1 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,080 All right, I have an email here, this person wrote me, and 2 00:00:15,199 --> 00:00:19,039 it has six encounters, and I'm going to read every one of them. 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,480 Do y'all, it's all you dudes that wear two pays. Put that chin 4 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,480 strap on. Go. Do you a bowl of popcorn and a microwave, 5 00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:30,839 warm up some hot dogs or some leftover spaghetti, and sit down and get 6 00:00:30,879 --> 00:00:36,039 ready for some really good stuff. Here's what this person writes. Like many 7 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,479 of your stories that you read, I'd like to say that each story that 8 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,840 I'm about to relate to you is true. I'm in my late fifties and 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,000 I can remember this as if it happened yesterday. I could still see and 10 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,960 feel everything in my mind's eye. And I never told anyone about this encounter 11 00:00:54,159 --> 00:00:58,640 until thirty or forty years after it happened. I told my cousin, who 12 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:03,759 I will refer to in later stories, and then recently my wife. This 13 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,799 encounter is still so real to me. When I was ten years old, 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,200 I loved to go deer hunting with my dad and our neighbor and his son 15 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,040 on the weekends. It wasn't so much that I wanted to make a kill. 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,359 I just loved to get out in nature. I enjoyed seeing everything that 17 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,120 was out there. I watched several deer pass over the years, and I 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:29,799 never raised my rifle to shoot. We hunted several areas around central and northern 19 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:34,560 Louisiana, and many of the areas which we like to hunt were also a 20 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:40,200 part of the Kasachi National Forest. Our home borders the National Forest and as 21 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,439 close to Kencaid Lake. That fact will play into later stories that I will 22 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,560 tell you. It was a cold winter morning, and as far as winter 23 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:55,079 cold could be down here in Louisiana, it wasn't uncommon that over Christmas Break 24 00:01:55,159 --> 00:01:59,079 to be in shorts. For Christmas Eve, you're heavy winter coat for Christmas 25 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:04,159 Day, ring in New Year's back in shorts. We like to say that 26 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:07,359 we have about four days of winter each year, but I know that's an 27 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,639 exaggeration. My dad, our neighbor, and our neighbor's boy and I got 28 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:15,800 up early at three am and we loaded up for a long ride toward northern 29 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:21,159 Louisiana. We would always get up early and ride at least an hour to 30 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,000 an hour and a half. We didn't see deer in the forest around our 31 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:28,960 house, so we would travel up to the Williana Pacton area to hunt. 32 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,159 I was at the age that it would always seem like it would take forever 33 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,919 to get there. We all piled into the cab of our neighbour's old four 34 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,400 single cab truck this morning, like many others before, with all our heavy 35 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,159 coats on. We were wedged in like sardines. It wasn't unusual to take 36 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:50,280 his truck due to the fact that he would want to load a six wheel 37 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,280 yellow ATV in the back. That ATV could do everything. It had a 38 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:00,120 joystick to maneuver, and it could even float. My friend and I I 39 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,439 spent several days in the past fishing off of that floating ATV. Our neighbor 40 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,639 would always scout out the different places in the fall for deer signs, and 41 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,599 then when the season rolled around, we would set off. There was no 42 00:03:13,719 --> 00:03:16,719 such thing as a deer stand for us, or even having a fee plot 43 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:20,800 to hunt. We just went out in the woods and did our best. 44 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:25,439 This morning was no different than any other. We arrived at our scouted out 45 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:30,719 location and we were ready to hunt. We gathered up all of our gear 46 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:34,360 and then set out on foot on the trails in the old logging pass to 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,800 reach our prime location. My dad and our neighbor had the flashlights. Us 48 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:44,319 kids never did have one when we went out. As always, since I 49 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,439 was the youngest, I would get put out first so I would be closest 50 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:52,159 to the truck. I tended to take the kidding as well. It wasn't 51 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,680 uncommon for me the first to make it back to the truck on hunting trips. 52 00:03:55,479 --> 00:03:59,560 Most times I would make it back early and be into the snacks and 53 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:03,240 drinks before anyone else made it back. The hunting gun that I used was 54 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,759 my great grandfather's four to ten single shot gun, for which I was only 55 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,360 given a handful of slugs. Now looking back, I wouldn't have been able 56 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,519 to kill a deer if I tried. It probably didn't even shoot straight anyway. 57 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,800 The slug had a star on the end of it. When looking at 58 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,240 the shell, and my neighbor would always laugh and say that if I shot 59 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,759 a deer that the star on the slug would brand it so I would know 60 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,199 it was my deer. On this morning, as we walked out into the 61 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:35,519 woods, we only went about one hundred yards off of gravel Road, and 62 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,720 my neighbor pointed and said that this would be a good spot for me. 63 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,639 I did as I was told, and I stepped off the trail and flopped 64 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,800 down on the stump. And as I look back up, I watched the 65 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,959 flashlights bob in the dark as they walked out of sight, leaving me sitting 66 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,879 in the pitch black dark. As always in the past, I looked up 67 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,360 into the night sky and there were stars everywhere. And I sat there in 68 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:02,560 the dark, the stars and waiting for daylight. It seemed like it was 69 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,839 taking for hours for daylight to get there. Usually, as it starts to 70 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,759 get light, a person can hear the forest come to life, birds will 71 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,959 sing, and the movement will begin and start the day. This morning, 72 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:20,120 though it was quieter than normal, I didn't hear the normal sounds, but 73 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:25,079 I didn't make anything of it. After all, it was below freezing that 74 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:29,000 morning and it was very cold to me. I didn't figure much would be 75 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,360 moving on a morning like this. Once a day began to break, I 76 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:35,879 began to take notice of the woods that were around me, and I saw 77 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,639 that the area in which I was sitting was more open than most places that 78 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:45,600 I had hunted. This area had a lot of young growth everywhere. There 79 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,399 were lots of high grass and other stumps, and behind me it was more 80 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:55,000 heavily wooded. Across the logging path, it had been clearcut in recent past 81 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,839 and was beginning to grow back. I was able to see mainly down the 82 00:05:58,879 --> 00:06:03,519 trails and into a few open areas between the small saplings at this point. 