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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron Tonight's

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<v Speaker 1>story isn't from a hiker or a camper. It's from

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<v Speaker 1>a man who's spent over four decades behind the wheel

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<v Speaker 1>of a semi truck watching America pass by, mile after mile.

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<v Speaker 1>But in the back roads in swamps of Florida, something

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<v Speaker 1>started watching him. Back five sightings, two encounters in a

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<v Speaker 1>truck that shook in the middle of the night with

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<v Speaker 1>no one in sight. This isn't a legend, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>a secondhand story. It's a first hand account from someone

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<v Speaker 1>who knows what he saw. And this is the story

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<v Speaker 1>of Eric, the trucker who saw five. To stay with us,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, Bigfoot Society, we got the privilege of talking

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<v Speaker 1>to Eric today. Eric is an individual who's a listener

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<v Speaker 1>of the show but also has had some very interesting

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<v Speaker 1>things he's experienced over the years being a truck driver.

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<v Speaker 1>So welcome to the show, Eric, how's it going, man?

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<v Speaker 2>Went great so far. Great to be here.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, we're hanging out on a Sunday afternoon. It's beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>up here in Iowa. I hope it's nice where you

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<v Speaker 1>you are as well.

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<v Speaker 2>It is now we had tornadoes last night, so we're

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<v Speaker 2>doing good now with the sun out.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh man, you made it through.

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<v Speaker 2>That's good. That's good.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, Eric, before you get going, is there anything that

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<v Speaker 1>the listeners would need to know for context regarding you

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<v Speaker 1>being a truck driver or would it probably be best

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<v Speaker 1>for you just to launch into sharing what you experienced.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll probably just go right into it because of I

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<v Speaker 2>had two weeks. I've had five sidings and two personal experiences,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think it'll fill up a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, sir, Well, you know, let's make sure you

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<v Speaker 1>have all the time you have so for you feel

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<v Speaker 1>free to take the mic from here and take us

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<v Speaker 1>back to when this all start happening for you, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I took the leisure of writing down dates and times

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<v Speaker 2>after the first one because I was one of those

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<v Speaker 2>back in the day who always thought this was a

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<v Speaker 2>north western US and Canada type of thing and there

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<v Speaker 2>was nothing around here. I never realized how popularly we

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<v Speaker 2>were with these people, and it was almost like a

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<v Speaker 2>shock the first time I saw one, which was April thirteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty sixteen, and that's when I really became a knower.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd always been a believer because I thought, there's just

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<v Speaker 2>too much evidence in history, from back in the Viking

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<v Speaker 2>days of Nova Scotia before it was Nova Scotia, through

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<v Speaker 2>the early days of the country when American Indians and

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<v Speaker 2>settlers didn't compare notes, yet they had the same sightings

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<v Speaker 2>of the same beings. There's just too many things like that.

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<v Speaker 2>And once I realized people were really did have artifacts

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<v Speaker 2>from them, things that they've kept from them that they

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<v Speaker 2>wanted science to look at, then I started really looking

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<v Speaker 2>at it more and listening even more. And as of

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<v Speaker 2>April thirteenth, one put himself right in my face down

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<v Speaker 2>in Florida. And I should also say that I'm a

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<v Speaker 2>resident of Georgia, but all five of my sightings and

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<v Speaker 2>two experiences have all been in Florida because I had been.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't realize at the time, but I was in

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<v Speaker 2>a hot zone and for four of those sightings and

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<v Speaker 2>two experiences it was a hot song and also had

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<v Speaker 2>a siding two hundred miles north of there, still in Florida,

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<v Speaker 2>so and which by the way, was my only daylight

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<v Speaker 2>sighting as well. But I'd always been a believer, And

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<v Speaker 2>then on that night that almost exactly I used to

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<v Speaker 2>haul I had a dedicated run from Atlanta down to

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<v Speaker 2>Central Florida, and I used to take a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>back roads and bypasses which would take me through a swamp,

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<v Speaker 2>nice long straight, uninterrupted with traffic, just just a great

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<v Speaker 2>way to go to save time, and with me always

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<v Speaker 2>looking at trying to avoid wildlife. You know, I'd see

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<v Speaker 2>the slightest movement anywhere and try to avoid it. And

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<v Speaker 2>but this, I was on a bypass, and it's just about,

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<v Speaker 2>like I said, just about one am, I saw, well,

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<v Speaker 2>I was on a bypass and there's no street lights there.

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<v Speaker 2>It's pitch black. There's no moonlight this night, and a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of cars were coming towards to me. So I

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<v Speaker 2>cut my brights off. And when I did that, I

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<v Speaker 2>saw a movement to my left of a man running

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<v Speaker 2>from the left across the road. I thought, from the right,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean to the right. I didn't understand why this

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<v Speaker 2>is all was split second thinking too. So as soon

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<v Speaker 2>as these two cars passed me, as soon as they

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<v Speaker 2>got to my front bumper, the last one got to

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<v Speaker 2>my front bumper, I hit my brights and it was

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<v Speaker 2>just in time to see this. What I thought was

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<v Speaker 2>I hadn't hauled has mat in the past. I know,

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<v Speaker 2>you know a time bac suit would come to the

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<v Speaker 2>mind immediately, which for anybody that don't know, that's a

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<v Speaker 2>white one piece suit to protect you from chemicals. And

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<v Speaker 2>I see this guy from my left, just like a hurricane.

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<v Speaker 2>He's running so fast. But when I hit my brights

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<v Speaker 2>it was just in time to see him get to

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<v Speaker 2>the actual highway and cross in front of me. And

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<v Speaker 2>he was only I've said four hundred before, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>mean to say in the past when I've told another

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<v Speaker 2>person about this, I didn't mean to say four hundred yards.

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<v Speaker 2>It's more like four hundred feet. He was pretty close.

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<v Speaker 2>But when he went across the road, I was awe

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<v Speaker 2>struck and I couldn't believe what I was seeing because

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<v Speaker 2>what I thought was a man in a Tivak suit

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<v Speaker 2>was actually a white haired what I thought was a

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<v Speaker 2>man run across the road, tall enough to look in

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<v Speaker 2>the window of my truck without getting on the step

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<v Speaker 2>and move into Like I've talked to a guy in

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<v Speaker 2>Florida about their speed, saying that he was moving at

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<v Speaker 2>an ungodly speed, just doesn't seem to grasp what you

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<v Speaker 2>feel when you see it. And he said, down here

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<v Speaker 2>in Florida, we call that psycho speed, and that fits

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<v Speaker 2>the bill a little bit better. It was psychotic how

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<v Speaker 2>fast he was moving, but it was slowly enough where

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<v Speaker 2>I'm such a highly perceptive person anyway that I looked

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<v Speaker 2>at it's like nothing else existed. I just focused right

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<v Speaker 2>on him because I was in shock and awe. He

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<v Speaker 2>was colored differently, which two of these five sightings were

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<v Speaker 2>colored differently. This one he was white top to bottom,

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<v Speaker 2>but it looked like he was wearing black gloves that

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<v Speaker 2>went up his forearms and black boots that went halfway

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<v Speaker 2>up the shins. So that confused me a little bit,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought that's got to be just mud or something.

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<v Speaker 2>He got on him and he crossed the road, hit

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<v Speaker 2>the bushes on the right side, and I didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>there was a river over there. And after talking to

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<v Speaker 2>and reporting this side into the Florida they're in an

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<v Speaker 2>international group, but mainly they check on things in Florida,

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<v Speaker 2>I called them the next night. I looked up to

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<v Speaker 2>find out who to talk to down there, and the

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<v Speaker 2>guy that I spoke to the heads that said that

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<v Speaker 2>he was probably What they do is run back to

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<v Speaker 2>where they came from an area they're most familiar with,

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<v Speaker 2>and he must have been heading back to that river

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<v Speaker 2>because they used those as trailways. And you know, this

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<v Speaker 2>was kind of new to me too. I didn't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I've learned a lot about them since twenty sixteen, believe me,

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<v Speaker 2>but at that time I didn't know that. And he

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<v Speaker 2>said he would go and check it out. But he

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<v Speaker 2>said what it was probably was that he had been

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<v Speaker 2>standing in some real soft riverside swampy mud and he

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<v Speaker 2>was probably digging for muscles or who knows what else

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<v Speaker 2>in there to eat, and he was he had just

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<v Speaker 2>come from the area he was coming from was a farm,

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<v Speaker 2>a horse farm, so there's no telling what he was

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<v Speaker 2>coming from and going to butt. When I got home

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<v Speaker 2>the next night, I looked up the number of the

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<v Speaker 2>Florida Group, and I looked up the map and to

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<v Speaker 2>find out where I was at so I could report

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<v Speaker 2>it actually before him before I called them to tell

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<v Speaker 2>them where it was. And he told me there was

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<v Speaker 2>a river there and he would check it out film it.

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<v Speaker 2>He did, and he put it on his website. And

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<v Speaker 2>when he filmed it, this was a couple of weeks

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<v Speaker 2>after I'd me and him had spoken on the phone,

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<v Speaker 2>which I can say that his one of those associatates

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<v Speaker 2>called me the next day, and then he called me

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<v Speaker 2>two weeks after that, and then he went down there

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<v Speaker 2>and filmed it. And of course there wouldn't be any

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<v Speaker 2>footprints left if there was before with the Florida rains

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<v Speaker 2>off and on sporadically as they come. But what he

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<v Speaker 2>did find, which he even said in the video, I

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<v Speaker 2>thought was interesting. He was filling the area and you

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<v Speaker 2>can see scrub marks from wild hogs, so there's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of wildlife back there, which Florence still a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of wild hogs anyway. But where I saw him cross

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<v Speaker 2>in front of me when he hit the bushes, that

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<v Speaker 2>was still there. You could see where he came through

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<v Speaker 2>those bushes, because when he walked up to film this,

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<v Speaker 2>he said, well, this is interesting. Look at this. It

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<v Speaker 2>looked like a tunnel. This tunnel was made up of

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<v Speaker 2>those half inch thick vines with one inch thorns on him,

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<v Speaker 2>and he just blew right through that like it was nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was still open where he came through. So

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<v Speaker 2>that made me feel a lot better too, because at

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<v Speaker 2>the time I was still almost questioning myself did I

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<v Speaker 2>really see what I thought I saw because he moved

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<v Speaker 2>so fast, and what I saw just blew me away.

