1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:06,360 The man who sends this email wants to be anonymous, and that as cool 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:11,039 as it can be. My wife and I live in deep southern Illinois. 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:17,480 This area is reference to as the Illinois Ozarks, with a topography being much 4 00:00:17,519 --> 00:00:22,120 different than the bulk of the state. The terrain is more diverse, complete 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,839 with crystal clear creeks, steep hills, river bottoms, and large swaths of 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:34,359 wooded areas and swampland. The Shawnee National Forest comprises a large part of the 7 00:00:34,439 --> 00:00:39,840 portion of the state as well. I'm a dog trainer. I own a 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,359 kennel operation outside of a small community. We live approximately five miles from town, 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,840 with stretches of woods and creeks surrounding our home in kennel. Ten years 10 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,520 ago, on an October evening, I was sitting in my recliner in the 11 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:00,119 living room watching television. My wife was in the back bedroom watching TV there. 12 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,719 I would guess that it was around eight PM, possibly a bit later. 13 00:01:06,719 --> 00:01:10,159 Our living room where I was at is on the back side of our 14 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,319 house, which butts up against the section of woods. We have large windows 15 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,359 on this back wall, providing a great view of the backyard in woods. 16 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:23,159 My wife was in the front porch of the house on the northeast corner. 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,239 There's only one window in that bedroom, and it's normally difficult to hear much 18 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,519 going on outside from that area, while closer to our kennels, the house 19 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:38,799 is well insulated and you can barely hear the dogs barking from that position, 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,599 even though the end kennels are only thirty feet away. Here's my point. 21 00:01:42,719 --> 00:01:47,719 If you hear anything from that particular bedroom, it has to be loud. 22 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:53,359 I was startled by a very loud noise coming from the backyard, maybe the 23 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,120 woods directly behind the house. It was loud, I mean really loud. 24 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:04,239 The best description I mustard is the sound of a tornado siren. It started 25 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:07,960 low and increased in pitch until it was ear splitting. I would say it 26 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:14,080 was about fifteen seconds in duration, with no let up. I remember this 27 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:17,840 vividly. I was actually shocked, just sitting there listening and trying to wrap 28 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,879 my head around what I was hearing. I finally jumped up and I was 29 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,560 heading for the back door and almost ran into my wife, who was coming 30 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:30,360 around the corner from the bedroom. She was pissed. She thought I had 31 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:36,560 the TV turned way up and was disturbing her show. I quickly informed her 32 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:40,039 that it wasn't me and that the sound was coming from the backyard. I 33 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:45,800 slept out onto our back deck to listen. And this is where things get 34 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,800 crazy. From our perspective. At that time of year, my kennel is 35 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,639 full, meaning there are probably twenty five dogs kenneled within twenty yards of that 36 00:02:54,719 --> 00:03:00,319 woodline. Not one single dog made a peak, all of them. We're 37 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,680 laying very still, watching towards the woods. I can't begin to expound upon 38 00:03:05,719 --> 00:03:10,560 how unusual this is. Generally, anything that gets their attention causes them to 39 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,159 bark. It could be a deer, or possum, a cat, squirrel, 40 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,599 literally just about anything. But in this particular case, not a single 41 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,840 dog made a noise. Meanwhile, my wife had joined me on the deck 42 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:30,319 and we were discussing how quiet the dogs were. Just then a pack of 43 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,840 codis began to throw a fit. These guys were closed, i'd guess no 44 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,520 more than a hundred yards across the creek, and still the dogs made no 45 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:44,800 sound at all. We finally went back inside and didn't hear anything else the 46 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,719 remainder of the evening. The next night, my wife was awakened around two 47 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,919 thirty am to an identical howl, but much farther away. I slept through 48 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:59,479 it and she told me about it the next morning. After that, we 49 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,240 had no more such incidents near the home. We had another incident in May 50 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:10,719 of two and eighteen. One of my training locations is actually in the Shawnee 51 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,240 National Forest, at a little ball diamond set in the valley. It's surrounded 52 00:04:15,279 --> 00:04:19,560 on three sides by high hills, with a tree line creek running on the 53 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:25,439 northwest side. There's a particular drill I like to do in that spot, 54 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:30,439 and the seclusion of the area allows me to work within frequent interruptions. The 55 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:36,120 Shawnee National Forest has a history of sisquat sidings, but I never really thought 56 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:41,639 much about it while working there. On this morning, I pulled in, 57 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:46,079 set up my drill, and brought the first dog off the truck. The 58 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:50,399 drill involves teaching the dog to respond to a whistle. I started to put 59 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:54,959 the dog through its paces, and I blew the whistle for the first time. 60 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Within a few minutes, a tree crashed to the ground on the east 61 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:02,839 hillside. I couldn't see it come down because the leaves are fairly full by 62 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:08,839 then. But it was obviously somewhere up the hill. I didn't given any 63 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:13,319 thought since I was surrounded by trees and they obviously fall from time to time. 64 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:18,759 I continued the drill. A second tree fell from the opposite hillside there 65 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:24,879 was little to no wind. While quite possibly coincidental, I still find it 66 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,680 odd that two trees fell in short succession on such a calm day. I've 67 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,439 trained it that spot prior and since, and if yet to hear another tree 68 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,839 fall, you may laugh. But now, whenever I trained in that spot, 69 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:41,959 I announced that it's just a dog trainer. No need to worry. 70 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,439 These are just two scenarios that I've experienced, and neither provided a visual, 71 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:51,040 which I'm perfectly fine with, if you know what I mean. Admittedly, 72 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,560 the second account could very likely have been coincidence, but I found it odd. 73 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,639 The first defies explanation. I sent, we have no answer other than 74 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:06,399 a sasquatch was passing through our area and decided to announce its presence for reasons 75 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:15,959 only known to him. The email is from Mark Mark Rights. I'm a 76 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,680 lifelong resident of eastern Tennessee, and I'm located about thirty minutes from the Great 77 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,920 Smoky mountains. Three years ago, I went bass fishing on a little Tennessee 78 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,560 River one late summer afternoon. I fished until it was almost dark, and 79 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,079 I decided to find a cove to anchor down in and spend the night. 80 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:41,560 I do this quite often so that I can start fishing again at daybreak. 81 00:06:42,439 --> 00:06:46,519 I found a cove and I was surrounded by woodlands, and I anchored down. 82 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,360 It's always so nice to sleep in my open boat on a clear night. 83 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:55,560 I usually lay back and look at the stars until I fall asleep. 84 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,600 Close to one am, I was awakened by what sounded like someone walking through 85 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:06,639 the woods. The crickets and frogs had suddenly stopped making any noise. The 86 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:11,879 walking sound got closer and closer until it stopped right on the edge of the 87 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:16,720 lake. I could hear something breathing heavily and what seemed like a slow sniffing 88 00:07:16,839 --> 00:07:23,439 sound. Then it made a deep, guttural growl. I've been hunting and 89 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,199 fishing since I was young, so I pretty much heard all the sounds any 90 00:07:27,279 --> 00:07:31,399 animal around here can make. Whatever that was didn't sound like anything I had 91 00:07:31,439 --> 00:07:36,360 ever heard. I reached from my maglight and turned it on the bank where 92 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,279 I heard the noise. I scanned the edge of the lake, and I 93 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,079 caught the shine of two big yellow eyes that looked like they were up in 94 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:50,199 the trees. No sooner did my light hit those eyes than whatever they belonged 95 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:56,759 to turned and ran into the trees. I listened for a minute as it 96 00:07:56,839 --> 00:08:01,399 tore through the woods until the sound faded in the distance. I thought about 97 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,279 pulling up the anchor and leaving, but I was in the middle of a 98 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:09,839 cove, so I felt pretty safe. Needless to say, I didn't sleep 99 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,519 much of the rest of the night. The next morning, when I checked 100 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:18,439 out the location where I had seen the ice shine, I decided it must 101 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,639 have been an eight or nine feet tall animal. I went over to the 102 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,040 wood line and looked for tracks, but I didn't see anything. I wasn't 103 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:28,639 about to go in the woods on arm, so I let it go. 104 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:33,240 I went on and I fished the rest of the morning without any further incident. 105 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:39,360 The following year, twenty eighteen, I went fishing on the Little Tennessee 106 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,759 River again, but this time I took a friend. That morning, as 107 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:48,679 we approached the cove where I had had my experience the year before, it 108 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,559 started to rain I'd forgotten to bring my rain suits, so I told my 109 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,600 buddy that we'd better head for cover. We pulled the boat up on the 110 00:08:56,639 --> 00:09:01,240 bank at the mouth of the cove. I tied it off and we sat 111 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,559 down and we started talking. After a few minutes, I told my friend 112 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,799 about the experience I'd had while anchored in the cove the year before. Jokingly, 113 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:13,360 I said that we'd better be careful because a bigfoot was going to get 114 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,320 us. We were still laughing over that statement. When it sounded like a 115 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:24,360 huge tree fell. It had to be a tree. It was so loud 116 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,000 to be anything else. There was no wind that day, and it scared 117 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:33,039 the crap out of us. I jumped up and scanned the trees, but 118 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:37,080 the leaves were too dense. Afterwards, I could hear something running through the 119 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,600 woods. I had my nine millimeter pistol with me, but I was too 120 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:46,679 afraid to go chasing after it. Once the rain finally stopped, we went 121 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:50,879 back to fishing. Maybe it was bigfoot, or maybe it wasn't, but 122 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:58,080 my instincts tell me that it was. Recently, I shared my experiences with 123 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,720 a well known bigfoot reas searcher, and he was shocked to learn that he'd 