WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:10.599 I have always believed in all things supernatural and unexplainable in our strange world, 2 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:17.039 things like ghosts and aliens and windigoes, etc. I've seen things I couldn't 3 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:21.359 even begin to explain, going back to us early as sharing my bunk bed 4 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.600 in a room with my sister and both of us experiencing and seeing and hearing 5 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:32.719 unnatural things. This past May, I got married to my husband, Chad, 6 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:37.960 and he's the one to blame for my unplanned beings dive into Bigfoot. 7 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:43.159 It's not his fault, of course. I grew up hearing stories about bigfoot 8 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:48.439 from my very large family for years. I was always intrigued by what they 9 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.560 were and if they were really out there in our Minnesota woods, but it 10 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:58.039 never really pulled my leg until now. What started all of this was because 11 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.880 of a real bigfoot encounter told me that he had and which he didn't tell 12 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:07.799 me for a long time, and he predicted I wouldn't have believed him anyway. 13 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.959 Ten years ago, it was late August and Chad was a senior in 14 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.239 high school. He had just turned eighteen, and he was enjoying his last 15 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:22.480 summer weekend before school started up the following Monday, him and his buddy were 16 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.840 hanging out Friday night at his friend's parents' house. They started out the night 17 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:32.400 playing video games and drinking soda, and realizing that neither of them had eaten, 18 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.519 they went upstairs and hopped in a friend's car and ran to the store. 19 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.680 They decided to grab some steaks. Once they were back, they decided 20 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.159 to grill them up outside on the deck in the backyard. The deck was 21 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.959 two stories high and the forestation behind the house was super thick, and it 22 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.959 was dense with trees, and there was roughly ten yards from the house in 23 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:00.560 each direction to the forest. It was totally surrounded. As soon as they 24 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.680 lit up the grill for the stakes, they started hearing rustling noises coming out 25 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.879 of the undergrowth in the tree line. Well initially, they chalked it up 26 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:13.319 to a deer or cody or some other animal, and they continued grilling. 27 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.319 They were used to the wild animals out in the woods, and then both 28 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.719 Chad and his friend heard a loud double knock, like the sound of the 29 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.960 cracking of a baseball bat against a tree. They both froze for a second, 30 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.719 looking off straight into the woods where they heard the sound coming from, 31 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:36.360 thinking what the hell was that? Chad hollered out at it after a second, 32 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.400 saying, well, knock knock to you too, but well they both 33 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:44.680 started laughing it off like it was nothing, and they forgot about it quickly, 34 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.879 and then suddenly they heard the same double knock again. This time the 35 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:53.479 sound was coming slightly from the right of the woods, and again the rustling 36 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:59.599 under the bushes in the treeline started all over again. They finished their steaks 37 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.159 and they were two on edge to enjoy them now, and they chucked their 38 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.960 remaining t bones to the left of the tree line, both of them flying 39 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.879 past the clearing, and the rustling that they were hearing in front of them 40 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.759 was now crashing loudly to the left toward those bones. They turned the propane 41 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.039 off to the grill really fast and got the hell out of there, and 42 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.360 they bee lined it toward the house. His friend grabbed his car keys and 43 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.319 says, man, let's get out of here, and they jumped into the 44 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:31.280 car and the tires peel, not even looking back toward the house. Once 45 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:36.080 they slowed up about a mile away from his friend's place, each of them 46 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.840 pulled out a cigarette and popped in a rush CD I don't know why I 47 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:46.479 think that's funny, but that's just kind of funny. They started off by 48 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:51.280 listening to Tom Sawyer because they both thought there was something relaxing about the music 49 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.879 effects in that track. His friend was still driving, and they took a 50 00:03:54.960 --> 00:04:00.960 ride down a dirt road toward the backwoods neighborhood to tea in the road, 51 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.960 and they took another right. The friend was only going about twenty miles an 52 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:09.080 hour because he knew that deer were notorious on that road and people hit him 53 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.719 all the time. Music was blasting and they were singing back and forth to 54 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.879 each other, and Chad looked out the windshield on a whim and right in 55 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.800 front of them, moving quickly to the left in two huge steps, he 56 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:28.560 saw a damn bigfoot cross the road with eyes wide and in shot. His 57 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.600 friend noticed Chad's face and asked him what was up, and he slowed down 58 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.040 the car. Chad choked out the words, it's a bigfoot man, his 59 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:43.079 friend replying loudly, a bigfoot. Chad nodded rapidly and his friend immediately with 60 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.920 the car around, shouting where they drove back about one hundred feet, and 61 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.920 Chad pointing to where he saw him cross the road. His friend pulled the 62 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:56.600 headlights into the ditch toward the patch of broken matted weeds, and his headlights 63 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.959 were pointing at a tree about seventy five feet in front of them. This 64 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.240 tree stood twenty five or thirty feet tall and there was a two way branch 65 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:10.680 splitting starting up at about eight feet from the base. Chad was staring at 66 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:14.800 the space in the split tree and realized he was looking at a gray brown, 67 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.360 reddish hair covered chest. He slowly looked upward and he saw the face 68 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:24.199 four feet above the split, and it was staring right back at him. 69 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:30.199 Chad said