We started to hear this strange noise, you know, noise we had never
heard before. It's hard to compare the noise to anything. Give me an
idea how loud this thing was. I didn't. It didn't come into my
view for about five total mounts did the lights on the outside of the garage.
I could see down into the cornfield. I couldn't tell what it was.
You know, if you look at a lobster, how that had like
those long, like whisker things coming out. He had. He had a
couple of those too, And when he got into my garage, we have
four or five exposed light bulbs that were pretty bright. It must have scared
him or he lost control, and he just started slamming up and down into
the ceiling of my garage. Instantly we knew something was wrong, and we
ran right into the house because as soon as he started hitting the ceiling,
you could hear that this thing had weight behind it, so you could hear
the force of it just crashing into the ceiling. So we ran into the
house. I was scared to open the garage door again. But I should
have opened the garage door, and I should have closed I should have tried
to trap this thing in my garage just to shows someone, you know,
or to capture it somehow. But I you know, I was only like
twenty two at the time when this happened. Just with everything that was going
on, maybe I was just a little scrambled and it just didn't run my
mind until the next day. Man, Tommy, you've got a story unlike
any I've ever heard before. This isn't a Bigfoot story. Let's just get
right into it. Man, I'm ready to talk about this. I have
never ever heard of anything. I'm sitting here trying to think of anybody that
I've talked to that has told me something like this, But I'm just drawing
up a blank. I have never heard anything like this. So if you
don't mind, just start back over from the top and tell us what happened.
Okay, about fifteen years ago, I was hanging out with one of
my he was my best friend at the time. His name was Steve.
We were listening to music and my garage and you know, we were listening
to music during the day. It was later in the evening, so the
sun was starting to go down, and after the sun had pretty much completely
set and it was dark we started to hear this strange noise. You noise
we had never heard before. It's hard to compare the noise to anything.
I guess now, knowing what I know, it would be some type of
wings or a flapping sound. And about give me an idea how loud this
thing was, I didn't. It didn't come into my view for about five
total minutes. So I did the lights on the outside of the garage.
I could see down into the cornfield that was across the road, and I
could see that whatever was making the noise was flying in a straight line to
my garage, and I couldn't tell what it was. I I knew it
wasn't an owl or a bird or anything like that, because it was like
it was on a string, because it stayed in one one straight line all
the way, never went like he never bobbed at the left or right,
up or down. He stayed right where he was and he flew up.
And by the time he had got to my garage, me and my friend
had both realized that it was an insect of some type, but a very
large insect. He was about the size of a regular NFL football. He
was actually probably just a little bit bigger than that if we're excluding his wings
and his little legs or appendages that were hanging off of his body. And
he had like a design on his body. Like I said, I'll do
my best to draw you a picture of the design. He had like rings
or stripes that went around like his abdomen or but and his eyes were black.
They were a little bit, uh, a little bit bigger in a
marble. Another thing I forgot to mention too, like you know, if
you look at a lobster, how they had like those long like whisker things
coming out. Yeah, he had he had a couple of those too.
When uh, and when he got into my garage, we have four or
five exposed light bulbs that were pretty bright. He just it must have scared
him or he lost control, and he just started slamming up and down into
the ceiling of my garage. And instantly we knew something was wrong, and
we ran right into the house because as soon as he started hitting the ceiling,
you could hear that this thing had weight behind it, so you could
hear the force of it just crashing into the ceiling. So we ran into
the house. You know, we talked about it for a few moments,
his mother called him and you know, said she was passing my road and
if he wanted to ride home, you know, he better be ready and
you know, come out. And so when he went out and got in
his mother's truck, his mom said, hey, and I forgot to mention
when we went inside, I turned off the garage lights, so now it's
pitch black outside. So when she pulled up in her truck and my friend
had gotten in the truck, now they were watching this thing in the headlights
and it was just flying around, and his mom made a comment like,
oh wow, it's you know, what's that weird bird flying around in you
know, Tommy's garage, and my friend tried to explain to her that it
was some type of bug. They left, and then shortly after I'd say
twenty to thirty minutes no longer, one of my other friends, Dustin,
had stopped over, and I walked out my front door and I got into
his truck and it was the same situations. The lights were still off.
So now I'm looking at this thing through the headlights and it's you know,
it's some type of massive moth or some type of strange insect that we've never
seen before, never seen since, and it was flying around and going crazy.
My friend Dustin only you know, we only sat out there for maybe
five or ten minutes, and we talked about it and he had to go
home, so he left and was scared of the thing. So I ran
into my front door. And that's basically, you know, the whole story.
