1 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: In the summer of two thousand and two, I was 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,599 dating a girl named Cody who lived in Dover, Missouri. 3 00:00:14,519 --> 00:00:17,920 The current population of Dover is less than one hundred people. 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,280 Cody and I dated for approximately five years. Her family 5 00:00:23,359 --> 00:00:27,640 owned a well known apple orchard in Dover, Missouri, and 6 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:30,079 my girlfriend lived with her parents in a house that 7 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:33,399 overlooked the Missouri River and her house set on top 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:38,320 of a hill on the Missouri River bluffs. I dare 9 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:41,640 hunted this area for years and had always wondered why 10 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:45,679 the woods were always dead, silent, with no sounds of 11 00:00:45,759 --> 00:00:50,039 life coming from any types of animals. There were a 12 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:53,840 few times I remember hearing large limbs snapping or sounds 13 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,439 of a tree falling over, but I thought it was 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,280 just calls from some of the natural occurrences. In many 15 00:01:01,359 --> 00:01:04,560 years of hunting this property, I always wondered why I 16 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,920 never killed many deer, especially since I was hunting on 17 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,000 the edge of an apple orchard. The apple orchard sat 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,480 directly on top of the Missouri River bluffs, and there 19 00:01:15,599 --> 00:01:18,680 was over one hundred acres of apple trees and hundreds 20 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:21,400 of acres of woods that the hills of the Missouri 21 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,400 River bluffs covered. There was an unlimited food supply, a 22 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:30,359 great water source from the river, high elevated hills, and 23 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,480 deep thick woods that you could get lost in if 24 00:01:33,519 --> 00:01:37,920 you weren't familiar with the surrounding area. At the time 25 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,640 of my sighting, there were only two houses on this 26 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:44,079 gravel road. The first house was at the beginning of 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,359 the gravel road and my girlfriend's house was at the end. 28 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,239 The name of the road was coal Mine Road, and 29 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,560 the area is known to have several old coal mines 30 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:59,959 and caves running along the bluffs. I remember when I 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,239 I used to hunt this area back in two thousand 32 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:05,400 and one. In two thousand and two and I was 33 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,840 asked by the next door landowner whose family owned the 34 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:12,520 cattle farm directly across from the orchard, and he asked 35 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,840 me if I had seen any of his baby calves 36 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,639 because there were several of them missing. When he asked 37 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,319 me this, I had never put much thought into the 38 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,680 disappearance of the missing calves because he believed a big 39 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:29,039 cat or mountain lion or something related had killed the 40 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,719 calves and dragged them into the steep embankments of the bluffs. 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,840 After that, I never thought much about it until now. 42 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:41,759 What I'm about to tell you changed my life forever 43 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,000 and has put so much fear into my body that 44 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:48,080 my eyes will not stop tearing up as I write 45 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:52,240 this story. I have seen a lot of violent killings 46 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,039 working as a Kansas City police officer for fourteen years 47 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,879 then many of you will ever see in a lifetime. 48 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:03,479 Many times I have caught myself tearing up from sadness 49 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,479 and I've experienced on the job, but I was able 50 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,960 to stop the tears from coming out of my eyes. 51 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:13,639 Never in my life have I ever experienced tears running 52 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,240 down my face caused by extreme fear, even after being 53 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,280 shot at while working as a police officer. The fear 54 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,560 I'm describing to you is breathtaking and uncontrollable. The year 55 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:31,280 two thousand and two has forever changed me, and it 56 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:34,520 still haunts my mind of this day. It was a 57 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,360 hot summer night with clear skies in the year two 58 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,719 thousand and two, and the orchard was in the midst 59 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:44,159 of its apple season. I had just walked out of 60 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:48,039 my girlfriend's house at around three am and gotten into 61 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,159 my vehicle and was getting ready to head back to Lexington. 