WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.919 Then when what are your putting? I got a screen going on here something 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.839 just because my dog. Something killed your dog? My dog. We're flying 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160 through the or over the trade. I don't know how it did it, 4 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.359 okay, damn, and I'm really confused. All as I saw was my 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.079 dog coming over the fence, and he was did when you hit the girl? 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.839 I didn't see any car And alls I saw was my dog coming over 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:40.759 the fence. Damn. Why what are you're putting? We got some wonder 8 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:52.079 or something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? It 9 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.000 was standing up. I'm out here looking through the window now and I don't 10 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.359 see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus, point you by 11 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:06.200 hello, get the body out here. Foot on the out there. It's 12 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.879 thought of a bitch about six foot nine. I don't all easy and out 13 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.200 there yet. I'm walking right out. Oh. A report in Cryptozoology News 14 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.000 stated a woman in Ohio claims that a group of bigfoot visited her and her 15 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.719 family starting in nineteen sixty two, keeping her captive in a cave at the 16 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.439 age of twelve. The fifty five year old provided a full name, but 17 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:30.040 asked to remain anonymous and to not reveal the isolated location where the incidents occurred. 18 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.719 I prefer not to say where this took place. No one wants an 19 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.799 invasion of bigfoot hunters on private lands. Let people go to the public lands 20 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.400 of the Wayne National Forest to look for bigfoot. People down in the hills 21 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.879 love living where they live because it's quiet, there's fresh air, clean water, 22 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.359 great conditions for raising gardens and children, and being in the thick of 23 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.799 nature. To see the wild animals up close as something they all value very 24 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:56.480 much. I'd rather that people work harder on gathering the mountain of eyewitness reports 25 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:00.280 and experiences that's been hidden in the past decades in this state than to see 26 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:04.799 them destroying nature, she told Cryptozoology News. She says she worked in the 27 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.000 service industry for the past decade and that she was very active in volunteer work 28 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:12.960 at schools in the area. Reportedly, she wasn't the only one experiencing the 29 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.039 encounters. They were witnessed in part by my parents. People do need to 30 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.000 know that these things happened to me. It still pains me greatly, but 31 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.879 at least I can talk about it, though without anyone knowing who I am. 32 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.159 People are absolutely cruel. She also said that the incidents happened too many 33 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.360 times to keep counting them, and that some of the neighbors had similar experiences, 34 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.560 including some young boys fishing by the river. These events were allegedly reported 35 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.319 to the police. One time, she says, the huge one came back 36 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.479 to take her, and her dad shot it with a twelve gauge. The 37 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.400 big one that had always come to take me out of my bedroom at night 38 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.360 came this time during the daytime. Dad was about fifteen feet from it. 39 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.560 The shot was hitting this thing, and every time it hit he'd stop really 40 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.520 hard on the ground with one foot after the other. My brothers and I 41 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.680 ran up to my bedroom because the youngest said it was higher ground for a 42 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.680 better defense, and were more over in the farmer's drainage ditch across the road. 43 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.240 What do you do as a kid of say, fourteen, and you 44 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.240 see something like that good thing. My three brothers were there with me to 45 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.360 help protect me. I yelled to them to leave or they would be hurt. 46 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.560 My brothers wanted to go check on the neighbors to see if they were 47 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.400 okay or needed help. The ditch with the beasts were purportedly hiding was across 48 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:22.280 the road from the neighbor's front picture window. I can only imagine their horror 49 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.120 at seeing what they were seeing, wondering if they were going to die. 50 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:28.960 According to the witness, most of the neighbors children were hiding in the closet 51 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.159 while the parents were out in the living room keeping an eye on that ditch. 52 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.439 She claims the animals were of different sizes, male and female, but 53 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.639 that the biggest one was a fourteen foot tall male with the head the size 54 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:44.319 of irregulation basketball. His hair was long and about the same texture as mine, 55 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:46.879 as I recall, the hair on all of them was about the same 56 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.319 shade of brown, like the color of the decomposed wood layer in the forest. 