WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.519 My name is Daniel. I'm an Englishman living in Bordeaux, 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:15.359 France for the last twenty two years. In March of 3 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.920 twenty fourteen, I flew to America to receive prophetic counseling 4 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:24.120 in cored Aileen, Idaho. I think i'll pronounce that right, 5 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:28.760 cor Couer d Aileen cord Deleen court queer d Alleen. 6 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.280 I don't know how to say it. I decided to 7 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.240 check out this place on YouTube before leaving, and I 8 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.600 was surprised to see videos of si squatch sightings in 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.719 the margin. Since I was an infant, I've always been 10 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.759 fearful of all things paranormal, and I became fearful of 11 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.640 seeing a sisquatch while I was in Idaho. I'm thankful 12 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.520 that I did not see one. I enjoyed the beauty 13 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.200 of the area and the kindness of its people for 14 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.399 the two weeks duration of my stay. It was a 15 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.319 very pleasant memory. I then flew to Los Angeles for 16 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.079 two weeks to meet a friend from Facebook whom I 17 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.400 had never met in the flesh. I couldn't stay in 18 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.319 her house as there was no room, so I asked 19 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.439 a lady who I had met in Bordeaux several months earlier, 20 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.040 who lived not far away, if I could stay at 21 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:24.000 her place. The lady lives in Santa Clarita, a small 22 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:29.000 commune about forty five minutes from Los Angeles. I slept 23 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.480 in the guest bedroom adjacent to the garage. Behind the house. 24 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.120 Nearby is a golf course and, if I recall correctly, 25 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.799 a small field. I didn't see much in the way 26 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.799 of forest. One night, I think it was the seventeenth 27 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.840 or eighteenth of March. In my sleep, I suddenly found 28 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:53.000 myself in the garage in the darkness. Just a few 29 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.760 feet in front of me stood what I instantly knew 30 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.400 to be a sy squatch. It was between seven and 31 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:05.319 eight tall. I was petrified. He let out something verbal. 32 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.800 It wasn't a full blown roar. It was kind of 33 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.759 a mix between a roar and a warble. I don't 34 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:14.919 know what it yelled to me, and I received no 35 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.759 translation in my mind, but it seemed to be some 36 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.680 kind of a warning. Again, I was petrified, and I 37 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:27.840 yelled back what I had just heard, my best sisquatch warble. Instantly, 38 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:31.840 I found myself back in my room, sweating and trembling. 39 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.039 I woke up and I turned the light on and 40 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.520 there was nothing there. I don't recall if I opened 41 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.639 the door immediately and saw there was nothing in the garage, 42 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.960 or if I waited until the morning. Scratching my head. 43 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.960 I put it down in my mind as playing tricks 44 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.080 on me due to my fears. Two days later, I 45 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.199 was in the kitchen with my host talking and she said, 46 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.879 a couple of nights ago, I heard this strange creature 47 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:03.479 outside my house. My mind instantly clicked and I realized 48 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.319 that I needed to verify this. Did it sound like this? 49 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.360 I asked, and gave off my best squatch roar warble. 50 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.120 She looked at me with a kind of a how 51 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:18.120 did you know? In her eyes and said, yes, just 52 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:22.479 outside her bedroom window is a field. She had literally 53 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.639 heard a sound coming from a flesh and blood creature, 54 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.560 while I heard it only in spirit. The memory of 55 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.360 what happened is in some ways vague and hazy, and 56 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.280 in some ways remains etched in my mind. It is 57 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:39.879 clear to me that I had a spiritual experience rather 58 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:43.719 than a flesh and blood experience, so I've never relived 59 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.719 the fear that I experienced that night. As with many 60 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:53.280 sisquatch encounters, it leaves more questions that answers. Did God 61 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.199 allow this experience to reveal the truth of the existence 62 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:01.719 of sisquatch? I don't know. Did dark forces send this 63 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.479 thing to harm me and God protected me from it? 64 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.400 I don't know that either. Who transported us both into 65 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.919 the garage, God, the devil or the Sasquatch? I don't know, 66 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.480 but it is clear to me from the experience that 67 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:22.839 sisquatch are a paranormal phenomenon and that they are interdimensional beings. 