WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here something just 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:08.119 because my dog. Something killed your dog, my dog. We're flying through 3 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:12.720 the air over the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.120 Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.239 the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like, 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.000 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over the 7 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:41.320 fence. Sat, what are you putting? We got some wonder or something 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.240 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was or was it was? 9 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.079 Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and I don't 10 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.359 see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus quice, you better 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.239 hello, hit the boddy out here? What quin on out there? It's 12 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.959 thought of a bit about text fort nine? I don't know, easy annount 13 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.480 there, Yeah, I'm walking right head. Among the various opposed witnesses of 14 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:19.120 the giant Hairy Man of the Northwest or Bigfoot, we have accounts from people 15 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.280 from all walks of life. There truly is a vast spectrum of sightings that 16 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.239 range from locales and witnesses, some which are intriguing and some which are bordering 17 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.840 on the absurd. Yet one type of report that always catches the attention are 18 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.400 those made by the men and women of law enforcement. After all, the 19 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:41.400 trained professionals usually not out looking for some strange, hairy ape man, so 20 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.159 when they come forward with their own accounts, people tend to listen. So 21 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.480 here's a selection of odd encounters with police officers in which they came across something 22 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:55.000 that their training and experience didn't prepare them for. A very well known bigfoot 23 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.719 report made by a police officer that made waves in its time occurred in August 24 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.359 of no nineteen seventy six in the rural area of Whitehall, New York. 25 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.560 On this day, officer Brian Goslin was driving on the outskirts of town along 26 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:12.520 the lonely stretch called a bear road, when he saw a massive, hairy 27 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.960 manlike creature with red eyes lumber out of the woods about thirty feet in front 28 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.960 of him. Gossam would describe at a standing seven to eight feet tall and 29 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.759 weighing at least four hundred pounds. He was so alarmed at what he was 30 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:29.360 seeing he reportedly got out of his car and trained his spotlight and his firearm 31 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:34.080 on it. Yet he was unable to shoot it. The strange beast, 32 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:38.599 caught in the beam of the spotlight, issued an unearthly shriek before barreling off 33 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:43.240 into the trees, leaving behind giant footprints on a nearby field. Over the 34 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.800 next few days, other officers would apparently see the creature. Even Goslin's father 35 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:52.199 and brother would see it. Goslin would eventually write his surreal experience in his 36 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:57.840 twenty eighteen book A Bear Road. The true story with this wouldn't end the 37 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.360 strangeness in Whitehall, because, in fact, feb Bewary of nineteen eighty two, 38 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:05.599 another police officer in the area named Dan Gordon and his partner had their 39 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.319 own experience. The two had been on duty patrolling along Route twenty two, 40 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:14.360 half a mile from East Bay at the base of Lake Champlain, when an 41 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.560 eight foot eight bl like creature ran across the road and climbed right up a 42 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:23.360 steep embankment to disappear into the brush. The creature was described as being a 43 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.120 little different from a typical bigfoot. It was long and lanky, and had 44 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:32.199 narrow shoulders rather than bulging with muscles. They also reported that it slouched heavily 45 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:37.919 and had extremely long, thin gangly arms, and it was remarkably fast and 46 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.360 agile, far beyond any human's capabilities. Gordon allegedly got out of the car 47 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.120 and tried to pursue the creature as the other officers sat frozen and terrified, 48 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:51.599 but the beast was already long gone. The two would keep their experiences to 49 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.639 themselves for years, only going public with it in two thousand and three, 50 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.759 after which Gordon was interviewed extensively for news stories and TV programs, including Monster 51 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.280 Quest and Mysterious Encounters. The report also appeared in the book Bigfoot Encounters in 52 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:11.479 New York and New England. Gordon was described as an incredibly honest and trustworthy 53 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.199 man, and insisted on the veracity of what he saw right up to his 54 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:19.160 death in twenty fourteen. Although these are the reports that have perhaps been most 55 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:24.680 covered in the news and discussed by cryptozoologists, there are actually many other such 56 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:30.800 accounts given under oath by trained police personnel from the Bigfoot Field Researchers organizations archives. 