WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.080 In twenty and nineteen, I took a security job night 2 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.199 watching equipment in the middle of the woods at a 3 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.679 temporary concrete plant close to the town I used to 4 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.839 live in. It was a blessing for me to land 5 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:26.960 this job at that time, and on the first night there, 6 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.519 I relieved my uncle's best friend, who I had not 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.399 seen in forever, so I knew I should be just 8 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:38.399 fine there. The first few months were uneventful. I would 9 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.960 leave the windows down on my truck, and that's when 10 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.240 I started hearing tree limbs breaking off in the distance 11 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.280 and gravel hitting the metal pieces of the plant. I 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.960 wrote that office wind and rocks falling off the conveyor belt. 13 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.759 I left it at that. Sometimes I would take my 14 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.320 dog to work with me. He was a tough dog, 15 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.119 but he wouldn't even get out of the truck and 16 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:04.079 these noises started. He just stayed on the floor all 17 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.719 night with his hair standing up and he would growl. 18 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.280 I didn't think much of it at the time. Winter 19 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.000 started and I ended up getting a new car to 20 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.480 save gas and be able to stretch out. The first 21 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.519 night I drove the car to work, I parked it 22 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.959 behind these water tanks that were on the ground. They 23 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.480 were laid over, so you couldn't see me until you 24 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.200 walk right up on me. It was a good plan 25 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.680 to catch trespassers, but a bad plan for everything else, 26 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.840 because it meant something could walk up on me too, 27 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.040 and I wouldn't see them until it was too late. 28 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.200 It was around midnight. I had just laid my seat 29 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.879 back and I looked over my shoulder and I saw 30 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:47.239 this giant, white, gray looking thing walking up the driveway. 31 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.879 It looked like a guy in an Alabama sweatsuit. At first, 32 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.159 I'm six foot four and I weigh three hundred and 33 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.000 seventy five pounds, and I'm not scared of anything, but lord, 34 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.400 this scared me. All I could think of was what 35 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.519 an idiot walking up here at this time of night, 36 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.080 in the middle of nowhere. When whoever it was got 37 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.840 closer to the street light and I could see it, 38 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.439 I saw that it had a tan colored face, and 39 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.719 what I thought was a jumpsuit was actually hair, and 40 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.879 then it turned to look at me with that old 41 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:26.560 snap look on its face. Normally my truck was visible 42 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.479 from anywhere in the area, or you could hear it 43 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:33.199 pull up, and apparently I snuck in unnoticed that night. 44 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.319 When I got a good look at it, I spun 45 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.919 my car around and shined my headlights on it, and 46 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.680 I grabbed my AR fifteen. It has a vortex scope, 47 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.599 tack light and a laser on it. In these couple 48 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.960 of seconds, it made it to the woodline sixty yards 49 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.840 away with a light and laser on it, and looking 50 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.599 through the scope, all I could see was its eyes shining, 51 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.199 and I bet they were seven inches apart. It was 52 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:03.879 cloaked like in the movies, the predator being the dummy 53 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.919 that I am. I fired twenty rounds at its feet 54 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.919 and over its head and it never blinked once. I 55 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.199 wasn't going to stay in that spot any longer, so 56 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.360 I hauled to a lit parking area to finish my 57 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:20.080 shift out that night. The next night, at work, I 58 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.479 was nervous, so I carried my bullpop shotgun loaded with 59 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.840 one out slugs. All night I heard trees falling and 60 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.479 got awful howls. There was no wind or a cloud 61 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.199 in the sky. I ended up telling my uncle's friend 62 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.319 what had happened, and he was relieved to hear it. 63 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.240 Apparently he had been going through hell with these creatures. 