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But I really think you're going to enjoy the stories if 49 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.039 you haven't already done, so, please take time to rate and review the 50 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.759 show where ever you're listening to the podcast, and make sure you follow us 51 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.960 on Instagram at Sasquatch Odyssey, check us out and follow us on TikTok as 52 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.439 Sasquatch Odyssey podcast, and we'd love to have you join us in the Sasquatch 53 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.759 Odyssey Fans group on Facebook. But enough of that. I know you guys 54 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:55.960 are here for the story, so I'm gonna stop talking. You guys, 55 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:21.959 sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. It was all set up 56 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.560 to be a fun camping trip. My four buddies and I were looking forward 57 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.240 to swimming, fishing, drinking beer, and shooting the breeze around the fire 58 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.600 at night. A long weekend off from work, surrounded by nature. It 59 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.959 was one of the things we all had in common. We loved the outdoors. 60 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.000 We loaded up my truck with the majority of what we would need, 61 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.920 and my other buddies piled into their vehicles and we were off. We left 62 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:46.920 early that Friday morning so that we could get up to the campsite in time 63 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.759 to get everything set up, tents and whatnot. You know, we went 64 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.040 fishing shortly after we got there and had everything ready for that night. We 65 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.680 spent a few hours out at the water, swimming, catching fish and looking 66 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.600 at the scenery. That night, we started a fire, fried the fish 67 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.399 we caught, and set around talking. The sun had gone down by then 68 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.160 and it was pitch dark unless you were right up on the fire or not 69 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.279 too far away from it. My buddy had gone to take a leap, 70 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.800 so he took the flashlight with him, found a tree reasonably close to the 71 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.399 campground, and did his business, and then came back. I say, 72 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.600 maybe thirty minutes went by, and we were all laughing and carrying on, 73 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:27.240 and I felt a pine cone hit the front of my leg. I thought 74 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.319 my buddy did it when I wasn't looking, but he swore it wasn't him. 75 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.720 I dismissed it him. We went on talking, not too long afterward, 76 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:38.839 an acorn hit my friend in the back. We didn't hear any noises 77 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.240 like walking or anything that would indicate someone was over there, so we just 78 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.680 assumed that it had fallen out of the tree. After the acorn, I 79 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:47.720 just started thinking that maybe the pine cone that hit my leg was for the 80 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.839 same reason. It just fell out of the tree and I was under it 81 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.879 when it hit. We went to bed, I guess around midnight or a 82 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.600 little laughter. We had the fire almost knocked down, but it was going 83 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.000 just enough to hopefully deter any critters from coming into the campsite. It was 84 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.000 a still evening, so there wouldn't be any wind that would be blowing that 85 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:10.079 would make leaving it going a fire hazard. I woke up, I guess 86 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.319 around four. I want to say it was still dark, but the tent 87 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.439 was constantly being hit with small rocks and acorns. I must admit my heart 88 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.879 was racing a little bit, but I was curious, so I got up, 89 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:26.800 grabbed my flashlight, and went outside the tent. Nothing no noises except 90 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.199 for my friends loud snoring from their tents. The fire had completely burned out 91 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:34.639 at this point. I shone my flashlight around beside my tent and found at 92 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:40.000 least ten or twelve acorns that had been thrown. They were all piled up 93 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.000 next to where I was sleeping on the other side. No doubt this is 94 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.240 what woke me up. I was confused, but as I looked around our 95 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.720 camp, nothing else had been disturbed. I brushed it off, went back 96 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:54.079 in my tent, and went back to sleep. That next morning, I 97 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.680 had brought it up over breakfast. My buddies all said they didn't hear anything, 98 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.000 and if anything had hit the sides of their tents, they were oblivious 99 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.600 to it. They slept all night. We went out hiking that day, 100 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.839 and I admit I was a little more on guard than I probably would have 101 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:11.759 been had that not happened the night before. It just didn't make any sense 102 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.160 to me. What would be throwing small rocks and acorns at the tent I 103 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.680 was in, and not the other tents where my friends were sleeping. A 104 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.360 little way into our hike, a friend of mine, in general conversation asked 105 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:26.120 if we felt like something was watching us. He said it was almost as 106 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:30.199 if everywhere we went we had eyes on us. One of my other friends 107 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.759 agreed, and he said it was creeping him out. Now, As I 108 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.399 said, we loved the outdoors in nature. For any of us to feel 109 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:41.199 creeped out outside is odd. But that made three of the five of us 110 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.000 who had now experienced something. There was definitely something on our trail. We 111 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.600 knew it. One of my biggest fears at the time was that it was 112 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.759 a large cat eyeing us from above Somewhere. We made our way back to 113 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.639 the water's edge to catch more fish. We had a clear line of sight 114 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.759 from one side of the water to the other. As we sat there, 115 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.439 we saw movement across on the other side, small and intermittent at first, 116 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.079 just enough to catch our attention. But then the trees really started swaying. 