1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,640 I live in a small community of Clouds Creek and we have a lot of 2 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:13,759 Bigfoot activity. My friends and I go out and we squatch on any given 3 00:00:13,919 --> 00:00:18,640 night, and we're never disappointed. There's a place that we call wood Haven, 4 00:00:18,679 --> 00:00:23,160 and within it you can find a lot of signs of bigfoot tree markings, 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:28,760 ex structures, and tracks. Most who live in the area have experienced 6 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:33,560 or heard him holler. We know there are more than one unit living within 7 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:37,520 here, and yes, some have even ventured into our yards and on our 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:42,560 decks. One night, my friends and I all gathered at my house here 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,920 in Clouds Creek to head out and do some squatching. Before we left, 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,399 twenty people had joined us. We left two hours after we ate, and 11 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,399 I left my recorder going, hoping to get a good recording of him hollering. 12 00:00:57,359 --> 00:01:00,079 We headed out to the pines, which is our starting point on most 13 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,719 excursions. We all stood outside of our vehicles waiting to hear him holler, 14 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:11,719 and it didn't take long before we heard something heavy walking in the woods close 15 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,400 by. The steps were quick and limbs snapped as the thing moved towards us. 16 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:22,879 The movement kept up for fifteen minutes and abruptly stopped and it was standing 17 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:29,400 just inside the trees. It was pretty spooky really. Leaves began rustling again, 18 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,799 and then it began knocking on a tree trunk. The sound was amazing 19 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,000 being so close. So what did we do? Of course, we moved 20 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,799 over to a tree close by and began knocking back. More wood knocks were 21 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:49,319 coming now from other locations, some we estimated as far as a mile away. 22 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,799 It was almost continuous for fifteen minutes, and now we were a few 23 00:01:53,879 --> 00:01:57,959 yards away from our cars, and small rocks began landing in front of the 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,879 cars, and some went over our heads, and there was the telltale odor 25 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:08,879 we all hear so much about. We experienced bigfoot in this location with all 26 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:14,520 of our senses, with the exception of seeing one. But they were so 27 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,599 close. We agreed that we had been in this location long enough. We 28 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,159 didn't want to intrude any more than we already had, so we loaded up 29 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:29,159 and we left no need to anger the beast or get anyone hurt. We 30 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:34,400 moved to another area that we knew had activity. Now at the new location, 31 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:37,960 we all sat in our cars with the engines off, and we listened 32 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:43,879 with open windows. Coodes began calling all around us. I don't know how 33 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,439 close they were. A coyotes call can travel a long distance, but they 34 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:53,439 were pretty close. Among all the coyote chatter, we heard something imitating the 35 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:59,639 coyote calls, but with a much deeper voice. These were notes a coyote 36 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,800 could not mate. The calling stopped and we could clearly hear cheddar from the 37 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,560 squatches. You cannot mistake those noises. As I mentioned earlier that night, 38 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,599 before we left, I started a recording device on my back deck. I 39 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:22,039 do this sometimes when there's been activity around the house. Upon returning home, 40 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,960 I played the sounds from the recorder for everyone. Something big was clearly walking 41 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:31,800 up the stairs of the deck. Within a few seconds, the recorder picked 42 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:38,120 up this thing sniffing the audio recorder deep inhales as it got my scent from 43 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:45,680 the recorder and vocal exhales. The creature did this several times before the recorder 44 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,080 captured it walking back down the steps. A minute went by on the recording, 45 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,439 and then we caught the same animal. We think it was the same 46 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:00,479 animal, roar or howl not far away. It actually scared bared us, 47 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,240 knowing that we were sitting on the deck where a bigfoot had been in the 48 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:10,159 last three hours. These events happen often in our area. The word has 49 00:04:10,199 --> 00:04:14,039 gotten out that bigfoot is here, and they're very vocal, so people come 50 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,879 into the area a lot to listen for them. On some nights, cars 51 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:23,240 will be parked along the road so their lights turned off and they just sit 52 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:30,120 there hoping to hear one sound off. Our area has become a bigfoot hotspot, 53 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,120 so I've hunted many places, but most of the time it's been on 54 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:43,000 family land, either in Louisiana or Mississippi. This incident took place in West 55 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,959 Feliciana Parish just outside of Saint Francisville, Louisiana, on property that has been 56 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,600 in my family for well over one hundred years. It is rich old growth 57 00:04:54,759 --> 00:05:00,199 with major creeks and several dry branches running through it. Day in mid December, 58 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,279 I was hunting by myself, and I hit the woods just before daylight 59 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,759 so that I could walk in and set up before anything was aware of my 60 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,720 presence. I spent the entire morning without seeing so much as a squirrel, 61 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,959 which bothered me, but I really didn't think much of it, and I 62 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,199 thought that the weather system must be moving in so I decided to check the 63 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,519 forecast when I went in for lunch. I ate lunch and visited with my 64 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,519 grandmother for a while, and I decided to have one more go at it, 65 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,720 even though it was getting late in the afternoon. So when I went 66 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,000 back out there, I decided to set up downhill from a tall sweet gum 67 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:42,759 tree. It had always been a good spot for me to set up. 68 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,000 I didn't want to be close enough for the squirrels to alert the deer of 69 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,959 my presence, so I put myself against a black oak overlooking a branch of 70 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,199 a creek about fifty yards from that sweet gum tree. I thought that I 71 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,879 might catch a deer crossing the creek on their way back to bed down, 72 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,720 and the spot I chose was well known for this and for that very purpose. 