WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:12.880 All right, all right, here's a Bigfoot story I think y'all are going 2 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:17.440 to like. Dean is a cousin of mine from Asheville, North Carolina. 3 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.839 He called today to ask for prayer for his brother, who is struggling physically. 4 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.679 Dean has been a truck driver for over eighteen years and he travels nightly 5 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:32.920 through North Carolina to Georgia and back. We got to talking about one thing 6 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.000 and then another, and I ask him if, in all the years that 7 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.799 he's been traveling back and forth along these lonely roads late at night, had 8 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:46.679 he ever seen anything unusual or strange, you know, I said something like 9 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:51.079 Bigfoot. Well, of course you'd ask that. Funny, you should ask 10 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:56.119 that, he replied, and this is what he told me. In August 11 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:59.799 of nineteen seventy nine, he and three other men decided to go on along 12 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.040 fishing trip to Ontario, Canada. They decided to trade off driving, with 13 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.439 two in the front of the truck and the other men resting in the camper 14 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.159 in the back. My cousin was the one driving in broad daylight when they 15 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:18.519 entered a road that was heavily forested on the right with a swamp and to 16 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:23.359 the left led into more woods. He said, when he looked out across 17 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.200 the swamp, he saw a huge creature that was covered in bright red or 18 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:32.239 orange brown hair, standing in the water up to its knees. And then 19 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:36.560 he said again, it was huge. The creature's back was to them, 20 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.680 and it seemed to be focused on something deeper in the woods, and as 21 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.719 they drove by, it slowly turned to look at them and then back to 22 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.239 face the woods, as if to say, oh, it's only humans. 23 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.760 Have you ever seen Andre the giant? Dean ask yeah, I told him 24 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.120 I saw him in person in Colorado. Even touched his shoulder as he walked 25 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:02.319 by. That dude was massive. He was seven foot four and over five 26 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.719 hundred pounds, Dean told me. People who have seen Bigfoot will often say 27 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:12.520 it was over seven feet tall and it weighed more than five hundred pounds. 28 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.599 But what I saw and what my friend saw was closer to ten feet tall 29 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:23.120 and it weighed more like a thousand pounds. Well, once they had passed 30 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.800 by this thing, Dean turned to his friend in the passenger seat and he 31 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.719 said, did you see that bear? He said, he called it a 32 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.680 bear, but they both knew what it was and the friend muttered a quiet 33 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:39.879 yes. For years, Dean and his friend never said a word about what 34 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.319 they saw. He said that they never quit thinking about it. But how 35 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:50.159 did you have that conversation? And then one day, when they were alone, 36 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.960 Dean asked his friend if he remembered the bear that they saw in Ontario 37 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.840 in nineteen seventy nine, and his friend said that he did remember. And 38 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.400 there was a pause, and he added, it wasn't a bear, was 39 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:07.800 it? No? His friend whispered, it wasn't a bear. Now, 40 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.840 my cousin is a truthful person. He had no idea I was going to 41 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:15.879 ask him this today, so there was no time to prepare himself for a 42 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:20.759 rehearse and answer. He didn't stutter or stammer, and it was clear to 43 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:25.240 me that he was someone who had seen something and remembered it so vividly that 44 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.240 he would recall it as if it were yesterday. I believe his story, 45 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:37.039 and I believe that my cousin saw a bigfoot. I believe he did too. 46 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.319 Let's see he says it's okay to use his name. His name is 47 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:47.039 Pastor Mark. I believe your cousin's story too. That's when you spring that 48 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.520 on somebody and they just wrap off a story and they never stutter, they 49 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.639 never never pause, They never stopped to think or try to remember. They 50 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:59.080 just rattle it off. That means they've been thinking about it a long time 51 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:02.400 and it probably did happened. What this thing was, who knows what it 52 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.319 was. Maybe it was a bear. Maybe it was a bear up on 53 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.879 its hind feet. The grizzly bears live in swamps, I don't think they 54 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.840 do. This thing was in water up to its knees. You know, 55 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.000 they say there's bigfoot down here in these bottom lands. I've never seen one, 56 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.240 but people say they are. There's videos of something standing up to its 57 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:26.800 knees in water. The video says it was in Tunica, close to Tunica, 58 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.600 Mississippi, but I've heard other people say it was in another part of 59 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.240 the state or another part of the country. If you look up bigfoot in 60 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:40.240 Tunica, you'll find a video of a bigfoot breaking out the center of a 61 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:44.319 rotten cypress tree. And I guess he's digging in there for some grubs, 62 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.800 or maybe there's a beehive in there or something. He's getting him some honey. 