1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,440 Thanks so much for joining us for another livestream episode of Dog Mean Encounters Radio. 2 00:00:05,879 --> 00:00:10,400 I really appreciate you coming for tonight's show. We've got a guest who's 3 00:00:10,439 --> 00:00:17,079 had some extraordinary experiences, and by saying extraordinary is you're going to hear that 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,120 just doesn't do it any justice. I mean, when you listen to what 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:25,679 he's been through and what he's experienced, it's just really hard to do it 6 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:30,839 any justice. What I'm talking about is, of course, our guest tonight, 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,079 Cody. If you've checked out the description for tonight's show, he actually 8 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:41,920 stumbled upon an injured, a wounded juvenile dog man. So without any further 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,079 ado, let's get him in here so we can get this started. Cody, 10 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:51,280 thanks so much for coming. Hey, thanks so much for having me. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,119 Oh, you're welcome. You are welcome. Cody. Please give us 12 00:00:56,159 --> 00:01:00,039 a brief bio on yourself. I will do that first. Before I get 13 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:03,399 into that, I want to say a special thanks, of course to you, 14 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:07,560 Vic. You're amazing for the service that you provide. You know, 15 00:01:07,879 --> 00:01:11,480 as I told you when we talked the other day, I've never told anybody 16 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,519 about any of this before, and it lifted such a burden off of my 17 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,719 shoulders, to finally be able to talk to someone about that. I've been 18 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:23,120 holding onto this for seventeen years and to finally be able to tell somebody it 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,359 was Oh, I just feel better all day every day. It feels great. 20 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,480 So thank you so much for that and everything you've done for everybody else 21 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:33,879 as well. Oh, you're welcome. Wouldn't have it end of the way, 22 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,040 and I'm so glad to hear it's helped you and if Kim and Keith, 23 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:42,079 you both were on relatively recently as well, doing live streams and videos. 24 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,920 I want to thank both of you as well. Hearing your stories really 25 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:53,519 helped me to finally decide to come forward because I actually discovered dog Man Encounters 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,159 probably about three months ago, and you know, I've been just listening every 27 00:01:57,159 --> 00:01:59,519 single day. I feel like Vic, I feel like I talk to you 28 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,519 every day or your voice all the time listening to the videos on YouTube. 29 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:07,640 But thank you, thank you to those two especially, you know you really 30 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,360 helped me hearing your stories. Kim, especially talking about Imber the Juvenile dog 31 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:15,439 Lady. You know, our experiences are a little similar in that regard, 32 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:21,879 So and Keith, the things you've talked about you know, they struck a 33 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,960 chord with me as well, So thank you both if you're listening. But 34 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,039 anyways to get on to get on to myself. So, yeah, my 35 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,120 name's Cody. I'm twenty eight years old. I grew up in Central Minnesota, 36 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:42,599 and I graduated from high school in twenty thirteen. And immediately upon graduating 37 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:46,039 from high school, I enlisted in the Navy. And I'm telling you this 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,960 stuff because it's relevant to the story. It'll tie in later. When I 39 00:02:51,039 --> 00:02:57,400 was on active duty, I was wounded in an ied blast overseas. It 40 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,719 ripped my head open and gave me a really bad brain injury. And so 41 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:07,360 I kind of want to apologize for that as well to anybody, because my 42 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:10,719 brain don't work right sometimes, so sometimes I'll stutter in my speech, or 43 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:14,759 I'll get stuck on a word, or you know, I'll just kind of 44 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:17,280 blank for a minute. Kind of loser I am. But if that happens, 45 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:23,840 bear with me. I apologize, excuse me. So anyways to get 46 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:27,800 into to the gist of the encounter here, Like I said, I grew 47 00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:34,479 up in central Minnesota, and something very important to know about Minnesota is we 48 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,639 are no stranger to large game and to predators. That being said, we 49 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:46,599 have coyotes, wolves, bears, the rare occasional mountain lion, and all 50 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,439 the big predators. But it's important to know where I'm from. In central 51 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:54,400 Minnesota, we don't have bears or wolves. You have to go to northern 52 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:00,479 Minnesota for them. And so that's something that even I struggled with for a 53 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,719 long time, and this encounter was thinking maybe I just saw a wolfer who 54 00:04:03,759 --> 00:04:09,400 was a bear, you know. But I've had the time seventeen years worth 55 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:13,439 to accept it, and talking with Vic has definitely helped. So anyways, 56 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:15,199 when I was ten years old in the year two thousand and five, my 57 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:19,800 family bought a small hobby farm out of the country. We had been previously 58 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:27,279 living in a somewhat larger town, still in central Minnesota, not too far 59 00:04:27,319 --> 00:04:30,480 away from where we ended up moving to, but the hobby farm was located 60 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:34,279 at a very small town and we were, of course in the country outside 61 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,519 of town. So it was a big change for me. But I loved 62 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:44,279 it. I absolutely loved the country. I kind of begrudgingly live in Florida 63 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:47,439 now. I very much missed Minnesota. It wasn't in my plans to move 64 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,879 to Florida, but here we are. You know, life never seems to 65 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:56,279 go according to plan. But so anyways, and I'm sorry if I rambler, 66 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:59,240 if I get off track, it happens all the time. So Vick, 67 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:00,519 if I do, please get get me back on track, because you 68 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,959 know the story. But living in the country was fantastic, and we saw 69 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:12,439 coyotes all the time. On this property. We owned over twenty acres of 70 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,160 property. The yard proper with the house was about two acres, and then 71 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:23,480 we owned two small pastures, one to the let's say one I went to 72 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:25,800 the east side of the house and one to the south side of the house, 73 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,639 and the house itself actually did face out. And then to the east 74 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,399 side or sorry, the west side was the woods. We owned our own 75 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:38,079 entire big batch of woods. We owned the entire woods. And surrounding the 76 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,959 entire property was a barbed wire fence because it used to be a hobby farming. 77 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:45,120 You know, the people that owned it before used to have animals. 78 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:47,319 We never did when we lived there. We just had our dogs, you 79 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:49,639 know. We had we always had three dogs in the house when I was 80 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,639 growing up, big dogs, and they'd go in and out, you know. 81 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:59,480 But yeah, I absolutely loved living in out in the country. Central 82 00:05:59,519 --> 00:06:06,120 Minnesota is beautiful. I find myself homesick quite often. I feel like I 83 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,399 really do have almost a spiritual connection to Minnesota. And we even call that 84 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:14,600 my family. We call it the family ranch. It's our own little patch 85 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,560 of heaven. You know. I absolutely love going back. My dad still 86 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,040 lives there to this day, and my step mom and I visit as often 87 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:28,000 as I can. I absolutely love that place. But growing up, I 88 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,560 keep saying that, I'm sorry. I saw coyotes all the time. We 89 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,720 know, we had at least one or two packs that lived in the woods, 90 00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:36,879 and you'd hear them yep at night, even yap, and sometimes in 91 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:42,519 the morning you would see them walk through the yard, not quite close to 92 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,800 the house. You know, they kept their distance, but every now and 93 00:06:44,879 --> 00:06:47,560 again we'd see them walking through the yard or through the pastures, especially in 94 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,720 the winter time. In the morning, we'd see them walk through, and 95 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,639 I'd go out and I'd love finding the tracks. And I had a black 96 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:00,920 lab. You'd love to chasing those coyotes with something else. But my story 97 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,120 really starts here in two thousand and seven, the end of July two thousand 98 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,439 and seven. I don't remember the exact day, but I know it was 99 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,040 towards the end of the month, and I was twelve years old at that 100 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:21,199 time. And excuse me, it was probably around midnight one in the morning, 101 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:31,720 and I couldn't sleep that night, and so my bed. How do 102 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:35,000 I explain this, I'm sorry, I'm blanking out again. I had two 103 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:41,600 windows in my bedroom. One faced south towards that one pastor in the south, 104 00:07:41,639 --> 00:07:45,160 and then the other faced the woods directly into the woods, and the 105 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:47,920 woods started. Probably I'm a terrible judge of distance and time and night and 106 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:51,240 all that stuff, but it was probably about thirty to forty feet away was 107 00:07:51,279 --> 00:07:56,319 the woods to the house, and my bedroom was directly above the kitchen, 108 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:00,560 and directly below my window was the windows to the kitchen, and that also 109 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,399 looked out towards the woods. Well, it was probably around midnight, one 110 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:07,319 in the morning, and I, for some reason I couldn't sleep, and 111 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:13,560 I usually faced inward in towards the room when I slept, because I didn't 112 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:20,480 have blinds or curtains or anything on the window at that time, so I 113 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,879 usually faced inward not to look out the window because my bed was directly against 114 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:28,800 that window facing to the west. Well, I decided, you know, 115 00:08:28,879 --> 00:08:33,279 I'm gonna for whatever reason, I just turned over in bed and I looked 116 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:35,960 out the west window, and it was I don't know if it was a 117 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,799 full moon that night, but you know, towards that end of that month 118 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:41,320 is when the moon was waning waxing. I don't know the phases in the 119 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:45,840 name of it or anything, but it was right out, you know, 120 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:50,440 you could see, you could see. And when I looked out facing towards 121 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,919 the uh the woods. Now that barbedi or fence I mentioned earlier, it 122 00:08:54,960 --> 00:09:00,759 wrapped around the entire property, but for that particular stretch of woods, it 123 00:09:00,919 --> 00:09:07,279 stretched from there by the house where I was looking, and it went further 124 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,080 down south. We had a small storage barn. We only used it for 125 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,600 storage because again we never had animals. But it was your stereotypical little red 126 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:20,120 barn everywhere in the Midwest, you know, made of wood because that's where 127 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,279 their animals would be back there. And that whole patch was just completely overgrown 128 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:28,200 because we didn't have animals, and the people that sold us to it hadn't 129 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:35,080 had them for quite some timey D So Anyways, the barberre fence is important 130 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,240 because there was a wooden gate up by the house and it was probably about 131 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:41,559 five feet tall. And I only know that because I was about five feet 132 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,279 tall too. When I was twelve years old, I was five feet tall 133 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:48,799 and they weighed about seventy pounds. I've never been a large man. Even 134 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,840 now, I'm five seven at twenty eight n weigh one hundred and forty pounds. 135 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,919 Never been a large man. But anyways, I'm sorry, I'm bouts 136 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:01,960 and all over the place. But as I looked out the window from my 137 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:05,720 bed, I turned over and I saw it with it was right out. 138 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,240 There were no lights on or anything, but I saw what looked like a 139 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:16,600 coyote was by the gate. I thought, oh, there's a coyote there. 140 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:20,120 Cool. But then I looked again. I really paid attention. I'm 141 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:26,399 like, wait a minute, is he leaning up against the gate? And 142 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,799 he was probably about four feet I would say, because it looked like he 143 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,919 probably had about a foot left of him that the gate was over top of 144 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,480 him. And I looked closer and I noticed he's leaning up against it all 145 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:46,200 right, you know, but looking at his pause, his front paws, 146 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:52,399 they weren't pause. It looked like he had humanoid hands. And I'm like, 147 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:56,399 what am I looking at? What? I must be tired, you 148 00:10:56,399 --> 00:10:58,320 know, it's the middle of the night. I can't sleep, but I 149 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:05,799 keep looking, and I'm so fixated on these hands. And he looked so 150 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:09,000 much like a coyote from right there, because he had that coyote coloring to 151 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,159 him. You know, if you've ever seen a coyote or like a timberwolf, 152 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:15,840 they have kind of that that fur color. It's that white mixed in 153 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,919 with a kind of that light brown, black and gray. You know that 154 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:28,240 he had that coloration to him. And I see his head and he's his 155 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,320 head is looking back and forth like he's looking up and down the house, 156 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:37,159 excuse me, And I'm just fixated on him. At this point, I'm 157 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,159 like, what is this little guy? This is the weirdest looking coyote I've 158 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:46,440 ever seen. Well, I look at his eyes as best I can. 159 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:48,799 You know, he keeps looking. He's not darting back and forth, but 160 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,639 he's looking up and down like he's really inspecting back and forth at the house. 