73 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,279 I got into the woods and saw right away that it was different from 74 00:06:10,319 --> 00:06:14,600 the morning. There was life everywhere, but not much wind, so I 75 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,399 could hear the birds and chirping, and the branches moving as the squirrels jumped 76 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:24,079 from limb to limb. After about thirty minutes, I heard something coming my 77 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,439 way from across the creek on the opposite side at a pretty good pace. 78 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,399 And I readied myself in case it was a good buck, so that I 79 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:36,720 wouldn't miss the opportunity. Seconds later, a buck came running down, and 80 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:41,879 when it jumped the water, it stumbled in the loose sand and gravel of 81 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:45,920 the creek bed, giving me just the time I needed to take a shot. 82 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,279 I hit him just as he was standing up, and he never took 83 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:55,160 another step. I was only about twenty yards away, so I watched him 84 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,959 to give him time and make sure that he had bled out and was dead. 85 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,720 A short time later, I jumped down into the creek bed and made 86 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:06,959 the short distance over to him. It was then that I noticed he had 87 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:12,279 broken one of his front legs when it sank into the sand on his jump. 88 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,439 I thought it a little strange that he didn't take the time to make 89 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:19,920 a careful jump, and I figured something must have been pushing him and he 90 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:27,240 was more interested in getting distance between him and it. I didn't hear dogs, 91 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,879 but we have seen big cats there before, and we do have coyotes, 92 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,600 bobcats, and the occasional bear, so I didn't give it much thought. 93 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,639 Just as I was going to drag him up on the bank to gut 94 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,240 him, there was a loud pop just over the hill next to me, 95 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:47,040 right around the bend of the creek. It was loud, but it didn't 96 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:51,920 sound like a tree or a branch falling. Definitely wood on wood, but 97 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,120 it sounded like it was a wooden box, if that makes any sense. 98 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:01,040 My first thought was someone in the woods with me and wanted me to know 99 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,439 they were there, because I obviously had a gun. But why wouldn't they 100 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,720 just call out to me because they were only a few hundred feet from me 101 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,279 just over the hill. The woods were now completely quiet, but soon after 102 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:18,279 I heard another loud pop, so I yelled out who is it? And 103 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:24,560 I got no answer. This land is only about fifteen miles from Angola Penitentiary 104 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:31,759 and twenty miles from Dixon Correctional in Jackson, Louisiana. Inmates escape and I 105 00:08:31,799 --> 00:08:37,799 wondered if that was a possibility. We watch over our property, and so 106 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:39,960 I was going to find out who was on the land and make sure that 107 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:45,559 they weren't poaching. I walked straight over the hill, but nobody was there 108 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:50,120 and there were no signs of anyone. Then another loud pop about fifty yards 109 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,720 across the creek, where the deer had come from. This rattled me because 110 00:08:54,759 --> 00:09:00,480 I got immediately a feeling that I was being drawn away, and I wasn't 111 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,840 going to have that. I decided to go get my deer and clean it 112 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:09,600 at my grandmother's house in safety and give the local game warden a call for 113 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,879 whoever was trashpassing on the property. I made it back over the hill, 114 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,320 but my deer was gone. No tracks of any kind but the ones I 115 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,320 made earlier. All that remained was a blood pool. I was mad as 116 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,519 heck, but then I realized something had just picked up and walked off with 117 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:35,080 my deer. Whoever or whatever it was, had to lean over and pick 118 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:39,600 up about one hundred and sixty pound deer four feet from the bank. No 119 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,799 signs or anything. Now I was going to find my deer, and I 120 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,360 found a blood trail a few feet up the bank on the dry leaves. 121 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:54,240 I followed it for seventy five yards and then allowed crack as before, about 122 00:09:54,279 --> 00:10:00,039 fifty or sixty yards to my west, and then right away another crack on 123 00:10:00,159 --> 00:10:03,639 about twenty yards to my east, and then another about one hundred yards to 124 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:09,639 my south. The woods in the ground cover were very thick, and I 125 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:13,480 couldn't see much of anything. That was enough. They could have my dear 126 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,360 and my pride. I was going to keep my behind, so I turned 127 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:24,000 myself towards my grandmother's house and I whistled myself out of the woods. I 128 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:28,240 wanted whatever or whomover to know that I was leaving. It was the shortest 129 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:33,600 mile walk of my life. I had to work very hard not to run. 130 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:39,639 I didn't want to look like fleeing prey. I stayed at my grandmother's 131 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,960 that night due to the close proximity of what had just happened. We called 132 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,639 around, asking neighbors if they had been hunting our land, but no one 133 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,679 knew of anyone in the woods. I kept the story to myself. This 134 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:56,759 is a small community, and I didn't want anyone talking about the crazy people 135 00:10:56,759 --> 00:11:01,200 in my family. I can't say for sure what I encountered that day, 136 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,720 because I didn't see anything, not tracks, nor did I smell anything. 137 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,240 I just know that whatever picked up my deer had to be strong and tall 138 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,960 enough to reach down from the bank and walk off without a sign other than 139 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,600 that blood trail. My brother and a few others later talked about times they 140 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:24,919 felt like they were being watched while they were hunting in the woods. I 141 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,600 still kept my mouth shut because of the looks they were getting when they would 142 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:33,919 tell others. But to this day, almost thirty years later, I can 143 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,759 still remember everything, including the fear.