83 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,319 I don't know for sure, but I think that I probably dozed off as 84 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,920 the sun started coming up, and as I began to wake up, I 85 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,600 started looking around me and had a very uneasy feeling come over me. Something 86 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,560 really didn't feel right. I felt like something was watching me, and I 87 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,040 couldn't help but want to get out of there. I felt like something else 88 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,639 was there with me, and that's when I saw it. About forty or 89 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,399 fifty yards away was a metallic silver gray object. I could see about half 90 00:06:32,439 --> 00:06:36,680 of it due to being blocked from sight by the bushes in the high grass. 91 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,839 It was round and about twenty feet in diameter. If I had to 92 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,600 guess, I could see that it was a couple of feet off the ground, 93 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,040 but I couldn't see underneath it due to the high grass and weeds around 94 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:53,279 that area. As a kid, it looked to me like a wheel laying 95 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:57,759 on its side, two or three feet thick. It seemed to have a 96 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,759 ledge with a smaller dome on top of that. There were no markings. 97 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,240 There was nothing that was when I noticed a sound like a slight hum in 98 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,959 the air. It was like what you would hear around a transformer with electricity 99 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,399 flowing through it. It was real faint, but you could hear the slight 100 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:19,680 hum, and I was overcome with either curiosity or fear. I didn't know 101 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,000 if I should get up to see what it was or continue to sit there. 102 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:28,959 I elected to sit there, very still and watch it. It was 103 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,800 beginning to get very light outside, and my mind started working overtime at that 104 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,120 point. Was I really seeing this or is my mind playing tricks on me? 105 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,600 That's what I was thinking. Am I going crazy? Or is this 106 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,560 some kind of machine that the Forestry Service had in the woods. The forest 107 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,759 was still and it was really quiet. I didn't hear any wildlife that I 108 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:56,720 would normally hear. All I could hear was the buzzing hum. I started 109 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,199 looking around to see if I could see anything else in the open area that 110 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,399 I was in, and I sat there for a while, and I continued 111 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:07,319 to keep my eye on the object, but still had that uneasy feeling. 112 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,720 I wanted to leave, But then I thought back to how most times when 113 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,839 I went hunting, I was always the one to make it way back to 114 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:20,000 the truck first, and I was always ribbed about that. This time I 115 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,399 didn't want to go back so soon and take the ribbing again. Everyone would 116 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:28,600 always say that I probably left too soon and would probably miss the biggest buck. 117 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,480 One time that was the case, and I did miss a big buck 118 00:08:31,559 --> 00:08:37,120 when we found huge tracks by my spot after I had left. I didn't 119 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,480 want to go through all that again, so scared or not, I was 120 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:45,360 going to stay put. I nervously began to look around, and I took 121 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:48,039 my eyes off the object for a short time, and when I look back 122 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,320 at it, I could have sworn that it had moved. It appeared that 123 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:56,559 it was closer to me than it had been to begin with. This made 124 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,000 me really nervous, and I cocked the hammer on my four to ten and 125 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,360 I pourting it toward the object. I said to myself, if you come 126 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:07,879 any closer, I'm going to shoot. And I sat there for only a 127 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:13,279 few more moments, and as I watched the object, it did move. 128 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:16,399 It looked like it moved forward and drifted up a bit, and then it 129 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:22,080 moved back and down like it was before. It appeared like the object was 130 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,879 hovering from the movement. This time, I knew it was time to go, 131 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,519 and I took off, making my way as fast as I could back 132 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:33,279 toward the truck without running. And I kept looking behind me as I went 133 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:39,399 to be sure, but I didn't see anything following me. I did make 134 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,879 it back to the truck before anyone else made it back, and I ate 135 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:46,080 a few snacks and I drank some water, and I stayed at the truck 136 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:50,960 for an hour. During that time, I noticed squirrels moving in the trees 137 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:56,840 and the birds chirping, and I didn't have that uneasy feeling anymore. Curiosity 138 00:09:56,879 --> 00:09:58,799 got the best of me again. I just had to know what it was 139 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,279 that I had seen in the woods, so I took up my shotgun and 140 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,600 I left the truck and I crossed the gravel road back down the logging path, 141 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,440 making my way back to the spot that I was hunting in earlier. 142 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,000 Just before I ran to the corner, I cocked the hammer on the gun 143 00:10:16,039 --> 00:10:20,240 again and I headed to see what this thing was. I went around the 144 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,639 corner, and to my surprise, there was nothing there. The spot was 145 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,600 empty, The thing was gone. That was all it took for me. 146 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:31,960 I was done. I looked around once more and turned around and ran as 147 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,399 fast as I could back to the truck. An Olympic sprinter would have had 148 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,679 a hard time keeping up with me at that moment. This time, I 149 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,879 stayed at the truck and I waited for everyone else to return. I didn't 150 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:48,440 tell anyone about it when they came back to the truck because I knew that 151 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,399 no one would believe what I had seen. For some strange reason, we 152 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:58,000 left early that day. On our normal hunting days, we would stay out 153 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:01,840 until someone killed a deer or it got late. But that day everyone arrived 154 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:05,759 back at the truck to eat their snacks and lunch, and then we all 155 00:11:05,879 --> 00:11:09,799 left to go home. No one talked about anything as in a normal conversation. 