WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.240 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