1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,559 Today, I've got a story, one story that is fascinating to me. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,080 And after the story, we're going to talk to the man who wrote the 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,119 story, the author. You're going to get to hear the story in more 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,920 details about this event in his own words. So we've got a narrated story 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,239 that he sent, we've got an interview, and I want to I just 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,920 wanted to tell the man who wrote this, he's going to be referred to 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,719 as Tea in this video, how much I appreciate him. Not every bit 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,799 of the conversation is going to be about Bigfoot, but he's just an interesting 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,159 man. He lives in Alaska, his encounter happened in Oregon fifty years ago, 10 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:45,560 and he's got great insights on these things. And I hope you enjoy 11 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:48,640 this video. So let's get rolling, all right, here we go. 12 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:56,439 This story is titled three mics. I will tell you of this memory with 13 00:00:56,479 --> 00:01:00,560 my hand planning firmly across my mouth. Is not a scream in terror. 14 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,200 Fifty years later, neither man nor beast under the sun, moon and stars 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,120 has left me this shaken. There's nothing I fear as greatly as this vivid 16 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:18,840 memory. I have spent thirty five years in the wiles of Alaska, traveling 17 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:25,000 the seas and hiking in the deep, pungent woods. I've experienced Alaskan wilderness 18 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:30,400 so vast, so remote and untouched by humans. In all my travels, 19 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,000 There's nothing that I fear as deeply as this memory some fifty years ago. 20 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:38,239 And it didn't even happen here. It was in Oregon, close to the 21 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:44,000 town of Malala. To this day it is a hotspot for cryptid sightings. 22 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,879 But this event happened over fifty years ago. The memory is still crystal clear 23 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,400 to me in that time of unparalleled unknowns in my life. The life of 24 00:01:55,439 --> 00:02:00,760 a foster child sometimes comes with great amounts of work. I had livestock to 25 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,319 tend to in daily chores around the farm. The barn was built on a 26 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,080 small rise. Behind it, there was a loafing shed. There was also 27 00:02:09,159 --> 00:02:14,280 an old wire fence. There was a problem with the wire fence. It 28 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:17,520 was constantly being pushed down. You could pull the wire up taut, but 29 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:23,439 within a few days it was crinkled again. Remnants of dark brownish hair hung 30 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,319 on the bent wire fence. I surmised that it was tall hairs from one 31 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,479 of my many cows. I fed, but why would an old cow venture 32 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:37,800 over there? A trail ran down behind that fence to a huge growth of 33 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,639 blackberries. It must have been a quarter of a mile long and fifty feet 34 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:46,120 wide. It was made up of scrub oak, poison oak, and BlackBerry 35 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:51,280 vines. It covered a small stream of those sidewalls that eroded down at least 36 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,360 four feet. There was a hole in the BlackBerry covering over the stream. 37 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,319 When I rode the old school bus in the morning, I would always look 38 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:04,080 up this little creek where it passed under the road. When you looked upstream, 39 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,639 it was a dark tunnel with long, dead, thorny vines hanging down. 40 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,680 It was a place I never wanted to go, but never say never. 41 00:03:13,719 --> 00:03:17,439 The cows had calved, the fruit trees, berries and buttercups were blossoming. 42 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,719 My work on the farm was slowing down. It seemed like a time 43 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:27,560 was ripe for a walk in search of peace and wonderment. The morning mist 44 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,080 would soon be rising. It would be gone from the open fields, but 45 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:36,080 deep in the woods. The damp steam lingered over the old moss covered trail, 46 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:40,080 and the trail ran to the east. The old road was thick, 47 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:46,319 every kind of fern, Oregon grape, BlackBerry, and scrub oat grew beside 48 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:49,919 it. The brush was so thick in places that you would have to crawl 49 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 on your belly if you got off the old road. It was impassable, 50 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,599 to say the least. On the north side of the old road. There 51 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,319 was a small trickle of water that led down to the side of the old 52 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:05,000 road. It is where the little creek began. It then ran down on 53 00:04:05,039 --> 00:04:09,919 the north side, about twenty five to thirty feet, running under the road 54 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,560 in an old moss covered stone culvert. But it ran into the BlackBerry patch 55 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,639 that ran nearly a quarter of a mile back to the main road. Only 56 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:25,040 its opposite sides were hay fields. It had an unknown interior due to the 57 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,439 thorny nature of the blackberries. On the north side of the road, the 58 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,920 sword firms reached over my head, and the Oregon grape was at least three 59 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,279 feet tall. And then I heard two men talking. I had not seen 60 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:42,839 a truck or heard any horses. Why were they so close? Were they 61 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,920 following me? I stepped up the small edge of the old road the mossy 62 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,079 gate, and the old road was about fifty feet away. I laid down 63 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,360 in the ferns and Oregon grape. The men were close now, although I 64 00:04:56,399 --> 00:05:00,959 could not see them. One of the two said, he's here somewhere. 