57 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.520 I could see skin around his eyes that was tan looking, and where 58 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.759 there was facial hair, it was more sparse, with glimpses of skin showing 59 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.520 through that area as well. I couldn't make out a neck. His chin 60 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.479 was broad. His teeth were about the size of the nail on my middle 61 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.280 finger, but they were more flat, and he had a mouthful of them, 62 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.360 meaning the width of his bite was wide. His eyes were dark, 63 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.479 with some white around them, lesser than human eyes. They were kind with 64 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.680 crow's feet at the outer edge of them. His skin was withered, like 65 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.920 anyone who spent much time outside, like a farmer. His shoulders were very 66 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.959 broad, though I did see his collar bone on one side, which looked 67 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.639 thick compared to a humans. He was muscular and heavily built, but in 68 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.160 no way fat. There was an adult female and others who were almost as 69 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.160 big as the female, but didn't seem to be young or old. I 70 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.800 don't know if they were all related, but they seemed like a close knit 71 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.000 group. So there was the adult male and female who seemed to be a 72 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.639 couple, and the two others that seemed to have maturity and body mass suggestive 73 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.040 that they were what we'd consider forty something humans. Other than that, I 74 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.160 couldn't tell what age any of them were. Then the horrific kidnappings began. 75 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:54.199 Many of my memories of these creatures were so traumatic that my mind hid them 76 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.800 from me. I've no idea what else I've experienced with them in my childhood. 77 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.439 Yet you see, the memories are still popping up to the surface, 78 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.360 and I've got to tell you it's not a pleasant thing to know. You've 79 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:08.439 been taken innumerable times by these creatures across many hills far from your home. 80 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.240 I've no idea what transpired while I was with them, but each time they 81 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.439 took me, I was out all night long, she explains. Due to 82 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.360 the stress, the young girl tried to sleep during the days, but her 83 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.759 mother wasn't happy about this. I was being used in a tug of war, 84 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.680 and neither side was winning. Certain people at nearby churches were told what 85 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.680 was going on, so they'd take me aside and annoint me with oil and 86 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.480 lay hands on me, praying out loud, and all I wanted to do 87 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.879 was lay down and go to sleep. From that circus, I was confined 88 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.800 to the house for weeks, not being allowed to look out any windows. 89 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.959 Sometimes things were peaceful, but occasionally the creatures became violent. I was probably 90 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.399 around twelve when I woke up underground in a cave that was dripping water from 91 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.399 roots I could see stretching below the ground. You can't imagine the horror. 92 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:53.120 I was screaming my lungs out, and after a while I ran out of 93 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.839 force to make any sounds, but the air kept coming out of me. 94 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.160 I could see these creatures surrounding me as I lay there, unable to move 95 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.399 on this great side of rock. I wanted badly to scream some more, 96 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.360 but I was just too tired to do that anymore. When I relaxed, 97 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.120 they all started smiling and laughing. I thought, okay, they could have 98 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.199 killed me and eaten me, but they didn't. Evidently some of them are 99 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.399 kind. But then again, I've seen Cat's play with mice for hours before 100 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:17.959 they kill and eat them. Could have this been a product of her imagination? 101 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:23.480 She says no, she remembers everything clearly, and so there's her family. 102 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.600 These were clearly not childhood nightmares, as evidenced by the incident that took 103 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.680 place around the time I was twelve or thirteen. That Big Harry Mail was 104 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.000 in the field across the road from our house, about fifteen to twenty feet 105 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.639 in and Dad was standing in our front yard shooting at him. What got 106 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.879 my notice was this pounding like a pile driver used for drilling, but there 107 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.480 was no metal sound, so I yelled to anyone who was downstairs. I 108 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.240 asked, who the heck we knew that could hold a scream for that long. 109 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.639 I recognized the shooting and asked who was shooting too? Mom asked me 110 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.240 questions each time the big big foot came back to my window and took me 111 00:06:56.279 --> 00:07:00.160 with him. He took me with him many many times. After talking to 112 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.639 me to get me to tell the big guy not to take me with him, 113 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.040 and that they told me to tell him no, I wasn't going, 114 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.279 and that not seeming to work, she pretty much gave up asking me anything. 