63 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:51.319 But it doesn't look like a bear. Looks it looks like a Bigfoot. 64 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.360 I don't know what it is, but it's a really cool video. 65 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.959 It's been out several years. Y'all look it up Bigfoot Tunica, Mississippi. 66 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.759 You'll find it right away. Anyway, Thanks to Pastor Mark for sending this. 67 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:09.839 I really appreciate it, and thanks for relaying Dean's story. You to 68 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:18.480 man. My interest in Bigfoot started unknowingly years ago. I was in grade 69 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:24.439 school in nineteen seventy five and a group of actors were brought in and performed 70 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:29.360 what I'm guessing was an original piece called The Hairy Man. I'm not certain 71 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.720 if that is the title of the piece, it just seems logical based on 72 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:39.040 my following statement. The chant they repeated again and again during their presentation was 73 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.439 and what did he see a coming through the trees? And what did he 74 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.160 see a coming through the trees? And what did he see a coming through 75 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:50.360 the trees? The hairy man, The hairy Man, the hairy Man. 76 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:57.040 This chant echoed through my mind anytime I entered the woods as a child, 77 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.680 and it chilled me to the bone. Frankly, I never associated it with 78 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:05.439 Bigfoot until the night about three years ago when I was outside looking for my 79 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:12.319 cat in the woods and in the dark, I felt very uncomfortable. I 80 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.680 couldn't see anything in the gloom of the night, but I tell you, 81 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.399 I felt like I was being watched. Bigfoot did not enter my mind, 82 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:25.680 but the Hairyman chant did and I looked around but didn't see anything, and 83 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.560 I figured it was some person who was on the bike trail somewhere watching me. 84 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:32.319 Well. I was on my way back to the house with the hairy 85 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:38.480 man words chanting in my brain, and I wondered what exactly had that meant. 86 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.920 And when I got inside, I googled hairy Man. I only did 87 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.160 that in hopes of finding the script the actors had performed at my grade school 88 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:51.480 years ago. I wanted to read it. Their performance had affected me so 89 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:57.360 much that I actually became an actor, and I toured to schools and art 90 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:02.319 centers all over the Midwest Florida East coast for years, doing theater for families 91 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:09.519 and young audiences, in other words, children's theater. I wanted to reread 92 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.879 the story and I figured out exactly what the hairy Man was. I didn't 93 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.759 find the script, but what I did find was Bigfoot, and eventually your 94 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:23.240 channel. I've been listening to you for quite some time now. I'm always 95 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.120 impatiently waiting for your next video to come out. Hey, everybody, I've 96 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.480 been gone for about two weeks. But I went on vacation for a week, 97 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.399 and then when I got back, my lawnmower was broken. I had 98 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:38.240 a guy I was trying to sell something. I had a guy I had 99 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.720 to spend all day with him trying to sell a piece of equipment. It's 100 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:45.560 been one thing after another. I said, my lawnmower broke. I still 101 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.839 hadn't got it back. I'd tell you the details of it, but that's 102 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.600 boring. Anyway. That's where I've been, but I'm back full time podcasting 103 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.000 right now. Anyway, I'm back to her story. I want you to 104 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.360 know how much I love your channel and specifically who you are. Okay, 105 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.000 she's just gonna say real nice She says real nice things about me, and 106 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.519 I appreciate it. And then she goes on to say, I know people 107 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.920 can be jerks. I know you have thick skin, but I just wanted 108 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.800 to encourage you to keep on keeping on. I think you're fantastic and I'm 109 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.879 so glad I stumbled on your channel. Thank Stephanie. Well, I'm glad 110 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.040 you stumbled on my channel and I think you're fantastic Stephanie, You're pretty fantastic 111 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:30.639 anyway. That's an unedited email. She had an early experience in nineteen seventy 112 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.559 five from a play at school about the hairy Man, and she connected it 113 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.120 with Bigfoot, and she was pretty sure Bigfoot was watching her from the bike 114 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.879 trail. That's interesting to me. Some people have that intuition, they have 115 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.679 that sixth sense and they just know, and that's what this was. Thank 116 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.080 Stephanie for the story. It was good and I'm glad you liked my podcast. 