1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,199 Speaker 1: Here's an interesting story from Indiana. Yep, you can use 2 00:00:10,279 --> 00:00:12,880 my name if you want to call me Kelly, and 3 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:16,199 that's the name on the email. Hi Cam. This is 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,039 a short story, so here it goes. All right, here 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,839 we go. I'm telling you this story because it's absolutely true. 6 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,359 It's not a sosquatch story or ghost story, but it's 7 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:31,000 very strange. Nonetheless, I grew up in southern Indiana in 8 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,799 the late seventies and early eighties. Most people probably think 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,079 of corn and beanfields when thinking of Indiana, and that's 10 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,679 mostly true, but southern Indiana has some great rolling hills. 11 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:46,240 It was nineteen eighty four in the forecast call for 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,600 six inches of snow. My buddies and I knew we 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,880 wouldn't have school the next day, so we planned on 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,200 going out in a friend's four wheel drive Bronco. After 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,960 finding someone to get us some liquid refreshments, we headed 16 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,679 out to what we call the virgin roading. This is 17 00:01:03,719 --> 00:01:06,280 when you cruise the back roads and fine roads where 18 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,640 the snow hasn't been driven on. And after hour or 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,760 so of riding, we had to take a nature call. 20 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:16,879 My buddy was on somewhat of a main road out 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,959 in the stick, so we pulled off to the side 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,120 of the road for some privacy, and after we finished 23 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:24,760 up our business, we saw tire tracks in the snow 24 00:01:24,879 --> 00:01:28,799 leading down the road. The tires were pretty narrow and 25 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:32,200 it looked like they were about three feet apart. We 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,680 found this was strange, but it was going down this 27 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:38,920 road just fine. We popped over a small hill and 28 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,200 we found ourselves driving right into a graveyard. There was 29 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:47,040 no other way out, so we started to turn around, 30 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,840 and it was here that we noticed the tire tracks 31 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:54,599 had stopped. There was absolutely no way the tire tracks 32 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,680 could follow the exact path back out, and we noticed 33 00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:01,120 that there wasn't a bear spot where a car had 34 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:04,640 been sitting, or footprints that had gotten out of the 35 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:08,680 car to leave. There was also no wind, so the 36 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:11,240 snow couldn't have blown over the spot where it had 37 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,680 been sitting or the footprints covered up. Yes, we had 38 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:17,719 been drinking, but we were not out of our minds drunk. 39 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,360 Yet no one said anything. As we drove out. My 40 00:02:22,479 --> 00:02:26,680 friend's tire tracks were outside of the smaller vehicles tracks. 41 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,319 We looked closely and it was definitely a one way trip. 42 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:33,560 I finally asked when we got back on the main road. 43 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,919 If anybody was screwing with me. Everybody said no. We 44 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:41,199 headed back to town. I tried to find this road 45 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,560 later in life, but I couldn't locate it. Everything looks 46 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:47,439 different in the snow. You can use my name if 47 00:02:47,479 --> 00:02:51,039 you want. My name is Kelly, And everything looks different 48 00:02:51,039 --> 00:02:57,639 when you're sober to Kelly, when you're not full of beer. Yeah, 49 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,080 that's kind of a creepy, interesting story. I don't know 50 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,199 what to think about that. These two tire tracks. What 51 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,680 do you think that could have been? I don't know 52 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,400 what has small tires and the wheels are just three 53 00:03:11,439 --> 00:03:13,400 feet apart, but they go up in the graveyard and 54 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,719 they just stop in the middle of a snowstorm and 55 00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:19,879 they just vanish. That's pretty odd, But that was an 56 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:24,479 interesting story. I thought i'd share it with you guys. 57 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,280 I grew up in eastern Washington in a hunting gathering 58 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,400 kind of family, and by the time I was fourteen, 59 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:36,039 my friends and I would regularly gather twenty two's and 60 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,840 go off camping not far from home. All my friends 61 00:03:39,879 --> 00:03:42,639 also came from hunting families, and we had skinned and 62 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,280 eaten every legal prey we could harvest. You sure you're 63 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:50,520 not from Louisiana, sounds like you're a Cajun. One warm 64 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,120 afternoon in the nineteen seventies, while hiking out a canyon 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,039 from an overnight stay, we found something in a small 66 00:03:57,199 --> 00:04:00,319 drainage that scared me and my buddies to the point 67 