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All right, We're just going to
do one story in this podcast. It's

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a fairly long story. I don't
know how long the podcast will be.

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But the writer, he gives me
several names that I could use, and

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he's worried that his name will be
connected to someone in the area and someone

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would recognize it. So I'm not
going to use any name at all.

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But here's what he writes. And
I think this is an interesting story.

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It may sound strange that a skeptic
like me would write to you about an

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experience that could have been a sasquatch. Regarding my skepticism, I can't help

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but feel that a complete lack of
concrete, irrefutable physical evidence is suspicious.

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Now, don't get me wrong,
I would be thrilled to learn that we

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shared this earth with another mysterious primate. But again, I have serious doubts.

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I spent my childhood enchanted by stories
of the unknown, and I cut

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my teeth on Sunday afternoon reruns of
In Search of And I had seen the

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Patterson Gimblin film dozens of time by
my fifth birthday. Having learned to read

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at an early age, I was
even aware of the Bauman's story at that

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age. I bear in mind that
I grew up in the seventies when the

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Bigfoot phenomenon was hitting its stride.
Bigfoot was everywhere, IVEN saw him fight

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the six million dollar Man. I
suppose years spent in the woods with no

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experiences of my own allowed my grown
up common sense to overtake my sense of

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wonder, and I hadn't thought about
this subject for years until I found your

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channel a few days ago. After
watching several episodes of your podcast, my

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wife and I began to talk about
weird experiences from our past. It was

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during this talk that memory came letting
back, and I related a story to

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my wife that astonished her. We've
been together more than fifteen years, and

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this was the first time she had
ever heard anything about it from me or

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my family. I almost think that
somehow this memory was being blocked from my

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conscious mind to some degree. So
enough about me, let's get on with

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my story. I was born and
raised in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. If

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that sounds familiar, you may know
it from the John Prine classic about a

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small town named Paradise that was turned
upside down by strip mining. I lived

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most of my childhood a few miles
down the Green River from Paradise, on

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the edge of a small town called
Martwick. It was also displaced by strip

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mining. I lived in a rural, heavily wooded area that was adjacent to

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hundreds of acres of desolate and uninhabited
mine lands. It was like paradise to

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a young kid like me. I
spent countless days trucking across this rural wonderland.

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We got to the back porch and
Mom and Dad were sitting there waiting

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for us. We walked up the
backsteps and showed off the projects that we

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had worked on during the week,
and we sat down to join them.

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After a few minutes, Dad stated
that he was going to slop the hogs

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that we were raising at the edge
of the woods behind the house. We

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didn't have a huge piece of property, and we didn't necessarily need it for

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meat, but Dad liked to expose
the kids to different ways of life that

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he remembered from his youth. Mom
or I usually took to this chore,

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but probably due to my wearing my
Sunday best clothes and it being so dark,

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Dad decided that he was going to
do the task this evening. He

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grabbed up a five gallon bucket and
he headed toward the woods, and the

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woodlines started thirty yards from the back
porch and fell into a steep ravine.

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The pigpen was about twenty feet into
the woods, situated right where the hill

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began to descend, and as the
edge of the woods was grown up into

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a thicket, one had to go
several yards left to the edge of our

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property to enter the woods where the
undergrowth was thinner, and then we went

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back to the right to get to
the pig pen. We watched Dad walk

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down the backyard and disappear into the
woods, and it wasn't long before we

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heard Petunia starting to oint and even
squeal a little. My sister and I

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had named the hog and we were
playing with it, much to Dad's disapproval.

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Like most animals, it wasn't unusual
for her to get excited at feeding

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time. However, the intensity of
it seemed unusual to us back on the

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porch. The squealing stopped shortly and
we imagined that she must be a hog

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heaven ears deep and putred leftovers.
A moment later, we could hear the

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most got awful thrashing of something or
something coming right through the thick, not

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far from the pigpen, and to
our utter disbelief, the figure of my

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father came bursting from the thicket at
a dead sprint, heading back to the

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porch, while all three of us
on the porch, We're watching this in

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slack jawed shock. My father is
not a particularly excitable man, nor was

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he ever one to adopt an overly
macho persona. He was just a plain,

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ordinary man from ordinary country stock who
just seemed to have that John Wayne,

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a man's got to do what he's
got to do sort of attitude.

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My dad had been a star athlete
in high school, and I don't think

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I had ever seen him run before. He'd worked all day and at his

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own pace if something needed to be
done, but he wasn't into exercise.

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Well now here. He was running
so fast that he was tripping over his

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own feet coming up the backyard,
and as he drew near the porch,

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we could see his face. It
was as white as a sheet, and

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we were freaking out. Mom started
calling out to him, asking him what

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was going on, but he never
answered that. He never slowed down,

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and he jumped up onto the edge
of the porch, and he continued into

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the house as fast as he could
go. This happened so quickly that we

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didn't have time to react, and
by the time we had started to stand

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up and go see what was wrong, he emerged on the back porch with

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a twelve gate shotgun in his hand, and by this point all four of

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us were terrified. Mom was pleading
with him in hushed tones to explain what

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was wrong, and he just kneeling
there against the porch post shotgun across his

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knee, invisibly shaking and staring at
the woods. Eventually she just stopped asking,

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and we sat there with him in
silence. What else could we do?

