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Speaker 1: I've been deliberating about sending my story for quite a while,

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and I finally got up the nerve to go ahead

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and send it. I guess my story really starts when

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I was a little boy. My dad took my brother

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and I on multiple fishing trips and camping trips. We

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were never hunters because my mom didn't feel comfortable with

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the guns and my dad always was sensitive to her request,

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but we were always outside and enjoyed the outdoors. When

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we were kids, he would take us out to the

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Mississippi River Valley area, which is close to Bellevue, Iowa.

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I think it was Pool Number eleven. We would spend

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weekends there in our pop up camper across the river.

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There was an army depot and trespassing was forbidden, but

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when the water was high, we could get a rented

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boat in there and fish that area. As long as

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we were not standing on ground, we were legal. We

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would always hear strange noises, things that we couldn't explain,

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and big splashes that my dad would say were beavers.

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As I got older, I started camping and going fishing

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out there on my own, and of course, you get

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smarter and used to the wildlife when you're not a

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little kid and you realize that beavers don't make that

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loud of a splash. While camping there as a kid

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back in the mid seventies, we would have things thrown

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into camp, and we also heard strange noises coming from

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the woods that surrounded us. I remember a few nights

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when we were awakened to buy those noises. We never

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knew what they were. In later years, I became more

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interested in bass fishing. I competed in several tournaments. This

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is where my story begins, as far as my encounter goes.

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I was fishing a bass tournament on the Mississippi River

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around the Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois area. It was late spring

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and we were fishing a qualifying tournament. I was considered

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a boater and I had drawn a partner that was

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a non boater, and we were heading out on the

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second day of a three day tournament. I had the

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basic equipment in a nineteen foot bass boat with one

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hundred and seventy five horse Johnson on the back, and

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I had all the gear. This was in the early

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two thousands and GPS was not standard equipment at that time.

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We decided to run down the river to find cleaner water.

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We were after large mouth because they're bigger fish and

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they weigh more, and the small mouth bite was nonexistent

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at this time. The Mississippi River is a vast system

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and the backwaters and tributaries that run along the river

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are immense. We had decided to make a run south

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on the river and lock down to another pool. We

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finally got to the area that we decided to fish.

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We had to navigate very carefully. Maps were unreliable due

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to the water level, and again we didn't have GPS.

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To get to the area we wanted to fish, we

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had to go underneath a railroad trestle or bridge if

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you will. But because the river was up at the time,

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we had to actually take the boat, plug out and

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fill the boat with water so that our bass boat

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would sit low enough to fit under this bridge. Once

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we were past the bridge, we would build the water out.

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I know that sounds crazy, but when you're after fish

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and you're that driven, sometimes you do stupid things. In hindsight,

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maybe it wasn't the brightest thing to do, but I

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had actually learned the trick watching bass Master TV. After

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we made our way around through the back area, we

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found a great spot with clear water that we wanted

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to fish. My partner had fished it before and he

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said it was for sure a good spot and that

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we should catch a limit. The lily pads were just

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coming up and the vegetation was reaching the surface. It

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was a little bit late in the spring, so there

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was still some spawning going on, but mostly post spawned,

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and the bass started hitting top water through the pads.

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The bank was mainly rock and sand, and behind that

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was a dense forest. We were setting in a nice

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little stretch all to ourselves, and we had a lot

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of water to fish. It was going to take us

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hours to cover this area. We were stoked and we

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started fishing, trolling at a steady pace with top water baits.

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Fifteen minutes later, my partner put a seventeen inch fish

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in the boat, and by eight thirty am we both

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had our limits. After that we started culing fish. It

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was a perfect day. At around nine thirty I was

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pulling us up to a bank that we hadn't fished

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and we heard some clapp acking, like rocks being clapped together.

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We assumed it was someone working on a project out

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of our view. But as we came around a slight

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ben we saw a dark figure standing on the bank.

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We thought it was a bear. It was hard to

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make out. It really didn't look like a bear, but

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nothing else made sense, even though they are rare in

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this area. It was frolicking on the bank. It was weird.

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It looked like it was gathering mussels or crawfish and

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having a great time at it. We just sat in

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the boat and watched it. As we approached this animal,

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we really couldn't make out what it was still because

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we couldn't see its head. Soon we were close enough

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that it hurt us and it stood up. This thing

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was huge, standing there with water dripping from its black hair.

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I couldn't believe how big this thing was. We now

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knew it was not a bear. My partner and I

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looked at each other and basically, without even saying a word,

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we understood the look of what in the hell is

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this thing. I was on the front deck, high above

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the water, working the trolling motor, and we stopped fishing.