57 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:36.439 Comes a report from nineteen seventy in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In the 58 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:40.560 spring of that year, two police officers were called out to a home in 59 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.959 the town of Morero at approximately nine pm on a report of a prowler by 60 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.319 the terrified homeowner. The officers arrived at the scene and questioned the female homeowner, 61 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:51.800 after which they did a perimeter sweep of the area, even calling in 62 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:57.240 a canine unit. As soon as the dog arrived, it apparently went absolutely 63 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.480 nuts. The dog became very agitated, It was cowering and was clearly scared 64 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:06.120 of something. The officer circled around the darkened house with guns drawn, now 65 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.920 convinced that there was a trespasser lurking about the property, but what they saw 66 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.519 was beyond anything either of them had ever expected. As they rounded the edge 67 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.399 of the house, they came upon a large, dark figure huddled against the 68 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.160 side of the building. They could tell immediately that it wasn't a human because 69 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:28.279 of its massive size. They reported that the creature was at least eight feet 70 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.879 tall and it was very wide. As the creature fled, it took extremely 71 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.800 large strides towards the street, where it passed under a street light, and 72 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:41.000 both could see that it was covered in dark brown hair. They got a 73 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.560 very good look at it while it was under the light, and then it 74 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.959 bolted off towards a wooded marsh area near a canal and vanished. When interviewed 75 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:53.959 by the BFRO investigator, the witness would say, the incident with this entity 76 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:58.399 was officially reported in the record system of that jurisdiction. I remember that we 77 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:02.040 did not emphasize the subject beyond describing it as very tall and dark in color, 78 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:08.279 with no specific description of any clothing. Because it wasn't wearing any clothes 79 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.360 in those days, I had no idea what I was looking at. We 80 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.160 told our superiors verbally what we had seen, and then it was dropped. 81 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:21.000 We handled many unexplained incidents, as other police agencies do. The public just 82 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:26.079 never knows about them. This is what I mentioned to you about going back 83 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:30.279 seven years later and not being able to find the reports. My partner died 84 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.959 when he was just thirty seven years old, so we never had a chance 85 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.959 to speak about anything again before he checked out. He was a quiet, 86 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.839 no nonsense guy who wasn't comfortable talking about a lot of the incidents that we 87 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:46.240 handled, including the unexplainable ones. Another rather intriguing account from more modern years 88 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:51.120 was reported on the North American wood Ape Conservancy from an off duty police officer 89 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.800 who had a rather strained sighting in the area of Liberty County, Texas. 90 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.279 He was traveling along at night on the Farm to Market Highway one thousand and 91 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.600 eight north of Kenneflick, and he was directly behind a big rig truck when 92 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:09.680 a fleeting movement from the side of the road caught his attention. He says 93 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.800 in his report. I am a police officer. I was traveling northbound on 94 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.519 FM one thousand and eight, and there was an eighteen wheeler truck in front 95 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.839 of me at the time, and we were traveling approximately fifty five miles an 96 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:26.600 hour. I observed a large creature in an upright position run out of the 97 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.160 tree line on the east side of the highway. It ran in front of 98 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.240 the big truck in front of me. The truck braked and swerved to the 99 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.680 east side of the road, and the creature was unharmed and cleared the road 100 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.000 and ran into the tree line on the west side of the FM one thousand 101 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.240 and eight. From what I could see, this creature appeared to be as 102 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.720 tall as the cab of the eighteen wheeler, maybe eight feet, and it 103 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.959 was very bulky and covered in air. I estimated the speed at which it 104 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.160 was running to be about thirty five miles an hour with extremely long strides. 105 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.399 There are other police and fire service members in the Kenneflick area that have seen 106 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.040 this creature, and I have personally heard numerous stories of other sightings. If 107 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.399 I had not seen it firsthand, I would not have believed it myself. 