Tonight's guest is Eric Beard. Eric, Welcome to the show. Thank you,
Vick Well, thank you for coming on. We appreciate your time.
Eric. Please give us a brief bio on yourself. I'm a young man.
I'm twenty eight years old. I've worked in construction most of my life.
I grew up on a farm. I had a abusive stepfather, so
I spent a lot of time in the woods. I lived in the woods
out there in Waldo, Alabama. Most people can't find it on the map.
I think gets old joke, but I grew up out there. I
like animals. I've come up around animals. I got a good heart.
I try to help people. But I've always been an athlete. I've always
been pretty brave about everything. Besides you being abused as a kid, it
sounds like he had a really good childhood, especially all the time in the
woods. It was a great place to grow up. It really was.
You know, we worked really hard, but we were really blessed. We
had chickens and goats and stuff. We had actually fighting chickens and so,
you know, there's a lot of work involved in and things, and we
cleared off a lot of land. We lived in forty eight acres out there
and watered them. My grandfather, my stepfather's father, he actually sold over
half of it. He had a lot of property out there, were road
cut through there, and bought a bunch of his land too when he got
out of Vietnam Korean War and stuff. It's pretty nice place, man.
It's right there and water by the National Forest. You got creeks and stuff
that run through there. It's a nice place. It really is. Which
National forest is it? Tell it Digger National Forest, I believe. And
then it runs on up around the mountain up seat Hall and Ashland and some
small towns nobody knows about on little country roads that go around it. Wolf
Focus one of them. It's the road I lived on on a dead end.
You drive down the dirt road about a mill off the side of a
county road, Wolf Road, and we used to have to walk it all
the way up a hill and we used to go up there to my papa's
house, and as we got there there was milk Joe's about eighty of them
filled up. I can remember being five years old, Kinnygarten toting them bad
boys a few miles to water all these chickens. We had a bunch of
them, thousands. It's a tough working always kept us busy. It was
always cutting down woods and making fires and burning off land and cutting stuff down
with machetes and putting up fences, and we always out there working. It
was I remember when I was really young, it wasn't nothing but a you
know, a yard around this thing in a bunch of woods. And then
there's more stuff got cleared off because I have people come out there log especially
when there was a bunch of land to begin with. You know, I
think it only pushed stuff back and they come back. I don't know.
It's a nice place. There are a place I live out now, that's
screw the It sounds like a great place to grow up. I can only
imagine what it must have been like to be a kid like that then grew
up right next to a national forest. What was the most frightening thing that
happened to you in that forest? The first thing that ever happened to me
in that forest is that's where I got to know God. Not coming up
in any kind of religious family or anything. God came to me in the
woods. And that's scared me. It scared me and I experienced something,
you know. And but not long after that, I was I was young,
but I just I got got the feeling, like, you know,
I found dead animals and bones and stuff out there all the time. My
brother even brought back a human skull, my older brother. We found bones
and stuff out there all the time. But as a kid, don't you
don't really think about it. You don't not really scared of stuff like that.
Now that I think about it, that there was some creepy woods,
you know. I actually found a graveyard out there, way back in there.
I don't even know if it was still on our property or not.
It's not like there's a a fence, you know what I mean. The
woods just keep going, you know. And uh yeah, I found a
graveyard. Some of the dates on it go back to the eighteens. And
it's just in the middle of the woods, like there's I can't think of
anybody that would know that it was there. It's not bro kept or nothing.
It's just nothing grows around it. It's weird. It was weird.
But the strangest thing in the woods was I just one day I just felt
scared. Never strange for me, and I just felt like I was being
watched. So I left, and as I was leaving, I just seemed
to get more anxious and more afraid, like something was even following me.
So I left the wood. That day, I actually played the video game
with my older brother. I didn't do that a lot. You know,
we got it pretty rough from our pappal too when we were down there at
his house. Even if we were knowing, doing nothing but just playing the
game or something, that ain't no chilling. But the next day, the
very next day, I got off the bus, we watered all the chickens
and stuff. I got to walking down the side of the field and we
got a chicken field and then another fence on it, and then at the
bottom of it a big goat field. I don't know how many acres are
in it. I'd say at least ten acres of field. So you walked
down at least ten acres down the fence line. It's got another gate down
towards the bottom. There's a small wood line in between it and a big
pear tree. In the Middle East, you couldn't eat all the pears,
and the goats couldn't even eat all the pears on this tree with two pear
trees that grew together. I ain't never seen one, like a sense or
really, but I walked on down that fence line on the outskirts and hopped
off into the woods. This is a completely different direction then I went the
last time, and I got lost in these woods before. There are some
big woods, but I've never been really afraid out there. Well, the
feeling started coming over me a little bit again. The further out I got.
I'm already as far as football fails to go, I don't know,
at least ten away from the house, and I'm just now hitting the very
backwood line at the fence, and you know, the woods extend, but
to the left they go that way and all the way and football fields back
up towards the house. Nothing but woods off to the left and now the
back and around the other side of the field. You got, you know,
further on back in the woods. That's where the river tracks cut through.
And I'm walking out there, I start feeling that way again, like
yeah, something's watching me. So you know, I pick up a stick.
I just start smacking a tree. I smacked that tree hard a few
times with a stick until I broke it. It wasn't really like a very
dead stick, but it you know, it broke, It wasn't really dead.