117 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.279 We could hear the bark breaking on the trees across the river, small cracks 118 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:20.120 than larger than louder cracks. That's when something fully been a tree completely over 119 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.839 the bark snapped and popped loudly, almost echoing across the water. What the 120 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.199 hell is that, my buddy asked, as he pointed, it looks like 121 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.039 a bear, My other friend said in reply. He was the most skeptical 122 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.759 of the five of us. He was our scientific friend. He was known 123 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.799 for his nerdology, as we called it, it's nothing more than a bear. 124 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.200 You guys, you're making a whole lot out of nothing. He scoffed. 125 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.600 Ain't no way, that's way bigger than a bear. Other friends said, 126 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.320 I get it, bears messed with trees, but have you ever seen 127 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.000 a bear completely been a tree over like that? He was right. Whatever 128 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:03.679 we were looking at way bigger than a bear. Its movements were very fluid 129 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.879 as well. Bears are big, bustling animals, burly and loud. This 130 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:13.559 thing was almost gliding through the trees. It casually walked off after making a 131 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.120 spectacle of the trees. We sat there and watched it until it was out 132 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.600 of sight. We watched it, and we also were feeling it watching us. 133 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.559 After we caught some fish to hold us over until we left the next 134 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.960 day, we hiked back to camp, still talking about what we saw and 135 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.600 trying to figure out what it could have been. Well, there's no way 136 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.399 that you can convince me that what we saw was a bear. I won't 137 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.879 believe it, I said, as I stoked more kindling in the fire. 138 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.320 So are you going to try to convince me that that was a big foot 139 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.240 pulling those trees down trying to scare us away. My skeptical friend ask me 140 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.080 that thought had never occurred to me until he brought it up, and for 141 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.879 once I appreciated his skepticism. Of course, I said loudly, that makes 142 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.080 all the sense in the world now. He just rolled his eyes at my 143 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:00.799 comment and continued to clean the fish. Hey, you really don't think that 144 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.480 was a bigfoot, do you, my other friend asked me later. Think 145 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.320 about it, I said, you went and took a leak on that tree 146 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.000 last night, right after I got hit with a pine cone, and you 147 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.200 got hit with an acorn. It's almost like it was taking a territorial stance 148 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.159 with us, right, I can see that. But I thought all that 149 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.399 came from the tree we were sitting under, well, and it could have 150 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.759 been I'm not dismissing that as a possibility. That would be idiotic. What 151 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:30.120 I'm saying is the totality of the circumstances as a whole. I get hit 152 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.000 with the pine cone and then you the acorn. Then in the middle of 153 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.759 the night I get awoken by acorns pelting the side of my tent. Then 154 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.480 today feeling as though we were being watched. Then we went fishing, we 155 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.960 saw that whatever it was across the river, I explained. All of my 156 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.039 buddies, with the exception of one, were starting to put the pieces together 157 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.200 and see how everything I was saying made sense. Can we please get the 158 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:58.000 fish fry going, my skeptical friend said, sounding slightly annoyed. Our catch 159 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.440 a fish for the day wasn't the greatest, so we snacked on various things 160 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.720 that we had brought as well, peanuts and the shell chips, jerky, 161 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.200 you know that sort of thing. With the fire going, we tossed all 162 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.440 the peanut shells into the flames and listened as they made the loud cracks. 163 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.000 We had a black trash bag from the night before that we kept in a 164 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.480 separate cooler to try to keep raccoons and whatnot out, so all the garbage 165 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.240 went into that. After everything had been cleaned up as much as possible, 166 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.720 we turned in for the evening. I don't know what time exactly it was 167 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.679 that I woke up. I just know that it was still pitched black outside. 168 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.039 The fire was still going just enough to cash shadows. I heard something 169 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:37.120 rustling around the camp and it must have woken me up. I slowly and 170 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.039 quietly looked out the sides of the tent, trying to see through the thin 171 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.159 fabric. I couldn't unzip it because the noise would start or whatever it was, 172 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.000 and if I used the belcrow window to look through the mesh covering, 173 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.639 it would cause the same outcome. I was sure that it was a raccoon 174 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.399 that had finally made its way into camp, drawn in by the smell of 175 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.639 fish and snacks. But I was sorely mistaken because what I saw through the 176 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.240 fabric of my tent was the furthest thing a raccoon. What I saw was 177 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.919 a large, broad figure standing upright going through our cooler. This thing was 178 