1 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: I'm a retired police officer from Middle Tennessee with twenty 2 00:00:11,919 --> 00:00:16,239 six years on the job. My strange encounter happened in 3 00:00:16,359 --> 00:00:20,679 nineteen ninety when I was seventeen years old. My cousins 4 00:00:20,679 --> 00:00:23,280 and I least seven hundred and fifty acres at a 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,120 place called Toddy's Bend. It was just a small country 6 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:31,160 road at the time with mostly farm land, and it 7 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:35,719 had riverfront property on the Duck River. My cousins and 8 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:39,439 I always deer hunted and fished together. We spent several 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,880 days at the property scouting and building deer stands to 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,679 hunt from. We had hunted the property for almost half 11 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:50,640 of the season with no luck. One day after school, 12 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:53,759 I decided to drive to the property and hunt until dark. 13 00:00:54,439 --> 00:00:57,600 I was alone, but that never bothered me. The fact 14 00:00:57,759 --> 00:01:01,560 is I always felt comfortable in a deer stand. I 15 00:01:01,679 --> 00:01:04,359 drove on to the property through two different fields to 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,280 reach the old logging road that led to my deer stand. 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,400 It overlooked the river on my right. After I got 18 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:14,280 situated in my stand, I realized I had forgotten my 19 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:17,480 flashlight and walking out was going to be tricky in 20 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:21,239 the dark. While I was in the stand, I noticed 21 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:25,000 that no wildlife was moving about. No birds singing, no 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,239 squirrels hopping. Nothing. When it started to get dark, I 23 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,400 headed back to my truck because I didn't have my 24 00:01:31,519 --> 00:01:35,280 flashlight with me. I started my journey out and I 25 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,799 heard something walking to my right. I couldn't see anything moving, 26 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:42,400 but when I walked, it walked, and when I stopped 27 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,599 to listen, it stopped too. I was halfway to my 28 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,719 truck when I noticed a horrible smell, like a wet 29 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:53,640 dog had been sprayed by a skunk. Now I hunted 30 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,920 with a semi automatic three to eight. I dropped the 31 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:00,560 gun to my waist and I was in the ready position, 32 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:04,200 safety off, the finger on the trigger, pointing the barrel 33 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:08,360 where the noise and smell were coming from. Whatever was 34 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,159 escorting me out of the woods accompanied me all the 35 00:02:11,199 --> 00:02:14,840 way to the field where my truck was parked. As 36 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,960 I was getting into the driver's seat, I heard a 37 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,919 horrific screen that sounded like a terodactyl from the old 38 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,919 Godzilla movies of the nineteen seventies. I still hunt and 39 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,639 I fish every chance I get, but I have never 40 00:02:28,719 --> 00:02:32,319 gone back to that property. Years later, there was a 41 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:35,719 man who worked in our county jail as a correctional officer. 42 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,280 He lived on the property adjacent to where my encounter happened. 43 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,400 I asked him one night if he had ever experienced 44 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:48,599 anything weird or inexplainable there. His response was, I have 45 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:56,240 no comment, and he changed the subject. In the early 46 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:58,919 nineteen eighties, my family and I lived in a big, 47 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,039 old house in a little town of Saint Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada. 48 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,199 It was a two story home built in the early 49 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:09,960 nineteen hundreds. My father bought it from a man who 50 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:14,080 was reluctant to sell it, but had no choice. My 51 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:16,960 father had done some renovations on the house, but mainly 52 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,520 on the first floor. The second floor he had left 53 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,039 it as it was. At the top of the stairs 54 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,280 there was a full bathroom, and left of that bathroom 55 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,759 was my parents' room, and down the hall was my bedroom, 56 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,639 and beyond that was my little brother's room. I was 57 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,479 a bit of a scaredy cat. I was young and 58 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,199 I was unable to sleep in the dark, so my 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,159 mother would leave the bathroom light on and my bedroom 60 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:48,439 door open. One night, I had awakened from a deep sleep. 61 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,039 I wasn't prone to waking up in the middle of 62 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,879 the night. At that age, it was more like something 63 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,159 woke me up. I looked down at my feet, and 64 00:03:57,199 --> 00:03:59,719 sitting on the foot board of my bed was a 65 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:05,840 hideous creature. It had white horns and large, yellow, bulging eyes. 66 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,599 It had long things that protruded from its mouth, and 67 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,639 its small hand had claws that seemed to be digging 68 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,319 into my footboard. Well, I screamed and jumped out of 69 00:04:16,319 --> 00:04:21,360 my bed, and I ran to my parents' room, completely hysterical. Now, 70 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,519 my father was a man's man and didn't care for 71 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,279 this sort of behavior from his son, but when I 72 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:32,399 described what I had seen, he seemed concerned. My parents 73 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,680 turned on the light in my room and looked around. 