There's like a pond for stuff in there. The rest of it's not
like that. The rest of it's kind of like hilly and valet and some
of it's stick with dick its in it, you know, briers and bushes,
but some, you know, other parts you can see out through.
They are good ways. And where I was it was kind of opened up,
and I was on top of a hill type on going down there,
you can see pretty good. But that's when I felt the worst. But
I couldn't see anything at all, but I just knew something was looking at
me, to the point where I started going back the way I came,
and then I felt like that was a bad idea, so I cut back
the way I was going actually towards the house through the woods, which now
I'm actually went into the woods at the end of the fence line. I
went into the woods that way, a good little way. It's like at
least a quarter miles, if not a half mile, Like I was making
my way on down through there. You know, now I'm slapped dead in
the middle of the woods out there as far as I know, as far
as I've discovered and went around, and it's thick in between there, and
there's there's a heel and or shooting rangers right there in the direction I'm headed.
So I'm trying to get up out of there, and I'm heading this
direction, and I just start to feel so anxious that I start running,
Dick. I started running, and I got about it that I didn't I
didn't want to look back type thing. But I never saw nothing, but
I was. I was truly scared, and that was ever strange for me.
Anybody would tell you that knows me. That's that's strange most people.
But that same night, my stepfather had got home, you know, and
he's the type of guy when he comes in, he's looking for something to
be upset about. You know, you can move the remote and you don't
know if you're going to get slapped or cuts powder, you know, the
middle abuse sometimes worse than even getting you know, hit or anything. You
know it he comes in university. You know, I'm not even making eye
contact with him, but we're goin to eat or something or just finished eating.
Maybe you know, my mom will work long hours and uh, he
said, boy, take out that cuss words and garbage and you know now
and burning Mama gave me a lot of two bags that took them. Now
our trush power. It was a long way off, and it was actually
on the end of the shooting range, the other end that we didn't that
we didn't shoot towards. You know, dirt had been piled up over there
and then it kind of dropped off into a valley and then you know,
the land comes back up and down in these trees and woods back that way,
but it had been cleared out just just to shoot down. You know
that we used to chop down trees with guns and stuff. And now that
I think about it, as much as we shot like, I don't,
I don't know why, but now that you know, there was so many
BlackBerry bushes out there and stuff, it would it was really a great place
for like a now that I think over there or anything. But I'm walking
down through there and I'm still shook up from being in the woods earlier and
I didn't see nothing, but I'm shook up from it. And now it's
not time and I'm in the same area that I felt like this walking down
through there, except from now I'm out of the woods in the open,
but I know that, you know, if I were in the woods,
I can see out from there, you know, the two hundred from the
top of that hill with the wood line before it falls back down. You
know, I can see and you can see for good ways. You know,
you could actually see the houses and stuff, and nobody could look up
in the woods and see you in many many places. You know, that's
right. I felt so comfortable out there. So I'm walking down through there
and I get to the first little barn and I thought of the bags off
in the back of the barn. I'm scared, I said, you know
that I'll burn them tomorrow. Nobody will know. But it's such a long
way now, I can't just walk straight back up to the house. I'm
sitting there kind of waiting, and I tell myself, you know, no,
no, no, no, you're not gonna get this right. Don't
be scared. So I wrapped the bags. I'm walking down through there.
There's some call them weeds, you know, just tall grass really all around.
But I walked down through there. It's a former hill where we dug
out the burnhole. It's about twenty five foot long, fourteen foot wide.
All the dirts pulled back up on top of the hill. They had it
grated to shoot towards where it sloped down, you know, in a big
hill come up around the world valley thing through there. Water we fill up
through there sometimes run down to a pond out there in the middle of the
woods. So I got the bags, I'm going down there. I throw
the first bag before I can even see the pile, and there's a big
thicket and bushes to the rotten, some huge oak trees like super big oat
trees and stuff, and an old red barn down there on the other side
of it, so structures around it. All the woods are to my left,
I thought that first bag, and it's kind of cleared off around them,
But the woods are all around the burn pile and that barn. After
that, that's the end of the road as far as you can walk without
going into the woods, unless you go to the fence line. And I
walked down there with the second bag. I held it up over the hole.
I pulled out the lodder, and as soon as I looked the lodder
to burn the bag and drop it in there, I heard the loudest crack,
like a loud stick crack, and I looked over in that direction.
I didn't I didn't see anything at first because I was looking like right at
the noise, and it was noticed it was a giant figure. It was
solid black. I couldn't make out no details. The moonlight was on the
back side, and it was just massive. It was huge. I followed,
I'm really by passed the legs after I figured out there was a animal
or something, and I looked up and just the shoulders captivating, and the
shoulders were huge, like you could see the muscle definition hanging off the side
of it. And I looked down the arms a little bit, but I
had to look back up because you could just see the first hanging off the
side of the shoulders. From how massive the muscles on the shoulders were and
how wide the chest was. Why there's two men standing side by side,
you know, it was just it was massive. I'm forty foot away from
it, thirty five to forty foot away from its hogs and uh, and
I'm froze to death. I can't move, and every hair on my body
standing up while I'm looking at this thing that I can't move or can't speak
nothing. I just I'm looking at it, and I'm looking at the head
areas, so I can't really make it out. I didn't see no ears
or nothing like that. The head that the hair was so bushy around the
head area, I couldn't really tell. But it was just so big.