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.399 huge. It was so tall and so wide. There was no way that 179 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.320 it could be a human. My heart began to race, and all I 180 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.320 could hope for is that my friends were awake and seeing what I was, 181 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.799 there wouldn't be any way that they'd believe me. Otherwise, I swear it 182 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.480 looked like a really tall human. It had similar features shoulder, a wide 183 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.480 chest, then in the waist, but it didn't have a neck. Really, 184 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.840 that was the only difference. No neck, and the head was a 185 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.720 little off as far as the shape goes, and I could also see slight 186 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.639 shadows of hair draping from its body. Mainly when it reached its arms into 187 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.000 the cooler, I could see the hair hanging down. The only problem was 188 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.960 we hadn't seen any of the people the whole time we'd been there, and 189 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:52.159 certainly nobody who looked like this. I laid there watching this shadow slightly moving. 190 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.519 It had to have had thumbs. It was digging around in the cooler 191 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.799 with a black trash bag in it, so it had to have thumbs to 192 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.639 open the latch. It was pulling up fishbones, chip bags, beer cans, 193 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.320 and water bottles and tossing them all on the ground. It reminded me 194 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.480 of a homeless person scavenging for anything that could find. As one of the 195 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.799 beer cans fell loudly to the ground, I heard one of my friends jump 196 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.919 and gasp. Awesome. I thought, if they weren't awake before, they 197 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.360 are now, well, at least one of them. Then all of a 198 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.879 sudden, a new fear crept over me. What if they opened their tent? 199 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.639 So I just laid there in the dark, hoping that somehow I could 200 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.679 telepathically send them a message for them not to open the tent. But before 201 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.879 I had a chance to worry about that for too long, a loud knock 202 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.440 came from somewhere in the distance, then another, and then another. With 203 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.639 that, this whatever it was, took off. The cooler fell to the 204 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.960 ground with a loud thud, and the remaining contents of the cooler spilled out 205 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.840 all over the ground. The loud clangs from the beer cans hitting each other 206 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.200 echoed through the woods. The sound of the knock and the noise of this 207 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.759 creature made while running off was enough to cause the rest of my buddies distir. 208 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.080 That's when I heard the slow unzipping from a tent beside me. I 209 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.080 figured it would be okay at this point, so I unzipped mine as well 210 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.840 and cautiously stuck my head out. We all slowly came out of our tents 211 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.440 and looked around the camp side as well as at each other, almost for 212 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:20.000 validation that that really did happen and we all actually witnessed it. Please tell 213 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.480 me you guys saw and heard that as we all stood around staring into the 214 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.000 flames of our dwindling fire. I know I did, and I wish I 215 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.840 wouldn't have. One of my buddy said as he was putting his hands into 216 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.879 the pockets of his shorts. I don't know if I'll ever feel the same 217 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.840 about these woods again. That changed everything for me too. I mean, 218 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.360 knowing something like that is truly out there, I said. And the scary 219 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.360 thing is, you know, there has to be more of them. There 220 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.759 had to be another one out there that made that knock, no doubt. 221 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:48.600 It had to have been watching us this whole time. And I bet that's 222 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.120 what we saw earlier in the day by the water, And maybe that's what 223 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.840 I felt like was watching us on our high earlier as well. My other 224 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.519 buddy chimed in, I'm sure that more than one of them has been watching 225 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.159 us, I said. My other two friends were silent, pale, and 226 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.120 not uttering a word. They didn't have to. There's silence, said at 227 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:11.159 all, my skeptical buddy, who has always had an answer for everything, 228 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.240 didn't what we saw. What we all saw isn't supposed to exist. Did 229 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.399 I believe in them? Yes? Was I open about that? No? 230 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.360 Too much ridicule about that. These days you can say that you believe in 231 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.200 an extremely large ape like creature living in the forest of America and beyond. 232 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.519 But until you actually see it in person, that doesn't have the same effect. 233 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:41.000 It's completely different. It's almost an emotional experience. Whatever that emotion may 234 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.360 be for you, fear, elation, sadness, etc. I know for 235 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.720 us it was a range. Mostly though. We didn't know if we would 236 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.639 be able to go back out into the woods after this experience. How many 237 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:58.080 times has this happened before in other places we had been to We had to 238 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.519 start questioning all of it now. We didn't sleep for the rest of the 239 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:06.039 night. We set by the fire for what seemed like hours It was probably 240 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:10.159 in reality only about an hour or so. We were quiet, with only 241 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.399 a few words spoken between us. The rest of the night was silent, 242 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.399 no movement, no rocks, no small animals scurrying around, nothing. We 243 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:23.240 were all relieved when the sun came up over the horizon, finally shedding light 244 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:26.720 on our campsite. Now we could have a look around to see what else 245 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.080 this thing might have messed with. I told everybody to make sure they watched 246 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.080 where they stepped as I made my way over near my truck where this thing 247 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.679 had been standing. What exactly are we looking for footprints? I said, 248 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.559 they'll be most notable in the soft dirt. Something that large would have had 249 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.440 to leave some kind of track, I said, as I headed towards the 250 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.919 cooler that was still laying on the ground. We all looked like actual researchers, 251 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:56.000 searching for anything we could find. My skeptical friend was in absolute bliss. 