117 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:56.320 Thank you, ma'am. Okay, this is a short story. It's 118 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.759 about some kind of canine creature. I'm not sure what this is, but 119 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.200 let's read it and you can decide what you think. This creature is short. 120 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.080 It's short, but it's to the point. It was a cool sunny 121 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.519 day in the early March of nineteen ninety four when I decided to go hunt 122 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.360 for coyotes. Now by hunt, I don't mean kill the coyotes. I 123 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.519 mean only to call them in so that I could look at them. I 124 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.759 had the whole day off, so I decided to head to a segment of 125 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.720 the cedars of the Lebanon State Forest that I had not yet explored. There 126 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.440 was a little spot at the top of a small hill where an access road 127 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.240 that had been cleared early in the previous fall was laid out before me. 128 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.960 It was bulldozed to go twenty five feet on either side, giving me a 129 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.480 wide view around me, and I felt a slight breeze against my face there. 130 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:54.519 So I decided to blow a cottontail distress call. But before I could 131 00:09:54.559 --> 00:10:00.200 do so, I heard the unmistakable sound of a canine loping or trotting up 132 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.960 the access road toward me. I lowered the call and I watched to see 133 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.960 what was coming for a visit. I sat and I waited, but I 134 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:16.399 didn't see anything, and the canine footsteps were louder and clearer. They were 135 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.399 coming closer to me, and there was even a gentle panting sound. I 136 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.440 was sitting within ten yards of where anything would crest the rise, but I 137 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.919 didn't see anything. And as I sat there, confused by the sounds that 138 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.720 I was hearing and the lack of visual evidence, the footfalls and the panting 139 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.480 came up to my position and veered to my left, and then it went 140 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.440 on down the access road, and it faded away, And at no point 141 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.440 did I see anything. At no point was the gravel disturbed, There were 142 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.639 no tracks, there was nothing. For ten minutes, I sat there, 143 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.759 asking myself what had just happened. I wasn't frightened or worried about it, 144 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.480 at least at the time I went. Wasn't. Then I knew it was 145 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.519 time to go. It wasn't a feeling of doom or any sort of fear 146 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.879 or dread. It was only a mundane sense that it was time to go. 147 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.679 And I followed my instinct and I left without ever knowing what it was 148 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:20.639 that I had crossed paths with. That's pretty interesting. Maybe that was like 149 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.919 a ghost dog or a ghost dog man. Somebody write a story about a 150 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:33.159 ghost dog man that kind of combines two topics in one story. That would 151 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.679 be cool. But this was interesting. I don't doubt this guy. Things 152 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.360 sounds in the woods, or you know, some sounds in the woods are 153 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.159 just odd. They're just weird. You can't figure them out. I hear 154 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.639 stuff all the time. I'm like, what in the world is that. 155 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.600 It's never loud or scary it's just something. This was two weeks ago before 156 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:56.600 we went on vacation. I walked outside and I heard this chirpin and it 157 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.879 was this perfect cadence and it never stopped. It was like chirp, chirp, 158 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.159 chirp, chirp. But it didn't sound like a bird, but it 159 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.399 kind of did. But I assumed it was a bird. So this was 160 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.679 It was just at daylight. I came out on my back porch. I 161 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.720 had me a cup of coffee, a little cigarette. That's what I do 162 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.919 in the mornings. I smoked three cigarettes maybe four. Have a good hot 163 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.879 cup of coffee with some honey in it. I love it that way. 164 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:26.759 And I sat there and I sit there for thirty or forty five minutes, 165 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.039 catching up on the news on my phone and blah blah blah, and that 166 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.759 sound never did quit. It just kept chirp, chirp. My wife came 167 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:37.960 out and she was talking to me, and I said, you hear that 168 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.840 sound? She said yeah. And then I started thinking, my air conditioner's 169 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.639 right there to the left. I started thinking, maybe my shaft in my 170 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:50.759 air conditioners squeaking. Maybe something needs to be old, or WD forty eight 171 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.679 or something, and then it quit. Well, I went in, took 172 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:56.679 a shower, came back out, and it was making that sound again. 