62 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,400 As I pulled out into the road, I drove slowly, 63 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,120 and I approached an S curve on the gravel road. 64 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,360 Left side of the road was all apple trees and 65 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:05,599 the right side was a cattle farm. And as I 66 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:08,360 began to round the first corner of an S curve, 67 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,960 I observed a large black creature down on all fours 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,720 and it was facing directly toward the cattle farm. At 69 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,240 that moment, I thought it was a black bear, but 70 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,040 black bears are uncommon for this area. Well, I slowed down, 71 00:04:24,399 --> 00:04:27,720 and when my headlights fully illuminated the creature, I was 72 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:32,399 only fifteen feet away from it. When this happened, something 73 00:04:32,519 --> 00:04:37,519 extraordinary occurred. The hair on the creature began to create 74 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,959 a shimmering effect, which caused the animal's hair to sparkle. 75 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,519 I believe this occurred because my headlights fully lit up 76 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:52,160 the creature's hair, which somehow reflected off my headlights. When 77 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,399 this happened, the creature was still down on all fours 78 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:58,600 in the middle of the gravel road. All of a sudden, 79 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:02,199 the creature turned its head directly into my headlights and 80 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,720 I observed two large piercing green eyes that began to glow. 81 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,360 It turned and scurried off the gravel road. Toward the 82 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,319 apple orchard, and out of my field of view, it 83 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,480 vanished into the dark. I drove further and began to 84 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:23,920 look out my driver's side window, and then the creature 85 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:27,680 suddenly appeared again, standing upright on two feet within ten 86 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,040 to fifteen feet of my vehicle. Well, I was in 87 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,839 shock when I first observed what appeared to be a 88 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:39,680 giant ape like creature towering above my vehicle. It stood broadsided, 89 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:44,160 looking directly at me while I slowly drove by. He 90 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,839 wouldn't move, and he just stood there facing me like 91 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:51,120 a statue, as if he believed I couldn't see him. 92 00:05:51,959 --> 00:05:55,680 The giant, male ape like creature stood eight feet tall 93 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,360 and had to weigh eight hundred pounds. It was solid muscle. 94 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,519 I could see his huge pectoral chest muscles and his 95 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,000 big shoulders, and there was no doubt about the sex 96 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,439 of the creature. It was a male. The long, matted 97 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:14,319 hair appeared to be black, with gray hair mixed in 98 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:17,399 here and there, and the arms were long and hung 99 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,920 down to the knee caps. The hair on its arms 100 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,519 seemed to cover its hands and even its fingers, so 101 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,319 I couldn't see those. I could tell where the knee 102 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,079 caps were located on the creature because the legs were 103 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,079 slightly bent at the knees. The upper part of the creature, 104 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,000 starting from its waist up to its head, was definitely 105 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,519 longer than its waist going down to the ground. Its 106 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,079 face was covered in long, thick, straight hair. The long 107 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,360 facial hair hung down covering the face, so I couldn't 108 00:06:49,399 --> 00:06:53,959 see any facial features. The creature appeared to have a 109 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:59,399 body builder physique with tree trunk looking thick legs. I 110 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:01,720 couldn't see it its feet because it was standing in 111 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:04,279 a small ditch and it was grassy. At the time 112 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:09,720 of my sighting. The whole encounter lasted maybe ten seconds, 113 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,480 and I was moving. I never stopped my vehicle or 114 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:16,759 attempted to take a picture of the creature. In two 115 00:07:16,759 --> 00:07:19,759 thousand and two, during that time, I only had a 116 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,639 flip phone. The creature never tried to attack my vehicle 117 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,639 and never moved during the time I slowly drove past. 118 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:32,800 I believe it didn't think I could see him. Some 119 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:36,160 people believe they can naturally blend in with their environment. 