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<v Speaker 2>That in Florida, I couldn't believe it. And then the

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<v Speaker 2>coloring that was explained as I said. And when I

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<v Speaker 2>got down to the terminal where I was delivering, I

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<v Speaker 2>played Devil's Advocate and filled and played ignorance to it.

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<v Speaker 2>And I asked the terminal manager when he came over

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<v Speaker 2>to get the bill lady, I said, do you guys

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<v Speaker 2>have any white bears down here? And he said no,

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<v Speaker 2>and I explained what had happened, and he said, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>what you saw was a kyote. And I said, coyoties

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<v Speaker 2>don't wrong on the back legs that fast or at all,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're not tall enough to look in the window

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<v Speaker 2>of my truck. And everybody in the off office from

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<v Speaker 2>the window was quiet. And then there's one guy over

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<v Speaker 2>in the back corner. He always stares at his computer

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<v Speaker 2>and never takes his eyes off the screen, never says anything.

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<v Speaker 2>And he yelled all the way across the room because

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<v Speaker 2>he had heard our discussion, and he said, what you

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<v Speaker 2>saw was a skunk akee and we got a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of them down here, and everybody got quiet and looked

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<v Speaker 2>at me. I looked at them, and I just let

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<v Speaker 2>the the subject drop. And I used on that out

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<v Speaker 2>because we all know what I saw and they I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if they believe it or not, but I

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<v Speaker 2>just let it drop and I left and next night

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<v Speaker 2>I got the information. The following day from that, I

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<v Speaker 2>called and spoke to that group and that all happened

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<v Speaker 2>what I explained earlier, and that was that, and the

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<v Speaker 2>guy was He called me two more times after that

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<v Speaker 2>to see if I wanted to talk about it anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>And one thing he said that I'll never forget that's

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<v Speaker 2>still true, is he said, once you've seen one, it

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<v Speaker 2>don't matter if it's fifty years from now, it'll still

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<v Speaker 2>seem like it was last night, And that being my

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<v Speaker 2>first one, it definitely did and definitely does. I still

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<v Speaker 2>can see it, I still feel it. I said, we'll

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<v Speaker 2>see everything I saw that night, just as if it

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<v Speaker 2>just happened, And having already written down everything about it,

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<v Speaker 2>I just had it on a piece of paper to

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<v Speaker 2>tell the group about it from down there. But that

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<v Speaker 2>was April thirteenth, and I was sitting there's an area

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<v Speaker 2>in the swamp where we as truck drivers, well preface

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<v Speaker 2>it this way to say we as truck drivers, have

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<v Speaker 2>to take a mandatory break after eleven hours of driving.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I'm close enough to that eleven, I'll go

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<v Speaker 2>ahead and pull over and take my mandatory ten and

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<v Speaker 2>at least get that out of the way and coming

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<v Speaker 2>out of Florida, especially with three different back calls, I have.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a certain place that a park which is

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<v Speaker 2>right there at that swamp. Now that swamp, that particular

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<v Speaker 2>big swamp is fifteen miles from where that sighting was

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<v Speaker 2>my first sighting, and I had no idea that that

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<v Speaker 2>was a hot zone as well. I found out later

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<v Speaker 2>through talking to the head of the group that he

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<v Speaker 2>said he has a lot of sightings in that area,

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<v Speaker 2>because we've spoke a number of times after this. He

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<v Speaker 2>said he has a number of sightings from that area,

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<v Speaker 2>even from local cops who can't report it or thought

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<v Speaker 2>of as losing their minds and fossily their jobs, but

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<v Speaker 2>they did. He has had some reports from them in

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<v Speaker 2>the area. And I told him that this was July

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<v Speaker 2>of twenty seventeen. I was sitting there taking my break.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just a great location for the length of time

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<v Speaker 2>to get from where I'm at to taking the break

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<v Speaker 2>and still having time to get over there and get

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<v Speaker 2>everything done that I need and take off from there

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<v Speaker 2>the following morning, and I was sitting there doing my

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<v Speaker 2>paperwork and I heard a loud pop. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if this is significant or not, but I went ahead

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<v Speaker 2>and wrote it down because I grabbed that piece of

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<v Speaker 2>paper with my first sighting on it, and I thought

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<v Speaker 2>I better write this down because it could be something,

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<v Speaker 2>not really thinking too much about it being serious, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still not sure. But I'm sitting there doing my

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<v Speaker 2>paperwork and there's such a loud pop not too far

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<v Speaker 2>from my truck that sounded like a twenty two caliber

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<v Speaker 2>pistol going off. So I looked out the window. You

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<v Speaker 2>could tell it was fresh wood. In other words, I

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<v Speaker 2>look out my window, and of course it's pitch black

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<v Speaker 2>out there, and it's woods and swamp, and I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>see a flashlight or lantern of anybody who could have

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<v Speaker 2>been out there, so I didn't know why that would

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<v Speaker 2>have popped. But I'm just I wrote this down and

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<v Speaker 2>I relate it now because it could be significant, and

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<v Speaker 2>I started becoming more I guess at the time I

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<v Speaker 2>was laughingly saying that I'm so squatched sensitive now that

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<v Speaker 2>everything you know, I'm looking at it and listening and watching,

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<v Speaker 2>and still it could have been. And I told the

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<v Speaker 2>guy down there about that, and he said, yeah, it

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<v Speaker 2>could have been. They might have been signaling that you

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<v Speaker 2>just parked it with her. You just never know what

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<v Speaker 2>the sounds are that they make, or why we don't

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<v Speaker 2>know enough about the Knox or anything yet exactly. We've

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<v Speaker 2>got some real good ideas about the Knocks now, but

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<v Speaker 2>that could have been. So I just left that on

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<v Speaker 2>the list. And just three months after that October the

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<v Speaker 2>third of twenty seventeen, I'm two hundred miles north of

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<v Speaker 2>that swamp taking another back road that I take up

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<v Speaker 2>through central Florida. I take out of ten and then

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<v Speaker 2>I take another are back highway so I can go

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<v Speaker 2>up through central Georgia to where I'm delivering back to Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 2>And there's a there's an agricultural stop we have to make.

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<v Speaker 2>We call them aggravation stations or accenters, where we just

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<v Speaker 2>have to stop and they check to make sure that

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<v Speaker 2>you know what we've got in our trailer before we

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<v Speaker 2>get up to the state line. And it's a pretty

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<v Speaker 2>good distance, you know, it's probably I believe it was

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<v Speaker 2>about twenty some midd miles from the state line, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's still it's in a water protected area, conservation area pastures.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course, me being as I said, quote unquote

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<v Speaker 2>squatch sensitive, now I'm looking around thinking, yeah, what could

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<v Speaker 2>exist here? There's food, there's shelter, there's this, there's that.

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<v Speaker 2>And I went through there so much that three of

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<v Speaker 2>the officers that work there, we've just waved each other

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<v Speaker 2>and I'd go on, they know what I've got. And

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<v Speaker 2>as I slowed down to get his wave, I saw

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<v Speaker 2>a movement to my left and prifelvision, and when I

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<v Speaker 2>looked up real quick, I saw another one. I saw

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<v Speaker 2>a red one. This time it was the only red

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<v Speaker 2>one I've seen, the only daylight sight that I've seen.

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<v Speaker 2>It was another one running at that psychotic speed, and

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<v Speaker 2>he almost made it without me seeing him. He was

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<v Speaker 2>so fast, but I jerked my head around quick and

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<v Speaker 2>saw him just in time. He jumped over a six

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<v Speaker 2>foot fence into the woods, and then he suddenly stopped

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<v Speaker 2>and slowed down so much. And the reason I say

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<v Speaker 2>that is that as I was and I'm still rolling

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still doing about five miles for hour rolling and

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<v Speaker 2>I was at the area that he went into the

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<v Speaker 2>wood woods within two seconds. I was so it was

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<v Speaker 2>so close, and I looked in where he went in.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course I didn't see him. But before that, the

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<v Speaker 2>reason I know he stopped and went slow is that

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<v Speaker 2>him being red and the foliage still being pretty green.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw him moving behind the foliage and he went

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<v Speaker 2>real slow, and then he vanished. And as I got

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<v Speaker 2>to that area, I thought, sure i'd see him, and

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<v Speaker 2>he wasn't there. I thought, look at that, there's another one.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I wrote that all down and that was

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<v Speaker 2>just that was just over a year from the first

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<v Speaker 2>sighting April thirteenth to October third of seventeen. From sixteen

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<v Speaker 2>and a month after that, going up that same road,

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<v Speaker 2>I started noticing tree structures what could have been tree structures,

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<v Speaker 2>But because now I'm really looking at that area as

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<v Speaker 2>I go through it and passed it, it's a long

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<v Speaker 2>ride through swamp and pasture and no body out there

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<v Speaker 2>and no buildings, no houses or anything, just that accenter.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I stopped and took a picture of what

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<v Speaker 2>I thought was the structures, and as I went on

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<v Speaker 2>past that a couple of one hundred yards. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of years before that, I would have looked

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<v Speaker 2>at those trees the way they were stacked together, and thought, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, they fell in a good synchronized way, I guess,

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<v Speaker 2>but and look over it. But now I don't, I

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<v Speaker 2>look at it for what it might be. And a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of hundred yards from there, out in the middle

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<v Speaker 2>of a palm Franz field, was a tree limb that

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<v Speaker 2>had been stripped down, and it was horizontally placed on

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of branches way out in the middle. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought I would have thought that who would have or

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<v Speaker 2>why would somebody do that? And I still don't know why.