115 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.639 She did talk to Dad about how to stop this from happening. That 116 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.680 she thought it was affecting my health and robbing us all of our sleep. 117 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.879 It was the concern that if they did the wrong thing, this creature could 118 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.759 kill everyone in the house. Mom often wept to my older sisters about this 119 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:26.040 big hairy thing that got into the chicken coop and how she needed their help 120 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.879 to convince Dad to do something to stop this before someone got her. She 121 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:31.560 told them not to go near me and told me not to go near them. 122 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.959 She was quite fearful, and in retrospect, I can't blame her Dad 123 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.279 for his part. Over the years, at times would ask me if I 124 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:42.120 thought my big hairy friend was around anywhere. Then the family decided to move 125 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.879 her bed downstairs, but this appeared to infuriate the beast even more. I 126 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.800 remember hearing him pecking at my window upstairs, but I was strictly forbidden from 127 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:53.120 leaving the area for any reason. He's banged on the side of the house 128 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.839 and Dad would yell at him to go away, that he wasn't going to 129 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.439 see me anymore, and that was that he made these loud grunts and stomping 130 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.680 on the ground to show his displeasure. I'd hear his thoughts in my head, 131 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.879 as if he was asking where I was. Another time, she and 132 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.360 her father were driving near the woods when they heard a strange screen. I 133 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.720 was nineteen. We were on his front stoop talking before I left, when 134 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.079 there was this very loud, deep scream like a man was getting murdered up 135 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.560 the road in the woods. Sam did carry, especially on cold nights, 136 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.519 but this has excessive volume to it, and no one human could have ever 137 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.319 held a full unscream that long. I thought someone was being hurt up there, 138 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.800 and he refused to call the Sheriff's office to report it. I thought 139 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.960 my dad had lost it, but she says she called the authorities as soon 140 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.440 as she got home. The things they said really made me wonder if they 141 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.799 were scared of the woods, why would they deputies. I asked if they 142 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.360 couldn't look for vehicle tracks or bootprints, and they finally said they'd go down 143 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.159 there the next day to check. They appreciated that I described the place and 144 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.799 it helped them feel more at ease. They kept saying the station policy was 145 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.440 not to go into the woods for any reason. The animals also appeared to 146 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.559 be able to communicate by using vocal sounds and telepathically. The sounds they made 147 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.080 were a deep bass, laughing, snickering, and sounds like someone who couldn't 148 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:05.799 pronounce words well. They communicated with these with each other and with their thoughts, 149 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.000 just as the male did with me. I had no interaction from the 150 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.679 younger ones, and the female adult only smiled or sighed heavily while looking at 151 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.720 me. She talked with the younger ones and the big male about me. 152 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.759 They used their hands to motion, much like when we play charades. The 153 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.919 neighbors and other kids at school also spoke of strange occurrences and the dangers of 154 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:28.000 being stigmatized for telling their stories. We weren't talking about our experiences with them. 155 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.440 There were no bigfoot or sasquatch, but they were called monsters, etc. 156 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.759 We listened to what other neighbors would tell us about them because they thought 157 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.679 no one was likely to believe kids that heard it and passed it on. 158 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.039 The neighbors next door never spoke about their experience after the day had happened. 159 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.200 The others were not home when it took place, except the old lady living 160 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.879 on the farm up next to the hill across the valley. So those who 161 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.519 had experiences were being judged and laughed at by some who did not. The 162 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.960 woman says that she decided to tell her story because she feels that it would 163 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.679 help others come forward. So many times I've read authors saying that they wish 164 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.840 those who knew would share what they know with the world. Well, that's 165 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.480 why I've shared this. Talking about these things has not been easy. For 166 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.480 the most part. The trauma associated with these things did cause what's called traumatic 167 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:16.919 childhood amnesia. I hope it brings awareness to the suffering of experiencers and witnesses 168 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.720 and allows them to speak openly about what has happened to them. Unless we 169 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:22.679 all speak the truth, the world won't know what's been hidden and still being 170 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.919 hidden from us. Do we want future generations to carry on living the same 171 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.320 line. Our world is richer and more interesting than most people could ever imagine. 