WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.519 Thirty years ago, when I was a young teenager in 2 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:18.480 West Tennessee, I frequented the woods to go hunting after 3 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:22.320 school and on the weekends. On one such weekend, my 4 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.960 father and older brothers set up a deer stand in 5 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:29.679 a large uninhabited forest near our home. The stand had 6 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:32.640 a ladder and a sitting area on the top. It 7 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.359 was sent several hundred yards into the woods, and it 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.679 was twelve feet off the ground. On a cold and 9 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:41.439 quiet November morning, I was in the stand with my 10 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.280 two seventy rifle waiting for that big buck to come through. 11 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.840 I'd gotten to the deer stand early that morning, and 12 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.359 after a couple of hours of sitting in the dark, 13 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.560 daylight finally made its appearance. I started to hear lumbering, 14 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:01.200 bipedal footsteps coming from my left side, crunching and snapping 15 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:05.120 the leaves as they went forward. It couldn't have been 16 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.359 a deer, because even the most heavy footed buck still 17 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:10.640 sounded like a squirrel on the ground to me, if 18 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.760 that made any noise at all. But the sound was different, 19 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:17.560 so many things started crossing my mind about what it 20 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.840 could be. I knew it wasn't a deer, and it 21 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.959 was unlikely that it was another hunter because no one 22 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.200 lived nearby. Even then, the footsteps were far too heavy 23 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:31.680 to be a human. I thought maybe someone's cow got 24 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.799 loose and was wandering through the woods, but there were 25 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.000 no cows in the nearby area, and certainly none that 26 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.599 walked on two feet. Whatever it was, it had my 27 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.239 full attention. The footsteps were so heavy that I was 28 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.840 sure I would see whatever it was because the woods 29 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.400 weren't very dense. All the leaves had fallen to the 30 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.040 ground by that point in the season, and I could 31 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:59.920 easily see sixty yards through the trees. The footsteps stopped occasion, 32 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:03.799 as if they were checking out the surroundings and smelling 33 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.120 the air, and then they continued toward me. This happened 34 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:12.080 several times until they were I guessed fifteen yards from me. 35 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.719 I was on the edge, to say the least. I 36 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.639 had my weapon ready, but I never took off the safety, 37 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.280 and I never pointed it at anything because it was 38 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.719 nothing to point out. I scanned the area in the 39 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.120 state of confusion because I was clearly hearing these footsteps, 40 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.120 but there was absolutely no living thing to be seen 41 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.759 anywhere around me. It was moving invisibly through the woods 42 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:40.560 without disturbing a single twig or branch. I didn't know 43 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.319 what else to do but sit there and be still 44 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.879 and be as quiet as I could until it was gone. 45 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.080 At one point it must have seen or smelled me, 46 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:52.560 because I heard it turn around and move in the 47 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.639 opposite direction. And when the sound of its footsteps faded 48 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:00.240 to nothing, I exited the deer stand and I went 49 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.919 back home, and I looked over my shoulder the whole 50 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.439 way back. The incident left me baffled. There was simply 51 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.879 no way that I would not have been able to 52 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.520 see this creature. I've heard other stories of similar experiences 53 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.599 people have had about hearing something close by but never 54 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:21.599 seeing it, and recently I heard of the concept that 55 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:27.400 bigfoot have cloaking abilities. I have never experienced anything like 56 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.960 that again, nor do I want to. Maybe it saw 57 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.680 my weapon and decided to go in another direction. Maybe 58 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.919 it was a cloak to bigfoot or something else paranormal. 59 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.960 No matter what it was, I couldn't see it, though 60 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.599 I'm sure it could see me. That's enough to make 61 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:48.000 a young teenager think twice about going into the woods again. 62 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.080 Thank you for the work that you do on these podcasts. 63 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:56.439 You're welcome. Sharing all these people's experiences has helped many 64 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:00.319 of us realize that strange occurrences are more frequent than 65 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.800 one might assume. Yes, that is true to the writer. 