74 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:38,360 My mother checked on my little brother, who was fine, 75 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:40,879 and I got to sleep with my parents that night, 76 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,079 something my father didn't usually permit. I was wary of 77 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,319 going to bed for a little while, but I never 78 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,040 saw it again. Years later, my parents told me they 79 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:55,759 were concerned when I described my nocturnal visitor because one 80 00:04:55,759 --> 00:04:59,160 of my father's uncles described seeing the exact same thing 81 00:04:59,319 --> 00:05:01,519 out in the woods. So it's a couple of months earlier. 82 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:04,759 Apparently there was a group of these sorts of creatures 83 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,879 that chased my great uncle out of the woods. They 84 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:11,639 terrified him and he died not long after that incident. 85 00:05:12,959 --> 00:05:16,120 In nineteen ninety four, I was attending the University of 86 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:19,560 Maine at Fort Kent, and I had the honor of 87 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:24,120 knowing a man named Guy Freegan. He was a shaman 88 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:31,040 of the local First Nation tribe of the Malaseatsma l 89 00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:35,560 I se t s mallaseats I believe I pronounced that correctly. 90 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:42,079 I'm always cautious about trying to pronounce people's names properly 91 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,639 because it's sometimes it hurts their feelings. I don't mean 92 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:48,639 to hurt anybody's feelings. It's just a phonetic thing with me, 93 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,519 and probably an accent and an area where I've been 94 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:55,480 raised where it's hard to even we don't even understand 95 00:05:55,519 --> 00:06:00,560 each other. But mallaseats is I believe the word. Considering 96 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,120 that some members of my family are of First Nation's descent, 97 00:06:04,639 --> 00:06:07,160 I decided to ask him about what my great uncle 98 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:11,839 and I saw. Mister Freegan listened to my story as 99 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:16,199 we sat in the student lounge at the UMFK. He said, well, 100 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:24,199 you saw I can't pronounce this bo love boogla demuche 101 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:29,399 boogola de mouche. Mister Fregan went on to tell me 102 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,000 that my great uncle had somehow offended them and that's 103 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,240 why they chased him out of the woods. He went 104 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,319 on to explain that they were similar to what Europeans 105 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,759 called elves or gnomes. He was uncertain as to why 106 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,319 one would have visited me, since I had nothing to 107 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:50,600 do with the offense my uncle committed. Mister Fregan guessed 108 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:55,120 that it may have since that I had shamanic abilities. 109 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,279 He went on to invite me to a sweat lodge 110 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:01,199 and that I would possibly get the chance to see 111 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,839 them again. Well, I shared mister Fregan that though his 112 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:08,639 invitation was generous, my faith wouldn't allow such a thing, 113 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,839 and I thanked him for the invitation though, and for 114 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,600 the wisdom that he imparted me, and I nor anyone 115 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,399 else in the family has ever encountered this sort of 116 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:26,800 being ever again. I was raised in a small farming 117 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:30,920 community in eastern Canada, and I lost my father in 118 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,279 my early teens, and was lucky enough that one of 119 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:37,199 his closest friends took it upon himself to be a 120 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:41,519 role model. He was a logger and would often take 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,199 me into the woods with him to repair his equipment 122 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:47,240 or just hang out in his shop on weekends in 123 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:51,680 summer holidays. Somewhere along the way, I mentioned to him 124 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,959 that I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after 125 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:58,360 high school, and he suggested that I become a forest technician. 126 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,759 In nineteen ninety one, I received a fresh off the 127 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,399 press forest technician diploma and took the first job offered 128 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:12,079 to me in Prince George, British Columbia. As forest texts. 129 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,199 It was our job to lay out cut blocks, cruise 130 00:08:15,279 --> 00:08:20,480 the blocks checked for volume, health, tree heights, in species composition. 131 00:08:21,319 --> 00:08:25,360 We also performed beetle probes, looking for spruce and pine 132 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:29,360 bark beetles that could decimate vast tracts of forests, and 133 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:35,679 silviculture surveys when the areas were replanted. My first incident 134 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,360 was when I was doing a beetle probe. I was 135 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:41,639 climbing a long slope upward to a lodge pole pine 136 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,519 stand when I crested a rocky knoll and I noticed 137 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:49,039 an odd structure off to my left. It was ten 138 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,440 or twelve small diameter pine trees, bent and curved and 139 00:08:53,519 --> 00:08:57,480 intertwined with one another. By this time I'd been in 140 00:08:57,519 --> 00:08:59,840 the woods for over a decade and had never before 141 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:04,759 seen this occur. Naturally, the trees were fifteen feet tall 142 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:09,000 and five inches in diameter. They weren't uprooted, but bent 143 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,000 and interlocked in such a way that it was permanent 144 00:09:12,279 --> 00:09:17,159 and intentional. Whatever had done this had a massive arm span. 145 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:20,879 It must have been able to reason, and it possessed 146 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,240 enough intelligence to know that this feat could only be 147 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:26,960 accomplished in the spring of the year, when the sap 148 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,159 was running and the trees hadn't hardened off. There was 149 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,200 another time, in a different area of the forest, I 150 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:39,320 found a second one of these weird configurations. A while later, 151 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,919 I was performing a beetle probe again when I got 152 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:45,840 the distinct impression that I was being watched. It soon 153 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,279 escalated to animosity, as if I were trespassing on someone's 154 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,600 land and they didn't want me there. I took the 155 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,159 hint and got out of there as quickly as possible. 