Speaker 1: Hello, everybody.
Speaker 2: My name is Chris Kirk, and I live on Douglas
Speaker 2: Lake up in Dandridge, Tennessee. Have been here about thirty years.
Speaker 2: And what I'm here to tell you about today is
Speaker 2: a very strange period of my life, which is pretty
Speaker 2: much the summer of twenty fourteen. The summer of twenty
Speaker 2: fourteen here began very strange, and it ended just like
Speaker 2: it began. And I'll try to make this concise and
Speaker 2: try to remember the sequence of these events, because it's
Speaker 2: already been ten years now. But I was sitting right
Speaker 2: behind this camera one night in April of twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: and I felt an overwhelming compulsion to go out this
Speaker 2: door and over and get in my hot tub. And
Speaker 2: I really didn't want to do it, but my own
Speaker 2: function took me out there finally.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I.
Speaker 2: Got in the hot tub, I got all set up
Speaker 2: and I looked up in the sky above my home
Speaker 2: here looking north, and I saw a star and it
Speaker 2: got really bright and being and bright and dim. It
Speaker 2: did it four times, and on the fourth time it
Speaker 2: got bright, it just took off. Well that just seeing
Speaker 2: that left me in a quite a state. But that's
Speaker 2: just how it began until I developed this vertigo real bad.
Speaker 2: This lake has become rather popular, so I fish at night,
Speaker 2: going out with all the boat traffic and stuff. It
Speaker 2: sort of bothers them for someone who's a little dizzy.
Speaker 2: But so I go out at night, and it's a
Speaker 2: lot in those days. But right after I saw the star,
Speaker 2: I packed my little bag and I went down my
Speaker 2: steps and got in my boat about midnight and went
Speaker 2: up to my favorite fishing spot right up the lake
Speaker 2: here less than a mile and a half, and I
Speaker 2: was fishing on a point that I've been very successful
Speaker 2: catching some small mouth on and something was dropping little
Speaker 2: pebbles close to my boat, and at first I thought
Speaker 2: they were acorns, But then the pebbles started coming with
Speaker 2: some velocity right off and this is now one o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning, right off of this hillside that's maybe
Speaker 2: seventy five feet high. And then the rocks came a
Speaker 2: little larger rocks, and they came around my boat, and
Speaker 2: they were getting close to my boat, and I didn't
Speaker 2: know if there were some kids up there or something
Speaker 2: was shaking stuff off the bank. So I got on
Speaker 2: the troller motor and I backed off the bank, maybe
Speaker 2: ten yards well, I began to fish again, and the
Speaker 2: next rock that came was a rock that was about
Speaker 2: the size of a large coffee table, and it hit
Speaker 2: within a foot of my boat. And I came home
Speaker 2: a mile and a half down the lake, turned into
Speaker 2: my cove here, pulled in my dock, and generally speaking,
Speaker 2: in the summer, this cove here's probably one hundred decibels
Speaker 2: of natural sounds, crickets and frogs. It's a loud cove.
Speaker 2: And I pulled in and parked, wrapped the boat around,
Speaker 2: wrapped the rope around the cleak, turned off the motor,
Speaker 2: and it was just a whole cove was just alive.
Speaker 2: And by the time I got my paraphernalia to bring
Speaker 2: back up the hill to home, the woods went totally silent, totally.
Speaker 2: That's never happened before. So I climbed these steps, which
Speaker 2: usually is a ten minute trick for the old man.
Speaker 2: I did it in about thirty seconds. I came up
Speaker 2: this hill and was inside terrified. Quite frankly, it's sort
Speaker 2: of hard to admit to be afraid of something like that,
Speaker 2: but just a weird evening. I had other evenings after
Speaker 2: that where I went out at night like I say,
Speaker 2: fishing here in the daytime, with the boat traffic the way,
Speaker 2: it is pretty intenable, untenable, but at any rate. As
Speaker 2: the summer progressed, I went out one evening.
Speaker 1: I went out.
