WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:15.800 This email is from Judy. This is really good, She writes, I've 2 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:22.120 been devouring your podcasts and videos since recently discovering you. I especially enjoy the 3 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:28.120 Steve Lily stories and I'm anxiously awaiting the next installment. As a native Northwest 4 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.200 Georgian, I'm also a fan of your accent, which could belong to any 5 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.439 one of my brother's nephews or other kins. And I lament the loss of 6 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.880 our regional accent and hearing it is a bomb to me. I don't think 7 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:45.679 people are losing their Southern accent. Maybe a little. I don't know. 8 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.799 I just talk like I talk, like it or not. I'm sixty five 9 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.280 years old and I grew up on a large farm in the corner of Northwest 10 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:58.840 Georgia, which is within spitting distance of Chattanooga. I can see Lookout Mountain 11 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:03.079 from my childhood bedroom, and I have two older brothers. One is thirteen 12 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.000 years my senior and the next one is seven years older than me. I 13 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.959 was very much a tomboy as a kid, running through the woods and fields 14 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.319 of our three hundred acre farm. Our nearest neighbor was a mile away. 15 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:19.920 Daddy raised beef, cattle, and pigs. And we grew tomatoes and beans 16 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:25.799 for sale at the farmers markets in Chattanoog in Atlanta. Every Sunday afternoon we'd 17 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:29.959 round up whichever cows we had pre selected to be taken to the sale the 18 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.879 following day. This was one of my favorite memories because it meant time in 19 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.159 the fields and woods, and it was searching for cows and calves, and 20 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.000 they always seemed to know that they were on the market list, and therefore 21 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.359 they would run away. I say all this just to give you a bit 22 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.439 of context to my Bigfoot story. Growing up in the late sixties and the 23 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.879 early seventies, I had never heard of bigfoot. I never heard anyone talk 24 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.560 of any wood buggers or the likes in the area. We had deer upcats, 25 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:05.200 and the occasional black bear and an escaped hog that had gone farrell, 26 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.360 but nothing more exotic than that. I had no fear at all of anything 27 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:15.639 in our expanse of pine and oak forest around the farm. Our house set 28 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:20.439 in a small clearing next to five cleared acres behind our house, and a 29 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:25.199 few more cleared for pig pins and pig barns and cattle bars and feed lots 30 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:30.080 just behind our house was a few acres of grazing, which was surrounded on 31 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.919 three sides by piney woods. The barns were two hundred yards from the house. 32 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.080 One night in late spring of nineteen sixty seven, we had several hogs 33 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.960 who were farrowing. It was always at night, it seems, so my 34 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.960 mom and dad and my brother were at the pig barn tending to the pigs. 35 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.120 My older brother was already away at college. Most of the time, 36 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:55.280 I'd be right in the midst of the pigs, because there's nothing cuter than 37 00:02:55.319 --> 00:03:01.039 a newborn piglet, in my opinion. For whatever reason, on this night, 38 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.840 I'd been left asleep in my bedroom while the others were at the pig 39 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.759 barn. My room had one window which was fairly low to the ground and 40 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:15.039 it went nearly to the ceiling. It also had a door to the front 41 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.560 porch, which in warm weather I kept open along with the window to catch 42 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.719 whatever breeze I could. Of course, we didn't have air conditioning, But 43 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.479 on this night I was awakened by footsteps on the porch, and I looked 44 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.240 out through the screen door, expecting to see one or more of my family 45 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.520 coming back from the pig barns. But what I saw instead was a big 46 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.800 shadow. It was a huge black shadow standing on the porch five feet or 47 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.520 so from my screen door. It was facing me, but in the darkness, 48 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.360 I couldn't make out any features or details, just the outline of a 49 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.319 hulking body that was so tall it had to hunch over to fit on the 50 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:59.960 porch. The ceilings were eight foot tall. There it stood there, silent 51 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.439 and except for its loud, moist breathing, which reminded me of a horse 52 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:10.199 after a long run. I wasn't frightened. I was just confused. What 53 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:14.120 was this thing? Am I seeing it? Or am I still asleep and 54 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:18.199 dreaming. I could hear the squealing of pigs in the distance, so I 55 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.600 knew I was awake. Just as I considered getting up out of bed to 56 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.879 shut the lock on the wooden door, the shadow took a step off the 57 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.360 porch and I saw it pass by my open window and head around to the 58 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.920 back of the house well. I jumped up, and I shut and locked 59 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.759 the door, and I pulled down the glass panes of the window. I 60 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.959 thought about running to my parents, but what would I tell them? So 61 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.600 I stayed in my room until they finally returned, trying to make sense of 62 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.319 what I had seen. I never spoke to them about it, because it 63 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:55.480 would seem foolish in my family, which tolerated little foolishness, so I kept 64 00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:00.839 the whole story to myself. The following summer, or maybe the summer after 65 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.279 that, my brother got a copy of a magazine called Field and Stream and 66 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:09.480 the Mail, and on the cover was a still photo of the Bigfoot from 67 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:14.959 the Paterson Gimblin film. Well. I was transfixed. There was the shadow 68 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.399 that I had seen on my porch that spring night. This was a real 69 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:23.720 thing, a true life monster, and my heart raced as I tried to 70 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:28.360 put the pieces together. Could this thing live in our own piney woods? 