156 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,360 Maybe they had an uneasy feeling as well. Looking back at it now, 157 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:18,639 I wish I would have gone back and seen where the object had been 158 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,120 and looked to see if there was any evidence of it having been there. 159 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,679 But at that time I was too scared and I wanted to get as far 160 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,480 away from it as I could. Even though this was a frightening experience, 161 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:35,519 it didn't keep me from going back in the woods. I continued to hunt 162 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,200 with my father and neighbors for years to come. I still love to explore, 163 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:45,200 make trails, and enjoy being out in nature. All right, since 164 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,840 this is a long podcast, let's just take a break, I want to 165 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:54,679 tell you one thing. Friday, May tenth, I will release the first 166 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,600 part, the first six or seven chapters of Blood Eagle. It should be 167 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:03,440 maybe a two or three hour podcast, and then Saturday Part two, and 168 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,399 then Sunday Part three. I think in another video I had said I was 169 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:09,679 gonna put it in four parts, but I think I'm gonna do it in 170 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,519 three. I don't know. It may be four, we'll just see. 171 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:18,320 But I just wanted to tell you that. And then real quick there, 172 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,440 I try not to make this long and get back into this series of stories 173 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,000 as quickly as I can. But I have to say this. About a 174 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,960 year year and a half ago, YouTube approached me. They assigned me like 175 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,600 a consultant to talk about, you know, how to grow your YouTube channel 176 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:37,879 and all this stuff. And basically what they wanted me to do was turn 177 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:43,120 on a bunch of features that I haven't turned on, like, uh, 178 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:48,480 I think I've used the Premiere feature once, and I've done some lives a 179 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:54,039 few times. And I don't do memberships because all my stuff is free to 180 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,080 you. But one thing I did agree to turn on after they really put 181 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,480 the pressure on me, was to turn on the super chats where you can 182 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,559 donate to the channel. Now, there's probably in the last year and a 183 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,159 happened, about ten people donate, you know, small amounts of money, 184 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,279 and I appreciate it so much. But there's one woman who donate. She 185 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,799 has donated like one hundred and fifty or two hundred bucks in increments, like 186 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:24,440 twenty five or fifty dollars increments over the last six months or so. And 187 00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:30,759 her name is Kim Jones and she's you can see her in the I'm not 188 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,360 I mean, I don't mind saying her name because it's her handle on YouTube. 189 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,799 And she does these super chats for me in like twenty five fifty bucks 190 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,039 at a time, and I just want to say, thank you, Kim, 191 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,559 that is so nice to you to do that. But I don't want 192 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,360 anybody to give me money. I just turned on that feature because they kind 193 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,519 of pressured me to do it, and I have struggled with turning it off. 194 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,159 I've wanted to turn it off ever since I turned it on, because 195 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:03,200 that's not what It's just not my nature to take money from people. I 196 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,919 just have too much pride. But I turned it on, and you know, 197 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,639 over the last year and a half, I bet I've been donated maybe 198 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,080 three hundred bucks. And it is so nice of you guys to do that. 199 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,360 I'm not asking you to do it now. As a matter of fact, 200 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,320 I don't want you to do it. But the people that have and 201 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,120 just kind of noticed it down there in the corner and donated. Thank you, 202 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,000 and especially thank you to Kim Jones for being so generous with me. 203 00:14:28,559 --> 00:14:33,440 Every time she gives me twenty five bucks or whatever. YouTube gets about half 204 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,120 of it, by the way, that's why I don't want y'all to donate 205 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,200 to it. But every time she donates twenty five or fifty bucks, I 206 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:46,360 take my wife out to lunch or dinner and she's buying us lunch or dinner. 207 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,960 And so, Kim, thank you so much. You're a very nice 208 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,639 and generous person, and I just wanted to thank you for that. Okay, 209 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:58,360 let's get back to this podcast story number two Lights near the Cemetery. 210 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,960 When I was in high school, every Friday night, several of my friends 211 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,120 and I would go out. We attended a rural high school and I was 212 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:11,320 a junior, and our idea of a night on the town was driving thirty 213 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:16,000 minutes to where everything was happening. There was roller skating, or watching a 214 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:20,799 movie and playing video games, or cruising the town and hanging out watching girls, 215 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:24,879 And that was our idea of a good time. None of my group 216 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,600 of friends had girlfriends, and we were too busy working on our cars and 217 00:15:28,759 --> 00:15:33,919 racing. If it didn't have four wheels and a steering wheel, we didn't 218 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,279 fool with it. On this night, we did our normal trip to town. 219 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:41,720 I drove because I had the most dependable car out of all of us. 220 00:15:43,639 --> 00:15:46,639 Most of us had to be home before midnight, and being that we 221 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,360 lived thirty minutes from town, we would leave around eleven o'clock. And as 222 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,720 you traveled out of town, heading toward where we lived, you went miles 223 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:58,320 down a two lane highway through the woods. The land was flat when you 224 