161 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,600 It doesn't look like he's seen me, you know, he's looking at 162 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:01,240 the first floor. My room was on the second floor, and he had 163 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:09,480 the most beautiful golden eyes I have ever seen, and I was just I 164 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:11,480 was starting to get kind of scared, you know. I'm like, this 165 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,600 doesn't seem right, the way his head is moving, like I've I've seen 166 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:18,679 coyotes for so long. I've had dogs my entire life. I've never seen 167 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,519 a dog move his head like this. And these hands, What's up with 168 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,080 these hands? You know? And I'm getting kind of scared at this point, 169 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,240 and against my better judgment, I was I was kind of a scared 170 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,480 cat as a little kid, and I've had nicktophobia fear of dark ever since 171 00:12:35,519 --> 00:12:37,159 I was my entire life, even though I was adult as an adult, 172 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:43,159 and that kind of ties into other experiences I've had too, from the military 173 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:54,120 and some potentially supernatural things. But against my better judgment, I decided to 174 00:12:54,879 --> 00:13:00,159 I want to go get a closer look, because if I went downstairs to 175 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,600 the kitchen, the kitchen kind of extended out there was a little like breakfast 176 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:09,639 nook area, and so that's what was that stuck out below my bedroom. 177 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,440 So I could be a tiny bit closer and look at him. I know, 178 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,600 I said it was directly below my bedroom. I apologize it stuck out 179 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:20,039 a little bit. The kitchen was the nook was a little further, but 180 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,720 I snuck downstairs past my younger sister in my parents' rooms. They were all 181 00:13:26,759 --> 00:13:31,480 sleeping, and it was hard to do because that house was built in eighteen 182 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,960 ninety. We lived in an old house, so the floors creaked pretty bad. 183 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,840 But I was able to sneak down and I went into the kitchen. 184 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:41,120 I made sure not to turn on any of the lights or wake up the 185 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,960 dogs or anything. And I'm crouching down at the window in the breakfast nook 186 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,240 looking out at him, and he's still looking back and forth, back and 187 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:54,600 forth, and at this point I can really see, Oh my gosh, 188 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,320 he's got human hands, Like, straight up, those are human. Those 189 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,799 are not What is this guy? I'm just enthralled, and I especially as 190 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,679 I see his eyes, Like I said, his eyes, I don't even 191 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,279 know how to describe it, you know, I'm fixed. I was fixated 192 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,519 on it. But the hands were what was really throwing me off. I'm 193 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,799 like, what is this? This is scary. And I couldn't quite tell 194 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,679 from the position we were at, but it looked like he had long claws, 195 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:26,080 like, not like dog claws you see on the on your dog's feet, 196 00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:28,080 but it looked like he had long, sharp claws, something scary on 197 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,120 his hands. It was kind of hard to tell because he was he was 198 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:37,960 definitely holding himself up on the gate, and the gate had little divots in 199 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 it, you know, so he had one hand was stuck through and the 200 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:45,919 other was holding up. But he was definitely holding himself up on that gate, 201 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,320 and he was just watching the house, and I'm thinking, what is 202 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,480 he doing? Is he looking for someone? Is he looking for something? 203 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:58,200 And as soon as I started thinking that, he stopped looking side to side 204 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,360 and he looked straight into the window, right at me, and those golden 205 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:11,360 eyes pierced my soul, and I was terrified. I darted, and I 206 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,360 was scared because I knew that the doors in the house weren't locked, and 207 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,399 there was a door right next to that window there, the main door to 208 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,279 the house, because in two thousand and seven in rural Minnesota, we just 209 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:24,720 didn't lock our doors, you know, there was no need for it at 210 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,879 the time. And so I panicked and I ran to the door and I 211 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:33,960 locked it. I threw the dead bolt, and I locked the little door 212 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,480 lock, and I ran back into the I threw the kitchen into the living 213 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:41,799 room. I locked the sliding glass door, and I ran back upstairs as 214 00:15:41,919 --> 00:15:45,080 quiet as I could, not to wake anybody up. And I got in 215 00:15:45,159 --> 00:15:48,480 my bed and I covered up in the covers and I prayed to God. 216 00:15:48,559 --> 00:15:50,559 I'm like, oh God, please please let me live. You know this 217 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:54,759 thing is scary, Please protect me. You know, I grew up in 218 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,039 a Christian household, so I was praying to God and I was terrified. 219 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:02,759 And I sat under the cover for a couple of minutes, shaking, terrified, 220 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:06,639 praying, and finally, after like I said, probably a few minutes, 221 00:16:06,679 --> 00:16:11,639 I decided to brave it. And I uncovered my uh my covers, 222 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:14,240 and I peeked out the window with one eye, and he was gone. 223 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,799 He wasn't there anymore. I'm guessing either I scared him away when I threw 224 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,039 the lot because I threw it pretty loud. You know, dead bolts, 225 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:26,440 can they make a pretty loud clack if you throw him and uh, or 226 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,519 if he maybe he was just as scared of me as I was as him 227 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:34,000 when he saw me. You know, excuse me. So needless to say, 228 00:16:34,039 --> 00:16:38,159 I didn't sleep. That night, I cowered into the covers and I 229 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,120 knew there was no way I could talk to anybody about this. I can't 230 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,440 tell my parents or my sister. They'll just think that my my sister was 231 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,240 three years younger than me, you know, she would have been nine years 232 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,759 old at the time. And my parents, there's no way that they were 233 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,279 gonna they were good. They would just laugh and tell me I was dreaming, 234 00:16:56,279 --> 00:17:00,679 you know, I had a bad dream. But I did ask my 235 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:03,240 dad the next morning. I asked him, I said, hey, Dad, 236 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,079 have you ever seen anything weird around here, like especially along the tree 237 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:15,640 line by the woods Because my dad, my dad, he worked, He's 238 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:18,279 worked as a power lineman for a long time, so he would wake up 239 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:23,559 in the morning super early, and so sometimes he would see the coyotes in 240 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,319 the early morning before anybody else left. But he said, no, what 241 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,799 do you mean. I said, have you ever seen like any coyote he's 242 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:33,960 doing anything weird? And he said no, just every now and again, 243 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,160 I'll see him walking through the fields. But nothing weird. And there never 244 00:17:38,319 --> 00:17:42,799 was anything weird on our property ever in the time that we lived there. 245 00:17:42,799 --> 00:17:47,599 Like I said, my dad, my stepmom still lived there to this day, 246 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,400 and anytime I go visit, nothing, nothing weird or anything. So 247 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,640 we were blessed with that for sure. But no, he said, he 248 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,680 never saw anything. He said, why did you ask? I said, 249 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,400 I don't know. Maybe I just had a weird dream, you know. 250 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,680 I just left it to that. And so the day goes by, and 251 00:18:06,759 --> 00:18:10,319 I just have no idea what to think, no idea what this thing was 252 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:17,160 that I saw. Slightly terrified, you know, gosh, I hope he 253 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,720 doesn't come back again tomorrow. I don't want to see him again. He 254 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,240 scared me, but I was so fixated in my head on those eyes, 255 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:29,079 those beautiful, beautifulish, pure golden eyes. And it was so strange to 256 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:34,799 me to be so scared and so captivated at the same time. But the 257 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:40,519 day goes by, and like I said, it's just on my mind all 258 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:45,240 day, and it's it's the summertime, so I had nowhere to go. 259 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,039 Twelve years old, I just played around at home, and I played in 260 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:51,519 the woods all the time as a kid. I didn't feel like going out 261 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:56,119 into the woods that day out of fear of potentially what I had seen. 262 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:03,559 But night comes again, and I had put a blanket up over my windows. 263 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:07,079 I didn't want to look outside again. I didn't want to see anything 264 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:12,880 because it was still bright out that night, and yeah, I didn't want 265 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,319 to see him again. You know. I wanted to sleep that night, 266 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,000 but I still couldn't. I was too scared to sleep. I would still 267 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:22,880 say my prayers and everything, but I just I didn't know what to do. 268 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,559 Well, as the night goes by, I hear what sounds like a 269 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:38,440 loud thump come from down by the storage bar, and my heart started pounding 270 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,279 in my chest, like oh no, oh no, what is it now? 271 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,759 And like I said, I was kind of a scaredy little kid as 272 00:19:48,799 --> 00:19:52,480 a kid, but part of me really wanted to get to the bottom of 273 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,759 what this was in case it was the same thing. I don't know, 274 00:19:59,559 --> 00:20:07,160 So I decided to once again get up. I snuck downstairs, I put 275 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,839 my shoes on, and I walked down to get down to the storage barn. 276 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,319 Our house was on top of a little hill, so I had to 277 00:20:17,319 --> 00:20:22,519 walk down these concrete steps that led down to the driveway and walk around the 278 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:26,079 garage and then a little bit back again towards the tree line, back where 279 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:30,000 that one pasture met the woods. Was where the storage barn was. And 280 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:34,000 again that's all we were using it for at that time, was a storage 281 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:40,559 because we didn't have any animals. And I had I had a little light 282 00:20:40,599 --> 00:20:42,359 with me. You know. It was two thousand and seven, that's before 283 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:45,559 the super advent of smartphones, and I didn't have a phone anyway. I 284 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:48,759 was twelve years old, just back in the day. At that time, 285 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:53,400 twelve year olds didn't have phones. But I had a little, uh, 286 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,039 a little light. I didn't need it though, because it was it was 287 00:20:57,079 --> 00:21:04,200 pretty light out from the moon. And I walked to the storage barn and 288 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:07,640 I can see, you know, it had just the standard sliding barn door 289 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,559 to it, and there was only the one door, so there was no 290 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:17,720 way any anything or anyone else could have gotten in was through the it was. 291 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:22,200 It was only through the sliding door, and I could see that the 292 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,000 only the only way that we had. We didn't have a lock on it. 293 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:27,480 Like I said, in Central Minnesota in two thousand and seven, we 294 00:21:27,519 --> 00:21:30,079 never locked our doors. We never had any need to the only thing we 295 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:37,960 had to prevent it from opening and closing was that we had a little hook 296 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:40,119 latch on it. If you know what I'm talking about just one of those 297 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,319 tiny little ones, and we would just latch that at night so that the 298 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,079 thing wouldn't slide open in the wind or anything. You know, we never 299 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,559 had any worries about anyone going in there. Well, as I get closer, 300 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:56,640 I see that the door is open a little bit and the hook is 301 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:04,279 undone. It wasn't broken. It wasn't It was still on the wall. 302 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,880 You know. It didn't look like it had been broken or anything. It 303 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:15,279 had been manually undone by someone or something. And my heart feel is pounding 304 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,519 so hard at this rate, it feels like it's going to stop. I'm 305 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:22,960 like, I'm twelve years old. I'm gonna have a heart attack. But 306 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:30,640 I pressed on because that innate curiosity. I pushed through the scaredy cat and 307 00:22:30,839 --> 00:22:37,920 the light switch to the storage barn was right on, immediately on the left 308 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,960 side as you would go in, so I knew where it was. So 309 00:22:41,039 --> 00:22:45,039 I stuck my hand in through the little slit and I flicked on the light, 310 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:51,599 and immediately I could see through the little opening in the door. It 311 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,720 was sitting in the back corner behind the riding lawn mower. It looked like 312 00:22:56,759 --> 00:23:02,000 it was looking itself it's front left arm, and this was the first time 313 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:06,160 that I finally got a really good look at it. He had the canine 314 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,920 legs and feet, and then when it went up and it got to his 315 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:15,559 torso it started to look very humanoid. And he was male. He had 316 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:26,200 genitalia, I could tell, but like I said, he had kind of 317 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:33,039 that coyote coloring to him, that mixture of the white, the gray, 318 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:38,160 the brown, black, all that stuff. And he had the hands is 319 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,920 what I immediately focused on, because he did have humanoid hands. He long 320 00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:48,839 fingers, and he had the claws, and I could see his arms seemed 321 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:55,000 almost a little bit too long, too long for what it would be for 322 00:23:55,079 --> 00:24:02,079 a dog, you know. And as soon as he saw me, he 323 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,960 immediately turned to me, and with those golden eyes, it made me freeze. 