1 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:15,359 Here's a bigfoot story from Jim. Twenty years ago. When I was forty 2 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,280 eight years old, I was hunting in Palestine, Texas that southeast of Fort 3 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:25,800 Worth. It was over ten thousand acres of hardwood forest that was leased by 4 00:00:25,839 --> 00:00:30,640 Texas Parks and Wildlife. On this trip, it was me and a few 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,640 of my friends and we ate and geared up for a day of boat hunting 6 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:39,200 before heading out at four point thirty am. I wanted to get there as 7 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,920 quickly as I could because I was going to put up my tree climbing stand. 8 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,240 The trail was bordered by old growth oaks and pine trees and thickets. 9 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,359 With nothing more than a lamp on my head, I didn't have much to 10 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:58,280 identify any strange sounds around me, and there were definitely some strange sounds. 11 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,560 I was halfway to my spot when I heard something in the thicket next to 12 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,840 me that sounded like someone or something heavy lifting itself off the ground. A 13 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:14,680 cool chill ran through me as my mind raised to identify the animal that could 14 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,319 have made that sound. It was way too big to be a human. 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,680 Maybe it was a wild hog. It had only been a couple of days 16 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,319 since I had come across a team of hogs on my way out, and 17 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:30,840 I had to hide behind a pine tree. I decided to take three or 18 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,200 four side steps to my right. Whatever was in the brush did the same, 19 00:01:34,359 --> 00:01:40,599 except that its footsteps sounded louder. What was worse, it snorted in 20 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,319 my direction. I'm six foot three and I weighed two hundred and twelve pounds, 21 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,719 but the sound that came from inside that thicket was bigger and taller than 22 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,640 me. Every hair on my body stood on end. Oh hell, I 23 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:57,920 thought, what is this thing in front of me? All I had to 24 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:04,000 protect myself was compound bow and five arrows. I figured it wasn't much, 25 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,319 but I was going to fight to the death if I had to. Slowly 26 00:02:07,639 --> 00:02:12,479 and deliberately, I pulled one of my arrows from the quiver and brought it 27 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,840 to the string and had the bow in firing position. I did another three 28 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,199 or four side steps to my left, and the thing on the other side 29 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,599 of the brush did exactly the same thing. I squinted and stared into the 30 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:29,960 thicket in front of me. I wanted to see what was there, but 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,479 my light wasn't powerful enough and the vegetation was too dense. My heart was 32 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,120 pounding enough that I was sure it was physically audible. As my mind ran 33 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:46,000 through the scenarios, all of which appeared to end in my death. With 34 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:50,479 no other choice, I stared straight ahead of me. The bow was still 35 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,599 in firing position, and I was doing my best to remain calm as I 36 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:59,280 said, if you don't hurt me, I won't hurt you. And then 37 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:04,879 I slowly turned to my right and began walking away. I looked back over 38 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,199 my shoulder, but I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything, no 39 00:03:08,319 --> 00:03:13,960 heavy breathing, no footsteps. As quickly as I could, I managed to 40 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,360 get to my tree and I climbed up, and I hunted the rest of 41 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:22,039 the day without incident. After that, though, I made a point of 42 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:28,159 not heading out to my standing until daylight. The next year, Texas Parks 43 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:31,759 and Wildlife gave up the hunting lease. We heard that it was too expensive 44 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:37,120 and that the land had turned into a private club. I had never heard 45 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,560 of bigfoot when that happened. It wasn't until a couple of years ago, 46 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:45,479 when I began to listen to your channel, that I began to find myself 47 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:51,039 wondering was that bigfoot? I heard that day. Oh, man, that 48 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,319 is a cool story. Probably was bigfoot? What do you really think now 49 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,199 that you've really thought about it? Are you wondering if it was bigfoot? 50 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:01,919 Or are you pretty sure? I'd love to hear what you think now. 51 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:11,400 Thanks for the story, Jim, I appreciate it. Okay, here's an 52 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,079 email about a haunting that I thought was pretty cool. My wife and I 53 00:04:15,279 --> 00:04:20,279 are into the paranormal. My wife is actually an EmPATH, so as a 54 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:26,160 friend of ours, there are many types of empaths, and I have trouble 55 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:33,040 saying that word empaths empaths. There are many types of empaths with various combinations 56 00:04:33,079 --> 00:04:40,439 of abilities. Our friend is one of the most EmPATH empathic people. I'm 57 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,040 sorry our friend is. Our friend is one of the most empathic people I've 58 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:49,319 ever met. Man, there's too many empaths words in this story. She's 59 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:55,800 also the smartest person I know. This woman has been on several paranormal shows 60 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,839 and still does guest appearances, and she is accomplished writer with several published books. 