124 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:07,399 received several reports from around the boat ramp where we had put in, as 125 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,639 well as the park across the cove from the ramp, very close to where 126 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:20,919 I had my experiences. This story is submitted by MJ and she lives in 127 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:24,840 California. I think she still does. Let's just read the story. I 128 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:30,360 think you're again. I think you're going to find this crazy. In the 129 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:33,039 summer of nineteen ninety four, my husband and I bought a brand new home 130 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:39,120 and one of the many housing subdivisions being built in the Sacramento Valley during the 131 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:46,039 nineteen nineties housing boom. The area had originally been mostly farmland and floodplains, 132 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:52,039 and there were dozens of subdivisions being built, and each subdivision displayed beautifully decorated 133 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,080 home plans. The homes were much more affordable then, so we applied for 134 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:01,440 a first time buyer loan and crossed our fingers. The loan process seemed to 135 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:07,240 take forever, but when we were approved, we got to pick out our 136 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,320 very own flooring style and upgraded the kitchen appliances, which was so nice since 137 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:18,639 the apartment we lived in had no dishwasher or self cleaning oven. We moved 138 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,440 our family, which consisted of the two of us, our four year old 139 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,320 son, and our future baby girl, who was due in mid August, 140 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,799 and we were happy to have accomplished so much in a relatively short amount of 141 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,799 time. The house was on a dead end street since the owner of the 142 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,679 property behind the subdivision did not want to sell any of his property, which 143 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,799 would have allowed for the street to go through and join up with other subdivisions. 144 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:48,480 There was still a lot of open land and homes in various stages of 145 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,799 construction, and our neighbors all had kids about the same age as our son, 146 00:11:56,159 --> 00:12:00,200 and he made new friends and all the kids played on the street was 147 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:05,600 no traffic during the day while most people were at work. Unfortunately, my 148 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,919 husband was not able to find a job in Sacramento right away, so he 149 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,519 would stay with his mom back in the Bay Area during the work week, 150 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:16,080 and then he would drive back to the valley to check in on us so 151 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:22,080 we could do our grocery shopping and other errands. At that time, we 152 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,840 only had one car and I was left stranded until he was back from the 153 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,080 Bay Area. It was a long commute, but my husband was so happy 154 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,559 to buy us the house that he was willing to commute with the hope that 155 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:39,000 he would find a job in the valley soon enough and stop commuting. It 156 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,399 was a whole year before he was hired at one of the local auto body 157 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:48,519 shops. When our daughter was born, my husband was able to take a 158 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,120 week off from work to be with us and enjoy our new baby girl, 159 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:56,360 and then he went back to work and to his commute. He would get 160 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,080 up at three am and make his coffee in get his overnight bag, and 161 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:05,200 leave at three thirty am so he could be at work by six thirty am. 162 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,240 Back then, he was the breadwinner, so we really needed him to 163 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,919 keep that job, even if it was one hundred miles away. I would 164 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,519 normally get up with him and spend a few minutes with him before he would 165 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,240 be off. I would go back to bed and try to sleep before the 166 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:26,600 baby would wake up to nurse around five thirty am. I would feed her 167 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,360 in bed and then lay and lay her between me and our four year old 168 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,200 son, and the three of us would snuggle in sleep until around eight thirty 169 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:41,279 before we started our day. We were so spoiled. On this Monday, 170 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:46,200 after he left for his commute, I felt uneasy and I felt scared, 171 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,600 but I didn't know why. I decided to go back to our bedroom and 172 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,039 lay down, thinking that the baby would be up soon enough to nurse, 173 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:58,720 so maybe it would be better just to lay back down. I fell asleep 174 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:01,960 and I had a horrible night. I dreamt that our sun was missing, 175 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,759 and that we were running to different streets looking for him and calling his name. 176 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,440 I woke up suddenly and I was relieved that it was just a horrible 177 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,399 dream, and my boy was fast asleep next to me, and the baby 178 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:20,399 was still in her bassinette next to the bed. I turned over on my 179 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:24,759 side facing the bassinette, and I saw a bright light coming in between the 180 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:28,200 window blinds, and, thinking out loud, I said, is it morning 181 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:33,919 already? The light was coming in between the blinds and it was so bright, 182 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:37,600 but the rest of the room looked dark. There was a bright light 183 00:14:37,679 --> 00:14:41,480 on the wall next to the window, and I looked up to see where 184 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,120 the light was coming from, and to my horror, just above the bassinette 185 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:52,240 was an alien gray's face. It was just the head, no upper body, 186 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,639 legs, her arms. The head was dark in color, very round, 187 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,320 ending in a pointed chin, and there were small sleeps for mouths for 188 00:15:01,519 --> 00:15:05,039 his mouth and nostrils, but the eyes, the eyes were large and almond 189 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,600 shaped and very shiny black, and it had some sort of glass lamp on 190 00:15:09,679 --> 00:15:15,679 the top of its head. The light on the wall was coming from this 191 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:20,600 lamp. The being was looking down at the baby in the bassinette. Oh 192 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:24,639 my god, I couldn't speak. My heart started pounding so hard that I 193 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:30,639 started trembling uncontrollably. It saw me, and it scowled at me when it 194 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,200 realized I was looking at it, and it moved towards me, and I 195 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:39,120 started screaming and swinging my arms and kicking, and I remember that I set 196 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:43,679 out loud. Oh my god, I'm going to lose my mind. I 197 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,720 felt that I could not take the fact that this creature was there, and 198 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:50,879 it was just there in the room above my baby's bassinette in the house. 199 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,399 It floated from its original position above the bassinette to just above my face, 200 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,320 and I remember saying this light blue fog build up in front of my face. 201 00:16:03,799 --> 00:16:07,200 And then, in a dreamlike manner, I remember a sound like pigeons 202 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:15,759 mate, like a cooing sound. I remember feeling that whoever was talking to 203 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:19,000 me was stern and was telling me that it was for our own good. 204 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,840 And then I woke up again. When I woke up again, it was 205 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:27,759 still dark out, but it was around six am, and the blankets were 206 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:33,320 perfectly made around the bed like nothing had happened, and everything felt still. 207 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:38,279 My son was asleep next to me, and the baby was in her bassinette. 208 00:16:38,799 --> 00:16:41,720 And I got out of bed and turned all the lights on in the 209 00:16:41,799 --> 00:16:45,960 room and the rest of the house, and I checked all the rooms in 210 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,240 the house, and I checked the locks on the front door and the lock 211 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,200 in the backyard sliding glass door, and everything was just like I had left 212 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:59,159 it. After my husband had left for work, I decided to stay up 213 00:16:59,399 --> 00:17:02,639 and just at my day. In fact, I got in the shower, 214 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,440 even though that was not my usual time to shower. When I was washing 215 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,440 my hair, there was a sore spot on the top of my head. 216 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,839 There was no blood, no bump, just it was very sore. I 217 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,680 got dressed and I went to the kitchen and I had some coffee. While 218 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,039 having my coffee, I was trying to make sense of all those events. 219 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,680 Now. I remember the nightmare that I had woken up from, and how 220 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,599 relieved. I had felt that it had just been a bad dream, but 221 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,359 then that thing was there, and I couldn't decide if it had been another 222 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:40,359 bad dream or if that second part was real. It didn't make sense, 223 00:17:40,839 --> 00:17:44,559 But how can a bad dream? As scary as that could be was still 224 00:17:44,599 --> 00:17:48,839 making me afraid. My son was up at nine am, and I kept 225 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,880 checking in on the baby, and she kept sleeping. She should have been 226 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:57,000 up once to nurse, but no, she wasn't. And I called to 227 00:17:57,079 --> 00:18:00,480 my sister and I told her about my weird dream, and I started crying 228 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:04,359 because it seemed like it had been real, but I kept thinking that it 229 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:10,720 couldn't be real. I checked on the baby and she had no fever, 230 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,559 no rash, but she did not wake up to nurse until two pm that 231 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,680 afternoon, and by the end I was sore and engorged with milk. As 232 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,839 the day progressed, I became anxious, and before it was evening, I 233 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,319 called my sister, asking if she could come over and pick us up. 234 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:32,599 I didn't want to be there alone with the kids when it was night again. 