324 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:10,720 And his furst started to puff up. His tail was all puffed up, 325 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:15,359 and his shoulders and around his head. Now I don't quite think he 326 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,400 had a mane. He definitely had longer hair come out of like his neck 327 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,799 on the side of his heads, you know, but the fur tapered as 328 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:26,960 it went further down. He definitely had it on his shoulders and then as 329 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,240 it started to go down his arms. It tapered a little bit, should 330 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,079 be less hairy, and that was kind of that way on his chest as 331 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:45,160 well. And he's he I'm sorry if I kinda oh, it's still something 332 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,599 to talk about. This is only the second time I've talked about it, 333 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,559 you know, because I've talked with Thick about it, and because I only 334 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:57,640 wanted now I'm telling it to everybody. But he curled his lips up and 335 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,359 I could see his teeth. This is the sh sharpest looking teeth I've ever 336 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,039 seen on anything. These didn't look like the teeth I would expect to see 337 00:25:04,079 --> 00:25:11,160 on a coyote. And he started growling, and I felt that growl in 338 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,200 my bones. It rattled me. You know, I live in Florida. 339 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:18,440 Now, if you've ever if you've ever heard an alligator bellow, they have 340 00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:25,039 a really low bellow. It sounded a lot like that, and obviously not 341 00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:29,319 reptilian, but it sounded a lot like that, and it just rattled me 342 00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:37,680 on my heart pounding out of my chest. But I immediately decided to I 343 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,279 put my hands up close to my body and I put my palms out and 344 00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:45,160 I started talking to him. I said, hey, it's okay, I'm 345 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,240 not going to hurt you. You know, it's okay, you know, 346 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:56,599 utterly terrified. And I got a good look. It looked like he had 347 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,359 a big scratch on his his left forearm, the inside of it, and 348 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,359 it looked like that's what he was looking when I had gone in, and 349 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,720 I said, you know, I bet he. I bet he caught himself 350 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:15,000 on the on the barb wire because I caught myself on that sometimes too. 351 00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:18,440 And anytime I'd go out and i'd walk the pastures of the woods and I 352 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,960 would go up to the barber and I would see patches of a fur on 353 00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:23,279 it every now and again. You know, I know, deer got stuck 354 00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:26,079 on it. Sometimes they'd nick it as they jumped over, and I found 355 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:33,079 patches of coyote fur and stuff like that. But I thought, maybe he 356 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,720 got caught on that, maybe even after he ran off yesterday. If this 357 00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:45,680 is the same one, So what I decided to do again keeping my hands 358 00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:48,839 up and make sure he's seeing them, and I'm trying to make sure that 359 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,839 he knows I'm not a threat. There was the storage barn was kind of 360 00:26:53,839 --> 00:26:57,119 being used as my dad's hangout spot at that time. It's kind of like 361 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,640 a man cave, you know, and he had a fridge in there. 362 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,599 My dad's a hunter, he always has been, so he always had meat 363 00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:10,079 in the fridge, and I know he had a lot of rolls of summer 364 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,920 sausage in there. So what I decided to do. I kept my hands 365 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,079 up again and I kind of slowly inched over to the fridge, keeping my 366 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,599 eyes on him the whole time. And he didn't let me out of his 367 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,160 sight either, and he's still growling. At this point. I bought wet 368 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,839 my pants. So I go to the fridge and I take out a roll 369 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,039 of summer sausage because I know my dad wouldn't miss a roll or two, 370 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,359 and I held it up for him to look at it, and I slowly 371 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,799 set it on the ground and I rolled it forward and he picked it up 372 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,559 with his right arm, the good one, and he immediately scarfed it down. 373 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,920 And at that point he stopped growling, but he was still looking at 374 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,680 me, and I decided, I said, you know, do you want 375 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,640 another one? So well the second one out and I rolled it to him 376 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:07,160 and he picked that one up a little more slowly and ate that one a 377 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,359 little more slowly keeping his eyes on me. But he wasn't growling anymore. 378 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,160 He'd put his teeth away, so he's just keeping his eye on me. 379 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,880 I'm keeping it on him. I figure at this point, he figures I'm 380 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,240 not going to hurt him. I'm not going to do anything stupid. Well 381 00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:23,480 I was about to do something stupid, actually, and here's why. But 382 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:33,079 I saw his I saw his scratch. And I love animals. I've loved 383 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:41,000 animals my entire life, and canines, especially canid's wolves, have always been 384 00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:42,880 my absolute favorite animal. And here I am in front of this thing that 385 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,079 looks like a combination wolf in person, you know, and he's hurt, 386 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,519 and he's young. I assumed he was young, you know, because he's 387 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:59,039 about four feet tall, and he looked like his body shape was kind of 388 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:03,440 like mine, you know, And I was so I wanted to help. 389 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:10,720 I didn't like to seeing him bleeding. And my dad had his hunting supplies 390 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,440 in there and some lockers, and I knew he had a first aid kit. 391 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,920 So, once again, keeping my hands up, my palms out so 392 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,279 that he knows like I'm not going to do anything, I slowly walk over 393 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:25,960 to the to the lockers, and I get the first aid kit out, 394 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:30,799 and I take the box out and open it up, and inside it's got 395 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:37,400 some gos and some cotton balls, and it's got some other stuff in there 396 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,559 too, like alcohol, prooxide and stuff like that. So I thought, 397 00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:48,200 I can help this thing. I can help him. And I turned and 398 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,720 faced it. I never took my eyes off, and my face my body 399 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:57,319 towards him, and I start slowly walking forward. He curls his lips back 400 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,799 up, throws his teeth and starts grown and I try to I stop, 401 00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:03,839 and I try to reasure him. It's okay, I'm not going to hurt 402 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,960 you. I want to help. It's okay, you know. I'm trying 403 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,480 to be as as not terrified as I was. You know, my voice 404 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:18,359 was definitely shaking, probably about as bad as it is now, worse definitely. 405 00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:26,640 And I slowly walked forward to him, and I set the box down 406 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,559 and I show him my hands and like, it's okay, I'm not going 407 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:40,000 to hurt you. I want to help. And I didn't want to use 408 00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:42,119 any of the peroxide of the alcohol on him because I didn't want it to 409 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,480 sting and then him jerk up and get mad, you know, do anything 410 00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:55,240 bad. But I took out the cotton balls and I started to I very 411 00:30:55,319 --> 00:30:59,079 slowly stretched out to him and I start patting it, and he kind of 412 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:00,920 jerked back the little bit. At first. I'm like, no, no, 413 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,640 no, it's okay. I'm just cleaning the blood a little bit. 414 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,839 It's okay. So I'm dabbing the wet blood off as best I can, 415 00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:15,039 and then he stops growling at this point, but he's still piercing his gaze 416 00:31:15,079 --> 00:31:22,119 at me, and so I'm slowly carefully as I cannot to piss this guy 417 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,319 off. And so finally, once I get to a point that I think 418 00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:30,240 the blood has gotten to a point that it's not going to be super wet 419 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:34,519 anymore, you know, super super bleeding out, I take out the guys 420 00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:41,079 and I start to slowly wrap it around his arm. And this is when 421 00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:49,960 I finally had the chance to actually physically touch his dog man and he felt 422 00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:53,759 firm his arm. Did you know there was some muscle to him. He 423 00:31:53,799 --> 00:31:57,880 was small, He wasn't a jack the bodybuilder like the adults that you always 424 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:06,640 hear about, but he he was firm. And I'm slowly wrapping this around 425 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,400 as gently as I can loosely as I can, so that it's not too 426 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,319 tight, you know, it doesn't cut off circulation. And that way, 427 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,160 if if he so chooses to, he can tear it off, shew it 428 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,839 off, whatever fall off. And the only way as a kid that I 429 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,559 knew how to tie things was in the shoelace. Not so I tied a 430 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:30,039 very poor shoelace not to finish it off. And this again, this whole 431 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:34,440 time he's looking at me. He's just piercing my soul with those those beautiful 432 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,400 golden eyes, not taking his eyes off me. And I set the gauze 433 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:44,119 down, I set the whole box aside, and I slowly back up, 434 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,079 hands up, and I'm like, I'm not going to do anything. You're 435 00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:50,000 okay, you're good. I'm not going to hurt you. And I back 436 00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:57,039 up against the wall so that he's got his space, and he kind of 437 00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:59,440 looks at it a little bit, you know, he's inspecting. He takes 438 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,359 his eyes off me for a second, and I guess he realized he was 439 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,880 good, you know, and that I wasn't going to do anything to him, 440 00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:12,240 and so then he looked back up at me, and we just looked 441 00:33:12,279 --> 00:33:15,880 at each other for a little bit. I keep saying that, but I 442 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,519 was utterly terrified. I was shaking so hard, my heart's beating out of 443 00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:28,880 my chest, and I'm completely enthralled by him at the same time, thinking 444 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,400 what is this guy? I've never seen anything like this. This is not 445 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,599 a coyote. I know he's not a wolf. We don't have wolves here, 446 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:42,799 you know. But the hands give everything away, of course, because 447 00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:50,759 what dog has humanoe hands? So anyways, he decides he's good, you 448 00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:52,599 know, he doesn't need to be in here anymore. His wounds are clean, 449 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,440 and he is good to move on his way. So what he does? 450 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:00,559 You know, He's been sitting in the corner of the whole time, 451 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:06,359 right behind the lawnmower, and he puts his hands on the mower and lifts 452 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,280 himself up. He almost looked kind of awkward when he was doing it, 453 00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:15,440 like he wasn't used to maybe standing on two feet. And I think that's 454 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,440 why when I think back to it, when he was at that gate by 455 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,360 the house, I think he was holding himself up because he wanted to stand 456 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,920 up to look, but he just wasn't good at it yet because he was 457 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:30,519 still young. So he hoists himself up on the lawn mower, and when 458 00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:34,119 he does it, I hear these pops outs. It sounds like his legs 459 00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:37,920 are popping as he stands up. Now I know that sound out too well, 460 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,119 because now my knees pop every time I stand up too. That's my 461 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:47,679 injuries from the military. But he props himself up and he's still looking at 462 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,519 me, you know, and then he looks down at the ground to kind 463 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:55,400 of find a place. He pushes up a little bit off of the lawnmower 464 00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:00,559 and he goes down on all fours. He standing up and he starts walking, 465 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:04,199 and he's walking just fine because it was just a scratch. I don't 466 00:35:04,199 --> 00:35:06,760 think it was deep or anything, you know, the blood stop. I 467 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:14,119 was able to stop that pretty quickly. But when he started walking, the 468 00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:17,920 movement looked very natural, like something that should be happening. But when he 469 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,079 walked, he reminded me of a large cat, almost like a tiger, 470 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:27,760 because his front shoulders as he was walking, they moved up. You know, 471 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,920 if you've ever seen like a tiger at a zoo or in a video 472 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,639 or anything, their shoulders really kind of pop up when they walk, and 473 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:36,840 his front did that as he walked. But it looked natural. It was 474 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,880 just very strange to see that on a dog like figure, you know. 475 00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:45,719 But he walked over to the door and he stopped just before