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,000 left town, but at a point changed into rolling hills and It was at 225 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:08,559 these hills where you would be approaching the Kencaid Lake Kasachi National Forest Area. 226 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:14,320 There were no street lights, no houses that you could see from the road, 227 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:18,440 and as you made the gradual turn where the hills began, directly to 228 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,200 the right, about one hundred feet off the road was an unkept, small, 229 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,120 old family cemetery. At that time, one of my buddies had taken 230 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:30,679 an interest in my sister. He and my sister were riding in the backseat 231 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:34,919 of the car and paying no attention to anyone but each other. My other 232 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,919 buddy was in the front of the car while I drove. We weren't talking, 233 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,080 we were just looking out the windshield as I drove down the road. 234 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,080 We had finished our night on the town and we're headed back home through the 235 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,679 woods, and we entered the gradual turn into the hills where the cemetery was 236 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,440 located, and just as we were passing it, I saw a rather bright 237 00:16:56,559 --> 00:17:00,279 flash of light go across the front windshield of my car. It was like 238 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:06,039 the glare of a street light streaking across, but it was brighter. It 239 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,839 went from right to left, and it was lower than treetop level over the 240 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:14,839 car. Initially I thought it was a street light, and then I realized 241 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,799 that there was nothing around here. There are no street lights, There's only 242 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,240 woods. I realized this, and I turned to my buddy beside me and 243 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:26,440 I looked at him. He was looking at me and his eyes were as 244 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,359 big as saucers. He said, did you see that? Yeah? I 245 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,240 saw that. What was that? I don't know. Did we just see 246 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,960 a UFO? I said maybe. My sister and my friend in the back 247 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:42,759 never saw anything or even knew what was going on. It was a bright 248 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,440 light and there was no sound. It was right in front of us, 249 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,839 and it streaked across right in front of the top of the car, and 250 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:55,559 it was really fast. We only mentioned it a few times to each other 251 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,920 through the rest of high school, but never gave it much thought. We 252 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,440 never knew what it was. I mentioned it to my mother and she said, 253 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,960 we were just seeing things. Many years later, my cousin and I 254 00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:11,279 were talking about strange things that happened out here in the middle of nowhere, 255 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:15,960 and I told him about this night in high school when we had the light 256 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,720 dart in front of the car. I didn't mention to him where it was 257 00:18:18,759 --> 00:18:22,920 that we had seen the light, but the look on his face changed almost 258 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,640 to shock, and he immediately said, it happened in front of that old 259 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,319 cemetery, didn't it. He began to relate to me about an incident that 260 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,119 he had encountered at the same place around nineteen sixty nine. This was fifteen 261 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,000 years earlier. He said that he was driving home by himself after having been 262 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:45,519 out for a while. He couldn't really tell what time it was, but 263 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:49,400 he knew it was late. When he came around the curve and passed the 264 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,079 cemetery, he said that a bright light came up across the road right in 265 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,200 front of his old GMC pickup. He thought that he was going to hit 266 00:18:57,279 --> 00:19:00,359 it, and he swerved to avoid it, and as he went off the 267 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:06,039 shoulder, he blew a tire. He gained control of the truck and got 268 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:08,720 it stopped, and then he realized that he didn't have a spare. It 269 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:12,400 was a cold night and he had been drinking. There was no traffic on 270 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,440 the highway, and just past the cemetery there was a roadside picnic area. 271 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:22,160 He eased into there and he stopped and back then there were no cell phones 272 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,319 to call for help, so he decided to lay down on the park bench 273 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,559 and he went to sleep. When he woke up the next morning, he 274 00:19:30,599 --> 00:19:33,799 had covered himself up in leaves, all except his nose to stay warm. 275 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,559 Only his nose was cold. He said it was so cold it almost froze 276 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:44,640 off. And after getting up he hitched a ride home. But after hearing 277 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,720 his story, we really don't know. But we could have seen the same 278 00:19:47,759 --> 00:19:52,519 thing only years apart. We both described the same details. My cousin always 279 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:56,599 did say that there was something out there, but no one ever knew what 280 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,880 it was. This is his third story. It's called the orange ball incident. 281 00:20:03,319 --> 00:20:07,519 These five incidents happened over a span of time, starting around the late 282 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:15,400 seventies to about twenty and sixteen. We are patiently watching and waiting for it 283 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:22,400 to come about again. The locations are each anchored around central Louisiana. Kencaid 284 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,920 Lake is a man made reservoir that borders Kasachi National Forest, about a mile 285 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:32,079 through the woods from the dead end road mentioned in these stories. Each story 286 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,680 describes encounters that could possibly be of the same object, but I will leave 287 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:41,519 that up for you to decide. The first incident was related to us by 288 00:20:41,559 --> 00:20:45,640 our neighbor who lives across the road. It is a short story, but 289 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,920 it is unnerving all the same. Sometime during the late nineteen seventies to early 290 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,519 eighties, he decided to go fishing at night on Kencaid Lake. He went 291 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:57,759 out on the lake with his boat and went to one of his favorite night 292 00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:03,440 fishing holes. And as he was fishing, an orange ball of light rose 293 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,799 up out of the water near his location. It was so bright that it 294 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,759 lit up the area of the lake all around him, and there was no 295 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,799 sound, and he had no idea what it was, and he decided at 296 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:18,599 that moment to get the heck out of there. He threw his fishing pole 297 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,960 in the boat