172 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.159 These are not just creatures. They are quite intelligent and resourceful enough to 173 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.440 keep from being caught or killed. The following article was printed in The Evening 174 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.600 Sun and Hanover, Pennsylvania, on October thirty one, twenty eleven. The 175 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:48.320 stream gurgle fades with the waning afternoon light. As you press deeper into the 176 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.120 woods, a muddy shore gives way to thick grass heavy with rain. The 177 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.840 path narrows, branches grasp and pull. Something moves in. You turn with 178 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.720 a start. A squirrel bounds away through the brush. If it's march or 179 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.279 we're not having this conversation. You're not wide eyed and alone and half lost 180 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.799 in a maze of trees and undergrowth. But this is the season for ghouls, 181 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.440 and for legends. It's the time of year editors send reporters out to 182 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:16.679 the wild in search of fleeting phantoms. Thus the mothman creature that reportedly lurks 183 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.960 in the rural Adams County woods. So how did it come to this? 184 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.759 Here's the story. It's nineteen eighty eight and a man living in the Baltimore 185 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.159 area is set to meet an old friend from Adams County at a Boy Scout 186 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.799 conference. The old friend mentions to the man that Scout troops on overnight trips 187 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.399 at Camp can Weigo have recently been packing up their tents early, leaving the 188 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.159 grounds in a rush of spinning tires. They've been waking in the night to 189 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.360 the sound of shrill crying out among the trees. Strickler, who had some 190 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.000 experience and paranormal research, was intrigued if he agreed to accompany his friend and 191 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.879 another man to investigate for a night. The group met at the boy Scout 192 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.240 camp off Dick's Dam Road north of Cross Keys on a Friday night at around 193 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.840 seven pm. They walked from the empty cabins about five hundred yards into the 194 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:05.679 woods and then following the Comwego Creek another three hundred yards upstream, pitched their 195 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.879 tents there along the shore. The top was of sports and childhood camping trips, 196 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.519 and night passed without incident. There was little mention of the something they 197 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.320 thought could be out in the woods, but still, Strickler would say later 198 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:20.720 it felt as if he were being watched. The following morning, the three 199 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.200 men explored the area for most of the day, Arriving back at camp again 200 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.799 in the early evening. Conversation again covered football and food, the hours blurring 201 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.840 and fading with a crackling camp fire, then from somewhere in the shadows, 202 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:37.039 a screaming baby, an owl, a bobcat. But the three knew the 203 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.480 local woods and the animals, this was something different, So the group grabbed 204 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.480 stowed gear and crept away from the dying fire. Out into the night. 205 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.759 They searched for signs of tracks or disturbance, squinting to pick up movement among 206 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.879 the trees, scanning the shadows. Under slivered moon, water murmured in the 207 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:56.759 creek bed breath streamed out, and bursts of silence white against the night. 208 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.480 Strickler stopped. Standing in the creek was a large, dark figure. It 209 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.799 was tall as a man and stood upright and an eye blink. The creature 210 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.159 leapt from the creek with a dizzying burst of wind and water, melting away 211 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.639 into the sky. Its screen echoed over barren branches. That was more than 212 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.679 twenty years ago, Strickler said, recently, and he can still see those 213 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.799 eyes, and others have seen it in those woods. Stories of sightings have 214 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.240 come in from people. He's never met, and they still trickle in today. 215 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.519 It's become known as the Canwego Phantom. For all the build up and 216 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.360 the obvious ghost story selling points, few around the area had ever heard of 217 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:37.480 the beast. Trips down forgotten stone lanes yielded only empty stairs. So as 218 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.639 the late day sun melts to twilight, there's little left to do but find 219 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.960 that deserted boy scout camp. Behind an iron gate lays a wide empty field 220 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.639 with a slow hill running to a line of wooden cabins. The cabins huddle 221 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.519 close and backed by dense woods, are dark and boarded a long scratch and 222 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.679 a split board. There then movement at the top of the stone drive. 