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<v Speaker 2>But as I said, being a squat says, I'm looking

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<v Speaker 2>at that too and wondering why is that there? And

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<v Speaker 2>it still could be something I don't know, but just

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<v Speaker 2>things that I picked up and noticed along the way

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<v Speaker 2>that may or may not mean anything at all. But

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<v Speaker 2>that was September. Two months after that. Now I'm into

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<v Speaker 2>November of twenty seventeen. I'm going through down to the

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<v Speaker 2>area where I normally park to take my break on

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<v Speaker 2>the northbound side. I'm southbound on that same highway coming

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<v Speaker 2>to the end where it meets another highway and tease

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<v Speaker 2>into it, and I make a left right there. And

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<v Speaker 2>as I'm you know, cranking up my gears getting the

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<v Speaker 2>truck moving again, I'm looking. I'm always looking for a movement.

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<v Speaker 2>And I see movement to my left periphial from my

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<v Speaker 2>bright lights being on, because as I said, there's no

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<v Speaker 2>lights in that area that area either or other. And

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<v Speaker 2>I saw movement to my left just in time for

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<v Speaker 2>the peripheral of my bright lights to pick up a large,

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<v Speaker 2>really large black being turn and walk away. And if

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<v Speaker 2>he hadn't moved, I would have never seen him. I

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<v Speaker 2>would have never had any reason to look. But when

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<v Speaker 2>he moved and walked away, I saw his right arm

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<v Speaker 2>swing back as he stepped away, and I went, there's

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<v Speaker 2>another one right there, And look how closely as to

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<v Speaker 2>where I park? This is like I think I measured

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<v Speaker 2>it at two tenths of a mile from what I

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<v Speaker 2>normally park, so I know they're right where I easily

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<v Speaker 2>stay for the night. And now they're really close to home.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking that this must be a hotter zone than

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, because it really looks like and I always

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<v Speaker 2>thought it was but now there's evidence again, and I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't mission it to the guys that at the terminal anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>They never said anything else about it to me either.

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<v Speaker 2>They're just they're not the guys to talk to about

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like this. I did talk to one truck driver

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<v Speaker 2>down there, and he kind of looked at me sideways,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought, okay, yeah, there's you know, it's just

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<v Speaker 2>the type that don't want to believe it, and they'll

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<v Speaker 2>start thinking that I'm a whack of So there's very

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<v Speaker 2>few people, even family, that that I tell anything to,

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<v Speaker 2>because even some of them that I thought would believe me,

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<v Speaker 2>they even looked at me kind of quietly, and I thought, okay, well,

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<v Speaker 2>I won't talk to these family members anymore about it.

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<v Speaker 2>And in fact, my girlfriend at that time and my

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<v Speaker 2>oldest sister were they They believe me. They know me

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<v Speaker 2>well enough to know I'm not just making up fantasies

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<v Speaker 2>to be to talk and draw attention to myself. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not that way. My girlfriend is a full blood American Indian.

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<v Speaker 2>In her tribe, they have them, she believes in them.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't even pronounce what they call them, but she's

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<v Speaker 2>from an Arizona tribe and there she knows up very well.

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<v Speaker 2>And then my sister, of course, she just believed me

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<v Speaker 2>because she knows me. There were other friends that I

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<v Speaker 2>told that that were semis So believers, and they still

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<v Speaker 2>looked at me like, you know, maybe you'll see one

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<v Speaker 2>out west, but for you to have this many sightings

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<v Speaker 2>and be right there in Florida, I don't know. It

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<v Speaker 2>just made me feel like that. They didn't actually say it,

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<v Speaker 2>but I know them well enough for their looks, so

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<v Speaker 2>I quit talking to anybody about it. And I haven't

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<v Speaker 2>even mentioned this to anybody in years. I'm a knower.

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<v Speaker 2>I know they exist, and when I see people online

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<v Speaker 2>talking about the what it could be instead of you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I just let it go that one day people are

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<v Speaker 2>going to know, and right now it's just I think

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<v Speaker 2>more people nowadays know than ever before. I think we've

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<v Speaker 2>communicated enough now that a lot of people know about them,

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<v Speaker 2>and the ones that don't know just don't want to believe.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know that's there right as well. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>I would never try to convince anybody, but as far

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<v Speaker 2>as I can tell, like my family members, they really

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<v Speaker 2>don't have any reason to believe other than what I've

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<v Speaker 2>told them because they're not out and about. And I

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<v Speaker 2>can also say that if I hadn't been in these

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<v Speaker 2>certain areas on this job, I would have never seen

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<v Speaker 2>any but I happen to be on the right highway,

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<v Speaker 2>in the right locations at the right time. Obviously, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if maybe they would have been doing what

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<v Speaker 2>they were doing anyway, whether I was there or not,

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<v Speaker 2>but they were obviously in my eyesight and close to

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<v Speaker 2>me at that time anyway, and they could have waited.

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<v Speaker 2>That's another question I have about it, is these road

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<v Speaker 2>crossings I've had, and these sightings I've had, why didn't

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<v Speaker 2>they just wait until I passed? And why would they

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<v Speaker 2>come out in front of me like that? That always

420
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:35.759
<v Speaker 2>made me one to two. Thus, they don't have any

421
00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:43.319
<v Speaker 2>answers for really. So after having that third sighting that

422
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:49.200
<v Speaker 2>was November fifteenth or twenty seventeen, it was nine months later,

423
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:57.960
<v Speaker 2>October twenty third of twenty eighteen. This was at eleven

424
00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:03.480
<v Speaker 2>thirty five PM, I had another road crossing, and this

425
00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.319
<v Speaker 2>one as I came down through that swamp area again,

426
00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:10.039
<v Speaker 2>I got to where it teas off and I make

427
00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.319
<v Speaker 2>my left where I'd just seen a year before that

428
00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:16.119
<v Speaker 2>one on the on the left. As I started cranking

429
00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.680
<v Speaker 2>up my gears, well, I had gotten up to roughly

430
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:24.799
<v Speaker 2>eighth ninth gear, so I had pretty good speak going

431
00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:28.640
<v Speaker 2>at that time. And that's kind of a dark highway

432
00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:32.160
<v Speaker 2>as well. But as you get further up the road,

433
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:35.400
<v Speaker 2>street lights are starting, and there's some businesses and houses.

434
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:38.079
<v Speaker 2>But before that, there's a there's still a lot of

435
00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:43.799
<v Speaker 2>pasture land around there, and there's a painting farm or

436
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:46.400
<v Speaker 2>some type of farm with some animals on it that

437
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:54.599
<v Speaker 2>advertised on the right. And I see this is, you know,

438
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.920
<v Speaker 2>late at night, as I said, eleven thirty five, and

439
00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.920
<v Speaker 2>so I'm watching all the time, and I see movement again.

440
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:06.960
<v Speaker 2>This is on my right side. So I look, and

441
00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:12.599
<v Speaker 2>here is a black one running right towards me. As

442
00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:16.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm going up that road. He's coming down the other

443
00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:19.519
<v Speaker 2>side towards me. And I'm looking at him as he

444
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.880
<v Speaker 2>crosses the road, of course, taking in all the characteristics

445
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:28.359
<v Speaker 2>I can of him. And this one's also colored strange,

446
00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.160
<v Speaker 2>but he's a black one with a gray face. I

447
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:34.319
<v Speaker 2>could see. I didn't have my glasses on it at

448
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.079
<v Speaker 2>that time, but I can still tell. I was close

449
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:40.279
<v Speaker 2>enough to tell that he was gray faced and black.

450
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.400
<v Speaker 2>He was running on all fours and don't I wouldn't

451
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.079
<v Speaker 2>say it was the psychotic speed I had seen twice,

452
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.279
<v Speaker 2>but this was very fast. But when he crossed the road,

453
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:58.680
<v Speaker 2>I noticed he had a white side, and without my

454
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:03.960
<v Speaker 2>glasses on, thinking about it later, I was thinking that,

455
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.480
<v Speaker 2>well he came from that patentsume maybe he had a

456
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:10.599
<v Speaker 2>goat under his left arm. He was carrying like a football.

457
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:15.759
<v Speaker 2>Maybe he had a labrador or a sheep, a pig,

458
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.640
<v Speaker 2>And he was just far enough with that I couldn't

459
00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:22.480
<v Speaker 2>really tell. He was close enough enough that I could

460
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:27.440
<v Speaker 2>tell that. I couldn't get details, but I got characteristics.

461
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:30.039
<v Speaker 2>And as I got up to where he crossed the

462
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:34.559
<v Speaker 2>road he went across. When I reported that one to

463
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.000
<v Speaker 2>the same Florida group, the guy said, well, there's a

464
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:40.519
<v Speaker 2>three foot bob wire fence right there where he crossed it.

465
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:42.039
<v Speaker 2>He jumped and on and I said, as a matter

466
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.599
<v Speaker 2>of fact, he didn't jump. He ran across that fence

467
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:47.920
<v Speaker 2>like it was an open gate. That's just how big

468
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.720
<v Speaker 2>he was. And he was built like a like a

469
00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:57.480
<v Speaker 2>football player wearing pads. He was huge. And as he

470
00:29:57.559 --> 00:29:59.839
<v Speaker 2>came barreling towards me, I was taking all this in

471
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.440
<v Speaker 2>and as he crossed the road, I've got so used

472
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:05.640
<v Speaker 2>to this now you could say that as he crossed

473
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.559
<v Speaker 2>the road, I remember saying to myself out loud, don't look,

474
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:11.519
<v Speaker 2>there goes another one of those things they say don't exist,

475
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:17.480
<v Speaker 2>And there he goes. I watched him cross, no moonlight out.

476
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:20.880
<v Speaker 2>But when he got into that pasture area, he went

477
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.240
<v Speaker 2>into an island of trees and I couldn't see, but

478
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:27.559
<v Speaker 2>I could see his white side, And once the white

479
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:30.599
<v Speaker 2>side disappeared, I knew he was in the trees pretty thick.

