WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:14.080 Here is an email from Jessica. This is really good. She writes, 2 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:18.199 growing up, I had many spiritual encounters. I spent most of my young 3 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:24.160 life absolutely terrified. I've often thought of writing a book about all the experiences 4 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:29.120 I've had, but I learned very quickly to keep them to myself. Once 5 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.520 I finally moved out of the house and grew up, the experiences stopped. 6 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:39.399 None of those experiences pertained to Bigfoot. They were all centered on ghosts and 7 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.280 spirits. I'm thirty six years old now, and to this day, I'm 8 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.159 still terrified of the dark. I removed every closet door in my house the 9 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.159 day we closed on it. I'm not ashamed to say that I still have 10 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:57.159 to sleep with a night light on in my room, the bathroom light on, 11 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:02.079 and the light over the stove on unless it out. If it gets 12 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:06.000 dark outside and there's still laundry to be hung, I leave it until the 13 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.799 next morning. And I'm grateful for my husband. I've told him everything, 14 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.079 and whether or not he believes me, I'll never know. But he's never 15 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.719 laughed at me or told me that I'm crazy, nor has he ever made 16 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.799 me think he doesn't believe me. He's a very understanding of my needs when 17 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.719 it comes to the closet doors and such as. For Bigfoot, I had 18 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:32.799 never thought about it. Nobody ever talked about it while I was growing up, 19 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.840 so it never crossed my mind until a few years ago when I stumbled 20 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:44.840 across a Bigfoot encounter podcast. Immediately I became obsessed, utterly and completely obsessed. 21 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:49.760 I believe all of them. I know what it's like to experience something 22 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.079 and not be believed, and it really sucks. Now I've watched all the 23 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:59.840 shows and documentaries and encounter stories. Last week, my husband and I took 24 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:04.599 our boys, who were also obsessed with Bigfoot by the way, on vacation 25 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.800 to the Panhandle of Florida. It was the middle of nowhere, and it 26 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.520 was pure bliss to visit the springs in the beaches that we hadn't been before. 27 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.960 We were driving down the road with no houses around. There were no 28 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:22.360 other cars, and there wasn't any self service, and there was nothing for 29 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.360 miles and miles. When my husband turned around to face the back seat so 30 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:30.080 he could talk to the boys about something, I was driving and staring at 31 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:36.759 the road ahead of us when I saw this massive, unbelievably large thing dart 32 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.719 across the road a few hundred yards in front of me. It was too 33 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:45.680 far ahead for us to get any details, but I knew immediately what it 34 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:51.080 was. It was so enormous, but it moved so fast, and the 35 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.719 way it moved, I knew it was a bigfoot. I immediately yelled for 36 00:02:54.759 --> 00:03:00.240 everyone to look, but it was moving so quickly that neither my husband or 37 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.599 my boys were able to see it, and by the time we got to 38 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.639 the place in the road where it had crossed, it was nowhere to be 39 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.120 found. The woods are thick there, and it was as if they had 40 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:15.000 swallowed it up. It had completely vanished. I know this wasn't the best 41 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.759 of encounters, but I like to think that it was God's way of blessing 42 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.199 me with a tiny glimpse of what is really out there. I've been dreaming 43 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.599 excessively about it since that day. It replays over and over in my head. 44 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.840 My husband and my oldest son, who was eight, were disappointed they 45 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:37.960 didn't get to see it too, but I feel grateful. I've spent the 46 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.439 last few years in the woods hoping for an encounter, and I finally got 47 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.120 one. Oh, Jessica, that's cool. That's that's how I want to 48 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.960 see a bigfoot. I've said it a million times, but I don't want 49 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.800 to walk up on one in the woods, and I don't want I don't 50 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.360 want to look down out of a deer stand or out of a turkey blind 51 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.719 on the ground and a bigfoot stay in there. I want to be in 52 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.520 my car and I wanted to be one hundred, one hundred and fifty two 53 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:08.800 three hundred yards away and I see something cross the road and I know it's 54 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.439 a big fit. That's how I want to see one. And I'm a 55 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:15.199 little bit like you. I'm a little apprehensive that I would tell anybody about 56 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.879 it, because they'd all say I was crazy. All my buddies would say, 57 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.160 well, I already think I'm crazy. But I don't know what I 58 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.519 would do. I might tell y'all, I might tell the audience here that 59 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.639 I saw one. This was a great story, and this wasn't an action 60 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.519 pack, but these are so interesting and she did a great job writing it. 61 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:39.560 So thanks Jessica. This emails from Scott. This is another good one. 62 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.160 Hope you guys enjoy this. When I was eleven, we lived on 63 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.560 the outskirts of town, with a six foot wide irrigation ditch that ran along 64 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.680 the back of our property. Whenever my friends weren't around to play with, 65 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.600 I like to get on my metallic green shwin stingray and ride down the ditch 66 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.279 road for about four miles or so until I got to a country road, 67 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.959 and then I'd turn and ride back. I love making that little trip. 68 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.000 Wild Grass grew waste high on both sides of the ditch, with groves upon 69 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:15.040 a rosa pine all around, and sections of volcanic lava rock here and there. 70 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.240 Along with all these trees and all kinds of plants that grew around them, 71 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:24.800 there was never a shortage of wildlife. Birds were all around, and 72 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:29.040 snakes were always slithering in and out of the ditch or along the path, 73 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.480 and frogs croaked and jumped about in the water where the tadpoles were busy turning 74 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:40.600 themselves into more frogs. I'd see water skippers and even the occasional mule deer 75 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:45.160 on those rides. It was one of those hot summer days when all of 76 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.079 my friends were busy doing something else when I decided to go exploring down that 77 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:54.759 ditch road. I had reached my turnaround point and I was headed back home 78 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.680 when I heard a noise coming from a large tree on the other side of 79 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.480 the ditch well. I was curious to know what was making the sound, 80 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.959 so I stopped my bike and I looked up into the tree. It only 81 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:11.279 took a minute to locate the creature. It was obvious. It looked like 82 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.399 a large monkey about my size, sitting up on the branches. As soon 83 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.319 as this thing saw that I was looking at it, it shimmied around to 84 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.800 the other side of the tree well. I wanted to see more of it, 85 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.920 so I started trying to walk up and down the road to see around 86 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.199 the tree, but it kept moving with me. I could still see its 87 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.920 hands on the trunk, but I couldn't get around fast enough to see anything 88 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.199 else. It was on the other side of the ditch, so I couldn't 89 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:43.120 walk around the tree itself. I grew tired of the game that we were 90 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.759 playing pretty fast, so I got on my bike and I rode back home. 91 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.240 And when I got there, I told my mother what I had seen, 92 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:54.759 but she laughed and she said I had a very good imagination. Later, 93 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.120 when I told my friends about it, they all accused me of spinning 94 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.240 yarns well, I was upset that I couldn't make anyone believe me, so 95 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:06.759 after a while I quit talking about it. It wasn't until years later that 96 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:14.600 I realized I had seen a young sasquatch or squatch let I think, he 97 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.879 writes here. I'm certain that the mother must have been in that area, 98 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.319 and I guess I'm lucky that she didn't view my curiosity as a threat. 