235 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,480 She came over and took us to her apartment. My sister wasn't sure 236 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:41,839 what to make of this whole thing. I was just grateful that I didn't 237 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:47,480 have to be alone in the house. We stayed in her kid's room that 238 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:52,200 night, and I remember feeling very scared because I didn't know if it would 239 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,240 happen again. But I put both kids in me under the under the twin 240 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,480 bed we were supposed to sleep on, but we slept under the bed. 241 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,400 I called my husband and told him about my bad dream, but he thought 242 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,319 it was just stress from being left alone so many nights and taking care of 243 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,839 the kids in the house. My husband picked us up from my sister's place 244 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,200 and drove us back to our house. That evening. I tried to go 245 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:22,680 about my normal routine, making dinner, bathing the kids before bed, and 246 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:26,240 watching a movie. And then it was time for me and my husband to 247 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:30,599 go to bed, so I put both kids in the bed between us, 248 00:19:30,599 --> 00:19:34,000 and I put a large toy sword next to me in the bed. I 249 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:38,079 was terrified that it would come back, that I would wake up and that 250 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:44,359 face would be there looking back at me when I opened my eyes. I 251 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,720 knew there was nothing I could do to protect us, and that made me 252 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:53,200 more frightened than anything. My husband continued to commute for another six months, 253 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,720 so I was still alone in the evening, and that was the worst part. 254 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,119 For weeks, every night, I would stay up just until I could 255 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,720 see daylight before I felt safe to fall asleep. I would leave the TV 256 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,680 on and the bedroom lights on and fight sleep until I would see the early 257 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:18,480 sunlight peek through the windows. I didn't feel safe until around early spring, 258 00:20:18,519 --> 00:20:22,920 when the morning light starts just a bit earlier each morning. I went on 259 00:20:23,079 --> 00:20:27,720 like this for three years every winter, and for years I was terrified to 260 00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:32,839 look out any window in the evenings. I would close all the blinds in 261 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,400 the house at night and leave some lights on before going to bed. My 262 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,039 husband would just tell me that it had been a bad dream, and after 263 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:45,279 a few months he didn't like me to talk about it. My daughter was 264 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:51,039 only three months old when this happened. She doesn't have any strange scars or 265 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:56,279 ill effects from the experience. I no longer fear the winter nights, but 266 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,599 I know that it was not a dream. Regarding the description of the creature 267 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:08,160 I saw in the book titled Operation Trojan Horse, there is a description of 268 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,839 an et that has been described wearing some type of light attached to or on 269 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:19,279 the top of his head. All of this has really been blocked out until 270 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:25,119 recently. I've heard so many stories and started putting two and two together. 271 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,880 I didn't know what it was that I saw until recently, and some things 272 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,519 leading up to it and things that happened afterward have put it all in perspective. 273 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,359 My name is John, and I'm a firefighter and a minister of the 274 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,200 Gospel. What happened to me happened when I was twelve years old. That 275 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:49,480 was back in nineteen eighty seven. I lived in a neighborhood in Ocean Springs, 276 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,640 Mississippi, and the neighborhood was not huge, but not small either. 277 00:21:55,519 --> 00:22:00,799 However, every bit of it was surrounded by woods. There were also buy 278 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,799 us not too far away that we would sneak away and fish in. And 279 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,960 we knew most of the woods around there like the back of our hands. 280 00:22:07,839 --> 00:22:12,039 We had bb gun wars and pine cone wars and bottle rocket wars, and 281 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:18,000 we camped out and we built forts and you get the picture. We loved 282 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:21,960 the woods and we played and we played hard, except there was this one 283 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,680 section of woods when you first entered the neighborhood that we just never felt comfortable 284 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:32,359 in. We call those woods the creepy woods. When you entered the neighborhood, 285 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:37,440 they were on the left hand side. I remember my friend's dad took 286 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:41,319 us back their mudding in the back of his pickup truck, and they seemed 287 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:45,400 like they went on forever. In reality, I believe if you followed them 288 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:51,599 far enough, it would drop into a huge subdivision several miles away. We 289 00:22:51,599 --> 00:22:55,079 could never put our finger on it. We just didn't like going back there 290 00:22:55,519 --> 00:23:00,440 again. It was just creepy. Thinking back, there was a ground road 291 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,160 that us kids used to take to the Old Country's store a couple of miles 292 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,359 away. We were able to avoid the busy main road to get there, 293 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,519 and that gravel road covered a section of those creepy woods. It was just 294 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,920 close enough to the main road where you could hear the traffic, so it 295 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:21,799 didn't seem quite as creepy. My dad used to send me to that Old 296 00:23:21,839 --> 00:23:26,279 Country store to get his newspaper every Saturday and Sunday morning. I would guess 297 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:32,759 that walk was between one and two miles. There were so many times that 298 00:23:32,799 --> 00:23:36,400 I would take that walk and feel like I was being watched, and I 299 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,920 would stop walking and I would listen, because even though I was walking on 300 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,279 the gravel, I swore I could hear leaves crunching, like something was keeping 301 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,119 pace with me. Many times I was with my friends and we would all 302 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:53,279 get the same sensation. Somebody would tell everyone to stop and be quiet, 303 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:59,279 and we would just listen. It was eerie, but we almost always chalked 304 00:23:59,279 --> 00:24:03,240 it up to us being scared of the creepy woods. One night, my 305 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:07,880 dad was driving me home from a little league baseball game. He was president 306 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,240 of the league, so we almost always got home late. As he took 307 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,839 a right into our neighborhood, the creepy woods were on the left. We 308 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:22,039 went in a hundred yards and then took another right. There was a field 309 00:24:22,079 --> 00:24:26,599 that we played baseball and football on right across from those woods. As he 310 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,960 took that right, our headlights shined into the field, and that's when we 311 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:37,319 saw it. The lights caught glowing amber colored eyes and a shadow of something 312 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,240 that was absolutely huge. We both saw it for a split second, and 313 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:47,559 we passed it. It was so quick that neither of us could get any 314 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:52,440 great detail, and Dad let out what the heck was that and slammed on 315 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,440 the brakes and he threw the truck in reverse, and then it was gone. 316 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,440 We sat there for a minute or two in discussed what we had thought 317 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,960 we'd seen, and after a short discussion, we determined that we both saw 318 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,640 it, so we knew we were not making it up. We told my 319 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,480 mom and sister when we got home, and they thought we were trying to 320 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:15,200 scare them. Well, we went out the next day and we walked around 321 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,640 the field where we saw it, and there was a lone pine tree on 322 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,759 that end of the field, twenty five feet from where we had seen the 323 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:27,000 shadow. At a best guess, we determined this creature was at least eight 324 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:30,960 feet tall. Now I remember the ground was dry, so we never found 325 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,200 any tracks, and over the next week we had to quit talking about it 326 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,319 and we got back to our daily routine a few weeks later. I remember 327 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,200 this it was the same summer because we moved away shortly after. My buddy 328 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,079 and I were walking to his house. It was just after dark and we 329 00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:53,599 were going to see if we could stay the night. We had to walk 330 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,720 by the field my dad and I saw this creature in and honestly, I 331 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:02,759 hadn't thought much more about out it, but as we walked by, I 332 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:07,720 got another uneasy feeling that we were being watched. I did the best I 333 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:11,359 could to ignore it. I didn't mention anything to him because I didn't want 334 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,039 him to think I was crazy or scared. We got to his house and 335 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,720 his parents would not let us stay the night, so I was stuck walking 336 00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:25,160 back home by myself. As I once again approached the field, this time 337 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,960 it was on my right. There were two ways that I could go home. 338 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:32,920 I could either cut through the woods to the left, which shortened up 339 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,680 my trip quite a bit, or I could go straight and take the road, 340 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,839 which I added several minutes. I was going to take the woods. 341 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:44,680 I'd done it a hundred times, and as I was about to take the 342 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:48,680 turn into the woods, the hair on the back of my neck stood straight 343 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:55,319 up, and my heart started racing, and I literally became fearful. Something 344 00:26:55,599 --> 00:27:00,240 on the inside of me screamed, do not go that way, and I 345 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:03,119 listened to that voice, and I took off, running as fast as I 346 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,480 could down the gravel road. I ran all the way home with tears streaming 347 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,359 down my face, and I never looked aback. I think I broke a 348 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:17,519 world record that night. I opened the door and went straight to my room, 349 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,559 and I never discussed it with anyone. I've never had that kind of 350 00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:26,279 fear come over me before, and I've never had it since. But after 351 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,200 listening to so many encounters, there's no doubt in my mind what was out 352 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,759 there. Again, I never talked to any of my friends about it, 353 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:37,599 and only recently I'm forty four years old. Now did I ask my dad 354 00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:42,279 if he remembered that huge creature we saw in the field that night. He 355 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:45,799 had not thought about it until I mentioned it, he said, And I 356 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,400 told him what I thought it was, and he didn't disagree with me. 357 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,240 That is what I believe to be my encounter. It may not be as 358 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,240 exciting as some that I've heard, but I will always remember the fear that 359 00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:03,000 I felt that lone night. I will always remember those amber colored eyes and 360 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:07,200 that dark shadow that stood in the field. God, bless you, and 361 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:12,440 thank you for taking the time to read my story. I just love it 362 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:17,079 when people think me it's just so nice. And he signs off sincerely, 363 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,640 John. John's a firefighter, John, stay safe, brother. You know 364 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:26,799 kids have these experiences. I probably had something like this where there weren't many 365 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:30,200 woods around my house, but there were a few and at night. I 366 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,440 don't know. When we were kids, the night seemed so dark. Now 367 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,799 I walk out in the woods at night, I don't think anything about it. 368 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,400 But when I was a kid, it was spooky. And what's the 369 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,160 first thing you do when you're in a position where you're spook as a kid, 370 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,920 you run like crazy. And that's what I would do. I would 371 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,000 tear through the woods, through the trails, pop out under a street light, 372 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:56,519 and then I would tear all the way home. And that's just what 373 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,759 kids do. But I have no doubt out what you encountered that night. 