1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:14,039 Here's an email from Nick. Here's what he writes. I moved to Parker 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,920 County, Texas two years ago with my wife and our three dogs. The 3 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:23,199 property that we purchased and currently level on his five acres, and it's located 4 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:28,760 outside of Springtown. The property is surrounded by other similar sized properties, but 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,960 there are large wooded sections. The back three acres is open to the neighbor 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,320 that borders me to the west, and they have a thick scrub brush on 7 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:42,759 the backside of their property. The metal barn that was here when we bought 8 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:46,759 the place sits twenty feet from the property line and eighty feet from our back 9 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:49,679 door. Now, I'll tell you all of this so that you can get 10 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:54,960 a mental image of how everything is positioned on the property. When we first 11 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:59,079 moved in during the summer of twenty twenty one, we were excited to start 12 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:03,480 some projects and make our place our own. After picking up a thousand pounds 13 00:01:03,519 --> 00:01:08,159 of scrap metal and giving the pasture a good bushhogging, the back achorage was 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,640 looking a lot better than it had when we first moved in. We made 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:18,280 a plan to move my wife's horse from her grandmother's property to ours. Once 16 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:23,400 I fixed the fence that ran down the western property line. One June evening, 17 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:26,840 after it all cooled down, I started making the necessary repairs to the 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,159 fence when I heard something moving around in the brush fifteen yards in front of 19 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:36,920 me. Now it sounded like a large animal trying to be quiet but failing 20 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:42,400 miserably. I wasn't concerned, since this part of Texas has deer and hogs 21 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,079 an other wild game, and that's what could have been making the noises. 22 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,920 Thirty minutes into this episode, with on and off breaking of sticks and crunching 23 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,640 leaves, I started to feel uneasy, like something was looking right at me 24 00:01:57,799 --> 00:02:01,599 or through me. I'm a big man six foot four and three hundred twenty 25 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:07,400 five pounds, and having hunted the woods and swamps of Mississippi all my life, 26 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,919 there's not much that has raised the hair on the back of my neck. 27 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,479 But even so, something had my nerves on the edge. So I 28 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,120 quickly finished the work and walked back to the house at a fast pace. 29 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:23,479 After getting into the house and shaking off the feeling of being watched, I 30 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:29,120 turned on the baseball game and I was able to relax. Later on, 31 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,680 my wife reminded me that she had to go out of town for the next 32 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:36,479 few days for work, and she asked about the fence and I told her 33 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,199 that I would have it completed, but I didn't mention the incident that made 34 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:43,520 me nervous. She asked me if I could clean out the barn while she 35 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,319 was gone as well. Well, naturally, I waited until the last day 36 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:53,039 before my wife came home to start this work. There was no electricity running 37 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:57,400 to the barn, just a floodlight on a pole pointed toward the south entrance, 38 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:01,759 so I had to get everything cleaned out during the day while filling my 39 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,199 truck bed up with old water hoses and boxes of books and newspapers. From 40 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,199 no telling how long, I worked my way towards the northwest corner of the 41 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,080 barn. That's when I started to notice a rancid smell. The closer I 42 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:22,039 got to that corner. After finally getting the wall of boxes cleared out, 43 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,919 I found the source of the smell. There were old horse blankets covered in 44 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:31,360 gore and what looked to be an old dear carcass. Well. I thought 45 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,719 it was strange, but stray dogs and codis are opportunistic and if no one 46 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:40,719 is bothering them. I guessed that they would take up shelter in the barn 47 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,960 well. I gagged a few times at the smell, and I managed to 48 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,280 get all the terrible smelling horse blankets in the bed of my truck and on 49 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,039 the way to the county dump. And when I got back home that evening, 50 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,439 I got cleaned up and I let the dogs out to use the bathroom 51 00:03:55,479 --> 00:04:00,960 and get some exercise. It was about thirty minutes before dusk, and that 52 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:06,199 uneasy feeling that I had of being watched hit me again. I wasn't the 53 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,520 only one that had an immediate feeling of eyes peering at me from somewhere. 