66 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:07.599 He didn't say to I don't think he said to 67 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.280 say his names. All won't. But fear's as he knows 68 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:12.479 who it is. That is true people, I mean, not 69 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:16.720 just by you know, the evidence are the fact that 70 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:20.120 I get so many emails is that strange things happen 71 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.319 out in the woods. But this is a small podcast, 72 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.240 and you know, we get hundreds of letters from people 73 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.720 describing every kind of weird thing you can imagine. But 74 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.480 just imagine all the people who actually do experience it, 75 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.040 who've never heard this podcast. They don't send them in. 76 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.439 I mean, the numbers must be huge, and it makes 77 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.519 you wonder what's going on out in the woods. I've 78 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.040 never experienced anything really weird. There has been something going 79 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.279 on lately here around yet y'all know, I don't really 80 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.319 show it much anymore, about me taking my dog's walking 81 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.319 every morning around a path that we have and my 82 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:02.199 property and my neighbors perty, and it's just a good 83 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.720 relaxing time for me, you know. I ride my bike 84 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.000 or I walk or whatever, and it's quiet, especially this 85 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.240 time of year. It's so quiet. In the fall, the 86 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.800 bugs are quiet, and I don't know, it's just real 87 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.240 peaceful out there, and the sun's coming up. It's so pretty. 88 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.360 But this thing's been happening, and it's never happened before. 89 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.720 I did have five dogs. I've only got three now, 90 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.199 and there's one that stays home. She never goes walking 91 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.839 with us. She's my little pug. She's little, the little 92 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:37.000 she's her highness. She thinks she doesn't have to exercise, 93 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.040 and so she doesn't. But I've got two dogs that 94 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.319 usually go with me, and normally they know our route. 95 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.000 They're way ahead of me, sometimes where I can't even 96 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.480 see them, or they get hung up on a smell 97 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.399 behind me and I get way ahead of them. So 98 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:56.519 half the time I'm riding or walking that route, I 99 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.399 never know where they are. They're out in the woods sniffing, 100 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.319 and you know what dogs do. But the last couple 101 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.560 of weeks, there's been two days where we get to 102 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.360 my neighbor's property and we're about to go on his 103 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.680 property and they just stop and they will not go 104 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.360 any further. And they've never done that, and I get 105 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.079 frustrated with them. I'll get one hundred yards ahead of them. 106 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.480 I can see them, maybe down a levee or down 107 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.120 a you know, a straight path, and I'll start whistling 108 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:26.920 at them and calling to them to come on, and 109 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:28.680 they just stand there and look at me, and they 110 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.639 won't come. They won't do it, and so I'll have 111 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.600 I mean, I don't want to leave them if these 112 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:38.360 dogs follow me everywhere, But if I left them, I 113 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.480 don't know where they would go. They might wander off 114 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.279 in the woods, and I don't want them to do that. 115 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:44.720 So I want them. Keep them close where I'm keep 116 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.560 an eye on them and call them back when they 117 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.160 run off. But so I go back and we just 118 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:51.480 go home. They don't, they don't want to do it. It's 119 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.279 happened twice. I have no idea what that's all about. 120 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.000 We have had some some uh I want to call 121 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.120 them wild dogs or stray dogs. And this county is 122 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.959 full of stray dogs, and we're lucky that we don't 123 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.240 get too many come up on this property. But when 124 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.120 they do, they usually kill a couple of chickens or 125 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.279 and most of the time when we're not here, sometimes 126 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.759 we come back, we'll have lost eight or nine chickens. 127 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.560 They're just laying out in the yard dead. As a 128 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.480 matter of fact, that happened about three weeks ago. We 129 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.839 think we lost six or eight. We had our flock 130 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.680 up to about thirty or thirty five birds, and we're 131 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.759 now down to maybe twenty five twenty eight birds. And 132 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.079 we've just lost a We've just lost a lot of chickens. 