1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: My encounter took place in Spencer County, Indiana, in July 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,199 of twenty ten. I was working as a city police 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,800 officer at the time. It had recently moved in with 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,320 a friend in the area. The house, set on several 5 00:00:24,359 --> 00:00:30,399 acres mostly forested. Spencer County is a spooky place. My 6 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,719 friends can attest to that. I've had all manner of 7 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:38,759 unexplainable weirdness happened to me up there. My friend had 8 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,439 been called away on business out of town, so I 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,359 was on my own for a few days. I had 10 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:47,399 been living in my new place for about three weeks, 11 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:52,079 and it was my day off. I'd been working third shift. 12 00:00:52,359 --> 00:00:54,520 I was up late trying to unpack the rest of 13 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,200 my things and clean up the place a bit when 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,200 I started getting an uneasy feeling of being watched. At first, 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,680 I shrugged it off and I put my side arm 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,200 on my hip and I continued working. A few hours later, 17 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,799 a decent sized rock hit the front window. It didn't 18 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:15,239 break the window, but I about jumped out of my skin. 19 00:01:16,519 --> 00:01:19,840 I retrieved my shotgun, stepped out onto the front porch, 20 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:22,640 and I racked around in the chamber, figuring I was 21 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:28,000 dealing with trespassers or methods. I saw him just inside 22 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,519 the tree line, maybe forty yards away. It was dark out, 23 00:01:32,599 --> 00:01:34,760 but the porch light was bright enough to see the 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,599 large silhouette crouching down. And then he stood up. Now 25 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,480 I'm about five foot eight and the porch is about 26 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,519 three feet off the ground, and from what I could see, 27 00:01:45,879 --> 00:01:49,799 we were close to eye to eye level. My fault was, 28 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:52,599 what is this big dude doing way out here in 29 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,439 the middle of nowhere in the wee hours of the night. 30 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,319 And then it dawned on me all at once what 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,680 I was looking at. I was a veteran cop and 32 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,560 had been in many dangerous situations. At that point in 33 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:09,280 my life, not much of anything could rattle me. I 34 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,080 couldn't say that anymore. I stood there, wide eyed and frozen, 35 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:16,599 with my shotgun cradled in both arms and across my 36 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,199 chest as he and I regarded each other. The few 37 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,039 seconds of our encounter seemed to last for hours. When 38 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:28,599 he gave me a loud snort and then he retreated 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,400 back into the woods. I could hear his departure as 40 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:35,479 the limbs cracked. I think he was letting me know 41 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:38,840 that he was leaving. Now I never once felt threatened. 42 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:41,520 I thought to aim my weapon at him, but I'd 43 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,159 decided against it. I think he was just curious, and 44 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,719 I don't think he wished me any harm. I went 45 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:51,080 back into the house and thought about what I had seen. 46 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:55,120 I didn't sleep at all that night. At first light, 47 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,960 I decided to drive to my station and get my 48 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,479 high powered rifle from my patrol old car just in case. 49 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,719 On my way there, I saw a friend of mine. 50 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,159 He's a county deputy, and he was sitting at a 51 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:10,479 local gas station. I stopped to say hi, and he 52 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,960 started telling me about this night. It had been looking 53 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,879 for a large man in a gilly suit prowling around 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,400 my neck of the woods. Then he asked if I 55 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:23,039 had seen anything. Well. I told him what I had seen, 56 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:26,159 figuring he would tease me about it, but he didn't. 57 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,719 Made a solemn face and he said, oh, it's just 58 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:33,960 him again. He proceeded to tell me of the reports 59 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,759 and incidents that he had been involved in, and that 60 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:39,639 from time to time our mutual friend would come out 61 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:43,919 and cause some mischief. Years later I started really trying 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,719 to learn about them. One of your videos mentioned an 63 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,280 encounter about four miles as the crow flies from where 64 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:54,439 I had mine, and another channel talked about a sighting 65 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:58,000 six miles away from me. I guess my friend has 66 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:05,479 been making the rounds. In the nineteen sixties, we lived 67 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,360 in the city of Pittsburgh on a hill that was 68 00:04:08,479 --> 00:04:13,319 undermined with old mine shafts. I was twelve years old 69 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,120 and running from the woods nearby to go home and 70 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,319 eat supper. You got into big trouble if you missed 71 00:04:19,319 --> 00:04:21,560 supper in my home. So I ran up the trail 72 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,040 as fast as I could get there. I was running 73 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,920 and I saw something move to my right, not that 74 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,279 far off the trail. I stopped in my tracks when 75 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,519 I saw it, and for a minute or two, I 76 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,560 found myself playing a silly game with a seven foot 77 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:40,720 tall brown and red haired creature. It was a bigfoot. 