I couldn't really make heads or tails or what it was. At the time.
I never seen nothing, you know, bigfoot, but never talked about,
you know, as as seen a werewolf movie. And that's exactly what
I thought it was. That's exactly what I thought it was. And I
couldn't make out no descriptions as it was looking straight at me. You know,
I couldn't make make out any parts of the face. But this is
like this is all between like seven seconds. But like I told you,
I was just stuck for that time. I couldn't move and a little glimmer
just hit its eye like a little light, and I threw my arms up
and I shouted, oh crap aloud. I could I used the worst words
than that. I am about thirteen years old, fourteen years old probably,
and I took off front and as fast as I could. And as soon
as I got that out of my mouth, this thing. I guess took
it first leap or step, but I could feel the ground vibrating. I
could hear trees and sticks and limbs breaking and crashing, like like a freight
train was going through that. That's that's the word. Yeah, a freight
train. And like I said, I I knew exactly where it was because
you can feel it steep hitting the ground. I started it when I screamed,
I believe. But it's running almost parallel with me, but off to
the left moor towards the woodline. And uh, I'm running as fast as
I can. I decide that my parents' house is too far away, and
I cut to my papa off and then this house and I running there.
I snatched open the screen door on the porch. I didn't even pushed it
button. I just pulled it open. And when I got to the door,
I hit the door. My papa got there and about five seconds.
He never got to the door that quick. He must have been in the
living room and he had his gun. He had his good dude or no,
he went and got his gun immediately because he didn't even ask me nothing.
He just went and got his gun im meeting Because I was so scared
and almost and almost cried. At that point, I was so scared,
I went, I wasn't crying, but it's really like kind of how I
see myself looking now that I think about it. Because I had some desperation
and he immediately without on the porch. My dad was like, what is
it? What is it? What's wrong? What happened. My brother,
he's a little bit older than me, he's adopted, he lived down there
with them, and he was like, what happened? What was it?
What was it? You see? I said, I've seen a werewolf.
She said, well, what did it look like? I said it was
huge and big and had hair all over it and it shoulders were this wide,
and I showed him with mother. You know, I mean, I'm
not tiny at fourteen, but you know I'm probably stretching my arms, but
yeah, and I can't even reach up high enough to I remember not being
able to reach up high enough to show him where the shoulders and she said,
you see big foot? But you know, I'm not so sure.
But that's what I believe. And you know, it scared me for a
long time until it didn't and I actually wanted to see another big foot and
that's where I had my next experience. So I've been fishing over there and
how did a creek for a long time. They got the gold mines up
there, and they shot down a long time ago, and nobody really used
that bridge, and no more. They built the new bridge and they have
like a little damn thing you there. You know, people just guys stopped
coming around that area. And yeah, I went out there and fish the
good bit. And being close to my house, you know, I could
walk down the railroad tracks and and get to the back side of that creek
and go around whether it was better fishing back up that way down about the
gold mine, but you had to had to drive to get there, on
down the creek and then come up it. There's actually the widest part of
the creeks where all kinds of slugs and stuff come together. It really looks
like a lake out there in the middle of nowhere. You know, not
many people know about it. Come on my kayaking. I'm fishing. I've
been coming out there a lot up above the damn and I just put in
and I go up creek. I've never seen anybody out there on the Kayak
Creek. I've seen some people down there at the bartom right there, they'll
put in their kayaks and go down the creeker, you know, and try
to come out over there, and let's see where laking around there. I
don't know some people, not many people even kayak. This creek is is
popular because it's more it's it's more wild than than most of them, you
know what I mean. It's it's not care I'm coming up there. I'm
fishing, I'm wearing the mouth. All of a sudden, I hear crunch,
crunch, crunch. Now I've been making no noise, and I've just
been fishing, and I've been sitting there for a while trying to spot because
I had a couple of hits and I had a couple of good fish.
I actually put one of them back. It was smaller because I had some
good fish, and uh, that's all I was gonna you know, I
was taking my time, and I heard this crunch crunch. Now it's a
big ravine up this way, and it's even more like a cliff over here
on this side, nothing but rocks, and like you know, I just
hadn't nothing being over on the right side. But I hear this, and
I know there's a little trail off on the left side, but at this
point the trail is so thin that you don't even know if it's a trailer
that you hike on the walk on, you know what I mean. But
many people come out there, and uh, at this point, I'm pretty
good ways out there. I'm at least a mile out there, and at
this point it's national far as you know. The gold mines are up there
to the left where it connects together. And uh, I hear, I
hear it. It's getting louder. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
Actually it's might have been shorter than that. Crunch, crunch, crunch,
crunch, like I don't know, like long drawn out footsteps, and it
just got louder and louder. I'm thinking, man, I should see whatever
whoever this is or whatever it is, and my mind kind of went straight
to Bigfoot. But at the same time, I'm really thinking, like,
this could be somebody just walking out here. You know, I've seen people
walk out here before, you know, I've heard of people coming out here
and encamping a rod. You know, you gotta buy you gotta get the
key now from the city to go out there to drive far with us because
I got trails and stuff that used to mind out there a lot. And
uh, it's kind of a little mountain out there, but I'm going down
through there. No, I'm just sitting there listening. Yes, I'm sitting
there listening, and it's just it's got so loud to the point where I
feel like I should see this. But it was so high up on the
Ravinia, walking through like a thick area. I didn't see how it was
moving through there like that, but it was, and I never seen nothing
that it faded off, but it was so loud that I couldn't believe.
