1 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,039 I'm not sure what I believe about cryptids, but some of my friends and 2 00:00:14,119 --> 00:00:19,760 I have had some weird experiences over the years that I can't explain. There 3 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,960 definitely seems to be something more than what officially is out there. When I 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,480 was in the fourth or fifth grade, my dad and I went backpacking on 5 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:33,679 the North Country Trail near Muskegon, Michigan. As we crossed one of the 6 00:00:33,759 --> 00:00:37,840 roads, we saw something big and hairy walking on two legs down the road. 7 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,439 We weren't able to tell for sure what it was, but have jokes 8 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:48,039 since then that it was bigfoot. After I started listening to this podcast last 9 00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:51,840 summer, I called him to see if he remembered the encounter, and he 10 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,439 said he still wasn't sure what it was, but the only thing he could 11 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:59,640 think of that it could have been was a person walking down the street and 12 00:00:59,679 --> 00:01:04,439 a fur coat on a hot summer afternoon. Since that time, I had 13 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,159 become a pilot, and a few months ago I was on a night flight 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:14,319 home after dropping some passengers off on the other side of the country. We 15 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:19,000 were flying at sixteen thousand feet, nearing the Mississippi Louisiana border, roughly thirty 16 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:25,799 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, when we started hearing other pilots asking does anyone 17 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,079 else see this? What is that? The first reports were that it was 18 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:34,400 west of Little Rock, Arkansas, and sure enough, we saw a light 19 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,040 right where they said it was, and it was hauling, but to the 20 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,959 south. It was low enough and intense enough that it was lighting up a 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,480 large section of the cloud layer a couple of thousand feet above us, so 22 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,280 it was probably in the low flight levels twenty thousand feet, if I had 23 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:57,599 to guess. A bunch of us started talking and trying to figure out what 24 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,959 this thing was. One guy said he saw it explode, but a bunch 25 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:05,359 of us saw it continue to fly, looking the same as it did when 26 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,159 we first spotted it. By the time we lost sight of it, it 27 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:14,680 had only been about five or ten minutes. It was moving way faster than 28 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:17,960 any aircraft I had ever seen, and it was visible from over one hundred 29 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:23,919 miles away. Normal airplanes are very difficult or even impossible, to see from 30 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:29,400 more than a few miles away, and the lights typically are only broad enough 31 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:35,000 to be visible from maybe two miles away. Based on the position reports of 32 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:39,000 the pilots I talked to, and what we saw it was probably moving in 33 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:46,599 excess of one thousand miles per hour. One pilot was able to contact flight 34 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:51,840 service. That's basically our way to get any information to or from the ground 35 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:57,879 that we need other than clearances from ATC. They told him there was a 36 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,479 Starlink rocket launch out of Cape Canaveral that night. But this light was first 37 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:09,560 seen over the middle of Arkansas and disappeared in southern Louisiana. The rocket launch 38 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:15,159 or recovery theory doesn't really make sense because it was traveling north to south at 39 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:21,080 relatively a low level in what everyone agreed was a straight and level flight. 40 00:03:21,879 --> 00:03:24,759 It was in the wrong place and traveling in the wrong direction to be a 41 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:30,199 rocket. A rockets fly west to east so that they can use the Earth's 42 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,599 rotation to help them accelerate. It's part of why NASA put its launch site 43 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:39,400 in Florida. The only thing they'll ever be over if something goes wrong is 44 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:46,479 open ocean. This thing was also in level flight. It wasn't climbing or 45 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,759 descending like a rocket. Wood. We thought it might be some sort of 46 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:53,960 military aircraft, but this thing was lit up way too bright to be some 47 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,479 sort of stealth aircraft or whatever. This thing was flying well below where even 48 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,960 the airlines fly, and those jets fly at thirty to forty thousand feet. 49 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,759 Whatever it was could fly almost twice as fast as an airliner without the help 50 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,480 of a tailwind. Additionally, my wife and one of my roommates each had 51 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:23,360 an encounter with a dog man in the forests of North Michigan. My wife 52 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:26,879 had been hanging out with her roommate in part of the woods where we would 53 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,480 go shoot guns and have bonfires when she saw it, and my roommate saw 54 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,120 one at the place he lived before he moved into our apartment. But I 55 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:42,399 unfortunately don't remember any more details of either of those stories. And then he 56 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,920 signs off and says, thanks for an interesting show. Well, you know, 57 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,800 I'm not the one that makes it interesting. You guys make it interesting. 