he got out, 476 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,159 and he looked back at me, and I'm thinking, oh, no, 477 00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:52,159 no, no, no, no, please please, And I could 478 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:59,400 have sworn at the time that I heard a voice say thank you as he 479 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:04,280 looked at me. But his mouth didn't move, you know. And only 480 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,639 now as I'm older and I'm seeing all this dog men stuff that it may 481 00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:10,559 have been mind speak to up at me. Who knows, you know, 482 00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:14,840 we don't know about these about these creatures. But I almost I could have 483 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,519 sworn I heard something say thank you. And then he turned his head back 484 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:23,639 towards the door and he kind of leaped out, and then I heard him 485 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:30,920 running through the through the pasture, and I could hear him heading towards the 486 00:36:30,039 --> 00:36:34,760 tree line. And I'm thinking, I'm just gonna die at this point, 487 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,440 I'm going to drop dead of a heart heart attack. What the heck did 488 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,880 I just witness And even at twelve years old, I said something worse than 489 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,760 heck to myself, you know. And I know I know Vic likes to 490 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,440 keep it light and avoid that kind of that kind of language, So of 491 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:57,079 course I will refrain from it. But I'm just I'm like, what the 492 00:36:57,119 --> 00:37:00,400 heck just happened? What is this thing? Oh my gosh. So I 493 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,639 go back up to the house. I locked the doors again, and I 494 00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:07,079 go back up to my bed and I get under the covers again, and 495 00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:12,000 I just start praying, and I'm asking myself, God, what did I 496 00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,880 just see? What did I just witness? What are you? What are 497 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:22,880 you testing me with? And there's there's no way, once again that I 498 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,000 ever could tell my parents about this. They would just laugh and tell me 499 00:37:25,039 --> 00:37:34,199 I had a crazy dream. And I became I became kind of irritable after 500 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:39,599 that, after that experience, and people definitely noticed that I became irritable, 501 00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:43,039 angsty. You know, I was twelve years old. I was almost a 502 00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:52,000 teenager, and you know everybody became becomes angsty as a teenager. So but 503 00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:53,599 I wasn't an angsty teenager, you know. I just like I said, 504 00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:59,679 I had that irritability to me because I didn't I didn't know how to register 505 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,360 what I had just seen, and I couldn't tell anybody. I felt, 506 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,320 there's no way that I can never tell anybody anything that just happened, and 507 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,599 nobody would believe me. I thought about telling my pastor at church, but 508 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:15,840 I decided against that because I didn't feel that I felt that it probably would 509 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,440 have immediately gone into you know, again, either you had a bad dream, 510 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,480 you have an overactive imagination, or maybe what you saw was demonic. 511 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:25,079 I don't think he was demonic. I felt him, I touched him. 512 00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:32,119 He was corporeal, you know, And nothing about me screamed evil about this 513 00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:37,920 creature. He was simultaneously the most terrifying and the most beautiful thing I have 514 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:47,199 ever seen. So that's the end of the first encounter with my dog man. 515 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,199 And of course at the time, I didn't know he was a dog 516 00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:52,519 man. I don't know. I didn't know what dog men were, and 517 00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:58,679 really the thought of a werewolf didn't cross my mind either at that time. 518 00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:01,880 I just had no idea. Yeah, the only thing I had ever had 519 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,760 the base it off of was the coyotes that I would see sometimes, you 520 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,960 know, and the wolves, but I knew we didn't have wolves in that 521 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,760 part of the state. So anyways, that's the end of the first encounter. 522 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,760 Two thousand and seven. I was twelve years old. Well. We 523 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,119 fast forward now to the December of twenty twelve, the beginning of December, 524 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:31,639 and I was in my senior year of high school at that time, and 525 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:37,400 I was driving home one night from a school basketball game. I played in 526 00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:42,480 my school's pet band and we were playing for the basketball team that night, 527 00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:49,119 and I was driving home. You know, I had my first car, 528 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,199 and my sister was staying at a friend's house that night. My younger sister 529 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,360 and my parents were out on a date with my aunt and uncle on a 530 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,360 double date. So I was going home alone, which was not knew. 531 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,280 I'd been staying home alone since I was a very young child. My parents 532 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,039 were very trusting, They raised me very well. They were both veterans as 533 00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:14,039 well. So as I'm driving home, you know, the school was probably 534 00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:20,159 about ten miles away from our house. It was in a totally separate town, 535 00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:22,960 and so it took some time to get home, especially in December. 536 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,559 You know, in Minnesota, we got snow and it was pitch black outside. 537 00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:32,400 There was no moonlight outside like there was when I encountered the dog Man 538 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:39,960 for the first time. And as I hit the gravel road, you know, 539 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,719 it's completely covered in snow. But I knew where the gravel started and 540 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,519 the pavement ended. When it took the time to get outside. It took 541 00:40:47,519 --> 00:40:52,239 the time to get out into the country. Rather excuse me. I'm driving 542 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:59,119 on the gravel road and there's cornfields on both sides of the road here as 543 00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,119 I'm driving on this to get home, and obviously in the winter time, 544 00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:07,599 there's nothing in it. It's just an empty snowy field. But as I'm 545 00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:09,599 in between these fields on the gravel road, I start to hear a sound. 546 00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:13,360 It sounds like a swamp, swamp swamp. I thought, what is 547 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,519 that? Is that my I hope it's not my car, because you know, 548 00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:17,000 I had an old beat them up car who didn't as their first car 549 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:22,800 as a teenager. So I rolled my window down just a little bit so 550 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,519 I can kind of hear and see if it's like the engine or something. 551 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,800 And I hear it getting louder thwomp fwomp up. I'm like, that's something 552 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,599 running in the snow. And it sounded big. I thought that sounds too 553 00:41:35,639 --> 00:41:38,960 big to be a deer. And we had neighbors across the way that had 554 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,039 two really big Saint Bernard dogs, and I thought, did the Saint Bernards, 555 00:41:43,039 --> 00:41:45,840 get out. This thing sounds huge, and I slowed down and I 556 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,000 stopped to really try and get a sound of this thing, you know, 557 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000 And it's pitch black outside. I can't see anything except for directly in front 558 00:41:53,039 --> 00:42:00,559 of me from my car's headlights, and it it almost gets to a definitely 559 00:42:00,679 --> 00:42:02,320 loud point when it gets right up on back and tall. Oh crap, 560 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:07,400 whatever this is is like right upon me. And then immediately as I'm thinking 561 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,880 that, it shows up right in front of my headlights and it stopped. 562 00:42:13,119 --> 00:42:16,840 It was on all fours. It stops right in front of the car. 563 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:22,119 And it's a dog man. It's a huge dog man. Again, at 564 00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:23,719 this time, I had no concept of what dog man was, what a 565 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,800 werewolf, If it was a werewolf or anything like that, that never crossed 566 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,920 my mind. But knowing what I know now, it was a dog man 567 00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:37,840 and he was huge. He was gigantic. He had to have been at 568 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,159 least seven feet tall. Again, I'm a terrible judge of distance and height 569 00:42:42,199 --> 00:42:44,719 and time and everything like that, but he had to have been at least 570 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:52,840 seven feet tall because he towered over my car. And I've heard it a 571 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:57,199 lot myself, even on this show with other people's experiences. He had the 572 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,880 shape of the werewolf from vad Helsing, the two thousand and four movie bang 573 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,400 Helsing. Wonderful movie. I love that movie. It has some of the 574 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,760 best looking cg werewolfs I've ever seen. But he had that shape to him, 575 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,960 that first one, the great one in the beginning of the movie excuse 576 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:22,679 me. And he had that coyote coloring to him again, and I thought, 577 00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:27,559 oh, no, is this is this another one? Is this an 578 00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:30,159 adult? This time? I said, it's been years. It's been what 579 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,719 five years since I even saw something like this, And this one is huge. 580 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,079 It's standing probably ten fifteen feet in front of me in this car, 581 00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:45,320 and he's towering over the car. He's huge, and his claws were large 582 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,000 as well, probably an inch or two. Again I'm a terrible judge distance, 583 00:43:49,039 --> 00:43:52,000 but he was huge. He had big claws, and he was jacked. 584 00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:55,480 He had the bodybuilder body, the mister Universe. He had the biggest 585 00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:02,800 biceps and shoulders and chests and all that stuff. And I'm mortified. I'm 586 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:09,239 frozen completely. And once again I see the golden eyes and they're peering into 587 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:14,280 my soul. He's looking directly at me. I couldn't tell if he could 588 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,239 see me or not through the headlights, but he was looking directly in my 589 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,079 direction, and his ears were perked up. You know. He had the 590 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:32,760 kind of tall, tall pointed ears and those are pointed up. He was 591 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,159 looking at me. He wasn't puffed up as fur or anything, but he 592 00:44:36,199 --> 00:44:40,079 was just staring. And again, my heart's pounding on my chest. I'm 593 00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:44,320 terrified. I'm praying to God. I said, oh no, no, 594 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:57,239 no, Lord, please don't let it end this way. And I got 595 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:07,280 this sense of exist aial dread just fell over me. And I've heard before 596 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:15,519 that that when people are about to die, they get this sense of existential 597 00:45:15,599 --> 00:45:19,280 dread, like they know it's going to happen. I don't know if there's 598 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,559 a lot of merit to that or not, but I've heard it before, 599 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,239 and I have this absolute feeling of dread. I'm going to die. I'm 600 00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:30,840 going to die. God, please help me. I'm going to die. 601 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:39,320 And like I said, I'm just completely frozen staring at this thing. And 602 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,920 at this point I could tell he was looking at me. He could see 603 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:50,239 me through the lights because he's facing me, and he lifts his left arm, 604 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:57,119 his massive left arm up and he faces his inner forearm towards me, 605 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,679 and I thought, there's no way this can't be. There's no way that 606 00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:13,760 this is that little thing that I helped five years ago. But what other 607 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:20,159 explanation was there? He sat there and looked at me and he showed me 608 00:46:20,199 --> 00:46:22,679 his arm. What other reason would he have to sit there and show me 609 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:29,960 that the left arm that I remember patching up. And he stayed like that 610 00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:36,239 for probably a minute. My heart's still pounding on my chest, still terrified, 611 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:43,360 still have that feeling of dread, but he he's just looking at me, 612 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,880 and I don't know what to do. And finally, after probably a 613 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:52,159 minute or two, he puts his arm back down and he's still looking at 614 00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:57,960 me. He won't take his eyes off me, with just those piercing, 615 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,840 beautiful golden eyes again, the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And even 616 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,159 in this sheer terror of seeing this large creature in front of me, I 617 00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:12,800 still had that feeling of, oh my gosh, you are the most terrifying 618 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,360 thing I have ever seen, but you are the most beautiful thing I have 619 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,719 ever seen. I could not explain it. To his day, I still 620 00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:24,039 cannot explain it. I was enthralled by him. You know. Well, 621 00:47:24,079 --> 00:47:30,119 finally, after a little bit of that, he gets back down on all 622 00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:36,800 fours and he kind of gives me one final look, and then he turns 623 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:42,000 back the way he was running and he takes off on all fours, just 624 00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:45,760 with astonishing speed. He's gone, and just that fwompump plump plump in the 625 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:51,480 snow as he's going, and I'm just frozen in place. I can't think 626 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,239 what to say, what to do. I said another prayer to God. 627 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:59,159 I'm like, thank you God for protecting me, for not letting him kill 628 00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:05,360 me. Oh gosh. So I put the pedal to the metal and I 629 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:10,639 got back home as soon as I could. Oh gosh. And it's another 630 00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:14,800 thing. I thought, There's no way I'm ever gonna be able to tell 631 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,000 anybody any of this. There is no way on God's green earth I will 632 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,679 ever be able to tell