78 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,399 I had never in my life seen anything like this. 79 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,040 At that time, Frankenstein and the werewolf were the only 80 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:52,800 scary things I knew about. He would slide behind a 81 00:04:52,879 --> 00:04:55,120 tree and look from one side and then too the other, 82 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,040 peeking at me as I moved forward back to see 83 00:04:58,199 --> 00:05:02,199 him and watch what he was doing. At one point, 84 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,839 I decided that I'd had enough and I ran like 85 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,720 hell out of there. I never said a word to 86 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,319 my mother and my father about it either. Only recently 87 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,839 did I tell my wife of fifty four years. And 88 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:19,040 then two short years ago, I was golfing at Whitewater 89 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,040 Creek in Fayettville, Georgia. It was mid December and most 90 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,639 of the leaves had fallen off the trees. Two golf 91 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,920 carts pulled up to the number sixteen tea box, which 92 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:34,079 was beside two ponds. We started getting out when my 93 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,920 buddy next to me shouted, Hey, Dave, there's bigfoot. We 94 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,079 looked across the pond into the woods, and sure enough 95 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,720 we saw something massive and black walking through the trees 96 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:49,879 not sixty feet from us. Well, I couldn't see all 97 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,639 of it, but enough to know what we were looking at. 98 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,000 My buddy and I turned the cart around and drove 99 00:05:56,079 --> 00:05:58,399 to the edge of the woods where the thing had walked. 100 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,000 And when I pulled up to the edge of the trees, 101 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:04,600 we saw the thing walking right toward us. When my 102 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,000 buddy slapped my legs, shouting, let's get out of here. 103 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,040 But I wasn't ready to go, and I shouted and 104 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,199 I whistled at the thing, and then I watched him 105 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,720 walk off and go back the way he came. The 106 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,240 sun hit its back for a few seconds, and I 107 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,800 could see it's jet black fur, and it's a massive 108 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:25,319 arm and shoulder and part of its head. We watched 109 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,560 it go over the little hill and out of sight 110 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,120 toward a whitewater creek. And when my buddy and I 111 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:33,360 got back to the others, we opened a beer and 112 00:06:33,439 --> 00:06:36,199 did not talk about what we had seen. And it 113 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,279 wasn't until two years later that my friend spoke about 114 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,439 it again. He said it looked like a big, black 115 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:47,639 fifty five gallon oil drum walking on two legs during 116 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,319 the summertime. The woods are so thick with leaves that 117 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:52,920 you can't see five feet through the trees and bushes. 118 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,600 But I'm sure it's still out there, though, and that 119 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:01,639 we got lucky to see it when we did. I 120 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,040 once met a young lady from an indigenous tribe in 121 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,920 British Columbia. Her grandmother lived in Victoria and had a 122 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:12,519 big house with a deck and a fence din yard. 123 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:16,279 On the other side of the fence was forest land, 124 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,279 and Bigfoot was well known to be all around that area. 125 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,160 She used to babysit her nieces and nephews at her 126 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,399 grandma's house. While she was there, she could hear the 127 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:31,879 bigfoots wood claps and chatter and screams. She could see 128 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:37,160 them interacting with each other inside the trees. Whenever Bigfoot 129 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,959 was around, she and the children were not allowed outside 130 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,360 because they were not allowed to disturb them. She was 131 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,920 raised to believe that bigfoot are keepers of the land. 132 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,199 She was taught that if she didn't bother them, the 133 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,879 Bigfoot families would not bother her. Whenever the creatures got 134 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,319 spooked by a nearby human, the mama Bigfoot would tell 135 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:00,800 the little ones to hide while she and the others 136 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:04,319 saddled up next to the trees and blended into the surroundings. 137 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,240 One time, she was watching a group of bigfoots on 138 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:11,240 the other side of the fence when something in the 139 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,920 woods alerted them. She watched them quickly hide among the trees, 140 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,160 each of them planted so perfectly that it was hard 141 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:23,519 to tell they were even there. That conversation has stayed 142 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,600 with me all these years. I found it fascinating how 143 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:31,399 calm and comfortable she was talking about them, about the 144 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:36,200 forest neighbors she coexisted with so peacefully, She said, she 145 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,919 wasn't allowed to tell anyone where her grandma lived, otherwise 146 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,039 people would come out to bother them. Thank you for 147 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,039 all you do. I love and appreciate your channel sign Marcy. 148 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,559 I am a lifelong resident of Ross County, Ohio. My 149 00:08:56,639 --> 00:08:59,679 first sighting of a bigfoot came in nineteen ninety nine 150 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,000 when I I was eleven years old. My family and 151 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:06,039 I were in the car returning home from Illinois after 152 00:09:06,159 --> 00:09:11,080 visiting my aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving. I remember staring 153 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,559 out of my window and looking into the trees when 154 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,639 I saw something furry and tall and black walking through 155 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,799 the thicket. I probably saw it for six seconds, but 156 00:09:21,879 --> 00:09:25,240 it felt like an eternity, watching this thing ambling along 157 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:27,759 like it didn't have a care in the whole world. 