133 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.560 But and then the other day I was sitting in 134 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.959 here working and I saw this flash. I had my 135 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.639 door open. I saw this flash go by the front 136 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.920 of my little recording working shock out here, and I 137 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.519 jump outside and there's this big, old, muscled up, tan 138 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.560 colored pit bull chasing my chickens. He was trying to 139 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:00.399 kill him. I keep a shotgun right next to the door. 140 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.680 I raised it up a shot behind him. I had 141 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.959 the beat on him. My instinct was to shoot him, 142 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.519 but I just can't shoot a dog unless they need 143 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.040 to be shot, and this dog had a collar on. 144 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.439 I didn't want to kill somebody's dog, but I did 145 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.120 want to run him off, so I shot, and I 146 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.600 may have peppered his butt just a little bit with 147 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.040 some gravel. I didn't hit him with any shot. But 148 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.600 I made sure that he knew that this was not 149 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.360 a good place to be, and he ran around the 150 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.840 house and I've never seen him again. I don't know 151 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.840 where he went. I don't know what was happening, but man, 152 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.720 that was a big old It's like one of those 153 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:42.720 big pit bull, muscled up bodybuild of dogs you see 154 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.039 in these pictures on the internet. I kind of wonder 155 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.440 if these dogs are not marking out there and my 156 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:53.440 archiotes maybe, and my dogs aren't wanting to cross that 157 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.440 barrier normally they want to. They kind of claim that 158 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.960 area as their own. That's a long story to say. 159 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.720 There are weird things that happen in the woods, and 160 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:05.879 they don't really happen to me. I've never had anything 161 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.559 really strange. I've always enjoyed being in nature and looking 162 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.399 at the wildlife and just being in a peaceful place. 163 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.000 Sometimes I'll take a long chair and just walk right 164 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:16.720 out in the middle of the woods and sit down, 165 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.600 and I'll just sit there and read a book. It's 166 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.720 the most peaceful. If you have any woods near you, 167 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.639 you ought to try that. Pick up a book, take 168 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.080 you a light long chair, just walk out in the 169 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.240 middle of the woods, find you a log or a 170 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.679 stump to prop your feed up on and kick back 171 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.799 and read a book for a couple hours. You will 172 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:38.480 love it. It's if you like peace and solitude. It's 173 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.120 really something fun to do. All right, how about we 174 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.399 go to another story. Thanks for listening to my yacking. 175 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:47.759 All right, all right, thank you for clicking on the video. 176 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:52.360 We got five five five, not five five, not five 177 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.120 five five, just five Bigfoot stories in this podcast. I 178 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.000 really hope you like it. Most people like the Bigfoot 179 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.200 stories I get. So I made her and found five 180 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.960 Bigfoot stories for this podcast, just for the Bigfoot people. 181 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.399 And I appreciate you clicking on the video. Now, y'all 182 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:15.320 ready for some stories. All right, here we go. I'm 183 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.320 from South End in the UK, which is about thirty 184 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.159 five miles east of London. Ten years ago, when I 185 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.639 was seventeen, my sister, our friend and I went out 186 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.720 for a walk one evening. We ended up on a 187 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.720 new road that had only been opened for maybe a year. 188 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.759 It was in the middle of a farmer's field and 189 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:39.120 near an old World War II bunker. They were round 190 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.240 and reinforced concrete buildings that were dotted all around southeast 191 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:48.320 England and were used as lookouts for German aircraft. This 192 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.480 bunker hadn't been used since the war. One of the 193 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.440 doorways had been blocked up with dirt and overgrown with plants, 194 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.840 and just behind it was a long dirt footpath with 195 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.639 trees hugging both sides. When we got to the bunker, 196 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.399 our friend Matt went inside to explore it. My sister 197 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.759 and I stayed on the path and we joked with 198 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.120 him that he shouldn't get scared. Don't get scared, we said, 199 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.559 But just as we started to tease him, we heard 200 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.240 a noise coming from the trees to our right. When 201 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.240 we turned to look, we saw what I can only 202 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.159 