and he took off. He was lucky to have gotten out 298 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,440 alive. As he sped back through the stumping fested lake to the dock. 299 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:33,039 He hurriedly loaded his boat and he tore out towards home. Moving ahead to 300 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:37,079 two thousand and eight, our two sons and a friend were driving home one 301 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,079 night from church. It was a bit late, since they usually stopped off 302 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:45,400 for a bike to eat before heading home. They were driving my truck since 303 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,319 I was working nights at the time and I wasn't home. We live on 304 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,440 a dead end road, and when you turn off the highway, you travel 305 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,759 a short distance to a fork in the road, and at the fork, 306 00:21:55,839 --> 00:22:00,799 which we call the wy, you turn on our dead end road. As 307 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:03,319 the boys returned home and made the turn at the why, they noticed that 308 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,200 the headlights on the truck began to flicker, and the dashlights went out. 309 00:22:08,039 --> 00:22:12,960 It was then that they saw there an orange glow beginning to illuminate the outside 310 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:18,079 of the truck. It lit up the truck so bright that the inside of 311 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,680 the truck began to glow. An orange ball of light passed over the truck 312 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,599 and headed due south, straight down the road, and it was gone about 313 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:30,880 a mile from the end of the shroad. As ken kaid late, the 314 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,440 boys, shaking up, drove quickly down to the end of the road to 315 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:38,119 their grandparents' house, and they rushed inside. My mother opened the door to 316 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,680 let them in, and they ran in, and they stopped in the utility 317 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:45,519 room. And when she got a good look at them, she said that 318 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:48,559 they looked like they had seen a ghost. She asked them what was the 319 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,720 matter. All three of them didn't say anything, and she asked them again. 320 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,680 Something must have happened. What is it. The oldest son, who 321 00:22:56,759 --> 00:23:03,240 was driving, said nothing, Grandma under his breath, Yeah, something happened. 322 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:06,079 She said, y'all look like you've seen a ghost. What is it? 323 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,480 And reluctantly they started to explain that they had seen an orange ball. 324 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,279 They explained that it came over the truck as they turned at the wy in 325 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,680 the road. They further explained how it headed south and it disappeared. Well. 326 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,960 I found out what had happened the next day after I got off work. 327 00:23:23,079 --> 00:23:27,480 Since time has passed, my middle son has recalled the incident more clearly. 328 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,079 He said that when he looked out the window and saw the glow, 329 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:36,279 he bent down to look up into the sky and he could see three lights 330 00:23:36,279 --> 00:23:40,680 in a large triangle shape. As it started to move up and away from 331 00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:44,880 them, it looked like it flipped. The bottom light rotated to the top, 332 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,599 and then it quickly rose out of sight in an instant. The summer 333 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:53,079 following this incident, about six months later, I was beginning to wax the 334 00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:57,400 top of my cab, which I did religiously, and I noticed several places 335 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:02,400 in the paint where it had bubbled. Shortly after that, the paint on 336 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,400 the hood on the top of the bed started cracking and bubbling. I had 337 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,519 never seen a base coat and a clear coat suffer paint failure that quickly. 338 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:17,559 My son has an identical truck. It's the same color and all, and 339 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:21,359 he's never washed or waxed it in years, and his paint still looks good. 340 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,720 Is this a coincidence or not? Three years later, our oldest son 341 00:24:26,839 --> 00:24:30,160 came home from a visit from college around the Christmas break. He pulled into 342 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,279 the driveway around midnight and parked in the front yard, and as he got 343 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,480 out of the truck, our two dogs and the neighbor's dogs, who is 344 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:42,759 usually fearless, ran as if to greet him, but instead tried to crawl 345 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:48,200 into the truck and stayed between his legs. They were completely scared of something, 346 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:53,119 And at that point he saw a glowing orange ball about the size of 347 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,039 a basketball at the top of the hill by the house, about fifteen feet 348 00:24:57,079 --> 00:25:02,759 off the ground. It was was moving eastward down the hill, twenty yards 349 00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:07,480 from the woodline. It floated past him and across the road toward his grandparents' 350 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:11,839 house, and then it raised up to go over the house and it continued 351 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,759 east out of sight. During that time that it was going down the hill. 352 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,279 He fumbled for his phone to take a picture while trying to keep an 353 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:23,319 eye on the object. Being scared and shaken up, he couldn't find the 354 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,880 right buttons to take the picture with his phone before it went out of sight. 355 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:32,759 Now, our middle son, who had seen the orange ball years earlier, 356 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,400 always joked to his best friend that strange things happened in the middle of 357 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,400 nowhere, quoting courage the Cowardly Dog. His best friend had heard the stories 358 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:47,440 many times. He always told our son that he was full of crap and 359 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:52,359 didn't believe any of it. Late one evening in the fall of twenty twelve, 360 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,200 our middle son, his best friend, and I were working in the 361 00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:00,440 shop behind their grandparents' house. His best friend had inherited his grandfather's old truck 362 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,039 and needed help working on it. The repairs took longer than we thought they 363 00:26:06,039 --> 00:26:10,200 were going to in about two am. When we finished up, my son 364 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,519 asked if his friend wanted to spend the night. He replied, now, 365 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:17,799 I need to get home, and he hopped into his truck and drove down 366 00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:21,880 our road and he left. My son and I cleaned up in the shop. 367 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,279 We put things away and we walked home. Later, his friend called 368 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:30,440 and told our son, I'm never leaving your house that late ever again. 369 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,440 I believe you now. When I got to the end of the road, 370 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:37,680 you know what that why I saw the orange ball come right over my truck. 