58 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:55,600 Good grief. These stories are so good, and I feel very fortunate 59 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:59,920 that people are willing to take the time to write these down and send them 60 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,720 to us, because first, the channel's meant for entertainment, but second they 61 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,079 are very interesting and they make you think. And that's uh, I don't 62 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:14,240 I don't know how to say it, but it like it's almost like fiction, 63 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,360 although I don't think it's fiction, and that fiction takes you kind of 64 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:24,079 to another world, a created world by an author, and it kind of 65 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,920 does that. So that's what I really appreciate about these stories. So you 66 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 said thanks for an interesting show. I say thanks for an interesting email in 67 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,800 a well written email. At that, I appreciate the writer. Let's go 68 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:44,720 to another one. My name is Bubba, and I have a brief story 69 00:05:44,759 --> 00:05:49,560 that will knock your weaves straight. He got a story gonna knock your weaves 70 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,439 great. In fact, this was the scariest moment in my life as well 71 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:59,759 as my best friends. That's exactly the kind of story we love on this 72 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:03,560 pot. I appreciate you, Bubba. Let's get into your story. Let 73 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,720 me first fill you in a little bit about our background and upbringing. I'm 74 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:13,920 the offspring of two Appalachian Americans, so you can call me a briar hopper, 75 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:17,879 ridge rat, hill, billy, redneck, or an Appalachian mountain ape 76 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:24,240 whatever. I have heard them all. My friends, though, were all 77 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:28,560 city boys who would consider the ball diamond as the grade outdoors, and we 78 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:32,800 grew up quite different over our childhood years. We all grew up in the 79 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:38,560 southwestern part of Ohio. But when we were out in the street playing woffle 80 00:06:38,639 --> 00:06:43,040 ball or hide and seek, I was working making extra money, or back 81 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:47,279 down in the hills of Kentucky working on my grandparents' farm. As we got 82 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,519 older and I got a job, my time with my friends increased and I 83 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:58,600 introduced them to some redneck sports like fishing. It is entertaining to watch a 84 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,879 city boy catch his fir decent fish. In nineteen eighty two, we all 85 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:08,680 graduated and my friends joined the military. That was except for me, and 86 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:12,279 all had left except for my best friend Dave, and he was due to 87 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:17,639 report in about two weeks from when this life changing event occurred. The Thursday 88 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,680 afternoon before this, we were on our way home from going to see a 89 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:27,120 movie and we looked over and we saw some nice ponds on a golf course, 90 00:07:27,639 --> 00:07:30,759 and the topic of fishing those ponds shot out of both of our mouths. 91 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:34,879 At the same time, I wheeled my truck around and found the entrance 92 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,839 to the member's only golf course, and I drove up to the clubhouse to 93 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,480 ask for permission to fish their ponds. Well, they were not very polite 94 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,040 in telling us to get our low life's poor asses off their property. It 95 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,000 was at that moment that I decided I would fish those ponds, even if 96 00:07:53,079 --> 00:07:57,920 Dale had to go to jail and missus report date. Over the next two 97 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,319 days, I gathered as much information such as maps and the auditor's office on 98 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,240 that golf course as I could, and I put a plan together to hit 99 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:13,000 those pones on Saturday night around midnight. I picked Dave up at eleven PM 100 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:18,480 and we were both in all black with black shoes, pants, hoodies, 101 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,240 and even painted our faces with some camo paint that I used for bowhunting. 