374 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:07,240 And the last couple of podcasts I've done, I've talked about it may seem 375 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:11,240 like I'm discounting feelings. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying, 376 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,160 be a critical thinker and think this through. Think it through, and don't 377 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,599 let these things change. Don't let one event or one feeling change your life 378 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,160 forever. Stay out in those woods and have a good time. There's no 379 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,000 reason to be afraid of the woods. And I know I say this all 380 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,880 the time, but I really care that people get out and enjoy that stuff. 381 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,039 So that was on my mind. I thought I'd say it all right, 382 00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:41,039 let's go to another one. Here's an email from Jeffrey. Here's what 383 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:45,960 he writes. It all happened back in the summer of two thousand and two, 384 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:51,160 but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was about to be 385 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,480 deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the National Guard out of 386 00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:00,759 Cutsdown, Pennsylvania. A friend off or to take me on a short camping 387 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:06,960 trip to a little pay site on the west branch of the Susquehanna just west 388 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,240 of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was meant to be a relaxing trip before I 389 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:17,200 deployed. We were going to drink a few beers and look for Indian arrowheads 390 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,039 in the nearby fields. He was also going to give me a flint napping 391 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:27,000 lesson. It didn't take us long to get bored walking that field. There 392 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:32,960 was a good flowing feeder stream emptying into the river just downstream, called a 393 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,640 Big Run, and I wanted to explore it. I've been hunting for arrowheads 394 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,960 for many years, and I found that almost every stream that spring in Pennsylvania 395 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:47,319 has a small Native American hunting cap at the head where the water first pops 396 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:51,400 out of the ground. Because it was really hot that day, my friend 397 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,160 got tired and wanted to turn back after about a mile or so. However, 398 00:30:56,319 --> 00:30:59,680 I was determined to find a camp, so I went on alone. 399 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,759 I followed the stream for another mile or two until it got so thick with 400 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:10,759 rhododendron that it became nearly impossible to follow. At that point, I started 401 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:15,200 to hear the sound of the highway off in the distance. I then decided 402 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,799 that the head of the stream was somewhere on the other side of the highway 403 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,519 and farther away than I was preferred to travel. At the bottom of the 404 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:26,519 mountain, I remembered seeing an old logging road that ran up the gorge to 405 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:32,319 the left of the stream. I decided that would be the easiest and quickest 406 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:37,000 way to the river. After fighting my way through the thick undergrowth, I 407 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:41,519 finally found the path beside. It was a nice flat spot with a pushpile 408 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,839 left for making the road, so I decided to scratch around and see if 409 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:51,680 I could find any traces of flint chips and the soil in the past. 410 00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:56,200 I found whole arrowheads in these top soil piles. All I found in this 411 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:01,279 one was a few northern ring necked snakes. It was getting hotter and I 412 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:06,319 was almost out of water, so I decided to pack up my scratcher and 413 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,279 head back down the mountain. Not two steps into my journey home, standing 414 00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:15,079 about sixty yards in front of me, was the most terrifying thing I had 415 00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:19,559 ever seen. Honestly, I would like to think that I'm a fairly brave 416 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,319 man, but I was not prepared for this encounter at all. I'm an 417 00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:29,319 experienced infantry soldier and an avid big game hunter, so it takes a lot 418 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,119 to writtle me. What was standing in front of me was enough to do 419 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,880 just that. It shook me to my core. I froze instantly. A 420 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:44,480 flood of thoughts raced through my mind. I wanted it to be a bear, 421 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,200 but it wasn't. Once I accepted what I was seeing, I was 422 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:53,240 overwhelmed with fear. I felt like I was going to vomit. And then 423 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:59,279 it turned and started running to the stream where I had just been. I 424 00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:05,799 could not believe its speed. Its massive legs were thick and muscular and reminded 425 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:10,039 me of a hair covered telephone pole. He was covered in dark brown hair 426 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:15,920 that probably wasn't any more than four inches long. Judging from my experience as 427 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,920 a bear hunter, I'd guessed his weight to be somewhere between eight hundred and 428 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,720 twelve hundred pounds, and he was easily eleven feet tall. He sounded like 429 00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:31,599 a bulldozer, busting through the roadodendron, snapping branches as thick as my ankles. 430 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:37,559 I remember thinking, there's no way I can outrun this thing. If 431 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:42,279 it wanted to, it could easily catch me. The fact that I was 432 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,440 unarmed didn't alleviate my fear at all. I knew if I got out of 433 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:52,240 this though, I'd never venture into the woods unarmed again, and my mind 434 00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:55,799 continued to race. I knew in order to get back to camp, I 435 00:33:55,839 --> 00:34:00,599 had to go towards where this thing had just been. I was suddenly tying 436 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:06,039 the sounds that I had heard earlier in the day attributed to the deer to 437 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,159 this thing. I realized it must have been following me when I was trying 438 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:15,039 to get out of the rhododendron. I must have inadvertently flanked it, I 439 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:20,440 thought, or it was stalking me. At that moment, twenty years of 440 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,639 infantry training kicked in in an ambush situation. Always charge into the contact, 441 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,840 never go any other direction, because that's where the real trap is. It 442 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:36,079 may sound crazy, but I bolted in the direction where I first saw it. 443 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:38,880 To be honest, I didn't know if I could run that fast. 444 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,920 I didn't look back. I was in full panic mode, but I knew 445 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,320 I had to slow down a little or I'd eventually fall on the rocky downhill 446 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,719 terrain. I knew if that happened, I'd surely be in even bigger trouble. 447 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,320 Somehow I regained my composure and I slowed myself down a little, while 448 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,199 still running for what felt like three miles back to the river. I don't 449 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,400 know why, but I never did tell my buddy what I had seen. 450 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:13,519 I'm not even sure I got to look at its face. Maybe fear caused 451 00:35:13,519 --> 00:35:16,320 me to block it out of my memory. I may have gone a little 452 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:22,840 bit into shock because I felt sick instantly. I know it saw me first. 453 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,719 As I started moving down the logging path. I heard it move and 454 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,320 look up, and it broke into motion so fast, with so much power, 455 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:36,440 breaking through those branches like they were nothing. I still have nightmares about 456 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,360 it. In the nightmares, the face seemed more human than not, with 457 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,559 a head sort of shape like a coconut still in the shell. It's never 458 00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:51,960 aggressive in the dreams, but its size still scares me. I know this 459 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:54,320 much. If I'd had a camera with me, I would have never taken 460 00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:00,239 the picture. I wouldn't have even tried to. It was too close since 461 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,440 it moved too fast. I really hope I never see another one, at 462 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:07,559 least not that close. I've heard they're supposed to smell bad, but I 463 00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:13,280 didn't smell anything out of the ordinary. Its hair was not as long as 464 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,679 I have heard. Maybe summer hair is shorter. I don't know. I've 465 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:22,199 often thought that maybe the area is a migration route, but I have no 466 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,199 idea where I got that idea. I'm thinking that's why I couldn't find Indian 467 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:32,679 hunting camps along the streams. Maybe the Indians new and they stayed away. 468 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,440 If I had a topographical map, I could easily pinpoint that location. Even 469 00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:42,360 today, when I go hunting or in the woods for any reasons, this 470 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,920 event is always in the back of my mind. I swear this is true 471 00:36:47,159 --> 00:36:55,440 to the best of my recollection. Signed Jeff. Here's an email from someone 472 00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:00,000 who wants to be anonymous, and here's what he writes. It's an Ohios 473 00:37:00,039 --> 00:37:04,239 to worry. It has a little bit of a woo theme to it at 474 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,519 the end. Just hang on and wait. You're gonna like this, he 475 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:13,079 says. I live in central Ohio, and I'd rather remain anonymous, no 476 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,679 problem. I go out hiking in the woods looking for sasquatch in the ark 477 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:22,800 they make in the form of structures and arches. Earlier this year, I 478 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,679 started exploring a forest where just driving through it, I found all kinds of 479 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,239 signs on both sides of the road. I've hiked this area for maybe three 480 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:36,199 or four months now, and everywhere I've been so far has had evidence of 481 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,679 structure, brakes, arches, uprooted trees, busted trees, and tracks. 482 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,800 I always whistle a couple of times because I'm just hiking in, just to 483 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,960 let them know that I'm here. There's no doubt that they have been in 484 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,760 this forest for years. The area is ideal for them, with its sandstone 485 00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:01,639 cliffs and small streams. I found my first prince here along one of those 486 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:07,519 streams. It runs up a small valley with steep cliffs on both sides. 