68 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.000 Shortly after, I drove to Sequoia National Park and then 69 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.240 onto Yosemite National Park. Arriving at the entrance to Yosemite, 70 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.120 I casually asked the lady park ranger who I was 71 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.920 buying my ticket from, do you have any Sasquatch here? 72 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.040 She said, I do believe we have a couple here. 73 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.120 As a matter of Factly, I was on my own 74 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.000 and went about tree knocking, but I heard and saw nothing. 75 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.399 I had not heard of David Plaudus then and had 76 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:57.160 no idea so many people go missing in Yosemite. I 77 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.879 guess I must have received divine protection. Again. Back in France, 78 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.920 I joined the Bigfoot UK Facebook page and I recounted 79 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.480 my story. Most of the people claimed that I had 80 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:14.120 simply had a dream. Others insisted that the sasquatch are 81 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.759 only flesh and blood, so I left the group. I 82 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.240 was surprised by some of the nasty ways in which 83 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:26.800 people responded, Oh, brother, you have no idea. You really 84 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.519 have no idea until you start a YouTube channel. But 85 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:34.480 I digress. A close study of scripture reveals that many 86 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.319 other things can happen during the night season besides dreams. 87 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.319 I did have one interesting conversation though, with a nice 88 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:45.800 young lady from the UK who knows someone who regularly 89 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.680 visits with sisquatch in a UK forest. The lady claimed 90 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:55.160 there are seven species of sisquatch. I do not doubt 91 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.759 that sisquatch are a form of the nephilum according to 92 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:04.079 Genesis six, and are connected to other paranormal nephilin phenomenon. 93 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.560 It would seem that depending on the species sasquatch or 94 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:14.240 everything from human friendly to man eating, Some seem more earthbound, 95 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:19.720 while others are mostly other dimensional, occasionally visiting Earth. It 96 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:23.279 seems that sisquatch, like humans, can be cursed and find 97 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:28.120 themselves run over by trucks or shot. These are just 98 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.360 my thoughts and observations aside from my own brief experience. 99 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.240 Thanks for reading my story, Dixie, I certainly appreciate it. 100 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:41.680 Yours sincerely, Daniel Verdeaux, France. Daniel, you hit the nail 101 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.079 on the head, brother, You got in a Facebook group. 102 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.920 That's your first big mistake. You can't tell people the truth. 103 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.480 And you would think you would think you could. You 104 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:53.879 would think, Okay, well, I'm going to join a bigfoot 105 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.720 group online and I'll be able to discuss my encounter 106 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:01.079 and get some good, positive, constructive feedback. But no, brother, 107 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.720 I'm telling you that's not possible. It's not possible because 108 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.319 everybody's an expert on sosquatch. But I really appreciated this story, 109 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.240 and I've even said on this channel that I can't 110 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.519 I can't make it jib in my mind that these 111 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.920 things are paranormal because the only basis for anything in 112 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:25.360 my life is it's based on what I can see, feel, smell, hear, 113 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.959 all the normal senses that a person uses. Something that 114 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.399 is paranormal, that's big and Harry in the Woods just 115 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.920 does not jib in my head. But that does not 116 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.399 mean it's not real. I just can't see it, and 117 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.000 so don't everybody start commenting that I'm ruling that out. 118 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.160 I'm not. It just doesn't make sense. It makes more 119 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.720 sense to me that they would be flesh and blood. 120 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.240 But I would never get on a Facebook group or 121 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.319 in the comment section or whatever and belittle someone for 122 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.319 believing or saying. I mean, they're telling you they had 123 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:04.600 this experience. It's no different than someone saying they saw 124 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.160 a bigfoot run across the road in front of their car. 125 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.199 This guy saw it in a supernatural way. The other 126 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.639 person may have seen it in a supernatural way, and 127 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.639 it just appeared to be real. Anyway, it just gave 128 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.040 me a chance to kind of rib on the buttholes 129 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:23.040 out there who just hammer everybody. Look, the biggest enemy 130 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:28.040 the bigfoot community has is not the federal government. It's 131 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:32.600 the Bigfoot community itself. That's the worst enemy of this 132 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.960 whole topic. I'm just glad I'm off here just in 133 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.879 