71 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.319 Surely not, I thought this Bigfoot lived way out west, not here in 72 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:38.959 Georgia. Over the next few weeks, I studied the dense pine forest just 73 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.759 behind our house, which stretched for hundreds of acres. My eyes were always 74 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.600 drawn to that tree line, wondering if I might catch a glimpse one day 75 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.279 of what I had seen on the porch. I never heard it's called, 76 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.680 I never smelled it, never had a rock thrown at me. I wasn't 77 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:00.839 afraid. I was intrigued. I wondered if it was lonely like I was. 78 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:05.279 Sometimes I even wondered if it had come looking for someone or something to 79 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:12.000 relieve some of that loneliness. I know that sounds crazy. Two cowboys in 80 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.720 California had just discovered a monster in the wilderness, and I was concerned it 81 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.920 might be lonely. Well, I never saw it again, but I did 82 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:26.000 become a psychologist, maybe out of that childhood connection to helping the lonely, 83 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.519 or maybe not. In any case, I've always been fascinated with other people's 84 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.600 experiences with Bigfoot, and I truly appreciate the form that you provide for them 85 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.040 to share their stories with the rest of us. Thank you for what you 86 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.920 do. Well, Judy, this is just really fun for me. So 87 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.720 she goes on to say, if you decide to share this, please use 88 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.480 my first name, which I did. I just do this for fun. 89 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:57.000 I think these stories are very intriguing, and this was really interesting, and 90 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:01.959 it's a great story, and the story itself is it's captivating. It's you 91 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.240 know, she saw it, she was intrigued by it. It's like so 92 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.639 many people. But I want to say, she went on to become a 93 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:14.800 professional a psychologist, a person that had to earn a degree, pass all 94 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.439 kind of tests to become licensed in what she does. And she's interested in 95 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:25.480 bigfoot, so it's not always the you know, bigfoot people who believe and 96 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:30.120 follow the bigfoot topic sometimes get cornered into this class of people that are kind 97 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.879 of crazy. But you know, these stories really are interesting and they're interesting 98 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:39.600 to a lot of different people, not just the crazies, although there are 99 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.839 some crazies in this topic. Don't do not make any mistake about that. 100 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.319 But I thought this was interesting that Judy is a total professional, very smart 101 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.759 person. You have to be that way to get through those schools. This 102 00:07:51.879 --> 00:08:00.079 was a great story, so I really appreciate you sending it. Judy. 103 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.879 Hey, y'all, welcome to the Dixie Cryptid Podcast. I appreciate you joining 104 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:11.480 me. There are six stories of encounters with strange creatures about real people in 105 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.319 this podcast. I don't know how long it's going to be, but it's 106 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.160 a pretty good one. It's a pretty good one, so I hope you 107 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:26.839 guys enjoy it all. Right, here we go. Some emails I get 108 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.240 have a lot of personal notes to me or some preliminary background stuff that I 109 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.200 don't normally read, but in this email, I'm going to read it from 110 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:41.399 front to back because it's full of history, full of excitement, intriguing mysteries. 111 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.559 I think you guys are really gonna like this story. The writer's name 112 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.240 is Marianna. Oh Do I have a story for you. It's a true 113 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.000 story that happened to my grandmother in World War two, and I have a 114 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:01.480 feeling you're really gonna like it. The story has been around our family for 115 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.519 a long time, but it has never been shared publicly. I took my 116 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.399 time writing it, and right now, with all the alien stuff popping up, 117 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.679 it seems to be a good time to finally share it. Also had 118 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.960 one possible Bigfoot non visual story that happened to me, but since it took 119 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.639 place in Ohio, I sent it to Nance from Buck Eye Bigfoot and she 120 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:28.759 read it on the July fifteenth, twenty twenty two episode. You made a 121 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.799 good choice. Nance does these stories a lot of justice, and she's great 122 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:37.480 at this. My name is Marianna and I live in the United States now, 123 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:43.080 but I was born and raised in the beautiful town of Koshi, Okay. 124 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.840 These are some Slavic names of places, and I'm going to have trouble 125 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:52.799 with it. Ko koshike And was raised in the beautiful town of Koshik in 126 00:09:54.000 --> 00:10:00.480 Slovakia, the former Czecho Slovakia in Central Europe. My grandmother came from a 127 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:05.320 small village near a Slovak town called Pravaska Bastreika, where she grew up and 128 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.639 lived as a young woman during the World War Two. I'm looking forward to 129 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:16.559 hearing you pronounce the town's names yet. And you had once already mentioned my 130 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.480 hometown of Koshike on your podcast a few years back when you were giving a 131 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.000 birthday shout out and they were from there, and you did a great job 132 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.679 pronouncing it correctly then, So I believe you'll do just fine with this one. 133 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.840 Well, I don't remember that, but I hope I got Koshike Koshi. 134 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.320 I think that's right. Koshik and asked, with a little V on 135 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:41.240 top of it, is I think is pronounced like a sh onto the story. 136 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.799 My grandmother's name was Maria, or my Grandma Marienka, as we affectionately 137 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:52.720 called her. She was a sweet, goodhearted, simple Christian woman who went 138 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.120 to church every Sunday, and she was as honest as they get. I've 139 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:01.240 never ever heard her lie or make anything up. It just wasn't in her 140 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.120 nature. She didn't even have that kind of imagination. No one in our 141 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.759 family ever doubted that this really happened. In fact, my dad remembers other 142 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.120 people from her village were calling it too. Back when I was a kid, 143 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.639 I was lucky to spend a lot of my time with my grandmother as 144 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.799 a child, and she would often babysit me and my sister after school while 145 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.840 my parents were still at work. She was truly the perfect grandma. I 146 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.440 asked my grandparents and sister of their recollection of her, retelling the story, 147 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.159 we ended up bringing up a lot of lovely memories of her. We were 148 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.960 all very fond of her, and decades later, I still miss her. 149 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:46.080 We all do. Although we heard this story from her on different occasions, 150 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.159 we all remember it the same. Her story never changed, and this is 151 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:56.480 how I remember it. One day, my parents were heading somewhere out and 152 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:01.320 Grandma came over to babysit us as usual. May have been nine years old 153 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.080 at the time. My Grandma and I sat in the living room trying to 154 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.639 decide what we were going to do for fun. When my father walked by 155 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.159 and said, hey, why don't you ask your grandma to tell you about 156 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:16.720 the time she saw an alien? Now that got my full attention. Tell 157 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.840 me, I begged my grandmother. Before we get to her story, let 158 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:26.559 me give you a very quick history on Czecho Slovakia during the World War two 159 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:33.519 is that's when the story took place. On September thirty, nineteen