WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.679 This is an interesting story. And we've done several lost 2 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.519 time events in people's lives where they encounter something odd 3 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.760 and they lose hours, sometime days of time, and this 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.800 is what this is, and it's real interesting. I hope 5 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.920 you enjoy it. I know it's a little stressful for 6 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.960 the writer, but it's a good story. My story begins 7 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.920 twenty years ago on a hot summer night in Georgia. 8 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.119 My best friend Brandon and I were enjoying our summer 9 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:37.039 break before eighth grade began in a few weeks. We 10 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.280 had attended church with my uncle and his family that night, 11 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:42.320 and I would love to say it was because we 12 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.479 were young Christian youths looking for Jesus, but the truth 13 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.799 is my buddy had a crush on my aunt's niece, 14 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.320 who would regularly attend church with them. Guilty done that 15 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:58.359 before the crush is what led to an event in 16 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.960 my life. I still can't expect lane or seemed to 17 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:05.239 get out of my mind even twenty years later. The 18 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.560 sun had just dipped below the hills when a familiar itch, 19 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.319 a young man Field, struck my friend and he decided 20 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.439 that the two hours at church with my cousin just 21 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.840 wasn't enough to scratch that itch. My family all lived 22 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.640 close at that time, and it would only mean a 23 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:25.640 short walk to the top of the hill up Green Road, 24 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.280 so I agreed, despite being thoroughly aggravated at the prospect 25 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.439 of sharing my friend with my cousin. We had only 26 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.760 been on the road long enough to get thirty five 27 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.680 feet from the house when our attention was caught by 28 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.439 a sudden appearance of a pair of lights at the 29 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:47.000 edge of my yard. There were like two brilliant spotlights 30 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:50.400 shining straight down into the Georgia pines at the edge 31 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.920 of the woodline up the hill from where we stood. 32 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.560 There were thirty feet or so above the treetops and 33 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.799 seemingly coming from a single point before fanning out slightly 34 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:05.359 to either side. If you've ever seen the batman's spotlight, 35 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.000 it was similar, but instead of shining up into the sky, 36 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.800 they were shining down. The odd thing is that the 37 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.639 lights never penetrated the tree canopy. They stopped midair, about 38 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.080 ten feet above the tree tops, and then created circles 39 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.960 of light like the bat symbol. It was almost like 40 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.159 there was a sheet of dirty glass between whatever was 41 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.639 emitting the lights and the trees. The two lights did 42 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.680 a sort of dance around one another, very slowly at first, 43 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.800 but they quickly sped up to a point of a blur, 44 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:44.319 and then they vanished. During the light show, the area 45 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.879 was completely silent, and nothing seemed to move or make 46 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:51.960 any sound. As I think on this now, it seems 47 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.639 even more strange because that summer we had a zucada 48 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.439 hatch and if you've ever heard them on warm nights, 49 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:03.919 you know I mean. So, just like that, the lights 50 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.800 were gone, the sound of the night returned with a 51 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.960 collective gas by my friend and I. The entire series 52 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.879 of events only lasted four or five seconds. I know 53 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.599 most people think they would flip out if something like 54 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.639 that happened to them, but that isn't what happens at all. 55 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.280 We just continued to walk up the hill when a 56 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.439 thought came to me. I said, wait, man, we didn't 57 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.159 hear anything before those lights came on. What if whatever 58 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.599 that was is still there? I said, Well, this gave 59 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.120 us the creep, so we turned around to head back 60 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.240 and tell my family. To our surprise, we were locked 61 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:43.199 out of the house and no one would answer the 62 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.319 front door. So we tried the back and again there 63 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.319 was no answer. We finally decided to try out my 64 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.319 bedroom window and were able to get inside, but to 65 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.000 our continued surprise, every light in the house was off 66 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:01.280 and everyone was asleep. Checked the clock on the living 67 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.360 