54 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:15,519 All of my dogs were on alert. They were looking over toward the barn. 55 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,759 The biggest of these dogs is one hundred and twenty pound Great Pyrenees Retriever 56 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:26,120 mix. He was a real protective dog, but he was frozen in that 57 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,079 spot. He was growling and his hackles were raised. I gathered myself and 58 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,240 got the dogs back inside. I still couldn't shake the feeling that there was 59 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:41,399 something glaring at me through the windows. The thought crossed my mind that there 60 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:44,360 might be a big cat in the area. Even though the game warrans will 61 00:04:44,439 --> 00:04:47,120 tell you that there aren't. But I hadn't seen any tracks or signs, 62 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,839 so after closing all the blinds, I felt a little better. That was 63 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:58,839 until about nine to thirty when I heard my neighbor's dog raising hell. Against 64 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:01,000 my better judgment, I went to the gun safe and got out my three 65 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,480 hundred blackout AAR fifteen, and I rapped around in the chamber and I lept 66 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:11,680 on the weapon mounted light and I stepped out the back door. The instant 67 00:05:11,759 --> 00:05:15,079 that I pointed the light toward the barn, there was an ear piercing howl 68 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:21,079 or growl that vibrated in my chest. Now I'm not a believer in encryptids 69 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,000 or that UFO stuff, so I started walking toward the barn with my muzzle 70 00:05:26,079 --> 00:05:30,000 trained on the entrance. I had only made it ten steps before this, 71 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:33,720 well, it was this thing. It jumped into the beam of my light 72 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:39,360 just inside the barn doors. So I froze in my tracks out of sheer 73 00:05:39,519 --> 00:05:45,480 disbelief. This beast was standing on its hind legs with its front arms hanging 74 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:49,120 down just above its knees. And it was black. It's blacker than dark. 75 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:54,639 The next thing I noticed was the claws on the end of the raccoon 76 00:05:54,759 --> 00:06:00,920 like hands that glistened in my light. They looked long and danger I slowly 77 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,959 raised my rifle, working that light up the creature, and I saw the 78 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:12,399 ugliest canine face that I've ever seen in my life, thick, vicious drool 79 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,360 that hung from its yellow, jagged teeth, and suddenly it looked like the 80 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:19,399 edges of its mouth had turned up in some sort of a twisted grin. 81 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,720 Its eyes reflected green from the light. I had no idea what I was 82 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:30,319 looking at, but I knew that thirty rounds of three hundred blackout probably wasn't 83 00:06:30,439 --> 00:06:33,480 enough to take it down before it got to me. I got lucky, 84 00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:38,800 and it turned and with one fluid motion, it jumped over the backset of 85 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:44,439 barn doors and started running into the night. From the time the creature jumped 86 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,720 into the light from the time it suddenly turned away and bounded over the backbarn 87 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:53,480 doors and ran off crashing through the brush may have been a total of thirty 88 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:57,519 seconds. I got a good enough look at it to know that I was 89 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,560 keeping my gun loaded in lights on in my hours lock that night. The 90 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:05,199 next morning, I went out and measured where I thought the height of the 91 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:11,680 beast was. My best guess was that it was seven foot tall, and 92 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,759 the barn doors that cleared without effort were even with my chin, and I 93 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,319 found large canine style prints all over the dirt floor of the barn. My 94 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,519 wife came home later that day, and I chose not to tell her about 95 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,600 any of the events that happened the night before. It has been almost two 96 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,079 years since that night, and I haven't seen, heard, or felt the 97 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,639 presence of anything on or around our property since. My best guess is that 98 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:41,959 the thing had been staying in the barn while the previous owners had been gone, 99 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:46,480 and I disturbed it by cleaning everything up. Hopefully I never have another 100 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,040 encounter with anything like this again. Oh man, hopefully you don't. And 101 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,319 you're going to catch some flight from the audience for not telling your wife. 102 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,319 And there's a lot of stories that guys will say that they'll say, oh, 103 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:01,959 I saw this monster, but I never told my wife about it. 104 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,879 It was on our property, it was close to the house, but I 105 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,240 never told my wife about it. You know, honestly, I might not 106 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,279 tell my wife because I know that it would scare her to death. She 107 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:16,120 probably wouldn't want to live here, So I get it, and I almost 108 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:18,920 support what you're doing. If you hadn't had any problem, that's a good 109 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,639 deal. But you're gonna catch some flight. So don't read the comments. 