It's a short run one and earlier. My only regret was just because
I wasn't thinking straight at this moment. I should have opened I was scared
to open the garage door again. But I should have opened the garage door
and I should have closed. I should have tried to trap this thing in
my garage just it just shows someone, you know, or to capture it
somehow. But I you know, I was only like twenty two at the
time when this happened, so idiot, you know, young man, and
just with everything that was going on, maybe I was just a little scrambled
and it just didn't run my mind until the next day. People that know
me know that this may be kind of silly. I have a slight not
a phobia, but I'm afraid of birds, Like I don't like to be
like close to birds and it's all based on there's been a few times a
bird has like gotten inside my home and been freaking out, flying around,
slamming into stuff, and that has just always freaked me out. And what
you're describing as like drumming up those feelings of fear, I would have been
freaking out, dude. I mean we were talking about it. I'm in
Oklahoma. Our climate downe here a little bit warmer than where you're at typically,
and we've got a lot of bugs. We've got some really big bugs,
but nothing anywhere close to what you're describing the size of what you're describing.
Yeah, And I think it's worth mentioning too that he didn't he didn't
fly very fast either. This was until he got into the garage. When
he got into the light, he sped up quite a bit. But this
was in like the first, i want to say, the first two weeks
of October. So you weren't in upstate New York. You're not seeing bugs
flying around in October. You're really not. I mean maybe like some of
the leftover like lady bugs and you know, the wood bugs and crap,
but yeah, uh yeah, nothing like this. And like I said,
I also, you know, I used the Internet and a couple of books.
I you know, looked at the biggest insects around. I checked all
the surrounding states, and nothing even you know, close the best you can
kind of give a detailed description of what it looked like as much, you
know, as much as you were able to see. You were talking about
the legs hanging down and stuff like that, Like what were the wing shaped
like things like that. Okay, his wings were kind of flapping really fast,
It's like, so that was probably the part I didn't get the greatest
look at. Okay, So the legs that were hanging have you ever seen
like a picture of like a blown up flea, yeah, or something like
that. It looked like that, Like it looked like those type of legs.
And its body was either white brown or a grayish color. And he
had like rings around his like his body he had like these, Uh,
it was a different it was the same color, but it was like a
different shade. So he had some type of pattern or design on him.
His eyes were all black. They were not like the size of a typical
marble, but like a bigger one, like a good size marble. Yeah,
and then he had kind of like those weird I don't know if they're
called whispers, but like if you're looking at like a like a crab or
a lot I think a lobster. Actually, you know they have those whisker
things. He had like a couple of those. They were gray too,
you know, that match the rest of his body. Did it look like
just a typical moth except larger. It's so hard to describe because when you
see when you when you think of a moth, you think that they're just
kind of flat, you know what I mean. Yeah, So, so
it wasn't flat. It was like it was rounded and fat somehow, you
know, Like it was more so so picture like a moth, but in
the shape of like one of those fuzzy bumble bees. Yeah. I was
getting ready to say, so it's body was shaped more like a B type
insect. Yeah, and just the size of it, you know, we
didn't couldn't tell what type of insect it was. We both instantly ran in
the house and because I was like, we were both thinking, like this
thing could either like suck your blood or even if it couldn't, if it
bit you looked like it would hurt a lot. Yeah, I mean if
it's a biting insect or a stinging insect that size. Ain't no way,
man, I'm not hanging around to find out you were you were talking about
whenever it was like flapping around and like hitting the ceiling and stuff like dust
was falling off of it. Yeah, So I don't know if And that's
why where I came up with these little theories. Possibly where it came from.
Like I said, we could hear it for five minutes before it came
into view, so it must have come from the forest there the tree line
past the cornfield that was across from my house. So when he got up
to the garage, he was banging on the ceiling of my garage and there
was a I don't know if it was the brownish grayish color, but just
for the first car. I don't know if it continued to happen, but
what we saw when he was hitting the ceiling, there was debris like dust
just raining off of him. Yeah, like moths have like that dust on
their wings. I wonder if it could have been that or if it was
like dirt or something. And the only theory like when me and my friend
lie inside like we were, you know what the with that, and in
my the only two theories I could think was, like, is this some
thing that's been burrowed in the ground for God only knows how long, and
you know, and I don't know why it would choose a cold time like
October to come up, or maybe it you know, maybe it didn't come
up on its own, or maybe the tree it was or I thought maybe
another theory was that could have lived inside of a tree and maybe that tree
just got like really old and decayed and it had to fly out. But
when it flew out, you know, it saw all the lights at my
house and it just made a straight line right right for the lights. I
saw an article today, as a matter of fact, that was talking about
some cicada that hasn't been seen since some crazy amount of time, you know,
because like certain insects, especially cicadas, will like be buried underground basically
and they'll come up, like I think here in Oklahoma we have one that
comes up every seven years out of the ground or something crazy like that.