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Of course, Bigfoot never entered my mind at this point.

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I had only heard of Bigfoot from pieces on TV.

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And then this creature started wading into the water towards us.

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Apparently it had some rocks in its hands, and it

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threw at us two times. One of those rocks landed

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in the boat. It was now swimming towards us. It

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was at least one hundred feet away, and we were

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in five feet of water where this thing was. The

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water had to have been about the same depth, so

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I don't know why it started swimming. It could have

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walked all the way to us and never had water

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to its waste, but it was swimming. The noises it

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made while swimming were so strange. It was a huffing

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sound that I had never heard anything like before. It

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sounded very deep and angry. It was time to go

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because he was closing the distance on us fast. We

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both dropped down into the seats and I fired the

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outboard up. Thank god, it cranked on the first turn,

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and I dropped it into gear. The sound of the

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outboard apparently persuaded the creature to stop its advance, because

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it turned and made its way back to the bank.

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I wanted to slow down and watch this thing some more,

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but I figured we better get moving, so we motored

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out of the area. I got a bit concern when

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we reached the railroad trestle, but we got back under

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it the same way that we got in, and then

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we kept moving. We still had a lot of daylight left,

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and we should have wanted to keep fishing, but this

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ordeal kept our minds occupied so that we couldn't concentrate

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on what we were doing. We stopped in ate lunch

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and we talked about the whole thing for an hour

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before head back to the ramp. We both had our limits,

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and we qualified for the next tournament. I was real

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happy about that. For sure. I never ran into that

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guy again in any of the tournaments I fished afterwards,

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so we never kept in touch, and of course I

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haven't talked to him since. I kept the whole thing

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quiet for years, only to tell a couple of close

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friends later on. I figured whoever I relayed this story

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to would think I was nuts, and I don't know

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if the partner that day ever told anyone or if

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he even remembers it. I still fish every chance I get,

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but I don't fish tournaments much. I'm in my fifties now,

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and I will never forget that fishing trip as long

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as I live. After that experience, I looked back at

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my youth on the same river, and I wonder if

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those things that we used to hear when we were

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kids were these same creatures. I used to fish a

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lot in southeastern part of Oklahoma and experienced other strange

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things while fishing, but I never had a sighting or

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can confirm anything but strange things or sounds. Bass fishing

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is a serious sport, and I'm just curious if your

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viewers out there have had similar events. I'm quite sure

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that I'm not the only one that has experienced something

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similar while fishing. I would be really curious to see

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if anyone maybe would respond and tell their story too,

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because I just find it hard to believe that I'm

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the only one that this has happened to while fishing

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the places we fish, especially in the southern reservoirs as

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well as the Mississippi River where there is so much

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shoreline in deep woods. I think these creatures use these

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rivers in tributaries as pathways or roads in a way

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to migrate. I don't really know. I'm no expert, but

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it just makes sense to me. Now that my family

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it has passed away, I can finally tell our story.

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In nineteen hundred, my family came from Russia and Germany

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to homestead up near the Canadian border. There, my great

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grandfather cleared trees and started our farm. Back then, there

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were no chainsaws to cut the trees, nor any heavy

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equipment to move them. Once they were down. Fields were

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plowed by the collaboration of man and animal, and then

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planted and harvested by hand. It meant long hours of

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hard work, but somehow my great grandparents pulled that farm

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out of the sweat of their brow. In nineteen ten,

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my great grandmother was staying in town caring for a

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sick uncle. My great grandfather was working on a large

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wagon when it started to roll. He tried to stop it,

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but it was too big. He fell under it and

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it rolled over his legs, pinning him to the ground.

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He screamed with all his might, but Grandma was in

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town and nobody else was around to hear him. The

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sun began to slowly sink beyond the grassy fields, and

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he heard a noise behind him in the trees. He

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was in severe pain and unable to move, and he

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was becoming sleepy. He thought the overwhelming need to close

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his eyes, but he soon lost the fight, and he

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drifted into unconsciousness. The next morning, he was awakened by

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a hand behind his head, and drops of water were

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hitting his dry, parched lips. He put his hand on

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the unknown person's hands for more water. Then he drifted

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between sleep and awareness, and he opened one eye to

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see someone dark looking down at him. He couldn't figure

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out who it was, and his eyes were blurry from sleep,

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and he was severely dehydrated from lack of water, but

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he knew there were no dark folks living anywhere near him.

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A minute later, his vision began to focus and he

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realized he was looking at something he had never seen before.

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He tried to back away, but his legs weren't working,

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and he was overwhelmed by fear, and he passed out.