156 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,679 There was another time when I was working with my 157 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,639 co oh walker J. I was busy taking notes while 158 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,519 he was performing my compassman. We had just finished our 159 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,639 plot and he was heading out on our bearing, dragging 160 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,519 our distance, measuring chain. When I heard him stop, I 161 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,240 looked up and saw that he was frozen. He was 162 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:22,960 shaking in fright. He slowly turned to my direction, and 163 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,440 his eyes were so wide I could see them bulging 164 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,320 out from twenty yards away. I got the same feeling 165 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,000 i'd felt before, only fifty times worse. The entire forest 166 00:10:34,039 --> 00:10:38,399 around us had become dead, silent. There were no birds, insects, 167 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,240 nothing was making a peat. Even Jay and I were 168 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,600 holding our breath. I carefully made my way as silently 169 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:48,480 as I could to Jay, and I got him to 170 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:51,080 calm down, and I got us sight of that area 171 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,360 as fast as we could. This time was different, though, 172 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:59,960 as whatever was inducing the unnatural feel moved with us, silent, 173 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,840 bllantly stalking us. It took four hundred yards before the 174 00:11:04,919 --> 00:11:09,320 feeling faded and the thing stalking us apparently satisfied that 175 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:14,399 we were actually leaving. The next incident I had was 176 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,679 when I was working with another coworker, Ka. We'd been 177 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,320 sent out to collect some extra tree heights from an 178 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,879 area that had already been worked. An hour into our workday, 179 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,039 K informed me that he'd forgotten his water bottle in 180 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,960 the truck, and since it was hot out and we 181 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,039 weren't far from the truck. He decided to scoop down 182 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:39,159 and get it. Fifteen minutes later, he came back in 183 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,519 a rush and abruptly informed me that we had to 184 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:46,159 get out of the woods, that a bear was stalking us. 185 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:50,159 I realized I had heard nothing, but I could smell something. 186 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,320 It was intense and musky with a hint of skunk. 187 00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:58,559 Whatever had stunk up the air had deliberately moved up 188 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,360 when from our locations so that we could smell it. 189 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,960 It wasn't until much later that I remembered that I 190 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,519 had been around bears, both in captivity and in the wild, 191 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,720 and they smelled nothing like what I smell. That day, 192 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,080 I had a final encounter, and it happened on the 193 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,519 outskirts of Prince George. My friend T and I ended 194 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,320 up living in the same city for a while, and 195 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,159 one night neither of us could sleep. We decided to 196 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,799 head to the nearest twenty four hour gas station for 197 00:12:29,879 --> 00:12:32,799 a couple of twenty ounce coffees and head out for 198 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:37,559 a late night drive. Both of us were stone cold, sober, 199 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:41,039 and were just attempting to kill some time. I was 200 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:44,519 driving my old F one fifty pickup puntering down a 201 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,720 secondary road well north of the city. The sky was 202 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:51,639 crystal clear, and we were about half an hour into 203 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,279 our drive, just talking and stargazing. It was then that 204 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,960 I caught an odd movement. Out of the corner of 205 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:02,840 my eye. There was a strange bright light off to 206 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:06,799 my left. T noticed that I was distracted and bent 207 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,320 over to peer through the truck's back window at whatever 208 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:14,320 had caught my attention. The bright light started performing impossible 209 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:19,639 aerial maneuvers. It was starting about making perfect ninety degree turns, 210 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:25,200 accelerating and stopping at random intervals. By this time, Ta 211 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,519 had his body half out of the truck's cab, his 212 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:32,440 butt perched on the window sill, watching this impossible aerial 213 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,559 acrobatic show, and then he started pounding on the roof 214 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,799 of the truck, shouting, go, go go. I looked to 215 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,159 my left just in time to see the bright light 216 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:48,159 start rapidly accelerating toward us. Te lowered himself back into 217 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,919 the cab and I boost off the gas pedal as 218 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,320 hard as I could. T shouted at me to shut 219 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,919 off the lights, and without thinking that's what I did. 220 00:13:57,759 --> 00:14:00,600 We were tearing down an empty road. Go