99 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:28.160 You know, the thing that jumps out in so many of these stories is 100 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.800 that people try to tell other people what they had seen, and they eventually 101 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.079 just quit talking about it because nobody believes them. But I guess that's just 102 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:40.519 part of the further course, if you've seen something and you tell people and 103 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.560 they either laugh at you or don't believe you, shake it off. You 104 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.199 know, it's just part of it. Don't talk about it anymore, probably 105 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.720 because the more you talk about it, the more you realize that they could 106 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.439 care less. And the more you realize that the more you talk about it, 107 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.240 the more silly you look. So just you know, maybe keep it 108 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.120 to yourself and maybe one day they'll see one income to you you this was 109 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:07.439 a good, good story, Scott. I appreciate you sending it. Okay, 110 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.079 I think this story is from a gentleman who is from India. I 111 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.920 think that's right. Uh. We're going to read and find out if he 112 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.439 says. But I think from some of the words he uses, it sounds 113 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.560 Indian to me. So I don't know. It's hard for me to pick 114 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.040 up those Eastern languages. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. But he 115 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.120 asked me not to use his name, and I'll say this. He says, 116 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:35.799 his English is not very good. But Neoma who edited this for me, 117 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:39.679 he says that she didn't have to change but one or two words, 118 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.879 so he has a very good command of the English language. But let's hear 119 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.039 what he writes. Most people know about the Yeti or the Nepali bigfoot, 120 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.960 but we have another creature here known as the band Zachary. A band means 121 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.720 forest and zachary means shaman. These creatures are said to be covered entirely with 122 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.879 except for the palms of their hands and their faces and the soles of their 123 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.159 feet, and they resemble men more than apes. There's only one main difference 124 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.080 between a bigfoot and a banzakary, and that's their height. While a bigfoot 125 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.360 is known to stand eight feet tall or more. A Banzakary is only three 126 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:22.879 to five feet tall. Their hair is reddish or golish brown, so you 127 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:28.080 could call them a small yetti. According to legend, they live in forests 128 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.919 and caves, and they kidnap young candidates, typically between the ages of seven 129 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:39.240 and twenty, to initiate into shamanism. Only those youths who are pure in 130 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.080 body and heart are retained for teaching. Ideally, the time they spend teaching 131 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.080 them is about thirty days, and then they are returned to the place from 132 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.240 which they are initially abducted. Candidates with physical scars or who do not have 133 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:01.279 pure hearts are released quickly. Often they are violently thrown from the ban Zachary's 134 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.000 cave, and if they're lucky, they will not be captured by his ferocious 135 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:11.639 wife, the band Zacharina, who will eat them who like the Yeddie. 136 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:18.399 There's an extensive oral mythology surrounding the ban Zachary, but because there's little to 137 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.960 no public interest, there's no written text that I'm aware of. They are 138 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.120 said to be invisible to the human eye, but they can make themselves invisible 139 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.519 if they want, and they have been known to beat shepherds or travelers who 140 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.080 are resting in the jungle to avoid the heat. In some instances, they 141 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.360 will even throw them down the hills, and when the shepherd opens his eyes 142 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.799 after a beating, he will see them, but only for a few seconds. 143 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.600 There are also stories of the creature taking the milk of cows, so 144 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.320 that people would often sleep near their cows at night and chase them away. 145 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:58.240 Because people can't see them, they have to listen for the sucking noise, 146 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.679 and then they swing sticks in front of the cows and the utters and hit 147 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:07.759 the creatures, causing them to scream horribly. The creatures are often heard whistling 148 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.000 and howling in the night or from the hills above as the villagers work in 149 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:18.799 the fields. These whistles are frequently answered from the opposite hill. When people 150 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.919 find the remains of crabs or the intestines of frogs near the entrance of a 151 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.799 cave, they say the ban zakary lives there because they often eat those little 152 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.120 things. But they are omnivorous creatures who also eat from the many fruit trees 153 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.679 and wild edible roots in the hills of Nepal, and it's sad that So 154 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.440 many people know about the Yetti, but so few have heard about the Banzakary. 155 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.759 Oh that's interesting for India. Is this from Nepal or India? I 156 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.440 don't know. I don't know. I don't even know where Nepal is in 157 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:58.200 reference to India. I need to I'm a moron when it comes to geography. 158 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.720 I know where a few a few countries are, but I could look 159 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.639 this up. But this is really interesting. I love to hear these stories 160 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.600 from people from other countries who have the same legends and mysteries that we do 161 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.879 here in North America, and if there's anyone out there from another country listening. 162 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.200 We've gotten a few from Australia on the Yawi, and I think we've 163 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.120 had some from the Philippines. We've had some from South America. We've had 164 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.279 some stories from Europe. I guess Russia, China, some of those countries 165 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.519 that we don't communicate well with very much. I haven't heard anything from them. 166 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.480 I did see a story one time on a I think it was in 167 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.960 China. This could have been Nepal too, but it was like a human 168 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.879 but he was huge. He was like this giant guy and he he wasn't 169 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.039 Harry, but he looked like an eight. It was amazing. I think 170 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.799 it's probably a birth defect or something. But all I had to say, 171 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:01.000 I really love these stories from other places around them globe. So if you 172 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.679 live somewhere else and that doesn't have to be a bigfoot type creature, it 173 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.799 could be a ghost or I don't know. I'd love to get stories about 174 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:16.600 the Banshee from Ireland from Irish people. I'd love to hear stories about ghosts 175 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.039 from England. In the UK and Scotland. I think the Welch have a 176 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:26.840 few really cool stories they have. They have paranormal stuff going on Norway. 177 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.559 Up in Norway where the uh where all the blonde haired Swedes live. There's 178 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:37.639 there's all kind of mythical creatures that supposedly live in that area. I would 179 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.759 love to hear from anybody who has anything. Just send me an email to 180 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.080 Dixie Cryptid at gmail dot com. I'd love to hear from you anyway. 