I couldn't see anything, and I was almost convinced it was big foot,
but I let it slip my mind because I'm fishing now, and it just
it veered off, kind of back away from the creek like a U sounds
like I did at you right there. But I didn't make any noise or
nothing until I heard it fade off hard, and I rolled on up through
creeking now some hours and then went by. It's probably it's probably I've been
out there since at eight o'clock in the morning, seven o'clock in the morning.
Maybe it's probably like five o'clock, like if I pad a horror,
I'll be back at seven o'clock. Yeah, to be a most dark.
And my butt and I started hurting. And I've seen a snake come up
out the creek after a frog, and I tried to catch it, but
yeah, I didn't know. I didn't really didn't see where it when I
couldn't get out of my kayak clicking though, and though you know, I
got up out of there. I'm sitting on a rock and the spot where
I'm at is like a bend in the creek, so like the land on
the left side, it's all coming downhill now and it's coming towards the creek
and you can actually see up through that hill a good bit and I start
hearing again, no, forgive me. Before I got to this point,
I've seen something very strange. Off to the left, on the same side
of the creek. There was a big rock and like boulder hanging out and
it was in the water and hanging out the water, and I'm just rolling
through their real quiet and out of nowhere, like I seem like I think
it was like a little monkey, like a small monkey, and it,
you know, I kind of tried to think, you know, maybe it's
an outer, because I've seen a ortter get up on the side of the
creek and they look, you know, when they're wet like that, they
look kind of like sleek and like that. But my arms were too long,
and I don't remember telling nothing, but I just remember like a little
monkey looking animal about literally no more than two and a half foot tall,
come out around the side of the rock and I can't be another more than
ten foot away to me, twelve foot away. I ride right around the
other side of the rock, like there should be nowhere for it to go.
I can see up the heel if it wizard run off. When I
got around the those I didn't see there was nothing there, and it's what
made me could think, you though, that it must have been an otter.
Well, then, like my buck get to hurt and I hop out,
I hop out on the rock and I'm sitting there and I hear the
footsteps again, coming straight towards me. There's no other direction it can come
now because the creek vs around. It's coming. It's coming my way and
straight to me. I just sit there and I'm listening. Now I'm anxious
I'm like, oh yeah, I'm thinking the sea pretty gone is what I
wanted. Or this creature, whatever it was. I wanted to see what
it looked like, because all I got was a black shadow before. You
know, although I descriptively to see the shape of it and stuff like that,
dude, I just wanted to see it. You know. It's just
daylight and I'm sitting there waiting and I'm hearing crunch crunch, crunch, crunch,
and it's getting so loud to the point where I like, I feel
like I should see this animal coming, like it should. It sounds like
it's already here, but I don't see nothing, and it's starting to freak
me out. And it gets so loud to the point where I like,
I know, I'm fixing to see whatever it is coming down the hill now.
And it just dawned on me that I don't want to surprise whatever this
is, so I said, hey, you know, kind of loud.
And when I did that, I didn't hear another noise period. I didn't
hear nothing. I sat there for about thirty seconds and I put my fishing
pole in the back. I threw the fish out of the cooler up there
on the side of the bank and I slid off on my belly on my
kayak. I left out of there in less than two minutes because I didn't
hear another noise, and that's what freaked me out to murder. Somebody would
have said something if it was a person, you know. I slid up
out of there, and I paddled really fast, really quietly, so I
could listen, and I didn't hear nothing. I got about it there.
That freaked me out. But at the same time, I wasn't fighting,
no one wasn't scared. And then oh, after that encounter right there,
I had a strong belief that they lived over there in that area, and
that was not far from my home. You know, it kind of confirmed
my leaf. But at the same time, I've never seen what it was,
so I can't say it was a big foot or a dog man.
I really can't say. The first one was well, I live over here
a month in Alabama. Now I live out here on thirty eight acres,
most of it still and it just goes on down for a long way in
the creek line from Coldwater Creek offer seehaw Mountain is the property line. And
uh, Ever, since I moved out here. Man, it's you know,
I felt like there's a predator out here. I really hadn't. Like
I went down there to the creek, I went fishing and stuff like that,
and I've even went hunting. And before I could even walk halfway down
the field, I found a deer almost dead. You couldn't even stand up.
Its legs had been knocked up so much, but it was still alive.
I ended it and we ate the front legs because they were all rock.
But you know, my dogs are always bringing up dead deers and dead
animal carcass like all the time, and like the same thing. Like over
here especially, I feel like, especially in this big field, and they're
being surrounded by the wood line and the woods over here all the way to
the left until it gets down to the creek, which is the property line,
and it comes all the way up around to my house where the railroad
tracks are literally on the other side of my house. Up here at the
top of the hill, I can look down all the way to the bottom
of the property line really to the creek and a little tree line down there.