223 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:00.879 A blue pickup rolls into view. Inside a man with hat pulled low in 224 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.360 a wide, dark mustache. He kills the engine, but the woods are 225 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.399 somehow louder. Now bird's on dripping down from the trees. He jerks his 226 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.039 head, beckoning, I hear you're looking for Old Red Eye, the man 227 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.639 says, as you struggle your way across the loose stone. Kids at this 228 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.639 camp been talking about him for years. There's something they're afraid of out in 229 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.279 those woods. He stares off into the shadows, and while you can't see 230 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.720 up into the pickup, you notice the gun rack behind his head. You 231 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.240 notice it's empty, and your eye goes to the black tarp behind him, 232 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.840 and he turns back, catches you're looking, and a hungry smile forms under 233 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.440 that mustache. As he reaches down with his right hand. The grey sky 234 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.600 seems to sagg in on itself, and your skin goes cold. I imagine 235 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.519 that's all just kids stories. And he takes a drink of the soda in 236 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.679 his hand. The truck rumbles and lurches to life again, tires grinding into 237 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.919 the stone. But even those who don't believe those tree branch fingers clawing at 238 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.000 your window, that cold breath of wind creeping through the door. This month 239 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.480 we look twice over our shoulder. Russian Hominologist in Tennessee by Eagle Berts if 240 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.679 Bigfoot at the Carter Farm. We made acquaintance with these books and had correspondents 241 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:13.120 for two years with Mary Green and Janice Carter and other researchers concerning the Tennessee 242 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:18.000 experiences with the Bigfoot hominens. Finally, we decided to visit this country to 243 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.200 learn more about the conditions and the activities here to cooperate in this research and 244 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.799 to exchange the experiences. It was also very important to receive some additional materials 245 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.440 and preparing for a future book publication of these Tennessee experiences. That is why 246 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.960 I have come here from Moscow for four weeks. Later, the events pushed 247 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.559 me to prolong my visit up to five weeks. Three weeks of this visit, 248 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.679 I lived at the Carter's farm, which is reported to be inhabited by 249 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.360 family of Bigfoot, which consisted of a large male named Fox sixty years old 250 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.879 with some of his children and grandchildren. Fox supposedly still uses the basement of 251 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.600 the old farm house to shelter during bad weather and to sleep in. He 252 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.639 also takes food from buckets and bags prepared for him. I understood that it 253 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.399 was next necessary for the Bigfoot to have time to warm up to me. 254 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.559 It is known from experience when other people come to the farm, the Bigfoot 255 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.279 stopped their activities, but after several days they become used to their presence. 256 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.639 At first, it was about ten days when there were no signs of their 257 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:17.320 presence at the farm. I used this time to make acquaintance with those places 258 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:22.279 where meetings have appeared before during the three decades of Janice's experiences and her encounters 259 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.159 with these creatures. Janice has showed me the place where she had the first 260 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.879 such meeting with Fox. It happened when she was seven years old. The 261 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.799 places where Fox and his family were fed by her grandfather, Robert Carter, 262 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.879 who interacted with them even before Janice in other places. After I photographed the 263 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.960 places of the encounters and examined a blanket in the basement that contained hairs from 264 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:47.240 Fox. I also photographed twisted trees that had to be done by somebody with 265 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:52.240 tremendous strong hands. I also found structures called tree markers the big Foot have 266 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.039 made from tree limbs and saplings. I spoke to the neighbors and received confirmation 267 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.600 of their existence on and around the Carter farm. Some of the neighbors even 268 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.880 said that they participate in feeding them in general. I have confirmed with Baynard 269 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:07.440 that our previous opinion that this is a real story that was documented in the 270 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.119 book Fifty Years with Bigfoot, as well as in the letters written by jan 271 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.839 S and Mary during my visit. I have continued to hope to obtain new 272 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.440 evidence of their appearance at the Carter Farm at one thirty am September twelfth, 273 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:22.839 two thousand and four, the dogs were barking and we went to look around 274 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.160 and nothing was seen. But the next morning, the twelfth of September, 275 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.240 Janice's sister, who lives in a trailer situated some fifty meters away from the 276 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.319 farmhouse, came to us early and said that approximately the same time, somebody 277 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.440 had walked around her trailer, coughing several times and at one point knocked softly 278 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.000 on the wall of her trailer. Leela was sitting and reading a book while 279 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:47.119 her three children were sleeping at the time of this occurrence. On the thirteenth 280 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.839 of September. After visiting Mary Green that day, me and Janice came back 281 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.359 to the farm by car. About midnight. Again, Leela met us and 282 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.640 said that just now somebody walked around her trailer, and when we stopped the 283 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.799 car, whomever or whatever it had disappeared. On the fourteenth of September, 284 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.480 during the observation of the basement, Janice and I found that an armchair had 285 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.759 been moved about two feet from where it had been positioned in the days before. 