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:03,560 that we never spoke of it again. There in the 68 00:04:03,639 --> 00:04:06,800 drainage lade what appeared to be a bloody, skinned out 69 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,120 monkey or ape. It had been perfectly skinned, as if 70 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:15,080 someone had removed the hide for tanning. The creature was 71 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,879 only the size of a small child. It wasn't a bear, 72 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:22,560 though a skinned out bear, we had learned earlier in life, 73 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:26,759 does have a human look to them. After the sight 74 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:29,720 of this creature, we walked home a bit scared and 75 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,079 in disbelief, and to this day we have never brought 76 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,160 it up again. So a short story and maybe nothing, 77 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,800 but monkeys or apes are not found in eastern Washington, 78 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,439 nor did we know anyone who owned them. There was 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,160 not even a zoo nearby, which makes it all the scarier. 80 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,240 Thank you again for your time in sharing these incredible stories. 81 00:04:52,519 --> 00:04:56,279 I still hunt now near our home in western Montana. 82 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,480 Other than a few hunts where not one critter can 83 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:03,240 be found heard, not even a forest bird. I have 84 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,160 never seen anything like others have, and thank God for 85 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,160 that too. I do believe they're around here, but maybe 86 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:13,959 they have no care about me and they stay clear, 87 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,560 or maybe they know I carry much more than a 88 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,800 bow and an arrow. They're pretty smart critters. I think 89 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:25,519 he signs off Randy Yep. Apparently from these reports, they 90 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:29,360 know what a gun is, and I don't know. Maybe 91 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:32,439 they know I don't. Maybe they're scared of guns. Who knows. 92 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,759 That's pretty interesting, you know, I don't know. When I 93 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,519 read these stories from people and they are recounting events 94 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:46,839 from their childhood, I remember seeing weird things in my childhood. 95 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,800 Like now, this is going to be kind of off topic, 96 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,720 but for some reason, this just popped in my head. 97 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:57,040 I remember some buddies and I were We used to 98 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,879 ride ditches in Memphis. We'd get out in these ditches. 99 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:02,360 They'd go for miles and miles and you'd find all 100 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,519 kind of stuff in these ditches, old bicycles, probably stolen bicycles, 101 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,439 old radios and things like that. And one time we 102 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:15,399 came up on it looked like just a magazine sitting there, 103 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:17,759 and it wound up being a girly magazine. I think 104 00:06:17,759 --> 00:06:20,399 it was a Playboy, and of course we all grabbed it. 105 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,720 We were looking through the pages, and that was interesting, 106 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,519 you know, as a young teenager to look at those pictures. 107 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,959 I mean, we were boys, but I have never forgotten 108 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:37,319 the thought, and I always think about who takes who 109 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,720 looks at those magazines in a ditch? I mean, how 110 00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:44,759 did that thing get there? I don't know. I don't 111 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,759 of course, none of the other guys were thinking that, 112 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,120 but I'm asking the whole time, how the hell did 113 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,040 this thing getting down here? Who threw this thing in here? 114 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,879 And I thought through the years, probably some other teenage 115 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,480 boy who who was afraid his mother would find it 116 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:01,879 in his bedroom or something chum from his backyard end 117 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:03,839 of the ditch. I don't know why that popped in 118 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,480 my head, but the story's kind of about finding something 119 00:07:07,639 --> 00:07:10,279 odd on the side of the road, and they found 120 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,879 a skinned out monkey. Now that's a lot weirder than 121 00:07:13,959 --> 00:07:17,600 finding a girly magazine. But I thought that was very interesting, 122 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,399 and yeah, let's move along. Hopefully I don't get distracted 123 00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:28,879 too much again. Twelve years ago, I found myself suddenly 124 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,240 a single father with an amazing eight year old daughter. 125 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:35,920 After her mother left our lives, I had to become 126 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,800 both father and mother overnight and raise our beautiful daughter alone. 