thirty eight, 160 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.600 Adolf Hitler and the British, French and Italian leaders signed the Munich packed 161 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.519 by which they basically handed Czecho Slovakia to Hitler. It was meant to keep 162 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.759 the peace, but we all know how that turned out. After Hitler invaded 163 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:56.320 Czecho Slovakia, he promised the Slovakia independence, and so on March fourteenth and 164 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:01.600 nineteen thirty nine, the first independent Slovakia was formed. This new very small 165 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:07.559 country with a week leadership, was then bullied by Germany into cooperation. It 166 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.720 was a while before Slovakia was able to organize resistance and build up forces, 167 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.360 and at last, on the twenty ninth of August nineteen forty four, the 168 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:24.519 Slovak National Uprising broke out in response to a German invasion of Slovakia. Sadly, 169 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:30.080 the Slovak National Uprising was crushed by the Germans in just a couple of 170 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.960 months, and as a retaliation for this resistance, nearly one hundred villages were 171 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:41.440 destroyed and thousands of people executed by the Nazis. What followed after that was 172 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:48.279 several months of very difficult times under German occupation. That was before the Russian 173 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.840 Army was able to push west and liberate Slovakia towards the end of the war. 174 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.840 It was in these turbulent times during the German occupation in the winner of 175 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:03.960 nineteen forty five that this story took place the town of Pavaska, but Striker 176 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.879 was little more than a village until the weapons factory was built in nineteen twenty 177 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.600 nine, and that brought a lot of jobs into the area. During World 178 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:20.120 War Two, jobs were scares and living was difficult, So my grandmother Maria, 179 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.960 who was at the time twenty two years old, considered herself lucky to 180 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.480 have a job at the weapons factory, and not just any job. She 181 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:35.559 held an important position of quality control of the manufactured bullets. The bullet manufacturing 182 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.759 division was housed in a hall that workers referred to as the tunnel for its 183 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:46.360 elongated shape and underground build The long haul was filled with rows of bullet manufacturing 184 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:52.639 machines which were partially automated, and when in operation, they required workers to 185 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:58.080 be constantly present to complete the process. Since all the able men were drafted, 186 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:03.440 these jobs were left to mostly women. In fact, the whole factory 187 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.919 employed only few men, and they were those too old or too unfit to 188 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.519 be drafted. The only other men around were the German guards who were guarding 189 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:18.639 the factory, for it was no doubt an important strategic object. Port of 190 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.279 Maria's job at the factory, she would come down to the bullet manufacturing hall 191 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:28.080 take bullet samples for a quality check. She would weigh them and make sure 192 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.720 that they had the correct amount of gunpowder in them. Her visits to the 193 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.679 hall were usually rather pleasant, as she had a lot of friends amongst the 194 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.440 women's working there, many of them from her village. However, on that 195 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.480 November day, as she walked towards the hall entrance, she had no idea 196 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.240 how very different this visit was going to be. At first approach, she 197 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.879 noticed a lot of unusual commotion. The door was open and a number of 198 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:02.360 women were running out screaming. Maria cautiously entered the hall against the stream of 199 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.039 panicked workers and quickly realized they were all running for the door. She tried 200 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.759 to talk to some of them to find out what was happening, but to 201 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:15.039 no avail. The women were frantic, and all she could understand from their 202 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:22.519 incoherent screams was something about a monster. She peeked down the long manufacturing hall, 203 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.320 but she couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, or nothing that could 204 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:32.039 possibly scare them like that. There was something else she noticed that terrified her 205 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:37.240 in a whole other way. The women running for the exit were in their 206 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.679 panic, leaving the machines on and running well. This could spell a huge 207 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.639 disaster. As the bullets and the machines were starting to pile up, her 208 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:52.399 sense of responsibility kicked in and she quickly sprang into action. She ran to 209 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.960 the first row of machines and started turning them off one by one. When 210 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.200 she was done with one row, she quickly moved to the next, next 211 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.640 one, and by now all the women had escaped, and soon Maria, 212 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:07.720 making her way through the rows of machines, was the only one left in 213 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:14.160 the entire hall, or so she thought. Focused on her tasks, she 214 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.839 rushed around the corner of another row of machines when she instantly froze in her 215 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:26.480 tracks. She found herself face to face with the thing. The thing or 216 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.759 judo meaning the weird thing, is how my grandmother referred to it. Well, 217 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.640 what did it look like? I asked her. She described it as 218 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:40.000 follows. It was short, It was a meter a bit over three feet 219 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.039 tall, with a big, hairless head. It was slender and smooth and 220 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.319 dark, and my grandmother's words, it was like froglike skin. It had 221 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:53.880 long and skinny fingers, and its face was dominated by large, pure black 222 00:17:53.920 --> 00:18:00.559 eyes, pretty much no nose, and a tiny slit like lipless mouth. 223 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.839 There was no hair at all. There were no ears as far as she 224 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:10.079 could see. It sported some kind of sheet draped over its torso, and 225 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:15.559 it was slowly shuffling forward while mumbling something. But there were no recognizable words, 226 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.599 and it didn't even sound like a language. Well, what about its 227 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.720 head? What was it shape like? I asked. She thought about it 228 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.920 for a moment and searching for the right words to describe it, and then 229 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.920 she said, it looked like an egg. I have to admit that when 230 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:37.799 she said that, I was immediately disappointed. In my nine year old mind, 231 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.480 this creature could not have been an alien, because I knew exactly what 232 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:47.200 an alien's head was shapelike, because I had seen it in the movie Et. 233 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:51.680 What she described did not have a head like ET. Back then, 234 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.359 I never heard of a soul called gray alien. The only alien I knew 235 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:02.240 of was ET. Even any alien as I've seen in cartoons were different looking, 236 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.200 as those were usually green and they had antennas on their heads. So 237 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.160 just to confirm what she had said, I brought a pen in paper and 238 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.440 I had my grandmother draw the head. Well, what she drew was the 239 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.519 shape that I would later in my life see on the drawings of gray aliens, 240 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:25.720 a head very round on the top and pointy on the bottom. Even 241 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:29.920 though I had to work through the disappointment of it not being the Et from 242 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.400 the movie, I was still eager to hear the rest of her story. 