371 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:42,240 He didn't explain anything else about what happened. He just said that he 372 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,279 floored the old truck and got the hell out of there as fast as he 373 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:52,359 could. Now. I have lived in this location bordering Kasashi National Forest most 374 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,480 of my life. My wife and I walked the logging trails to ken Kaid 375 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,359 Lake all the time, and over the years I've been working in the shop 376 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,480 late at night, hearing coyotes and panthers and screech owls and strange noises, 377 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,559 but nothing that couldn't be explained. I walked at all hours of the night 378 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,519 back and forth to the shop to work, and I sit outside for hours 379 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:18,359 stargazing. I had never seen the orange ball that the boys had seen. 380 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:25,119 It did become such a curiosity that our neighbors and family made a pack that 381 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,039 if we ever saw anything, we would immediately call the others and just say 382 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,240 orange ball, so that the others could come outside to see And in April 383 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:40,039 of twenty sixteen, right around midnight, I was coming home from Shreveport after 384 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:44,400 working all day. It was a clear, cold night and there was no 385 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:48,880 moon. And as I turned from the highway and approached the wy my truck 386 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:53,839 likes began to flicker and the dashlights went out and the motors skipped. I 387 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:59,440 immediately said, what the heck is wrong with you? Now? I knew 388 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,559 that this would be something else that I was going to have to fix, 389 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,000 and that a diesel motor usually doesn't miss unless something major is going on. 390 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:11,519 And as I turned right on the why, I noticed the light going right 391 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:17,519 over the treetops directly above me. I wasn't even thinking about the orange ball, 392 00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:22,079 and my first thought was, wow, that helicopters really low. Our 393 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,279 home is in the flight path of a military base and an airport. Military 394 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,079 helicopters fly all the time from east to west and west to east, and 395 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,839 they never north to south. And as I said that to myself, I 396 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:40,200 noticed that there was no sound and that the light was glowing orange and moving 397 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,559 pretty fast. It was headed straight down our north south road at treetop level. 398 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,759 The light from this object was illuminating the tops of the trees. Now, 399 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:55,480 conventional aircraft don't do that. I realized at the moment that this was 400 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:59,960 like the orange ball that the boys had seen. I sped up my truck 401 00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:03,319 to try to get a better look. The road is about a quarter mile 402 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,079 long. Where it did end, the road gradually goes downhill to our driveway. 403 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,839 And as I drove and it began going down hill, I turned off 404 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,000 my lights to try to get a better view without the glow of the instrument 405 00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:18,519 panel. And I continued to watch it, and I was driving at a 406 00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:21,680 good clip, and it was a wonder that I didn't hit a tree. 407 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,240 And as I neared my neighbor's driveway, I came almost to a stop. 408 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,839 The orange ball veered slightly left, heading out toward Kasachie and Kencaid Lake. 409 00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:34,759 And as I continued watching it, as far as I could see, it 410 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:40,200 didn't look like it continued going straight. It looked like it dove down until 411 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,400 I couldn't see it anymore. I don't know how to describe it any other 412 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,319 way. It looked like it went out over the woods and then it went 413 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,720 down. I turned my lights back on and I raced up to the driveway 414 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,160 and I ran into the house and I woke my wife up. I excitedly 415 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,680 told her that I had just seen the orange ball. And as I told 416 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:06,160 my wife about what had happened, we remembered our security cameras. We had 417 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,480 recently installed several security cameras around our place. The camera on the front door 418 00:30:11,599 --> 00:30:15,119 points directly toward the end of the driveway in the main road. The camera 419 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,359 range, though does not catch above the treetops due to our house as eve. 420 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,480 But upon reviewing the footage, we can see a bright glare illuminating down 421 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:30,359 the road heading south. At a point after the bright glare passes by, 422 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,279 the road is dark and the next thing we could see was when the lights 423 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:38,279 on the truck were turned on and the truck drove into the driveway. Now 424 00:30:38,319 --> 00:30:45,240 we are left wondering when we might see it again. Now this is story 425 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:49,519 number four. It's called possible Bigfoot. At a family get together one evening. 426 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,160 This story was related to me by two of my cousins and my aunt 427 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,400 and my uncle. I have no reason to believe that this story isn't true. 428 00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:02,000 They live across the highway about a mile and a half from us, 429 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,680 and are probably a mile from Kasachi. National Forest woods connect the whole area, 430 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:11,200 and behind my cousin's house is an area of dense woods and lots of 431 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,079 pine saplings and brush, And my cousin didn't tell this story to too many 432 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,559 people. He didn't want a lot of people coming out there, especially with 433 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:26,799 guns and messing around. Between late nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty this started 434 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,799 up one night anywhere from eleven to one am. They were hearing noises of 435 00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:36,079 something moving around in the woods behind their house and the sounds of tree branches 436 00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:40,920 snapping. He said when it first started, his dogs were going nuts and 437 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,200 barking and raising cane. One dog was a huge Doberman pincher. Also there 438 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,720 was a small mixed breed hound and another medium sized dog. Sometimes they would 439 00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:56,880 go into the woods and bark continuously, and other times they would only go 440 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,960 to the fence line and bark, and even with all the motion whatever, 441 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,279 it was never messed with the dogs. As time went on, though, 442 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:08,599 the dogs became used to it. They wouldn't even bother barking. One time, 443 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,519 he and his dad took cubeams spotlight. They went to the edge of 444 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:16,640 the woods to the fence line. He shined his light to where the noise 445 00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:21,079 was coming from, but whatever it was would just be out of range of 446 00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:23,359 the light. And other times they would get by the edge of the fence. 