127 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,399 I was lucky to secure a beautiful property north of 128 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,360 Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, and we began to heal. This 129 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,800 was an amazing old property around ten acres on the 130 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:58,639 outskirts of a smaller township. The house was old, but 131 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,920 the land had an amazing combination of old trees, small 132 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,199 cleared paddocks for our horse, old tropical gardens, and a 133 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:10,560 series of creeks that ran down one boundary to form 134 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,319 a billabong. This was the place my daughter and I needed. 135 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,680 Our horse was our buckskin lawnmower. He was like a 136 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,040 puppy and he followed us around when we went on bushwalks. 137 00:08:25,079 --> 00:08:27,759 Given the size of the land, my daughter was also 138 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,680 able to keep chickens and ducks. She would be their 139 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:34,480 little mother. They all had names and would come to 140 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,840 her for hugs and cuddles. We had no cats or dogs, 141 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:44,440 so wildlife was abundant. We had black cockatoos and cuker burrows, possums, 142 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:51,000 brilliant kingfishers at the creeks, and hundreds of lorikeets. One morning, 143 00:08:51,039 --> 00:08:53,600 I went out back of the house and discovered chicken 144 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:58,080 feathers scattered in the backyard. I followed a trail which 145 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:01,120 led to the far side boundary near the creek, and 146 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,200 found a larger pile of feathers. I assumed that a 147 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:08,480 fox had come in and taken one of my daughter's birds. 148 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,039 During the night, I cleaned up all the feathers and 149 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,919 later told my daughter what I had found. She asked 150 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,559 if it could have put up a fight and gotten away. 151 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,120 It was possible I had only found the feathers. We 152 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,759 made sure the chickens were locked up tight that night. Onward, 153 00:09:27,279 --> 00:09:31,919 they were free range during the day. One weekend, we 154 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,320 went away to go swimming at the beach, and when 155 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,559 we got back we quickly realized that more chickens and 156 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:42,159 ducks had been taken. The trail of feathers once again 157 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,799 led us to the forest near the creek. Still we 158 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:50,879 found nothing but feathers. A few weeks later, winter had 159 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,600 set in. It does get cold here in Australia, but 160 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,799 only for a few weeks. During that short time, we 161 00:09:59,039 --> 00:10:02,360 enjoyed fires outside. It was a good time on those 162 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,639 chilly nights. Because the property was so big with lots 163 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,360 of trees, I never had to buy firewood. I would 164 00:10:10,399 --> 00:10:14,120 just gather pine cones and branches from the property to burn. 165 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,720 Some nights, I would take a large old washing basket 166 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:21,919 and a torch and go stick picking around the property 167 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,840 to gather something to burn. I wouldn't let my daughter 168 00:10:25,919 --> 00:10:28,879 come with me at night, but she would stand on 169 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:32,279 the front veranda and watch me go around with a torch. 170 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,639 I didn't want her to follow in case of snakes 171 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:39,159 or spiders. We have some big ones here and I 172 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,440 never traveled out of her sight. One such night, I 173 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,360 had filled the basket with sticks and pine cones and 174 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,600 was walking back up the long driveway back to the house. 175 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,279 I had the torch in front of me and I 176 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,679 walked alongside the driveway fence, which was about four feet high. 177 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,399 As I got within around fifty meters of the front 178 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:03,639 of the house, the front spotlights were on from the 179 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,840 roof and I could see my daughter waving. Out of 180 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:11,559 the corner of my eye, I saw a large black 181 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,360 cat like creature run between me and the fence towards 182 00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:19,840 the house. It was fast, but very close, within two 183 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:23,840 meters to my left. I turned the torch onto it, 184 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:26,480 and I watched it loop forward until it got to 185 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,799 a large, overgrown hibiscus that grew beside the car port. 186 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,879 These gardens were old. The original plants had grown to 187 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:39,440 enormous sizes over the years. The hibiscus had grown to 188 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,519 a large, dome shaped mass of thicket and branches, but 189 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,279 it was hollow inside. The chickens often nestled in there. 190 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,399 My daughter saw the creature run past me, and then 191 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,039 she asked what it was. I wasn't sure and still 192 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,200 had the torch on it, and I saw it enter 193 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,320 into the big hibiscus. I wasn't sure if it was 194 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,120 still there or had gone out the back into the forest. 