243 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.880 So there she was, face to face with this thing, frozen in fear 244 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.960 as they stared at each other for a moment which felt to her like an 245 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:47.359 eternity, and then finally the panic hit her and she took off running. 246 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.720 If I recall correctly, she still had enough composure to turn off the last 247 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.680 few machines before running for the door, not daring to look back. She 248 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:02.519 was relieved to safely make it outside, where the crowd of terrified employees had 249 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:07.799 now gathered. Someone had already notified the German guards, who rushed over to 250 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.920 investigate, and the slowly moving creature eventually made its way to the door and 251 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:18.119 it walked out, where the curious crowd observed it from a safe distance. 252 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:23.240 One of the last details I remember my grandmother telling me about this encounter was 253 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.160 how one of the German guards was joking that they wanted to know if it 254 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:32.279 was a male or a female, and he used his bayonet to lift up 255 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:37.319 the sheet that the creature was wearing. Well, his joke made otherwise terrified 256 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.839 women giggle a bit, but the findings of this odd gender reveal were unknown 257 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:48.000 and were most likely and conclusive. The Germans then captured it. It was 258 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.279 easy and without any resistance, and they loaded it on a truck and took 259 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.000 it away. I asked my grandmother if she knew what happened to it. 260 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:02.160 Afterwards they told us they killed it. She answered, and that was that 261 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.680 with so much killing going on by the Nazis, absolutely no one questioned it 262 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.960 personally a highly doubt that Germans would kill it. They probably just said that 263 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:18.960 to give the people some closure. There are some theories out there about Nazis 264 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:26.160 collaborating with Aliens during World War Two? Could this be somehow part of it. 265 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:30.559 Either way, such a creature would be way too valuable just to kill. 266 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.319 Where it came from and how it got inside the underground factory hall will 267 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:40.160 forever be one of the mysteries. There were air shafts up to the ceiling, 268 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:44.240 and I remember my grandmother believing that it came through there. And what 269 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:48.079 this creature was or what really happened to it afterwards, also remains a big 270 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:53.640 unknown. The whole thing was quite quickly put out of the people's minds, 271 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:59.839 simply because there was so much happening at these difficult times. For example, 272 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.680 a couple of months later, the Allied forces made an air rate attempt at 273 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:08.880 this Nazi held weapon factory, but the bombs missed its target and instead of 274 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:14.160 the factory, they dropped near the village where my grandmother and her family lived. 275 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.359 A local school full of kids was hit, but luckily the bomb just 276 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:23.240 fell through the roof and did not explode. It was considered by locals a 277 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:30.079 miracle. And so the war went on and the weird creature encounter quickly became 278 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.200 just one of the crazy things that happened during those horrible times of war. 279 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:40.039 But sadly, my dear grandmother passed away in the late nineteen eighties, just 280 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.920 a couple of years after telling me this story, and I never got to 281 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:47.960 talk to her about it again. I wish I could turn back time and 282 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.480 sit down with her again. I would have so many more questions. But 283 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.279 when you're a kid, you don't realize how precious and limited the time with 284 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:00.319 your loved ones may be. And now I regret not have more conversations with 285 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:06.000 her about her story and her life. So to all of you listening right 286 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:10.319 now, I say, if you're lucky enough to still have your grandparents and 287 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.279 elders around, take a moment to sit down with them and listen to their 288 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:19.279 stories. You might just learn something incredible about their life. Oh and before 289 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.519 I forget, in any case, any of you pondered about what you would 290 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:29.640 do if you were working at a Nazi occupied bullet factory during World War Two. 291 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.119 Well, I'm happy to tell you that my grandmother Maria and her co 292 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:38.920 workers had conspired against the Nazis and were purposely putting two little gunpowder in the 293 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:44.319 bullets. I like to think about all the lives that they may have saved 294 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.680 by doing this. When the Nazis finally found out that there was something wrong 295 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:53.000 with the bullets, they called my grandmother into the office for questioning. She 296 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.400 thought she wasn't going to get out of there alive, but somehow she managed 297 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:03.079 and they let her walk out of there. If my calculations are correct. 298 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.359 At that time, she was already visibly pregnant with her first child, so 299 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:12.279 maybe that help. She immediately went into hiding and didn't go back to work 300 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:17.519 anymore, knowing they were getting close to finding out the truth. And luckily 301 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:22.160 for her and her co conspirators, the war was coming to an end and 302 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.000 the Nazis just didn't have any more time to go after them. They were 303 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:30.319 too busy losing the war and fleeing the Russian army that was closing in on 304 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:36.079 them. Had they found out about it earlier, though, I most likely 305 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:42.279 would have never been born. And she signs and she signs the email Marianna, 306 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.559 and she says you can use my name, and then there's a PostScript. 307 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:51.079 Feel free to contact me if you need help with some of the pronunciations. 308 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:53.680 I know the town's name is a tough one and I couldn't figure out 309 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:59.680 a good way to phonetically transcript that for you. I think it's important to 310 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:03.759 say the town's name, though, as it's a real place and a true 311 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.160 story. However weird it sounds. And by the way, I really like 312 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.720 when you sound your opinion on the stories that you read, and I'm looking 313 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.440 forward forward to hearing what you think about this one. Thank you for your 314 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:22.359 awesome podcast. Okay, first, this is one of the best stories that 315 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:27.559 I think I've ever done. I get to go on other people's podcasts. 