WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:12.160 Everybody. I've got Don on the line. Don lives in southeast Texas and 2 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.039 he's got some encounters he wants to talk about. I'm kind of coming in 3 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.000 this cold and I don't really know what they are. So we're all going 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:21.839 to find out together about these events. So Don, how's everything going, 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.519 buddy? Oh, I'm I'm great. It's just hot down here in Texas 6 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:31.239 right now, is it? Actually we've had a like eighty five degree temperatures 7 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.600 for a week. It's kind of and the humidity hasn't been that bad. 8 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.399 But but man, I know exactly what you're talking about. Hey, tell 9 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.479 us a little bit about where you live and the environment and the geography and 10 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.320 all of where you grew up. Well, well, I live in uh 11 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:51.039 in Orange County, Texas. It's a it's right on the border of Louisiana. 12 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.920 It's very piney and mark swamp area set a lot of pine woods, 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.479 oaks. I mean, it's it's it's pretty. It's pretty rough once you 14 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.799 get off you know, the beaten path of certain areas. Some pretty rough 15 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.000 terrain out here, especially with the swamp lands, you know, and got 16 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.200 all those credits running around out there. Yeah, or you have you had 17 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.719 like a long series of events, or you want to just start at the 18 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.200 beginning and just kind of walk us through. Yeah, there's a couple of 19 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.439 strange happenings, especially out well out in all Field where I live. The 20 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.359 first one, U and I have some for me and my dad, my 21 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.359 brother telling me stuff. I mean, if you want me to talk about 22 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.640 that, I can you share with us what you're willing to share. And 23 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.159 we're man, we're all sitting at the table here listening with our ears parked 24 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.359 up and ready to go. So you just think it's the floors, You're 25 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.239 all right. The first thing I'll talk about is when I've seen this thing. 26 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.640 I was a pretty avid rabbit hunter when I was young. I was 27 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.519 I was I think I was about twelve or thirteen when I've seen this thing. 28 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.879 Out in the all Field, there's different sections of woods, and they 29 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.000 were all divided from the old dirt roads that went through the old fields, 30 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:08.240 so you'd have very large patches of pine wood, you know, wooden lines 31 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.479 and stuff around. Right behind our house where we lived, there was a 32 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.479 patch of woods that usually every time I went out rabbit hunting, I could 33 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.360 at least kill three rabbits right there, and it was a smaller It was 34 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.560 a smaller patch of wood. I had a bunch of tallow trees and stuff 35 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.039 in there. Well, that night, I've decided, you know, I 36 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.400 got my my brake barrel four tens, and I took off, you know, 37 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.759 from the house, told my dad, hey, I'm going hunting. 38 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:40.039 I'll be back in a little bit. Well, that hunting trip turned real 39 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.719 short. So I got all my stuff ready and went out and I went 40 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.520 to that little patch of wood. Well, the patch of woods was by 41 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.800 where our chicken coop was. We didn't have chickens at this time. But 42 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.719 I was just kind of walking along there, and I think I might have 43 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.639 caught the drop on this thing or something, because he didn't It's almost like 44 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:06.639 he didn't notice I was there at first, and I wasn't really paying attention 45 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.400 at first. And I cracked that. I cracked that old fourteen clothes, 46 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.280 and you know, I had a good feel and I was like, oh, 47 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.400 usually I always kill rabbits right here. When I cracked that barrel clothes, 48 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.120 I looked up. I had a headlamp on. I looked up and 49 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:27.960 I seen this thing and it it scared me, Like I don't understand. 50 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:34.159 I'm getting nervous even talking about this. And he was standing there and it 51 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.400 was like he was picking you know, those little balls that grow on a 52 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:43.039 tallet tree, like those little green I don't know, gold or something. 53 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.400 I'm not really familiar with them, but like a gum ball. Yeah, 54 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.240 so it's it's a it's a. We have two many tallows down here and 55 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:55.400 there's there they grow these little like some kind of little green ball on him. 56 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.919 And this thing was here. And when I seen this, saying, 57 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.719 it wasn't like I would have pictured a big foot to look like it was. 58 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:11.639 It's about seven or eight foot tall, and it was solid black. 59 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.360 The hair on it was black, and it wasn't real long and shaggy either. 60 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:18.480 I don't must know how to explain it. It was just like and 61 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:24.800 he was massive, like he was he's very muscular. And all doesn't make 62 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:28.519 sense what later on into the story. But when I see this thing, 63 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.160 I froze. I mean, you know, I mean I think it was 64 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.279 pretty much anyone would just kind of freeze if they seen one of these. 