195 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:09,320 I told my daughter to stay where she was at 196 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,840 the front door, and I approached the big shrub, expecting 197 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:17,200 to find nothing. I shown the torch into the bush, 198 00:12:17,279 --> 00:12:20,279 and staring back in the torch light was the biggest 199 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:24,559 set of bright neon green eyes. The creature was so 200 00:12:24,799 --> 00:12:27,799 black that even the torch light was not picking up 201 00:12:27,879 --> 00:12:32,279 the detail. The eyes were really big. They were the 202 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,879 size of golf balls and spaced it twenty five centimeters apart. 203 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,799 There was no sound, but I could see its nose 204 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:45,399 wrinkle up in snarls. It exposed a huge mouth with big, white, 205 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:49,799 sharp teeth and whiskers. The eyes were wide open, but 206 00:12:49,879 --> 00:12:54,039 I could see its brow furrow down in anger. The 207 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,679 thing that hit me was its wildness. This thing was powerful, 208 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,320 large and foreign. Australia has no official big cats. But 209 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,240 I could see from its eyes and their reaction that 210 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,759 it was pissed and defensive. I've seen pictures of tigers 211 00:13:10,799 --> 00:13:14,960 with their ears laid back and snarling, nose wrinkled up 212 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,759 with full fury, and this was exactly what I saw. 213 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,200 I told my daughter to go straight back into the 214 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,320 house and I backed away, slowly, keeping the torch on 215 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:29,840 this creature's face. It kept shutting its mouth and then 216 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,159 burying its teeth, but no noise ever came out of 217 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,120 this thing. I backed away and made it to the 218 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,240 house and I shut the door. A week later, I 219 00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:43,480 saw a council vehicle pulling up at our front gate. 220 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,120 I walked down to the property entry, and the officer 221 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,360 asked me about our buckskin horse. They had found one 222 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,039 down the road an hour earlier and thought that it 223 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,799 might be mine. I looked around the property and called 224 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,600 out for him, but no sign of the horse. We 225 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:04,120 walked the fence and found a spot where the fence 226 00:14:04,159 --> 00:14:07,200 had been crushed to the ground, obviously where the horse 227 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,159 had escaped. This was unusual, as he was a real 228 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:15,799 house pet, never flighty or spook. He was so docile 229 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,120 that he was more like a dog than a horse. 230 00:14:19,519 --> 00:14:22,080 The council officer said it looked like he had been 231 00:14:22,159 --> 00:14:25,039 herded into a panic in the corner and pushed the 232 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,919 fence down and then ran through. His guest was a 233 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:32,120 pack of dogs had run the horse out. I didn't 234 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:35,759 say anything about the recent encounter, feeling I would be 235 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,360 seen as a nutter. The officer radio to his other 236 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,279 council workers said it was our horse, and a few 237 00:14:43,279 --> 00:14:46,120 minutes later they came up the road leading him back. 238 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,399 The horse was worried about the property, kept looking over 239 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,279 all the areas, nostrils wide open and ears up and 240 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,279 flicking around. I let him onto the property and he 241 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,919 slowly calmed down, but he hung around me like a shadow. 242 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,240 We noticed some big scratch marks down his left flank, 243 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,759 four big scratch marks in a row from the middle 244 00:15:09,799 --> 00:15:12,960 of his back, down his leg, and around his backside. 245 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,840 Each scratch was around three centimeters apart. They had broken 246 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:22,320 the skin, but he would not need that treatment. One 247 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,480 of the officers said it might have been by the 248 00:15:24,519 --> 00:15:28,080 fence when he got through. The other officer said it 249 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,600 looked like a big cat, only to be shot down 250 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:34,440 quickly by his superior, saying it was a fence injury. 251 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:38,759 There have been many sightings of big cat encounters in 252 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,960 Australia for many but the media and the public in 253 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:47,159 general dismissed these as fantasy. I've never publicly admitted this 254 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:55,200 encounter to anyone, and we have moved away from the property. 