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Something had happened in the woods,
and he was so obviously shaken,

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and looking back, I don't know
if he was able to form the words

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well. This behavior went on for
several minutes, until it started getting so

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dark that it would have been hard
for us to see anything if it had

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emerged from the woods, and he
finally seemed to ease up a tiny bit,

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and he started relating what had happened. He had entered the woods and

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cut back to the right to reach
the pin. He wasn't paying that much

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attention to anything, and as he
entered the area of the pin, where

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the woods were thicker and the thicket
grew up all around, he realized it

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was darker than he thought. He
couldn't see much at all. At first.

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He had noticed the pig's agitation,
but he didn't think much of it.

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He was dumping out the slop when
it occurred to him that the pig

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wasn't coming to the trough. It
was scrunched up against the wall of the

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pin where he was standing. His
eyes were starting to adjust to the darkness

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when he looked up from the trough
and he saw it, and standing opposite

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him across the pen was a large, upright figure and it was covered in

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dark hair. His first thought was, it's a bear. It was common

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in the area for people to report
seeing things that had been rendered extinct to

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the area for years, such as
panthers and bears, and the light and

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things like that were generally laughed at
and seldom backed by any evidence. He

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didn't have any better explanation. That
was the first thing he thought. He

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stood there, frozen by fear briefly
when he realized that this thing was reaching

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into the pen for the pig with
its arms extended toward it. At that

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point, he turned and ran for
it. We spent a very uncomfortable night

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at our house, and I don't
think any of us slept much that night.

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It was weeks before I could go
back into the woods to play,

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and I promised the hog was slopped
in the daylight. From that point forward,

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we were going through hard finding ancial
times, and Dad was drinking a

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lot more than I ever had seen
him drink before. He was drinking that

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night, but I didn't think to
excess, and by the time he reached

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the porch there was no trace of
intoxication left in him, and he didn't

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drink again for the rest of that
night. Oddly, I don't remember Dad

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or Mom ever speaking of it again. I don't know if I would call

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it shame. He just didn't seem
comfortable with the level of vulnerability he had

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shown in front of us. I
was terrified, and I don't know what

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was worse, a creature in the
woods out back or seeing my dad scared.

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The other night, as I sat
with my wife, I tried to

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reason it out. I would love
to be able to explain it away,

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but I can't. My wife suggested
that maybe he might have staged the whole

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thing for me while I was eating
up with all things bigfoot at the time,

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and I was walking toward the woods
with a camera seven days a week.

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I can't accept that either. Though, First, he did seem to

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delight in feeding whatever curiosity was fueling
my young brain at any given time,

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I have a hard time believing he
would go to such extremes for that reason,

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though. And second, if he
had talked to mom and my sister

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beforehand, I don't think all three
of them could have pulled it off that

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seamlessly. My sister is a notoriously
poor liar. A most important, I

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know what real fear looks like.
Almost get chills now thinking about it.

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I had never, nor have I
since, seen my father in that state.

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In closing, I just want to
say how much I've enjoyed watching your

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channel on YouTube these last few days. I thought this story would fit perfectly.

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It does fits perfectly, honestly,
if it doesn't get used, I

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feel better having aired these feelings after
all these years. And also, I

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love your chickens. There's some sort
of zen I achieve watching the chickens walk

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around and pecking for feet in the
yard and sometimes I just I just drift

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off to sleep while I'm watching.
By the way, folks, I'm gonna

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be putting more videos of these chickens
up pretty soon. I was gonna film

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them today, but it's raining outside
and I don't want to get my camera

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gear out in the rain and mess
it up. So maybe tomorrow. The

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weather's turning pretty. It's today is
April the third, and we've got seventy

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and eighty degree days forecast for the
next ten days, so they'll be a

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pretty day in there. And then
I'll also put the GoPro on and only

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three dogs now go for a walk. We only have three dogs left.

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My two older dogs have passed away, so there's not much action. They're

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little dogs and they don't really show
up well on camera. But I'll do

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that. I'll ride a bike every
day. I don't know why I'm talking

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about all this, but he mentioned
the chickens, and people have been sending

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me emails, where's the chickens,
where's the chickens. We've got all the

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chickens, just it's just been so
nasty outside. I don't want to film

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him. I don't want to get
out in it. Anyway, that's that's

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that. Back to the story.
This was a great story, and I

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was thinking as I was reading it, my father's face and his body,

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body language, and his disposition were
in my mind as I was reading the

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story, and I could I could
absolutely connect with this writer thinking what my

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dad would look like scared. I
never saw him scared ever, not once,

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and so I don't really know what
he would look like scared. But

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if I saw him running and tripping
over his feet trying to get back to

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the house away from something, you
know, he comes back out with a

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shotgun in his hand and just sits
there beside us, ready to defend the

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house, and never said a word. I can see where that would affect

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a young boy quite quite a bit. I don't know, It's just a

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little nuance, but I'm just I'm
still thinking about my dad and what he

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would have looked like, and how
I would have reacted, and how exactly

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like this man I would have thought
about it the rest of my life.

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That would be one of the premiere
memories I would ever have of my father.

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But this was a wonderful story.
It's the only one in this podcast,

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and I hope you guys enjoyed it, and we'll probably see you tomorrow

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with another one. All right,
thanks a lot, see you next time.