102 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,720 We each had one ride and a pack of seven inch black worms and four 103 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:33,879 hooks, and we headed for the Richy neighborhood. We parked the trucks about 104 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:37,879 four blocks away from the course on a street that had more cars on it 105 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,919 than the others around the vicinity, and we hiked into the golf course, 106 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,000 sneaking between the houses onto the green and we headed straight to the first pond. 107 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,039 The moon was full, the fishing was better than we thought it would 108 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,000 be, catching several bass over three pounds in the first two hours, and 109 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,120 once the first pond slowed down, we trotted over to the next one just 110 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:05,919 a couple of holes away. There was a security guard that came driving through 111 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,600 once with his sealed beam spotlight, but we saw him well before he could 112 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:13,960 see us, so we hunkered down in some cattails and got small and he 113 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:20,240 headed back to the clubhouse for his nap. At three am, we hit 114 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:24,480 one more pond next to the seven Green and then we would head home for 115 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,039 a couple of hours of sleep before church. We had been on that pond 116 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:33,279 for about twenty minutes and had caught a bunch of fish when we heard one 117 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,320 roll in the cattails on the other side of the pond. That sounded massive. 118 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,559 Now this was the largest pond on the course and there was no way 119 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:45,679 we could cast to the other side, so Dave said he was going over 120 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,879 there to catch that wall hanger and then we could head home. But I 121 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,720 was happy staying where I was just catching two and three pounders. Dave had 122 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:58,519 not so much as had time to get to the other side, and I 123 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:05,559 heard some that sounded like a girl scream bloody murder and continued screaming while running 124 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,360 away from the pond. It sounded like she was screaming something about a monster 125 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,639 and it's after me. I'm telling you, the pitch of the scream was 126 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:20,279 glass shattering loud. I ran over to where Dave was, but he was 127 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,080 not there, and I noticed his rod was lying half in the water and 128 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:26,320 half on the bank. So I picked it up and I started to reel 129 00:10:26,399 --> 00:10:31,080 in the line when there was a resistance on the other end. I set 130 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,039 the hook, thinking it was a big fish, and also thinking about bragging 131 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,720 Todave about that big wall hanger that I had caught on his rod. And 132 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:43,600 I heard some sort of grunt and I looked up to where the line was 133 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:48,840 going, and there, within the moonlight behind it stood a monster, and 134 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:54,399 it looked to be ten feet tall. It was all black, with huge 135 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:58,679 black hands and only one pointed ear. I could not move and I could 136 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:03,720 not speak. I was going to be eaten by this monster. I knew 137 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,200 it. I don't know what kept me from souling my pants, but I 138 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,559 was able to keep my butt puckered and in control. And then it spoke, 139 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:16,840 hey, I think I scared your friend off. And I realized that 140 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,120 this was a guy diving for golf balls, and in his hands were five 141 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:26,320 gallon buckets with holes to drain the water. I looked up and there were 142 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:31,360 lights starting to turn on all about the golf course from Dave's screaming as he 143 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,360 ran down the fairway. The diver and myself decided it was a great time 144 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:39,679 to get out of there, and I snuck off the course and in between 145 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:43,679 two houses that did not have their lights on, and I got back to 146 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:48,519 my truck after washing off my face and taking off that black hoodie. I 147 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,799 drove by the entrance to the clubhouse and there were at least half a dozen 148 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:58,600 police cars with their lights lighting up the night sky, and all the residents 149 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:03,600 standing out on the street are in their driveways. I even saw a canine 150 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,720 unit with a dog. So I pushed the pedal down and started to search 151 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:11,480 for my best friend. I had a good idea which way he would run, 152 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:16,639 and sure thing, about three miles away, he was still running as 153 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,080 hard as he could run, and he looked like he was about to pass 154 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,440 out. Well. I pulled over and I rolled down the window and I 155 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,759 asked if he would like a ride or was he planning on running all the 156 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,559 way home. Dave was still babbling about some monster that came out of the 157 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,480 pond and tried to grab him, and I explained to him quickly that it 158 