65 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,319 The other man said, do you hear that over there? And then they 66 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:09,439 headed deeper down in the brush, not twenty five feet away down the hill 67 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,000 to my left. To my right, the old sheep fence was all grown 68 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,839 up. I knew that I could not climb it without them seeing or hearing 69 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,959 me, so I crawled further into the brush with the fence to my right. 70 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,600 Just as I began to crawl, I moved my head to the left 71 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,360 to see if the men were there. When my head moved, there was 72 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:32,519 a head right next to me. But it wasn't a man. It was 73 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,720 almost as big as a Herford cowhead. It was right next to me on 74 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:42,600 the ground, crawling next to me. I was close enough to see its 75 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:46,759 silvery gray facial hair, and I was looking directly into its brown eyes. 76 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,959 I was also close enough to see the white of those eyes as well. 77 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:57,480 Instantly I looked back down. Panic gripped me. A chaotic fear left me 78 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,040 absolutely terrified. I could not returned my gaze towards him. Just then I 79 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:05,680 felt a hand on my left shoulder, pushing me at least six inches to 80 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:11,240 my right towards the old fence. Then I turned towards him. He stood 81 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:15,480 up and put his hand on the tree. His hand was huge. He 82 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,399 was huge. His nails were long and sharp. He wasn't just big, 83 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:25,040 he was huge. He dropped back down in the ferns and grapevines. I 84 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,360 knew instantly what he meant. I crawled to the fence and down to the 85 00:06:29,439 --> 00:06:32,519 moss covered gate, where the splattering creek ran along the edge of the road. 86 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,399 I crawled into it, still so fearful that I could hardly breathe. 87 00:06:39,079 --> 00:06:43,360 If I continued to crawl down the road, I would meet the very voices 88 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:46,519 I had heard earlier. The only place I could crawl was into the old 89 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,480 stone covered It was dark and scary in the culvert, but nothing compared to 90 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:57,199 the terror I had just been through. I splashed the creek's cool water on 91 00:06:57,319 --> 00:07:00,639 my face. It was like a mother's voice, soothing my fears. The 92 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:06,160 tiny sparks rolling around in my sight vanished, but I could still not scream. 93 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,800 I crawled to the other end of the culvert and saw the beginning of 94 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:15,120 the BlackBerry vines hidden by the vines. I made my way by crawling alongside 95 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,439 the berry vines next to the hay field. I noticed a large opening in 96 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:24,800 them. On the back side there was an opening to the stream. It 97 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,120 had changed from a babbling brook to a drainage ditch across the field, but 98 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:32,800 the blackberries covered it. The walls of the creek were about three feet tall, 99 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:38,079 and the creek had turned into a muddy hole. I crawled into it 100 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,839 anyway. As I walked in the water up to my waist, the light 101 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,079 beams that broke through the berry leaves were giving me streaks of light and thorny 102 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:50,319 vines grabbing my clothing. The old, dead vines hung down like deadly fingers, 103 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,879 trying to snag me with their thorns, and they did scratch and callall 104 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:59,079 my clothes. When I was moving, the dust particles would dance in the 105 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:03,360 light beams, but I kept finding my way through them. At one point 106 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,560 the water got over my belt. Then it got shallower. It seemed to 107 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,839 begin to shallow up, and the blackberries pushed me back to crawling, and 108 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:15,519 then I saw clear light to my right. When I got to it, 109 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,680 I was right behind our barn with a trail going up to the fence that 110 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,000 I had been trying to fix. As I stumbled up the small rise and 111 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:26,720 climbed over the fence, I ran to the barn and I cried, all 112 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,959 scratched up and bleeding and wet. When I walked to the house, my 113 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,600 foster mother started raising her voice at me about my wet, dirty and torn 114 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,720 clothes. Never mind me, I said. I went over to the fence 115 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:43,960 looking for a cow, and then I got hung up in the BlackBerry vines 116 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,039 and fell in the