WEBVTT 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.