So I mean, your theory about like it possibly being something that was burrowed
underground for a long time and just came up, I mean, that's definitely
a possibility. You've obviously never heard anybody else in your area talk about anything
like this before. Oh yeah, no, And everybody I told, like,
you know, a couple of my close friends believe me, but basically
everyone laughs at me when I tell them. They just you know, they
laughed. This happened. You originally told me what fifteen years ago? About?
Yeah, about fifteen to sixteen years ago. I want, probably closer
to fifteen years ago. I assuming that amount of time, you've you know,
scoured the Internet and everything trying to figure out what this thing was.
Yeah. And another thing that I'd like to mention too, I was I've
always been sessed with, you know, cryptozoology, the supernatural and paranormal,
so you know, just seeing something like that and then having nothing to go
off it was very weird. Do you remember that one website, American Monsters.
Yeah? I love that website. Yeah. Yeah, speaking of that,
I actually met the people that ran that website. I bumped it.
I was skateboarding at a Blockbuster parking lot. I saw the hairy hommetted sticker
on a jeep and I walked over and it was actually those guys that ran
the website. Oh wow, I mean those are like ogs of the cryptid
world, you know. Yeah, such a weird coincidence. I was like,
wow, look at I was like, I never meet other fans of
stuff like this, and I went and it was them, that's crazy.
Do you have any theories or guesses or anything about I mean, obviously it's
some kind of giant flying insect. Any ideas, Oh, honestly, like
nothing. The closest thing I could think of was just some type of uh
uh, you know the moth that time forgot, some kind of prehistoric moth
or whatever. I mean, there's those you know, stories of mon talk
out there. Maybe it came from there, like joking around. We've for
the last like decade, we've joked around and we've always called it the mega
moth. Yeah, that's crazy, man. And then you know, other
people were like, oh, you know mathra, So you know we've that's
and that's it. You know. I've I've I looked into you know,
a couple of books and the websites. I checked all the surrounding states for
the largest moths, and they not only were they not even the same color,
but they were what you'd expect and you'd see a giant moth. They
were like, you know, almost as flat as a piece of paper.
Yeah. Yeah, They're kind of designed to hide against tree bark and stuff
and flatten themselves out against it and blend in. And you know what,
even though this one was rounded and had more of a shape of like one
of those fuzzy bumblebees, the color he was. I mean, I'm telling
you right now, if he like landed on a tree and didn't move,
you'd never see it. Huh. What condition was the cornfield in at the
time you said this happened around October? I want to say that the cornfield
had been caught. It had already all been caught. So so another thing
we had talked about once was did the and these guys, you know,
they're very thorough about their work, did the you know, NonStop noise of
these giant tractors like disturb this thing. But but then at the same time,
it's they do it at the same time every year, you know,
Yeah, so why would this one year, you know, happen to wake
this thing up or make it angry to where it would come out? And
you know, insects go through different stages, you know, I have like
a larval stage and stuff. So like, if you're talking about like a
moth type insect, was it at one time a giant caterpillar or something?
Maybe somebody has seen something else out there that could have been this in a
different stage of life, you know, and maybe that's why nobody else has
described what you're talking about. But I mean, like I'm just racking my
brain, man, Like I don't get stumped on cryptids very often, and
not very often do I run across somebody that described seeing something that I've never
heard anybody else talk about. Another thing, now that we bring that up,
another regret that I'm having now is besides you know, trying to close
the garage door and capturing it, I should have it wasn't my property.
But I'm pretty sure I could have got away with going down there. I
should have went down there, like with a strong flashlight, and I should
have looked to see if there is any type of like shell, you know,
that it came out of, or any odd holes in the ground or
anything. But like I said, I was twenty two. I was not
the person I am now, that's for sure. I mean, there's no
time where it came from either, So you probably wouldn't have found anything,
But yeah, I know what you mean, especially now that you're sitting here
fifteen years later, still talking about it and still know we're closer to figuring
out what it was than the night you saw it. Yeah. And if
I called up, like right now, if I called up my you know,
my buddy that was in the garage with me when it happened, I
did just say hey, remember you know megam Off and Keith laugh, and
he'd be, you know, be like, yeah, damn right, I
do. I mean, have you talked to those guys about it over the
years? Me and my friend Steve, Yeah, we've talked about it a
couple of times. And then my one friend Dustin who pulled in. I
believe we've at least talked about it once or twice. Not recently, but
yeah, your friend's mother and this guy Dustin both whenever they saw it flapping
around inside your garage immediately associated with being some sort of bird. Yeah.