one hundred 221 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,480 miles an hour with the lights shut off. The only 222 00:14:04,519 --> 00:14:06,600 thought I had was that we had to shake this 223 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,639 thing off. Our tail t gave me the all clear finally, 224 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,120 and I slowly let up on the gas. Thankfully, that 225 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,279 night there was a good moon out, but when I 226 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,200 finally turned the lights back on, we still took the 227 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,360 long way around to get back home. There was no 228 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,159 way in help we were going to chance running into 229 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,080 whatever that was. Again. I hope you enjoyed a few 230 00:14:30,159 --> 00:14:36,159 pages of my life story. Sincerely, d all Right. I'm 231 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,679 going to drop a couple of archive podcasts from about 232 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:43,720 five years ago right here, So if you've heard them, 233 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,840 just go ahead and click away. But if you would 234 00:14:45,879 --> 00:14:47,879 like to hear them again or you haven't heard them, 235 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,840 stick around. These are really good stories, and I hope 236 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:55,200 you enjoy it. I'm from Central Texas and they'll have 237 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:00,440 somehow always believed in bigfoot. I've never had any experience 238 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,840 is here that I was aware of. However, as I 239 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:06,360 get older, I think there were times when I may 240 00:15:06,399 --> 00:15:10,200 have had experiences and didn't realize it. I want to 241 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,039 share with you what happened north of Nashville a few 242 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,919 years ago when I was working there. I went up 243 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,879 one summer for a big job and was fortunate to 244 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:22,919 have friends from my hometown who lived about thirty miles 245 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:25,879 from where I was working. They live on a big 246 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,720 hill way out in the country near the Kentucky border. 247 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:32,639 The driveway leading to their house ran along the creek 248 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,159 that ran through the holler, with a ridge line on 249 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,279 both sides. It was absolutely beautiful, surrounded by lush green 250 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,440 trees and the sight and sound of the babbling creek 251 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:47,879 over its rocky bed. I often went for walks or 252 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:50,440 a jog in the evenings when I wasn't too tired. 253 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,039 I had done so many times. When one evening, about 254 00:15:55,039 --> 00:15:58,000 an hour before sunset, as I was walking on the 255 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,840 far ridge, I heard a woo. I thought I was 256 00:16:01,879 --> 00:16:05,360 hearing things, And shortly after that, on the hillside next 257 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:08,360 to me, only a few hundred yards away, I heard 258 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,080 a clear and loud tree knock. I really started to think, 259 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,919 now was I hearing things? Was it some locals or 260 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,480 meth heads messing with me? I kept walking, my friend's 261 00:16:21,559 --> 00:16:24,240 dog at my side as I tried to reason out 262 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,799 what I had heard. I'd gone another one hundred yards 263 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,120 when I heard another wool. What the hell, I thought, 264 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,799 and it was followed shortly by another wood knock, this 265 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,000 time on the fore hill. The dog had disappeared so 266 00:16:39,159 --> 00:16:43,000 much for Man's best friend, I decided then it was 267 00:16:43,039 --> 00:16:46,039 time to head back. I heard a few more knocks 268 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,720 and wolves before I got back to the house, but 269 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,879 none of them were closer than the others. I don't 270 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:55,679 know if they knew I was there. I don't think so. 271 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,799 It was an extremely secluded, rough terrain covered in dick woods. 272 00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:05,160 The one thing I'm absolutely certain of is that it 273 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,640 was not people I was hearing. I was staying in 274 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,079 my RV at my friend's place. From that night forward, 275 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,119 I always used my spot like to check before I 276 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,880 went outside. I never saw anything, but I did occasionally 277 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,119 feel like something was watching me or was close by. 278 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,880 I know this wasn't an actual sighting, but it was 279 00:17:27,039 --> 00:17:29,559 enough to change me from being just a believer to 280 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:35,799 a knower. A few years ago, my wife and I 281 00:17:35,839 --> 00:17:40,119 were invited to a dinner by old friends. The family 282 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,000 are Lds and have the tradition of inviting local Mormon 283 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:48,039 elders to their home on Tuesday nights for dinner. It 284 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:50,279 is a special treat for these young men who have 285 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,799 chosen to leave home for two years to spread their faith. 286 00:17:54,759 --> 00:17:57,960 Upon arriving, we were introduced to the two young elders. 