describe as a thing. It had two large red eyes, 203 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.200 at least seven feet high, and it crashed through the 204 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.600 trees toward us like a derailed train. I couldn't call 205 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.200 it a monster, and I can't call it a human 206 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:40.320 because all we saw were the eyes. My sister and 207 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.120 I ran for our lives, shouting at Matt as we 208 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.519 went to get the hell out of there, And when 209 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.639 we made it back to the road in the field again, 210 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.360 my sister and I stopped to catch our breath. We 211 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.879 looked worriedly back toward the wooded area, but Matt still 212 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.960 hadn't come out, and we were both bouncing on our 213 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.399 toes and pacing restlessly, half expecting to hear him scream 214 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:05.799 or cry for help, and half expecting to see the 215 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.320 eyes chase after us again. After the longest five seconds 216 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.440 of my life, we saw Matt sprinting out of the 217 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.279 wooded area, and when he got to us, we ran 218 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:20.200 the rest of the way home, looking over our shoulders 219 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.559 the whole way. I'm not sure if this is connected 220 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.879 at all, but something strange happened. Two weeks later. I 221 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.120 had gotten up from a deep sleep in the middle 222 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.399 of the night to get some water, and when I 223 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.399 looked out my window I saw a bright, glowing light 224 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.240 hovering twenty feet from the ground. I watched it for 225 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.840 an entire minute as it floated motionlessly, and then in 226 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:45.679 the blink of an eye, it shot up into the 227 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.480 air and it was gone. Out of caution, I looked 228 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.240 in the direction of the bunker, sort of expecting to 229 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:55.840 see the glow of the red eyes again. Thankfully, I 230 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.320 didn't see anything but the darkness of the woods I 231 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.360 couldn't get over or the coincidence, though, What are the 232 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.440 chances of two strange events like this happening in the 233 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.679 same area just two weeks apart. Maybe the light was 234 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.240 looking for the creature, or maybe it wasn't related at all. 235 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.919 Either way, I started locking my windows after that. Stay 236 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.879 safe in this weird time. Oh man, what a good story. 237 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:26.039 Thank you for that story from England, thirty five miles 238 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.039 east of London. Wow, that's pretty cool. Was it a ufo? 239 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.440 Was it a bigfoot? Was it some kind of demon? 240 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:34.759 I don't know. I don't know. You never know on 241 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.639 these things, but this was really good. I love these 242 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:45.440 stories from the UK. Certainly appreciate the writer sending it. Okay, 243 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.879 here's an email about the Alabama White Thing. My wife 244 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.840 and I bought property in Coleman, Alabama a few years ago, 245 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.840 and not long after moving in, we heard a story 246 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.799 about a sighting of the Alabama White Thing. My wife 247 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.360 was talking to someone at the beauty shop and they 248 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.120 told her about a sighting that occurred only a mile 249 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.840 from where she lived. According to the story, ten years earlier, 250 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.039 a young man was visiting his folks who lived down 251 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.159 the road. When he left to go home, he witnessed 252 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.919 a large white animal running across the field on all fours. 253 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.039 The animal stood up at the edge of the field, 254 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:27.559 stepped over a barb wire fence, and walked into the 255 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.639 woods on two feet. After hearing this story, my wife 256 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.759 asked me about Bigfoot and whether or not I believed 257 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:36.960 in it and if I thought the creature was still 258 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.240 lurking in the area. While I was honest and I 259 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:43.039 told her I had seen so many unusual things that 260 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:47.039 did not discount the possibility that some sort of humanoid 261 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.480 throwback existed. And I also told her I had no 262 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:52.799 idea if the creature was still in the area, but 263 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.799 I thought it was unlikely. What she didn't know is 264 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.039 that I have a number of friends who say they 265 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:03.159 have witnessed a bit foot type creatures. One in particular, 266 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.360 was witnessed by four separate people at the same time 267 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:09.639 in Blunt County, just thirty miles from where we live. 268 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:13.600 According to the story, the group was hunting in the 269 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.679 woods on a mountain. It was late at night, and 270 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.720 the dogs were out ahead of the group, chasing raccoons. 