room wall and it read ten minutes past midnight. Now 68 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.199 I've read about this type of thing happening since then, 69 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.599 where people are missing time. The time is just gone 70 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:16.399 and that's all you're left with. While we were surprised 71 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.639 at these events, we still never lost our composure or 72 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.959 got excited or afraid. And we really didn't talk about 73 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.120 it that much. I know that sounds odd, and it 74 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:30.040 feels odd too, but that's what it was like. We 75 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.959 were calm and a little confused. We even went back 76 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.240 to my window to stand out in the night air. 77 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.360 And then the urged pea hit me hard, and at 78 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.240 that moment Brandon said, oh, dang, man, I got a 79 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.600 pee too. So we did what nature allows any young 80 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.120 man to do, and we peed on the grass out 81 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:53.519 the window, and I noticed a sensation of burning. And 82 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.519 again my buddy spoke up and he said, man, this burns. 83 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:01.399 I imagine those reading or listening to this story think 84 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.600 this might be an embellishment of sort but to me 85 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.120 in that moment, it only solidified the event in my mind. 86 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.439 I don't tell this story anymore because people seem to 87 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.319 lose a little respect for me when I do, and 88 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.800 I don't blame them for that. It's just human nature. However, 89 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.800 I did confide these events to a friend a few 90 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.759 years ago, and he made a suggestion that caused the 91 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.480 thought to enter my mind that creased me out even now. 92 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.759 He suggested that I do regressive hypnosis to uncover any 93 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:38.160 potentially hidden memories from my missing time. That was when 94 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.279 I realized that if I can't remember something that happened 95 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.519 when I was awake and maybe I was taken, then 96 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.720 how many times was I taken while sleeping? Then what 97 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.519 if I'm still being taken? And if I am, do 98 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.959 I really want to walk around knowing about it? Well, 99 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.079 the answer for me is a big fat no. While 100 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.720 I would like to learn more about what exacts happened 101 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.959 to us, I've learned that being happy and being right 102 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.680 don't always line up. That's the end, and that you 103 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.560 know that last statement really hits a chord with me, 104 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.879 because let's say this happens to you. There are some 105 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.759 people who just have to know. They have to know 106 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.920 what's happened to them, and we don't. Well, I don't 107 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.439 think we really know with these missing time events. It 108 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.759 could be an anomaly that's common in the human brain, 109 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.800 or you could, I guess, you could be actually being 110 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.879 taken by I don't know ets. Maybe maybe that's the answer. 111 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.879 But he says that he doesn't want to know. He's 112 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.360 happy like he is. He's not injured in any way, 113 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.920 he doesn't it doesn't limit his life. And I'm assuming 114 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.560 these things, but if he's happy, that's kind of a 115 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.920 common thing to assume. But he's not. He's not dealing 116 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.120 with any PTSD or anything like that, and he just 117 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.600 doesn't want to know. Me. On the other hand, I 118 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.920 think I would want to know. I've actually been through 119 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.639 hypnosis once. I had a guy in an office building 120 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.360 that I worked at that I worked in one time, 121 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.680 and he was a hypnosis guy. He was a hypnotist 122 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.759 and he would hypnotize people to help them lose weight, 123 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.519 or to help them quit smoking, or you know. I mean, 124 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.319 I'm sure there's a number of things that people want 125 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.720 to be hypnotized for, and apparently it helps a lot 126 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.759 of people. It didn't help me, I went for to 127 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.600 try to quit smoking, and I've never quit smoking. I 128 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.519 don't smoke but two or three cigarettes a day now. 129 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.120 I have a couple in the morning with my coffee, 130 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.759 but that's all I smoke. And I'll have a dip 131 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.040 of skull a couple of times a day, but that 132 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.560 seems to satisfy my nicotine craving. And maybe I guess 133 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.480 maybe that hypnosis helped, but I know it took ten 134 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.199 years after that for me to