my little corner telling stories. That's all I do. I 134 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:42.000 don't get into that research stuff. I don't you know. 135 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.080 I told you about the Beast Facebook page where they've 136 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:49.480 got videos from lb Elvis past weekend. They've got perfect 137 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.759 tracks in the mud from water. That's that's been drawn 138 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:57.720 down on the Tennessee River at Lake Barkley, and they've 139 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.360 got these perfect tracks and you can see. I'm on 140 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.720 their Facebook page. I talked about the video that Bob 141 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.759 Gimmelin showed into just a just a video he uploaded 142 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.360 just less than a week ago, and all of his 143 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:14.679 commentary on that. And I know there are people that 144 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.639 are gonna just squash all that stuff. They're gonna say 145 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.759 the footprints are a hoax, and they're gonna say that 146 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:21.759 that so and so is a hoax. But they're gonna 147 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:26.879 consider themselves in the Bigfoot community. Okay, I'm ranting. I'm sorry. 148 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.480 I shouldn't rant, but it just drives me nuts. It 149 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.759 drives me nuts. And again that's why I'm just happy 150 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.600 off here in my little corner telling stories. Here, we 151 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.600 all are off at our little corner. They're weird and wonderful, 152 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.960 just enjoying these stories. And that's where I'm gonna stay. 153 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.320 That's where I'm gonna stay. All right, enough of that, 154 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:50.279 here's an email from Robert I got some time back. 155 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.879 It's a little different. It's not even a Bigfoot story, 156 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.279 but it's a scary story and it's about a cryptid 157 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.399 and it's got a twist to it that I think 158 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:04.559 will make you scratch your head. So let's get into 159 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.720 it here. Robert writes. I was raised on a twelve 160 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.960 hundred and fifty acre farm on an island off the 161 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.399 coast of South Carolina. The farm had six hundred acres 162 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.840 of cleared land which we farmed, and the rest was 163 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.120 forested with a large swamp that ran through it. When 164 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:26.120 I wasn't working on the farm, which to a young boy, 165 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:29.440 seemed like all the time, I would spend as much 166 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:33.399 time as possible hunting in the swamp. I hunted everything 167 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.440 in season. My dad taught me at a young age 168 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.799 how to hunt safely, and to take care of my 169 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.360 guns and how to shoot. One time, he gave me 170 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.120 three shotgun shells and he told me that he wanted 171 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:49.360 some squirrels to eat. I remember thinking three squirrels wasn't 172 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.080 a lot. As I headed out the door, and he said, 173 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.879 I want five nice ones. I looked at my mother 174 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.159 and she whispered back, catch them together in the trees. 175 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.159 My dad was one who didn't believe in wasting anything. 176 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.000 Why waste five shots when three would work. These type 177 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.639 of challenges made me an excellent shot. I loved shooting 178 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:14.360 and became an excellent shot. As a matter of fact, 179 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.480 my dad would often get bets going with people that 180 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.159 were new to our hunt club to challenge me. Whether 181 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.840 it was with a shotgun, a rifle, or a pistol, 182 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.399 I always won. It made me proud the way my 183 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:32.000 dad would brag about my shooting skills. In the fall 184 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:36.279 of nineteen sixty six, I was sixteen years old. My mother, 185 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:39.440 my older brother, and my older sister, and I were 186 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.279 playing a board game in the kitchen. I believe it 187 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:46.360 was Monopoly. My dad was at my uncle's house helping 188 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:49.720 him work on a tractor. It was already dark outside, 189 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.120 but the moon was bright enough that you could still 190 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.159 see pretty well. On dark nights, I like to lie 191 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.279 back on the hood of the old pickup truck and 192 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.960 look up at the stars. The night sky was so beautiful, 193 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.559 so full of stars, that the sky almost looked white 194 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.360 stars that today are drowned out by light pollution. Since 195 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.200 there was a full moon that night, I stayed inside 196 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.519 and I played the game with the rest of the family. 197 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.480 I wasn't very good at board games, and I lost 198 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.399 most of the time. I guess that's why my mother 199 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.519 didn't mind me looking at the stars on game nights. 