181 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.759 This man is a good writer. He doesn't have a good command of English, 182 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.159 but he did a great job. I appreciate you. I grew up 183 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.919 on a forty acre sand and rock farm in Oklahoma. I'm seventy four years 184 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.679 old now, But back when I was twelve, I got a job driving 185 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.519 a tractor during the hay harvest at twenty five cents an hour. Now. 186 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.480 That may not sound like much now, but my allowance was twenty five cents 187 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.440 a week, so it was a windfall for me. Plus, riding in 188 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.919 the tractor all day was far less work than the chores I had to do 189 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:26.399 at the farm. I would cut, rake and bail for ten or twelve 190 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.639 hours at a time. Well, that added up to three dollars on most 191 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:35.120 days. To me, that was a fortune. My boss offered lunch to 192 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.559 his workers, but he charged a quarter for a jam sandwich. Now, 193 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:45.120 jam sandwich was a piece of be loaning jammed between two pieces of bread, 194 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:50.120 and we were lucky he didn't charge for the water. The season was coming 195 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.600 to an end, with wet weather on the horizon and a quarter of the 196 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.600 field still on the ground. My boss wanted it cut and raked and bailed 197 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.639 and in the barn before the rain hit the next morning, so he asked 198 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.639 me if i'd stay until the job was finished. I was tired to the 199 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:11.919 toenails, but it meant more money, so I said yes. By midnight, 200 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.080 everyone else was headed home. My boss usually picked me up each morning 201 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.720 and dropped me off at the day's end, but he was overly tired, 202 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.519 and I suspected that he may have tipped a few throughout the day. He 203 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.639 asked if I could walk home that night. It's just a couple of miles, 204 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.240 he said, keep the moon over your shoulder and you'll be fine. 205 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.080 Neither of us remembered the river and the marsh that lay between me and the 206 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.159 house, and besides, I was young and it didn't seem like a big 207 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.360 problem to me. The moon was full and bright as I entered the woods. 208 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.960 The storm was still in the distance, but occasional bolts of lightning flickered 209 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.720 on the horizon to remind me that it was getting close. It had been 210 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.840 two hours, and I was beginning to cuss my boss and the swamp and 211 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:03.879 my life in general. I'd kept the moon over my shoulder, like my 212 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.759 boss had said to do, but I was lost. Mostly I thought about 213 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.440 my grandmother. I knew she would be sitting on the front porch waiting for 214 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.519 me, and worried to death. My granny was a little old lady who 215 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:21.720 never used rough words and rarely raised her voice unless she was provoked. When 216 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:26.559 that happened, she was a force to be reckoned with. Once I not 217 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.600 so accidentally shot her in the backside with my baby gun. That was not 218 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:36.000 a good day for either of us. The wind was picking up and singing 219 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:40.720 in the treetops with the approaching storm. I was working my way out of 220 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.720 a deeper pool that I'd stumbled into when I heard something that sounded like more 221 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.840 than just a wind. Steering into the dark abyss that was the swamp, 222 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:55.879 I saw what I thought must be a mountain lion sitting on a large stump. 223 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.080 In those days of ignorant, indestructible youth, I reacted to fear with 224 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:06.000 anger, and I knelt down and searched out for a stout stick, ign 225 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:11.200 worrying whatever slick scale creature slithered away from under my fingertips. I found one, 226 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.599 and I raised it over my head. Come on you, some of 227 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:19.079 bitch, I screamed in defiance, on knacky dang head off. When I 228 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.920 looked again, the cat was gone. The wind rose up and howl some 229 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.799 more, and I kept moving. When it died down again, and I 230 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.279 heard that sound that wasn't wind. Ahead of me, in a small moonlit 231 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.359 clearing, I could see a shadow darker than the other, standing tall and 232 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:41.519 bulky. Its eyes glowed in the moonlight. My grandmother's warnings of hats and 233 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:47.960 buggers rang in my ears. I'd never paid much heed to those warnings before 234 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.079 I knew haints were ghosts, but she'd never described a booger to me. 235 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:59.039 I had assumed it was all the overactive superstition of an old lady anyway, 236 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.759 But now I wasn't so sure. Thinking it was better to be safe than 237 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.720 sorry, I started toward where I thought home was. I'd like to say 238 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.759 that I was too smart to run, but that would be a lie. 239 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:17.400 I was too tired. All I could muster was a fast mosey. I 240 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.880 didn't know if that thing was behind me, if it was even following me, 241 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:22.480 and if it was catching up with me, or what it would do 242 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.400 to me if it did catch me. I only knew I wanted to get 243 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:32.839 home. I swam the river and staggered up onto the opposite bank, and, 244 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.079 feeling the exhaustion in my legs were like lead weights. There was no 245 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.440 stopping, though, and I didn't know where that thing was that I pushed 246 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.759 on. A while later, I found myself on the highway a couple of 247 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.200 miles from home, too exhausted now to take another step, and I stood 248 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.880 there staring in the direction I wanted to be, listening for that strange sound 249 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.799 that wasn't the wind, and looking like something that had been dragged out of 250 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.000 a when a farm ro pulled up in his old truck. You need a 251 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.240 ride, boy, he asked. I was too dirty to ride in the 252 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.359 front with him, but he let me climb in the back and drop me 253 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.920 off on the road. In front of our mailbox. My grandmother was in 254 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.200 her chair on the front porch with a cup of coffee in her hand and 255 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:23.319 a fair sized switch leaning against the wall. And with my last bit of 256 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.480 energy, I opened the side gate and made my way to the porch. 257 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:33.759 As she called, where you been, boy? I explained about the last 258 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.680 of the hay and the approaching storm. I told her how my boss had 259 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.079 said if I kept the moon over my shoulder, I'd find my way home. 260 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.920 I told her how I got lost anyway. She sent me out to 261 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.000 the pumphouse to clean up while she made biscuits and gravy. I guess I 262 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:52.359 didn't do too good of a job cleaning up, because after we ate, 263 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.720 she sent me to the screened inside porch to sleep in a guest bed. 264 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:02.160 A few hours later, I woke to the sound of a ruckus in the 265 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:06.640 drive and picking out. I saw my grandmother shaking her finger under the boss 266 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:11.920 man's nose as she read him the Riot Act. You durned, idiot, 267 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.720 a grown man, and you don't realize the moon. Don't hang steal in 268 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.200 the sky. You ain't so big or so old that I won't wear out 269 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.960 a switch on you. My boss kept his eyes on his boots. It 270 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:30.920 was a good thing to stare at when Granny was on a rent. This 271 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.279 is an email from Laura. This is really good. It's got several stories 272 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:38.680 in one email, so this should be interesting, she writes. After graduating 273 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.839 from college in the mid nineteen eighties, I went on a six month work 274 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:48.880 exchange to the United Kingdom. I found a job in London at a once 275 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:55.759 posh West End hotel that had seen better days. Now it catered to backpacking 276 00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:00.319 youths from all over the world. The staff was from for White. One 277 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:06.279 of my friends was from Italy, who coincidentally was also named Laura, and 278 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:11.480 she told me a story about her older brother, Falsto. They lived in 279 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.759 the industrial north part of the nation, and Fausto was a postman with a 280 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:21.000 rural route out of town. Normally, he enjoyed exercising in the fresh air 281 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:26.920 as he delivered the mail, but one evening he came home uncharacteristically unsettled. 