316 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:32.519 I don't. I don't really like going on them because I don't have much 317 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.720 to say. I'm not a very interesting person, and I don't I don't 318 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:40.640 know why people invite me on their podcasts. I think some of them think 319 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:45.000 that My channel has one hundred and seventy five hundred and eighty thousand subscribers, 320 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:49.720 so you know, in the storytelling world, it's it's probably a medium sized 321 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:52.960 channel, and I think they think that if they had me on, people 322 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.039 will flock in and it will build their channel up. But it never does. 323 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.680 It doesn't. Those kind of things really don't help. I go I 324 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.759 go on these podcasts, and the question I always get, what's your favorite 325 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.440 story, What is your favorite story that you've ever done? In My answer 326 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.599 is good grief. I've done so many it's hard to pick any of them. 327 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:18.480 But I'll remember this. When Marianna's story about town in Czechoslovakia, Czecho 328 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.920 Slovakia, we have troubles even saying the name of the country, and it's 329 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.960 very it's set all the time around here. But anyway, so much history 330 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.799 and she anyway, I sent her an email saying this is so good. 331 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:36.039 I want you to know. I'm gonna put it in a podcast, and 332 00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:40.839 she wrote me back, and I want you all to know that Marianna, 333 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:48.200 this is her English is her fourth or fifth language. She probably speaks her 334 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:55.799 native language, plus several other European languages, French, German, I don't 335 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:59.480 know what else. And she lives in the United States now, so she 336 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:04.240 had to learn English as a language. And people who can speak so many 337 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:10.359 different languages, they have a knack for it. And I'm leading all up 338 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.400 to this for English to be her fourth or fifth language down that she's learned 339 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:22.279 in what that usually means is that's the fifth language she's learned. She did 340 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.680 a remarkable job writing this. I see a few things in the letter. 341 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.519 I did not edit this. I didn't do anything with this letter. But 342 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:37.240 I see a few things in this where grammar is used differently in other languages. 343 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.519 But this was I did not edit this one bit. I read it 344 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.359 word for word from start to finish, and I just thought this was a 345 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:49.279 great story. So it was very interesting. I'm glad, Marianna you got 346 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:53.519 to hear those stories and be that close to your grandmother, and what a 347 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:59.799 interesting history your family has had. And I hope you're enjoying it here in 348 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:04.000 the United States. We're glad to have people here that you guys are heroes. 349 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:07.599 I mean, you guys went through you know that Nazi occupation and the 350 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:12.200 Russians. People think that the United States won the Second War. We would 351 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:17.480 have never won it without the Russians. The Russians did most of the heavy 352 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:21.079 lifting, and they took most of the casualties. I don't know that the 353 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:26.759 Russians would have won it without us. We kept the Nazis occupied for a 354 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:32.200 long time with our invasion of Europe, but the Russians were once they got 355 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:36.119 a foothold and started pushing the Germans back out of Russia. They just they 356 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:41.319 never did quit until they got to Berlin, and Russia liberated Slovakia, Czechoslovakia 357 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.319 and her towns. And I know they appreciate what they did. So I'm 358 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.480 just rambling on. I just thought this was a really great story and I 359 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:55.920 wanted to share it with you. I think the story happens in Alabama. 360 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.880 Let's let's see what the man says. My name is Bo and I have 361 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.279 two short stories that are true. I'm not a writer, so feel free 362 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.000 to rewrite them as needed by Whi'm not rewriting a word. Man, this 363 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.519 is pretty good. I'm gonna read it just like it shows here. My 364 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.480 mike's about to fall off. I tighten this thing up all right now. 365 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.839 It's in there. Story number one. Several years back, I was a 366 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.640 member of a motorcycle club. I was on the way to a cookout being 367 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.799 thrown by one of the chapters in a neighboring state three hours from my home. 368 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:33.200 I was riding solo through somewhere near Tifton, Georgia, and I passed 369 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.400 an old, well kept farmhouse. Beside the farmhouse was a shed and an 370 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.519 empty lot. At first glance, I thought I saw an eight foot tall 371 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:47.000 grizzly bear statue made from wood, you know, the ones you would expect 372 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:51.519 to see outside a fancy ski lives or something like that. But then I 373 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:56.039 noticed wasn't a bear. It was a big foot. Keep in mind, 374 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.000 I'm still thinking statue or yard art. Anyhow, I go to the cookout, 375 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:04.880 and as would be expected with bikers, alcohol was involved and I ended 376 00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.880 up sleeping in a recliner. The next morning, I headed home and I 377 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:14.480 thought to myself, I'm going to stop check out that bigfoot statue. I 378 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:18.599 remembered the approximate area and the road it was on, so I kept an 379 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.240 eye closely on my route. When I got to what I was sure was 380 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.359 the house, there was no statue. Did I see a bigfoot? Did 381 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:33.400 someone move the statue overnight? Those two questions will always linger in my head. 382 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:38.119 Story Number two. I grew up in southeast Alabama, but I moved 383 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:42.599 to South Carolina at the age of forty one just to try somewhere new and 384 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:48.960 to start over. Soon after moving to South Carolina, I discovered the Congaree 385 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.799 National Park. If you didn't know, the Congaree is a mix of old 386 00:30:53.880 --> 00:31:00.079 growth pine forest and cypress swamps. So I did a little Google searching and 387 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.759 I read a story about in the seventies where a kid was temper temporarily kidnapped 388 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:10.640 by juvenile bigfoot. The two ended up playing hide and seek until ma'ma Bigfoot 389 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.200 said it was time to go home, and she pointed a human child in 390 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:18.440 the direction of safety. Google it if you'd like to read the actual story. 