anyone. No one is ever gonna believe me. 633 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:30,519 They're gonna think I'm crazy. So anyways, that was the that was the 634 00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:36,679 second experience with him, And you know, the months go by. I 635 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:42,559 graduated high school the following spring, and I was two weeks after I graduated 636 00:48:42,639 --> 00:48:50,400 high school, I was in boot camp. And in twenty fifteen, when 637 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,920 I was twenty years old, I was sent overseas as a part of Operation 638 00:48:54,039 --> 00:49:04,760 in Hairit was all of you know, the fight against ISIS and that's where 639 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,159 I was wounded. You know, I was wounded in an I E D 640 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:12,719 blast and I I think I talked about that a little bit at the start 641 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,480 here. Did I Did I say that? VIC? Did I? Did 642 00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:21,320 I mention that I had been injured? You did? I did? Okay, 643 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,599 thank you? Just to make sure if anybody wasn't in the stream at 644 00:49:23,639 --> 00:49:27,400 that time, any went too. I was. I was injured in an 645 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,559 i EV blast overseas, and you know, it split my head open and 646 00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:36,719 it gave me a super bad brain injury that I still feel the effects of 647 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,840 to this day. You know. And there's there's PTSD there, and there's 648 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:43,320 other there's other parts of the body that were damaged as well. My feet, 649 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,400 my knees, and my back are absolutely torn up. And you know, 650 00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:52,519 that's that's made things physically, emotionally, spiritually, it's made things very 651 00:49:52,559 --> 00:49:57,920 hard over the years to deal with that. And because of that, to 652 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:08,239 make it worse, what's it called to make it worse? Because of that, 653 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:14,039 I became non deployable, and so I was essentially getting kicked from the 654 00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:23,719 military after my enlistment had ended because I was still able to do duties of 655 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,719 a non deployable unit, you know, I was still able to work around 656 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,719 in garrison in the base. So they let me finish out my time at 657 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,960 the base. But then when my time was done, I was I was 658 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,079 processed out in twenty eighteen, when I was twenty three years old, and 659 00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:44,199 I was not happy about it, needless to say, because I absolutely loved 660 00:50:44,199 --> 00:50:47,599 the military and I knew that I knew my entire life that I wanted to 661 00:50:47,639 --> 00:50:52,880 go into the military. Both of my parents were veterans as well. So 662 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,719 I was heartbroken of course, you know, and then dealing with all the 663 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:07,880 issues that had piled up because of it. Yeah, I wasn't in a 664 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:12,639 good place. In twenty eighteen, I moved back home to Minnesota because I 665 00:51:12,639 --> 00:51:17,199 didn't nowhere else to go, you know, which was fine. I absolutely 666 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:23,719 love it there, you know. So I moved to the town that we 667 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,239 had lived in before we moved out to the Hobby Farm. It was only 668 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,480 about a fifteen minute driveway, but it was a bigger town. I was 669 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:36,719 renting an apartment on the edge of town that overlooked some cornfields, because it's 670 00:51:37,079 --> 00:51:40,760 it's Minnesota. It's cornfields everywhere, you know, And there was there was 671 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:45,360 a patch of woods not too far away from that field as well, because 672 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,079 the part of central Minnesota that I lived in was kind of where in southern 673 00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:54,880 Minnesota you have the plains, and then in northern Minnesota you have the the 674 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,480 coniferous forest, you know, the pine trees, and it almost feels like 675 00:51:59,519 --> 00:52:00,920 you're in the mouth up north. It's beautiful up there, but we don't 676 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:06,039 have any actual mountains in Minnesota. So central Minnesota it's known as the Hills 677 00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:07,159 and Lakes region. There's a lot of hills, there's a lot of lakes. 678 00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:10,840 There's a lot of lakes everywhere Minnesota. But to say all that, 679 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:15,440 you know, it was it was where the hills, I like to call 680 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,760 it, where the plains meet the woods. So we had we still had 681 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,400 little remnants of the plains and the cornfields everywhere, and we had the woods. 682 00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:30,719 So, like I said, I'm not doing too great at this time 683 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:36,960 because life was not going the way that I wanted it to, I had 684 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,719 expected it to, and I felt like I didn't have a whole lot of 685 00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:44,000 people that I could turn to to even talk about those experiences that I had 686 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,920 in the military. You know, people wouldn't understand. And at that time 687 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,679 I had gotten a job in law enforcement, and you know, the job 688 00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:59,199 went just about as well as it could, especially with the injuries. I 689 00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,440 did what I could. I didn't tell anybody about my experience at that point 690 00:53:02,519 --> 00:53:07,519 in the law enforcement that I worked because I wanted the job. I needed 691 00:53:07,519 --> 00:53:12,519 a job, and so I did my absolute best with that, you know, 692 00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:16,440 and then time goes by. Then comes the infamous year of twenty twenty. 693 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:23,519 I'm sure everybody remembers what happened that year. So at that point, 694 00:53:23,639 --> 00:53:28,840 twenty twenty rolls around, I'm twenty five years old, and I'm just mad 695 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:35,599 at the world because I'm sure the people that live in the States at least 696 00:53:35,639 --> 00:53:44,920 will remember that in twenty twenty, you know, those riots started, and 697 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,239 I'm not going to comment on any of those. Like I said, I 698 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,920 worked in law enforcement. It was a whole thing for everybody, and I 699 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:59,840 had my bad feelings about it too, for sure, But I don't want 700 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,440 to say anything divisive, and I don't feel like I would anyway, you 701 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:07,719 know I anyway, Yeah, So the riots were happening, and they started 702 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:15,760 in Minneapolis, and Minneapolis was only about an hour and fifteen minute drive probably 703 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:21,320 east of where I was living. So these riots were happening essentially in my 704 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:25,320 backyard, you know. And seeing the news footage, the videos and the 705 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:32,880 photos of seeing this city burn brought back a lot of bad memories and experiences 706 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:38,679 from my time in the service because I had witnessed, in addition to being 707 00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:44,039 blown up myself, I witnessed another terror responding, and it brought back all 708 00:54:44,119 --> 00:54:50,320 those memories. Seeing the city burning, seeing it immediately brought back flashpoints. 709 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,800 I was not into the place, and at that time I had not officially 710 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:58,480 been diagnosed with PTSD yet because I had not gone to the VA because I 711 00:54:58,559 --> 00:55:05,159 was so angry and everything couldn't even be bothered. So, needless to say, 712 00:55:05,199 --> 00:55:07,800 it was a very bad summer. I ended up quitting my job in 713 00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:14,360 law enforcement not too long after that. So I'm sitting at home in this 714 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:19,679 apartment, completely alone, with all these bad thoughts, all these bad memories, 715 00:55:20,679 --> 00:55:23,280 and these physical injuries, you know, causing problems with everything as it 716 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,360 is, and I hate everything. I'm mad at the world, you know. 717 00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:37,079 And one night, it was at the beginning of August, and I 718 00:55:37,199 --> 00:55:42,599 was sitting in my apartment, just not knowing what to do with myself, 719 00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:51,840 just hating the world, hating everything. I get this sudden, strange thought, 720 00:55:52,039 --> 00:55:54,559 go look out the window. I don't know why I thought it. 721 00:55:54,599 --> 00:55:59,679 I thought, I'm going to go look out the window. Because I was 722 00:55:59,679 --> 00:56:04,880 on the floor of my apartment. It was three levels. And so I 723 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:09,559 went to the sliding door where the balcony was, and I look out and 724 00:56:09,599 --> 00:56:14,800 I can see out into the field and there was there was moonlight that night, 725 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:19,079 you know, it was it was illuminated. And that year that field 726 00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:22,800 was empty, because you know, farmers they'll rotate crops. They'll do they'll 727 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,000 do corn one year, they'll do beans and another and then they'll leave it 728 00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:30,159 for a year to let the soil replenish. So the field was empty that 729 00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:39,440 year. And I'm looking out the window and I look out into the field 730 00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:45,280 and I think I see something. There looks to be a silhouette of something 731 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:51,039 out in the field. I said, there's an animal outfield. So I 732 00:56:51,079 --> 00:56:53,079 opened up the sliding door and I walked out onto the balcony to get a 733 00:56:53,119 --> 00:57:01,239 closer look, and I see the eyes, those haunting, beautiful golden eyes 734 00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,400 are looking straight at me. It's him. I know it's him this time 735 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:14,079 immediately, and all that terror and all that beauty. He's standing there in 736 00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:21,679 that field across the road, looking straight up at me, and once again 737 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:27,880 he lifts up his left arm and faces the forearm to me to let me 738 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:35,760 know it's him. And I'm just completely taken aback by this. I thought, 739 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,559 I haven't seen you in years. Granted I was gone for quite a 740 00:57:40,599 --> 00:57:45,760 while, but you know, I was twenty five at that time. The 741 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:51,719 last time i'd seen him, I was seventeen, and I thought, how 742 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:58,079 did he find me? He had to have known I was there to get 743 00:57:58,079 --> 00:58:01,159 that gut feeling to walk out and see him there, and he was standing 744 00:58:01,159 --> 00:58:04,519 there waiting for me. You know, when I walked out, part of 745 00:58:04,559 --> 00:58:07,199 me wonders now, all these years later, you know, when I got 746 00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:14,480 that, I got that that feeling to look outside. I almost wondered if 747 00:58:14,519 --> 00:58:16,760 he told me to go. You know, again, there's the speculation with 748 00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:25,920 dog men, the telepathy. I have no idea, but yeah, I 749 00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:30,079 I looked out at him, and I just I watched him for a couple 750 00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:37,800 of minutes, and it was almost like I still felt a sense of fear, 751 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,280 but at the same time, it almost felt like seeing an old friend 752 00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:54,840 that you haven't seen in a long time. And excuse me. Yeah, 753 00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:00,280 he after a little while he decided to, you know, I guess he'd 754 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:04,559 had enough. He propped down and he ran off on all fours into the 755 00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:12,880 woods outside of the field. And I went back into the into my apartment. 756 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,360 I sat down on the crouch, on the couch, and I cried. 757 00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:24,840 And I took it as a sign, you know, it's it's time 758 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:30,840 to get help. It's time to stop blaming the world for everything and do 759 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:37,719 something about it, you know. So the next morning I called up the 760 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,639 VA and I said, hey, i'd like to I'd like to see about 761 00:59:40,639 --> 00:59:47,639 coming in and you know, getting healthcare. And I was immediately referred to 762 00:59:47,679 --> 00:59:53,440 mental health. I was almost immediately, you know, diagnosed with PTSD and 763 00:59:53,480 --> 01:00:00,039 HEW anger issues and anxiety depression, just a mixed bag of all all the 764 01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:07,119 mental stuff, you know. And we found the problems with my feet, 765 01:00:07,159 --> 01:00:12,239 my knees, in my back. So yeah, I got the help I 766 01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:20,599 needed at that point, and I really do credit him for putting it in 767 01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:27,119 me that night, like it's time, you know. So, yeah, 768 01:00:27,199 --> 01:00:31,960 that's that's my story. That's the last time I saw him was the summer 769 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:37,199 of twenty twenty and then in December of twenty twenty one, I moved down 770 01:00:37,239 --> 01:00:40,039 here to Florida. Again. It wasn't part of my plan, but I'm 771 01:00:40,079 --> 01:00:45,679 here now and I'm trying to make the best of every day. And yeah, 772 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:52,760 that's that's my story. Wow, that's a lot to go through. 