252 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.799 His nerd ology went into full effect. The cooler lay on the ground, 253 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.840 the black bag partially sticking out. The smell was horrible, and it 254 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.519 reeked of the remnants of the fish we'd caught the past two days. I 255 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.400 bet that's what got it in here, my friend said. We've been cooking 256 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:12.759 on that fire and that smell has been going through these woods. I'm surprised 257 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.079 that nothing else came in to check it out. Honestly, after checking out 258 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.839 the area in and around the campsite, we didn't find any real proof that 259 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.160 the animal had been there. Scattered trash, a bent latch on my cooler, 260 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:26.799 but it's like when it left, it scattered all the dirt on the 261 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:32.160 ground in the process, and any track it left just disappeared. The only 262 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.039 thing we did find was a branch it had broken as it tore out a 263 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:40.920 camp but that circumstantial. Anything could have broken that but we knew it wasn't 264 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.480 just anything. We knew that we saw something and it wasn't some hallucination that 265 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.680 we all shared. Our main thing was proving it. But you know how 266 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:53.000 that goes. You find a hair, a footprint, scat and it's always 267 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:57.279 bare or it's been contaminated, and the results come back human. Then you 268 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.880 have the cost of those tests just gets frustrating. I believed it before I 269 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.799 saw it. I mean I won't lie. I would sometimes tell myself there's 270 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:10.319 no way something like that could exist, and then something new would come out 271 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:14.440 and it would change my mind. But this right here, there's no going 272 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.480 back from this. We saw it, we laid eyes on it, we 273 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:21.920 were less than ten feet from it. But we all knew when we left 274 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:26.079 that day we wouldn't be able to tell anyone else about this. This event 275 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:30.400 would be something that we only shared with each other. Marine based fires on 276 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:36.000 the Sasquatch creature. I want to remain anonymous due to the nature of this 277 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.640 story. See. I was in the Marine Corps. No, I wasn't 278 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.680 any Special Forces or anything unique per se. I was just a rank and 279 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:48.079 file marine. I was stationed at twenty nine Palms Marine Corps Air Combat Training 280 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:53.559 Center MCA GCT for short. I wasn't the only one who has seen and 281 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:57.680 experienced things in the training grounds and the surrounding areas. I was told to 282 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.559 keep my mouth shut, but I'm going to die soon anyway, so even 283 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.160 if they do come for me, it isn't going to make that big of 284 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.480 a difference. It was during early April, so the weather wasn't that bad. 285 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.279 It wasn't hot during the day, and it wasn't cold at night. 286 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.000 I always enjoyed doing field ops during that time of year. I got away 287 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.599 from doing the dumb shit that we had to do day in and day out 288 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.559 back on the main side, and I was typically left to my own devices 289 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.440 while out in the field. So late one night, me and a buddy 290 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.160 of mine are doing firewatch from our section of the rest area. We had 291 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:33.359 our rifles, plate carriers, helmets, and our Envygs night vision goggles mounted 292 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.359 on the front and our rifles with us. We also had four mags apiece 293 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:41.480 of live ammo that night, and Artillery Battalion was doing night practice, so 294 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.680 we'd hear the echo of the guns followed by the sound of the shells hitting 295 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:48.160 the ground and exploding. It sounded like far off thunder. Me and my 296 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.279 friend were talking about just random crap when I flipped down my envygs and saw 297 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.559 something moving out in the distance. At first, I thought it was just 298 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.920 the green tin of my goggles messing with my head, But then I saw 299 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.160 again. I tapped my buddy and asked him if he was seeing the same 300 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:07.720 thing. He flipped down his envyge's and nodded, yeah. But what is 301 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.400 it a coyote? He asked. No, too big to be a coyote. 302 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.680 Besides, it looks like it's running around on two legs, I said 303 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.039 back to him. That's when he tapped me and pointed out into the dark. 304 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.240 There's more than one, bro, he said. I looked to where 305 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:25.400 he was pointing, and that's when I saw four or five other figures darting 306 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:29.720 around in the dark. These things weren't that big, I'd say maybe around 307 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.920 five five giver take. They also appeared to be very strong and built, 308 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.680 with massive arms and leg muscles. They were dark and their skin looked leathery. 