that this thing looked very old and very sinister, and it was 70 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:35.199 definitely not happy that some kids had spotted him mistakenly. Chad was terrified, 71 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:40.639 and he realized he was holding his breath, and once a friend opened the 72 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.560 car door, he tried to scream get back in the car, but he 73 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:47.879 only ended up choking his words out. He was too scared to talk before 74 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:51.240 speaking English again, he looked back at the tree to see if the bigfoot 75 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:56.240 was still there, and he caught this beast breaking off a branch toward the 76 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:00.800 top of the tree like it was a pretzel. The bigfoot then hurl the 77 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.319 branch clear over the car and immediately caught his friend's attention as it passed the 78 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:10.319 other side of the ditch and landed with a loud crash in the field behind 79 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.879 the car well. They looked at each other and they were freaking out, 80 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.560 and Chad finally screamed, let's go. The second he shouted that, the 81 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:24.639 bigfoot let out a deep, resonating evil roar. Chad's friend froze in fear 82 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:29.600 the flight response catching up to him. He jumped into the car. Chad 83 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.040 was already in there, and he slammed the car into reverse, pointing them 84 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.800 to the right, and then slammed it into drive and he took off fast, 85 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:42.360 kicking up so much dirt and dust that they couldn't see the tail lights. 86 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.079 Neither of them said a word to each other the entire way back to 87 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.879 his friend's house. They were trying to come to terms with what had just 88 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.120 happened to them. Once they were back at the house, Chad asked his 89 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:58.720 friend, along with using some choice words, can you believe that just happened? 90 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.560 No, it didn't happen because I refused to believe it, and I 91 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.879 don't want to be looked at as crazy, replied his friend. Well how 92 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:10.759 can you say that, said Chad, You saw what happened. We don't 93 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.639 have to tell anyone, but you can't ignore this. Well, maybe you 94 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.720 can't, as friend said, but I can't. And if you tell anyone 95 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:23.959 I was involved, I will deny it until I'm dead. His friend finished 96 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.000 a conversation and headed toward his dad's liquor cabinet. They weren't old enough to 97 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.519 drink legally, but they both took a shot or two, not mentioning the 98 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:38.680 encounter of the rest of the night. I thought my husband was crazy when 99 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.519 he told me this story. I didn't believe him at first, but I 100 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.240 really thought about it, and I thought this is too detailed to be led 101 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:49.920 about. So one afternoon, a week after he told me this story, 102 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.480 he brought me to where this had all gone down ten years ago. It 103 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.800 was a nice sunny day, and I figured we'd go on the adventure with 104 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.800 our dog. I parked car on the side of the dirt road was seventy 105 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.240 five feet from the tree, where you could still see the break from the 106 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.399 branch, and when I saw that, I got goosebumps. All over my 107 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.839 arms. We got out and started looking around, seeing if we could find 108 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.920 any clues from his encounter or new footfalls in the area. I was trying 109 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.639 to look for the huge branch this creature had broken off and thrown, but 110 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.639 I couldn't find it. We did find what looked to be a trail of 111 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.399 matted down grass leading to the tree from the dirt road, and on the 112 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.279 opposite side of the road, the trail of matted down grass continued into the 113 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:43.480 forest. On that side we found a fresh break of a tree branch sticking 114 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.639 straight up in the dirt, like someone had stuck it there very recently, 115 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.639 sort of like a marker. Instantly we both smell something rancid. It was 116 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.159 like death and sewage, and we covered our noses. We were standing completely 117 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.240 still at this We were one hundred feet from that tree line. The sounds 118 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.360 of the bugs and birds had completely stopped, and our dog was on guard. 119 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.240 Her hair was standing straight up and she was growling, and she was 120 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.440 staring in the direction of those trees. We heard a couple of whistles coming 121 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.960 from the left and the right, and then some more in front of us. 122 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.039 Chad and I started walking backwards slowly, and our dog ran to the 123 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.600 car and jumped in, and when we got there, she was shaking in 124 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.440 fear. I still wasn't able to see anything, but the feeling of the 125 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.720 fear creeped up on me, and we just kept walking slowly back to the 126 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.279 car, not making any sudden moves. That was when I stopped dead in 127 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.279 my tracks because I realized I was now looking at a large, reddish brown 128 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.360 figure in the tree line, and then I saw it crouch down and disappear 129 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:56.120 once he had noticed that I noticed him. I held in a scream. 130 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.879 My heart was pumping, and Chad and I booked it back to the car. 131 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.000 We didn't peel out, We just drove slowly down the road and I 132 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.960 was looking out the window towards the tree line to see if I could see 133 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.799 anything again, and I spotted a different but similar creature with darker hair, 134 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.639 and it was significantly smaller. I pulled my phone out and took a picture, 135 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.679 but this thing noticed me too soon and hid as soon as I snapped 136 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:26.000 the photo, and then we drove away and we haven't gone back there since. 137 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.639 I believe my husband now one hundred and ten percent, and I have 138 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.039 proof of my own that Bigfoot is out there. You can call this crazy, 139 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:35.919 but I couldn't make this shit up.