And though I just felt like I'm always being watched out here, and
so you know, I got back into researching big Foot, which I did
a lot of. I watched all the videos on stuff and crypton and stuff,
and you know, I've always been super interested and were wolves and what
I know now to be a dog man. I've always been very interested in
them, but there's never been much about him out there, you know,
So I just I really gave up on trying to learn about that until recently,
after living out here the last three years, I started researching Bigfoot again
and I come across your show Actually Man Encounters and dog Man Radio, and
man, I just fell in love. Like that's all I could really relate
to anymore. As well. I wanted to hear about because like the problem
of fear that I still had, it couldn't be explained by Bigfoot, Like
I like, yeah, he's scary, but you know, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't feel like they. I don't feel like
they really are out to get people at all, none of them really.
But I do, at the same time feel like I don't know why I
keep seeing things like this and monsters and stuff like that, if they don't
if they're not out for certain people, or if you know, if just
me having an encounter has made me super sensitive and aware of my surroundings.
I believe that Mabe would. It is because when I move around through here,
I don't move around like just anybody just walking be walking around, maybe
even looking at their phone. I don't need to take a phone out of
my house. I don't. I'll move and I stopped. I move,
I competitor. Before I move again, I make sure there's nothing else around
me. And I don't know why I've always been like that, and now
I can think back and no relating now because I can't go out there with
men. But I don't go outside at not like I am right now anymore,
especially not far. And I don't I don't like to go off from
the woods very far by myself anymore. When I used to, it was
nothing for me to five miles from the house before I ever get worried about
getting lost, because I have a great sense of direction. You know,
we'll quit bragging and tell you that up here. It wasn't long ago.
I was walking down the road actually from here, and that's when I was
trying to get to the store. I just I needed to get to the
store and get some things. I was craving some dep a depth to back
of and I'm walking because they've impounded my truck or something like that. I
don't got a driver's license, and State took my driver's license. And it's
about three or four miles to the store, and I'm walking. There's a
rural area. I'm walking. There ain't many cars coming up and down the
road alone and see them maybe two. And I'm more than halfway. And
it's a long stretch of road across the bridge, across the creek. It's
chuco Lock Creek runs through here too. They had two creeks over here.
They actually would come together right here at the bottom of my property line.
About a mile past my property line. Cold Water Creek runs in the chocol
Lock Creek. So I'm walking down through there, and from the creek bridge
to where I am, you can see a whole mile and the roads just
straight. It's flat, you know, there's like little bumps in it,
but you can see a long way. And I'm starting to get to the
hill area of this woods. On both sides, I maybe walk past you
know, seven eight houses in that frame. You know, just people don't
live close together out here, you know, like neighbors is if you can
see their house, you know that's it's a pretty close neighbor. So I'm
right there and I see the car coming and everything. I already walked to
the other side of the road, and uh, it's coming from a long
ways, so I got time and it's actually ducked off where the lights aren't
coming, and h I kind of pause right there for a second, and
I turned up get the walking again. I'm on the other side of the
road and I'm not worried about the car and no more. Well, now
the lights start coming up in the air, and I know they're fitting to
come down and she'll see me for the first time. So as soon as
this happens, I see the biggest shadow I ever saw, a flow over
me, thick, and I heard the noise from jeepers creepers to that flat
and I looked up and it was scary. It was scary. I didn't
see it. I didn't see anything. I didn't see nothing. I looked
up and imagine how fast it was. But I was freaked out. And
this happened. This happened, not even it couldn't have been two weeks before
my dog man encounter this happened. It makes me feel like I don't know.
They do have a link to the spiritual area. I believe because I've
gotten so much more spiritual in the last few years to the point to where
I've I've been able to tell people things I shouldn't I shouldn't know you know,
people around here. But anyways, I get back to the house,
ended up being able to find a ride and having to walk all the way
back. At this point, I say I'm not going outside at night the
work because that was freaking and I'll be darned. Two weeks later, it's
broad daylight. I walk out the front door and when I duke not the
back, the back door. I'm sorry, the back door. I call
up my dogs. They come running from around the side of the house up
up to me on the back porch and s them, well, it seeming
my cat he's way off down. They're walking up there woodline right here in
front of me, right now, coming up to my trailer. I'm over
here in my mama's house right now. They see that's ten yards it's twenty.
She's thirty yards away, thirty five yards away from my house, and
the woods are right literally right behind my house, like I don't got much
room in between my my little trailer right here in the woods, and the
woodline goes down until it meets the creek and coming up that woodline on the
field the cat. This is my daughter's cat, she had it since a
kit. And I see him. I thinking, man, what's he doing.
He's starting to walk run around a good bit more, you know,
he's just now starting to get to be a bigger cat. And uh,
my daughter loves this cat, and I'm concerned about it. So I'm watching.
I'm standing there watching it actually walk up off the porch and over here
run to the side of this of them, and I'm actually trying to sneak
up on the cat. Yeah, I'm trying to moving away to where the
cat don't see me so I can just see what it does. And when
I come around, I peek around the side of there, I see something
in the woods behind the cat about I don't know, fifteen twenty foot behind
the cat, and it's in the woodline. It's in the woodline maybe you
know, ten foot the cats maybe ten foot out the wood behind, you
know, and it's just creeping through there. At first, I actually thought
it was like a few dogs, but it was too tall. It just
was moving funny. It was moving funny at first, and I could kind
of see the front of it at first, like coming straight, you know.
So I couldn't tell what it was at first until until I kind of
moved around and I could see it long ways then and it was crawling.
It was about ten foot long, nine nine foot from the butt to the
head air ten foot loan and the back legs came out a little bit further.