487 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:12,800 After hiking for a while and following the stream, I found a spot that 488 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,800 was dammed up with rocks. There was a small sapling that had been pulled 489 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:22,519 out of the ground by its roots and debarked. It was shoved upside down 490 00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:27,360 with the roots in the air, in the middle of the small dam. 491 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,639 This is also where I found my first prince in the mud. I wanted 492 00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:36,559 to take the sapling as a souvenir of the day, but I didn't because, 493 00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:39,840 to be honest, I was kind of scared too. Two weeks later, 494 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,559 my wife and I came back on a rainy day, and as always, 495 00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:49,480 I whistled a couple of times on our way in. I also used 496 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,519 this as a way to build trust with them. Usually after I whistle, 497 00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:58,840 I hear tapping from different parts of the woods. This isn't always the case, 498 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,480 but it was generally so, but not today. Everything was just wet 499 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:07,320 and silent. We came up on some arch trees, but there was too 500 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,960 much a brush to walk through to get to them, so I zoomed my 501 00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:16,039 camera lens in and I took some shots. Then I tossed a rock towards 502 00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:22,559 the arches and I hiked on for a while before leaving That night at home, 503 00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:27,199 I kept thinking about that sapling. It had still been there, and 504 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,880 I just kept thinking that I wanted something of theirs and that sapling was pretty 505 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:36,000 cool to look at. The Next morning, I decided to go get it. 506 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,199 I hiked in as far as the dam in the stream. I took 507 00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:44,199 a quick look around for more prints and thought, okay, I'm taking this 508 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,039 sapling. So I did. I was pretty nervous on the way out. 509 00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:52,880 I didn't feel right about what I had done. I got back to my 510 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,280 car and found a small tree branch on my windshield between the wiper blades. 511 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,760 I was parked under some tree, so it could have just fallen there, 512 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,199 but the way it was positioned just seemed too deliberate. It would have been 513 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,159 a one in a million shot in nature. My wife was with me and 514 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:15,000 we both had to use the bathroom. We drove a mile up the road 515 00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:19,400 to a small public restroom. The whole time I couldn't get rid of the 516 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:24,079 feeling that I shouldn't have taken that sapling. The restroom was a small building 517 00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:29,760 with a metal roof and a concrete block wall separated the men's side from the 518 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:35,079 women's. We were only in there for about three or four minutes, I 519 00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:37,840 could hear the rain pinging on the tin roof, but then a rock hit 520 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:43,039 the side of the building. When we came out, I asked my wife 521 00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:46,480 if she heard anything. She hadn't. Furthermore, the sun had come out 522 00:40:46,519 --> 00:40:51,280 and there was no rock on the ground. Now I was getting scared. 523 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,400 I told her that we were going back right then to return that sapling. 524 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,239 We got halfway back to where we would have to park the car, and 525 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:05,320 I got a really good feeling about taking the sipling. I suddenly knew that 526 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,559 it would be okay to take it home with me. Later that evening, 527 00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,480 I was thinking over the events of the day, and I came to the 528 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:17,639 conclusion that the bathroom experience was them letting me know that they knew I was 529 00:41:17,679 --> 00:41:23,239 in the woods that day. Now I am certain that they have supernatural abilities. 530 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:31,760 Thanks for reading my story. Here's a big foot story from Florida. 531 00:41:32,119 --> 00:41:37,360 My story begins in nineteen seventy eight or thereabouts, when I was a young 532 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,400 man of nineteen years old. My friend Kenny and I had been writing on 533 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:47,599 some property that we frequently hunted on the Mayaca in southwest Florida. We had 534 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:52,679 Kenny's dog Duke with us, and as we rode, a herd of hogs 535 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,320 ran across the road in front of us. We stopped and Kenny released Duke. 536 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,719 Within thirty seconds could hear a hog squeal, meaning that Duke had called 537 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:07,000 a hog, and we headed out in the palmettos to dispatch the hog and 538 00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:13,000 reap our reward. We found Duke with a sixty pounds sow and I killed 539 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,159 her with my knife. Duke caught her underneath a solitary oak tree in the 540 00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:22,000 middle of the palmettos, a hundred yards off the road, and as I 541 00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:25,760 prepared the field dresser, I noticed this She had tumors around her stomach and 542 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:30,599 we decided to leave her well. That evening, Kenny and I took our 543 00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:36,039 girlfriends out for dinner and later went to the hunting camp for a few drinks. 544 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,360 I told Kenny that we should stop and get that hoghead that we had 545 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:45,199 left in the palmettos and scared the girls on the way to the cabin. 546 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,199 I told the girls that I left my knife with the hog and we were 547 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:51,800 going to stop and pick it up. Back then, there was no sich 548 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,440 thing as a good flash light and the one I had was about dead. 549 00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:00,920 It was a moonlight night, so we didn't have any trouble navigating. When 550 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,920 we got to the hog, I began to cut its head off. That 551 00:43:05,119 --> 00:43:08,960 wasn't a simple task in the dark. With a dull knife, I worked 552 00:43:09,039 --> 00:43:14,199 and then I heard a noise in the pal meadows. I thought it was 553 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,599 probably an armadillo, because, believe it or not, they can sound like 554 00:43:16,639 --> 00:43:22,320 a bull coming through the woods. As a sound approached, I heard a 555 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,039 grunt. Well, it was more like a growl, or more like a 556 00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:31,079 fifteen hundred pound kitten burry. I told Kenny to shine the light over there, 557 00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:36,239 and that's when we both realized that we were looking at something ten feet 558 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:42,440 tall and it weighed a thousand pounds at least. Kenny was standing behind me 559 00:43:42,639 --> 00:43:45,719 and I was on my knees kneeling over this hog, and we were petrified. 560 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:51,760 Neither one of us flinched, and within just a few seconds, the 561 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:57,760 creature turned around and disappeared into the night. We ran back to the truck 562 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,000 and took the girls home, and we headed to NIE's house to get my 563 00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:05,360 truck. The next day, we met for breakfast and we discussed what had 564 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,039 happened, and we decided we might be better off just keeping this to ourselves. 565 00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:14,800 After breakfast, we rolled back out to the property and we found that 566 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,920 the hog was gone with my knife, and that was the last time Kenny 567 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:27,519 and I talked about what we had seen. Here's an email from Virginia. 568 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,719 The man writes that I was born on the family farm in Virginia, and 569 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:37,159 I worked there all my life. The events I'm about to tell you happened 570 00:44:37,199 --> 00:44:43,079 on this farm. Repairing fences is a typical job on our place that keep 571 00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:47,639 livestock on our property as well as keep our neighbors animals out of our fields. 572 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,079 Two weeks prior to this event, I had worked for a week to 573 00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:55,960 restring an old fence that needed repair. And it's not the most difficult work, 574 00:44:57,079 --> 00:45:00,119 but it's not the easiest. While working and a piece of equipment in 575 00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:05,320 the shed, one of my hands drove up and skidded to a stop and 576 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,079 frantically ran over to me, saying he had knocked a deer down a few 577 00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:14,199 minutes ago. Well, that wasn't odd news, not so that he would 578 00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,599 be sweating and speaking so fast that I hardly understood half of what he was 579 00:45:17,639 --> 00:45:22,599 saying, I asked him to slow down and catch his breath so that I 580 00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:25,480 could follow, and he took a few minutes and appeared to lower his heart 581 00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:30,639 rate and get control of his breathing. All right, there was a nice 582 00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:34,239 group of those that walked out of the trees in the south field where I've 583 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,440 been hunting this year. The season's almost over and we need some meat, 584 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,960 so I killed her, he said. He looked at his feet for several 585 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,079 seconds, and I thought he was done, and then his breathing began coming 586 00:45:46,079 --> 00:45:51,199 in shallow heaves again. Come over here and sit down and relax, I 587 00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,119 said, pointing to an old log stool next to the barn door. I 588 00:45:54,239 --> 00:46:00,440 catch your breath and let's start over. He sat down and took several deep 589 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:05,960 breaths, and he continued, I didn't hit that dough right little above her 590 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,519 heart. I think she jumped straight up in the air and ran back to 591 00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:12,960 the tree line, and when she tried to jump the fence, her rear 592 00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:16,800 legs caught on the top wire and she went down. I sat there until 593 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,320 she was dead, and I climbed out of the shooting house. And when 594 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,679 I turned away from the ladder to go get her. There was a huge 595 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:28,880 bear standing over her. Now, I don't know where it came from. 596 00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:31,599 I haven't seen a bear all year, but there it was, hunkered over 597 00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:35,960 her, and I yelled at it to run it off my deer, and 598 00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:38,760 it stood up on its rear legs and it looked right at me. But 599 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:45,119 it wasn't a bear. It was a giant, hairy monster. I think. 600 00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:47,400 I took a step forward, and as soon as I moved, it 601 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:52,159 bent down and threw that dough over its shoulder, and he walked up into 602 00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:57,480 the trees. I stood there for several minutes until I couldn't see it anymore. 603 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,960 That thing took the whole fence with it when it stepped over. I 604 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,360 guess it got its leg hung up in the barbs, and it took a 605 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,159 few posts with it and then started snapping staples out of the post. Well, 606 00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:13,039 he was way up in the woods when I saw the fence go slack. 607 00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:17,119 Now I think he either broke the wire or got himself untangled. There 608 00:47:17,199 --> 00:47:22,079 was a long silence that I broke. Well, how far was the deer 609 00:47:22,119 --> 00:47:25,679 from the shooting house, I asked, maybe forty yards? He said, 610 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,360 let's go look at the fence. I said, I'm not going back down 611 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:35,400 there. He said, you can go, but not me. I drove 612 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,960 on down there, and sure enough he was telling the truth about the fence. 