110 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:26,959 How about that? Don't read the comments. To the man who wrote this, 111 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:30,279 Nick I think was his name. I appreciate the story, man, 112 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,720 this was great. You think you saw a dog man or a werewolf? 113 00:08:33,759 --> 00:08:35,919 What's the difference in a dogman a werewolf? Some people say, well, 114 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,720 the werewolf's change and the dogman don't. But how do you know when you 115 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:43,919 see a dog man if it didn't change like an hour before? So how 116 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:46,840 do you know? How do we know all these things? I don't know? 117 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:52,759 All right, buddy, thanks for the story. All right, here's 118 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:56,799 another encounter that I think is good, and I've done quite a few videos 119 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:05,279 on the mogion. He phonetically writes it out so that I'll say mogion, 120 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:11,360 but it's spelled mg O L l O N, so I call it Mogelon. 121 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:16,039 I like that sounds better to me, So I'm just gonna call it 122 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:20,320 mogelon and make everybody from that area mad. But it's easier for me to 123 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:26,440 say kind of limited in my dialect from where I live, the way I've 124 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,519 talked all my life, and it's Mogelon. I've told you all this before. 125 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:33,759 It's Mogelon from now on. This event took place on top of the 126 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:41,879 Mogollon Rim towering above the Sonoran Desert. The Rim country of central Arizona averages 127 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:50,360 elevations from five thousand to eleven thousand feet. I'm a multi generational Sonoran Desert 128 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:56,399 native with sixty plus years of experience exploring and tracking and hunting and fishing and 129 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,519 diving and studying a place filled with a huge population of unique plants and wildlife, 130 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,279 second to only the Amazon Basin. That is amazing. I had no 131 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,919 idea it was so diverse in wildlife and plants. I need to see this 132 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:16,399 place anyway. Back to the story. They're endless canyons and I'm not sure 133 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:22,639 what this word is. Riparian areas filled with water lakes, rivers, creeks, 134 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:28,559 and springs bubbling up from the hardpan desert floor that support hundreds of animal 135 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:35,159 species. Unlike most of the country, Arizona is dominated by mountains some thousands 136 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,919 of feet high, iron filled mountains that screw up yourself on reception and paint 137 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:52,120 the skyline with incredible views. Here we have fifty foot giant sagaroo trees and 138 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:56,639 boonjum trees that look like giant silver carrots growing backwards out of the ground, 139 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:03,360 and thousands of plants species that support a cacophony of wildlife. Above the tangle 140 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,960 of the desert, the Rim Country cliffs and canyons lead up to aspen, 141 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,120 dug fir, spruce, ponderosa, pine, alligator, juniper, and oak 142 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:22,000 forest in the Mogian rim forests that continue into the New Mexico Utah Colorado Area 143 00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:26,159 wild scrub and transition wilderness running below the pine forest at the feet of these 144 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:33,039 mountains run for hundreds of square miles. Like the Moza mozat man, this 145 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:39,879 guy's got a bunch of words in here. I'm having trouble with mosasall Madizelle 146 00:11:39,879 --> 00:11:46,120 wilderness. Here there are few, if no roads leading into hidden canyons that 147 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,320 run for miles. Hogbacks and maces perforated with deep chasms, and in those 148 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:58,360 canyon walls there are hidden traverton caves that serve as a sanctuary for critters who 149 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:03,559 migrate up and down the Rim face with the changing weather in seasons more than 150 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:11,360 they do latitude longitudinally, It's almost like a vertical migration. The untouched wilderness 151 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:16,440 populated with Cou's deer, mule deer, anelope, Roosevelt elk, lines, 152 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:22,120 jaguars and black bear every two square miles. Cody's Mexican red wolves, reintroduced 153 00:12:22,159 --> 00:12:31,799 wolves from Montana, jaguarty don't I ain't gonna attempt at Otter's coat, Cody 154 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,559 mindy skunks, ringtail catch raccoons have Alena, golden and bald eagles, but 155 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:41,960 tail hawks, a huge university of birds, dozens of constrictor snakes like California 156 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:46,480 king, and eleven kinds of rattle snakes. That's just a sample. Hey, 157 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:48,919 y'all, when y'all write these I'm not being critical of this man, 158 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,840 but when you guys write these stories, uh, you don't have to list 159 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:00,879 every tree, every plant, every animal that lives in the area that you 160 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,399 are. People just want to hear your experience, and this is interesting. 