287 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,279 The surprise for me was that one Elder Lux was 288 00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:06,240 from Springhill, Louisiana, which is just ninety miles from my 289 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,720 hometown of Monroe. We had a genuinely nice hour or 290 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:14,200 so of visiting and talking about home. We had much 291 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,079 in common, even though he was in his early twenties 292 00:18:17,559 --> 00:18:21,759 and I was in my early seventies. I asked Elder 293 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,400 Luck if he was born in spring Hill, and was 294 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:28,599 very surprised to find that he was originally from Falk, Arkansas, 295 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:33,119 which was forty one miles away. Of course, this immediately 296 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,640 prompted me to ask if he had ever seen the 297 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,200 Fouk Monster, which was featured in the seventies movie The 298 00:18:39,319 --> 00:18:43,119 Legend of Boggy Creek and other books and newspaper articles 299 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,240 over the last many decades. Elder Lux replied that he 300 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:50,359 had not seen the creature, but that his father had 301 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,839 on two occasions years apart. As a very young boy, 302 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,440 he and his family, who lived alongside Boggy Creek, had 303 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:02,960 on a few occasions experience some strange and frightening moments 304 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,359 which they attributed to the creature. As our conversation was 305 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,319 getting into more detail, Elder Lux and his partner had 306 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:15,000 to leave because they had another engagement for church business 307 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:19,680 that night. We reluctantly set our goodbyes. Our friend and 308 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:24,039 host promised to have them over again. As the elders left, 309 00:19:24,279 --> 00:19:28,519 I was wired and in full investigation and interrogation mode. 310 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:31,680 I had been aware of this creature for many years, 311 00:19:31,839 --> 00:19:34,759 and my thirty plus years as a police officer had 312 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:38,000 me compiling a list of questions so I could obtain 313 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,079 more details at our next visit. That visit came a 314 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,079 couple of weeks later, when Elder Lux and his partner 315 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,319 revisited our friend's home to do some genealogy work with 316 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,359 the help of his wife. She runs the local LDS 317 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,799 Family Research Center. As she helped Elder Lux's partner, he 318 00:19:57,839 --> 00:20:00,160 and I sat down and I got to ask more 319 00:20:00,319 --> 00:20:04,640 questions about this time in falk. This is the story 320 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:09,799 of the first encounter of Elder Lux's father, William Bill Lux, Junior, 321 00:20:10,319 --> 00:20:13,200 and a little information about the area they lived in 322 00:20:13,279 --> 00:20:17,559 in their homes unique location. This description will help with 323 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,160 understanding the story of the second encounter of the creature 324 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:28,200 and finally the family's experiences. Elder Luxe's grandfather, Bill, moved 325 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,519 to Falc in the mid nineteen thirties and bought twenty 326 00:20:31,559 --> 00:20:34,640 acres of land about three miles south of Falk on 327 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,720 Arkansas Highway seventy one. This was the main north south 328 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:45,160 route from Louisiana to Arkansas. The property was heavily wooded, 329 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,279 as was most of the land around Falc at the time. 330 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,680 This thick forest area was interspersed with fields of beans, cotton, corn, 331 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:57,519 and other crops grown in that fertile area. The Lux 332 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:00,599 property was fronted by Highway seventy one one on the 333 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,240 west side. The north, east and south sides were heavily wooded. 334 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:09,640 Boggy Creek ran through the Lux's property east to west. 335 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:13,559 It flowed under the Highway seventy one bridge, which spanned 336 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:18,319 the creek and continued west to the Sulfur River. Mister 337 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,480 Lux built his home about three hundred feet north of 338 00:21:21,519 --> 00:21:24,640 the creek and two hundred feet from the highway. It 339 00:21:24,759 --> 00:21:27,759 is not known if mister Lux was aware of the 340 00:21:27,839 --> 00:21:31,640 creek's connection to the fabled creature who used it to 341 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:36,160 traverse the country. It was nineteen fifty nine and mister 342 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,160 Lux Junior was eighteen years old and home on Thanksgiving 343 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:44,000 vacation from his local high school. That day in late November. 344 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,440 It was the day after Thanksgiving, in the first day 345 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,160 of deer season. Bill was hoping to get a little 346 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,119 honting in that day, but his father had other plans. 347 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:57,519 Projects around the farm kept him busy until almost noon. 348 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:00,400 When he finished, He made a sandwich in s stuffed 349 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:03,880 into his pocket of his hunting coat. He grabbed the 350 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,599 World War II surplus M one garand rifle he bought 351 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,240 from Sears and Robot for twelve dollars, and placed two 352 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,720 eight round M one charger clips into his hunting coat 353 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:18,240 pockets and grabbed a small thermos of coffee and then 354 00:22:18,319 --> 00:22:21,720 threw it all into his old Ford truck. The three 355 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:25,359 family dogs had seen this scenario before and were looking 356 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,079 forward to the hunt the first of the season, but 357 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,240 Bill could not take them on this day. He was 358 00:22:31,319 --> 00:22:34,640 already getting a late start, and dark came early in 359 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,400 the late fall, especially in the thick woods, this would 360 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,000 be a still hunt. It was chilly as he drove 361 00:22:42,079 --> 00:22:46,400 towards his destination, an old pipeline cut that ran north 362 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,240 south through heavy woods about ten miles east of Bill's home. 363 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,559 Most of the leaves had been blown from the trees 364 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:57,519 by the cold winds. The grass was brown but still high. 365 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:00,799 On the pipeline. Bill had first he'd seen the cut 366 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,079 one summer when fishing from the highway bridge that crossed it. 367 00:23:04,839 --> 00:23:07,319 He had noticed that several deer crossed it during the 368 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,319 hours while he fished. He had made a note to 369 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:13,960 give it a try come deer season. It was about 370 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,319 half past one pm when Bill reached the cut. He 371 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,079 crossed the bridge and parked his truck off the highway. 