I mean that tells you, you know, the size of the thing was
way too big to be a bug. Yeah, well she said, you
know it when my friend Dustin played, he said, hey, you got
some kind of weird bird flying around because he was like flying around the middle
of the garage, so I could see him in the headlights, and I
could see his shadow on the back of the wall, so I could tell
he was a solid like chunky dude. And then, like I assume,
the next day, it was just gone. Yes, that's crazy, man.
I wonder if anybody else saw it, and anybody that's listening, if
you've seen a giant insect like this, you know, hit me up and
tell me. I'd love to hear about it, because this is something I
don't know. This is something that like cryptos will all just get really excited
about, because while you're describing something completely out of the ordinary and much too
large to be anything that we know about, you're also describing something that's like
totally feasible, yeah, and could very well be a real species and not
just some folklore you know. Yeah, because it's not like, you know,
it's not like its eyes were blawing red and you know, shooting lasers,
you know, and he acted very much like an insect of the hack.
You know, he got into the lights, didn't know what to do,
and bumped us out a bunch of times. Well, have you experienced
anything else in your lifetime. Any paranormal events or UFOs or anything. No,
nothing, just the giant attack of the moth. Yeah, nothing,
nothing with I mean, Bigfoot's always been my favorite cryptid. When I was
younger, my favorite cryptids are always the Lake monsters. But as I got
older, you know, I shifted the big Foot. But I've never had
any you know, UFO or like paranormal ghost experiences or anything like that.
Where do you think your interest in this stuff came from when I was a
young boy. And second, I was in second grade when X Files started
coming on TV. Yeah, and my mother, So I would watch the
X Files with my mother like when it you know, we watched every episode
as they aired. Same thing with the Robert stack on Solved Mysteries. We
watched all of those so I so I loved all those the ghost ones.
And I know they didn't do much with Big Fat, but there were a
couple of them. Yeah. And then uh was it Tim White with Sightings?
Yeah, Yeah, I loved I loved Sighting. Sights was a great
show. Man that that's a show that doesn't get enough recognition, you know,
it kind of gets overshadowed by like Unsolved Mysteries, but Sightings was Sightings
is way better in my opinion for that type of stuff. I loved you
are always you know, Unsolved Mysteries is kind of a gamble because I'd watch
it regardless. But you knew You're something good was going to be on Sightings.
Yeah, yeah, for sure, they always had great stuff. Yeah.
And then when Monster you know, and then it was obviously years and
years later when Monster Quest started, I was like, wow, I can't
believe, you know, the stuff's popular at this point to where there's going
to be multiple seasons of a show like those. Yeah, and it's only
gotten more popular over the years. Now it's kind of its own thing.
It's become part of pop culture and gotten trendy in some ways. It's pretty
crazy. Yeah, I agree. Well, all right, man, I
appreciate you sharing your story. Thank you for listening. I wish I I
wish I had some information give you or help you out with on this one.
Man. I'm sure it's really sucked, you know. Yeah. Yeah,
I've been waiting to tell this one for quite a while. Like I've
only told you know, like my wife and a couple of my close friends,
and you know, I told the kids, and that's pretty much a
didn't you say you reached out to Ken Gerhart? Yes, yes, I
did. I just know he deals with a lot of weird stuff. You
know. I read Ken's book Flying Humanoids in twenty fifteen, and so September
thirty, ath twenty fifteen, I wanted to tell him about it. And
you know, this was on my part. This was probably my fault that
I never got to speak with him, because he did ask what was you
know, what would be a good time to call tomorrow, and I don't
remember what was happening in my life or what, you know, what was
going on, and I just never messaged him back. So that was actually
on my end. Hey, it happens. Yeah, and you know,
maybe this was for the better, you know, because I'm glad, you
know, I listen to your show every time you guys put out a new
episode, So maybe this will be for the better. Yeah, man,
I appreciate you coming on. For sure. I'm gonna be thinking about this
one for the rest of the day at least. Yeah, if you ever
hear anything from anyone, make sure you let me know. Yeah, for
sure. And if you've seen a giant moth Bigfoot or a lake monster,
or anything at all that you can't explain. Send me an email at Bigfoot
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