255 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,639 All right, here's a story from a woman in Ohio, 256 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,639 and she wants to keep her name out of it. 257 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,399 She'll tell us why at the end, but this is 258 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,799 really an interesting story. So here's what she writes. I 259 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,519 was listening to your March four, twenty nineteen YouTube video 260 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,000 and I thought I would share this experience with you. First, though, 261 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:17,960 I wanted to tell you how much, okay, how much 262 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,919 I enjoy your channel. It's great. It's a wonderful mix 263 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,919 of music and storytelling and information. It's nothing better than 264 00:16:24,919 --> 00:16:29,000 a good story, y'all. I normally I'm reading these cold. 265 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,279 I don't usually I edit that stuff out when people say, oh, 266 00:16:32,279 --> 00:16:34,759 we love your channel, and because that's really not pertinent 267 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,879 to the story, but I appreciate people writing it. I'm 268 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:40,240 trying to stick to the point here, but thank you, 269 00:16:40,279 --> 00:16:43,440 ma'am for saying that, she writes. I grew up on 270 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:47,480 a big farm in southern Ohio, in between Cincinnati and Dayton. 271 00:16:47,919 --> 00:16:50,000 It was a great place to be as a kid. 272 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,480 The first time I saw this craft was in the 273 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:57,639 early nineteen seventies. It was on a ridge above a 274 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:01,320 half mile training track, and it was longer than one 275 00:17:01,399 --> 00:17:04,759 side stretch of the track that would make it six 276 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:09,240 hundred plus feet long. It was a long, cigar shaped 277 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,880 object and glowed a soft pink lavender like an old 278 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,519 Neon sign. It appeared to be floating or moving in 279 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,440 the pink colored mist. The weather was warm and the 280 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,599 mist was just short of boiling. Under the craft. I 281 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,880 could feel it deep in my body. It vibrated the air, 282 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,240 but it never made a sound. I was barefoot, and 283 00:17:31,279 --> 00:17:34,400 I could feel the vibration even in the ground. It 284 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,440 had portals the whole length of the craft, and the 285 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:39,960 craft was close enough that you could see that it 286 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,839 was lit up inside. It was a summer morning, and 287 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,440 there were already lots of people at the farm. It 288 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:50,440 was a commercial horse training and breeding facility. I remember 289 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,559 thinking the craft was so amazing, but being even more 290 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:56,799 amazed that no one else appeared to even notice there 291 00:17:56,839 --> 00:18:00,119 was something taking up most of the sky. And then 292 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:04,839 it was gone. I moved to Florida, and in the 293 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,000 nineteen nineties I saw it again. I was driving down 294 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:12,079 a major four lane highway in North Florida. It was 295 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,440 a beautiful spring day and I was driving with the 296 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,400 windows down. I felt it before I saw it, and 297 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,559 I was surprised by the emotional response to the memory. 298 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:25,599 The craft was right above the telephone power poles and 299 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,359 just as big and pink as before. Everything was the same, 300 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,000 except this was on a busy highway and no one 301 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:36,799 else was even hitting their brakes. Cam This thing was 302 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:40,039 a couple of football fields long, and it vibrated in 303 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:42,880 the air so much that it hurt your heart. But 304 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,319 it didn't make a noise. It was absolutely silent. I 305 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,240 pulled over into a ditch and sat there watching the 306 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:53,759 cars driving by, and the craft was barely moving. And 307 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:57,599 then it sped up to tad and then it was gone. 308 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,960 It didn't zip up into the sky or take a 309 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,680 real fast approach. It was just gone. There was nothing 310 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,799 in the news and no local gossip. Fifty plus cars 311 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:12,160 passed it, and not one car hit their brake, swerved, 312 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,640 or appeared to even notice something the size of an 313 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,200 aircraft carrier a few feet above the power pole lines. 314 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:22,440 I wondered if maybe the reality was that they couldn't 315 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:26,000 see it, and not that they hadn't seen it, they 316 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:29,279 just couldn't see it for some reason. Yes, I know 317 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,279 I'm probably not completely right in my head and I've 318 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:37,640 had too many rather strange experiences in my life. However, 319 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:40,119 if you set that aside, I want you to know 320 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,799 that I am a professional, I'm a responsible, educated person. 