309 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.440 They had very big, dark eyes and no nose to speak of. 310 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:45.920 Their mouth was wide and filled with razor sharp teeth. They walked around, 311 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.920 hunched over with their arms dangling by their sides. Their arms themselves were massive. 312 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:57.000 They ran at insane speeds, occasionally running on all fours. They had 313 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.519 four fingers on each hand, and their claws were long and sharp. It 314 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.960 was like they had daggers for nails. Dude, I think they're getting closer. 315 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:10.160 I nodded, Yeah, I'm going to get the corporal up. He 316 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.119 nodded, and I raced over to where the corporal was sleeping and shook him 317 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.359 awake. Hey man, there's something going on out there. You need to 318 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.359 come take a look. He cursed under his breath, and he said this 319 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.519 better be good as he sat up. That's when we heard gunfire. I 320 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.920 raced back to my buddy. He was frantically shooting into the dark. I 321 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.359 looked out into the darkness and I saw these creatures maybe three to four hundred 322 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.440 yards away. As other marines had woken up to the sound of my buddy 323 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.359 shooting, the OIC officer in charge came running up to ask what was going 324 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.000 on. When we pointed out to the creatures, he froze in place. 325 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.680 About this time, we heard tons of gunfire suddenly erupted from another unit that 326 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.400 was conducting training in the area as well. When I looked back at where 327 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:53.079 these things were, they were no longer there. Instead, they were running 328 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:56.759 on all fours directly at us. I raised my rifle and began to fire 329 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.400 at them, and those with guns and AMMO joined in, and the others 330 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.079 who didn't ran back to get theirs. I lined up my sights with the 331 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:07.680 closest one and began to fire into it. I saw chunks of its flesh 332 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.799 get ripped off. When I hit it, it tumbled down, and without 333 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.759 missing a beat, it regained its balance and kept sprinting at us. At 334 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.079 this point I knew our rifles were useless, but I wasn't going to leave 335 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.440 my buddy. That's when I heard the oic yelling for us to get into 336 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.680 the trucks and get the hell out of there and get back to the main 337 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.839 side. Me and my friend turned and booked it to our seven ton. 338 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:30.200 I flipped on the battery switch and my buddy cranked the truck. As we 339 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.799 began to start moving, I looked out the window just in time to see 340 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.279 one of these things reach our camp. A marine who hadn't realized what was 341 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.079 going on until it was too late, was impelled by one of these creatures 342 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.000 claws, and he fell to the ground. I watched him try to crawl 343 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.200 away, but this thing leaned over and bit his upper torso and head completely 344 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.319 off with a single bite. As we began to turn out, I saw 345 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:52.720 a humby that had three of these things racing towards it. The guy in 346 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.920 the turret tried to flip around the fifty cal and unload on these creatures, 347 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:57.279 but he wasn't fast enough, and one of them ripped him out of the 348 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.880 turn and flung him to the others. He didn't have time to move before 349 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.079 this thing sank its claws into his chest and began to eat him. I 350 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:07.400 watched as the thing on top of the humveed, then jumped down onto the 351 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.359 hood, shattered the bullet resistant glass, and then pulled out the mangle corpse 352 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.319 of the driver and ran off into the desert with him. The remaining three 353 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.880 marines got out and ran for our truck. I tapped my buddy to let 354 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.720 them get on, but they never made it. One by one these things 355 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:27.759 picked them off, their screams, fading off into the desert. By the 356 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:30.559 time we got back onto the main road, to the main side and caught 357 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.759 up with the rest of our unit. We noticed how active the night sky 358 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:40.559 had become. There were helicopters everywhere with the searchlights. We figured someone had 359 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:42.759 called it in and they were trying to find the creatures or the missing marines, 360 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:48.000 well what was left of them anyway. When we were next up at 361 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.079 the checkpoint, I noticed something about the guy's manning it. They wore all 362 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.799 black, with black ski masks over their face and their envy gees down. 363 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.359 They didn't have any patches, name tapes, or identification with them. They 364 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.359 were armed to the teeth. Though one of our vehicles had a mini gun 365 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.160 mounted on it, they all carried high powered rifles with high tech sights, 366 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.079 laser sights, and other attachments on them. When it was our turn, 367 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:12.400 they had to step out of the truck and tell them what we saw. 368 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.599 After we explained everything, the guy in charge looked at my friend and listed 369 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:21.559 off his full name, date of birth, social security number, where as 370 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.160 mom and dad were, and the name of the dog that he had when 371 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.000 he was in middle school. He then looked at me and did the same 372 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:30.079 thing. Once he was done, he looked at both of us. If 373 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.759 you mutter a word about what you actually saw here tonight, you and your 374 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:38.160 families would disappear for good. Do you understand? We both nodded with our 375 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.680 jaws on the floor. The guide mentioned things that I'd never told anyone about. 