158 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,799 I blurted out, I saw a bigfoot, just like Harry 159 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:35,600 and the Hendersons. I saw one right now in the woods. Well, 160 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:38,120 my mom gave me a weird look, and my sister 161 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,200 did somewhat the same, and she called me a dork. 162 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:47,919 Dad said something like, that's malarkey, Fred, bigfoot isn't real. Well, 163 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,279 I protested, and I doubled down, but my dad said 164 00:09:51,279 --> 00:09:53,799 it was probably a local guy wearing a big coat 165 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,360 out there, and then I let it go since I 166 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:00,399 knew none of them believed me anyway. And then we 167 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,799 come to April of twenty twenty one. My parents own 168 00:10:04,879 --> 00:10:08,000 a few acres of land not far from the family house. 169 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,039 In the middle of that land is a small cabin 170 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,120 surrounded by trees. My family members have used a cabin 171 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,919 over the years for various things like parties and celebrations, 172 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,159 and as a place to hunt for deer during the season. 173 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,639 One time, on a visit to the cabin, I was 174 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,840 in the process of unloading my jeep when I saw 175 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:33,000 something standing just fifteen feet from me. It was closely 176 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,480 observing what I was doing. It had reddish fur four 177 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:41,960 inches long. I think it was a juvenile bigfoot. It 178 00:10:42,039 --> 00:10:46,600 cautiously approached me until we were ten feet apart. It 179 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:49,039 was only five feet tall, and it smelled like a 180 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,440 dog that had never had a bath in its life. 181 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,600 When it was closer, I could see it wasn't a 182 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:59,440 juvenile bigfoot after all. It had very human looking like features, 183 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,480 not like that of a gorilla or a primate. His 184 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:06,799 nose was a lot like mine, albeit a little broader, 185 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,080 and his lips were like a person's had a short 186 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,360 neck and long arms, and its hands hung down past 187 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,080 its knees. While diminutive in stature, it was wide and 188 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,600 muscular everywhere nonetheless, and then I saw that it was 189 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,480 missing an ear looked like it had been torn off. 190 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,720 He had a large scar that started under his right eye, 191 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:32,159 and it ran down over his lips. The scar continued 192 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,399 downward and then hooked right, giving in an l shape. 193 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,320 Something or someone had clearly harmed this creature. My final 194 00:11:40,399 --> 00:11:42,759 thought was that he was a bigfoot with some type 195 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:47,919 of dwarfism. No, I wasn't scared. I didn't feel threatened 196 00:11:48,039 --> 00:11:51,559 or intimidated by him. I think he was just curious 197 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,279 and wanted to investigate. He stood there and he tilted 198 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:58,360 his head sideways at me, and he gave me a big, dopey, 199 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:01,879 goofy smile, grinning at me like we were friends and 200 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,759 he'd known me his entire life. He turned around and 201 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,679 walked back toward the forest. Then he smiled at me 202 00:12:08,799 --> 00:12:11,320 one more time, and he went into the woods, and 203 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,480 then he was out of sight. The next morning, I 204 00:12:14,519 --> 00:12:16,840 had just sat down for my breakfast when I noticed 205 00:12:16,879 --> 00:12:19,879 he had returned. He was looking in the window and 206 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,840 smiling that dope. He smile at me once again. He 207 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,240 looked at my breakfast, and he licked his lips like 208 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:29,360 he was hungry. So I took my plate carefully and 209 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,440 opened the front door and walked outside. I returned his 210 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,240 smile and placed the food on the porch and took 211 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:39,240 two steps back. He looked down at the food and 212 00:12:39,279 --> 00:12:41,440 back up at me like he was saying, is this 213 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:45,279 for me? I maintained my smile as he picked up 214 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,480 the plate and turned around and went back into the woods, 215 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,399 just like the day before. He smiled at me again, 216 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,320 and then he disappeared. Later that evening, I went out 217 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:57,559 to the jeep and I placed some fruit and cheese 218 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,840 and chocolate on the hood. When I peeeded out almost 219 00:13:00,879 --> 00:13:05,200 an hour later, all of that was gone. The next day, 220 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,120 he didn't show up. When I was having breakfast, I 221 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,759 ate and I went outside, and then I noticed some 222 00:13:10,799 --> 00:13:12,919 items on the hood of my jeep where I'd left 223 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,000 the food for him. There were three polished blue rocks, 224 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,919 a large flint arrowhead, a Susan B Anthony dollar coin, 225 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,440 a torn Canadian twenty dollar bill with bike marks on it, 226 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,960 and a pine cone in the head and arm of 227 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,600 a Barbie Doll. The night before I went back home, 228 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:39,000 I saw two triangle shaped ufo silently floating near the cabin. 