372 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:24,119 He took out his rifle, grabbed his thermos, stuck it 373 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,079 in his hunting coat pocket, and crossed the road to 374 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,960 the north side of the bridge and looked over the cut. 375 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,640 It was much lower than it looked from the bridge. 376 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,279 It was about three hundred feet wide and miles long, 377 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,920 disappearing into the distance. He understood why the oil companies 378 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:45,240 used small airplanes to inspect the cut and check for leaks. 379 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,519 Once on the flat ground of the cut, he loaded 380 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,039 his rifle with eight cartridges and began walking north away 381 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:56,039 from the highway. The stiff, knee high weeds and grass 382 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,359 made quite a bit of noise as it rubbed against 383 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,119 his thick canvas hunting trail. He moved to the south 384 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,759 side of the cut, nearer the tree line, looking for 385 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:07,240 a good place to hold up and do his hunt. 386 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,880 About a half mile from the road, he found a 387 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,720 place where he could see easily in both directions, and 388 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:17,799 if necessary, safely fire back towards the highway. Bill could 389 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:20,680 see well from his vantage point, about ten feet into 390 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,319 the brush off the side of the pipeline. It was quiet. 391 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:27,240 A wind high in the trees was rustling the leaves 392 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,039 that had not yet fallen. An hour passed, Nothing moved 393 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:34,519 except an occasional car on the highway half a mile away. 394 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,440 He ate some of his sandwich and drank a little 395 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,079 coffee to warm him up. He noticed the shadows of 396 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,920 the trees above him were getting longer as they moved 397 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,160 over and away from his side of the cut. It 398 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:50,039 was now near three point thirty pm. He had been 399 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:54,079 there two hours. He thought, I cannot wait much longer. 400 00:24:54,279 --> 00:24:56,480 It was getting cold, and he didn't want to be 401 00:24:56,559 --> 00:24:59,759 getting home at dark. There would be evening chores to 402 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:03,240 do and supper. He would wait another half hour and 403 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:07,160 then he would leave. Something moved on the other side 404 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,039 of the cut, which was still in the late afternoon sun. 405 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:14,200 Bill didn't move. He estimated he was about two hundred 406 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:17,200 yards away to the south of what attracted his attention. 407 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,359 Now it moved again, he could see it. It was 408 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,400 a deer. It was a dough. She trotted out of 409 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,640 the woods and then turned her head and looked back 410 00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:29,960 as if she was waiting, and in a moment another 411 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:33,960 dough joined her in the cut. They moved cautiously further 412 00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:39,039 into the open, constantly checking behind them. Then like a shot, 413 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,319 both turned and sprang into full run and into the 414 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,519 woods on Bill's side of the pipeline. They were trying 415 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:49,200 to get away from something, possibly a buck. Bill thought 416 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,480 mating season for white tail deer is October through December 417 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:57,039 in the south. Bill waited and thought, oh, let it 418 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:00,799 be a big buck. Shortly he saw more movement where 419 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:03,839 the deer had come from. Whatever it was, it did 420 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,759 not come out completely into view, but enough for Bill 421 00:26:06,839 --> 00:26:09,440 to see that it was darker and not the color 422 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,200 of a deer. A few seconds later, it walked out 423 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,000 into the edge of the sunlit trees, and it was 424 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,160 not a deer. It was upright like a man. It 425 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,559 was dark brown from head to toe. Its arms were 426 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:26,920 longer than a man's, and it was tall. Its knees 427 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,680 were much higher in the grass which came to Bill's 428 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,039 lower thighs, and it was not overly heavy. It looked 429 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,960 up and down the cut slowly, like one would do 430 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:41,759 before crossing a street, and Bill froze. And then it 431 00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:44,799 started at a fast walk and crossed the cut in 432 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,640 a noticeably short time. It was going the same direction 433 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,960 that the deer had gone. Bill stood there for some time, 434 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,200 and he thought, what was that? At no time did 435 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,000 he ever think about shooting at it? And then he 436 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:01,880 thought where did it go? Oo? Did it continue through 437 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,880 the woods after the deer, or did it turn north 438 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,039 away from me? Or south towards me? Suddenly the cold 439 00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:13,400 did not bother him. Bell listened as hard as he could, 440 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,880 but he couldn't hear anything. It was big and fast. 441 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,960 Surely if it were coming his way, he would hear 442 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,640 the rustling of the dry leaves all around him. He 443 