161 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,240 I'm not being critical, but I didn't edit this, but normally I would 162 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,279 just take all that out because it's not really germane to the story. Maybe 163 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:16,480 it is. Maybe we'll find out. I know I'm screwing this story up. 164 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,480 Y'all just hanging with me. Let's see what he says. There's quicksand 165 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:26,039 in the canyon bottom lands, chub minnows and spoon shaped catfish, and the 166 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:33,080 Tina hot springs filled and spilling naturally into the eroded stone pools, stepping down 167 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,399 the canyon walls, hot springs bubbling up in the rocks, and giant sycamore 168 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:43,399 and cottonwood trees with hand sized leaves that provide evaporative cooling shade from the sun. 169 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:48,720 Arizona's wild country will take your life if you go in over confident, 170 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:54,279 untrained, and unprepared. I started studying the indigenous plants and animal species with 171 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:00,720 family as a child, and I followed that tradition with my kids. Knowledge 172 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,720 is power, and doing well in this rugged place is a lot of work 173 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,919 in a place where so many others fail. They get lost, and they 174 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,960 die thirst or of exposure. Well, here's my first experience with the roaring 175 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:20,679 huge Mogion anomaly. In nineteen eighty eight, I was drawn for elk in 176 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:26,039 the s w cliffs, the rugged slopes of the Mogion Rim near the Blue 177 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,919 Ridge Reservoir. My cousin Dan and I travel regularly here to scout the area, 178 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,360 and on this trip we came with my sister, my wife, and 179 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:39,600 my pioneer grandmother, all anxious to escape the desert heat and camp under the 180 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:46,720 brightest milky way stars you've ever seen in the west. Elk herds are crepps, 181 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,120 crepuse. Man, dude, you gotta give me easy words. I 182 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:58,120 can't cr epu, scu la r whatever that word is. Meaning they're most 183 00:14:58,159 --> 00:15:03,519 active at sun rise and sundown. We scouted and tracked and glassed the area, 184 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:07,519 and then we left camp at three am and walked the game trails for 185 00:15:07,559 --> 00:15:11,960 at least two hours before we set up around two heavily used wallows and open 186 00:15:13,799 --> 00:15:18,440 grass flats where there are plenty of service berries, loopine, awls, clover, 187 00:15:18,559 --> 00:15:22,480 and sitting in the dark, saturated in skunks scent, the sound of 188 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,759 herd activity came from behind. It was all around in moments, and I 189 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:33,679 sat captive in my spot as mostly elk cows and cows poured around and passed 190 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:37,559 me like water. I was surrounded, and I tried not to breathe too 191 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,519 loudly in my excitement and give myself away. But once they had moved on 192 00:15:41,559 --> 00:15:46,039 ahead. I got up to glass their movement, and to my amazement, 193 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,600 they were disappearing near or off the five thousand foot high granite boulder cliffs and 194 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:56,600 crags into hidden elk toe holes, Horse sized animals, disappearing off the edge 195 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,399 where I was loath to stand upright for were being blown off or falling thousands 196 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:07,000 of feet to my death. I realized that they had already made us Our 197 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,559 hunt was over for the morning. We found each other moving out into the 198 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:17,960 open and decided to work back uphill, walking on rock and down in an 199 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:23,000 arroyo, running between rolling hills topped with ponderosa pines, willow scrub to all 200 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:30,399 grass and sapling small trees. We were headed up east and the rising sun 201 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,759 began to shine and warm golden lighted us and through the trees. The walking 202 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:38,679 was slow. It was steep, on in loose rocks and gravel, and 203 00:16:38,799 --> 00:16:44,200 some of it escaping bouncing back downhill behind us. As we picked our way 204 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:51,360 uphill, blue jays, robins, and dusty flycatcher chattered and flitted around us. 205 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,600 They were chasing clouds of flying bugs with their wings lit up by the 206 00:16:55,679 --> 00:17:00,000 sun. It was turning out to be a beautiful morning. Suddenly, up 207 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,039 on the top of a hill, fifty foot or so above me and on 208 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:08,440 my right, something huge and heavy came crashing down. It was coming straight 209 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,400 at me, and there was running over small trees and through the grass and 210 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:18,720 willows. It was so heavy I felt its steps its weight through my boots 211 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:25,119 as it sent rocks crashing down at us. And then it stopped. It 212 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,000 was twenty to thirty feet above me, and I couldn't see anything. I 213 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:33,240 only heard its heavy breathing, it's puffing and panting, the thrashing and wagging 214 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:37,160 of the tall grass and willows that bounced around its form just above us. 215 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,839 Then it let out a horrendous royer that must have lasted five to ten seconds. 