64 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.520 According to him, there was more than one. There was 65 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.439 a new story a long time ago from this area 66 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:52.120 about a local man's livestock coming up dead, and if 67 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:56.840 I'm not mistaken, something broke the donkey's neck. This happened 68 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.159 right down the road from the area, not too far 69 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.479 from the woman who who had made friends with them. 70 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.759 You had her on at one time. Cam. There are 71 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:09.639 several more stories just about that job site, and if 72 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.960 you and the audience would like to hear more, let 73 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.680 me know. I could probably write a book on it. 74 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.240 Heck ya, we want to hear a man? Send them, 75 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.160 send them, send them. You can write a book, but 76 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.319 let me put them on the podcast. The man didn't 77 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.399 say whether to use his name or not, so I'm 78 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:28.360 not going to. But he's talking about the Alabama white thing, 79 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.399 and I think the woman he's referring to as my 80 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:35.839 friend kat Rabbit in Alabama. Anyway, this was, man, what 81 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.399 an exciting story. I really appreciate him sending it. Thank you, 82 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.040 all right, all right, thanks for joining the podcast. In 83 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.160 the last podcast I put out at the end, I said, 84 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:48.759 if you listen to the end of a two and 85 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:53.319 a half hour podcast, I'd shave your name in my back. 86 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.079 But there were too many names to do that. I 87 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.560 can't reach back there, and my wife's not going to 88 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.199 touch that, and I was afraid y'all wouldn't be able 89 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.160 to read it. So I just didn't do it. So 90 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.600 I didn't lie to you. That was kind of the intention, 91 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.240 but it became an impossibility because so many people listen 92 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.639 to the end. So I appreciate all you guys listening 93 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.000 to the end. Hey again, thanks for joining the podcast. 94 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:17.959 I don't know how many stories are going to be 95 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.240 in this podcast. I think four, couple of long ones, 96 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:24.879 a couple of short ones, whatever the deal. I hope 97 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:33.360 you enjoy it all. Right here we go. I have 98 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.160 a story that has haunted me my entire life. I 99 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:40.439 want to know what you think about this. I grew 100 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.639 up in West Tennessee, in a small community on the 101 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.279 other side of our town. Back in the early sixties, 102 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.480 we only had black and white television with three channels. 103 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.040 Our mom would tell us that there was no such 104 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.680 thing as monsters, and she allowed us to watch movies 105 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.000 with for ten monsters or aliens, as at the time, 106 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.519 looked robotic and cheesy. I was about four or five 107 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.319 years old and I slept on a makeshift feather bed 108 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.319 in the room with my parents. One night, I was 109 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.800 awaken from a deep sleep with a bright light on 110 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.879 my face. I would not open my eyes because I 111 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.959 was confused about why my mother would do that. It 112 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.720 was not like her at all to turn on a 113 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.879 light while I was sleeping. I waited and the light 114 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.240 stayed on, and I was feeling a bit cool. What 115 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.040 is my mother doing? I wondered in my half sleep state. 116 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.120 I could sense something standing at my head, and I 117 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:39.519 noticed that I couldn't move anything but my pinky fingers. 118 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.639 I felt the edge of my bed, only to feel 119 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.639 that it had a cool, metallic feel to it. I 120 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.720 was lying on my back and my head and feet 121 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.240 were straight. I slowly opened my eyes and I saw 122 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.439 that I was naked. I was in a sterile looking 123 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.199 room with no windows that I can remember. Each side 124 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.519 of me, there were two gray alien beings, and there 125 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.319 was one at my feet. I could still sense the 126 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.319 one at my head too, and all there were six 127 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.480 of them in the room with me. As soon as 128 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:14.480 I focused on these things, they simultaneously leaned over toward 129 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.879 my face. They looked alike with their big heads and 130 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:22.439 black eyes and slits for nostrils and mouths. I panicked 131 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.839 because I had never seen such things in my life. 132 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.199 I couldn't scream. I just kept trying, and the third 133 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.680 time that I tried to scream, I suddenly woke up 134 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.759 in my bed. My nightgown was on, and there was 135 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:39.319 like nothing had ever happened. This incident has stayed with 136 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.720 me my entire life. I was