65 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.600 But yeah, and some of my head, you know, was telling me 66 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.000 don't shoot at it, because I mean, all I had was a four 67 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:47.319 ten. He probably just piss them off and beep you to death. Anyway, 68 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.800 So me and this thing are staring at each other and it lasted for 69 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.120 about thirty seconds, and I kind of shined it up a little more towards 70 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.480 his head, and he kind of scorned his eyes at me, and he 71 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.920 kind of grown it at me and just kind of gave me one of those 72 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.560 just the low cooh, you know, like I can't. I can't mimic 73 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.519 the sound he made, but he kind of gave me a little groan. 74 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.600 He kind of turned away from me walked into this patch of woods. Well 75 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:21.399 after he turned his back and walked into this wood, I sprung out of 76 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:27.839 my you know, frightened stage and I ran around because, like I said, 77 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.639 though that little patch of woods wasn't very big, it'd be easy to 78 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.319 run around and seeing him come out on the other side. So I did 79 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:41.959 that. I ran around there, and nothing came out. Well in the 80 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.439 in those woods, there was this old pipe crack with old drill pipe sitting 81 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.639 on it, and it was probably like thirty foot ball, and you know, 82 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:51.439 in my head, I'm like, that ain't had to go under there. 83 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.240 That thing had to duck off under this pie crack or something. I 84 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.560 just kind of gave up looking for it, and I went back to the 85 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.480 house and I told my dad, you know, and I'm scared shitless at 86 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.560 this point. You know, I don't know what I've just seen. You 87 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:12.360 know, I'm kind of explaining my dad, you know, what I've just 88 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.759 seen, and I because this day, I really can't explain to you what 89 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.839 that thing was. You know, I want to say it was a big 90 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.879 foot. I don't know. And he just he kind of just didn't believe 91 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.879 me. He was just kind of like, oh, son, you just 92 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.160 seeing thinks your imagination. You know. Of course, my dad him being 93 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.600 an old roughneck out in the alfield, he's not really scared too much. 94 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:40.439 That's that's pretty much that encounter right there. Now. Uh, let me 95 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.560 ask you a couple of questions about it. So you say it was about 96 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.519 seven to eight feet tall, I had black hair. Can you kind of 97 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.000 describe the face because because you could see it's eye squint when you shine the 98 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:55.560 light in its eyes. Yeah, it's I want to say it kind of 99 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.959 looked like a gorilla, A little bit like a gorilla fo you know how 100 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.399 his their heads are kind of dome shaped, like they have a like a 101 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:08.360 cone head. Almost. His head was like that, but it wasn't as 102 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.800 coney as a gorilla. It was kind of it's more like a human, 103 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.920 like if somebody had like a gorilla human shaped head, right, you know, 104 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.240 he didn't. He didn't really have a nose had His eyes were pretty 105 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.199 large, of course, and when he when he grown it, I kind 106 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.240 of seen his teeth and his teeth kind of looked like gorilla teeth also with 107 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:34.879 those humongous canines and stuff in there. It did have sharp looking like predator 108 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:40.680 teeth. Oh yeah, it definitely had teeth. And when I when I 109 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.759 mentioned this, I don't talk about this to many people. And when I 110 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.319 did mention it to somebody, one of my friends like, oh, you 111 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.639 shoot a dog man, I was like, no, no, no, 112 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.199 no, that's not what this thing was. It didn't have a snout or 113 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.720 nothing like that. This thing had to be at least six foot across the 114 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:01.120 shoulder. I mean, this thing was humongous, but I could explain it 115 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:07.279 was he looks like a ginormous bodybuilder. That's the way his body type was. 116 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.680 He wasn't like the one that you know everybody sees on that video that 117 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.839 the Patterson film or something, you know that the one down here don't look 118 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.600 like that. They're they're extremely muscular. This thing looked like a hairy hulk 119 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.319 walking around. That's unreal. Could you see through its hair, I mean 120 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.360 used to was its face covered with hair? Could you get the color of 121 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.360 the skin. Was it black or kind of charcoal color? I think his 122 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.600 skin was okay. So so his hair was like a little bit longer than 123 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.799 like you would see like a pit bulls hair, because the pit bulls hair 124 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.879 is like it is like very close to the skin. I couldn't really make 125 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.639 out, I'm sure. I think his hand was probably dark because the finel's 126 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:58.639 face was dark, like a maybe a cool color. And the weird part 127 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.840 about it, when he turned away for me to walk, I didn't hear 128 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.720 him walk. I mean, something that big, you would think you would 129 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:09.720 hear him, you know, like snapping limbs and stuff, you know, 130 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.200 moving around in there. I didn't even care. And that's what surprised me. 131 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.320 I don't really know what I would have done when I ran around the 132 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.960 woods to see if he came out. I don't know what I would have 133 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.039 done to him, But or what he would have done to me. But 134 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.840 I was just like when I when I made eye contact with him. But 135 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:30.919 that is the worst fear I've ever felt, The biggest fear