decide, you know, man, 135 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.560 I need to cut down on smoking these cigarettes, and 136 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.639 so I did. And so hypnosis works for some people, 137 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.439 it doesn't for others. I know that when he was 138 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:08.000 hypnotizing me, I did go to sleep, and so maybe 139 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.800 there was something going on in my subconscious while he 140 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.680 had me so relaxed in that chair that maybe it 141 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.920 just didn't get through to my brain my subconscious, if 142 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.560 that's what happens. But anyway, it's an interesting story, and 143 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.240 these time loss stories are fascinating to me, so I 144 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.240 thought i'd share it with you. I appreciate the writer 145 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.720 sending it. Thank you. Okay, this looks like a dog 146 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.080 man's story and it's it's it's pretty creepy. It's a 147 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.559 little creepy. It's kind of short. Let's see what the 148 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.519 writer says. It was a summer between my seventh and 149 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.960 eighth grade years. It was in the middle of the 150 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.240 nineteen nineties in South Carolina. I was spending all my 151 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.559 time at a friend's house in the country near a 152 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.919 pipeline that was being restored. We had lots of Shenanigans 153 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.080 to keep us busy. We would run wild all day 154 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.480 and camp in his front yard at night with his dog, Apache, 155 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.679 which he claimed to be a wolf hybrid. I just 156 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.720 thought Apache was a Nakita mix that resembled a wolf, 157 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.240 wasn't really a wolf. There was a night or two 158 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.399 we let a patche off the chain to run off 159 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.759 the wild dogs that would occasionally come through here. That 160 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.600 was a sight to see. And some of the dogs 161 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:24.679 Apache fought off were much larger, but he went after 162 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.720 them anyway. This dog wasn't afraid of anything. This will 163 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.759 have a bearing on the story. In a minute, we 164 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.200 were sitting by a fire we had just built with 165 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.879 a patchee and talking about nothing like junior high school 166 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.480 boys do, and we noticed a patche moved behind us. 167 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.639 He was whimpering and his tail was tucked. We were 168 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.919 confused and started looking around to see why Apache would 169 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.720 act so strange. Then, on the road up the hill, 170 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:55.320 I saw the biggest white dog I have ever seen. 171 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.399 I told my friend to look at that dog, and 172 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.759 he saw it and he said, that ain't no dog. 173 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.879 We started shushing each other because fear was sitting in. 174 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.279 The creature was one hundred yards away on a paved road, 175 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:13.679 standing on four legs, and our great decision making process 176 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.080 of youth, we thought it would go away, and we 177 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:23.279 sat motionless, waiting and watching. But it didn't go away. Instead, 178 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.320 it began to stroll toward us in a casual manner. 179 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:31.399 Apache still wanted no part of this. He had moved 180 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.679 to the edge of his chain, trying to get back 181 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.519 to the house. The dog's nervous behavior only fed my fear, 182 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.000 and I wanted to run, but where was I going 183 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:45.000 to go? Stay still, my friend said, I think it'll 184 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.600 walk on past down the road. Just stay still. In reality, 185 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.000 it took the creature a minute to close half the distance, 186 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.159 but it felt like an hour. Now it was at 187 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:59.399 the driveway, and that's where it stopped and stood up 188 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.799 on its high legs and then continued toward us. That 189 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.279 was all it took for us to break our strategy 190 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.720 of sitting still. We were closer to the house than 191 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:12.480 the creature was to us, and it was now or never, 192 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.000 so we unhooked a patche and ran like lightning to 193 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.279 the front porch while my buddy fumbled with the doorknob. 194 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.919 I took a second look back. I expected the creature 195 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:27.519 to be pursuing us, but it wasn't. It had stopped 196 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:31.440 where we had been sitting before. Its six foot tall 197 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.879 frame was illuminated by the orange glow from the fire. 198 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.559 Get that door open, I screamed, and I heard it 199 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.799 fly open, and we fought each other and the dog 200 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:44.039 to get inside. Then we slammed the door behind us. 201 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.840 Apache ran to a back room immediately, brave old Apache. 