173 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:03.120 And finally the sound moved. Whatever it was a bird in the sweet gum 174 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.960 tree that's right outside my back porch, and it moved from that sweet gum 175 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.320 tree out to the woods, and I could hear it out in the woods, 176 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.600 so I knew it was a bird anyway. The point is long, 177 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.480 long way around to say. Some of these sounds in the woods that you 178 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.200 hear, excuse me, are a They're hard to pinpoint. I wish I 179 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.360 knew what kind of bird that was, but I finally finally came down to 180 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.159 the conclusion that that was a bird. Anyway, this was a good story. 181 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:33.039 A ghost dog man, That's what I'm gonna call this story. Thanks 182 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:39.000 to the writer. I don't know if this incident is worth relating to the 183 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.279 public, but I thought i'd send it anyway and ask you if there's anyone 184 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.879 else from up this way that has sent you anything from this area. I 185 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.039 know a couple of people that have seen something big and dark run on two 186 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:58.600 legs across the road in that area, but they won't elaborate. I'm from 187 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.240 Canada and growing up, we lived out on a farm in the Rockies. 188 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.759 When I was nine years old, I can remember always feeling scared in the 189 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.879 clearing, in the timber behind the house and horse barn, where my family 190 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:15.320 would target shoot. I got the same feeling at night in the winter when 191 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:18.559 our water froze for months, so we had to use the outhouse out back. 192 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.879 It was always quiet out there. Growing up, we camped and fished 193 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:30.519 in Fraser Valley in places where we were the only humans for miles. I 194 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.039 never experienced anything like what happened to me in Tennessee. Wait a minute, 195 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.600 Wait a minute, I thought he was in Canada. Let's keep reading and 196 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.279 see where he's going. I moved from the Alberta Foothills to Tennessee in the 197 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:48.000 late eighties. There we go. I camped and rode horses in Tennessee and 198 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:56.080 Kentucky and northern Alabama until this happened in twenty twelve. I still sometimes go 199 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:00.360 on day hikes here, but only with a friend who was a former military 200 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:05.279 with a special capacity. A little less scary with him, but I'm always 201 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.679 on high alert and sometimes I get that being watched feeling. I've told him 202 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.240 about what happened to me, but not sure he believes me. It was 203 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.039 just three weeks ago that we went to Lost Creek here in Tennessee and then 204 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.200 walked the half a mile up to Rylander Cascades. I felt that creepy feeling 205 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.559 the whole way back from there, but not on the way up. The 206 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.480 cabin site where the incident happened is just off a clearing on a dirt road, 207 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.519 next to a season on small creek bed and a spring about twenty five 208 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:41.519 yards up the ridge due west. It's owned by cousins of a friend that 209 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.360 I was with and had been in their family for almost a century. The 210 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.120 entire mountain is in complete darkness when the sun goes down, with no lights 211 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:56.279 from anywhere, and every star was out that night. It was early in 212 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.600 the spring and the mosquitoes were not out yet, so we set up a 213 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.039 base camp with no tent, and we planned to sleep on the covered porch 214 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:08.039 of the cabin. We were sitting around the fire after cooking steak on a 215 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:14.200 stick and talking and laughing and drinking a beer or two and listening to eighties 216 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.919 rock. Aerosmith came on, so of course I turned it up a little 217 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.960 and Shortly after I turned it up, we heard this loud, goltural growl 218 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.039 with a couple of huffing grunts at the end that came from above the spring 219 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.639 well. We froze and we looked at each other and I said, what 220 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.080 the f is that? I turned the music off and we sat there. 