200 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.960 That night, our dogs started barking outside. We had a 201 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.360 shepherd at the time, and he stayed inside almost all 202 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:36.440 the time, and he was growling and looking at the door, 203 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.440 and his hackles were up. I remember saying, it's probably 204 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.240 that possum trying to get at the chickens. Again. My 205 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.600 mother told me to take the gun out and get 206 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.320 rid of this thing. So I grabbed up my twenty 207 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.840 two rifle, my spotlight, and I headed out the door. 208 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.080 Rex was at the door when I got there, and 209 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.559 I thought that he would find the possum real quick, 210 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.440 so I'll let him come out with me. Rex could 211 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.200 dispense of it fast and I could sneak a cigarette. 212 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.879 Rex ran out the door onto the porch, but he 213 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.200 stopped at the top step. I thought he was waiting 214 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.720 on me, so I stepped past him. Come on, boy, 215 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.840 I said, as I stepped off the porch. Rex just 216 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:21.200 stood there, staring into the field. Back then, we didn't 217 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.000 have any problems with codies on the island, but there 218 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.440 were plenty of bobcats, fox raccoons and other small predators 219 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.440 that would occasionally get into the chickens. At times, we 220 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.200 would hear what sounded like a woman screaming in the 221 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.399 woods down by the swamp, but my dad said that 222 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.480 it was probably just a bobcat. There was the occasional 223 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.600 sighting of a black panther by some of the island folk, 224 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:49.039 and that included myself and my dad, but the game 225 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.320 wardens said that there weren't ever any panthers on that island. 226 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.960 Yeah right. I shined the light out across the field 227 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.639 and I didn't see anything. Our front porch based out 228 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.279 across a fifteen acre field where we often saw deer 229 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:07.720 in the evenings and early mornings. My mother forbid us 230 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.000 to hunt those deer while they were in the yard. 231 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.919 The driveway stopped at the side of the house and 232 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.679 was about one hundred and fifty yards long before it 233 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.639 entered the woods, and another one hundred yards or so 234 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.240 before it came out at the highway. Rex had turned 235 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.200 around and he was at the door, whining, wanning back in, 236 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.759 and he would not leave the porch no matter how 237 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.480 much I called him. This caused a chill to run 238 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:36.039 down my back. I shined the light around again and 239 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.799 still saw nothing. Rex could see or sense something that 240 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.639 I couldn't I did know that. I asked my brother 241 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:45.799 to come out with me. I went back in for 242 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.240 my pistol and a different rifle. As I walked back 243 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.720 through the kitchen, my brother said, damn, there must be 244 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.919 a big possum to need that big rifle. I told 245 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.039 him what had happened, and my brother said, I'll come 246 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:00.360 with you. My brother was an excellent shot as well. 247 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.360 I felt relieved. As we walked out the door, my 248 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.919 mother said, you boys, be careful. My brother tried to 249 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:10.519 get Rex to follow me, but he was cowering under 250 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:14.200 the kitchen table and he would not move. My brother 251 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.159 had his thirty six and a three point fifty seven 252 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:21.519 magnum and a spotlight. When we went out, the chickens 253 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.600 were quiet and nothing was bothering them, so we figured 254 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.840 the problem wasn't there. The outside dogs were still barking 255 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.840 like crazy now, so we walked around the house towards 256 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.480 the driveway. My mother and sister walked out onto the 257 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.120 porch to see what was going on, and it was 258 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.399 then that my brother said, oh, hell, do you see that? 259 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.600 Out across the yard by the driveway, close to the woods, 260 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:51.840 were three large black panthers. Two of them were very 261 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.639 large and the other a bit smaller than the rest. 262 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:57.960 My sister and my mother walked around the side of 263 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.679 the porch by this time, and we're all so seeing 264 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.360 the same thing. My sister said to me, hand me 265 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:06.240 your light and I'll keep it on them so you 266 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.440 can get a shot. I handed her my light. She 267 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.080 rested it on the porch rail to keep it steady. 