376 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:47.279 You then told us that if anybody asked about the group of marines, 377 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:49.880 they went off to get something and wound up getting lost. With that, 378 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.559 they sent us back to the main side of the base. I got out 379 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:56.720 about a year later, but I never went back out on another field up 380 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.279 again. To this day. I still re lived that night. Each night 381 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.359 when I go to bed, I just hope that whoever those men were, 382 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.279 they killed those things so no more marines have to go out like that. 383 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.240 In short, if you're ever stationed in twenty nine Palms, California, and 384 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:14.079 you go out on a field, dot, keep an eye out in the 385 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.640 dark and be sure you aren't far away from a vehicle, and pray these 386 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:21.720 things don't decide to turn you into a meal. Update on the story. 387 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:25.440 As many of you may have seen the other story I posted on here, 388 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.680 something is hunting US Marines in the California Desert. While that one might just 389 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:33.880 be creepy pasta it was based on an actual experience I had back in September 390 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.079 of twenty seventeen. I was on a field DOT with my unit out in 391 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.480 one of the training grounds in twenty nine Palms. For any active duty guys 392 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.920 or vets that were stationed at twenty nine Palms, you know, weird things 393 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.640 happen in the training grounds of that base. We were way out there at 394 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.359 the time, I want to say, maybe an hour or so drive back 395 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:56.200 to the main side from where we were camped. We were doing training and 396 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.359 conducting combined arms exercises against a national enemy. For those of you who don't 397 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:04.400 know, the military uses the word national as a fancy way of saying pretend. 398 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:08.440 Anyways, we were maybe four or five days into our two week op. 399 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.119 We had started just on the other side of the mountains from the main 400 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.039 side, and now we were deep in the back of the training area, 401 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.720 near a mountain known as the Crater. It was the tallest mountain in the 402 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.440 training area and you could see it from miles around. It looked just like 403 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.319 all the other mountains, except that the top of this one was a massive 404 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.799 crater and the whole thing was black. According to the legend, the Crater 405 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:32.759 is where the devil hit the ground when God cast him out of heaven. 406 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.720 This being that Joshua trees only grow in two places in the world, Judea 407 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.799 and twenty nine Palms, and since Judea was considered a holy area, that 408 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.160 must mean that twenty nine Palms was the exact opposite. Many also think this 409 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.400 is why the cult that is located in that area set up shop there. 410 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.480 If you ever talk to anyone who's been out there near the base of the 411 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.400 Blacktop, they will tell you that when you're near the mountain, you get 412 00:26:55.400 --> 00:27:00.359 a really uneasy feeling like you're constantly being watched. Some guys even get enough 413 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.920 that they have to be taken back to the hospital on the main side, 414 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:06.519 but as soon as they get away from the mountain they're fine. Well, 415 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.319 me and my friend were on watch, and we were tasked with guarding the 416 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:11.640 AMMO and fuel truck, so we each got a mag of live rounds. 417 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.759 When we went out to the center where the LT was, he told us 418 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.880 that nothing unusual has happened, but that we should take a couple of radios 419 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.200 just in case. We nodded and each grabbed one that had a green light 420 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.599 from the charger. Then we set out to our sector and got cozy for 421 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:29.000 the night. We were just getting settled in when I noticed something through my 422 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.240 envgs. I tapped my buddy and said, hey, man, do you 423 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.640 see that moving around over there? He looked at where I was pointing and 424 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.880 nodded, Yeah, what is that? I don't know, but it looks 425 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.680 like a person running around out there. He nodded in agreement. So I 426 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.119 grabbed my radio and relaid back to the lieutenant what we were seeing, and 427 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:49.000 I asked if there were any other units nearby. He said no, that 428 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.839 the closest one was about a thirty minute drive away. I asked him what 429 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.039 he wanted us to do if they got any closer. He told us to 430 00:27:56.119 --> 00:28:00.559 leave them alone and not draw any attention to ourselves. I nodded and was 431 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.680 about to say out when my buddy piped up and said, I think it's 432 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.599 a little too late for that. They're coming this way. I quickly relayed 433 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.759 that back to the lieutenant and there was a long pause, and he came 434 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.839 back with keep an eye on them. We're getting the hell out of here. 435 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.599 Me and my friend looked up at each other in a confused manner. 