480
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:34.920
<v Speaker 2>So if he had been, if he didn't have a

481
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:37.440
<v Speaker 2>white patch on his side, and he was standing there

482
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:40.119
<v Speaker 2>at night, i'd never seen him. There's no telling how

483
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.880
<v Speaker 2>many had been around me. And I don't E didn't

484
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:46.000
<v Speaker 2>know about it, but that characteristic gave him away, like

485
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.680
<v Speaker 2>he was running with a spotlight on his side, and

486
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.720
<v Speaker 2>it was this whole rib cage. And I've heard since

487
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.000
<v Speaker 2>then that there's been some scene with a big white

488
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.480
<v Speaker 2>patch on their back and on the chest area, So

489
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.799
<v Speaker 2>it could have been that. I don't know. I just

490
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.119
<v Speaker 2>don't know what it was. It's it's just funny that

491
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.279
<v Speaker 2>he was coming from a zoo or a farm, rather

492
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.759
<v Speaker 2>and he had that that white side, so it made

493
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:17.720
<v Speaker 2>me think, that's all I mean, I really don't know.

494
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:26.200
<v Speaker 2>And I reported that one and the head of that

495
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.119
<v Speaker 2>group again he went out there and he said he

496
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:32.720
<v Speaker 2>sat and that's also let me say this also that

497
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.039
<v Speaker 2>that that is right at some power lines, and he

498
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:39.519
<v Speaker 2>said that power line area is a very hot area

499
00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:44.680
<v Speaker 2>for them to travel. So, like I said before too,

500
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:47.799
<v Speaker 2>and I'm in a hot someone out even realizing it.

501
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.559
<v Speaker 2>They're all around me down there, which is why I

502
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:53.880
<v Speaker 2>never got out of my truck at night. I never

503
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.839
<v Speaker 2>one time. I did before before I knew this, but

504
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:03.559
<v Speaker 2>after these and the things that are going on down there,

505
00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:05.480
<v Speaker 2>I just quit getting out at night. That hadn't really

506
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.920
<v Speaker 2>really no reason except to wait until in the morning

507
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:15.240
<v Speaker 2>daylight or close to daylight with my strong flashlight. So

508
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:19.400
<v Speaker 2>he said when he went down there to check it out,

509
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:21.119
<v Speaker 2>that he sat for two hours on the side of

510
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:26.160
<v Speaker 2>the road, watching and waiting, and he interviewed, talked to

511
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:31.200
<v Speaker 2>some people that had the UH that lived close by,

512
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.119
<v Speaker 2>not right that area, but live close by, And he

513
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:36.799
<v Speaker 2>talked to a few people at the first sight and

514
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:40.640
<v Speaker 2>as well and let his card with them, but just

515
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:42.880
<v Speaker 2>to let him know that he was on their property

516
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:49.160
<v Speaker 2>looking around, and but he said again he didn't see anything.

517
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:51.640
<v Speaker 2>And that was that was another area where the cops

518
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:57.799
<v Speaker 2>I reported seeing them as well. So it's good to

519
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.119
<v Speaker 2>know that, you know, somebody in the law enforce I

520
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:03.400
<v Speaker 2>have seen the same things I've seen. But as I

521
00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:05.559
<v Speaker 2>said before too, i'm a believer now, I mean I'm

522
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:09.240
<v Speaker 2>a knower now. And I wasn't even thrilled to see

523
00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:12.160
<v Speaker 2>that one. As big of a deal as that was.

524
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.039
<v Speaker 2>I just saw him like I was watching, you know,

525
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.119
<v Speaker 2>anybody's horse had gotten out, and he ran across the road.

526
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:23.599
<v Speaker 2>There goes a horse, and it just wasn't that thrilling.

527
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:27.400
<v Speaker 2>It was exciting to see, but I'm calm about it now.

528
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.480
<v Speaker 2>And so anyway, that was my fourth one, and that

529
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:38.480
<v Speaker 2>was twenty eighteen. The fifth one went all the way

530
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:44.000
<v Speaker 2>up to January twenty sixth of twenty twenty two, and

531
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:50.079
<v Speaker 2>this happened at two am again the same area that swamp.

532
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.920
<v Speaker 2>As I'm coming down to where the road's to you off.

533
00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:01.000
<v Speaker 2>I had always thought that that pasture area across where

534
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.319
<v Speaker 2>the highway teas into the next highway looked like a

535
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:10.679
<v Speaker 2>great place for one. So for those next three years

536
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:13.920
<v Speaker 2>or so, every time I made that stop right there,

537
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:15.840
<v Speaker 2>it hit my bright lights. When there were no cars

538
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.840
<v Speaker 2>around where, it would just my lights would sweep across

539
00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.960
<v Speaker 2>that field. Because it's pitch black out there, but I've

540
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.039
<v Speaker 2>seen it in the daytime. I know what's there. And

541
00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:28.880
<v Speaker 2>as my lights would sweep across across, I could see,

542
00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:31.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, a deer once in a while, and a

543
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:34.960
<v Speaker 2>cow once in a while. It wasn't a lot of

544
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:38.280
<v Speaker 2>cows out there, and I would just sweep it and

545
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.440
<v Speaker 2>go on. Well, this night of January twenty sixth, when

546
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:46.519
<v Speaker 2>I made the sweep, I saw it like a bright

547
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:50.360
<v Speaker 2>neon lights lights beaming off of that. I saw a

548
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.960
<v Speaker 2>white one, another white one, and it was Now this

549
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:57.800
<v Speaker 2>was also the creepiest one of all. For some reason,

550
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:06.360
<v Speaker 2>he was probably at least three hundred yards away. You know,

551
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:11.039
<v Speaker 2>he wasn't real close, but I didn't I know enough

552
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:17.840
<v Speaker 2>about their characteristics. Now when I see one, I know one,

553
00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:21.239
<v Speaker 2>and he was. It was a white one. He was

554
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:26.239
<v Speaker 2>standing slightly turned to the right but towards me, and

555
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.519
<v Speaker 2>he was leaning over just a little bit, and he

556
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.519
<v Speaker 2>was just standing there like a statue. And as I

557
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:35.760
<v Speaker 2>made the sweep, I went look at that there, speaking

558
00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:38.719
<v Speaker 2>out loud to myself. I talked to myself a lot,

559
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.679
<v Speaker 2>but I said, look at that, there's another one, and

560
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.480
<v Speaker 2>without my bright lights. When once my lights had passed him,

561
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.719
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't see him anymore. It's so pitch dark out there.

562
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:54.239
<v Speaker 2>So I leaned forward and looked out my passion's side

563
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:58.400
<v Speaker 2>window because I couldn't see him, and it's pitch black.

564
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.159
<v Speaker 2>There's no way to see him at without my bright lights,

565
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:04.760
<v Speaker 2>I would never known he was there either, even though

566
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:11.559
<v Speaker 2>he's completely white. And I reported that one to the

567
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:18.280
<v Speaker 2>guy as well to the group. But that one was

568
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:21.960
<v Speaker 2>the creepiest one for some reason. And I've heard about

569
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:28.239
<v Speaker 2>them projecting things into people like confusion and fear and

570
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.320
<v Speaker 2>things like that, so I think this one was possibly

571
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:39.679
<v Speaker 2>just reaching me and saying that I'm not safe, don't stop,

572
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:43.119
<v Speaker 2>don't come over here. Who knows or what reason why.

573
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.519
<v Speaker 2>But even though he wasn't moving, he was just standing

574
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:50.920
<v Speaker 2>there looking at me. I had a real crazy feeling

575
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.000
<v Speaker 2>about him, and I was glad to leave him behind

576
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:54.800
<v Speaker 2>and keep on going up the road because that was

577
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.800
<v Speaker 2>very strange. So that was my five sightings, and I've

578
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:04.400
<v Speaker 2>had two other experiences, which is the reason I don't

579
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:11.239
<v Speaker 2>run Florida anymore, besides having sightings which some people would

580
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:15.480
<v Speaker 2>get away from it all because of that. That kind

581
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.760
<v Speaker 2>of fascinated me, but I didn't want to get too

582
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.239
<v Speaker 2>close to be one of the people. I've heard on

583
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:26.159
<v Speaker 2>their sightings where they've run into them in the woods,

584
00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.719
<v Speaker 2>or they've almost bumped into them, or they were twenty

585
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:30.440
<v Speaker 2>feet from them, and that kind of thing. I can

586
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:34.679
<v Speaker 2>only imagine how terrifying that could be to anybody. When

587
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:39.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm seeing the sheer size and the bulkiness and thickness

588
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.159
<v Speaker 2>of these beings at a safe distance. I've had the

589
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.639
<v Speaker 2>kind of sightings that most people wish they could have,

590
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:48.360
<v Speaker 2>where they could just see them from their vehicle and

591
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:51.920
<v Speaker 2>keep going. Thankfully, all five of my sightings have been

592
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:56.599
<v Speaker 2>like that. But right there again at that hot swamp

593
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.880
<v Speaker 2>coming back where I take my break, where I heard

594
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:08.880
<v Speaker 2>the pop before I pulled in there on June sixteenth

595
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:11.880
<v Speaker 2>or twenty two, so this is five months roughly after

596
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:17.199
<v Speaker 2>seeing that white one, and that's always been a safe

597
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:20.480
<v Speaker 2>place to park. The trucks line up there bumper to

598
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:24.119
<v Speaker 2>bumper on both sides of the highway, especially on the

599
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.199
<v Speaker 2>south down side, but on the north down side, we

600
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:28.679
<v Speaker 2>have a limited amount of space, and we might have

601
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:34.599
<v Speaker 2>maybe eight tractor trailer combinations in there, bumper to bumper

602
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:39.599
<v Speaker 2>pretty close, and that's all the room there is, whereas

603
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.679
<v Speaker 2>the other side goes for a few tenths of a

604
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:46.519
<v Speaker 2>mile and it's further up. It's not right beside us,

605
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:50.320
<v Speaker 2>it's further up. So we're kind of in this. We're

606
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.320
<v Speaker 2>on this side of the road by ourselves. But there's

607
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:57.840
<v Speaker 2>always been a safe place to park, and it's such

608
00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.800
<v Speaker 2>a safe place that even though it's out in the public.