108 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:13.120 Investigator Daryl Collier would do an in depth follow up interview in this case with 109 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.639 the witness and uncover some further details, of which he says it was the 110 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:22.519 witness's perception that this figure was very tall and covered with grayish hair. The 111 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.879 witness was certain that the figure was a biped and moved extremely fast, perhaps 112 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.360 thirty to thirty five miles per hour. The witness could not recall much in 113 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.799 the way of detail. The event was estimated to have lasted only a few 114 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:39.159 short seconds. The witness was impressed by the height of the figure. Using 115 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.120 the cab of the eighteen wheeler as a gauge, the witness estimated the subject's 116 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.480 height to be possibly around eight feet tall. Because of the figure's speed and 117 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.320 overall size and height, and the fact that it nearly collided with an eighteen 118 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:56.200 wheeler, the witness categorically ruled out the possibility of a hoax. In retrospect, 119 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:00.320 the witness wishes that he had slowed down or even stopped to get a 120 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.240 second or better look. He also wishes that he had flagged down the big 121 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.879 rig and somehow got the truck driver's perspective. However, the witness told me 122 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.960 that what he saw greatly intimidated him. At the time, he had absolutely 123 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.000 no plans for stopping. He carried a forty five caliber semi automatic handgun with 124 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.960 him, but the side arm gave him little to no security after witnessing such 125 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.159 an incident. From the following year, we have a report from the BFRO 126 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.639 in the fall of two thousand and three from a Toronto Police officer who had 127 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:35.000 a very strange encounter while off duty moose hunting near the small town of Search 128 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.320 Mount, Ontario, Canada. In October of two thousand and three. The 129 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.600 witness was with his brother in law and they had just finished putting out a 130 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.159 moose bait and issuing moose calls to draw in their prey at around eight am. 131 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.919 One of the animals didn't make an appearance, but displayed atypical behavior as 132 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.600 if it were spooked by something. Indeed, the large bull moose ran off 133 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.480 in apparent fear. He called his brother and they went about seeing if they 134 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.399 could track the animal and draw it back in. The witness sprayed some moose 135 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.320 in heat here and around to lure the animal back, and sat down waiting 136 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.840 for something to happen. At around one thirty that afternoon, something certainly did 137 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:18.159 happen, but this time it was no moose. The witness says. At 138 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.080 about one thirty PM, I started hearing heavy thumps behind me every now and 139 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.120 then. Every time I heard one, I would turn around, but there 140 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.879 was nothing there. I should mention that all this was happening while it was 141 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.720 raining. The sound of the rain hitting the ground of the leaves was quite 142 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.000 loud, but these thumps were much louder. They sounded like a stone or 143 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.960 something heavy hitting the ground. But every time I turned around, I saw 144 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.960 nothing. At about five twenty five PM, I got off the ATV to 145 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.360 stretch my legs and have a smoke. I put my gun on the front 146 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.240 back of the ATV to make sure that it was in arms reach, and 147 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.759 I stood in front of the ATV facing the gully, which prior to this 148 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:56.720 had been in the rear of me. While I was having my smoke, 149 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.559 I started hearing the distinctive sounds of foot steps coming from the gully, snapping 150 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.799 branches and crunching leaves. I kept my eyes on the gully while I reached 151 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.600 for my rifle. I thought the bull was coming back. But when I 152 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.799 looked into the gully about forty yards straight in front of me, I saw 153 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.679 what I thought was a man walking towards me. He was stooped over and 154 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.720 looked like he was having trouble walking in the bush. He grabbed a tree 155 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:26.000 and swung himself around, or ducked or dove under some thick brush. The 156 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.919 total time this took was three to five seconds, and he disappeared. He 157 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.639 looked to me as though he were dressed all in black with a black belicava 158 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.200 or tuc on his head. The reason I thought he was wearing a tuc 159 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:39.600 was that his head seemed to be long and black. It looked like it 160 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.919 was wearing a jacket, and in the front of the jacket was open halfway 161 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.879 and I could see a different color of the lining showing around the neck. 162 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.919 It looked like it was light gray or almost blue on the chest area, 163 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.559 and it was in the shape of a V. I really couldn't say how 164 