61 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:10,560 Our empathic friend, empathic friend and her significant other purchased an old house 62 00:05:10,959 --> 00:05:14,720 and was built in nineteen sixty eight, and they fixed it up and they 63 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,959 used it as an airbnb. It's a retreat and a venue to hold seminars 64 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:25,680 and host storytelling sessions. We all live in Medinah, Ohio, but the 65 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,879 house is located in Oberlin. When they started working on it, several of 66 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:33,879 us got together and went over to help clean and paint, and it didn't 67 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:39,800 take us long to figure out that it was haunted. It began when I 68 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,160 was painting in a back room on the upper level. I stepped backwards to 69 00:05:44,199 --> 00:05:46,839 look at the wall to see if everything looked okay. But when I went 70 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:51,319 to take another step, I felt a hand firmly on my back that stopped 71 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,040 me from taking another step. I looked behind me to see who had come 72 00:05:57,079 --> 00:06:00,720 in the room, but I was alone. The only one thing behind me 73 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:03,800 was a ladder that was lying on the floor, and if I hadn't been 74 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:10,120 stopped, I probably would have tripped over it. Things escalated from there. 75 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,680 We began to hear voices coming from rooms when we knew those rooms were empty. 76 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:20,399 Sometimes we would hear full blown conversations. They were loud enough to be 77 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,600 heard, but never loud enough to be understood. And then we began to 78 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:30,199 see shadow figures walking from room to room. That was followed by knocks and 79 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:35,360 doors being opened and closed. One night, after we had finished working and 80 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:42,040 were gathered together taking a break before leaving, a friend to ask our empathic 81 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,079 friend when she had gotten a dog and where was she keeping it. Our 82 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:51,439 empathic friend laughed and said, so you see it too. Apparently it had 83 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:56,839 been seen multiple times, and since it never responded to anyone, it was 84 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,680 most likely a residual event. Are like movies on a loop, playing over 85 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:08,560 and over again. No one ever went into the basement except for my wife 86 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,439 and our empathic friend. They both agreed that there was something or someone down 87 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,199 there, but they could not pick up on anything other than maybe an old 88 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:23,720 man. I decided to bring a few voice motion activated digital recorders and I 89 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:28,519 set them up down there. I'm game for anything like that. I guess 90 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,959 I'm not smart enough to be afraid. I was down there for half an 91 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:36,240 hour, but I didn't get anything except me rambling on the recorders and asking 92 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:42,560 questions. I decided to try another tactic, so I set up the only 93 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:46,879 two recorders that would power up at that point, and then I said, 94 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:50,079 I'm leaving. You can talk if you want or not. It's up to 95 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:57,800 you, and what I got was the craziest EVP ever screams. It was 96 00:07:57,959 --> 00:08:01,920 just screams, but it was bone chill and horrifying and heart stopping, and 97 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,399 it was almost demonic sounding listening to it. Is not for the fame of 98 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,839 heart. That's the end of the email. And he gave a link, 99 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,959 but I did not copy it with this email, but someone else had heard 100 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:20,240 it and they wrote to me and said, it's basically screams from the basement. 101 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,920 That's the EVP. And I'm sorry to the writer that I did not. 102 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,879 I did not save that link, but I just copied the text from 103 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,799 these emails and I paced them in a word file and I read them and 104 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:37,519 that's that's how this went. But that's a really cool story. Of these 105 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,159 harnted house stories give me the willies. I don't know about y'all, but 106 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,720 there's there is something demonic about it. There is a book that kind of 107 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:50,120 suggests and tells us what happens to us when we die and we don't get 108 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:54,679 to stay here. I think the only entities that get to stay here are 109 00:08:54,759 --> 00:09:01,919 demonic entities. So and that's just my belief, if it's my opinion I'm 110 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,519 not saying you're wrong if you think people get to stay, their spirits get 111 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:11,039 to stay. I don't want to get in a tangle with anybody about a 112 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:16,000 silly subject like that, but to me they seemed demonic. I've never seen 113 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,879 one, so what do I know. I have no idea, but it's 114 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:24,399 a really cool story and I appreciate the writer, so thank you. Okay, 115 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:31,080 here's a short email that crams in Bigfoot and dog Man. The event 116 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,399 takes place in Arkansas. The writer's name is Jeremy. Here's what he writes. 117 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,000 In nineteen eighty five, I was twelve years old living on my grandfather's 118 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:46,600 farm in Arkansas, and to my young mind, I was living the dream. 