229 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:42,679 They moved up around each other as though they were dancing, 230 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,240 and when I took a couple of steps off the 231 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,519 porch for a better view, they stopped in midair as 232 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,279 though they had noticed me. After a few seconds, they 233 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,360 shot straight up into the sky and they were gone. 234 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,600 I don't know if they had anything to do with Bigfoot, 235 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:02,080 but it felt like more than just a incidents. Now. 236 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,799 I never did see that Bigfoot again, but my wish 237 00:14:04,879 --> 00:14:08,759 is that wherever he is, he's well as a man 238 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:11,840 coming from a family of non believers. Thank you for 239 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,279 letting me get this off of my chest, he signs Fred. 240 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:23,600 This is a story about an evil spirit. Let's see 241 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:27,440 what the writer has to say. I was attending the 242 00:14:27,639 --> 00:14:31,919 University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and on weekends, 243 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,840 when I wasn't working or loaded with homework, I would 244 00:14:34,879 --> 00:14:38,279 head up into the Wasatch Mountains to fish, camp or 245 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,039 hike around the many lakes. The skies at night were 246 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,240 absolutely amazing, and I would stargaze for hour, watching the 247 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:51,399 comments and finding constellations. I love seeing the wildlife roaming, 248 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,679 and I never got tired of being surrounded by the 249 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,440 peace and solitude of nature. I love the evergreens and 250 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,240 the aspen trees, and the colors of the evening and 251 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,720 dawn that seemed to be painted in the sky. It's 252 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:07,919 a gorgeous country up there. On one summer night, I 253 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,679 went fishing with one of my buddies. We had a 254 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:13,840 great spot on the river to catch rainbow trout, which 255 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:18,399 always tastes amazing over a campfire. After dinner, we went 256 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,000 to an overlook to watch the animals that would pass 257 00:15:21,039 --> 00:15:25,240 by lower in the valley. We didn't need flashlights. The 258 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:28,000 moon was full and so bright that we could see 259 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,440 our shadows well. We were sitting on the front of 260 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,840 his car and talking about school and work and fish 261 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,759 and life in general. After about an hour, I felt 262 00:15:38,759 --> 00:15:43,240 the creepy sensation that something was watching me. I knew 263 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,440 we were alone out there, so I thought it might 264 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,840 be in my head, and I said nothing to my friend. 265 00:15:48,919 --> 00:15:51,840 But then a few minutes later the feeling became gradually 266 00:15:51,919 --> 00:15:55,000 more intense and dark. I felt the vibe that can 267 00:15:55,039 --> 00:16:01,360 only be described as evil, angry, mocking, pure evil. Whoever 268 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,559 or whatever it was I could feel it standing just 269 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,720 away from the back of the car. There's something really 270 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,000 scary going on. Someone's behind us, I quietly told my friend. 271 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,399 They just looked at me and shrugged. Oh, yeah, I know, 272 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,399 I see him a lot. If I hadn't been in 273 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,480 a state of near panic at that point and had 274 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:26,159 been able to think straight, I would have tossed my 275 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:29,960 friend down the mountain and left without him what I 276 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,559 asked him in pure confusion and panic. You know we 277 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,399 need to go now, I said. I slid off the 278 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:41,320 hood of the car and got inside, careful not to 279 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,559 look up and back toward the trunk. But my friend 280 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,120 took us time getting in, started the car, and slowly 281 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,559 drove off. All the while I was next to him 282 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,600 shouting for him to hit the gas and get us 283 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,799 the hell out of there. My heart was racing, my 284 00:16:55,879 --> 00:16:59,039 hands were shaking, and my face felt hot. It was 285 00:16:59,159 --> 00:17:03,960 sheer terror. I had never experienced fear like this before, 286 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,799 and I'm happy to if not have felt it. Since 287 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,200 the further away we drove the calmer, I felt whatever 288 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,960 it was it had stayed behind. Once I calmed down 289 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,079 a bit, I asked my friend how long he had 290 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,759 known that evil spirit had been there, and why it 291 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,400 was there, and why in the world didn't we leave. 292 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,119 As soon as he knew what was going on, he 293 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,119 told me that he was used to it, and I 294 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,559 actually described what the spirit looked like. When I got home, 295 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,480 I prayed like there was no tomorrow, that this thing 296 00:17:35,519 --> 00:17:39,799 would stay away from me. I eventually distanced myself from 297 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:43,440 my friend after he told me about numerous dark experience 298 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,359 he had had and that he had no intention of 299 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:51,319 ridding himself of the sources of evil. There's most definitely 300 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,079 good versus evil, and light versus dark in this world 301 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:59,160 that we don't usually see, but if we're sensitive enough, 302 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,799 we can. I certainly feel it. I was never into 303 00:18:02,839 --> 00:18:06,319 the occult or Ouiji boards or anything like that. I 304 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,319 never dabbled in activity seeking out the darkness because I 305 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,880 didn't want to find it. Now that I'm married and 306 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,759 I have kids, I warned my family of the dangers 307 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:22,559 that are lightly hidden there, just beyond our