202 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.679 A sofa was promptly shoved in front of the door, 203 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.759 and we quickly went to the window to see if 204 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.960 this thing had come closer. But there was nothing there. 205 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:03.360 Apparently lee it had left, only the flickering flames of 206 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.519 a dying campfire. I stayed there that night because I 207 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.159 wasn't leaving that house before daylight, and we didn't sleep 208 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.440 at all. I didn't stay at my friends again until 209 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.919 after he moved from that place, and every so often 210 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:23.039 we talk about that night. He swears it was a werewolf. 211 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.639 But all I know is that I saw a huge 212 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:30.480 dog that started walking on its hind legs. Dogs aren't 213 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.039 supposed to do that. Yep, that was a dog man's story. 214 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:39.480 And can you imagine seeing a giant white dog walk 215 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.799 into your yard and then eventually stand up on its 216 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.960 hind legs and start walking to you? What would you do? 217 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:49.480 I think I'd be so paralyzed. I might just sit 218 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.360 there and just watch it till it got right up 219 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.360 on me. I don't know. I don't know what I 220 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:56.720 would do, but that's pretty speaky. I really appreciate this 221 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.879 story from the writer. You did a good job right 222 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.799 in it, and I enjoy reading it, and I hope 223 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:06.919 the audience liked it too. Thanks. Hey, this is a 224 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.240 bigfoot story. I'm pretty sure I haven't read all the 225 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.960 way through it, but it looked to know it's not 226 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.480 a bigfoot story, but that's okay. It's a really good story. 227 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.879 And if you guys hear a saw in the background, 228 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.080 that's my old lady out there doing some carpentry work. 229 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.720 She wanted some macaroni and cheese tonight. That's kind of 230 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.200 a luxury for her, and I told her, I said, well, 231 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.240 if you're going to get macaroni and cheese, you're going 232 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.320 to have to do that finished carpentry work inside the house. 233 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.159 And so she's busy doing that. But let's get to 234 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.759 this story. This occurred in two thousand and five and 235 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.679 tuck Willa, Washington, in the mid spring, at three point 236 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.639 thirty pm in the afternoon. I'd like to share the 237 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.120 story with you, which to this day still makes me 238 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.639 shrink on the inside, wanting to become very small. It 239 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.200 only lasted a couple of minutes, but this short event 240 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.720 filled me with the heavy, dark feeling of the ultimate 241 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.759 of my existence. I've only shared this with a handful 242 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.279 of people, and even then they give me the look 243 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:10.639 of oh whatever, with a sideways grin. And this is 244 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:15.000 a familiar reaction to my story. I'm sixty years old 245 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.440 now and beginning to understand that if I don't share 246 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.799 my experiences, someday they will go to the grave with 247 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.559 me and then no one will have heard them. At 248 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.919 this time in my life, ridicule is no longer a concern. 249 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.080 So you can believe my story or not. My story 250 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.519 starts with me walking to work to begin my night 251 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:40.159 shift at a manufacturing company. My shift was from six 252 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:44.000 pm to six am. I lived four blocks from work, 253 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.240 therefore I always walked. I would leave home at five 254 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.399 pm and take my time and enjoy the walk. The 255 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:55.559 walking path I followed ran along the Green River. I 256 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:57.519 was starting at the head of the path with a 257 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:02.039 slight downward incline. It was a beautiful, warm, clear spring 258 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.000 day with no wind, and as I was looking ahead, 259 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:08.720 something dark caught my attention from my right and slightly 260 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.480 high above the tree line, towards the mall, which was 261 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.519 two blocks in that direction. I turned my head slightly 262 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.080 to see I saw the right profile of it. This 263 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.639 creature was black and appeared to be humanoid. It had 264 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.960 black wings and legs. It was in the position of 265 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.120 a bird that is about to reach down and grab 266 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:32.799 its prey. I turned my attention forward and I was 267 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.759 hit with a feeling of fear. I felt