216 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,160 It's not a lion or a roar of a jaguar, not a bear, 217 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:51,400 not a bull, nothing like an elk. That sounded like a male 218 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:56,119 gorilla recording, only larger and much louder, and it lasted much longer. 219 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,160 It was so loud that it shook me and vibrated my sternam and my ribs 220 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:06,680 and my throat into my stomach. And immediately Dan and I drew pistols and 221 00:18:06,759 --> 00:18:12,400 we backed up and away slowly. I was anticipating an explosion, an impact, 222 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,480 a blinding flurry, a giant flying down upon us, but instead it 223 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:22,920 remained in its hole above us. The sound of its breathing, grunting and 224 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:30,359 liquid gurgling, growling throat noises was terrifying. We backed up, trying to 225 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,680 move up the hill on the loose footing and not fall down. Two big 226 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,519 bore pistols pointed directly at the threat. It was still moving and crashing back 227 00:18:38,559 --> 00:18:42,680 and forth like a boxer pacing side to side, but we still couldn't see 228 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:48,519 it. We turned and scrambled up to the top of the hill and I 229 00:18:48,599 --> 00:18:52,119 looked back at the depression it made in the hillside grass and willows, and 230 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,319 it was gone. That was equally terrifying. And now I noticed the silence 231 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,640 was deafening, and all the birds had stopped singing. It was early stone 232 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:06,079 quiet. I was sure now it was coming and running up the back side 233 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,559 of the hill, out of view, or above from another side. For 234 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:14,440 an ambush. Well, we stopped and we held our ground back to back, 235 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,680 each taking one hundred and eighty degrees, and we waited. But there 236 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:22,640 was no sound. There was no noise from birds. Nothing at all. 237 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:30,160 Time passes slowly when you're waiting for someone or in this case, something horrendous. 238 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,039 But nothing came. So we picked our way along the wash for another 239 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:38,759 five minutes and repeated our defensive posture back to back again, and still all 240 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:44,680 the birds were gone. There was nothing flying, and we were being watched, 241 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,599 sure we were being tracked. It was an overwhelming sense of dread. 242 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,960 We glass the open spaces and we were patient, and we'd stop and we'd 243 00:19:56,039 --> 00:20:00,799 listen as we walked. We found the road, and instead of feeling relief, 244 00:20:02,279 --> 00:20:07,200 I realized I was angry. I was robbed of an outcome, an 245 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,039 answer, a release, a solution, a discovery. And I began to 246 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,519 argue that it was time to turn back and get this son of a bitch 247 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:18,160 and hunt it down and own it. Well. Dan looked at me, 248 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:22,200 his eyes drooped down to half mast, and then he said, slowly and 249 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:26,839 calmly, no, I'm tired of the scrap. Let's get out of here 250 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,160 and get some breakfast, and if it keeps following us all the way back 251 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,160 to camp, we'll kill it after we eat. Now, that was funny. 252 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:37,319 He was wise. He made me laugh, and that was that, 253 00:20:38,079 --> 00:20:42,880 and we went back to camp for breakfast. The high alert status and john 254 00:20:44,079 --> 00:20:47,559 Nod in my stomach was gone. And when we got back to camp, 255 00:20:48,079 --> 00:20:52,839 we didn't expound on what had happened until later. We were glad to be 256 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,720 back and we let the stress go. And when we did tell them, 257 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,599 everyone looked at us with heads bobbing up and down. And when I recreated 258 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,640 the sound of the roar, they were incredulous and anxious, and the women 259 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:11,359 were ready to break camp. I never smelled any stench. I never saw 260 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,119 any cranial crest or saw any eyes. I actually saw nothing, not a 261 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:22,160 zilch. I've seen red eyeshine in the past while freezing in a blind in 262 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,680 a place called Green's Peak, but nothing on this encounter. There are a 263 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:32,000 couple of cowboys I've watched here on YouTube, and they filmed