creek. Someone needed to fix the fence, and I 117 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,720 think it's way beyond me. I was warned not to lose a cow or 118 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:54,759 there would be trouble. I took a hot bath, put on clean clothes, 119 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:58,639 and put bag bomb on my scratches, and never mentioned this story to 120 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,360 any one for over fifty years. But I learned a three MIC's name. 121 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:09,679 But that is a whole other story. The Richardson brothers that came to remove 122 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,080 the colors from my sight, well we met again when I was a man. 123 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:18,000 One of them walks with a permanent lamp. Now the other he died, 124 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,240 no doubt, begging the Lord in a dump of a shanty while enduring 125 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:28,440 a long sickness and ravage by cancer. All alone. I went to Alaska 126 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,879 and named my second son after that little thorny Creek Garrett. And when I 127 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:37,840 take a look at Google Earth now I see they have redone the old logging 128 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,559 road. I think three Mics must have passed now. He was old and 129 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,120 silver back then. If you walk that road and a rock has tossed your 130 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:50,960 way, take it from me, don't throw it back. He would be 131 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:54,519 your best friend. He means you no harm. Three Mics in t Thank 132 00:09:54,559 --> 00:10:00,440 you for your kindness. Hey, everybody, that story that you just heard, 133 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:03,360 I have the man who wrote it on the phone right now, and 134 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,360 he's going to tell us, give us more details, and tell us the 135 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:11,080 rest of the story. As Paul Harvey used to say, So I've got 136 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:13,840 tea on the phone. Tea, how are you doing? Man? Fine? 137 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:18,039 Thank you for thank you for being willing to do this. We were 138 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,679 talking before, you know, we hit this record button, and you were 139 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,840 telling me a little bit about where you live. And tell us what the 140 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:28,240 weather's like there right now. Tell us where you're at. Well, right 141 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:35,200 now, I'm in the Teni Peninsula of Alaska, and I live out in 142 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,919 the middle of nowhere, really, I mean it, And there's about foot 143 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:46,200 and a half two foot of snow snows still on the ground. It's about 144 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,559 forty degrees during the day. The snows to him to milt. But hey, 145 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,320 it's it's a great place to be. I love Alaska. That's that's 146 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,120 kind of the life up there. You just have snow on the ground, 147 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,399 what six or eight months out of the y about six seven months for us. 148 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,720 Now, you were telling me a minute ago, and this is a 149 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,879 little bit off topic, but you're you're prepared for these kind of things that 150 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,919 we're going through right now with this virus scare. Tell everybody what you what 151 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,679 you've done or prepare and things like that. Well, my wife and I 152 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:24,919 we've been preppered since back in the ninety I had three children in Alaska that 153 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,399 they wanted to live in the big cities, and they do in the lower 154 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:33,200 forty eight. They're crying now. They wish they were out here with mom 155 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,080 and dad. My closest neighbor is about a half mile away. I got 156 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,960 enough food to run a couple of years. It necessaria. I got moose 157 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,399 walked through my yard, and I'm a quarter of a mile from one of 158 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:52,960 the best fly fishing rivers in the world. The it's called an Anchor River. 159 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:58,759 There's halibut right out on the edge by the inlet. Iliaga Mountain is 160 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:03,480 across the way. We've got everything here, their walls, it's all here. 161 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,200 Wow, that's great, man. I've never seen I've seen some of 162 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:13,440 the rocky mountains in the United States, but I've never and I tell you, 163 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,480 I went up Pike's Peak one time. We got up to fourteen thousand 164 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:18,360 feet and I got sick. I don't know how well I would do in 165 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,080 higher elevations. But you guys that live out in these wilderness areas, you're 166 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,279 acclimated to it, and it's I'm always impressed by the way the way you 167 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,519 guys live. So that's cool. Well, we I just narrated your story 168 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,120 about three mics. I'm not going to ask you any questions on it. 169 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,600 I'm just gonna let you tell us what you want us to know about that 170 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,080 first though, you've never relayed that story really to anyone, probably other than 171 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,279 friends, in fifty years, is that right? No, not even my 172 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,720 own way, man, She answered the phone. Does she know now? 173 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,600 She knows about it, right? Yeah? Does? She typed the story 174 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:01,840 out for me. I showed her on Google Earth where it originally was from 175 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:07,600 where the creek was that I crawled down through. The name of that creek 176 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:11,240 was Garrett. And my second son's name is Garrett, and that's how I 177 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:16,039 named that boy. I have to ask. You're not catching any flack from 178 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:20,480 her over finally confiding in her with a bigfoot story, are you? Oh? 179 00:13:20,799 --> 00:13:26,120 No, My wife knows me. We've been married forty five years. 