Speaker 2: I was on my favorite fishing spot. Again I made
Speaker 2: I had to make myself go back because I've got
Speaker 2: quite this creepy feel about that place. And again I
Speaker 2: was getting some little pebbles thrown around me, and I
Speaker 2: backed off the point and decided to just come home.
Speaker 2: And as I turned the boat around to head back home,
Speaker 2: something that was extremely heavy, and some physicists may be
Speaker 2: able to tell me just how heavy, but it was bipedal,
Speaker 2: and it ran around from one point I was fishing
Speaker 2: on through the like a circle sea back of a cove,
Speaker 2: around to the other point, which was between me and home,
Speaker 2: like it was going to meet me. And this thing
Speaker 2: was by pedal in it did probably a quarter of
Speaker 2: a mile and about twelve steps.
Speaker 1: Boom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 2: And I could actually feel it resonate through the water
Speaker 2: into my boat, into my feet. I could feel this thing,
Speaker 2: that's how heavy it was. Well, I came home rather quickly.
Speaker 2: This part I don't know if I've mentioned before when
Speaker 2: I came in the cove. My neighbors have boats, and
Speaker 2: it's it's not nice to pass somebody's boat dot doing
Speaker 2: sixty in a cove because you've just torn their boat
Speaker 2: up or ripped it. You've done damage. But I didn't
Speaker 2: slow down like I should have that night. Now, I
Speaker 2: didn't come off a plane until I got right here,
Speaker 2: close to my dog. And something as I came off
Speaker 2: a plane. If you're familiar the way a bass boat
Speaker 2: does when you dethrottle, you'll come off a plane and
Speaker 2: come down.
Speaker 1: As soon as I did, I heard something go kok boosh.
Speaker 2: It felt like someone throw a car or a truck
Speaker 2: in the lake beside me. This is a very small
Speaker 2: cove here, even when the lake's at full pool, it's
Speaker 2: only about sixty feet across, maybe fifty.
Speaker 3: So so I grabbed my spotlight immediately shined it in
Speaker 3: the water in front of me, where there was no
Speaker 3: boat wake.
Speaker 2: Yet something the size of a bus just fell in
Speaker 2: there and there was no wake, So I'm really creeped out.
Speaker 2: So I tie the boat up, I come up the
Speaker 2: hill quickly. The next day, I looked out there and
Speaker 2: from across the cove as I say, this cove at
Speaker 2: full pools only about fifty feet wide. There were six trees,
Speaker 2: not five or two or seven, six trees specifically broken
Speaker 2: from across the cove to lay right up against my
Speaker 2: boat motor, so I could not.
Speaker 1: Get my boat out of the dock that was in
Speaker 1: the middle of all this.
Speaker 2: Soon after that, my favorite fishing hole whole was off limits.
Speaker 2: I quit going up there. I started fishing close here,
Speaker 2: and one night, at three o'clock, I was on this
Speaker 2: point we call it Ike's Point. Ike didn't own this
Speaker 2: big farm here, and there's a well, I shouldn't tell
Speaker 2: that much. I don't want anybody else fishing it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: there's a very fishy point here close to my house,
Speaker 2: very close to my house. Because I wasn't willing to
Speaker 2: go off into the dark night anymore, I.
Speaker 1: Was a little spooted.
Speaker 2: But I'm standing out here fishing and I'm catching fish,
Speaker 2: and I hear this scream and I can't mimic it,
Speaker 2: but it was. It was a blood curdling very It
Speaker 2: started off very base, it went right crescendoed into this.
Speaker 1: And what spooked me the most was this.
Speaker 2: As the summer began, I knew something was going to
Speaker 2: happen that got my happy butt in that hot tub
Speaker 2: so I could see that star. When I heard this scream,
Speaker 2: I had the same feeling. I knew it would do
Speaker 2: it three times, and I knew the timing.
Speaker 1: This blew me away? How do I know this?
Speaker 2: And I went three two one, and I stood there
Speaker 2: a few moments and I went three two one on
Speaker 2: Q perfectly right, So I came up.
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