perception. Although 308 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:26,480 this happened to me many years ago, Unfortunately, I'll never 309 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:30,240 forget a second of the encounter or the feelings that 310 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,400 came with it. Okay, I'm going to bring up an 311 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,400 archive story, just one for this podcast, But if you're 312 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,200 skipping these archived stories, I would encourage you to listen 313 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,519 to this one to get a little taste of how 314 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:50,319 good these stories are that I was doing five or 315 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,599 six years ago. They're just as good as the stories 316 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,640 I do now. But some of them had a particular 317 00:18:55,799 --> 00:19:00,039 twist or a bit of humor in them, or something 318 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,559 unusual that you don't hear much, you know, in these 319 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,839 creature type circles. But I think you'll enjoy this archive 320 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,200 if you'll just listen in. I think it's about fifteen 321 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:14,960 sixteen minutes long, but it's the way if you've heard 322 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,920 it before, it's probably worth listening again, So I hope 323 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,559 you enjoy it. So here's an archived story. I did 324 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:25,319 it in a podcast five years ago. This encounter took 325 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,440 place in Maryland back in the summer of nineteen sixty two. 326 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:32,880 The knowledge of a bigfoot creature was not common, and 327 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,799 I never knew of their existence. Then this one special, 328 00:19:36,839 --> 00:19:40,640 eventful day, My interaction with a strange creature was forever 329 00:19:40,799 --> 00:19:45,039 embedded deeply within my memories. It was not until years 330 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,839 later that I learned exactly what it was that I 331 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,960 had seen. Before getting into the details, of my encounter. 332 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,200 I want to give you a better picture of the 333 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,039 environment as it was back in nineteen sixty two. If 334 00:19:59,079 --> 00:20:00,720 you walk to the east, you're an end of the 335 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,160 road that I lived on, and made a left, you 336 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,039 would be on a road going north that would dead 337 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,480 end too the woods, and continued north into the woods 338 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:13,240 to a trail the woods was about a mile wide 339 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,680 north and south and many miles long east and west. 340 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,440 By following the river, you would be able to enter 341 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:27,319 the Pacapsco Valley State Park completely indiscreet. Guys, I'm sorry 342 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,680 about my pronunciation. The United States has chosen some of 343 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,319 the weirdest names to give places, but they're probably good names. 344 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,359 I just can't pronounce them, and you just got to 345 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,759 deal with that. Proceeding down the trail about a half 346 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:44,119 a mile into the woods, you had three choices. If 347 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,279 you went to the right, you would run into a 348 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:50,559 lake or swamp combo that was completely overrun by nature, 349 00:20:50,839 --> 00:20:54,440 making it difficult for most people to venture around the perimeter. 350 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:58,359 My friends and I were probably the only teens that 351 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:02,000 did this occasionally. It was worth the thrashing that we 352 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:04,880 would have to endure by the weeds and thorns because 353 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:10,599 you always ran into many animals, birds, reptiles, and other wildlife. Well, 354 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,160 now back to the trail. My encounter took place in 355 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,279 the early morning during the month of June in nineteen 356 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,519 sixty two and I was twelve and a half years old. 357 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,480 My closest friend and I would terrorize everything in the 358 00:21:24,519 --> 00:21:27,839 swamp and woods every day of our summer vacation and 359 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,200 after school hours when it was in season. We could 360 00:21:31,279 --> 00:21:34,720 not get enough of it. We had become very proficient 361 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:38,200 with our air rifles, able to hit dragonflies right out 362 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:42,720 of the air while flying. This one particular morning in June, 363 00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:45,559 as I went to get my friend for our daily ritual, 364 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,440 he sadly said in protest that he had to go 365 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:51,759 somewhere with his mother that day. I did not let 366 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:55,160 that stop me, however, and to make him feel even worse, 367 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,119 I reassured him that I was still going. I knew 368 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,799 the sight of just watching me walk off into the 369 00:22:01,799 --> 00:22:04,680 woods while he could not would really haunt him through 370 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,240 the day with his mother. Well a smile on my face. 371 00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:10,359 I went to the end of our road, made the 372 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,240 left and entered the woods. After proceeding past the dead end. 373 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,279 When I got to the split, I looked right and left, 374 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,319 deciding which way needed me the most. The swimming pond 375 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,119 wasn't any fun for the horror that I was about 376 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,279 to unleash on the swamp inhabitants, so I went to 377 00:22:28,319 --> 00:22:33,000 the left. I climbed up the embankment, across the flat area, 378 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:36,319 and down the other side to the swamp. I stood 379 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:38,599 there several minutes at the edge of the swamp, but 380 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:44,039 then I realized that something immediately seemed different. Surprisingly, I 381 00:22:44,079 --> 00:22:47,559 didn't see or hear any wildlife or any of the 382 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,559 usual chatter of the birds. The more I paid attention 383 