WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:10.240 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