613 00:47:38,639 --> 00:47:43,400 I don't know what dragged that fence up into those trees. I couldn't 614 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,960 have done it without a tractor. No human or even a bear could have 615 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:52,079 done that much damage. He said it was an animal. Well, it 616 00:47:52,159 --> 00:47:55,480 must have been a big one. A few months later, I was supposed 617 00:47:55,519 --> 00:48:00,800 to meet one of my hands in a field to repair another fence. I 618 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,679 got to the sight and I gathered my tools and material and I walked through 619 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,880 a ravine to the area that we were to work. He should have been 620 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:14,519 there waiting on me. I was ten minutes late. I waited another thirty 621 00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:17,599 minutes, and here he came running down the slope straight at me. What's 622 00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:22,280 your rush? I asked, why? Part next to your truck? He 623 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,119 said Now. I got out and I shut the door, and I looked 624 00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:28,519 over the bed of the truck about to get my tools out, and out 625 00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:32,480 walks this giant, hairy monster from the trees. He walked across that ditch 626 00:48:32,559 --> 00:48:37,880 right there and straight through the field and down into the swampy area on the 627 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,559 low end of the field. I didn't know what that thing was, so 628 00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:45,079 I laid down on the grass behind my truck so he couldn't see me, 629 00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:49,400 and I watched him walk right down into that slough from under my truck. 630 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,320 All right, show me where he was, I said. The guy was 631 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,440 not afraid as the other one who wouldn't go back to the spot where he 632 00:48:57,639 --> 00:49:00,440 killed the deer. And we walked to the trucks and down to the edge 633 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:06,280 of the mud where the wetlands started. You see that big limb laying there 634 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,239 in the water, He said, yeah, what about it? I asked. 635 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,000 He bumped his head on that limb when he walked under that tree, 636 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,199 and he acted like the limb pissed him off. And he reached up and 637 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:21,119 yanked that limb off with one hand and through it where it's laying now. 638 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,119 Man, that limb must weigh two hundred pounds. I said. It was 639 00:49:25,159 --> 00:49:29,000 a big limb that I would have had to cut up to even move it. 640 00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,280 You say he threw that thing, Damn right, he did. That's 641 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,199 why I said it was a monster. Let's get out of here. I'm 642 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:40,000 getting the creeps, he said, truthfully, I was getting the Wheelie's too, 643 00:49:40,159 --> 00:49:45,119 so I agreed and we went back to work. My father once told 644 00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:50,880 me that he and some teenage friends were raccoon hunting on a cold moonlight night 645 00:49:51,199 --> 00:49:55,679 in the nineteen twenties. In those days, their equipment was made up of 646 00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:00,599 a miner's lamp, a twenty two single shot rifle, and a pack of 647 00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:06,239 raccoon dogs. The dogs had treed a raccoon, or so they thought, 648 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,280 and it took them a while to get to the dogs. But when they 649 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,480 got there and shine their light into the tree, there wasn't a coon. 650 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,480 The dogs weren't jumping up in the tree like normal. They kind of hung 651 00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:22,800 back and they just kept barking. My father lowered his light to ground level, 652 00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,440 and standing there behind the tree was a creature. He said, looked 653 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:31,239 like a giant wolf on two legs. The creature lunged at the dogs and 654 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,800 they took off back to the truck, with my father and his fringe right 655 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,400 behind them. My father said he didn't know if that thing was chasing them, 656 00:50:39,559 --> 00:50:45,519 but they sure ran like it was. They never hunted that area again, 657 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:49,239 but then he saw it again two weeks later, on a cold night, 658 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,559 running across the field, not too far from where the dogs had at 659 00:50:52,559 --> 00:51:00,000 corner. Over twenty years later, while driving Old Leesburg Pike or Routes seven 660 00:51:00,039 --> 00:51:04,599 and in northern Virginia, he and my mother were driving across the bridge over 661 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,559 Goose Creek. In the middle of the bridge, he thought he could see 662 00:51:07,559 --> 00:51:13,599 a man standing there. When he was closer and the lights illuminated the man 663 00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,719 better, he saw that it wasn't a man. It was a tall, 664 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:22,559 lanky, apparently covered in hair creature. His mind went back to those nights 665 00:51:22,559 --> 00:51:28,679 in the nineteen twenties when he was a teenager. My father made the decision 666 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,039 not to back out of that bridge and instead to speed past this thing. 667 00:51:35,079 --> 00:51:38,760 As the car approached, the creature leapt on to the railing to avoid being 668 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:45,079 yet, and as they passed, it swiped at the car. I don't 669 00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:51,559 remember my mother ever talking about this night. Maybe she wanted to forget it. 670 00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:54,760 In nineteen fifty nine, the year I was born, my father saw 671 00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:00,000 it again, crossing a field at night on our family farm. I don't 672 00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:05,280 know what this creature is. Maybe there are more than one, but my 673 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,239 family and friends have seen it many times through the last years. Whatever it 674 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:14,360 is, it must have a long lifespan, or we're seeing its offspring. 675 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:19,840 Over time, they appear to stay well hidden and away from humans, and 676 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,679 I assume it is by chance or that the odds are good, that some 677 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,719 humans will catch a rare sight of them while they move around at night. 678 00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:35,360 This email us from Jordan, and here's what Jordan writes. My name is 679 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,400 Jordan. If you read this, I don't mind if you use my name. 680 00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:43,079 Anyone who knows me knows that I don't lie. I had always been 681 00:52:43,079 --> 00:52:46,679 a skeptic of bigfoot. I assumed if there were any such species that there 682 00:52:46,679 --> 00:52:52,400 would be hard evidence. Having said that, I had two experiences that have 683 00:52:52,559 --> 00:52:57,920 forever changed my mind. They are not the most exciting, but up to 684 00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,239 this point it's what I have, and they happened in different areas of eastern 685 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:07,000 Kentucky. In late December of two thousand and twelve, when I was twenty 686 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,760 five years old. My friend Kevin and I were trying to trap a raccoon. 687 00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,079 I had just recently gotten into hunting, and for some reason I wanted 688 00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:20,840 to eat one. His family owned a few acres hidden back in a holler, 689 00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:23,559 along with what was the only house on that side of the mountain. 690 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:30,199 We placed a trap just over an extremely steep hill where an old, abandoned 691 00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:35,079 single wide trailer butted up to the mountain. At nightfall, we ventured out 692 00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:37,519 into the woods a few hundred yards to where we had left the trap the 693 00:53:37,639 --> 00:53:44,159 previous day. We're both considered very large men. I'm six foot five and 694 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,840 way two fifty. Kevin is six foot eight and weighs three hundred. We 695 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,119 both played football, basketball, and round track in high school. We were 696 00:53:52,159 --> 00:53:58,880 both also carrying a pump action twelve gate shotgun. Needless to say, we 697 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,719 thought we were on touchable. When we walked to our trap, we noticed 698 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:07,119 that it was empty and the bait was gone. We decided to stick another 699 00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:12,639 honey bunny inside and come back the next day. As soon as we put 700 00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:15,519 the bait in the trap, we heard the loudest, most gut wrenching scream 701 00:54:15,679 --> 00:54:21,199 just over the ridge. Without so much as a look, we jumped inside 702 00:54:21,199 --> 00:54:24,960 the old trailer and we slammed the door shut. Our backs were pressed against 703 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:30,159 an old couch and shotguns were trained on the door, and we sat for 704 00:54:30,199 --> 00:54:34,960 fifteen minutes mumbling the same questions back and forth. What the heck was? 705 00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:38,800 That? Was that? What the heck? Eventually, Kevin said he thought 706 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,559 it was a big foot, but I was having none of that. You're 707 00:54:42,599 --> 00:54:46,880 an idiot, I told him with a sidelong glance. We hadn't heard anything 708 00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,679 else, so I insisted that we were fine and that we should head back 709 00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:57,079 to the truck. We made it out without incident. It would be eleven 710 00:54:57,199 --> 00:55:02,400 more months before I would come to believe in foot. During deer hunting season, 711 00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:07,679 I was hunting a large farm in Lewis County, Kentucky with my brother 712 00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:12,800 and a different friend. I had set up in a dry creek bottom because 713 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,159 the pines were so thick, I couldn't see twenty feet away if I was 714 00:55:16,199 --> 00:55:22,199 on the bank. After five hours of sitting in that stand and not seeing 715 00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:27,199 anything, I decided to walk around. As I started up a hill, 716 00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:32,159 I looked down and there embedded in the ground was a bare footprint. Being 717 00:55:32,199 --> 00:55:36,840 a large guy, I naturally have a large feet. So I put my 718 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,920 hunting boot next to the print to compare them, and they were roughly the 719 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:45,440 same size. They were the same length and winth roughly a fifteen to sixteen 720 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:51,480 inches long and six to seven inches wide. I took a picture and was 721 00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:55,199 promptly ridiculed by my friends and brother. As soon as I got service, 722 00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:00,800 though, I sent the picture to Kevin and he responded, Holy crap, 723 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:05,719 that's awesome. So I've never seen a live bigfoot. That footprint made me 724 00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:13,039 a believer. Thanks for all you do. This email us from Farrell, 725 00:56:13,559 --> 00:56:16,840 and here's what he writes. Like many of your listeners, I've hunted and 726 00:56:17,039 --> 00:56:22,679 fished all of my life. I've traveled all over the country and hunted in 727 00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:27,400 many different terrains. I've hunted quail, rabbit, squirrels, codis, raccoons, 728 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,360 and deer. While hunting, I've encountered bobcats, cougars, and even 729 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:36,639 bar I say this because I want you to understand how familiar I am with 730 00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:39,480 the woods and all the animals that live there. And what's more, I 731 00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:45,760 know they're sounds. My dad loves to hunt raccoons, my maternal grandfather, 732 00:56:46,079 --> 00:56:50,599 my brother, and a cousin, and I have often joined him over the 733 00:56:50,679 --> 00:56:54,719 years. One night in nineteen eighty three, we were all with him and 734 00:56:54,840 --> 00:57:00,760 close family friends on a piece of land just outside Paradise, Texas. Our 735 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:05,800 general practice was to wait for the dogs to open on a trail and then 736 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:09,039 sit down and wait for them to tree. Once they did that, we'd 737 00:57:09,039 --> 00:57:14,039 find the dogs and praise them for a job well done, and then lead 738 00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:17,920 them away from the tree so that the raccoon could get away. Then we'd 739 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:22,079 move to another spot and turn them loose on another trail to tree another raccoon. 740 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:29,119 We enjoyed the time together and working the dogs. I especially loved hunting 741 00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:32,280 at night. All the other hunting I did was during the day. But 742 00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:37,000 nature is more exciting in the dark. There's a mystery to it that makes 743 00:57:37,039 --> 00:57:44,039 it even more adventurous. Well, that night things got a little too adventurous. 