119 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,159 My grandfather had a three wheeler that I wrote all over the place. 120 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:56,159 There was something about tearing down those old dirt roads that made me feel free 121 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,799 and ready to face the world. It was on one of those occasions when 122 00:10:00,799 --> 00:10:03,039 I was headed down a dirt road on a three wheeler that I had my 123 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:09,159 first experience. At the time, I didn't know what it was. I 124 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,919 thought it was the biggest wolf I'd ever seen. The problem with that was 125 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,279 that there were no wolves in Arkansas at least At that time, all I 126 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,960 knew was that it stayed with me no matter how fast I drove. It 127 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,279 stayed inside the tree line, so it was hard to get a good look 128 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,840 at it. But it had to be a wolf. What else could it 129 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:35,759 have been. After a mile, it ran off into the woods. Arkansas 130 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,960 didn't have wolves, and looking back, I now realized that I saw a 131 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:46,240 dog man that day. I live in Missouri now and have for several years. 132 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,240 In twenty fifteen, I was at a buddy's house. It was mid 133 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,399 spring and we were there for a barbecue. The adults were in the living 134 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,480 room playing cards and having a few beers when my buddy's daughter, who was 135 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:05,120 in the back yard playing started screaming at the top of her lungs. Instinctively, 136 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:07,320 we all jumped up and ran to the back door, with my buddy 137 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,480 leading the way, and he stopped dead in his tracks in the doorway, 138 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:16,000 but with three of us behind him, momentum shoved him out of the way. 139 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,080 I was the second one out the door, which gave me just enough 140 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:26,720 time to see my first bigfoot as it disappeared into the trees. His daughter 141 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:31,200 ran up the stairs and then threw herself into her daddy's arms, and he 142 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:37,039 scooped her up and he carried her inside back in the house, we each 143 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,519 grabbed a hunting rifle or a shotgun and went back out to the general area 144 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,320 it had been, and we found a spot in the grass where it must 145 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,720 have been sitting and watching the little girl. It looked like it had crawled 146 00:11:48,759 --> 00:11:52,519 up to that point, but there were five to six foot strides through the 147 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:58,879 long grass where it made its retreat. It was roughly twenty five yards between 148 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,960 the tree line and the back fence. We knew it would be long gone, 149 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,639 so we went back into the house. By then, his daughter had 150 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,240 calmed down enough to tell the story. She said that she was playing when 151 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:16,360 a big man stood up out of the tall grass and stepped over the fence 152 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:20,360 and started coming for her. He just stepped over it. She said that 153 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:24,799 fence was three feet tall, and he stepped over it like it was nothing. 154 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,480 That was when my friend explained why he had stopped dead in his tracks. 155 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:31,759 He had locked eyes with the thing for a moment, and then it 156 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,879 stepped back across the fence. That is when we shoved him out of the 157 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:39,879 way, and I watched it disappear. Into the trees. That was my 158 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,559 first experience with Bigfoot. But there are others. Oh that's cool, man, 159 00:12:46,879 --> 00:12:52,399 Why didn't you include those in this email? Brother Jeremy is his name, 160 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,919 and Jeremy, if you've got some more, if you haven't already sent 161 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,360 them, make sure and send them to me because I'd love to share them 162 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,039 with the audience. Thank you for this one. It was a good un 163 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,360 This rider doesn't give a name, but it's a story about Bigfoot and he 164 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:13,879 claims it's true. Thirty three years ago, when I was stationed in Colorado, 165 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:18,480 I had a friend who was a bowhunter. While we were in Colorado 166 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,399 and before we had to leave on deployment, he wanted to hunt for elk, 167 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:26,720 so one day we drove up to check out a valley that he had 168 00:13:26,759 --> 00:13:31,480 been researching. We headed out on Thursday evening to a valley near Fairplay. 169 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,360 There were two other valleys near Weston Pass in case we didn't see any elk 170 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:41,879 on the first spot, but Dave wanted to start near Fairplay first. Since 171 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:46,720 we didn't leave until Thursday evening, it was already dark when we arrived, 172 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,000 which is why we spent the night sleeping in the back of my truck. 