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:41,360 was another trespasser collecting golf balls and that he had snagged him with his hook. 159 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:45,679 I looked at him a little bit harder as the cab light came on 160 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,159 when he opened the door, and I noticed that he had wet himself, 161 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:52,399 and by the smell of it, he must have filled his drawers as well. 162 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:56,799 And I pushed him back out the door, telling him that he was 163 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:00,200 riding in the back. I would have loved to have been a fly on 164 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,360 the wall at the confessionals the next week. I bet it was a ball 165 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:09,360 buster. He and I are still friends, but I have not been fishing 166 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,559 with him in years, so I think I'm going to give him a call 167 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,919 next week to see if he'd like to do some day fishing this time. 168 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,360 Oh man, what a great story, What a perfect story for this channel. 169 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:24,519 We always do these real serious stories, you know, for the most 170 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,039 part serious. Sometimes they're serious, and I kind of try to make them. 171 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,759 I try to living them up a little bit the way I read them. 172 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:37,080 But this was a great story. I don't know what I would have 173 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,720 thought if I looked up throwing a bait out trying to catch bass and this 174 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,320 figure rises up out of the water. I think I got a scream like 175 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,519 a girl too, and tried to run home. Anyway, Bubba, this 176 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,399 was a great story, and I really appreciate you writing it and sending it 177 00:13:52,440 --> 00:14:00,919 to us. You're a good guy and I appreciate you. Okay, I 178 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:07,559 think this story in the next story after this are a series of I think 179 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,759 they're called anecdotal incidents where people hear, see or smell something, they experience 180 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,799 something, and they're pretty sure it's something out of the ordinary, whether it 181 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:24,720 be bigfoot of go some kind of spirit UFOs. So these aren't action packed, 182 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:28,919 but they're extremely interesting, so I thought i'd give you heads up on 183 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,159 what you're about to hear. And they're both kind of short, so let's 184 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,320 get into them. My name is Mike, and my four incidents took place 185 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:43,759 from the late nineteen sixties to the mid nineteen seventies. We lived in a 186 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:48,639 small town in upstate New York in the Hudson Valley area, not too far 187 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:54,000 from Albany. The first strange incident took place sometime in the late sixties, 188 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:58,159 but I couldn't tell you the exact year. We were living in a house 189 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,559 that we had rented, and there was a large j open field right across 190 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:07,320 the road that alternated between corn and alfalfa from year to year. Again, 191 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:11,320 I don't remember, but I must have been somewhere between six and twelve years 192 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,519 old at this time. On a summer night, my dad came in from 193 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,559 outside and he told the family myself, my younger sister and brother, and 194 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:24,320 my mom that we needed to come out and see something. We went out 195 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,799 into the front yard and proceeded to watch two objects fly slowly and silently over 196 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,840 the field across the road. We couldn't see definite shapes, but there were 197 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:41,000 green and red and blue lights making circular patterns around both objects. We watched 198 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,840 for a couple of minutes as these silent things crews leisurely across our field of 199 00:15:45,919 --> 00:15:50,159 view and out of sight. I have no idea what they were. The 200 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,159 second incident would have been roughly about the same time, because we were still 201 00:15:54,159 --> 00:16:00,480 living in the same rented house. Now. I didn't like school, treasured 202 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:04,720 my time away from school during the school year. I really liked the evenings 203 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:10,600 and when my time was my own. This included when I went to sleep. 204 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:15,080 Because I knew I had several hours of uninterrupted peace during the night. 205 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:18,519 One night, I had just gone to bed and I was lying propped up 206 00:16:18,559 --> 00:16:23,200 on my elbows, just looking around the darkened upstairs bedroom that I shared with 207 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,840 my brother. The light and the hall was on as a nightlight for us. 208 00:16:29,679 --> 00:16:33,399 I blinked my eyes and it was suddenly morning. No transition, no 209 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,919 falling asleep, no nothing, it was just morning. I was even still 210 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:44,000 in the same propped up position, and I yelled hey, as I instantly 211 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:48,320 felt my night of sleep had been stolen from me. I have no idea 212 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,799 what this occurrence was about, even all these years later, but it sort 213 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,200 of seems like a missing time incident, and I have no memory of anything 214 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:03,200 else strange happening at that time. The third incident came several years later, 215 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:07,720 after we had moved into the house that we built in the early nineteen seventies. 