WEBVTT 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.