WEBVTT 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.