploaded, I'm going right back to writing 270 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,039 this. Steve Lily sixteen is kind of an epic episode. I'm kind of 271 00:19:56,279 --> 00:20:00,640 kind of broadening the direction of the story and I'm trying to do it justice. 272 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,400 And yes, I've been busy. I haven't had time to write. 273 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:07,839 I know people are frustrated. Yes, it's been a year since I've over 274 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,799 a year since I put a Steve Lilly episode up. But those verse fifteen, 275 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:15,599 I just wrote them real fast, and I know y'all like them. 276 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,720 I'm just trying to I'm trying to put out something that's pretty quality, something, 277 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:25,240 something that's really really good and epic and can continue the storyline on. 278 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,559 So you guys know where Steve Lily came from. It's a violent past. 279 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,400 I think you're gonna like it. I think you're gonna like it if you 280 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,880 can just hang on. Taking so long has probably lost me half of the 281 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:42,400 audience. Speaking of losing the audience, one comment I got was that I've 282 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,960 read through all the comments on your latest videos and I don't see a single 283 00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:51,119 negative comment. And they asked, do you delete them? No, I 284 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,480 don't delete them unless they have some kind of profanity in them, and if 285 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:59,119 they do, I just blocked whoever that person is. They can't. They 286 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,680 can comment, but nobody sees it. But I think the reason my views 287 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:10,000 are down, my subscriber count is down, the income is down. It's 288 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:14,200 half what it used to be, and I think I'm almost one hundred percent 289 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,640 sures that I've run off all the bigfoot nuts, all the really staunch, 290 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:25,519 mean bigfoot people. They're gone. I made them so mad that they left. 291 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,240 I think that has a lot to do with it. And plus, 292 00:21:29,319 --> 00:21:32,680 you know, these channels have a shelf life, you know. I mean 293 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,759 there were channels I was watching five or six years ago, and I watched 294 00:21:36,759 --> 00:21:38,079 them for a couple of years, and I kind of kept up with them 295 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,279 best I could, and you know, you just get kind of tired of 296 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,039 watching the same old things, so you move on to other things. I 297 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,440 get that I never had plans for this channel to be what it is in 298 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,640 the first place. So I mean, I mean every view I get is 299 00:21:53,759 --> 00:22:02,880 like this giant blessing from heaven. Anybody that listens to me narrating a story, 300 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,519 I mean, it's just a blessing, or it's good luck, or 301 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,440 it's whatever. But anyway, the comment section is really cleaned up lately. 302 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,400 I mean, for years, I would get these nasty comments from people telling 303 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:22,519 me I was ruining the credibility of the bigfoot topic and all this stuff, 304 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:26,680 and because I did fiction and this and that, when here to listen to 305 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:29,640 no fiction and all this stuff? And I told them, well, then 306 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:33,160 don't listen to my channel. And apparently they took my word and they went 307 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,039 away, and I'm happy about that. I would rather have a smaller sorry, 308 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:41,880 all my phone went off. I would rather have a smaller, happy, 309 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:49,119 cheerful audience than to have this huge audience of half nasty people. Does 310 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,519 that make sense? And I was looking through the comment section on the last 311 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,920 video I uploaded. What's cool is people engage with each other in the comments. 312 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,200 Somebody will make a comment, somebody under that will go, hey, 313 00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:07,680 so and so, where have you been? And then this conversation, virtual 314 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:14,720 conversation ensues underneath the original comment. And I think that's so nice that this 315 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:18,920 community of people that follow this channel, at least this channel, are comfortable 316 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:25,240 and happy and willing to, you know, make comments and engage with each 317 00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:29,799 other. And everybody is so nice to everybody, and I just love it. 318 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,160 So I would say to people in the if you do make comments, 319 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,160 feel free to in get on my phone. Man, I won't put it 320 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,960 on vibrate all right now, it won't make any noise, but feel free 321 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,640 to engage with each other. I don't you never know. I mean, 322 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,640 I don't want to make a blanket statement but I don't think you're going to 323 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:55,119 get any blowback from anybody. I think what we've done and this makes me 324 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,519 so happy. And this is what I told my wife one hundred times. 325 00:23:56,559 --> 00:24:00,720 I wanted if there's going to be a decent size audience, I just want 326 00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:04,359 it to be a bunch of people that are happy, love who like to 327 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,480 come to this channel and look at it as a fun, enjoyable thing to 328 00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:12,599 do. They look forward to hearing the stories. They're nice people, and 329 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:18,160 they're not here with an agenda like those crazy Bigfoot people. I can't stand 330 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,960 those people. They're just main honery, vicious vipers is what they are. 331 00:24:22,079 --> 00:24:26,319 Go go to some of the other Bigfoot evidence channels and read through the comments. 332 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,720 You'll see what I'm talking about. But that doesn't happen on this channel. 333 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:34,680 I really appreciate it. I also appreciate the people who listen who never 334 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,960 never have left a comment. I think probably two to five percent of the 335 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,200 people that watch the videos actually leave a comment. So there's that, you 336 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,000 know, worst case or best case, there's ninety five percent of the people 337 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,359 that wantch that do not ever comment at all. They're like me, I 338 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,519 just watch videos and I move along. I don't take time to comment. 