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.960 tall it was because its legs were behind the thick brush and I could only 165 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.440 see to about the mid thigh. But I would guess at the time that 166 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.080 it was somewhere around five foot eight to six feet tall. But he was 167 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.360 about forty yards away, and it's hard to judge height and size in the 168 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.399 brush when you're not sure of the distance. His arm seemed to be too 169 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.080 long for a man, but he was extremely muscular, like a bodybuilder with 170 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.360 a typical V shape build. There was definitely no fat on him at all. 171 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:22.720 I could see all the different muscle groups on his upper body, and 172 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.879 his arms were bulging out, and I could see that he had a washboard 173 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.360 stomach. When he grabbed that tree, I saw that he had hands, 174 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.360 not paus. He swung around that tree and dough for cover, as if 175 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.080 he were trying to hide from me. As I said, it was a 176 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.639 dull day and it was raining, and he looked wet. He was covered 177 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.360 with black or dark brown hair, and it looked like the hair was stuck 178 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.799 to him fairly closely because he was wet. What also gave me the impression 179 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.000 of a bodybuilder was that he seemed to have no neck, or he had 180 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.000 so much muscle on his shoulders that it gave that appearance. On top of 181 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:01.360 all that his shoulders were extremely broad. The witness watch this strange figure for 182 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.200 a time, and he also noticed that whatever it was was making a raspy 183 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.559 coughing sound as it moved, and that it began issuing a long, hoarse, 184 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.919 sad sounding howl before disappearing into the wilderness. It was this howl that 185 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.279 really got him thinking that he was witnessing something very bizarre, and he says, 186 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.799 when I first saw it, I thought it was a man lost in 187 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.919 the bush. But my first thought was why is he wearing any orange? 188 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.480 And if he's lost, why didn't you just ask for help? But that 189 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.720 howl made me realize quickly that it was no man. The next thing going 190 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.240 through my head was what the hell was that? That was no moose. 191 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.240 It definitely wasn't a wolf. For a bear, it was like nothing I 192 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:45.919 had ever seen in my thirty five years of hunting. What it looked like 193 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.159 to me was a gorilla, or very close to one, but it walked 194 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.639 upright, not on all fours. I stood there motionless for almost an hour 195 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.000 and a half waiting to see if it would show itself again. After a 196 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.759 while, it started to dawn on me that what I had seen might be 197 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:03.840 a bigfoot, and I started to get a little scared. I normally leave 198 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.480 the bush after dark one hunting, but this night I left about an hour 199 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.039 and a half prior to when I would normally leave, to make sure that 200 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.600 I had lots of time. I was going to go back to that area 201 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.000 the next day looking for that bull, but I couldn't bring myself to go 202 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.200 anywhere near that spot. That was the first time in thirty five years that 203 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:24.919 I've been afraid in the bush. Since then, I've wondered if this thing 204 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.679 I saw was what scared that bull away. Like I said earlier, I've 205 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.559 seen many moose in the bush, and I've never seen one run for me 206 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.200 like that. Interestingly, though, from where that bull ran off and to 207 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.480 where I saw this creature was only about fifty yards. Another thing, and 208 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.480 I don't know if this means anything or not. Where I was sitting, 209 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.879 I saw what was probably a moose bone laying on the ground about five feet 210 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.039 from my ATV. It wasn't cut or sawed, it had been broken or 211 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.360 snapped. It looked to me that it was at least a year old. 212 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.399 I was supposed to sit there for the next three days and finish the hunt 213 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.279 and wait for that big bull, but I didn't want to be there. 214 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.759 I've never been that scared in the bush in my life. I never did 215 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.519 bag that moose. Brian, I've got a story to share that happened back 216 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.200 in the early eighties when I was still an active duty shriff deputy. It 217 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.240 was something I'll never forget, and I think it's high time I shared it 218 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.600 with others so that they might hear it and know that they're not alone. 