themselves rounding up 264 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:36,720 cattle and riding and roping on some of the fine horse flesh and incredible mules, 265 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:41,160 and crossing through impossible places where they were filming themselves in a pack train, 266 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:47,400 supplying outfit or camps hop in the cellways of Idaho or Montana. And 267 00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:53,119 suddenly that exact same roar I heard years ago drowned out their conversation, and 268 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:59,519 their draws dropped and their eyes widened. The one with the camera phone said 269 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,359 less to hell out of here, and the camera went black. Wow, 270 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,880 it all came back to me, and after listening to some of your stories, 271 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,640 I decided to write my account and send it off to you. I 272 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:17,799 have another story involving me and my son and several sheriff's deputies and a helicopter 273 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:23,160 chasing something huge across a golf course in the deserts of Cave Creek, Arizona, 274 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,359 in two thousand and four. I'll send that one next, and then 275 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:33,160 he signs the email first. Let me say I wasn't being critical. Almost 276 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,480 probably thirty or forty percent of the emails I get, they'll either list, 277 00:22:38,759 --> 00:22:44,799 like I said early in this narration of this story, they'll list every animal 278 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:48,240 in the place, or they'll list all their guns and every grain of bullet 279 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:52,039 they shoot, and you know, all that stuff. And it gets a 280 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:56,000 little frustrating for me because I, like, I want to know what you 281 00:22:56,079 --> 00:23:00,039 went through. I don't want to know what you have. I don't mind 282 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,599 leaving it in. I don't it's and it's probably just me. It's probably 283 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,519 just me, but otherwise when he did get to the story, this was 284 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:15,240 amazing. Now, this Mogelon Mogion monster seems to be a deep, long 285 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:21,559 lasting legend in that area, and I think it's very interesting. I bet 286 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:26,200 I have done no less than twenty stories on the Mogion monster, and I 287 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:32,279 think it's amazing. I wonder if anybody has any images or videos that they 288 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:37,839 think might be something that's not blurry that they think might be this monster. 289 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,519 But this is a fascinating, fascinating phenomenon, and I want to thank the 290 00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:48,119 man for sending this. He's a good writer and I appreciate him taking the 291 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,359 time to put this together and send this to me, because I know takes 292 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,640 a lot of time olier out of your day to sit down and write these, 293 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,160 and I appreciate you so much. So there you have it all right, 294 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,160 once again, thank you for joining me. Yes, I'm busy at 295 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,440 work and I am just doing these podcasts when I have some time. It's 296 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,039 Sunday morning, I'm working all weekend. I haven't had a day off, 297 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:15,480 and I took a couple of days off two weeks ago just to cut my 298 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:18,880 grass and get some work done around here otherwise I'm not letting up, y'all, 299 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,000 and I'm gonna be busy, probably to the middle of August. But 300 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,920 every now and then I get a break, and when I do, I'm 301 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,880 putting out a podcast. This won't last forever. And my first love is 302 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:33,920 used to be worked now it's actually this podcast, and I just think about 303 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,480 it all the time while I'm working, going, oh, do I have 304 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,400 ten minutes? I would put out like five or ten minutes stories. I 305 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,000 could do two of those a day, even working, but people don't like 306 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:48,079 those. Nobody watches them. They only watch them if they're like thirty minutes 307 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,599 or longer. I don't want to put out stuff people aren't gonna watch, 308 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:56,160 so I just wait four or five days until I have time to do two 309 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,960 longer or three or four longer stories. And that's how I do it up. 310 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,640 But if you guys would like five to ten minute long podcasts, let 311 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,720 me know in the comments section, because I can do those. I could 312 00:25:06,759 --> 00:25:08,599 do one of those a day. All right, thank you for listening. 313 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,640 I hope you all are having a good weekend. Staying cool. It's the 314 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,039 middle of July. It's hot here. Call me a little cooler. This 315 00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:19,200 week, but pretty hot. It's hot, so y'all stay, stay stay 316 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,000 cool, stay hydrated, and we'll see on the next one. Thanks.