And now I'm thinking now I was saying a package. I was,
this is like a super dog. And then my next thought was like hold
on, because even though I started watching the show and we kind of become
an obsessed with dog Man, I still couldn't really laid it together at first
because it was crawling, and you know, I heard I hadn't heard about
him being on all fours too much at that time, you know, and
uh, it was just huge. It was massive. I couldn't believe what
I was seeing, you know. It took me, took me a minute.
And this time that I'm thinking about it now that I've kind of put
it together, like this thing ain't a bear, like it looks like a
grizzly bear. It's like a break Oh yeah, it's like a brownish reddish
color, right, And the hair was kind of loan, but not on
the belly area. Not wasn't really that long, but it was kind of
long in other areas. And the stomach was just too skinny to be a
bear. It was too skinny to be a bear in the stomach. And
the back legs wasn't right. I remember seeing the back legs real good,
and I've seen the shoulders in the arms. It looked pretty natural. Wait,
let's move them. But at the same time, I think it was
in a stalking moat, so it wasn't. And it kept on putting its
head behind like the next tree before it would move. It's like it's like
naturally moved in a way to hide its face. I didn't get a very
good clear look at the face, like I just just could barely like see
tall ears every now and again coming around stuff, and a lot of hair,
a lot of hair in the in the head area to where I couldn't
tell really, And I'm at this point, you know, I know,
like, Okay, this cat's in danger, and I know what you're thinking.
Like that, that's crazy. But my daughter adopted a stray cat before
that because she loves cats, and it bit her in the face and I
killed it out of anger, and I felt terrible about that, So she
got this cat. So I don't want nothing to happen to this cat.
And I'm approaching this thing. I'm coming that way, thinking, you know,
I don't know what I'm thinking, but I'm thinking, you know,
I can I can come that way and discourage it from following the cat.
I can come that way, and I can maybe just scare it off that
my presence can come that way. I wasn't I was feeling really frightful until
I got about right there. And I'm not sure how sure far away that
is. But if I could guess how far away that is, but I'm
telling you I could. At this point, it's at the point where it
would it would probably notice me if I took another step and such, something
kind of just like snapped over in me, like, hold on, this
is a beast. This thing is a thing as a monster. It is
a predator, a super credator, you tom, And that's exactly what I
didn't turn around immediately, right back around in the same path way up towards
the house, and I turned around and I looked a few times, and
I just like I could kind of see the area it was in, but
it's like it kind of like I don't know what it did, but it's
kind of like it just bled out of you. I couldn't see it no
more. By the time I got to the porch, I couldn't see it
at all. And when I went in, my mom was standing right there.
She said, we're leaving. Were going to Poppy's house for boyfriends,
taking my kid and my nephew. So you know, I rushed them up
out there, you know, just saying yeah, yeah, y'all go ahead
and get don't know about it here. I came back outside. Actually I
looked at the cameras because we got cameras. We don't never really look through
none of it footage or nothing, but we got cameras. You can see
all around the house. I sat there looking at the cameras for a while,
up forwards, salt around everything in the house, and I was watching
some dog Man, some more of your dog Man videos, because I was
like, I really just see one and I'm just sitting here watching these videos
and now I just really see one, and uh, I reached out to
you. I hope I didn't leave out any details about that dog man.
Let me think, Okay, it was five foot tall in the front area,
I mean ten foot long to the butt. The legs came out further
in the back, and at least four foot tall in the back area.
I've never seen it stand up, but I seen it do something weird as
I was leaving, but I wasn't, you know, focused on it at
that time. It didn't move its body in a strange way, and there
was no longer crawling at that point. I you know, Vic, like
I told you, I just I felt that I knew I entered the danger
zone. Is when I did it. I entered that danger zone. And
that's all I really wanted to do was discourage anything that I thought was fixing.
It happen like an attack from a cap But I was terrified that night.
I ended up actually yet off the dog man stuff to listen to the
word of God. I was kind of scared, but I joined the group
and everything dog man incounters on Facebook. I believe it was somebody on there,
or it was somebody I told my experience too they said, did you
ever have nightmares? And I heard maybe I maybe I heard somebody on a
video or something to talk about having nightmares or or somebody asked me. But
when somebody asked me if I had nightmares about it, I realized then that
I was like, no, I didn't. I never had any nightmares after
that, but I was pretty paranoid about them. I never had any nightmares
and nothing more I thought about it. I was like, man, I
used to have nightmares about a giant wolf all the time when I was a
kid. And then I could remember my nightmares all but a sudden like like
I it's like I said, I pressed them to the age of seven,
eight nine or something, you know, five or whatever. I don't know.
It's like I suppressed them. The nightmares used to have because a giant
terrible looking terrible like snarling, scrunched up face, but it would look more
like a regular wolf. What would they have the big ears, and it
would just come straight out of the darkness and just look at me and like
scared the mess out of me, and I would either wake up or that
would just be the end of the dream, and I wake up later.
And it got to where I had dreams like that a lot. I remember
telling people about them because I have them so much. He said, when
you have dreams repetitively, it means something, you know. And the more
I thought about that, I remember, I remembered. I remember being small
like that, and I remember my dreams and stuff, and I remembered being
at my grandma's house and Westgate, Talladega, Alabama. It's part of the
downs, really, but you know, it's there's some wilderness around there,
you know, I mean, never think nothing about it. I'm in my
playroom. It's on the end of the house. You know, we're really
poor. We're the only white people in the area. We're not even white.