268 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.200 My mother did the same for my brother. My brother 269 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:18.360 took the one on the left, and I chose the 270 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.919 big one in the middle. My brother said on three, 271 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:27.679 and my sister slowly counted down one, two, three, and 272 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.960 both rifles fired at the same time. My mother said 273 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.679 she could see both of the large cats get hit. 274 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.559 The one my brother shot collapsed on the ground and 275 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.519 the one I shot flipped over backwards and fell to 276 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.840 the ground too. Our eyes were adjusting from the flash 277 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.720 of the rifle, and everything was real quiet, and like 278 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:54.080 someone had turned a switch. Both spotlights went out at 279 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.639 the same time, along with every light in the house. 280 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.279 We lost all power to our house. We all ran 281 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.640 back inside the house. Once inside, my mother shut and 282 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.799 locked the doors. My sister lit an oil lantern that 283 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:14.160 we had for power outages. It was totally silent outside. 284 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.039 The outside dogs were quiet now, and after about five 285 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.680 minutes the lights all came back on, and that included 286 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.559 the two spotlights that were laying on the coffee table. 287 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.559 Now we just stood there and looked at each other. 288 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:32.119 My mother walked out the living room towards the bedroom, 289 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.599 and she said for everyone to go to the kitchen 290 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.640 table and to turn those two lights off, pointing at 291 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.960 the spotlights. A few minutes later, she walked into the 292 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.160 kitchen with an oil lantern still lit, placing it in 293 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.880 the middle of the table. She sat down and she 294 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.400 started reading from the Bible in Psalms. No one said 295 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.000 a word. We just sat there and we listened to 296 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.839 her read. We stayed up all night listening to her read. 297 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.559 Once it was it was light enough to see well 298 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:05.400 enough outside, my mother blew out the lantern. My brother 299 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:07.960 and I grabbed a couple of shotguns and we filled 300 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:13.000 our pockets with buckshot and we walked outside. This time, 301 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:16.519 Rex followed us out. He didn't seem afraid like he was, 302 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.079 which helped soothe us a little bit. We rounded the 303 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.079 corner of the porch and started up the driveway. Towards 304 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:26.559 the area we had seen the large cats. My mother 305 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.240 and sister on the porch were watching, and my sister 306 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.240 holding my mother's bible in her hands. After fifty yards 307 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.839 of walking or so, my brother and I stopped and 308 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:40.519 looked at each other. Where were the cats? We both 309 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.279 hit our targets last night. There was no way that 310 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.759 we missed, not both of us. But there was nothing 311 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.000 on the ground. My brother said maybe the small one 312 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:53.519 dragged him into the woods. So with shotguns at the ready, 313 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.960 we walked to the spot where the cats had been. 314 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.839 The ground was torn up with scratches all over the ground, 315 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.480 but there was no blood. Thirty yards away was the 316 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.400 open field that I had cut with a disk the 317 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:10.440 day before. In that field, we saw three sets of 318 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.839 large cat prints walking across towards the back end of 319 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:17.680 the field. The prints at first seemed to be dragging something, 320 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.839 and then they all cleared up and everything became normal. 321 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.920 The scariest part to us was the tracks went maybe 322 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.119 forty or fifty feet or so into the field and 323 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:33.200 just stopped. There was no backtracking, no forward, no sideways, 324 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:37.079 no nothing. They just ended like the cats had vanished, 325 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:42.079 fresh plowed ground and no tracks was all we could see. 326 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.279 My dad came home that morning around ten am. He 327 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.160 and my uncle had worked all night fixing that tractor. 