in my mid twenties 137 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.560 before I saw a real picture of a gray alien, 138 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.959 and I was shocked that picture was identical to those 139 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.000 six beings. My thoughts were instantly flooded with that memory 140 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:58.319 at that very moment. I have told one person about this, 141 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.920 and when I told them, that person looked at me 142 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.959 as if I was crazy. I've heard that when abductions occur, 143 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.439 these people are visited on a regular basis, but this 144 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:10.439 has not been the case for me, at least not 145 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.959 that I can remember. I have had other odd things 146 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:17.120 happen to me during my lifetime, but this one was 147 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:21.160 one of the most terrifying. Oh wow, you know, I 148 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.720 get these stories every once in a while, and I 149 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.120 hear them from people. I'm not going to say anything 150 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:31.560 that I don't think this woman has thought of herself 151 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:34.879 but could it have just been a very vivid dream 152 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.480 and those images in your mind of these aliens could 153 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.480 have been something you saw on television or in a 154 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.679 magazine or in a book. I'm not saying that's the case. 155 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.000 I'm just saying, could these things be explained like that? 156 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.799 Because every time I get one of these the person 157 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:57.279 is having, it's like they're unconscious but they're conscious. It's 158 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.559 almost like they're awake but they're not awake. Just sounds 159 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.440 a lot like a dream to me. I grew up 160 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.679 with the night terrors, and I can remember those dreams. 161 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:12.159 I'm sixty two and I can still remember those dreams 162 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.200 from fifty to fifty five years ago, just as clear 163 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.600 in my mind as I had just woken up from them. 164 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:25.559 Those night terrors, those night horrors, they imprint on your psyche, 165 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.320 and it's like a lot of people never forget them. 166 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.080 I would love to explain to you all some of 167 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.759 my night terrors that I've had, maybe I will someday, 168 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:37.399 and they're kind of silly. And I think one of 169 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:40.720 my sons had night terrors at night, and you know 170 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.039 now that I'm talking about that. I've never asked him 171 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.039 what those dreams were about, or if he can even 172 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.799 remember them. But now that I'm talking about it, I'm 173 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.720 going to see him at Christmas. I'm going to ask 174 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.159 him that this is very interesting. I don't doubt that 175 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.559 this woman had some kind of experience. That's not the 176 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.559 reason I said, could it be a dream? I'm always 177 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.519 looking for answers to a lot of these. I love 178 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.200 the story. If this is something that really happened to 179 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:10.000 this woman, doesn't matter. What matters is it bothers her 180 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.759 still today and she can't figure it out. So thank 181 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:18.759 you for sharing it with us. Okay, this is a 182 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:23.440 little This is a short, short, little story about a dog. 183 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.240 It's not a monster story. It's not Bigfoot, not dog Man, 184 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:30.840 not aliens. But it's a really good little story about 185 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.279 how intuitive dogs are. Let me read it to you. 186 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:39.240 Olympia was a beautiful, gentle golden retriever. Everyone loved her. 187 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.120 My friends used to argue over who got the babysit 188 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.519 her when I had to go away for a few days. 189 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.159 She was intelligent and intuitive. She knew when I was ill, 190 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.000 and she would stay in physical contact with me all 191 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.799 day and all night if I were ailing her hip 192 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.879 against mine, until I felt better. Once It was a 193 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.799 knock at the door, and outside was a big, scary 194 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:06.240 looking guy replete with leathern studs and tattoos. He had 195 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:11.720 a mohawk and a mean angry expression. Olympia became enraged 196 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.120 at the sight of this man, and I had to 197 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.000 restrain her or she would have gone through the screen 198 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.759 door after him. I had never once seen her act 199 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:25.200 like this. Could she smell his aggression? Could she smell 200 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:30.639 my fear? Olympia's best friend was a yellow lab named Katie. 