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He didn't wake up again until the next morning. He

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was laying there contemplating what he should do when he

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realized his legs were free of the clutching wagon wheel.

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There's no way I lifted that wagon off myself, he

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said to himself aloud. But how did I get free?

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Even now I can't move? He saw something dark peek

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its head around a tree, and fear gripped him like

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a vice. He tried to swallow, but his throat was

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as dry as the sands in the desert. He was

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trembling with dread as he thought, what kind of beast

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is this? My grandfather began to pray for the Lord

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to protect him as the creature began to move toward

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him in small, uncertain steps. It moved slowly forward until

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it was standing right over my grandfather. Then it held

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out its hand and in it was a big chunk

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of moss. The feeling of strangling fear vanished as my

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grandfather realized this was the dark man he had seen before.

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The beast knelt down and squeezed the moss while holding

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my grandfather's head so he could drink the water dripping.

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Then the beast disappeared into the trees, but it soon

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returned with a skinned out squirrel. It tore off bits

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of meat and fed it to my grandfather. After an hour,

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the beast picked up my grandfather and headed toward the farmhouse,

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and it laid him on the front porch with the

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moisture soaked moss next to him. A couple hours after that,

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the sound of a trotting horse and wagon came down

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the road and it was my great grandmother and her nephew, Eugene.

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They pulled up in Grandma rando Grandpa asking what had happened,

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and he told her the whole story and of the

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new friend they had made. This would be the first

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of many interactions my family had with a family of

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Si squats living nearby, all the way up until the

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nineteen eighties. I am handicapped now, so I'm unable to type. Well,

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it may take some time to tell them all. At

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least now I can finally tell our story. And that's

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the end. Can y'all see why I like that story? Oh? Man,

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it was great. I mean, I love the old stories

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that come from he said this happened in the early

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nineteen hundreds. I thought it was fantastic. And now I'm

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going to talk about I'm going to do my I

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have to do this about three or four times a

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year and explain to people because we get a lot

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of new people listening and questions come. Most of the time,

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questions are just pretty bland and vanilla. You know, hey,

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are these true? How do you know if they're true?

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Blah blah blah. Some of them are pretty nasty. I

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got into it with some guy in the comments section.

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I shouldn't do that, but they really pissed me off sometimes,

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and I like to when they insult me, I like

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to insult them back. This guy was just real adamant

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about how we should be more diligent about making sure

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that these stories are true. He's probably one of these

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Bigfoot purists who you know, has this omniscient ability to

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be able to tell what stories are true and which

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ones aren't. I can't tell that. I don't know which

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ones are true and which ones aren't. And so here's

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my here's my quarterly announcement to the audience. I don't know.

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I've got three hundred. I'm pushing four hundred videos up

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right now. Out of four hundred, three hundred and ninety

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of them or story videos. I have no idea if

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any of these stories are true. There's no way for

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me to check them, and there's no way to vet them.

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And when people challenge me on that, I put it

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back to them. If you can show me, if you

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can show me one Bigfoot story that you can prove

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without a doubt that's true, then we'll talk. We'll talk,

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and you give maybe you can rub some of that

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magic off on me so that I can figure out

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how these are true. But I can't do it. And

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so when people send me stories, I read them, you

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have to decide if they're true. I don't consider it

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my job to figure out which one of these are

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true and which ones aren't. Because like this story we

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just read, it is an outlandishly crazy story. But could

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it have happened. Absolutely, it could have happened. If you

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believe Bigfoot exists, then you have to believe that the

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at least believe that this story could have happened. And

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if it did happen or didn't happen, it does not

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matter to me. What matters to me is was it

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a good story? It was a fantastic story. And on

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the off chance that this is true, and I'm not

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saying it isn't I'm not saying it is. On the

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off chance that this story is true, wouldn't it be

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a waste if we If I just took this story

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and put it in my trash folder, it would have

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been a waste and a shame to leave the story

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out of this podcast. So there you have it. There's

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my I have to I can't. I have to do this.

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Some people ask me if the Steve Lilly stories are true.

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If I do a fictional story, I'm going to tell

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you it's fiction. And if I don't tell you it's fiction,

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I'm kind of assuming that you know it's fiction by

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the way it's written, by stating who the author is

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and telling you that he has two dozen books out

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right now. I love to read stuff by other authors.

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It's fun, it's ready to go. It helps them sell books,

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it gives me material to include the podcast. And so

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sometimes when people ask me are this Steve Lily stories true,

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I'll come back with, really, are you really asking me

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that question? And I think it insults some when I

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do that, and that's not what I don't mean that

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that way. I'm like flabbergasted that anybody would think one

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of those Steve Lily stories is true. But to answer

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your question, they're not true. They're fiction. They're made up

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and my twisted imagination, and they're fun to write. Their

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fun stories. They're fun stories. And look, guys, we can

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have fun with this bigfoot topic every once in a while.