120 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,079 It scared me so bad. Once I drove past the creature, 121 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:43,240 I dropped down into second gear and I almost killed 122 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,319 the engine. Thank god that didn't happen, because I would 123 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:51,279 have probably died from a heart attack. When I got 124 00:07:51,319 --> 00:07:53,959 back home to Lexington, I told my parents and my 125 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:57,800 brother what happened. Is still to this day they believed me. 126 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:01,120 I had never told any of my friends or ex 127 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,920 girlfriend until recently, about six months ago, I reached back 128 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:08,399 out to the owner of the cattle farm, who I 129 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:11,959 had talked to in two thousand and two. I hadn't 130 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,920 spoken to him in eighteen years, but I asked him 131 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,920 about the missing baby calves and this is what he 132 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,040 told me. In two thousand and two, my dad kept 133 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,480 having baby calves come up missing, and we believed a 134 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,839 big cat was killing them and dragging them off in 135 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,000 the timber. My family spent a week during that time 136 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:36,039 searching the property for any signs of the calves. We 137 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,559 searched that property up and down and never located any 138 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:43,320 sign of the calves being killed or dragged away. The 139 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:47,799 calves simply disappeared and there were never any bones found. 140 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,120 Thanks for letting me share my story, and you are 141 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:54,440 more than welcome to use my name in place of 142 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,720 employment in this story. I hope whoever is listening from 143 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:02,279 the Missouri area, will please come forward and tell their story. 144 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,240 There has to be many more people in the state 145 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:08,840 of Missouri who have had encounters with this elusive creature. 146 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:13,080 Everyone I work with at the police Department has heard 147 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,039 my story, and recently I had two other coworkers tell 148 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:21,000 me about their experiences and encounters with the legendary creature. 149 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,840 I believe this creature is extremely smart and tries to 150 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:30,919 avoid human detection at all costs. My sighting was during 151 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,879 the summer, but I have spoken to multiple people here 152 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:38,279 in Missouri that have wintertime encounters with this amazing creature. 153 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,200 This makes me wonder if these creatures are just passing 154 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,120 by or are they actually staying around in the area 155 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,080 year round. One of the guys used to live near 156 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,320 my hometown of Lexington, and he told me about a 157 00:09:54,399 --> 00:09:58,600 daytime encounter he experienced in the winter of nineteen ninety 158 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:03,919 four while bird hunting some friends near Concordia. His story 159 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,600 is absolutely amazing. My cousin has had three encounters on 160 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:14,320 a conservation ground called Baltimore Blend, which is located four 161 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,360 miles east of my siding on the Missouri River. In 162 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:21,279 one of his encounters, he had fire shot at the 163 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,000 creature because it was stalking him while he was hunting 164 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:29,480 for squirrels. The Baltimore Blend Conservation area is a prime 165 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,360 area to locate the creature because in this particular area 166 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,799 there is a huge apple orchard called Baltimore Ben Vineyard 167 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:43,639 that produces fruits for the winery in Waverley. The above 168 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:49,320 picture is drawn by Gavin and Gage. I can't pronounce 169 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,240 our last name, and I probably shouldn't give it out. 170 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,679 They are eleven years old and they are twins. Their 171 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,000 father is named Michael. He took the picture of me 172 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,720 holding the Bigfoot picture. Amazing artists at such a young age, 173 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,679 they do incredible work. I would like to personally thank 174 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,000 them for drawing this picture and doing such an amazing job. 175 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,440 I couldn't have asked for anything better than that. Thank you. 176 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:19,080 I live in the Mississippi Delta, where I spend a 177 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,720 lot of my spare time looking for Native American artifacts. 178 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,720 We have more First Nation sites in our county and 179 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:29,720 those surrounding it than the entire rest of the state 180 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:33,399 of Mississippi. It was on one of these days, back 181 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,440 in two thousand and nine, when I was at an 182 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,240 Antebellum home built on an Indian mound with three more 183 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:42,519 mounds around it. It was located around a mile and 184 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,399 a half to two miles from the Mississippi River. This 185 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:49,600 was a property I'd been too many times in my life. 186 00:11:50,039 --> 00:11:53,480 A close friend of mine grew up there. Although the 187 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:57,240 place is definitely haunted, that's a story for another day. 188 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:01,679 Oh dude, I want to wait on that story. Send 189 00:12:01,759 --> 00:12:05,000 us that story. That's a good one. I love haunted 190 00:12:05,039 --> 