773 01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,760 You deserve a lot of credit for holding it together the way you did. 774 01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:01,360 Yeah, that's definitely not easy at all. I've already got a question for 775 01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:07,679 you, Cody from Blood VIPA. He wants to know, amazing Cody, 776 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:15,119 do you think he was watching over you? I I have a feeling that 777 01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:19,880 I think he was for a little bit. And the reason I think that 778 01:01:21,079 --> 01:01:23,920 is because, like I said before, we never had any kind of weird 779 01:01:27,639 --> 01:01:34,119 experiences on my house, at my property when I was growing up, and 780 01:01:34,199 --> 01:01:37,400 part of me wondered, you know, is this just such a nice quiet 781 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:42,360 spot? Surely it was, but is there somebody out there watching us? 782 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,559 You know? Is there is there somebody protecting us? And as I get 783 01:01:45,599 --> 01:01:50,280 older, and I think about it. There's a chance that maybe he was 784 01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,880 Maybe he was hit. Our property was his too, and he was out 785 01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:59,719 there watching. You know, I didn't think of it at all until now, 786 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,559 you know, at twenty eight years old, because I've only really gotten 787 01:02:04,559 --> 01:02:07,880 into this dog man stuff in the last couple of months now and coming to 788 01:02:07,039 --> 01:02:14,360 terms with my own experiences. Potentially, you know, he had to have 789 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:15,960 been a juvenile when I met him. You know, he was four feet 790 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:21,079 tall. He was much smaller than the previous time than the next time that 791 01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:27,480 I saw him. So now as an adult, I wonder did he have 792 01:02:27,599 --> 01:02:30,119 family out in our woods? And maybe he was just the youngest, you 793 01:02:30,159 --> 01:02:34,840 know, maybe he was just the pupp and it was his turn to take 794 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,679 over. So in a way, I feel like, maybe, yeah, 795 01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:42,800 maybe he did watch over us, And I can't I can't explain how else 796 01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,000 he would have found me in that apartment away from home. You know, 797 01:02:45,119 --> 01:02:50,519 he had to have known I was there somehow. I almost wonder. I 798 01:02:50,639 --> 01:02:53,000 definitely feel that he imprinted on me. I wonder if I did the same 799 01:02:53,039 --> 01:03:01,280 to him, he just might have it sounds like you did. I've got 800 01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:07,480 another question for you from Shannon Uminezer and her question is, do you think 801 01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:12,039 he's still watching over you and you'll see him again? I hope, So, 802 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,320 you know, I don't think he's going to come down to Florida, 803 01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:27,559 but part of me thinks that maybe, because I've mentioned before, you know, 804 01:03:27,639 --> 01:03:32,199 when I moved down here, I feel I feel very homesick very often, 805 01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:36,480 because I love Minnesota. I almost feel like there's a spiritual connection to 806 01:03:36,519 --> 01:03:43,440 me in Minnesota. And I told Vic a little bit about this when we 807 01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:52,079 talked the first time, that I dream about him a lot. All those 808 01:03:52,159 --> 01:03:58,679 years since the first encounter, I dream about him, And when I Vic, 809 01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,760 I didn't mention this part when my first talk. I had forgotten about 810 01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:09,719 it because I get forgetful with my head. But ever since I moved down 811 01:04:09,719 --> 01:04:14,679 here to Florida, I started getting a different kind of dream every now and 812 01:04:14,719 --> 01:04:18,079 again. If anybody out there has ever played like a Japanese RPG game, 813 01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:24,280 you know, there's there's those scenes where a character is like in their dream 814 01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,360 and they're they're slowly realizing that I'm in a dream, you know, and 815 01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:30,760 it's like pure white or pure black or whatever. In my case, it 816 01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:35,599 was it was always pure white when I've had these dreams, and I see 817 01:04:35,679 --> 01:04:42,960 him there and the first time that this happened, and these are always very 818 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:47,400 short, little bursts, little dreams when these happen, he looked at me 819 01:04:48,679 --> 01:04:51,800 in the dream. He's there and his mouth doesn't move, but I hear 820 01:04:51,880 --> 01:05:00,840 him say where are you? And then it fades out and I woke up. 821 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:13,840 So and I've had similar dreams like that since it's pretty infrequent, but 822 01:05:14,239 --> 01:05:17,119 I remember I had a dream like that and he looked at me and he 823 01:05:17,159 --> 01:05:21,800 wasn't saying anything. And I asked him one day and I said, are 824 01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:28,400 you him? And he just gave me like a half nod, And I 825 01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,199 asked him, who are you? And I didn't get a response. And 826 01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,559 later I had another dream and I asked him, I said, do you 827 01:05:33,599 --> 01:05:39,000 have a name, And again he gave me that half nod, and I'm 828 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,840 thinking I had what the heck? And I said, what's your name? 829 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,239 And he didn't answer. To this day, anytime I've had that, he 830 01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:51,920 hasn't answered. Now again, this may just be dreams, you know. 831 01:05:53,039 --> 01:05:59,440 I've always had very vivid dreams my entire life that feel very realistic when I'm 832 01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:01,280 in them, and so sometimes I wake up very confused in the mornings, 833 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,239 I wake up like where am I? What just happened? You know? 834 01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:09,039 But when the room, when your entire existence goes plain white and it's just 835 01:06:09,159 --> 01:06:11,400 you and this one entity in there, you know, that might be a 836 01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:15,199 little different. But it may just be dreams. It may not, but 837 01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:20,960 I definitely feel like that's in some way that yes, he is. He 838 01:06:21,039 --> 01:06:25,840 is potentially you know, watching for me in that point, just to that 839 01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:30,360 first dream, just to hear him ask where are you? A just yeah, 840 01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:33,440 you never know. It just might be him reaching out in your sleep. 841 01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:39,480 It's hard to say. I got another question for you from Darren, 842 01:06:39,519 --> 01:06:43,400 and Darren wants to know what state did this occur? Sorry I got here 843 01:06:43,559 --> 01:06:47,400 late, sure, no problem. It was in Minnesota. I grew up 844 01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:56,360 in central Minnesota, all right. The next question is from Shannon Umanezer, 845 01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:00,000 and her question is how did you and him compare in height when you first 846 01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:04,079 saw When I first saw him, I was twelve years old. I was 847 01:07:04,119 --> 01:07:09,639 about five feet tall at that time, and the way that I gauged his 848 01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:15,119 height was when I first saw him, he was leaning up against that gateway 849 01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:18,119 that was on the barbed wire fence, and I know that fence was five 850 01:07:18,159 --> 01:07:20,840 feet tall, because I was as tall as that or not. The fence. 851 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:24,800 The gate was five feet tall, because I was as tall as the 852 01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:29,599 gate at that time, and he looked like when he was holding himself up 853 01:07:29,639 --> 01:07:32,119 against it, he looked like he probably had a foot. He was probably 854 01:07:32,119 --> 01:07:35,320 a foot shorter. So I gauged that when he was younger like that, 855 01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:42,559 when I first met him, he was probably about four feet tall, not 856 01:07:42,719 --> 01:07:47,199 very big at all, but like you mentioned, that definitely changed. All 857 01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,960 right. I forgot another question for you from Ali S. And Ali wants 858 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:57,320 to know, like dogs, do you think they're forever loyal? You know, 859 01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,119 I don't know. Like I said, I really haven't known anything about 860 01:08:00,119 --> 01:08:04,119 dog men until these last couple of months when I started to really when I 861 01:08:04,159 --> 01:08:10,039 found your show, Vic, and that's when I started to really get interested. 862 01:08:10,079 --> 01:08:16,079 Now I'm border line obsessed. I think I think I think it was 863 01:08:16,159 --> 01:08:18,560 just with Vic. Before the show started. I said, you know, 864 01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:21,039 Vic, it feels like I talk to you every night every day now because 865 01:08:21,039 --> 01:08:24,760 I hear your voice every day because I watch all the videos all day long. 866 01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:30,760 You did say that, Yeah, my first conversation. Oh yeah, 867 01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:32,680 no, I I listened to your show when I'm at work. You know, 868 01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:36,600 I was at work before this and I was listening. I've you have 869 01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:40,239 hundreds of episodes, you know, how could you not listen all day long? 870 01:08:41,039 --> 01:08:46,199 But yeah, I don't know if they're forever loyal. Everybody has different 871 01:08:46,239 --> 01:08:51,520 experiences from what I've heard, you know, and I'm very fortunate that I 872 01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:56,000 didn't have these negative experiences like some of these people that we've heard on your 873 01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:00,479 show. And that's another reason why, you know, when I started off, 874 01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:04,199 I gave a special thanks to Keith, because Keith had my rate of 875 01:09:04,239 --> 01:09:08,119 experiences, you know, and he felt, if I remember right it, 876 01:09:08,159 --> 01:09:10,840 he felt like none of his were super traumatic, you know, or or 877 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:14,479 super negative, and I feel very fortunate that mine were the same way. 878 01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:16,880 Of course, I was terrified, especially the first time, being twelve years 879 01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:20,279 old and seeing this creature. I have no idea what it was, but 880 01:09:21,239 --> 01:09:27,600 who knows, you know, they could potentially be loyal. We just we 881 01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,960 just don't have any way of knowing right now. The only the only thing 882 01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:34,760 that I can think of to answer that question is if anybody has listened to 883 01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:41,760 the episode one thirty seven of dog Man Encounters with Stripes. The man told 884 01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:45,800 the story about the dog Man that they had kept and raised his nameless stripes. 885 01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:49,479 I guess there was a sense of loyalty there, that he knew the 886 01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:55,239 family and the family knew him. You know, who knows that it could 887 01:09:55,319 --> 01:09:58,000 be a thing. You know. I have dogs myself right now, and 888 01:09:58,039 --> 01:10:01,720 the dogs are certainly loyal. But I can't. I guess I can't speak 889 01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:06,239 for a dog man, but we can hope. Yeah, that's all we 890 01:10:06,279 --> 01:10:11,199 can do is hope. You can't think for people, so how can you 891 01:10:11,199 --> 01:10:15,319 think for a dog man? That's a good point. I've got another question 892 01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:19,239 for you from Ky from sixteen seventy five, and her question or his question 893 01:10:20,159 --> 01:10:27,079 is how did the eyes make you feel uneasy or otherwise? They made me 894 01:10:27,119 --> 01:10:30,279 freeze like a deer in headlights, because I would see his eyes and I 895 01:10:30,359 --> 01:10:33,079 just wouldn't know what to think. They were the most beautiful things I had 896 01:10:33,119 --> 01:10:39,920 ever seen, the perfect golden color, you know, especially when he would 897 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:41,920 look back at me, you know, and he'd stare at me. I'd 898 01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,600 stare right in those eyes, and I would just I would freeze, you 899 01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,920 know, my heart would pound out on my chest. But I was both 900 01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:53,520 the most terrified I had ever been and completely enthralled by him, He probably 901 01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:56,239 could have done whatever he wanted to me at that point, so I'm super 902 01:10:56,279 --> 01:10:59,520 glad that nothing bad happened. Like I said, when I was in the 903 01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,680 car, I felt completely defenseless because this thing is huge. He's got me 904 01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:08,319 frozen. I can't respond, and I got that feeling I was gonna die, 905 01:11:08,359 --> 01:11:13,119 But nothing ever did. So he most certainly could have done anything he 906 01:11:13,199 --> 01:11:16,600 wanted to do to you, as could you realize that. The next question 907 01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:21,520 is from Cindy Imhoff, and her question is where it's a statement at first 908 01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:27,399 absolutely amazing encounters. Thank you for sharing, Cody. Do you think your 909 01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:30,680 parents actually did see Dogman on your hobby farm? I kept it from you 910 01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:35,359 all these years, Thank you. I don't think so. My dad has 911 01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:41,600 never been a believer in the supernatural, cryptids, anything like that. I 912 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,800 feel like he definitely would have mentioned something if he had seen something odd. 913 01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:50,079 And my mom was the most devout Christian I had ever known in my life, 914 01:11:50,119 --> 01:11:55,520 and she she unfortunately passed away when I was eighteen years old, when 915 01:11:55,560 --> 01:12:00,359 I was going through training in the military. Actually she had cancer, but 916 01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:01,760 like I said, she was the most about woman i'd ever know, most 917 01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,600 about person i'd ever known, And I feel like if she had seen something 918 01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:10,239 like that, she would have said show and she probably immediately would have thought 919 01:12:10,239 --> 01:12:13,239 it was demonic, not to say that she was crazy or anything. You 920 01:12:13,279 --> 01:12:15,159 know, a lot of people think dog men are demonic, and they may 921 01:12:15,199 --> 01:12:18,920 be. We don't know, but I don't think they are. I certainly 922 01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:24,840 don't with the experiences I've had. But no, to answer your question, 923 01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,520 I don't think anybody in my family ever saw anything. And I've I've kind 924 01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,439 of hinted towards my sister a little bit, my younger SI. I've never 925 01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:34,239 straight out asked her anything like that, but she she doesn't remember a lot 926 01:12:34,279 --> 01:12:39,000 of her childhood. You know, she's in her mid twenties now, she 927 01:12:39,079 --> 01:12:43,079 has a husband and two children, so I don't want to bother her with 928 01:12:43,119 --> 01:12:45,399 it, you know, but I don't think she ever saw anything like that. 929 01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:50,239 You're probably right. I guess if they did have experiences, they probably 930 01:12:50,279 --> 01:12:56,239 would have shared those with you. So that's a good point. The next 931 01:12:56,479 --> 01:13:00,000 comment and question would be from Carol Hansen, and Carol said and asks, 932 01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:04,920 Coldie, do you know you're a very special person and a great man. 933 01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:12,119 Thank you for your service and sharing your story. Well, thank you. 934 01:13:13,039 --> 01:13:15,600 I guess that's all I can say to that is thank you. That was 935 01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:20,680 nice of her, looks like. Our next question is from blood Vipa, 936 01:13:21,359 --> 01:13:25,479 and his question is I think he was trying to help you heal or I 937 01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:29,039 guess it's a comment saying I think he was trying to help you heal, 938 01:13:29,359 --> 01:13:33,000 just like you helped him to heal when he was wounded. I do feel 939 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,840 that way, you know. Well, you know, if it weren't for 940 01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:43,399 that night of seeing him out in that field, I may not even even 941 01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,560 been here. You know. I contemplated, like so many veterans do. 942 01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:51,520 I contemplated suicide constantly, and I had lost I had lost friends to it 943 01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,760 as well, and I thought, you know, maybe this is just the 944 01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:58,680 way to go. So I think in a way he saved my life sometimes, 945 01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,840 you know, because it was that experience that I finally called the VA 946 01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:06,159 and I said I need some help. Well, it goes without saying, 947 01:14:06,199 --> 01:14:10,800 we're all so glad you didn't make that mistake. Yeah, that's a permanent 948 01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:14,760 solution to a temporary problem. So I'm so glad you didn't do that. 949 01:14:16,039 --> 01:14:21,840 The next question is from Shannon Uminezer and her question is do you think that 950 01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:28,600 maybe he's sending you some kind of telepathic message to come home. It could 951 01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:30,439 be, you know, like I said, I feel like the first thing 952 01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:33,840 he asked me and that dream is where are you? And I feel the 953 01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:39,199 poll to go home all the time. I really do. I miss Minnesota 954 01:14:39,239 --> 01:14:43,760 so much. I never expected to live anywhere else. I certainly never thought 955 01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:45,680 I'd end up in Florida. I thought I'd never even visit Florida. And 956 01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,920 truth be told, I really don't like it here that much. But I'm 957 01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:51,239 not going to be one of those people who moves to a new place and 958 01:14:51,279 --> 01:14:55,319 hates on it, complains all the time. You know, it has helped 959 01:14:55,319 --> 01:14:59,680 me a lot being here. My physical health has improved greatly because of the 960 01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:06,600 