216 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,480 A friend of my father's had sold him five acres of cow pasture as 217 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:17,160 a place to build, and we spent all of our free time for about 218 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,799 eighteen months getting the house built. One night, we were working on the 219 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:26,880 inside of the house doing some framing. There was no exterior cladding yet, 220 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:32,319 and the structure was open. We had a small gas generator to provide electricity 221 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,759 for our work lights, and it suddenly died well. We thought it had 222 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:40,680 run out of fuel, and my dad used his flashlight to check the tank 223 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,119 and there were still gas in there. The thing had just quit. We 224 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,000 couldn't get it started again, and as we fussed over it, I heard 225 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:53,279 something large moving through the brush that lined the fence separating our light from the 226 00:17:53,319 --> 00:18:00,000 cow pasture next to it. I felt a creepy sort of there's something there 227 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,359 feeling, and I told my dad, but when he shined his light around 228 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:08,279 there, there was nothing to be seen. With our generator dead, my 229 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,640 dad decided to call it for the night, and we went home. The 230 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,640 next day, the generator was working perfectly again, even though Dad had not 231 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,880 done anything to it other than try to start it again. Now I have 232 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,079 no idea what happened to that other night, other than a reliable piece of 233 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:32,000 gear just decided to quit and sounds of a large, unseen something moving nearby 234 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:37,440 in the resulting silence. What you should know is that the field next to 235 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:41,519 us held of beef cows. They were large, generally calm and placid animals. 236 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,960 It's kind of hard not to see them, even with just the glow 237 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,119 of a flashlight at night. But there was nothing there that could have made 238 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:55,880 the sounds of movement that I heard, that unmistakable sound of something big pushing 239 00:18:56,039 --> 00:19:00,720 through the brush. The fourth and final ensign was a couple of years later. 240 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:04,480 Down the hill from us, I had a friend named Alan. His 241 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:08,839 family lived on an old farm property that had not been formed in many years, 242 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,000 and most of the fields had returned to woods and brush. There was 243 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:18,359 only one open field left that was used to grow hay. There was still 244 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,160 a large barn far from the main house, and Alan's father stored parts for 245 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:27,839 pipe organs and it as his hobby was restoring pipe organs. What had been 246 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,839 a milking parlor when the place had been a working farm was used to store 247 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,920 hay when the loft was at its capacity. Well. I was visiting Allan 248 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,559 on a hot summer day, one of those days when there's not a breath 249 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:45,279 of wind and you try really hard to stay out of the sun. The 250 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:48,200 old barn, with its pipe organ bits and other old clutter, was at 251 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,720 tempting place to explore, especially in the heat, because it was shaded and 252 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:57,680 cool in there. It was mostly surrounded by trees and bushes, because, 253 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:02,759 like I said, the place was not actively farmed and had become overgrown. 254 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,400 Alan and I were in the barn, messing around as young teenagers do, 255 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:11,319 looking at the stuff in the barn and talking about Alan's dad's strange hobby, 256 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:15,559 and behind us, the main door was open. It was that kind of 257 00:20:15,599 --> 00:20:19,599 door that ran on a track at the top, and it slid sideways rather 258 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:25,319 than being on hinges that let it swing open and closed. It was a 259 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,359 sizeable door made of solid boards, and it probably weighed a couple hundred pounds. 