00:12:08,559 our stories. Anyway, back to the story. One story that 191 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,279 is relevant, though, is the time my friend's grandfather thought 192 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,879 someone was trying to break into their cars. He crept 193 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:19,120 outside with a baseball bat and followed the culprit around 194 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,639 the house. It wasn't until he got in the moonlight 195 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:26,120 that he realized this thing was two feet taller than him. 196 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:29,960 My friend's grandfather backed away and went back inside to 197 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,879 get his ten gauge shotgun. When he came back outside, 198 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,320 now fully armed, he saw the thing running across the 199 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,759 big Indian mound. It was a story my friend was 200 00:12:40,799 --> 00:12:43,399 fond of telling, but I never gave it much thought 201 00:12:43,879 --> 00:12:47,559 until that day in two thousand and nine. By that time, 202 00:12:47,639 --> 00:12:52,240 my friend's family had moved away from the place. I 203 00:12:52,399 --> 00:12:55,120 like to look for arrowheads when they're telling fields and 204 00:12:55,159 --> 00:12:58,840 we've had some rain on this day. I brought my 205 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:04,200 two dogs and Drego. Other than that, I was alone. 206 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,360 Ivan was one hundred and sixty five pounds South American 207 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:14,519 borble boe r boe s borble, I think that's right. 208 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:18,679 And there was Drego. He's a half American bulldog and 209 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:24,039 half Napoleon Mastiff who weighed one hundred and fifty five pounds. Borbels, 210 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,600 for those who don't know, are bred for the sole 211 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,200 purpose of protecting kids and property in Africa. They have 212 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,480 been known to kill leopards. These two dogs weren't afraid 213 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,039 of anything. I was walking between a mound in the 214 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,480 woods when I noticed how quiet it was. The normal 215 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,559 sounds you'd expect to hear when wandering around out in 216 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,360 the country, especially that close to the woods, just weren't there. 217 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,440 It was then that I realized my dogs weren't acting right. 218 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,759 The area was eighty yards wide and I was somewhere 219 00:13:57,799 --> 00:14:00,960 in the middle looking at various rocks pottery that I 220 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,879 was finding, when all of a sudden, both dogs looked 221 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:06,559 at the same point in the woods and they started growling. 222 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,200 Then they both took off running towards that spot in 223 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,320 the woods. They were only thirty feet in when I 224 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,759 completely lost sight of them. Just as the dogs broke 225 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:21,240 through the thicket, something let loose with the most bone shattering, 226 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,759 heart stopping guttural growl I've ever heard. I didn't just 227 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,440 hear it, I felt it in my chest. And then 228 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:32,879 something else happened that stopped me in my tracks. Drago 229 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 began hollering, not out of pain, but out of fear. 230 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,159 I never knew him to be afraid of anything, and 231 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,879 I mean anything. Both dogs came tearing out of the 232 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:46,799 woods with their ears pinned back and their tails tucked, 233 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:50,240 and made a beeline for me. They hunkered down and 234 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:52,799 cowered down behind me, as if I was going to 235 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:57,120 protect them. Whatever the thing was that had just made 236 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,480 the scariest noise I've ever heard frightened my dogs so 237 00:15:00,679 --> 00:15:03,879 bad they two of the fiercest dogs I've ever known, 238 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:08,279 wanted me to protect them. I barely had time to 239 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,519 figure out what was wrong with them when they both 240 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,759 bolted for my truck. These two dogs cleared the tailgate 241 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,200 of my Dodge Diesel and hopped into the bed like 242 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:22,200 it was nothing. Needless to say I wasn't far behind them. 243 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,200 People have asked me why I don't go there much anymore. 244 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,480 I don't tell them the truth. Who would believe me? Normally, 245 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:32,879 I just say I got burned out on that spot 246 00:15:32,919 --> 00:15:35,840 and I'll leave it at that. It took a while, 247 00:15:36,039 --> 00:15:39,639 but I did go back on occasion. I don't take 248 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,039 my dogs with me anymore, but I do carry an 249 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,639 AR ten and a glock ten millimeter, and I don't 250 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:54,000 turn my back on the woods. Okay. The video that 251 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:59,399 I uploaded yesterday, it's called a Sheep Squatch, had about 252 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,799 five men and it's of a candid conversation between myself, 253 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,720 Will Jevining, Tom with Creek Devil, and Neo m Finn. 254 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:11,840 It wasn't really part of the interview. It was just 255 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,399 part of a conversation that we were having after you know, 256 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,440 it was all over. Well. I listened to it and 257 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,440 I thought it was kind of funny. I thought people 258 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,320 would get a kick out of it. But apparently we've 259 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,519 offended some people, and that's what was never the intention. 