271 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.360 They were following a creek bed when all of a sudden, 272 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.480 the dogs came running past the hunters yelping what their 273 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.200 tails took low. My friend said that they rounded a 274 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.679 corner in a creek when a large, hair covered creature 275 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.960 stood up and ran across the water in up a 276 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.399 steep bank. The creature used its hands to grab roots 277 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.639 and tree branches to climb out, and then disappeared into 278 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.759 the darkness. Now I was not a stranger to these tails, 279 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.879 but my wife had never even thought about such things 280 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.799 until she learned about the white Thing. When her curiosity grew, 281 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.879 I eventually told her the various sightings I had been 282 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:02.720 aware of around the area over the years. Well, not 283 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.799 long after that, in December of twenty twenty three, she 284 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:10.679 came home again with yet another story about the white thing. 285 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.399 This time it was a more recent story, and in 286 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.799 this story, a coworker said that one night, the herd 287 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:21.200 of ruckus in the woods behind their house. The noise 288 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.279 was a mix between a baby crying and a woman's 289 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:29.039 screaming bloody murder. Days later, the same people said that 290 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.279 they went out at the break of day to carry 291 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.399 out the garbage or something like that, when they saw 292 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.320 a large, white haired creature walk behind their barn and 293 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.879 disappear into the woods. I have come to believe that 294 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.639 these creatures lurk much closer to civilization than most people realize. 295 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.600 Since many of these stories happen right where I live, 296 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.159 I've taken up an interest in cryptis and I'm looking 297 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.159 for a group of like minded people who are willing 298 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.799 to share stories and information. To any of your listeners 299 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.160 who live in Alabama and have heard about the White Thing, 300 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:09.359 be careful out there. You are not alone. I hope 301 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:13.839 you find a group in Alabama to kind of settle 302 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:18.599 your curiosity and your newfound enthusiasm to look for cryptids. 303 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.599 You can I know my friend cat Rabbit has a 304 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:27.799 little group that they get together, and Lenita Bright, She's 305 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.119 has claimed she has bigfoot come on her property all 306 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.279 the time. You can probably look them up on Facebook. 307 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.680 I'm trying to think of the name of cat Rabbits group. 308 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.000 Maybe it's Alabama Bigfoot Hunters or something like that. But 309 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.960 if the writer will email me, I'll connect you with them. 310 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:50.279 But this white thing, this bigfoot, this white thing, Alabama 311 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.920 white thing phenomenon is coming up more and more. And 312 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.400 I don't know if it was because I've come across 313 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.559 a few stories and read them on the pot cast, 314 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:06.319 but it's almost like the there's two, two or three. 315 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.279 Let's see, there's three that I can that come to mind. 316 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.720 Number one the stories that recur a lot is the 317 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:19.240 Jersey Giant and the pine barrens of the northeastern United States. 318 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:22.480 I think they're in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, I don't know. 319 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:28.920 And then there is the Mogolon. I know it's mogi on, 320 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.599 but I call it moglon because the l is a L. 321 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:37.319 It's not silent. It is in Spanish but not in English, 322 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:39.920 so I call it the Moglon monster out in Arizona. 323 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.440 Got tons of stories of that, the Jersey Giant, and 324 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:50.200 then Momo in Missouri, the Missouri Momo monster, which is 325 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.119 a bigfoot. I bet I've gotten a dozen of those. 