260 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,839 Alan and I were facing away from it when something lifted this heavy door 261 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,319 away from the side of the barn and then let it slam back against the 262 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,319 wall with a huge boom. I scared the crap out of us, and 263 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:48,359 we went running. There was not a puff of wind that day, certainly 264 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,759 nothing that could have moved that heavy door. The day was hot and still, 265 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,160 and there was no one else on the property except Alan's mom, and 266 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,480 she was in the house, and neither of us saw anything. We were 267 00:21:00,519 --> 00:21:07,680 too busy running away. Alan later told me that his two older brothers had 268 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,240 once tried spending the night in the barn a few years before just has something 269 00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:15,200 to do, but it had come back to the house in the middle of 270 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:19,240 the night. Scared out of their minds. They wouldn't say anything other than 271 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:25,440 that they were done with the barn. Various other strange things had happened while 272 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,920 they lived there, and they all thought there was some presence on the property 273 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:33,279 that they had taken to calling the blob. None of them ever saw anything, 274 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,039 but tools and other items would go missing. There would be odd sounds 275 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:42,480 of both during the day and the night, and a general feeling of something 276 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:48,440 is there. I lost track of Alan when I left for the Navy a 277 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,880 few years after the incident, and I have not reconnected with him. I'd 278 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,400 love to know if he remembers this event the same way I do. Those 279 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,599 are my tales of the unexplained. I hope you find them amusing. Well, 280 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,440 Mike, I do find them amusing. Some of these again that I 281 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:11,839 think they're called anecdotal. There's there's sounds, sites, and smells and events 282 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:18,359 that you experience and you try to attribute it to something. But sometimes as 283 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,640 time goes on, you know, we just kind of have to say, 284 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,720 well, there's no logical explanation for example, these four events that happened in 285 00:22:26,799 --> 00:22:30,839 Mike's life, and you almost have to go to some kind of supernatural, 286 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,839 mythical event. And that's kind of cool, really, because then you become 287 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,240 part of something that's kind of mysterious, and I think that's fun. Anyway, 288 00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:42,480 Mike, this was a great little set of stories and incidents, and 289 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:52,279 I really appreciate I really appreciate you sending it brother. Thank you. All 290 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,440 Right, here's another story of anecdotal type things that I find fascinating. I 291 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:03,839 hope you do too. The writer says, I am a sixty two year 292 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:07,720 old truck driver from Central Florida, and your podcast helped the long hours go 293 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:11,839 by quickly. Oh that's cool. Thanks for saying that. What I do 294 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:17,279 these I kind of always think of people driving, namely truck drivers, because 295 00:23:17,279 --> 00:23:19,000 I know you guys are I know it gets boring. You have to have 296 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,000 something to occupy your mind while you're while you're running with that. I don't 297 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,240 know, do y'all have cruise controlling those big rigs, but while y'all are 298 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:30,839 running down the highway. I would have to have something to listen to while 299 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,599 I'm doing all that driving. Anyway, back to the story. I was 300 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,279 born and raised in central Florida, and I've been roaming the Orange groves and 301 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,000 woods with a pellic gun since I was ten. I used to be an 302 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,240 avid deer hunter, but I don't get to hunt much anymore. I like 303 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:51,400 to tell you about three encounters I've had. Two of them were in Florida 304 00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:56,279 and one in North Georgia. The first happened in nineteen eighty one, when 305 00:23:56,319 --> 00:24:00,480 I was nineteen years old. A buddy and I were riding around in the 306 00:24:00,559 --> 00:24:04,599 Richland Wildlife Management Area one evening with a cooler full of beer, hoping to 307 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:10,400 see a deer, or a hog or a turkey. It wasn't hunting season, 308 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,720 so we were just riding around hoping to see something. We were way 309 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:17,680 back in the woods as far as we could get in my old two wheel 310 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:22,599 drive forward truck. We stopped and we were sitting on the tailgate having a 311 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:26,119 beer when we heard a long, drawn out howl from the back of a 312 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,480 cypress swamp. We looked at each other and my buddy's eyes were as big 313 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:33,000 as dinner plates. What the hell was that? He asked? Why? 314 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,680 I don't know, I said, but we decided to head back closer to 315 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:42,240 the main road. Years later, I heard the Ohio howl, and I 316 