dread, as 268 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.840 if I were a field mouse in an open area. 269 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.320 My mind was telling me that it was a blackbird 270 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.159 swooping down, but then another part was saying, what the 271 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:48.279 hell is this thing? I turned my head to the 272 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.759 right again to look, and there it was, in the 273 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.639 same spot. It hadn't moved. It looked like a bird, 274 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.759 but with legs and arms held slightly out from its body, 275 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:01.879 with what looked like a head like a bird at all. 276 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:06.720 Its wings were held back in the lily. Its wings 277 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.559 were held back in the position of a bird of prey, 278 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.120 and then it was swooping down. My mind was trying 279 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.080 to take it all in, and warning signals were going 280 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:19.200 off crazily in my mind, telling me to move slowly, 281 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:23.039 in quietly. And at the same time I was beginning 282 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.039 to realize that this thing was hovering in the direction 283 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.559 of the shopping mall and a little bit above it. However, 284 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.240 that was two blocks away. Well, how could I see 285 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.720 any of this detail? It is so far away that 286 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.120 I should only be able to see a black spot. 287 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:44.000 But finally I understood that this thing was large. I 288 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.480 shifted my gaze forward to determine how much farther until 289 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.120 I was down this incline and out of sight, and 290 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.919 it was fifty feet away. I looked again to see, 291 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.639 and of course it was still in the same position 292 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.559 and giving me that feeling of pure dread. No desire 293 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.879 to stop and look. All I cared about was getting 294 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.839 to work after a third look, I just focused on 295 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.039 getting to the location of not being seen or seeing it. 296 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.559 I made it to work early and was still feeling scared. 297 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.200 Later in the shift, I shared my experience with a 298 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.079 coworker and I received laughter. I shut up after that, 299 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.039 and I didn't talk about this for many years. And 300 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.759 over the years I've tried to grasp what I had seen. 301 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.680 I honestly don't know. Maybe I don't need to know yet, 302 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.519 even to this very day, when I think about this, 303 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:40.559 the feeling of fear is still present. This writer has 304 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.599 a second experience, and here is that one. There was 305 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.079 a short incident that happened four months later. It was 306 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:50.640 the first part of July and it was one pm 307 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:54.039 in the afternoon. I was walking in the parking lot 308 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:57.720 of the same shopping mall as my previous experience. I 309 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:00.400 was halfway across the large parking lot. I had my 310 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:04.400 headphones on and I was listening to music. Suddenly I 311 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.480 had the feeling that something was flying above me, now 312 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.200 duck down. And at the same time I saw a 313 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.200 shadow pass and it was shaped like a large bird. 314 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.279 I could see that it was a shadow of a 315 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.119 wing that measured end to end at least twenty feet, 316 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:23.720 but that was a poor guess at best. I immediately 317 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.559 stopped and I looked up. There was nothing in the 318 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.880 sky except for a few high, white, thin clouds. I 319 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.680 looked to see if it was a plane, and there 320 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.200 was none. I did a complete three sixty looking up 321 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.440 and I still saw nothing. I raced to the entrance 322 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.200 and once again having that feeling of being a field 323 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.519 mouse out in the open. I don't know what I 324 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.279 saw on those two occasions, but I think they may 325 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:53.359 have been related. Whatever it was, it gave me the 326 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:58.039 feeling of being prey, like I was hunted. Well, that 327 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:00.279 about covers the subject, and you can tell make it 328 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.000 for what it's worth. Thank you for your time and 329 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.000 for allowing me to share my experiences. One final thought 330 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:09.720 is that I've noticed that people who have had strange 331 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.319 encounters seem to be able to check a few boxes 332 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:16.680 off in the crypto or paranormal or even UFO categories. 