282 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.720 It had been a hot day and a blinding bright summer day. He had 283 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:34.519 driven to the final and most remote part of his route and parked his mail 284 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.759 truck, and he hand carried the remaining letters on foot to the last few 285 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:45.039 sparse households. It occurred to him that it was very still and he was 286 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.319 alone. No one was out in the dusty country lane. There were no 287 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:53.160 noises from the farms, from either people or animals in trouble. By this, 288 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:57.279 he delivered the post to the last addressed and he began walking back to 289 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:02.599 the truck at a fast pace. He was almost there when he heard some 290 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:07.119 shuffling behind him, and he turned around, expecting to greet one of the 291 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.240 locals, but what he saw took his breath away. He froze in his 292 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:17.759 tracks, and he watched in cold horror as a large naked man with long, 293 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:22.559 reddish brown hair all over his body walked across the dirt road on all 294 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:29.480 fours, paying no attention whatsoever to my friend's stunned brother. Now terrified, 295 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:34.039 he dove into the mail truck and sped away to civilization. Laura never mentioned 296 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:38.559 the words sasquatch or Bigfoot at the time. I didn't believe in them anyway. 297 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:45.759 I imagine one of those unfortunate people with the genetic disease of I can't 298 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.240 even pronounce the words. She writes here. She says it's creepy enough anyway. 299 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:53.720 Now, particularly after listening to people's Bigfoot stories from around the world, 300 00:22:53.960 --> 00:23:00.240 I wonder I was a believer in UFO's long before I came to believe even 301 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.440 Bigfoot, and with good reason. Back in the mid nineteen seventies, when 302 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.559 I was in junior high school, me and three of my friends stayed after 303 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:12.759 school to watch a girl's basketball game. Afterward, Lisa's mother came to pick 304 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.960 us up and take us all home. When we dropped off the first girl, 305 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.240 I noticed that there was what appeared to be a stereotypical flying saucer that 306 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.160 looked like it came right out of the mid century science fiction movie hovering above 307 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.960 us. It was round with a dome top, and it had multicolored lights 308 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.960 all around it. It wasn't very big, maybe the size of a large 309 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:41.039 car, but it was alarmingly close. It followed us to the next girl's 310 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.519 house, and the whole time we were all craning around to see it. 311 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.119 Lisa's mother complained that we were going to make her wreck the car, but 312 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.240 we were too fascinated by the UFO to listen. We protested that it was 313 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:57.720 still there and it was following us. Since I lived the furthest away slightly 314 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:02.720 out in the country was the last to be dropped off, and it followed 315 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.759 us all the way to my house. And when we got there, I 316 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:10.559 jumped out and ran inside as fast as I could. From my bedroom window, 317 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:14.960 I could see the car drive away, but the UFO remained hovering outside. 318 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.720 It seemed to be waiting for someone, and I went to get my 319 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:25.000 brother for validation. We watched it for ten minutes, saying things like I 320 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:29.200 can't believe it. What is that? And we said it over and over 321 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.880 again. It was probably less than half a football field off the ground, 322 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:38.039 and it hung there in midair between our house and the neighbor's house, and 323 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.119 then with a sudden burst of impossible speed, it shot off at a steep 324 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:48.759 angle into the night. We all talked about it for weeks. I'm not 325 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.920 sure anyone else at the school believed us, but we didn't care because six 326 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:57.039 of us saw it. Thirty years later, in two thousand and four, 327 00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:02.920 I was in Arizona house set for a friend. She lived on the west 328 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:06.960 side of town, or rather outside of town, in a neighborhood of houses 329 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.599 that were probably about two acres apart. I was staying in the casida behind 330 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:17.400 the main house. A casida is a small one bedroom house separate from the 331 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:21.720 big one, usually for widowed mother in laws, allowing her to maintain her 332 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.799 independence while keeping her nearby, and in Britain they're called granny flats. Once 333 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.319 you leave the city limits of Tucson, there are very few lights in the 334 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:34.559 desert. There are neither street lights nor house lights, so it's dark, 335 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:38.640 a true deform. The little house that I was staying in in the yard 336 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.519 around it were dark. I put a night light in the bathroom so I 337 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:48.200 wouldn't trip or step on a critter, such as the occasional tarantula or scorpion 338 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:52.680 that might wander in if I got up in the night. I hadn't seen 339 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.079 any nasties inside, but there was a gecko residing in the kitchen. If 340 00:25:56.119 --> 00:26:00.200 he could get in, so could the others. I remember as a kid 341 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.240 that our cousins in Texas would put newspapers on the floors at night so they 342 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.480 could hear the scorpions rattling around if they got inside. But I digress, 343 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:15.559 Holy crap would I would lose my crap if I heard if a scorpion crawled 344 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:21.119 up on me at night. Anyway, But I sorry to go off on 345 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:25.759 a tangent there. One night in the Castida, I turned off the lights 346 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:27.799 and I went to bed. All of a sudden, the night light in 347 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:33.440 the bathroom popped loudly and went out, along with all the electricity. I 348 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.559 thought, oh great, I've blown a fuse. I got up in search 349 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.119 of the electrical panel, and I flipped the breaker, but nothing happened. 350 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.680 I turned around and was rather startled to see a blue light shining through the 351 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.599 skylight in the front room. What in the world could that be? I 352 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:55.519 said to myself. A Tucson is a military town. Various aircraft can often 353 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.839 be seen overhead any time, day or night. Thinking that was the case, 354 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.119 opened the door and I stepped outside. I didn't get that far. 355 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.960 As soon as I opened the door, I saw a brilliant column of bright 356 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.880 blue light projected onto the rocky ground thirty feet away from the door. And 357 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:17.720 above it was a UFO that looked nearly identical to the one I had seen 358 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:22.480 as a schoolgirl back in Kentucky all those years before. This one was the 359 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:26.880 same size as the other, about the size of a large car. It 360 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:32.519 had the prototypical domed roof and colored lights around it, and like before, 361 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:37.960 it was alarmingly close. It hovered there as if it were waiting. Now 362 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.119 I know, Travis Walton. I've read the book, and I've seen the 363 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.640 movie Fir in the Sky, and there was no way I was going outside 364 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:52.119 to bask in the blue light and be beamed up to meet any nefarious characters. 