286 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.319 It looked like a visitor wanted to broaden his place for having a rest. 287 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.960 Also, a necklace made from metal with a spider charm appeared on the 288 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.200 blanket that was on the back of the armchair. This necklace had not been 289 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.559 seen before by Janice, and previous absence of the necklace was undoubtedly confirmed with 290 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:27.359 the occasional photograph of the chair made before. Also during the same observations, 291 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:30.839 we noticed that the plastic bag of food hanging there on a metal water pipe 292 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.640 under the ceiling of the basement had been replaced along the pipe closer to the 293 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.079 wall. It was moved more than two feet along the pipe. Before leaving 294 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.319 the basement, we moved the bag of food back to the original placement. 295 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.759 On the sixteenth of September, something else occurred. It rained heavily for most 296 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.279 of the day, so Janie and I visited Janice's friends home to work on 297 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:53.279 her computer. Janice's phone and computer were both having issues, so we took 298 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:57.279 the opportunity to use her friends to do some research. We made it back 299 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:02.000 to the house around midnight and we're both pretty stressed out because Janis had to 300 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.400 drive many miles and the pouring rain without windshield wipers. They had stopped working 301 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.640 fairly early in the day. I asked Janis to go with me to the 302 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:11.480 basement to check to see if any of the creatures were there, but she 303 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.839 did not want to go with me because she was very tired and still stressed 304 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.279 after our long drive. The next morning, when I woke up, I 305 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.880 went straight to the basement. I found that the blanket was back on the 306 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.480 floor and the bag once again was moved down the wall the same distance as 307 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:30.480 before. It looked like he was playing with us. After these events, 308 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.160 it was apparent that somebody had visited the basement. I worked for the next 309 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.759 two days to soften the extremely hard and packed soil around the inside of the 310 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.680 basement. I wanted to create the ideal conditions to obtain possible footprints of anyone 311 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:47.079 entering the basement. Afterwards, I asked Janis's friend Tom to keep the soil 312 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.559 wet because if it dried, it would be next to impossible to collect any 313 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:55.720 impressions. I asked them to make plaster casts if any footprints appeared. Afterwards, 314 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:57.920 I left to make a pre planned trip to visit Mary in another county. 315 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.880 During my visit with Mary, from September nineteenth until the twenty third, 316 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:06.960 I went with several Tennessee researchers in Overton County, an area that was home 317 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.240 to many big foot sidings over the years. The place was called standing Stone 318 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.359 State Forest, and we visited a place where a calf had been found that 319 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.000 had been purportedly killed by a big foot. We did most of our research 320 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.359 late at night, and we heard many screams and whistles. It even appeared 321 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:23.400 at times that we could hear names coming from the dark woods around us. 322 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.759 I was astonished that the very first night we were having activity, we did 323 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:32.160 hear some answering screams when Sherry Mayland did some calls, and we did hear 324 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.319 Return Knox after Wayne Murphy used a club to hit some trees. The next 325 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.319 day, I photographed a footprint that the group had found in the area of 326 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:42.359 the previous weekend. Mary showed me the location where a calf was found dead. 327 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.720 There were several large human lake footprints near where the calf was found. 