609
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.960
<v Speaker 2>What I do when I shut down for the night,

610
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:09.159
<v Speaker 2>when I turn lights out and the motor off and everything,

611
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:12.400
<v Speaker 2>or leave it on for that matter, I always cover

612
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.239
<v Speaker 2>my eyes and ears. What I do is I take

613
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.320
<v Speaker 2>a dish towel and fold in half and cover my

614
00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:22.239
<v Speaker 2>eyes and ears for complete and total darkness, just in

615
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.679
<v Speaker 2>case any lights hit me. And then I take my

616
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.800
<v Speaker 2>gun range ear covers and put them over the towel

617
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:35.400
<v Speaker 2>over my ears, and it holds the towel there. And

618
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.760
<v Speaker 2>it's very nice and quiet and peaceful where I can

619
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.119
<v Speaker 2>sleep goether I can't even hear I can barely hear

620
00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:43.719
<v Speaker 2>cars driving past me, and I don't wear that kind

621
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:48.239
<v Speaker 2>of what I call a rig just everywhere. And if

622
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:52.679
<v Speaker 2>I'm in a questionable place where I've got to shut

623
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.480
<v Speaker 2>down for the night on the side road or entrance

624
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.480
<v Speaker 2>exit ramps somewhere, I don't do that. And it's not

625
00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.039
<v Speaker 2>a very good nice sleep either. But there just like

626
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:06.920
<v Speaker 2>a rest area, I put the rig on and I'm

627
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:11.199
<v Speaker 2>lights out. But anyway before that, I pulled into that

628
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:20.000
<v Speaker 2>swamp and I shut down and thinking everything's normal, normalless

629
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.960
<v Speaker 2>it ever is, And I'm standing between the seats with

630
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:26.440
<v Speaker 2>the lights on, and I'm reading and it's an inspection

631
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:28.920
<v Speaker 2>report that was just done on my motor. Because I

632
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.360
<v Speaker 2>try to improve each sound. I have a PM done

633
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.760
<v Speaker 2>on the motor. I try to see if my idle

634
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:41.079
<v Speaker 2>times better, mileage is better for a mile, etcetera. So

635
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:43.400
<v Speaker 2>I like to read over it and compare them. And

636
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm standing there between the seats reading over that one,

637
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:56.280
<v Speaker 2>and my whole truck rocked. And it wasn't what something

638
00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:58.400
<v Speaker 2>my co workers. I told some of the guys about

639
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:01.000
<v Speaker 2>they because they parked down there, and I said, you guys,

640
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:03.119
<v Speaker 2>be careful when you parked on there, because somebody rocked

641
00:41:03.159 --> 00:41:05.800
<v Speaker 2>my truck. The other night, and I never told any

642
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:10.840
<v Speaker 2>of them what I know it was. And they said, oh, no,

643
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:13.280
<v Speaker 2>it's just your air bags releasing. They'll tremble a little bit.

644
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:17.639
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I've been driving almost forty two years.

645
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:20.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm sixty two years old. I started driving in the

646
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.639
<v Speaker 2>early eighties. I know what airbags feel like when they release.

647
00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:29.239
<v Speaker 2>At this stage of the game. You know, they'll give

648
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:32.079
<v Speaker 2>you a little shudder while there the air's coming out

649
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:34.199
<v Speaker 2>of them. But this, and also I told them my

650
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:38.519
<v Speaker 2>motor wasn't even even running. I mean, my motor was

651
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:40.599
<v Speaker 2>still running, so there was no reason for the air

652
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.480
<v Speaker 2>bags to release. So it wasn't that anyway. But whatever

653
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:51.519
<v Speaker 2>did this, I was telling them, rocked my truck so

654
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.000
<v Speaker 2>hard that I took one hand to clutch my seat

655
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:01.239
<v Speaker 2>because I was rocking inside like that. And I was

656
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.039
<v Speaker 2>so shocked by that. I immediately cut the light out

657
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:06.280
<v Speaker 2>and looked out the window, and of course nothing was there.

658
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:11.440
<v Speaker 2>And that was not a very good night's sleep that night,

659
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:16.000
<v Speaker 2>because that had never happened, and I'd never heard of

660
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:21.199
<v Speaker 2>it happening, And so I didn't park down there again

661
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.599
<v Speaker 2>next morning when I left. When I came back down

662
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:26.760
<v Speaker 2>a couple of days later, I didn't park there. I'd

663
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:30.599
<v Speaker 2>go past that highway twenty more miles up to the

664
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:32.920
<v Speaker 2>interstate where I knew of a good rest area and

665
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:38.559
<v Speaker 2>I could shut down. And I did that for a

666
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:42.519
<v Speaker 2>few months, but when I went past that area. Funny

667
00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:44.599
<v Speaker 2>thing was when I went past that highway and looked

668
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.760
<v Speaker 2>there might be only one or two trucks parked there.

669
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.440
<v Speaker 2>So I started wondering, maybe some of my neighbors have

670
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.000
<v Speaker 2>been getting harassed there too, and we don't know each other,

671
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.519
<v Speaker 2>we wouldn't have any reason to know. Have a coffee

672
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:03.480
<v Speaker 2>break there and talk about it. So this went on

673
00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:06.159
<v Speaker 2>for weeks. When I went past there, nobody hardly was there,

674
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:12.559
<v Speaker 2>and I wasn't gonna stop. Forget it. I never parked

675
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.239
<v Speaker 2>there on weekends, but even during the week I just

676
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:19.920
<v Speaker 2>went on past it. And I finally got my gumption

677
00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:25.440
<v Speaker 2>up again. That happened June sixteenth or twenty two, well,

678
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:35.280
<v Speaker 2>September eighth of twenty two. Let me back up. At

679
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.519
<v Speaker 2>the end of August, I went there and nothing happened,

680
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:41.840
<v Speaker 2>so I thought everything was okay. Whatever did that must

681
00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:44.199
<v Speaker 2>have been a fluke. I don't know what kind of

682
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:46.360
<v Speaker 2>fluke it could have been, but maybe I won't be

683
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.480
<v Speaker 2>bothered anymore, even though I know what did it. Well.

684
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:56.320
<v Speaker 2>September eighth was the second time parking there from my

685
00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:03.039
<v Speaker 2>initial return, and everything was fine. I had put the

686
00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:07.639
<v Speaker 2>lights out, motors off, I put my rig on, and

687
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:11.840
<v Speaker 2>I was in just about and I was in such

688
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.880
<v Speaker 2>a deep sleep. I was dreaming. And my truck got

689
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:22.519
<v Speaker 2>rocked so hard that my head was bouncing and rolling

690
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:29.920
<v Speaker 2>around on the pillow, and I was in such a state. Well,

691
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.840
<v Speaker 2>I was dreaming that just a few years before that

692
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:35.880
<v Speaker 2>we'd had a tornado where I was living at the time.

693
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:39.320
<v Speaker 2>My wife. My wife couldn't wake me up. She had

694
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:41.960
<v Speaker 2>ran upstairs and she was bouncing my head on the pillow.

695
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.440
<v Speaker 2>Tell me I was under a sleeping pill. I should

696
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.000
<v Speaker 2>take those once in a while. And that night I

697
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:50.760
<v Speaker 2>had taken a sleeping pill and she was bouncing my

698
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:52.239
<v Speaker 2>head on the pillow and she said, this is the

699
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.280
<v Speaker 2>third time I've came up here. You've got to get

700
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.599
<v Speaker 2>out of here. The tornt They just said, the tornado

701
00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.559
<v Speaker 2>was almost here. Get down to the basement where we're at.

702
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.840
<v Speaker 2>I slowly fell out of the bed and got up

703
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:09.480
<v Speaker 2>and anyway, when my truck was being rocked, I was

704
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:12.960
<v Speaker 2>dreaming that I was in that place again, with my

705
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.719
<v Speaker 2>wife bouncing me, telling, trying to wake me up. That's

706
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:23.320
<v Speaker 2>how hard the rocking was. I immediately tore the rig off,

707
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.800
<v Speaker 2>kind of kiss cussing, because now I was getting irritated

708
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.559
<v Speaker 2>with it. I jumped up out of the bed and

709
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.199
<v Speaker 2>looked out the window, and nothing's there, of course, which

710
00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.239
<v Speaker 2>made me even more mad. So I thought, these things

711
00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:41.880
<v Speaker 2>are harassing me now. And I had already tested the

712
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:45.000
<v Speaker 2>springs on the truck, trying to recreate what happened the

713
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.400
<v Speaker 2>first time. And I'm two hundred and sixty five pounds,

714
00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:53.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm sixty two, and I had gotten up on the

715
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:56.440
<v Speaker 2>side step and grabbed the monkey bar and I had

716
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.760
<v Speaker 2>bounced up and down, pulling on it. I'd push on it,

717
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.519
<v Speaker 2>shake it, and I can barely move those springs, which

718
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:08.039
<v Speaker 2>I knew would happened. That the suspension is huge on

719
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:12.360
<v Speaker 2>these trucks. But whatever was shaking me was shaking it

720
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:17.760
<v Speaker 2>like you would you would rock any like a motorcycle,

721
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:20.079
<v Speaker 2>like you're bouncing up and down on a little dirt bike.

722
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.480
<v Speaker 2>It was rocking me so hard, and I thought, that's it.

723
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:27.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm not I'm not coming here anymore. This is it.

724
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:33.599
<v Speaker 2>But I was. I was mad. I wasn't afraid. So

725
00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:36.440
<v Speaker 2>what I did was throw my rig back on and

726
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:41.000
<v Speaker 2>go back to sleep. I mean, not long before that.

727
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:43.519
<v Speaker 2>I would have never done that, but I was. I was.

728
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:50.400
<v Speaker 2>I was more mad than anything else. And I kept

729
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:54.559
<v Speaker 2>going down there. But another thing I heard about was

730
00:46:56.440 --> 00:47:02.519
<v Speaker 2>the Chippewa will Before they go into the woods, there

731
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:07.440
<v Speaker 2>are jibs and chip Hole would speak to the beams

732
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.639
<v Speaker 2>and say, I'm coming in because I have to hunt, etcetera, etcetera,

733
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:12.880
<v Speaker 2>don't bother us, We're not here for anything, et cetera,

734
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:17.480
<v Speaker 2>sort of apologizing as they come into the wood line.