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:47,519 figured we had heard a skunk ape because it sounded a lot like the Ohio 317 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:53,759 howl. My next encounter was not long after the two thousand and forward sighting, 318 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,559 which was two miles from the first encounter. I was coming home from 319 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:03,759 work around nine PM. I was at a stop sign about to turn the 320 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:07,440 left, and in front of me was a cow pasture where sometimes I would 321 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,920 see a few deer. I made the turn and I had my brides hoping 322 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,640 to see some deer, but what I saw was not a deer. I 323 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,960 only got to look at the shoulder in the arm because as soon as the 324 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:22,759 lights hit it, it took off. I know it was on two legs, 325 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,200 and it was grayish in color, and this thing was fast. I 326 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:32,279 went back in the daylight and I saw a ditch running parallel with the fence 327 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,880 going back into the woods, and I guess it hit the ditch and got 328 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:41,839 the heck out of there. My last encounter took place between Christmas and New 329 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,920 Year's in twenty twelve. I was visiting my mother, who lives in the 330 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,680 mountains of North Georgia. I was standing outside that morning, hoping maybe to 331 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,759 see deer again. My mom's place has deer all around it, and there 332 00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:00,599 was a neighbor building something and was making all kinds of sawing and hammering, 333 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,000 so much foreseeing deer, I thought. From two hundred yards away in the 334 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,680 woods, I heard a loud whoop, and about a minute later I heard 335 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,440 something like a baseball bat hitting a tree, and it was loud. The 336 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,759 next part I'm about to tell you take with a grain of salt because my 337 00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:23,480 brother is a burned out ex druggy with brain damage from all the drugs he's 338 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:30,480 done. Plus he's a pathological liar. Okay, okay, but he claims 339 00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:34,440 to have heard something talking and gibberish. Back up the mountain. One night, 340 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,160 there are no roads behind Mom's house up the mountain, only woods. 341 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,200 One night, my mother's German shepherds started growling and barking at the front door. 342 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:49,319 My mom and brother stepped out with a flashlight, and Mom says she 343 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:56,039 saw three sets of yellowish green eyes looking back at them. Two were tall 344 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,480 and one was set a bit shorter. Now, everything off I told you 345 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,480 is true to the best of my ability and the way I remember it, 346 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:07,319 You were the only person I've told this to. Thank you for letting me 347 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:14,839 share this with you. Well, now you've shared it with maybe twenty or 348 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,640 thirty thousand people who hear this story, So now you've shared it kind of 349 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,319 sword or with the world. Not the whole world, because there's what eight 350 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,920 billion people, but twenty thousand, that's a pretty good number. And I 351 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,400 appreciate the story, and I appreciate these anecdotal You know what I like about 352 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,559 them is their innocent. These people who write these stories to me are not 353 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:40,680 trying to prove to the world that they've seen a bigfoot or they've tangled with 354 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:47,079 a demon, or they've been flown out into outer space in a spaceship. 355 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:52,680 They're just saying, I've had strange things happen in my life that I have 356 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,440 never been able to explain that didn't really have a huge effect on me. 357 00:27:56,079 --> 00:28:00,400 But I've thought about them all these years, and this these are my conclusions. 358 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,960 This is what I think it could be, is normally how they go. 359 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,839 And I love these because you know, even though I haven't myself, 360 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,039 I haven't experienced a bigfoot or any kind of cryptid or anything like that. 361 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:18,680 There have been some strange things that I've seen and experienced, and I kind 362 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,599 of like to think of I like to let my imagination go and kind of 363 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,599 wonder, well, was that an alien event or was that a lost time 364 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,319 event? Or was that noise I was hearing a bigfoot? I like these 365 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,440 stories because they're not trying to prove anything. They're just telling you what they 366 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:40,039 heard or saw or smelled or experienced, and they just want to share it 367 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:42,039 with you. And I appreciate the people who write them. So if you've 368 