WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.199 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