365 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.720 So I shut the door and I went back to bed. I may 366 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.720 or may not have pulled the covers up over my head like a child, 367 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:03.559 I don't remember. After a few minutes, the electricity in the night light 368 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.880 popped back on. I did not get up to investigate whether the blue light 369 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:12.559 was still shining in the skylight the next morning, I went outside to double 370 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:17.920 check if there were any lights on posts nearby that could have projected the light 371 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.119 into the yard. There were none. I know nearly nothing about aircraft, 372 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.960 so I've seen a lot of things flying around the sky over the years that 373 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:32.640 I could not identify. That doesn't mean that they were necessarily from outer space. 374 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:36.000 But I will go out on a limb here and speculate that these two 375 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:41.960 UFOs were actually alien spacecraft. All I know is that I wasn't about to 376 00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:51.400 find out. This is an email from John. This is very intriguing to 377 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.359 me. You guys, let me know what you think. In the comment 378 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.079 section. It's a little bit about religion. I might make some commentary on 379 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:00.480 that at the end, but I'm just going to read it to you the 380 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:04.240 way he sent it to me. Here's what John writes in nineteen seventy six, 381 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:08.759 when I was saying, I can't even get my mouth to work here. 382 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.880 In nineteen seventy eight, when I was eight years old, we went 383 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:18.559 to one of those old fashioned fire breathing Pentecostal church meetings that scared me to 384 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.759 the core. The church was new, and so was the building. It 385 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.519 was mostly blocked with no pain or air conditioning. No place on earth ever 386 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.440 feels so close to Hell is the inside of a church building on a hot 387 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:37.160 summer day, when the preacher is spewing fire in brimstone with every verse he 388 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.759 quotes. The man at the pulpit that day was an older evangelist who was 389 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.799 speaking on the future events and the end times. He had me on the 390 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.240 edge of my seat, not knowing whether to run or hide or sit and 391 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:55.240 listen. My dad's belt held me firm. I guess his primary subject was 392 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:59.240 the second Coming of Christ, but he talked about things that no one could 393 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:03.599 have known back then. Everything we have today. He touched on even how 394 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.640 folks would act, and then he said it would be like unto the days 395 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:14.559 of Noah, and there would be monsters and rumors of monsters. If he 396 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.279 was trying to scare me, he was about as successful as a man can 397 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.920 be. I've never forgotten his sermon all these years later, and I understand 398 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:27.200 now how Satan wants to be God, so he tries to create things like 399 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:32.240 God, but he never quite gets it right because he lacks the ability to 400 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:37.799 give things a soul, and that's how bloodlines get tainted. There is one 401 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:42.200 area called the Green Swamp where I like to hunt. Back when I was 402 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:47.400 eighteen, I hunted there alone quite a bit. One morning, I was 403 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:52.599 out on a powder grade close to the northern fence line. I'd walked several 404 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.240 miles and I decided it was time to have a rest. I found a 405 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.039 spot where I could look out over at least one hundred acres of cleared land 406 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.799 where the palm meadows were coming back through the charred earth and were about a 407 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:10.640 foot high. Bay Head swamps are pretty dry, most the only half an 408 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.359 inch of water or so, and I was looking out over the landscape when 409 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.319 I saw what I took to be an otter. I've had a lot of 410 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.240 years to think about that, and I've come to realize that no otter that 411 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.480 far away could ever look that big, and where he was heading there was 412 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.880 no major water source for miles, but I was pretty sure there were deep 413 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:37.160 fire breaks cut with the big turnplows in that direction. They create ditches, 414 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.400 and they're up to two feet deep on one side. At the time I 415 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.880 wrote about what I saw. Now I put it down as an otter that 416 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.640 looked more like a sea lion doing a watermelon crawl at a pretty good pace. 417 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.319 Now that I realized it couldn't have been an otter, I've tried to 418 00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.680 figure out what it was. No pig would crawl like that over one hundred 419 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.279 yards. I guess I'll never know what it was. I had another incident 420 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.920 a mile from there while I was hunting with my brother in law. It 421 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.279 was an afternoon hunt, with me and the stand on one side of the 422 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.960 road and him on the other between the heat and the mosquitoes. I wasn't 423 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.680 having much fun and he was a good mile away, so I started thinking 424 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.599 about riding home when something screamed so loud it darn near made me fill my 425 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:30.920 pants. It sounded like some lady was out there getting killed. A million 426 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:36.279 thoughts went through my mind as I climbed down out of that stand. Should 427 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.079 I get down and help her? I thought it wasn't my fault that she 428 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:43.920 was out there in the middle of nowhere. While my mind was telling me 429 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.519 that I ought to be brave and go help that poor woman, my feet 430 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:51.720 were already carrying me to my truck. I was half a mile from it 431 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:55.279 when I realized whatever was making that sound was not human, and it was 432 00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.480 only about fifty yards away from me. Now, I kicked my eighteen year 433 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.960 old legs into overdrive and I got myself back to the truck. Of course, 434 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:07.720 my brother in law didn't hear it, so I had to endure a 435 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.599 lot of teasing from him over it. This area has had a lot of 436 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.119 sightings and a lot of people have come out to investigate. These woods have 437 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.559 it all from old river basins and swamp to sand Hill Pine, so I'm 438 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:25.759 not surprised. Once I was fishing on the east side of Crescent Lake in 439 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:30.640 Florida when we started hearing a loud noise coming from the bank, and we 440 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.480 looked up in time to see a huge ten point buck jump into the water 441 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.839 at full speed. He had at least a two mile swim ahead of him, 442 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:43.960 and he wasn't wasting time getting there. We didn't think much of it 443 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.200 until the next year when we learned that he'd come out of the water at 444 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.839 the other end and ran several ran through several neighborhoods, and then he went 445 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:58.519 right on downtown. Considering how far he swam to get there in the three 446 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.519 or four miles of running he did once he got out. I think something 447 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:07.440 must have spooked him pretty bad. I'm just glad whatever it was didn't come 448 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:12.639 out of the woods and come after us. After thirty years of connecting the 449 