436 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.319 And then shrugged. About this time, my gut was telling me to get 437 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.680 out of there, but I forced my body to stay food and shut my 438 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:30.440 brain up. I looked down my site just as whoever it was began spurning 439 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.680 at us. Behind us, I could hear marines waking up in vehicle starting. 440 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.079 I got back on the radio and relayed to LT what was going on. 441 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.519 I got caught off guard when the OIC officer in charge, a major, 442 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:47.519 got on the radio. Whoever they are dropped that s ob we'll come 443 00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:49.160 back tomorrow to pick up the body and see who the hell they are. 444 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.960 Before he even finished his sentence, me and my buddy both fired two or 445 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.039 three rounds. We watched just three or four hit the figure and they went 446 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:02.279 down. We breathed cigh of relief as I watched the figure go down. 447 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.200 I radioed back in that the individuals down and we were told to come back 448 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:08.400 to the trucks and load up. We quickly got out of our fighting hole 449 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.519 and dashed for our seven ton and the entire unit to out of there. 450 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.680 The next morning, which was really maybe three or four hours after the incident, 451 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:19.640 the OIC sent me and my buddy along with three other marines and four 452 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.359 gun trucks out to where we had shot the figure the night before. When 453 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:27.119 we got there, there was no body, just a bunch of footprints all 454 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:32.400 across the desert sand. However, in the exact spot we had seen the 455 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:36.119 figure go down was an outline of a body in the sand. But it 456 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.519 gets even weirder. In that same spot, they were footprints leading away and 457 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:44.119 back towards the crater. To this day, I don't know what me and 458 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:48.000 my friends saw that night. All I know is that my unit never conducted 459 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.559 any more filled ops even remotely close to that area of the base. Well, 460 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.240 we both saw it go down and didn't get back up. We assumed 461 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.680 that it was dead and stay tuned for more Squatch Odyssey will be right back 462 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:10.599 after these messages. Bigfoot creatures seen by an airman. In the spring of 463 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.519 nineteen seventy four, Edwards Air Force based security policeman Sergeant Michael House was on 464 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:19.720 night patrol on the outskirts of the Powerful Communication Site, which maintains radio contact 465 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:26.000 with other military installations around the globe. A nearby microwave tower, looming like 466 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.559 a lonely sentinel in the darkness, stood surrounded by a wooden fence posted with 467 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:37.599 signs advising that explosive devices electronically operated or magnetically charged would detonate within a certain 468 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.400 radius. Sergeant House was patrolling in the area of the abandoned sled track once 469 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.240 you used for g force testing when he saw it. Here's the report in 470 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:51.119 his own words, Sergeant M. House. I'd gotten a new spotlight and 471 00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:53.880 I was trying it out heading back to the main base. I noticed maybe 472 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:59.559 two to three hundred yards to my left these large blue eyes. I do 473 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:02.680 a lot of night hunting, and it was strange. These eyes were larger 474 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.799 than anything I'd seen before. Their diameter had to be at least four inches 475 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.119 apart and seven feet off the ground. I stopped the truck and I sit 476 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.880 there watching them. It was too dark to see any body shape to the 477 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.119 thing. The blue glows came towards my truck at a right angle about a 478 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.960 hundred yards and then stopped. The hair bristled on the back of my neck 479 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.240 as the larger than human eyes began circling and again moving closer to the vehicle. 480 00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:32.799 A rank smell like something rotten permeated the air. The thing moved closer 481 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:37.160 again now coming within fifty yards of the truck, but still its shape could 482 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.079 not be discerned through the brush in the desert. Just at that moment, 483 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.079 the truck radio advised Sergeant House that he should proceed directly back to the main 484 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.880 base, and he quickly left the area. He returned three hours later, 485 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.920 but there was no trace of the blue eyes. Rainwashed out the possibility of 486 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.160 locating any tracks. The following day, Sergeant House recalled the movement of the 487 00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:01.640 eyes was extremely fast. Another thing that bothered me was that the eyes didn't 488 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:06.599 bube up and down. It was like two lights on a wire moving from 489 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.279 one point to another. He was ribbed a good deal while making out his 490 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:14.039 official report on the incident, which was set to the standard of none reporting 491 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:19.079 from other patrols that encountered strange things in subsequent months. The commanding officer wanted 492 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:23.039 to believe these men were simply overimaginative. After all, the desert could produce 493 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:28.200 some eerie effects at night. In reports of fantastic creatures in and around restricted 494 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.079 areas didn't look good in the official log. You're only hearing the wind, 495 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:36.440 he told the men staffing the Mars station on the midnight shift, who said 496 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:39.559 they had been hearing unusual sounds as well as seeing the dark form of something 497 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:43.839 walked past the building, a figure which would have had to have been at 498 