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,640 to the silence, the more it raised my curiosity, and 384 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,559 then I suddenly had the strongest feeling that I was 385 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,440 being watched. I can't explain it, but it was something 386 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,799 that made me feel very uneasy. I started looking around 387 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,319 into the woods, but I didn't see anything. It was 388 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,640 not until I turned around one hundred and eighty degrees 389 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,000 with my back to the swamp and looked at the 390 00:23:16,079 --> 00:23:20,720 embankment that I had just descended. There, about forty yards 391 00:23:20,759 --> 00:23:24,680 away and hugging a good sized tree from behind, was 392 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:30,480 this huge, hairy creature standing on two legs. Its arms 393 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,480 were around the tree and It was facing me, leaning 394 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:37,160 out to its left side from its midsection, keeping its 395 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,759 lower body behind the tree, just peering around and watching me. 396 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,519 It was not doing a good job of hiding, because 397 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,799 it was much wider than the sixteen inch wide tree, 398 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,680 and from my point of view, there was about a 399 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:55,759 foot of exposed chest and shoulder on its left side, 400 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:58,960 and maybe two feet of its mass on the exposed 401 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:03,519 right side, where its head was. I was immediately taking 402 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:06,799 all of this in, realizing it was much taller than 403 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,279 any man I had ever seen, and unbelievably huge and muscular. 404 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,440 The body was covered with long, brownish colored hair, and 405 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:18,079 only part of the upper chest and parts of the 406 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,880 face were hairless. The head was big, and I thought 407 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,759 to myself that the top of its large head looked 408 00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:28,200 like the end of a football. We stared at each 409 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,440 other for what seemed like an eternity, and then, for 410 00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:35,160 whatever brilliant reasoning on my part, in an attempt to 411 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,279 scare it away, I raised my Sheridan Blue Streak air rifle, 412 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,920 which was pumped to the mix. I shot and hit 413 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,960 the creature in the most exposed part of its chest, 414 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:50,799 and to my amazement, it didn't even flinch. Not a 415 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:53,920 good idea, I thought, But I knew that it had 416 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,680 to hurt because I have to say that my Sheridan 417 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,960 was one of, if not the most powerful air rifle 418 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,599 available during that time, and it was able to pierce 419 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,680 a metal milk can. If you've ever shot a BB 420 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,240 or pellet rifle in the sunlight, you can sometimes see 421 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:14,920 the sun reflecting on the projectile as it's being propelled 422 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,640 to the target. This is what happened that day. I 423 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,559 could see the pellet all the way until it hit 424 00:25:21,599 --> 00:25:25,960 the creature. Now, if once wasn't enough. After seeing my 425 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,599 shot had no effect on this creature me and all 426 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,920 my infinite teen knowledge that I could muster, I decided 427 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,880 to shoot it again, and so I did. I saw 428 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,039 the twenty caliber pellet hit in just about the same 429 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,839 spot on its exposed chest. When I saw that this 430 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,759 shot had no effect either, my immediate thought was why 431 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,160 the heck did I just do that? Then, to show 432 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,759 me that I was having the right thought, the creature 433 00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:57,680 stepped out from behind the tree, showing me just how 434 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,599 massive he was, and also to imply that didn't hurt 435 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:07,039 a bit. Boy. I now say descriptively he because when 436 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:10,559 he stepped from behind the tree. My golf ball sized 437 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,200 eyes dropped from his head and chest, and realized that 438 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:18,079 it was definitely a male. I could not look away 439 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,319 or believe what I was seeing. Was he offering me 440 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,279 a new target. I quickly dismissed this thought because up 441 00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:28,279 to now he was not aggressive, and I knew that 442 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,359 if I took that third shot at his newly revealed 443 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,359 lower region, that this would end very badly for me. 444 00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:41,640 And I can see this kid going should I shoot 445 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,200 it or should I not? That was all that I needed, 446 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,799 because then I realized that I needed a good new 447 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:51,839 plan fast. My first plan had failed of trying to 448 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,240 get this thing to run away so I could get 449 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,759 out of there by my same trail home that I 450 00:26:56,799 --> 00:27:00,400 had come in on. To make matters even worse, I 451 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,000 think I only had succeeded in pissing this huge creature off, 452 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,920 and just to be sure that I had accomplished that, 453 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,039 and to be sure it was absolutely pissed off, I 454 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,160 had shot it that second time, I avoided taking that 455 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,680 tempting third shot, and my new plan was very simple. 