735
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:21.039
<v Speaker 2>And I thought, I'm going to do that. I'm going

736
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:23.400
<v Speaker 2>to park down there, and I started doing it. When

737
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:26.559
<v Speaker 2>I parked there, I would just roll my window down

738
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:31.559
<v Speaker 2>and talk to the darkness and just tell them that

739
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:36.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm only here because I have to be. Don't scare

740
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:40.599
<v Speaker 2>me tonight. I'm not here to bother you. I'm only

741
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:42.039
<v Speaker 2>here because I have to be. As soon as I

742
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.760
<v Speaker 2>get my rest, I'll be gone. And I did that

743
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:47.639
<v Speaker 2>for the last few times I was there until I

744
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:53.320
<v Speaker 2>got another run. Because what I did was I talked

745
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.639
<v Speaker 2>to my dispatch about changing locations because i'd been running

746
00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:58.719
<v Speaker 2>that same area for so many years, and all over

747
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:04.679
<v Speaker 2>Florida for that matter, but actually that area that as

748
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:07.639
<v Speaker 2>of August last year, I started running North and South

749
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:11.320
<v Speaker 2>Carolina instead because I thought they're getting too close to

750
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:15.320
<v Speaker 2>me now and I don't want to get any closer

751
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.519
<v Speaker 2>and have to find out what to do next time.

752
00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:21.360
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know what might be the next time,

753
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:27.039
<v Speaker 2>what might happen, And I'll just leave this as a

754
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:34.159
<v Speaker 2>as a peaceful get away. You all keep living as

755
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:35.920
<v Speaker 2>you're living, and I'm going up here to live as

756
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:39.519
<v Speaker 2>I live, which, by the way, I had been invited

757
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:44.280
<v Speaker 2>twice because of these sidings. I've been invited twice by

758
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:48.400
<v Speaker 2>people to go down and camp and do some trailing

759
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:52.360
<v Speaker 2>and tracking, and I refused both times. I just haven't.

760
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:54.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't have any use for that. I'm not a

761
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:57.440
<v Speaker 2>researcher and I don't want to be one, and I

762
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:01.840
<v Speaker 2>don't want to bother them anyway. So there's not anything

763
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:04.519
<v Speaker 2>that I would I would look forward and try to do.

764
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:09.320
<v Speaker 2>I just wouldn't want to bother them anyway. You know,

765
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:12.280
<v Speaker 2>if I was hunting and I ran into some by accident,

766
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:14.599
<v Speaker 2>that's one thing, But actually camp and look for them.

767
00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.079
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to do that. I have no reason.

768
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:21.519
<v Speaker 2>And I just looked at live as you live, and

769
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:23.519
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to go live as I live unless I

770
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:31.800
<v Speaker 2>have a peaceful separation forever, I hope. And uh, I'd

771
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:34.719
<v Speaker 2>say that that's it. That's my experiences in Florida. All

772
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:35.239
<v Speaker 2>in Florida.

773
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:43.559
<v Speaker 1>By the way, Eric, that is the incredible grouping of

774
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:48.159
<v Speaker 1>encounters and so interesting. You're a truck driver as well.

775
00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:51.679
<v Speaker 1>I want to comment real quick. A lot of truck

776
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:57.840
<v Speaker 1>drivers reach out to me. They don't come on record.

777
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:01.360
<v Speaker 1>There's there's more out there that's happening. Then more people

778
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:04.119
<v Speaker 1>that then people realize when it comes to truck drivers

779
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:09.079
<v Speaker 1>seeing Bigfoot, it's a lot. So it's it's very unique

780
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:12.119
<v Speaker 1>that you you've come on record, and thank you for

781
00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:16.199
<v Speaker 1>doing so. There's something you said at the very beginning

782
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:19.480
<v Speaker 1>that I thought was interesting because you said it really quick.

783
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.079
<v Speaker 1>You may not have even noticed that you said it,

784
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:28.000
<v Speaker 1>but uh, I'm just curious. So you refer to them

785
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.199
<v Speaker 1>as as people is what I heard?

786
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:32.000
<v Speaker 2>Correct? Oh?

787
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:40.280
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, what was it was? What made you get

788
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:44.400
<v Speaker 1>to the point where you you now refer to them

789
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:47.920
<v Speaker 1>as people as opposed to like a skunk, Gabe, or

790
00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:49.639
<v Speaker 1>bigfoot or sasquatch.

791
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:56.400
<v Speaker 2>The main thing that made me, even even though I've

792
00:50:56.440 --> 00:51:00.719
<v Speaker 2>never personally heard this, it was there's beach they have

793
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.079
<v Speaker 2>where they communicate with each other, and I've heard there's

794
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:10.960
<v Speaker 2>family units and small clans and they try not to

795
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.239
<v Speaker 2>bother us that like any other animal or or a

796
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:18.920
<v Speaker 2>person pretty much would would do, but unless they're threatened.

797
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:23.039
<v Speaker 2>But the speech and communication what I've heard about, and

798
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:26.760
<v Speaker 2>I've heard the recordings from from Ron in California, and

799
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.760
<v Speaker 2>in fact I heard them again the other day that

800
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.599
<v Speaker 2>you know, they've they're built like us, just more extreme,

801
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:41.159
<v Speaker 2>but they communicate. They're built like us, They've got the

802
00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:45.039
<v Speaker 2>same body parts we do, so why wouldn't they have

803
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.800
<v Speaker 2>the same family units? And it makes me think of

804
00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:50.400
<v Speaker 2>them as just that as people, as groups of a

805
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:57.760
<v Speaker 2>different huge strain of people. That's all. It's, That's all it.

806
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:03.440
<v Speaker 1>Is, gotcha. It's it's very interesting, especially, I mean when

807
00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:07.000
<v Speaker 1>you think of there's there's some times when they've been

808
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.719
<v Speaker 1>referred to as like the wild man, and you know

809
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.800
<v Speaker 1>there might be something to that. Think of what would

810
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:19.760
<v Speaker 1>happen if you know, we were put in a wooded

811
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:23.199
<v Speaker 1>situation for years and years and years. What would happen

812
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.800
<v Speaker 1>to us eventually? I mean, who knows, right, but it

813
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:30.880
<v Speaker 1>might bring us back to a certain way of living.

814
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.000
<v Speaker 2>There's no telling, absolutely no way of telling that. But yeah,

815
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:35.519
<v Speaker 2>I agree, it would.

816
00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:39.039
<v Speaker 1>Be an interesting experiment. I don't know if it'll ever

817
00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:45.760
<v Speaker 1>be done. But you mentioned that you see them move

818
00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:50.280
<v Speaker 1>like psycho speed fast, which is a really interesting way

819
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:52.880
<v Speaker 1>to say that, but I think it definitely gets the

820
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:57.920
<v Speaker 1>point across. Have you ever seen anything else move that

821
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:01.280
<v Speaker 1>psycho speed fast? In this can even be in like

822
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:05.159
<v Speaker 1>a movie or a TV show, anything else that comes

823
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:06.559
<v Speaker 1>close to what you would see.

824
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:10.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. The only thing I could compare it to is

825
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:18.199
<v Speaker 2>that I thought about this beforehand. Back then was Mutual

826
00:53:18.199 --> 00:53:20.440
<v Speaker 2>of Omaha's Wild Kingdom I grew up on. They would

827
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:24.119
<v Speaker 2>show a leopard run in slow motion where you would

828
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:27.360
<v Speaker 2>see a blur behind him, and then they would let

829
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.840
<v Speaker 2>it go at actual speed. It reminds me of that

830
00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:37.360
<v Speaker 2>it's just lightning super fast, and I couldn't believe it.

831
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:39.639
<v Speaker 2>It's still hard to believe that a being that that

832
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.280
<v Speaker 2>size can move that quickly. It's no doubt that they

833
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:48.000
<v Speaker 2>are the greatest athlete on the world in the world

834
00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:52.440
<v Speaker 2>with their strength and speed that who could match that?

835
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:58.920
<v Speaker 2>What could match that? And I've also heard witnesses say

836
00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:02.639
<v Speaker 2>out in Alaska that they had seen a squatch standing

837
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:06.440
<v Speaker 2>at the end of a woodline, and these guys, they

838
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.000
<v Speaker 2>were some type of tribe in Alaska, and they were

839
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:11.920
<v Speaker 2>in the canoe coming up on the shoreline, so they

840
00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:14.119
<v Speaker 2>stopped when they saw the squats on the left side

841
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.559
<v Speaker 2>side neyud just see him in the shadows. But to

842
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:20.280
<v Speaker 2>the right they also stopped because the grizzly bear was

843
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:25.880
<v Speaker 2>just taking his time on all fours walking down the shoreline.

844
00:54:26.679 --> 00:54:29.440
<v Speaker 2>So they stopped and looked and watched, and that grizzly

845
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:35.519
<v Speaker 2>sniffed the air, and without missing any of his stride,

846
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:37.559
<v Speaker 2>he did a U turn and just sauntered down the

847
00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:42.239
<v Speaker 2>other way, like I want to go down there. And

848
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.960
<v Speaker 2>I've heard about him easily killing black pears, but I

849
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:50.280
<v Speaker 2>LOSTO heard them killing and breaking the necks of grizzlies.

850
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:57.239
<v Speaker 2>So as fast as they are, as strong as they are,

851
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.320
<v Speaker 2>there's no match for them. But the speed is just

852
00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:04.800
<v Speaker 2>it's just funny. When I talk to the guy in Florida,

853
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.679
<v Speaker 2>he said, that's what we say down here. It's psychotic

854
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:09.920
<v Speaker 2>speed and I said, man, you hit it right on

855
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:14.320
<v Speaker 2>the right on the nail head. Because I've said ungodly

856
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:16.760
<v Speaker 2>a lot. It's like that, just don't quite get it.