173 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:52,919 It didn't take us long to get a move on. The next morning, 174 00:13:54,519 --> 00:13:58,600 we hiked a good thirty minutes or more up a fire lane road before stopping 175 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:03,399 so Dave could check his to opo map and compass. Once he was sure 176 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,759 of where we were, he pointed out the valley on the map, and 177 00:14:05,799 --> 00:14:09,720 he drew a line with his finger indicating the route that we should take up 178 00:14:09,759 --> 00:14:13,919 the hill to our right. It would lead us to an outcropping of rock 179 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,720 where we could overlook the entire valley well. I trusted Dave to make the 180 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:24,639 right calls. He'd been there before, so when he dropped us backpack halfway 181 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,919 up the hill and said that we would camp there that night, I dropped 182 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:31,960 my pack too, and then we had an MRI and we hiked the rest 183 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,519 of the way up the hill. The outcropping was exactly where he said it 184 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:41,399 would be, and the view of the valley was more than I could have 185 00:14:41,519 --> 00:14:46,480 expected. I had a pair of field glasses and Dave had a spotting scope 186 00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:50,639 to use when the elk came out to feed, and while we waited for 187 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:54,159 that moment, and with the cool breeze blowing across the valley and the long 188 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,279 trek behind us. We decided it would be a good time and place to 189 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:03,559 take a nap. Some time later, and I had no idea how long 190 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,639 it was. I woke up to Dave tapping me. I looked up at 191 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,840 him and then turned and looked out to where he was pointing. At the 192 00:15:11,879 --> 00:15:16,440 lower end of the valley. We're over a dozen elk feeding with calves and 193 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:22,519 two nice bulls jackpot. I thought I was too wrapped up and watching the 194 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:26,919 elk grazing in the valley to notice much else. It was such a nice 195 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,799 scene. It was tranquil and peaceful to me. And when Dave started poking 196 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,759 me again, this time much harder, I was irritated. I looked up 197 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:41,559 at him with what I'm sure was an angry expression that he ignored as he 198 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,799 gestured to the trees across from us. In the trees behind the two rocks, 199 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,519 he whispered. I looked over to where he was pointing, but I 200 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:56,039 didn't see anything. I was about to turn back to him and tell him 201 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:02,879 so when a movement caught my attention and black and standing next to a tree, 202 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,440 and it was looking at the elk just like we were. I stammered 203 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,919 out something like what the hell before Dave motioned for me to be quiet. 204 00:16:12,279 --> 00:16:17,000 Not knowing what else to do, I shut my mouth and turned back around 205 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,360 and I watched that thing stand there for a minute, and then it moved 206 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:25,840 forward to the next tree and a little closer to the elk. It was 207 00:16:25,919 --> 00:16:30,080 walking on two legs, just like a human. Another minute passed and it 208 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,960 slowly moved to the next tree and it crouched down. It didn't move out 209 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,799 of that position for several minutes, and then it stood up straight and turned 210 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,960 and walked back into the trees. I remembered the elk. Then the two 211 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,159 bulls had placed themselves between the cows and where the creature had been, the 212 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,759 wind had changed direction. It was blowing toward them. They must have caught 213 00:16:56,799 --> 00:17:02,000 it scent. Dave tapped me on the show and motioned for us to leave, 214 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,599 and we walked back down to our packs without saying a word. He 215 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,839 picked up his pack and he said let's go. I grabbed mine and we 216 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,319 made our way down to the truck, still not speaking. Once we had 217 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,640 our pack stowed in the back of the truck, he turned to me and 218 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,720 asked for the keys. That was unusual, I generally did the driving, 219 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:26,599 but I didn't feel like something I should argue with him about, so I 220 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,680 handed them over to him, and in silence, we drove down the fire 221 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:34,599 lane road, and once we got to the main road, he pulled over 222 00:17:34,839 --> 00:17:41,799 and sat there, and finally I asked what the hell was that He kept 223 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:45,640 looking straight ahead for a minute. I didn't think he was going to answer 224 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,480 me, but finally he said, it was bigfoot, and don't ever tell 225 00:17:49,519 --> 00:17:55,799 anyone what we saw. The drive back to the base was as quiet as 226 00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:59,759 the trip down the mountain, and I couldn't say what was going through Dave's 227 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,279 I don't really know what was going through my own mind. Startling thing to 228 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:10,400 see something walk out of a myth and into reality. It plays twister with 229 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,640 your brain cells. When we got to the NCO Club, he pulled into 230 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,039 the parking lot and I reached for the door, but he put his hand 231 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,680 on my arm and looked hard into my eyes, and in a slow, 232 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:27,440 cold voice that I barely recognized, he said, do not ever talk to 233 00:18:27,519 --> 00:18:33,359 me or anyone else about what we saw out there. Do you understand if 234 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,920 word gets out, they'll think we're lying, and we don't need that. 235 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,519 Yes, we know what we saw and I'll never go there again. But 236 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:45,880 this has to be between us. But I tried to say, and he 237 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,119 cut me off. No, I don't want to talk about it, do 238 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,599 you hear me? I nodded, and we got out, and we went 239 