warm weather. Minnesota winters are absolute h double hockey sticks on injuries and bad 961 01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:13,119 joints and things like that. So the weather has definitely helped with my physical 962 01:15:13,159 --> 01:15:15,439 health my mental health. In some ways. I get depressed because I'm not 963 01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,119 home. You know, I'm away from all of my family, everything I've 964 01:15:18,119 --> 01:15:23,399 ever loved. But I take it as I as each day comes. You 965 01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:27,039 know, I've left home before. I spent three and a half years on 966 01:15:27,119 --> 01:15:30,880 the other side of the planet. You know, So it is what it 967 01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,600 is, But sometimes I do wonder if he wants me to come home, 968 01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:39,039 you know, just that first ever time we're in that dream, he asked 969 01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:43,000 me where are you? Because I haven't seen him since, you know, 970 01:15:43,279 --> 01:15:45,119 twenty twenty four. Now, the last time I saw him was the summer 971 01:15:45,159 --> 01:15:50,119 of twenty twenty so who knows. That just might be what was behind it. 972 01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:56,520 You never know. The next question is from Matt McGuire, and Matt 973 01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:00,079 wants to know. Did the sausage you gave him have a wrapper? How 974 01:16:00,119 --> 01:16:04,520 did he do with it? Oh, my gosh, I love it. 975 01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:08,319 No, it didn't. It just had the casing on it, like a 976 01:16:08,319 --> 01:16:15,079 sausage casing. My dad never bothered rapping anything. Yeah, it is a 977 01:16:15,079 --> 01:16:20,640 good question about the rapper. The next question is from Ali s and Ali 978 01:16:21,119 --> 01:16:27,359 wants to know or says, then asks, oh, he misses you. 979 01:16:27,399 --> 01:16:30,399 Maybe you're his only human friend. Do you think you should give him a 980 01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:38,600 name? I've thought about it, especially after Kim named Ember. The only 981 01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,119 thing that has kept me from doing it, Maybe not the only thing, 982 01:16:41,119 --> 01:16:44,039 but the main thing that has kept me from doing it is that one another 983 01:16:44,079 --> 01:16:45,000 dream I had, I asked him, do you have a name, and 984 01:16:45,039 --> 01:16:50,359 he nodded yes, And he hasn't told me in another dream yet, So 985 01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,960 I don't want to presume to know. I don't want to go naming him 986 01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:58,239 something if he's already got one, you know. And again we don't know 987 01:16:58,319 --> 01:17:01,800 if that is the case. I could just be dreaming. But if you 988 01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:06,840 have a name, I'm not gonna go ahead and rename you like I'm not 989 01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:12,079 going to start calling Vic Carl, you know. So if he's if he's 990 01:17:12,079 --> 01:17:15,520 got a name, I'll respect that. And if he ever chooses to disclose 991 01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:19,560 it to me, I'll let y'all know. What if my real name actually 992 01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:26,159 is Carl, though, don't make it. Don't do me like that. 993 01:17:28,039 --> 01:17:30,840 No, I can't say that, all right. The next question is from 994 01:17:31,239 --> 01:17:34,439 Darren. It's a common actually. Darren says, I thank you for your 995 01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:39,119 service to our country, and I second that, Yeah, thank you so 996 01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:45,840 much. The next question is from Sam Shean and Umanezer, and her question 997 01:17:45,039 --> 01:17:48,760 is do you think your interaction with him has affected the way he interacts with 998 01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:57,039 humans now? When he interacts with what humans now? You know, I 999 01:17:57,079 --> 01:18:00,760 hope it has because he never hurt me, and so I hope he's never 1000 01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:06,560 hurt anybody else either. It's difficult with these dog men, you know, 1001 01:18:08,119 --> 01:18:11,600 you hear all these different things from everybody. He's got different experiences. Some 1002 01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:17,079 people have ones like me where it was not bad, you know, and 1003 01:18:17,119 --> 01:18:21,479 then there's others where they're breaking into people's houses and trying to kill their families. 1004 01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:26,840 You know. It's these creatures are such an enigma, and I feel 1005 01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:30,479 like we're never really gonna know until we have the chance to finally find them 1006 01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,239 and study them like any other animal. But honestly, I don't want that 1007 01:18:33,319 --> 01:18:40,479 to happen either, because they don't hurt in this case, they don't hurt 1008 01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:46,319 people. Mine hasn't. But what's one person, what's one bad experience away 1009 01:18:46,359 --> 01:18:50,600 from them doing that? You know? Like I mentioned before, my dad's 1010 01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:56,439 a hunter. He's been his whole life, and I've gone with him from 1011 01:18:56,479 --> 01:19:00,159 time to time. You know, I really don't like I'm such a I'm 1012 01:19:00,199 --> 01:19:03,119 so I contradict myself because I absolutely love meat. Oh I love meat, 1013 01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:10,199 but I I hate the idea of killing, you know, as dumb as 1014 01:19:10,199 --> 01:19:14,600 that sounds, especially from my time in the military too. But like I 1015 01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:21,560 said, I contradict myself and I love meat. But another reason that I 1016 01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:27,199 really didn't want to tell anyone, I didn't want them finding him because it's 1017 01:19:27,239 --> 01:19:31,439 human nature. I think we have this need. We are the alpha species, 1018 01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:36,800 you know, we have to control the planet. And I understand that 1019 01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:42,000 God gave us domain over his creatures, but well, I treat him badly. 1020 01:19:42,399 --> 01:19:45,880 And I thoroughly believe that these dogment are godge creatures too, just like 1021 01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:51,560 we all ore all God's children. But in that with my dad hunting, 1022 01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:57,279 you know, he had he hunted in the woods on our property a lot 1023 01:19:57,319 --> 01:20:00,399 when I was young, and he would usually bring a deer home every year 1024 01:20:00,399 --> 01:20:02,119 and that fed us for a good while. And I love venison, oh 1025 01:20:02,119 --> 01:20:08,000 my gosh. But he had one trail camera out there, only one, 1026 01:20:08,239 --> 01:20:10,439 and he had it set up in front of the deer stand that he set 1027 01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:15,479 up out there, and I made sure to go check that camera from time 1028 01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:18,520 to time to make sure that it didn't catch anything, because I didn't want 1029 01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,039 Dad seeing him, because I thought if he did, he's going to try 1030 01:20:21,079 --> 01:20:25,159 and not this thing, this thing, and I didn't want that to happen. 1031 01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,159 So, like I said, you know, sorry to ramble a little 1032 01:20:29,159 --> 01:20:34,399 bit, but to answer the question. Yeah, I hope it did. 1033 01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:39,720 And I hope that he doesn't have a bad experience himself and turns around and 1034 01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:43,840 does something bad like that, so that, yeah, I hope not nobody 1035 01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:47,960 does anything bad to him either, So hopefully they won't. And I'm so 1036 01:20:48,079 --> 01:20:51,279 glad you hid his presence from your dad, because if your dad would have 1037 01:20:51,319 --> 01:20:55,319 gone out and tried to hunt him, I just don't think that would have 1038 01:20:55,399 --> 01:21:01,279 ended very well for your dad. No, absolutely, yeah, definitely. 1039 01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:06,520 The next question is from Gil one, and Gil wants to know or it's 1040 01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:12,560 a comment his comment is such a scary experience but also a blessing in disguise. 1041 01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:17,399 And then the next question is from DJ Chris Mack, and DJ Chris 1042 01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:21,119 Mack wants to know do you think you might be in for another encounter in 1043 01:21:21,159 --> 01:21:26,600 the future coding It could happen. You know, I don't plan to spend 1044 01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:29,319 my entire the rest of my life down here. I'm only twenty eight years 1045 01:21:29,359 --> 01:21:33,039 old. I'll be twenty nine in a few months. I don't want to 1046 01:21:33,159 --> 01:21:35,640 spend the rest of my life in Florida. You know. I want to 1047 01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:39,840 go back home at some point, and I'm sure I will. I have 1048 01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:41,760 to stay here a little bit longer. You know. I got to stay 1049 01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,640 in my in my mortgage for a little bit when I bought my house, 1050 01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:48,199 so it's got to stay for a little bit. But I may you know, 1051 01:21:48,399 --> 01:21:54,840 I actually did go back home this last summer. I went home for 1052 01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:59,000 a week to go visit everybody because I missed everyone, and it was on 1053 01:21:59,039 --> 01:22:00,399 my mind the whole time. You know, what if I see him again, 1054 01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:03,479 But I didn't, you know, And I don't know if that's a 1055 01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:09,600 blessing or a curse because I don't I don't know if we should actively be 1056 01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:14,199 seeking out these dog men. Just because we have what may not have potentially 1057 01:22:14,239 --> 01:22:16,319 been a bad experience doesn't mean it couldn't lead to one in the future. 1058 01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,960 They're unpredictable. You know. I may have imprinted on him, he may 1059 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:23,880 have imprinted on me, but who knows, he may see me as a 1060 01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:28,119 snack Sunday. So I don't think I'll ever actively go out seeking him again. 1061 01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,119 But if I ever do, I'll take it with what I can, 1062 01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:33,920 you know, And if I ever encounter another one, I certainly know what 1063 01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:38,359 to expect. I think a little bit more on how to handle the situation 1064 01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:45,960 and not not completely mess it all up. You know. Well it goes 1065 01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:49,159 without saying I sure hope he never does see as a snack. That wouldn't 1066 01:22:49,199 --> 01:22:53,520 be good at all. Yeah, I'm too small anyway, I wouldn't I 1067 01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:59,560 wouldn't fill him up too well. Well, hopefully never find out. The 1068 01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:03,680 next question would be from Eugene Brooks, and his question is did his eyes 1069 01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:08,560 glow in the dark? I never saw his eyes go in the dark. 1070 01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:12,399 No, And that's something that I think about with eyeshine. You know, 1071 01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,239 that's different from glowing in the dark, or maybe that's what you meant to 1072 01:23:15,319 --> 01:23:18,920 it is. I'm sorry, but I never noticed his eyes glow. And 1073 01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:25,520 now listening to all these different dog man stories from what I've heard, from 1074 01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:28,520 what I can remember, the only ones that I've ever really heard the eyes 1075 01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,960 glow are the ones that have red eyes. And I kind of have a 1076 01:23:32,039 --> 01:23:35,640 hypothesis about that. Maybe, you know, we talk about are what are 1077 01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:39,800 these dog men? Are they animals? Are they creatures? Are they are 1078 01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:43,079 they demonic? Are they from another dimension? I don't know anything about other 1079 01:23:43,159 --> 01:23:46,720 dimensions. I don't even know if I necessarily believe in the fact that there's 1080 01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:51,720 other dimensions. I'm so uneducated on the whole thing, but I definitely do 1081 01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:56,920 believe in demons. You know, I've had my fair share of experiences with 1082 01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:00,680 demons. I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan for three and a half years, 1083 01:24:01,239 --> 01:24:05,479 and Okinawa is widely considered to be haunted because of the atrocities that happened 1084 01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,960 there in World War Two. And I saw some stuff in my time there, 1085 01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,840 and other people that I was with there too did as well. It 1086 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,039 was not a very it was not an uncommon thing at all. But what 1087 01:24:15,039 --> 01:24:19,680 I'm getting at is I think these ones that have the red glowing eyes may 1088 01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:26,640 potentially be something demonic, because demons can take the shape of just about anything, 1089 01:24:27,399 --> 01:24:30,239 you know. And the reason I believe that mine wasn't is because one 1090 01:24:30,319 --> 01:24:34,279 I found him as a juvenile and I could see he had genitals, you 1091 01:24:34,279 --> 01:24:40,399 know, Like to my understanding, demons don't reproduce, they don't have children, 1092 01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:43,920 they don't have the need for genitalia. There's no reproduction. And like 1093 01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:45,079 I said, his eyes didn't glow, and he had the golden eyes, 1094 01:24:45,159 --> 01:24:47,800 not the red ones. So that's just a theory. I'm sorry if that 1095 01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,920 was a long winded question to your answer or answer to your question, but 1096 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:56,399 no, his eyes did not glow that I ever saw no such thing as 1097 01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,439 long winded here. Yeah, by a means take your time. Like I 1098 01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:02,920 said, got a comment from blood Vipa. He says, you've been through 1099 01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,600 so much for someone so young, and I agree, thank you for sharing 1100 01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:13,800 all of this. The next question would be from gil one and his question 1101 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,760 is would you consider dog men supernatural or just another animal we know little of? 1102 01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:21,319 Yeah? So, like I said, I almost wonder if the ones 1103 01:25:21,359 --> 01:25:27,199 with the red glowing eyes are something supernatural, potentially something demonic. But really, 1104 01:25:27,279 --> 01:25:30,560 with the experiences I had, I think he's an undiscovered creature. I 1105 01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:35,640 don't even know if cryptid is the right word they How do I put this? 1106 01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:39,920 He almost did feel spiritual to me. He almost does feel spiritual to 1107 01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:44,439 me, And that's why I said before with Keith's stuff when he talked for 1108 01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:48,880 a while back, there is almost a spiritual sense with it. And I 1109 01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:53,239 am a Christian, you know, I accepted Christ into my heart when I 1110 01:25:53,279 --> 01:26:01,119 was seventeen years old. But Minnesota has a very rich history with Native Americans. 1111 01:26:01,159 --> 01:26:03,840 Now, you don't have to be Native American to be spiritual. I'm 1112 01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:08,680 not myself. I don't have any Native American history to my knowledge, because 1113 01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:12,119 all parts of my family didn't really come to the US until the turn of 1114 01:26:12,119 --> 01:26:15,600 the twentieth century, so there's really not a lot of intermingling at that point 1115 01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:19,960 that I'm aware of. But yeah, Minnesota just feels like it has this 1116 01:26:20,079 --> 01:26:25,560 rich spiritual history with the Native Americans, mainly the Dakota and the Ojibwei tribes. 