339 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,000 I don't. There's nothing I'm going to say that's going to add to the 340 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,839 experience. But I understand that people read the comments and liked comment because my 341 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:11,119 wife's she likes TikTok and Instagram and Facebook the reels, and she likes YouTube 342 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,400 as well, but she reads the comments on every video she watches. I'm 343 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,200 like, good god, woman, how do you have time to do that. 344 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,160 I just want to watch the video and I never look at the comments. 345 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,440 And so for all the people out there that don't comment, I'm just 346 00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:27,519 like you. I mean, I have left a few comments, but they're 347 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:33,079 always encouraging comments to another channel. It doesn't have to be in this genre. 348 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,200 It could just be, you know, a guy cracking nuts loose on 349 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:38,880 an engine, wrenching on an engine. If he does something cold, I'll 350 00:25:40,279 --> 00:25:41,720 once a month, I might say, man, that's an awesome video. 351 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:47,519 You should have a million subscribers or whatever. I never have ever left a 352 00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:52,680 bad comment. I've never left a terrible review for a company that I've done 353 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:56,119 anything with. I'm just not that way. So thank you to the people 354 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,400 who don't comment. You're very very much a preiated I don't know. I 355 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,920 guess that's all that was on my mind. I got to get back to 356 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,920 writing. Steve Lily. My mother is over in Arkansas. She has some 357 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,279 property over there, in close to Hebrew Springs, and she's trying to sell 358 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:17,079 it. She's eighty two years old. She's got people over there working on 359 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:21,359 the house on the property, getting it ready to sell. I may go 360 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,359 over there and relieve her in the next day or two, so I might 361 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,799 be out for a couple of days helping my mother. I love my mother. 362 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,960 I want to help her. But she's real independent. She drives everywhere. 363 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:37,599 She's healthy, she's her mind is fully intact, and she's voracious reader. 364 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,400 She's always got books with her. And she's sitting over there by herself. 365 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,759 The workers didn't show up today and I called her, and she says, 366 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,559 well, I'm just reading. I'm having a good time. I'm enjoying 367 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:52,559 the solitude. She lives with her sister in Memphis, and I think she's 368 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,240 enjoying being by herself for a little while. Anyway, all I have to 369 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,720 say, I may jump up go over there for three or four days, 370 00:26:59,759 --> 00:27:03,319 may be, and give her a break so she can come home and I'll 371 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,440 kind of oversee the repairs being done and the renovations being done. Other than 372 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,920 that, I don't have any work right now, so I'm just going to 373 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,559 be doing the podcast, all right. I just thought I would catch you 374 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,440 guys up on what's going on with me, because I don't talk much in 375 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,599 these videos anymore because I think it annoys people. Oh here's another email, 376 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,240 here's another comment I got. Why don't you do yeddiebar commercials anymore? The 377 00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:33,440 reason I stopped doing that is because you have to deal with enough ads on 378 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,039 YouTube anyway. The people who don't have YouTube premium, for example, you 379 00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:41,799 have to deal with enough ads anyway. And I got the sense that I 380 00:27:41,839 --> 00:27:47,200 wouldn't like I mean, I do click on channels a lot of times. 381 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,160 You know, they'll spend It'll be a thirty minute video, might be a 382 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,720 political thing, and right in the middle of it, just when you're getting 383 00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:57,279 into it, it'll be a thirty minute video and they'll do a ten minute 384 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:03,319 ad for some dummy bear health thing or something, and it's just annoying. 385 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,039 And I know it's annoying. So I called Yetti Bars. I told them 386 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,680 that, guys, I'm gonna drop this I don't think it's good for the 387 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,440 health of the channel. I'm glad you're selling a bunch of Yetti bars, 388 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:21,240 but I still buy Yetti bars. They're a great deal. I don't know 389 00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:25,200 if they're honoring the discount code that I used to give out, However, 390 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,720 I still buy Yetti bars. A matter of fact, I opened up a 391 00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:33,319 brand new bar of the Glacier Bar this morning, and go buy Yetti bars. 392 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,480 It's good price, it's good product. The soap last a reasonable amount 393 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:42,960 of time. I have used other soaps since, and I never got a 394 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,920 free bar of Yetti soap from them at all. I did get paid a 395 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,559 commission for the sales that used the discount code, but it wasn't much. 396 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:59,880 So the money to annoyance ratio tip toward me just not doing ads during my 397 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,240 own baked in ads during the podcast, so I don't do any ads anymore. 398 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:07,680 I just bore you now with me talking. How does that sound like 399 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,160 I'm doing now? Just like I'm doing now? All right, you guys, 400 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:18,119 I'll end this up and say thank you for watching this podcast. Now 401 00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:21,359 you're kind of up to date on what's going on with everything, and I 402 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,359 guess we'll see you on the next one. I'll have another one or two 403 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,759 out before the end of the week, and I hope you guys still enjoy 404 00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:30,799 this podcast. I love doing it just as much as I ever have. 405 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,480 I'll still look forward to coming out here early, pulling up these stories, 406 00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:37,759 going through these stories. I just love it. I found something that I 407 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:44,119 think I will enjoy doing until I can't do it anymore so, and a 408 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,559 lot of that is how nice you've been. So thank you, thank you 409 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:49,480 for joining me on this podcast, and we'll see you on the next one. 410 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:07,400 Where's a Ma