219 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.440 I've been listening to your show since the very beginning, and I appreciate your 220 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.399 approach to the subject and the way that you treat the witnesses that come on 221 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.519 to tell their stories. You being a former police officer is an added bonus 222 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.159 for me. I know that you had to see some real shit as an 223 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:37.679 Atlanta police officer, and I can tell that makes you a better interviewer. 224 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.720 I'm telling my story to you now only because you've earned my respect. So 225 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.919 one day I get this call from this elderly couple who lived way out in 226 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.559 the boonies. They were all riled up because some chickens had gone missing from 227 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:54.039 their coup and they had been hearing some strange noises at night. Now, 228 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.759 chickens go missing all the time, and there's always strange noises in the woods. 229 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:58.639 But I figured I'd go check it out, just to be on the 230 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.519 safe. So I drive over to their place, and what do I see. 231 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.799 The coop was wide open, and it looked like someone or something with 232 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.759 hands had broken the latch and opened it up. Now that was just the 233 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.600 start of something really weird, because over the next few years, I found 234 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.279 myself responding to calls at the same house time and time again. Now, 235 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.960 as if the chicken heist wasn't enough, this couple starts discovering these massive footprints 236 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.440 in their field. Now I saw these things a couple of times myself. 237 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:33.200 We're talking about human looking footprints that were over eighteen inches long. Shortly after 238 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.200 they saw the first set of footprints, they started losing cows left and right. 239 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.720 It was just like the cows were vanishing into thin air or something. 240 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.320 I joked with my fellow deputies one time that I thought the cows were being 241 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:48.759 taken by aliens. But it really was strange. They would just up and 242 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.080 disappear like a fart in the wind. I honestly didn't pay it much attention 243 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.080 at first. I just thought the old couple might be seeing things or hearing 244 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.159 things and just having a run of bad luck with the cows and the chickens, 245 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.360 you know. But then one night I got a call with them saying 246 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.759 that something was lurking around outside their house. They sounded terrified, so I 247 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:08.759 hopped them up patrol car and I raced over there as fast as I could. 248 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.559 When I pulled down into their driveway, I couldn't believe my eyes. 249 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.599 Right there in the headlights of my car stood a creature that I never thought 250 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:22.400 i'd see in my lifetime. It was a sasquatch, a real life sasquatch. 251 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.559 This thing was humongous. It was at least eight feet tall, and 252 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.200 it was covered with hair from head to toe. This thing was standing between 253 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.720 their house and this small outbuilding that covered up the head of the couple's well. 254 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.759 This thing froze when my headlights hid it, and it looked directly into 255 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.640 my eyes. Those huge, dark eyes, man, they pierced right through 256 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.519 me. This thing looked at me for a couple of seconds, and then 257 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.839 it turned around and bolted, and it moved faster than anything I'd ever seen 258 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.319 move before. Before I could even get my car and park, it was 259 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.759 gone. Now, let me tell you, seeing that sasquatch changed everything for 260 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.640 me. I couldn't deny what I saw. I went from being a skeptic 261 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.960 to a true believer in just a matter of a few seconds. And now 262 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.920 I feel like it's my duty to share my story with as many folks as 263 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.599 possible. People need to know these things are out there wandering around in the 264 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.720 shadows. So I'm here writing you now, hoping that my words will reach 265 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.359 far and wide. I have no intentions of coming on the show. That's 266 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:23.000 not what this is all about. This is simply about getting the story out 267 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.759 there to as many people as possible that maybe going through the same thing that 268 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.400 that old man and woman were going through. After seeing what I saw that 269 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.200 night, I had to go into the house and tell them the truth. 