744 00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:49,199 We were sitting on a creek bank listening when the dogs barks, turn 745 00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,599 from the sound they make when they're trailing a raccoon to the one they make 746 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:59,440 when they've treed one. Instantly, in response to their treeing bark, something 747 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:05,599 answered back with a scream so loud that it reverberated through our bodies. In 748 00:58:05,639 --> 00:58:08,559 all my life, I had never heard such a loud, strange scream. 749 00:58:09,679 --> 00:58:14,679 Every one of us sat up straight, with their hair standing on the backs 750 00:58:14,679 --> 00:58:17,519 of our necks, with eyes wide. We looked around at each other, 751 00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:23,079 hoping someone would offer an explanation for this sound. What was that, my 752 00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:28,559 cousin stammered. Well, I've never heard anything like it, my dad said, 753 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,960 and then he added, ever, the dogs had gone completely silent. 754 00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,760 Nothing in the woods was making a sound. Even the frogs and crickets near 755 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:43,800 the creek had stopped making noise. We sat there for several minutes, too 756 00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:49,119 stunned to say anything else, almost too afraid to breathe. We were all 757 00:58:49,159 --> 00:58:52,519 listening and unsure of what to expect next. When the dogs came running back 758 00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:58,679 to us, they were all whimpering and had their tails tuck between their legs 759 00:58:59,079 --> 00:59:04,079 and they wouldn't get from under our feet. The dogs were terrified. I'd 760 00:59:04,119 --> 00:59:07,719 never seen that before. It was enough to make four grown men and two 761 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:13,800 teenage boys decide it was time to go home. Fear drove us out of 762 00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,920 the woods in double time, and by then we were as scared as the 763 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:22,199 dogs were. For years we wondered what could have made that sound, and 764 00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:27,280 then my dad and I watched the show on Bigfoot and we thought maybe. 765 00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:31,800 But in Texas many years later, I heard the same sound on the Internet 766 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:37,079 when someone posted an audio clip of what they claimed was a Sia squatch. 767 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,760 I had my dad and brother listened to it, and they both agreed it 768 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:45,440 was the same sound that we heard that night. Over the years, I've 769 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:50,400 heard rumors of sasquatch roaming around that area. I don't know. I can 770 00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,199 only say that since that night, we never hunted that spot. Unless we're 771 00:59:53,199 --> 00:59:59,039 in large groups, we've never seen anything, nor have we heard that sound 772 00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:04,400 again. Thank goodn I'm sorry my story doesn't include a sighting, but hearing 773 01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:10,239 it was enough for me. Here's an email from Troy, and here's what 774 01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:15,880 Troy writes. You would be interested in what happened to me a year ago 775 01:00:15,159 --> 01:00:21,920 and twice more in twenty four hours just four weeks ago, near the Humbolt 776 01:00:22,119 --> 01:00:28,480 Mendocino County headwaters of the Mattole River. I know I'm butchering those names up, 777 01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,199 but I'm trying. I'm trying. And I got this email a little 778 01:00:31,239 --> 01:00:35,079 over a year ago, so the dates that you're going to hear in this 779 01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:38,480 video just to add a year two them. Let's continue on with the email. 780 01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:45,559 I become absolutely convinced that some unknown animal exists here, and I began 781 01:00:45,599 --> 01:00:52,119 to search the internet for similar accounts. It then became clear to me that 782 01:00:52,159 --> 01:00:59,480 these experiences must be documented and conveyed to others. In July of two and 783 01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:05,679 eighteen, I was staying in an isolated region that had limited access. I 784 01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:10,079 was on a primitive road twenty miles south of Whitehorn, California, behind three 785 01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:15,719 locked gates. This place is at the end of the world, on the 786 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:21,480 northern border of a vast green belt spreading from Shelter Cove on the coast east 787 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,199 to Highway one on one and south to Fort Bragg and then east to Percy, 788 01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:30,039 as can be seen on the Google Earth. About three am I was 789 01:01:30,079 --> 01:01:35,880 awake. It was hot, dark, and completely silent that night in these 790 01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:40,000 mountains. Something above me, where I lay in my tent, approximately two 791 01:01:40,039 --> 01:01:45,840 to three hundred meters, began knocking on wood, best described as loud wax 792 01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:51,760 on a tree trunk by a big club or a branch. It started with 793 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,760 one knock, which got my attention, with a brief hesitation, and then 794 01:01:54,880 --> 01:02:01,519 several more knocks, but randomly timed to summon succession others. After hesitations, 795 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:07,840 the knocking was loud. It was so loud that it echoed down the canyon, 796 01:02:07,039 --> 01:02:12,480 and the event lasted only a minute or two. My first thoughts were 797 01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,519 that there was no one on the mountain. Who could be out here in 798 01:02:15,559 --> 01:02:21,079 the middle of a primitive and protected area. These knocks were from something large, 799 01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:24,880 and no North American animal could have made them. I listened to while 800 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:30,400 my mind tried to wrap around how the noise was made. The event left 801 01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:35,639 me puzzle. I told a few locals afterward and learned that there were other 802 01:02:35,719 --> 01:02:43,119 hotspots for Sasquhite sightings between Piercy and north to Willow Creek. Four weeks ago, 803 01:02:43,199 --> 01:02:46,880 when waiting at the first locked gate in this same conservation area, I 804 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:53,159 heard two distinct vocalizations what cannot be explained. As I waited in the dusk 805 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:58,320 for about forty five minutes waiting to meet a party at the gate who were 806 01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:02,159 running late, I heard loud wail that I've never heard before in nature. 807 01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:08,400 The noise was at my two o'clock facing east up the heavily wooded area above 808 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:14,559 me two to three hundred meters up. I instantly knew where I had heard 809 01:03:14,679 --> 01:03:20,199 such an unfamiliar call. It was three years ago while watching a Bigfoot reality 810 01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:24,559 show where these squatch hunters were making a unique call while searching for Bigfoot. 811 01:03:25,159 --> 01:03:30,280 At that time, I remember thinking how ridiculous it seemed for people to be 812 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:36,400 on television trekking at night making strange calls in the woods. There was a 813 01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,239 brief delay from the first call to the next, and then silence for a 814 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:45,519 minute, leaving me to wonder if this whole experience was even real. It 815 01:03:45,679 --> 01:03:52,199 was either an unknown animal or some kind of implausible prank. It was loud, 816 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,039 echoing down the mountain, as though some huge creature could belt with the 817 01:03:55,159 --> 01:04:00,920 lungs of Luciano Pavarati, but this was louder. The chance of being a 818 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:05,960 prankster waiting in silence with me for forty five minutes in that remote location to 819 01:04:06,079 --> 01:04:12,519 prank me was very slim. And then another call at three to four hundred 820 01:04:12,559 --> 01:04:15,719 meters up to the north at my eight o'clock that was just as loud and 821 01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:21,119 unique as the first. This blew my mind because the first call might be 822 01:04:21,159 --> 01:04:27,719 attributed to an elk on steroids, but the response from what was clearly not 823 01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:33,360 an owl brought chills down my spine. I quickly moved closer to my vehicle 824 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:39,039 and listened for another thirty minutes in the darkness. I will never forget this 825 01:04:39,199 --> 01:04:46,280 second vocalization. This was obvious communication between two individuals. I had a fourth 826 01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:53,679 experience, but it happened the night before the duel vocalizations. On Friday evening, 827 01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:57,920 November the first, two thousand and nineteen. I had just moved into 828 01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:02,239 a cabin that my brother and I. It was located along a rugged canyon 829 01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:08,079 area of the Mattole River. It was dusk and quite dark already in the 830 01:05:08,199 --> 01:05:12,800 forest. I was outside looking at the stars, taking in the newness of 831 01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:17,360 these rugged surroundings. Above me, a few hundred meters away to the east 832 01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:24,440 of the river, echoed a loud, foreboating scream. My jaw dropped in 833 01:05:24,519 --> 01:05:29,960 amazement. It was terrifying at the same time, and I conjured up visions 834 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:36,079 of a banshee. The screaming continued full throttle for over five minutes. Mountain 835 01:05:36,119 --> 01:05:42,400 lions scream, but nothing like this. Someone had either set up a speaker 836 01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:47,360 and playing the bloodiest scream that Hollywood could produce, or this was an unbelievably 837 01:05:47,639 --> 01:05:53,599 big animal. It was the night after Halloween, and I wondered if someone 838 01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:58,119 was on the mountain side pranking me as a newcomer to the neighborhood. I 839 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,320 listened for a bit and then went inside and told my brother about it because 840 01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:08,239 it was so unnerving. Bigfoot did not even enter my mind. However, 841 01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:12,599 the next evening, about the same time, I heard the cause again near 842 01:06:12,639 --> 01:06:16,880 the gate that blocked our driveway. Why have I been so lucky to hear 843 01:06:17,079 --> 01:06:25,679 or experience such a mystery? Three distinct vocalizations which cannot be explained. I 844 01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:30,840 began pouring over USGS maps and satellite imagery to ascertain what the link could be. 845 01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:36,920 Are there neighbors or access for individuals to get that close? Could one 846 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:43,960 individual in such obvious stress on one night have triggered the coincidental travel of at 847 01:06:44,039 --> 01:06:48,280 least two or more unknown creatures the very next night, and what could be 848 01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:55,280 the connection between these events located twenty miles apart. I've talked to some locals 849 01:06:55,280 --> 01:07:00,280 about hearing strange noises, but no one claims anything or they don't want to 850 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,360 be ridiculed. I would like to know if there have been recent experiences by 851 01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:11,920 others in this area. I'm a sixty year old man with extensive wilderness experience 852 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,800 in forests and in jungles. I have credibility in this area. I have 853 01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:21,360 trecked and lived in remote areas of Africa, Australia, Central America, South 854 01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:29,119 America places of potential danger, and I've never experienced fear. I was born 855 01:07:29,159 --> 01:07:33,639 and raised near Yellowstone Park and have had no bad experiences with grizzlies, mountain 856 01:07:33,679 --> 01:07:41,079 lions, or wolves. Traveling all these years with a firm understanding of ecosystems, 857 01:07:41,119 --> 01:07:45,199 I never could have believed in such mysteries that anything new would ever be 858 01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:51,840 discovered. What has happened to me recently has completely changed my mind. There 859 01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:56,679 is a mystery in these woods, and I have a few ideas on how 860 01:07:56,719 --> 01:08:04,000 to find the answers to it. The writer's name is Steve. It's a 861 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:10,280 Bigfoot encounter. Here's what he writes. I'm from a small town in Wayne 862 01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:14,119 County, was Virginia. It's located in the middle of nowhere, but for 863 01:08:14,239 --> 01:08:19,439 reference, east Lynn Lake is to the west and Kabwelingo State Forest is to 864 01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:26,039 the south. The landscape is made up of a series of heavily wooded hollers 865 01:08:26,079 --> 01:08:30,079 and ridges, with the occasional hilltop field and creek bottoms being the only flat 866 01:08:30,119 --> 01:08:34,640 spots in the whole area. Most of the roads follow the creeks and ridges. 