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.320 dots and applying them to what that evangelist said that day, I have some 450 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:22.199 theories on what Bigfoot and dog men and even aliens are. I believe they 451 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.840 will all tie into the time of the rapture. For now, I believe 452 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.920 no Christian can be hurt by them. But as we get closer and closer 453 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.239 to the end of days, we will see more and more of them, 454 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:39.760 and I truly believe Christians at least will all come to realize how truly demonic 455 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:45.719 some of these creatures are. Well, I don't know. I better just 456 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:52.119 hold my tongue on these Pentecostal charismatic evangelists. Man, they get so carried 457 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:58.000 away. I've actually heard some of them one time when I was I was 458 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:05.639 twelve or thirteen, and I went to a private school in Memphis. At 459 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:09.599 that time, bussing had started, and my dad he hated it. He 460 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.039 did not want us kids riding the bus halfway across Memphis just to go to 461 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:20.920 another school because it was a political cultural thing to do, which I had 462 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.880 nothing to do with that. I just went wherever my folks told me to 463 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.920 go. So we went to a private school. Well, at that time, 464 00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.440 all the private schools in Memphis were just loaded up with people. You 465 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.199 couldn't get into one, and so they got us into a school that was 466 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:39.920 just the first one they could find to get us into. And it was 467 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:43.920 a good school. I liked going to school there. But it was a 468 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.199 church school. It was a school started by a local charismatic church. I 469 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:55.519 think it was the Assemblies of God Denomination, and we would have these assemblies 470 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.320 on Wednesday that I think they called it. Chapel. Was not a particularly 471 00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.000 religious person. I wasn't raised in a religious home, and I'm not religious 472 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.559 now. I remember the speaking in tongues thing, and all the kids who 473 00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.800 went to church there, they went to church and the school. Many at 474 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:21.679 the end of these services they would have these I think they call them altar 475 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:25.280 calls, and these kids would start gibber jabberin and stuff like that, and 476 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.719 I remember thinking, I want to see if I can do that. So 477 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:31.960 you would go into another room. It was like a prayer room. And 478 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.239 I'm not criticizing any of this. I'm just so please, don't think that's 479 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:42.000 where I'm going. But I thought i'd go in there, and I actually 480 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.440 tried it two or three times. I even went on Wednesday night to the 481 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.599 church services to see what it was all about with some friends, and I 482 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.960 would go into the prayer room and I tried and tried and tried to do 483 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.719 that gibber jabber language and I couldn't do it. And finally, this evangelist 484 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.760 that was in town. I would say his name, but he was a 485 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:06.000 he was an ex professional football player and he had turned evangelist and he was 486 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.480 in that charismatic movement and he came around. He was going around talking to 487 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:14.239 people and he was like touching them and they would start shaking, and they 488 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.840 were talking tongues and all this stuff. And he was coming to me, 489 00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:20.239 and I was like, all right, man, here we go and we'll 490 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.719 get to do this. And he got in front of me and he he 491 00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:28.119 prayed, and he kind of kind of popped me on the head and nothing, 492 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.199 and he goes, you're gonna you're gonna speak in tongues. Do you 493 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.400 really want to speak in tongues? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I 494 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:36.599 want to. He tapped me on the head again and nothing. I just 495 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:37.880 sat there and looked at him. He goes, can you feel it, 496 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:42.239 BECU is it coming? Is the Holy Spirit gonna consume you? And I'm 497 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.800 like, I don't think so. And he moved on to another person. 498 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.840 And there were four or five of us guys there that kind of hung around 499 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.880 together, and it was the same one with all of us, and I 500 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:57.199 just thought it was funny. But uh, I'm not criticizing it. I've 501 00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:04.280 just never talked in tongues. There's some people who are not in charismatic denominations 502 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.920 who believe that the people that do speak in tongues that it's genuine. I 503 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:12.360 don't really know. I really don't know, and I don't quite understand the 504 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:16.119 purpose of it. I know that it's a thing that happened in the Book 505 00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:21.880 of Acts, and my personal belief is that it went on in the early 506 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.440 Church and it was there to be a sign for other people to know that 507 00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:32.800 Christians were set apart. There's a whole theology behind all of the gifts, 508 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:39.079 the gifts of the Holy Spirit that people would just eat me alive explaining it 509 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:44.000 to me. And I'm not getting into a religious discussion here, but that 510 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:49.599 was my experience with a charismatic evangelist, and I've always looked back on it 511 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.280 and kind of laughed at it. He couldn't get me to talk in tones. 512 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:54.679 But this was a great story. And I don't know about the end 513 00:38:54.719 --> 00:39:00.119 of times. I don't think anybody knows anything. There's a lot of theories 514 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.480 around about how it's all going to go down, but I don't think any 515 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.599 of us really know. I think we just need to look for the one 516 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.760 who came and paid the debt for us, and that's good enough. I 517 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.480 think that's good enough. John. Thank you for that story. It was 518 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:21.400 awesome. Okay, this man doesn't say whether to us his name or not, 519 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:24.840 so I won't, but here's what he writes. My property butts up 520 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.760 against the six thousand, five hundred and fifty acre state park. There's a 521 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.760 three thousand, three hundred and sixty acre lake in the park created by Damn 522 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.679 that I can see from my backyard. Around late December, the park was 523 00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:45.840 like a ghost town. There are always a few diehard hikers and a few 524 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.079 people who walk their dogs on the roads and the trails, but mostly it's 525 00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:53.960 empty. And devoid of activity. I'm a bigfoot researcher, and I had 526 00:39:54.000 --> 00:40:00.599 a strong feeling about a spot in one of the empty picnic areas. Occasionally 527 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:05.760 caught eyeshine there that I knew wasn't from a deer. Their eyes glow orange. 528 00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:09.159 It was too scattered to be a raccoon or any other small critter, 529 00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:15.280 so I decided to try and draw out whatever was back there. I have 530 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:19.800 a very bright headlamp with a red strobe light on it that I thought might 531 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:24.519 peak their curiosity. So one night, around eleven PM, I drove out 532 00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.840 to the picnic area, turned off my car and all my lights, and 533 00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:35.239 I began to red strobe the woods. Periodically, I switched the strobe to 534 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.199 spotlight to see if anything was looking. I didn't see anything until about the 535 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:45.800 fourth time. I switched the spotlight and turned it on a small hollow that 536 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.800 was back in the trees, and I couldn't believe what I was looking at. 537 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:54.199 There were at least fourteen pairs of eyes looking my way. Some were 538 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:59.039 real high and some were mid tree height, and a few were low to 539 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:04.440 the ground. The two higher groups periodically moved behind what I assumed was a 540 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:08.280 tree and then they peered out again. The lower ones blinked every now and 541 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:14.519 then, but otherwise they stayed right where they were. I felt an intense 542 00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:17.760 fear come over me that I couldn't explain. I was watching those eyes to 543 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.800 my left, but to my right were dense woods that made me feel exposed. 