221 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:40.840 I was terrified. The sound felt like it was still vibrating inside my body 222 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.200 and squeezing my heart and lungs. I've heard most everything that lives in the 223 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.919 Rockies, but never anything close to that. At the time, I didn't 224 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.399 even think about what it could be, just that I wanted to get as 225 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.799 far away from it as I could. Well less than a minute later, 226 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.679 the exact same sound came from east, directly behind us where the cabin was. 227 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.359 The distance from the ridge to there was one hundred yards down and around 228 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.440 the cabin, and most of the ridge was dense brush, but we hadn't 229 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.039 heard anything moving around us. It was louder than the first one, and 230 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:19.960 it hit me like a ton of bricks. The truck was parked about fifteen 231 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.519 feet away between the cabin and the fire, and he looked at me and 232 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.240 he said, let's get in the truck and We left everything where it was, 233 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:32.400 including the fire, and jumped in and he locked the doors and started 234 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.359 the truck. You can't get up there without a four wheel drive or four 235 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.720 hoofs at any time of the year. It was too dangerous to drive at 236 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:45.519 night, and worse when the ground was wet, so we had to stay 237 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.519 there. We had an ar in the truck, and I put it up 238 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.440 on the dash where I could get to it. It was humid and coal, 239 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:56.880 so we turned up the heat. The windows fogged up quickly, Thankfully. 240 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:03.000 I didn't want to see whatever it made that sound. I didn't sleep, 241 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.039 but I drifted in and out. I opened my eyes several times to 242 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:08.680 look at the time on my phone, but I was too scared to look 243 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:14.559 up at the windows. We waited for full dawn to get out of the 244 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.119 truck. Well. I was sick to my stomach, and I was feverish, 245 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.200 and my eyes were blurry in the sunshine, and I felt lightheaded, 246 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.720 and I felt like I'd been bucked off on hard ground. And I had 247 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:30.000 a headache worse than any migraine I'd ever had. I laid on the porch 248 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.920 of the cabin for a couple of hours until I could sit up, and 249 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.480 I was able to handle getting in the truck and bouncing down the mountain. 250 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:41.599 We didn't talk about what happened. It took twenty four hours for me to 251 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:48.599 recover from those physical effects. My buddy wasn't affected like I was. He 252 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.200 was just worn out from fear and not sleeping. And I'm thankful that we 253 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:56.200 decided to drive and not to ride the horses up and camp that day. 254 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:02.200 I believe it would have been much much worse. When I got home, 255 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.960 I started doing research on animal sounds in Tennessee on the Internet, and I 256 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.480 found a few sasquatch recordings, but nothing sounded exactly like what I heard. 257 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:19.000 Also came across Mary Green's information and an archived news story from the early sixties 258 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:23.519 about a bear like creature that was killed in the area. I've tried to 259 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:29.519 find that news story again, but it's gone. Where this happened was not 260 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:34.319 far from the Carter place Mary researched. The area is up the mountain from 261 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:40.319 the Hickory Flat Cemetery of Shiloh Road and all Red, Tennessee, and not 262 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:45.000 too far from Hippie Jack's place. It concerns me because there are a lot 263 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:48.200 of people who go up there four wheeling and camping with their kids all year 264 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:53.440 long. Well, my friend told his dad and uncle about what happened and 265 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:57.440 asked if they had ever heard anything like that up on the mountain. They 266 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:02.160 were in their late seventies and were born and raised on the mountain property. 267 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:07.480 He said. They both had shocked looks on their faces, and his dad, 268 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.759 who was terminally ill at the time, sat straight up and said, 269 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:18.279 you heard it. They proceeded to tell him about sounds they heard and about 270 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:22.079 a nighttime incident when they were all young and their dad was gone overnight to 271 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:27.119 town for supplies. And none of the eleven children of that family had ever 272 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:33.559 told any stories to the kids until he asked. After thinking about this, 273 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.640 and after all the reading and listening I have done the past couple of years, 274 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:42.559 I think we were being warned to quit making noise. That I have 275 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:49.079 joked about Sasquatch having zero music appreciation, and he hates Errowsmith, but I 276 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.599 think it's really us in their territory that they hate. Let me know if 277 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:59.000 you've heard anything else up this way. I think there is much more going 278 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.519 on than anyone is owning up to publicly. Thank you for the time you 279 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.839 put into your channel. There are only a couple of other Okay, he 280 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.200 names a couple of other channels, and they're good, and I watch them 281 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:17.240 all and I say, this is a he. But there's a woman named 282 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:19.400 woman's name at the bottom. She didn't say to use her name, so 283 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.880 I'm not gonna say, but I guess this was a woman who wrote this. 284 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.079 Anyway, that's pretty cool. That's a great story. They just heard 285 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:33.039 some kind of a scream or guttural. It's always a guttural growl or whatever, 286 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.160 but it really shakes people up. And then the sickness whatever made this 287 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:42.440 person ill. It's kind of interesting. They migraine headaches and oh man, 288 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.920 they named several things that were going wrong and it took twenty four hours to 289 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.240 come out of it. So is that the infrasound symptoms that from infrasound? 