270 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.880 I wanted them to know this thing was around their house and it was probably 271 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.119 what had taken their chickens and cows. I had a duty to serve and 272 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.319 protect, and I know you can relate. I took that oath very seriously, 273 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.599 even if I had to look like I'd lost my mind and tell these 274 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.000 folks I'd just seen bigfoot in their yard. They were kind and generous people, 275 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.119 and they were obviously shocked when I told them what I saw. They 276 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.759 said they appreciated me coming out so quickly, and that I'd been honest with 277 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.640 them, even at the risk of something like I was crazy to be honest 278 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.079 with you. I still don't know if they truly believed me when I told 279 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.599 them I saw bigfoot in the yard. They never called me again after that 280 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.880 night. I would stop buy and see them from time to time when I 281 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.440 was on patrol, and I even ask them a couple of times if they 282 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.680 had any more issues. They said they hadn't seen anything or heard anything strange, 283 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.559 and that they hadn't lost any more animals. They both passed away just 284 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.960 a few months apart that following year. After seeing what I saw that night, 285 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.039 I couldn't let it go. I retired in the late nineties, and 286 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:36.039 after the internet became more accessible, I started investigating every sasquatch sighting and every 287 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.200 encounter I could find, and boy, let me tell you, they were 288 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:42.759 way more than i'd ever imagined. I reached out to other law enforcement officers, 289 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.519 park rangers, and even civilian folks that had claimed to see these creatures. 290 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:51.000 It turns out that my sasquatch encounter was the tip of the iceberg. 291 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.480 These reports were all over the country, from the dense forest and the Pacific 292 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.759 Northwest to the remote swamps of Florida. Some claimed to have seen them lurking 293 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.160 around their campsites, and others caught glimpses of massive forms dashing through the trees. 294 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:08.839 It seemed like sasquatch sightings were happening more frequently than anybody realized, but 295 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.160 I believe that most folks are too scared or too embarrassed to talk about it. 296 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:17.759 I started putting together my own file, collecting witness statements and any other 297 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:22.599 evidence I could find. I even reached out to a few cryptozoologists and anthropologists 298 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.160 who could maybe shed some light on these creatures. What I learned was fascinating, 299 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:30.240 and it only added to the mystery. These sasquatches are bigfoot, as 300 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.839 some people call them, at least from what I can gather, seemed to 301 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.240 be highly intelligent beings that possess a level of stealth and agility that's allowed them 302 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:44.079 to evade capture for centuries. Their masters of camouflage, and they blend in 303 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:48.839 seamlessly with their surroundings. But what struck me the most was their elusiveness. 304 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.799 They seemed to be experts at avoiding human contact, yet people including me, 305 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:57.319 report seeing them all the time. As I got deeper into my research, 306 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:03.240 I started uncovering ancient ledge in folklore from different cultures around the world. It 307 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.480 turns out sasquatchlike creatures have been a part of human history for centuries. Native 308 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:14.160 American tribes tell tales of encounters with tall, hairy beings that possessed supernatural powers 309 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.200 and guarded the sacred lands. But what was their purpose? Why did they 310 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.880 choose to reveal themselves to some and remain hidden from others. These kind of 311 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.240 questions still haunt me to this day, and I'm still trying to piece together 312 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.039 the puzzle. It is clear to me that something bigger is at play here, 313 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.039 and these things are way beyond our comprehension. I truly do believe that 314 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.640 sasquatches are more than just a mythical creature and figments of our imagination. They're 315 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:42.200 guardians of our natural world, protecting the balance between man and nature. But 316 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:47.640 as our world and croaches further into their territories, these sasquatch are being forced 317 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:52.880 to retreat deeper into the wilderness. They're like ghosts vanishing before our very eyes 318 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.640 as human civilization expands, and it's up to us to find a way to 319 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.200 coexist and to respect their domain and preserve the fragile line between our worlds. 320 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.119 So Brian Sasquatch are not just creatures of legend. They are real, sentient 321 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.400 beings who deserve our respect and protection. And if, by chance, you 322 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:12.000 come face to face with a sasquatch, just remember I've been there too. 323 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:17.039 So I'll continue my quest and I'll share my knowledge with anybody who's willing to 324 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:19.440 listen. But I don't want any fame or fortune from it. I just 325 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.519 want people to know that they exist. I know because I've seen one. 326 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.319 Stay tuned for more sasquatch ott to see. We'll be right back after these 327 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:36.039 messages. In two thousand and six, there was a spat of bigfoot sightings 328 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:41.000 in the vicinity of Pine Ridge Native American Reservation in South Dakota. People began 329 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.000 to call in with numerous reports of seeing a ten to fifteen foot tall brood 330 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.599 of a beast stalking about the wilds with a hunchback, and in some cases 331 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:55.920 even bizarrely reported wearing a stove pipe hat. The sightings flooded the reservation's law 332 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.599 enforcement agency, the Oglala Sue Tribe Department of Public says, but among these, 333 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.400 perhaps the most compelling is a report made by officers at the scene of 334 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:08.480 such an account. The report was made by an officer by the name of 335 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:14.599 James Twist, who would tell the site crypto mundo. Hello. My name 336 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.799 is James Twist. I am a police officer on the Pine Ridge Reservation. 