180 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,639 When she hears the story from me, she's not surprised. I don't know 181 00:13:31,759 --> 00:13:35,960 why the Good Lord loves me, but he's taking care of me all my 182 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:39,679 life because there's been a lot of closes. As an old woman told me 183 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,000 here, I asked. My mother in law was in a nursing home, 184 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:46,720 and I got to know some of the she passed. She's passed away now, 185 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,600 but I got to know some of the women and on her wing, 186 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,159 and I asked us one woman, I said, how do you how do 187 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:58,279 you attribute a hundred years given you know, living a hundred years? And 188 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,320 she said, well, I guess the Good Lord just put me together right 189 00:14:01,399 --> 00:14:05,600 on the front end, So I guess he just puts you together, right, 190 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,480 didn't he? Well I guess he did, because you know, I'm 191 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:13,960 sixty five years old. I hadn't been to a doctor in twenty five years. 192 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,720 Man, that's awesome. Okay, well let's go to the story. 193 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,720 Now. Everyone just heard a brief story, and your wife wrote it really 194 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:24,600 well. By the way, I was reading it and thinking, this reminds 195 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:26,879 me of I was trying to think of the writer that I read. It 196 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,159 was a book I read maybe four or five years ago, and he wrote 197 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,159 real direct and short sentences, and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. 198 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,000 But I can't remember his name. But anyway, tell her for us. 199 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,840 She did a great job. But tell us more, tell us a 200 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:45,480 little bit more about the story. Tell us anything you want us to know. 201 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,279 Well, I was a fostered child when I was a kid, and 202 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,360 I was then I was a thirteen years old, and I wasn't summery yet. 203 00:14:56,639 --> 00:15:01,559 Really, it was in the spring. You know, foster kids always 204 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:05,519 don't have the easiest life. I'll put it that way. I had a 205 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:09,480 lot. These people had a lot of cattle. That's what I did, 206 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,840 was steed the cattle and stuff each day, a lot of them. But 207 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,960 every once in a while I get to get away, and there was a 208 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,639 bit of woods back up on the top of the hill behind this place. 209 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:28,639 So I would walk up there, and I'm bennounced to me. These people, 210 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,799 I don't have anything to do with them anymore. I believe that they 211 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:39,039 had some insurance money on me. That's a whole that's a whole different thing. 212 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:43,559 But anyway, I would walk back up there because it was a place 213 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,960 where just I could be away from everybody, cows and all that. And 214 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,879 I should have suspected something when my whole hound dog canook, I got close 215 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,679 with woods, and that sucker turn around and let me ran all the way 216 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:06,000 home. So I used to walk up there in those trees, and you 217 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:11,440 know, you would hear rocks being tossed and stuff, but he didn't really 218 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,399 three mics, never threw one at me. I would hear a rock, 219 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:19,960 you know, and it was just it was just kind of a fluke. 220 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,840 I had these two men that were I could hear him talk and coming through 221 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:27,559 the woods, and if they had just been talk and I would have just 222 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:32,559 pretty much stayed there. That they said, did you see which way went? 223 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,799 And when they did that, I stepped off that old road that was 224 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:41,919 up there, into that brush and laid down inside the burns. When I 225 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:48,799 heard him getting closer and talking, I started to crawl deeper into the brush 226 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:56,279 and the ferns and all that. And that's when I felt something pushed these 227 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:03,240 sideways just to my ride a little And when I looked, I thought these 228 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:07,519 men had found me. And when I moved my eyes turned my head a 229 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:15,759 little bit to see there was an eye as big as a Purford's eye looking 230 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:22,519 at me and moving past like he was a freight train. He was so 231 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:30,599 huge. People cannot believe how big a sasquatch is until you see one. 232 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:37,599 They are huge. And that guy must have pushed me. Now, he 233 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:41,440 could have snapped my neck, He could have slugged me, he could have 234 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:47,920 done all those things. But he didn't. He pushed me to the right. 