867 01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:40,880 The first time I ever heard of Bigfoot is being real happened when I 868 01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:45,079 was thirteen or fourteen years old. Two of my cousins, Jason and Junior, 869 01:08:45,239 --> 01:08:50,800 told me their story. They were following a slow poke old couple on 870 01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:56,520 Route thirty seven through East Lynn Lake State Park, near the Lynch Creek boat 871 01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:00,159 route. They said, the older couple suddenly slammed on their brakes to avoid 872 01:09:00,319 --> 01:09:05,399 a giant sasquatch crossing the road in front of them. There was a wide 873 01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:10,960 spot just beyond the boat ramp and playground where the old couple pulled over and 874 01:09:11,079 --> 01:09:15,439 my cousins pulled in right behind them. The four watched as the massive beast 875 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,800 ran down the steep hill towards the lake. It was winter, so with 876 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:23,800 the lake at winter Pool, it was about twenty feet wide. Where the 877 01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:28,960 creature jumped across. It ran up the hill on the other side at an 878 01:09:29,039 --> 01:09:33,960 unbelievable pace, disappearing into the brush about halfway up the opposite hill. I 879 01:09:34,039 --> 01:09:39,039 knew they were stoned when they were telling me the story, so I thought 880 01:09:39,079 --> 01:09:43,840 they were probably making it up to get a laugh. Now that I've seen 881 01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,399 and heard these things, I know they were telling the truth. About a 882 01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:53,359 year after hearing my cousin's tale, I had my first encounter. I was 883 01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:59,199 on the UKC Competition raccoon hunt. My dad and I both had dogs entered 884 01:09:59,199 --> 01:10:02,840 in the hunt were cast out separately. I was too young to drive, 885 01:10:03,079 --> 01:10:06,119 so I had to ride with one of the fellows i'd been cast out to 886 01:10:06,199 --> 01:10:11,039 hunt against. It was a great hunt for my group, with me and 887 01:10:11,159 --> 01:10:16,319 my beloved Bluetick coonhound way in the lead. Old Blue was the best dog 888 01:10:16,399 --> 01:10:19,760 I'd ever hunted with, and I loved that dog as much as a fifteen 889 01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:25,439 year old hillbilly could love one. We had about thirty minutes of a lotted 890 01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:29,279 time left for the hunt, but had run out of normal hunting spots. 891 01:10:30,039 --> 01:10:33,199 One of the hunters knew a spot close by, However, it required driving 892 01:10:33,279 --> 01:10:38,560 down a rough road to get there. It was about a half mile away 893 01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:43,119 and then straight up a rocky West Virginia mountain all the way to the top. 894 01:10:44,279 --> 01:10:46,439 I don't know why this sounded like a good idea, but we all 895 01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:53,079 agreed and off we went. We drove the two beat up trucks up the 896 01:10:53,159 --> 01:10:57,840 creek bed and then slowly began ascending up a steep, rocky, unkept road. 897 01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,720 It was more like a four wheeler trail than a road. We reached 898 01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,239 the top and turned the dogs loose down the other side of the hill. 899 01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:12,399 After just a few minutes, everyone's dogs came back except mine, and I 900 01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:16,760 called for Blue over and over, but to no avail. The other hunters 901 01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:21,119 were ready to go, but still Blue had not showed up. I told 902 01:11:21,199 --> 01:11:25,399 them to go ahead without me and send my dad back up here to get 903 01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:29,600 me. They acted like they didn't want to leave me, but I insisted 904 01:11:30,319 --> 01:11:32,399 now. I shared them I'd been hunting in the dark woods since i was 905 01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:36,600 a toddler, and that I would be okay. I wasn't afraid of the 906 01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:43,760 woods of the dark. After much debate, they all left. I stood 907 01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,000 there alone in the dark. I didn't turn on my light so that my 908 01:11:46,119 --> 01:11:51,399 eyes would adjust to the darkness. Not long after the tail lights disappeared into 909 01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:57,239 the darkness, I heard movement coming through the brush towards me. I quickly 910 01:11:57,359 --> 01:12:00,800 turned onto my light and shined it on my best friend running towards me. 911 01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:06,159 I saw eyes shine behind him. Blue rushed into my arms with an urgency 912 01:12:06,239 --> 01:12:12,199 that told me something was wrong. I snapped the lead onto his collar and 913 01:12:12,319 --> 01:12:15,520 then turned the light back on in the direction from which he had come. 914 01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,760 About fifty feet or so away from us stood a large man with wide set 915 01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:25,520 eyes that glowed when the light hit them. Except this was no man. 916 01:12:26,039 --> 01:12:30,239 He was way too big. His brownish red, three inch long hair moved 917 01:12:30,279 --> 01:12:35,359 in the breeze as my heart sank into my stomach. In a soft tone, 918 01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:41,479 I said hello, but there was no reply. And then I said, 919 01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:45,600 I've got a gun, so don't come any closer. I was bluffing. 920 01:12:45,199 --> 01:12:49,239 I didn't have a gun, and Blue positioned himself between me and the 921 01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:55,039 enormous thing that was now moving towards us, its hand up to block the 922 01:12:55,159 --> 01:12:59,439 light from its eyes. Stop right there, I said, a little louder, 923 01:13:00,039 --> 01:13:03,720 shoot you if you come any closer. I started backing down the road, 924 01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:09,159 pulling my dog with me. I was never more frightened in my life. 925 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:14,239 I felt the warm stream of urine run down my leg as I continued 926 01:13:14,319 --> 01:13:17,199 to back away from the beast. I'm going to die right here, right 927 01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:20,960 now, I thought, and I knew I was helpless to prevent it. 928 01:13:23,239 --> 01:13:27,239 I started praying out loud, Lord God, please just let me out of 929 01:13:27,319 --> 01:13:31,720 here, and I'll never sin again. I was bargaining, I'll obey your 930 01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:36,800 commandments. Please, just don't let this thing kill me. The creature turned 931 01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:41,399 and I saw another one behind it. It was a smaller, darker one, 932 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:45,600 possibly black. I could almost make out breaths, so I assumed it 933 01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:50,920 was a female. They chattered between themselves while I kept slowly backing away, 934 01:13:51,199 --> 01:13:56,600 never taking my light off of them, and in a flash, one went 935 01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,960 right and the other went left, and I lost sight of both of them 936 01:14:00,039 --> 01:14:02,920 them. I shined a light around in every direction, but I couldn't see 937 01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:08,720 anything. I couldn't hear anything either. I turned off my light and tried 938 01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:12,680 to let my eyes adjust to the darkness, and after a few minutes I 939 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:16,640 started walking down the road towards the creek. I heard the movement on both 940 01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:20,520 sides. As I walked, I would stop and turn my light in the 941 01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:26,159 direction I heard the sound, but I couldn't see anything, and when I 942 01:14:26,239 --> 01:14:30,920 stopped to listen, the sound stopped. I turned the light back on the 943 01:14:30,039 --> 01:14:35,119 rocky road and kept walking towards the creek. I decided at that moment that 944 01:14:35,239 --> 01:14:39,760 there would be nothing I could do if they wanted to kill me, so 945 01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:45,079 I just walked as normally as I could down the uneven road. Blue who 946 01:14:45,159 --> 01:14:48,159 normally walked in front of me, was behind me, then on my right, 947 01:14:48,239 --> 01:14:50,920 and then on my left for a few seconds, and then behind me 948 01:14:51,079 --> 01:14:58,600 again. He didn't growl, he acted as scared as I was. Somehow 949 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:01,319 I managed to make to the creek, but I couldn't take it anymore. 950 01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,479 The tears poured from my eyes like a fawcet, and I cried out, 951 01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:12,079 thank you God in a loud and confident voice. I wasn't out of the 952 01:15:12,199 --> 01:15:15,760 woods yet, but I felt like these creatures knew God, like they wouldn't 953 01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:20,439 touch me only because of God. And I splashed down the creek fearlessly, 954 01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:26,119 knowing they wouldn't touch me. I pulled Blue, who was still scared to 955 01:15:26,199 --> 01:15:29,560 death and walking with his tail between his legs, all the way to the 956 01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,880 main road. And then I stood there, soaking wet from the urine and 957 01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:38,079 the creek water, and I cried while I waited for my father to arrive. 958 01:15:40,119 --> 01:15:44,359 Twenty minutes later, I saw that old Dodge pull up. I was 959 01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,199 never so happy to see my dad in my life. Normally I had to 960 01:15:48,279 --> 01:15:51,600 pick that stubborn Blue tick up to get him in the truck bed, but 961 01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:57,159 not that night. He leaped up on the tailgate and dove into his safe, 962 01:15:57,239 --> 01:16:00,039 warm dog box. And I walked around the truck and I opened the 963 01:16:00,119 --> 01:16:04,159 door, but before I got in, I took one last look towards the 964 01:16:04,279 --> 01:16:09,399 creek. They were standing there watching me in the glow of the tail light, 965 01:16:10,159 --> 01:16:14,840 and I waved to them, and I jumped in the cab. My 966 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,840 father took one look at me and asked, what happened to you? I 967 01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,880 must have had little accident, I said, with a smile. He handed 968 01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:26,159 me an old jacket and told me to sit on it, adding that he 969 01:16:26,239 --> 01:16:30,960 didn't want that pie smell all over his truck. I'm crying right now as 970 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:34,159 i'm writing this. It's so hard to tell anyone, and that's why I'm 971 01:16:34,199 --> 01:16:40,319 telling everyone. Until now, I've never told a soul, not my dad 972 01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,960 that night, nor my best friend, or even my wife. I remember 973 01:16:45,079 --> 01:16:47,800 what I thought of my cousin's story, and I didn't want others to think 974 01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:53,439 the same about me. I've kept it bottled up for all these years, 975 01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:57,640 and now at least it's out. I didn't make good on my promise to 976 01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:00,840 God, either, but I'm sure he forgives me. That was the only 977 01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:06,960 hardcore visual I've ever had of these creatures or people. I know they're people. 978 01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:12,359 They have a soul just like we do. They know God just like 979 01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,720 I do, No, probably better than I do. I think they have 980 01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:21,159 a relationship with God that we can't even comprehend. A few years later, 981 01:17:21,279 --> 01:17:25,560 when I was nineteen, my mom and dad told me a story about a 982 01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:30,760 big, skinny bear they saw on a cemetery road near Cavlingo State Forest. 983 01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,720 Mom said it didn't look like a bear, She said, it looked like 984 01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:39,680 a bigfoot. Dad quickly interrupted and said it was a bear, a skinny 985 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,960 bear that crawled low to the ground on its belly, trying to hide. 986 01:17:44,079 --> 01:17:46,000 I didn't act like I thought it was a sasquatch, but I knew it 987 01:17:46,279 --> 01:17:50,840 was. Later Mom told me she thought it looked more like a bigfoot than 988 01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:57,039 a bear. I had one more encounter when I was twenty seven years old. 989 01:17:58,279 --> 01:18:01,359 I was camping with an old girlfriend and her kids at East Lynn Lake. 990 01:18:02,119 --> 01:18:05,560 It was a weekend after school had started back in the fall, so 991 01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:11,359 there weren't any other campers. We picked the last campsite at the end of 992 01:18:11,399 --> 01:18:15,760 the campground. Her kids fell asleep in the pop up camper around eleven pm. 993 01:18:17,239 --> 01:18:21,239 My girlfriend and I were sitting at the fire when acorns and small pine 994 01:18:21,319 --> 01:18:27,960 cones started landing in the fire, and then they started hitting us. I 995 01:18:28,039 --> 01:18:30,920 got a flashlight and scanned the area looking for pranksters, but I didn't see 996 01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:35,720 a thing. No one was around anywhere. The hills on the side of 997 01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:40,600 us were steep, really steep, and we were at the last campsite. 998 01:18:41,119 --> 01:18:45,159 The acorns and pine combes were coming from those hills. We got scared and 999 01:18:45,279 --> 01:18:49,560 we went inside, but then they started hitting the camper. I heard chatter 1000 01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:55,960 coming from up the hill behind us. It all sounded so familiar. The 1001 01:18:56,079 --> 01:19:00,880 memory of that night raccoon hunting came flooding back to me. I knew who 1002 01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:04,439 it was then, and I told my girlfriend it was raccoon's and she believed 1003 01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:10,760 me. I started praying and it stopped, like turning off the switch. 1004 01:19:11,359 --> 01:19:13,279 It was pretty cool, but scary,