391 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:23.000 Well, my story took place on December twenty four, twenty twenty two. 392 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.359 It was a Christmas Eve and I hadn't been living in South Carolina very 393 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.200 long, so I didn't know many people. I decided to camp out for 394 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:37.119 Christmas, and the Bluff Campground was completely empty for the holiday. It was 395 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.440 just me and my Chihuahua, Scrappy. Sometime in the night I started hearing 396 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.240 codis in the distance. I didn't think it was a big deal. I 397 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.559 grew up in Alabama and I've seen and heard codies all my life. But 398 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.200 then they kept getting closer, and I knew that they were on the hunt 399 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:59.359 because they were yapping and yapping like crazy. Unsent my tent to shine the 400 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.640 flash and before I could stop him, Scrappy shot out of the tent. 401 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.599 I shined the flashlight to locate him, and I saw the eyeshine of the 402 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:14.160 whole pack of codes one hundred yards away, and my dumbass six pounds Chihuahba 403 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.599 running right at them. I'm still scrambling to try to get out of the 404 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.839 tent to catch Scrappy, and I hear this god awful scream howl growl come 405 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:30.240 from somewhere in the woods to my right. I froze, and Scrappy froze, 406 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.920 and best of all, the codies went from yipping and yapping to yelping 407 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.759 and running the opposite direction. I got ahold of my dog and I hid 408 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.119 in my tenth the rest of the night. I knew my truck was a 409 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:45.920 mile hike in the dark away. I did hear something moving in the woods 410 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:52.079 that night. It sounded like it was making wide circles around the entire campsite. 411 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.400 Once again. Was that a bigfoot? I think it was, and 412 00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.839 he or she was looking out for me and my dog Scrappy. I have 413 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.720 more stories about the sets of eyes and the dark, but I need to 414 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.720 talk to my friend who was with me at the time to ask what he 415 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:12.680 remembered seeing. Thanks for the great stories, you rock, and then he 416 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.000 signs off. Steve Lily for president. Hell. Yes, Steve Lily for 417 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:20.240 president. That's who we need. Bo, thank you for this story. 418 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:25.039 This was awesome. I'd like to talk to you about MC life. I 419 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:29.720 have some quale. I need to do some research for Hook Johnson in my 420 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:34.759 Steve Lily series. I might email you back, or maybe maybe Bo, 421 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.160 you could email me and give me your phone number or something and I'll I'll 422 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:42.160 give you a call. I have some questions about that. Uh. There's 423 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.039 another guy I talked to who was actually a Hell's Angel. He I think 424 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:50.640 he lives in I think he lives in Virginia. Now he's he's older, 425 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:54.480 and he's he's not active in the in the club anymore. But he gave 426 00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:58.160 me a little information. One thing he told me, he said, if 427 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:04.799 you right in Hook as an MC member, which he is, don't copy 428 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.039 the name of any MC club in this whole country. Well, I don't 429 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.760 know all the names of the motorcycle clubs in the country. So what if 430 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:15.000 I get it wrong? But I I had no intent of call it saying 431 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.880 that he was a member of the Hell's Angels chapter or Mongols chapter, outlawst 432 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:24.079 chapter in Memphis. But I had no intention of doing that. But what 433 00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:28.800 if I just get it wrong. Maybe I just won't even give the name 434 00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:30.800 of the MC club that he's in. But anyway, bo, if you 435 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.360 get a chance, you may an email it. Assuming you hear this. 436 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.400 Thank you for the story. This was great. I appreciate you, buddy. 437 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:43.719 This person doesn't give me permission to use your name. But I'm a 438 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:49.599 reader story. I recently discovered your channel and I enjoy listing late at night. 439 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:52.679 I just turned fifty. I'm a woman, and I enjoy hunting and 440 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:59.039 fishing and camping and hiking. Mouncle, who lives in Washington State, is 441 00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:02.760 an avid hunter and has had a few bigfoot encounters. I enjoy listening to 442 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.039 other encounters. I have never seen one, and I honestly hope I never 443 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:12.079 do. And I don't know if I'd be excited for hunting season anymore after 444 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:16.199 I did. And I couldn't imagine not spending time in the woods that I 445 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:22.840 was listening to one of your best of six episodes tonight. One story caught 446 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.480 my attention. A woman driving to see a friend and she saw a little 447 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.800 person. I too, have seen one. It was thirty years ago. 448 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:36.440 No one has ever taken me serious when I tell them about it. I 449 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.440 really don't care. I know what I saw. I was living in a 450 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.920 rural area twenty miles from Athens, Georgia, with my husband at the time 451 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.440 and his ten year old daughter. My brother, who was sixteen years old, 452 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.079 also lived with us. We lived in a small trailer park consisting of 453 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:59.559 four other trailers, and the neighbors next to us had gotten this dog. 454 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.719 I felt terrible for that dog. They didn't even take care of their kids 455 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:08.559 very well, much less the dog. The dog was a full grown chow 456 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.440 and they chained that poor thing to the outside post of their porch. There 457 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:17.039 was no doghouse, there was no shade. They only had it for a 458 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:21.760 few days when it snapped the chain and it ran around the area loose. 