235 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:51,039 So I went to the right, and I crawled up by an old 236 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,200 fenc there, an old sheep fence that was all grown over, and I 237 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:59,599 knew I couldn't crawl over that fence without alerting those two men to where I 238 00:17:59,759 --> 00:18:03,799 was at. When he pushed me like that, it scared me to where 239 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:10,079 I was speechless. I didn't know what to do. So as I made 240 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,000 that you turn went by that kids, I crawled back down the hill inside 241 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,640 the brush they're a little bit and dropped into that creek, so it would 242 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,200 be almost like I was backtracking on those men. And I crawled down in 243 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:26,839 that little creek and it was just a little babbling brook, but it went 244 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:34,759 down to a handstone culvert from the old days about I don't know, twenty 245 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:41,480 thirty feet from there, and I crawled inside that culvert and I still didn't 246 00:18:41,519 --> 00:18:45,799 make any noise. I think I was too scared to even scream. But 247 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,039 when I got in that covert, into the water that was in the culvert 248 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:56,920 splashed on my face. It removed those little starlights that are moving around in 249 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,319 your eyes. All back out of that and that was where the ferry vines, 250 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:07,960 the old BlackBerry vines first started. Then I crawled out and there was 251 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,200 a hole going down into them, and that creek ran through them, and 252 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:17,519 it's like a canopy cover and you crawl inside there and there was water, 253 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,319 but what spoop to be wass? I was crawling down that creek because I 254 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:26,599 had nowhere to go. I could either go back where Three Knights was I 255 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,240 could go tell the two men that were trying to hunt me, or I 256 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:34,279 could run across an open grass field. So that creek was the only place 257 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,599 I could go. And I crawled down into that creek, and those berry 258 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,920 vines looked pretty from the outside, but on the inside they hang down like 259 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:48,400 long fingers and grab hold of your shirt and light coming through them. I'm 260 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,240 telling me, I thought it was the end of me. Really, I 261 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:57,680 did when I was at age, and I crawled out when I saw the 262 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:03,799 light, a big opening in it with a trail. And to this day, 263 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:08,240 I believe Big Mike was probably using that same trail, because whenever we 264 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:14,640 cleaned whenever we cleaned out the chicken coop of broosters, we'd throw him outside 265 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,799 of the coop, alive and well, and it wouldn't be long and they'd 266 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:23,519 be gone. So I believe that he came down to the farms at night 267 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:30,440 looking to feed on stuff. So as I went on there. When I 268 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:34,839 got back out of there, the people they told me I'd better not lose 269 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:41,160 cows, so I would have to walk up there near those woods. I 270 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,160 knew what was up in there, so I would not go up inside those 271 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:51,759 trees he made a gurgling noise, a deep guttural noise, and then he 272 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,559 said Mike, Mike, Mike, and then it sounded like an elp googling. 273 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,559 After he said those two things, and I didn't pay attention at first. 274 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:07,480 I thought it was one of some kids that I went to school with, 275 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,839 or something played in a game on me. The second time he said 276 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:17,839 it to me, I said tea. And the reason I said tea was 277 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,279 of my name, So I said tea to him because it's the first syllable. 278 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:30,079 To my surprise, he responded to me as tea, so I knew 279 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:36,240 his name after that was three mikes, Mike, Mike, Mike, and 280 00:21:36,279 --> 00:21:41,480 he would call me tea from inside the brush. But I would never go 281 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:45,160 into brush looking for it. He made it clear that that was his territory. 282 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:49,880 I was going to ask after the first after he kind of pushed you 283 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,359 down in that brush and pushed you away, you never saw him again. 284 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:59,240 I never got close to him, but I knew he was right there because 285 00:21:59,279 --> 00:22:03,440 he would toss a rock to me where he would say tea. I'll tell 286 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,200 you what he would do. That was an open field. Is Soon as 287 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:12,400 soon as I entered those woods. I wouldn't hear a tea go. He 288 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:18,720 could only say one syllable words. And when he crawled past me. He 289 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:23,359 was old. He wasn't young. You can tell by looking at him, 290 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:30,359 the lines in his face. He had a brave face on him, gray 291 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,000 hair, so he had been there a long time. I just hope that 292 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:41,680 he's still alive somewhere, because I seriously believe you saved my life. That 293 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,799 is such a cool story. But now the event scared you to death. 