456 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,039 Run like hell. I had only one other option as 457 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:25,519 an avenue of escape, and that was to go into 458 00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:28,759 the woods to the north towards the swimming lake and 459 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:32,640 get to that housing community on the other side. It 460 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:35,079 was not a decision that I wanted to make, but 461 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,960 under the circumstances with the doubly shot pissed off big 462 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,119 hairy creature, I know what they say about running from 463 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,359 an animal and being chased as prey. Despite this, I 464 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,359 was out of option, so I immediately ran and lit 465 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,839 up that trail and probably amazed that creature so much 466 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,680 that if it was capable of thought, it was probably 467 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:01,160 thinking I never knew that could move that fast. I 468 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:05,240 probably resembled the cartoon character the road Runner, burning a 469 00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:09,079 trail out of there. I made that trip in record time, 470 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,000 even though it dumped me out miles away from home. 471 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:16,640 I was happy, just happy to again see people, and 472 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,240 the fact that the creature did not chase me or 473 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,480 retaliate for me giving it such a whipping. It probably 474 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,160 just dismissed everything as it walked casually away and thought 475 00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:30,799 what a stupid kid, and just decided to just leave 476 00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:34,039 me alone, and probably shaking its head at our encounter 477 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,359 as it departed, happy to have its own story to 478 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:42,160 tell to its own family. But this story does not endhere. 479 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,119 When I safely got back home, I began rounding up 480 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,519 some friends, and after several hours of convincing them that 481 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,960 I was not crazy, six fearless or stupid teenage warriors 482 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:56,920 went back to the woods equipped with air guns and 483 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:02,039 baseball bats. Our scouring the woods by the swamp did 484 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:05,319 not reveal the creature, and I was not disappointed because 485 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:07,759 I was afraid it would still be hacked off at me, 486 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,640 remembering that I was the one that shot it. During 487 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,680 our search, we did find an obvious bedding area that 488 00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,480 was made from soft pine branches carefully arranged and they 489 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,680 were completely mashed down. The location of this bed was 490 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,480 at the top of an embankment, just off the trail 491 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:27,839 that I had walked on to get to the swamp 492 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,319 that morning. I think I had walked right past it. 493 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,839 The creature may have been hiding, laying there sleeping and 494 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,200 seeing me. It was probably hiding and staying out of view. 495 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,200 I don't know where it was and where it came 496 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,720 from into the woods that morning, but the bed was 497 00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,200 in perfect strategic location to see the trails in the 498 00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:51,759 surrounding area. I've since moved to another state, but during 499 00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:55,960 a trip back to Maryland. In twenty fifteen, I revisited 500 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,359 that area. I parked my car where the woods once were, 501 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,799 now a new subdivised housing parking lot, which was built 502 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,640 right next to that swamp and on top of the 503 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,640 now filled in swimming lake which gave way to this project. 504 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,920 I had a tear in my eyes. I walked over 505 00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:16,680 to what was left of the swamp where my encounter 506 00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:20,079 took place and which had occupied so much of my 507 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,559 time as a typical young boy growing up. Only a small, 508 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:28,759 defiant and disrespected area of the swamp still remained, and 509 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,119 only a hint of what it once was. It was 510 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,400 now home to litter and discarded items unwanted by the 511 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,839 housing community. I was completely shocked that with the addition 512 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,480 of the new roads and all the lakes that had 513 00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:48,160 been filled in and built with this housing project's woods cut, 514 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,319 and the erection of two churches, three schools, and a 515 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,440 library on that property, that this small area was still 516 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:59,839 even there. Amazingly, that the exact spot where I had 517 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:02,640 stood at the edge of the swamp that eventful day 518 00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:07,200 had survived for whatever reason, despite all the human encroachment 519 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:11,359 and development. I walked over to the remaining swamp and 520 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,160 I stood in the exact spot at the edge of 521 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,279 the swamp where I stood in nineteen sixty two, and 522 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:21,519 then I began turning the one hundred and eighty degrees. 523 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,039 Not knowing what to expect or what I would see, 524 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,599 I completed the turn the same as I had done 525 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,279 that special day, and to my surprise, standing on that 526 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,799 hill there like a monument, was the same tree, but 527 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,160 this time it was standing alone. As I looked at 528 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,640 the tree, I got a cold chill and noticed that 529 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,240 it was now a little wider around its midsection. But 530 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:50,160 then again, so am I. You can use my story 531 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,039 and my name. I have nothing to hide. I have 532 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,319 remained an active hunter throughout my life and spent many 533 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,519 many hours in the woods, gaining much respect for the 534 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:04,880 animal and nature. Regrettably, I never saw anything like that again. 