201 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.720 Katie and her humans lived a few blocks away from us. 202 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.120 She was a frequent visitor and I used to take 203 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.399 care of her when her family had to go away. 204 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.120 If you've ever had a dog, you know that they 205 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.679 have specific places in the house that are their very 206 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.519 own place. Olympia liked to be on or next to 207 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.679 my bed, and Katie used to like to hang out 208 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.720 under the bed. Olympia never went under the bed though, 209 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:02.480 never that was case Eady's place. But one day she 210 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:05.919 suddenly went under the bed in Katie's spot, and for 211 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.399 two weeks that's where she stayed. And then suddenly she 212 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.480 re emerged and never went back under there again. Later, 213 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.200 I learned that just when Olympia started going under the bed, 214 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.919 poor Katie had died. When I found out, Olympia's behavior 215 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:27.279 made perfect sense. She was, after all, an incredible dog 216 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.799 with an incredible intuitive gift, and I was lucky to 217 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.080 call her my own. And that's the end of it. 218 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:35.879 But I thought that was good. I wanted to share 219 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.960 it with you because I like to talk about dogs, 220 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.720 and dogs seem to have a sense about those things. 221 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.279 Nobody can explain it. If you have a story that 222 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.879 you could send me that's an unusual story about a dog, 223 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.879 or just about a dog that you love, man, send 224 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.360 it to me. I'll put it on the podcast. I 225 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.320 love those stories. Sometimes it's good to break away from 226 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.759 the monster stuff and just read something good and heartwarming. 227 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:08.720 I really appreciate the writer for sending this. It was 228 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.720 late summer of two thousand and nine in a small 229 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:15.840 Minnesota town north of the Twin Cities. I was staying 230 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.159 in my buddy John's house on ten acres of forested land. 231 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:24.159 We were just seventeen at the time. John's dad built 232 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.480 a million dollar home on that plot of land, with 233 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.919 more rooms and doors and windows than you could count. 234 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.519 He even had a gun room, John's parents were out 235 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.559 of town on vacation in Mexico, and his sister was 236 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.360 at a friend's house for the week. So John came 237 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:42.480 and picked me up in his maroon Grand Marquee and 238 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:46.320 we went to his house. Nothing was out of the ordinary, 239 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.639 but I remember when I got out of the car, 240 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.080 I smell something rank in the air. I don't really 241 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:54.879 know how to describe this smell, but it made me 242 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:58.440 sick to my stomach. John said there was probably a 243 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.720 dead animal somewhere, not to worry about it. We got 244 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.480 inside through a couple of steaks on the grill and 245 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.159 enjoyed the view from his million dollar back patio, which 246 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.200 faced the vast wilderness and the ponds surrounded by trees. 247 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.679 Now I could hear the frogs sounding out different calls, 248 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.639 but otherwise there was no noise but the gentle breeze 249 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.720 and the leaves. But there was that smell again. It 250 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:25.679 was so bad that I had to go inside to 251 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.120 find a handkerchief to put over my face so I 252 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.440 could breathe. It didn't work very well, but I was 253 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.639 thankful that it helped it a little. By the time 254 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.440 we finished eating, there was nothing left but bones on 255 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.200 the plate. It was dark enough that you couldn't see 256 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.360 an inch into the tree line at the edge of 257 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:47.360 John's thick, beautiful golf course green lawn. We looked at 258 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.799 the steak bones on our plate and decided the only 259 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.080 rational thing to do was to see who could throw 260 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.480 them further in the woods. So we chunked them as 261 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.120 hard as we could, and we listened to the rustling 262 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.799 of them falling through the trees. We heard them hit 263 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:04.799 the ground, but what we didn't expect were the noises 264 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:08.840 that came after that. It sounded like a bear crashing 265 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:12.240 through the trees. The bears are rare in Minnesota, but 266 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.559 they are here, make no mistake. John and I decided 267 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:18.720 to get out there and go for a drive so 268 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.840 that whatever was crashing through the trees wouldn't be tempted 269 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.120 to come and check us out. We brought the grill in, 270 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:27.279 we hopped in the car, and we sped out of 271 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.840 there as quickly as we could. We drove around for 272 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.360 about an hour, listening to loud music, and made the 273 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.000 same trip over the same roads until it was pitch 274 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.360 black outside. It was about the sixth time that we 275 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.679 had made that loop when I started getting a funny feeling. 