WEBVTT 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.