328 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:52.079 I also photographed some wooden structures that Mary called markers. I compared these markers 329 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.920 with those found in my home country in the Kirov region. The structures here 330 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.599 are very similar to those I have seen back home. I met with rangers 331 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.839 in that state forest, one named Sean Hughes, and I asked him who 332 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:06.200 could have made the wooden structures. He said that he had no idea. 333 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:10.319 I asked if people would do this, and he said no. After my 334 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.160 experiences over those several days and nights, I came to the conclusion that it 335 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.960 was highly probable that there were big foot in the area. I came back 336 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.759 to the Carter farm late in the evening of September twenty third. I made 337 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.759 my way to check the basement, but there was no sign that anyone or 338 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.519 anything had been there. The next morning, the television crew from the National 339 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:32.640 Geographic Channel, led by Noeldsteader, came to shoot an interview with me and 340 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.359 Janice. The interview took several days, and at one point during the filming, 341 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.000 Janice's sister Leela, went to check the basement and she claimed to see 342 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:44.680 footprints. The footprints were very specific, and I recognized them as the prints 343 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:48.720 of a young bigfoot that Janice called Squeaky. His right footprint was across the 344 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.039 direction of movement and there were two bulbs on the outer edge of the foot. 345 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.200 Janice had shared during her interview with the television crew the day before that 346 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:59.680 Squeaky had damaged his right leg. At some point, I called for the 347 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:03.519 crew and they filmed the footprints. When Janis arrived, she confirmed that the 348 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.839 footprints belonged to Squeaky. She told us that Squeaky is about five years old 349 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.200 and that he is the adopted son of Nicki, who was Fox's fifteen year 350 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.279 old daughter. Janis went on to say that Squeaky is only around five feet 351 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.400 tall, which explained why his foot is rather small, measuring around eleven inches 352 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.920 long. We did make a plaster cast from the best of the footprints. 353 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.400 The footprints showed up on the same day that I was scheduled to leave for 354 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.079 Washington, but given these new developments, there was no way I could leave 355 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.000 now, so I made arrangements to postpone my departure for one more week. 356 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.559 That next week proved to be eventful. In the days that followed the discovery 357 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:41.680 of the footprints in the basement, we also found what appeared to be a 358 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.759 three room shelter in the trees in a far corner of the farm land. 359 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.000 It was marked with a broken plant marker. We also found quite a bit 360 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.160 of what we believe maybe bigfoot hair in that shelter. It was stuck in 361 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.160 the broken twigs of a fir tree that seemed to be bent by the big 362 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.400 foot and placed along the ground. Later, Janis sorted those hairs into colors, 363 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:00.920 and she said that based on the color of the hair, she knew 364 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.880 that they belonged to the various individual bigfoot that she had interacted with over the 365 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:10.920 years. We also found another very interesting artifact. There was a clay ball 366 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.839 with a bunch of hair on it. Some of those hairs looked as though 367 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.279 they had been positioned to resemble the tail of some sort of animal. Although 368 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.359 it is pure speculation, I believe it may be some kind of a toy 369 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.920 for a baby Bigfoot. As far as the case of the Carter Farm, 370 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.200 I think that it should be investigated further, but with the assistance of the 371 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:33.119 state or scientific establishments. Equipment and financial assistance is necessary. I also believe 372 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.720 that it should be set up as a state wildlife reserve to protect the creatures 373 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.160 that still live there. It could become quite the scientific laboratory. After thirty 374 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.559 years, Janice became very knowledgeable about these creatures and has become an expert on 375 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.000 them. I believe it is necessary to somehow support her efforts of understanding these 376 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.680 creatures on that land. This is a unique case of the cooperation of the 377 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.519 bigfoot with humans. It's necessary not to lose this contact in this cooperation. 378 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.039 If the needed attention is not paid to this case, I believe that we 379 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:06.039 will lose a unique opportunity to make contact with these creatures and study them in 380 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:10.200 their natural conditions. I did not meet Fox or any of the other creatures 381 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:12.599 here, but I certainly felt their warm attitude towards me, and I feel 382 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:15.839 the warmth of their hearts. I have also felt the same from all of 383 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.559 the bigfoot researchers here to whom I've met. I will take this warmth with 384 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:23.079 me back to my country. I intend to come here again with more supplies 385 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:29.799 to continue the approach to Bigfoot. They say you don't gotta go home, 386 00:24:30.599 --> 00:25:03.759 but you just say I don't want to. We're all out trying to try 387 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:11.079 and try everything. Call it by right, baby, my joy for me 388 00:25:11.119 --> 00:26:27.440 joy, stay right, you call it right away yet come talbot, talbotsssssssssss.