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,039 decided he needed to get out of there. It was 444 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:28,400 getting on close to dark and he didn't want to 445 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,000 be there. Then Bell decided to head back towards the road, 446 00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:35,119 but walked at the edge of the trees, thinking maybe 447 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,480 there could be another one across the cut and it 448 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,640 would see me if I were in the open. But 449 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,400 the going was slow and noisy through the edge of 450 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,920 the woods, so he decided to move into the center 451 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,720 of the cut. At least he would have some warning 452 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:51,200 if it came out, maybe have a bit of time 453 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:55,079 to defend himself. Bill moved to the center of the 454 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,000 cut and he started walking fast, continually turning his head 455 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,839 like it was on a swivell rifle at the ready, 456 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,599 safety off, and around. Chambered all the way back to 457 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,519 the truck. His heart was pounding, he was sweating from 458 00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:13,400 fear and exertion despite the cold air. Once he made 459 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,079 it to the road, Bill turned back, using his higher 460 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,400 vantage point to see if he was being followed, but 461 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,720 he saw nothing. He walked to the truck, threw his 462 00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:26,440 loaded rifle into the cab, something he never did, and 463 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,640 then he drove home. When Bill got home, he unloaded 464 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,279 the rifle, checked with his dad to let him know 465 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,119 that he was back, and started on his evening chores. 466 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,279 He said nothing to his family about what he had 467 00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:42,759 seen at supper. When asked if he had seen any 468 00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:45,119 deer at the cut, and if he thought it might 469 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,920 be a good place to hunt. He only said that 470 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,960 he had seen too dough and he didn't think he 471 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,319 would be hunting there again. According to Elder Lux, his 472 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,960 father did not talk about his sighting until several years 473 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:02,279 later when he over heard others at the Foulk General's 474 00:29:02,319 --> 00:29:07,200 store talking about and increased sightings of the creature. When 475 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,880 he did talk about the incident, it was only to 476 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,000 his family. In nineteen sixty five, Bill saw the creature again. 477 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,240 This time it was closer to home, and this time 478 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,920 he was not alone. Six years had passed since Bill 479 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:27,920 Lux Junior had his sighting on the pipeline cut. He 480 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,960 had not gone back there since that time, and a 481 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,680 lot had changed. His father had passed away, leaving Bill 482 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:37,839 to support his mother and two sisters and run the 483 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,920 farm alone. Bill took a part time job and foult 484 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,759 to make ends meet, and Bill also got married. He, 485 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,920 along with his new wife and younger sister, lived in 486 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,160 a house that his grandfather built next to Highway seventy 487 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,400 one and alongside Boggy Creek. Bill's oldest sister had married 488 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,960 a few months earlier and moved to Springhill, Louisiana with 489 00:30:01,039 --> 00:30:04,480 her husband. Bill's mother spent most of her time in 490 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,759 spring Hill, which is forty miles away. Locally, there was 491 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:12,039 more talk of sightings of the creature and of footprints 492 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:16,160 left in beanfields, as well as strange cries back in 493 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,680 the deep woods and along the network of creeks around Fout. 494 00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:24,559 There were also reports of damaged fences and buildings, as 495 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:30,359 well as missing farm animals. One Saturday afternoon in January 496 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,440 of nineteen sixty five, Bill was working on his old truck, 497 00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:36,799 which was parked in the front yard just a few 498 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:40,559 feet from his front door. His youngest sister and his 499 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,160 wife were in the house. Bill had his head under 500 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,279 the hood of the old vehicle, trying to discern its 501 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,759 latest malady. It wasn't until his little feist dog had 502 00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:55,519 gotten between his feet that he noticed its shaking and whimpering. 503 00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:59,039 Bill looked around and he saw nothing, thinking it was 504 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:02,680 frightened by another dog, a skunk, a raccoon, or any 505 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:05,759 matter of critter that passes through the farm at times, 506 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,160 but he still didn't see anything. Bill returned to his work, 507 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,720 but the dog continued to whine. Bill looked under the 508 00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:16,359 truck and he saw nothing. He walked around the truck 509 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,880 and saw nothing. He then noticed the dog was staring 510 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,720 off across the road, which was about two hundred feet 511 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,680 from the front of the house. Bill looked carefully at 512 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,640 the tree line just on the other side of the pavement. There, 513 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:33,960 next to a large oak tree, and somewhat in the shadows, 514 00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:38,240 was something stooping