294 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,440 I mean you say in the first the first two or three paragraphs that it 295 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:55,400 was just sheer terror, but after terror, right, But after that, 296 00:22:56,079 --> 00:22:59,839 now that you've thought about it for fifty years, I know it still scares 297 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,880 you that moment. But what's your assessment of what he was doing. I 298 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,599 know you've said he just didn't want you in his territory, But did you 299 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,440 glean anything else from your encounter with him or your interactions with him? Well, 300 00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:18,759 that was his story in itself. We had a big, old wooden 301 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:21,839 barn. If I crawled all the way to the top of it, where 302 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,160 a turnbuckle went through, I can look down back there by those woods, 303 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,799 and occasionally I would see him down in the woods, you know, but 304 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:36,519 but not close enough you could really make him out. I kind of went 305 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:41,119 by. He lived out there and mind his own business. Kind of he 306 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,720 lived his life. We lived our sort of situation there. I didn't notice. 307 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:49,960 Chickens were gone once in a while, if they were put outside the 308 00:23:51,039 --> 00:23:55,119 fence, they were gone. You know. I noticed that my dogs would 309 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,039 not go out to those woods. It was just a place where I really 310 00:23:59,079 --> 00:24:03,559 didn't go into his woods. That was his territory. And we seem to 311 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:07,839 get along, okay. But right there in Oregon, you've got creek, 312 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:14,359 You've got Abblequa Creek, You've got all kinds of old settlements. So there 313 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,880 was old pear trees, plum trees, old apple trees, there's oaks, 314 00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:26,920 there's there. It wouldn't have been anything to have kept a large cryptid like 315 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:30,079 that go and he would have ate like a king just off the woods. 316 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,640 The family you were living with. Were there other kids there, Yeah, 317 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,319 but they wouldn't come out of the house. It wouldn't there a job to 318 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,039 do the work. Go get the foster kid. You know, you were 319 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:47,039 like the Cinderella of the bunch, weren't you. Yeah, I don't. 320 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:49,640 I don't have anything to do with them today. I don't even use their 321 00:24:49,759 --> 00:24:55,559 name. Neither does my kids. I teased my kids and tell them, 322 00:24:55,559 --> 00:24:57,839 you know, hey, you better be nicer. I'll tell them where you're 323 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:04,240 at. But I guess what I was getting at. Did the foster, 324 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:11,079 your foster parents, or any other kids ever talk about this, seeing anything 325 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,000 or dealing with anything I did. There was a kid that was on the 326 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:18,920 school bus when going down the road, and the rest of the kids laughed. 327 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,160 He looked at me and he goes, you ever seen at Sads squash? 328 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,319 He's supposed to live on tear of those woods right there. And I 329 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:30,680 says, uh, no, I haven't seen him. He goes, I'll 330 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:38,720 bet you have. So nobody in the nobody in the family ever ever said 331 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:42,440 anything about it. That's that's fascinating. I was. I was thinking, 332 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:48,920 maybe your foster father would do work out in those areas, especially if y'all 333 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:55,279 were running cattle and other live style. No, literally, this guy was 334 00:25:55,319 --> 00:26:00,000 a bump literally, and it wouldn't It didn't include bars, being gone from 335 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:04,640 home and stuff he would in it is What is it about foster homes? 336 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:08,920 I never hear good stories about foster homes. I know there's good foster parents 337 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,920 out there, though there have to be, there is, there is some 338 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:18,880 wonderful foster parents. I've met some friends in mine night. I always tell 339 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,000 them, you know, hey, you know, if they need anything. 340 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,599 You know, I'm not a rich man, but I'm well enough to do, 341 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:30,000 and I always tell them, hey, didn't kids they need, you 342 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:36,559 know, they need money for baseball, gloves, school, whatever they need. 343 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,680 You let me know. If they don't have it, now, I'll 344 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,160 take care of it. You get paid by the state to take care of 345 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:47,680 foster children, and sometimes it's a chunk of change. Foster kids they need 346 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,839 some place to live, you know. In my case, it was an 347 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:57,960 accident that happened that put me in the orphanage when I was just a baby. 348 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,720 So I think the people that took care of me because at least I 349 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:10,920 did have some symbolance to life, never mind my trust fund that they cleaned 350 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,119 up by the time I was sixteen. So but you don't ever show that. 351 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:18,599 You don't invite them over for Sunday dinner, do you. No. 352 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:22,359 No, In fact, I've warned them more than once not to come around 353 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,279 my house and just just stroubled. My wife and I were both workers. 