544 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.760 A leaving seemed like the right thing to do at that moment. Naturally, 545 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.760 I couldn't let it go. So the next night I went back to 546 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.360 the area with my strobe light and I repeated the technique that I had used 547 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:39.119 the night before. This time I didn't see anything where I had searched before, 548 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:43.639 but to the left of that I saw two large red circles glowing. 549 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:47.239 I focused the light on them, but they stayed consistent. There was no 550 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.639 blinking or movement of any kind. It must have been something the part placed 551 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.880 there. I thought maybe it was a grill or a trash can with red 552 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:02.559 reflectors on it, But why I seen it the night before. My curiosity 553 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:07.159 was up. So I watched them intently, waiting for some sort of movement, 554 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:12.199 and finally they went out and then came right back on. They were 555 00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:16.199 eyes. I was absolutely certain they had to be eyes, But they were 556 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:21.199 so big and far apart, and I continued to watch them, but they 557 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.800 didn't blink again. I kept staring, and they kept staring back. I 558 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.639 estimate that it was one hundred and fifty feet away, so my headlamp wasn't 559 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.880 so bright enough to make out a figure. As I sat there watching those 560 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.360 eyes, that feeling that I needed to leave came over me again. It 561 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:44.400 shocked me because I hadn't heard anything. It was totally silent, but it 562 00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:49.119 was powerful enough that it couldn't be ignored. Now, I'm not suicidal, 563 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.360 So I left, and as I drove around the circle of the parking lot, 564 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:58.800 I kept my light fixed on those eyes and they never moved. The 565 00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:01.679 next day, I decided that this was something to be investigated further, so 566 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.440 I went into the woods during the day, and I found a lot of 567 00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:08.679 tree talk. This is to say I found a lot of things. They 568 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:15.159 assemble out of tree branches and sticks. They were all wound together and held 569 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:20.519 close into amazingly complex structures. Well, at this point, I was convinced 570 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:24.119 that I was not seeing a normal animal's eyeshine. I started to think that 571 00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:29.639 there must be a community of bigfoot or something back in those woods, and 572 00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:34.280 by red strobing the trees, I had gotten them all wound up. I 573 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.239 figured the red eyed thing was not happy about it, but this was way 574 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.800 too close to what I looked for to let it be. That night, 575 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:47.159 I went back, and this time I brought a very powerful flashlight with me. 576 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.280 With the window rolled down, I began to scan the tree line again, 577 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.800 but at first I didn't see anything, and then out of nowhere I 578 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.199 spotted two large, very deep red eyes picking around from behind a tree. 579 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.880 They were a lot larger and redder than the eyes I had seen previously, 580 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.960 and they were a lot further apart. I kept my light on them and 581 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:14.000 I watched in amazement as they shifted from one side of the tree to the 582 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:19.039 other. Soon they started to come farther out from behind the tree and move 583 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.800 forward, and then they would move back to the tree and look out again 584 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.760 from side to side. Now, whatever it was, it was emitting a 585 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.400 feeling of intense anger and frustration, and even with a more powerful light, 586 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:36.480 I couldn't make out more than a dark, hooking form. Its shoulders were 587 00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:39.400 massive, they were six feet up of the tree it was behind, but 588 00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:45.000 it came out and it rushed forward and it looked much taller. It was 589 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:50.679 definitely extremely angry with me for causing such pandemonium in its group, and it 590 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.760 wanted to rush me, but it didn't because of the consequences of that action 591 00:44:53.960 --> 00:45:00.360 might bring. The anger it was projecting was overwhelming, and I decide I 592 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.239 had cost enough grief for this group, so I slowly pulled away and left 593 00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:08.199 the area, keeping my light on just in case. Since that night, 594 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:12.960 I've only been back out there during the day. Now, I've gone into 595 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.519 the woods, but from a different point. Once I heard just for a 596 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:22.119 second some samurai chatter, and even though I quickly turned my head, I 597 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.880 never saw anything. The chatter was followed by the most violent and loud wood 598 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:30.800 knocks across the other side of the woods that I have ever heard. This 599 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:36.480 whole thing has been quite an adventure. One more thing, Bigfoot isn't the 600 00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:40.280 only strange creature in those woods. Recently, my friend and I witnessed a 601 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.559 family of water creatures. They kept moving in and out of the water and 602 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.079 watching us. And then there was a day that I was watching four doughs 603 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.199 in my backyard and something shot out of the woods like a bullet and took 604 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:58.199 off after the biggest dough. It could only have been a dog man. 605 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.559 It moved so fast that it was just a blur, and it seemed to 606 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.920 pull itself along by its front arms, not legs, ORMs. It moves 607 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.760 so fast that the other three deer watched the other dough run, but they 608 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:15.000 never ran. They just stood there as if to say, what got into 609 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.920 Mabel? Oh, that was a good story. You know. It is 610 00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:25.760 rare, very very rare that I get emails from genuine bigfoot researchers. Honestly, 611 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.280 I don't think many of the real bigfoot researchers like me very much because 612 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:34.480 they think I make up all these stories and put them up. But this 613 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.400 is actually an email from a bigfoot researcher, and this is a This is 614 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:44.280 an fascinating story, I mean, and it seems credible to me. He 615 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:49.800 goes out night after night after night. He's not claiming any spectacular things that 616 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.639 seem unbelievable. It seems quite believable to me. I mean, this thing, 617 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:58.840 you know, it didn't attack him. He didn't actually see the full 618 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:01.559 detail of the tree. Sure, he's very very descriptive on what he saw, 619 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:05.679 and he's looking for patterns. Is what he is, and he's trying 620 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:07.960 to find out where they are and what they're doing. So I want to 621 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:13.320 tell this researcher thank you for sending this. This is very interesting and I 622 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:20.400 appreciate it. The man who sent this email absolutely wants to be anonymous, 623 00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:25.400 but here's what he writes. My father has told me this story many times 624 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:29.920 in my life. He said it happened when he was ten years old, 625 00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:34.559 so that would have been around nineteen fifty eight. Back then, he would 626 00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:38.519 often go hunting with my grandfather and what he called bod Cow Bottoms. I 627 00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:45.719 assume that's what's known as bod Cow Wildlife Management Area east of Shreveport, Louisiana. 