321 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,759 I have a family, and I have no desire to 322 00:19:46,799 --> 00:19:51,359 be considered a looney tune looney been worthy fodder. I'm 323 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,839 sharing this with you, and I would prefer to remain anonymous, 324 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,119 and you there's no problem with that, man. But I 325 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,319 love this story. And here's the thing. You know, these 326 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,920 bigfoot stories, some people say, well, you have to kind 327 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,319 of be chosen to see one. Could that be the 328 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,319 same with some of these strange crafts that people see? 329 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,519 Because this is one of probably two or three I've 330 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:19,440 read where people see these things in the sky. They're 331 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,920 in a crowded area and they're the only ones that 332 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,079 see them. Nobody else is looking up. This thing, especially 333 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,920 on the four lane highway, must have been very obvious, 334 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,680 would have been very obvious to anybody driving down the 335 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:37,799 highway because she couldn't miss it. Nobody else sees it. 336 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,039 What a weird deal. Now, there are some stories I 337 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,920 read where people see these strange crafts floating or flying 338 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,160 in the sky and everybody sees it. Everybody around them 339 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,519 sees it, and they're all gathered around looking at it. 340 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,200 I always refer back to Close Encounters of the Third kind, 341 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,000 and it reminds me of that scene where everybody is 342 00:20:59,799 --> 00:21:02,680 all these people, it's night. All these people are gathered 343 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,880 on the side of this hill, around the curve of 344 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,119 this highway and they know these things are coming, and 345 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,160 sure enough they come flying through and around the highway 346 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,880 and the police are chasing them. Do you all remember 347 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,839 that one of the police cars flies off through the 348 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,839 rail and down a ravine. So I don't know. It 349 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,319 just kind of reminded me of that. But I just 350 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,839 love this stuff. It's kind of I don't know. It 351 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,559 just sparks your imagination and it makes you kind of 352 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,720 dreamy and wonder filled with wonder and that's what I 353 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:35,720 love about these stories. So thank you man for sending this. 354 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,640 I know you think you're not right in the head, 355 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,200 but I think you are, and I think you saw 356 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,400 what you say you saw. And maybe the rest of 357 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,359 us just don't have the insight to see those things, 358 00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:50,400 or maybe we're too busy to notice. Who knows, but 359 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,480 I'm always looking for stuff like that. Anyway, thank you 360 00:21:53,519 --> 00:22:00,519 for the story. It was wonderful. In September in nineteen 361 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:03,039 seventy four, my wife and I were living on a 362 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:08,279 farm west of the small town of Leveland, Texas. Leveland 363 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:11,960 is twenty five miles west of Lobock. I guess that 364 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:15,240 part of Texas just about as flat as land can be. 365 00:22:16,279 --> 00:22:19,359 It's five and a half million acres of flat farmland 366 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,880 sitting on the largest sand sheet on Earth. There are 367 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,640 no trees except in towns and around farm homes. Otherwise 368 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,839 it's just a wide open space. The local joke goes 369 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,000 that you can stand on your front porch and watch 370 00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:38,799 your dog run away for three days. That's a good one. 371 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,559 You may laugh, but that's pretty accurate. Oh, that is 372 00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:46,000 so good. On the weekend of the fifteenth, we had 373 00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:48,759 traveled to my wife's parents' house, one hundred and fifty 374 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:52,400 miles northeast of us. We'd gone for a visit and 375 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,079 to get her dog. He was a half rat terrier 376 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,640 and half gaiter. He was a great watchdog and an 377 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,920 even at her guard dog. We left to make the 378 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,400 three hour drive home late on Sunday evening. The moon 379 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:09,359 was bright that night and there wasn't a cloud in 380 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,880 the sky. We pulled into the driveway at eleven PM 381 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:17,079 and quickly unloaded the truck, and we showered, and we 382 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,960 went to bed with Gator Dog curled up on my jeans. 