328 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.359 We told him what had happened, and he asked which 329 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.240 way the cats had headed. I told him back towards 330 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:56.759 the big oaks in the corner, but the tracks stop 331 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.960 way short of getting there. He said that when his 332 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.920 his dad, my granddad, had bought this farm when he 333 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:05.680 was a young man, he was told there was an 334 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.759 old graveyard in that area with about three hundred slaves 335 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:13.759 buried there under those oaks. He said that he was 336 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.559 told they had all died from malaria, and over the years, 337 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.039 strange things had happened in that area, and that those 338 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:25.079 cats had been seen before by that family. Over the years, 339 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.160 several years went by before anyone ever saw those cats again, 340 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:34.119 just like before they showed up the first time, you 341 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.200 could hear what sounded like a woman screaming down in 342 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.480 the swamp. We saw that far many years ago, and 343 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.960 I miss it dearly for many reasons. All of the 344 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.079 family that were there that night have all passed away now, 345 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:50.440 so there's no one left to be worried about what 346 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.599 people would say about this story. There's only me left, 347 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:58.039 and I'm now sixty eight years old. I'm married, and 348 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:02.079 I even have great grandkids. I love to listen to 349 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:05.279 the stories that you tell, and I enjoy them very much. 350 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:09.079 They bring back memories of days gone by. There are 351 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.000 people that listen to these stories that may say this 352 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:14.440 is a bunch of bull, but those of us who 353 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.839 have lived those stories, we know better. Keep up the 354 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:20.440 good work, brother, and maybe next time I get the chance, 355 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.079 I'll tell you some of the other strange things from 356 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.279 that old farm. God bless sign. Robert, Oh, Robert. I've 357 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:29.880 loved some more of those stories. But you know this 358 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.400 is namely a bigfoot channel now, but this was so 359 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:36.119 good I had to share that with y'all. And I 360 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.960 don't know what the deal is with these big cats. 361 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:44.440 I've heard them. I remember years ago being in we 362 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.680 had duck hunted all day long. We were tired and 363 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.359 it was dark and my boys and I and some 364 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.200 other guys we hunted with. We had stopped in this 365 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.839 little store in Cash, Arkansas, and we were just getting 366 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.119 some blooney sandwiches and stuff and about head home. And 367 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.079 there was an old man in there and he was 368 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:05.960 going on and on about this old this big old 369 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.799 black cat that he had seen cross a ditch. Now 370 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:12.119 northeast Arkansas is not real wooded. Most of the woods 371 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:15.599 have been cut down and it's like a flat as 372 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.440 a pancake delta. There's little patches of woods here and there. 373 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.480 But he swore he saw a big black panther cross 374 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:26.359 a ditch and go into a little patch of trees. 375 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.319 There was another guy, I think it was his son 376 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.279 in there, and he was that wasn't no damn panther. 377 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:35.240 That was my black lab. He had gotten out and 378 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.680 he was running, running those ditches and he went up 379 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:40.359 in those woods. But this old man just stuck with 380 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.480 his story and he said, I saw that black cat. 381 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:44.839 I know what it was. He was like looking at us, going, 382 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.839 y'all believe me, don't you. We were like, oh yeah, sure, 383 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:50.839 sure we do. We just wanted our blowny sandwiches and 384 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:52.680 to get home. But I don't know what the deal 385 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.039 is with these black cats. I hear these stories all 386 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:58.160 the time, you know. And I said in a previous 387 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:02.039 video that I know guys who are getting catching images 388 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.359 of them on trail camps. They are not black. They 389 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:08.920 look like mountain lions in the out West, but apparently 390 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.759 they're here. I don't know about the black Ones. But anyway, 391 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.440 I'm just babbling on and let's go ahead and end 392 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:16.559 this up. Robert, this is a great story. It took 393 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:18.359 about a year for me to get to this. I 394 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.160 hope you, hope you listen in. I'll send you an email. 395 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.279 Make sure you know it's in this it's in this 396 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:26.559 video or Robert, is a great story. I really appreciate you. 397 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.960 Here's an email from Bobby and here's what he says. 398 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.640 I live in North Carolina in Anson County. I didn't 399 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.039 grow up here. I grew up in an adjacent county. 400 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.599 I've lived here for thirty five years, on my land 401 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:48.359