459 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.559 They tried to catch it, but they never had any luck. But after 460 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:30.719 a week I would set out food for him and slowly coached the dog to 461 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.760 trust me. I would come home from work and he'd be sitting on my 462 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:38.519 back steps waiting for me. The neighbors one day noticed me sitting on my 463 00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:43.519 steps petting the dog, and the dad walked over with a leash. He 464 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.960 asked me to put it on the dog, and I said, no, 465 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.639 you put it on. As he took a step closer to the dog, 466 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:53.159 the dog growled and bared its teeth at the guy. The guy was scared 467 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:55.719 and he jumped back and he said, well, I guess you can have 468 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:02.280 him. I named him Muffassa to the lion King. Mufassa loved me, 469 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:07.360 but he didn't care for anyone else. Around this time, we were in 470 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.320 the process of moving to a bigger house way out in the country. We 471 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:15.719 didn't have neighbors for miles, next to a cow pasture on one side, 472 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.079 there were woods on the other. My husband at the time wouldn't let me 473 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:24.199 keep Mufassa in the house full time. Mufassa scared him because he'd growled him. 474 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:29.280 Sometimes. He built him a nice, big enclosure with a big dog 475 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.320 house, and when I wasn't at work, though that dog was always by 476 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:36.719 my side, I'd bring him in the house and I'd bathe him in our 477 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:42.199 garden tub and he'd hang out until bedtime. Mufossa was okay with everyone as 478 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.639 long as I was there, but he followed me into every room and he 479 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.199 didn't want anyone else touching him. One night, everyone was sitting in the 480 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:53.480 living room and would laugh because every time I'd get up, Mufossi would follow 481 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:59.199 me. From the living room, you could walk into the dining room, 482 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:01.920 which went to the kitchen, and from there you could walk into the den 483 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:07.480 area and back into the living room. It made a big circle. So 484 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:10.199 I got up and walked around the circle a few times, and everyone was 485 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:15.760 having a laugh because Mufassa was following me. Shortly after sitting back down, 486 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:21.639 I was facing the den when I clearly saw a figure dart across the den 487 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.960 into the kitchen. I gasped, and I asked everyone else if they had 488 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.920 seen it. Well, everyone said they had seen something moved, but they 489 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:35.079 weren't looking directly at it. I jumped up to go see what it was. 490 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:38.880 Mufassa had seen it too, and he was scared. He wouldn't go 491 00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:43.480 into the den or the kitchen. He wouldn't move from a spot, and 492 00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:46.719 he was distressed, and he whined loudly and whimpered when I got up to 493 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:52.519 investigate. Well, after looking around, I didn't find anything, but I 494 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:57.360 know what I saw. It was seven inches tall, It was a little 495 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:01.599 man. It had on clothes, hat, and honestly, it looks similar 496 00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:07.559 to a garden gnome figurine. I've had hamsters and pet rats as a teenager, 497 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:14.239 but it wasn't an animal. It was a little person. Mufasa's reaction 498 00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:19.599 confirmed that to me. He chases raccoons and possums, and once he even 499 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:23.039 got into a cow pasture and chased the cow until the bull chased him back. 500 00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.280 He wasn't scared of anything, but that dog was terrified. He never 501 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.320 again would go into that dinner kitchen and I never saw it again, and 502 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.599 neither did anyone else. The strangest thing I've ever seen. I never heard 503 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.760 anyone else ever talk about something like this until I heard it on your channel 504 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.760 tonight. Thank you, and she signs her name. Well, that's interesting. 505 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:51.960 I don't get many little people's stories, but they are quite intriguing. 506 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.480 I would say that I wonder what they are. I don't know anybody have 507 00:39:54.559 --> 00:40:00.920 any comments on that. Feel free to leave a comment. All right, 508 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.159 here's an email from a gentleman who does not give me his name, and 509 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:10.440 that's just dandy. Here's what he writes. On December sixteen of twenty twenty, 510 00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.039 I was thirty foot up a pine tree hunting slap dab in the middle 511 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.800 of Leaf River, WMA. And it was a second day of dog hunting 512 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:23.159 season. And I'm not a dog hunter. I'm a steel hunter. So 513 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:27.880 you have to go to the WMA unless you have a private land or private 514 00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.039 lease. But that year I was not in the least. I was using 515 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.800 public land to hunt, so that I was basically getting away from the dog 516 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:39.760 hunters. When I say dog hunters, I'm talking about people who drive dogs 517 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:44.519 to kill deer. I've done it before when I was younger. I was 518 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.280 not a huge fan of it. But each to his own. I'll stop 519 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.079 right here and say, I can't stand I can't stand that, you know. 520 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.400 I guess it's fun for some people, but I don't get the sport 521 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:58.719 in it. I've also done it when I was a kid. My father 522 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.719 did it, my uncle's did it, and even back then, when I 523 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.480 was ten or eleven years old, I thought it was kind of stupid to 524 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:07.840 spend all that money on dogs when you can just put up a stand and 525 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.679 wait for a deer to walk by and kill it. I get. I 526 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.559 don't get the terrorizing the deer with the dogs. I don't have anything against 527 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:17.760 killing deer. I killed two or three every year, but running them with 528 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:22.280 dogs makes no sent to me. Probably made a few enemies with that statement, 529 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.320 but I agree with this man. Back to the story. I was 530 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.400 hunting a power line adjacent to a huge ryegrass field. We're talking two hundred 531 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.760 yards wide and about a thousand yards long, and are used to set up 532 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.519 and hunt behind it. Before this encounter, I don't think I believe in 533 00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:46.079 bigfoot. It definitely was not on my mind, or maybe if I thought 534 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.760 something like that could exist to be a problem in the northwest Canada or Northwest. 535 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.639 I do remember seeing the Paterson Gimblin Fell when I was a young boy, 536 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:58.800 like in the early eighties, and they would show it on late night 537 00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.159 shows and stuff like that. It was kind of like a freak show. 538 00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:07.760 My mother and dad always said that it wasn't real. It was somebody in 539 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.880 a suit something like that. Well, my encounter was very long, probably 540 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:16.119 best of twenty or twenty five minutes before this thing finally took off, but 541 00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:20.079 I got to see everything. And when I first saw him, he was 542 00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.599 one hundred and fifty yards to the north side of the power line, and 543 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:28.719 when he finally spotted me, he walked straight to me thirty yards away. 544 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:31.639 These things are not what people think they are. It's a type of people. 545 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.400 These things have emotions. You can see it on their face. It 546 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.639 did a lot of human looking stuff, but it wasn't a human, if 547 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.639 that makes sense. I would love to talk to you about it one day. 548 00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:47.559 I'm not very good at writing and stuff like that, but I'm better 549 00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:51.119 at word of mouth, so if you'd like to contact me, and he 550 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.199 gives me his phone number. I live in de Iraville, Mississippi, and 551 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:59.239 I'm probably a mile and a half from the Gulf coast. But where I 552 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.079 was hunting was two counties up in Perry County, Mississippi, where this happened. 