857
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:21.840
<v Speaker 2>Are super fast and nothing reaches me like psycho speed

858
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:26.679
<v Speaker 2>does because it's Another guy said that it reminds him

859
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:31.400
<v Speaker 2>of back in the black and white movie days of

860
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.639
<v Speaker 2>Dracula when the used have Friday night fright videos on

861
00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:41.400
<v Speaker 2>different characters like that that you would see a you

862
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:44.719
<v Speaker 2>would see Dracula and then so he would disappear and

863
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:48.719
<v Speaker 2>then reappear split second thirty feet away. He said, it's

864
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:52.519
<v Speaker 2>kind of like that, like they just not vanish and reappear,

865
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.960
<v Speaker 2>but they move so fast. It's almost like that. But

866
00:55:55.039 --> 00:56:01.000
<v Speaker 2>I agree that it's just the word psych it go

867
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:07.000
<v Speaker 2>just just grabs me where it needs. Characteristically, their their

868
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:07.920
<v Speaker 2>speed is like that.

869
00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:17.679
<v Speaker 1>Those are some really interesting ways to describe it, and

870
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.239
<v Speaker 1>I think those are new ones to this show. Thank

871
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:24.440
<v Speaker 1>you for Thank you for digging deep. Those are pretty cool.

872
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:25.480
<v Speaker 2>Uh.

873
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:28.440
<v Speaker 1>I want to clarify something about your your sightings that

874
00:56:28.519 --> 00:56:32.960
<v Speaker 1>you've had. Was there ever a time where you were

875
00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:37.840
<v Speaker 1>able to see any any details of the face or

876
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:38.880
<v Speaker 1>anything like that.

877
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:43.880
<v Speaker 2>No, I wish there was, but I was never. They

878
00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:46.320
<v Speaker 2>were never moving slow enough or it was too dark,

879
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:49.599
<v Speaker 2>and I wasn't close enough to actually see that. I've

880
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:52.679
<v Speaker 2>seen the faces from profile, and the one on all

881
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.199
<v Speaker 2>fours running towards me. I could tell his face was gray,

882
00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:59.679
<v Speaker 2>but I couldn't see detail. And again I wouldn't wear

883
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:07.639
<v Speaker 2>my lie said that night, either right makes sense? Is uh?

884
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:14.079
<v Speaker 1>So what you had seen at different times? You know

885
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:18.159
<v Speaker 1>after Let's say you see the Patterson Gimblin film or

886
00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:22.119
<v Speaker 1>the Patty film, is it was it similar at all

887
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:26.880
<v Speaker 1>to that? Or make completely different from what you saw.

888
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:31.760
<v Speaker 2>Now? The one on all fours would have been her size,

889
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:38.840
<v Speaker 2>just a huge barrel with limbs, running towards me. The

890
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:41.840
<v Speaker 2>one that made a let when I saw him turn

891
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:46.079
<v Speaker 2>and walk away, he was that big. Also, the red

892
00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:48.039
<v Speaker 2>when I saw run across the road and jumped the

893
00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:54.159
<v Speaker 2>six foot fence, was smaller, and he might have been

894
00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:57.320
<v Speaker 2>a six footer. He just wasn't one of those mega

895
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.760
<v Speaker 2>huge ones. He wouldn't even as thick as them, but

896
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:05.639
<v Speaker 2>he was at least six feet I'd say the white

897
00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:08.000
<v Speaker 2>one that on my very first sighting, he had to

898
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:12.440
<v Speaker 2>be at least seven feet tall, maybe more. It was

899
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:17.440
<v Speaker 2>such a quick sighting and my first one. I could

900
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:19.639
<v Speaker 2>only compare it to him being able to look in

901
00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:23.079
<v Speaker 2>my truck without stepping up. We could be eye to

902
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:26.599
<v Speaker 2>eye with me sitting in the seat. So he might

903
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:30.519
<v Speaker 2>have been a little more than seven feet. And the

904
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:32.119
<v Speaker 2>white one that was way out in the pastor I

905
00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:35.320
<v Speaker 2>couldn't tell, but he was he was pretty thick. I

906
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:38.400
<v Speaker 2>could tell he wasn't just tall and skinny because he

907
00:58:38.519 --> 00:58:40.239
<v Speaker 2>was standing there and I could see him for a

908
00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:42.320
<v Speaker 2>few seconds as my life went past him.

909
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:52.000
<v Speaker 1>Do you think, let's say, man, I mean, there's something

910
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.039
<v Speaker 1>that could rock the entire truck. That's that's big, that's

911
00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:56.960
<v Speaker 1>a lot of force. Do you think they could have

912
00:58:57.039 --> 00:59:01.559
<v Speaker 1>actually gotten inside the truck if they wanted to easily.

913
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:04.760
<v Speaker 2>I think with the limbs and trees that they break,

914
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.320
<v Speaker 2>if they really wanted me, it's so amazing that they

915
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:15.880
<v Speaker 2>aren't more. I mean, they could eat if they wanted to,

916
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:18.880
<v Speaker 2>They could be as violent and wipe us out. I

917
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:22.679
<v Speaker 2>believe if I drove past that one that was standing

918
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:28.079
<v Speaker 2>there and it turned and walked away, never know any

919
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:31.000
<v Speaker 2>was there, if he wanted to, he would have easily

920
00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:34.480
<v Speaker 2>snatched the door off my truck and snatched me out

921
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:36.599
<v Speaker 2>if he wanted to. I have no doubt about that.

922
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:41.760
<v Speaker 2>As strong as they are, and as we're almost feeble

923
00:59:41.800 --> 00:59:48.960
<v Speaker 2>compared to them, there's nothing we have physically to outmatch them,

924
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.159
<v Speaker 2>and their strength is really ungodly I can use the

925
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:52.639
<v Speaker 2>word for that.

926
00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:58.280
<v Speaker 1>You know, it makes me, It makes me wonder and man,

927
00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.440
<v Speaker 1>if you could only get in side their heads and

928
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:05.320
<v Speaker 1>know what they think. When all of a sudden, out

929
01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:11.280
<v Speaker 1>of the darkness, this massive truck comes flying out of nowhere.

930
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:14.800
<v Speaker 1>It's like, do they know it's it's a vehicle like

931
01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:19.199
<v Speaker 1>a little you know, but well, a little super outback

932
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:21.960
<v Speaker 1>or something like that is a totally different vehicle as

933
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.960
<v Speaker 1>opposed to a huge, you know, truck you're driving. And

934
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:29.400
<v Speaker 1>I wonder if they man it would be it would

935
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:32.159
<v Speaker 1>be fascinating to get inside their head for a few

936
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:35.559
<v Speaker 1>different reasons. But I wonder if they're looking at a

937
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:40.719
<v Speaker 1>truck as like a huge enemy or just they're a

938
01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:44.159
<v Speaker 1>where yeah, one of those weird you know, those those

939
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:47.440
<v Speaker 1>human creatures are in there. They've just you know, decided

940
01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:51.280
<v Speaker 1>they've figured out how to control it's it's one of

941
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:56.639
<v Speaker 1>those thinking out loud things. But you know, seeing being

942
01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:02.199
<v Speaker 1>able to have multiple sightings was there a thing that

943
01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:06.119
<v Speaker 1>you realize. It's like, as soon as you saw this

944
01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:09.199
<v Speaker 1>one thing about them, or notice the way that they

945
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:12.800
<v Speaker 1>were they were acting, You're like, oh, it's one hundred percent,

946
01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:18.800
<v Speaker 1>it's a it's another one of these people from the woods.

947
01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:22.679
<v Speaker 2>A certain characteristic.

948
01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:27.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

949
01:01:27.679 --> 01:01:31.320
<v Speaker 2>Well, first of all, the color, because I've only seen

950
01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:34.360
<v Speaker 2>three different colors, and when I see what I think

951
01:01:34.519 --> 01:01:36.599
<v Speaker 2>is is one and it's one of those three color

952
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.880
<v Speaker 2>colors and they're as big as they are from top

953
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:46.519
<v Speaker 2>to bottom, I think that's no human. There's no there's

954
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:51.119
<v Speaker 2>no man or woman that big and that thig and

955
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.880
<v Speaker 2>moving that fast, or like the last sight in the

956
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:59.639
<v Speaker 2>white one, so big and thick, just standing there out

957
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:05.239
<v Speaker 2>the middle of a pitch black field, the things, just

958
01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:09.960
<v Speaker 2>seeing them move and even standing there, and just the

959
01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:14.800
<v Speaker 2>overall feeling I get from looking at them that I

960
01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:18.800
<v Speaker 2>know that's not a human. In fact, I've seen when

961
01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:21.440
<v Speaker 2>I saw that white one just a few days after that,

962
01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:24.440
<v Speaker 2>there was and I've ever seen this before either when

963
01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:28.239
<v Speaker 2>I made that I continued making that sweep with my headlights,

964
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:31.199
<v Speaker 2>I made that left turn, but when I got down

965
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:34.719
<v Speaker 2>to the end of that swamp road to make the left,

966
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.599
<v Speaker 2>there was a couple of this was at midnight. There

967
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:41.519
<v Speaker 2>were a couple of cars, I mean trucks, pickup trucks

968
01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:46.960
<v Speaker 2>with their headlights on, parked out there in the middle

969
01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.679
<v Speaker 2>of the field. And who knows what they were doing

970
01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:56.280
<v Speaker 2>and wine maybe maybe there was something going on with

971
01:02:56.280 --> 01:02:59.760
<v Speaker 2>the cattle or the farm. Animals were found over there.

972
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:05.960
<v Speaker 2>It makes me wonder a lot, but that was unusual.

