WEBVTT 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.