276 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.120 It was a sense of anxiety that I'd never felt. 277 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.879 Adrenaline immediately started coursing through my veins. I felt like 278 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.519 I was being watched by something big. I stopped listening 279 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.399 to the music and I was looking straight ahead. John 280 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.840 was barely paying attention other than he was going straight. 281 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.919 I saw a huge figure walk across the road. I 282 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.080 couldn't see its face, but I saw the shine of 283 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.879 its eyes. That some bitch had to be ten or 284 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:16.440 eleven feet tall, and its arms were unnaturally long to 285 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.720 be a human in a suit or a bear. It 286 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.120 was walking on two legs, but it walked more like 287 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.480 an ape than a human, and its feet were massive 288 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.320 and flat, and I could see the muscles rippling through 289 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.840 its thick, red gray fur. I felt fear like I 290 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.679 had never felt before in my life, and every hair 291 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.440 on my body stood straight up. It was like I 292 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.440 had been struck by lightning. I remember trying to scream 293 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.240 and I couldn't breathe. John never saw what crossed the road, 294 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.480 even though he came a foot from hitting it with 295 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.840 his car, But he noticed that something was wrong with me, 296 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.840 and he slapped me across the chest, which made me 297 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:57.600 catch my breath. What the hell's going on with you? 298 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.639 He asked. It was a bigfoot, I managed to get out. 299 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.960 John knew me as the craziest, most fearless person he 300 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.720 had ever met. He knew I never backed down from 301 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.240 any challenge or any dare, anything that was stupid and 302 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:16.119 could result in broken bones or death. But there I was, 303 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:19.920 his fearless friend, scared straight and barely able to speak. 304 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.839 My fight or flight response was always fight first, and 305 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:28.599 asked questions later. But I won't lie though I was 306 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.319 all flight that night. He slammed on the brakes and 307 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:34.400 spun the car around to go back to where I 308 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.519 saw what scared me, and we drove a little until 309 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.839 I could see footprints out the window, and John turned 310 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:45.160 his car so the headlights pointed into the trees. In 311 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.759 the light from the headlights, I saw the creature standing 312 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:50.079 behind a tree, and it was holding on to a 313 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.440 tall branch. If I didn't know what I was looking for, 314 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.359 I would have never have seen it. Right away, I 315 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.920 lost my breath and all my hair stood up again. 316 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.920 I felt like it was radiating anger straight at me. 317 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.440 John asked if I saw it, but all I could 318 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.240 do was point, So we rolled down his window and 319 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.519 stuck his head out, and he called out to it, 320 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.039 but the creature didn't move. And then he opened up 321 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:18.240 his door and got out and whooped into the forest, 322 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:21.440 and right then a loud, angry growled like I had 323 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.039 never heard before in my life, came right back at 324 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.599 him from the woods. John saw the creature as it 325 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.799 raised its hand in the air and threw a large 326 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.960 rock at the car, busting the headlight on his side. 327 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.160 He jumped back in the car and popped it in 328 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.119 reverse and kicked up rocks and gravel in the road 329 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.359 as he peeled out of there. We got back to 330 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.119 his house, pulled the car in the garage, and assessed 331 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.799 the damage. Then we started hearing banging on the house 332 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.440 and screams coming from outside, just like we heard on 333 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.480 the road. Well, we looked at each other and headed 334 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:59.240 to the gun room in the basement. John retrieved us 335 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.240 both a gun and a rifle, and the banging got 336 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.839 louder and more intense, and the screams were becoming deafening. 