down watching Bill and the dog. He 515 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:40,680 could tell it was large because of the size of 516 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,759 the tree it was near. Bill tried not to give 517 00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:46,119 away the fact that he had seen it, and he 518 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,640 scolded the dog and moved back to the front of 519 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,599 the truck where he could look through the lower windshield 520 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,079 and rear window to the woods on the other side 521 00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:58,559 of the road. It was still there, this time, it 522 00:31:58,599 --> 00:32:02,880 appeared to be sitting and watching. Bill called out quietly 523 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,519 to his wife and his sister, asking one of them 524 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:08,440 to bring him his rifle, which he kept beside his bed, 525 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,359 and to put it just inside the open front door. 526 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,160 Bill explained what was happening, and he told them to 527 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,839 carefully look out the window towards the large tree across 528 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,880 the road, and they both saw it. Bill picked up 529 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,960 the little dog and went into the house, and he 530 00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:28,440 closed the front door after a delay of only a 531 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,200 minute or so. He looked through the blinds of the window. 532 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:35,319 The space next to the tree was empty. Bill picked 533 00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:38,240 up his rifle and went from window to window, checking 534 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:41,039 all four sides of the house in case the creature 535 00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:44,440 came across the road onto the property, and he saw nothing. 536 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,920 Bill estimated that the creature had been watching him for 537 00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:51,440 twenty minutes. The dog had been whining for at least 538 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,640 ten minutes before Bill checked on him and saw the 539 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,279 shadow next to the tree. This was the last time 540 00:32:58,359 --> 00:33:01,519 Bill saw the creature, but not the last time it 541 00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:05,880 would bring fear into their home. Over the next nine years, 542 00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:10,200 sightings continued around Falk and reached a peak in nineteen 543 00:33:10,359 --> 00:33:14,000 seventy four that got to the point where Bill installed 544 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,119 floodlights on the corners of his house that would illuminate 545 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,039 the yard for some one hundred feet away. He had 546 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,559 the local power company put a light pole in his 547 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,920 front yard with a bright light that would burn all night. 548 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,599 He trimmed down the grass in small trees for two 549 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,480 hundred feet around the house. For Bill and his family, 550 00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:38,119 there would be more occasions when they felt afraid. Each 551 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,079 started much like the last, always at night. The three 552 00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:45,240 family dogs which slept outside the house and were known 553 00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:48,839 to chase anything on four legs, would begin wailing and 554 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,039 barking and bashing into the front screen door, warning to 555 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:54,960 get in. One of the family would open the door 556 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,559 and almost get knocked down by the dogs, who would 557 00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:00,799 go behind the couch or under a bed. The door 558 00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:04,279 would be locked, blinds would be drawn if they weren't already, 559 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,480 and all four spotlights would be turned on. Bill and 560 00:34:08,559 --> 00:34:10,599 one of his sons would pick up their weapons and 561 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,079 go from window to window while the rest of the 562 00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:17,119 family sat quietly in the center of the dimly lit house. 563 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,320 The progress of what was moving around outside could be 564 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,000 tracked by watching the dogs. Their noses always pointed towards 565 00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:30,280 Boggy Creek, their heads slowly turned following what they were 566 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,320 hearing and smelling. Once it was gone, they quit shivering 567 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,159 and they came out from their hiding places. In the 568 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,320 year two thousand, Bill and the family decided that they 569 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,000 had had enough of farming and of the small town, 570 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:48,559 uneasy life of Falk. They followed Bill's sister and moved 571 00:34:48,559 --> 00:34:52,800 to spring Hill. They joined the LDS Church there, and 572 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,400 later the elder would be born. Sightings around Falk continued 573 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,119 into the nineties, and on occasion they had still today, 574 00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:05,880 the old farmhouse Bill's grandfather built is no longer there. 575 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,440 It's been replaced by a single wide trailer far back 576 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,960 away from the road. The fields are there too, but 577 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:15,599 most of the timber around the old lux farm is 578 00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:20,679 now cut and the field grows rows of soybeans. Old 579 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,079 Highway seventy one still there, although the new highway has 580 00:35:24,159 --> 00:35:27,760 been built to speed along those folks going from Louisiana 581 00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:32,599 to Arkansas. And the creek Boggy Creek is still there 582 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,800 just as it has been for centuries, and the creature will. 583 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,599 Some of those who still live around Fout say he's 584 00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:43,639 still out there too. Thank you for listening to the podcast. 585 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,480 I really do appreciate you, and we will see you 586 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:55,800 guys on the next one. Thank you.