260 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,559 According to some commenters, we're ridiculing people who have had 261 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,960 experiences and we're being I don't know, and I have 262 00:16:35,039 --> 00:16:37,919 to go through this about every six months or year, 263 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,840 because there is this certain segment of the Bigfoot world 264 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:46,200 people who follow this topic like it's a religion and 265 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:50,320 they and they are also people who look for ways 266 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,360 to be offended. That's very common in this culture. This 267 00:16:55,639 --> 00:16:58,519 looking for a way to stand out and be offended 268 00:16:58,919 --> 00:17:02,600 and being salted. It is common in our culture. I 269 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:05,119 don't have that, and so it's hard for me to 270 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,079 be real careful about that stuff because I grew up 271 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,559 I don't know people making fun of me all the time, 272 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,640 telling me I'm full of crap, and me laughing and 273 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,440 often them laughing with me, and everything stays happy. And 274 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,400 I don't know where all of this stuff comes from. 275 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,079 Let me tell you a little bit something about this channel, 276 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,759 and I'm just going I'm just being repetitive about some 277 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:31,839 things I've said before. I am not part of the 278 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,720 Bigfoot community. I don't want to be a part of 279 00:17:35,759 --> 00:17:40,160 that Bigfoot community, so I don't project that image and 280 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,000 I don't come across that way because I'm not in 281 00:17:43,079 --> 00:17:48,480 that group. I don't watch Bigfoot videos twenty four hours 282 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:51,519 a day. I just do my own thing, and I 283 00:17:51,559 --> 00:17:54,240 go to work and I spend time with my family, 284 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,960 It's just not a huge interest for me. But I 285 00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:02,960 do love these stories. I love the encounter stories, and 286 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,359 I have never once this September, I will have been 287 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,359 doing this three years. I have never once in the 288 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,839 whole time I've done this channel ridiculed a single person 289 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,799 who has had a bigfoot encounter. Never yet. I'm accused 290 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,640 of that when a segment of a video comes up 291 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,319 where people talk candidly about their thoughts on bigfoot. And 292 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,839 so I saw a meme not too long ago, and 293 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,000 it was like someone doing a podcast or a video says, 294 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,519 if you'd like to see this video, open the description below, 295 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,400 click on the link that says ABC and you'll be 296 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,160 able to watch this video and the meme above it 297 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,279 is a viewer looking at it, going, hey, where can 298 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:50,559 we watch that video. It's like in the comment section, 299 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,640 I'm not recreating the meme very well here, but you 300 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:59,079 get my point. You're not listening to what we're saying. 301 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:03,960 Your looking for anything anybody says so you can pounce 302 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:08,279 on them. And I thought, really about six or eight 303 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:11,440 months ago that we had rid ourselves of all these 304 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:16,160 bigfoot Uh there's a certain segment in the bigfoot community 305 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,599 that is very serious. They're very strong, they're very orthodox. 306 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,799 You can't you cannot waver off of this little lane 307 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,960 and get into other areas. Are you? Are you? They 308 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:34,519 ridicule you. They don't have any problem ridiculing you. So, 309 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,359 just to be clear, this channel is not like that. 310 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,720 We're not I'm not an advocate for Bigfoot. I don't 311 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,720 care if Bigfoot exists or not. It has no effect 312 00:19:46,759 --> 00:19:49,519 on my life at all. I don't care if dog 313 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,799 Man exists. I don't care. That's one thing I like 314 00:19:52,839 --> 00:19:55,319 about Will Jevining. I was telling him all this stuff. 