628 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.719 My grandfather would park on an old dirt road and they'd each head out 629 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.280 on opposite sides of the road to hunt, and then they'd meet back at 630 00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:58.559 the truck around noon unless one of them shot a deer. Now, listen, 631 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:01.760 you folks from around report bod Cow. I don't know if I'm pronouncing 632 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.800 that right, but that's the way it's going to be in this podcast. 633 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.559 So let's get back to the story. One morning, they parked as usual 634 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:14.039 and Dad headed to his favorite stump. A few hundred yards away. There 635 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.639 was only moonlight to the lightest way, but otherwise it was pretty dark out. 636 00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.039 As he reached the stump, he heard something rustling in the thick brush 637 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.760 nearby. That was a good sign, he thought, maybe it was a 638 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.599 deer. He quietly settled down on the stump and began to prepare himself for 639 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:36.400 a successful day, and then the smell hit him. It was a nasty, 640 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.920 wet, dog skunky smell that was overwhelming enough to reach down into his 641 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:45.760 throat and tickle his gag reflex. Dad jumped up and spun around, looking 642 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.000 for the source of the odor. He scanned the brush all around him until 643 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:53.519 he saw a pair of glowing red eyes fifteen feet away. They were six 644 00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:58.360 feet off the ground, but whatever they were attached to was hidden in the 645 00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:02.039 thick brush. He could make out a vague form, but nothing else. 646 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.239 He stood there staring at those eyes for a second, trying to figure out 647 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.719 what he was looking at, and before he could decide what it was, 648 00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.760 it growled a low, menacing growl at him. That was enough for Dad. 649 00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:20.480 The hunt was over as far as he was concerned, and he beat 650 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:24.719 a quick retreat back to the truck. Later, When my grandfather returned to 651 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:29.760 the truck, he found my dad sleeping in the lock cab. My grandfather 652 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:35.079 was a no nonsense World War II marine. He wasn't amused by my Dad's 653 00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:39.239 explanation for his shortened hunt, and they relied heavily on game they hunted, 654 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:44.119 in the food they grew themselves to feed the family. But in his eyes, 655 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:47.559 Dad had fallen short of his duties. Dad never saw more than a 656 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.559 pair of eyes and a large shadow, but that and the awful smell were 657 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.119 enough to convince him of what it was. He's been gone for nearly seven 658 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:00.840 years now, and what I will didn't give to hear him tell that story 659 00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:06.679 to me one more time. I loved spending time with my father outdoors, 660 00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:12.480 and some of my greatest memories are from those times. In the late nineteen 661 00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:15.599 seventies, Dad and one of my uncles leased a property for deer hunting in 662 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:22.239 northeast Texas. I was probably five or six at the time. The cabin 663 00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.960 on the lease sat on a hill with a large field around it that was 664 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.679 in turn surrounded by woods. As far as I could see. Dad and 665 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:32.480 my uncle would get up early to hunt, and they would leave me and 666 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:37.000 my cousin at the cabin to sleep or play. My cousin thought it was 667 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:42.719 great to sleep in on the screened in torch at night. We'd sit up 668 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.079 all night with our backs to the wall, listening to the howls and screams 669 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:51.400 and yells that my uncle insisted were coming from the Boggy Creek Monster. Years 670 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:55.320 later, I figured that we were probably hearing coyotes. Whatever it was, 671 00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:00.559 it sure made the nighttime trips to the outhouse interesting. I had never had 672 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:05.360 an actual run in with Bigfoot or dog Man or any other cryptid when I 673 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:07.320 was out in the woods, but I did have one thing happen to me. 674 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:13.199 It isn't as exciting as a cryptid encounter, but I'll never forget it. 675 00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.480 Sometime in the mid nineteen eighties, I was visiting my aunt and uncle 676 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:22.639 in Bozure City for a few weeks to spend time with my cousins. I 677 00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:27.920 passed my four year old cousin's room as I was walking down the back hallway 678 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:31.039 on my way to the bathroom. The light was on and there were toys 679 00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:36.320 scattered all over the floor. And sitting in the middle of those toys with 680 00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.119 a toy truck. Between his legs was a shadow in the perfect shape of 681 00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.519 a little boy. I stopped and gasp when I saw it, which made 682 00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:50.239 it look up at me, and then it vanished right before my eyes. 683 00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:54.559 I was excited to be able to say I saw a ghost. My aunt 684 00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.280 later told me that a small boy who lived in the house years earlier had 685 00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:02.119 gotten sick and died in that room. She was always a kidder. So 686 00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:06.639 I have no idea if that story is true or not, but I know 687 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.880 what I saw. That is a great little series of stories. Now he's 688 00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:15.880 never run into a bigfoot, but his father, and he loved his daddy. 689 00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.800 I mean, you can just hear it in the way he writes. 690 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.840 He loves his father and he misses his dad, and he remembers those stories 691 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:28.000 in great detail. I get that I miss my dad. My dad died 692 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.760 back in I can't even remember what year he died, Oh seven six or 693 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:35.480 oh seven? Maybe I love my dad. I love spending time with him. 694 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:37.480 I could tell all kinds of stories he told me, but they're not 695 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:42.280 they're not a monster stories, so I probably won't share them here. And 696 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.679 then he sees a ghost, and I love these ghost stories. Oh please 697 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.280 send ghost stories if you have them. They're so interesting. I know, 698 00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:54.440 for five years this channel has been all about monsters and bigfoots and dog men, 699 00:52:54.599 --> 00:53:00.639 but ninety five percent of the stories are about bigfoot by I love the 700 00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:02.840 ghost story. So if you guys, please send me ghost stories. I 701 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:09.000 love them, or any anything creepy, anything weird. It's interesting to me, 702 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.320 and I'll put it on the podcast. I guarantee you so. Anyway, 703 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.920 thanks to the gentleman who wishes to be anonymous for sending this because it 704 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:24.000 was an awesome set of stories. I really appreciate it. All right, 705 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:29.639 thanks for listening to this podcast. I really appreciate you. You know you 706 00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:34.880 guys can also listen on a podcast app if you have an Apple phone or 707 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:39.199 an Android Android phone, where you can use Spotify any of the iHeart any 708 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:43.559 of the other podcast apps. Switch over there. Hey, any of you 709 00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:47.800 Apple users, a good review would be awesome. I don't use Apple products, 710 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:51.920 so I don't know what it looks like, but I hear other podcasters 711 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.719 say that if you'll leave a good review, it helps with the Apple ratings. 712 00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:59.440 Not sure how that works, but if you use an Apple podcast, 713 00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:04.880 maybe Lee give me a good review five star thumbs up. Whatever Apple Podcast 714 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:07.760 does, i'd appreciate that. All Right, you guys have a good one, 715 00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:10.440 and well hopefully i'll have another one up this week. Thanks, see 716 00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:10.960 you next time.