326 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.680 So you got the Jersey Giant, the Alabama and now 327 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.039 we have the Alabama white Things. So you got the 328 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:04.039 Jersey Giant, Oglon monster, Momo in Missouri, and now the 329 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:08.039 white Thing. And these are local tales about creatures that 330 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.359 creep around in the woods and people see them all 331 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:13.640 the time. I mean, I've gotten tons of emails on 332 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:17.880 all these, and it really is an interesting phenomenon. So 333 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:20.480 thank you to the writer for this email. It was 334 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:26.880 really good. I enjoyed it. Thank you. All right. This 335 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.440 is a Mississippi story. This is a good one. One 336 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.400 time in Mississippi, I was on my way to work 337 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.519 on a billboard. To get there, I had to drive 338 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.680 on a hidden road with three houses on it. Two 339 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:42.440 of the houses were abandoned, but an old man lived 340 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.960 in the third one. Both of the abandoned houses had 341 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.960 cars and trucks and even campers parked out front. Everything 342 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:54.200 looked like it was just left behind. As I was 343 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.160 heading to the end of the road, the old man 344 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.079 came out and we got to talking, and he asked 345 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:01.799 if I believed in squats, and I told him, yeah, 346 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.160 I believe any That's when he told me about the 347 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.119 two other houses. A couple and their children moved into 348 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.720 one of the houses, and for about two years, the 349 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.880 old man would hear gunshots from their direction in the 350 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.400 middle of the night. He said, gunfire out there is 351 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.640 normal since they're in the woods and have black bears 352 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.880 to deal with, so he didn't think about it too much. 353 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:28.279 But one day he was going down the road when 354 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.319 the neighbor man walked out and stopped him. He asked 355 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.000 him if he had seen something creeping around his house 356 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.920 in the middle of the night and beating on his house. Well, 357 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.400 the old man told him no, but said that there 358 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.279 were lots of critters out theres that would do such 359 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:46.680 a thing. The neighbor asked him if the critters that 360 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:49.519 he was talking about were eight or nine feet tall 361 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.519 with hair all over them, and the man was honest 362 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:55.960 and he said, yes, there are what people call bigfoot 363 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.359 living in these woods, but to just ignore them, and 364 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.200 if they come, shoot once or twice in their direction 365 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.480 and they should leave you alone. Two weeks later, the 366 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.480 old man was woken up in the middle of the 367 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.720 night by multiple gunshots and he heard something screaming louder 368 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:16.519 than anything he had ever heard. The next afternoon, when 369 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:19.440 he was heading to the store, he noticed a moving 370 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.559 truck in front of his neighbor's house, and as he 371 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:25.359 drove by, the guy stopped him again and he said, hey, 372 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:29.279 old timer, I'm leaving this place. Well, the old man 373 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:31.759 asked what had happened and said that he had heard 374 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:35.079 the gunshots the night before, and the neighbor said that 375 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.400 in the middle of the night something was beating on 376 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.599 the house again, but this time it was worse. Than ever. 377 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.880 He said that not only was the creature beating on 378 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.599 the house, but it was also trying to open the door, 379 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.359 and the neighbor shot at the door, but it only 380 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:53.039 made things worse, and the creature started ripping the siding 381 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.720 off the back of the house and it was shattering 382 00:21:55.839 --> 00:22:00.480 the windows. He fired more shots toward the thing. Everything 383 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.400 got silent, and then all of a sudden, a tree 384 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.200 slammed into the back of a house, and the neighbor 385 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.599 said that he had had enough and he and his 386 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.920 wife were leaving. He said he and his brothers would 387 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.680 come back another time to pack everything and move out. 388 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:18.359 Two weeks after that, the people who lived in the 389 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.039 other house left too. That was three or four years ago, 390 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:24.559 but no one had ever come back to get their stuff. 391 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.440 The old man told me to keep my eyes open 392 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:30.759 while I was working, and to make sure that I 393 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.799 was out of there before dark, because that's when things 394 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.920 started happening. I told him I had my own experience once, 395 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.960 and I asked him if he minded if I came 396 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.519 out one evening to investigate. He told me that I 397 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:45.880 could come back anytime I wanted, as long as I 398 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.000 called him first. So he was expecting me and to 399 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:53.119 come before dark so we wouldn't accidentally get shot, he said. 400 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:55.160 If I do come back, to come back with a 401 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.680