447 00:32:24,319 --> 00:32:28,400 His mother and his father and he would walk the length of the fence 448 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,559 line, which was a couple of hundred feet. Every two or three steps 449 00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:36,400 they would take. Whatever it was would take one step and keep up with 450 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,480 them. They did this all the way to the end of their property line. 451 00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:43,640 They would then turn around and come back, and it would pace them 452 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,799 all the way back. One night, my cousin decided that he was going 453 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,119 to walk back into the woods with his cubeam to see if he could see 454 00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:54,240 anything. He thought about taking a gun, but he figured if he saw 455 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,319 it he might have to shoot it then he would feel bad about that since 456 00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:02,640 it never bothered them. He went ahead and walked into the woods, and 457 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,960 the farther he went, and the farther it would move away from him, 458 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:10,079 and as he came back to the house, it followed, but seemingly kept 459 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:15,680 the same distance. One day, he must have mentioned it to some service 460 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,680 guys at work about what was going on at his house, and they were 461 00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:22,960 curious, and they decided that they were going to come see what it was. 462 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,880 There were four or five Service guys that showed up, and they were 463 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,160 armed with guns. They got to my cousin's house about eight pm and waited 464 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:37,400 until ten or eleven o'clock. They didn't hear any sounds. Everything was quiet. 465 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,319 My cousin said, well, looks like it's not going to move around 466 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,720 tonight. When all of a sudden, the dogs took off at a dead 467 00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:49,720 run into the woods. The noises had begun again. You could hear the 468 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,119 big dog running like it was after something. He was grunting and huffing as 469 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:58,079 he ran, like he was really on the trail of something. The little 470 00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:00,839 one was right behind him, barking all time. When all of a sudden, 471 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,039 whatever it was, the big dog must have hit it. It sounded 472 00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:09,559 like the dog ran into a brick wall with a big thud. Next, 473 00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:15,519 the little dog started screaming like she was being killed. My cousin figured that 474 00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:17,679 that was the end of his dogs, and that whatever this thing was had 475 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:22,880 done gotten his dogs. The Service guys, after hearing all of this going 476 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,599 on, they jumped in their car. My cousin asked, where are you 477 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:31,039 guys going. They said, we're getting out of here. They laughed as 478 00:34:31,079 --> 00:34:35,719 fast as they could, and a minute or so later, both dogs came 479 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,960 walking out of the woods like nothing had happened. However, when he went 480 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,400 to check to see them if they were all right, the small dog was 481 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,960 covered and slimy spit or saliva. It was like, whatever this thing was, 482 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,880 it seemed to have put it in its mouth or licked the dog and 483 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,280 covered it. My mother was listening as my cousin told us this story, 484 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,280 and she said, oh, that's not really what happened. My aunt was 485 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,960 there and she replied, yes, that is exactly what happened. My mother 486 00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:09,920 then said that it must be true. Then she always said that my aunt 487 00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:15,159 never exaggerated. My cousin told us that they had taken a sample of the 488 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:19,639 saliva on the dog and sent it to be tested, and it came back 489 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:23,400 with the result stating they didn't know what it was. That was the only 490 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:29,519 answer that he ever received. Some time later, my cousin and his dad 491 00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:32,559 decided to go back into those woods during the daylight hours to see if they 492 00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:37,400 could see anything else, and the only thing they found were several trees which 493 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,159 were about eight to ten inches in diameter that had their top snapped off at 494 00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:46,039 about seven to eight feet in the air, and brush was pushed over it. 495 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,159 There were no tracks to be seen due to all the pine straw and 496 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,599 hard ground and heavy undergrowth in the area and the movement of whatever this thing 497 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,320 was, and the occasional loud branch is snapping went on every night for six 498 00:36:01,519 --> 00:36:07,159 months, and then it all just stopped and they never knew what it was, 499 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,320 all right. This is story number five. It's titled I See the 500 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,400 Moon. My wife and I would always joke around every time we would see 501 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,440 the moon, because one of us or the other would exclaim I see the 502 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,039 moon, and the other would reply. It was like a competition who could 503 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:27,159 see the moon first. One night, my wife and I were returning home 504 00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:31,480 from town after grocery shopping. It was a very dark evening. A storm 505 00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:35,280 had moved in and there was a lot of thunder and lightning, and the 506 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,719 flashes of lightning lit up the sky and it almost blinded us. As we 507 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,800 were traveling out of town due west toward home. I was driving slowly. 508 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,639 The rain was coming down heavy, and, as my Papa would say, 509 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,960 like a cow peeing on a flat rock. My wife was looking in my 510 00:36:52,039 --> 00:36:55,639 direction. As we talked about the day. About that time, the bright 511 00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,119 streak of light lit up the sky. Now she looked out driver's side front 512 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:05,039 windows. She exclaimed, I see the moon, and I replied I see 513 00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:07,960 the moon too, And at that instant we both said, wait, that 514 00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:14,519 camp be right. We both had observed a perfect round sphere like a moon. 515 00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:17,840 It was all white with no detail larger than the moon due to it 516 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,719 being closer and at about a forty five degree angle southwest through our windshield. 