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:46.759 least eight feet tall to have been seen through the high windows. If there 499 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:52.000 were official investigations by the OSI, the men on patrol seldom heard the outcome 500 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:57.240 unless there were some natural explanation. Thus they wondered about the rumor circulating that 501 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.759 the three men on duty at the complex near the bombing range had called in 502 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.000 for help. As the story went, when the patrol arrived, they found 503 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.519 security guards unconscious, the door leading into the building was ripped off its hinges, 504 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:14.559 and the sophisticated electronic equipment within had been demolished. This account was told 505 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:17.240 to an air policeman by a member of the patrol investigating that call for help. 506 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.720 The Rocket Propulsion Lab lies on the eastern edge of Edwards Air Force Base 507 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:28.480 and utilizes a vast area of the facility. It contains installations ranging from gigantic, 508 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:34.359 multimillion pound thrust rocket stands to smaller, highly specialized test equipment which can 509 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:39.079 capture and instantaneously analyze the exhaust gas produced by a rocket engine. It is 510 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:44.480 here that rockets in similar hardware are tested for the study of propulsion equipment under 511 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:49.000 conditions of long term exposure to the environment. It is also here that weapon 512 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.559 systems are developed and tested. Certain areas are off limits to civilians, and 513 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:59.079 signs warned to keep out of the potentially toxic areas. Air Police Sergeant Barton 514 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.920 had an open mind about creatures. His relatives in Missouri had seen and shot 515 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:07.199 the mammoth big foot like monster known as Momo, and though he trusted their 516 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:12.480 accounts of the incident, he also realized the doubt and ridicule they were subjected 517 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:15.559 to when they talked about it. As a result, no formal report was 518 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.480 made to the Air Security Police concerning what had happened in the winter of nineteen 519 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.519 seventy four, while Barton was on patrol in the vicinity of the rocket Propulsion 520 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:30.159 Laboratory and the strange blue lights he saw in the nearby mountains. Assuming the 521 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.880 lights to be from a car, Barton drove towards them in order to intercept 522 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:37.599 any unauthorized trespassers. The lights vanished when he arrived to the site where he 523 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.719 had last seen them, but now he found his vehicle mired in the soft 524 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.039 desert sand. Walking approximately two miles back to the base, the sergeant intercepted 525 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.840 a patrol and they radioed for a tow truck. When the truck arrived and 526 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:55.079 everyone returned to the sergeant's vehicle, they found three toed tracks measuring fourteen inches 527 00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.639 long, with what appeared to be a clawed digit at the heel. The 528 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:04.679 wind was blowing the soft sand and the footprints were filling in rapidly, making 529 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:09.400 any precise identifications difficult. But whatever it was that left the track had completely 530 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:13.920 circled the truck, as if inspecting it, and then walked off on two 531 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:19.199 legs into the desert. Three weeks later, and also on patrol, Air 532 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.360 Patrol Sergeant Jones was parked in the region of the rocket site. It was 533 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:28.199 close to midnight the moon was up when suddenly Jones noticed a shape moving across 534 00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:31.960 the skyline on a nearby hill. While he couldn't estimate its height, the 535 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.039 trunk area or girth was described as immense. The sergeant quickly grabbed his radio 536 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.519 microphone and called HQ. Tell the replacement to hurry up. I might need 537 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.039 some help, he urged, As Jones looked back up the hill again. 538 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:52.880 Two large luminescent green blue orbs like eyes were moving towards him. They didn't 539 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.440 really seem to be like they were bouncing the way a person would when walking. 540 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:00.639 They kind of floated along or were on an easy car. Lights appeared 541 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:04.679 down the road, and the patrolman lost no time getting out of his truck 542 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.719 and walking to meet the vehicle. At that moment, he was extremely grateful 543 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.480 that the men had responded so quickly to his call for help, But that 544 00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.079 wasn't actually so. The other vehicle had been ordered into the area in response 545 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:21.920 to a report about strange lights being observed in the hills, Yet no unauthorized 546 00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:25.039 cars had been located, and now the glowing eyes had disappeared. All that 547 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:30.559 remained in the vicinity were the unusual marks on the ground. The two rounded 548 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:36.039 depressions measured six inches and two inches in diameter, respectively. There were foot 549 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:39.559 tracks as well. They were all over the place. Jones said, there 550 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.480 was so many of them I couldn't follow any trail. Barton, who had 551 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:47.320 found tracks around his truck a few weeks earlier, said they were similar to 552 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:51.519 what I had seen. The other man on the patrol didn't get out of 553 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.599 the car he said he didn't want anything to do with it. They say 554 00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:07.599 you gotta just stay, and no, I don't want to be alone the 555 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:37.119 world. I try this time, that time, everything coming right back right 556 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:44.760 baby, my choice for me, and try to stay right now. I'm 557 00:37:44.880 --> 00:38:57.320 coming right away. Ussime b cons using us to us, used to use 558 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.480 us, hap