354 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,359 I was a tradesman. They like to draw a welfare. I don't have 355 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,279 any problem with somebody to having welfare. That's got to come, and I 356 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,559 have no problem with it. If you're old, or you're a child, 357 00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:41,319 or you're a mom that's working trying to I don't have any problem with it. 358 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,759 But if your only reason for drawing welfare is because you don't have to 359 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:49,880 work, I don't have time for it. It's not for me to judge. 360 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,440 I just don't have time for you. That's interesting. I really admire 361 00:27:56,519 --> 00:28:00,519 you for apparently you've raised a good family. And though all your kids sound 362 00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:04,519 like they're doing well, unable to be productive members of society, and you 363 00:28:04,519 --> 00:28:08,400 you didn't learn that from your fault. You didn't have any role models, 364 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,519 and I think it's a great compliment and achievement for you to be able to 365 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,079 raise a family. I bet your wife had a lot to do with that 366 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:21,680 too, though, Oh yeah, she's a sweetheart. She's she's I jokingly 367 00:28:21,839 --> 00:28:26,279 tease her because she's been married to me forty five almost we're headed up on 368 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:34,000 fifty years. I always say she's either as saint or she's crazy, because 369 00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:42,119 she should have killed thee years ago. You got a great sense of hear 370 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,359 or two. I love it. Well, now you live in Alaska. 371 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:51,839 Now I'm curious, do you see any or hear any stories up and you're 372 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,519 you're part of the state there about cryptids? Well, you do hear cryptid 373 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:02,759 stories. Here's a I think gets port Orford or something here. There's a 374 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:08,279 town that the natives and the people that lived there abandoned the town because of 375 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:11,559 them, And that's quite a story. I'll look into that for you. 376 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:19,720 Cam. It's here you get more a native stories of them where they're stuck 377 00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:25,480 in the ground and stuff. There's this is a huge land and you just 378 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:30,039 don't you can't really see everything all the time. My biggest problem is is 379 00:29:30,359 --> 00:29:34,640 you know, Cam, you grun onto a brown bearer here after dark walking 380 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:40,680 past your house? Oh, I would I would pass out. I don't. 381 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,200 I've thought about that before. I would just I don't know how I 382 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,000 would even be able to move. Well, you ever had you ever had 383 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:52,359 a dog snap his teeth at ship? Yeah? Yeah, Well I was 384 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,480 in a boat one time in a place called Story the Inland, trying to 385 00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:00,119 get out of there because we knew he was there, and we got that 386 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,279 boat movement, and that sucker come out of the brush about fifty feet from 387 00:30:04,319 --> 00:30:11,880 that beach and ran out and slid on the sand and went into that water 388 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:17,319 up to about his belly, stopped about fifteen feet from me and snapped his 389 00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:19,599 teeth at me like a dog. And believe me, I got out of 390 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,079 there. Man. I have two little, sweet little pit bowls, but 391 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,720 one of them like she'll snap it flies when flies are flying around her face 392 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,640 and her teeth are just set perfect, and whenever she snaps, it's this 393 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:37,200 big clunk, clunk, clunk, And I think to myself, Man, 394 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,680 I hope she never bites me. So, yeah, I know what that 395 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:42,200 sounds like. I can't imagine what it sounds like coming from a brown bear. 396 00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:47,279 It must be terrifying. Yeah, they have him come into town. 397 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,599 They destroy them, so they kind of stay away from town. You know, 398 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,200 you just never know when you're gonna find one. Here. I live 399 00:30:55,599 --> 00:31:00,680 right across the bay from me is cat my Mashing, a wilderness by water. 400 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:07,720 It's only fifty sixty miles from here and cat Mice where all the brown 401 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:11,279 bears, remember the browns the bear guy people get killed over there. I 402 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:17,519 don't go looking for bears in Alaska because they're just trouble. I don't hunt 403 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:19,680 them. I don't go looking for him. If there's one around, I 404 00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:25,519 go the other way. And I've been in Alaska thirty five years and I've 405 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:30,480 lost friends bears. Man, Yeah, that would big predator. That's why 406 00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:33,119 I tell people. People ask me, though, like why don't you carry 407 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,039 a sidearm when you walk around? Like I walk these woods and stuff every 408 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:41,200 day every day, and they're like, why don't you carry a sidearm. 