337 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.480 We headed upstairs to the ground floor and went out 338 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:13.200 the front door with our weapons pointed. John went left 339 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:16.079 and I went right. We were going to meet up 340 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.279 in the back of the house, and if we saw 341 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.359 this creature, we agreed we would shoot it. We ran 342 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.160 around the entire house and right into each other without 343 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.440 either of us seeing anything, but we could still hear 344 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:33.160 this thing screaming and banging around. We went inside through 345 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.640 the back door and closed and locked it, and then 346 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.440 went upstairs to their bonus room, which had a view 347 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.799 of the front and left side and the rear of 348 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.599 the property. There was a point at every window in 349 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.559 that room that you could open it up, step out 350 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.920 on the roof, and walk anywhere you wanted. And as 351 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.000 soon as we got in the room, we realized the 352 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:57.200 creature was screaming and banging around on the roof. John 353 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.039 opened up one of the windows, pointing his gun and 354 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.680 fired three shots into the air. That's when my fight 355 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:06.640 response kicked in, and I climbed out the window with 356 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.200 the rifle in my hand, and I turned to the 357 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.640 left and started onto the roof, and I saw the 358 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:16.480 creature standing there staring at me. I froze in fear. 359 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.440 At that moment, it seemed like Tom stood still, and 360 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.759 I was sure that I was gonna die. This thing's 361 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.559 fists were clenched and his arms looked like clubs, and 362 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.839 he was growling and showing me his long, gangly teeth 363 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.559 Behind me, John climbed out the window too, and he 364 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:37.440 saw me standing there, frozen and pointing the rifle at 365 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.400 the creature. And when John ran toward me, the creature 366 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.759 started to charge. I pulled the trigger as fast as 367 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:46.839 I could, and I fell backward. John grabbed me and 368 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:50.039 hoisted me back to my feet and started firing at 369 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:53.880 the creature while it was still charging us. He landed 370 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:57.759 a shot in the creature's left leg, right shoulder, and forearm, 371 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:00.880 and it let out a howl of pain, and I 372 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.000 pulled my trigger again, this time hitting him twice in 373 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.279 the chest. But it just kept coming at us even 374 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:12.079 after we had shot it. The creature jumped right over 375 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.599 us and off the roof, and it landed on the 376 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.759 earth like it was nothing. We heard him running back 377 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:21.279 into the forest, screaming and growling as it went, crashing 378 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:25.799 through the forest away from the house. Back inside the 379 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:29.079 Bonus Room, we sat at opposite windows, holding our guns 380 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:32.640 in hand and talking until we both passed out sitting up. 381 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.759 We woke up the next morning, both of us startled 382 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.799 and looking out the windows to see if there was 383 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.160 anything out there that shouldn't have been but it all 384 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:45.079 seemed clear, so we went out of the windows to 385 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.200 look around on the roof to see if we could 386 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:51.359 find blood. We did find a little, and John took 387 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:53.519 pictures of them to prove to his dad that we 388 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:58.799 weren't just messing around. Since then, I have lost contact 389 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.240 with John and his family, and I no longer have 390 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:04.680 access to those photos on the camera. But after we 391 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.559 took pictures, we washed all the blood off the roof 392 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.079 and the grass leading up to the tree line, and 393 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.480 then we followed the path that the creature had made. 394 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:17.119 We found its massive footprints and took photographs of them. 395 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:19.680 We followed it all the way down to the water 396 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:25.480 that's where it disappeared. I stayed there another three nights 397 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:29.279 with John at the house with absolutely no activity. We 398 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.240 called his father and his mother and explained what had happened, 399 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:34.920 and if it weren't for the pictures of the footprints 400 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:39.039 and the blood, they would have never believed us. We 401 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:41.839