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It doesn't have to be like the Bigfoot purists make it.

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It can be fun. People can have fun with this

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and if they don't like it, they don't have to listen.

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I think I'm getting a little bit off topic, but I

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just wanted to be clear. I don't do any of

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these stories trying to pass off something that I know

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is false it is true, I don't. I'm not being dishonest.

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I would never try to do that. I'm straight up

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with everybody, and I tell everybody I have no idea

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if a single story I have ever read, even the

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ones told to me by other people that I've written

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stories around, I have no idea if they're true. But

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they're damn good stories. They're damn good stories, and I

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love doing them. So that's the deal with this channel.

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And if you don't like that, don't comment. Don't don't

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comment and give me your opinion on if we should

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do vetted true stories or not. Don't because there's no

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one can prove a story is true. Do it. If

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you think you can do it, do it, show it

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to me. So don't comment and give me that bull crap.

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Let's just enjoy a good story, everybody, relax, Let's have

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a good time. You can tell I'm a little aggravated

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at some of these people, and it's ninety nine percent

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of the comments on channel are fabulous. We have the

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nicest people on the internet, but there's one out of

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a thousand that'll pop up. And I don't know where

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these people come from. I don't I got an email

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the other day from some guy. He's all been out

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of shape because I spend thirty seconds in two videos

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per month and I talk about Yetie bar soaps and

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he says he's gonna he's not gonna listen anymore because

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he has to fast forward three or four minutes through

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to get past it. Now, you think he's over overstating

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that a little bit. So my response to him, I'd

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love to tell you his name, because he's a real jackass,

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but I'm not gonna do that. I don't want to

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draw attention to him. And I'll bet you he's listening.

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I bet you he's listening, because sometimes they just can't

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go away. My response to him was, the only person

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I really want to lose this week from my podcast

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is you, brother. You're the only one I want to

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want to lose. Do these Yetti bar ads for the

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Yetti Brothers not because there's any money in it, because

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there isn't there isn't any money in it. They pay

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me a little stipend, a little bitty piece of a

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sale if you use that DC ten code. That makes

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me an affiliate with their company. But hey, if it

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really hacks you guys off that I talk about my buddies,

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the Yetti Brothers and their soaps. There are other podcasts

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doing ads for them now, Nance at Buckeye, Bigfoot, Nioma

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Finn with the Nioma Finn channel, Brian Brian with Sasquatch Odyssey,

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he's doing ads for them. You guys, use their codes,

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don't use my code. Use their codes. I do these

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ads because I love these guys and I want to

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see their business do well. Sometimes when I talk about

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their soap, they get a big boost in sales. I

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don't know why. I don't know why any but he

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listens to me. But it's a great product. It really

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is a great product, and it's the only soap I use. Now,

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I'm not saying my wife does. She has her own

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soaps that she uses. But as a dude, I love

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the way those soaps smell and I use them. But

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don't use the code DC ten. If it really gets

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under your skin that I'm selling that I'm helping these

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guys try to build their business. It just blows me

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away that people can't take a thirty second little uh.

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I guess it's an ad for two guys hustling trying

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to make a soap company go so to show you

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that it's not for the money. Use somebody else's code,

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give it all to use Neoma Fenn's code, or Nance's

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code or Brian at Sasquatch Odyssey, Lily, what are you

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barking at? Use their code and let the commissions go

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to them because I don't care about it. But I'm

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going to continue to help those guys, and about every

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I don't know, every third or fourth podcast, I'm gonna

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talk about those soaps because they're just good people. And

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I love good people, and if I can help good people,

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I'm gonna do it. Oh man, that turned into a rant.

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I don't know if these stories are true. I've never

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claimed one is true or one isn't. Anybody else could

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read the same story I read, and that's happened before,

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and what I hear from them is, oh, he's an

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old BS guy, blah blah blah. And I'll read the

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same story and I get comments from people those same people.

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I don't know. It just it is amazing how twisted

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it is in this bigfoot world. And you know what,

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it makes me want to quit doing Bigfoot stories. It

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really does. I hate to say that, but the Bigfoot community,

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I can't stand them. I cannot stand the Bigfoot purists.

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They make they drive me insane. Okay, that's all I'm

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gonna say. And I think you guys know what I'm

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talking about. All you have to do is you'll find

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them in the comments section. All right, you guys, have

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a great weekend and we'll talk to you on the

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next podcast. Love you guys, See you then.