337 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.880 I am passing on information regarding the rash of sightings of a tall man or 338 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.319 bigfoot on the Pine Ridge Reservation. During one of these sightings, I had 339 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:33.079 our department's thermal imaging camera and along with six officers, I did in fact 340 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.400 pick up a large heat signature on the camera. Unfortunately, we did not 341 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.599 have a recorder yet for the camera, so we weren't able to record it. 342 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.000 We did watch it as it moved away from us down at Gully, 343 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:47.200 but it was missed by the other officers as they tried to find it with 344 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.799 their flashlights. It is hard to explain as it must have already been past 345 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:55.039 the officers before they arrived on scene. We watched it go into a creek 346 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.160 area which runs through town. We heard a flurry of dogs barking, but 347 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.319 wasn't able to load. Also, to set the record straight, the first 348 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.000 two Sidings was called in as a ten to fifteen foot tall man who appeared 349 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.559 to be wearing a stove top hat and a long coat. It was reported 350 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:17.200 to have been peeking into apartment complex common rooms, where there were several witnesses. 351 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.200 In twenty fifteen, there was a curious report making its rounds from police 352 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.000 officers in the state of Pennsylvania. According to a report on the site Crypto 353 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:32.079 Sidings, a police officer in McDade Park in Lakawana County, Pennsylvania, said 354 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:34.920 that he was out on patrol when he noticed a looming dark shape leaning over 355 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:41.319 the roadway with a large hairy section, including a big hairy wrist an extremely 356 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.880 muscular leg. The officer, who claims that he's an eighteen year veteran of 357 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.880 the force, said of his outlandish encounter, I was driving on patrol in 358 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:53.279 McDade Park in Scranton, PA, it was late at night, and I 359 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.279 was checking the park, making sure that it was okay, and I just 360 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.640 noticed a very dark object leaning over the edge the road near the pool. 361 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:06.519 As I drove past, I passed extremely close to the object, close enough 362 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.640 for me to feel shocked to see a hairy section as well as a muscled 363 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:15.079 leg and a big hairy wrist in hand. As the creature turned, I 364 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.240 screamed and grabbed for my cell phone to snap a picture while also grabbing for 365 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:22.319 my gun. I slammed on my brakes and I was ready to shoot. 366 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:26.440 I'm combat trained and I have a weapon. I just had to see what 367 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.200 the hell this was. I wanted to see the entire thing for myself, 368 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:34.960 but what can I say? Whatever it was for me was either a huge 369 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.960 monkey or a bigfoot. I'm not going to go public with this because it 370 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.799 would cost me my job. There's something in that park. I've heard stories 371 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:48.599 about something roaming around the park late at night. Interestingly, there is another 372 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.519 police officer report from Pennsylvania in August of twenty seventeen, who, on this 373 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:59.000 evening, was driving along a road in a wooded location in southwestern section of 374 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.799 Westmoreland County and he had a rather bonker's close encounter. As he made his 375 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.119 way through the gloom of this remote place. He says that he noticed the 376 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:12.000 odd detail of a slivery sheen of light ahead low to the ground. As 377 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:17.440 the officer approached, he then became startled, realizing that the light was emanating 378 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.240 from a ball of light that seemed to be going just ahead of a decidedly 379 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:26.519 bigfoot light creature. Researcher Stan Gordon would investigate this, and he says, 380 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.799 of this off the wall account, the ball of light was actually ahead of 381 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.599 a very strange being that looked to be about six feet tall or larger. 