409 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,119 I'm like, because there's nothing here that's gonna hurt me. I mean, 410 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,440 there might be some some feral dogs or card dogs running around. They'll pack 411 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:51,960 up, but usually they run away from you. But there's nothing, no, 412 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:56,000 no predators that will hurt a human in these woods. And we're getting 413 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,440 black bears down here. But a black bear is generally gonna run. And 414 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,319 I've never same one, and they're not you know, if one wanders in, 415 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:07,359 it's just a fluke. But to walk out your door and know that 416 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,200 there's a how much those bears wait, what six seven hundred pounds, well 417 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:19,440 probably about a thousand pounds, seriously, full full sized brown bear, it's 418 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,720 the same thing as a goodiac there, this isdiac they give him the name 419 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,400 there. Yeah, they got stories about him, and it's not the old 420 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,359 days. They're pretty new stories. You know. There's some huge one Soldotna. 421 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:37,880 They had him David and Goliath. They shot him on a guy's back 422 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,839 porch after he'd been coming through town and they'd heard that he was there, 423 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,480 and the city policeman got down there and had his shotgun, went around the 424 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:50,799 house. Thank goodness, he shot him in the first shot, killed him 425 00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:53,680 because he weighed a thousand and fifty pounds. They had to use a bobcat 426 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,519 to lift him off this guy's porch. And I understand if you just cripple 427 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,359 him, but it just makes them mad. It just makes them furious. 428 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,839 But in Alaska, you're not top of the food chain. Your number six, 429 00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:14,759 that's right. Better manners when you're out there, you may not make 430 00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:19,519 it home. Well, um, I really appreciate you spending time with us. 431 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:22,359 Do you have anything any other information or anything you want to share with 432 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:28,440 the audience. I'll tell you something. When you get close to a Sasquatch 433 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,359 he is people say they throw rocks, They will throw rocks, but three 434 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,000 mics would toss a rock out there to you, letting you know that there's 435 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:43,519 somebody back here. Well, the closer you came to his woods, the 436 00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:46,400 bigger the rock was, and the faster it went. And I got really 437 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:52,039 close to his woods one time, and that big boy threw a rock about 438 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:58,839 the size of a good canal and it went past me. It sounded like 439 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,200 one of those balls out of a pitching machine. It had to have been 440 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,519 doing almost one hundred miles an hour. Had he hit me with that, 441 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,599 he had killed me. WHOA, that's unbelievable. As unbelievable any other encounters 442 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,840 that come to mind with three mics that you want to share with us before 443 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,440 we wind up. You know, I believe that that crypt had saved my 444 00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:23,360 life. So I can tell you in that area, Like I said, 445 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:29,639 there's ut Creek, There's Abble clawl Creek, There's Silver Creek. It's right 446 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:34,079 at the edge of the Cascade Mountains. If you run on to one up 447 00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:37,199 there where you think it is, it might be in the woods. Try 448 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:44,000 saying three mics, Mike, Mike, Mike, and he might answer you, 449 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,840 Wow, that is a great advice, great advice. Well, all 450 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,880 right, well we're at about thirty minutes and your story is going to take 451 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,519 up about twenty minutes, so it's gonna put us about forty five minutes on 452 00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:59,559 this video. And this is the first time I've ever done this, but 453 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:04,119 he sounded so interesting to me. I asked him to send me his phone 454 00:35:04,199 --> 00:35:07,199 number, and he was so nice to agree to talk to us on this 455 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:12,199 topic, and I just I just appreciate it so much, and I wanted 456 00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,440 to thank you for coming on. Thank you all right, guys, that's 457 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,960 gonna wind up this video. I really appreciate you listening this far. Wasn't 458 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,039 this wasn't he an interesting person to hear? And I know the whole topic 459 00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:27,280 wasn't on Bigfoot, but he's just one of those guys I could sit and 460 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,719 probably on the front porch and talk to all day long. I don't know. 461 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,079 I guess that I wind it up. Thank you guys for listening, 462 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:35,800 and I we will see you on the next video. Thanks