333 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.240 I know that I can check a few of those 334 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.559 boxes myself, and all are in the category of I 335 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.240 just don't know what I saw. Oh, very good story, 336 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.799 I mean this guy is like plagued with this huge 337 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:35.640 black winged creature. Maybe it's the moth Man. See, I 338 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.160 don't know much about the moth Man. I've see pictures 339 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:40.480 of it and I see I think there was a movie. 340 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:43.799 Richard Geared di in a movie about it. I've seen 341 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:49.440 advertisements on social media of Mothman festivals. I've never really 342 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.519 looked into the Mothman thing, but that this could be 343 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.680 kind of a Mothman thing. I'm guessing. I mean, what 344 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.359 do I know. I have no idea. I just recite 345 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.960 these stories, but it kind of sounds like it. Or 346 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:06.759 it could be a terrordoctyl. You never know. Terrordoctyls, God 347 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:09.079 guess could exist, and I know there's people out there 348 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.119 who think they do, and they might be right. You 349 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.559 never know. Thank you to the writer for the story. 350 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:21.000 It was really really interesting. My friend and I spent 351 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.559 a weekend camping at Rock Lake in Algonquin Park one 352 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.240 summer about five years ago. I had no idea what 353 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.759 was about to happen. If I had, I know, I 354 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.200 wouldn't have even gone there in the first place. We 355 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:38.599 were fooling around using my green laser pointer to point 356 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.039 out a ton of objects that we observed moving about 357 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.799 and at flashing lights in the sky. It appeared that 358 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:50.880 these lights were communicating with each other. After this amazing experience, 359 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.200 we hit the tent to sleep. It had two rooms 360 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.839 with the front screen porch keep the bugs out. We 361 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:00.000 settled in for the night and put the fire out, 362 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.200 and we went to sleep. I woke to the zippers 363 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:06.559 on my tent having been opened. I didn't know what 364 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.839 time it was, but it was still pitch black outside. 365 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.920 With my eyes closed, I was thinking that it was 366 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:15.880 probably my friend next to me, who may have woken 367 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:21.000 to relieve himself. I enjoy drinking, probably a little too much, 368 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:23.480 and we had quite a buzz on. I thought it 369 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.039 was him staggering over the wrong side of the tent, 370 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:29.119 and I heard a long zip and then another long zip. 371 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.440 My friend knows that I like to unzip each end 372 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:35.759 of the center and not completely to one side. I 373 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:38.559 could tell from the sound that it was being unzipped. 374 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.519 How I would prefer it not be unzipped. Oh well, 375 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:45.519 he was drunk, so I didn't expect anything else from him. 376 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.799 I said, hey, Brad, wrong side bro. As I heard 377 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.480 the zipping of the tent door opening repeated, but this 378 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.599 time louder. Hey, Brad, I said, but there was no response, 379 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.640 and I opened my eyes. There was the most terrified sight, 380 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.640 beyond what I could have even imagined. A creature was 381 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.359 crouched down looking in my tent. I thought it was 382 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:10.720 a human at first, but it was staring at my 383 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:15.880 face with huge, glowing green eyes. Naturally, I freaked out 384 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.480 and slapped the tent floor and ground as hard as 385 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.480 I could, like a bullet. This creature took off into 386 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.119 the darkness, with branches and things breaking as it thankfully 387 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.119 ran off. I have camped solo since then, but not 388 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:32.920 at that place. I can't honestly say what it was, 389 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.400 but I have never heard of an animal opening a 390 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.079 zipper of a tent. Now, I tell you what I 391 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.640 was terrified. Until you encounter something like this, you have 392 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:45.279 no idea how you react. One thing I do know 393 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.759 is that most people would get out of there as 394 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:51.440 soon as physically possible, and that's what we did. It 395 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:53.799 took a little effort to get Brad up and going, 396 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.319 but he sobered up quickly, and by the look on 397 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:58.640 my face and the tone of my voice, he had 398 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:01.920 no clue what had just happened, but as I gained 399 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:05.079 my composure, I explained it all to him. I'm not 400 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:07.920 sure if Brad ever believed me. I know for damn 401 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:11.559