535 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,599 Though every day I regret shooting that bigfoot and wish 536 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,160 that I could have just thrown it an apple from 537 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,119 my lunch bag instead, I respect the fact that this 538 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,000 creature remained calm and did not retaliate for my poor decisions, 539 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:26,200 and thank God that I did not take that third shot. 540 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:30,400 Thank you for listening to this podcast and listening this far. 541 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,960 I really appreciate you. Just a reminder. I'm going to 542 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,240 be at the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference in late July. 543 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:40,839 I need to look up the date and put it 544 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,079 in my calendar. I just hadn't had a minute to 545 00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:46,200 do it yet. And we're supposed to have stuff to 546 00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:50,000 sell there, and I don't have anything to sell. I 547 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,759 think I've got about three weeks to order something and 548 00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:55,359 get it in so I can have stuff to sell 549 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,599 at my booth. And I hate I just hate that stuff. 550 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,960 I don't know. I'm a I'm not a gadget T 551 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:05,200 shirt kind of salesperson. I don't I don't know. I 552 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,079 just don't like all that stuff. I don't want to 553 00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:10,559 sell you anything. But I'm supposed to have something there 554 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:13,640 to sell, so I'm trying to find some T shirts. 555 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:16,559 Problem with T shirts is you have to get every 556 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,880 conceivable size, from kids to women to men or real 557 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,119 big men to real big women, and you have to 558 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,960 buy so much stuff that it actually you don't sell 559 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,119 at all, and it costs you money. I'm going to 560 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,359 do it. I'm going to bring something to sell you. 561 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:36,039 I won't make any money off of it anyway. All 562 00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:38,039 that to say, I'm going to be there, and I 563 00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:42,640 think I'm hosting a section of the conference where people 564 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,519 actually get up and tell their stories. I need to 565 00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:49,440 contact the organizers of the event ask them exactly what 566 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,319 I'm supposed to do, because I don't know. I don't 567 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,200 do this kind of stuff. They asked me to do, 568 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,640 it said, they said, they pay for my hotel room, 569 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,440 which is the only thing that clicked me over into 570 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,400 doing it, because every time I go to these conferences 571 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,240 it cost me a fortune because I have to buy 572 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:06,519 all this junk to sell, and I don't sell. I 573 00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:09,679 don't sell half of it. Anyway. I know I'm kind 574 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,440 of sound like a Debbie Downer, but I don't know. 575 00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:15,079 I just don't like losing money, you know, That's all 576 00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:17,599 it is. But maybe this will work out. Heck, the 577 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,159 hotels in that area are like three hundred and fifty 578 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,400 bucks a night. How many T shirts do you have 579 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,960 to sell just to pay for that? Plus all your gas, 580 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,920 time away from work, et cetera, et cetera. But I 581 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,639 will enjoy being there, will be I think my son's 582 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,760 coming with me. We're gonna sit there together, and hopefully 583 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,119 we'll get to see some people we've seen before. And 584 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,440 maybe meet some new people. Yeah. Now I'm supposed to 585 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,800 do a video to send to the organizers. I haven't 586 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,039 done that yet. I'll probably do that today and send 587 00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:47,519 it to them. Anyway, I'll be at the Smoky Mountain 588 00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:51,199 Bickford Conference in Gatlinburg. I want to say, is July 589 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,440 the twenty whatever, the last Saturday in July is. It's 590 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,079 a one day deal, and so if you're going, you 591 00:34:57,159 --> 00:34:58,800 might want to get up if you want to. You know, 592 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,400 if you don't live near there, you're going. It's a 593 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,239 pretty good conference. I think they have some great speakers. 594 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,599 There's all kinds of booths there where people are selling stuff, 595 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,599 books and little gadgets and stuff like that. So when 596 00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:14,760 you come by my booth, I'll be standing there with 597 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,440 some little chipyt shirts and not a very extravagant booth, 598 00:35:18,519 --> 00:35:20,480 but I'll be there. I'd love to see you and 599 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,440 say hi. So y'all come out if you can. I 600 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,199 don't know how much it costs. I don't know what 601 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,280 day it's on, but just look up, do a Google 602 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:34,159 search or some kind of search on Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 603 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,719 It'll pop right up there at the top. All right, 604 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,800 thanks again for listening to the podcast, and we'll see 605 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,480 you guys on the next one. Thanks