382 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:40.079 It was tall and almost skeleton thin. The officer was of the opinion that 383 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.599 the creature when he first observed it, had been lying on its belly on 384 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.319 the ground, with its head facing towards the road. It then stood up 385 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.240 facing the road in that dark location. He saw the dull light glowing from 386 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.559 the head, illuminating the upper section of the body of the creature. While 387 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.119 the officer watched, the creature turned towards the right, a dull illumination from 388 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:06.039 the head lit up the shoulder area. The creature then turned and faced him, 389 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.480 and then turned to the left and took off at an incredible rate of 390 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:12.720 speed towards a location away from the road. As it moved off, the 391 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:18.119 witness could see its arms swinging. The officer indicated that it took off at 392 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.000 a speed that he could only call abnormal. It was faster than anything I'd 393 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:27.079 ever seen. It was there and then it was gone. The officer assumed 394 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.160 that the creature moved on two legs. However, he couldn't see the lower 395 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.880 sections of the body in the dark. The officer described what he saw as 396 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.920 standing around six feet tall or taller. He said the head was about eight 397 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.799 to ten inches in diameter and shaped like a ball. He said that the 398 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.799 head was just a ball of light, possibly egg shaped, but still pretty 399 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:51.160 round. The light that was being emitted was a dull white. The light 400 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.279 illuminated to the shoulders, to the top of the chest, and a section 401 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.640 of the arms, but he wasn't able to see the hands. The chest 402 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.920 looked like it was about eighteen inches across. The waist appeared to be small, 403 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.960 but the arms were abnormally long. The long limbs also looked skeletal, 404 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.920 with no muscle mass. The skin tone of the body appeared to be a 405 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.799 dull grayish blue. The officer said that he was unable to see any facial 406 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:22.720 details. The entire experience only lasted about ten seconds. The officer was confused 407 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.960 about what he had saw and how it could move so fast. He pulled 408 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.640 his patrol vehicle to the location where the creature had been seen standing and turned 409 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.000 on the vehicle spotlight. He looked around the area but saw no evidence on 410 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:38.400 the ground. After the experience, the officer continued to try to make sense 411 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.759 of what he had seen, but he couldn't figure it out. I was 412 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:45.680 contacted soon after the incident, and we later discussed the incident in detail. 413 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.359 What in the world is going on here? Finally, we have a report 414 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:56.720 from the BFRO that allegedly happened as recently as July of twenty nineteen in the 415 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:02.759 state of Wisconsin. The witness is apparently a respected retired law enforcement veteran who 416 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.839 was out driving with his sister and his brother near Tripoli, Wisconsin, when 417 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:11.519 they had a brush with the truly bizarre. The witness says, the day 418 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.559 was clear and cool. We were traveling approximately ten to fifteen miles an hour 419 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.799 in my Chevy Suburban. I was looking out across the clearing when I saw 420 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:23.680 a large, reddish brown upright figure moving along the tree line in the distance. 421 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.920 It was too large to be a deer, and it didn't have the 422 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:32.279 proper height or gate to be a bear. It had no muzzle or neck, 423 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:36.000 and the smaller trees moved aside like it was pushing its way out into 424 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:41.279 the woods. Reports like these are truly intriguing in the way that they come 425 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.039 from actual law enforcement personnel, whom we wouldn't expect to be making up things 426 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.240 or telling tall tales. In addition, police officers are typically thought to have 427 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:55.039 better than average perception skills and eyes for detail, so whenever one makes an 428 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:59.400 outlandish report of seeing something like this, it is enough to make one pause 429 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.799 and think it's impossible to know if any of these have any more merit than 430 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.759 any of the other reports of the same kind. And in the end we're 431 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:12.519 all left to speculate and ponder such odd accounts from these supposedly traditionally reliable witnesses. 432 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:18.640 Is there anything to it at all? Do police officers count as better 433 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.839 than average or more reliable witnesses? I leave that for you to decide. 434 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:34.480 They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay. I don't 435 00:30:34.640 --> 00:31:07.559 want to be out trying this job that turn everything, calling right by rocking 436 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:15.519 back joy from me, Joy staying right, you call it right away. 437 00:31:18.240 --> 00:32:27.920 Still Stay, Status says still stay. Pass Stateside things US toss