315 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:57,279 He doesn't give a crap what I think about that. 316 00:19:57,559 --> 00:20:01,079 He and I are still friends. Will Jevining has his 317 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,480 opinions on things. I have my opinions on things. Mark 318 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:08,920 Knubel and Larry Porch have their opinions on things. And 319 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,079 there are two dozen other out there who share their 320 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,720 thoughts and creativity with you on Bigfoot. They have all 321 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:21,680 their own opinions on things. We don't all agree. I mean, 322 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:24,079 there's no way people are all going to agree on 323 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:28,240 the same thing. So I'm asking you to please look 324 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:32,440 at this channel as entertainment. I'm not here for people 325 00:20:32,519 --> 00:20:36,480 to come for therapy. That's not what I do. This 326 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:42,440 is I'm not a Bigfoot evangelists, Bigfoot politics, the Baptist Church, 327 00:20:42,559 --> 00:20:46,400 the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, none of that is 328 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,960 my religion. I don't care about any of that stuff. 329 00:20:50,519 --> 00:20:53,720 I just want to tell you stories and I want 330 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,960 this channel to be fun for people. Here's the deal. 331 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:03,759 We're getting in about twenty to fifty thousand views per video. 332 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,279 So let's just say we get twenty thousand views per 333 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,799 video per story video, about two thousand of those are 334 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,920 the Bigfoot people. Now, in that two thousand, there are 335 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,960 some great people. There are some great people. But out 336 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,839 of that two thousand, of the twenty thousand, there's about 337 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:31,839 one hundred who are just total jerks, total Bigfoot orthodox jerks. 338 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,640 And those are the people who make the comments like 339 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,680 you'll see in my last video. And I hoped like 340 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:42,039 crazy that we had read ourselves of all those people, 341 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:48,039 but apparently we haven't. And so to those one hundred 342 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:51,720 people out of the twenty thousand who watch my videos, 343 00:21:51,759 --> 00:21:54,640 this message is for you. I don't care if you 344 00:21:54,799 --> 00:21:58,240 go away or not. I hope you do. I hope 345 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,240 you can hide my chainanel from your recommend feed I 346 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:04,839 don't care, And then I've got all these people who 347 00:22:04,839 --> 00:22:08,559 are so concerned that my channel is taking a hit. 348 00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:12,200 Let me be clear, I have a day job. I 349 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:16,440 do this for fun. Yes, YouTube past me for running 350 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,319 ads in the videos, but that's not my source of income. 351 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:23,680 My source of income is my job. It's a job 352 00:22:23,759 --> 00:22:26,960 I've had since I was sixteen years old. I've got 353 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,640 a lot of time invested in it. I do this 354 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:33,640 because I wanted to do something outside of the construction industry. 355 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,680 I love reading, I love writing, I love telling stories. 356 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,720 I really love the out of twenty thousand, nineteen thousand, 357 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,960 nine hundred of you enjoy those stories. That's what really 358 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,160 gives me the stem. And so I love all the 359 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,480 people who are always so nice in the comment section. 360 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,640 And there's thousands of people out there per video that 361 00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:02,319 listen to these videos who never comment, and when they 362 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,319 see what you write in some of these comments, I 363 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,799 know they're rolling their eyes. Let me get back to 364 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:12,680 the demographics of who's watching. So of twenty thousand people 365 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:17,720 watching my videos, there's probably two thousand who are bigfoot 366 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,279 people who are interested in the bigfoot topic. But the 367 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:25,519 other eighteen thousand people could care less about Bigfoot. They 368 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:29,480 just love hearing a good narrated story. Bigfoot stories are 369 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:32,839 exciting stories. They just are. They always are, they always 370 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,519 have been. So they come over for the stories. And 371 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:39,319 when they see all this crap going on, you know, 372 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,799 I know, it turns them off to the whole Bigfoot community. 373 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,960 And I get accused all the time because I do fiction. 374 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:49,480 I do fun stories. I do funny stories. I used 375 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,400 to do stories by kids, and people tell me that 376 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,960 I'm hurting the calls of Bigfoot over and over and over. 377 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,920 I can't tell you how many emails and comments of 378 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,519 people saying that I'm ruining the credibility of the topic. No, 379 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:08,759 you are. You are ruining the credibility of the topic. 