517 00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:27,760 That's when we realized that it couldn't have been the moon, first off, 518 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,840 because it was cloudy and storming, and secondly, it was in the wrong 519 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:37,320 part of the sky. Strange things happen in the middle of nowhere. All 520 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:44,159 right. Now here's story number six. It's called lake Watchitaw. My wife 521 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:49,559 and I enjoy camping. Weeks earlier, we reserved a campsite at Lake Watchtaws 522 00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:52,760 State Park in Arkansas. Hey. By the way, I want to say 523 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,800 so, I know people correct the way I pronounce things all the time. 524 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,880 For some reason, when I pronounce lake watching it tall, people correct me 525 00:38:01,079 --> 00:38:05,639 in the comment section and they say, no, it's like watch it all. 526 00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:08,679 And I think, well, that's what I said. It's watch it 527 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:15,360 all, oh Uacha Lake, watchitall. It so all you people who don't 528 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,920 think I'm saying it right, it's watch it all, and don't comment and 529 00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,440 say it's like watch it all, because that's what I said. Anyway, 530 00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:27,440 back to the story. We left home after work and we drove the five 531 00:38:27,519 --> 00:38:30,800 and a half hours to our camp site. After winding through a scenic mountain 532 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,320 highway curving back and forth. It was close to midnight when we got there. 533 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,639 As we came into the campground and search for our camp site, we 534 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:45,679 realized that quiet hours began at ten pm. We decided to pull into the 535 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,280 site to sleep for the night and not unhook the camper until the next morning. 536 00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:54,159 We would wait until daylight to unload and back in correctly when we could 537 00:38:54,159 --> 00:38:59,679 see much better. The night was cool and beautiful, with the moon seemingly 538 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,360 full. There was an ice breeze to enjoy, and we walked to the 539 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:07,599 edge of the campsite to look out over the lake with all the beautiful reflections, 540 00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:10,639 and the edge of the lake by our campsite continued one hundred yards to 541 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:15,480 the left and then it circled back to the other side, and as we 542 00:39:15,559 --> 00:39:21,119 stood there admiring the view, something screamed and yelled. I really have nothing 543 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,320 to compare it to. It was loud, and it was long, and 544 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:29,599 it was guttural. It seemed as though something with a huge lung capacity made 545 00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:34,719 it. We've heard many sounds in the woods and we've never heard anything like 546 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,960 this before. At that moment, my wife only said one thing, I'm 547 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,639 going back in the camper, and like that, she left me out there. 548 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,960 I stood out there for a while longer, and I didn't hear anything 549 00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:51,400 else, so I joined her in the camper, And now that we both 550 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,960 think back on that night, we realized that there were no sounds other than 551 00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:59,360 the breeze and the trees when we stood out there, and the quietness of 552 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,199 that night. It was one of the reasons that we were drawn to the 553 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:07,480 beauty of that evening before the silence was shattered. We did stay there for 554 00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:10,079 the following few days, listening at night, but we never heard that again. 555 00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:16,039 The next February, we reserved another site at Lake Watchtoss State Park. 556 00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:21,559 The site was on the end of the campground loop, in the direction in 557 00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:25,159 which we had heard the guttural yell. The year before, we put out 558 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:30,519 our chairs and we made a campfire to enjoy the extremely cold night. Across 559 00:40:30,559 --> 00:40:35,599 the road from the camping loop, the mountain rises up to a crest over 560 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,960 into a valley. As we sat enjoying our fire, we heard a short, 561 00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:44,559 high pitched scream to the north of us. Instantly, as the scream 562 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:49,800 stopped, a large pack of coaties began yipping and howling and moving from the 563 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,079 north to the south across the ridge through the valley. The noise they made 564 00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:58,840 never stopped as they moved until they were out of range. The next few 565 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,199 nights were quiet, but on our last night there there was another loud scream 566 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,719 and a pack of coyotes started up again, this time, though they were 567 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,000 further away and didn't yell for as long. As we spoke to another couple 568 00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:15,440 the next day, they were quickly to say that they were shaken by the 569 00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:22,519 noises as well. And that's the end of this couple stories. They say 570 00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:25,360 thank you again for giving people a place to share these things that have happened 571 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,360 to them. I asked that you do not give our names. Feel free 572 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,119 to contact us. Blah blah blah. We do some We have some other 573 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:37,079 stories. That our relatives have shared with us over the years, and may 574 00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:39,599 include them in a future email. We love you and God blessed well. 575 00:41:39,639 --> 00:41:44,039 I love you too, two you guys, thank you for sending this. 576 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:49,079 And this is one of the rare, you know, five percent of the 577 00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:52,719 stories that I didn't have to have anybody look at it to edit it, 578 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,480 to correct it so I could read it. It was just like perfectly written. 579 00:41:57,199 --> 00:41:59,440 May have changed a word or two as I got to it, but 580 00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:01,760 that's because as I got to it, and that word came to my mind, 581 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,679 and I just kept reading. These people go through a lot of stuff, 582 00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:12,480 their whole family, These orange orbs and lights stricking across the sky and 583 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,400 possible bigfoots yelling at them. This is really good stuff. So I appreciate 584 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:22,360 the I appreciate the email. I appreciate you sharing all these encounters with us. 585 00:42:22,599 --> 00:42:25,039 I thought they were great. And uh, that'll wind up this video. 586 00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:29,199 I appreciate you guys listening, and we'll see you on the next one.