1117 01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:31,439 And I almost wonder if you hear the stories about these Native American tribes, 1118 01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,479 especially the northern ones up close to Canada where we were by, you 1119 01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:42,760 know, with these experiences with dog like people. I think it's the Northern 1120 01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:47,479 tribes. And then there's like some group out of Europe that also believes in 1121 01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:51,079 some kind of dog person type thing. I don't think it's like the same 1122 01:26:51,119 --> 01:26:55,159 as a dog man. It's like a regular person with a dog's head. 1123 01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:58,560 I'm not entirely sure. I haven't looked into that too much, but I 1124 01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,520 feel like there is almost some kind of spiritual connection with that, with the 1125 01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:09,039 land itself. There's, like I mentioned before, I almost feel like a 1126 01:27:09,119 --> 01:27:12,199 spiritual tie with Minnesota. It's my home, it's where I want to be, 1127 01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,399 and yeah, there could be that potential tie. They could be some 1128 01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:19,039 kind of spiritual beings, but at the end of the day, I still 1129 01:27:19,039 --> 01:27:21,720 think that they are probably, like I said, the ones that I found, 1130 01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:27,199 not the glowing eyes, are flesh and blood creatures that I think are 1131 01:27:27,239 --> 01:27:30,159 tied to the land. And if that's the case, then they've been there 1132 01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:33,439 just as long as us, if not longer. You know, they may 1133 01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:38,199 even be sentient. Who knows, we may not be the only sentient people 1134 01:27:38,239 --> 01:27:41,399 on this planet. If that's the case, if these stories go back, 1135 01:27:41,399 --> 01:27:44,880 with all these tribesmen and everything. I have no idea, it's just a 1136 01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:50,720 thought. But yeah, when you do what I do for half as long 1137 01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:55,039 as I have, it's only natural that you bounce back and forth from being 1138 01:27:55,079 --> 01:27:59,640 convinced at one moment these guys are flesh and blood animals out there just trying 1139 01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,359 to make a living. Ain the next moment you're convinced they have to be 1140 01:28:02,399 --> 01:28:06,319 from the ether. So yeah, that is the ultimate question right there, 1141 01:28:06,319 --> 01:28:11,439 when it comes to dog men. All right, I've got a comment for 1142 01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:15,279 you from Supermany Man, and he says, I feel he accepted you because 1143 01:28:15,319 --> 01:28:20,760 of your heart. Then there's another statement from Stella Feral and Stella says, 1144 01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:29,279 maybe when you go home, Cody, maybe he will have you. He 1145 01:28:29,319 --> 01:28:32,199 will have you his name, and I hope you feel better. I think 1146 01:28:32,239 --> 01:28:35,399 that's what she was asking. Can you say that again? Vicky cut out. 1147 01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:42,319 Sure, Stella Feral said maybe when you go home, Cody, maybe 1148 01:28:42,359 --> 01:28:47,359 he will have you his name, as I think what she meant, and 1149 01:28:47,399 --> 01:28:53,640 I hope you feel better. I guess she's saying that when you go home, 1150 01:28:54,279 --> 01:28:57,479 he'll let you know what his name is. Maybe, yeah, maybe 1151 01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:00,239 maybe that'll be the trade off to get back home. If you really is 1152 01:29:00,239 --> 01:29:01,039 pulling me home, he's like, I'll tell you, but only if you 1153 01:29:01,079 --> 01:29:08,439 come home. I didn't see him or anything or feel him when I went 1154 01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:15,199 home last, but it could happen. It sure could. All right, 1155 01:29:15,239 --> 01:29:19,960 I've got another question for you from blood Vipa, and his question is do 1156 01:29:20,039 --> 01:29:26,720 you consider yourself lucky that your encounters were favorable rather than terrifying. No, 1157 01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:30,800 I would love to go out and have a vicious animal that nobody knows anything 1158 01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:33,359 about. Ritmina shreds. I'm so mad that that happened peacefully. No, 1159 01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:38,079 I absolutely hate I'm joking with you. I'm sorry if that sounded passive aggressive. 1160 01:29:38,159 --> 01:29:41,600 Yes, I am absolutely thrilled that it went the way it did. 1161 01:29:44,079 --> 01:29:46,880 Oh, I'm sure you are. Yeah, that does be turnative, definitely. 1162 01:29:49,279 --> 01:29:53,640 I've got a question for you that's more of a general question. I 1163 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,079 don't think you would know the answer to this. Don't know for sure that 1164 01:29:57,159 --> 01:30:01,199 anyone does. But Matt Maguire wants to know these creatures have a higher conscious 1165 01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:06,359 awareness than humans. All we can do is guess about that. That's all 1166 01:30:06,399 --> 01:30:09,960 we can do is guess. But it could very well be. You know, 1167 01:30:10,159 --> 01:30:13,800 if if there's any credence to these dream things, if he's trying to 1168 01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:16,479 talk to me in my dream, then that's not something that just any coyote 1169 01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:21,239 can do, you know, So it could be. You're right, that's 1170 01:30:21,239 --> 01:30:25,800 a good point. Then. I've got another comment from blood Vipe, but 1171 01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:29,680 he says, my first sighting of dog mean had yellow eyes and they glowed 1172 01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:35,079 in the dark. Yeah, like I said, I didn't notice any glowing 1173 01:30:35,119 --> 01:30:40,439 in the dark. There was not really even any eyeshine either, because I 1174 01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:44,880 never flashed anything into his eyes other than the lights of my car. But 1175 01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:47,479 he was standing straight up, so his eyes weren't in the light when that 1176 01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:58,760 happened. You know, all right, there's another question for Bravo Johnny, 1177 01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:02,399 and he wants to know first encounter, what was the weather like if you 1178 01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:06,119 remember, Yeah, the first the first night I saw him, and then 1179 01:31:06,159 --> 01:31:10,520 the second night I actually experienced him. It was a clear night. It 1180 01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:15,439 was beautiful night. It was the perfect temperature outside. A lot of people 1181 01:31:15,479 --> 01:31:19,520 think that Minnesota is a perpetually frozen hellscape. It's not. We have very 1182 01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:24,720 hot, humid summers. It almost reminds me of here in Florida back home, 1183 01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:28,000 actually, the summertime does sometimes. But no, it was clear, 1184 01:31:28,119 --> 01:31:30,840 you know, there was there was no wind, there was no rain, 1185 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:34,840 no nothing, it was it was a perfectly still night. I've got another 1186 01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:41,840 question for you from Zara Assam and Zara wants to know how cold do you 1187 01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:46,319 think you might have a connection with dog Men or they have a I think 1188 01:31:46,359 --> 01:31:50,640 she meant where they have a connection with you. I can't speak for dog 1189 01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:54,760 Men as a whole. Like I said, I didn't really know anything about 1190 01:31:54,760 --> 01:32:00,000 Dogmen until a few months ago when I found this show. And I've only 1191 01:32:00,199 --> 01:32:02,039 seen what I believe to be the same one, you know, and that 1192 01:32:02,159 --> 01:32:06,000 was three times spread out over a long period of time. So I don't 1193 01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:09,600 know if I have a connection or if they have a connection with me, 1194 01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:13,840 maybe mine, does you know? Listen to me. I'm calling him my 1195 01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:18,279 my dog man. But it's hard to say. I don't know if if 1196 01:32:18,279 --> 01:32:23,800 I do have some kind of connection or not. I feel I have always 1197 01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:29,600 felt kind of kindred with animals. I guess, like dogs, regular dogs, 1198 01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:32,000 they tend to know about people, do you know what I mean? 1199 01:32:32,079 --> 01:32:35,920 VIC? Like, they get a sense of people if someone is if they 1200 01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,439 like dogs, if they don't, and then they they tend to steer clear 1201 01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:42,279 of that person or they or they or they like them. They attached to 1202 01:32:42,319 --> 01:32:46,000 them. And any any dog I've ever met has always taken to me pretty 1203 01:32:46,039 --> 01:32:51,359 quickly, Like right now, I've got a I've got a Jola eats Quinley. 1204 01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:58,319 Do you know what that is? Vic? I don't. Quinley is 1205 01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:01,640 the official name for a Mexican hairless Have you ever seen one of them before? 1206 01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:06,920 Oh? Yeah, I have. So I absolutely love that dog. 1207 01:33:08,079 --> 01:33:11,199 She is the best little dog I've ever had, and she is just glued 1208 01:33:11,239 --> 01:33:14,960 to me. You know, I've never had a dog this this attached to 1209 01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:19,119 me before, and I love I call her Luna because sometimes she even looks 1210 01:33:19,119 --> 01:33:24,359 like a little werewolf for a dog man. She'll stand up on her hind 1211 01:33:24,399 --> 01:33:28,239 legs and she'll balance like when she wants something, or she'll hold up. 1212 01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:30,800 She'll hold up on a table with one paw and the way her ears because 1213 01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:33,760 they've got the long pointed ears, but they round a little bit at the 1214 01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:36,640 top, so she reminds me of a dog man. Are a weara wolf 1215 01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:40,760 sometimes and I just love it and she's so cute. I love that dog. 1216 01:33:41,119 --> 01:33:45,359 But again I'm rambling. I'm sorry. I don't know really how to 1217 01:33:45,399 --> 01:33:47,560 fully answer that question. I apologize. I can't tell you for sure if 1218 01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:51,319 I've imprinted on them or they on me, but I think it's something like 1219 01:33:51,399 --> 01:33:56,119 akin to the dogs, where they know about people. You know, no 1220 01:33:56,159 --> 01:34:00,000 need to apologize. All you can do is just do the best you can 1221 01:34:00,079 --> 01:34:04,079 to try and guess and figure it out. Next question is from Matt McGuire, 1222 01:34:04,239 --> 01:34:08,960 and Matt wants to know can you elaborate on the teeth Some say dog 1223 01:34:09,039 --> 01:34:13,800 meen have rows of teeth. Did you notice that I didn't see anything beyond 1224 01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:15,600 what would be the regular rose, you know, the top and the bottom, 1225 01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:19,760 nothing like a shark where there's multiple rows or anything. But they were 1226 01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:27,479 definitely not normal like dog teeth. You know, they looked sharp all throughout, 1227 01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,880 but just the two rows that I could see. DJ. Chris Mack 1228 01:34:32,039 --> 01:34:35,920 is a question for you. He wants to know what color was the dog? 1229 01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:41,640 Mean, what type was it? Alsatian head, hyena or other canine 1230 01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:47,319 type. He his head looked like a wolf to me, Like I know 1231 01:34:47,359 --> 01:34:51,359 a lot of people talk like you had the German shepherd head, or like 1232 01:34:51,399 --> 01:34:55,159 a pit bull head, or like a bad boon hit. He looked like 1233 01:34:55,199 --> 01:34:59,680 he had a wolf's head to me, just bigger, you know. And 1234 01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:04,359 that's coloration I mentioned before. He had that coyote color to him. Like 1235 01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:09,840 coyotes and timberwolves they have that mixture to them, like the white, the 1236 01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,640 light gray, the light brown, the black, all that kind of mixed 1237 01:35:12,680 --> 01:35:15,880 together. So like if you've ever seen a coyote or a timberwolf, or 1238 01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:17,720 if you look up the picture, you know that that's the color that he 1239 01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:25,680 was. That's a good description. Well, Cody, is time for us 1240 01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:28,079 to get out of here. But before we do, I just want to 1241 01:35:28,079 --> 01:35:30,720 thank you so much for coming on and sharing the details of these experiences with 1242 01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:34,800 this. It's clear to see that doing so was not easy for you. 1243 01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:39,479 But like I told you before, I've got no doubts you are going to 1244 01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:44,239 benefit and grow from doing this and seeing all the support from all the people 1245 01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:46,880 who listen when they reach out to you. So yeah, thank you so 1246 01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:50,840 much for coming on and doing this. Yeah, thank you so much, 1247 01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:55,640 Virec for everything you've done for having me on. You know, from the 1248 01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:59,399 time that you and I first spoke a couple of days ago, that was, 1249 01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:01,199 like I said that, it was the first time I've ever told anybody, 1250 01:36:01,880 --> 01:36:08,600 and I felt such a weight lifted off my shoulders. I've felt good 1251 01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:11,439 the last couple of days. I've been in a much better mood because it's 1252 01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:15,079 something that I held onto for seventeen years, and then you pile that on 1253 01:36:15,079 --> 01:36:20,479 on top of all these other mental issues that I had. It's just draining, 1254 01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:23,920 you know. But I feel so much lighter, and I feel just 1255 01:36:24,079 --> 01:36:30,039 happier now, and I feel like I've come to accept so much more of 1256 01:36:30,319 --> 01:36:34,760 not only myself, but of this absolutely terrifying but at the same time, 1257 01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:42,520 absolutely beautiful creature. I'm sure it's not lost on you that so many people 1258 01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:46,800 out there listening to you talk about these experiences would literally give the left arm 1259 01:36:47,319 --> 01:36:51,319 to have those experiences. I know you don't feel lucky to have them, 1260 01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:57,720 but in their eyes, they do see it that way, So please keep 1261 01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:00,640 that in mind. And like I told you, for I am so glad 1262 01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:06,600 that this will experience talking about your encounters with me and sharing the encounters with 1263 01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:11,000 the listeners here. I'm so glad this has been so cathartic for you, 1264 01:37:11,239 --> 01:37:15,359 because yeah, that's what this is all about. Absolutely, and Vic, 1265 01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:17,600 I cannot thank you enough for the service that you do for me and everybody 1266 01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:21,079 else that has ever had this, And to everybody listening, thank you so 1267 01:37:21,239 --> 01:37:25,840 much. You know I told Vic before, I said, I'm super nervous 1268 01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:29,119 about doing this. This is only the second time I've told anybody that's going 1269 01:37:29,199 --> 01:37:31,399 up to a ton of people. And you know, we didn't do a 1270 01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:34,760 regular recording like like a lot of people do on the show. We just 1271 01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:38,720 went straight to the live stream. So I'm like, oh my gosh, 1272 01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:43,960 thank you, thank you all all you have those nerves, but you knocked 1273 01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:46,279 it out of the park. You did a top notch job. I'm really 1274 01:37:46,319 --> 01:37:51,920 impressed. I am. And for the people out there listening, if you've 1275 01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:56,159 had a dogman encounter and would like to share it with me, whether in 1276 01:37:56,199 --> 01:37:58,760 private or if you want to be on the show and put it out there 1277 01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:02,399 that way, Please go to Dogman Encounters dot com and submit a report. 1278 01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:08,159 If you submit a report and complete the fields on the report, then I'll 1279 01:38:08,199 --> 01:38:13,359 be more than happy to contact you and schedule a conversation with you. And 1280 01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,399 if you've been listening to the show on YouTube, please don't forget to like 1281 01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:20,920 the video if you liked what you heard, and subscribe if you're not subscribed. 1282 01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:25,239 Over half of the people who listen to the show, if I remember 1283 01:38:25,359 --> 01:38:30,439 right, aren't even subscribed to the show because of the regularity when I release 1284 01:38:30,479 --> 01:38:34,159 shows on every Friday night. But having said all that, thanks again so 1285 01:38:34,239 --> 01:38:39,520 much for coming on Cody and sharing those experiences. I really appreciate you doing 1286 01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:43,000 that. And for all the listeners out there, thank you so much for 1287 01:38:43,079 --> 01:38:45,239 listening. I really appreciate it. And have a great night.