380 00:24:09,319 --> 00:24:12,119 I went out and I found an audience that could 381 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,079 care less about Bigfoot. But it's getting exposed to Bigfoot now. 382 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:17,920 I don't care if they believe in Bigfoot or not. 383 00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:20,160 All I care about is that I do a good 384 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,119 story for them. But you apparently care if they believe 385 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,759 in Bigfoot. And all you do over and over and 386 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:31,799 over is run people off. You turn people off. I'm 387 00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:35,319 not the one doing it. I'm drawing people into the topic. 388 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:38,359 You're running them off. So put that in the bank 389 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,960 next time you want to make a nasty comment on 390 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,680 somebody's video, because others are out there reading them. They're 391 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,279 the people that think you're nuts. They're the people who 392 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,200 don't want to have anything to do with this topic 393 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,000 other than through the Internet and have a virtual presence 394 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,640 just listening about the topic. You can listen to me 395 00:24:58,759 --> 00:25:01,440 or not. You can believe me or not. But everything 396 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,000 I've told you is grounded. Everything is grounded in logic, 397 00:25:05,039 --> 00:25:08,599 and it's true. It's true. I look at my demographics 398 00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:12,200 and my analytics. I know who's watching these videos. I 399 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,160 know the age groups, I know what their interests are. 400 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,640 I see the other channels that they watch. I'm telling you, 401 00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:23,359 out of twenty eighteen thousand, people aren't into this bigfoot topic. 402 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,720 They're just into narrated stories and they kind of stumble 403 00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:28,799 on the channel and I'm like, hey, this is pretty cool, 404 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,799 But you orthodox crazy bigfoot people who want everything to 405 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,839 stay the same all the time. You used to love 406 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,400 my channel. You wished my channel hadn't changed. My channel 407 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:46,000 hasn't changed a bit. I've always done stories. I'm still 408 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,240 narrating stories. After about a year I started doing interviews 409 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,359 I'm still doing interviews. I'm just presenting them in a 410 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,400 little different way. There's nothing that's changed about the channel. Nothing. 411 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,359 And if you don't like my channel and you don't 412 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,680 think I'm bringing legitimacy or respect to the Bigfoot topic, 413 00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:09,119 I don't care what you think. I'm not trying to 414 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,480 gain credibility because i don't want to be included in 415 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:15,880 that number of people in the Bigfoot community. Matter of fact, 416 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:21,640 I'm gonna avoid you, gonna avoid you, all right. I 417 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,160 don't know. Those comments just drove me crazy, and I'm like, 418 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,359 who was offended? Who? Who did we ridicule? We didn't 419 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,880 ridicule anything. The only thing I said that I said 420 00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:35,519 and the whole interview was if somebody tells me that 421 00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:39,400 they're having mine speak with a wolf, they're full of crap. 422 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,319 I'm gonna tell them you're full of crap. And if 423 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,319 they're a well balanced person, they're gonna go, oh no, 424 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,319 I'm not full of crap. I really do talk to them, 425 00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:49,960 and I'll go really tell me about it, or we're 426 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,039 gonna laugh at all or something like that. But no, 427 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,720 oh no, no, we can't. We can't go down that road. 428 00:26:56,759 --> 00:26:58,880 We have to go to the offended road and the 429 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,319 ridicule road. That was not what was happening in that 430 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,400 interview at all, at all. So all right, I've talked enough. 431 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,079 I hope you continue to enjoy these stories because I'm 432 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,880 just gonna keep doing the same thing I've always done, 433 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,720 is share with you viewer encounter stories. And if you're 434 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,160 in this orthodox, crabby, old nasty Bigfoot group, I hope 435 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,799 you leave. I hope this makes you so mad that 436 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,880 you're gonna leave and go all over the internet and 437 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,680 talk about what a jackass cam Buckner is. Go ahead 438 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,720 and do it. That's fine, Just do it. People will 439 00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:39,200 flood in like crazy and they'll watch my videos. Go ahead, 440 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,680 all right, I got to get back to work. Hope 441 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,319 you guys enjoyed the story. I have this bad problem 442 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,960 with the truth, and what I'm speaking is the truth. 443 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:51,799 All Right, you guys have a good week. We'll see 444 00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:52,599 on the next video.