973
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:11.280
<v Speaker 2>But as far as seeing them, that's all I can

974
01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:14.000
<v Speaker 2>say is just their size and the color. I've seen

975
01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:16.320
<v Speaker 2>two black ones, two white ones, and the red one

976
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:23.280
<v Speaker 2>in the daylight. So anytime I see that right then,

977
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, I go right to there they are. There's

978
01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:31.320
<v Speaker 2>another one. But when I saw when I had the

979
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:33.079
<v Speaker 2>fourth side and across the road in front of me

980
01:03:33.119 --> 01:03:35.639
<v Speaker 2>on all fours, Like I said, I'm just not excited

981
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:39.199
<v Speaker 2>that much by then, and I just say look at that.

982
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:44.679
<v Speaker 2>There he goes. Yeah, they don't exist, But there he

983
01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:46.440
<v Speaker 2>goes again, there goes another one.

984
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:50.559
<v Speaker 1>Rather right, they sure not are out here and they're

985
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:56.800
<v Speaker 1>all over the place. Yeah, that's funny. Sometimes people report

986
01:03:56.960 --> 01:04:03.559
<v Speaker 1>that they have interactions like this and it will things

987
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:08.400
<v Speaker 1>will start to manifest at their home. Have has anything

988
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:11.679
<v Speaker 1>like that ever occurred? After you've had these interactions in

989
01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:12.079
<v Speaker 1>the truck.

990
01:04:13.639 --> 01:04:16.960
<v Speaker 2>No, not at all. And I had been aware of that, yeah,

991
01:04:17.079 --> 01:04:22.440
<v Speaker 2>and hoping that wouldn't happen to me. I've heard about

992
01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:26.840
<v Speaker 2>them attaching themselves in some way like that, and back

993
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:29.280
<v Speaker 2>when I was wondering all the time, you know, I

994
01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:31.840
<v Speaker 2>think about it every day, especially when I was down there.

995
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:36.960
<v Speaker 2>I would look in the woods constantly for any movement,

996
01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:46.239
<v Speaker 2>and I had really hoped that they wouldn't let that

997
01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.519
<v Speaker 2>happen to me, Like and when I did my speeches,

998
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:52.960
<v Speaker 2>I call them speeches when I have my little saying

999
01:04:53.119 --> 01:04:55.360
<v Speaker 2>down there before I go to sleep at night too,

1000
01:04:57.039 --> 01:04:58.480
<v Speaker 2>I would say that that would be one of the

1001
01:04:58.519 --> 01:05:03.559
<v Speaker 2>things I would say, is don't go with me, just

1002
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:05.840
<v Speaker 2>stay where you're at. I'm not here to bother you,

1003
01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:07.719
<v Speaker 2>et cetera, et cetera. I have my own little thing

1004
01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:13.239
<v Speaker 2>that I would say like that. And thankfully, no, nothing

1005
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:14.039
<v Speaker 2>that ever happened.

1006
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:21.400
<v Speaker 1>Eric, That's that's a really big detail. I wonder that's

1007
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:23.519
<v Speaker 1>got to have something to do with it. How how

1008
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:29.320
<v Speaker 1>you're like, hey, you know, don't cross the boundary, you know,

1009
01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:33.800
<v Speaker 1>please please stay where you are. I honestly think there's

1010
01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:37.880
<v Speaker 1>there's something to what you did, and and how you

1011
01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:44.840
<v Speaker 1>haven't experienced that that that's the super super interesting. It'll

1012
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.519
<v Speaker 1>be interesting to hear if people that listen to this episode.

1013
01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:53.559
<v Speaker 1>I know that we're definitely we're staying vague as to

1014
01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:56.199
<v Speaker 1>the swamp and the hot zone and all that, which

1015
01:05:56.239 --> 01:06:01.599
<v Speaker 1>is more than okay. But I'm sure that some truck

1016
01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:04.360
<v Speaker 1>drivers will probably be like, I know exactly and yeah,

1017
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:07.480
<v Speaker 1>I've had weird stuff too. If you guys don't want

1018
01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:12.599
<v Speaker 1>to put it in the comments, or you know, not

1019
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:18.760
<v Speaker 1>putting it out there and being not being a public

1020
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:21.920
<v Speaker 1>about it, you always can. You can reach out to

1021
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:24.199
<v Speaker 1>me if if you'd like as well, you send me

1022
01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.760
<v Speaker 1>an email Bigfoot Society, gmail dot com. I know there's

1023
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:31.239
<v Speaker 1>a lot of truck driver stuff happening, but sometimes you

1024
01:06:31.239 --> 01:06:33.280
<v Speaker 1>guys want to stay in the shadows, and that's more

1025
01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:34.119
<v Speaker 1>than okay.

1026
01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:38.320
<v Speaker 2>So that'd be great. And another reason I don't say

1027
01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:43.559
<v Speaker 2>anything about that is not only to keep the general

1028
01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:46.639
<v Speaker 2>public away from it, but it's also there's different group

1029
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:51.480
<v Speaker 2>groups that have that as a research area. So I

1030
01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:54.400
<v Speaker 2>didn't want to throw it out there for everybody. But

1031
01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.920
<v Speaker 2>once I mentioned about Wheterly Park and how we park,

1032
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:06.119
<v Speaker 2>it probably is an indicator but I had to say

1033
01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:11.079
<v Speaker 2>that because after that first episode of shaking my truck,

1034
01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.079
<v Speaker 2>it dissipated. There just weren't many trucks there, if any,

1035
01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:19.119
<v Speaker 2>some nights. So once I started seeing the crowd come back,

1036
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:22.679
<v Speaker 2>I went back and it took a few weeks. So

1037
01:07:22.760 --> 01:07:26.960
<v Speaker 2>there must be somebody else who've had some experiences down there.

1038
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:31.199
<v Speaker 1>That's so interesting. Oh this is kind of a weird,

1039
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:33.639
<v Speaker 1>weird thing, but it just popped in my head. I

1040
01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:35.880
<v Speaker 1>don't know a lot about the trucker life, but I

1041
01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:39.159
<v Speaker 1>know a little bit, mainly what I've pulled from old movies.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you ever reach out? Well, first off, do you

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01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:46.760
<v Speaker 1>still have like cbe radios in trucks?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, okay, I still use them.

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01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:51.800
<v Speaker 1>Did you ever reach out when when you're in a

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<v Speaker 1>certain area and be like, Hey, did anyone else experience

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01:07:56.119 --> 01:07:59.480
<v Speaker 1>that or just see that or anything like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I never did that. I never did that anymore than

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<v Speaker 2>talking to him in person, even though that would be

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<v Speaker 2>a little more incognito. I still I just got kind

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<v Speaker 2>of the cold shoulder enough that I didn't mention it

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<v Speaker 2>anymore to anybody. And the lead mechanic where I work

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<v Speaker 2>I had mentioned I had mentioned to him that I've

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<v Speaker 2>been shook down there. And he's another one that's kind

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01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:28.399
<v Speaker 2>of looking at me strange, but he was a little

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<v Speaker 2>more understanding. He said, well, it is kind of strange

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01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:33.000
<v Speaker 2>that in all the years you've been driving, it's never

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<v Speaker 2>happened before, and it only happened down at the swamp.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, Okay, that's a good point right there. And

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<v Speaker 2>another driver was standing close by, and he was one

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01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:45.920
<v Speaker 2>of those that was kind of looking like there's nothing

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01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.760
<v Speaker 2>going on down there. You know, that's what they want

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01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:51.520
<v Speaker 2>to believe. That I've experienced it. I'm not going to

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01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:54.520
<v Speaker 2>try to convince you. Just go ahead and keep parking

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01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:57.640
<v Speaker 2>down there and see if that happens to is how

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01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:00.920
<v Speaker 2>I feel about it. I'm not down there anymore now,

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<v Speaker 2>but I know what's there visually and experienced it.

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<v Speaker 1>Eric, this has been just a really fun conversation. Learned

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<v Speaker 1>a lot about don't talk a lot about Florida stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm glad that you came on. As we as

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<v Speaker 1>we start to wrap up our time, I want to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that you were able to get everything shared

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<v Speaker 1>that you wanted to share on the show today, and

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing else that you wanted to make sure you

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<v Speaker 1>got out there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think that's it because I just what I

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<v Speaker 2>did was get my notes just for the show. It

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<v Speaker 2>was really easy. I didn't have to really try to

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<v Speaker 2>recall anything. I've got everything right there with the dates

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<v Speaker 2>and times and locations, and so know that that's that's it.

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<v Speaker 2>I've said it all. That's awesome about it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Eric.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a few more, like one or two more

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01:09:58.439 --> 01:09:59.800
<v Speaker 1>questions for you, but I just want to say thank

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01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:03.840
<v Speaker 1>you so much for coming on the show today. Absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>just wanted to take a minute to say thank you

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01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:09.199
<v Speaker 1>seriously to all of you listening to the Bigfoot Society podcast.

1089
01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:11.840
<v Speaker 1>And if you're watching on YouTube, hit that subscribe button

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<v Speaker 1>And hey, if this story gave you chills or made

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01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:19.920
<v Speaker 1>you think about Lorda Swamps twice, please share it with

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01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.600
<v Speaker 1>a friend. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, make

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<v Speaker 1>sure you're following the show and leave a quick review.

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01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:27.800
<v Speaker 1>It helps more than you know. And listen if you

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01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.399
<v Speaker 1>or someone you know has had a Bigfoot encounter, especially

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01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:35.279
<v Speaker 1>in places like Rainbow, Oregon, McKinsey Bridge, Sweet Home, Oakridge,

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01:10:35.319 --> 01:10:38.199
<v Speaker 1>anywhere in that subtle Lake area. Shoot me an email

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<v Speaker 1>at Bigfoot Society gmail dot com. I'd love to hear

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<v Speaker 1>your account. Don't forget. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July

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<v Speaker 1>eleventh through the twelfth at Greenwaters Park in Oakridge, Oregon.

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<v Speaker 1>You can get a two day ticket for the price

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01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:53.279
<v Speaker 1>of one when you use the code b FS short

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<v Speaker 1>for Bigfoot Society at www dot Sasquatch Summerfest dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Huge thanks to Priscilla for hooking that up for our listener.

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<v Speaker 1>Until next time, stay curious, stay safe, and remember just

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<v Speaker 1>because you didn't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there.