Next start pretty bad Mexican and other stuff. I don't even I can't
even tell you, but it's easier to tell you what I'm not. But
it was it was tough around there or whatever. I have a few memories
of being a kid and being over there just because of my grandma had a
great grandma. The playroom back there had all kinds of toys and stuff back
there for me. My grandma kept me back there more than my mom and
dad. She was going through some stuff and that bedroom back there. It
was. It was about the ground. There was a window. The back
of the room is a long room, about twenty thirty foot room with the
door. They kept it shut to just let me play in there. You
know. Well, I remember I was small at the time, but I
remember this window was really high ab off the ground. Big it was.
It was really high because I could climb upper fence and stand on the fence
and then grab the window thing and pull myself in. It would be too
scared to try to climb up in it. And maybe I'm three or four
years old at this time, and that's my memory of the you know,
after this, it's my memory of the window. How tall it was.
It was a tall window. But I just got a weird feeling, I
guess. I really can't tell you. I remember just turning around, sitting
in the floor with some toys or something. I just turned around those toys
everywhere, and when I looked at the window, I seen a huge face.
And I say face because it wasn't a lot of hair on it,
and the nose was so far apart it was. It was strange. That's
why I didn't really Maybe I was suppressure. I really didn't relate it with
with with dog men at first, but now I can't remember. Now,
I can't remember how big this head was. And I almost almost I almost
wanted to say it had on like something on its head, but it might
now that I think about it, I think it was just like black fur
around his head sticking off at the face was like you could see it was
like a purple and gray and and it was just wrinkled up all around the
face and it and it opened and it had huge teeth that like almost were
like crossing. It would move its mouth and it did the thing that some
people talk about where it curls up his lips and smiles. That's what it
did. Had huge eyes. I can't remember the color. I think it
were black. I think they were black. It was. It was so
frightening. I asked my mom about it after I remember that, said,
Mama, I ever tell you about anything I've seen in my playroom when I
was really little bit in with Grandma. He said, Grandma said, you
come up out of there one time and would not go back in there and
play. She said that you've seen the monster. And then she said,
and it's true, because I would come over there, and you would not
go in there and play for like two or three weeks. You wouldn't even
go in the room. So I don't remember none of that, but they
told me that. Now I remember it. It's like some some some trauma
or something. But now it's it's around here too. The other day,
actually, I went camping with my buddies down here. I'm trying to kind
of like I've been going out down there a little bit more let them,
not really trying to provoke another encounter, but I want to. I want
to be able to have freedom here too, or come to an understanding door
or whatever's out here. But I bought some friends out here, and that
might not have been a good idea, and we camped. But that's the
only way I'm camping out there. You know. It's it's hard. It's
hard enough for me to walk down or and see now I'm having to walk
down in the set. I'm not driving down through there like I usually used
to. Ever went down there, and I never stayed too long. And
I'm fishing number I take my daughter down there to fish, and I can't
stand do it. But maybe an hour we've had deer run right behind us
like full speed as we're fishing, like not worried about us, like I
told you, I just there's a predator around here. You know. Well,
we went down there and got the camping. We're actually not even in
the property. We went out into the woodline so far. I was trying
to find a really nice spark and it's trying to get dark. I sling
bladed off a bunch of stuff and brought a big cardboard box laid down and
they're putting together a tent, and I had them all go get firedwood too.
You know, some younger cats, I know their brother. They look
up to me a little bit. I preached to them and tell them things
and give them knowledge. So we're down there putting stuff together. Some of
these guys are just lazy, lazy. One of us guy broke collar bone
hitaling from it, and we just hear a weird a really weird reach.
It was a screech. Maybe it sounded like something was in pain almost,
but it didn't sound like a normal animal. It kind of like it sounded
funny. It sounded really funny. It was not regular. And as soon
as we heard it and it sounded close, it sounded like just on the
other side of the hill. Yeah, I mean there's some thick thing it
woods. And then it kind of like I don't know, but we're right
there off the creek and we hear that. They all look at me and
just like big guys, because you know, I've told all them about my
dog man experience and my other dog man experiences or Big Cred experiences and religious
experiences. I've had crazy things happening. I'm not sure why nobody knows,
but there's a lot of stuff out there that they don't tell you about.
Right, I'm down there. We hear the screech, right, so I
kind of just time to play it off like it ain't a big deal.
And then fellas kind of do the same thing, you know. Well,
I leave two of them. I tell them like, look, you never
never go anywhere along out here. We're moving twos the sport which we're moving
twos. We're running back to the house and get some water, and we're
cooking hamburgers, hot dogs and stuff. We gotta go on on. Man.
We got a little separate fire with like a little great you know thing,
you know, with the charco orders straight them. I put them on
top of some little sticks. You know, we're cooking the hamburger straight off
that thing. Hot dogs. It's going down and uh but this wasn't on
go. This is right before I started my fast, so still fast.
Now it's starting to get dark. We go get the stuff, come back.
It's starting to get dark, or it is dark at this point.