I've ever felt 136 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.720 in my entire life. Was it was that moment. Yeah, I believe 137 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:37.600 you, now you you saw this thing and you backed out and you ran. 138 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:39.840 It must have been a real small patch of woods. Yeah it was. 139 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.399 I'd say it was probably about thirty yards alone, about maybe twenty yards 140 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.279 wide. It wasn't that big. It wasn't that big at all. Yeah, 141 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.360 I know. I used to squirrel hunt in little patches like that, 142 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.480 so I and they're full of wildlife because it's like the oh yeah, you 143 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.559 know, for one hundred yards or so. It's the only environment where they 144 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.840 can stay concealed. So I understand. And you ran around, it didn't 145 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:09.279 come out, and did you come back through the woods? Right there at 146 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.559 the edge of the woods is where I'd usually see them rapids because the hair 147 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.159 the head like a little bit into the woods. There's a pipe act, 148 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:20.919 like you could clearly see the pipe act through the woods right Like. It 149 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.840 wasn't real thick, thick woods. It was a bunch of tallow trees, 150 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.039 and it was it was some pine trees there, and it had a pretty 151 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:33.080 thick underbrush too, Like in those patches of the woods we have down here, 152 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.879 we got really thick underbrush, you know. Yeah, I felt like 153 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.639 I should have seen him under there. I didn't see it. He just 154 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.399 it's kind of like he just vanished after, you know, after he turned 155 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.039 around and walked into the woods. That was the last time I've seen him. 156 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.080 Yeah, I was gonna ask if you had been back or went through 157 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.240 there again and figured out maybe where he could have escaped. But I mean, 158 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.840 if it's twenty or thirty yards square, you know, a deer can 159 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:07.000 skirt out places you never see them leave, and then they could run three 160 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.840 hundred yards cross field. You're on the other side of the trees, you 161 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.559 never see them. And you know, my brother was telling me. My 162 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.399 brother recently got into the to the research a big foot. He lives up 163 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.679 in up near Tech's Arcanum and he had he actually had a scream at him, 164 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:26.559 which if that something was a scream to me, I would have probably 165 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.120 craft all over myself. I'm not laughing at you. I'm just like, 166 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.919 you know, after these things are over and I don't know how you are 167 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.639 about it, and I know it terrifies you as especially as a twelve year 168 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.120 old. But like the way you describe it, it's um you know, 169 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:48.080 it becomes I think over time it becomes comical while it's still very serious to 170 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.799 you because these things scare people to death. I mean, they scare people 171 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.159 to death. And I don't know, I don't know how you deal with 172 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.879 it through all the years. How have you dealt with it? Have you 173 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.679 had nightmares or do you have a problem going back in the woods. Can 174 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.879 you tell us a little bit about that. Well, after after the fact 175 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.159 of seeing it, I still hunted, but I felt like something was kind 176 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.480 of watching me, you know, if that makes sense. But the way 177 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.120 I've dealt whether it is I just kind of I must see it to believe 178 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.360 it type type of person. You know, you can tell me this exists 179 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.559 all day, but if I don't lay my eyes on it, I mean, 180 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.759 you know, I'm kind of like a realism type guy. I gotta 181 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.360 see this thing to believe it. Well, I kind of. I mean 182 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.399 for a while I didn't go hunting at all, you know, from like 183 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:41.360 twelve to maybe fourteen, I was like, I'm not having this. I'm 184 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.679 not having this. I will literally shit all over myself if I see this 185 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:50.519 thing again. I'm not dealing worth it, you know. And now I 186 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.559 just kind of well, but even then, I just kind of accepted that 187 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.919 that thing was out there. And I'm guessing it's always in the back of 188 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.399 your mind though your your head's on a level quite a bit, I'm sure. 189 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:07.399 Oh yeah, iDeer in hog hunt now and I definitely keep my eyeball 190 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.480 casts onto that wooden line. Yeah, it's it's because I don't want one, 191 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:13.519 you know. Like I said, how I kind of I feel like 192 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.440 I got to drop on him because like I feel like he wasn't really paying 193 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.840 attention when I walked up. I don't want one to do that to me. 194 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.320 The things I heard about about these creatures is that they don't like guns 195 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.679 too well. And I'm always carrying I haulg home with a six point five 196 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.600 Creedmore and if that can if he comes at me and I can't drop him 197 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.399 with that, I'm pretty much just done at that point. Yeah, some 198 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.279 people say they're impervious to bullets. I don't think they are. Well, 199 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.039 I think there's some type of animals. I think they're actually some type of 200 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:48.320 this massive animal. I don't know how to explain it. I think the 201 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.320 reason that it scared me so bad is pretty much the fear of the unknown. 202 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.679 I didn't know what that thing was.