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:47,960 had some, you know, just kind of benign, little non exciting things 369 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:52,200 happen that you think are interesting, send them to me because I love them. 370 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,599 They don't have to be you know, full on action, kill the 371 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,359 Bigfoot, shoot down the spaceship kind of story. They can just be just 372 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,720 kind of a boring story. But to me, they're very interesting and if 373 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,640 nobody else likes it, at least I do, and I'll put them on 374 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,599 the podcast I show will Okay, that'll bring us to the end of this 375 00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:18,839 podcast. I really appreciate you listening. Remember I'm uploading old, old stories 376 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:25,640 from five years ago onto the podcast app. I know most people have already 377 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,599 left the video by now, but there's some people still listening, and some 378 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:33,079 of you guys who do listen to podcasts, I want to recommend to you 379 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:40,640 that you use the Spreaker app s p R e A K E R Spreaker. 380 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,920 Just look it up in your play store or Apple Store and download it. 381 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,640 I've started listening to podcasts on that app, and it is a great 382 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:56,920 platform. It's not like Spotify, it's not like Apple podcast or some of 383 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:03,359 the others. Speaker just puts the podcasts on there that they host. In 384 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,400 other words, that's where I host my podcast, that's where it's blasted out 385 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,039 to all the podcast apps. But the Spreaker app just keeps their podcast in 386 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:17,400 one app. It's free, it doesn't cost you anything. You just download 387 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,519 the app, give them your email address, create a password, doesn't cost 388 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:25,319 you a thing. They don't keep up with anybody's data or anything like that. 389 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:30,240 And if you'll just scroll through the podcasts on the home screen, you 390 00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:34,880 can follow podcasts. You can put them in your library, so that when 391 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,759 you want to go back and listen to something somebody's doing, you can go 392 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:44,359 to my library and all the podcasts you followed are up there, including mine. 393 00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:47,680 I hope you follow mine and you can listen to And if you listen 394 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:52,200 to my podcast or anybody's podcasts through that app, you know, we get 395 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,680 paid some of the ad revenue through Spreaker, but we get a like a 396 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:00,119 ten percent boost or something like that if you listen to it through their app. 397 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:04,599 So that's not a good reason to download the app. I'm just I'm 398 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,839 just telling you that's kind of how it works. But if you're in the 399 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,599 if you're interested in a cool podcast app, download that one. You're not 400 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,759 going to get Joe Rogan and all the political I mean, there are political 401 00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:22,519 podcasts on Spreaker, but you're not going to get everything you would get on 402 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,160 Apple or Spotify. But there are just great podcasts. And the way that 403 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:30,519 app is built and arranged is it's a really good player. It connects with 404 00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:34,759 your car, it does all that good stuff. Anyway, all that to 405 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:41,960 say, I wanted to let you know I'm uploading archived, remastered stories from 406 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:45,039 years back, just a couple out of time. And if you look at 407 00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:49,759 my list in the podcast, they're called are The word archive is in the 408 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:53,640 title archive one, two, three, four five. I think right now 409 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:59,920 I'm up to thirty or I've got fifty uploaded, but they're scheduled to drop 410 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:04,160 one a day. So it's a podcast every day from Dixie Crypti in the 411 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,880 what If It's True Podcast And they usually go live about five AM and you 412 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,680 can download them and listen to them during the day. And there's a lot 413 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:19,559 of new people who are following my YouTube channel who might want to find an 414 00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:22,319 easy way to go back and listen to some of the really good stories that 415 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:27,599 I've redone there's no music. I don't talk in them like I'm talking now 416 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:34,079 running my mouth. But anyway, I think I've run out of things to 417 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,480 say, so aw quit here go download the Sprinker app. I think you'll 418 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:40,799 like it. Thank you for listening this long, and we'll see you guys 419 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:43,680 on the next podcast. Love you all.