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:59,240 inside and had a beer. After that night, Dave was never the same. 240 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,480 He was distant. Indeed, his demeanor had completely changed. True to 241 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:08,039 his word, he never went back into the mountains again, and a couple 242 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:14,440 of months later he deployed overseas and I never heard from him again. Someone 243 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,319 told me that he retired to the Virgin Islands. Heck, I was glad 244 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,960 for him. I still think about that day. I even went back there 245 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,319 four years later when I got back from my own deployment. I needed some 246 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:30,519 closure. I don't think I got it, but being there helped to seem 247 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:36,960 in the reality of the day. We actually saw a bigfoot. I know 248 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,079 we saw a bigfoot, a large, bipedal male bigfoot, and I will 249 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:48,920 never forget it. What a well put together story. This guy recounted his 250 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,039 story perfectly, and man, was his buddy serious. I don't know if 251 00:19:53,079 --> 00:19:56,799 I could if I saw something like that. I just don't know if I 252 00:19:56,839 --> 00:20:00,960 could keep that quiet, I think I would be telling everyone, of course, 253 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,599 some kind of a blabermouth. Anyway, Sometimes I think I annoy people 254 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,519 with I don't know. I just look at things in awe and wonder like 255 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:11,279 I did when I was a kid, And when I see something unusual, 256 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:17,319 I tell people about it, and I want them to share in the awe 257 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,119 and wonder that I have as an adult. I don't know, in this 258 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,079 culture, in this society, and maybe it has been forever, nobody likes 259 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,680 to listen to a blabermouth. So all that to say, I just I 260 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:37,200 don't know. I kind of understand why people won't tell anyone for fear of 261 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,079 being labeled a kook, you know, But I'm not sure I would care 262 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,839 if people thought I was a kook. I just don't think I would care. 263 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,599 I would just say I would just be real serious and adamant. And 264 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,920 I'm telling you, if I saw one and I told the story, my 265 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,559 story would never change. I mean, you just don't forget all that stuff. 266 00:20:56,559 --> 00:21:00,359 You don't forget it when you see it. And there's probably details you 267 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,200 miss, but a lot of them you pick up, and a lot of 268 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,359 details people pick up are unusual details. I'm not going to go into a 269 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:15,000 long explanation of how I think about this, but it's the it's the uh 270 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,079 it is. It is a myth walking into reality when people see these things. 271 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,599 So this was a wonderfully wrote story. It is a very good story, 272 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,279 and it was about the fear and the weight that this man carries when 273 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:32,440 he saw something that was supposed to be a myth. And it's a story 274 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,359 that a lot of people carry. So thank you for the story. I 275 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:41,079 really appreciate it. All right, that's going to wind this one up. 276 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,480 Hey, I want to tell y'all before you leave. I have been uploading 277 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:52,559 archived stories that I did three or four years ago on the podcast. They're 278 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,880 all called Archive one, two, three four. And here's what's different about 279 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:02,920 them. I've kind of remastered the audio and there is no music. There 280 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:07,079 is no like in this podcast. You know, I give a little bit 281 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,480 of talk. I talk about it after I read the story, but I'm 282 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:15,400 not doing that in these podcasts. So the people who enjoy just not hearing 283 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,319 me run my mouth. But you like the stories and you like the way 284 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:25,519 I tell them, then you can listen to that on the podcast network Apple 285 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:29,599 podcasts Spotify, you can listen to it on Audible, and you can also 286 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,599 hear those on Rumble. It's a different way of presenting these stories, and 287 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,200 I've wanted to do it for a long time, but I'm not going to 288 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:41,720 do it on YouTube because I've already done the stories on YouTube. But these 289 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,839 are just remastered, no talking, no nothing, and they're usually under thirty 290 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,880 minutes, usually fifteen to twenty minutes long. Some of them are five minutes 291 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,359 long. But I've enjoyed doing it. I've got about forty of them up, 292 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,799 probably have fifty up by the end of this week, and more PI 293 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,880 cast coming. I've been working on a job and been away from podcasting, 294 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,200 but I'm slap out of work again, and I'm going to be put out 295 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,640 as many podcasts as I can until I pick up some more work. All 296 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:12,319 right, I hope you guys have a good week and we'll see on the 297 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,160 next one. Won't be too long, maybe a day or two. Love 298 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:26,400 you guys, see on the next one.