553 00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:07.239 And I had something else happened to me this year. No visual this 554 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:10.599 time, just got a few tree knocks and whistles. Thank you very much, 555 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.480 cam kindness regards, And right there he does give me his name, 556 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.920 and I'm not going to say it, because he doesn't say I can use 557 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.559 it. But you could tell I didn't edit this. It's a little bit 558 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:24.960 confusing, and I understand some people are better at talking about it than writing 559 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.199 about it. But still you got the information. I thought it was a 560 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.960 good story. He got to see this thing for twenty to twenty five minutes, 561 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:37.440 and he believes that they act human, but they're not human. Got 562 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.760 to see facial expressions, all kinds of stuff. This is a rare sighting. 563 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.000 This is a lot of people don't get to see this kind of stuff. 564 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:46.480 But he says he'd like talk to me about it. If I can 565 00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:51.519 get the time to do some more interviews. I might give this guy a 566 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.639 call. But I appreciate the email. It was a great story. Thank 567 00:43:54.679 --> 00:44:01.360 you very much. This gentleman wants to be anonymous, and of course that's 568 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:06.559 no problem. He writes. I want to apologize in advance if this story 569 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:10.519 isn't very clear. The signs of an encounter didn't register to me at first. 570 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.119 The realization only hit me recently. I'm now twenty eight years old, 571 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:19.280 but in the summer of two thousand and six, when I was fifteen, 572 00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:23.760 it was the age when this encounter took place. I lived in Yazoo County, 573 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:29.079 Mississippi my entire life. I grew up hunting and fishing and exploring the 574 00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:34.679 woods on my parents property and the neighboring land owned by family friends. My 575 00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:38.239 buddy and I had come across what I now recall as tree structures, some 576 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:44.000 built like four post tps, while others had an a frame design. It 577 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.760 was an odd thing to see in the middle of the woods. On the 578 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:52.119 day of the encounter, we had spent the morning fishing at his grandfather's place. 579 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.079 The fish weren't biting, so we ditched the idea and decided to walk 580 00:44:55.119 --> 00:45:00.280 down to a creek just to see how far it went. When we were 581 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:04.719 two miles into our walk, we came across a small waterfall that had an 582 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:08.400 opening to a cove where we could see a sparse bed of leaves and pine 583 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:13.840 straw. We took a minute to catch our breath and then continued down the 584 00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.400 creek. Now after a mile, we stopped on a ridge just to enjoy 585 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:21.800 the scenery. I don't know why I noticed this, but at that particular 586 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.559 moment, the woods seemed to go completely silent, like the Good Lord had 587 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:30.239 hit the mute button. Seconds later, we heard a gunshot three hundred yards 588 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.639 away, and it was followed by a screen that sounded like a man, 589 00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:37.880 but with much more power and volume that I'd ever heard outside of a rock 590 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:43.880 singer bellowing through a wall of loud speakers. Tree branches cracked as if a 591 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.599 bulldozer was rolling through the woods at full speed. Our instinct was to run 592 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:52.519 all the way back to my buddy's grandmother's place, like the two frightened teenagers 593 00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:55.679 we were. These days, I like to watch the sun go down over 594 00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.960 the woods from my back porch and wonder just what was on out there while 595 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.639 I'm asleep in bed. And that's the end of the story. So it's 596 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:07.679 I don't know what to say about that story. Man, that's pretty cool. 597 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:13.960 They heard a shot and something screamed and came running through the woods like 598 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.800 a bulldozer. What could that have been? In Yazoo County, Mississippi, 599 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.199 there are bears down there. Maybe it could have been a bear. I 600 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.480 don't know, though, I don't know that a bear would scream that loud. 601 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:30.119 You will have to decide what you think this guy encountered. Thank you 602 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:35.400 for the story, mister anonymous. I really appreciate it. All right. 603 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.559 I think that's gonna wind it up. Thank you all for joining me on 604 00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:44.519 this podcast. My podcasts have been kind of further apart than they have been 605 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:49.679 historically over the last five years. I know that I've explained that in the 606 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.519 last two or three podcasts. I'm not going to talk about it again. 607 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.960 So the people who are hanging with me, man, I love you. 608 00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.800 I appreciate you. Anytime that I have away from this death, I spend 609 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:04.960 outside doing work in my yard and stuff that I've neglected over the last five 610 00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.119 years, spending time with my family. So I appreciate you. I know 611 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:12.280 you understand that most people that are listing go, heck cuss, That's exactly 612 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.400 what I would do. But then there's some people who are mad. I 613 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:20.119 got an email from a lady saying she was unsubscribing and she is tired of 614 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:24.159 my excuses and she's leaving the farm. And I thought, damn, lady, 615 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.159 I don't work for you. I'm not your employee. I can do 616 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:32.199 whatever I want to do with this podcast. This thing will get back on 617 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:38.000 track when the weather turns, and I don't know, it'll probably take a 618 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.360 little while, but I just want to let you know, thank you, 619 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.639 and let you know that I appreciate you hanging with me. I ain't going 620 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.760 nowhere. I've been doing this for five years. I'm working on audio books 621 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.800 for the podcast, not for Audible. I'm working on audiobooks for the podcast. 622 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:58.159 I got all kinds of stuff played, just taking a little time to 623 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.920 spend outside. I'd rather be out side then sitting behind this desk. Now, 624 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.559 it's a fact, all right. I know the lady who unsubscribers going. 625 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:09.239 I don't have more excuses, more excuses, but it's not I'm just 626 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:14.000 telling you what I'm doing so you can get glad in the same shoes you 627 00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:16.760 got, mad and lady. All right, thank you all for listening, 628 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.119 and we'll see you on the next one. And I'll have another one up 629 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:27.400 this week. Love you all, see you say