290 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.559 I don't know. I hear all kind of theories on what that stuff is. 291 00:21:56.599 --> 00:21:59.559 But this was really a good story. I appreciate the writer. Thank 292 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:04.680 you. Okay, I hope you guys enjoyed that podcast. It wasn't quite 293 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.640 as long as I wanted it to be, but I wanted to get something 294 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.119 out. Finally had a day free where I could start doing this. After 295 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:15.359 tomorrow, when I get my lawnmower back, I should be able to get 296 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.839 my grass cut, and then I'm completely caught up with all my yard work 297 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.599 and I can just sit in here all day in this cool aire and do 298 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:29.160 story after story after story and keep these podcasts growth. Hey, y'all know, 299 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:33.200 I went down to my wife and I went down to the Gulf Coast. 300 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.359 We took our RV. We've got a fifth wheel RV. We've always 301 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.319 gone down there. We go down there about every other year. We rent 302 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.400 a condo or a hotel room and we'll stay a week, or sometimes we'll 303 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.480 take the whole family and rent a beach house. Man that is so expensive. 304 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.839 But anyway, this time we just hooked up our fifth wheel. We 305 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.480 rode down there and rented a place in an RV park in Golf Shores. 306 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.960 And whenever you rent a condo or get a whole hotel room, or you 307 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.279 rent a beach house, you get the beach right there behind whatever you're staying 308 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:08.680 in. That's kind of a private area for you know, whoever's staying there. 309 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.440 But we went to the public beach and it was great. We would 310 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:17.440 get there about nine o'clock and stayed till two or three. And I love 311 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:22.079 the beach. There's video rolling in this video of our vacation with some other 312 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.920 stuff with me riding around with my dogs. But that's a public beach. 313 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:29.960 It's easy to get to. We'd roll a cooler. I had a cooler 314 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.240 full of beer and I had a We had like a shade kind of thing. 315 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.519 We bought in a couple of chairs and some tiles. We just had 316 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:40.799 a great time. So we rednecked it all week. We went camping on 317 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.000 the Gulf coast and we hung out on the public beach and we went and 318 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.200 ate. That's all we did all week. That's my That is my version 319 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.640 of a vacation right there. Anyway, it didn't mean to bore y'all with 320 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.799 that, But this RV is it's not that old. It's probably less than 321 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.559 six months old. And one of my slides locked up on me and I 322 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:03.119 didn't think I was gonna be able to get it in to come home, 323 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.000 and I finally got it in, so I got to take it to get 324 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.559 warranty work. I'm gonna tell you all something. These RV's the most expensive 325 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:17.519 RV, fifth wheel travel trailer, pop up camper, Class A coach, 326 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:22.160 Class C coach, whatever you want to buy, buy the most expensive one 327 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.319 you can find, and it's still a piece of junk. So but you 328 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.599 have to buy them and understand you're gonna have to work on them occasionally to 329 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:36.559 get things running and get things working. The problem is they they break while 330 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:41.119 you're using them on vacation, or something will go wrong right before you go 331 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:45.119 and you can't go. That's the frustrating thing about it. But we love 332 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:49.400 camping. We love to go to state parks and corp of Engineer parks and 333 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:53.759 just camp for a weekend, or take the grandkids and swiming the lakes and 334 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:59.200 swiming the rivers and just have a good time. Anyway, I'm just rambling, 335 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.319 just thought I y'all what I've been doing. I hope y'all have a 336 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.920 good rest of your week. I got a good story picked out to record 337 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:10.799 tomorrow. It's a Da Roberts story hanging in there. It'll be posted by 338 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:11.640 the end of the day. I hope you enjoy it all right, We'll 339 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:14.240 see y'all on the next podcast.