383 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,440 I was almost asleep when my wife elbowed me and 384 00:23:24,599 --> 00:23:29,319 asked if I quote heard that. Well, I didn't hear anything. No, 385 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:32,839 I said, go to sleep. Two or three minutes went by, 386 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,440 just enough time for me to drift back into that 387 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:39,720 place between being awake and sleeping soundly. When she elbowed 388 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:44,480 me again. Something's on the roof, she insisted, you must 389 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,440 be tired. I grumbled, go to sleep. She sat bolt 390 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,400 upright and said, there's someone on the roof. Wh I 391 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,519 didn't hear a thing, but I knew I wasn't going 392 00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:56,960 to get any sleep until I got up and checked 393 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,440 it out. I walked out to the living room mumble 394 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:05,359 to myself. That's when I heard it. Someone was walking 395 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,559 across our roof. It sounded like size twelve boots up 396 00:24:09,559 --> 00:24:12,960 there stomping around and chris crossing the roof from front 397 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,359 to back. I swallowed my panic and turned around to 398 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,559 go back to the bedroom, and I found my wife 399 00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:21,799 standing right behind me. And after I took another big 400 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:24,440 gulp of panic, I knew I had to do something, 401 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,279 but what. I put my boots on and grabbed my 402 00:24:28,319 --> 00:24:31,279 shotgun and I took a long, hard look at Gator Dog, 403 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:35,039 who was sleeping soundly. The shotgun was all I had, 404 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,000 so it was going to have to do. We went 405 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,359 to the back door and listened, and the footsteps continued 406 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,000 back and forth across the roof from one end of 407 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,400 the house to the other. Whatever it was, it was huge, 408 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,799 and it definitely was not trying to hide its presence. 409 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:55,400 When the steps got just above the door we were 410 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,240 standing at, it turned and walked back to the other 411 00:24:58,319 --> 00:25:01,079 side of the house and I used the opportunity to 412 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,640 sprint out of the door. With my gun in my hand, 413 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,200 I hugged the side of the house and I listened 414 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,279 intently until I heard it directly overhead, and when it turned, 415 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,599 my blood ran cold. I heard the rough surface of 416 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,079 the shingles rub as it turned. It ground the asphalt 417 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,359 as if it was wearing leather soles of a boot. 418 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,720 I thought for a minute I was going to pass out. 419 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,599 As it walked back over to the crown of the roof, 420 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,720 I bolted for the other side of my truck that 421 00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:35,000 was part close by, and from there I could see 422 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,599 the entire roof and I could see the roof jiggle 423 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,079 as it stepped. We could both hear it clearly. Gaiter 424 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,880 Dog snored in his sleep. When it walked back to 425 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,759 the side of the house, I could see the roof 426 00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:51,119 shake and I heard everything, but nothing was there. I 427 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,160 motioned for my wife to come out. Timidly, she stepped outside, 428 00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:58,400 and we both looked and listened for fifteen minutes as 429 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,559 it continued. Once did we see anything. Gator Dog got 430 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:07,559 a good night's sleep. We finally went back inside. My 431 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,000 wife went to bed, and I sat in my chair 432 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:13,839 with my gun in my hand until dawn. The marching 433 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,359 continued on until daylight. I became a praying man that night, 434 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,279 and I still am to this day. My wife went 435 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:24,519 to work and I went to get my farming done. 436 00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:28,039 The elderly gentleman I was working for came out and 437 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,200 noticed I was having a hard day. When I told 438 00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:35,279 him about our night, he just laughed. It's still going on, 439 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,160 I said, and he laughed again. When I asked if 440 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,279 he wanted to see it for himself, he agreed, and 441 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,599 we walked through the pasture to the house. It was 442 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,440 nine am, and that thing was still marching, as invisible 443 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,759 as ever, back and forth across the house, shaking the 444 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,400 roof and making as much racket as it was the 445 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:59,079 night before. The old gentleman saw it and heard it, 446 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,240 turned and ran home like a little girl. I stayed 447 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,240 at the house until noon and it never did stop. 448 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,559 At one PM, I gave up and I went back 449 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:13,839 to work, and when we got home at six that night, 450 00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:18,480 the noise was gone. I could never get my employer 451 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,960 to discuss it with me. My wife and I talked 452 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,759 about it briefly, but we never figured out what it was. 453 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,400 I still work in the area and From time to 454 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,400 time we drive by just to sea. Fifty years later, 455 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:35,880 the house is still standing there, just like we walked 456 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:41,200 out of it yesterday