We come back through the woods and not you know, I'm freaked out about
it, but you know, we're together. We got a michety, I
got a twenty two I got, but I took a gun with me and
got a little chety which I give to one of them before I leave,
or I leave the gun, leave one of them chetty, or get my
buddy chetty. I got a sword. That's kind of weird, I know,
but it makes me feel better. And we're coming down through there and
we're here. We're starting to hear some funny stuff around there, and they
start saying, oh yeah, dog man, listen. I said, look,
they don't do that. Don't encourage that, man. They say,
if you talk about document like that, you might just show up. So
you know, I'm kind of on edge now I'm gonna holler actually because it's
don't got pitch black. I want none. I'm gonna get no firewood now,
you hear me. And the fire's getting row and stuff. One of
them has done went in to the tent, went to sleep, and duh,
calm down. Okay, I hope it's okay. Yeah, I mean
too. And she can probably see something I can't. It's a big field
and there's fogg on it now, calling down. It's okay. These two
dogs, all right, So they get off in the tent and you know,
I'm I'm trying to sit up a little while. You know, the
fire is kind of I'm made a nice fire head. You go get wood
and stuff. Now, the fire, you know, strong and stuff.
And it's about two o'clock two thirty. Now I'm sitting on the outside of
the tent and I just I feel vulnerable there. But I've been sitting up
about thirty minutes past everybody going in the tent and laying down. I finally
crawled up in there. By the time I crawl up into there's already somebody
snowhare and I lay down right there for it's four minute in this tent.
It's not a small tent, but it's not a big tent. But you
know, we feel in there and I'm sitting there and finally zip up the
tent and I'm hearing some stuff and I'm not really worried about it. Now.
All three of them are snoring, right, all three of these boys
are snoring, and all of a sudden, I hear the biggest I know
it was a rock because I heard it hit the rocks under the water,
and I really it was a huge splash. Vic it was a huge splash
like this had to be in a rock, like if you if something jumped
in the water, it wouldn't be that lie. It was a giant rock.
What are y'all looking at? Quit that freaking me out. We had
to talk about it and be outside because I really feel like these things watch
us all the time, way more than we know, especially me, And
I don't know why I feel like that, which you know, I seek
my refuge from the Lord, and he saved me in passing. He saved
me before you know, I'm really alive today because of him, and I
do as well. But I'm getting off another rock. This was the biggest
rock. I can't tell you how the biggest rock was if I had to
guess it was a four hundred pound rock hit in the water. Like it
after it hit the water, it instantly was smacking the rocks of under.
It was loud. It was so loud it was scary. I couldn't believe
they didn't wake up. I immediately they shook two and they didn't wake up,
not a bit. I mean, granted, you know, they had
a few drinks and stuff, but they didn't even budge. And then I
heard another rock. It's even closer. It's not as big, but it's
it's a big rock. It hit the water with some forest. And then
I heard another one. I actually I managed to wake up my buddy and
Nathan, and we heard the other one. And he snored again. And
then three seconds but it was right outside the tent, like bright in the
creek outside the tenth the rock was staring right over there. And I'm now
I'm thinking, like, oh, on rocks, And that first one was
so big. All I can think is that the rock is fishing to land
on the tent and freaking kill us, freaking kill at least two of us.
So I laid down, you know, I'm trying to listen through all
the snore and and stuff, and I can hear some cracking and stuff,
and they leave hamburger patties out, stuff like that, all kinds of stuff,
you know. But I had the gun and everything, you know.
I don't know if it really used enough like, but I got the gun
and everything. I'm right there with it. I'm laying down making no noise
for I don't know how long I stayed up, but I finally those dog
I went to sleep. The next day, I found some very interesting tracks,
but I didn't take my phone with me, or I would have took
pictures up them, you know. I didn't take my phone with me.
I wish I had to walk back and got my phone and took a picture
of This ain't a dog man track. All I can think of is this
maybe be a bear And I don't know. I've never seen a bear track.
I don't. It's just if I had to guess, you know.
But I don't. I don't know about that last experience, if it relates,
because I kind of thought big foot. But at the same time,
the last thing I've seen over here with a dark man, So I don't.
I don't. I'm not sure. I'm still sure. There's so much
we don't know about in this place I'm at now, It's like it's the
perfect areaa we got. We got so much livestock and the creeps that run
through here in the fields and stuff. Is it's literally like a highway for
deer and animals and stuff like that. Like I was thinking people were sneaking
out through here and hunting it and stuff when I first moved here because of
stuff them being broken and passed being through the woodline of the creek and stuff,
you know. But now that I think about it, I'm thinking,
man, man, may need This isn't isn't hunters and all these footstep looking
tracks, and this isn't people coming out here at all. You know.
It is pretty remote. But that's all I have as far as my experiences.
But like I said, I think that whatever's over here doesn't really have
a problem with us, and I like that. I haven't felt really threatened
out here at all. Yeah, But at the same time, I feel
like creatures, monsters and these things like I don't know, I don't feel
I don't know. I say why, like I know how some people have
multiple encounters and now I've had multiple encounters, and like I don't know what
to think about some of them, because it's like they sprung on you.
I only found out about dog Man not long before, which I always kind
of believed there was a like a rare wolf type thing, which I don't
know if I believe that people transformed into them. But you know, I
never heard about dog Man until I found your show. I say able to
relate with it in so many ways. I wanted to share my encounter with
others, true if it helps anybody, because all of that has helped me
a lot. That's all I got. Vick, Well, it's awfully admirable
that you're concerned about helping people, So I'm impressed